Aggies Fall To First Game Jitters, La. Tech 53-50
Che Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1966
Number 377
Barney Welch Is |
‘Special Person’
BY PATRICIA HILL
It takes a very special type of
person to be a Southwest Con
ference official, and just such a
person is Barney Welch, a former
Aggie football player, who is now
an insurance executive.
He has officiated for every
SWC school this year except Rice
University and Texas A&M.
Welch is proud to say that this
year he has received no back-talk
and has heard no profanity from
the football players during the
games. He gives credit to both
the players and the coaches.
He feels that the coaches in
the Southwest Conference are so
outstanding that they influence
their players in such a way that
they know that it isn’t necessary
to fall back on profanity and the
like when something doesn’t go
their way. The players also know
that the officials will make the
right decisions most of the time.
Welch says that there is no
excuse for an official to miss a
rule in calling a play. However,
he feels that when they have to
make a judgement, their “snap
judgement” is usually more reli
able.
Now that pro football games
take over the weekend television
viewing, people watch the games,
then see the replays, and when
they go to college football games,
they expect the rules to be the
same.
But the rules are not the same.
For instance, in pro football, the
receiver must catch the ball and
land in bounds with both feet in
bounds for the play to be legal.
In college ball, however, the re
ceiver has to land in bounds with
only his first foot on the ground
for the play to be legal.
Welch emphasized that it was
important to be in the right posi
tion to make a decision. He also
remarked that the players and
coaches are usually courteous
when the officials make a call,
such as pass interference.
“The Fellowship of Christian
Athletes deserves a lot of credit
for the players good sportsman
ship,” Welch said. More and
more players are participating in
the FCA, and it has done a lot
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to change the attitudes that once
prevailed on the playing field.
The players have a lot of confi
dence in officials of the SWC,
such as Barney Welch.
Oxford Team Debates
Vietnam Policy Tonight
‘Cross Examination’ Form
Differs From Conventional
By MIKE FLAKE
A staccato fire fight with
words as weapons is expected to
night with the opening of the
1966 Computer-Match Debate
tournament in the Memorial Stu
dent Center ballroom tonight at
8 p.m.
Featured is a debate over Unit
ed States Foreign policy in Viet
Nam, with Douglas Hogg and
Jeremy Beloff as guest debaters.
Hogg, who gives his intended
career as a lawyer, was educated
in England in Eton and Christ
Church, Oxford University.
Beloff, also a Britisher, hails
from Rugby school and St. Cath-
Gilruth To Give
Aerospace Talk
PERET SCORES
Sophomore Ronnie Peret (44) scores against Louisiana
Tech in the A&M opener Thursday night.
Delegation Seeks
Street Extension
A three-man delegation from
College Station appeared before
the Texas Highway Commission
Wednesday to ask that Jersey
Street be extended from High
way 6 to Easterwood Airport.
A&M president Earl Rudder,
Strategic Air Command Chief
To Brief AFROTC Students
Strategic Air Command data
processing deputy chief Col. Wil
liam M. • Ratchford will brief
graduate and senior AFROTC
students during a visit to Texas
A&M University Tuesday and
Wednesday.
Colonel Ratchford, accompanied
by three systems analysts from
the Offutt AFB command control
facility at Omaha, Neb., will
brief 225 Air Force Institute of
Technology students at A&M on
SAC computer operation Tues
day evening. The public is invit
ed, announced Col. V. L. Head,
professor of aerospace studies.
Wednesday, the officers will
brief 106 senior AFROTC stu
dents during normal classroom
periods.
The SAC visitors include Maj.
William S. Price, Strike timing
unit chief; Maj. Preston E. Brad
ley, system design, and Capt.
Charles E. Fischer, system ana
lyst. Major Price and Captain
Fischer are A&M graduates of
1951 and 1955, respectively.
Colonel Ratchford also will
confer with A&M Data Process
ing Center officials, noted Colo
nel Head.
Consolidated Band
Gets Good Rating
A rating of “excellent” was
given to the A&M Consolidated
High School Band, under the di
rection of William Atkins, last
Saturday at the University In
terscholastic League marching
contest.
“The band has a fine, dignified
style of marching,” several judg
es commented.
