Cbe Battalion
Texas
A&M
University
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1965
Number 127
Air Force Aerospace Team
Launches Space Fiesta ’65
&M Lab Gives Police Help
n Houston Murder Mystery
A&M came to the aid of the
iouston Police Department this
^ T eek in the mysterious rape-mur-
of Mrs. Marjorie Wills of
Iouston.
Houston newsmen flocked to the
local scene Monday afternoon to
aour the Activation Analysis La-
parotory where research has linked
a suspect with the woman’s death.
Henry Francis Amerson was ar
rested Sunday night after the A&M
|ab had finished its tests.
A Houston newsman said Amer-
kon was connected with the murder
|n at three of the night samples
tested by the A&M staffers.
Guest Celebrities
To Attend Opening
Of Bank Building
Miss Texas and a Congressman
will journey to Bryan Feb. 13 to
open the new First Bank and
Trust Building located at the cor
ner of 25th Street and College
Avenue.
Miss Sharon McCauley of Ath
ens was second runner-up in the
Miss America contest at Atlantic
City last fall. After being gradu
ated from Athens High School she
attended Henderson County Junior
College but will return to TCU to
finish next semester.
The hazel-eyed brunette has
studied voice, drama, speech, bal
let and modem jazz and has a long
list of school honors and awards.
She will take part in the ribbon
cutting ceremony at 1:45 p.m. and
will remain to greet all visitors at
the following open house.
Confirmation was received last
week that Congressman Olin E.
Teague would be able to attend
the grand opening. President of
[First Bank, Henry Clay said:
“Having Olin Teague present at
our ribbon cutting ceremonies is
indeed an honor, and will be just
one of the highlights of this great
celebration.”
The outside of the main building
is accentuated by 84 handrubbed
Swedish blue granite panels, each
panel weighing 4,400 pounds.
Outside a 55 foot long by 16 foot
wide fountain has been construct
ed to highlight the view of the
architecture.
Samples of Mrs. Wills’ hair and
blood were compared with hair
and blood found in Amerson’s car,
and thread found in one of her
hands at the murder scenes was
tested with a jacket belonging to
Amerson.
Dave Mueller, assistant research
chemist, and John Randall, as
sociate director of the Nuclear
Science Center, conducted the
tests.
Mueller said, “We weren’t sure
what was going on. It was just
another sample for us to analyze.”
Dr. Robert Cochran, head of
the Nuclear Science Center, gave
the newsmen from the Houston
Post, Houston TV stations KPRC
and KTRK and Bryan’s KBTX-TV
a tour of the center.
Bob Estrada, consulting Houston
chemist who works with the Hous
ton Police Department, requested
the A&M lab to handle the project,
making the first time in Texas
that an activation analysis system
has been used in police work.
The 26-year-old Mrs. Wills was
fatally attacked more than two
weeks ago near Pearland. Her
nude body was discovered in a
drainage ditch after she had been
strangled, raped, beaten and
stabbed.
Amerson, a 38-year-old Houston
aircraft mechanic, was arrested
and charged Sunday night at his
home. He has denied any con
nection with the murder.
A three-man briefing team
from the Air University
launches Space Fiesta—’65
Tuesday with a review of the
United States’ space program.
Lt. Col. Richard B. Olney, Maj.
John B. Pitney and Capt. Dannie
R. Hoskins will discuss the cur
rent state of American aerospace
policy at 8 p.m. in the Memorial
Student Center Ballroom. The
program is open to the public.
Astronaut Clifton C. Williams,
scheduled to participate in a Gem
ini Space Flight later this year,
will speak Thursday on manned
space flight, and Maj. Gen. Ben
I. Funk, commander of the Air
Force’s Space System Division,
will close out the formal present
ations Monday with an address
detailing the Titan III spacecraft.
The third annual event, spon
sored by the Great Issues Commit
tee, opened Monday and will con
tinue through Feb. 10.
Exhibits depicting recent de
velopments in aerospace techno
logy will be on display throughout
the 10-day fiesta. Foremost a-
mong the exhibits are those dis
played by the National Aeronau
tics and Space Administration.
NASA displays total approximate
ly 2,500 square feet and include
models of various spacecraft and
exhibits detailing phases of cur
rent manned spacecraft projects.
