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Echols Cops Medalist Trophy
At School Officials Tourney
Wilburn O. Echols of Gaines
ville was presented the medalist
trophy Wednesday as winner of
the annual Texas School Admin
istrators and Supervisors Con
ference golf tournament.
The three-day conference and
tournament are an annual sum
mer feature at Texas A&M.
Echols, superintendent of
Gainesville schools, fired a 77
over A&M’s par 70, 6,065-yard
course to win the tourney the
second straight year.
Robert Turner of Groesbeck was
handicap winner over the field
of about 50 golfers who are school
administrators, supervisors and
teachers nine months of the year.
The Groesbeck superintendent
carded a 71 by the Callaway sys
tem.
Golfers who spend most of their
time in the classroom were also
recognized at the Wednesday
Aggie Is Picked
For Intern Post
Harry Ledbetter of Brecken-
ridge, a former Texas A&M quar
terback, has been named a legis
lative intern for the 1969 Texas
Legislature.
Ledbetter, economics graduate
student, is one of 12 persons an
nounced for intern posts by House
Speaker Ben Barnes.
The graduate assistant in
A&M’s community services semi
nar program was among out
standing graduate students select
ed to participate in a seminar on
Texas politics and government.
At the same time, Ledbetter will
receive training in legislative re
search as part of the third annual
Ford Foundation sponsored pro
gram.
An All-State quarterback at
Breckenridge, Ledbetter played
both offense and defense for the
Aggies.
He earned a bachelor’s degree
in economics last year at A&M.
An associate said Ledbetter plans
to complete courses this summer,
then work on a thesis concerning
state government operations.
Ledbetter and his wife, Linda,
have two daughters and live in
College Station. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Ledbetter of
Breckenridge.
awards ceremony. James I. Thig
pen, Harlingen superintendent;
Elwood (Bubba) Schomburg, Bell-
ville principal, and O. E. (Pete)
Hendricks, New Braunfels super
intendent, posted the highest
scores.
THE BATTALION
Thursday, June 13, 1968
College Station, Texas
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Intramurals Get
Going This Week
A&M summer intramural pro
grams started this week with
softball competition between
teams of three leagues. They
play two games each night, start
ing at 6 and 7:30 p.m., R. L.
Fletcher, director of intramurals,
has announced.
Intramural golf and bowling
will begin Monday. Green fees
and bowling lines will be paid
for by the Intramural Athletics
Office.
Anyone interested in either golf
or bowling is invited to come by
the Intramural Office for further
information, Fletcher said.
Asteroid Icarus Barely Seen
At Closest Point Next Month
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OFF THE BAG
San Francisco Giant Juan Marichal slides safely to third
base from first on Frank Johnson’s single in sixth inning
of game with Pittsburg at San Francisco. Pirate Maury
Wills jumps high for Matty Alou’s throw from outfield
as Marichal slides under him. Giants won, 8 to 0. (AP
Wirephoto)
AstroFiacts
Baseball people in the know
think a lot of Ron Davis, the
Houston Astros’ center fielder,
and some say he may be the best,
defensively.
The 26-year-old Davis, a native
of North Carolina, has had more
than his share of impressive mo-
ments-both at bat and in the field
since he got his first real major
league shot in the 1966 season.
This season, except for missing
one weekend series because of
military committments, Davis has
been Houston’s regular center
fielder — and has been showing
why he’s so well-regarded.
Astro Manager Grady Hatton
characterizes Davis as “a hard-
nosed, bear-down player.”
“Like most good athletes, he
has the ability and the judge
ment to be outstanding,” Hatton
continues.
“He’s as good as any center
fielder in baseball at cutting off
the extra-base hit,” says John
Mullen, Astros’ executive assist
ant. “In a park such as the Astro
dome, they’d be doubles and triples
Junior Zoology Major Is
Named Oak Ridge Trainee
Texas A&M zoology major
Sam H. Coleman Jr. of Junction
will be at Oak Ridge, Tenn., 10
weeks this summer for research
project training at Oak Ridge
National Laboratory.
Coleman is one of 90 college
juniors selected for the summer
student trainee program admin
istered for the Atomic Energy
Commission by Oak Ridge As
sociated Universities (ORAU;.
