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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, July 27, 1967
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
“Everybody seems to have
name change business!^
gotten their teeth into this
Beatles And Pot?
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
Not content with changing the hair and fashion styles
of the Western World, the Beatles have now turned their
attention and influence to legalizing marijuana in the Bri
tish Empire.
An advertisement in the Times of London newspaper
demanded Monday that “pot” as it is called in the hippy
jargon he made as legal as asparagus.
The advertisement was aimed at Home Secretary Roy
Jenkins, an important member of Prime Minister Harold
Wilson’s cabinet. The Beatles apparently hope that their
names, which incidentally were followed by the initials,
“M.B.E.” signifying that they were awarded the “members
of the British Empire” order by Queen Elizabeth II, will
reverse the government’s present position which makes
the possession of the drug a felony.
It’s probably a safe bet that the Beatles are more well
known than Secretary Jenkins and many youngsters will
consider the Beatles’ sanction of “pot” smoking reason
enough to light up a “joint.”
But it’s also a reasonably safe bet that Secretary Jen
kins or anyone else in the British government will do noth
ing to alter the laws. The scene is now set for those who
regard the Beatles’ word as law to find that the laws of
the British Empire carry a trifle bit more weight.
Texas Ranks Third
In Motor Vehicles
total of 5,711,263 motor vehicles was registered in
in 1966 compared with 5,609,865 in the previous
Aggie Skips
And Begins
Senior Year
College Career
At The Grove
A Texas A&M sophomore who
skipped his senior high school
year to enroll in college is storm
ing studies in the fashion of the
Second Ranger Battalion on the
cliffs of Normandy.
Tom Henry Sathre, 17, a civil
engineering major of San An
tonio, has a 2.02 overall grade
point ratio, studies computer
science courses on a elective basis
during the summer and puts it to
use in computer programming
projects for the Environmental
Engineering Division, Civil Engi
neering Department, and in the
office of the vice president for
research, Dr. A. D. Suttle Jr.
Sathre is considered brilliant
by his professors and is making
rapid adjustment to the situation
of being a South San Antonio
High junior in the summer and
a university freshman the follow
ing fall.
The bridge for his unusual
transition was a National Science
Foundation summer program in
engineering science for high-
ability high school students.
Sathre attended on the recom
mendation of his South San An
tonio High counselor and several
teachers. He stayed.
The son of first grade teacher
Mrs. Ruth Sathre, 102 McKenna,
San Antonio, received high school
graduation credit by examination.
The 6-foot-2, light haired Aggie
plowed into freshman engineer
ing courses in 2.5 GPR fashion
(a 3.0 grade point ratio is per
fect) and received enthusiastic
encouragement from several
“Tim is very capable, mature
and has keen insight,” commented
Dr. J. G. H. Thompson, mechan
ical engineering professor who
instructed the summer program
in advanced math and analog
computer programs. He became
the natural and acknowledged
leader among the NSF high
school students. They turned to
him for guidance in their work.’
From the six-week program,
Sathre received a $100 scholar
ship to attend A&M and special
commendation from President
Earl Rudder.
New fields to conquer won out.
Tom breezed through the exams
and enrolled at A&M. He became
a member of Phi Eta Sigma,
freshman honor society, the first
semester.
A
Texas
year.
More than 94.1 million motor vehicles were registered
in the United States in 1966. The state of California led
the way with 10.3 million and Alaska held up the bottom
with 108,000.
The national increase was 4.1 percent over 1965, while
Texas had an increase of only 1.8 percent. The number
of vehicles in the U.S. rose from 90,360,721 in 1965 to
to 94,176,799 in 1966. The figures were contained in a re
port just released by the Federal Highway Administration.
The registration total includes 78.3 million automobiles,
15.5 million trucks and 323,197 buses. Automobile regis
tration increased 4.1 percent over 1965.
In Texas, 4,467,722 automobiles, 1,229,814 trucks and
13,727 buses were registered.
New York State followed California with the next
highest number of motor vehicles, 6.2 million. Texas
placed third with its 5.7 million.
Ohio registered 5.2 million motor vehicles. Pennsyl
vania had the same number and Illinois registered 4.7 mil
lion. Another 24 states registered more than a million
motor vehicles each in 1966.
Automobile registrations followed a similar pattern
with California listing 8.7 million and New York, 5.5 mil
lion. Ohio replaced Texas in number of automobile regis
trations with 4.7 million. Pennsylvania registered 4.5 mil
lion, followed by Texas with 4.4 million.
He received a $500 Gregory
scholarship through the efforts
of Dr. C. H. Samson, civil engi
neering head, and eased quickly
into college routine. The adjust
ment was just another stride for
the high-ability student. The
different schools in Texas and
California before enrolling at
A&M. his first two years of high
school were at Lewisville, where
he lived wtih his grandparents
and had ranch responsibility for
50 head of cattle.
“He’s not a ‘teenage’ teenager
and I’m not sure Tom would want
to be,” recalled Larry Eicher of
Loveland, Colo., a chemistry
graduate student who was
Sathre’s dorm counselor in the
summer program.
“It was hard for him to find
someone to converse with, he was
so far ahead of his contempo
raries. But they came to respect
his abilities and look up to him,’
Eicher said, reinforcing observa
tions of Thompson.
“Tom fits well into adult situ
ations,” Eicher went on. “Where
the usual teenager is more bois
terous, he is quiet, reserved and
uses adult terms.”
Sathre, who works for Environ-
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mental Engineering Division Di
rector Dr. Roy W. Hann, quickly
grasps situations.
“One of the first days he was
with us, I gave him a book on
computer programs to read,” Dr.
Hann described. “He read the
whole book that night. The next
day I included him right into a
research group working on a
Houston ship channel water re
sources project. I explained a
biological waste treatment con
cept and Tom logically questioned
a part of it the graduate students
blandly accepted.”
“He has a tremendous back
ground in electronics, particular
ly as applied to computing,”
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Sathre, who taught himself
calculus at South San, has re
ceived a $950 National Merit
Award scholarship, one of about
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Biological Sciences public rela
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day to confer with Texas A&M
officials about press arrangej-
ments for the AIBS meetings
which the university will host
Aug. 27-Sept. 1.
Scores of science and agricul
tural writers have been invited
to cover the new developments
in biology which will be reported
at the meetings.
Of particular interest to the
press will be Secretary of Agri
culture Orville Freeman, who is
scheduled to address AIBS par
ticipants Aug. 30. Other notables
include Sen. Henry Jackson of
Washington and Stanley A. Cain,
assistant secretary for Fish,
Wildlife and Parks, U. S. De
partment of the Interior, who
will join in an Aug. 28 plenary
session entitled, “Environment of
Man Revisited.”
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