NASA exhibits include scale
models of the Gemini Spacecraft,
the two-man space project; the
Apollo Spacecraft, the three-man
moon project scheduled for launch-
UH Prexy Voices Objection
To ‘Super System’ Proposal
HOUSTON UP) — The president
of the University of Houston ob
jected Monday to Gov. John Con-
nally’s suggestion the university
be made a part of a University
of Texas super system.
“His emphasis upon faculty
salaries, research and libraries,
and upon the critical drive for
excellence, are particularly com
mendable,” Dr. Phillip G. Hoffman,
university president, said.
“However, the plan for the creat
ion of three university and college
systems, which would encompass
all state colleges and universities
in Texas, is in our judgement open
to most serious question.”
“We are happy with the way
things are now,” he said. “We
have no desire to be empire build
ers.”
Connally, in a message to the
legislature during his inaugura-
Health Educator’s
Rites Held Monday
Funeral services were conducted
Monday afternoon for William M.
Dowell, 56, health educator and
faculty member since 1942. He
died Saturday night in a Houston
hospital after several months of
illness.
Survivors include the widow; a
daughter, Susan Dowell; a son,
Dickie T. Dowell, and one grand
child.
Services were held at 2 p.m.
Monday from the A&M Church of
Christ, which Dowell served as an
elder. Tom Seay officiated as pas
tor. Burial was in Willow Hole
Cemetery in North Zulch with Day
Funeral Home of Madisonville in
charge of arrangements.
Pallbearers were former stu
dents of Dowell’s: Eugene Stall-
Spring Enrollment Shows
6.3 Percent Increase
A&M Tuesday continued
I to show an appreciable gain in
spring semester registration over
j last year.
Registrar H. L. Heaton reported
7,390 students had enrolled
through Monday, representing a
6.3 per cent increase over the 6,-
847 signed at this time last spring.
The current enrollment includes
i 278 girls compared to 210 who at-
| tended A&M a year ago.
With 443 more enrollees than on
the same date in 1964, Texas A&M
will register students for this se
mester through next Saturday.
No breakdown of enrollment will
be available until next week, Hea
ton said.
Last Spring 7,161 students at
tended Texas A&M. The previous
fall semester attracted 8,239. Reg
istration is always higher in the
fall.
ings, Dee Powell, Charles McCan-
dless, John Hoyle, Charles Hoppe
and Henry Bornorden.
Honorary pallbearers included
his colleagues at A&M and mem
bers of the A&M Church of Christ.
Dowell had served the American
Red Cross as a first aid instructor
and consultant for which he re
ceived a distinguished service
award. He also was active in sev
eral public health associations.
Dowell graduated from Sam
Houston State Teachers College in
1929 and three years later received
the MA degree from George Pea
body College.
DOWELL
tion last week, suggested the
grouping of the 23 state-support
ed schools into three super sys
tems.
One group, headed by the Uni
versity of Texas, would include the
University of Houston and Texas
Southern University ( Houston. An
other would be headed by A&M
University, and the third would
consist of teachers colleges.
“No reflection on the University
of Texas is intended,” Hoffman
said in an interview. “On the
contrary, we have great respect
for this fine institution. Were
we seeking organic connection with
any institution, the University of
Texas would be our first choice.”
The main objection to the gov
ernor’s plan, Hoffman said, was
that the university would lose its
board of regents and its affairs
would be handled by a larger over
all board for the system.
ing late in the decade; the Nim
bus meteorological s t a 11 i t e
launched in 1963 to test inter
continental transmission of tele
phone and television symbols, and
the Ranger Spacecraft, which took
history-making photographs of the
moon last year.
Other NASA displays include
picture exhibits of the Saturn V,
the rocket which will launch the
Apollo Spacecraft, and the Atlas-
Agena rocket. An animated ex
hibit on moon travel rounds out
the NASA collection.
Ling - Temco - Vought’s exhibit
displays a replica of the Scout
rocket and the Modular Maneuver
ing Unit, a device which will en
able future astronauts to leave
their capsules and maneuver in
space.
Also on display is the YLR-99
rocket engine, the power plant of
the X-15 experimental aircraft.
The Air Force also displays the
giant scale model of the Titan III,
the space booster designed to
boost America’s military space re
quirements. The model is located
on the rear parking lot of MSC.
