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By LANI PRESSWOOD
Debate is being widely carried
on nowadays in newspaper circles
over the issue of “trial by the
press.”
This is the label which has been
applied to the practice some
newspapers employ of producing
a great deal of pre-trial publi
city in certain criminal cases.
The way a newspaper handles
a case naturally has an effect
on prospective jurors, and this
fact is causing great concern
at present.
So great that legislation has
and is being pushed for which
would deny to the press access
to certain channels which they
have up to now taken for granted.
Proposals range from keeping the
press away from witnesses before
the trial to potential statutes
which would bar newspapermen
from the offices of district at
torneys and policemen.
The legal faction has provided
most of the support for the pro
posed action thus far, which is
not hard to figure. The less
publicity given to courtroom and
pre-courtroom proceedings, the
freer they are to handle the
situation like they want to.
You just do things differently
when you know the public is
watching. And the public is
definitely aware at present of
the circumstances surrounding
major trials, and in fact the mass
media is the institution which de
cides for the public what is and
is not major.
So the majority of the populace
is being served. But whose right
is it to a fair trial—the defend
ant’s or the public’s?
Abuses of their privilege to
report the news has made the
objection of the lawyers a valid
one, to a certain extent. Papers
which practice sensationalism in
covering crime news do exist
and it’s easy to see how a regular
reader of one of these publica
tions could walk into the jury
box with predujice.
Of course the flagrant offen
ders are easy to spot but many
papers print seemingly objective
stories in which only a care
ful eye can catch the slant.
And though nothing could be
more objective, the introduction
of television cameras into court
rooms was a clear blow at the
right of fair trial. Anything
which could alter the outcome of
a trial—and the knowledge by
every person in the room that
they were being scrutinized by
thousands, perhaps millions of
viewers could definitely influence
their actions — should be dis
missed as being of secondary im
portance unless it brings in new
facts. And the introductions of
new facts into the case is hardly
the reason for television trial
coverage.
The cry for reform is not with
out justification. The defendant’s
case is often weakened by pre
trial publicity and this just isn’t
the way it’s supposed to be.
But the enactment of the cures
thus far proposed would infringe
upon into another basic right—
freedom of the press. And any
law which curbs this freedom is
a bad law.
It will be a much better situa
tion for everybody if the news
papers are allowed to indepen
dently re-examine their trial cov
erage policies and clean their own
houses.
Friday Is Deadline
For GRE Filing
Seniors graduating in August
were cautioned that 5 p.m. Friday
is the registration deadline for
the Graduate Record Examina
tion. The notice from the Office
of the Registrar and Counseling
and Testing Center said the first
step is to report to the registrar’s
office.
The testing dates are Aug.
13-14.
Graduate students wishing to
take the test at that time also
have a 5 p.m. Friday deadline.
They should check with the Of
fice of the Dean of the Graduate
College.
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1965
Number 193
SEAFRONT COED
Phyllis Johnson, finalist in the “Miss USA” pageant, is
studying marine biology this summer at Texas A&M’s
Marine Laboratory in Galveston. A senior liberal arts
student at the University of Texas, she is university
sweetheart and a cheerleader.
Galveston Branch
Sporting Beauty
Even the saltiest opponent to
coeds at Texas A&M has diffi
culty objecting to the addition of
a Miss U. S. A. finalist to the
Marine Laboratory classes at
Galveston.
Phyllis Johnson, 35-23-37, was
chosen Miss Texas in 1965 and
represented the state in the na
tional contest at Miami, Fla.
A senior liberal arts student at
the University of Texas, the Gal
veston lass is studying marine
biology under Dr. Sewell Hop
kins, called one of the top men
in the field in the nation by lab
oratory director Dr. Sammy Ray.
“It’s an interesting course,”
Miss Johnson commented, “I
have to do a lot of studying be
cause there is so much to cover
in such a short time.”
The popular coed takes a lot of
kidding from Aggies attending
classes on the island campus, es
pecially since she’s current
sweetheart of the University of
Texas.
