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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1968
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Texas A&M’s 13th annual Stu
dent Conference on National Af
fairs has been praised by a State
Department official as the best
organized and most productive
student meeting he ever attended,
Cong. Olin E. Teague informed
: university representatives.
Congressman Teague cited a
letter he received from Assistant
Secretary of State William P.
Bundy regarding SCONA’s pro
gram on “The Price of Peace in
Southeast Asia” last month. Bun
dy passed along observations
made by one of his staff mem
bers who served as co-chairman
for a SCONA roundtable.
The assistant secretary did not
identify the staff member, but
SCONA officials attribute the
remarks to Frank P. Lockhart Jr.
of the State Department’s Bureau
of East Asian and Pafici Affairs.
Bundy said his staff member
reported he worked with the stu
dent leaders on a 16-hour-a-day
basis and “was deeply impressed
with their high caliber, earnest
ness and dedication.”
LT. COL. SIEGERT
Grad Will Lead
Battalion In VN
A 1948 Texas A&M graduate,
It, Col. Robert W. Siegert Jr. of
Bryan, has been assigned com
mand of the 1st Aviation Bat
talion, 1st Infantry Division, in
Vietnam.
The Army unit is located near
Phu Loi.
Colonel Siegert received a B.S.
degree in civil engineering and
was commissioned at A&M. He
also attended Sam Houston State.
The lieutenant colonel’s wife re
sides in College Station.
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“He reported to me that the
conference was the best organ
ized and most productive student
conference he had ever attended
. . . and believed that a better
understanding of our policies in
Southeast Asia was attained,”
Bundy noted.
Congressman Teague, a former
A&M student who resides in Col
lege Station, was instrumental
in organizing SCONA and as
sists each year in securing out
standing speakers.
The four-day conference was
attended by 145 students from 53
colleges and universities in the
United States, Mexico and
Canada.
Top Engineers
Will Evaluate
EG Projects
Engineers from industry, city
and federal agencies will evalu
ate engineering graphics students’
semester design projects next
week at Texas A&M.
About 900 freshmen enrolled in
Engineering Graphics 105 have
been working on a swimming
pool feasibility study, instruc
tional system incorporating elec
tronic aids in a “teacher’s desk”
console, athletic stadium adequa
cy or parking area traffic flow
for pedestrians, vehicles and
products.
Winning designs will be pre
sented Jan. 15-19, announced Dr.
James H. Earle, associate pro
fessor in charge of the Engineer
ing Graphics Department.
Professional engineers who
served as consultants at the be
ginning of the semester will dis
cuss the student ideas, work and
presentations.
“The 40 engineers will be here
in groups of six to eight,” Earle
said. They represent construction,
oil, power, chemical, radio, tool
manufacturing and foundry firms
and NASA’s Manned Spacecraft
Center.
“The visiting engineers pro
gram benefits the student several
ways,” Earle commented. “He
learns to develop an original de
sign, problem solving principles
of engineering and the importance
of the engineer’s communication
process, through oral, graphical
and written solution presenta
tion.”
The professor noted problems
are structured to emphasize social
needs of engineering.
“Students are involved with
creativity and innovations rather
than problems with only one so
lution,” he said.
TEARS OF JOY
A. Southwest Conference and Cotton Bowl football cham
pionship might be enough to cause the statue of Lawrence
Sullivan Ross A&M to shed tears of Joy. Most likely,
however, the tears were caused by icy weather that
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Council and Directorate will ac
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Great Issues Public Relations chairman Janet Whitehead checks an application for a
Council and Directorate executive position submitted by Jim St. John, left. Scott Rob
erts, president of the Council and Directorate, looks on.
College Station Residents
Consider Charter Changes
By JOHN W. FULLER
Battalion Managing Editor
College Station residents will
vote Saturday on city charter
changes which one official says
are necessary if local govern
ment is to work “effectively and
efficiently within the charter’s
framework.”
Dr. O. M. Holt, mayor pro tem
pore, said the six-point amend
ment question reflects a “very
commendable” set of suggestions
by a committee that recently
completed a six-month study of
the charter. Holt was contacted
since Mayor D. A. Anderson was
out of town.
“We need to provide for the
things a city this size has to do,”
Dr. Holt added. “We’ve grown
out of hamlet status, and the 1952
charter just isn’t adequate.”