Twenty-six bands from the
south zone participated in the
competition at House Park Field
in Austin.
A command pilot of 23 years
Air Force experience, Colonel
Ratchford has been involved in
data processing since 1961. He
was chief of SAC’s war gaming
analysis branch, developed opera
tional and design requirements of
programs for the SAC operations
planning system and was chief of
the planning and analysis branch.
As deputy chief of the data
processing division, he supervises
operation of two major computer
complexes with management re
sponsibility of 380 analysts/pro
grammers and operators.
The division is responsible for
all programming support activi
ties in operations and material of
SAC emergency war orders.
The colonel, who received a
business degree at Indiana in
1959, has been with SAC since
1948. As a pilot, he flew B-25s,
A-26s, B-29s, B-.50s, and B-47s.
College Station mayor D. A. An
derson and Engineering College
Dean Fred J. Benson also asked
that the proposed stretch of road
be designated a state highway.
The proposed highway would
be about 2.59 miles long, with
1.36 miles of four-lane divided
highway, and the rest regualr
rural highway.
The estimated cost of the proj
ect is $601,600, of which $501,300
would be paid by the state.
The local cost would be shared
by the university and the city
of College Station, with the uni
versity paying $32,700, and the
city $58,900.
The new road would meet the
proposed extension of Farm-to-
Market Road 2818 near Easter
wood Airport.
Rudder told the Texas High
way Commission the extension
would aleviate traffic tie-ups
after football and basketball
games.
Fans leaving Kyle Field and
G. Rollie White Coliseum would
be able to travel to Highway 6
via Jersey Street and the Well
born Road.
They could drive to the airport
on the new highway or on Farm-
to-Market Road 60, or leave the
area northwestward on the new
Farm-to-Market Road 2818.
Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, director
of NASA’s Manned Spacecraft
Center at Houston and visiting
professor of aerospace engineer
ing at Texas A&M University,
will present his first lecture of
the fall semester Tuesday after
noon.
The noted rocket and missile
engineer will speak at an aero
space engineering senior seminar
at 1 p.m. in Room 115 of the
Engineering Building.
Although the subject of his
talk has not been announced of
ficially, university officials anti
cipate a discussion of the role
of the engineer as a manager. A
report also is expected on NASA’s
recently completed Gemini series
of space shots and the upcoming
Apollo series.
Since his last A&M lecture, Dr.
Gilruth has journeyed to Madrid,
Spain, to receive the 1966 Daniel
Ralph Yarborough
Visit Is Scheduled
Senator Ralph Yarborough will
visit College Station Monday.
The Visit is sponsored by the
Brazos County Young Democrats
and will include a public recep
tion for the senator at 4 p.m. at
the Presbyterian Student Center
in College Station.
Yarborough will speak before a
dinner meeting of the organiza
tion at 7:30 p.m. at the Triangle
Restaurant.
and Florence Guggenheim Inter
national Academy of Astronautics
to an individual who has made an
outstanding contribution to the
progress of astronautics through
his work during the past five
years.
Dr. Gilruth was named a visit
ing professor at A&M in 1963.
New Parking
AreaPlanned
For East Side
Better parking facilities are
planned for the east side of the
Texas A&M campus, announced
W. C. Freeman, university vice
president.
Freeman said a new parking
lot will be constructed immediate
ly north of the Space Research
Center and the present gravel lot
between the Data Processing Cen
ter and Animal Industries Build
ing will be paved.
Contract for the project, esti
mated to cost approximately $25,-
000, will be awarded later this
month and work should be com
pleted by mid-spring, Freeman
said.
Together, the two lots will ac
commodate more than 100 cars.
erine’s College, Oxford. He plans
to enter in industrial manage
ment.
Both debaters are traveling
throughout the United States un
der the sponsorship of the Speech
Association of America, interna
tional discussion and debate com
mittee.
Joining with the two Britishers
on separate teams, David Mad
dox and David Gay will repre
sent the Aggies.
The tournament will differ
from conventional procedure. In
stead of using a negative-affirm
ative-approach, giving each team
equal time to make their state
ments, a “cross examination”
form will be adopted.
