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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1967
Number 386
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Final Exam Schedule
Final examinations for the Fall Semester 1966
will be held Jan. 21—Jan. 28, according to the follow
ing schedule:
Saturday, Jan. 21 1-4 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 23 8-11 a.m.
Monday, Jan. 23 1-4 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 23 7-10 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 24 8-11 a.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 24 1-4 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 24 7-10 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 25 8-11 a.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 25 1-4 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 25 7-10 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 26 8-11 a.m.
Thursday, Jan. 26 1-4 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 26 7-10 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 27 8-11 a.m.
Friday, Jan. 27 1-4 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 28 8-11 a.m.
Saturday, Jan. 28 1-4 p.m.
Math 102, 121
Classes MWF8
Classes TThSFl
Classes MWF12
Classes MWF9
Classes MWThl
Classes TThl2
Classes MWF10
Classes TF1
Biology 107
Classes M3TThlO
Classes MWTh2
Chemistry 101, 102
Classes MWF11
Classes M4TThll
Classes TTh9F2
Classes TF2, TWF3
Missile Goes Off Course,
Nearly Hits Cuban Coast
TThF3
Final examinations in courses with only one
theory hour per week as shown in the catalogue
will be given, at the discretion of the department
head concerned, at the last meeting of either the
theory or practice period before the close of the
semester.
Science Training
Grant Announced
One hundred high-ability Texas
high school students will study in
secondary science training pro
grams at Texas A&M University
next summer under three Na
tional Science Foundation grants
totaling $36,800.
C. M. Loyd, associate programs
director, said A&M will offer
sessions in geology, engineering
science and mathematics and
computers.
The NSF-sponsored programs
are designed to encourage high-
scholastic students’ scientific in
terest by having them study and
work with experienced scientists
and mathematicians.
Although no credit is given for
the summer programs, they pro
vide excellent background, Loyd
said. Programs include field trips,
laboratory experience, research
participation and techniques not
usually found in high school or
college courses.
The geology programs for 38
students is funded by a $12,010
NSF grant. Professor Fred E.
Smith directs the program, which
coincides with the second six-
week summer session of A&M in
struction.
Engineering science is planned
for 30 male students June 19-
Aug. 11, under a $13,925 grant.
Dr. J. George H. Thompson,
mechanical engineering professor,
directs the program.
Applications from both boys
and girls will be accepted for the
geology and mathematics pro
grams, Loyd said.
rone
Apparently
Falls Into Ocean
Workmen tie steel
KYLE FIELD CONSTRUCTION
reinforceing- rods for concrete pillars in
Kyle Field construction.
Randolph To Train Rookie Pilots
Potter Is Named
To Science Group
Dr. James G. Potter, assistant
dean for student resources and
professor of physics, at Texas
A&M University, has been named
to the Council of the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science.
The Council is the association’s
governing body, composed of rep
resentatives from each of the
various societies in the national
organization. Dr. Potter will
serve a three-year term after
selection by the American ’ So
ciety for Engineering Education.
AIChE Meeting
“Fire 1,000 Feet Below the
Earth” will be discussed tonight
in an American Institute of
Chemical Engineers chapter meet
ing at Texas A&M.
H. C. Coutret Jr. with Mobil
Oil in Shreveport will speak on
“Thermal Recovery in the Mid-
Continent: Why, Where and
How.” The 7:30 p. m. lecture will
be in Room 105 of the Geology
Building, announced AIChE chap
ter president Mike Knox of Atlan
ta, a senior chemical engineering
major.
By PAUL RECER
SAN ANTONIA (A>) _ Ran
dolph Air Force Base will change
its primary mission from train
ing of advanced pilots to training
of rookie pilots this summer as
the Air Force attempts to in
crease its annual output of pilots.
Randolph’s advanced training
missions are to be transferred to
A&M Gets $6,000
For Biology Work
Texas A&M will receive an
educational assistance grant for
$6,000 from the U. S. Atomic
Energy Commission for the study
of biology.
