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'ALIQ, ie! trike to Bo> ( ne fans int, ike thefirsi -ch kacklui for the find as emerge t. a me is will kers at tl, ! predicts about tl» e, too. Thi) ivorite will e eonferenti id, and tit record, tin edly lookfoi 3 hoped tl» e in accoim were wroi; ill could k &M. Che Battalion ::i: ix Due to Hurrican Beulah no extended :£ forecast will be issued. Keep tuned to local radio and television stations for |:j: latest advisory. |::; :::• Forecast for Saturday Fort Worth & Dallas: Winds northwest 10 to 15 m.p.h. Partly Cloudy. High 72. VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1967 Number 471 Sfe-fo i pass clear te. 9 P.M. i, Texas [onday) ‘liter i nter I Dry eaning a. m. ) Dallas Editor To Keynote Meet Robert Hollingsworth, manag ing editor of the Dallas Times Herald, has been named keynote speaker for the Texas Junior Col lege Press Association Conference here Oct. 16-17. More than 200 delegates and sponsors from 23 member colleges are expected, announced Dr. David R. Bowers, A&M journalism pro fessor and TJCPA director. Harold Ratliff, Texas sports editor for the Associated Press, will discuss “What Makes Good Sports Stories?” and David Nance of the Houston Chronicle, runner- up for national photographer of the year, will cover “Taking Bet ter Pictures.” A yearbook session will feature D’Eon Priest of Taylor Publish ing Co., Houston. His topics in clude obligations and responsi bilities of yearbook staffs, pre planning and preparation of rough dummies, and themes and motifs. Other speakers include Mrs. Carolyn Barta, education writer for the Dallas Morning News; Dr. Richard King, University of Texas professor; Dr. Ferel Robinson, Journalism Department director at Sam Houston State College; David McHam, Baylor University professor; and Dr. Otha Spencer, East Texas State University pro fessor. Engineers Set Lecture Series An Engineering Lecture Series emphasizing engineering frontiers in industry, society and educa tion begins here Oct. 4 with a presentation on oil well drilling industry evolution and outlook. G. E. Nevill, staff engineer of Cameron Iron Works, Houston, will make the inaugural address in the Architecture Auditorium on “From Titusville to Cook In let—The Evolution of the Oil Well Drilling Industry and the Out look for Engineering Reposnsi- bilities.” Prof. Charles A. Rodenberger, lecture series chairman, said the lecture will be at 3:30 p.m. In succeeding weeks, topics including engineering education changes, urban systems engineer ing, nuclear and cryogenics re search and development and nu clear explosives in oil and gas production will be presented by leading industrial and govern mental agency scientists. Rodenberger said future engi neering lectures will present Chalmer G. Kirkbride, Sun Oil; John P. Eberhard, National Bu reau of Standards; Dr. Henry R. Dvorak, General Dynamics; Charles L. Brunow, LTV Aero space Corp. and Dr. H. F. Coffer, CER Geonuclear Corp. All fall semester Engineering Lectures are scheduled Wednes days at 3:30 p.m. in the Architec ture Auditorium. Juvenile Officers Will Meet Here A training course for police juvenile officers and probation officers is set here Oct. 2-6. Among featured activities of the school is a forum: “Police Courts, Probation Officers, the Church and Youth Councils as Partners.” Charles Wirasnik, instructor for the hosting Police Training Divi sion. of A&M’s Engineering Ex tension Service, said 30 partici pants are expected to probe a myriad of problems concerning juveniles. Guest speakers include James A. Turman, executive director of the Texas Youth Council, George W. Looney, chief juvenile proba tion officer for Dallas County, Larry Fultz, chief juvenile proba tion officer for Harris County, and Capt. Maurice Harr of the Galveston Police Department De tective Division. The Oct. 6 class will be com bined with a meeting of the Southeast Regional Conference of the Juvenile Probation Officers’ Association of Texas. Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. .V Speaker for an Oct. 16 banquet will be Wick Fowler, Austin pub lic relations counselor. His topic: “Journalism, A Way of Life.” A new conference facet will be seminars for newspaper and year book sponsors. Among speakers are Bob Vaughn of San Jacinto College, Jeanine Johnston of Dal las El Central College, Sara An derson of Cooke County Junior College, and Dr. Norris Davis, Jaurnalism Department head, University of Texas. TJCPA newspaper and year book awards will be made at the Oct. 17 luncheon. Fall Scuba Diving Registration Set Registration for fall SCUBA diving course began Monday, chief instructor William Schroe- der announced. The course is offered jointly by the Department of Oceanography and the Continuing Education Of fice. Requirements include a physical examination at the cam pus hospital, qualification in a series of swimming tests and an $18 fee, Schroeder said. The course will last 10 weeks, with meetings on Wednesday eve nings. Enrollment is limited to 30 students, with priority given to graduate students in ocean ography-meteorology, marine bi ology or other marine sciences. Schroeder said female students are welcome. Registration is in room 107, Bizzell Hall. First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif icates. —Adv. Buelah Slams Brownsville, Now Headed For Corpus Faculty-Staff DinnerPlanned Texas A&M’s first 1967-68 fac ulty-staff dinner dance is plan ned for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28, in the Memorial Student Cen