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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1966
Number 366
Tower Wins, Two GOP
Congressmen Elected
KICKING UP THE DUST
An Aggie Polo player kicks up dust as he strikes the ball
during last Sunday’s match.
Polo Tries For
Texas Comeback
h
About 2,000 spectators were
entertained by a polo game Sun
day afternoon at Texas A&M
University. The game was the
beginning of A&M’s 6th annual
Horse Short Course being held
this week.
Polo was once a popular sport
in the Southwest during the days
of the horse cavalries. Dr. O. D.
Butler, head of the Animal
Science Department at A&M,
says interest in polo is being re
vived and the fast-moving game
is making a comeback in Texas.
The game Sunday matched
students and former students of
A&M against students and for
mer students of Texas Tech.
The Raiders from Tech won
over the Aggies 4 to 2. Scoring
is done by knocking the bamboo
ball through the uprights at the
end of the field. The game was
made up of six, five-minute pe
riods. .
The U.S. Modern Pentathlon
team from Fort Sam Houston in
San Antonio, gave jumping and
riding exhibitions during the
breaks.
Playing for the Aggies were
John Armstrong of Armstrong,
Morty Mertz of Big Lake, L. J.
Durham of Norias Ranch, and
Dr. Frank Yturria of Browns
ville and Tobin Armstrong of
Armstrong.
Playing for Tech were Stephen
Kleberg, Charles Armstrong and
Joe Stiles, all of Kingsville, and
Bart Evans of Alpine.
H. T. (Toby) Hilliard of Mid
land, Southwest Circuit Governor
of the U.S. Polo Assn., was ref
eree.
Morty Mertz of the Aggies
was awarded a trophy for mak
ing the most valuable play of
the game when he took the ball
from the center of the field and
moved it almost single - handed
downfield to score.
Apollo Manager
Counsels Senior
Aero-Space Meet
The manager of the nation’s
most complex engineering job-
landing three men on the moon
—told Texas A&M aerospace en
gineering seniors Tuesday to
simplify.
“The way to do a complex job
is to keep the various parts as
simple as possible,” Dr. Joseph
Shea counseled a senior seminar.
The Project Apollo manager of
the Manned Spacecraft Center
addressed 40 seniors in the semi
nar, lunched with President Earl
Rudder, Engineering Dean Fred
Benson and the aerospace engi
neering faculty and met with
department professors and grad
uate students as a visiting pro
fessor.
Shea described numerous Apol
lo hardware development situa
tions in which the best solution
was the simplest. The three-man
space exploration program
launches its first shot at Cape
Kennedy Thursday.
The NASA scientist said de
velopment of fuel cells, circuitry,
fuel storage and injection sys
tems, firing chamber cooling de
signs and other systems of the
Apollo project are kept as simple
as possible.
“We made some conservative
decisions early in the program,”
he noted. “Engineers and scien
tists try to take too complex an
approach.”
“You need to know technology
though,” Shea warned. “Golf
can’t be played with one club.”
Bush
Price
Wins In
In West
Houston,
Texas
AEROSPACE CONFAB
Dr. Joe Shea, Project Apollo manager, elaborates a senior
seminar point with Texas A&M aerospace engineering
majors David Cohen (left) and Phillip Newton (right).
Dr. Paul Weiss
SpeaksT onight
Bonfire
Changes
Construction Sees
Over The Years
BY PATRICIA HILL
Texas A&M’s Bonfire, in all its
blazing glory, is not the same
Bonfire that it used to be.
Although it is still the pride
of Texas A&M when Turkey Day
rolls around every year, there is
definitely something different
about it.
Long ago, well, maybe only 14
or so years ago, the Bonfire was
built entirely by hand. The Aggies
who worked on it then put every
log on by sheer manpower.
Agreed, it takes a whole lot of
manpower to put the giant con
struction together now, but may
be we ought to stop and give a
cheer for the cranes that lift the
logs up to the lofty height of the
mass pile!
The whole town used to gather
’round for the raising of the
center pole, because it signified
the start of a two-week process
which was climaxed by a huge
Art Exhibit Will
Come To A&M
A U. S. Air Force art exhibi
tion will be hung in Texas A&M’s
Architecture Building Nov. 14-
18 by the Aerospace Studies De
partment.
The unique exhibit of more
than 40 original paintings will be
open to the public 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
during the five-day period, an
nounced Col. V. L. Head, profes
sor of aerospace studies. There
will be no admission charge.