The Commission has approved
assistance grants totaling $517,-
431 to 57 colleges and universi
ties through its Division of Nu
clear Education and Training.
The grants will provide for pur
chase of laboratory equipment
and fabrication of radiation
sources for instruction in the nu
clear aspects of the engineering
and physical sciences. The pri
mary purpose of the awards is
to assist educational institutions
in their advanced science curric
ula. As such, the grants are im
portant to the Federal Govern
ment’s program to build a strong
and vital educational system. The
awards are based upon the rec
ommendations of a special review
committee composed of college
and university faculty members
active in nuclear science.
These grants have been made
available to 702 educational in
stitutions for laboratory equip
ment to be used in nuclear train
ing since the program was initi
ated in 1956.
Executives To Meet At A&M
The fifteenth annual Executive
Development Program for many
of the nation’s leading business
executives will take place here
Jan. 22-Feb. 10.
This program is offering to se
lected executives the opportunity
of participating in a professional
management educational program
adapted to the needs of business
and industrial enterprises. The
course, sponsored by the School
of Business Administration, is de
signed to help develop skills and
attitudes necessary for execu
tives charged with the work of
policy interpretation and deci
sion-making.
The three-week course centered
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
around the Memorial Student
Center will cover such topics as
operations research, cost informa
tion systems, and management of
motivation to work.
The Executive Development
Program is conducted by mem
bers of the faculty of Texas A&M
and by nationally recognized au
thorities from business and in
dustry. The teaching technique
used in the program is capsulat-
ing the experiences of many
years and relaying them to the
participants. The moderator will
often assume a passive role and
promote reaction of the partici
pants.
Selection of participants is
made by the University’s Steer
ing Committee. Fifty applicants
have already applied' for this
year's session at % cost of $430
per registrant.
three other Air Force bases. The
T37 pilot instructor program is
being moved to Perrin Air Force
Base at Sherman-Denison, the
T38 pilot instructor program is
going to Tyndall Air Force Base
in Florida, and the Military As
sistance Program MAP which
trains foreign pilots in C47s and
T28s, goes to Keesler Air Force
Base in Mississippi.
Randolph officials said final
estimates have not been com
pleted on the personnel increases
that will occur at Perrin, Tyndall
and Keesler.
THEY SAID, however, that the
T37 pilot instructor program at
Randolph now employs 48 offi
cers, 130 airmen, and 13 civilians.
The program turns out about 60
pilots, yearly.
The T38 pilot instructor pro
gram employed 56 officers, 249
airmen and 56 civilians at Ran
dolph and also handled 60 student
pilots annually.
The MAP at Randolph em
ployed 109 officers, 268 airmen,
and 60 civilians and trained 123
foreign student pilots annually.
Randolph officials emphasized
that these figures are only a
tentative estimate of the effect
on personnel strength at the
three bases receiving the pilot
training programs.
Association For
Retarded Children
Has Scholarship
The Bryan-College Station As
sociation for Retarded Children
has announced a scholarship
available for teachers who wish
to qualify in the field of special
education.
This is an area of education
which meets a constant challenge
of new teaching techniques and
its application, notes Mrs. Mary
Jernigan, director of Special Edu
cation at Stephen F. Austin High
School.
At the present there is a drastic
shortage of such teachers in our
community, Mrs. Jernigan said.
The scholarship requires that
any prospective recipient has an
elementary certificate.
12-18 hours in a qualified
school is needed in order to quali
fy in Special Education. Sum
mer classes are usually available
for those committed to regular
teaching contracts.
Interested persons are encour
aged to visit any of the classes
throughout the city and become
acquainted with some of the
unique methods employed in
teaching the retarded and meet
some of the teachers.
PERSONNEL strength at Ran
dolph is expected to remain at
about its current level.
With the change, Randolph be
comes the ninth Air Force base
to provide undergraduate pilot
training.
Officials said that the setup in
pilot production will have the
greatest effect on personnel at
Lackland Air Force Base here.
