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Tl •daj meeting 0( £ Pi8h <io% 76 -64, J - ontro l] 6d (tf ' te^sips will this time of joinim ; tr y in ?to p J poilers f 0 j heduled fo ri; ’■ m - immedial arsit y gam. LIBRARY CAMPUS 12 COPIES B Aggies Host Mustangs In Final Home Game Tonight By GARY SHERER Battalion Sports Editor The title-clinching Southern Methodist Mustangs will be at G. Rollie White Coliseum tonight for an 8 o’clock encounter with the Aggies. SMU CLINCHED its third straight Southwest Conference championship Saturday night with a come-from-behind 85-84 victory over the Rice Owls at Houston. This was the eighth conference title for SMU Coach E. O. (Doc) Hayes. The win made the Mus tangs 10-2 in league play and they will enter the NCAA finals in March. SMU’s well-balanced attack ac counts for the team’s success this season. The first four starters, plus a sometime starter, are all averaging above 11 points for SWC play. CHARLES BEASLEY, 6-5 sen ior forward from Shreveport, La., leads the Mustangs in SWC scor ing with a 15.9 mark and is run ner-up for the season with a 15.0 norm. Denny Holman is the Mus tangs’ leading season scorer with a 15.5 mark and is second in SMU league-scoring with a 16.3 aver age. The 6-3 senior from Dallas was the hero in the Rice win, as he tossed in two free throws with five seconds remaining. Bob Begert and Lynn Phillips are two other starters averaging in double figures. Phillips, 6-7 sophomore from Houston, is third in both season and league scoring for the Ponies, with 14.3 and 14.2 averages, respectively. Begert, 6-6 senior from Canyon, has a 13.5 SWC mark and is 13.0 for the season. Bill Voight, sophomore forward from Dallas, though only a some time starter, has a 11.5 season mark and is 10.5 for the confer ence. WITH FIVE players in double figures so often, the Mustang at tack is hard to stop. In their first game, played Jan. 7 at Dallas, the Aggies fell to the Ponies, 80-67. The Aggies will be looking for an upset to extend their home record to 7-3 for the season. Their SWC record is now 5-7. The Aggies did not help their road record over the weekend as they dropped a Saturday after noon game to the Texas Long horns at Austin, 72-58. IN THE GAME, the Aggies led most of the first half. But as has been the case for most of the losses this year, the young team lost its lead with about one min ute to play and the halftime score read 32-31 for Texas. Texas came out after intermis sion and put an attack together that was better than its first half performance, as they had been very sloppy in their play. Where Texas improved, the Aggies didn’t and halfway into the second stanza, the game was all but decided, as Texas was ahead by 52-42. EIGHT MINUTES later, it was 64-49 as Noel Stout, the Long horns’ high-point man with 16, led the Texas onslaught. The Aggies were only 41.9 from the field, as that second-half cold spell was the villain again. The shooting percentage for the Ag gies in the second half tells just how much the cold spell gripped the Maroon and White. Hitting on only 7 of 24, the Aggies had a dismal 29.1 from the field. BILLY BOB BARNETT was again the outstanding player for the Aggies. The Brenham soph omore hit on six of 11 from the field and eight of 10 from the free throw line to take game hon ors for both teams with 20 points. John Underwood added 12. J rather 0.1? a/ ^Jio, :xas th St. 2-1572 US •es .tion i’s Own rvice :ity Bank TE Flavor exas Co. lRE AL rs y Che Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1967 Number 408 Board Formally Accepts Grants T otaling $ 2 Million Construction Also Receives Attention The Texas A&M University System Board of Directors form ally accepted more than $2 mil lion in gifts, grants and scholar ships Tuesday and took action on construction projects totaling approximately $2.9 million. A&M’s governing body also an nounced the appointment of a Nobel Prize winner, Sir John Douglas Cockcroft of Cambridge University, as a distinguished visiting professor of engineering. Prairie View A&M figured prominently in construction pro jects considered by the board, re ceiving more than $900,000 for campus improvements, including a major library addition. THE B-F-W Construction Co., Inc., of Temple was awarded a $444,300 contract for its low bid on the library expansion. The board allotted $554,341 for the project, with additional funds cov ering such items as furniture and equipment. B-F-W was the successful bid der for another Prairie View con tact, a $46,902 project to repair the school’s Industrial Engineer ing Building. Bryan’s B-W Con struction Co. was awarded a $38,- 789 contract on its low base bid for repair of Spence