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i 5/ 7 S' 9' S’ S' / ted * Che Bdttdlion Weather •X lx Thursday — Cloudy, winds Northerly :£ 15-25 m.p.h. High 42, low 38. Friday — Partly cloudy to cloudy, £ winds Northeast 15-20 m.p.h. High :£ 44, low 29. X* yl VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1968 NUMBER 542 Board Okays Study Centers For Highway Safety, Space A&M To Participate In ‘Choice ’68’ Vote AH, SPRING! Clear skies and balmy, springlike weather seems to bring out the artist in college stu dents. At A&M, of course, a scene like this means architecture lab classes are taking ad vantage of good weather to make sketches of the Academic Building. (Photo by Mike Wright) ‘Experiment’ Set A&M Students Two new research centers, one for highway safety and the other for studying earth from space, will be established at Texas A&M. Formation of the two centers, along with final authorization to organize a College of Business Administration next fall, was ap proved Tuesday by the Texas A&M University System Board of Directors. The Highway Safety Research Center will be operated as a part of the university’s Texas Trans portation Institute. TTI has been involved in highway research 10 years and gained nationwide at tention with development of a “break-away” highway sign. UNVERSITY officials hope the Kunkel Named Ag Dean By System Board Dr. H. 0. Kunkel was named dean of agriculture Tuesday by The Texas A&M University Sys tem Board of Directors. He had served as acting dean of A&M’s College of Agriculture since last September 1. “An extensive nationwide search for a new dean of agriculture convinced the board that we had a man right here on campus who met all of the qualifications for the position,” noted Board Presi dent L. F. Peterson of Fort Worth. “We are fortunate to have a man of Dr. Kunkel’s capabili ties.” Peterson said the new dean will direct all agricultural programs here, including teaching, extension and research. ' Kunkel joined the A&M faculty in 1951 as an assistant professor in the Animal Husbandly and Biochemistry and Nutrition De partment. He was appointed associate di rector of the experiment station in 1962. TW OYney native earned his bachelor’s degree in animal hus bandry here in 1943 and master’s in biochemistry and nutrition in 1948. He received the Ph.D. in biochemistry and nutrition in 1948. He received the Ph.D. in biochemistry at Cornell Univei'- sity^'n 1950, studying under Nobel Prize winner James B. Sumner. Kunkel is the author of 40 scientific papers in biochemistry, animal nutrition and animal phys iology. He holds memberships in several major professional or ganizations, including the Ameri can Society of Biological Chem ists and American Institute of Nutrition. V He was twice named “outstand ing professor” by the Texas A&M Student Agricultural Council and received the Association of For mer Students’ Distinguished Achievement in Teaching Award in 1956. All But 4 Dorms To Get Phones Next Semester The Texas A&M University System Board of Directors ap proved a university plan Tuesday to hold the line on basic room, board and laundry fees next fall, despite higher operating costs. Only additional expenses for returning students will be a $13.50 fee per semester for dormi tory rooms equipped with tele phones. University officials said phones will be installed this summer in all dormitories except Leggett, Milner, Mitchell and Dorm 13. These four dormitories, offi cials explained, were excluded from phone installation in con sideration of students who can not afford the extra cost. Telephone rates will be incor porated into the room, board and laundry fees. Trimester phone rates will be $12 and summer term $4.50. Room deposits for new students were increased by the board from $20 to $30. Returning students, however, will not be required to Pay the additional $10. University National Bank "On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. center will be officially recog nized as the Highway Safety Center for Texas and eventually as the National Highway Safety Center or one of the regional centers to be established by the National Highway Safety Bureau. THE OTHER new activity will be designated the Remote Sensing Center. It will be a joint effort of the Colleges of Science, Engi neering and Agriculture, with the institution’s Texas Engineering Experiment Station having re sponsibility for administrative and fiscal matters. A major reason for establishing the facility here, Dean Fred Ben son explained, is the close prox imity to NASA’s Manned Space craft Center, principal source for remote sensing data. The Ocean ography Department is currently conducting some remote sensing research under a NASA grant. In addition to research activi ties, the A&M center will be in volved in operational programs and undergraduate and graduate instruction. Tying in with its confirmation of A&M’s College of Business Administration, the board ap pointed Dr. John E. Pearson dean of business administration, ef fective Sept. 1. Dr. Pearson currently serves as director of the School of Business Administration. He joined the A&M faculty in 1963 after teach ing six years at North Texas, where he had earlier earned B.S. and M.S. degrees. