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Friday, January 29
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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1965
Number 125
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moans of disappointment from see what fate the gods had left, before
students who had enough nerve to drop by their parents get that little white slip.
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Research
To A&M
Adds Importance
Statistics Institute
By ELIAS MORENO Jr.
Special Writer
An increased emphasis on
search at A&M has given the
two-year-old Institute of Statis
tics a vital role.
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Although the Institute has only
seven full-time faculty members
and 30 graduate majors — com
pared to 12 last year — it touches
nearly every subject taught on
campus.
"At least a quarter of all grad
uate students will take a statistics
course at one time or another,”
said Dr. R. J. Freund, associate
director.
Statisticians are needed in many
fields of business, industry and
government. Some of the areas
in which statistics play an im
portant role are: agriculture, bio
logy, engineering, health, physics
and chemistry.
The Graduate Instiute of Sta
tistics was formally organized in
1962. Before this time, all sta
tistics courses were taught by
professors of genetics, said Dr.
H. 0. Hartley, Institute director.
Today no other campus in Texas
offers a Ph.D. degree in statistics.
The Institute, presently housed
in the Systems Building, will get
living quarters in a new building,
which the Institute will share with
the Data Processing Center, in
somewhat more than a year, said
Dr. Wayne C. Hall, dean of the
Graduate College.
At its last meeting the board
of directors approved funds for
the drawing of a design for the
three-story-plus-basement build
ing.
The mission of the Institute is
three-fold. Not only does it teach
statistics, but its faculty pro
vides consultation with other uni
versity departments on problems
involving statistical design and
analysis and conducts a broad
program of research in basic and
applied statistics.
The teaching program offers
| graduate courses leading to master
of science and doctor of philosophy
re _) degrees in statistics.
Both degree programs provide
balanced training in statistical
method and theory but are suffi
ciently felxible to permit students
to develop their own interest,
Hartley said. Emphasis is plac
ed both on conveying sound knowl
edge of existing statistical theory
and on developing individual re-
sourcefullness to explore new
methods, he continued.
The on-campus consulting acti
vities bring them into daily con
tact with applications of statistical
methods to realistic problems.
These experiences are utilized in
the classroom, allowing students
to work with practical problems.
The Institute’s faculty consists
of Dr. W. S. Connor, a visting pro
fessor; Dr. James G. Darroch, Dr.
Eugene E. Dayhoff, Freund, Hart
ley, Dr. R. R. Hocking and Dr.
A. W. Wortham.
The consulting program at the
Institute involves providing sta
tistical advice to research workers
from other departments. Close co
operation between statistician and
specialist provides scientific team
work to solve fundamental prob
lems, Hartley said.
The Institute’s varied consult
ing activities include: estimation
of comparate yields of different
varieties of commercial crops, ob
tained with varying fertilizers;
evaluation of the comparative
value of animal feeds; improve
ment of statistical estimates of the
components of chemical mixtures
obtained by activation analysis;
and design of a sample survey
concerned with a study of farm
economic questions.
The research includes: develop
ment of sampling techniques to
estimate population characteris
tics through time series analysis
and rotational panel study; esti
mation by least squares to fit
mathematical laws to observed
data; and incomplete data ana
lysis, designing computations to
make estimates from observations
with missing or incomplete records.
"It is hoped that our Institute
is on its way to becoming one
of the best institutes of statistics
in the nation,” concluded Hartley.
Livestock Lab Awaits
Cloverleaf Underpass
By GERALD GARCIA and
TOMMY DeFRANK
Right - of - way acquisition
difficulties on the Farm Road
60 underpass may force delay
in construction of the Live
stock Insect and Toxicology
Laboratory.
The Brazos County Condemna
tion Court will meet Feb 1 to con
sider right-of-way damages to be
assessed for the last 16 tracts
of land which must be purchased
by the city and county before
construction of the underpass may
begin.
Dr. R. E. Patterson, dean of
the College of Agriculture and
director of the Agricultural Ex
periment Station, said the Depart
ment of Agriculture, which will
construct the $3.25 million labora
tory, considers the underpass es
sential to the laboratory.
