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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1966
Number 361
A&M Assists
In Food Price Probe
ONCE IN EVERY SEASON
Head Coach Gene Stallings looks on with big tackle Mo
Moorman as their expressions register the tale of the
Aggies first conference defeat at the hands of a tough
Arkansas team, 34-0, here Saturday.
Tower In B-CS
Texas Race Tight
Two Professors
Represent A&M
Third Stage Center Play
Uses Students In Production
By The Associated Press
U. S. Senatorial candidates
launched their last week of cam
paigning Monday with promises
of what they would do in Wash
ington, if elected.
“Let’s put in the first team,”
Democrat Waggoner Carr told
supporters in Lubbock. “Is a Re
publican the loudest voice we
can send to Washington? What
I propose is an independent
thinking Democrat.”
Carr said he predicts a larger
vote next Tuesday than most
people expect “with more than
two million votes likely to be
the case in my opinion.”
U. S. Sen. John Tower, R-Tex.,
who has said a turnout of 1.5
million was more “realistic,”
quoted Carr in Texarkana as say
ing Carr would work to continue
and expand the many programs
President Johnson has created.
“I challenge Mr. Carr to tell
Texans what inflationary pro
grams he proposed to expand and
by how much?” Tower said.
I “. . . I challenge my opponent
to level with the voters and state
exactly how much more he wants
of these inflationary programs—
and why?”
Tower said in Bryan that
“scores of Texans have told me
in recent days they think I’m
doing a good job for them. I
A birthday cake nearly a yard
long was presented to Miss Clara
M. McFrancis, head of Cushing
Library Catalog Department, at a
surprise party Friday.
Library staff members pre
sented the cake to “Miss Mac”
who has been with the A&M
library for 23 years.
Dr. James Dyke, head of Cush
ing Library, has known Miss
McFrancis only 60 days, but said
it was his opinion that she “is
one of a group of real classical
librarians who are now beginning
to disappear.”
“Texas A&M Library wouldn’t
be what is today if it weren’t for
librarians like her, and for her
specifically,” Dr. Dyke said.
Miss McFrancis came to A&M
in 1932 when College Station was
“mostly sandfields,” she recalled,
and there were only six library
staff members. Now, there are
more than 40 on the staff.
In 1945, she went to the Uni
versity of Texas Library but
came back to A&M in 1951.
“I’ve grown up with the place,”
she said. “It was like returning
home. The people here make you
feel as if you really belong,” she
added.
“One thing I want you to say,
if you print this in the paper, is
that I want a sink.”
“A&M,” she said, “is the only
seek re-election because I want
to keep on doing that good job.”
Lt. Gov. Preston Smith, in
Austin, said in a statement that
a big vote next Tuesday would
assure election of all Democratic
nominees, including Carr. “At
torney General Carr seems to be
taking a definite lead over the
state,” Smith said. “While the
race is still close in some places,
he has definitely gained ground
in the last two weeks. All that
could prevent Carr’s election
would be a light turnout.
Both state campaign headquar
ters released statements on the
number of newspaper endorse
ments received by each candi
date. Carr's headquarters said he
had been endorsed by 28 dailies
and 18 weeklies. Tower’s head
quarters said he had the endorse
ment of 11 dailies and 14 week
lies.
Gov. John Connally said in
Lubbock Monday that Carr’s race
is going “extremely well” and
“if we can get the vote out I
think we are in fine shape.” Con
nally and Carr will appear Tues
day at the Sanford Dam dedica
tion on the Canadian River,
along with U. S. Secretary of In
terior Stewart Udall. Connally
and Carr will both speak at a
Democratic rally in Dallas Thurs
day night.
major university in the U. S.
without a sink in the catalog
room.”
A GRAND LADY
Miss Clara McFrancis, an
A&M librarian for 23 years,
looks on with surprise and
joy as a cake was presented
to her at a party in her
honor Friday.
Texas A&M President Earl
Rudder has appointed two pro
fessors of agricultural economics
to represent A&M in the state
food price investigation ordered
by Gov. John Connally.
“I’m immensely pleased that
Governor Connally has asked
Texas A&M to participate in the
study,” Rudder said. “We have
a continuing interest in agricul
tural and food prices from all
viewpoints, from Texas farmers
to consumers.”
Rudder named Marshall R.
Godwin A&M’s primary repre
sentative and Robert E. Branson,
alternate. Both are senior mem
bers of A&M's Department of
Agricultural Economics and So
ciology and are engaged in mar
ket research.
Godwin came to the Univer
sity recently from Washington,
D. C., where he was in charge of
the technical staff for fruit and
vegetable studies on the National
Commission of Food Marketing
which just completed a nation
wide study of food prices. He
holds degrees from the Univer
sity of Florida and Cornell.
Branson has been on the A&M
staff since 1955. He holds two
graduate degrees in economics
from Harvard University and has
done extensive research in con
sumer food preferences in Texas.
“Both Dr. Godwin and Dr.
Branson will bring to the study
benefits of their own knowledge
in this field and information
from all University resources,”
Rudder said. He also pointed out
that recent statements by con
sumers, retailers and processors,
and even the U. S. Government,
have expressed different points
of view as to what is happening
to food prices. “We’re interested
in helping determine the facts,”
he said.
