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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1966
Number 25^
By Larry Jerden
DITOR’S NOTE: We last left our intrepid hitchhiker, Battalion
sports editor Larry Jerden, at a lonely crossroads somewhere in the
heart of Alabama. The third installment in our four-part serial
continues below.
After a 15-minute wait during which I exchanged tales with
some hitchhikers bound down the other road for Florida, I was picked
up by Jim Sanders in a lumber truck.
“I’m only goin’ a few miles down the road, but I know a good
ot where you can get a ride for shore,” he explained. Desiring
armth and motion, I accepted.
Sure enough, six miles down the road, I was standing in a mud
buddle, since it was the only piece of real estate within 30 yards
that wasn’t covered with highway, forest, or more mud.
But there was no traffic.
None.
Until a string of cars about a mile long came crawling around the
indy road, being held up by a ’59 Ford six that was barely creeping.
I didn’t mind, he was slowing down to pick me up. Inside were
fcwo thin, elderly Negro men who told me their names about three
■mes, but I still couldn’t understand them enough to get anything
down on paper.
I did gather they were on their way from Anderson, Alabama
to Tullapoosa, Georgia. On the straightaway, we were hitting up-
ards of 70, but there wasn’t enough straight on that narrow, windy
load to build a decent bowling lane, and with every curve the driver
got a wild, terrified look in his eye that reminded me of a man facing
a firing squad.
The car was noisy and drafty, but a free lecture was included
pith the fare about the various police departments along the route.
As we passed through a small Georgia community just over the
;line, the driver commented, “Bo’, donchew eva’ get stopped in this
town fo’ nuthin’. They’ll sho nuff throw yew in that jail and f’get
! yew is in thea. Ah swea they throw that dere key so fa’ way yew
neva fin’ it.”
“I wuz in thea one time. Ask to call yore kin? F’get it, bo’,
ft’hey jus’ tell ya, ‘Get it that there cell and don’ chew make a peep!’
Cat’s what they do, bo’ No Suh, donchew neva speed hea!”
As we went up an exceptionally steep hill, the driver launched
?a tale of his boyhood.
“When ah wuz ah bo, we wuz cumin’ up this hea same hill on
e backuva truck haulin’ hay, and dere wuz dis otha truck what wuz
sgoin’ real slow, ah mean he wuz just about not goin’ atoll, an we
assed him goin reel slow at de top ah da hill.”
“Bo, when we passed him, ah jumps over on his truck and grabs
e a bunch of apples from his pile, and hops back on ma truck.
B -hen we jest passes ’im reel slow, yellin’ at ’im, an eatin’ ’is apples
I?. . . an’ then, zoom, down’ de otha side of de hill, bout 90 miles an’
houa! Djew evah do dat, Bo?”
About twenty minutes till ten, the two stopped near the railroad
station where they worked and said they had to get some things out
of their trailer. I said OK, but didn’t realize they meant they were
going to clean out the trailer, bum the trash they swept out, re
arrange the furniture, and generally conduct a year-end clean-up.
It only took 11 minutes by my watch.
Back on the road, through, over and around the rolling Georgia
hills. Goats munching grass, squirrels gathering buried nuts, and
the inevitable fog everywhere. The clouds were covering the tops of
the short hills when we made an abrupt stop at the intersection of a
dirt road.
‘This is it, bo,” and at 11:01, we were now in EST, I was back
on the road.
I stood out there about 10 minutes, exchanging stares with some
goats on a nearby hillside, when an RCA repair truck stopped and
L. J. Ingram introduced himself to me.
He was on his way to Atlanta, which was the best news I’d
heard in a long time, but was going to make a stop or two along the
way, so I told him I’d just ride till he stopped, and stick out my
! thumb again. If I was still there when he came by again, I’d appre
ciate another ride.
I was in the little Falcon Van about five minutes when the news
came over one of his radios that Gemini 6 was in the water. All the
way back from space and I still wasn’t home yet!
