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VOLUME
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1968
Number 527
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“WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE . .
Two new “nameplate” signs, listing major features of Nagle Hall and the Memorial Stu
dent Center, stand braced in their puddles, awaiting drier days and a concrete-base pour
ing. They are two of several such signs being placed in front of campus buildings.
Rainy weather early in the week, followed by cool temperatures, has left the ground
wet.
Freshman, Junior Classes
Begin Spring Ball Planning
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Plans for both the Fish Ball
and Junior Ball and selection of
class sweethearts have begun.
The Fish Ball is scheduled for
Feb. 24 from 8 p.m. to 12 in Sbisa
Dining Hall and deadline for fil
ing sweetheart candidates will be
Feb. 14, announced Freshman
Class Vice-President John Be-
bout.
“San Francisco Night” will be
the theme of the Junior Ball,
planned for March 16 in Sbisa.
It will feature the Countdown 5,
according to Beverly E. Davis,
junior vice-president.
“To enter your girl’s name in
the sweetheart contest, you
should turn in a 3x5 inch glossy
picture and a snapshot of her at
the Student Program Office,” Da
vis said.
Davis suggested that students
could obtain these pictures during
the semester break so they could
turn them in when filing opens
Feb. 5. He also noted that appli
cation forms could be picked up
at the Student Program Office.
“Seven finalists will be select
ed from the applicants and the
winner will be announced at the
Ball,” Bebout said.
The Freshman finalists will be
honored at a reception the after
noon before the ball.
“Dress for the Junior Ball will
be semi-formal, coat and tie for
civilians and midnights with as-
cots for Corps members,” Davis
said.
Tickets will cost $3 for the
Junior Ball.
“The Junior class officers and
council would like to have the
help of any junior, civilian or
Corps, who wants to work on the
Junior Ball,” Davis declared.
“We want to make this ball the
best one that ever hit this cam
pus,” he continued. “It can only
be that way if the whole class
gets behind it.”
Bebout also urged his class to
work.
“If the Fish Ball is to be a suc
cess, the whole class must work
together.”
Aluminum Sculpture Dedicated
In Teague Center Ceremonies
Singing Cadets
To Begin Tour
Texas A&M’s Singing Cadets
take to the road next week for
concerts in Dallas and four West
Texas cities.
Singing Cadets Director Robert
L. Boone said the “between-
semesters” tour will open in
Dallas Sunday evening and in
clude nightly performances in
Amarillo, Lubbock, Odessa and
Abilene.
Following a supplemental high
school concert in Abilene the
morning of Feb. 2, the group will
return to the campus for spring
registration and then conclude the
tour wtih a Feb. 4 afternoon ap
pearance in Austin. They will
travel in two chartered buses.
Boone said the 62-member glee
club’s two-hour concerts in each
city will be highlighted by ex
cerpts from its new “Songs of the
Wars” album. Selections include
“Battle Hymn of the Republic,”
“Over There,” “Pack Up Your
Troubles” and a George M. Cohen
medley.
Each year the Singing Cadets
make about 50 appearances on
and off campus. They are the
official vocal group for the na
tionally televised Miss Teenage
America Pageant in Dallas and
last month were shown nationwide
on a special Mike Douglas Show
co-hosted by Mrs. John Connally.
The group also presents a major
concert each year at Houston’s
Jones Hall.
Mrs. June Biering, the Singing
Cadets’ pianist-accompanist, will
join in next week’s tour.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
A large aluminum work of art
depicting space flight was for -
ally presented to Texas A&M
Wednesday by Albritton Engi
neering Corp. and Reynolds
Metals Co.
The informal ceremonies were
held on the steps of the universi
ty’s new Olin E. Teague Research
Center where the sculptured
sphere will be permanently lo
cated.
Ford D. Albritton Jr., president
of the Bryan-based engineering
firm, told university officials and
guests that while he took personal
pride, as a former A&M student,
in making the presentation, he did
so in behalf of all the firm’s
employes.
Albritton said 73 per cent of
the Albritton Engineering em
ployes who hold college degrees
graduated from Texas A&M. In
the Bryan plants alone, the figure
is about 85 per cent.
The 1943 A&M graduate also
cited a joint research project
between his firm and university
engineers which produced a hy
draulic impact device now being
used by Hughes Tool Co.
Responding to the presenta
tion, A&M President Earl Rudder
said Albritton has again “gone
the extra mile” in supporting the
university. He noted the Bryan
industrialist has provided finan
cial assistance to several A&M
programs, including athletics and
scholarships.
Rudder also praised Reynolds
Metals, which was represented at
the ceremonies by W. B. Moore
of St. Louis, vice president of the
firm and regional general man
ager, and William B. Clarke Jr.
of Houston, divisional sales man
ager.
