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cloudy with
rain and
humidity
Wednesday, September 2, 1970
Thursday—Partly cloudy morn
ing, cloudy afternoon, scattered
thundershowers. Wind South
10 to 15 m.p.h. High 92, low
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Friday — Partly cloudy. Wind
Southely 10 to 15 m.p.h. High
94, low 72.
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Texas to gain
House position,
figures show
THE FIRST LOG for the 1970 Aggie bonfire has been ob- The annual bonfire will blaze Nov. 24, two days before the
tained by Hughes Hall. The log was cut near Wellborn. Turkey Day game with the University of Texas at Austin.
A&M computer victor at chess
Texas A&M evened its record in the 1st U.S. Computer
[Chess Championships with a Tuesday night default victory
{over the University of Alberta.
A spokesman for the Texas A&M team said the
(Canadian institution was disqualified when its computer
encountered mechanical difficulty.
The competition, pitting six chess-playing computer
programs created by four universities and two industrial-
research organizations, is being held in conjunction with the
annual meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery
in New York.
The three-night tournament is conducted by telephoned
jinstmctions fed into the computers back home.
Texas A&M was ambushed Monday night by Informa
tion Display Inc., a computer display manufacturing
company.
Other teams in the tournament are Carnegie—Mellon
University, Northwestern University and Bell Telephone
Laboratories.
In addition to Dr. Dan Drew, director of computer and
I information science, the Texas A&M team is composed of Dr.
• Udo Pooch, another professor; three graduate students,
Frank Ceruti, Rolf C. Smith, Jr. and James Roberts, and
Elliott Bray, an employee at A&M’s Data Processing Center.
Pooch, Ceruti and Smith are directing A&M operations
at tournament headquarters in New York, while Drew,
Roberts and Bray mind the IBM 360/65 computer at College
Station.
The A&M chess program is called Schach—which means
chess in German—and is primarily a graduate project initiated
last year by Smith and Ceruti.
A&M representatives are quick to admit their program
has some flaws.
“We simply can’t spend a lot of time perfecting
techniques,” Drew observed, ’’and that’s what it would take
to really get the job done.”
“At one point Monday night our program had the
opportunity to make a pretty devastating blow,” he pointed
out, “but it didn’t ‘see’ the move and ended up making a
pretty dumb play.”
While this chess playing could appear to be rather
frivolous, Drew noted, the program concepts associated with
such an activity are common to many areas of computer
application and therefore provide excellent training.
Silver Taps
held for two
summer dead
Silver Taps were held Tuesday
night for two students who died
in summer automobile accidents.
They were Robert E. Over-
street, graduate student in animal
science of Floydada, and Richard
R. Brown, agricultural engineer
ing senior of Crockett.
Overstreet was killed near
Vernon on June 4 enroute to a
summer job in Georgia. The grad
uate student’s friends are start
ing a scholarship fund in his
honor.
The newlywed Brown, 22, and
his wife, the former Paula Trenck
of Houston were coming to Col
lege Station from Houston Aug.
26. They were killed in a two-car
collision a mile west of Hockley
in northeast Harris County. An
other couple was seriously injured
in the accident.
Mrs. Brown was a S. F. Austin
University graduate and research
technician in the M. D. Anderson
Hospital before their marriage.
Employe ends 44
years with A&M
Steve M. Visoski tapped add
ing machine keys in the Physi
cal Plant Department accounting
office for the last time Monday,
completing more than 44 years
work at Texas A&M University.
The 65 - year - old accountant
was honored by Walter H. Par
sons Jr., friends and department
co-workers in retirement cere
monies.
His wife Teresa was present
for the afternoon presentation
of Visoski’s retirement certifi
cate.
A lifetime resident of Brazos
County and 1925 A&M Consoli
dated High School graduate,
Visoski began working at Texas
A&M in 1926.
WASHINGTON <A>> — Texas
will pick up at least one addi
tional seat in the U.S. House of
Representatives in 197 | 2 on the
basis of preliminary census fig
ures released Tuesday, a House
committee said.
The projection was made short
ly after Secretary of Commerce
Maurice H. Stans announced that
Texas swept past Illinois and
Ohio to become the fourth most
populous state and that Hous
ton’s burgeoning growth moved
it up to the sixth largest city in
the nation, bumping Baltimore
from the post.
Stans also reported that Dallas
skyrocketed from the 14th largest
city 10 years ago to eighth place
in 1970 and that San Antonio
moved from 17th to 15th this
year.
He said that by the time mili
tary personnel overseas, ships’
crews and transients are counted,
the nation’s population on last
April 1 will be between 204 mil
lion and 205 million—close to the
estimated mark of 204.8 million.
Texas’ population climbed al
most 1.5 million in the past dec
ade from 9,579,677 in 1960 to
10,989,123 this year, Stans re
ported, for a growth of 14.7 per
cent.
This moved the state into
fourth place behind California,
New York and Pennsylvania and
ahead of Illinois, which dropped
KAMU
will air
questions
KAMU-TV, Texas A&M Uni
versity’s educational television
station, will introduce Thursday
a locally produced program,
“Station Manager’s Memo.”
