Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1967)
;ans 303 7/7 Cans IlC Che Battalion |: SATURDAY & SUNDAY: Cloudy to | partly cloudy, scattered afternoon rain i:-: showers. Winds northerly 10 to 15. g; High 86. Low 69. :g g COTTON BOWL SATURDAY: Partly g •i-: cloudy. Winds, easterly 10 m.p.h. •:•: g High 72. g VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1967 Number 473 TE 211 Cans TE Beulah Spawns Tornadoes, Rain Duncan Area Corps Units l'/4 Cans JUICE i 211 1 Cans (TAIl ► 303 ) Cans ■ “lit S! f With lailer oupon f With lailer oupon f With lailer oupon f With lailer oupon f With lailer oupon By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hurricane Beulah spawned doz ens of tornadoes and dumped more than 20 inches of rain on already soggy South and southeast Texas Thursday, with the twisters and rains continuing after the hurri cane lost her punch. Flooding was predicted in wide parts of the Coastal Bend, partic ularly near creeks leading to the Gulf of Mexico. Victoria was isolated by the rising Guadalupe River after more than 20 inches of rain with no let up in sight from the showers. Residents were being evacuated to higher ground as water covered all roads and highways. BEULAH kicked up an unprece dented number of tornadoes as she died inland. The Department of Public Safety counted 43 tor nadoes in comparison with the previous record of 17 during Hur ricane Isbell in October 1964. Four persons were killed by twisters Wednesday in the Pala cios and Louise communities east and south of Victoria. Thursday at least seven others had been injured by tornadoes, but all in juries were minor. The Central Texas town of Bur net suffered $150,000 damage from a twister through its down town area Wednesday. THE WEATHER Bureau is sued tornado warnings to cover such widespread parts of Texas as San Antonio and Houston. The Begin Consolidation Move B y ers Named Water Board Chief Advisor tb. 39c ,.b. 49c Geosciences Dean Horace R. Byers of Texas A&M has been appointed chairman of a weather modification advisory committee of the Texas Water Development Board. The five-man committee also includes F. F. Calhoun, a Plain- view farmer; Sen. J. F. Christie, El Paso; George M. Parker, Dallas businessman, and Dr. How ard J. Taubenfeld, SMU law professor. The committee headed by Byers will license weather modification activities and allow the Water Board to enter cooperative agree ments for encouragement of re search and actual modification practices. Dean Byers said the committee also will act in advisory capacity to the board on future legislative policies, administration, research and other matters pertaining to weather modification. The board was authorized to establish the committee through the weather modification act en acted in the last legislative session. Senator Christie authored the bill. Dr. Byers, a National Academy of Sciences section chairman, has been geosciences dean at A&M since 1965, when the geosciences school was formed. He is recog nized as a national leader of earth and atmospheric sciences, was hoard chairman of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Re search, Department of Defense, Atomic Energy Commission labs and Weather Bureau consultant and official of various research and professional organizations. 39‘ University National Bank "On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. counties of Wilson, Bexar, Medi- na, Atascosa, Frio, Uvalde and Za- vala were put under one alert after a band of tornadoes was *'■**“ spotted by radar southeast and southwest of San Antonio at mid- afternoon. Houston and the counties of Harris, Waller, Grimes and Mont gomery were under a similar tor nado alert after a rash of twister touch-downs. The funnels were spotted on the ground from College Station to Freeport to Austin, near Crosby, Bellaire, Tomball, Lake Travis, Schulenburg, Hampshire, Liberty, Fannett, Liberty, and Nederland. FOUR HIGH school students going home for lunch at Neder land were picked up by a twister and dumped a second later on their back, covered by the grime swirling inside the funnel. “All I could see was birds fly ing around in there,” one of the students told school secretary Mrs. Edna Brady. They were badly frightened and shaken up but otherwise apparently unhurt. In North Houston, a tornado slammed into a house and in jured Lawrence Landry, Amos Landry and Albert Melveauf, none seriously. At least two other twisters destroyed a barn, a church and several houses in Houston. MEANWHILE, the extraordi narily heavy rains posed another problem: flooding. The Corpus Christi Weather Bureau forecast heavy rain and thundershowers Thursday night and Friday with creeks rising rapidly. In the Lower Rio Grande Val ley, accumulated rain totals of from 8 to 10 inches were com mon in the wake of Beulah. Many city streets and highways .were flooded and impassable to any traffic except large