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Through Darkened Campus
A&M’s Ham Radio THE BATTALION
Keeping Silent
Tuesday, September 26, 1967
College Station, Texas
Page 3
COLLEGE STATION — Stu
dents file out of their dormitories
and slowly head for the heart of
the campus. All lights are out
and the only sound is that of a
marching honor guard.
It’s 10:30 p.m. Silence is brok
en by the first of three volleys of
rifle fire. Taps is played three
times, with the last note prompt
ing students to return to their
rooms. Not a word has been
spoken.
Texas A&M University has
thus paid final respects to one of
its own with observance of Silver
Taps.
The unique ceremony is one of
numerous traditions which still
prevail at Aggieland, though the
university has undergone major
transformations in recent years,
mushrooming in size and expand
ing in scope far beyond its tra
ditional concept.
Some Aggies—including “Mr.
Aggie,” the late P. L. (Pinkie)
Downs—have long maintained Sil
ver Taps is the school’s greatest
tradition, even ranking ahead of
the annual spring Muster which
is observed wherever Aggies gath
er throughout the world.
No one knows how or when Sil
ver Taps originated. A&M Arch
ivist Ernest Langford, however,
has documents on file which in
dicate the ceremony was being
observed before the turn of the
century.
The ceremony was apparently
first held in front of the Old Main
Building, the original campus
structure which burned in 1912.
For the past 47 years, it has
always been in front of the stately
Academic Building, and “Sully,”
a large bronze statue of Lawrence
Sullivan Ross, a 19th Century
governor of Texas and president
of Texas A&M.
Silver Taps includes the tradi
tional bugle salute to a fallen
comrade, played in a stirring har
monic arrangement by four mem
bers of the Aggie Band stationed
in the Academic Building dome.
The beauty of the simple taps is
enhanced by an “echo” of the
passages phrases, supplied by one
bugler playing at a softer level.
When university officials learn
that a student has died, the U. S.
flag is lowered to half-mast on
the tallest pole in the state, serv
ing notice that Silver Taps will
be held that night.
With A&M’s largest enrollment,
chances are that only a few in the
multitude personally knew the
student they came to honor. But
he was an Aggie, and that’s rea
son enough for all to be present.
Silver Taps has only been held
in honor of one person who was
not a student at time of death.
The exception was the late Mr.
Downs, a member of A&M’s Class
of ’06 who devoted his life to the
university and was official greeter
when he died March 21.
The dramatic moving Silver
Taps ceremony has inspired sev
eral poems, one of which con
cludes:
Stand at attention, Aggies!
Once more we honor them,
The Silver Taps Battalion of
Texas A&M.
10-Ft. Subway Cars
CARBONDALE, ILL. <A>)_An
engineering professor at Southern
Illinois University has an assign
ment to brainstorm an idea—trav
el underground.
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
is trying to come up with a
vehicle that will split rock to
tunnel along its own roadway
deep inside the earth.
Prof. Edred Hough is trying to
determine if it is possible for
man to travel like a mole. The
corps granted him $40,000 to ex
plore his theories.
His working hypothesis is that
a machine some 10 feet long
could be designed. It would use
a self-contained hydraulic frac
turing unit.
Texas A&M’s ham radio sta
tion, W5AC, has had light traffic
with South Texas after Hurricane
Beulah smashed the region’s com
munication capabilities.
Ted Wittliff of Taylor said the
Memorial Student Center radio
committee which he chairs has
had operators on duty most of the
time since Beulah hit land south
of Brownsville.
He added that W5AC has han
dled a few messages and indicated
several factors have put the sta
tion primarily on listening status.
“The hurricane knocked most
South Texas hams off the air,”
Wittliff pointed out. “Rigs still
operating have been overloaded
with outgoing messages,. Our
geographic location hasn’t ' re
quired net participation. And
with all the emergency transmis
sions, it’s best if a ham stays
quiet and doesn’t clutter things.”
Witliff said students wishing
to send messages into South Tex
as may use forms supplied near
the MSC bowling lanes. He not
ed, however, that mail and tele
phone service is being returned to
the region.