The officer training school, pri
mary source for new student pi
lots, is located at Lackland.
Enrollment at the Officer
Training School at Lackland is
expected to jump to about 3,100
under the new program.
The undergraduate pilot train
ing program will include 30 hours
of training in the Cessna 172F
which will be done by civilian
instructors under an Air Force
contract. Training in jet flying,
which follows the Cessna 172F
training, will be done by Air
Force instructors at Randolph.
Radio Committee
Gets Equipment
Amateur Radio Station W5AC
at Texas A&M University owes
a vote of thanks to a hurricane.
Indirectly, Hurricane Inez,
which lashed the Gulf of Mexico
earlier this year, led to the pur
chase of $2,500 worth of new
equipment for the station.
University officials, concerned
for the safety of agricultural
representatives working on an
International Programs project
in the Dominican Republic, were
unable to contact them because
of a transmitter malfunction.
To assure communication in
the future, the International
Programs Office financed the
acquisition of new Collins S-Line
equipment. Contact with the
Dominican Republic now is in
stantaneous when schedules are
closely followed.
A 64-foot antenna-tower soon
to be installed will further im
prove the station’s capabilities,
pushing power to the legal limit.
“The installation of new equip
ment certainly came at an oppor
tune time,” commented Ed Camp
bell of Houston, chairman of the
Memorial Student Center Radio
Committee. “We have already
sent 160 messages this month.
Most of them have been Christ
mas greetings or students letting
their parents or girl friends
know when to expect them home
for the holidays.”
“We ask students to keep their
messages short, say two or three
sentences,” Campbell added.
“They can just say ‘hello’ to a
girl friend.”
The committee is in daily con
tact with large Texas cities and
has regular weekly schedules for
foreign students. Puerto Rico,
Peru, the Canal Zone, Hawaii
and Paraguay are frequent con
tacts.
Use of the equipment is on a
first-come, first-seated-at-the-set
basis to the 30-member organiza
tion when a hookup is not sched
uled in advance. Campbell said
85 per cent of the members are
licensed federal operators.
Peak use of the radio facilities
is in mid-afternoon when “phone
patches” are made for Interna
tional Program officials. The
phone patch is a remote control-
type operation in which the radio
operators plug telephone lines
into radio receivers and trans
mitters. Users talk by phone
from their offices, saving time
and trips to the station.
W5AC headquarters are in a
10 by 12-foot room above the
MSC recreation area. Reecently
renovated, the room can accom
modate 20 persons if necessary.
Students need only an interest
(See Radio, Page 2)
By BOB HORTON
WASHINGTON 0P)_A super
sonic jet fighter chased a run
away Air Force missile for 90
miles over the Gulf of Mexico
Wednesday in a vain attempt to
shoot it down before it passed
over Cuba.
A Pentagon spokesman said the
F4 Phantom jet hit the unarmed
Mace missile — modified as a tar
get drone — with cannon fire.
But the 44-foot, 18,000-pound
missile continued southward on
an errant course which carried it
over the extreme western tip of
Cuba and apparently to a harm
less impact in the ocean 100 miles
south of the island country.
THE PURSUING jet also fired
two air-to-air missiles being test
ed by the Air Force in an unsuc
cessful attempt to bring down
the errant craft, serving as a
robot plane for target practice.
Nobody professed to know for
sure where it came down.
The Pentagon said the surface-
to-surface missile, a 650-mile-an-
hour Mace which had been con
verted into a target drone, was
unarmed—meaning it had neither
a nuclear nor a conventional war
head.
It was in effect a robot plane
designed for target practice and
carrying only a small explosive
charge rigged to blow off its
small wings and bring it down
in the event of just such an er
rant flight.
THE AIR FORCE tried, but
unsuccessfully, to touch off this
“destruct” capability by radio
signal.
The missile went aloft from
the Air Force proving ground at
Elgin Air Force Base at 10:00
a.m. EST, heading out over the
Gulf of Mexico to be chased by
F4 Phantom jets in a test. It
failed to make a scheduled turn
and soared at 25,000 feet toward
Cuba.
