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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1968
Number 529
’Trotters Show
Set Here Tonight
The clown princes of basketball,
the Harlem Globetrotters, come
to Texas A&M tonight for an ex
hibition scuffle with the Wash
ington Generals.
Game time for the Memorial
Student Center Town Hall “Ex
tra” is 8 p.m. in G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
Robert Gonzales of San An
tonio, Town Hall chairman, said
pre-game and halftime variety
acts also are included in the eve
ning’s entertainment for an an
ticipated near-capacity crowd.
If you prefer straight basket
ball to high jinks, the Trotters
offer plenty of that, too. In fact,
their solid brand of play account
ed for 286 victories without a set
back last year. And through the
years the Globetrotters have
stormed to 8,966 triumphs against
only 322 losses.
AS DRIBBLER Fred Neal, for
mer college superstar at Smith
University, puts it, “To do come
dy on a basketball floor, you have
to play basketball first.”
Neal, who is as bald as a Bud
dhist monk, owns the nickname
"Curley.” His teammates give
his pate a simonize shine as part
of their routine.
Biggest drawing card of the
Trotters is a long-armed pivot-
Club ‘Infighting’
Reported To DA
In Probe Of LCB
DALLAS (A*)—A report on
nightclub burnings and bombings
was received Monday by Dist.
Atty. Henry Wade in connection
with the Texas Liquor Control
S Board investigation.
Wade said the report, prepared
by his staff, gives a history of
club owner “infighting” and re
vealed several new allegations of
organized prostitution.
One by-product of the liquor
probe was an allegation that a
Dallas club provided party girls
for a visiting professional sports
team.
"There is a lot of scattered in
formation being turned in,” Wade
said. “Some of it may be sent to
the grand jury and some of it—
the prostitution charges, for in
stance—may be turned over to
other police agencies for their
use.”
Wade is expected to send cases
against at least two persons to
the grand jury Wednesday. The
cases reportedly were investigat
ed before the liquor controversy
arose, but new information was
found when the district attorney
took charge of the Dallas liquor
probe.
One case still under investiga
tion involves a claim by a young
Negro that he was paid to set
fire to a dance hall.
The man he named as conspira
tor in the arson has been linked
to several areas of the liquor in
vestigation. The Negro later re
ceived a probated sentence when
he admitted setting the fire, but
charges against the other man
have been postponed pending at
tempts to corroborate the youth’s
statement.
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man who makes basketball fans
sometimes forget the late Goose
Tatum. He’s Meadowlark Lemon,
another ace who came to the team
and developed into a crowd-pleas
ing rib-tickler.
THE TROTTERS also depend
heavily on Frank Stephens, their
tallest man at 6-10. He made a
host of all-star teams while aver
aging 23 points a game for four
years at Virginia State College.
Captaining the opposing Gen
erals is Louis “Red” Klotz, who
will be the shortest man on the
floor at 5-7. The oldest active
player in pro basketball ranks,
Klotz sparks an array of talent
which includes Joe Goldstein of
Upsale College, Nate Branch of
Nebraska, Jim Boyle of Temple,
John Connolly of Frederick Col
lege, Ed Maher of Mississippi
Southern, Bill Leedon of Cali
fornia State Polytech, and Mat
thew Spinella of Jacksonville
University.
Hydro-Space W eek Begins;
Show Set Through Sunday
Two Aggie Majors
Finish Staff Work
Texas A&M graduates Charles
A. Roper and Thomas L. Kelly,
both Army majors, have com
pleted study at the Armed Forces
Staff College, Norfolk, Va.
Their five months of study
covered combined operational
planning and new technology for
national and international securi
ty and affairs. The college, oper
ated by the Joint Chiefs of Staff
for the Department of Defense,
prepares officers of all services
for staff or command assignments
in which forces of more than one
nation are involved.
Major Roper, of Houston, re
ceived the A&M degree in busi
ness administration in 1953. A
1955 graduate, Major Kelly
studied agricultural economics.
He is from El Paso.
‘Greasepaint’
Date Nears
When “Roar of the Grease
paint, The Smell of the Crowd”
comes to Bryan Feb. 13 for a
one-night stand at the Civic Audi
torium, 'its cast will include a
pretty Bostonian, Lisa Damon.
Miss Damon joined the “Roar’
cast shortly after gaining acclaim
in Richard Rodgers’ revival of
“South Pacific,” in which she
portrayed Ensign Lisa M. She
jumped into such summer stock
shows as “Kismet” and “Gypsy”
after graduating from the Amer
ican Musician and Dramatic
Academy.
The Bryan performance, set for
8 p.m , is sponsored by the Bryan
Rotary Club in conjunction with
the Town Hall Committee of Tex
as A&M’s Memorial Student
Center.
TOWN HALL Chiarman Robert
Gonzales said the “Roar” cast
also includes Henry Baker of the
National Touring Company of
“Porgy and Bess,” Sherry Lynn
Diamant, a former instructor at
the French-American Ballet
Academy, and Harold Norbut, a
singer in numerous musicals.
