• %V.V„V '' •" - • ■ v.- 1 V - • . ■ ■ . •\’\v • '. • • • • • v./ ,-y.y.y. V. • • ■ .t"' 1 th e WintoJ f b‘: s c s 5e rram iology Ped and st Student ’ f ic Light) Twenty Marines Die n Airplane Crash THE BATTALION Friday, January 12, 1968 College Station, Texas Page 3 )U., By MORTON L. SALTZMAN BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Nev. P)—Searchers, struggling* up a nowblanketed mountain into an most - inaccessible canyon, Thursday found the burned wreck a Marine transport plane with all aboard dead. The four-engine plane, carry ing 18 to 20 Marines, crashed in blizzard Wednesday afternoon near the peak of 9,978-foot Mt. Tobin, the highest point in the desolate area of northeastern Ne vada 32 miles southwest of Bat- te Mountain. Wally Swanson and Gene Cor- J idge of the Bureau of Land Management, who first spotted tie wreck shortly after dawn, reached the spot at 12:50 p.m. ?ST and radioed back that there iiere “no survivors. Everything burned to a crisp except the tail." It took the two men six hours i foot to cover three miles up le mountain and into the V- mped ravine near the top where le blackened hulk lay. Forced down by heavy icing i its wings, the plane had crashed on its belly, then slid 400 feet backward into the depression and burst into flames. “Everything on the plane was charred, and the black stood out against the white snow,” said Marilyn Newton, photographer of the Nevada State Journal after flying over the wreck which was at the 8,600 foot level. The story of the death of the plane was told by radio and by ranchers in the sparsely settled mountain country. The pilot was flying on instru ments because of the blizzard. At 1:50 p.m. Wednesday, in his last message, he told the Federal Avi ation Administration in Salt Lake City that “I am losing altitude at 10,000 feet and at present time unable to maintain 12,000.” Twelve thousand feet was his minimum scheduled altitude. Then, between 2 and 3 p.m. ranch er Robert Hodges heard a “boom and a roar.” Because of the snowstorm he could see nothing. The plane had hit the highest peak in the area, a steep snow- covered peak towering over a valley of sagebrush. Cruz Family Graduates Without Regard To Age WIND TUNNEL TEST Manuel I. Cruz checks the installation of a test model in Texas A&M’s 7 x 10-foot wind tunnel. The 600-pound Boeing* TFX will be subjected to 200 knots air flows in a sophomore aerospace engineering lab. A graduating* sen ior, Cruz has conducted helicopter load and delta wing aerodynamics research in the tunnel. BATTALION CLASSIFIED WANT AD RATES 0 « day 4 typing. 846-3290. TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED GM Lowest Priced Cars $49.79 per mo. With Normal Down Payment OPEL KADETT Sellstrom Pontiac - Buick 2700 Texas Ave. 26th & Parker 822-1336 822-1307 WE RENT TYPEWRITERS Electr’ic, Manual, & Portable OTIS MCDONALD’S 429 S. Main — Phone 822-1328 Bryan, Texas Enco & Conoco 31^ qt. 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C & D SALVAGE CO. 32nd & S. Tabor Streets — Bryan Biological Specimens needed; animals and birds, skeletons, ins< lections. Marine life. Also man mad objects, dried plants suitable for still life studies. Call 846-8983. 524t4 stuffed ect col- man OFFICIAL NOTICE Official notices must arrive in the Office of Student Publications before deadline of ne 1 p. m. of the day preceding publication. ay, in be posted in the foyer Coke Building a list of ary 18, 1968, the foyer of the 8 a. m. Thursday, Janua there w Richard candidates who have comp ic requirements for degrees to be ferred on January 20, 1968. irge determine his status. a list or those leted all academ- be con- Each can- Preveterinary Medicine Students who expect to register in y medicine for the Spring 68 must have their courses approved by their Academic Advisor. A form signed by the Academic Advisor and'" listing approved courses must be presented at registration. 521tfn All students w! pre-veterinary med Semester 19 THE GRADUATE COLLEGE Final Examination for the Doctoral Degree Name: Ali, A. H. M. Altaf Degree: Ph.D. in Plant Breeding Dissertation: Effects and Relationship of Wheat Seed Size and Mimensions upon Yield, Yield Components, Test Weights and Milling Yields at Different Fertility Levels, Seed Rates and Environments. Time: Friday, January 12, 1968 at 2.00 p. m. Place: Room 202 Agronomy Building Wayne C. Hall Dean of Graduate Studies 521t4 THE GRADUATE COLLEGE Final Examination for the Doctoral Degree Name: Arnold, Connie Ray Dissertation: Th ganisms from the Gulf of Mexico. The Lipids of Selected Or- of the Sargassum Community Degree: Ph.D. in Oceanography Lipids of Sel >f the the , *~ Time: Friday, January 12, 1968 at 2.00 p. m. Place: Room 305, Goodwin Hall Wayne C. Hall Dean of Graduate Studies 521t4 AUTO INSURANCE FOR AGGIES: Call: George Webb Farmers Insurance Group 3400 S. College ’ 823-8051 OFFICIAL NOTICE GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATION Registration for the tests will begin on Jan. 9 and will continue through Jan. 12. These wishing to apply for the GRE should pick up an application blank from the Graduate College and pay S5 to the Fiscal Office. The receipt for the foe and the completed application jshould be taken to the Counseling and Testing Center in order to register for the tests. Applicants will be notified approximately one week before the test are administered, and will be told where and when to report. The Appitude Test will he administered on Feb. 9, and the Advanced Test will be on Feh. 10. These tests are also required in order to graduate. Graduate. 