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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1966
Number 262
Carpenter Says Sea
Contains Vast Riches
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Must For Future
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AQUANAUT MEETS DOLPHIN
trainer feeds porpoise while Carpenter, Rudders look on.
onnally Tech School
Insures Grads’ Future
Texas A&M’s “college for blue
lollar workers” guarantees its
graduates a new job and a bright
■ future.
| The James Connally Technical
Institute in Waco, founded in
1965, has already begun train
ing technicians and specialists in
paceage skills. A pilot program
n precise instrument measure
ments opened in January. Eight
hundred students can be accom
modated in September when 15
ourses will be offered.
Salaries for graduates of these
programs will be “among the
est in industry,” Dr. Roy W.
Jugger points out. The A&M
vice president and director of
Connally Tech believes job place
ment will not be a problem.
“Our biggest concern is stu
dents who accept good offers
before they have completed their
program of study,” he said.
Dugger estimated Texas’ ex
panding industry would require
more technicians than the insti
tute could train, even when it hits
the 5,000-student mark in 1969
or 1970.
“Our state is becoming an in
dustrial giant,” he stressed. “New
products and new processes will
require more and more workers
with new, complex skills.”
l&M Research Ship Leaves
•n Ocean Temperature Study
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The fourth cruise in an ocean
temperature study series by the
Texas A&M research vessel Ala-
fininos departs from Galveston
Wednesday.
Dr. Dale F. Leipper has charge
of the nine-man study to cover
2,200 miles of Gulf of Mexico
Waters.
Larry L. Brennan, Carroll
Brunson, Ken Bottom, Glenn
Gray, Donald Koelsch, John
Groot, William A. Burns and Ed
Vos of the Department of
ceanography and Meterology
ill make the two-week cruise.
The trip will employ primary
bathythermograph observations
and regular hydrographic sta-
ions in recording temperatures
|n the Eastern and Western Gulf,
urpose of the research is to
tudy temperature changes in the
water as affected by climatic con-
itions.
_ “This is the coldest month of
the year,” Leipper said.
I Earlier cruises recorded tem
peratures of the hottest month
and transitional months.
I Leipper said the Alaminos will
/I tnake a single swing across the
Chemistry Prof
Speaks W ednesday
A University of Cincinnati
chemistry professor, Dr. Raymond
E. Dessy, will be guest speaker
Wednesday for the American
Chemical Society section meeting.
Dessy will discuss “Organic
Electrochemistry” at the combin-
l 'j! Oed meeting of A&iM and Baylor
| Sections at 7:45 p.m. in the Chem-
jj istry Building.
An informal dinner for Dr. and
Mrs. Dessy will be served in the
Memorial Student Center dining
room. Section members and
guests are invited to the 6:30 p.m.
event.
An associate professor at Cin
cinnati, Dessy was an Alfred P.
Sloan Fellow. He received the
B.S. in pharmacy and Ph.D. in
chemistry at the University of
Pittsburgh and taught at Ohio
State before going to Cincinnati
in 1957.
Western Gulf and spend most of
its time in the Eastern area,
making intensive studies of its
strong eddy current system.
“WeTl come back along the
coast where water is most affect
ed by winter weather,” he said.
Casting To Begin
For Saroyan Play
Aggie Player casting for Wil
liam Saroyan’s Pulitzer Prize
winning play, “The Time of Your
Life,” begins at Texas A&M
Tuesday.
Robert Wenck, director, said
casting will be held Tuesday and
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on the
Guion Hall stage.
The cast calls for 18 men and
nine women. Anyone interested
is invited to read for a part,
Wenck added.
“A Negro musician is specified
in the cast,” he said. “We prefer
a piano player but it could be a
guitar or piccolo.”
“The Time of Your Life” won
the New York Drama Critics
Circle award in 1939 when it was
first produced. William Bendix,
as Krupp the honest cop, received
his first stage recognition with
the play. It is a three-act “high”
comedy, set in San Francisco in
1939.
“It is a story about real people,
not caricatures,” Wenck said. “It
is like Candid Camera. The funny
business comes from reality, not
situations.”
The Aggie Players production,
to start March 21 for a six-night
run, is produced by C. K. Esten.
Connally Tech graduates will
be prepared to enjoy the eco
nomic benefits that grow out of
Texas’ technological development,
he added.
Courses for the institute were
planned in consultation with 1,000
industrial representatives, Dugger
said.
“This assures our graduates
that jobs are waiting for them
and assures industry that their
skills will be those needed,” he
explained.
Programs are divided into two
categories: the technical educa
tion center which offers two-year
highly technical subjects leading
to an associate of science degree,
and the vocational development
center, which offers courses of
less technical nature, and, in many
cases, for terms of less than two
years.
