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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1968
Number 535
Board Building
Puzzle To Aggies
By DAVIS MAYES
The building on the A&M cam
pus that students seem to know
least about is a gray, two-story
house on Houston Street between
the main post office and Sbisa
Dining Hall.
Students walking by the build
ing were recently asked to guess
its identity, and came up with
these responses:
"Oh, that’s where one of the
deans lives.”
"President Rudder lived there
while his present house was being
built.”
"I always heard the head mana
ger of Sbisa lived there.”
Then one Aggie admitted his
ignorance:
“You know, I’ve been here four
years but I just don’t know.”
According to Mrs. Mason L.
Cushion, who lives in the house
and is in charge of its upkeep,
the 15-bedroom structure is ac
tually the “home - away - from-
home” of the A&M Board of Di
rectors.
THE MEMBERS like to come
here a day or two before a sched
uled board meeting,” Mrs. Cashion
said, “so they can meet informally
and d o preliminary committee
work.”
Each of the nine board mem
bers has his own bedroom, fur
nished with two beds, a writing
desk, wall-to-wall carpeting and
a private bath.
“The extra bedrooms are kept
ready for any guests the mem
bers might bring with them,”
Mrs. Cashion said.
N. Viet Forces
In Hue Citadel
Hit By Jets
By EDWIN Q. WHITE
Associated Press Writer
SAIGON UP>_U. S. Marine
jets poured rockets, napalm and
tear gas Wednesday against
North Vietnamese troops holed
up in Hue’s walled Citadel in one
phase of an American air cam
paign intensified on both sides
of the border.
Explosives chipped at massive
stonework of the Citadel, once the
imperial grounds of Vietnam’s
emperors, in an attempt to cut
a path for American Leathernecks
trying to root out the remnants
of a Hanoi regiment. But it was
slow work.
Field reports said almost no
progress was made through the
15th day of Vietnamese and
American operations against the
enemy force, though the rest of
the city is largely cleared of the
Communists who claimed it at the
outset of their lunar new year-
offensive.
A DIPLOMATIC complication
developed with the destruction of
a propeller-driven U. S. Navy A1
Skyraider off Red China’s Hainan
Island. Radio Peking announced
Chinese pilots shot down the
plane and damaged a companion
Skyraider they encountered over
the island.
American authorities said the
two strayed as a result of navi
gational trouble on a flight from
Subic Bay, Philippines, to the air
craft carrier Coral Sea in the
Gulf of Tonkin. The second Sky
raider flew on to Da Nang. Its
pilot was quoted as saying he had
seen a parachute open after the
other went into a vertical dive.
AMERICAN squadrons roared
in force again over the hills
around Khe Sanh, the Marine base
forming the western anchor of
allied defense lines below the de
militarized zone, and others
knifed at North Vietnamese air
fields.
Briefing officers announced
U. S. fighter-bombers shot down
two MIG17 jets and attacked the
Kien An air base, six miles south
west of Haiphong; the Bai
Thuong field, 70 miles south of
Hanoi; andt he Vinh field, 140
miles north of the DMZ.
Radio Hanoi said a populated
area of Hanoi was rocket bombed.
There was no immediate Ameri
can comment. If true it would
have been the first raid of the
year on the Communist capital.
BB&L
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
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She noted that the building’s
old-fashioned decor, with its high
ceilings, full-length windows and
ornate wallpaper seem to agree
well with her guests.
She recalled a time when one
member was asked why the steep
stairway wasn’t replaced with an
elevator.
“IF MONEY must be spent,
spend it on something the stu
dents can use,” he replied.
The house still has the old
wooden ceiling fans (which still
work) in the bedrooms, but since
air conditioning equipment was
installed in 1958, their use is
chiefly ornamental.
One room that has been re
decorated, however, is the board
conference room on the second
floor. A large walnut podium and
table-and-chair set are framed in
walnut wall paneling and green
carpeting.
Tradition has it that several
mechanical engineering students
actually made the handsome oval
shaped conference table, but Mrs.