Through actual AEG lab re
search program work with sci
entists, he will gain keener per
ception of factors involved in se
lecting, planning and executing
research projects. The ORAU
program is designed to encourage
students to continue studies at
graduate levels and enter careers
in their chosen fields.
Coleman, one of three Texas
students selected, will work at
the University of Tennessee-AEC
Agricultural Research Laboratory
through ORAU support.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
H. Coleman is a Junction High
graduate and Distinguished Stu
dent at A&M. He is studying
at A&M under an Opportunity
Award, is vice president of the
Russian Club and a member of
Phi Eta Sigma, national fresh
man scholastic fraternity, and
Phi Kappa Phi, graduate and
undergraduate scholastic frater
nity.
if he wasn’t able to cut them off.
“He has saved the ball club
a lot of runs this year,” Mullen
adds.
Ron, one of the most popular
Astros, got away to a slow start
at bat this season, spending the
first six weeks well below the
.200 level, despite an excellent
spring training when he looked
like one of Houston’s most promis
ing hitters.
But a recent nine-game hitting
streak snapped him out of the
doldrums and pulled his average
up to the .230 level, still below
what is regarded as his potential.
“Ron’s been doing a lot of work
with Harry Walker (the Houston
system’s batting instructor) and
it’s helping improve his average
and cut down on his strikeouts,”
Mullen reports.
An all-NCAA Tournament sele
ction for Duke University in 1961,
Davis knocked around in the
minor leagues for more than five
years before getting an emer
gency call to the majors.
Ron, who admits he was about
ready to call it quits in baseball
in 1966, when he was playing for
Amarillo in the Texas League,
got his crack at National League
ball in mid-season that year when
the Astros lost star outfielder
Jim Wynn for the season with an
injury.
Responding to the Houston dis
tress call, Ron came to the majors
and went on to bat .247 the rest
of the year. Last season, playing
mostly in left field, he hit .256.
Because of his good speed and
range, he was moved to center
field this season. It was a move
that has appeared to help the
Astros defensively.
“He’s a good center fielder who
runs well and who throws well,”
Mullen says. “And he has a very
accurate and good arm, which of
course helps him that much
more.”
In what actually amounts to less
than two seasons in the major
leagues, Davis has become one
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of the better center fielders
the game.
Prof. Jack Kent of Texas
A&M’s Mathematics Department
has suggested an eye-strain sav
ing technique for persons hoping
to catch a glimpse of asteroid
Icarus during its close approach
to the earth next month.
Don’t look.
The half-mile across chunk of
rock will pass within 4,258,000
miles of earth June 14.
It will be in the constellation
bootes on June 17, when the as
teroid will be its brightest. But
Icarus will be invisible to the un
aided human eye.
“At the asteroid’s brightest, it
will shine at about 13.2 magni
tude,” noted Kent, who teaches
A&M astronomy courses and di
rects a National Science Founda
tion in-service institute in astron
omy.
Moderately good vision is nec
essary for a person to see a sixth
The cold Labrador Current and
relatively warm Gulf Stream meet
in the vicinity of the Grand Banks.
Air passing over the contrasting
waters often produces dangerous
fog, but the mingling of cold and
warm currents also creates favor
able conditions for plankton — a
major food for fish.
magnitude star under ideal see
ing conditions. Binoculars bring
eighth to ninth magnitude stars
into view.
“At its brightest, Icarus will
be within range of a six-inch
telescope, but then only for about
four or five days,” Kent added.
The asteroid will brighten rapidly
to the 13th magnitude and then
dim quickly as it passes the earth
in a highly elliptical orbit.
Even owners of six-inch or
larger aperture telescopes will
have difficulty distinguishing
Icarus from background stars.
Only its movement against back
ground stars over a period of time
will mark the asteroid’s brief
visit. Astronomers use long-ex
posure photography and radar to
study phenomena.
Kent, who cited preliminary or
bital data furnished the Inter
national Astronomical Union by
Dr. Samuel Herrick of UCLA,
said the asteroid will be 178 times
further away from the earth than
the moon when it is closest to us.
“There certainly isn’t any dan
ger of a collision with the earth,”
he smiled.
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One of the earliest emotions a child ex
periences is fear. And from the first loud
noise that awakens him until the moment
of his death he knows no day without the
recurrence of some foreboding danger.