“Station Manager’s Memo”
will be shown at 8:30 p.m. on
Channel 15, or Channel 12 on
the cable service.
Chastain said KAMU-TV wel
comes questions regarding pro
gramming and other aspects of
operation. The questions can be
mailed to the station or tele
phoned before or during the pro
gram.
from fourth to fifth, and Ohio,
which fell from fifth to sixth.
California displaced New York as
the most populous state.
Based on these preliminary fig
ures, Texas, together with Ari
zona, Colorado and Connecticut
will add at least one House seat,
according to calculations by the
staff of the House subcommittee
on census and statistics, headed
by Rep. Charles H. Wilson, D-
Calif.
The reapportionment will be ef
fective for the 93rd Congress
which will be elected in 1972 and
which takes office on Jan 3, 1973.
The changes in ranking of state
populations came as no surprise
to census officials. California was
estimated to have' passed New
York in the mid-1960s and now is
well ahead with a population of
19.7 million compared with New
York’s 18 million.
Secretary Stans also made
these points:
• More than three-fourths of
national growth occurred in met
ropolitan areas with suburban
rings showing rapid and substan
tial population growth. Suburb
anites now outnumber those liv
ing in central cities declined
sharply.
• Population in many central
cities declined sharply. Declines
also occurred in the decade of the
1950s, but the number of cities
showing population losses in the
1960s appears to be greater than
in the previous decade.
Tickets available
for Wichita game
A&M students may start pick
ing up tickets for the Aggie-Wi-
chita State football game Sept.
12 this week, Athletic Business
Manager Wally Groff has an
nounced.
The schedule, by classes, is as
follows: Wednesday — graduate
students and seniors; Thursday—
Juniors; Friday — Sophomores;
Monday—Freshmen; Tuesday —
anyone who missed his regularly
scheduled pickup day.
A student must have his ac
tivity card in order to get his
football ticket. Those who have
paid for an activity card but
who haven’t picked it up can get
them at G. Rollie White Coliseum.
All students are allowed to
buy one student guest ticket for
$6.00. These are for a student’s
wife, date or guest.
licket windows will be
from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
open
$2, $4, $8, $16, $32, forget it!
parking fines now have teeth
A new system of fines for Anyone with six or more tick
parking violations is now in ef
fect as part of a program intend
ed to reduce the number of tick
ets issued.
Upon receipt of a parking tick
et the recipient must report to
the University Police office in
the YMCA Building where the
amount of the fee will be set ac
cording to prior violations.
It may be paid at the Fiscal
Office in the Coke Building.
Fees for parking tickets are
$2 for the first, $4 for the sec
ond, $8 for the third, $16 for the
fourth and $32 for the fifth.
ets will have his permit revoked
and will be prohibited from driv
ing on the campus the rest of
the semester.
A penalty of $5 is added if the
fee is not paid within 72 hours
from the date of notice.
Any appeals must be filed at
the University Police office with
in 72 hours (not including Satur
days, Sundays and school holi
days).
The new policy was passed by
the student - staff University
Traffic Committee last spring
and approved by the A&M board
of directors.
TEAM PREPARES for Wichita State game Sept. 12 dur-
an afternoon on the recently installed AstroTurf in
K yle Field stadium. (Photo by Steve Bryant)
Air Cadets take 3 top awards
to lead in summer training
Texas A&M Air Force ROTC cadets
a Ptured three Vice Commandant’s Awards at
-glin AFB, Fla., in August, to give the Aggies
la lf the honors at the special summer field
lining encampment for military schools.
Recipients of the award during the July
9-Aug. 15 encampment were Anthony J.
!es t of Dyess AFB; John J. Quesenberry, San
^tonio, and John C. Souders, Jr. of Dallas.
A&M cadets also were accorded five of
awards during the earlier summer camp
® s sion at Eglin, announced Col. Keith C.
an na, professor of aerospace studies.
The Vice Commandant’s Award was
aa de to the top cadet of each 23 or 24-man
•iEht on the basis of leadership capabilities
and military subjects proficiency. Cadets serve
in various flight command positions during
the training.
“The record of Texas A&M cadets at
camp this year was very good, especially since
they were competing with other military
schools,” Hanna said.
Recipients at the earlier Eglin camp were
Kenneth L. Doskocil of Burlington; Ronald E.
Hagood, Austin; Kenneth R. Johse, Wharton;
Michael J. Shearer, Mascoutah, 111.; and
Thomas V. Stinson, Jr., San Antonio.
At Dover AFB, Del., Billy M. Bobbitt of
Crockett and Benjamin R. Chappell of
Kaufman were presented the award. Jimmy L.
Harris of Waco and Robert S. Rogers of Fort
Worth were selected at Tinker AFB, Okla.
MARCH TUNES THUNDER through new rehearsal facili
ties Monday in the Dorm Services Building as the Aggie
Band holds its first full rehearsal in the new band hall.
The world-famous marching band only has two weeks to
ready its halftime performance for the Sept. 12 Texas
A&M-Wichita State game on Kyle Field.