Cashion isn’t sure.
She said it also has been tra
ditional for the chairman of the
board to take the bedroom closet
to the conference room.
MRS. CASHION, of Wills
Point, came to A&M with her
husband in 1926. He was execu
tive director of the YMCA until
he died in 1952. Mrs. Cashion
moved into the board of directors’
house that same year.
“Before I moved into the house,
Mrs. Duncan, wife of the food
director for whom Duncan Dining
Hall is named, had lived here for
40 years,” Mrs. Cashion said.
Mrs. Cashion believed the front
part of the house was originally
built for Bernard Sbisa, food di
rector in the early 1900’s.
“Sometime in the 1930’s the
rest of the house was built to ac
commodate the board members,”
she said.
Mrs. Cashion seems to enjoy
her work, even when board mem
bers drop in unexpectedly.
“Why, it’s just like having real
nice company,” she said.
New Draft Law May Cut
Grad Totals, Dean Says
SCONA Sets
Group Photo
The 1968 Aggieland photo
graph of the Thirteenth Stu
dent Conference on National
Affairs committee members
will be taken in front of the
Memorial Student Center at 8
p.m. Monday, SCONA XIII
Chairman Patrick G. Rehmet
announced.
Uniform for Corps members
will be Class A winter. Mid
nights and boots may be worn.
“Civilian students should
wear suits,” Rehmet said.
NEW SCONA LEADER
Pat Rehmet, left, chairman of the Thirteenth Student Conference on National Affairs,
look over prospects for next year’s conference with Don McCrory, who has been named
chairman of SCONA XIV. McCrory was publicity chairman for last December’s confer
ence. (Photo by Russell Autry)
A&M Sailing Club Receives
%
3 Boats From Aggie Alumni
Aggie Debaters
Set To Compete
At SFA College
Texas A&M debaters look for
a winning combo at Nacogdoches
this week in the Piney Woods
Debate Tournament at Stephen
F. Austin College Friday and
Saturday.
It will be the Aggies’ last tune-
up chance for the Southwest Con
ference round robin debate cham
pionship in Fayetteville, Ark.,
Feb. 23-24.
Debate director Robert Archer
announced five club members will
journey to Nacogdoches, where
A&M won the junior division in
1967. A&M’s squad for SFA in
cludes Ron Hinds of Midland,
Robert Peek of Jacksboro, Mor
gan F. Heien of Beaumont,
Charles F. Stephan III of Fresno,
Calif., and Raymond DeLeon of
Del Rio.
Hinds-Peek and Heien-Stephan
teams will work SFA and SWC
meets. Archer said DeLeon, a
freshman microbiology major, will
observe at Nacogdoches.
Stephan, a senior economics
major, is a new club member
debating for the first time. De
Leon is in Squadron 9 of the
Corps of Cadets.
Aggies have debated at recent
Tulane, Baylor and Abilene Chris
tian tournaments. Following the
annual SWC meet, debates are
scheduled at Durant, Okla.;
Natchitoches, La., and the Uni
versity of Texas at Austin.
By MIKE PLAKE
The donation of three com
pletely outfitted sailboats to the
Texas A&M Sailing Club may be
gin a new era of competition
between Texas colleges, members
believe.
“We hope the donation of these
boats will begin something sub
stantial in the area of sailboat
racing,” David Kreuger, acting
president, said. “We hope to get
into competition with other
schools as soon as possible.”
The A&M club members will
begin their new racing schedules
Saturday in Houston Bay. They
will sail against Rice University
and the University of Houston in
Seniors To Usher
At Optimist Ball
In San Antonio
Twenty Texas A&M seniors will
usher for a $50 per couple Pan
American Optimist Club Ball in
San Antonio Feb. 24.
The ball was arranged to hon
or Texas citizens who have pro
moted Hemisfair, according to
Peter N. Reed, club president and
1945 A&M graduate.
In addition to ushering an ex
pected 2,000 guests at the Hemis
fair Convention Center ball, the
Aggie seniors and their dates
will be guests for the dance, not
ed Robert Gonzales of San An
tonio, Corps of Cadets informa
tion officer. The Skitch Hender
son Band will play.