Other firms sponsoring displays
include Collins Radio, Interna
tional Business Machines Corp.,
General Dynamics, General Elec
tric, North American Aviation,
American Airlines and Southwest
ern States Telephone Co.
Grant To Provide]
Job Opportunities
A grant of $67,520 to establish
part-time job opportunities on the
A&M campus for students from
low income families was an
nounced Friday by Earl Rudder,
university president.
Robert M. Logan, student aid
director, said the funds from the
grant will be used to provide ap
proximately 270 part-time jobs on
the campus.
“We received a telegram from
Congressman Olin E. Teague tell
ing us that we had received the
grant,” said Logan.
“We have received no further
details and cannot take applica
tions but we should hear from the
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare within the week and
then we can go to work,” Logan
continued.
“A survey was taken in Septem
ber and we asked all departments
to submit requests for positions
that they needed,” he said.
Logan indicated that A&M had
received only half of the funds
they had requested.
The release from Washington
stated however, that A&M had re
ceived more than all of the other
Universities and colleges in Texas
put together.
Henderson County Junior Col
lege received $2,783, Lee Junior
College, Baytown received $6,379,
Navarro Junior College, Corsicana
received $5,832 and West Texas
State University in Canyon re
ceived $39,407.
Logan said that he had attended
briefings on the program with rep
resentatives from other universi
ties including Rice and the Uni
versity of Texas. He could give no
reason for their exclusion from
the program except that their ap
plications had possibly been held
up pending other information from
the schools.
The positions asked for by A&M
included clerks, librarians’ assist
ants, farm workers, janitors,
skilled laborers’ apprentices, din
ing hall workers, draftsmen and
lab assistants.
Allocation of jobs provided by
the grant will be made to various
departments within the next few
weeks. Students taking part in the
program will work approximately
15 hours per week and earn an
estimated $500 during a nine-
month school year, Logan said.
daily
Exhibits are on display
from 8 a.m.-ll p.m.
Last year’s fiesta speakers were
Maj. Robert Ashworth, the second
person to win astronaut’s wings;
Willy Ley, noted scientist and
space writer, and Wernher von
Braun, German scientist now in
change of spacecraft development
for NASA. Members of the House
Appropriations Subcommittee on
Manned Space Flight also made an
appearance.
The initial fiesta in 1963 fea
tured Dr. Herbert Trotter, chair
man of the board of General Tele
phone and Electronics Laborator
ies; Dr. Robert Gilruth, head of
the NASA Manned Spacecraft
Center near Houston; Gifford K.
Johnson, president of Ling-Temco-
Vought, and Lt. Col. Paul Maret,
attached to the Air Force Systems
Command.
Haines Prominent
In House Groups
College Station’s representative
David Haines was recently named
to five committees of the Texas
Legislature by Speaker of the
House Ben Barnes.
Now serving his second term,
Haines will work on committees
for Common Carriers, Banks and
Banking, Appropriations, Agricul
ture, and will act as chairman for
the Examination of Comptroller’s
and Treasurer’s Accounts commit
tee.
In speaking of the placement
Barnes said, “Many long hours of
study have been devoted to these
committee appointments and every
effort has been made to place mem
bers where they will be able to ren
der great service to the people
from the district they represent
as well as to all the people of Tex
as. I served with Haines last
session and look forward to work
ing with him closely during the
59th Session.”
Williamson Retires
Dr. W. N. Williamson, assistant
director for the Texas Agricul
tural Extension Service since 1950,
retired Sunday. He was first em
ployed by the Service in 1935 as
county agricultural agent in Frank
lin County and successively served
as assistant county agent in Dallas
County; as county agent in John
son County and as a district agent
from 1942-50.
Lecturer
Industry
American industry is undergoing
a revolution today as it changes
from muscle power to brain power,
Dr. Dwayne Orton, editor of Think
magazine, said Monday.
Orton, an executive with Inter
national Business Machine Com
pany, was guest lecturer at Mon
day’s session of the 13th annual
Executive Development Course be
ing offered by the School of Busi
ness Administration.
Orton, speaking to executives
from three states attending the
conference, said the interdepend
ence of business and education is
The World, at a Glance
By The Associated Press
International
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Communist Chinese
Premier Chou En-lai was quoted as saying Monday
that it would not be appropriate for Communist
China to enter the United Nations following Indo
nesia’s withdrawal.