The university president cited
changes in wheat and bread pric
es as an example of the complex
ity of the problem.
He pointed out that between
September 1965 and September
1966, prices received for wheat
by farmers in Texas increased
from $1.40 to $1.79 per bushel
in response to a shorter national
supply.
“Wheat costs,” Rudder said,
By BILL DINGER
Aggie athletes have life easy,
what with all that good healthy
exercise — and all that good Ag
gie chow.
Harold R. Thearl, food manag
er at Sbisa Mess Hall and the
one who fashions all mess hall
menus, showed how the athletes’
bill-of-fair differs from that eat
en by the rest of the students.
“The average student requires
3,600 calories per day in a well-
balanced diet.
“During training season, ath
letes need from 4500 to 5000 cal
ories per day. They manage to
work it off. Off-season, athletes
don’t need quite as much energy
and eat 4000 calories a day.”
Just what does an athlete eat
in a normal in-training day?
For breakfast he might have
dry cereal, grapefruit juice, cheese
omelet, fried potatoes, sausage,
toast, coffee, and milk.
For lunch the training table
might provide hamburgers,
potatoes chips, baked beans, slic
ed tomatoes, leaf lettuce, jello
salad, beef and vegetable soup,
and iced tea.
Dinner that night is the cork
er, though. The varsity might
dig into a 14 ounce T-bone steak,
french fried potatoes, buttered
peas, old-fashioned lettuce salad,
hot rolls, orange delight cake,
and ice cream.
Athletes’ food conforms to cer
tain patterns. Whenever cinna
mon rolls or muffins are served
at breakfast, each trainee gets
one and only one.
Three or four days a week,
some type of cold cuts are served
for a lunch. Every day, except
for game days, soup of some kind
is served at lunch.
Steak in one form or another is
served at almost every evening
meal. Occasionally, half a fried
“account for about four cents of
a 25-cent loaf of bread. Other
costs involve price increases re
lated to marketing and process
ing operations which are faced
with rising material and labor
costs of their own.”
Arkansas Player
Remains Critical
By The Associated Press
Doctors at the Houston hos
pital where Claude Smithey is
recovering from emergency brain
surgery reported the Arkansas
football letterman’s condition as
“critical—no change” Monday.
The defensive tackle collapsed
in the Razorback dressing room
Saturday night after Arkansas
defeated Texas A&M 34-0 in Col
lege Station. He was rushed to
Houston for a three-hour opera
tion for a subdural hematoma, a
gathering of blood beneath the
outer covering of the brain.
He remained unconscious Mon
day in the intensive care ward of
Methodist Hospital. His wife
was nearby.
A cranial blood clot kept
Smithey out of action last season,
but he had a doctor’s pennission
to return to the team this fall.
The Texas Transportation In
stitute is developing a “slip base”
for light poles, which will reduce
injury to car passengers on im
pact.
Dr. Thomas C. Edwards, assist
ant research engineer for the
Structural Research Department
of TTI, is studying the impact
behavior of lighting poles.
The “slip base” consists of two
triangular-shaped plates, which
are bolted together at three
corners. The base slips on impact
chicken is on the evening meal.
According to Wilford F. Pic
kard Jr., a trainer for the Ath
letic Department, the players are
n’t watched between meals.
With all they get at the regu
lar meals, athletes can’t have too
much room left for coffee and
a piece of pie.
★ ★ ★
Fogger
Deodorizes
Mess Halls
Tom Loberg of Houston, a
salesman for the National Chem-
search Corporation, demonstrated
Wednesday a new deodorizing
fogger which the Food Services
Department is considering buy
ing.
Col. Fred Dollar, food service
director, commented on the dem
onstration :
“Students don’t seem to notice
the odor too much, but there is a
problem with food smells in the
cafeteria.”
Loberg explained the use of the
fogger as he completely deodor
ized the lower board cafeteria in
about 15 minutes.
“The best thing we can do to
incorporate both a bacteriocide
and a deodorizer is to make a
combination of the two. This de
odorizer is one of the few on the
market that will effectively dis
solve smoke in a room.
“Our fogger destroys both bac
teria and airborne viruses in the
air.
“Operation of the fogger is
very simple. You turn it on until
the fog reaches the other wall,
then turn it off.”
Austin
Aggie’s
Belle
Brown-eyed Kathleen Austin
of Dallas was chosen Aggie
Sweetheart Sunday for 1966-67,
winning over eight other finalists
from Texas Woman’s University.
A senior nursing student, Miss
Austin stands 5-3 and measures
32-24-34. The 20-year-old bru
nette is the daughter of Mrs.
Earline Austin of Dallas (1114
Elmwood Blvd.)
“It took four years for me to
get up enough nerve to permit my
entry in the Sweetheart contest,”
Miss Austin said. “Naturally, I
am extremely happy and honor
ed”.
The nine finalists were guests
of A&M’s Student Senate over
the weekend. The new sweet
heart will be introduced officially
to the A&M student body at cere
monies next Saturday in Dallas
when the Aggies play SMU in a
Southwest Conference football
game.