trucks. ‘Extremely heavy rainfall cov ering much of the state had ham pered damage evaluation and re pair work at most locations,” in spectors for the federal Office of Emergency Planning told the White House. THE WEATHER Bureau said the rains from Beulah have per sisted not only along the coast but as far inland as Abilene and the Big Bend country in West Texas. Tornadoes have hip- hopped from Beaumont and Hous ton to the edge of the Hill Coun try between San Antonio and Austin. The 24-hour rainfall totals also included 11.23 inches at pettus, 10.00 at Falfurrias, 8.70 at Ray- point, 9.50 at Fant, 8.20 at Oak ville, 7.80 at Refugio, 7.17 at Three Rivers, 6.50 at Georgewest, and 4.80 at Simmons. IN THE SIX hours until 1 p.m. Thursday, Corpus Christi had an additional 2.67 inches, and Col lege Station had 1.04. Only in Northwest and West Texas were skies fair. The Weather Bureau said the influence of Beulah will continue to furnish rains for the South Texas region. MOVING DAY Like evacuees from areas hit by Hurricane Beulah, many Corps members had to move out of their regular places Thursday afternoon as their outfits were relocated and consoli dated. Above, freshmen start across the quadrangle from Dormitory 4 to their new housing assignments. Andre Previn, Symphony To Appear Here Sept 29 The Houston Symphony Orches tra, with Andre Previn conduct ing, will perform Sept. 29 in the Bryan Civic Auditorium under sponsorship of the Rotary-Town Hall Committee. Acclaimed as the pride of the Southwest, the Houston Sym phony stands in the first rank of North American Orchestras. The Bryan performance is set for 7:30 p.m. Under direction of Sir John Bar birolli, conducter-in-chief since 1961, the Houston Symphony has been saluted with standing ova tions both at home and on tour. Two years ago in New York City a cheering audience remained for a full 15 minutes after the concert had ended to offer homage to Sir John and his orchestra. PREVIN, although still in his thirties, has bowed with nearly every major American orchestra, including the New York Philhar monic, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Dallas, San Antonio and Los Angeles. He has been a classic and jazz pianist, arranger, composer, tele vision personality, and has furn ished Columbia Records with sev eral best-selling albums. Critics have praised Previn as a conductor of ‘insight, dynan- ism and instinctive authority.” They say he “communicates” with both the older seasoned concert- goer and the young audience. After moving to the United States from his native Berlin in 1939, Previn studied under Joseph Achron and Mario Castelnuovo- Tedesco. PREVIN, OVER the wrote the scores for numerous cinematic musical spectaculars, in cluding original background music for “Bad Day at Black Rock,” “Elmer Gantry,” “Long Day’s Journey into Night,” and won four Oscars for “Gigi,” “Porgy and Bess,” “Irma, La Douce,” and “My Fair Lady.” On many of the programs he conducts, Previn includes his own work ... by special request of the management. His “Overture to a Comedy,” received favorable comment when it was added to his New York Philharmonic concert. Thirty-six subscription con certs are the backbone of the Houston Symphony in its home city. Classical, romantic and modern elements are combined. From compositions played in this series, the best performed and best received works are chosen to comprise the touring reper toire. The Houston Symphony an nually plays for 22 student con certs, with audiences totaling more than 68,000 youngsters. years, ANDRE PREVIN 4 Brazos County Students Receive $200 Scholarships Four Brazos County students scholarship given in memory of ‘LA STRADA’ Federico Fellini’s “La Strada,” starring Anthony Quinn as the village strong man, will open the new “Fall Festival of Films” series Monday at 8 p. m. in the Memorial Student Center. The series will feature international film classics ranging from a Charlie Chap- Hn movie to contemporary art films. have been awarded scholarships to Texas A&M by local former students of the universtiy. The $200-a-year grants went to Dennis Cahill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Cahill, 1106 N. Sims; Willie Milberger, son of Mrs. Lena Milberger, Kurten; George Wil liams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Williams, 211 Sulphur Springs Rd.; and David Alexander, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Alexander, Welbom. Cahill, Millberger and Williams are upperclassmen returning to A&M. All three were given Brazos County A&M Club scholar ships last year. Their awards are in memory of the late Wallace Kimbrough of Bryan. Alexander, a freshman at A&M, is the first recipient of a new P. L. Downs Jr. by the club. The scholarship fund is raised by dues to the local A&M Club. Almost 300 A&M alumni and friends joined the organization this year to make the program possible, according to President Ed Cooper. Scholarships for outstanding local students are the most im portant objectives of our organi zation,” Cooper believed. “We are pleased to be in a position to add a fourth grant—particularly since it will perpetuate the memory of the grand-daddy Aggie of ’em all, our club’s first president and its lifetirpe good Samaritan.” Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. Housing Situation To Be Corrected By DAVE MAYES Duncan area continued to show signs of bustling activity as the Cadet Corps neared the end of its annual attempt to house every one in the same outfit in one dormitory. “We hope to be done by Friday night,” said Billy C. Presnal, civilian counselor, “although room keys will not be issued unless the Housing Office has a Corps unit’s new roster. All rosters were due at 8 a.m. this morning so that room keys could be picked up starting at 10 a.m. Any dis crepancies in a unit’s roster, how ever, will delay the issuance of room keys to that unit.” “It has always been a pretty big guessing game trying to esti mate how many cadets “we will have by the time school starts. We base our estimates for the fall semester on surveys taken the previous spring,” Presnal said. “THIS YEAR we came very close to estimating the correct number of freshmen but were too low on returning upperclass men. There also seemed to be a general shift from Air Force to Army ROTC,” Pres.ial added. As a result, last Monday many cadet units saw their members scattered over two or three dorm itories sharing rooms with upper or lower classmen. “You see, the problem has never been one of space but one of knowing which and how many students will need that space,” Presnal emphasized. “WE HAVE no way of know ing how many cadets are return ing until after registration,” he added. “As long as a cadet has paid his $20 room deposit we are required to reserve a room for him. Only after we find that he has not registered may we assign his room to someone else.” “In order to compensate for the number of students who would not return to A&M this fall, we had to add 100 temporary cots to the 2,600 beds normally pro vided in the Duncan area.” Presnall pointed to another as pect of the housing problem by explaining that “Unlike civilian students, cadets in the Corps must be dealt with as members of a unit and not as individuals. This, of course, makes things that much more difficult. “THE SYSTEM now used in placing an outfit in a dormitory is based primarily upon its Gen eral Moore rating,” he continued. “If two units are sharing a dorm, the unit that placed higher will occupy the upper floors. This insures that unit that it will re main in one dorm since the lower floors are filled by units of lower ratings on a space - available basis.” Presnal could give no predic tions as to how the Corps may be housed in the future because “that depends upon a lot of things.” “If the Corps does grow in size, however, we would probably ex pand further into Hart Hall be cause it is the closest dormitory,” Presnal concluded. $3,000 Added To 1967 Budget For MSC Council Activities The 18th Memorial Student Center Council, led by President Scott Roberts, Thursday evening approved budgets submitted by Contemporary Arts, Great Issues, Leadership and Travel Commit tees which totaled over $3,000. The Council has now approved funds which approach a sum of $110,000, nearly all of which is being used to finance the many student organizations sponsored by the MSC. During the meeting held in the rear of the MSC cafeteria, plans were discussed for the Fall Lead ership Trip Nov. 19-20. Selected campus leaders will tour Houston, visiting among other places, the Astrodome, the Alley Theatre and Jones Mall, home of the Houston Symphony Orchestra. Roberts also announced the ap pointment of Mike Curd as chair man of the Talent Committee and Davis Mayes, chairman of the Travel Committee. Zipp, David Gay, Benny Sims, James Wilbanks, Dwayne Scar lett, Joey Webber, Bill Carter, Dean Eshelman, Joe Harris and Davis Mayes. Faculty members of the coun cil include Dr. W. P. Fife, Dr. Harry Coyle, Dr. Haskell Monroe, Dr. Marshall Godwin and Dr. Herbert Barnard. Sarkissian Sited By WVU Students Dr. Igor Sarkissian of Texas A&M’s new Institute of Life Sci ences has been honored for his teaching effectiveness, announced Dr. J. vag Overbeek, director. The recently appointed associ ate professor was voted the honor by graduate students of the agronomy department at West Virginia University, where Sar kissian was chairman of the ge netics faculty. Student members of the 18th MSC Council are Scott H. Rob erts, Wayne Prescott, Ronald First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif icates. —Adv. YOUNG HURRICANE REFUGEES Two refugees, forced from their home by Hurricane Beulah, wait it out in a corridor at Vernon Junior High School in Harlingen, Tex. (AP Wirephoto) fjfl ■ 1 ;:T ! > IP | . •• • KI2 i! I iil pe M- ►ft'"