MAJOR recommendations made
by the ten-man committee of
College Station businessmen, edu
cators and administrators deal
with the election of councilmen,
budgeting for unforeseen expen
ditures and setting of terms for
appointed city officials. The
group also noted need for re
defining the city limits, setting
property-ownership qualifications
for the mayor and councilmen,
clarifying procedures for grant
ing franchises and extending the
Board of Equalization’s working
period.
The city council approved the
recommendations late in Novem
ber and set the referendum date.
It made one major addition to
the suggestions: an alternative
in the change of councilmen’s
election procedures.
THE CITIZENS Committee
recommended election of council-
men at large by all citizens with
out regard to Ward boundaries,”
Mayor Anderson noted in an
explanatory letter which he
recently sent to each registered
College Station voter. “The Coun
cil, after deliberation, desired to
give three alternatives to the
citizens for their judgment, in
cluding the recommendation of
the Citizens Committee.”
Under the 1952 charter, resi
dents of each of the three Wards
elect a councilman from their
Ward. The council’s alternative
suggestion for a change is to
provide for election of each coun
cilman by the entire electorate,
but with the geographically-de
fined Wards retained. The Citi
zens Committee suggested elec
tion by “Place,” in which candi
dates for the council would run
for Place 1, Place 2 or Place 3.
“UNDER THE present system,
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one Ward consists mostly of the
A&M campus,” Dr. Holt explain
ed. “The students who are quali
fied voters couldn't care less
about city bond issues and so
forth. That leaves this area pretty
depleted of voters.
“At the same time,” he went
on, “the ward south of the uni
versity is growing tremendously.
The Committee sought to get
a more equal distribution. They
felt voting by ‘Place’ would do
away with the power structure.”
Dr. Holt said voters will choose
among these two changes and re
taining the present system. A
majority vote for one of the
changes will be required to
amend the charter, he explained.
ON ANOTHER proposal, vot
ers will decide whether to pro
vide a “contingency appropria
tions fund” of three per cent of
the total budget or to leave the
funds at three per cent of the
city’s general fund.
“Three per cent of the general
fund is nothing, really,” Dr. Holt
explained. “If we need another
city employe—a fireman, a po
liceman—and the budget doesn’t
provide for hiring him, his salary
has to come out of a contingency
fund. The committee suggested
this change as a way to give us a
larger amount of money to work
with.”
DR. HOLT said the remainder
of the proposed amendments re
flect a general “updating” of the
city’s charter and a clarification
of some earlier ordinances. Set
ting of two-year terms for ap
pointees will, he noted, “bring
them in line with the mayor’s
two-year term,” and setting
property-ownership requirements
“will help assure the continued
election of officials who take an
interest in bond issues and other
tax measures.”
“I hope to see a large turn-out
for the election,” he added. “I
hope the people are aware of the
need to adapt the charter to our
new needs.”
The Citizens Committee, au
thorized by the City Council May
23, 1966, is composed of Chair
man John S. Denison, Phillip B.
Goode, Dr. Bardin H. Nelson, Ed
win S. Holdredge, Phillip H.
Steen Jr., John W. Hill, Codie
D. Wells, Dr. Carl W. Landiss,
Ewing E .Brown and Wilbert
Beck.
OFFICIALS for the Saturday
election are:
Ward 1 — L. G. Jones, judge,
and Mrs. J. C. Redman and Mrs.
J. N. Holmgreen, clerks.
Ward 2 — Cecil B. Ryan, judge
and Mrs. P. W. Burns and Mrs.
E. D. Parnell, clerks.
Ward 3 — C. W. Knight, judge,
and Mrs. W. D. Lloyd and W. H.
Freiberger, clerks.
Polls will be open from 8 a.m.
to 7 p.m. at A&M Consolidated
School (Ward 1), College Hills
Elementary (Ward 2) and City
Hall (Ward 3).
I Record Number
Of Grads Set
For Jan. 20
A record 817 students have ap
plied for mid-term graduation at
A&M, announced Registrar H. L.
Heaton.
Graduation exercises are sched
uled for 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan.
20, in G. Rollie White Coliseum,
followed by military commission
ing ceremonies at 1:30 p.m.
Dr. Jack K. Williams of Austin,
commissioner of the Texas Col
lege and University Coordinating
Board, will be the commencement
speaker. Major speaker for the
commissioning will be Gen. James
K. Woolnough, commanding of
ficer of the U. S. Continental
Army Command at Fort Monroe,
Va.
Heaton said the class includes
482 students who have filed for
baccalaureate degrees, 239 for
master's degrees and 96 for
Ph.D.’s.