Ingram said, “Listen to that! If I were another country I’d
think a long time before messing with the US, but Ho Chi Minh just
won’t believe it. I’d just think a long time before messing with a
country that could put four men in space like that and set ’em down
right where they want to!”
Suddenly traffic became heavy on the two-lane road. It slowed
rapidly. From 60 to 40, now 30 ... 15 in a 60 zone. At 11:20, we
were down to a crawl, and a few minutes later we were at a stop.
The trouble lay with two big trucks that had jack-knifed about
a half-mile ahead, completely blocking the road. The highway
patrol estimated it wouldn’t be open to traffic till 2 p.m., so Ingram
and I pulled out our maps and began looking for alternate routes.
We found one, but took a wrong turn and after half an hour
driving ended up where we started!!! We thought we were mad till
we noticed a man in an Imperial with NY plates that had been
following us, thinking we knew the way out!
We had another go at it, but the New Yorker gave us a dirty
look and headed back for the highway to wait out the highway patrol.
We finally did find the way to Atlanta, and after battling the
traffic, Ingram had me on the freeway out of town by 1:20. Un
fortunately that’s where I stayed for the next half-hour. It was
getting colder and every minute seemed like five. Cars were thick
on the freeway and there was no shoulder, so even if a person
wanted to pick up an Aggie (and few of the Georgia Tech supporters
did) they couldn’t stop.
Finally, risking life, limb, a wreck and a ticket, Buddy Payne
whipped his ’57 Ford across two lanes, onto the narrow strip of mud
by the roadside, and stopped.
He took me out to where the shoulder was wide, and at his
speed, I passed most of the people that had driven by me as I
stood by the freeway. THAT was a good feeling!
Powers Slated
For CC Talk
Mercury Control Voice
Tops Jan. 25 Banquet
Lt. Col. John A. “Shorty” Chamber of Commerce’s member- nual dinner meeting in the Ra-
best
Debate Team To Attend
SWC Tournament Friday
A&M debate teams travel to
Baylor University to attend the
Southwest Conference Annual
Debate Tournament Friday and
Saturday.
“The format for this debate
is different,” said Carl Kell,
team sponsor. He explained two
teams from each school will de
bate a round robin schedule with
every other school in the confer
ence. One team will take the
affirmative side all six rounds,
While the other group takes the
negative side.
Students comprising A&M’s
negative team are senior Sim
mada Inn.
Chamber officials were elated
Powers, first voice of the astro- ship banquet Jan. 25.
nauts, will be the featured speak- Powers is expected to speak to
er at the Bryan-College Station 800 chamber members at the an- that Powers had accepted their
invitation.
“Colonel Powers is an expert
in the space field and a very
humorous speaker,” Executive
Vice President Hill Westmoreland
noted. “He can be expected to
give an informative, yet enjoy
able presentation.”
Tickets for the banquet may be
Zener Named
Sciences Dean
Lake and junior Marvin Simpson
from Fort Worth. Affirmative
team representatives are sopho
mores Benny Mays from Brash-
ear and David Gay from College
Staton.
Kell said an over all trophy
will be awarded to the school
with the most victories on both
affirmative and negative sides.
Also, the schools with the best
affirmative and negative sides
will be given trophies.
Baylor University now has the
“traveling trophy,” which is pre
sented to the school with the
best record in debating.
Dr. Clarence Zener this week
joined the faculty as first dean
of the College of Sciences.
Zener is the second member of
the National Academy of Sci
ences to join A&M. Dr. Horace
R. Byers, an internationally
known meteorologist, is dean of
A&M’s College of Geosciences.
The new faculty member comes
to A&M from Westinghouse Re
search Laboratories in Pitts
burgh, Pa., where he was director
of science.
Honors have been many for
Zener. He is reluctant to name
his greatest honor, but com
mented “the membership in the
National Academy of Sciences
seems to attract the most at
tention.”
His latest horior was the Al
bert Sauveur Achievement
Award of the American Society
for Metals. He received “about a
10-pound plaque” in November
for contributions to metallurigal
science during his career.