The sweetheart nominees select
ed Terrell Mullins of Garwood,
senior class president, as “Mr.
Congeniality” from among their
escorts.
Miss Austin succeeds Cheri Hol
land of College Station who has
been Aggies Sweetheart for 1965-
66.
and forces out all the bolts. The
pole will then fall away from the
car.
“The problem I have encoun
tered is developing a base that
will work when hit from any
angle, such as at an intersection,”
Edwards said. The “slip base”
reduces the maximum angle of
impact considered to 60 degrees.
J. E. Martinez, research assist
ant, is determining the motion of
the light pole after it is hit. A
counter weight, at the top of the
light pole, is being used to pull
the pole away from the car on
impact.
“Research is being done here on
cast aluminum bases, which shat
ter on impact,” Edwards said.
“The ‘slip base’ is cheapter to
operate compared with the alumi
num base because the shattered
base has to be replaced after a
collision.”
Model tests have been made by
crashing a 30-pound weight, at
tached to a pendulum, into the
light pole from four feet away.
Crash car tests will start in the
spring. The tests are conducted
at speeds of 15 to 40 miles per
hour.
A dolly on rails, attached to
the car, is pulled down a 500
foot track by a tow car.
The cars travel at a 2 to 1 ratio,
the crash car travels twice as fast
as the tow car.
Motion picture films are taken
of the crashes to study the results
and effectiveness of the base.
These films are taken by James
Bradley, motion picture produc
tion technician. The crashes are
staged at the annex for T.T.I. at
the old Bryan airport.
The pole crash research is con
ducted for the Texas Highway
Department in cooperation with
the Bureau of Public Roads. This
project was started in September
and will be completed in August,
1967.
Edwards’ research is part of a
two-phase project—“Studies in
Highway Illumination.” Funds
for this project are $18,500.
Neilon J. Rowan, assistant re
search engineer for the Design
and Traffic Department of TTI,
is researching crash dynamics
and highway illumination. Funds
for the '66-'67 project are
$77,700.
Edwards joined TTI in 1963.
He was promoted to assistant re
search engineer in 1965. He re
ceived his B.S. degree in 1958 and
M.S. in 1962 from the University
of Texas. He received his Ph.D.
in May of 1966 from Texas A&M.
Texas A&M University stu
dents, faculty and staff members
figure prominently in the com
munity theater organization,
Stage Center, and its third pro
duction, “The Fantasticks” which
begins Thursday at Consolidated
High School auditorium.
Stage Center, still less than a
year old, boasts more than 250
members. The organization’s
goals include a permanent home,
hopefully to be a center for the
lively arts.
Six players in “The Fantas
ticks” are affiliated with A&M.
They include David Morley, a
freshman whose mother is a sec
retary in the Plant Sciences De
partment; Don Janacek, a part-
time physics student and sports
director of KBTX-TX; and Donna
Files, a sophomore whose mother
works in the A&M Student Pro
gram office.
ALSO, DR. WENDEL Land-
man, biochemistry-nutrition and
animal science department pro
fessor; Dr. William H. Andrew
Jr., radiologist for the University
Hospital, and Leonard Cook, a
doctoral student in biochemistry
from Australia.
Among the musicians are drum
mer Tom Prisk, a graduate stu
dent in mathematics, and string
bass player Keena Ranck, daugh
ter of F. M. Ranck, a D.V.M. and
instructor in veterinary micro
biology at A&M’s College of Vet
erinary Medicine.
Florence Farr, business man
ager and board of directors’
treasurer, is poultry science and
nutrition laboratory supervisor at
A&M.
MEMBERS OF the tickets
committee are June Cooper, head
technician in the poultry science
and nutrition laboratory, and
Christine Opersteny, administra
tive secretary to Dr. H. O. Kun-
kel, associate director of the
A&M Agricultural Experiment
Station.
Dr. George L. Huebner Jr., as
sociate professor of oceanogra
phy at A&M, is on the lighting
crew. And Graham Horsley, vis
ual aids specialist in the Agri
cultural Information Department
designed the tickets.
Dr. Landmann is vice presi
dent of the board of directors.
Also on the board, in addition to
Mrs. Farr, are Dr. Lee Martin,
English Department head, and
two of his staffers, Dr. H. P.
Kroiter and Vic Weining. Gerry
Hott, administrative secretary to
A&M President Earl Rudder, is
board secretary.
“The Fantasticks” opens Thurs
day for a three-night run at A&M
Consolidated High School Audi
torium. Three more perform
ances are set for Nov. 10-11-12.
Curtain time each night is 8
o’clock.
With the SMU-A&M game approaching this weekend Ag
gie fish on their “Coke” cap spurs in the traditional sym
bol to ride the Mustangs. Nowhere seems safe from the
sound of pavement meeting coat hanger, as the Aggies
prepare for the Dallas Corps Trip.
Miss Mac 9 Gets
Surprise Party
Athletes Live High, Exercise
And All That Good Aggie Chow
Slip Base’ BuUt
By TTI Engineer