The commandant’s office re
ported 88 cadets are to receive
commissions as second lieuten
ants, including 61 Army, 21 Air
Force and six Marine Corps.
through Feb. 5, Scott Roberts,
Council President announced.
Roberts said students may ap
ply in the Student Program Of
fice to be student activity leaders.
The Council serves as the gov
erning body for 600 committee
members.
Executive positions open for
this year’s juniors include presi
dent and executive vice-presidents
for operations and programs.
Sophomores may file for vice-
president and vice-presidents for
operations and programs.
Chairmanship positions cover
all Directorate committees, in
cluding the Student Conference
on National Affairs, Great Is
sues and Town Hall.
The executive positions require
candidates with a grade point
ratio of at least 1.50 and who
are not on probation. To be eli
gible for a committee chairman
ship, the applicant must have a
1.40 GPR, Robert said.
Candidates will be interviewed
by the MSC Council nominating
committee, composed of student,
faculty and former students. The
interviews will be conducted be
tween Feb. 8 and March 4 and
results will be announced on Feb.
12, 26 and March 11.
The Council vice-president is
an automatic member of the Stu
dent Senate, and all officers are
eligible for bi-annual leadership
trips. Many of next year’s offi
cers will attend the annual As
sociation of College Unions con
vention in New Orleans, Roberts
noted.
Two Architecture Students
To Win Trip To Grand Canyon
A mid-semester expense paid
trip to Grand Canyon National
Park awaits two winners in sec
ond-year design competition in
Texas A&M’s School of Archi
tecture.
More than 100 students in
classes taught by professors
Norman Ufer and Roy Pledger
are vying for top ranking in
park shelter designs.
“The idea for the project de
veloped last summer while my
wife and I were visiting the
AggieDebaters WillCompete
In 13 Meets Next Semester
Completion of final exams Jan.
27 signals the start of a busy
schedule for the Texas A&M de
bate team.
The Aggie forensics club will
compete in the Mardi Gras De
bate Tournament at Tulane Jan.
27-28, announced Michael Hair-
grove, debate coach and English
instructor.
In the following 18 weeks, the
team will debate in a dozen tour
naments. Aggie debaters partici
pated in only a few tournaments
during the first semester.
In the most recent competition,
juniors Ron Hinds of Midland
and James Byrd of Houston de
feated Alabama, University of
Southern Mississippi and Missis
sippi College teams, losing to
Southern Illinois and another
USM team.
Also competing in the Millsaps
Invitational Debate Tourney at
Jackson, Miss., were Bob Peek,
sophomore of Jacksboro, and John
Raney, junior of Bryan. Byrd and
Peek are economics majors, Raney
marketing and Hinds finance.
HEART TRANSPLANT
Dr. Norman B. Shumway, second from left, nears completion of history’s fourth heart
transplant at Stanford University Medical Center. Picture was taken by Dr. William
Angell, a member the surgical team. Others were not identified. (AP Wirephoto)
Grand Canyon,” Ufer explained.
“Hiking the trail to Indian Gar
dens near the South Rim, we ex
pected to find shelters. Instead,
we spent the night under a picnic
table.”
“A park ranger told us the
next day we were lucky that we
were not invaded by rattlesnakes
or hit by flashfloods,” he re
called. “As a result, the students
have some unique shelter designs
in the making.”
ONE OF Arizona’s most prom
inent citizens, former Republican
presidential candidate Barry
Goldwater helped arrange com
plimentary hotel reservations at
the Bright Angel Lodge Jan. 29-
30 for the winners.
“The Grand Canyon is as much
of me as my life itself and I have
been visiting it for over fifty
years, photographing it and writ
ing about it,” Goldwater wrote.
“Thank you for having become
involved in the arrangements for
the Indian Gardens.”
Ufer said names of four stu
dents will be drawn from 24
semi-finalists. These students,
he added, will accompany the
winners on a cost-sharing basis.
Design students warmed up for
the competition by making a field
trip to Bastrop State Park where
they did sketches of cone-bearing
trees and structures of natural
materials.
PRIMARY consideration of de
sign students for shelters includ
ed comfort of overnight campers
and compatibility of construction
materials with the “character” of
the site.
Models and sketches of shelters
designed by the winners will be
displayed at a tourist center near
the South Rim. Ufer expressed
hope that the students’ work will
be displayed through the next
tourist season.
“Between semesters will be a
wonderful time for students to
visit the South Rim,” Ufer com-,
mented. “There will be snow on
the South Rim, but temperatures
in the canyon should be much
warmer.”
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Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
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