From the beginning of time religion has
been our tested antidote to the poison of
fear. In the dark forests of antiquity, on
the boiling seas of exploration, in the fox
holes of modern strife, men have calmed
the body’s trembling with the soul’s faith.
We have faced the unknown, the hostile,
through trust in the Known, the Faithful;
we have challenged the insurmountable,
confident in the power of the Almighty.
How essential, though, that each genera
tion passes on our Faith to the next! Who
dares deprive a child of the chance to con
quer fear? Who would rob his son’s soul
of the Christian heritage martyrs died to
preserve ?
Bring your children to God’s House every
Sunday.
THE CHURCH FOR ALL . . .
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The Church is the greatest factor on
earth for the building of character and
good citizenship. It is a storehouse of
spiritual values. Without a strong
Church, neither democracy nor civiliza
tion can survive. There are four sound
reasons why every person should
attend services regularly and support
the Church. They are: (1) For his own
sake. (2) For his children's sake. (3) For
the sake of his community and nation.
(4) For the sake of the Church itself,
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ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL
906 Jersey Street, So. Side of Campus
Rector: William R. Oxley
Asst.—Rev. Wesley Seeliger
8:00 A.M. & 9:15 A.M. Sunday
Services
A&M CHURCH OF CHRIST
8:00 & 10:00 A.M. Worship
9:00 A.M.—Bible Study
5 :15 P.M.—Young People’s Class
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
9 :45 A.M.—Sunday School
10:45 A.M.—Morning Worship
6 :30 P.M.—Young People’s S
7 :00 P.M.—Preaching Service
ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC
Sunday Masses—7:30, 9:00 and 11:00
FAITH CHURCH
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETT
9 :30 A.M.—Sunday School
11:00 A.M.—Sunday Service
11:00 A.M.-2
7:00-8:00 P.M.- ,,—,
8 :00 P.M.—Wed. Evening Worship
9 :15 A.M.—Sunday
10 :30 A.M.—Morning Worship
7 :30 P.M.—Evening Service
Sunday Service
P.M.—-Tues. Reading Rm.
.M.—Wed., Reading Room
COLLEGE HEIGHTS
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
FIRST BAPTIST
9 :30 AM—Sunday School
9 :45 A.M.—Sunday School
11:00 A.M.—Morning Worship
6 :30 P.M.—Young People’s Service
7:30 P.M.—Evening Worship
5 :15 P.M.—Young P
6 :00 P.M.—Worship
7 :15 P.M.—Aggie Class
9 :30 A.M.—Tues. - Ladie
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9:30 AM—Sunday School
10 :45 AM Morning Worship
6 :10 PM—Training Union
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UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN
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8 :45 A.M.—Mornir
SECOND BAPTIST
710 Eisenhower
8 :45 A.M.—Morning
10:00 A.M.—Bible Cl
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UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP
305 Old Highway 6, South
No Meetings Until Late September
A&M PRESBYTERIAN
7-9 A.M.—Sun. Breakfast - Stu. Ctr.
9 :46 A.M.—Church School
11 :00 A.M.—Morning Worship
6:00 P.M.—Sun. Single Stu. Fellowship
7:15 P.M.—Wed. Student Fellowship
6 :45 A.M.—Fri. Communion Service
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6:30 P.M.—Training Uni
7 :30 P.M.—Church Servi
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9 :30 A.M.-—Bible Classes For All
Holy Communion—1st Sun. Ea. Mo.
CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH
3205 Lakeview
9:45 A.M.—Bible School
10 :45 A.M.—Morning Worship
6 :00 P.M.—Youth Hour
7 :00 P.M.^—Evening Worship
A&M METHODIST
8 :30 A.M.—Morning Worship
9 :45 A.M.—Sunday School
10:55 A.M.—Morning Worship
5 :30 P.M.—Campus & Career Class
5 :30 & 6 :G0 P.M.—MYF Meetings
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
OF LATTER DAY SAINTS
26th East and Coulter, Bryan
8 :30 A.M.—Priesthood meeting
10:00 A.M.—Sunday School
5:00 P.M.—Sacrament Meeting
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Homestead & Ennis
9 :45 A.M.—Sunday School
10 :50 A.M.—Morning Worship
6 :30 P.M.—Young People
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An Independent Bible Church
9:15 A.M.—Sunday School
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