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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1967
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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
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Water Board
Chief Advisor
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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.
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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)
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