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1956. BOARD MEMBERS also ap proved university proposals to offer Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering and veterinary anat omy. Both programs will be sub mitted to the Texas College and University Coordinating Board. SAIGON UP) — The big allied air base at Bien Hoa was hit by a Viet Cong rocket barrage early Wednesday, South Vietnamese military officials reported. They said initial reports listed 14 persons killed and 25 wounded in the attack 15 miles north of Saigon. U. S. headquarters confirmed the base had been hit by rockets. The South Vietnamese reported about 40 rounds of 122mm rockets slammed into the base. Two rocket rounds were re ported to have hit Saigon’s Tan Son Nhut air base during the night, but no casualties were re ported and damage was described as negligible. The big base on the western edge of the capital has been shell sporadically since the Viet Cong lunar new year of fensive began at the end of Janu ary. THE SHELLINGS were part of a renewed flurry of attacks around the South Vietnamese capital. Heavy artillery barrages were fired in response to the attacks, In other business, the board passed a resolution requesting the cities of Bryan and College Sta tion jointly contribute $750,000 during the next 10 years for maintenance and improvement of the university-owned Easterwood Airport. The airport serves the entire community for all com mercial and most private flights. THE BOARD formally accepted gifts, grants and scholarships totaling $810,856.81. Texas A&M received $561,210, with $123,485 going to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, $117,787 to Connally Tech, $7,073 to Prairie View and $1,300 to Tarleton State College. Local firms received the lion’s share of almost $1 million in con struction contracts awarded by the board. Vance & Thurmond of Bryan received the largest single con tract for its low bid of $557,150 to build six student lounges in the 12-dormitory Duncan area. R. B. Butler, also of Bryan, won three contracts totaling $328,073.50. Two separate con tracts of $156,682 and $98,723 were awarded the firm to con struct three new veterinary auxil iary facilities and remodel an other. The third contract for $72,- 668.50 calls for extending pave ment of Houston, Throckmorton and Bizzell to the new Jersey Street intersections. Another Bryan firm, B&W Con struction Co., won a $16,446 con tract for its low bid to repair and modify campus water mains. W. E. Kutzschbach Co. of Bry an and Collier Electric Co. of Temple were the successful bid ders on projects to improve the campus electrical distribution sys tem. Kutzschbach’s contract totaled $23,519, with Collier Elec tric receiving $44,032.21. but there was no word on possible enemy casualties. There have been reports of large enemy troop units still ma neuvering around the capital and there are fears that another at tack may be launched on Saigon. American headquarters said the latest action began with a heli copter assault by one company — perhaps 180 men — three miles west of Can Tho. After they ran into heavy op position, they were joined by one company from the delta Riverine Force landing in boats and an other company that was lifted in by helicopters. Navy assault boats landed a battalion south of the combat area. Wide areas of the Mekong Delta south of Saigon were rav aged in the new year offensive, and American troops in recent days have been probing deeper and deeper into delta regions. Much of the heavily populated delta long has been dominated by the Viet Cong. President Poll To Highlight SpringElection By MIKE FLAKE Texas A&M has joined a group of more than 1,000 colleges and several million students who will vote in an April collegiate pri mary on their choice for Presi dent of the United States, Stu dent Senator Clarence Daugherty announced Tuesday. Students enrolled in every American college or university (all branches included) will have an express means of showing whom they want to win the 1968 election. The poll will be taken as part of one of the spring elections, March 