“One of the requirements of the
USD A in placing the toxicology
laboratory here is that it should
be in close communications and
have easy access to all of the
campus. Construction of the faci
lity at the present site is conti-
gent upon completion of the under
pass,” Patterson said.
He added that plans for the
laboratory call for FM 60 frontage
across from facilities of the Col
lege of Veterinary Medicine.
R. E. Week Will Feature
Former Local Minister
A former minister of A&M Meth
odist Church will be the featured
speaker during Religious Emphasis
Week, Feb. 15-18.
The Rev. James B. Argue, pres
ently pastor of the Pulaski Heights
Methodist Church in Little Rock,
Ark., will deliver the address at
services held each evening after
supper in Guion Hall, said J. Gor-
Fish Enrollment
Includes Yanks,
Texans, Rebels
Some 5.45 per cent of the Fresh
men Class on the A&M campus
drive less than 50 miles to attend
classes while more than three per
cent of them come from the Phila
delphia, New York, and Boston
area. These figures were recently
released by Dean of Instruction W.
J. Graff and the Counseling and
Testing Center.
Graff said, the upper North
eastern part of the United States
is second only to Texas in per
cent of total freshmen enrolled
at A&M this fall. Texas has
86.26 per cent of the fish, and the
Northeastern part of the U.S.
has 3.54 per cent. The five states
of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississip
pi, Alabama and Tennessee rank
third with 3.15 per cent of the
fish.
Slightly more than one-fourth-
323—of the freshmen live with
in 100 miles of school while 87
of the fish live from 1000 to 1500
miles away. Twelve of A&M’s
freshmen live more than 1500 miles
away.
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don G'ay, co-ordinator of Religious
Life.
Argue spent four years at A&M
Methodist Church before leaving in
1961 to be pastor at First Method
ist Church in Palestine. In June of
last year, he was appointed to
Bethany Methodist Church in
Houston and in October he moved
to his present location.
Plans have been approved by the
University Executive Committee
for having supper earlier than
usual and arranging for call to
quarters to start later than usual
to allow more time for the main
program, said James P. Hannigan,
dean of students.
Also more time will be available
for a question and answer period
or for those that desire to go to
local churches for discussions.
Interest locators have been cir
culated among students to deter
mine the topic for the week, Gay
said.
Fish Sweetheart
Deadline Feb. 5
Freshmen entering girls for Fish
Sweetheart must turn in their
candidates’ pictures to the Student
Program Office in the Memorial
Student Center by Feb. 5. All
applicants must submit at least a
5" by 7" photograph.
The sweetheart will be an
nounced at the Fish Ball, sched
uled for Feb. 20, from 8-12 p.m.
in Sbisa Hall. Music will be pro
vided by the Aggieland Orchestra.
Uniform will be class A winter
with dress shirt and bow tie. Girls
may wear long or short formals.
Ten landowners have appealed
damages already assessed by Con
demnation Court for obtaining
right-of-way, but Joe G. Hanover,
assistant district maintenance eiv
gineer for the State Highway De
partment, pointed out that start
of construction on the underpass
will not be affected by the ap
peals.
C. B. Thames, district engineer,
stressed that the underpass is im
portant to the university’s current
expansion to the west.
“Access to university property
is of utmost importance, and this
underpass will help alleviate traf
fic problems,” Thames said.
“Traffic over the tracks is in
creasing greatly, which makes
separation of rail and highway
traffic imperative,” he continued.
22 Night Courses
Slated For Spring
Several night courses will be
offered during the spring semester,
said Miss Caroline Mitchell, assist
ant director of admissions.
The Department of Education
and Psychology will offer the
greatest number of evening courses
with 11. They include:
Psychology 634, Principles of
Human Development, Monday
Psychology 436, Techniques of
Research, Thursday
Education 607, Program and
Procedures in Supervision, Mon
day
Education 624, Individual Test
ing, Monday
Education 439, Educational
Statistics, Tuesday
Education 615, Structural Or
ganization and Administration,
Tuesday
Education 632, Educational and
Occupational Information, Tues
day
Education 637, Advanced Ele
mentary School Methods, Wed
nesday
A&M Will Host
County Conclave
In Civil Defense
A&M will be the site of a 15-
week course in “Applied Fallout
Shelter Analysis,” starting Feb.
