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VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1968 Number 591
Dorm Telephone Hookup
Completion Planned By Fall
A fourth of the 2,966 telephones
to be installed in Texas A&M
dormitory rooms this summer are
now in place, reported Howard
Vestal, the university’s manage
ment services director.
Vestal said General Telephone
Company of the Southwest work
ers have completed installation
of 784 phones in seven of the
newer dormitories on the north
west side of the campus.
NOW CAN I CALL?
Freshman Wayne Raasch from Freeport waits expectantly
as Butch Vaughan of General Telephone Co. installs one of
the more than 2,965 phones to be placed in dormitory rooms
across the campus. The project is to be completed by the
start of the fall semester, Howard Vestal, A&M manage
ment services director, says. (Batt Staff Photo)
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Telephone officials have as
sured university personnel room
phones will be ready for use be
fore start of classes this fall in
all dormitories except Leggett,
Milner, Mitchell and Dorm 13.
Installation in the 12-dormitory
Corps of Cadets area, he added,
will not begin until remodeling is
complete.
The addition of telephones in
individual dormitory rooms is
part of an overall university
project to switch to the telephone
company’s new Centrex system
which is designed to streamline
service.
This switch to Centrex, Vestal
noted, will involve a number
change for every current phone on
campus, effective Aug. 18, when
the university begins operation
with its own exchange.
New directories will be pro
vided to all campus offices before
the effective date, he emphasized.
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Married Student Apartments
Planned To Replace ‘Barracks’
Poultry Meet Here
Hosts 1200 Visitors
So far no one has asked the
question “Which came first—the
chicken or the egg?”, but leading
representatives in the poultry in
dustry from throughout the world
have discussed just about every
thing else in their annual assem
bly here this week.
About 1,200 persons have
swelled the Bryan-College Station
population for the 57th annual
Poultry Science Association meet
ing at Texas A&M.
The PSA is an international
organization of scientists engaged
in poultry research, teaching and
Extension Service work. There
are an estimated 1,700 members
in the United States and Foreign
countries.
Dr. W. F. Krueger of the A&M
Poultry Science Department said
an estimated 75 foreigners are
attending the meetings. They rep
resent Mexico, Germany, England,
Scotland, Canada, Brazil, Argen
tina, Spain, Iraq, Dominican Re
public, India, Pakistan and Egypt.
He said the overall conference
calls for 277 technical papers pre
sented in nine sessions meeting
simultaneously Tuesday through
Friday. Talks cover pathology,
Extension Service activities, en
vironment, physiology, nutrition,
genetics, marketing and instruc
tions.
The annual meeting officially
began with a general session
Tuesday morning in the Memor
ial Student Center. Dr. Wayne C.
Hall, A&M’s academic vice presi
dent and dean of the Graduate
College, and Dr. H. O. Kunkel,
dean of the College of Agricul
ture, delivered addresses of Wel
come.
Poultry Science Association
President Dr. M. L. Sunde of the
University of Wisconsin described
Tuesday the situation of the de
cline in numbers of the poultry
departments in the nation’s uni
versities and made recommenda-
(See Meet, Page 3)
Deadline Nears
For Reservations
In Dormitories
EVERYTHING BUT FRYING SESSIONS
Members of the Poultry Science Association attending the annual meeting on the campus
have found just about every type of session available except one. Shown here are Nor-
berto Matzer from the University of California at Davis, Robert Gumming an Australian
on leave to the University of Maine and Herrade Ortmayer also of UC at Davis. (Batt
Staff Photo)
Bachelor Degree Job Offers
Fewer This Year In Nation
Texas A&M officials announced
plans Tuesday to build four new
apartment units in the College
View-Hensel area for occupancy
in the fall of 1969.
A&M President Earl Rudder
said the new facilities for mar
ried students will contain 48 air-
conditioned' one-bedroom apart
ments and cost approximately
Texas A&M’s Army ROTC pro
gram furnished the largest num
ber of cadets attending a six-
week summer camp at Fort Sill,
Okla.
Of 2,300 students from 36 col
leges and universities, 281 are
A&M students, according to Fort
Sill figures.
Cadets are spending the en
tire encampment at Camp Eagle,
15 miles west of the main post.
Their training, equivalent to
1st Summer Term
Ends This Week
Summer school at Texas A&M
nears the half-way point this
week.
First - semester examinations
are set today and Friday, noted
Registrar H. L. Heaton. Regis
tration for the second semester
opens Monday, with classes be
ginning Tuseday.
Heaton said enrollment for the
first semester totaled a record
5,885 students. Second-semester
registration, he observed, tradi
tionally shows a slight decline.
Summer school concludes Aug.
23.
$800,000. The units will be iden
tical to the non-air-conditioned
Hensel Apartments constructed
by the university in 1960.
