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10 Candidates Competing For Civilian Sweetheart Crown
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MARY BETH FOLEY
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CHARLYN BILBRAY
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LYDIA CRUZ
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JEAN ANN SANDERS
. . . Walton Hall
DOROTHY LEMONS
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MARILYN JOY PENDERY
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1965
Number 161
STUDENTS CONDUCT DESIGN TEST
... as part of experimental psychology project.
Experimen tal Psychology
Offers Unique Lab Work
Houze Accepts Post
With Trinity Library
Take 11 Aggies studying ex
perimental psychology, add a
laboratory with white rats, bring
in some people as experimental
subjects and you have the possi
bilities of all sorts of situations.
The basic fact is that the stu
dents gain valuable knowledge.
They repeat experiments lately
reported in professional journals
and then think up and do their
own test studies.
Sometimes things sound odd,
though. In one cubicle a person
says as quickly as he can all of
the words that come to mind.
Elsewhere a person looking at a
screen sees different projections
and down the hall students wait
anxiously to see which turn in
a maze the white rat will take.
“About half of our work is
people work, half is animal work,”
Dr. Albert Casey said of the stu
dents’ projects.
The students in many cases
build special test equipment. Lab
facilities include a woodworking
shop plus facilities for metal
working and electrical jobs.
But it’s the completed experi
ments, not the carpentry that is
graded.
“And these experiments account
for a major part of the student’s
grade,” Casey emphasized.
The students are psychology
majors and seniors in the Depart
ment of Education and Psychol
ogy. The university last year
awarded its first degrees with
psychology as a major.
Students are likely to be at the
lab anytime of the day or night.
One pair, for example, works
regularly from 6-8 a.m.
“We intend to be as far on the
outgoing frontiers of research as
we can get,” Casey said of the
student work. In his own re
search, the professor is part of
a team studying with National
Institutes of Health sponsorship
the effects of nuclear radiation.
“We require two rather exten
sive projects to be completed by
the students, who work in teams
of two. The major project, the
one which they devise, is worth a
major part of their grade,” Casey
said.
Learned first are the 16 steps
involved in experimental work.
These begin with the first idea,
continue through a search of
literature to see what other re
searchers have done and progress
through procedural and control
techniques, statistical analysis of
data and finally the writing of
the final experimental report.
“Serendipity” is a favorite word
of their professors, the students
have learned. The word means
the gift of finding fortunate
things, being alert to the possi
bility of making important re
search findings in addition to
those sought.
A $20,000 grant from the Na
tional Science Foundation helped
finance facilities for the labora
tory.
Literary Festival
Set For Opening
The second annual Spring Liter
ary Festival opens Thursday with
a lecture by associate professor
Harrison E. Hierth. The festival
continues through April 12 under
sponsorship of the Department of
English.
Hierth is to lecture at 4 p.m.
Thursday on “Washington Square
and One West Main Street —
Edith Wharton and Ellen Glas
gow.” This free, public lecture
will be given in Rooms 2A-C of the
Memorial Student Center.
Library Director Robert A.
Houze will become head librarian
of Trinity University in San An
tonio effective June 10.
Houze will be responsible for
the George Storch Memorial
Library built in 1951 and the
Graduate Library to be provided
in the newly-finished Chapman
Graduate Center. Expansion and
development of these libraries to
places of prominence will be his
key responsibilities.
The librarian’s 16-year tenure
at A&M has been marked by
major growth of the library col
lection, admission of the univer
sity into the prestigious Assoc
iation of Research Libraries, the
start of studies applying electro-
Six major topics of transporta
tion will be spotlighted by speak
ers during the seventh annual
Transportation Conference Thurs
day and Friday.
Interstate regulations, re-regu
lation, simplification of tariffs,
common ownership of several
modes, future of highway trans
port for shippers and vehicle
weights and sizes will be subjects
for talks in the Assembly Room
of the Memorial Student Center.
The conference, sponsored by
the Texas Transportation Insti
tute and its advisory committee,
is expected to attract 150 persons.
Maj. Gen. John P. Doyle, Mc
Donald Professor of Transporta
tion, will direct the sessions.
Judge James C. Langdon of the
Texas Railroad Commission will
speak at 9 a.m. during the open
ing session on “The Texas Interest
in Regional Transporttaion Mat
ters.”
Another early speaker will be
Clifford Gannett from the Office
of the Undersecretary of Com
merce. He will discuss a project
he is supervising regarding
simplification of transportation
tariffs and reduction of paper
nic data processing techniques to
library procedures and the near
completion of plans for a major
library center.
Houze also has been active in
professional associations and in
the community.
“He has contributed signifi
cantly to Texas A&M and to the
interests of all of the state
libraries through his work with
various state councils and com
mittees . . . we wish him every
success,” Dean of Instruction
W. J. Graff said.
Houze said he and his family
“will be leaving many friends
and pleasant memories at this
institution and in this commun
ity.”
work costs for the economy of
the transportation industry.
Lawrence K. Walrath, a mem
ber of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, Thursday’s luncheon
speaker, discussed objectives of
minimum regulation of trans
portation.
During the afternoon, Wesley
J. Barta, president of the Missis
sippi Valley Barge Line, and Clair
M. Roddewig, president of the
Association of Western Railroads,
discussed coordination of trans
portation by two or more modes
through formation of transporta
tion companies or the ownership
of one mode of transportation by
another.
First speaker for the Friday
session will be Edward V. Kiley,
director of research and trans
portation economics for the
American Trucking Association.
