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he Battalion 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 74. Friday — Partly cloudy. Wind Southely 10 to 15 m.p.h. High 94, low 72. Telephone 845-2226 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.