In 1959 Zener was named “Man
of the Year in Science” by the
Pittsburgh Junior Chamber of
Commerce. He also won the
John Price Wetherill Medal by
the Franklin Institute that year.
Two years earlier he was Bign-
ham medalist for the Society of
Rheology.
Zener received the War De
partment’s Exceptional Civilian
Service Award in 1946 for de
signing projectiles and armor
plating at Waterton Arsenal.
He is co-author of a book to
be published in the spring, “Geo
metric Programming”, about a
new method of optimization. An
other book, “Elasticity and Ane-
lasticity of Metals”, was publish
ed in 1948. It was later publish
ed in French and Russian.
Zener defined science as the
understanding of nature as op
posed to technology.
“There will never be an end to
the process of better understand
ing,” he said. “The better we
‘University Fair’
To Remain Part
Of Career Day
“University Fair” becomes a
regular feature of Career Day on
March 12 when the special day
for high school and junior college
students is held on campus.
The fair is comprised of ex
hits and booths by departments
in county fair fashion in G. Rol-
lie White Coliseum. The innova
tion was employed for the first
time last spring.
“We considered it very suc
cessful,” said S. Auston Kerley,
director of A&M’s counseling
and testing center.
Career Day allows prospective
students to get acquainted with
the A&M campus, faculty, stu
dents and programs offered.
Planned by the Dean of Stu
dents’ office, Career Day is fac
ulty-sponsored. The Student In
tercouncil Committee promotes
and organizes the fair. Students
also operate exhibits set up by
schools, departments and offices.
“We feel the exhibits were ef
fective last year,” said Kerley,
coordinator for the annual Ca
reer Day. “Practically every
thing the University has to of
fer was represented.”
Visiting students reach A&M
about 9 a.m. Scheduled activity
ends at 4 p.m.
understand, the more effective
will be the technology.”
“One can do research in teach
ing as well as in conventional
areas,” Zener commented. “It
takes as much ingenuity to de
vise effective new teaching tech
niques as in doing research in
the general areas of sciences.”
“No other area has been as
little changed as teaching during
the past 100 years,” he added.
“We still teach entering classes
of 2,000 the same as when we
had entering classes of 50.
Gilmore To Speak
At MSC Tonight
Eddy Gilmore, correspondent
for the Associated Press, will
speak at 8 p.m. today in the
Memorial Student Center Ball
room. His topic will be “Creep
ing Capitalism in Russia.”
Gilmore covers foreign news
for AP, specializing in Russian
developments. His analysis of
the Russian scene is reinforced
by his personal experiences and
observations.
He received the Pulitzer Prize
in 1947 for his work in foreign
correspondence. The prize-win
ning story was an interview with
Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin dur
ing the Big Four talks.
His visit is sponsored by the
MSC Great Issues Committee.
Chairman of the Committee Tom
Tyree said Gilmores talk will
be no dry recital of economic
changes, but an entertaining
description of how capitalism is
gaining new strongholds within
the Soviet System.
purchased at all Bryan-College
Station banks, Bryan Building &
Loan, Community Savings &
Loan, Ramada Inn, Enco Insur
ance Co., the Chamber of Com
merce office and the Memorial
Student Center. They sell for $4
apiece.
The man who put “A-OK” in
the American vocabulary was
bom in Toledo, Ohio in 1922. He
enlisted in the Army Air Corps
in 1942 and was commissioned
in 1943. During World War II
he flew troop carrying C-47’s
and C-46’s in the European Thea
tre. In the final months of the
war he ferried supplies and gaso
line to Patton’s armored column
in Germany.
Powers flew 55 night bombing
missions in Korea and received
a battlefield promotion to major.
His combat decorations include
the Air Medal, the Distinguished
Flying Cross and the Bronze
Star.
The colonel was the first di
rector of the Air Force's Luner
Probe Information Center in 1958
and in 1959 was assigned to the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration as public affairs
officer for Project Mercury.
He served as the “voice” of
Mercury Control for America’s
first manned space flights in
cluding missions by Alan Shep
ard, John Grissom, John Glenn,
Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra
and J. Gordon Cooper.