Rudder emphasized construction
of the four units in no way al
ters the university’s plea for ad
ditional privately financed off-
campus housing.
“We simply recognize the con-
Army basic, is keyed to produc
ing Army officers. The cadets
stand tough inspections, undergo
rigorous physical training and
attend classes in weapons famil
iarization.
Each cadet is evaluated indi
vidually by professional officers
and non-commissioned officers.
Cadets also evaluate each other.
Results of summer camp per
formance and evaluation reports
will determine whether the stu
dent is selected for reserve or
Regular Army commission upon
graduation.
Six officers and five non-coms
of A&M’s ROTC faculty are serv
ing as summer camp cadre. They
include Lt. Col. Herman E. Schu-
barth, Maj. George E. Batcheler,
Maj. Paul F. Thompson II, Maj.
William D. Thomason, Capt. Mar
vin E. Burge, Capt. Edmond S.
Solymosy, 1st Sgt. Alfred H. Pet
ty Jr., SFC William L. Harwell,
SFC Donald R. White, Staff Sgt.
William A. Jackson and Staff
Sgt. Melvin B. Traina.
Cadet training continues through
July 26. A&M has 296 cadets in
summer training. They are also
at Indian Town Gap Military
Reservation, Pa., and Fort Lewis,
Wash.
verted barracks-type College View
Apartments will have to be re
placed in a relatively few years,”
the A&M president noted, “and
the university simply doesn’t have
the money to replace the whole
complex at one time.”
On this basis, Rudder said the
A&M board of directors felt the
institution should start a phased
incremental program to replace
the College View units.
“This position was further val
idated by the projection of the
university’s growth,” he added,
“which indicates an additional
1,000 housing units must be con
structed in the Bryan-College
Station area between now and
September, 1969.”
“Of this 1,000 requirement, the
university will provide 48 units,”
Rudder continued. “The commun
ity must provide the other 952.”
He said this projection for ad
ditional housing will be refined
further after this fall’s enroll
ment is determined.
The university now has 776
apartments for married students,
of which 252 are the newer units
in Hensel.
In anticipation of another cham
pionship year for the Texas Aggie
football team, Alpha Delta Sigma
has initiated some new bumper
stickers for Aggie fans, Bruce
Shulter, club president, has an
nounced.
“The Aggies Are Back,” one of
the most popular of last year’s
stickers, is being continued again
this year. They were sold out
Recruiting of college graduates
moderated somewhat during the
1967-68 “head-hunting” season.
Two per cent fewer job offers
were made to bachelor graduates,
according to Mrs. Gladys S. Bis
hop, acting placement director at
Texas A&M.
Beginning salaries, while high
er, did not match the 1966-67
percentage increase.
Data on college graduate re
cruiting was compiled by the Col
lege Placement Council’s Salary
Survey, of which A&M is a mem
ber with 126 other colleges and
universities.
A major factor in the decline
several times before the season
ended and had to be reprinted,
according to Shulter.
Three new stickers are now on
the scene and one of the most
popular has been “Sock It To
’Em Aggies.”
One Aggie Club liked “The
Aggies Are Back—We Back The
Aggies” so well that they ordered
500 to send out with a mailing
soliciting new membership.
“Is Bevo Expecting?” is an
early, light poke at the neighbors
in Austin, the local club president
said.
All of the new bumper stickers
put out by ADS are being printed
on a new type of paper and are
silk-screened to make them easier
to remove and prevent fading.
The student branch at A&M
of the national advertising fra
ternity also puts out the “Bonfire
Bonanza” each year, a book which
gives in pictorial form an account
of the world famous Aggie Bon
fire, Shulter said.
Following the New Year’s Day
game with Alabama in the Cotton
Bowl, they also put together a
book entitled “The Aggies Are
Back.” This book told of the rise
of the Aggie football team
through the 1967 season, accord
ing to Shulter.
Bumper stickers are now on
sale at the Exchange Store and
the Gift Shop of the Memorial
Student Center. Mail orders can
be sent to the journalism depart
ment, he said.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
of offers, which affected advance
degree recipients more heavily,
was reduced activity by the aero
space industry, the CPC survey
indicated.
“As in the past, the aerospace
industry made more offers than
any other employer group, but
the total (’6,137) represented a
drop of 23.7 per cent,” Mrs. Bis
hop said. “Other leaders were
electronics and chemicals-drugs.”
Master’s degree job offers fell
19 per cent and doctorates 12.
Largest increases in dollar val
ue of offers were made by public
accounting firms, whose job val
ues rose 8.7 per cent. Other em
ployer categories had percentage
raises of six to eight per cent
with the exception of aerospace,
research and consulting organi
zations (5.3 and 3.5 per cent,
respectively.)
In 4th
Dr. Eli L. Whiteley of Texas
A&M, one of five Texan Con
gressional Medal of Honor win
ners, was honored at Independ
ence Day celebrations in Houston,
Galveston and San Antonio.