At 11:21 a.m., precisely the
moment the Pentagon figured the
missile would have expended its
fuel, a Defense Department
spokesman told newsmen of the
errant flight.
THE UNARMED weapon, the
spokesman said, went into “an
unprogrammed course that would
cause an impact at 11:21 a.m.
about 100 miles south of the
southwest coast of Cuba.”
The Air Force plotted the im
pact point from radar trackings
and fuel calculations.
The Pentagon obviously was
making the news public as quick
ly as possible in an attempt to
forestall any propaganda broad
cast by Cuba’s Prime Minister
Fidel Castro.
At midaftemoon there still was
AGGIE HAMS CHECK RADIO
Ed Campbell of Houston (seated), chairman of Texas
A&M’s Amateur Radio Committee, checks out $2,500 worth
of new equipment with assistance from Vice Chairman
Bill Parry of McAllen. Students and faculty-staff are in
vited to send free messag-es almost anywhere in the world.
The committee has 30 members.
no word about the missile's des
cent, but presumably it plum
meted harmlessly into the ocean.
If so the chances are remote of it
ever being found.
HOWEVER, IF it hit land, it
could very well turn up.
A spokesman said wherever the
missile struck down, land or sea,
there would be little or no explo
sion. But it seemed obvious that
nine tons of equipment plummet
ing from the sky could cause
sizeable damage if the missile hit
an inhabited area.
In Wednesday’s test, in the
normal course the missile would
have been shot down by the 1,600-
mile-per-hour Phantom jet, either
with air-to-air missiles or cannon.
It was npt immediately clear
how a subsonic missile could es
cape the supersonic aircraft.
Grad Assistant
To Take Long
Research Cruise
George H. Weissberg of Texas
A&M will participate in cruises
of the National Science Founda
tion oceanographic research ship
Eltanin in the Antarctic and
South Pacific during the next
seven months. .
The graduate research assist
ant will make the cruises in con
nection with A&M study of the
properties of Antarctic water
under Dr. Sayed Z. El-Sayed,
associate professor of oceanog
raphy and meteorology.
Weissberg is in La Jolla, Calif.,
for training at Scripps Institute
on equipment to be used on the
Eltanin. The ship departed Wel
lington, New Zealand, Dec. 30 for
its first trip to McMurdo Sound,
site of an Antarctic biological
station.
“Due to the Eltanin’s hull char
acteristics, it must go into Mc
Murdo soon when ice conditions
are correct,” Dr. El-Sayed said.
“The southern hemisphere’s De
cember and January are equiva
lent to July and August here.”
In February, Weissberg and
two A&M biochemical technicians
—Roberto Robino and A. Dermedi
—will participate in a South
Pacific expedition run by the
Woods Hole Oceanographic In
stitute and Scripps.
At Scripps, Weissberg is train
ing in use of a fluoremeter, a
device to assess and monitor the
amount of chlorophyl in phyto
plankton, an an Autoanalyzer,
which measures the phosphates,
silicates, nitrates and nitrites in
sea water.
Weissberg, who graduated with
a degree in biology at A&M,
should return to the campus in
April or May, El-Sayed said.
Weissberg is a graduate of Ger
mantown High School in Phila
delphia.
Political Forum
Presents History
Profs Lecture
Dr. Kwang Hai Ro, assistant
professor of history and govern
ment, will present an informal
discussion on “Re-evaluation of
U. S. Policy in Vietnam” Friday
noon in Room 309 of Nagle Hall.
The program, sponsored by the
Political Forum Committee at
Texas A&M, is open to members
of the forum and all interested
students and faculty members.
Bill Preston, recording secre
tary of the Political Forum Com
mittee, said sandwiches and cold
drinks will be made available at
a nominal charge.
Ro’s presentation was first
given in his International Gov
ernment course and is the first
in the series of informal lectures
sponsored by the forum commit
tee.