VOLUME 64 Number 69
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
Nixon To Outline Agnew’s Role
On U. S. National Strategy | Jn Shaping Domestic Policies
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By DAVE BERRY
Ten A&'M student leaders hope
to return from Dallas tonig-ht
with a better understanding of
the factors involved in the for
mulation of U.S. national strat
egy-
This was the theme of the
Dallas Council on World Affairs
which the students attended yes
terday and today.
They were accompanied by J.
Wayne Stark, Memorial Student
Center director, and were chosen
jointly by Stark, Edwin H. Cooper,
Civilian Student Activities direc
tor, and Maj. Edmund S. Soly-
mosy, assistant commandant.
“THESE ARE students who we
thought would profit from this
experience and who would be able
to bring something back to share
with their fellow students,” Coop
er said.
‘W. W. Lynch, Dallas Power &
Light Co. president and an Aggie-
Ex, invited A&M to send repre
sentatives to the council,” Cooper-
continued.
“Arrangements were made be
forehand for accommodations and
admission fees,” Cooper added.
‘The group left early yesterday
afternoon to attend the opening
dinner.”
Co-sponsors of the council were
the Dallas Council and the Na
tional Strategy Information Cen-
Pershing’ Topic
For University
cture Series
“John J. Pershing, A Career of
Leadership” is the topic for the
Tuesday presentation of the Uni
versity Lecture Series, an
nounced Dr. Edwin B. Doran Jr.,
series chairman.
Guest speaker for the 8 p.m.
program in the Architecture
Building auditorium will be Dr.
Frank E. Vandiver, chairman of
the History Department at Rice.
Dr. Vandiver is preparing a
multi-volume biography of Gen.
John J. (Black Jack) Pershing of
World War I fame. The Persh
ing family has made available
to the Rice professor many of the
general’s unpublished writings.
In preparing for the biogra
phy, Doran noted Vandiver vis
ited many of the sites where
Pershing won his fame, includ
ing the “Western Front” in Eur
ope, Pancho Villa’s home ground
near Chihuahua, Mexico, and the
Phillippines, where Pershing
played a major role in combating
an insurrection.
Privately educated, he received
his B.A. degree by examination
from the University o/ Texas,
where he also earned his master’s
degree. He earned his Ph.D. at
Tulane.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
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ter in New York. Their stated
objective was to “bring important
information concerning the na
tional strategy of the United
States to the civilians of Dallas.”
EXPERTS WERE invited to
speak : and then participate in
panel discussions. The topics dis
cussed included the freedom of
Southeast Asia, intervention and
defense in Latin America, Soviet
strategy and the Middle East, and
the future of U.S. national strat
egy.
Stark explained that most ma
jor cities conduct such “world
conferences” to attract interna
tional speakers interested in civic
affairs.
The students who attended the
council with Stark were Bennie
Sims, MSC Council president; Bill
Carter, Student Senate president;
Mac Spears, MSC Council vice-
president of operations; and Har
ry A. Snowdy, Jr., MSC Council
vice-president of programs.
Also attending were Don Mc-
Crory, SCONA chairman; David
Maddox, Great Issues chairman;
Ronald D. Hinds, Political Forum
chairman; Garry P. Mauro, civil
ian yell leader; Wayne Gosnell,
Issues Committee chairman; and
Bert T. Henderson, Election Com
mission vice-president.
Major Student Denominations
Led By Baptists, Catholics
Baptists took the lead again
as denominational preference
among students here, although
Catholics edged out the tradi
tional second-place Methodists
Colleges Plan
‘Career Day’
Next Month
The Colleges of Engineering
and Agriculture will conduct “Ca
reer Day” programs for prospec
tive students March 7-8.
The College of Veterinary
Medicine also has tentative plans
for a “Parent Day” and open
house in May. Specific date will
be determined by completion of
facilities in the veterinary medi
cine complex.
A spokesman for the New Stu
dent Weed Committee noted the
all-university “Career Day,” nor
mally held in the spring, has
been changed to fall this year.
The College of Engineering,
however, will host prospective
high school and junior college
students, along with parents and
teachers, in conjunction with the
annual Junior Engineering Tech
nical society (JETS) conference
March 7-8. Inquiries should be
sent to Assistant Engineering
Dean J. G. McGuire.
The College of Agriculture’s
“Career Day” program the same
days will include various exhib
its in the Plant Sciences Build
ing. Similar exhibits will be
erected May 3 in G. Rollie White
Coliseum in conjunction with the
State FFA Livestock Judging.
Persons interested in attend
ing either of the agricultural
programs should contact Dr. R.
C. Potts, associate dean of agri
culture, noted the committee
spokesman.
Inquiries about the veterinary
medicine program should be for
warded to Dr. Edgar D. McMur-
ry, assistant veterinary medicine
dean, the spokesman added.
by one person, according to a
YMCA survey compiled by Lo
gan Weston, religious life co
ordinator and general secretary.