6, announced Jake Cangelose, di
rector of Brazos County Civil De
fense.
Sponsored by Brazos County
Civil Defense in cooperation with
the Texas Office of Civil Defense
and the Department of Defense, the
free course is open to professional
architects and engineers in Brazos
County and the surrounding area.
Canglose said the course will be
equivalent to the intensive two-
week engineers course conducted
by the U. S. Army Engineering
School at Fort Belvoir, Va. Those
who complete the course will be
certified by the Department of
Defense as qualified shelter analy-
Classes will be taught from 9
a.m. to noon each Saturday in the
Architecture Building. Canglose
said a minimum of 24 students is
needed for the class.
Course subjects include study
of nuclear weapons, protection
factors, dose and dose rates, bio
logical effects, shielding analysis
and methodology, habitality and
environmental engineering, and
shielding techniques.
Education 651, Orientation in
Business Principles and Proced
ures, Wednesday
Education 633, Methods of
Group Guidance, Thursday
Education 638, Trends in Cur
riculum and Instruction, Thurs
day
Other night courses to be of
fered will include:
Architecture 254, Technology
of Materials, Wednesday
Physical Education 610, Sur
vey of Research, Wednesday.
Liberal Arts 106, Honors Col
loquium for High Ability Stu
dents, Wednesday
History 610, The Trans-Missis
sippi West, Tuesday and Thurs
day
History 611, American Lead
ers, Monday and Wednesday
Agriculture Education 610,
Methods in Adult and Young
Farmer Activities, Wednesday
Agriculture Education 615,
Philosophy of Agricultural Edu
cation, Wednesday
Agriculture Education 630,
Guidance and Counseling for
Rural Youth, Tuesday
Industrial Education 602, In
dustrial Arts Administration and
Supervision, Wednesday
Industrial Education 621, Phi
losophy of Vocational Education,
Wednesday
Engineering Graphics 106,
Descriptive Geometry, Monday
and Thursday
AEC Increases
A&M Traineeships
For Grad Students
Additional support from the
U. S. Atomic Energy - Commission
for the A&M graduate program in
nuclear engineering was recently
announced by President Earl Rud
der.
The AEC will expand its pro
gram of traineeship for graduate
students in nuclear engineering.
Three such traineeships become ef
fective Sept. 1 compared with the
current one.
These traineeships provide a
basic stipend for 12 months of
$2,400 to $2,800, plus dependency
allowances.
The traineeships are open to
qualified students who will com
plete by Sept. 1 undergraduate
studies in engineering, the physi
cal sciences or mathematics.
The World at a Glance
The Civilian Student Council
voted Thursday to submit a letter
to Bennie Zinn, director of stu
dent affairs, stating a change in
the regulation against beards.
The council proposed the change
to read:
"A student will be required to
have a neat appearance on the
campus at all times. He will be
neatly shaven with proper hair
cut.”
Poll Taxes Due
Residents of College Station and
students may pay their 1965 poll
tax at the Memorial Student Cen
ter Monday through Friday from
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The old ruling reads:
“He will be clean shaven with
proper hair cut, and without
beards.”
In other business, members elec
ted three officers to fill post vaca
ted by January graduates. John
Ferguson, day student representa
tive, was elected to fill the post
of vice president vacated by Jim
Benson. James Oliver filled the
position of corresponding secretary
and Gerald Faulkner, treasurer.
The council decided that the new
Student Committee should be re
sponsible for preparing an orienta
tion program for new students.
The program would call for CSC
members to orient the new students
in their respective dorms with Ag
gie traditions.
Also passed was that members
conduct a magazine collection in
the dorms before next Christmas
to send to the veterans in Tem
ple.
W-2 Tax Forms
Due Before Feb. 1
University employees should re
ceive their W-2 forms on or be
fore Feb. 1, said Clarence C. Carl
son, Bryan administrative officer
for the Internal Revenue Service.
Wages shown on the W-2 must
include amounts received as sick
pay although no tax may have
been withheld on such pay.
By The Associated Press
International
PARIS — West German Chancellor Ludwig
Erhard and President Charles de Gaulle of France
agreed Wednesday to call for a six-power European
conference to explore the next steps toward Euro
pean political union.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—The chances of
a major Indonesian invasion in Malaysia seem re
mote despite a large military buildup on the frontier
in Borneo, some well-informed diplomatic and gov
ernment sources said Wednesday.