28 or April 25. CHOICE is a public service organization established to pro vide college students an oppor tunity to reveal their choices for President. “This election will have a great influence on the national cam paign if the students fulfill their responsibility of voting and work ing for the candidate they think best,” Daugherty, co-ordinator for CHOICE ’68 on the A&M campus, said. Financed by Time Magazine, the organization gathered repre sentatives from over 1,000 col leges and met in Washington, D. C. in February. There they decided which candidates would appear on the ballot. They included Fred Halstead, socialist worker; Mark O. Hat field, Republican senator from Oregon; Lyndon B. Johnson, in cumbent Democrat; Robert F. Kennedy, Democratic senator from New York; Martin L. King, an independent; John V. Lindsay, Republican mayor of New York City. Also, Eugene J. McCarthy, Democratic senator from Minne sota; Richard M. Nixon, Republi can; Charles H. Percy, Republi can senator from Illinois; and Ronald W. Reagan, Republican governor of California. Also, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Republican governor of New York; George W. Romney, Re publican governor of Michigan; Harold E. Stassen, Republican; George C. Wallace, American in dependent. The Washington meeting also brought out three questions to be included on the ballot. Two deal with U. S. involvement in Vietnam. The other confronts the priorities of government spending in the “urban crisis.” On this question, students are asked whether education, employ ment opportunities, housing, in come subsidy, or riot control should receive highest considera tion on the Federal appropria tions list. The colleges represented in the Washington meeting accounted for over five million students and over 75 per cent of the total student electorate in the United States. What does Joe College Student mean to the 1968 Presidential campaign ? James Reston, of the New York Times, said it this way: “The politically conscious uni versity students are potentially a very powerful political force . . . Their intelligence and energy could be critical . . . even de cisive ...” In a meeting with the board of directors (all students) of CHOICE, President Johnson add ed his approval of the collegiate primary. The President said he is con vinced that this kind of vote from students is highly signifi cant, that when students express their opinion intelligently, people across the nation “stop, look, listen, and evaluate.” He added his belief that a stronger vote among the nation’s youth would favor Democratic candidates and policies. Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. B B &L Overseas For Five A Texas A&M senior, three sophomores and a freshman have been accepted by the Experiment in International Living for sum mer visits in Russia, West Ger many, Czechoslovakia, and Yugo slavia. The Experimenters include Frank W. Tilley of Jacksonville, senior industrial engineering major; Blaine S. Purcell of Wich ita Falls, sophomore in veterinary medicine; A1 Reinert of Fairfax, Dr. W. Albert Noyes Jr. will discuss the effects of science on government and of government on science in a University Lec ture here Thursday. Noyes’ talk, “The Place of Science in Modern Life,” will be at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Stu dent Center Ballroom, announced Universtiy Lecture chairman Dr. Haskell M. Monroe. Danforth Visiting Lecturer Ro land Mousnier was to make the first spring lecture but was de tained by commitments at the Sorbonne, where he directs the McLendon Quits Governor’s Race; Urges Neutrality DALLAS <.2P)—Gordon McLen don, Dallas radio-TV" executive, said Tuesday night he was quit ting the Texas governor’s race because he could not support the re-election of President Johnson. McLendon, in a speech prepared and taped for delivery at various times over 25 Texas TV stations, said neutralism is the only cure for U. S. foreign entanglements. “We should at an early mo ment tell the rest of the world that we thank them, but that we have done the best we can, and that henceforth the U. S. will continue as always to trade with them—but that we choose hence forth to confine ourselves mili tarily within the borders of the United States,” McLendon said. McLendon, who was the second of 11 Democratic candidates to announce for governor, spent only a minor portion of his speech dis cussing the governor’s race. He recalled that on Jan. 3, when he announced, he said “yes” when asked if he could support Johnson in November. Since then, McLen don said, he has changed his mind. Va., sophomore in geology; Ron ald L. Adams of Tyler, sophomore in mechanical