Friday Marks
66 Years
STANDING TALL
... in front of Academic, Sully shines from recent polishing.
By ROBERT ELMORE
Staff Writer
“Soldier, Statesman and Knightly Gentleman . .
Ask any real Aggie freshman and he’ll tell you that
this description couldn’t fit anyone but Lawrence Sullivan
Ross, better known as “Sully” who can appear polished
to a turn for a home game or sometimes sporting a
white glove or a red nose suddenly one morning.
That bronze figure in front of the Academic Building
represents a man who stands as tall in Texas history
as the 10-foot statue itself.
Friday is the 66th anniversary of his death. He
certainly possessed the qualities credited to him in the
inscription back of the statue, but mere words hardly
do justice to Sul Ross’ ability.
Gen. Ross was more than just a “Soldier.” In
between semesters at Florence Wesleyan College, Ala.,
he chased Comanches across Texas under Maj. Earl Van
Doren. The summer after his graduation he commanded
the Texas Rangers along the Mexican border and was
responsible for Cynthia Ann Parker’s rescue after 20
years of capitivity. He entered the Civil War as a Colonel
heading the 6th Texas Cavalry and so distinguished him
self, that before hostilities ceased, he was commissioned
a brigadier-general. Once more a civilian, he returned
to his adopted home, Waco, to farm.
Citizen Ross became more than just a “Statesman.”
For two years he was the model sheriff of Texas. He
resigned in 1878 when elected to the Constitutional
Convention and helped form a legislative framework for
the new state.
Since Death Of Sully
He was elected to the Senate and after one term
reluctantly accepted the nomination of the Democrats
(which included a Negro representative from Big Bend)
and was the first governor to reside in the new capitol
building in Austin.
After re-election in 1888 he became President of
A&M College. The common feeling in Texas that soon
developed was, “I’m sending my boys to the A&M. I
served under General Ross in Mississippi and I know
he’ll do right by them.”
Lastly, Lawrence Sullivan Ross was more than just
a “Knightly Gentleman.” He was the father of six
children and the founder of a great plantation on the
banks of the Brazos.
This statue, created by Pompeo Coppini, and cast
in Chicago by the Florentine Brotherhood Foundry was
unveiled on May 8, 1919, during a short ceremony on
a quiet Sunday afternoon by Betsy, Ross’ great grand
daughter.
The main speaker was Capt. Kelly, a member of
Ross’ old unit who recounted old times with the General.
There are many ways of preserving the memory of
a man such as this.
A&M erected a statue, and the former students gave
Ross unit's old maroon and white flag to the Ross
Volunteers. It hangs today in the Trigon.
Normal College at Alpine adopted his name in 1931
and became Sul Ross State Teachers College. By know
ing what he once did for Texas, we can clear a space
for him in our own minds and let his greatness live in
our own time.
TO PRESERVE A MEMORY
. . . former students donate Ross unit’s old flag.
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Volume 61
Price Five Cents COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1965
Number 123
Sick Infant
To Be Helped
By Vet Wives
An all-out effort to enlist com
munity support for an A&M couple
whoseinfant daughter has suffered
tragic illness was launched Tues
day by the First Year Veterinarian
Wives Club.
Ultimate goal of the aid is Julie
Browder, who was 11 months old
Tuesday. Her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. James T. (Tommy) Browder,
took Julie to St. Joseph Hospital
on New Year’s Day.
The infant’s sight and hearing
have been impaired at least tempo
rarily by a viral infection. Con
vulsions, pneumonia, cardiac arrest
(heart stoppage) are some of the
entries on her medical record. She
has been kept alive in a special
“breathing machine.”
Now Julie’s condition is much
improved, but specialists are still
attempting to determine exactly
the permanent effects.
“It will be some time until
permanent damage is known,” a
St. Joseph Hospital spokesman
said. The infant now is able to
breather by herself, eats well and
remains active.
Mrs. Mariwyn Dye, president of
the first year veterinarian wives,
said a Browder Medical Fund is
being established at the University
National Bank and jars in which
donations may be placed will be
distributed throughout Bryan-Col-
lege Station.
“Each club member at the meet
ing Monday night also agreed to
contact a civic club,” Mrs. Dye said.
“We’re starting an all-out cam
paign,” Mrs. Dye assured.