Hall, the Music Building, dairy barn and an addition to the fire station. The board also authorized $240,- 000 for continuing the program of upgrading Prairie View’s existing dormitories and replacing damag ed furniture, and $34,100 for re placing the cooling tower of the utilities plant and air-conditioning the president’s home. TURNING TO Tarleton State College, board members approved plans to ask for bids for construc tion of a new women’s dormitory and air-conditioning of a men’s dormitory and dining hall. The projects are expected to total ap proximately $1,015,000. The board also approved appro priations of a $197,417 federal grant as part of a $592,250 pro ject to expand Tarleton's library facilities and provide additional classrooms and laboratories for the college’s language and mathe matics departments. In still another project for the Stephenville school, the board con firmed the award of a $12,747 con tract to Grant Air Conditioning Co. of Fort Worth for air-condi tioning of the “Cave,” a portion of Tarleton Center. ACTION WAS taken on several Texas A&M projects, including: —Appropriation of $208,750 for construction and modification of facilities for establishment of a Laboratory Animal Resources Center within the College of Vet erinary Medicine. —Appropriation of an addition al $158,723 for the curent Kyle Field expansion program, to re- | place all wooden seats with plas tic bench-type seating and provide additional box seats. —Appropriation of $100,000 for modification of the Services Build ing, now under construction, to house the Journalism Department. —Appropriation of $41,000 for planning and preliminiary expens es for renovation and air-condi tioning of the Soil Crop Sciences and State Chemist buildings. —APPROPRIATION of $14,500 for expansion of parking facilities (See Board Accepts, Page 2) GLENDA ‘DROPPED’ Richard Conley, who escorted Freshman Class Sweetheart Glenda Phillips to the Fish Ball, places A&M drop around Glenda’s neck shortly after her selection was announced. Students Pay Last Respects To Luhr, Bullock, Fowler 1967 FISH SWEETHEART Glenda Phillips smiles as she receives a bouquet of roses at the Fish Ball. Glenda Phillips ‘Dropped’ To Class Of ’70 At Ball Girl Watchers 9 Corner BRUNI ALANIZ Bruni is a special education major from Beeville. The 21- year-old Sophomore at Texas Woman’s University enjoys playing tennis, dancing and group clubs. By RANDY PLUMMER Battalion Special Writer Glenda Phillips, a 17-year-old senior at Winnesboro High School was chosen freshman class sweet heart Saturday night at the Fish Ball in Sbisa Hall. Miss Phillips, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Phillips of Winnesboro was escorted by Richard Conley. Freshman class officers and advisors as well as 1967 Aggie Sweetheart, Kathi Austin chose Miss Phillips from seven finalists. A 5'1" hazel-eyed brunette. Miss Phillips was presented a Texas A&M pin and officially “dropped” to the closs. Owing to a huge sale of tickets at the door, Freshman class president Gerry Geistweidt said the dance was a complete finan cial success. Foreign Students Now Number 590 International student enroll ment for the spring semester is up 13 per cent over the same period last year, according to Ribert L. Melcher, foreign stu dent advisor. Melcher’s figures show 590 students enrolled from 61 differ ent countries. India, Mexico, Pakistan, the Dominican Repub lic, China and Tunisia lead the list. India registered 71, including 68 graduate students. Undergraduates total 252 and graduate students, 311. Total enrollment at A&M top ped 9,800 for the spring semester. Freshman class treasurer Bob Stevenson reported that “though not tallied yet, the total income will be about $1500.” He also said that “there should be about a $200 profit which will be used to pay previous expenses.” Juniors Announce Entry Deadline For Sweetheart Deadline for turning in photo graphs of entries at the Student Programs Office for junior class sweetheart will be noon March 15. “We want the entire class of '68 to get behind this year’s ball and the selection of class sweet heart,” John Daly, junior class social secretary, said Monday. Neal Ford and the Fanatics will be featured at this year’s ball and banquet. “These pictures must measure five by seven or larger,” Daly instructed. “The entry’s name, age, school and academic classi fication are to be printed on the back of each photograph.” A sheet of paper with the name, mailing address and dorm and room number of each entry's escort should be attached to the front of each picture. Pictures will be available on the morning of March 20 in the Student Programs Office. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. The decorations, which were designed to highlight the theme of “Underwater in Blue” were handled by a committee of fresh men. Freshman volunteers also served as waiters for the dance. The music was provided by the Yaks and the Aggieland orches tra. By having two bands, the usual breaks without music were alleviated. Among the honored guests at the dance were President Earl Rudder, Dean James P. Hannigan and this year’s Aggie Sweetheart, Kathy Austin. The other six finalists for Freshman Sweetheart were Kathy Crews, Karen Cox, Betsy Stark, Deb Spurlock, Janet Feldmann and Cheryl Schneider. Funeral services for Donald William Luhr, 19, a sophomore architecture major at Texas A&M who was killed Saturday in a parachuting accident, were held at 10 a.m. today in St. Mary’s, Pa. Luhr, a member of Texas A&M’s Parachute Club, plunged to his death at Hearne’s Munici pal Airport when his parachute failed to open soon enough. Wit nesses said Luhr was practicing a delay jump from 7,200 feet when the accident occurred about 10:45 a.m. Saturday. Survivors include Luhr’s par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert W. Luhr, and a sister, all of Dallas,, and a twin brother, Thomas, a sophomore pre-medical student at Texas A&M. Funeral services for R. L. Bullock, a 26-year old doctoral student in education at Texas A&M were held Monday after noon at Farmersville. Bullock was killed in an automobile acci dent late Saturday near Conroe. Bullock’s wife, a teacher at Sul Ross Elementary School in Bryan, was taken by ambulance Monday to Farmersville. She had been hospitalized at Conroe after being injured in the crash which claimed her husband’s life. Other survivors include Bul lock’s mother, Mrs. R. A. Bullock of Farmersville, two brothers and a sister. Silver Taps ceremonies were scheduled for 10:30 Monday night for Luhr, Bullock and John Fowler, a 27-year old electrical engineering major who died Feb. 20 in a Big Spring hospital as the result of a kidney ailment. Weather WEDNESDAY — Cloudy becom ing partly cloudy by late after noon, winds northerly 10 to 16 m.p.h. High 64. Low 44. THURSDAY — Clear to partly cloudy, winds variable 5 to 10 m.p.h. High 71, Low 49. ‘Premarital Sex’ Is Bowman Topic In YMCA Forum “Sex In Human Relations — Premarital” will be discussed by Dr. Henry Bowman, of the Uni versity of Texas, at the YMCA’s Marriage Forum Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Bowman will discuss the ideals and standards of sex morality and how these standards are establish ed. He also will discuss whether the present day standards make sense and if there is a “sexual revolution.” Bowman teaches sociology and is widely recognized as an auth ority on mariage and family life. He was the 1958-59 president of the National Council on Family Relations, an organization of 3,000 teachers, attorneys, clergymen, social workers and others con cerned with marriage and the family. He also is known for his book, “Mariage for Modems,” which has been printed in several editions in this country and in several for eign languages. He also wrote “A Christian Interpretation of Marriage.” This will be the third in a series of mariage forums. Next Tues day Dr. Bowman will return to the campus to discuss “Sex In Hu man Relations — Marital.” Drill Team Wins 4 Firsts In West Texas Tournament The Fish Drill Team swept all four first place trophies in the West Texas State College tourna ment, scoring 983 points out of a possible 1,100. A&M’s freshmen won firsts in inspection, basic drill, precision drill and overall to take four of five trophies given. New Mexico Military Institute was second overall in the weekend competi tion at Canyon. Calvin Reese, team sponsor, said the performance was indica tive of teamwork. “The boys are learning to per form as a team rather than as individuals,” he credited. A perfect score of 200 in in spection was the sixth straight top award in the category, dating to the Purdue meet last year. The Fish have been within 10 points or won precision in their last five engagements. “The team needs to improve only in dress, cover and uniform ity to get into good shape,” Reese added. “The best thing they have going is their flexibility. They can’t be shaken up.” He said the team found out 10 minutes before its precision drill at Canyon one member would be missing, due to a cut wrist. “They learned of the blank in the formation just before going on the field, made necessary changes and went through the drill without a hitch,” Reese said. NMMI and West Texas will march in the A&M drill team competition March 11, Reei said. Other teams competing a Canyon were from Amarillo AFB and Texas Tech.