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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1966
Number 260
Fish To Hempstead
Dean Reveals
Parking Switch
By TOMMY DeFRANK
Battalion News Editor
Dean of Students Janies P.
Hannigan announced Wednesday
that effective next semester
freshmen will be required to
park motor vehicles in the
“Hempstead” parking lot on the
southeast corner of the campus.
The ruling will apply to all
students who have passed less
than 30 semester hours and will
include freshmen living in the
north dormitory area.
Hannigan stressed the change
would probably not be perma
nent and was an attempt to
alleviate the crowded parking
situation on the campus’ north
west side.
“The change is primarily due to
the fact that there are too many
people with cars in the area
of the northwest comer,” he
said.
He added that many students
living in that area have been
deprived of normal parking space
off-campus by construction of the
underpass at State Highway 60
and old Highway 6.
But Hannigan revealed a large
tract of land owned by the uni
versity west of the campus will
eventually be converted into
parking space to ease the park
ing squeeze.
He explained that railroad
tracks west of old Highway 6
will be tom out to build the
underpass, leaving the university
free to utilize the adjacent land.
The proposed lot would run
several hundred yards along the
west edge of the campus and
would include all land from the
highway west to the site of the
railroad tracks.
Hannigan said work will also
begin in the near future on con
struction of a parking lot south
of present parking facilities be
hind G. Rollie White Coliseum.
The dean noted, that campus
paved and gravel parking lots
and streetside parking will ac
commodate 6,495 vehicles, yet
7,782 cars were registered for
the fall semester.
“If they ever all show up at
the same time,” he pointed out,
“we’ll be shy some 1,300 spaces.”
Hannigan said an increase in
parking fees for the 1966-67
school term is under discussion as
a means of financing parking lot
additions and improvements.
“No state funds can be used
for parking facilities, so it is
quite possible there may be an in
crease in parking fees,” Han
nigan said.
He added that the change in
regulations is an attempt to
allow freshmen to keep cars on
campus, instead of banning
them as do most colleges when
numbers exceed available spaces.
Hannigan noted some parking
spaces have been walled off by
various construction projects but
will eventually be restored to
normal use.
The dean also hinted that in
the future the inner campus
might be blocked off to through
traffic as a result of increased
campus traffic.
“Our long-range plans are to
increase as much as possible the
parking facilities close to the
perimeter of the main campus
and try to hold down vehicular
traffic at the academic center
of the campus,” he said.
A&M Receives
$185,000 Gift
For Scholars
Texas A&M University has
been awarded a three-year $185,-
000 Ford Foundation grant for
Latin American and North Amer
ican scholars,
President Earl Rudder an
nounced the award Thursday and
named Dr. Jack D. Gray, inter-
Batt Staffers
Win Awards
Two Battalion staffers won
awards last week in state and
national writing competition.
Glenn Dromgoole, editor, took
second place in the editorial
writing division of the Associat
ed Press Managing Editors of
Texas contest, announced Sun
day in Corpus Christi.
The senior journalism major
from Sour Lake was the only
college student to win an award
in the APME competition.
Tommy DeFrank, news editor,
won a $100 scholarship for his
eighth place tie in a national
feature writing contest sponsor
ed by the William Randolph
Hearst Foundation.
DeFrank, a junior journalism
major from Arlington, wrote his
prize-winning articles about de
serted locks on the Brazos River.
It appeared in The Battalion
Nov. 11.
Dromgoole’s editorial was en
titled ::Our Answer” and appear
ed in The Battalion in conjunc
tion with the telegram sent by
2,148 A&M students to President
Johnson proclaiming their sup
port for United States involve
ment in Viet Nam.
national programs director, to
supervise the program.
Gray said 8-12 persons will be
involved, in team research pro
jects in the Dominican Republic
and Mexico.
“The grant is the first for
‘task force research’,” he noted.
Each research team will in
clude two professors and two
graduate students. One of the
graduate students will be a Latin
American.
Further plans call for one pro
fessor on each team to have ex
perience in international work.
“Our plan calls for the grad
uate students to live overseas to
do field research,” Gray explain
ed. “Not more than three months
each year will be spent overseas
by each of the professors.”
Projects are being considered
in agricultural marketing and
plant diseases. Other possible
fields include engineering, edu
cation and sociology. Each field
will have its own “task force”.