The Student Senate and the
Former Students Association also
have promised aid.
Senate Considers
Proposed Budget
AUSTIN WE*) — Texas senators
took their first look Wednesday
at a major item of the young
session, the 1966-67 budget.
Sen. Dorsey Hardeman of San
Angelo, named finance committee
chairman by Lt. Gov. Preston
Smith, introduced the $3.5 billion
spending bill and named a sub
committee to begin the long stu
dy of the measure.
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Final Exam Schedule
Final examinations in courses with only one
theory hour per week as shown in the catalogue
will be given at the discretion of the depart
ment head concerned at the last meeting of either
the theory or practice period before the close of
the semester.
Date
Hours
Series
Jan.
18,
Mon.
8-11
a.m.
MWF8
Jan.
18,
Mon.
1-4
p.m.
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Jan.
19,
Tue.
8-11
a.m.
MWF9
Jan.
19,
Tue.
1-4
p.m.
MWThl
Jan.
20,
Wed.
8-11
a.m.
MWF10
Jan.
20,
Wed.
1-4
p.m.
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Jan.
21,
Thur.
8-11
a.m.
M3TThlO
Jan.
21,
Thru.
1-4
p.m.
MWTh2
Jan.
22,
Fri.
8-11
a.m.
MWF11
Jan.
22,
Fri.
1-4
p.m.
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Jan.
23,
Sat.
8-11
a.m.
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Jan.
23,
Sat.
1-4
p.m.
TF2, or TWF3, or
TThF3
Graduation Weekend Features
Commencement, Gold Bars
Approximately 575 senior and
graduate students will receive de
grees at commencement ceremonies
Saturday.
Activities will begin at 10 a.m.
in G. Rollie White with the Pro
cession.
Sam Houston State Teachers
College President Arleigh B. Tem
pleton will be the featured speaker.
The address will follow the intro
duction of the speaker by A&M
President Earl Rudder.
Following will be greetings from
John W. Newton, vice president of
the Board of Directors, and A&M
University System Chancellor M.
T. Harrington.
Following the commencement ad
dress, President Rudder will confer
degrees. There are 574 candidates
for bachelor and graduate degrees.
Candidates include 414 graduat
ing seniors, 122 persons seeking
the master’s degree and 38 doc
toral students.
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The invocation will be given by “The Spirit of Aggieland” will
Corps Chaplain Carey L. White, be sung by graduates and the audi-
U. S. Youth Should See Communism
Cohen Tells Great Issues Audience
Visit ^Certainly Couldn’t Hurt Us’
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Robert Cohen, noted film lec
turer, stated that responsible and
educated young people should be
allowed to visit communist-con
trolled countries because “it cer
tainly couldn't hurt us.”
His remarks were in response
to questions following a film
lecture, “Inside Castro’s Cuba”
presented by the Memorial Stu
dent Center’s Great Issues Com
mittee Wednesday night.
Cohen said the young people
visiting in Cuba during the usm-
mer of 1964 against the wishes
of the U. S. State Department
were not received with high re
gards by the Cuban people.
“Students from New York City
just don’t give lectures on so
cialist revolt to the people of
Cuba,” Cohen said.
He added that Castro’s Cuba
had gone to the trouble to get
the young people to come in
order to send back propaganda
on what they were seeing. Then
when CBS, contacted one on a
telephone interview, the student
said, “I will not give an inter
view to a fascist network,” and
hung up.
At another time, the students
dressed rag-tag and went bare
footed to an interview with the
President of Dorticos Cuba try
ing to follow the spirit of the
revolution. “I don’t care who
you are, you don't go to see
the president of any nation bare
footed,” said Cohen.
The film of Cuba portrayed
the middle class and upper class
life under Castro as a night
marish dream world.
“It is like stepping into a time
machine,” said Cohen, referring
to the stopping of all imports
into Cuba from the U. S. follow
ing the revolution. All the juke
boxes in the bars and the tapes
in the old Havana Hilton are
1959 jazz. The women dress for
the evening in chemises and dance
the cha-cha.
The children being raised under
the state are being completely in
doctrinated with Marxist doc
trine.
“In ten years, Castro knows
that no one will be able to over
throw his government, because
of the indoctrinated youth, said
Cohen. Young people who come
from the old upper class families
have been turned out and spend
their time riding about in old
stripped down cars or on Harley
Davidson motorcycles. After they
reach a certain age they will be
drafted into the Cuban armed
forces.
