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Vol. 66 No. 136 College Station, Texas Wednesday, August 11, 1971 845-2226 Congressman Graham Purcell (left) of Wichita Falls pre- Blaine at Friday commencement exercises for vet students, sents the doctor of veterinary medicine degree to his son ‘Go the extra mile’ for country, congressman challenges vets Japanese girls to demonstrate social customs Congressman Graham Purcell of Wichita Falls challenged grad uating veterinary medicine stu dents Friday night “to go the extra mile” for America. “This nation has always needed men and women with the daring and the vision to stand up and he counted,” the 1946 Texas A&M graduate said. “But so, too, will we need in the days ahead those who are builders—those who can create new and better institutions to replace outmoded ones.” Purcell, a leading spokesman on farm and farm product matters, was commencement speaker for 126 graduates of the College of Veterinary Medicine in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Commenting on the past dec ade, Purcell suggested Americans have become discouraged simply Texas Ranger O. L. Luther of Bryan will become director of the University Police Department Sept. 1, A&M President Dr. Jack K. Williams announced Thursday. Luther, 54, succeeds Chief Ed E. Powell, who is retiring Aug. 31 at age 65. Powell, who joined the university staff in 1957, has been chief of the security office since January, 1964. “We are extremely pleased Ranger Luther has accepted the appointment as head of our uni versity police,” said Dean of Stu dents James P. Hannigan. The police department is organized under the Dean of Students’ Of fice. “We have worked with Ranger Luther frequently in both on and off campus problems and always found him cooperative and help ful,” Hannigan continued. “Ranger Luther is a proven leader and his leadership will aid the University Police Department. Playboy Magazine calls it “The Surprise Team of the Year.” And they are not talking about Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. They’re talking about the 1971 Texas A&M football team. It’s no Playboy Joke. Anson Mount, sports analyst for the popular men’s magazine, predicts an 8-3 record for the Aggies this fall. The magazine’s Pig skin Preview, in the September “Angel,” the female Basenji dog that ran away from the Small Animal Clinic July 29, was cap tured by a College Station couple Sunday night and back with her University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. because the bad times are the most discussed. “A mark of the 19G0’s,” he continued, “was the rise in Con gress of what might be called “Titlemanship’—the grand art of packaging noble new laws with noble new lables that promise all. “But where are the noble re sults?” he asked. “As anyone can plainly see by looking around, the city streets are not yet safe, model cities are yet to be found on this continent, open housing is un heard of in some parts of the country, and the ‘war on poyeiv ty’ looks like it will drone on far past our last day in Indochina.” The 52-year-old Texas Demo crat suggested too many young Americans are motivated beyond need, and educated short of chal lenge. Chief Powell has an outstanding record with the university and he will be missed,” the dean added. Luther is considered one of the most dedicated law enforcement officers in Texas. He was honored in July by Bryan-College Station Jaycees as the Outstanding Local Law Enforcement Officer of the Year. Born Sept. 4, 1916 in Frost, Tex., Luther graduated from Em- house High School in 1934. He joined the Texas Depart ment of Public Safety in 1942 and has been with the depart ment since, except for service in the Navy during World War II. He saw combat action in the South Pacific from 1945 to 1946. Luther returned to the DPS following the war and was named supervisor of highway patrol in Bryan in 1957. His entire public career has been centered in the Brazos County area. issue just out, ranks the Aggies 18th in the nation. Mount is no novice when it comes to football forecasting. Twice in the last five years he has been honored for the accuracy of his predictions. Here’s what the Pigskin Pre view had to say about the Aggies: “For Texas A&M, last year’s misfortune may be this season’s strength. After winning their owners in Houston Monday. Dr. E. W. Ellett, chief of the Small Animal Section, said Mr. and Mrs. Richards L. Phillips of 308 Gilchrist St. sighted the dog in Thomas Park about 8 p.m. They managed to get Angel into a small building, where Ellett picked her up. He told the graduates Texas A&M is “commissioning you as professionals. You are charged with giving your dedication and expertise to the field of veteri nary medicine. “You are charged with being the action team of this generation.” Purcell claimed the