He will look at the future of
highway transportation.
Final technical speaker will be
L. M. Clauson, chief engineer of
the Iowa State Highway Com
mission, and chairman of the
Transportation Committee of the
American Association of State
Highway officials.
The librarian’s professional
services at the state level in
clude the chairmanship since 1961
of a sub-committee of the Texas
Commission on Higher Educa
tion. Findings of this sub-com
mittee for revision of the library
formula used by the legislature
in determining library appro
priations has provided the basis
for the Commission and Gover
nor John Connally’s budget pro
posal to the current legislature.
Houze also has served since
1961 as chairman of the Council
of State College Librarians.
The librarian has served as a
consultant and advisor to sev
eral organizations and is the auth
or of several publications. He
is active professionally in library
associations from the area
through national levels and a
past officer of the Texas Library
Association. He also is vice
chairman and chairman-elect of
the college division, Southwestern
Library Association.
In the community Houze is a
past president of the Rotary Club,
has held various leadership posts
as an adult Scouter and served
in 1954 as general chairman of
the College Station Community
Chest.
He also is active in the A&M
Presbyterian Church, serving as
a ruling elder and former deacon.
Since coming to the community
in 1949 he has taught in the
church school or served as super
intendent.
Houze was acquisitions libr
arian at the University of Texas
before coming to Texas A&M.
Before World War II service
overseas as an artillery officer
he was on the staffs of univer
sities in the Denver area.
He holds the AB and BS in
Library Science degree from the
University of Denver. He also
has done graduate work in educa
tional administration here.
Mr. and Mrs. Houze, who re
side at 1005 Harrington, have two
children. Robert A. Houze, Jr.,
is a sophomore majoring in
meteorology and Jane is a junior
at A&M Consolidated High
School.
Today’s Edition Includes
Annual April Fool Section
Today is April Fools. Webster’s says this day is de
voted to one who is sportively imposed upon the first day
of April, and not to be a tradition-destroyer, The Battalion
again is publishing its April Fools Edition.
In the second section of today’s newspaper you will find
our attempts to prove a basic axiom of this campus, “Aggies
are able to laugh at themselves.” Some of our barbs are
not very well shielded—they were not meant to be.
Call it our reply to all the disparagements thrown at
us during the past year, or call it our last chance to raise
hell—it’s all in fun and we hope those hit a bit hard will
accept it as fun.
Of course if anyone feels unduly slighted, we will be
glad to entertain complaints—all of which will be cheerfully
ignored.
The World
By The Associated Press
National
SELMA, Ala.—A Negro leader said Wednesday
that Gov. George C. Wallace reacted favorably to
a petition from a civil rights delegation seeking
easier means of registering voters.
“But the petition had nothing to do with demon
strations,” said the Rev. Frederick D. Reese of
Selma, a leader of the Negro voter drive which
started here more than 10 weeks ago and sent
repercussions across the nation.
“Demonstrations will continue,” Reese said. There
will be no cessation of demonstrations, he said,
“until there are no barriers to free registration of
Negroes.”
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LANSING, Kan.—Harvey Bailey, notorious bad
man of the early 1930s who became a model prisoner,
walked out of the Kansas state prison Wednesday,
a free man on parole.
Bailey, now 78 and white-haired, left the state
penitentiary at Lansing early in the day to take
a job at Joplin, Mo.
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WASHINGTON—A Texas congressman sug
gested today that Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach
had cleared the constitutionality of the adminis-
at a Glance
tration’s voting rights bill with the Supreme Court
before submitting it to Congress. Katzenbach
promptly denied the report.
Rep. John Dowdy, D.-Tex., told a House Judiciary
subcommittee he had a third-hand report that
Katzenbach assured Senate backers of the bill that
its constitutionality would be no problem because
he had already shown it to Chief Justice Earl
Warren and four other members of the court “and
they enthusiastically approved it.”
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NEW YORK MILLS, N. Y.—Nearly 30 pupils
suffered shock or other injuries today in an ex
plosion in a high school chemistry laboratory in
this community west of Utica.
Texas
AUSTIN—Texas house members voted today to
begin negotiations with Mexico over a battle flag
captured by Santa Anna's army in the 1836 fall of
the Alamo.
HOUSTON—More than 10,000 shouting, flag-
waving school children provided a noisy home
coming Wednesday for space heroes VirgiJ I. Gus
Grissom and John W. Young.
The loud cheers from the children went up as
soon as the astronauts alighted from a blue and
white National Aeronautics and Space Adminis
tration plane at Houston’s International Airport.
Transport Meeting
Opens Here Today
SUE FERRELL
. . . Dorm 19
ASC Divorce Bill
Passes In House
But Senate Stalls
AUSTIN UP) — Plans to di
vorce Arlington State College
from the Texas A&M system got
a quick shove in the House today
but an equally quick slap in the
Senate.
The Senate-passed measure won
House approval 138-4 after an
amendment was attached prohibi
ting the use of any permanent
university fund money by Ar
lington.
Within minutes, the Senate vot
ed 11-17 against accepting the
bill hanging in parliamentary
space,
Sen. Don Kennard of Fort Worth
said he would make another at
tempt for Senate approval after
getting the House amendment
printed and distributed so each
senator could study the exact word
ing.
Senate agreement to the amend
ment would send the bill to the
governor for signature into law.
Senate refusal to accept the House
amendment would call for a con
ference committee to try to iron
out differences.
There was no House debate on
final passage of the bill which
would put Arlington State under
the University of Texas instead
of A&M.