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Volume 61
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1965
Number 126
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Space Fiesta ’65 Opens Monday
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Connally Recommends 3 Super College Systems
A&M, Tech Placed
In Same System
Special To The Battalion
AUSTIN—GoV. John Connally recommended Wednesday
that Texas universities and colleges be placed in three groups,
each to be governed by a board, with a strong central board
to coordinate them all.
The present 11 governing boards would give way to
three boards. The governor recommended a new state college,
the 23rd, to be established in the San Antonio area.
A&M University will be grouped under “The Texas State
University System” in the recommendation. Also grouped
in this system would be Texas Tech, Prairie View A&M,
Tarleton State, Lamar Tech, Texas College of Arts and
Industries, the new college planned in San Antonio and the
present agricultural and engi-^
neering services.
Arlington State College,
scene of demonstrations
against an earlier proposal to
become an integral part of A&M,
will be placed in “The University
of Texas System.”
The university system would
also include Texas Western Col
lege, University of Texas, Univer
sity of Houston, North Texas
State, Texas Woman’s University,
Texas Southern University and
the present medical and dental
units.
The other system would be called
the State Senior College System.
It would consist of Midwestern
University, Pan American College,
East Texas State, Sam Houston
State, Southwest Texas State,
West Texas State, Stephen F. Aus
tin State, Sul Ross State and San
Angelo State.
Reactions to the proposal to the
reorganization were varied.
“I think it’s great,” exclaimed
an official of Arlington State who
refused to be named.
A&M Journalism
Gets $1,000 Boost
The Newspaper Fund, Inc. of
New York has awarded a $1,000
grant to the Department of Jour
nalism to aid inexperienced high
school publications sponsors at
tending the seventh A&M Publi-
tions Workshop July 11-16, Rob
ert P. Knight, workshop director,
has announced.
Confirmation of the grant came
from the fund established by pub
lishers of the Wall Stree Journal
to promote an interest in journa
lism among young people.
The publications workshop, which
annually attracts about 300 high
school students and publications
sponsors for yearbooks and news
papers, includes a section for the
inexperienced advisor. The stu
dents publish a newspaper and a
yearbook while attending the
workshop.
“This grant from the Newspaper
fund, Inc. will permit us to give
20 to 25 grants to sponsors,”
Knight said. “Grants can be made
to an advisor who has had little
or no journalism training.”
But J. B. Morris, chairman of
the Lamar Tech Board at Beau
mont, said the proposal would tend
to make Lamar Tech “die on the
vine.”
Chancellor Harry Ransom of the
University of Texas called Con
nally “courageous and highly
imaginative in his proposals” to
streamline Texas’ higher educa
tion system.
Texas Tech’s president, Dr. R.
C. Goodwin, said he would “with
hold any detailed comment until I
can study the proposal.”
Goodwin said the suggestions
were a complete surprise—that he
had not even heard rumors.
Dr. John' A. Guinn, president of
TWU said, “I’ll have no comment
at this time pending a review and
a discussion of this matter with
our board of regents . . . Officially
I don’t know much about this yet.”
North Texas State’s president
Dr. J. C. Matthews, said he would
refrain from commenting now.
“There already have been a lot of
proposals, and there will be a lot
more,” he said.
Earl Rudder, president of A&M,
said, “I am ready to work in any
structure which is best to bring
about excellence to higher educa
tion in Texas.”
The governor also proposed
transfer of administrative respon
sibility for junior colleges from the
State Education Agency to the
proposed coordinating board.
Event To Feature
NASA Astronaut
Astronaut Clifton C. Williams Jr., who is scheduled for
a ride into outer space this spring-, will speak at Space
Fiesta '65.
Captain Williams, one of the third group of astronauts
chosen by NASA in October, 1963, will discuss “An Astro
naut’s Report on Manned Space Flight.” His acceptance of
an invitation to participate in the Space Fiesta was an
nounced by Jerry Stevens, publicity chairman for the Feb.
1-9 extravaganza.
An aerospace team from the Air University at Maxwell
Air Force Base, Ala., will open the fiesta Tuesday with a
program at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center.
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SPACE FIESTA ’65
. NASA’s contribution to MSC exhibit area.
HERE FEB. 5-7
200
For
Aggie - Exes
Association
Expected
Meetings
An estimated 200 representa
tives of various sub-divisidns of
the Association of Former Stu
dents will be on campus for meet
ings Feb. 5-6-7, announced Ric
hard (Buck) Weirus, executive
secretary of the association.