Paintings from the USAF Art
collection portray contemporary
life of the Air Force. Societies
of Illustrators artists of New
York, Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco were flown all over the
world to record their impressions
on canvas.
The A&M exhibit is representa
tive of more than 750 paintings
donated during the past 10 years.
The entire library includes 2,500
pictures and drawings dating to
World War I. Some of the works
hang regularly in the White
House, Pentagon, Air Force
Academy and Air Force Museum
at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
orange and purple (please don’t
get shook because I mentioned the
orange in there—) blaze that
stood in the middle of the campus.
The tradition of rushing out and
bringing in the first log began
months ahead of time, just as it
does now.
Each day before supper time a
dozen little bonfire fans and I
would drag our daddies out to see
how much the thing had grown.
It always kind of overwhelmed me
that something that big could
possibly be put together in only
two weeks, but then, when one
is kindergarten age, everything
seems big, especially when it’s
surrounded by people in uniforms,
and when it takes a while to walk
around it.
We were always taken by the
hand by an Aggie who was guard
ing it, and he would amaze us
with great tales of the big hunt
for logs, and all the excitement
of trapseing off into the big dark
woods and chopping down the tall
timbers; and, oh gosh, there it all
was, right before my eyes, and
only eight more days and it would
catch fire from the big torches!
It was all too much! Of course
the greatest treat was getting to
put a twig . . . stick ... on all by
myself, which made me feel like
I had really done a swell thing ...
Even the signs that surrounded
the Bonfire were a little different
“back then.” In order to get to
the Bonfire you had to crawl
through hundreds of big signs de
noting the next day’s event. It
was rather amazing that nearly
all the signs managed to disap
pear by the next morning, mainly
because after the blaze had de
creased to a glow, little creatures
out of the night always came and
took them home for souveniers.
I never figured out how they
did it, but somehow the Bonfire
was rigged, so to speak, to fall
in a pattern, usually in a swirl
of some sort, so that the flame
came out'of the middle of it when
it fell.
Every gate was guarded closely,
and you had to give your name,
age, and marital status if you
looked over 16, before y<ttt could
darken the portals of the campus.
It was different, but not any
more beautiful than the Bonfire
is now. The Bonfire hasn’t lost
any of its glory; it’s just that the
glory isn’t dragged out as long as
it used to be. But the glow is
still there and will never be lost.
Aggies Leave
For National
SDX Gathering
Two journalism majors will at
tend a national journalism fra
ternity convention in Pittsburgh.
Thomas DeFrank and Daniel
Presswood, president and vice-
president respectively, of the
A&M chapter of Sigma Delta
Chi will leave for Pittsburgh to
day to attend the journalism fra
ternities’ national convention.
Faculty advisor Dr. David R.
Bowers will accompany the two
students on the trip.
While at the convention, the
delegation will attend several
speeches by noted newsmen and
other journalists.
The first of a series of four
graduate lectures by Dr. Paul
Weiss, visiting distinguished pro
fessor of biology, will be pre
sented at 7:30 p.m. tonight in
the Biology Building lecture
room.
“Science, Aesthetic and Art” is
the topic of Dr. Weiss’ lecture
tonight.
Dr. Weiss, a National Academy
of Science executive committee
man, will also lecture at 4 p.m.
Thursday. His subject will be
“A Scientist Looks at the Whole
and Its Parts One Plus One Does
Not Equal Two.”
The noted biologist will present
two more lecture next week. He
will discuss “The Spirit of Sci
ence” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,
Nov. 16, and “Education in Sci
ence, by Science and For Sci
ence” at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov.
17.
All lectures will be in the Bio
logy lecture room.
Academic Vice President Wayne
C. Hall has announced that the
general public is invited to attend
all the lectures, but he pointed
out the two Thursday presenta
tions are highly scientific.
Dr. Weiss joined A&M Sept. 1
after 10 years as head of the
Laboratory of Developmental Bio
logy of the Rockefeller Institute
in New York City.
Dr. Hall noted that Dr. Weiss
has long been respected through
out the world for his research
leadership on developmental, cel
lular, neural and theoretical bio
logy.
A member of the National Re
search Council and consultant to
the U. S. Office of Science and
Technology, Dr. Weiss is an as
sociate in MIT’s Neurosciences
Research Program and president
of the International Society for
Cell Biology.
