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Vol- 66 No. 131
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, July 7, 1971
THURSDAY - FRIDAY Cloudy
to partly cloudy, thundreshow-
ers. Wind southerly, 10 to 15
m.p.h. High 87, low 74.
SATURDAY - SUNDAY Gen
erally partly cloudy, a few
widely scattered showers. Wind
southerly, 10 to 15 m.p.h. High
90, low 70.
845-2226
INDEPENDENCE DAY celebration Monday at Tiger Field
included the local Air Force Reserve color guard, joined by
area Boy Scouts. The moon even provided a backdrop for
Old Glory. The festivities included a fireworks display and
the Lackland AFB, San Antonio band, and were sponsored
by the College Station Recreation Council, American Legion
Post 179 and the College Station Lions Club. (Photos by
Debi Blackmon)
Billy Graham
film will be
shown Sunday
The latest Billy Graham film,
“Lost Generation,” will be shown
Sunday night at the First Baptist
Church in College Station. Serv
ices start at 7:20 p.m.
“Lost Generation” utilizes mul
tiple screen images and a prob
ing documentary style to investi
gate attitudes of dissent, violence,
the mood of America, and the an
swers that can be found in this
generation, pastor Dr. Malcolm
Bane said.
The color film features special
appearances by Art Linkletter
and “Dragnet” star Jack Webb.
Linkletter’s daughter Diane
died as the result of the use of
drugs. In the feature-length film,
he points out what is being done
voluntarily by many teenagers to
combat the problem. Webb gives
his views on the role of the police
officer and his relationship to the
laws of the society.
Legislature gives $3 million boost
Scholarship funds up for ’72
The actions of the 62nd Legis
lature will increase by more than
$3 million the amount of state
money available to assist needy
Texas students who wish to at
tend college in 1972.
A new tuition bill, which in
creased the tuition fees for the
first time since 1957, requires
that 25 cents out of each hourly
charge for residents and $1.50
out of each hourly charge for non
residents be set aside for scholar
ships to needy students.
This new scholarship program
is expected to generate more than
$2 million in 1971-72 to fund
scholarships, said Dr. Bevington
Reed, Commissioner of Higher
Education.
In addition, the Legislature
approved the five new financial
aid programs for college students.
The new programs bring to 25 the
total number of state-supported
programs available. Through
A&M Air Force reserve unit
cited for research project
An Air Force Reserve unit at
Texas A&M has been cited by top
Air Force officials for a research
and development project.
Flight B of the 9807th Air
Force Reserve Squadron develop
ed a preliminary design for an
electronic mid-air collision avoid
ance system for aircraft.
The flight, commanded by Maj.
Guy A. Franceschini, has been
notified by Reserve officials that
the design was forwarded as high
as Air Force Headquarters in
Washington, where it “has creat
ed a great deal of interest.”
“You are to be congratulated
for outstanding achievement,”
commented Col. Clifford C. Root,
Air Force Reserve operations di
rector.
The preliminary design was the
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
work of flight members Fran
ceschini, meteorology professor at
Texas A&M; Maj. William R. Ma
lone, Huntsville lawyer; Maj.
Thomas C. Herndon and Capt.
James K. Hennigan, Industrial
Education Department. They are
effect of aircraft pollution in the
currently studying the nature and
atmosphere.
The design work, titled “Pre
liminary Design of an Electronic
Avoidance System for Use in Ci
vilian and Military Aircraft,” also
was reviewed by Air Force Sys
tems Command at Warner Rob
bins AFB.
Notification of further evalua
tions and findings will be receiv
ed from Ellington AFB in Hous
ton, at which the 9807th is head
quartered and trains. The Air
Force reserve squadron is com
manded by Col. Aylmer H.
Thompson, A&M meteorology
professor.
these programs, the State of Tex
as provides talented and needy
students scholarships and fellow
ships and exempts certain stu
dents from payment of tuition
and fees through statutory pro
visions.
Appropriations to fund student
financial aid programs were in
creased from about $1.5 million
in 1971 to $2,115,210 for fiscal
1972. These figures do not in
clude the amount granted through
exemption from payment of fees,
Reed explained. About $800,000
went to students in fiscal 1971 in
the form of exemptions fi*om pay
ment of tuition and fees under
statutorily authorized programs.
The five new programs of stu
dent financial aid approved by
the 62nd Legislature are:
—Exemption of dependent chil
dren of Texas military personnel
missing in action or taken prison
er of war from payment of tuition
and fees at state colleges and
universities.
—Exemption of persons em
ployed as firemen from payment
of tuition and laboratory fees for
courses in fire science.
—Provision of tuition-equaliza
tion grants to needy Texas stu
dents to attend private Texas
institutions. (Funded at $1,000,-
000 for Fiscal 1972).
—Provision of tuition scholar
ships to needy nursing students
enrolled in baccalaureate nursing
programs at Texas Woman’s Uni
versity, The University of Texas
System, Prairie View Agricultur
al and Mechanical College, and
West Texas State University.
(Funded at $300,000 for Fiscal
1972).
Congressman
will speak at
vet graduation
Cong. Graham Purcell of Wichi
ta Falls will give the commence
ment address for graduates of
Texas A&M University’s College
of Veterinary Medicine Aug. 6,
announced Dean A. A. Price.
The college has 126 candidates
for the Doctor of Veterinary Med
icine degree. The three-year pro
fessional college has one gradu
ation exercise each academic year.
Among the graduating students
is Blaine Purcell, one of the con
gressman’s nine children and edi
tor of The Southwestern Veteri
narian the past year.