The committee holds its 1967-
68 organizational meeting Tues
day at 7:30 p.m. in Room 2A of
the MSC.
“Anyone interested in ham radio
operation is invited,” Wittliff said.
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It is now time for all Corps
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Organizations Depart
mental and Professional
Clubs, Hometown and Interna
tional Clubs, Honor Societies,
M.S.C. Advised Accounts, Sports
Clubs, Student Body Governing
Organizations, and Service Or
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ognized at the Student Finance
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file a list of their officers with
tile Student Finance Center.
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utilities paid. Phone 822-4972. 470tfn
grove of
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SPECIAL NOTICE
Two furnished two bedroom brick apart
ments, central air and heat, private patio,
two blocks from campus. Available Feb
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small deposit. 823-8181. 466tfn
Coin operated electric typewriters avail
able for use in Memorial Student
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Center.
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AN OPEN LETTER!
Hello Aggies—
tor
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Welcome back home Aggies! We have missed you.
Well another school year is beginning and it is our hope you
do well in all of your endeavors and that you accomplish all of
your undertakings.
When you find time for recreation we hope you will visit us
and renew old acquaintances. You know we are open 7 days a
week ‘til midnight and you’ll always find some of your friends
here.
We’ve added a brand new 5x10 Carom table to our center
and this now gives us 2 - 5x10 pocket tables, 2 - 5x10 snooker
tables, 2 - dVgxO ft. pocket tables, 14 - 4x8 pocket tables, 9 of
the latest pin ball machines, Toosball table (the new sensation
form coast to coast and a new bumper table. We also have a
new supply of jointed cue sticks from $9.95 to $95.00.
Let’s all join forces and pull a little harder and help put
the Aggies back to NUMBER ONE in 1967. It can be done!
Aggieland Recreation Center
Redmond Terrace Center
P.S. “The girls are still playing here!”
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• Built in stove, refrigerator and
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Before 9 a. m. & After 5 p. m.
Enco, Amalie,
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We stock all local major brands.
Where low oil prices originate.
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Wheel Bearings
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Parts Wholesale Too
Filters, Oil, Air - Fuel
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Brake Shoes $2.98 ex.
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All 6 Volt — $10.95 Each
Most 12 Volt — $11.95 Each
Tires—Low price every day —
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other of equal quality.
Your Friedrich Dealer
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CHILD CARE
A&M PRESBYTERIAN NURSERY
SCHOOL, has an opening for a four year
old. For further information call 822-6994
or 3352. 469t5
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or evening. 846-7429.
, day
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Campus Briefs
Faculty-Staff Dinner Dance Ticket Sales End
COLLEGE STATION — Tues
day is the deadline for obtaining
tickets for Texas A&M’s first
1967-68 faculty-staff dinner dance,
reminds Mrs. Anne Elmquist,
committee chairman for the Fac
ulty-Staff Dinner Dance Club.
The dinner dance is planned for
7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Mem
orial Student Center ballroom.
Mrs. Elmquist said all new fac
ulty-staff are invited to attend
the first of the four programs as
the guests of A&M President Earl
Rudder.
The newcomers received written
invitations but must exchange
them for tickets at the MSC reser
vations desk by Tuesday, Mrs.
Elmquist stressed.
Season tickets, as well as single
tickets for the opening dinner
dance, also may be purchased
through Tuesday at the MSC or
from Dr. Russell Kohel in the
Soil and Crop Sciences Depart
ment.
The season tickets are $13 per
person and individual tickets,
$3.75. New members may pur
chase season tickets for the sub
sequent programs for $11.
Other dinner dances will be held
Nov. 16, Feb. 22 and April 22 in
the MSC Assembly Room.
Music for all four programs will
be furnished by the Aggieland
Combo.
★ ★ ★
Veterinary Profs
Schedule Activities
A heavy slate of activities faces
a quintet of faculty members of
Texas A&M’s College of Veteri
nary Medicine during the next 10
days.
Dean Alvin A. Price will be in
Corpus Christi Tuesday to address
the Coastal Bend Veterinary Med
ical Association.
The following day Dr. D. R.