nation is at a new crossroads where doctors of veterinary medicine will no longer be concerned solely with their clientele. “You are charged with the re sponsibility of seeing to it that 300 million Americans eat better in the year 2000 than they are in 1971,” he said. A man with a lifetime in poli tics, Purcell stressed the new vet erinarians have political respon sibilities and must participate in political decisions. In 1961 Luther was named a Texas Ranger and he currently is one of 80 in the state. He is assigned to Co. F out of Waco. Throughout his career he has attended law enforcemen courses and is a graduate of special FBI schools. He holds the Certificate in Advanced Law Enforcement Education awarded by the state. Luther also has served as an instructor in the Department of Public Safety Academy in Aus tin and was responsible for DPS educational activities in the five- county Brazos Valley area. Among bis duties are assisting police and sheriff’s offices in Bra zos, Burleson, Madison, Leon and Robertson Counties. He also is given special assignments throughout the state, among them the successful investigation of the 1968 Sam DeGelia murder in Mc Allen. Hannigan said Luther has first two games, the sophomore Aggies lost nine in a row. Three back-to-back road games against LSU, Ohio State and Michigan left the team physically and men tally exhausted, since the first units had to play for their lives from start to finish. “All that hard-earned experience will pay off in ’71, because only two of last season’s 22 starters have departed. All the physical assets are on hand for a banner year, if the Aggies can win early and gain confidence. Another up set of LSU or a surprise win over Nebraska could propel them to the conference championship. We have a strong hunch they will come close to doing just that and we therefore tab them our Sur prise Team of the Year.” The Aggie gridders report Aug. 17 for fall practice in preparation for the season opener Sept. 11 against Wichita State in Kyle Field. “Children of the decade of hope, professionals of the decade of challenge,” he called the grad uates. “You must be willing to go the extra mile, not only for yourselves, but for your fellow countrymen. “Not everyone is willing to go the extra mile,” the congressman emphasized. “Many Americans are unable to go the second mile. “You are professionals with many obligations laid before you and only one under your belt— your education,” Purcell added. Among the graduating students was Blaine Purcell, one of the congressman’s nine children. Oth er speakers were A&M President Dr. Jack K. Williams, Board Chairman Clyde Wells and Vet College Dean A. A. Price. assisted Texas A&M through a security plan for the Cyclotron Institute, traffic and parking planning and aided the Dean of Students’ Office and University Police Department. Texas A&M employees meeting twice a day every weekday are doing something about air pol lution. At the same time, the seven- member group helps ease park ing problems at the university. There isn’t an ecologist, biol ogist, social scientist nor engi neer in the group. They are in a group transpor tation pool that was once called “The Stale Air Taxi Co.” A GMC carryall of early 1955 vint age regularly carries them to and from work. The green vehicle now driven by Allen Martin is a common sight in morning and afternoon rush-hour traffic. It was once said your clock could be set by the carryall. The transportation pool dates to the early 1930s, shortly after Frank Nedbalek started working at Texas A&M. Now a Texas Forest Service accountant with 41 years A&M system service, he still participates in the group. Other members are Martin, Sea Grant Program administrative assistant; Arnold Helman, A&M press linotype operator; Barbara Ruchti and Elsie Halyard, Agri cultural Extension Service per sonnel; Durant Dansby, stores storekeeper, and Nellie Mahaf- fey, creamery storekeeper. They each put in $6 a month, get picked up right at their doorstep and are delivered to the building in which they work. Martin cranks up at about 7:30 a.m. every day for the seven-mile Ti’aditional Japanese social ob servances will be performed Thursday at Texas A&M by 10 Japanese coeds visiting the U. S. this summer. The young ladies will conduct a traditional tea ceremony known as “chanoyu,” flower arranging (“ikebana”) and do some classical dances. The special program will begin at 7:30 p. m. in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom, an nounced Jim Summers, Travel Committee chairman. Admission is free. Area families, the committee and A&M coeds are hosting the Oriental visitors, in the TJ. S. for ten weeks through the Experi ment in International Living. Matcha, a powdered green tea, will be served A&M students hosting the visitors by Nobuko Komiya, leader of the