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Vol. 65 No. 55 College Station, Texas Tuesday, January 6, 1970 Telephone 845-2226
UP FOR TWO
Chuck Smith, no. 32, rebounds for two points while Steve Niles (no. 52) and Bill Cooksey
look on during the Sun Bowl Basketball Tournament in El Paso Dec. 22-23 during an
A&M-Missouri contest. The Ags were outscored by Missouri, 81-79. A&M swept the
Poinsetta Classic in Greenville, S. C., Dec. 29-30. The Ag cagers open Southwest Con
ference play tonight in Fayettville. See related story, page 4. (Photo by Mike Wright)
Will Be a Problem-Solving Session
Set for February
‘Jericho 9
“Operation Jericho,” an at
tempt by A&M students and ad
ministrators to break down the
walls between the two groups,
has been scheduled Feb. 18-20 on
the campus.
Otway Denny of the Memorial
Student Center Leadership Com
mittee said the conference will
be the first of its kind held at
A&M and that it has the enthu
siastic support of A&M Presi
dent Earl Rudder.
The conference format was de-
i veloped by Dr. W. R. Smith of
A&M’s Psychology Department.
Denny, a junior political sci
ence major from La Porte, ex
plained that three training ses
sions will be held Feb. 5, 10 and
16 when the 90 A&M students
divide into 15 groups of six to
discuss student problems.
During “Operation Jericho”
the students will be given a list
of student complaints received
by the administration and the
students will discuss and give
recommendations for solutions,
Denny said.
“We will give three or four
recommendations and also pick
out one solution which we feel
is the best answer from a stu
dent’s viewpoint,” he remarked.
The topics to be discussed will
not be selected until February,
Denny said.
David Reed, San Antonio sen
ior, is chairman of the Leader
ship Committee and Jim Haw
thorne, Dallas junior, is Jericho
chairman. The conference is co
sponsored by the Student Sen
ate.
YMCA Program Helps 43 Area Families
Texas A&M’s YMCA finished
'its most successful Christmas
season this year by helping 43
needy families with 286 children
and wrapping 873 Christmas
packages for students.
YMCA Secretary Logan E.
Weston said that the number of
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Low 21, high 38.
Thursday — Cloudy, light
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packages wrapped were about
triple the amount done previous
ly-
The packages ranged in size
from small jewelry boxes to bi
cycle-size packages, Weston ex
plained, with all wrapping done
at no charge by secretaries from
various departments.
Weston said the YMCA had
110 families with 689 children
listed for Christmas help. Sixty-
nine families with 403 children
went unaided, and Weston indi
cated that they apparently were
not helped by any groups at
Christmas time.
In 1968, 34 families with 223
children were aided by the YMCA
Christmas drive, he said.
He reported that Stephen F.
Austin High School in Bryan
helped nine families, A&M! Con
solidated High School aided three,
A&M groups helped 18, the
YMCA helped seven, individual
students and faculty aided three
and St. Mary’s Catholic Church
aided three.
Weston said one A&M civilian
residence hall purchased winter
jackets for a family with eight
or nine children in addition to
purchasing food.
Panel Delays Action
On Zoning Revision
The College Station Planning
and Zoning Commission decided
Monday night to delay considera
tion of a revised zoning ordi
nance until Jan. 19, the next
scheduled meeting.
In other business, the commis
sion approved three rezoning
requests and turned down two
others.
The preliminary zoning ordi
nance is not far enough along to
be approved tonight, Chairman
Codie Wells said.
“We will have a number of
public hearings in auditoriums in
College Station to hear from citi
zens on the new zoning ordi
nance,” Wells answered to a ques
tion from the audience.
“You need to let the people
know how these zoning laws will
affect us,” Mrs. Edward H. Miller
of 504 Gurnsey said, “we want
to know what’s going on.”
Wells suggested that the com-
Dr. David W. Mullins, Uni
versity of Arkansas president,
will be commencement speaker at
Texas A&M’s graduation cere
monies, announced A&M Presi
dent Earl Rudder.
The Jan. 17 ceremonies will be
held at 9:30 a.m. in G. Rollie
W T hite Coliseum.
Mullins was named, president
of the University of Arkansas in
1960 after serving 11 years as
executive vice president of Au-
the Universtiy of Colorado and
doctorate from Columbia.
MULLINS
burn. He began his career in
higher education at Auburn in
1941 as associate professor of
school administration.
An Arkansas native, Mullins
earned his undergraduate degree
in 1931 at the University of
Arkansas, where he was elected
a member of Phi Beta Kappa,
national honor fraternity. He re
ceived his master’s degree from
mission follow Houston’s exam
ple and use educational televi
sion for a panel discussion con
cerning the new ordinance.
Daily Eagle reporter Kate
Thomas asked for a copy of the
preliminary ordinance for publi
cation in the Eagle.
“A copy of the preliminary
version of the ordinance cannot
be released until the council can
review it because there may be
radical changes in it before it
goes out,” Wells said.
The members of the commis
sion will have to have time to
review it and bring in their com
ments, Wells added.
“There seems to be so much
going on that we don’t hear
about until we read the Eagle.
There are many things we don’t
know and aren’t kept informed
on,” Mrs. Miller said.
“The commission has not come
up with a plan — only a pre-
He is a past president of the
Southern Association of State
Universities and Land Grant Col
leges and currently serves as a
member of the executive commit
tee of the National Association
of State Universities and Land
Grant Colleges.