Weirus said the meeting is
the biggest get-together of the
year for Association of Former
New Dorms Get New Look
From Mid - Term Repairs
i Repairs were to have been made
during the past three days to the
five new dormitories, according to
a memorandum from Director of
Student Affairs Bennie A. Zinn.
Thresholds were to have been
replaced in all new dorms. The
contractor was to have adjusted
some of the doors, replaced oth
ers, installed weather - stripping
and fastened the metal strips on
the door facings with screws.
Director of the Physical Plant
Office W. Howard Badgett is
looking into the possibility of vis
ing clips to prevent movement of
ceiling tiles.
Tests have been run on the hot
water lines and adjustments were
to have been made in an effort to
eliminate the surge of hot water
in the showers.
Changes have been made in
some of the bathroom heater lines
to avoid the cutting of power in
the new dorms.
The adjustments were in answer
to complaints by students con
cerning the lack of quality in the
features for which they are pay
ing $45 more than normal rent Tor
a semester.
Students representatives.
Meetings scheduled include the
council group, the A&M Club Of
ficers’ Conference, class agents
and the executive board.
New Officers for the association
for 1965 will be elected during the
council meeting the afternoon of
Feb. 6. John Younger of Mid
land, vice president of the associ
ation in 1964, is scheduled to move
up to the president’s post.
The executive board of the as
sociation will be dinner guests of
the Bryan-College Station Cham
ber of Commerce the night of
Feb. 5 at the Ramada Inn. Fol
lowing the dinner, the executive
board will meet at the Memorial
Student Center.
At 1:15 p.m. Saturday, the 19th
annual Club Officers’ Conference
is scheduler in the MSC. It will
be preceded at 10 a.m. by the
14th annual Class Agents’ confer
ence. Business includes discus
sion of development fund contri
butions, scheduling of on and off-
campus reunions, and duties and
responsibilities of class agents.
The Athletic Department will
host the AFS at a 5 p.m. Saturday
buffet in the Letterman’s Lounge.
Former students will attend the
A&M-Texas basketball game at G.
Rollie White Coliseum at 8 p.m.
Saturday.
Saturday’s council session will
be highlighted with a talk by
President Earl Rudder. Athletic
Director Hand Foldberg, Basket
ball Coach Shelby Metcalf, Track
Discussing Education, Business
Informal discussion add impetus to the Business Administration; Donald C. Power,
Executive Development Course in progress communications executive, and A&M Pres
now on campus. Pictured are, left to right, ident Earl Rudder.
Dr. John E. Pearson, head of the School of
Gifts Total $1,823
For Browder Fund
Contributions to the Browder
Medical Fund for a Texas Aggie’s
small daughter struck down by dis
ease totaled $1,823 Wednesday
afternoon. Julie, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James T. (Tommy)
Browder, remains in the Dallas
area awaiting admission to a chil
drens hospital for treatment by a
neurosurgeon.
Stricken Jan. 1, she is reported
to be temporarily blind and deaf.
Her father is a first year veteri
nary medicine student at A&M and
the medical fund campaign is spon
sored by the First Year Veterinary
Medicine Wives Club.
Coach Charlie Thomas, Olympic
Silver Medal Winner Randy Mat-
son, Tennis Coach Omar Smith,
and the 1964 Southwest Conference
Tennis Doubles Champions Ric
hard Barker and Luis Rojas will
be introduced.
A stag breakfast at 8 a.m.
Sunday in the MSC Ballroom will
feature the introduction of Foot
ball Coach Gene Stallings and his
staff and distinguished professors
at A&M.
Short meetings of the 1965 As
sociation Executive Board and the
Aggie Club are set for 10 a.m.
Sunday.
will be launched Monday but
the presentation by the aero
space team will be the pro
gram opener.
Other speakers and numerous
exhibits will be announced during
the next few days. In past years,
Space Fiesta speakers have in
cluded noted leaders representing
civilian and military aspects of the
space program.
The aerospace team will review
the progress of the United States
Aerospace Program in a two-hour
presentation, using color slides and
film strips from NASA and space-
industry sources.
Williams, who is training at
NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center
in Houston, is scheduled to speak
at 8 p.m., Feb. 4, in the MSC Ball
room.
In addition to his astronaut’s
training at NASA, Williams is a
specialist in range operations and
crew safety. !
Williams has logged more than
2,000 hours of flying time, includ
ing more than 1,500 hours in jet
aircraft.