Among Dr. Weiss’ honorary de
grees are a Sc.D. from the Uni
versity of Giessen and the M.D.
from the University of Frankfort.
He is editor of five scientific
journals and consultant for other
medical and biological publica
tions.
By ROBERT E- FORD
Associated Press Writer
Republican John Tower, who
campaigned without mentioning
his party and instead talked
about his service to Texas,
headed back to the U. S. Senate
today, re-elected by a near land
slide.
He will take a pair of Repub
lican congressmen to Washing
ton with him and the GOP thus
suddenly found it could resur
rect its dream of a two-party
state — a dream crushed in the
1964 Texas Democratic sweep.
Gov. John Connally and his
Slate of Democratic state offi
cials swept back into office with
little opposition, but the Repub
licans’ congressional victories
were a setback to the party
leadership.
Republicans also increased their
membership in the Legislature.
Three Negros, all Democrats,
were elected to the Legislature,
breaking a 70-year period when
the lawmaking body was white
only.
Tower grabbed the lead at the
first count by the Texas Election
Bureau Tuesday night and held
it with an iron grip, although
Democrat Waggoner Carr crept
close at some tabulation points.
Elected to go to the Capitol
with the 41-year-old Tower were
Republicans Bob Price, 39, Pam-
pa rancher, and George Bush, 44,
of Houston, former oil well drill
ing executive. Price beat Dee
Miller and Bush defeated ex-dist.
atty. Frank Briscoe for U. S.
House seats. All Democratic
House incumbents who ran were
re-elected.
This still left the Democrats
with Ralph Yarborough in the
Poll Watching Is
Fascinating Job
Reading Class Set For June
An NDEA Institute in Read
ing will be held at Texas A&M
University June 5 to July 14,
1967, announced Liberal Arts
Dean Frank W. R. Hubert.
Funded by a $39,549 Title XI
grant, the institute will instruct
22 Texas elementary principals
and supervisors in reading pro
grams. Education and Psycholo
gy Department assistant profes
sor William H. Graves Jr. is in
stitute director.
“We are seeking to reach prin
cipals and supervisors who have
not had opportunity to study
reading improvement programs
in elementary schools,” D r.
Graves said.
"These people must know how
to run such programs. Ninety
per cent of Texas schools partici
pating in Title I pvojeets indtaJe
reading improvement.”
Participants will study devel
opmental reading, children’s lit
erature, use of library and diag
nostic procedures to help chil
dren with reading.
Dr. Graves announced Dr. Wil
liam J. Robinson, associate pro
fessor of education and psycholo
gy, will instruct diagnostic pro
cedures. Visiting professors on
the NDEA Institute staff will in
clude L. V. McNamee of Baylor
and Mrs. Betty Goody of Lamar
State. McNamee served on the
institute last summer. Mrs. Goo
dy instructed child literature the
last three summers of the insti
tute.
A brochure describing applica
tion procedure and eligibility will
be mailed to Texas’ 1,400 school
said.
“Who watches the poll watcher
while the poll watcher watches
the poll ? ” said Colonel E. F.
Sauer, poll watcher Tuesday at
the College Hills Elementary
School voting station.
The job of poll watcher and
election judge is a responsible
job that most people don’t wish
to get involved in.
“My main complaint is that
we’re overpaid. We work 12
hours a day for nothing,” Sauer
said jokingly.
George H. Draper, election
judge for the voting station said
that one of the most irritating
factors is that people come to
the polls without their poll tax
receipts.
When a voter enters the voting
room, his poll tax receipt is
checked and recorded. The re
ceipt checkers have a list of per
sons who have registered (paid
their poll tax), but if they didn’t
bring their receipts with them,
they are required to sign an af
fidavit. If a person doesn’t bring
his receipt to the polls and by
some mistake his name isn’t list
ed, then he too must sign an af
fidavit swearing that he lives at
the address he claims, and that
he did pay his poll tax.
All clerks working at the vot
ing station have to take an oath
saying that they will keep the
purity of the box. They are not
allowed to say anything or make
any signs or motions that might
be taken as telling someone how
to cast his vote for any one
candidate.
“That is the reason for the
secret ballot,” said Draper. Dra
per’s name must appear on the
back of every ballot, and every
ballot sent to a particular voting
station must be accounted for,
even when the ballot has to be
discarded for any reason.
The votes are counted by two
groups of counters who record
every vote, including all write-in
votes.