Most of the ribbing is about
football, she admits.
A&M Awarded
$190,000 For
Freeway Study
Some hazards of entering free
ways may be eliminated by a
$190,000 study by Texas A&M
highway researchers.
The U.S. Department of Com
merce, Bureau of Public Roads,
will finance the endeavor.
Time-lapse photography from
helicopters and airplanes hover
ing over major freeways will
provide data for anlaysis, ac
cording to Dr. Charles Pinnell,
head of the Texas Transporta
tion Institute’s Highway Design
and Traffic Engineering Depart
ment. This work on freeway
merging will require eighteen
months, Dr. Pinnell indicated.
TTI research crews under the
supervision of Dr. Donald R.
Drew and Dr. Joseph A. Wattle-
worth will study freeway en
trance ramps to determine fac
tors affecting drivers’ decisions.
The project leaders plan to de
velop a mathematical model from
field research. Time-lapse pho
tography at intervals of one-
tenth of a second will be em
ployed in the flights over 15 or
20 of the nation’s largest free
ways. Over one hundred hours
of air observation of one million
vehicles is planned.
Films will be reviewed at TTI
offices in College Station and
Houston. Frame by frame analy
sis of the pictures will reveal lo
cation of vehicles, speed and ac
celeration. A battery of programs
for A&M’s IBM 7094 digital com
puter will compile the data.
“We see three major applica
tions from the project,” Dr. Pin
nell said. “These are improved
design for ramps, improved me
tering of traffic and more useful
ramp signals.”
“They keep saying, ‘Wait until
next year’ ”, she grinned.
Being a celebrity has been no
problem in the classroom for the
hazel-eyed beauty.
“We have a lot of ‘pop’ tests
which Dr. Hopkins refers to as
popular quizzes,” she said. “And
we have made a lot of field trips
—a shell collection last weekend,
a tour of a marine laboratory at
Seabrook, trips around the island
and bay area.”
Dr. Hopkins confided that Miss
Johnson “does pretty welV’ in
class. She participates in a lib
eral arts honors program at UT
with emphasis on general science.
Her teaching certificate will be
in biology, but she’s unsure about
teaching as a career.
“I’m thinking of trying teach
ing for a year or two, then may
be do graduate work in marine
biology,” she commented.
Being in school has cut down
on personal appearances and
tours for Miss Johnson.
“I’ve been asked to be hostess
for some conventions, but have
had to ask them to get someone
else because of school,” she ex
plained.
The 21-year old Longhorn
cheerleader said she’s deliberat
ing on whether to go to summer
school in Austin the second se
mester or to have her wisdom
teeth pulled.
“My dentist says they need to
be pulled,” she explained. “It’s
okay. My teeth are too big any
way.”
None of her Aggie classmates
seem to notice.
New Vapor Lamps
Will Be Installed
On A&M Campus
By CURTIS FLATT
New mercury vapor lamps are
to be installed on the Texas
A&M campus by the Building
and Utilities Department.
According to Walter H. Par
sons Jr., superintendent of the
department, the main reason for
installing the new lamps is to
eliminate dark areas on the
campus at night. “The mercury
vapor lamps will give a better
spread of light than the present
incandescent lamp,” Parsons com
mented.
Asst. Supt. for Maintenance
Vergil B. Clark of the B&U De
partment said that four mercury
vapor lamps will be installed on
the campus before September 1.
Two vapor lamps •will be mount
ed on aluminum standards be
tween Nagle Hall and the Phy
sics Building. Two additional
lamps will be installed on pre
sent standards west of the Dorm
itory 12 area.
The mercury vapor lamp chosen
to replace the present style lamp
is manufactured by the General
Electric Co. Clark said the lamp
resembles a Chinese coolie hat
and is beige in color.
Wednesday Accident
Claims A&M Student
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Jessie Forman, a 23-year-
old architecture major at
Texas A&M, died Wednesday
evening ,from an injury suf
fered in a game of touch
football.