Final Week at Texas A&M
dents yet crucial to others,
his diploma as he packs his
He received his diploma at
FOR SOME AN END, FOR OTHERS A BEGINNING
was meaningless to some stu- weekend. At right sophomore Howard Hensel crams for
At left Aubrey Lange clutches still another final. Exams continue through Saturday
car prior to leaving for good, morning, with registration for the spring semester to
Commencement Exercises last begin Feb. 4.
800 ID Cards
Still Unclaimed
More than 800 students
must pick up permanent iden
tification cards before they
will be allowed to register for
the spring semester, a regis
tration official said Wednes
day.
Bob Gleason, associate di
rector of admissions, said most
of the unclaimed cards belong
to special students and facul
ty-staff members registered
for courses.
“Students who have the old
ID card will be blocked tem
porarily at registration,” Glea
son warned.
Cards may be picked up at
room 7 of the Richard Coke
Building.
Fall Term Graduates Hear
Clergyman, Army General
Texas A&M graduates Satur
day viewed America’s strength
through the eyes of a clergyman
and a general.
“The United States will defend
its allies at any level of war
fare,” Army Maj. Gen. Harry H.
Critz declared. “We are willing
to help friendly countries over
come conditions which lead to
situations such as Viet Nam.”
Rabbi Robert J. Schur told
graduates “the strength of our
nation is no more than the weak
est among us.”
Critz, commander of the Artil
lery and Missile Center at Fort
Sill, Okla., spoke at ROTC coin-
Brazosport School Executive
To Join Education Faculty
Dr. Lester S. Richardson, sup
erintendent of the Brazosport
School District, will join the De
partment of Education and Psy
chology June 1, Dr. Paul Hen-
sarling, department head, has an
nounced.
An A&M graduate and former
superintendent of A&M Consoli-
Piremen battle a stubborn blaze that caused
$65,000 in damage to the Lincoln School
complex south of the campus last week.
The fire, whipped by high winds, destroyed
classrooms housing the sixth through
FIRE GUTS LINCOLN SCHOOL
twelfth grades at the Negro school, leaving
only two classroom buildings standing. Ap
proximately 100 students were displaced by
the fire and are being phased in at A&M
Consolidated schools.
dated Schools, Richardson will
teach and assume department re
sponsibility in educational ad
ministration.
Richardson, 46, will be chair
man of education administration,
have major responsibility in the
statewide conference for school
administrators and supervisors at
A&M in June, direct doctoral can
didate research and carry on in
dependent research projects.
“He has developed an out
standing program for Brazosport
schools,” said Dr. Frank W. R.
Hubert, dean of Liberal Arts.
“We feel fortunate to acquire his
services, particularly at this time
when educational enterprises are
receiving support at the state
Magazine Official
To Speak Friday
John J. Cain, a vice president
of McCall’s Magazine, will speak
at a breakfast sponsored by two
journalism groups Friday.
Hosting the event will be Al
pha Delta Sigma, an advertising
fraternity, and the Society of
A&M Journalists.
Cain, after a three-year term
as publisher of Redbook Maga
zine, was appointed assistant to
the president of McCall Corpora
tion Jan. 1, 1965.
He has also been assistant pub
lisher and advertising director of
Flower and Garden Magazine,
vice president of Selders-Jones-
Covington Advertising Agency
and sales promotion manager of
Western Auto Supply Company.
A native of Greenwood, Miss.,
Cain is a 1949 graduate of the
University of Missouri School of
Journalism and present lives in
Greenwich, Conn.
and national level.
“We have been seeking a per
son of his stature for over a year
to fill this vital area of respon
sibility. He will give strength to
our doctoral program, especially
as it relates to preparation of
school superintendents,” Hensarl-
ing added.
Richardson has been at Braz
osport since 1960. Prior to his
present post, the school admin
istrator was professor of educa
tion and director of the Bureau
of Educational Research and
Services and a member of the
Faculty Graduate Council at the
University of Houston.
He acquired B.S. and master of
education degrees at A&M in
1946 and 1948, receiving the
Ph.D. in education and adminis
tration at Houston in 1954. He
engaged in postdoctoral work at
Columbia University and the
University of Chicago.
After leaving Consolidated in
1957, Richardson was superin
tendent of Cuero schools two
years.
