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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
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