Howard, medicine and surgery in
structor, will give a program,
“Canine Hip and Stiffle Surgery”,
to the Shreveport, La., Veterinary
Medical Association.
Dr. R. W. Moore, associate pro
fessor of veterinary microbiology,
will attend a veterinary short
course at Purdue University. He
also will participate in a program
on equine infectious anemia and
swine arthritis.
Dr. M. F. Young, assistant pro
fessor of veterinary medicine and
surgery, will attend a swine sem
inar Oct. 2-3 in Chicago.
On Oct. 4-5, Dr. D. O. Wiersig,
associate professor of physiology
and pharmacology, will present a
paper during the Midwest Inter
professional Seminar on Diseases
Common to Animals and Man.
Seminar host is the University of
Missouri at Columbia.
★ ★ ★
Landiss And Merki
To Attend Confab
Two Health and Physical Edu
cation Department professors of
Texas A&M will participate in a
health education conference in
Dallas this weekend.
Attending will be Dr. Carl W.
Landiss, department head, and
Dr. Donald J. Merki, assistant
professor of health education.
Sponsored by the Federal Food
and Drug Administration, Texas
Education Agency and Texas As
sociation for Health, Physical Ed
ucation and Recreation, the con
ference will present new educa
tional concepts and materials to
teachers, principals, school nurses,
FRESHMAN PICTURE
SCHEDULE FOR 1968
AGGIELAND
CORPS FRESHMEN:
Corps freshmen will have their
Yearbook Portrait Schedule:
portraits made for the Aggie
land ’68 according to this sched
ule at University Studio at
North Gate in class “A” winter
uniforms. Fish should bring
poplin shirts, black ties, and bri
gade or wing shields.
Those freshmen who paid for
their yearbook picture at regis
tration should bring their FEE
SLIP. Those who did not, may
pay their $1.50 at the University
Studio.
Sept.
Oct.
25
26
27
28
2
3
4
5
6
9
10
11
13 &
13 &
16 &
17 &
18 &
& 26
& 27
& 28
& 29
& 3
A-l & B-l
C-l & D-l
E-l & F-l
G-l & H-l
A-2 & B-2
C-2 & D-2
E-2 & F-2
G-2 & H-2
Maroon Band
White Band
— Sq.
& 2
& 4
& 6
& 8
& 10
& 12
& 14
Civilian Freshmen: and Co-Eds:
Sept. 25 thru 29 — A-D
Oct. 2 thru 6 — E-M
9 thru 13 — N-S
16 thru 20 — T-Z
and
Make-ups
college professors and state edu
cation officials.
“The conference will encourage
evaluation and furtherance of
health education programs in Tex
as,” noted Landiss, who will pre
side over a Saturday morning as
sembly. The conference will in
clude a series of panel discussions
featuring prominent members of
the field.
Landiss is president-elect of the
2,800-mem,her Texas Association
for Health, Physical Education
and Recreation.
★ ★ ★
Capt. Ruud Gives
Algebra Treatise
Capt. Paul G. Ruud of Texas
A&M presented a paper at an
Oxford University conference in
England.
His treatise on representations
of groups of a certain order was
presented at a conference on com
putational problems in abstract
algebra. Mathematical represent
atives at the five-day September
conference were from the U. S.,
Canada, England, Scotland, Ger
many and Australia.
Captain Ruud, of Pelican Rap
ids, Minn., is a graduate student
in statistics through the Air Force
Institute of Technology. He and
his wife reside at 505 Helena,
Bryan.
★ ★ ★
Lectures Schedule
For IE Dpartment
Industrial consultant Edward C.
Schleh will speak on “Manage
ment by Results” in two Indus
trial Engineering Department lec
tures at Texas A&M Thursday.
The head of E. C. Schleh Asso
ciates, business analysts, will ad
dress department students and
faculty at 2 p.m. in the Archi
tecture auditorium, Dr. A. W.
Wortham announced.
Wortham said Schleh also will
meet with associate engineering
deans and department heads
Thursday evening.
The speaker, from Palo Alto,
Calif., is known as the “father of
the results approach” to manage
ment. Under the system, man
agers give results wanted rather
than outlining duties.