“This is a way of projecting
the image of the Corps of Ca
dets,” Gonzales added. Cadet
Colonel of the Corps_ Lonnie C.
Minze of Houston, deputy com
mander Pat Rehmet of Alice and
Gonzales selected 20 outstanding
seniors for the event. They will
be in Class A winter uniform,
boots, white shirt and black bow
tie.
Reed, who studied aerospace
engineering and management at
A&M, is board chairman and pro
duction manager of Reed Candle
Company in San Antonio. Two
of his three sons are A&M stu
dents. Michael is a junior history
major and Air Force ROTC cadet
in Squadron 11. A sophomore
management major, David is an
Army ROTC cadet in Company
F-l of the Corps.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
the Mid-Winter Intercollegiate
Yacht Race.
KREUGER SAID that a re
organization of the club has re
sulted in a need for new members.
“In the first place, our purpose
is to promote interest in inter
collegiate sailing,” he said.
“We need a club with an en
thusiastic membership. Sailing
experience is not at all necessary.
You need only be interested in
the sport,” he added.
“Eventually, we will try to
form a Southwest Conference
Racing Association, with races at
lakes near the various schools.”
Kreuger added that an addi
tional donation of three sailboats
may come in the future.
“LIKE THE present ones, they
will be 14-foot Sea Larks, com
plete with 128 square feet of sail
and a spinnaker.” A spinnaker,
he explained, is a balloon-shaped
auxiliary sail mounted over the
front of the boat. It aids in rac
ing downwind.
The A&M club probably will
make Lake Somerville their regu
lar sailing area. “It’s only thirty
minutes from here,” Kreuger
noted. “Later, we may be able to
secure storage places there for
the boats.”
“Each boat, including its equip
ment, is worth about $1,500,” he
said.
IN ADDITION to racing, Kreu
ger said the club will have an
other function.
“As I said, we are also looking
for people new to sailing, without
experience. We will attempt to
conduct training courses for be
ginners throughout the year.”
Kreuger said that in addition
to the Ag'gie alumni members who
donated the boats, the club owes
another “debt of gratitude.”
“Judge Thomas Stovall and
David Dominey, both of Houston,
instigated the donation,” he said.
“Without their efforts, we prob
ably wouldn’t have gotten the
donation at this time,” he noted.
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THE SPINNAKER IS FULL
The Texas A&M Sailing Club recently received a donation
of three sailboats of this type from Houston area Alumni
members. The boats, with the conventional sail and the
auxiliary spinnaker (the balloon-shaped sail across the bow
of the boat, used in sailing downwind), are worth approxi
mately $1,500 apiece.
Hall Sees Losses
Of 40 Per Cent
Texas A&M, with its high per
centage of male enrollment,
stands to be hit harder than
most other institutions unless
the new draft provisions affect
ing graduate students are
changed, Graduate Dean Wayne
C. Hall observed here Wednesday.
The new Selective Service law,
scheduled to go into effect July
1, is designed to draw older men
into the armed forces before the
younger ones and will therefore
allow few deferments for gradu
ate study.
Dean Hall said first and second
year graduate students will be
most affected.
A survey just completed by
his office indicates a possible
40-per-cent reduction in the num
ber of students beginning gradu
ate work next fall. Whereas the
university had 687 new graduate
students this year, the total next
year will be approximately 350,
under present provisions of the
new law.
A&M’S OVERALL enrollment
also could be hurt more than that
of other schools, the dean noted.
With more than 2,000 graduate
students in a total enrollment of
10,789, A&M has the highest
graduate ratio in the state.
While the draft situation may
affect A&M more than other
schools, Hall said the university
is far from being alone in the
dilemma.
“It looks pretty gloomy for
graduate study throughout the
country,” he remarked.
The National Security Council
has suggested that graduate stu
dents studying in “critical fields”
continue to be deferred. The cri
tical fields were not defined.