Whiteley, associate professor of
agronomy, was given a royal
send-off for the observance at
Easterwod Airport Wednesday.
College Station Mayor D. A.
(Andy) Anderson presented the
1944 Medal of Honor winner a
watch in behalf of American Na
tional Insurance Co.
After boarding all five Medal
of Honor recipients, the plane
arrived in Houston in time for
Wednesday afternoon ceremonies
at the Rice Hotel.
The group also was honored
Thursday morning at Houston’s
city hall and Gulfgate Shopping
Center before joining a caravan
which traveled to Galveston along
a route decorated with 1,000
American flags.
Similar ceremonies, along with
a news conference at the Galvez
Hotel, were held at the island city.
The celebration concluded Fri
day in San Antonio where the
winners of the nation’s highest
ward for heroism were guests of
honor at HemisFair.
Whiteley won his Medal of
In comparison, accounting em
ployers have hiked their average
offer 23 per cent during the last
two years. Other groups were
more moderate with 11 to 16 per
cent increases.
Chemical engineers received the
best dollar offers for the third
straight year, followed by electri
cal and mechanical engineering.
Aerospace engineering, normally
in the top three, dropped to fifth.
The top dollar average at the
master’s level went to MBA’s
with a technical undergraduate
degree, chemical and electrical en
gineering. Doctoral candidates in
chemical, civil and electrical en
gineers received the best offers.
The study revealed technical
students were offered an average
$789 monthly wage in 1967-68
with $693 to non-techs.
Honor in a battle wtih German
SS troops for the fortress city
of Sigolsheim, France, Dec. 26,
1944. His citation, in p?rt, stated:
“By his disregard f^r personal
safety, aggressiveness while suf-
Monday Last Day
For Listing Cards
Monday is the deadline for re
turning faculty-staff listings for
Texas A&M’s 1968-69 campus di
rectory, reminded University In
formation Director Jim Lindsey.
Lindsey noted information cards
for the new directory were mailed
to all campus offices earlier this
month as a follow-up to an ini
tial request for listings in May.
He explained the purpose of the
second mailing is to include any
persons missed during the first
round or who have joined the
university since the start of sum
mer.
The cards should be returned to
the Student Publications Depart
ment in the Services Building.
Lindsey said it is particularly
important that this year’s direc
tory be as complete as possible
because every telephone number
on campus will change Aug. 18.
Students who are planning to
live in residence halls during the
fall semester should stop by the
Housing Office and fill out a
“Old-Returning” buff -colored
room reservation card this week,
according to Allan M. Madeley,
housing manager.
Any reservations made for the
summer session was made only
for the summer and does not
apply to the fall semester, he
said.
Freshmen who have been ac
cepted for the fall semester but
have not submitted fall reserva
tion cards should obtain them
from the Registrar’s Office and
return them to the Housing Of
fice at once, Madeley continued.
Students who entered as trans
fers in June should fill out white
cards. Sophomores, juniors and
seniors should fill out the buff-
colored cards. Graduate students
should fill out green housing
cards and international students
should complete the blue cards.
Madeley reminded students that
since the demand for residence
halls is expected to be heavy this
fall and room reservations are
handled on a date-received basis,
it is important that the cards be
returned as soon as possible.
Aug. 15 is the deadline for can
cellations. Any cancellations after
this period will cause a forfeit
of the room deposit, Madeley
pointed out.
fering from severe wounds, de
termined leadership, and superb
courage, Lieutenant Whiteley
killed nine Germans, captured 23
more and spearheaded an attack
which cracked the core of enemy
resistance in a vital area.”
Whiteley was one of six former
Texas A&M students awarded the
Medal of Honor during World
War II. Four of the awards were
made posthumously.
The A&M professor is a 1942
graduate and a native of George
town. William G. Harrell, a 1943
graduate from Mercedes, survived
the war but died in 1963.
The four who gave their lives
during the conflict were Lloyd H.
Hughes, 1943, Corpus Christi;
George D. Keathley, 1937, Olney;
Turney W. Leonard, 1942, Dallas,
and Thomas W. Fowler, 1943,
Wichita Falls.
Other Medal of Honor winners
participating in the three-day
observance were Lucian Adams
and Daniel W. Lee, both of San
Antonio; James M. Logan, Kil
gore, and Lt. Col. George H.
O’Brien Jr., Midland.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
B B & L —Adv.
PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH
Roger Kloppe, psychology major from Houston, seems to be trying to make up his mind
and find the best bumper sticker for his car. The new bumper stickers are a project of
Alpha Delta Sigma fraternity and are on sale at several campus locations. (Batt Staff
Photo)
Aggies Top Fort Sill List
In Array ROTC Summer Camp
Bumper Stickers Reflect
Aggie Determination In 9 68
Local War Hero Cited
Celebrations