The World War II Navy vet
eran also, has served as a member
of the National Advisory Council
of Economic Education for Invest-
liminary draft,” Commissioner
Carl Landiss said. “On Jan. 19,
we plan to put additional points
in the ordinance. After that
the commission will make its rec
ommendations.”
Developers also will be asked
to review the ordinance with the
commission before it is approved,
Wells added.
“We are not interested in de
velopers. We are from the older
section of College Station and we
don’t have street lamps and we
have chuckholes in our street”,
yet the developers are getting
street lamps and paved streets,
Mrs. Miller said. “Some of this
has been to the detriment of the
older section,” Mrs. Miller added.
If the preliminary ordinance is
published, some of it may be
taken out and this may cause
controversy, Commissioner J. D.
Lindsay said. Controversy may
never occur if the preliminary
ordinance is not published, Lind-
in-America National Council, Inc.,
the Atlantic Council of the United
States and the International
Association of Universtiy Presi
dents.
Mullins last year served as
president of the Southern Uni
versity Conference. Other affili
ations include the Southern Re
gional Eduction Board and the
SREB Council on Graduate Edu
cation in Agricultural Sciences.
say said.
The preliminary draft is the
thinking of only three people,
Landiss said, yet if it is published
it will be taken as the thinking
of the entire commission. There
will be a hearing in larger au
ditoriums in the city, Landiss
said.
“At any point, Mi's. Thomas
said, “the public should have ac
cess to any preliminary ordi
nance.”
“As far as I am concerned, I
have no objection if the public
wants to come to the city hall to
read the preliminary ordinance,”
Wells said.
A copy of the preliminary or
dinance “should be given out to
the press,” Gardner said.
At this point, a motion and a
second was made to adjourn.
“I think we are hasty on ad
journing. We shouldn’t adjourn
until we have a better resolution
as far as the press is concerned,”
Gardner said.
A copy of the preliminary or
dinance was given to the Eagle
reporter and the meeting was
adjourned.
Earlier in the meeting, the
committee acted on five rezoning
requests.
The first of those approved was
a reconsideration to rezone a 1.9
acre tract east of proposed An
derson Street and south of Holle-
man Drive. The property was re
zoned from residential to busi
ness. Commissioners Everett
Janne and Douglas Stone voted
against approval.
The second zoning change in
volved a 27.2 acre tract between
Park Place Street and Holleman
Drive and east of the proposed
Anderson Street from Park
(See Zoning, page 2)
SNOW NO OBSTACLE
Noah the Arc, an 18-month-old Afghan hound, gets in his daily walks despite 16 inches
of snow on the ground. His owners, Mr. and Mrs. Francis X. McPhillips of Robbinsdale,
Minn., alternate the dog-walking—or driving—duties; she does it during the week, he
does it on weekends. (AP Wirephoto)
UA President To Give
Graduation Address
1960s:
Many Centennial Goals Already Reality
A Period of Growth and Diversification for A&M
The sixties were good to Texas
A&M. It was a period of growth,
change and diversification.
A&M began the decade as an
all-male military college with an
enrollment of 7,526. Today it is
a co-educational university at
tracting 14,042 students from
every state in the nation and
approximately 75 foreign coun
tries. While maintaining its mili
tary heritage, participation in
A&M’s Corps of Cadets is now
strictly voluntary.
Lofty objectives were estab
lished in the early 1960’s for
attainment by the institution’s
centennial in 1976. In half the
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
allotted time, Texas A&M achieved
the majority of the designated
goals. The objectives were out
lined by A&M’s Board of Direc
tors in response to the report of
the Century Council, composed
of 100 distinguished Texans who
conducted a thorough study of the
institution and made long-range
recommendations.
The report called for develop
ment of a physical plant consist
ent with a program of excellence,
increased emphasis on strong re
search and graduate programs,
strengthening existing instruc
tional programs and expansion
into new fields.
Keeping pace with enrollment,
the university has continually
expanded its physical plant, more
than doubling its value during the
10-year period. New facilities
include the Cyclotron Institute,
Olin E. Teague Research Center,
Nuclear Science Center, Archi
tecture Building, Library, Plant
Sciences Building, Biological Sci
ences Building, Information Serv
ices Building, Hensel Apartments
and seven new units for College
View Apartments, and major
additions to the veterinary medi
cine complex, Kyle Field and
numerous campus buildings.
The universtiy’s growth in en
rollment and expansion of facili
ties has been paraleled by in
creased research activities con-
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
BB&L —Adv.
ducted in 150 different labora
tories. The annual research
budget now totals approximately
$24 million, up more than 100 per
cent since the start of the decade.
Tying in with research, A&M now
2,700, compared to some 500 in
1960.
During the 1960s, Texas A&M
became a national leader in
nuclear and space research, as
well as in computer operations
and oceanographic and marine-
related activities.
When Texas A&M attained
“university” status in 1963, it
consisted of the Colleges of Arts
and Sciences, Engineering, Agri
culture, Veterinary Medicine and
Graduate College. It now in
cludes the Colleges of Architec
ture, Business Administration,
Education, Geosciences, Liberal
Arts and Science, in addition to
the Colleges of Engineering, Agri
culture, Veterinary Medicine and
the Graduate College.
Texas A&M also created the
Texas Maritime Academy in 1962
and is now building a whole new
campus in Galveston for the
academy and various oceanogra
phic and marine projects.
The programs of the sixties
were conducted under the admin
istration of Earl Rudder, who
was named president of the insti
tution July 1, 1959, slightly more
than a year after he returned to
his alma mater as vice president.
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