Stars in the production orig
inally produced for the Broadway
stage by David Merrick are Ed
ward Earle as “Cocky” and Da
vid C. Jones as “Sir.” Earle,
formerly the understudy of the
show, has a background as direc
tor, choreographer, teacher and
actor. Jones, once a straight-
man for comedian Garry Moore,
toured with national stage com
panies before going into musicals
and television.
Also in the production is a
group labeled “the Urchins,” in
cluding Edie Andrews, Susan
Campbell, Leigh Carole, Kathy
Conry, Carol Ehmann, Judy Gib
son, Pat Guadalupe, Helenann
and Meredith Pogue.
Since the season ticket sales
were successful, no single admis
sion tickets will £>e available to
the general public.
Gonzales said at least 226
tickets will be sold to A&M stu
dents with activity cards on a
first-come, first-served basis, be
ginning Wednesday in the MSC
Student Program Office.
Student tickets will be sold at
a special rate of $1.50 each.
University National Bank
"On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
2 CE Graduates
Get Recognition
Two chapters of the Texas So
ciety of Professional Engineers
elected Texas A&M civil engi
neering graduates “Young Engi
neer of 1967.”
Robert E. Wallace of Waco was
accorded the Central Texas Chap
ter honor. “Outstanding Young
Engineer of the Year” of the San
Jacinto Chapter was Don H.
Nicholas of Houston.
Both studied civil engineering
at A&M, graduating in 1962.
Nicholas is a design engineer
with Bernard Johnson Engineers
of Houston. He was originally
from San Antonio.
Treasurer of the Central Texas
Chapter, Wallace recently joined
the city of Waco as division engi
neer. He was with a Waco con
sulting firm several years.
Su bmarine Expert
Cancels Address
HYDRO-SPACE FIESTA OPENS
Hydro-Space Fiesta ’68 opened Sunday for a week’s run at the Memorial Student Center.
Exhibits Chairman Tom Condry of Angleton and Fiesta Chairman Larry Scott of Cleburne
assemble a model of the Navy’s SPAR, a seagoing platform for acoustics research. Ocean
ography experts will speak during the fiesta.
"Car-Plane’ Transport Device
Suggested By Aero Seniors
Transportation for rapid, short
range travel has been suggested
by three Texas A&M aerospace
engineering seniors.
A car-plane was examined from
aerodynamic, structural-systems
design and marketability aspects
by William Jacqmein of Fort
Worth, Robert B. Stiles Jr., San
Antonio, and Durwood J. Hein
rich, Grand Prairie.
Preliminary plans for a 300-
mile range bi-purpose vehicle were
reported for a special problems
course instructed by Prof. Charles
A. Rodenberger, Aerospace En
gineering Department professor.
The car-plane envisioned by
Stiles, Heinrich and Jacqmein
would have about a 400-pound
payload and 3,000 pound total
weight. It was designed to cruise
at 110 mph in the air and 65 on
the highway.
STILES’ feasibility study out
lined an attractive, sports-type
auto attached to a 37^-foot wing
span flight component. Hydrau
lically controlled legs support the
flight unit so the car can be
detached for ground travel after
landing.
“This isn’t a new idea, “Roden
berger noted, “though it has been
well thought out.”
“Successful flying cars have
been built, but not in large-scale
manner,” pointed out Heinrich, a
January graduate. The Aggies’
approach is through an $8,000 to
$10,000 craft operable at five to
six cents per mile (air or ground).
Cost is comparable to standard
auto expense of five to eight
cents a mile, and light planes
usually are in service twice as
long as automobiles.
“A LIGHT aircraft operates
in the same cost range with the
advantage of greater speed by at
least a factor of two,” Stiles
commented.
“Rapid movement has become
a major factor in the American
way of life,” he added. “Our
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
transportation spectrum has has
a gap at the low end of the scale
for years. The problem is trans
portation for relatively short dis
tances, 300 miles or less, at speeds
over 60 mph.”
He believes the gap can be
filled by a car-plane that could
land at small airports, convert
to an auto and then be driven to
the final destination. Present
light aircraft travel leaves a pilot
looking for ground service.
OTHER advantages were cited.
Jacqmein indicated a traveling
salesman could save over com
mercial airline rates of eight to
10 cents per airmile and not be
restricted to an airline schedule.
Market areas could be reached
that airlines do not service.
“Another interesting design
point is that several different
auto bodies could be attached to
the wing system,” Jacqmein said.
Halved travel time, reduced
highway traffic and versatility
are obvious advantages. Pilot
licensing stringency leads to an
other, according to Heinrich.
“A businessman flying his own
plane is four times less likely to
have a fatal accident than if he
were driving his car,” he said.
A Hydi-o-Space Fiesta address
Wednesday by glass submarine
expert H. A. Perry has been can
celed.
Larry Scott, Hydro-Space Fi
esta chairman, said illness in Per
ry’s family prompted him to can
cel late Friday. Perry, research
materials engineer for the U. S.
Naval Ordnance Laboratory, was
to discuss “Glass Hulls for Sub
marines.”
Scott said no replacement is
likely to be named.
Scott reported that about 250
school children toured the fiesta
Monday. The main attraction for
Tuesday was to be a series of
films in the Memorial Student
Center.