The A&M president pointed out
the eight-foot-high sphere was
Grad College Tests
In Languages Set
Graduate School foreign lan
guage tests in French, German,
Russian and Spanish will be ad
ministered at Texas A&M Feb. 3.
The 100-minute tests will be
given by the Counseling and Test
ing Center in Room 108 of the
Academic Building.
S. Auston Kerley, center direc
tor, said graduate students tak
ing the exam must obtain a test
receipt from the Fiscal Office and
register before 5 p.m. Wednesday,
Jan. 31.
the first piece of formed sculp
ture ever presented to the uni
versity.
“Each day we find A&M be
coming a little more sophisti
cated,*’ Rudder observed, “and
have more people who can appre
ciate a work of art such as this.”
A&M Board President L. F.
Peterson also responded to the
presentation. He reiterated the
university’s gratitude to the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space
Administration for making pos
sible the building in front of
which the sculpture stands.
NASA was represented by
Francis J. Hickey, protocol of
ficer for the Manned Spacecraft
Center at Houston.
In addition to Peterson, the
A&M Board of Directors was rep
resented by Clyde H. Wells,
Sterling Evans, Peyton McKnight
and S. B. Whittenburg.
U. S. May Ask Again
For Soviet Mediation
Day Students
May Pay Board
At Registration
Day students may buy board
during registration for the spring
semester for $195 on the five day
plan or $216 on the seven day
plan, according to Robert Smith
of the Fiscal Office.
Board is optional for day stu
dents, Smith explained.
Registration will be in Sbisa
Hall beginning at 1 p.m. Feb. 2
and ending at approximately 4
p.m. Feb. 3. Registration cards
will be issued in accordance with
beginning letters of the student’s
last name, as usual.
All students whose surnames
begin with T, U, V, W, X, Y or Z
will register from 1-3 Feb. 2, fol
lowed from 3-4:30 by those whose
names begin with L, M, N, or O.
Students whose surnames begin
with P, Q, R or S will register
from 8-10 a.m. Feb. 3, followed
from 10-11:30 a.m. by those whose
names begin with C, D, E or F.
From 1-3 p.m. Feb. 3 students
whose surnames begin with G, H,
I, J or K will register and then
from 3-4 p.m. those whose names
begin with A or B.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
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Koreans Hit
U. S. Troops
Along Border
WASHINGTON •A*) — Admin
istration sources say that despite
two diplomatic setbacks, peaceful
means rather than force remain
the immediate U. S. policy in try
ing to win return of the captured
ship Pueblo from North Korea.
A second urgent effort to en
list Soviet help in freeing the
U. S. Navy intelligence ship and
83 Americans aboard from their
captors may be made soon despite
an initial cold shoulder from
Moscow, White House informants
said.
President Johnson and his top
strategists held crisis discussions
late into the night Wednesday,
weighing diplomatic alternatives
while the nuclear-powered Ameri
can aircraft carrier Enterprise
hovered within striking distance
of North Korea.
In addition, the Air Force re
portedly moved two jet fighter
squadrons from Okinawa to South
Korea as a precautionary meas
ure to bolster the small force of
18 fighter bombers already at
Osan and Kusan. About 36 jets
were involved in the move.
AS TENSION continued fol
lowing the capture of the Pueblo,
North Koreans tried to break
through the American sector of
the Korean front today and
wounded eight U.S. soldiers.
The North Koreans also at
tacked a watch tower just south
of the demilitarized zone with
hand grenades but caused no dam
age, a U. S. Army spokesman
said.
Sporadic shooting continued
- from about 2:30 a.m. until early
afternoon. The Communists made
attempts to break through the
fence along the buffer zone, the
American added.
THE COMMUNIST infiltrators
were all repulsed but it was not
known if they suffered anv cas
ualties, the spokesman said.
Besides the eight Americans
wounded, he said, two South Ko
rean soldiers attached to the U.S.
2nd Infantry Division were killed
and another was wounded.
This brought the American cas
ualties in the two days of clashes
to one dead and 12 wounded.
South Korean troops pursuing
the remnants of the 31-man
North Korean assassination
group that invaded Seoul Sunday
night killed two more of them
today.
THIS MADE 19 members of
the band killed, and another was
captured. The invaders killed 16
South Koreans, including six ci
vilians, and wounded 35.
South Korean Foreign Minis
ter Choi Kyu-hah denounced the
Communist seizure of the Pueblo,
describing it as “one of the most
serious threats to the security
of the Republic of Korea and the
Far East.”
South Korean Navy sources
said about 50 North Korean na
val ships were assembled north
of the military demarcation line
off the east coast. The Coast
Guard warned fishing boats not
to operate close to the armistice
line.
Room Applications
Due Soon In MSC
Student applications for Memo
rial Student Center meeting
rooms will be accepted from 8
a.m. until 5 p.m. Friday, an
nounced Mrs. Ann Keel, MSC
social director.