520tfn Those undergraduate students who have 95 semester hours of credit may purchase the A&M ring. The hours passed at the time of the preliminary grade report on November 13, 1967, may be used in satis- fying the 95 hours requirement. Those students qualifying under this regulation may leave their names with the Ring Clerk in the Registrar’s Office, in order that she may check their records to determine their eligibility to order the ring. Orders for the rings will be taken between November J 1967 and January 5, 1968. These rin will be returned for delivery on or Febr :y to order tlje r ill be taken between November 27, These rit ry on or February 15. 1968. THE RING CLERK IS ON DUTY FROM 8:00 a. m. TO 12:00 NOON. MON DAY THROUGH FRIDAY, OF EACH WEEK. 498tfn Regalia for the January 1968 Commencement Exercise All students who are candidates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy or Doctor of Education are required to order hoods as well as the Doctor’s caps and gowns. The hoods are to be left at the Registrar’s The hoods are to be lett at the Regis Office no later than 1:00 p. m., Tuesdi >mp ity oods the procession since candidates will be hooded on the stage as Office no later than 1:00 p. m., Tuesday, January 16 (this will be accomplished by ita' he be worn in the procession since all such (this ■ a representative of the University Exchange Store). The Ph.D. or D.Ed. hoods will not part of the ceremony. Candidates for the Master’s Degree will wear the cap and gown ; all civilian students who are candi dates for the Bachelor's Degree will wear the cap and gown ; ROTC students who are cai will wear the appropi ....-i.-i e j w j 1<) aduate iform y be ar change Store. Orders may be placed be- militavy personn the deg are candidates for igrees, graduate or undergraduate, will wear the uniform only. Rental of caps and gowns may be arranged with the Ex- p and gown; KUIO students who .ndidates for the Bachelor’s Degree ?ear the appropriate uniform. All :andidat ndergra lental o with th ae plact tween 8:00 a. m., Monday, December 11, and 5 :00 p. m., Friday, December 22. The rental is as follows: Doctor’s cap and gown, $5.25 ; Master’s cap and gown, $4.75 ; Bachelor’s cap and gown, $4.25. Hood rental is the same as that for the cap and gown. A 2% sales tax is required in addition to these rentals. Payment is required at the time of placing order. 508118 Need a copy of your notes, graphs, papers, etc? For your use LOUPOT’S AUTO REPAIRS All Makes Just Say: “Charge It” Cade Motor Co. Ford Dealer HOME & CAR RADIO REPAIRS SALES & SERVICE KEN’S RADIO & TV 303 W. 26th 822-2819 COME FLY WITH US • FLIGHT INSTRUCTION • RENTALS • FREE TIE DOWNS • CHARTER SERVICE • MAINTENANCE CESSNA 150’s 172 J-3 CUB TWIN APACHE See Us About Special Summer Rates For Learning To Fly BRYAN AERO, INC. Highway 21 E. Coulter Field Phone 823-8640 — Bryan, Tex. TYPEWRITERS Rentals-Sales-Service Terms Distributors For: Royal and Victor Calculators & Adding Machines CATES TYPEWRITER CO. 909 S. Main 822-6000 LOOKING FOR A NEW CAR FOR ONLY $1767.00 COME TO Hickman Garrett Volkswagen AUTHORIZED DEALER 1701 So. College Ave. 822-0146 The children of Manuel A. Cruz of San Antonio don’t read calendars. Manuel, the oldest, is a senior aerospace engineering major at Texas A&M University. He will graduate early and have half the required course work for a mas ters when he gets the bachelor degree Jan. 20. Cruz is one of seven children of Manuel A. Cruz, 722 Augusta, San Antonio, an Army corporal in the Bataan death march in World War II. The civilian em ploye at Kelly AFB was a pris oner most of the war. He at tended Texas A&I on the GI bill and believes in education at any cost. “My father said a person is capable of anything if he works hard,” Manuel I. Cruz remarked. “I like to study.” He graduated a year ahead of his class at Martin High in La redo and set a Cruz precedent. Three sisters also refuse to abide by the regular academic calen dar. Rosa Elia is studying nursing at a Houston clinical center after two years at Texas Woman’s Uni versity. Lili Esther gets her Martin High diploma ahead of schedule this month and Leticia will also complete high school early, in August. “At the beginning, I wanted a military career,” Manuel said. He had an alternate appointment at the U. S. Naval Academy. But then he got into the meat of aerospace engineering and found aerodynamics fit his slide rule better than the hairline in dicator. The student who will be 21 years old Monday (Jan. 15) was in the Corps of Cadets two years but outdistanced his ’68 class mates by attending summer school. Cruz is taking graduate courses as an undergraduate. After a brief break for grad uation, he will enroll in gradu ate school and start his thesis literature survey. Manuel says the earliest he