THE FIESTA, which under
scores recent achievemehts in
oceanography, opened Sunday and
continues through the following
Sunday and is sponsored by the
MSC Great Issues Committee.
Richard Dear, engineering as
sociate with Southwestern Bell
Telephone Company in Houston,
is booked for 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Thursday speech - demonstrations
in the MSC Ballroom.
Scott, a Cleburne native, said
Dear’s talks, “The Laser, A New
Kind of Light,” cover various
uses of lasers in manufacturing
and medicine.
Scott said Dear will explain
how the tiny laser beam may
someday carry millions of tele
phone conversations, data mes
sages and television programs si
multaneously. His demonstrations
are designed to show how lasers
and “lensless” photography tech
niques can produce holograms of
three - dimensional multicolored
images that “float” in midair and
may revolutionize the color tele
vision industry.
ALREADY SCHEDULED as
Hydro-Space Fiesta speakers are
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,
Sullivan the following night. Both
talks are slated for 8 p.m.
Newest addition to a growing
list of exhibits is a small scale
model of the bathscaph Trieste,
to be provided by the Office of
Naval Research. The Trieste set
a world’s record for the deepest
ocean dive, 38,500 feet in the
Marianas Trench in 1960.
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Don Walsh,
now conducting advanced oceano
graphic research at A&M, was
officer-in-charge of the subma
rine. He also is an advisor for
Hydro-Space Fiesta ’68, as is Con
gressman Olin E. Teague of Col
lege Station.
Another spotlighted exhibit will
be a three-fourths scale model of
the Alvin, the tiny submarine
which was used to locate a hydro
gen bomb lost in 2,500 feet of
water off the coast of Spain early
in 1966.
Tom Condray of Angleton, ex
hibits chairman for the fiesta,
said 14 exhibits related to ocean
ography, will be displayed in the
MSC throughout the week.
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REGISTRATION LINE
A&M students line up outside Sbisa Hall waiting to start
the semester registration process last weekend. Admissions
office reports estimated a small decrease in the enrollment
from the previous semester. See story, column 7.
Officials Begin
Water Quality
Planning Study
Federal and state government
officials began ripping into the
various aspects of water quality
and resource planning at Texas
A&M Monday.
The Corps of Engineers short
course for 43 participants will
continue through Feb. 16.
The first such corps training-
program contracted to a univer
sity is instructed by members of
A&M’s Civil Engineering Depart
ment and special lecturers from
the Corps of Engineers and pri-
V vate concerns.
Dr. C. H. Samson welcomed
participants and will speak at an
ice-breaker dinner at the Ramada
Inn. The department head will
discuss A&M’s civil engineering
program and facilities. A univer
sity film, “Focus on the Future,”
will be shown, according to Dr.
Roy W. Hann Jr., course director.
Topics discussed during the
first day included natural water
quality, environmental modifica
tion and pollution, philosophy,
federal and state water quality
legislation and standards.
Bill S. Eichert, assistant chief
of the corps’ Hydrologic Engine
ering Center at Sacramento,
Calif., presented course back
ground and center role.
Participants who will tour the
Houston ship channel, Astrodome
and Astroworld Saturday are
from all over the U. S.
Romney Says
Rockefeller
Supports Him
By WALTER R. HEARS
Associated Press Writer
ALBANY, N.Y. (A 3 ! — Gov.
George Romney said Monday
night that Nelson A. Rockefeller’s
rising political stock has not al
tered the New York governor’s
effort to help him win the Re
publican presidential nomination
and the White House.
Sharing a platform with Rock
efeller, Romney told the New
York State Society of Newspaper
Editors that the New Yorker has
indicated he will do all he can “to
secure for me the nomination and
the election.”
Rockefeller, sporting a Romney
campaign button, said the Michi
gan governor represents “the kind
of alternative which the people of
America are going to want to
consider next fall.”
Rockefeller said Romney is “a
man w r ho has the qualifications
and the capacity to lead this
country as president of the Unit
ed States.”
Romney came to Albany after
a round of campaigning for the
New Hampshire presidential pri
mary, where he is contesting for
the state’s preference against
former Vice President Richard
M. Nixon.
In his talk to the editoi’s here,
Romney challenged President
Johnson’s credibility, then said
that more and more Americans
“are retreating to their private
fears” because they cannot under
stand war, rioting, lawlessness
and corruption.”
Some Students
Still Registering
Spring- semester classes offi
cially began Monday morning at
A&M, but the university’s admis
sions office reported a large num
ber of students still registering.
An office spokesman said no
enrollment figures will be an
nounced until after Saturday,
final day for registration.
While the current enrollment
will probably be slightly lower
than the record 12,029 established
last fall, university officials an
ticipate a new high for the spring
semester. The total last spring
was 9,626, largest in the- school’s
histoiy.
Spring semester enrollment is
traditionally lower than that of
fall, the officials pointed out, pri
marily because of mid-term grad
uation. The number of students
entering school at mid-term sel
dom equals the number graduat
ing.
A&M had a record 673 students
graduate last month.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.