The officer retired from the
Air Force in 1964 after 22 years
of active service. He now heads
a public relations firm, writes
an internationally syndicated
newspaper column and is vice
president and general manager
of Radio KMSC in Houston.
Final Exam Schedule
Final examinations for the Fall Semester 1965
will be held Jan. 24 - Jan. 29, according to the
following schedule:
Date
Hours
Series
Jan.
24,
Mon.
8-11
a.
m.
MWF8
Jan.
24,
Mon.
1-4
P-
m.
TThSFl
Jan.
25,
Tue.
8-11
a.
m.
MWF9
Jan.
25,
Tue.
1-4
P-
m
MWThl
Jan.
26,
Wed.
8-11
a.
m.
MWF10
Jan.
26,
Wed.
1-4
P-
m.
TF1
Jan.
27,
Thu.
8-11
a.
m.
M3TThlO
Jan.
27,
Thu.
1-4
P-
m.
MWTh2
Jan.
28,
Fri.
8-11
a.
m.
MWF11
Jan.
28,
Fri.
1-4
P-
m.
M4TThll
Jan.
29,
Sat.
8-11
a.
m.
TTh9F2
Jan.
29,
Sat.
1-4
P-
m.
TF2 or
TWF3 or
TThF3
NOTE: Final examinations in courses with only
one theory hour per week as shown in the cat
alogue will be given, at the discretion of the
department head concerned, at the last meeting
of either the theory or practice period before the
close of the semester. Evening classes are to be
worked out on individual arrangements.
Room Reservation
To Start Monday
For Spring Term
Students living in civilian
dormitories have until 5 p.m. Jan.
14 to reserve the room that they
are now living in with the Hous
ing Office.
Reservations will be taken
starting at 8 a.m. Monday. Corps
members will be registered by
their unit first sergeants.
Students who wish to reserve
a room other than their present
one may sign for rooms on a
first come, first served basis be
ginning at 8 a.m. Jan. 17 through
5 p.m. Jan. 28.
Special consideration for Dorm
itory 22 and ramps E, F, G, and
H of Walton Hall will be given
to graduate students, Veterinary
medicine students and foreign
students not living in these two
areas but who wish to move to
them for the spring semester.
Students who reserve rooms for
the spring semester and cancel
after Jan. 15, or who do not
register will forfeit their $20
room deposit unless they are not
permitted to register by the Uni
versity.
Those who have a $20 room
deposit on file will not be re
quired to pay any additional fees
to reserve rooms. Other students
must pay the room deposit before
reserving rooms.
Anyone who changes rooms for
the spring semester must proper
ly clear his old room to check
into the new room after notifying
the housemaster concerned. This
must be done within 48 hours of
the time the physical move takes
place. Failure to accomplish
either of these procedures will
result in a charge of $5.
Those moving from one civilian
room to another must present a
room clearance slip to the Hous
ing Office, signed by the house
master of the room they are leav
ing, before exchanging keys.
Anyone moving from a civilian
dormitory to a cadet dormitory
will need a room change slip
signed by the housemaster, organ
ization commander, and the cadet
dormitory counselor concerned be
fore exchanging keys.
Civilian day students, including
those who live in the University
Apartments are strongly urged
to secure day student permits
early in order to save time during
registration. Students who will
be day students during the spring
semester must secure a day stu
dent permit from the Housing
Office before paying fees. This
includes all students who are day
students at the present time.
Pics Tell Story
Of Ag Upset
BEASLEY, MATSON DISPLAY SHOOTING ABILITY DURING WIN OYER SMU
Two Ag-g-ie basketball giants, John Beasley, No. 44 in left Matson dunked four points but this one gave the Aggies
picture, and Randy Matson, shooting in right picture, the lead in the second half. Defending for SMU are Bob
helped shoot A&M past the SMU Mustangs Tuesday night Begert, No. 11, Carroll Hooser, No. 25, and John Ramsey,
in G. Rollie White Coliseum, 85-78. Beasley scored 25 points No. 31.
before fouling out with five minutes left in the game.