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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1967
Number 471
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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.
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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.
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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.