“Everybody is guessing the
council will recommend exemp
tions in engineering, the physical
sciences and math,” Hall said.
“But that’s strictly speculation.”
“IF SUCH action were taken,
A&M would not be hurt as se
verely as would otherwise be the
case,” he continued, “since the
majority of our graduate students
are studying in these fields.”
The dean pointed out, however,
that time is becoming a critical
factor in mapping plans for next
year. April 1 is the date for
offering financial graduate sup
port and the students must render
their decisions by April 15.
While hoping some provisions
can be made to keep graduate
students in school, Hall said he
realizes President Johnson faces
a difficult decision.
A&M, of course, will fully sup
port any decision that is made,”
he added.
HE POINTED out, however,
that if master’s and Ph.D. stu
dents are drafted in large num
bers, graduate programs will be
disrupted for several years to
come.
“It will take three to five years
to get back in the swing,” the
dean remarked.
“Once the Vietnam situation is
settled, we could have an influx
similar to that after World War
II,” he added.
He believes a cutback in gradu
ate students also would have a
detrimental effect on graduate
faculties and overall research
programs.
New EE Prof Improves Design
Of Infant Heart Testing Device
A new electrical engineering
faculty member at Texas A&M is
working to improve his design of
a machine to record heartbeats of
unborn infants.
More specifically, his machine
is designed to indicate the condi
tion of the fetal heart.
Dr. Thomas Rhyne, who re
ceived his Ph.D. last year from
Georgia T'ech, became interested
while a graduate student in de
veloping instrumentation involved
in taking electrocardiograms.
Impressed by the need! for im
proved equipment for recording
the impulses of heartbeats of in
fants prior to birth, Rhyne under
took the design and construetion
of a practical fetal electrocardio
graph as a research task.
HIS RESEARCH advances add
to machines already in use to aid
obstetricians. Devices are in com
mon use which allow physicians
to determine if the unborn baby
is alive, if breached birth is likely,
and if there is to be a multiple
birth.
Dr. Rhyne overcame a sizeable
problem of distinjguishing be
tween the pattern of the infant’s
heartbeats and those of the moth
er. He surmounted the difficulty
with a process in which the com
plexes may be separated, thus
giving a clear indication of the
condition of the developing fetal
heart.
To construct an instrument of
practical size and relative sim
plicity, Rhyne used integrated
circuits mounted on printed cir
cuit cards.
DURING THE spring semester
the assistant professor will teach
electronic computer design class
es. And he plans to build an im
proved model of his digital FECG
signal enhancement system, with
hopes of incorporating the work
into A&M research assignments.
Dr. Rhyne, graduate o f La
Marque High School and Missis
sippi State University, worked
three years as a NASA aerospace
technologist. He was an electrical
engineering instructor for two
years while pursuing the doctor
ate at Georgia Tech.
Rhyne’s wife, Glenda, teaches
English at A&M Concolidated
High School in College Station.
AEC Grants
$7,000 For
Life Sciences
Texas A&M will receive an edu
cational grant for $7,000 from
the U. S. Atomic Energy Com
mission for the study of the life
sciences.
The Commission has approved
assistance grants totaling $514,-
028 to 51 colleges and universities
through its Division of Nuclear
Education and Training. The
grants, which are to be matched
dollar for dollar by the schools
receiving them, are to provide
for purchase of laboratory equip
ment and radioactive sources for
instruction in the nuclear aspects
of the life sciences.
The primary purpose of the
awards is to assist educational
institutions in their advanced sci
ence curricula. As such, they are
part of the Federal Government’s
program to build a strong and
vital educational system. The
awards are based upon the recom
mendations of a special review
committee composed of college
and university faculty members
active in nuclear science.
Since the program was initiat
ed in 1956, laboratory equipment
grants for use in nuclear educa
tion programs have been made
available to 710 educational insti
tutions. The program changed
from an outright grant to an
equal matching funds basis in
fiscal 1967.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.