visiting group, and Shigeko Kirita. Flow er arranging will be exhibited by Kenko Nakayama and Teruko Osaka. Formation of two new student appeals review boards has been announced by Dean of Students James P. Hannigan. Hannigan explained the boards have been established to review appeals which are outside the jurisdiction of existing appeals committees which provide chan nels of appeal in cases involving academic decisions or suspensions, disciplinary expulsion or suspen sion and traffic or parking viola tions. The new review boards, the dean said, have been created at student and staff request to handle appeals of other types of decisions including drops from the university rolls for fiscal reasons. Membership of each route. Heldman is the last picked up in the mornings and the first let off in the evening. The fee takes care of gas, oil, tires, a campus parking sticker, license plates and insurance. Sur plus goes toward new wheels. Membership in the pool changes occasionally, with Ned balek and Miss Ruchti the only “veterans” of more than five years. Also participating will be Ky- oko Yamota, Mitsuko Fukutake, Kayoko Kudota, Kakuko Kuraishi, Toshiko Sekiya and Toshi Watan- abe. “Anyone who has participated in or observed chanoyu will want to renew acquaintance with this beautiful, simple ceremony,” com mented J. Wayne Stark, MSC director. Developed under the influence of Zen Buddhism, chanoyu is an embodiment of the Japanese peo ple’s intuitive striving for recog nition of true beauty in plainness and simplicity. The ritualistic ceremony as per formed in a Japanese garden tea house observes strict etiquette, said Miss Komiya. “Meditation and purifying one’s soul by becoming one with nature is the aim,” she added, “though the ceremony is not a religious function.” She said Japanese girls as a matter of custom learn either chanoyu or ikebana apart from board includes three students and three members of the faaulty- staff. Two boards have been appoint ed in order to prevent a backlog of cases awaiting review and appeals will be assigned to the two boards in alternation to equalize the workload. Named to Review Board “A” are Sanders Letbetter, assistant director of the Memorial Student Center; Billy G. Lay, director of admissions; Eugene Oates, resi dence hall program advisor, and James Allen Mobley, Fernando Giannetti and James Ham, stu dents. Appointed to Review Board “B” are Harold Gaines, Memorial Stu dent Center advisor; Robert H. Nedbalek said the pool first rode in a “1930 or thereabouts Chevrolet. We ran the wheels off it.” Next was a GMC trans port bought for $300 in 1947, followed by an Oldsmobile and the carryall. The truck has been involved in only one minor accident. Heldman gave it a valve job when he took over responsibility for maintenance upon Steve Vi- regular schooling. Classical danc ing is rarer. Miss Komiya and her friends are staying two weeks with eight families in Bryan and College Station. During the visit they are attending swim parties,weiner roasts, A&M classes, shopping, bowling and will see Snook as a typical small Texas farm com munity. They will spend the weekend in Houston, attend a Kiwanis Club meeting and see the Brazos Coun ty Girls Club. The Japanese Experimenters arrived Tuesday after a two-week stay in Los Angeles. They will bus to New York and Washing ton and visit East and Midwest U. S. cities on the return to Los Angeles for their flight home Sept. 1. “We don’t feel like we are in a foreign country,” Miss Komiya commented. “Everyone has been very friendly and it is much like home.” Baine, assistant registrar; Logan Weston, YMCA coordinatior, and Richard Peavey, Wade F. Seidel and Jimmy Lynn Cook, students. “The boards will provide an opportunity for staff and student participation in a variety of cases,” Hannigan said. He said, however, that proceedings of the new boards will not be as formal or elaborate as those of the other university appeals committees. When making recommendations to the dean of students, the boards may uphold a previous decision or suggest that a de cision be reduced in severity or revoked. The boards may not recommend that a penalty be in creased. soski’s retirement a year ago. “It doesn’t burn any oil and goes two weeks on a tank of gas,” the printer said. “The old tub has over 200,000 miles on it.” But the vehicle has already more than earned a Ralph Nader medal. Exhaust it emits could be multiplied by seven. And there are six more campus parking spaces because of the pool. Arnold Heldman (left) and Allen Martin load up for their daily trip home, with other riders in seats they regularly take from force of habit. Texas Ranger new A&M police chief Ags surprise team of year Lost dog located They fight pollution Seven A&M employes part of 40-year-old car pool Two more student appeals review boards established