From slightly over 12,000 stu
dents, 10,736 registered a prefer
ence during enrollment for the
spring term, said Weston.
Baptists led the list of church
affiliations with 2,383, with
Catholics numbering 2,265 and
Methodists 2,264.
The figures were less than last
semester when Baptists totaled
2,646; Methodists 2,508, and
Catholics 2,456.
The report remains consistent:
with previous years,” said Wes
ton. “There are some decreases
as well as increases, but they are
consistent across the board con
sidering a slightly lower student
enrollment which is natural dur
ing the spring semester.”
Other groups remained basic
ally the same. Presbyterians fol
lowed with 750; Lutherans, 645;
Episcopal, 542; Church of Christ,
511; Christian (Disciples of
Christ), 323, and Jewish 100.
The next highest categories
were Moslem, 82; United Church
of Christ, 59; Assembly of God,
53; Unitarian, 44; Mormon, 44;
Brethren, 34, and Hindu, 31.
Weston noted 532 students
gave their preference as Protes
tant. Other preferences includ
ed Christian Science, Greek Or
thodox, Nazarene, Pentecostal
and Buddhist.
BLACKBOARD-BY-WIRE CHECK
A Texas Education Agency team completed evaluation Thursday of Creative Application
of Technology to Education (Cate) Center programs, for possible state funding. View
ing the blackboard-by wire transmitter at the Texas A&M-located center are (standing,
left to right) Max Slaughter, Region 6 Service Center director, Huntsville; Mrs. Virginia
Cutter, dissemination; Dr. Irene St. Clair, math; A1 Peters, program development, and
Sherman Wagner, media, TEA specialists. At the console is Taylor Riedel, A&M Consoli
dated superintendent. The school district is funding agent of the center.
Man Now Seeking Knowledge
Of Ocean’s Deepest Secrets
$60,000 Grant
Given By NASA
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration granted
$60,623 to Dr. C. R. Kettlesbor-
ough, distinguished A&M profes
sor of mechanical engineering,
Senator Ralph Yarborough in
formed The Battalion Thursday.
The grant will study water im
pact in the Apollo project. The
study will determine, whether the
heat shield on the capsule can be
altered without harmful effects
during re-entry.
For centuries, man’s unquench
able curiosity and imagination
have moved him to extend the
geographic limits of his activi
ties and the intellectual horizons
of his knowledge.
Today, with the earth's land
areas well mapped and relatively
well explored, he has begun to
study his planet’s other wilder
ness, the ocean. Dr. Earl F.
Cook, acting dean of the College
of Geosciences, declared.
“Scientists now consider the
ocean as a great new source of
materials and food, as well as a
huge sewer into which ultimate
ly everything goes,” he said.
AS A RESULT, added Cook,
it is important to know more
about the food chain and produc
tivity of the ocean, including
WEATHER
Saturday — Cloudy to partly
cloudy. Wind Northerly 10 to
20 mph. High 68, low 46.
Sunday — Partly cloudy. Wind
Northerly 10 mph. High 66, low
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air, relax in TWA lounge. Grounded planes and snow-
ocean sediments and how they
affect marine ecology and pro
vide minerals, sustain drilling
platforms and absorb wastes.
Equally important is learning
ocean currents and chemistry as
well as the interactions of the
ocean with the atmosphere which
produce our weather and our
supply of fresh water.
Since 1949, A&M has been a
leader in the quest for more
knowledge about the oceans. For
a year and a half, A&M served
as the International Geophysical
Year World Data Center for
Oceanography.
A&M also was one of the orig
inal 14 participants in the estab
lishment of the University Cor
poration for Atmospheric Re
search 10 years ago at Boulder,
Colo., and is a member of the
Gulf Universities Research Corp.
COOK POINTED out that
A&M “has become one of the key
centers of oceanographic and
meteorological studies in the na
tion.
Most outstanding, perhaps, are
the vast research capabilities to
be found on the university’s cam
pus, at its Marine Laboratory in
Galveston and aboard the 800-
ton research vessel, Alaminos.
As a result of its broad capa
bilities, Cook pointed out A&M
can gather “a wide array of
oceanographic and meteorologi
cal data.”
Cook also emphasized that off
shore oil platforms are “occa
sionally equipped with environ
mental sensors for automatic
data gathering to provide infor
mation of wind speeds and di-
Spring ‘Festival’
Opens Tonight
With Italian Film
“Yesterday, Today and Tomor
row,” an award - winning Italian
film, will be show at 8 p.m. Fri
day in the Memorial Student
Center ballroom, Film Commit
tee chairman Carlos Almaguer
announced Tuesday.
Tickets for the Festival can be
purchased from the MSC Stu
dent Programs Office or the
Contemporary Arts Committee.