ter ballroom. Mrs. Anne Elmquist, committee chairman for the Faculty-Staff Dinner Dance Club, said all new faculty-staff are invited to attend the first of the four programs as guests of A&M President Earl Rudder. New faculty-staff members will receive written invitations but must exchange them for tickets at the MSC reservations desk by Tuesday, Sept. 26, Mrs. Elmquist emphasized. Season tickets, as well as sin gle tickets for the opening din ner dance, also may be purchased through Sept. 26 at the MSC or from Dr. Russell Kohel in the Soil and Crop Sciences Depart ment. EXPANSION CONTINUES Cranes lift girders into place on the central supports of the new upper deck being built in the east stands of Kyle Field. Work on the project paused briefly for the A&M-SMU game here Saturday. A target date of Thanksgiving has been set for completion of the deck. Albritton Aids Student From Dominican Republic YMCA Sets Church Night New Texas A&M students will get acquainted with their univer sity churches and ministers at an nual Church Night in G. Rollie White Coliseum at 7 p.m. Wednes day. The YMCA-sponsored function is to introduce new students to the minister, church and its loca tion followed by fellowship and general “get acquainted” sessions at the church. YMCA General Secretary J. Gordon Gay said 17 denominations will be represented at church night. “The progrom will be brief so that students may divide into their church groups and have time to visit the church,” he added. “Call to quarters in the Corps will be extended ’so that cadets may attend.” Gay will introduce Bryan-Col- lege Station ministers. Tom Bell of Montgomery, Ala., YMCA Cabinet president, will speak on religion in A&M student life. Corps Chaplain Clarence Daugh erty of San Antonio will voice the invocation and Ron McLeroy of Dallas, cabinet vice president, the benediction. Church night has been offered for new A&M students more than 30 years. Bryan businessman Ford Al britton has two sons for a total of three students enrolled at Texas A&M Universtiy this fall. The “extra” student is Wilfredo Moscoso of the Dominican Re public, a food technology major whom Albritton is sponsoring on an all-expense four-year scholar ship. Albritton’s other Aggies are Ford Albritton III, a junior ac counting major, and Bobby, a freshman planning to major in finance. MOSCOSO IS a participant in a special long-range task force which Texas A&M began last year to assist in developing Dominican Republic agriculture as part of the university’s over-all contract wtih the Agency for International Fish Drill Team Tryouts Set Next Week In Duncan Lot Texas A&M freshmen who hanker to spin, throw and snap a rifle through the manual of arms in the fashion of crack mili tary drill units will begin form ing the 1967-68 Fish Drill Team next week. Jim Vogas of Galveston, senior advisor of the all-fish organiza tion, said tryouts will be held at the easternmost parking lot from Duncan Dining Hall at 5 p.m. next Monday through Thursday (Sept. 25-28). No previous marching or rifle team experience is necessary for interested corps freshmen who wish to try out, Vogas said. “Eighty per cent of the nation’s second best drill team in 1966-67 —the A&M Fish Drill Team—had no previous rifle-handling or marching experience,” he pointed out. Last year’s unit was runner-up in the national competition at the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D. C., and a winner on Baton Rouge, La.; Houston and Canyon trips. Upperclass advisors will be looking for about 100 fish to march in the unit this year. Dur ing the first semester, two teams will march. Major Calvin Reese of the Military Science Depart ment is team sponsor. Vogas said all members of the Association of Former Fish Drill Team members will assist in try outs, for which freshmen should report in the uniform of the day. Development. Funds for the project, however, would stretch only so far and Moscoso •>as not included in the plans to bring the first group of students to A&M for four years of study. A&M officials stationed in the Caribbean Island were neverthe less convinced the 22-year-old youth would be an asset to the program, prompting the uni versity to send out a plea for assistance from private sources. Thus entered Albritton, president of Albritton Engineering Corp. and a 1943 graduate of Texas A&M. MOSCOSO HAS not disappoint ed university officials or Albrit ton. Despite the fact he spoke practically no English when he arrived here, the Dominican stu dent posted a B average during his freshman year. To top it off, he earned an A in English. Dr. Jack Gray, A&M’s Inter national Programs director who accompanied Moscoso during a re cent visit with Albritton, said the university needs to train 300-400 students if it is to attain its goal in the Dominican Republic. The current budget, however, will only accommodate about 100. Those other 200-300 students, Gray observed, will need the help of someone like Albritton. ip? m No Known Deaths As Thousands Flee By PAUL RECER BROWNSVILLE <A>) — Hur ricane Beulah battered Browns ville with winds surging about 100 miles per hour today and, slightly weakened by the on slaught, hurled her remaining strength toward Corpus Christi —and that was a lot. More than 30,000 Texans had fled far inland or taken refuge in hometown shelters. Their flight was orderly and appeared to be most cheerful — even taken as fun, at first, by some. But in neighboring Matamoros, Mex., officials reported fear and con fusion as citizens scrambled for shelter. Beulah