Mrs. Keel said all recognized
student organizations and clubs
are eligible to file meeting room
requests. Applications will be
filled on a first-come-first-serve
basis, she added.
U. S. PATROL BOAT CAPTURED OFF KOREA
This is the U.S.S. Pueblo, the Navy patrol boat with 83 men aboard which was seized by
the North Koreans. The U. S. announcement said the vessel was boarded by an armed
party about 25 miles off the North Korean coast and taken to Wonsan. Department of
Defense, which released this photo, did not specify when it was taken. The Pueblo, a
Navy intelligence auxiliary ship, had a crew of six officers, 75 enlisted men, and two
civilians. (U. S. Navy Photo via AP Wirephoto)
Tlydro-Space Fiesta’ Exhibit
To Begin 7-Day Run Feb. 4
“Hydro-Space Fiesta ’68” opens
Feb. 4 for a seven-day run at
Texas A&M, with guest speakers
and a host of exhibits awaiting
the public.
Among attractions are talks by
Walter Sullivan, science editor of
the New York Times, and Karen
Pryor, director of training and
curator of Sea Life Park, Hawaii.
Mrs. Pryor is to speak Feb. 8
about “Training Porpoises for
Fun and Science.” Topic of Sulli
van’s Feb. 9 address has not been
announced. Both addresses are set
for 8 p.m.
LARRY SCOTT of Cleburne,
chairman of the sponsoring Hy
dro-Space Committee of the Me
morial Student Center Great Is
sues Committee, said invitations
have been sent to 150 public
school systems within 50 miles
of the campus.
Last year, more than 3,500
school children received guided
tours of oceanographis exhibits.
Altogether, visitors exceeded 30,-
000.
“We have already been ad
vised,” Scott continued, “that all
the science classes in the A&M
Consolidated School System plan
to tour our exhibits.”
Already scheduled for exhibi
tion in the A&M Memorial Stu
dent Center are:
The Navy’s SPAR—a Seagoing
Student Salaries
Get 15-Cent Hike
Wages of working Texas A&M
students will go from $1 to $1.15,
effective Feb. 1.
The raise will affect about
1,600 A&M students, who work an
average 15 hours a week part-
time, according to Robert M.
Logan, director of the Student
Financial Aid Office.
“Student pay rates have to be
raised this amount as a minimum
under the Fair Labor Standards
Act,” he added. An amendment to
the act passed in 1966 placed uni
versities and part-time working
student in the raise category.
Logan said minimum wage
raises will come through a step
process of 15 cents per hour per
year. Minimum hourly pay rates
of $1.60 will thus be established
by February, 1971.
The first student checks reflect
ing the mandatory raise will be
paid in mid-February.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
Platform for Acoustics Research.
The 354-foot long cigar-shaped
instrument makes precise mea
surements of sound transmission
and propagation through water.
Its unique shape makes it stable
in rough water with five to eight-
foot waves. Equipment includes
vertical and horizontal hydro
phone arrays, a precision UHF
radio direction finder, a gyrocom
pass, accelerometers, a string of
thermistors and wave measuring
equipment.
A THREE-FOURTH size scale
model of the Alvin, the small
submarine which was used to
locate a hydrogen bomb lost in
2,500 feet of water off the coast
of Spain early in 1966. The Alvin
was a popular exhibit in last
year’s Hydro-Space Fiesta.
Space Fiesta officials also are
trying to obtain a scale model of
the Trieste, the bathyscaph used
to log the world’s deepest ocean
dive, 38,500 feet in the Marianas
Trench in 1960. Officer-in-charge
was Navy Lt. Cmdr. Don Walsh,
now conducting advanced oceano
graphic research at Texas A&M.
Another combination being
sought is H. A. Perry, materials
research engineer at the Naval
Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak,
Md., and a model of the glass
submarine he is building. He con
tends that glass structures, since
they can withstand heavier im
pacts the deeper they go, can be
used for entire hulls of all-depth
workboats, submarines and fixed
underwater installations.
Perry, who may join the speak
er list, says the transparency of
glass hulls can have advantages.
For example, he notes, instru
ments and gauges can be put out
side where they can be controlled
by light beams and read through
the hull, thus saving valuable
space inside.
A complete films program also
is being readied for Hydro-Space
Fiesta. Among these movies will
be an international Indian Ocean
expedition and a picture filmed
by French adventurer Jacques
Cousteau.
HYDRO-SPACE EXHIBIT
Among 14 exhibits for the Hydro-Space Fiesta Feb. 4-10
at the Memorial Student Center will be a model of the
Navy’s SPAR, a seagoing platform for acoustics research.
The 354-foot long cigar-shaped craft is used to make pre
cision measurements of sound transmission and propaga
tion through water.
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