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12 COPIES Town Hall Slates Folk-Singer Hinton Folk-singer Sam Hinton, a highlight of folk music festivals throughout the nation, will per form Sunday at Texas A&M Uni versity. Hinton’s appearance is spon sored by the Memorial Student Center Town Hall Committee as a part of its “Music for a Sun day Afternoon” series. The program of folk music, American style, “Singing Across the Land,” is scheduled for 3 p.m. in the MSC ballroom. FAMED AS a singer, musician and folklorist on radio, TV and recordings, and on tour in Eur ope and the United States, Hin ton has been a featured star at folk music festivals from New port, Rhode Island, to the Pacific Nations Folk Festival in Hono lulu. He has been the key figure at the Berkeley Festivals at the University of California since 1957, acting as emcee, discussion leader and performer. A singing scholar with 62 songs recorded for the Library of Congress Folk Music Archives, Hinton’s show combines artistry and entertainment with a unique historical and musical under standing. A 1938 graduate of Texas A&M with a degree in science, Hinton spent most of his boyhood years in Crockett and Beaumont, both rich in the fields that have domi nated his interests: folklore and wildlife. HIS NATURAL history inter ests and background led him to positions as director of the Palm Springs Desert Museum, and curator of the Aquarium-Museum at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a campus of the University of California at La Jolla. Hinton’s songs describe the Old World heritage, show how chang es developed from the Old World to the New, and include selections from Early America, the Ameri can Negro and the Westward movement. The singer’s recordings include nine numbers on “How the West Was Won” which also featured Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney. He also helped in se lection and arrangement of the entire two-record set. HINTON HAS taught folklore and biology at UCLA, conducted folk music workshops at the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, performed on national tele vision, had his own regular folk music radio program, published two books on marine biology, and lectured on oceanographic sub jects. Currently, Hinton is a special ist in school and college services at the University of California at San Diego. Town Hall Chairman Sammy Pearson said A&M students will be admitted to the program via activity cards. Season Town Hall Tickets also are acceptable. Tick ets are available at the MSC Stu dent Program Office. €bt Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1966 Number 375 series. SAM HINTON Folk singer Sam Hinton will perform Sunday as part of the MSC Town Hall “Music for a Sunday Afternoon” SCONA Schedule Adds McNaughton Defense Official To Be Keynoter PLAYERS REHEARSE Aggie Players rehearse for the play “Which managing editor. The play begins Friday. Death to Die” written by Robert C. Stewart (Batt. photo by Russell Autrey) Jr., local author and Bryan Daily Eagle A&M Given 28 Fellowships Texas A&M University has been awarded 28 National De fense graduate fellowships for the 1967-68 academic year, an nounced Graduate College Dean Wayne C. Hall. Board Accepts Grants, Gifts Tor $573,000 More than $573,000 in grants- in-aid, scholarships and gifts were accepted by the Texas A&M University System Board of Di rectors last week. This amount brings to more than $1 million the support af forded to the A&M System dur ing the past five months. Texas A&M University re ceived 58 donations totaling $49,- 962 in scholarships, fellowships and awards, including gifts of more than $5,000 from the As sociation of Former Students, Pan American Petroleum Foun dation, Inc. and the Texas Plant Food Educational Society. Research and grants-in-aid amounted to $260,820, including $200,000 from the Moody Foun dation as the third installment on a $1 million grant; $20,000 from the Alcoa Foundation for a pro fessorship in engineering, and $15,000 from the Humble Oil Education Foundation for the College of Engineering. Capital gifts to Texas A&M came to $173,549, including $122,- 750.84 from the estate of Dr. Charles John Koerth, Sr., to the A&M permanent fund, the in vestment income of which is to be used for scholarships. Special gifts valued at about $30,000 in cluded eight registered quarter horses valued at $23,250 from Clay Johnson, Jr. Fifteen grants-in-aid for the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station amounted to $53,273, and included $12,011.75 from Cham pion Papers, Inc., and $10,000 from the Morris Animal Foun dation. The James Connally Technical Institute received $3,700 in gifts and equipment. Tarleton State College accepted $1,200 in gifts and grants, and Prairie View A. and M. College received two gifts amounting to $2,100. Dr. Hall said the awards are allocated by the U. S. Office of Education, Health, Education and Welfare Department under the Title IV plan of the NDEA Act of 1958. The three-year awards are for graduate study leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent degree, Dr. Hall noted. A long-range pur pose of the program, he said, is to prepare college teachers. Texas A&M has received 117 of