The accident occurred
around 6:30 p.m. near the
front of the college hospital.
Forman was apparently block
ing for a runner and was hit in
the stomach by a knee or head
when two men collided with him
almost simultaneously. The blow
left him unconscious and attempts
at artificial respiration were made
by some on the scene of the
accident.
He was carried to the college
hospital on a stretcher and was
taken from there to a local hos
pital. The exact time and cause
of death were not yet determined.
Forman never regained conscious
ness after the injury had been
incurred.
An inquest will be held by
Justice of the Peace B .H. Dewey.
Funeral arrangements are pend
ing at Callaway Jones Funeral
Home.
Forman’s parents reside at 203
Larkspur Street in Victoria.
Forman had served in the Navy
and had attended Victoria Junior
College before first enrolling at
A&M this summer.
He had an older brother, James,
who is a senior animal husbandry
major at A&M. The brother is not
attending summer school here.
Forman was described by
friends as being in excellent
health.
“Strong public support” for the
A&M Consolidated. Independent
School District is revealed in an
extensive survey just completed
by a Texas A&M graduate class
in education. And the support
extends into the pocketbook.
Two-thirds of the property
owners interviewed for the survey
of one out of seven family units
throughout the district favor the
recent tax increase to provide
needed school buildings. Seventy
per cent of urban property own
ers said “yes.” Thirty per cent
of rural property owners said
“yes.” And more than half the
property owners with no children
of school age favor the increase.
Participants in the six-week
Institute for Beginning School
Administrators made the survey.
Texas A&M’s annual summer
community musical, “Bye - Bye
Birdie” opens a three-night stand
Thursday in Guion Hall at 8:15
p.m.
The show is being co-directed
by Bob Boone and Billie Jean
Barron and features modern
“kids” doing modern dancing, in
cluding the frug, monkey and
watusi.
“It’s a great show, a lot of
fun,” reports Boone. “We’ve had
some technical problems with it
but I’m not worried about the
cast—they’re way above average.
And I can’t praise the teenagers
enough, they’ve been hardwork
ing and very enthusiastic.”
The story revolves around an
Elvis Presley type singer, Con
rad Birdie, played by Joe Powell,
whose manager thinks up a final
publicity gimmick before his star
is inducted into the Army. It’s
decided that Conrad will go to
Sweet Apple, Ohio, where he will
give “One Last Kiss” to a lucky
girl.
Hugo Peabody clobbers Con
rad on Ed Sullivan’s TV show
and naturally the show is blacked
out. In the end, Conrad goes to
work for Uncle Sam, Albert and
Rose get together again, Hugo
and Kim are engaged, and theo-
It was only a portion of the in
tensive educational expereince for
13 graduate students. Dr. Robert
S. Randall of the A&M faculty
directed the institute.
“The survey was a good ex
ample of the way in which a
university and a public school
system can work cooperatively,”
Dr. Randall said. He cited the
“valuable experience” acquired by
Institute participants who are
teachers across Texas.
The consolidated schools re
ceived a comprehensive survey of
public attitudes on six broad
questions. Questions concerned
everything from recent tax action
to the amount of homework
assigned.
A total of 348 families through
out the district was interviewed.
Some persons were contacted in
retically, everybody lives happily
ever after.
Betty Sholley is the choreogra
pher and Cynthia Smith is light
ing director for the show.
The cast includes Guich (Bill)
Koock as Albert Peterson, Sally
Wynn as Rose Alvarez, Shirley
Ellis, Mary Margaret Gibbs, Lun-
nette Varisco, Marcia Mallard,
Sherry Holland, Dianna Weirus
and Randy Wilson as teenagers,
Nancy Hewitt as Ursula Merkle,
Donna Files as Kim MacAfee,
“The Russians could increase
morale tremendously if they
would distribute 100 million wo
men’s hats.”
Dr. John A. McIntyre, a mem
ber of the Cyclotron Institute
staff at Texas A&M was discuss
ing his recent trip to the USSR
as an invited guest of Russian
scientists.