Purcell, a 1946 agriculture
graduate of A&M, has had careers
as a military officer, attorney,
district judge and congressman.
The 52-year-old Archer City
native is active on two House
committees, Agriculture and Post
Office and Civil Service.
In the Agriculture Committee
the Democrat is chairman of the
Livestock and Grains Subcommit
tee and serves on Departmental
Operations and Rural Develop
ment Subcommittees.
Purcell is considered a leading
spokesman on farm and farm
product matters. He wrote the
Wholesale Meat Act of 1967, the
Poultry Products Inspection Act
of 1968 and the Egg and Egg
Products Inspection Act of 1970.
He has championed humane
animal care and wrote the law
which provides for the construc
tion of an international quaran
tine station to allow the importa
tion of breeding livestock previ
ously unavailable.
Purcell authored and sponsored
legislation extending the world-
famous Food for Peace Program
and the extension and improve
ment of the Food Stamp Program.
His efforts resulted in the only
amendment to the 1964 Civil
Rights Act. Without the amend
ment, it would have been impos
sible for denominational schools
to consider the religious qualifi
cations of their teahers in hiring
them.
Purcell came to Texas A&M
prior to World War II and had
his education interrupted by the
war. He served as a combat of
ficer in North Africa and Italy
for five years, leaving active serv
ice as a major. Currently he is
a lieutenant colonel in the Army
Reserve.
He graduated from A&M in
1946 and entered Baylor Univer
sity Law School where he re
ceived his LL.B. in 1949.
From 1949 to 1951 he practiced
law in Big Spring and had a
private practice in Wichita Falls
from 1951 to 1955, when he was
Rep. Graham Purcell
appointed judge of the 89th Ju
dicial District of Texas.
Purcell was reelected twice and
ialso served as Juvenile Court
judge in Wichita County.
In January, 1962, he was elect
ed to Congress to fill the 13th
District vacancy created by the
retirement of Frank Ikard.
The late Drew Pearson, who
never passed up a chance to at
tack Congress, called Graham
Purcell “one of the hardest work
ing congressmen in Washington.”
B-CS to be August home
for 11 Japanese women
—Provision of scholarships for
needy students through funds set
aside from tuition income.
Student aid programs already
available to students include
graduate fellowships and scholar
ships, osteopathy scholarships,
fellowships at the LBJ School of
Public Affairs, work-study and
work scholarships.
In addition, there are 12 differ
ent statutory provisions for ex-
lempting certain students from
payment of tuition and fees.
These students include valedic
torians, certain veterans, deaf or
blind students, certain orphans,
and children of certain categories
of state employees.
Japanese students will visit in
Bryan and College Station homes
during August through arrange
ment of the Travel Committee of
the Memorial Student Center
Participants in the Experiment
in International Living, the vis
itors will be 11 girls who are
students in Japanese colleges and
universities, said Jim Summers,
committee chairman.
They will be given a sample of
the American way of life through
EIL, an international student ex
change program in which college
students learn another culture by
living in it as a member of a
family.
Among the Japanese coeds’
parents for their visit here will
be Dr. and Mrs. Charles McCan-
dless, associate dean of liberal
arts; Dr. and Mrs. William S.
McCulley, math professor; Dr.
and Mrs. Thomas Ryan; Dr. and
Mrs. Samuel M. Gillespie, market
ing, and Mr. and Mrs. Logan Wes
ton, YMCA director.
“The girls will be here 12 days
as part of a tour of the entire
U. S.,” Summers said. They will
arrive from Los Angeles and go
on to Washington, D. C., and New
York.
Texas A&M has participated in
EIL several years and this sum
mer has students in Austria,
Czechoslovakia, Germany, Greece,
Russia and Yugoslavia. In pre
vious years, Experimenters have
gone to Australia, Denmark,
France, Holland, Poland, Sweden,
Spain and Switzerland.
The MSC Travel Committee al
so arranges summer experience
through the International Asso
ciation for the Exchange of Stu
dents for Technical Experience
(IAESTE), Amigos de las Amer-
fjli --
icas and Operation Crossroads
Africa.
International good will and un
derstanding are primary goals of
the programs.
Monday enrollment
will be in Duncan
Second summer session regis
tration will be conducted in Dun
can Dining Hall, Registrar Rob
ert A. Lacey said Tuesday.
Construction work in Sbisa
Hall caused the Monday registra
tion site change. Lacey said the
class signup schedule published
in the summer class schedule will
be observed.
He said card packets will be
available at the west side of
Duncan Hall and students should
enter the 12-dorm area building
through the west entrance,
across from Utay Hall (Dorm
12).
Lacey pointed out that second
session registration is scheduled
to be completed by noon. The
last of three groups of students
—those whose surnames begin
with A, B, C, D, E, F and G—
will begin registering at 10:45
a.m. Monday.
Students whose surnames start
with H through O get the first
shot at class scheduling, from 8
to 9:15 a.m. P through the end
of the alphabet enroll from 9:15
to 10:45 a.m.
Lacey said this will be the first
half-day summer registration.
Texas A&M’s second six weeks
of summer classes begin at 8 a.m.
Tuesday.
BRYAN POLICE Sgt. James Barnett (right) uses a traffic
model board at the Engineering Extension Service’s Police
training School, observed by Capt. Charles Phelps of the
Bryan Police Department. Barnett was promoted to ser
geant while enrolled in the two-week police administration
course at the Texas A&M Research Annex. See story, page
4.