can complete the advanced degree work is august — just three months after his normal gradua tion date. Roommate of Charles P. Brown, also a graduating aero space engineering major from San Antonio, Cruz didn’t let speed detract from the quality of his work. “Cruz is a sharp student,” not ed Charles A. Rodenberger, as sociate professor of aerospace en gineering. Manuel has a 2.51 grade point ratio (3.0 is perfect). His grades are tops among the dozen “aeros” graduating this month. In addition, he worked on sum mer department research proj ects. In 1966, Cruz helped de sign a supersonic wind tunnel. Last summer, he assisted in Bell Helicopter research for stabiliz ing bulky loads carried in slings beneath helicopters. The fledgling engineer has in vestigated delta wing aerody namics, wrote a research course paper on leading edge separation and plans his thesis in that area. College Presses Big Business, More Than 6,500 Publications College students spend about $61,000,000 to produce some 6,500 campus newspapers, yearbooks and magazines every year. And the press runs of the student media total 15.7 million copies. These estimates of the breadth of the student press effort in the United States have been made by Dr. Dario Politella of the Uni versity of Massachusetts. His “Directory of the College Student Press in America” has just been published. The 200-page volume lists 1,- 742 newspapers, 1,398 yearbooks and 632 magazines. Based on these data, Dr. Poli tella says that “There must be at least 2,600 newspapers produced by the students with press runs that reach 8,000,000 issues, as well as 4,500,000 yearbooks and 3,200,000 magazines of various types.” The UMass journalism profes sor also estimates that student newspaper staffs operate on budgets of $35,000,000 a year; and yearbooks spend $25,000,000; and magazines, $1,000,000. “Of course, these money fig ures reflect only their out-of- pocket spending,” Dr. Politella says. “If one estimates the cost of unrewarded labor of the stu dents themselves and that of their faculty advisers, the an nual cost of producing student publications on the American campus may well reach the half billion dollar mark.” Assisted by members of the National Council of College Pub lications Advisers in the 50 states, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, Dr. Politella has in cluded the names of faculty ad visers, both business and edi torial, as well as financial infor mation for the publications. Divided into sections listing each type of publication by states, entries include the vital statistics of the local of the school, zip code and enrollment. Besides the name of the publica tion, listings include year estab lished, physical size of the publi cation, amount of press run and annual budget. Copies of the Directory are available at cost from the Exec utive Director of NCCPA at In diana State University, Terre Haute 47809. CRASH RESTRAINT BAG An experimental self-inflating restraint system for cars is shown here in fully inflated condition. Plastic bag is designed, say Ford Motor Co. engineers, to inflate to full size within 40 thousandths of a second on signal from an impact sender. A dummy here demonstrates how passenger would be restrained. (AP Wirephoto) 6 Angry Young Men 9 Boycott Markets To Raise Returns CORNING, Iowa )—The Na tional Farmers Organization, pledging “no price, no produc tion,” launched Thursday another campaign to boost agricultural prices by withholding farm prod ucts from market. Initial target is grain, to be followed at later dates by so- called withholding actions on meat, milk and other farm com modities. President Oren Lee Staley said the action “is designed to shut ARROW SHIRTS at 3toa Starnes ^ ^ mens wear down the American agricultural plant until our members get a fair price for their products.” The militant farm group, some times called “the angry young- men of agriculture,” said it is urging its members in 30 states to stop selling grain as the be ginning step. The NFO conducted six previ ous withholding actions, major ones on livestock in 1962 and 1964 and on milk last March. The boy cotts resulted in some violence. Tons of milk were dumped in fields and streets as part of the milk action. Analysis Outlined For Model School What makes a model school a pattern for other schools? Factors are explained in an article, “Criteria of a Model Sec ondary School,” co-authored by a Texas A&M education professor in a December educational jour nal. Various agencies identify a “model school” as one that repre sents excellence in education and which may serve as a model or pattern for other schools. Dr. Roger L. Harrell, A&M education professor, and George Nelson, also a U. S. Office of Education Scholar for a year, list criteria in the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development journal, “Educa tional Leadership.” The authors’ field experience, visits and interviews while with the USOE found model schools have outstanding philosophy and objectives, commitment to im provement, organization and fa cilities, program and community relations. Guides are given for assaying a subject school. 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