“You’d be surprised how peo
ple can mess up a ballot. Some
times you can’t tell how they are
voting,” said Draper. People
sometimes scratch out candidates
names, or write in someone's
name and either it isn’t legible,
or can’t be understood. In this
case, the ballot has to be record
ed and accounted for, but the
votes do not count from this bal
lot.
Draper said that if students
were taught the facts and how
to’s of voting while still in high
school or during their freshman
year in college, then perhaps
when they are voting age they
will realize that it is a responsi
bility that must be met with
adult reasoning.
Most persons going to the polls
observe our freedom of choice to
select our leaders, but those who
go to the polls to cause trouble
are the very reasons we have—
poll watchers.
Senate apd with 21 House mem
bers. Yarborough’s term did not
expire this year.
But the Democratic leadership
failed in its biggest test, in which
it pegged its prestige to beating
Tower and electing Carr, consid
ered part of Connally’s team.
President Lyndon B. Johnson
voted for Carr and sent tele
grams to his rallies asking for a
Carr election.
The ballot carried 16 state
Constitution amendment propos
als, most of which obtained easy
approval.
Fully Committed
Army Vetoes Free
Transportation
AUSTIN — Fourth U. S. Army
officials Wednesday emphasized
there is no plan by the Army to
provide free transportation for
Christmas gifts to servicemen in
Viet Nam as all transport facili
ties are fully committed to meet
the world-wide military require
ments for our armed forces.
All items collected for ship
ment to Viet Nam must be mailed
to service personnel through the
postal systems.
While it is against Department
of Defense policy to provide
names and addresses for the pur
pose of such morale - building
shipments, these can often be ob
tained from local civic organiza-
★ ★ ★
National Results
BY JACK BELL
WASHINGTON <A>)_Paced by
actor Ronald Reagan’s election as
California governor, Republicans
won spectacular individual vic
tories across the nation in Tues
day’s balloting while making in
roads into the Democrats’ control
of Congress.
While Reagan was inundating
Democratic Gov. Edmund G.
Brown in California, a new GOP
star was rising in industrialist
Charles H. Percy’s trouncing of
veteran Democratic Sen. Paul H.
Douglas in Illinois.
In Michigan, Gov. George Rom
ney barged into the 1968 Republi
can presidential nomination con
tention with a landslide third-
term victory which swept GOP
Sen. Robert P. Griffin and the
party’s state slate into office.
Edward W. Brooke claimed a
voice in GOP councils by getting
elected in Massachusetts as the
first Negro ever chosen by popu
lar vote as a member of the
Senate.
In Tennessee youthful Howard
H. Baker Jr. won a seat in the
flock shepherded by his father-in-
law, Senate Republican Leader
Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois.
Robert Taft Jr., seeking a come
back to Congress after being de
feated for the Senate two years
ago in the Goldwater debacle, held
a slim lead over his Democratic
opponent, Rep. John J. Gilligan
with two-thirds of the vote count
ed in Ohio’s 1st District.
There were stunning GOP gov
ernorship victories for Winthrop
Rockefeller in Arkansas and for
Claude Kirk Jr. in Florida. Since
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller won
re-election in New York, future
governors’ conferences will have
a brother act for the first time in
memory.
Democrats, with holdover ma
jorities from their 1964 landslide,
retained top-heavy numerical con
trol of both houses of Congress.
But a Republican gain which
could reach 45 seats—33 were
nailed down — threatened to
change the political atmosphere of
the new House, boding ill for
future “Great Society” proposals
of Presdent Johnson. Gone would
be the current Democratic major
ity of 295 to 140 over the Re
publicans and with it the fine
edge of support needed for several
presidential programs.
A potential Republican gain of
three in the Senate would not
provide too much political pain
for the Democrats, now holding a
67-33 margin there.
Student Condition
Said Satisfactory
Jose Ulmpiano Barnes, an 18-
year old freshman civil engineer
ing student at Texas A&M Uni
versity, was listed in satisfactory
condition Tuesday at St. Joseph’s
Hospital as a result of injuries
suffered in a Monday accident.
Barnes suffered a broken arm
and bruises when his motorcycle
collided with a car at 5:57 p.m.
Monday on Texas Avenue. His
guardians are Mr. and Mrs. Ul-
tions, community officials, news piano Barnes of 2324 Carter
media or other informed sources. Creek Parkway, Bryan.