The coeducational institute will
eventually have a 2,300-acre cam
pus when the U. S. Air Force
moves from Connally Air Force
Base. The military program is
gradually phasing out as Connally
Tech builds up with 1968 as the
changeover target date.
Tech classes will be taught in
refinished Air Force classrooms
and laboratories. Single men and
women students will be housed
in two-to-a-room airconditioned
barracks; married students will
use officer quarters.
By DANI PRESSWOOD
Scott Carpenter, America's
only astronaut-aquanaut, outlined
the vast importance a knowledge
of the oceans holds for future
generations in the Hydrospace
Fiesta’s keynote address Mon
day night.
Outerspace flight is enjoying
a great amount of glory, he said,
“but the riches that await us on
the sea floor are much more at
tainable than those on the surface
of the moon.”
Carpenter, the Mercury astro
naut who piloted the three-orbit
Aurora 7 flight in 1962, turned
his attention to underwater ex
ploration in the spring of 1965,
living at a depth of 205 feet for
30 days in the Navy’s SeaLab II
project.
Carpenter emphasized the
ocean’s great potential in regard
to food, natural resources, weath
er control and national defense
measures.
In a world which sees 100,000
persons added to its population
each day, “the ocean represents
a source of food which can no
longer be denied,” he pointed out.
The naval commander expressed
optimism toward future “ranch
ing,” harvesting and hydrocul
ture, or farming the ocean floor.
He estimated that 40 per cent
of the world’s oil supply lies
untouched beneath the sea as
well as gold and diamonds, which
are being mined at a rate of
5,000 karats daily.
Turning to national defense,
Carpenter encouraged the use of
the sea floor as a missile site.
“What better hard site could
you find for a missile than under
water?” he asked.
Carpenter explained that the
purpose of the deep sea program
presently in operation is to de
velop a rescue system utilizing
small deep submersibles, large
object recovery, small object re
covery and utilization of a mo
bile nuclear-powered sea labora
tory.
Narrating a color film of the
SeaLab II project, Carpenter des
cribed the problems involved in
the undertaking.
“Divers are deaf and mute un
derwater,” he said. “They need
to be given good communication
equipment.” Cold water and
poisonous sea creatures also af
fected the 500,000 pound struc
ture’s 10-man crew.
Carpenter feels much is to be
learned from sea life, especially
from the talented porpoise.
“The porpoise is 10 times more
efficient than the best designed
torpedo. There is a weird un
dulation of the skin which causes
a drastic reduction in the drag,”
he added.
Rear Admiral Odale D. Waters
Jr. a naval oceanographer, will
present the Hydrospace Fiesta’s
second speech at 8 p.m. Wednes
day in the Memorial Student Cen
ter Ballroom.
10:10 a.m.
(Coffee Shop)
3:10 p.m.—movie:
(Coffee Shop)
4:10 p.m.—movie:
(Ballroom)
p.m.—“The Big
WEDNESDAY
movie: “Food from the Sea’
“Conquest of the Deep’
“Science of the Sea"
8
Picture of U. S. Involve
ment in the Oceanographic Field" — Rear
Adm. O. D. Waters Jr. (Ballroom)
THURSDAY
movie: “Key to the Deep”
Ll:10 a.m.
(Coffee Shop)
3:10 p.m.—movie:
(Coffee Shop)
4:10 p.m.—movie:
“Sealab I"
‘Oceanography, Science for
8 p.m.—“Porpoises That Join the Navy”—
Dr. Sam H. Ridgway, D.V.M. (Ballroom)
FRIDAY
9:10 a.m.—movie: “Careers
(Coffee Shop)
2:10 p.m.—movie:
(Coffee Shop)
4:10 p.m.—movie:
in Oceanography’
Goblin on the Doorstep”
The International Indian
Ocean Expedition” (Ballroom)
6 Graduate Students Receive
Air Force Service Medals
Applications Accepted
For Meeting Rooms
Applications for meeting rooms
for student organizations and
clubs for the spring semester will
be accepted in the Memorial Stu
dent Center beginning Thursday.
Groups should turn in requests
for rooms to the MSC social and
educational department.
Rooms will be provided without
charge.
Medals were presented to six
graduate students at an Air
Force Institute of Technology
meeting Monday at Texas A&M.
Three Air Force Commendation
medals, two Oak Leaf Clusters
and a Combat Readiness Medal
were awarded by Col. Raymond
C. Lee, professor of aerospace
studies.
Recipient of a cluster to the
Commendation Medal was Capt.
Aggie Ex Dies
In Viet Nam
Capt. Manion Mathis, a 1957
graduate of Texas A&M, was
killed in Viet Nam in late Jan
uary, friends here learned re
cently.
An engineering officer, Mathis
was commander of Company “C”,
864th Engineer Battalion (Con
struction) stationed at Nha
Trang.
