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Friday — Clear, wind south 10-15 m.p.h. High 74, low 56.
Saturday Rice—Cloudy, rain showers, •i;: wind south 10-15, 66°.
VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1967 Number 504
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X15, Pilot Lost In Desert Crash
Corps Trip, Bonfire WorkEDWARDS AIR FORCE
BASE, Calif. (A5) _ An X15 rocket plane, one of three black darts that have repeatedly probed the heavens helping man learn how to maneuver in space, crashed Wednesday.
The pilot, Air Force Maj. Michael J. Adams, 37, was killed— first victim since the X15s began flying in 1959.
Adams, on his 11th flight, was dropped from a B52 at 10:30 a.m. and shot more than 50 miles high, to about 265,000 feet, on a routine research flight.
Re-entering thicker air from the the fringes of space, he encountered trouble.
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Adams did not eject.The plane crashed on the des
ert near the mining town of Johannesburg 20 miles north.
Thus, on flight No. 191 of a highly hazardous eight years of X15 explorations, came a fatal crash such as had long been feared.
Will Dominate WeekendThe three tough little birds had
survived ground fires and explosions, aerial mishaps and emergency landings, including two hard enough to cause serious damage. But until Wednesday pilots had escaped with injuries.
“THERE apparently was some sort of control malfunction as the pilot attempted to pull out of his descent,” said a spokesman for
Rudders To Meet Foreign Students
THE TINY planes — just 50 feet long, nearly wingless but powered with mighty engines producing 60,000 pounds of thrust — have amassed impressive records:
President and Mrs. Earl Rudder will meet Texas A&M inter- committee reception Monday in national students at a hospitality the Memorial Student Center.
Miss Sadie Hatfield, committee chairman, said the 7 to 8:30 p.m. reception will be in the MSC Birch Room.
A&M’s 12,029 enrollment for 1967-68 includes 577 international students, 100 of whom are married.
Speed and altitude records for winged craft of 4,534 miles per hour and 354,000 feet; research into problems of re-entering the earth’s atmosphere from space, including heating problems and control problems; tests of new propulsion systems; photographs of stars made from above most of the earth’s air. They have survived 3,000 degrees and tremendous stresses as they pancaked into the atmosphere from space.
ADAMS’ FLIGHT had a typical goal — testing a heat-resistant paint for the second stage of the Saturn moon rocket.
‘ GIG ’EM AGGIES”Four former Texas A&M students give the university’s traditional thumbs-up sign while displaying the flag they took on combat missions over North Vietnam. They returned the flag to A&M for ceremonies before the Thanksgiving Day football game with the University of Texas. The Aggies, all members of the 390th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Da Nang, are (from left) Maj. Robbie Robinette of El Paso, 1st Lt. Jim Schnabel of San Antonio, 1st Lt. Tom Cardwell of Dallas and Capt. Bob Noack of San Antonio.
Receiving line for the event will include President and Mrs. Rudder and Miss Hatfield.
Assisting the committee with the international students reception are the Extension Service Club, chaired by Mrs. Edward E. Schlutt; Campus Study Club, Mrs. John R. Pedigo; Pan American Roundtable, Mrs. Lloyd Lowe; A&M chapter of the A- merican Asociation of University Women, Mrs. James Martin, and faculty members and their wives.
Adams, one of five X15 pilots, was in the program by request. He originally was assigned to the Air Force’s Manned Orbiting Laboratory, but put in for a transfer to X15s after graduating with honors from the Aerospace Research Pilots School here.
Kyle Field's American Flag Back From Viet Missions
Born in Sacramento, Calif., he studied at Oklahoma University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He won an air medal for his 49 combat missions during the Korean war. He is survived by his widow, Freida, and three children.
The U. S. flag which will fly over Texas A&M’s Kyle Field for the Thanksgiving Day football game with the University of Texas is back home after a quick trip to Vietnam where it was taken on four combat missions by former A&M students.
Lt. Col. Fred A. Haeffner, commander of the 390th Tactical
Up104-Foot Center Pole Bonfire Stacking Underway
The focal point of a Nov. 22 fire went into the ground at Texas A&M Wednesday and stacking began for the annual Thanksgiving Day bonfire.
The bonfire center pole—a 104- foot tall pole shipped from Nava- sota—was erected by Company D-l, commanded by David J. Boethel of Weimar.
Wayne Porter of Dalhart, yell leader who is stacking area chief, said more than 3,000 logs will be stacked against the pole by twilight Nov. 22. Yell leaders put the match to the stack at 7:30 p.m. that night.
The stacking area chief said 1,100 logs were cut, trimmed and trucked in from the cutting area
SUPPORTS GO UPRay Prewitt of Temple, looking- a little like a telephone linesman, nails supports onto the 104-foot center pole for the 1967 Bonfire. The supports, about 20 feet up, will hold the first stack of logs in place around the pole.
north of Bryan last weekend. Porter added that 2,000 more logs will be deposited on the Duncan drill field Sunday and Monday.
THE CORPS of Cadets will take a day off from bonfire building Saturday for a corps trip to Houston. A&M and Rice play a SWC game at Rice Stadium at 2 p.m. Saturday. A civilian student guard detail will remain on campus to protect bonfire work.
Unknown persons made attempts Monday to burn wood stacked on the drill field for guard fires. Cadets of “Spider D” salvaged the wood, Porter said.