The educator holds member
ship and office in many national
scientific and professional soci
eties. He is a member of the
commission on colleges for the
Southern Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools, a repre
sentative on the College Entrance
Exam Board until 1968 and pres
ident of the Gulf Region Educa
tional TV Affiliates, KUHT-TV,
Houston.
Richardson is listed in Who’s
Who in American Education,
Who’s Who in the Southwest,
participates in civic, service and
cultural activities and was a
starter on the 1939 national
championship football team at
A&M.
missioning exercises. Schur ad
dressed the mid-year graduating
class.
“We are organizing to convince
the forces of world communism
that we, as a government, are
prepared to meet their attack
against our friends and allies
at whatever level of conflict they
choose,” Critz said.
“And what is more important,
we are prepared to take the ini
tiative to assist our friends in
solving their problems, which,
left untended, lead to such sense
less slaughter, as that perpetuat
ed in Viet Nam today by the
Communist government of Ha
noi.”
Sixty-three Aggies received
commissions as second lieute
nants, including 50 Army, 10 Air
Force and S Marine Corps.
“The dangers you face are not
all on the battlefied,” Critz
pointed out. “Today’s soldier is
subject to other dangers as dead
ly as bullets. He is confronted
with the faceless and subtle virus
of apathy and the creeping malig
nancy which can attack his mor
ale and haunt him with questions
concerning the significance of his
service.
“Weapons of the mind and
heart have sustained brave men
in troubled times before and they
are no less valuable in this pe
culiar and troubled time in which
we serve,” the general concluded.
Rabbi Schur challenged 551
mid-year graduates to conquer
frontiers within themselves. He
was introduced by University
President Earl Rudder, who con
ferred 31 doctorates, 106 master’s
and 414 bachelor’s degrees.
“No nation can measure its
accomplishments in terms of
gross national product and be
satisfied,” the rabbi of the Beth-
E1 Congregation in Fort Worth
said. “The test is not how high
can the gifted, energetic, con
scientious rise, but to what level
can we lift the least in us.
“Life’s challenge still must be
met when we learn to adjust and
recognize the unity of man,”
Schur added. “After the most
distant frontier has been con
quered, the most extensive and
complex frontier remains. Not
outward, but inward we must
turn to find the treasured wealth
and power and promise of man.”
Development Speaker Says
Nonmilitary Warfare Rising
Study of nonmilitary warfare
techniques, inexpensive compared
to conventional weapons and
methods, is increasing in the
United States, Executive Devel
opment Program participants at
Texas A&M were told Tuesday.
Frank R. Barnett, president of
the National Strategy Informa
tion Center, Inc., of New York,
said such techniques were em
ployed twice in Czechoslovakia
and improved by Cuba.
“Czechoslovakia, including the
second most important munitions
works in Western Europe, twice
fell to nonmilitary warfare tech
niques,” Barnett reminded man
agement personnel at the three-
week course. “Not one drop of
blood was spilled nor was one
shot fired as the Czechs were
taken under rule by the Nazis
and Communists.
“Capture of this munitions cen
ter both times led to untold U. S.
military casualties on the ‘hot’
battlefield,” he went on. “This
very inexpensive weapons system,
which leaves factories, oil re
fineries, ports and cities intact,
is now being used in South and
Central America.”
The communications expert
warned the same weapon is used
by Communist Red China, with
a new twist.
“The new power center in Pek
ing is using nonmilitary war
fare and giving it an even more
sinister ingredient: racial dis
crimination,” he declared. “Rus
sia did not mix in racial hatred.
The Red Chinese are not re
strained. They are introducing
racism into their propaganda
themes.”
Space Fair Needs
Help For Porpoise
A “Help Wanted” sign has
been posted by Hydro - Space
Fiesta '66 Vice Chairman Bill
Gross.
Gross needs help caring for a
porpoise which may visit the
Fiesta Feb. 7-10.
Biggest need is for a plastic
pool or other container four feet
deep and 18 feet in diameter that
will hold 6,000 gallons of water.
Other requirements include a
one horsepower pump, a three-
foot diameter pressure filter, 1,-
500 pounds of salt, a heater,
transportation via truck or air
plane, a fence to restrain specta
tors and a night guard.
The porpoise, provided by Fred
Eckhart, general manager of
Sea-Arama in Galveston will be
accompanied by Sea-Arama Cur
ator Jim Kelly.