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jnder construction.
The Board of Directors approved
irchitectural plans for the struc-
ure at its February meeting. The
dans will be reviewed and bids
vill be submitted during the sum-
ner, and construction on the
iroject is tentatively scheduled for
his fall.
The original plan was to build
four-story building, but the plans
vere later changed to provide for
two-story plant. A third revision
ailed for a four-story building
nth only three stories being fur-
lished, but the present plan calls
or the original four stories to be
onstructed.
“I am sure that the plans are
avorable to the Board. The presi-
lent and the Board have been
iressing for this project for a long
ime,” Houze explained.
An air hammer had to be used
y workers Monday when they dis-
overed underground concrete. The
oncrete was evidently the founda-
ion for the old Chemistry Build-
ng which occupied the present
ibrary site. Workers also had to
ut an electrical cable running to
he old electrical engineering
uilding.
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An extra attraction has been
added to the Town Hall enter
tainment series.
Peter Nero, a pianist-enter
tainer, has been booked for April
2 at G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Last scheduled event of the
Town Hall Series is Tuesday,
April 13, when “Ballet Folklorico
of Mexico” will be performed.
The 30-year old Nero has dem
onstrated his talents in concerts,
records and television appear
ances, and more recently, through
the medium of motion pictures.
He made his debut as an actor
and composer of film scores in
MGM’s “Sunday in New York”,
a romantic comedy based on a
Broadway play.
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Sharon Huff
Tie pretty Sam Houston
oed was named Combat
!utie at the Combat Ball
'riday night in Sbisa Hall,
[er escort was John Brad-
Construction Set
To Begin In Fall
A crane and seven holes caused
a stir Monday morning as students
thered behind Cushing Memorial
Library to watch the removal of
trees from the area to be occupied
)y the proposed new library.
“We are removing the trees now
jecause we were told that this was
he time of year to remove them
ithout killing them,” said Robert
ouze, library director.
Houze added that the trees will
s transferred to the lawn of
WOODSMEN, DON’T SPARE THOSE TREES
. . . land is cleared for new library construction in fall.
DEFENSE BOARD MEMBER
Suttle Receives High Honor
Dr. A. D. Suttle, vice presi
dent for research at A&M, has
been named to the United States
Defense Science Board. The ap
pointment runs until Dec. 31,
1966.
The announcement was made
by Defense Secretary Robert Mc
Namara on the recommendation
of Dr. Harold Brown, director
of defense research and engineer
ing, and Dr. Frederick Sietz,
chairman of the Defense Science
Board and president of the Aca
demy of Sciences.
Suttle returned from Washing
ton last July after serving 21
months as special assistant to
Brown. He was on leave from
the University.
“The Secretary of Defense has
asked me to appoint you a mem
ber of the Defense Science
Board,” Brown notified Suttle.
“It will be a pleasure to have
you on the board, and we hope
you find the experience a re
warding one. We are aware of
the personal sacrifice entailed by
membership on the board and we
wish to express our appreciation
of your willingness to perform
this public service.”
As a member of the defense
board, Suttle will advise McNa
mara through the director of De
fense Research and Engineering
on formulation of research neces
sary to maintain the nation’s de
fense posture.
The board meets four times a
year with the next session set
May 13. Suttle also will do
sub-committee work on military
manpower.
Before joining A&M in 1962
Suttle was vice president for re
search and graduate studies at
Mississippi State University. He
was also director of the Missis
sippi Research Commission in
1960-62, and senior research sci
entist for Humble Oil and Re
fining Company from 1952 to
1962.
Suttle received his Ph.D. in
radio chemistry and nuclear phy
sics from the University of Chica
go in 1952. He also holds a
bachelor’s degree in mathematics
and chemistry from Mississippi
State University. And he earned
a special certificate for advanced
work in nuclear engineering in
1956 at the University of Cali
fornia.
The native of West Point, Miss.,
is a member of several profession
al and honorary societies, includ
ing American Chemical Society,
American Physical Society, Amer
ican Nuclear Society, American
Ornance Association, Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engi
neers, Phi Eta Sigma, Sigma XI,
Phi Kappa Phi and Omicron Delta
Kappa.
He is considered an authority
on certain phases of underground
nuclear detonations. His princi
pal areas of research interest
include the application of the
techniques of radio chemistry to
refining problems and the ini
tiation and development of a
broad program in radiation chem
istry. He also has worked on the
application of nuclear reactors
for chemical processing.
John Rodgers Named
MSC Council Chief;
Other Posts Filled
By GLENN DROMGOOLE
Managing Editor
John H. Rodgers, junior pre
law and English student from
Austin, was elected president of
the 1965-66 Memorial Student
Center Council Monday night.
David E. Graham of Bay City,
a junior history major, was ap
pointed by Rodgers as honorary
vice president of the 16th MSC
Council which officially takes of
fice April 29 at the council awards
banquet.