★ ★ ★
Final Rites Held
For Mrs. Vezey, 79
Funeral services for Mrs.
Myrtle Hester Vezey, 79, of 600
Gurnsey, College Station, were
held Tuesday afternoon at Hillier
Funeral Home in Bryan.
Mrs. Vezey, wife of Dr. E. E.
Vezey, retired physics professor
at Texas A&M, died Monday in a
local nursing home.
The Rev. Walter Allen, associ
ate pastor of First Christian
Church, Bryan, officiated.
★ ★ ★
Management Skills
SeminarScheduled
Texas A&M University’s Engi
neering Extension Service will
conduct a general course in super
vision here Oct. 16-20.
W. B. Mansfield, chief instruc
tor of supervisory development,
said the seminar is designed to
assist personnel at all levels of
management. Approximately 25
persons are expected to attend.
Topics include attitudes and
their influence on production,
psychological factors in learning,
levels of employee performance,
elements of effective training
procedures,, employee motivation
and the scope of communications
in the work world.
Instructors, in addition to Mans
field, include Harry Cagle and
T. J. Bole.
Beef Specialist
Discusses Pricing
A Texas A&M agricultural
economist said here Friday there
are “conflicting values” in speci
fication buying and pricing of ani
mals and carcasses.
He spoke of “inverse relation
ships,” such as a higher grade
animal receiving a higher price
and a higher weight animal get
ting a lower price.
Dr. Edward Uvacek discussed
the conflicts in a talk titled “The
Future Feeder Animal” during the
annual Livestock and Meat Mar
keting Institute.
He said market demands for the
future retail counter, the antici
pated demands of packers and the
cattle types wanted, will hinge on
the type of feeder animals that
will be required to produce ac
ceptable slaughter cattle and beef
retail cuts in the 1970’s and
1980’s.
Uvacek, Extension Service live
stock marketing specialist in the
A&M Agricultural Economics and
Sociology Department, described
various market classifications
which lead to the conflicts. These
include classifications on weight,
grade, and now the latest cate
gory known as cutability grade or
.yield grade.
Cutability indicates the propor
tion of trimmed retail cuts yielded
by a carcass.
It would he easy, Uvacek said,
if the chain store meat buyer
could order a certain weight and
grade carcass. The supplier then
could simply figure out the type
of feeder animal that woulc) pro
duce slaughter cattle to fit the
buyer’s needs.
“Now this sounds simple, but
let me point out that there are
some severe conflicting values
both in these specifications and in
the pricing system that compli
cate the entire picture,” he said.
First, there is a direct relation
ship between the federal grade of
the cattle and the weight of the
animal or carcass, the economist
explained. The higher the weight,
the higher the grade.
Yet, in pricing, the higher
grade animal receives the higher
price, but the higher weight ani
mal receives the lower price.
“As a consequence, we have an
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adverse relationship in the prices
of these two factors even though
they both move in the same direc
tion when the animal is in the
feedlot,” Uvacek said.
And then there is cutability,
which is inversely related to car
cass grade. When there is a
move up from Good to Choice to
Prime beef, there is generally a
move down in cutability, the
speaker pointed out.
“Yet, the higher the cutability,
the higher the price. But we have
already seen that the higher the
grade, the higher the price,” Uva
cek said. “So, again we have an
inverse relationship in the price
level because of these two char
acteristics of cutability and the
federal grade,”
The marketing specialist de
scribed still another set of con
flicting factors:
Traditionally, cattle buyers look
for a high dressing percentage on
cattle. The higher the dressing
percentage, the higher the price
paid. But cutability, or carcass
yield, is inversely related to an
animal’s dressing percentage.
“So, again we have price levels
moving in opposite directions. The
higher cutability brings an in
creased price, but the lower dress
ing percentage reduces the price,”
Uvacek said.
Between 200 and 300 persons in
the livestock and meat marketing
industry attended the session,
which began Thursday and ended
Friday afternoon (Sept. 21-22).
The Texas Agricultural Extension
Service and Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station were spon
sors, and the A&M Agricultural
Economics and Sociology Depart
ment conducted the event.
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