Cohen said the fate of refugees
held by the Cuban government
depended on U. S.-Cuban rela
tions and would gain or lose value
according to whether or not Cas
tro thought he could use them.
Students Try To Trick
Traffic Appeals Panel,
Usually Don’t Succeed
The A&M Traffic Appeals
Panel handles some cases during
the year in a fashion that might
surprise some people — usually
the ones who are appealing.
In one case this fall a student
appealed one week and another
student appealed the same case
the the next week with both
stories perfectly coinciding.
It seemed that someone else
had parked his car over a park
ing stripe in the classroom area
and when two other students came
to class they had to do the same
thing. Then the owner of the
original car left without get
ting a ticket. After appealing,
both students were given courtesy
tickets because their stories were
exactly alike.
Another case, which didn’t turn
out so favorably for the person
concerned, involved parking at
the Memorial Student Center.
Campus Regulations state that
you may park at the MSC if
you go into the center for some
reason, otherwise it is illegal.
The person was given a ticket
for parking at the MSC and then
going to class. He appealed the
ticket on the basis that the of
ficer had mistaken another stu
dent for him and that he had
really gone to the MSC. When
the defendant’s class schedule
was checked by the appeals panel,
it was found that he had a class
that hour.
The ticket was upheld.
A student with seven tickets
once appealed and he was grant
ed, through a technicality, the
privilege to keep driving on the
campus.
The Traffic Appeals Panel was
established in 1955 by the admini
stration. It came about because
tickets began to be corrected by
payment that year instead of by
disciplinary action.
Then the panel became a five
member board consisting of two
students, two counselors, and G.
E. Bolton, chairman. Bolton, as
sistant chief of Campus Security,
has been associated with the panel
since its beginning.
“An average of three to four
tickets are appealed each week,”
said Bolton, “with about 60 per
cent upheld and 40 per cent
granted.”
ence. Following the spirit, James
R. Hatton, civilian chaplain, will
lead the benediction.
Seventy three seniors in the Re
serve Officer Training Corps pro
gram are scheduled to receive re
serve or regular commissions in the
Army or Air Force. Commission
ing exercises will begin at 1:30
p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Forty-five graduating seniors
seek Army commissions, 25 have
applied for Air Force second lieu
tenant bars and three for Marine
Corps.
Col. Raymond C. Lee, senior of
ficer of the Air Force Reserve Of
ficer Training Corps program, has
announced that A i r Force Maj.
Gen. Lucius D. Clay Jr. will be the
principal speaker for the exercise.
The general is vice commander
of the Twelfth Air Force, Tactical
Air Command in Waco.
Commencement speaker Temple
ton recently assumed the presi
dency of SHSTC after serving as
executive director of the Gover
nor’s Committee on Education Be
yond the High School. He is presi
dent-elect of the Southern Associa
tion of Schools and Colleges, the
regional accrediting group.
He is a graduate of Sam Hous
ton State.
Clay graduated from the U. S.
Military Academy at West Point in
1942, and immediately commenced
flight training.
He was named brigadier general
in 1961 and became major general
last Aug. 1. He was assigned in
Waco on Aug. 15.
Grads Get Nod
For State Posts
AUSTIN <A>) _ Lt. Govv. Pres
ton Smith announced Wednesday
Senate committee appointments,
leaning heavily on veteran mem
bers for chairmen.
Ona freshman, Sen. Jack High
tower of Vernon, was named to
a chairmanship. He heads the
Labor Committee.
W. T. (Bill) Moore, Bryan, and
Walter Richter, Gonzales, will be
chairman and vice chairman, res
pectively, of education.
Gov. Connally appointed Gen.
Aubreay L. Moore of Hillsboro as
a director-at-large of the Tri-
County Municipal Water District,
composed of cities in Hill, Bosque
and Johnson counties. He succeeds
Jack Altaras of Cleburne.
Get Vehicle Sticker Early
Special To The Battalion
AUSTIN — Col. Homer Garri
son, director of the Department
of Public Safety has encouraged
Texas motorists to “start the
new year with a safe vehicle”
by securing the 1965 vehicle in
spection sticker without further
delay.