The first speech, eight minutes
long, will be affirmative. The
negative party stands and cross
examines the affirmative for four
minutes with a barrage of inten
sive questions. Next, the process
is repeated with the negative par
ty speaking first.
After each party establishes its
point of view, but before it makes
a final conclusion, the debate will
be stopped and audience partici
pation will begin. The audience
may both ask questions and give
answers to questions the debaters
propose to them.
Tickets for the event are 50
cents for students, $1.50 for
adults.
JEREMY BELOFF
Dallas Pastor Will Address
January Graduation Gathering
D]r. M. B. Carroll, Dallas pastor
ar^L Baptist denominational lead
er, will address Texas A&M’s
graduating class in January, Uni
versity President Earl Rudder
announced.
Commencement is planned at
Math Colloquim
Features Dr. Basye
A Mathematics Colloquium at
Texas A&M Wednesday will fea
ture Dr. R. E. Basye of the Math
Department.
.Dr. Basye will lecture on “A
Differential Equation for Arbi
trary Analytic Functions” at 4
p.m. in Room 206, Academic
Building. The public is invited.
10 a.m. January 21 in G. Rollie
White Coliseum.
Pastor of the East Grand
Baptist Church in Dallas, Dr.
Carroll has held top leadership
positions among Texas and South
ern Baptists. Denominational
service includes president of the
Baptist General Convention of
Texas and vice president of the
Southern Baptist Convention.
A native of South Carolina, Dr.
Carroll earned the bachelor of
arts degree at Furman University
in Greenville. His master’s de
gree in theology comes from the
Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary in Fort Worth. He
holds a doctorate of divinity from
East Texas Baptist College in
Marshall.
PRO ENGINEERING AID
Veterans Checks
To Be Delivered
Bennie A. Zinn, A&M Veterans
Advisor, has announced Novem
ber checks for veterans and or
phans will be delivered before the
Christmas holidays, insofar as
practicable.
Zinn said those who do not re
ceive checks early may provide
the Post Office a forwarding ad
dress for the holiday period.
He said war orphans should
continue to call at the Veterans
Advisor’s Office between the 1st
and 5th of each month to sign
pay cards.
DOUGLAS HOGG
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Educational TV
Will Video Tape
Verbal Jousting
The debate featuring the Texas
A&M University Debate Team
and the Oxford University De
bate Team from Oxford, England
will be videotaped by the Educa
tional Television Department.
The videotape recorder used by
ETV was loaded on the mobile
unit Thursday afternoon and
transferred to the parking lot
behind the MSC. Power con
nections were made and equip
ment was also set up in the MSC
Ballroom, according to iMel Chas
tain, ETV program director.
Videotapes of the debates will
be used primarily as teaching aids
in freshman English courses and
in debate courses at A&M. How
ever, Channel 5 in Lubbock will
broadcast the one-hour debate and
ETV has received inquiries about
the show from several other tele
vision stations.
Jay C. McElroy, left, senior engineer of
Trans-continental Gas Pipe Line, Houston,
assists Texas A&M freshman Jay Cassell
of Dallas (seated) and Craig Bird of Hous
ton with engineering graphics design pro
jects. McElroy is one of 37 visiting engi
neers meeting with graphics classes to give
A&M freshmen a closer feel of the profes
sion. Consultants return to the campus Jan.
16-20 to view winning design competition
projects.
Chemistry, Earth
Science Institutes
Are Announced
Two summer institutes in chem
istry and earth sciences have been
made possible at Texas A&M
University by National Science
Foundation grants totalling $119,-
740, announced President Earl
Rudder.
A nine-week chemistry insti
tute directed by Dr. Fred Sicilio,
associate professor of chemistry,
is supported by a $52,330 NSF
grant. The program for 35 sec
ondary school teachers will em
phasize CHEM study materials,
Dr. Sicilio said. The chemistry in
stitute will run from June 26 to
Aug. 25.
A continuation grant of $67,410
maintains the earth science in
stitute. Dr. Melvin C. Schroeder,
professor in the Geology and Geo
graphy Department, will direct
the two six-week sessions for
32 secondary school teachers each.
The institute begins June 5 and
concludes Aug. 25.
Teachers should write Profes
sor Coleman Loyd, coordinator,
NSF Programs, for particulars.