★ ★ ★
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo—Congolese rebels
Monday launched heavy attacks against the eastern
Congo towns of Mahagi and Mwenga. They held
both towns for a while, then were driven out by
counterattacking government troops, army head
quarters here announced.
★ ★ ★
TOKYO—Radio Hanoi claimed North Vietnamese
army units Monday sank one of three warships
shelling a North Vietnamese coastal village. It said
the ships were under the command of U. S. and
South Vietnamese authorities.
National
WASHINGTON—President Johnson requested
Monday that striking dock workers return to their
jobs immediately in all ports where agreements
have been reached between the International Long
shoremen’s Association and shipping companies.
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WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court upheld
Monday the broad power of lower courts to reduce
the normal terms of legislators in New York and
Virginia during reapportionment of their districts.
The court thereby took another step to buttress
the effect of its decision last June that state legis
latures must be aligned on a “one-man, one-vote”
formula.
★ ★ ★
SELMA, Ala.—Approximately 300 negroes, in
cluding Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., were arrested
by city police Monday as they marched toward the
Dallas County Courthouse in a continuing voter
registration campaign.
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ATLANTA, Ga.—Attorneys defending Lester G.
Maddox in a contempt of court action contended
Monday that he has refused to serve Negroes at
his restaurant because of political belief, not because
of racial origin.
“His policy is not to serve integrationists, regard
less of race, color, religion or national origin,”
argued attorney William G. McRae.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON—The Senate passed the $1,092,-
400,000 Appalachia bill Monday. It carries funds
for highways and other projects to aid an econom
ically depressed 11-state region.
Texas
HOUSTON—Cmdr. Walter Schirra and Maj.
Thomas Stafford, backup crew for the first manned
Gemini flight, started escape training for the two-
man capsule in a 16-foot deep water tank.
The two spacemen practiced opening one door
and jumping into the water, then two doors, both
doors and finally with the capsule upside down.
★ ★ ★
HOUSTON—Harris County jailers said Monday
Melvin Powers, charged with the murder of Houston
and Miami millionaire Jacques Mossier in Miami
last June, was “roughed up” by cellmates Sunday.
★ ★ ★
HOUSTON—About 200 switchmen returned to
work Monday at Port Houston, ending a 47-day
walkout which hampered the movement of cargo by
rail at the port.
★ ★ ★
SAN ANTONIO—Federal authorities revealed
Monday that seven men, five from San Antonio, had
been charged with stealing “thousands of dollars
worth” of aircraft parts from Kelly Air Force Base.
Claims
Changing
growing all the time and has re
sulted in the decline of the un
skilled worker and an increase in
the number of so called “knowledge
workers” whose capital is in their
heads.
He said men receiving master’s
degrees in 1964 will find a larger
number of employment opportuni
ties this year than ever before as
industry searches for talent. This
additional degree will also result
in these men earning an additional
$1,000 per year over men beginning
with bachelor’s degrees.
“This changeover from muscle
power to brain power has resulted
in a 43 per cent growth of the
so called knowledge workers such
as managerial personnel, technical
workers, and professional and
scientific personnel within the past
five years. This group will con
tinue to grow. They presently ac
count for 42 per cent of the total
work force, outnumbering the
number of skilled and semi-skilled
for the first time,” he said.
Participants in the EDC will con
tinue to study administrative ac
tion, policy and decision-making
during the first part of this week
before shifting over to financial
matters and business economics the
latter part of this week.
The three week course began
January 24 and will continue each
day until February 12.
Monday afternoon, R. L. Smith,
Jr., manager of A&M’s Data Proc
essing Center, discussed the uses
of electronic computers in modem
business practices and conducted
the group on a tour of the facilities
at A&M.
Other business and professional
leaders scheduled to lecture to the
group during this week include:
Dr. Robert J. Potts, regional med
ical director for Mobil Oil Com
pany; T. L. Austin Jr., vice-presi
dent of Texas Power and Light
Company; Irving L. Heitner, assist
ant director, Systems Research and
Development; Dr. Philip E. Cold-
well, first vice-president of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
and W. D. Walser, senior vice-
president, Tennessee Gas Trans
mission Company.