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Texas A&M:
1964 - 65
THE BATTALION Tuesday, May 18 ( 1965
College Station, Texas
Page 3
A&M-Arlington F end
Tops Year’s Events
By GLENN DROMGOOLE
Battalion Editor
The Texas A&M System reorganiza
tion plan which resulted in the A&M-
Arlington State divorce was judged as
the top news event of 1964-65 by
Battalion staffers Monday night.
Other events placed in the Top 10
by the student editors included:
2. Non-compulsory Corps of Cadets.
3. Coeducation.
4. Hiring of Gene Stallings.
5. Randy Matson’s world record
performances.
6. Expulsion of Yell Leader Rodney
Dockery from the Corps.
7. Political clubs.
8. James Connally Technical Insti
tute.
9. SCONA X.
10. Tie: Legislative plans for
higher education, meningitis outbreak,
and dissolution of chancellor post.
The System reorganization was first
suggested during the Christmas holi
days and would have grouped all
System schools under one major Texas
A&M University. Arlington State
would have been the Arlington College,
Texas A&M University, etc.
But Arlington State supporters ob
jected to the plan and started an early
legislative proposal to divorce Arlington
State from the A&M System. The
action gained approval March 12, and
Arlington joined the University of
Texas System—a divorce which ap
parently pleased both feuding parties.
The Battalion judges believed this
event’s prominence in the news columns
for more than four months demanded
the number one tag for the year.
Batt staffers participating in the
poll were Ronnie Fann, immediate past
editor; Glenn Dromgoole, editor; Gerald
Garcia, managing editor; Clovis McCal-
lister, associate editor; Mike Reynolds,
campus editor; Tommy DeFrank, news
editor, and Larry Jerden, sports editor.
The Arlington crisis received only
two of the seven first place votes which
were distributed among: non-compul-
sory Corps, Gene Stallings, Randy Mat-
son, Rodney Dockery’s dismissal, and
SCONA X.
Sophomore Tommy DeFrank han
dled most of the reporting and writing,
Coverage of the reorganization
battle took Batt reporters, editors and
photographers to Arlington and Austin
and resulted in a strenuous telephone
effort by the staff.
with the staff contributing pictures,
editing, headlines and editorials to
assure top coverage.
The non-compulsory Corps change
and the coeducation debate were
prompted by a Former Students Execu
tive Committee resolution which urged
the Board of Directors to study the
two matters.
State Senator Andy Rodgers took
the coeducation issue to the legislative
floors with a bill originally intended
to limit attendance at Texas A&M to
men. The bill was amended to permit
limited coeducation and passed a Senate
committee, but has since been stalled
in House committee.
Opposition to the bill by A&M
administrators, board members and
faculty was strong, but proponents were
just as active. The former students,
originators of the full coeducation sug
gestion, were divided. Exes President
John Younger, immediate past prexy
John Lindsey, executive secretary Buck
Weirus and others opposed the bill,
while other former students stood up
for the legislative action.
The Board removed university re
quirements of compulsory military edu
cation in its April 24 meeting, placing
it on a voluntary basis for the second
timei n a decade. While there were
protests to the action, few were loudly
proclaimed.
Sports figures Gene Stallings and
Randy Matson dominated the outdoor
scene in Battalion news space this year.
Stallings was named head football
coach on Dec. 7 as Hank Foldberg was
given full-time athletic director duties.
The coaching change was preceded by
rumors, including one squelched by The
Battalion concerning former Oklahoma
coach Bud Wilkinson.
The new coach continued to receive
publicity—some bad, some good—not
only on campus, but throughout the
state. His hard-nosed football tactics—
whatever that means—revived area
football interest and attracted 16,500
enthusiasts to the annual Maroon-White
intrasquad clash May 1.
Matson’s record-smashing shot put
and discus efforts shared the campus
sports spotlight with Stallings. Three
times in five weeks the Aggie sopho
more bettered the world’s best 16-pound
steel ball throw.
Magazine and newspaper reporters
and photographers have flocked to Col
lege Station to interview the A&M
strongman, as the 19-year-old has domi
nated the world track scene this spring.