had approached the Texas-Mexico coast with winds of 160 m.p.h. whirling around her center. Her slam at the Rio Grande Valley and her charge up- coast cut her big punch to 150 m.p.h., even though the eye, the focal point of her power, remained over water. But as she aimed her dead calm eye at Corpus Christi she re mained one of the most muscular storms ever recorded, and the Weather Bureau predicted Beulah would still pack a punch of better than 100 m.p.h. when the eye finally crashed ashore. With two twisters already re ported, the Weather Bureau said a few more tornadoes within 80 miles of the coast between Cor pus and Galveston. “She’s just about the biggest, nastiest storm I’ve ever seen,” said the veteran pilot of a Navy hurricane hunter after flying through the eye. At 7 a.m. Beulas was 125 miles south of Corpus Christi and mov ing northward at about 12 m.p.h. Meanwhile, ham operators re ported the tiny town of Valle Hermoso, Mex., 15 miles south of Brownsville, was nearly wiped out. Many residents had been evacuated before the storm hit. Gov. John Connally called out about 1,300 National Guards men. The Weather Bureau called for immediate evacuation of Rock- port, Fulton, Aransas Pass and low parts of Ingleside and for the Lamar and Goose Island areas, all near Corpus Christi, and advised residents of some housing developments at Corpus Christi to be ready to move when necessary. No deaths or injuries were re ported immediately as the first hurricane-force winds pounded the Texas Coast. Earlier, Beulah had been blamed for 24 deaths — 23 in the Eastern Caribbean and Mex ico’s Yucatan Peninsula and one when big waves rolling up the Gulf flung a 15-year-old girl from her surfboard near Freeport, south of Houston. Beulah’s eye was just off the mouth of the Rio Grande at 1 a.m. She had started veering north when her first hurricane- force blasts hit Brownsville. The Weather Bureau said the center would remain over water, ^passing just east of the Rio Grande and just offshore of Padre Island, a pencil-thin strip of resort sand that runs from Brownsville to Corpus Christi. They expected the eye and the full-force winds around it to crash inland in the Corpus Christi area late today, after hurricane- force winds hit there sometime during the afternoon. Hurricanes draw their strength from warm waters and with Beu lah’s eye still to seaward she would pack a crushing blow, al though the Weather Bureau said the winds extending overland might cause her to weaken slow ly- A possible spinoff from Beulah occurred at Hungerford, a small town about 50 miles southwest of Houston where a resident re ported “a twister just took the roof off my barn and a neighbor’s house.” Except for a few telephone lines Brownsville was isolated by the storm . The hurricane dp- rooted giant palms, battered buildings and flailed Rio Grande Valley citrus groves. Beulah blasted all Brownsville’s power off. The city’s lights blink ed out in segments as the storm’s fury grew. A policeman reporting in from a patrol said he saw roofs blown off a house and an old tollhouse on the Rio Grande, watched a tin See Beula, Page 3) TERC Plans Work At Connally Tech “OH, YEAH?” Tom Winnubst, of Dallas, matches wits with a life-like egg plant he found in a shipment of vegetables where he works. The plant’s Pinocchio nose is real. The radish mouth was added — for purposes of the debate. (AP Wirephoto) The Technical Education Re search Center of Cambridge, Mass,, will open its first field office at James Connally Techni cal Institute and provide approx imately $1 million for first-year reserach activities. Dr. Roy Dugger, Connally Tech director, said TERC has already awarded .. the Waco institution more than $200,000 for initial research in biochemical equip ment. TERC is a private non-profit research organization which has cooperative projects with several universities and techineal insti tutes throughout the nation. THE TERC board of directors, of which Dugger is a member, will meet at Connally Tech Oct. 11-13 to finalize plans for open ing the new office. Dugger said the recent national attention given Connally Tech led to the TERC decision to establish an office here. Connally Tech, division of the Texas A&M University System, formally opened in January, 1966, students engaged in 33 technical and now has more than 1,000 fields. DUGGER NOTED TERC is considering Connally Tech for re search programs in industrial nuclear safety and electromechan ical technology, in addition to the biomedical project. The biomedical equipment proj ect will center around installation, operation and maintenance of heart valves, artificial kidneys, automatic blood testing and elec tronic observation of patients through centralized computers and television-type displays. Dugger said the research will primarily involve Connally Tech faculty members, assisted by ad vanced students at the institution and doctoral candidates and hos pital personnel from throughout the state. Capurro In Zurich For Mantle Study Dr. Luis A. Capurro of Texas A&M is attending a three-week meeting of an Upper Mantle Pro ject in Zurich, Switzerland. The project for study of the earth’s outer 1,000 kilometers is a function of the Bureau of Upper Mantle Committee, International Council of Scientific Unions. Capurro, A&M oceanography department research scientist, is attending the meeting as an ap pointed committee member and president of the Scientific Com mittee on Oceanographic Re search (SCOR). University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv.