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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1965)
THE BATTALION Thursday, January 21, 1965 College Station, Texas Page 5 JETS Await Engineering Tests Results Officials of the Junior Engineer ing Technical Soeiety anxiously await results of engineering apti tude tests given .throughout the state. J. G. McGuire, assistant dean of engineering and state coordinator for JETS, said the tests will be graded by a national testing firm and returned to counselors for in terpretation in about a month. McGuire said 620 high school students Saturday took the tests administered at 43 National Engi neering Aptitude Search Centers in Texas, surpassing the antici pated 500 participants. id IS til Twenty students from Bryan, ‘d in tli Station, Brenham, Cald- * well, lola, Bremond and Norman- gee took the tests at A&M. _ Alvin Myer, assistant state co ordinator for JETS, said the local S turnout was considerably less than the 86 who wei'e tested here last year. Airplane Aids In ITS Talent Search An estimated 2,500 miles of flying during February awaits members of the talent committee for the Intercollegiate Talent Show set for 6:30 p.m. March 5 in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Richard Conner, chairman, said members of his talent committee and advisers will audition talent at 23 universities or colleges in a search for “the best talent that can be found.” Nineteen of the universities or colleges will be visited via air- power. Automobile trips are scheduled for auditions at the Evant, will pilot a chartered four- place plane for all the trips. Con ner, Wesley Leftwich, Bill Harra- way and Charles Segrest, all talent committee members, and several other members as yet un announced, will join advisers Bob Boone, Bert Thompson or Charles Gore, in staging the auditions. First of the talent ventures is set for Feb. 5-6-7, when the com mittee visits McMurray, Abilene Christian, Hardin—Simmons, Tex as Tech, Eastern New Mexico State, and San Angelo State Col lege. TCU, SMU, Arlington State, Texas Woman’s University, North Texas State, University of Okla homa, University or Arkansas, Arkansas State Teachers College, Stephen F. Austin and East Tex- broader concepts for the more ex perienced officer are included, he said. Riot control and firearms train ing have been added to the course this year. Other offerings include police responsibility and duties, authority of police, public rela tions, patrol methods and proce dures, police tactics, law of evi dence and case preparation, crimi nal law, criminal investization, pre servation of evidence, traffic con trol and traffic law, accident as State are scheduled for visits the following weekend. A swing into Louisiana is slat ed for the third weekend of the month to visit Louisiana State University, Tulane and Loyala Universities. Conner said his committee is hoping 5,000 persons will attend the show. Tickets will go on sale two weeks prior to the show investigation, and juvenile control. Classes will meet in the Memo rial Student Center for instruction by Beasley, Ira Scott and Bill Caf- fee, police training staff members. Two field trips are set during the course. Participants will tour the Department of Corrections in Huntsville and the Department of Public Safety in Austin. The course is sponsored by the Engineering Extension Service of A&M in cooperation with the Tex as Education Agency. in the Student Programs Office of the Memorial Student Center. Tickets will be sold in the mess halls Monday and Tuesday pre- ceeding the show. Booths will be set up in front of the Post Office at the MSC two days before the show. Blood Needed For Patient Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Luedecke of Rt. 4, Box 117 in Bryan have appealed for blood donations for Luedecke’s father. The elder Luedecke underwent a 12-hour operation for removal of a spinal growth Monday at Jefferson Davis Hospital in Gal veston. He has been receiving blood transfusions regularly since then and is in urgent need of more blood. Persons interested in donating blood may contact St. Joseph Hos pital for further information. Any type blood will, be acceptable. 8 Universities To Coordinate Geosciences Further plans concerning a co ordinated effort research in the geosciences in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean by eight coopera ting universities will be talked Fri day in a meeting on campus. The daylong session was an nounced by Graduate Dean Wayne C. Hall who represents A&M on the Interuniversity Committee of the Gulf Universities Research Corp. Rice University Chancellor Carey Croneis is chairman of the com mittee which has met at intervals for eight months to plan and im plement a coordinated effort to undertake research no single uni versity could accomplish. The committee is composed of one representative each from Flori da State University, Louisiana State, Southern Methodist, the Uni versity of Texas, University of Houston, Rice and A&M. University of Texas, Southwest ern University and Prairie View A&M, adding several hundred driving miles to the flying total. Baylor University talent has al ready been auditioned by the com mittee. Conner said the best 10 acts will be chosen for the Intercol legiate Talent Show, which also will feature the winning group of the Aggie Talent Show and the Kilgore Rangerettes. Tommy Hemphill, a senior from The 39tht session of the General Law Enforcement Course at A&M will open Monday for an estimated 25 participants. The course will be taught five days a week through Feb. 19. Wallace D. 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