National
WASHINGTON—The United States was techni
cally without a president for three minutes Wednes
day.
President Johnson took the oath of office at 12:03
p.m. The Constitution provides that the presidential
term shall end at noon on Jan. 20.
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WASHINGTON—Running about 1,500 words.
President Johnson’s inaugural address Wednesday
was one of the shortest in the nation’s history.
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NORFOLK, Va.—Seven women and 10 children
departed by plane Wednesday to join their husbands
and fathers stationed at the U. S. naval base at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
They are the first dependents to go to Guan
tanamo since the Navy lifted its ban against de
pendents there.
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SELMA, Ala—Negroes pressing for the right to
vote were allowed to use one of the two main
entrances to the county courthouse Wednesday, but
insisted on using the other and about 160 of them
went to jail.
Texas
AUSTIN—Sen. Franklin Spears of San Antonio
introduced Wednesday a proposed constitutional
amendment to abolish the poll tax as a voting re
quirement and to allow all militatry personnel to
vote.
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AUSTIN—More than a majority of House
members have signed Rep. George Hinson’s teacher
pay raise bill as co-sponsors, Hinson said Wednes
day.
The support is sufficient to pass the measure
and send it to the Senate if the backers stay with
the bill through the voting stage.
Thames added that FM 60 will
pass under the railroad at the
western edge of the campus. The
two tracks there will be merged
into one and then raised seven
to eight feet higher. Highway
2514 (Old Highway 6) will have a
bridge over the underpass and
cloverleaf connections will be made
with FM 60 at that point.
“It will look like a half-clover-
leaf from the air, with two leaves
east of the track and none to the
west. What we need now is to get
right-of-way on the northeast
leaf,” Thames said.
As soon as the underpass is
completed, FM 60 will be improved
from State Highway 6 to the
Brazos River, the boundary be
tween Brazos and Washington
Counties.
SEATO Grants
Are Available
In All Fields
A limited number of research
fellowships again are available to
established scholars in all fields
who wish to undertake research in
Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza
tion countries. Dr. J. M. Nance
announced.
The SEATO nations are Aus
tralia, France, New Zealand, Paki
stan, the Philippines, Thailand, the
United Kingdom and the United
States.
Applicants for the research fel
lowships tenable for four to 10
months must be nationals of
SEATO member countries and
make applications through the
authorities of their own home
country.
The fellowships are intended for
established scholars of high aca
demic attainments, preferably at
the doctorate level. Students
working toward advanced degrees
are not eligible.
The fellowships provide an allow
ance of $400 a month plus economy-
class air fare.
Applications must be submitted
by March 15 to the Committee on
International Exchange of Persons,
Conference Board of Associated
Research Councils, 2101 Constitu
tion Ave., Washington. Further de
tails may be obtained from Nance,
head of the A&M Department of
History and Government.
$1,000 Donated
To Defray Costs
Of Child’s Illness
Contributions to help defray
mounting medical expenses of Julie
Browder totalled $1,000 Wednes
day as the 11-month old infant
was transferred fro St. Joseph
Hospital in Bryan to Granbury to
await further medical consultation.
The daughter of veterinary stu
dent James T. Browder was taken
to her maternal grandparents’
home, where her parents will con
tact a Dallas neurosurgeon this
week to discuss the possibility of
brain surgery.
The chilld was stricken with
serious viral infection and admit
ted to St. Joseph Jan. 1. The in
fection has caused her temporary
blindness and deafness, convul
sions, pneumonia, and cardiac ar
rest (heart failure), but her con
dition is much improved but still
critical. She has been kept alive
at times by a special breathing
machine.
A hospital spokesman said that
Julie is now able to breathe by
herself and is eating normally and
remaining active, but thet the
permanent effects of the viral at
tack have yet to be determined.
The First Year Veterinarian
Wives Club initiated the fund
drive Jan. 12. A Browder Medi
cal Fund was established at a
local bank and collection jars were
distributed throughout the area to
local businesses. Other local and
campus organizations have also
aided the drive.
The collection jars will remain
at local establishments for about
a week.