“As in the past, only season
tickets are available,” Almaguer
said. Student tickets are $3,
with non-student, faculty, and
date tAckets are going for $5.
TViere are no sing\e admission
dicVets.
rections, air temperature of the
sea surface, underwater tem
peratures and current speed and
direction.”
COOK SAID about $1.5 million
worth of research is done an
nually for the Office of Naval
Research in the Gulf of Mexico
and adjacent waters.
The departments have emerged
in a relatively short time as sig
nificant contributors to basic en
vironmental research, Cook add
ed. Contributions include:
• Obtaining a better under
understanding of the ocean circu
lation and thermal structure of
the Gulf including the Gulf
including the Gulf Stream.
• History and structural rela
tionships of the bottom and sub
bottom geologic formations in
the Gulf and Caribbean areas, as
well as the composition and soil
mechanics properties of the sedi
ments in these areas.
• The fauna (animal life) of
the Gulf and their role in the
productivity cycle of the total
ecological system.
• Feasibility of using remote
sensing instruments located in
airplanes to study critical ocean
ographic parameters.
By CARL P. LEUBSDORF
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON UPl — Presi
dent Nixon is expected to issue
an executive order very shortly
detailing the expanded role Vice
President Spiro T. Agnew will
play in the administration’s do
mestic policies.
The order is expected to for
malize what Nixon has said will
be the vice president’s significant
duties in coordinating activities
among several federal agencies
and between the administration
and state and local governments.
The executive order, it was
learned, is likely to include estab
lishment of the office of inter
governmental relations, through
which Agnew hopes to formalize
and clarify lines of communica
tions between the federal govern
ment and other levels.
THE creation of the agency,
with its own staff responsible to
the vice president, formalizes for
Agnew the role divided in the
Johnson administration by Vice
President Hubert H. Humphrey,
and the Office of Emergency
Preparedness.
Agnew is said to be especially
interested in his role as chief co
ordinator of federal-state-local
relations because of his prior ex
perience as governor of Maryland
and Baltimore county executive.
Those close to the vice presi
dent say they are pleased with
the way his role has developed
since the Nixon administration
took over last month.
While he has spent considerable
time presiding over the Senate
and establishing good relations
with individual senators, Agnew
has also been a regular at the
high-level meetings of the Cab
inet, National Security Council
and Urban Affairs Council.
HE presided over the latter
group twice last week in Nixon’s
absence.
Like other vice presidents,
Agnew has a Capitol Hill staff,
and other staff in the executive
office building adjoining the
White House.
But the vice president himself
is quartered in the White House,
right next to Nixon’s presidential
. office.
“He and the President have a
pair of working offices, back to
back, with an open door policy
between them,” an aide said, add
ing that “his ideas have been
sought right along.”
Walter Mote and Frank Da
Costa, two key Agnew aides, say
that one of the vice president’s
main concerns in the first month
has been to establish good rela
tionships in the Senate. He is the
first vice president since Henry
Wallace in the early 1940s to
come from the post without prior
Senate service.
As for whether Agnew will be
come the chief voice in Congress
for Nixon’s forthcoming legisla
tive proposals. Mote says “we’ll
have to play it by ear.” But he
added that “everything indicates
it will be a team effort.”
A&M Maritime Academy Hurt
By Legislature Budget Cuts
AUSTIN (Ah — Unless the
legislature restores budget cuts,
the Texas Maritime Academy’s
Pelican Island installation will be
like “having a bathroom but no
fixtures,” Adm. J. D. Craik said
today.
The Academy, established in
1962, is part of the Texas A&M
University System.
Craik, the academy superin
tendent, appeared before the
House Appropriations Commit
tee.
The Legislative Budget Board
recommendations deleted $734,-
000 that the Galveston school
asked to develop the educational
buildings and docking facilities
being built at Pelican Island.
Craik said the Moody Founda
tion had given the school $1 mil
lion for the Pelican Island in
stallation.
Craik said the school has
grown from 24 students when it
opened in 1962 to an enrollment
of 145. There were 1,300 appli
cations for admission last year,
he said.
The school operates a four-
year bachelor degree program.
training its graduates for posts
as ship’s officers in the merchant
marine.
Craik said starting salaries for
the school’s graduates run as
high as $1,200 a month.
He said the state, federal gov
ernment and students each bear
about one third of the costs of
the academy.
“Regardless of Vietnam, the
shipping companies have had
trouble filling officer berths,”
Craik said.
Rep. Russell Cummings of
Houston questioned “w h e t h e r
Texas ought to be spending all
this tax money (about $960,047
a year now) on a program that
is available elsewhere at federal
expense.”
“If you want to give our Texas
lads this opportunity, I don’t
know of any better way to do it
than the maritime academy,”
Craik said.
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