McIntyre will lecture at 8 p.m.
Thursday on his recent trip in
Room 113, Biological Sciences
the morning, others in the late
afternoon.
“The sample of 348 families is
about three times as many as we
needed in order to check our
accuracy,” Dr. Randall said.
“We’re confident that the results
are accurate within 2 per cent.”
“Surprising” to Dr. Randall was
the unanimity of opinion between
men and women.
Almost 70 per cent of those
interviewed own property within
the school district. Almost ex
actly half have children of school
age.
Almost three-fourths of those
contacted were “aware of plans
to introduce the “new math” into
the elementary schools this Sep
tember.' And 64 per cent said they
approved of these plans.
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Fenelle Edwin as Mrs. MacAfee,
Warner Dahlberg as Mr. Mac
Afee, Jerry Holbert as Hugo Pea
body, Ricky Boone as Randolph
MacAfee, Elnora Fugitt as Mrs.
Merkle, and Donna Goodwin as
Gloria Rasputin.
The chorus includes Wally Wil
liams, Lynn Moore, Ruth Ellen
Calhoun, Celia Goode, Mary Beth
Calhoun, Sharon Skrevanek, Jody
Sherbum, Reggy Geppert, Gor-
den Hill, David Landmann and
Rick Landmann.
Building. “Reflections on a Sci
entist’s Visit to Russia” is Dr.
McIntyre’s topic.
“My wife and I didn’t see a
single woman’s hat during the
10 days we were in Russia,” the
professor of physics noted.
The visitors saw plenty of
other things, however. Among
them were Russia’s highest offi
cials — Kosygin, Brezhnev and
Mikoyan with visiting Yugoslav
ian leader Marshall Tito. They
were unexpected guests at the
ballet, “Swan Lake,” attended
by the McIntyres in Moscow.
“We were lucky enough to buy
some second row tickets from a
woman who could not attend,”
McIntyre recalled, “Before the
ballet the orchestra played some
special music. Everybody stood
up as the Russian delegation
marched in, and I even took some
photographs of them.”
McIntyre called the ballet a
“wonderful thing” and was im
pressed with the huge pile of
flowers thrown on the stage by
admiring fans.
“Everything in Russia is done
on a big scale,” McIntyre chuckl
ed, “The Russians remind me
of Texans. They are dynamic
people.”
Aggie Bonfire
Procedure Will
Be Overhauled
Survey Reveals Good Support
For A&M Consolidated Schools
Professor Returns
From Russian Trip
OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH
David Soileau, left, of St. Martinville, La.
and Judy Frandolig of San Antonio are
among’ six undergraduate research partic
ipants in oceanography at Texas A&M.
David and Judy are pictured examining
biological growth on samples taken from
the Gulf of Mexico. They are among six
participants who will be aboard the Re
search Vessel Alaminos for a July 26-Aug.
4 cruise. The six include two coeds. (Story
on page 5).
Complete reorganization of the
construction and safety proce
dures of the annual Aggie Bon
fire will take place this fall.
Entitled “Operation Blaze,”
the new plan, patterned along the
lines of an Army Operations
Order, has been in the planning
stages since last December, says
1965-66 yell leader Tommy Stone.
Prior to the first log cutting
beginning Nov. 20, complete pre
planning and reorganization will
have taken place, providing the
first really new bonfire construc
tion plan since it was originated
many years ago.
Head yell leader Joe Bush will
supervise the bonfire construc
tion. He will issue orders to
already appointed team chiefs to
head designated units, the names
of which are secret. Each of
these units will perform certain
operations vital to the bonfire
construction.
Safety will receive heavy em
phasis. The first aid chief will
co-ordinate with Universitly or
Bryan facilities to provide rapid
medical aid and evacuation for
seriously injured persons.
In addition, fast and efficient
communication systems will be
utilized, said Stone.
Due to secrecy of the new plan,
much more information in de
tail will be made public in the
fall.