Other officers chosen were:
Steven V. Gummer, vice presi
dent; Donald Allen, councilman-
at-large; Frank Berngen, Travel
Committee chairman; Peter Be
linsky, Talent Committee chair
man; Robert Beene, Public Rela
tions Committee chairman; Tom
Tyree, Great Issues chairman;
James M. Sedberry, Flying Kadets
chairman; Fred Crowdus, Chess
Committee chairman; Kenneth L.
Reese, Camera Committee chair
man; Richard Dooley, Contem
porary Arts Committee chairman;
Gary Carey, Bridge Committee
chairman, and Richard Rasmus
sen, chairman of the newly-or
ganized Recreation Committee.
In other business, the council
gave tentative approvement for
expanding the MSC record listen
ing facilities.
The recommendation, made by
Director J. Wayne Stark, will be
presented to Dr. Frank W. R. Hu
bert, Dean of Arts and Sciences,
for concurrent approval, and will
be presented for final vote at the
council’s April meeting.
The proposal would increase the
facilities now housed in two rec
ord rooms to 15 individual listen
ing stations in the Browsing Lib
rary with choice of four turn
tables, one tape deck and an
FM stereo radio receiver. It
would also expand the almost-
depleted MSC record stock.
Cost of the project was esti
mated at $6,600 to be jointly fin
anced by the MSC Music Com
mittee, the MSC facilities and the
College of Arts and Sciences.
If the plan is approved, the
equipment could begin operation
by Sept. 1.
The council also incorporated
the bowling, table tennis and billi
ards committees into a recreation
committee.
A $295 budget was approved
for the Pan American Week Com
mittee and a $150 loan for the
committee’s dance was granted.
The council also voted to or
ganize an Information Committee
on Student Life to work in con
junction with the Information
Committee of the University on
Institutional Development.
This committee would provide
qualified and informed student
leaders to present student life at
A&M on career day trips to high
schools and to interested organi
zations.
Turman To Speak
At Youth Meeting
Dr. James A. Turman, executive
director of the Texas Youth Coun
cil in Austin, will speak at a
community-wide meeting on youth
problems and juvenile delin-
guency at 7:30 p. m. Thursday in
Lamar Junior High auditorium.
A primary function of the Tex
as Youth Council being to “carry
on a continuing study of the prob
lem of juvenile delinquency in this
state and seek to focus public at
tention on special solutions
to this problem,” these meet
ings go directly along with
its other functions that include
supervision of the six schools and
homes for boys and girls and
their parolees, continuing re
search on juvenile delinquency,
cooperation with local authorities
on certain procedures and tested
methods of combating the prob
lem and its prevention, and in
creasing emphasis on slowing the
rate of high school dropouts.
According to the annual report
of Brazos county probation of
ficer, John H. Godfrey, there was
enough of an increase in delin
quency in this county in the past
year to warrant an increase in
service. The figures contained in
the report clearly show that the
problem cuts into all levels of
the community and is definitely
not restricted to any particular
class.
Turman is a native of Franklin.
He went to high school there,
then took his BS degree from
Abilene Christian College and
finished his M.S. and Ph.D. at
University of Texas. He has been
clinical psychologist and consul
tant on juvenile delinquency for
two years and director of institu
tions for the State Youth Devel
opment Council.
‘Dead Man 9 Alive
After 5 Years
TROY, N. Y. <A>)_“I really,
really thought he was dead,” a
surprised mother of two said
Monday after it was disclosed
that her former husband, miss
ing for 4% years, was alive and
working on a Wyoming ranch.
The man, Norman H. Briggs,
32, who according to State Police
and an attorney, is working under
the name of Clayton Hollister,
disappeared July 17, 1960, when
he went scuba diving in Tomhan-
nock Reservoir north of here.
At that time, his diving mask
and his automobile were found
near the reservoir. Divers, how
ever, were unable to locate a
body.
In 1962, a diver’s air tank
bobbed to the surface and divers
again searched unsuccessfully.
“When the tank was found, I
really thought he was dead,”
Briggs’ former wife, Mrs. Gail
Koenig, said.
She remarried last July after
obtaining a divorce. She declined
to discuss the legal action. She
and Briggs had two children,
Charles, now 8, and Barbara
Jean, 5.
Although Briggs, who was a
builder and insurance man here,
had about $120,000 in life insur
ance, Mrs. Koenig said as far as
she knew no money ever was
paid.
Word of Briggs’ new life was
announced Monday by an attor
ney for Briggs’ parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Hollis Briggs of Troy.
The lawyer. Pierce H. Russell,
said the family learned of Briggs’
whereabouts last summer when a
former classmate at Cornell Uni
versity recognized him in Denver
and notified the elder Briggs.
Simulated Launch
Develops Trouble
At Cape Kennedy
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. UP) _
Astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and
John W. Young and their launch
team Monday rehearsed the count
down for America’s first two-man
space flight.
Had it been the real thing, the
shot would have been postponed.
Four problems combined to delay
the countdown more than four
hours.
Project Gemini officials said
that none of the problems was
serious, but that the same com
bination on launching day would
cause a postponement. The idea
of a simulated mission, they noted,
is to pinpoint such trouble areas
in advance.