Holder of a degree in mechanical
engineering from Auburn Uni
versity, Williams is a member of
Sigma Chi; Pi Tau Sigma, national
mechanical honorary; Tau Beta Pi,
national engineering society; and
associate member of the Society of
Experimental Test Pilots.
Making up the aerospace team
are Lt. Col. Richard B. Olney,
Major Jean B. Pitner and Capt.
Dannie R. Hoskins.
In preparation for their full-time
job of telling America’s space story
to the nation, the team visited
military and civilian space organi
zations and became familiar with
the latest developments in the
space program during a 90-day
training program.
Library Reorganization
Termed Very Successful
Results after one semester show
reorganization of a course in
“Use of Library Resources” has
proven “highly successful.”
“Personal tailoring of the cour
se to the individual student’s needs
will be carried even further when
the spring semester begins,” Cal
vin J. Boyer said. He instructs
the one-hour elective course in
addition to serving as acquisitions
librarian for the A&M libraries.
“What we try to do that I’m
rather certain is unique is to
take each individual student and
introduce him in depth in library
materials especially pertinent to
his field of study,” Boyer said.
Engineering students, for exam
ple, learn much of such aids as
the “Engineering Index” while
the history majors delve into pub
lications of the Amercian Histori
cal Association.
“I don’t think the coure is of
any more benefit to one major or
another, as all fields have their
own special reference tools in the
libraries,” Boyer said.
They inspected Mercury, Gemini
and Apollo capsules and operated
Gemini and Apollo spacecraft simu
lators. And they talked with
scientists, engineers and astro
nauts and incorporated the new in
formation into their presentations.
NASA will also provide the larg
est display of NASA exhibits ever
assembled in Texas. The exhibi
tion is the largest segment of the
display. Animated sequences de
pict the intricate maneuvers vital
to maneuvering and docking ve
hicles in space—film sequences and
colorful slides portray other areas
of interest in manned spaceflight.
Aerospace exhibits for the Space
Fiesta will include 8,000 square
feet of displays, including technical
areas of launch vehicle research,
manned lunar landing, and com
munication and weather satellites
are detailed in scale models, films
and animated sequences.
Other aerospace industries will
also display exhibits in the MSC
during the 10-day fiesta.
Spring Term
Night Courses
Now Total 29
Seven additional night courses
have been added to 22 courses an
nounced earlier for the Spring
Semester.
Dr. W. J. Graff, dean of in
struction, said persons interested
in taking night courses should con
tact the Office of the Registrar
before enrolling.
Registration begins Friday, but
late registrants will be accepted
through Feb. 6.
All courses are for resident un
dergraduate credit.
A day course in floriculture is
being recommended to acquaint
and assist future homeowners with
an understanding of the landscape
arrangement of home grounds and
care and maintenance of such
areas.
The course is listed as Flori
culture 432. It is open to flori
culture majors, however.
Additional evening courses in
clude Education 101, Improvement
of learning; English 103, Composi
tion and Rhetoric (2); Govern
ment 206, American National Gov
ernment; History 105, History of
the United States; Psychology 207,
General Psychology; and Sociolo
gy 205, Principles of Sociology.
The World at a Glance
By The Associated Press
International
NEW DELHI, India—An Indian soaked his
clothes with kerosene and burned to death in
Madras Wednesday in the second fiery suicide pro
testing the change from English to Hindi as India’s
official language.
National
WASHINGTON—President Johnson, sniffling
and coughing, said Wednesday night he won’t attend
Sir Winston Churchill’s funeral because his doctors
“consider it inadvisable for me to undertake a long
trip where I would be exposed.”
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WASHINGTON—President Johnson and Vice
President Hubert H. Humphrey have put into effect
the same agreement on presidential disability which
their predecessors have had since the Dwight D.
Eisenhower administration, the White House said
Wednesday.
SELMA, Ala.—Three white civil rights workers
were arrested Wednesday after they refused to get
away from a line of Negroes seeking to register
as voters.
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WASHINGTON—An ocean area near Hawaii has
been tentatively selected as the site for the historic
attempt to drill a six mile deep hole into the earth
through the ocean bottom, the National Science
Foundation announced Wednesday.
Texas
AUSTIN—Rep. Jack Crain of Nocona, a Uni
versity of Texas star halfback in the 1940s, is co
sponsor of a bill introduced in the Texas House
Wednesday to prohibit premature signing of college
athletes to professional contracts.
★ ★ ★
HOUSTON—Sam Hoover, former mayor of sub
urban Pasadena, received an eight-year prison
sentence Wednesday from a federal judge who said
the attorney led the life of a “Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde.”