the awards since 1958, the highest number allocated in a single year being 20 in 1965-66. Fellowship recipients receive $2,000 stipends for their first year of study, $2,200 for the sec ond, $2,400 for the third. They also receive $400 per year allow ance for each dependent and tui tion and other required fees. Athletes Begin Smithey Fund The Fellowship of Christian Athletes today began collecting contributions for the widow of Claude Smithey, University of Arkansas football player who died in Houston Nov. 15 after collapsing in the dressing room following the A&M-Arkansas game. Jerry Campbell, FCA vice-pres ident, said collection buckets will be set up in each dining hall and in the Memorial Student Center through Friday. Money will be counted at the end of each day and at the end of the collection period a check will be sent to the Arkansas bank in charge of Mrs. Smithey’s trust fund. Smithey died, in Houston’s Methodist Hospital after doctors tried to correct cranial damage caused by a blood clot. His death was attributed to “complications caused by head injuries.” He apparently received no direct head injuries against A&M in the Oct. 29 game, Arkansas coaches said. He had been out of action all last season because of a cranial clot. Nationally, 6,000 of the Na tional Defense graduate fellow ships were awarded. Ten Ag Engineers To Attend Meet Ten members of the Texas A&M University Agricultural En gineering Department will par ticipate in the winter meeting of the American Society of Agri cultural Engineers Dec. 6-9 in Chicago. They are Department Head Price Hobgood, Dr. Otto Kunze, Dr. Edward Hiler, Dr. Ernest Smerdon, W. C. McCune, Albert Hartstack, Ray Stermer, Harold Wiedemann, Thomas Neumann and W. S. Allen. Kunze and Hiler will present technical papers titled “Moisture Adsorption Characteristics o f Brown Rice” and “Colloid Move ment in a Flowing Medium with an Impressed Electric Field.” John T. McNaughton, assistant United States Secretary of De fense for International Security Affairs, has been named keynote speaker for the 12th Student Conference on National Affairs at Texas A&M. McNaughton’s visit to A&M will literally be a flying trip. He’s scheduled to fly into Eas- terwood Airport at 1 p.m. Dec. 7, present the keynote address at 1:30 and leave Easterwood Air port at 2:30 p.m. for New York and another speech in the eve ning. Altogether, the speaker will be in College Station 90 minutes. SCONA Chairman Bob Heaton said McNaughton will be accom panied by Congressman Olin E. Teague of College Station, a member of the SCONA XII ex ecutive committee. TENTATIVE TOPIC for Mc Naughton’s talk is “The Future of NATO and the Atlantic Part nership.” At the speaker’s re quest, the format of the presen tation will be changed slightly. He will speak 30 minutes, leav ing 30 minutes for questions from delegates. The usual pattern is a 45-minute talk and 15 minutes of questions from the floor. McNaughton was general coun sel of the Department of De fense for two years before as suming his present post. He was deputy assistant Secretary of De fense for Arms Control in 1961- 62. Previously, McNaughton was a professor in the Harvard Law School for eight years. From 1957 to 1961, he also served as assistant district attorney of Mid dlesex County, Mass. THE PEKIN, ILL., native was a democratic candidate for Con gressman from Illinois in 1952. He was columnist, editor and le gal counsel for the Pekin Daily Times from 1951 to 1953. McNaughton earned the A.B. degree at DePauw University be fore taking a law degree at Har vard. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, where he earned the B. Litt. degree in 1951. In 1953, DePauw University made him an honorary doctor of law. McNaughton is a member of the American Bar Association, American Society of International Law, Council on Foreign Rela tions, Institute for Strategic Studies, and a director of Avon Home, Cambridge, Mass. SCONA XII is scheduled Dec. 7-10 at A&M. University stu dents from the U. S., Mexico and Canada will discuss the confer ence topic, “Europe and the U. S.: Challenges of Nationalism and Cooperation” and hear three major addresses. . m 1 \ 11 i 1 I POLITICAL FORUM GUESTS The first program of the newly organized Political Forum featured Democrat Bob Eckhardt of the 8th Congressional District (1) and Republican George Bush of the 7th Dis trict (r). Congressmen Share Views For Political Forum Debut By BOB BORDERS Congressmen-elect Bob Eck hardt and George Bush agreed the Republican gains made in Congress would have some effect on the 90th Congress, but they disagreed as to the extent of the effect. The two Houston politicians met last night at the Memorial Student Center in the first of the series of political forums spon sored jointly by the Great Issues Committee of Texas A&M and the History and Government Depart- With Mrs. Downs Pinkie Observes 50th P. L. Downs Jr. and his bride believe in a lengthy courtship and a lasting marriage. Pinkie, as Downs is known to thousands of Aggies through his position as official greeter for Texas A&M, and “Miss Bea” dated for 15 years before deciding on matrimony. That was 50 years ago. The marriage is still going strong and the Downs will host an elaborate open