He and the entire crew were
killed when a “lowboy”, heavy
equipment transporting device,
capsized enroute to an off-shore
installation.
Mathis received the bachelor
of science degree in industrial
education at A&M in 1957, when
he was commissioned. He took
a Regular Army commission
about a year ago. At A&M, he
was a member of the Texas Ag
gie Band and head waiter in
Duncan Dining Hall his senior
year.
Mathis’ wife and children re
side in Gilmer.
Billy M. Poston. Capt. Phillip J.
Wendt received the first Oak
Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal.
Commendation Medals went to
Capt. Lynn L. LeBlanc, Lt. Wil
liam A. Albro and Lt. Kenneth E.
Russell. Capt. Terrance L. Mish
was awarded the Combat Readi
ness medal.
Graduate students in the AFIT
program at A&M, the officers
received the medals for distin
guished service at three stateside
air force bases and fields in Jap
an, Germany and Viet Nam.
LeBlanc was cited for service
as a systems analyst at Offutt
AFB, Neb., and developing com
puter programs to solve meteoro
logical analysis problems.
Intelligence briefings were Rus
sell’s forte. His work caused him
to be selected for briefings at
15th Air Force Wing headquart
ers and division commander’s con
ferences at March AFB, Calif.
Weather support communica
tions work by Albro was cited in
the presentation of his Commen
dation Medal. The Rhode Island
native was communications offi
cer for the 30th Weather Squad
ron, Tan Son Nhut Airfield, Viet
Nam.
Wendt was a pilot with the
6091st Reconnaissance Squadron
out of Yohata Air Base, Japan.
Automatic data processing sys
tems project officer to the Euro
pean District Auditor General,
Lindsey Air Station, Germany,
Poston received the first Oak
Leaf Cluster to the Commenda
tion Medal for accounting sys
tems and accounting machines
techniques and instruction. He
is a 1953 graduate in accounting.
The Combat Readiness Medal
was awarded to Mish for aircrew
service while in the 486th Bomb
ardment Squadron at Bergstrom
AFB.
TWO FOR EDDIE
Eddie Dominguez drives underneath the basket for a twist
ing layup during the second half of Saturday’s encounter
with Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. TCU’s
Stan Farr (44) and Mickey McCarty (43) defend on the
play. The Aggies won, 81-72, to move two games in front
of the Southwest Conference with a 6-0 mark.
Spring Enrollment
Sets New Mark
Spring enrollment at Texas
A&M has surpassed last year’s
mark by 15 per cent to set a
record here.
A total of 8,240 students start
ed classes Monday. Late regis
tration which continues through
noon Saturday may add 300 stu
dents, Registrar H. L. Heaton
predicted.
An all-time spring high had
been set in 1947 with 7,760. Last
spring 7,149 signed class cards.
Female enrollment is down
from fall and up over last spring’s
figure. Girls signed this spring
total 392 compared to 321 last
spring. The 1965 fall count was
435.
FASTER THAN a speeding bullet? Not any more ....
That cautious driver you see on campus is probably Herky
Killingsworth, Battalion photographer and columnist ....
Mr. K returned from the semester break last Wednesday not
quite expecting the warm welcome he received ....
Bryan patrolman David McDaniel stopped him for exceeding
the accepted speed in a school zone .... Less than four hours later,
McDaniel pulled him over again — supposedly for speeding on
Villa Maria Road ....
Killingsworth’s first citation came on Sulphur Springs Road,
which he had to spell for the Bryan cop .... The second ticket
charged the photographer with speeding on “Villia Merri” Road ....
MR. K’s LUCK is holding out this week, too ....
Monday he received a large bill from the Sheraton-Oklahoma
Hotel in Oklahoma City .... No, he didn’t throw a wild New
Year’s party or anything like that ....
He simply was a guest of the basketball team at the Oklahoma
City Tournament during the Christmas holidays .... Somehow,
the hotel people must have thought he looked rich .... The bill
covered the entire team’s four-day stay ....
Killingsworth promptly passed the statement on to the Ath
letic Department ....
THE PARKING situation has eased considerably with the removal
of freshman cars to the Hempstead lot and the normal dropout
date ....
But the problem got so bad at nearby Stephen F. Austin High
School in Bryan that students and teachers must acquire parking
stickers ....
WELL, THE PORPOISE is swimming around in the basement
of the MSC now contributing to A&M’s drive toward aquatic
excellence ....
It is an unusual sight at any rate, but it does raise the question
if funds expended for the porpoise could have been better applied
in other areas ....
Like maybe travel expenses for another speaker either at the
Hydro-Space Fiesta or SCONA ....
A COUPLE of observations about the opposite sex:
Women are very loyal. When they reach an age they like,
they stick to it ... .
If you don’t think women are explosive, try dropping one ....
See Ya ’Round — Mortimer.