The World at a Glance
By The Associated Press
International
MOSCOW—The Soviet government paper Izves-
tia charged Monday the landing of U. S. Marines
in South Viet Nam was “a new phase in the
aggressive policy of the U.S.A. in South Viet Nam.”
“Washington has shown that it has taken the
decision to widen the war in the Indochina region,’
Izvestia said.
★ ★ ★
TOKYO—Radio Hanoi charged six U. S.-South
Vietnamese planes attacked the North Vietnamese
border village of Co Bai Monday, inflicting casual
ties and property damage.
★ ★ ★
DAMASCUS, Syria—A 90-minute tank fire and
gun battle, the fourth in six days, raged across the
tense armistice line between Israel and Syria Mon
day. Syria complained to U.N. truce observers that
it was a case of “premeditated aggression.”
★ ★ ★
PARIS—France has successfully tested a rocket
called Emeraude—emerald—which is to be used as
the first stage of a space satellite launcher, in
formed sources said Monday. The successful test
in the Sahara came after three failures. Details
of the test were not disclosed.
National
WASHINGTON—The Pentagon is actively con
sidering use of the mighty 7th Fleet to try to stem
a growing flow of seaborne arms from Communist
North Viet Nam into South Viet Nam, it was
learned Monday night.
This would be another major step in the deepen
ing U. S. involvement in South Viet Nam’s war
against Communist insurgents supported and sup
plied from the north.
NEW YORK—An American-born Air Force vet
eran pleaded guilty Monday to peddling U. S.
military secrets during six years as a paid spy for
the Soviet Union. Two former Russian United
Nations employees were involved in the case.
“I was stupid,” Robert G. Thompson, 30, told
newsmen outside Brooklyn federal court, where he
entered his plea. He was continued in $15,000 bond
for sentencing May 13.
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WASHINGTON—A bill sent to Congress Mon
day would give federal officers authority to arrest
and prosecute anyone involved in an assassination,
kidnaping or assault on the president of the United
States.
Texas
DALLAS—A defiant and apparently alert Jack
Ruby, condemned killer of the late President Ken
nedy’s assassin, will return to court March 29 for
a jury trial to determine whether he is sane.
Nattily dressed as usual. Ruby, 53, appeared
heavier and healthier at his court hearing Monday
than at the time of his conviction a year ago
Sunday.
★ ★ ★
HOUSTON—As many as 10 city employees may
be involved in a traffic ticket racket. Mayor Louie
Welch said Monday.
Two city employees were fired after an investi
gation. Welch said some bondsmen and lawyers
are involved.
★ ★ ★
FAIRFIELD—Officers using bloodhounds started
a hunt Monday night in Freestone County for two
Negro men who reportedly abducted and severely
injured a Dallas man.
The victim, Jimmy Webb, 25, told officers the
men said they were en route to Alabama to assassi
nate Gov. George Wallace.
: J]\ GRIC UL TURE
IjMigura, Forrest Top Seniors
Nathan K. Forrest and Wallace
W. Migura were named top
seniors in the College of Agri
culture at the 1965 Agricultural
Convocation Monday night.
Forrest, an Agricultural Eccr
nomics major from Gatesville,
was the top individual in the 1965
national Collegiate Plant Judging
contest in Las Vegas. Last year
he was named outstanding junior
in the College of Agriculture. A
distinguished student for six
semesters, he is chairman of the
Student Agricultural Council and
a member of Alpha Zeta, an hon
orary agricultural fraternity.
Migura, an Animal Science
major from Yorktown is listed in
Who’s Who in American Uni
versities and Colleges. He is a
distinguished military student,
executive officer of the 3rd Bat
talion, has been a distinguished
student five semesters and is
editor of the 1965 Aggieland.
The two seniors received cer
tificates and will have their
names placed on a permanent
bronze plaque in the Herman F.
Keep Building.
Another award presented at the
convocation was for the largest
percentage attendance by a tech
nical club. The Agricultural Eco
nomics club won the gavel, fa
shioned from part of a stairway
banister removed from Gathright
Hall, and which changes hands
from year to year.
Featured speaker at this year’s
convocation was Dr. Louis Thomp
son, associate dean of agriculture
at Iowa State University.
Thompson was gradauted from
A&M in 1935 with a BS in Agron
omy. After service as an officer
in World War II, he returned to
A&M as an assistant professor
of agronomy.
He discussed “United States
Agriculture in an International
Setting.” Thompson told the
group of 300 students and faculty
members that the United States,
as it more and more becomes the
world’s breadbasket, will probably
abandon acreage controls on food
and feed grains by 1980.
Also by 1980, the U. S. will be
applying all available technology
to boost its agricultural produc
tion to help feed the world. It
will become the chief market
center for exported foods.
“Agricultural opportunities are
greatest when there is a growing
demand for agricultural prod
ucts,” Thompson said. “I believe
that between now and 1980 we
will see a period of growth in
agricultural enrollment and a de
mand for our graduates even
greater than the 1905-1920 or
1935-59 periods,” he added.
TOP AG COLLEGE SENIORS
Dr. Wooten presents award to Migura and Forrest.