engineering, and Joanna Chastain of College Sta tion, freshman in veterinary medicine. They will attend two to three weeks of language school at EIL headquarters in Vermont and spend 10 weeks overseas. The first part of the visit will be homestay with an assigned family. Experimenters and host Center for Research in Modern European Civilization. Renowned professor of chem istry at the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Noyes is a scien tist, teacher and scientific advisor in Washington. HE HAS consulted for each branch of the U. S. military establishment and been a member of the Atomic Energy Commission and U. S. Bureau of Standards. “Dr. Noyes’ long service to the government as scientific advisor has given him unique experience and insight into the relationship between government and science and the effects of each upon the other,” Monroe commented. “Few observers are as competent to comment on the effects of science and government.” The National Academy of Sci ences member held appointments with the National Defense Re search Committee, National Re search Council and was division chief of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II. DR. NOYES’ honors include the Medal for Merit, King’s Medal for Service in the Cause of Freedom, Chevalier in the Legion of Honor, Gibbs Medal and the American Chemical So ciety’s Priestley Medal. Officer of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chem istry and the International Coun cil of Scientific Unions, he studied chemistry and graduated at Grinnell in 1919. He received the Dr. es.Sc. at the Sorbonne in 1920 and honorary decorates at Grinnell, Paris, Rhode Island, Indiana, Ottawa, Montreal, Illi nois, Rochester and Carlton Uni versities. He taught at the University of California, Chicago, Brown and Rochester. Before taking the Texas post in 1939, he was at Rochester 26 years as chemistry department chairman and dean of the graduate school and col lege of arts and sciences. family members combine for tours of each country during the last part of the visit. Of the five A&M participants, only Reinert has traveled exten sively outside the U. S. He was born in Japan and has returned to the Far East four times with his father, Army Col. A. C. Reinert. A former U. S. Military Acad emy student, A1 was a Korean Military Academy guest last summer and made side trips to Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines and Japan. The 20-year-old Parachute Club and SCON A member has had four semesters of Russian, which is required of experimenters as signed to the USSR. He has studied Russian language, hist ory, geography and literature. Purcell, son of U. S. Congress man Graham Purcell of Wichita Falls, and Tilley received assign ments in Germany. A Distin guished Student, Purcell said the tour will “help my attitude for citizenship responsibility. It will further my understanding of the world and of German culture.” The former House of Repre sentatives page is in the Pre-Vet Society, guidon bearer of Com pany B-2, YMCA member, SCON A XIII publicity committee vice-chairman and is applying for vet school. CAMERA Committee Chair man Tilley plans to extend his visit beyond the normal 10 weeks. “After the Experiment tour is over, I plan to join a 15-day charter plane tour of West Berlin, Poland and Russia,” the senior noted. “The whole thing is going to be tight on both ends though. I take my last spring semester final June 1 and have to be in Brattleboro June 5. “I also plan to take a three- day photo course at Wetzlar, the home of Leica. Experimenters will be back in the U. S. Aug. 15. I’ll be trying to catch the last flight out of Berlin Sept. 3,” he said. Adams, sophomore class presi dent, plans numerous gab sessions with students he meets in Yugo slavia. “I think the opportunity to dis cuss their political and economic systems is the greatest thing about it,” he remarked. Ronnie is a Distinguished Stu dent, clerk of Company €-2, and member of SCONA, the Student Senate, Election Commission and Society of American Military Engineers. Ronnie’s brother Neal is the head yell leader. First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif icates. —Adv. FLY VIET CON FLAG INTO BATTLE Soldiers of the U. S. 25th Division ride atop an armored personnel carrier with a captured Viet Cong flag flying from pole as they attacked Viet Cong positions about seven miles northwest of Saigon. Division is battling Viet Cong moving to or from the capital. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Saigon) Bien Hoa Air Base Attacked By Viet Cong Rocket Barrage Science-Government Relations To Be Thursday Lecture Topic T.W'T *• Vvv^V-Xv! XvXv! I