house Dec. 7 to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. Several hundred persons—in cluding faculty, staff, student leaders and friends and relatives from a wide area of Texas—are expected to attend the reception, scheduled from 10 a.m. until noon in the Assembly Room of A&M’s Memorial Student Center. PINKIE SAID that since it would be practically impossible to send out individual invitations, he and Mrs. Downs are extending a general invitation to all their friends and everyone associated with the university. The couple was married Dec. 7, 1916, in the First Methodist Church of Temple. They both grew up in the Central Texas city and lived only two blocks apart. Pinkie was a member of A&M’s Class of 1906 and has been con nected with the university in various capacities for decades. He served on the Board of Directors from 1923 to 1933. Since moving to College Station from Temple in 1940, the couple has become a fixture at A&M. They reside just off the campus A&M Clinician Attends Workshop Mrs. Wanda Badgett, clinician at Texas A&M’s Psychological Services Laboratory, will attend a workshop in Huntington, N. Y., Dec. 13-16. Mrs. Badgett will receive spe cial training in use of eye camera and visual equipment employed in the Education and Psychology Department lab at A&M. She also will assist in directing a reading workshop at the Hotel America in Houston Jan. 21. and their door has always been open to Aggies and their wives. “WE’VE TRIED to demon strate to Aggies that marriage is a lifetime proposition,” Pinkie quipped. Among the guests who will help the Downs celebrate their golden anniversary will be several rela tives and close friends who at tended the wedding a half-century ago. They include Mrs. Downs’ brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Charlton Hall of Houston; Mrs. Preston Childress of Temple, sister-in-law; and Mrs. J. W. Hale of Waco, a cousin. Assisting in the open house will be Mrs. Earl Rudder, who will serve coffee; Mrs. William B. Lancaster, punch; Mrs. Richard (Buck) Weirus, cake; and Mrs. R. R. Lancaster, guest book. Miss Grey Downs, daughter of the couple, will assist in welcoming the guests. The Downs are hoping their golden wedding anniversary will be more pleasant and less memo rable—for the world in general— than their silver anniversary. That turned out to be Pearl Harbor Day. ment of the University. Eckhardt, as the first speaker, attempted to explain the off-year election losses suffered by the Democrats as they lost a net 47 House saets. He said the 89th Congress could be compared with the New Deal Congress of 1934-38. The bills passed in the New Deal Congress were the result of a cry ing need for stability and prog ress. Eckhardt said “The overwhelm ing majority of Democrats elected in 1964 was due to the Goldwater fiasco.” He said the Democratic losses in 1938 and 1966 were comparable in that the people reflected cau tion in their voting. “As people recognize the force of the presidency, they tend to try to limit it,” he said. Bush, in his opening statement, said he believed the Republican victories would mean much more change on the national scene. “It seems to me that the natives are restless,” Bush said. “This is a clear voice calling out against the excesses of the great society.” He said the country will see a resistance in Congress to signing a blank check for the govern ment’s big-spending programs. Bush named several bills which were narrowly defeated in the 89th Congress, and which he said had a very good chance for pass age in the next session. Among these were bills on foreign aid, subsidies, and taxes. One of he major issues dis cussed was economic policies. Bush was in favor of redistribution of some federal funds back to the states, whereas Eckhardt doubted the ability of the state govern ments to cope with problems which the centralized system now handles. The two congressmen discussed their campaigning methods and the factors they believed helped to elect them. Bush, who won election in the newly created 7th district of Houston, said he stayed away from rallies, and mainly used television and house-to-house can vassing, followed up on election day by telephone calls. Eckhardt said he conducted a low-cost campaign, and relied heavily upon the impressions he had made as a state legislator and in other lower offices. Firemen School To Be Conducted In Austin Dec. 6-7 A firemen’s instructors confer ence will be conducted by Texas A&M’s Firemen’s Training School in Austin Dec. 6-7. Henry D. Smith, chief of A&M’s Firemen’s Training Division, esti mated 100 fire chiefs, fire mar shals and firemen will participate in the conference. A&M representatives include John R. Rauch and James Bland of the FTS staff and teacher- trainer Basil M. Hackney. Smith noted the Austin Fire Department and Chief Robert H. Dickinson are hosts for the con ference at the new Fire Preven tion Department Building at 1622 Festival Beach Road. The 19th annual conference features speakers on coordination of efforts between divisions, driv er training for heavy emergency vehicles, firefighters’ images in the communtiy, and training ma terials. t A special seminar session on the topic “What’s Your Problem” is slated Dec. 7.