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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