The Public Safety Director said
that approximately one-half of
the inspection period has expired
and only about one-fourth of
the vehicles in the state have
been inspected. He added that
unless the inspection pace is
stepped up, motorists may ex
pect to find the usual waiting
lines at the inspection stations
when the April 15 deadline ap
proaches.
“The Inspection stickers for
1965 have been available since
Sept. 1,” Garrison said, “allow
ing ample time for all vehicles
to be inspected without delay
prior to the deadline. There can
be no extension of the deadline
and vehicles not displaying the
new sticker will be in violation
of the law after April 15.”
Texas now has more than 5,200
authorized inspection stations
over the state. According to
Garrison, these stations are ready
and capable of handling the re
maining uninspected vehicles
without delay provided vehicle
owners do not wait until just
a few days before the deadline.
He pointed out that the basic
function of vehicle inspection is
to detect and correct vehicle de
fects that might cause an acci
dent. He said that last year
vehicle defects contributed to
fewer traffic accidents than ever
before in Texas.
Rudder Blasts Arlington State Claims Of Greater Prestige
By TOMMY DeFRANK
Texas A&M President Earl
Rudder defended the proposed re-
organizational changes to the
A&M University System and
termed “silly” the claims by sup
porters of Arlington State Col
lege that ASC enjoys greater
prestige than A&M.
In answering critics of the re
organization Rudder said that
ASC enjoys little prestige, either
on the national or statewide level.
“They just received their ac
creditation as a senior college
December 12, and if they have
built a better educational insti
tution in that short period than
we have then our Board should
fire Earl Rudder and every dean
down here and start over,” he
said.
“Before this fracas started, half
the people of Texas could have
told you very little about Arling
ton State,” he continued.
Rudder cited three major ad
vantages to adopting the reor
ganization plan, which would in
corporate all System schools
under the main university at
College Station and change their
names to Texas A&M University.
He claimed that such a merger
would lend greater strength to|
the entire System, would increase
the prestige of all schools involv
ed, and would present a united
front with which to negotiate
more effectively in the power
struggle among state schools for
legislative funds.
“This strength would give us
the extra bargaining power to
attain the dollars to get on with
our job — the building of a more
excellent Texas A&M Univer
sity System,” he contended.
Rudder, who will assume new
duties as president of the A&M
System in September, explained
that the System shares in $4
million annually from the State’s
available fund but that $1.7 mil
lion of that amount is used for
the retirement of bonds issued to
finance building projects at Ar
lington State, Tarleton State,
Prairie View and A&M. This
leaves $2.3 million for building
purposes and for the program of
greater excellence being under
taken at A&M.
He also said that A&M has
been more than fair with Arling
ton State, pointing out that to
date the University of Texas and
A&M both have sold more than
$21 million worth of bonds for
building purposes. Arlington
State has since received $6,667
million of that sum while Texas
Western College, a member of
the University of Texas System,
has received approximately $1
million of the total bonds sold.
Rudder emphatically denied that
member schools would share a
common ring, nickname, school
color or similar items with A&M.
He said that each campus prides
itself on its image and that A&M
had no intention of imposing its
image on anyone else.
"That’s just propaganda that
people have been throwing up
to cut the plan to pieces,” he
charged.
He also revealed that the A&M
System Board of Directors might
move to sever ties with Arling
ton State if the North Texas
school persists in strongly op
posing the Board’s wish for re
organization.
Rudder dismissed charges that
the changes are a move on his
part to increase his own political
prestige, claiming “I’ve got the
best job in Texas anyway.”
“We’re not trying to have our
selves. We’re making more prog
ress than any other school in the
State so why should we have to
keep ourselves alive?,” he assert
ed .
The president assured the peo
ple of Arlington State that they
will have “all the autonomy that
they can stand” and said that the
deans from College Station would
not have jurisdiction over like
schools at Arlington State or the
other System schools.
Claims that a mass resignation
of ACS faculty if the changes
were effected were also discount
ed by Rudder.
“Many of our faculty rumored
that they would resign if we
didn’t change our name to Texas
State University. We didn’t and
I haven’t noticed any wholesale
resignations here,” he noted.
Rudder declined to speculate on
the chances for passage of the
name change bill Texas A&M
University, and he declared that
the sole objective of the reorgan
ization is “to bring greater excel
lence to all facets of the Texas
A&M University System.”