Randy’s supreme effort for the year
came May 8 in the Southwest Confer
ence meet when he hurled the shot put
70 feet, seven inches to surpass a
previously unbroken barrier.
Another student—a non-athlete—
was perhaps the most controversial
figure on campus for about a week.
Rodney Dockery, junior yell leader this
year, was suddenly removed from the
Corps of Cadets March 9 for alleged
misconduct in presence of two married
coeds. Dockery denied the charges, but
did not seek extreme measures to regain
his cadet status.
Political clubs—a disputed issue at
A&M for the past two years—came in
for its share of publicity early in the
fall when a student protest was con
ducted on a Friday afternoon in front
of—and on top of—Lawrence Sullivan
Ross’s statue. An eight-part series in
The Battalion by Clovis McCallister
further explored the situation, but no
remedial action was taken. On April
24 the Board ruled in favor of the
administration in its stand against the
political organizations. The basic dis
pute has been whether or not the groups
could meet on campus and as of now
they cannot.
The addition of James Connally
Technical Institute to the A&M System
received state-wide publicity and came
at the same time that the System lost
Arlington State. Further developments
of the institute will make good news
copy this summer and into the 1965-66
school year.
SCONA X was a tremendous success
—as it always has been—with students
gathering from all over the United
States, Canada, Mexico and other Latin
American countries.
Other campus news events deserv
ing mention and receiving votes from
Battalion staffers included the student
insurance policy controversy, bribery of
a university official by a foreign stu
dent, uniform and rank changes in the
Corps, the cloverleaf underpass, presi
dential election, new dormitories, selec
tion misconduct charges and the Aggie
Sweetheart.
Overall it was a year of change at
Texas A&M—a year that produced
consequential news articles. The Bat
talion is proud and appreciative of its
participation in reporting these events.
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1964 Chevelle Malibu, 2 dr., H. T., 283,
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Charles S. Dendy, Allen Academy Dorm 22.
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State Capitol Roundup
Teacher Pay Increase
Means State Tax Hike
By Vern Sanford
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN — Uppermost ques
tion in the minds of taxpayers and
legislators is—will there be a
new tax bill?
Answer rests with the law
makers. And their decision de
pends on whether or not a teach
er pay raise bill is passed.
About $73,500,000 in new state
revenue would be needed to cover
the cost of Texas State Teachers
Association’s $45-in-’65 program.
Alternate proposal offered by
Gov. John Connally to reward ex
perienced teachers at an ac
celerated rate would cost the state
an estimated $64,700,000.
Both plans are based on cost
estimates for the next two years
and would, of course, call for ad
ditional local, money.
Hundreds of teachers jammed
into the legislative chambers for
hearings on the teacher-pay-raise
bills, putting all the pressure pos
sible on the legislators.
TSTA stresses that many local
districts cannot afford to pay
a higher share of the salaries
called for in the governor’s plan
and that this is a state responsi
bility anyway.
Governor Connally says “Texas
will continue to lag far behind
the national average in school
teacher salaries until local sup
port shows the same increase ex
pected of the state government.”
He contends TSTA is not tel
ling the whole story, “They never
admit that state support of our
public schools is $56 a pupil above
the national average, while local
support is $93 below the national
average.”
While compromise efforts floun
dered, a sub-committee of the
House Revenue and Taxation
Committee methodically and
quietly reviewed some ideas for
producing more income.
Considered was an additional
tax of three cents a pack of
cigarettes. This would raise about
$69,600,000.
Other suggestions reviewed by
the five-member group include:
• A two per cent sales tax
on beer and liquor, $22,000,000;
• Restoral of the 50 cents
per $1,000 corporation franchise
surtax, $24,000,000;
• A one-shot inheritance tax
payment date adjustment, $6,000,-
000.
Senators want the House to
pass a tax bill before any agree
ment is reached on a teacher
pay raise.
A House tax committee mem
ber, active in the sub-panel de
liberations, says pay raises should
be determined before tax drafters
decide how big a bill to write.
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