Boethel and his company worked until 2 a.m. Wednesday preparing the centei-pole. Two poles—88 and 30 feet long—were spliced together for the center- piece. Boethel and D-2 seniors George Isleib of Rosenberg, Jim Budde of Cologne, N. J., and Walt Dabney of Dallas supervised centerpole work.
A TRUCK with a 52-foot power boom was used to set the pole at 10:40 a.m. Wednesday. The pole is buried 10 feet. Cross braces were attached to the lower section early Wednesday afternoon and stacking began shortly afterward.
Stacking chiefs Bill Bellomy of Channelview, Charles McCall, Lufkin; John Fry, Austin, and Ron McElroy, Dallas, are supervising placement of logs against the stack.
Bellomy said the 1,100 logs on hand could be stacked in six hours. The operations will employ cranes loaned by Albritton Alenco and Corbusier Chevrolet of Bryan.
The annual bonfire is symbolic of Aggies’ “undying love for A&M and the burning desire to beat TU.”
Fighter Squadron in which the four Aggies serve at Da Nang, recently wxote A&M President Earl Rudder requesting loan of the flag after the game.
Rudder went the colonel one better and sent the flag prior to the game, so it could be flown “even more proudly than usual” during the annual classic.
THE FLAG was returned this week with a letter of thanks from Haeffner and a picture of the four fliers posing beside an F-4C “Phantom II” jet. The picture shows them displaying the flag and giving the traditional thumbs- up “Gig ’em Aggies” symbol.
The fox-mer A&M students are Maj. Robbie Robinette, El Paso; Capt. Bob R. Noack and 1st Lt. Jim Schnabel, both of San Antonio, and 1st Lt. Tom Cardwell, Dallas.
Colonel Haeffner said Major Robinette took A&M’s flag on an Oct. 30 flak-suppression mission near Quang Khe, North Vietnam,
and Lieutenant Schnabel on an Oct. 31 strike against Nox th Vietnamese anti-aircraft complexes in Mu Gia Pass.
THE FLAG accompanied Lieutenant Caxdwell on a raid against fuel and ammunition storage facilities southw’est of Hanoi Nov. 1 and Captain Noack on a Nov. 2 strike against North Vietnamese artillery positions which were firing across the DMZ on a U. S. Maidne outpost.
“The 390th Tactical Fighter Squadron wishes Texas A&M University good luck against Texas University on Thanksgiving Day at Kyle Field, home of the Fightin’ Texas Aggies,” wxote the non-Aggie colonel.
“It was a distinct honor and pleasure to fly the American flag on combat missions in Southeast Asia,” Haeffner added. “We are very proud of your Aggies over here and the fine professional work they are doing for our country.”
Six Lecture Series Speakers Set For Season, Monroe Says
Six speakers for the 1967-68 University Lecture Series at Texas A&M have been announced by Di\ Haskell M. Monroe, committee chairman.
Opening the series Tuesday evening at A&M’s Memorial Stu dent Center will be Dr. John Leni- han, physicist for the Western Regional Hospital Board at Glasgow, Scotland.
The public-free lectux-es, Dr. Monroe noted, are designed to bring scholars to supplement other campus speaker series.
“These men have the bx-eadth and depth necessai’y to interest everyone in the academic community in hearing them,” Monroe added.
ROLAND MOUSNIER, a Dan- forth Visiting Lecturer, will speak Feb. 29. A specialist in social and institutional histox*y, Mousnier directs Paris’ Center for Research in Modern European Civilization.
Another Danforth Visiting Lec- tuxer, Dr. Harold Cassidy, chemistry professor at Yale, is slated for a March 12 visit. Interested in science and the humanities, Dr. Cassidy contends that cybernetics may be the tool which will lead to understanding and cooperation between humanists and scientists.
visor to the government on economic policy. He was a White House advisor during President Eisenhower’s administration.
SCHEDULED for an April 30 lecture is Dr. Alfred S. Romer, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, emeritus, at Harvard. Recognized as an authority in his discipline, Dr. Romer is noted for contributions to man’s knowledge of the evolution of vertebrate animals.
A research scholar at Rice University, George Williams, will lecture May 9. Although famed as a teacher of creative writing and English literature, Williams is a well known author. His “Some of My Best Friends are Profes- sox-s” relates his experiences as a faculty member and teacher of undergraduates.
MEMBERS OF the University Lecture Committee, in addition to Monroe, are R. W. Barzak in English, Melvin C. Rotsch in architecture, B. J. Zwolinski in chemistx'y, W. H. Thames Jr. in plant sciences, and E. B. Doran Jr. in geography.
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Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Savings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
Dr. Oskar Morgenstern, economist at Princeton University, is due at A&M April 17. Morgen- stern has served often as an ad-
University lecturers spend at least a day on the campus visiting classes and speaking informally during afternoon seminars.
First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certificates. —Adv.
Cadets To March Through Houston
Satux-day’s Texas A&M Corps Trip to Houston has all the earmarks of a true holiday, as Aggies drop axes, saws and other, bonfim building gear for a day.
The A&M Corps of Cadets, which makes an official trip to Houston every other year, will parade on Main and Fannin Streets at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Students move on Rice Stadium at 2 p.m., for the Aggie-Owl Southwest Conference game.
The parade and game will be a one-day diversion for the cadets, who started bonfire constnrction seven days early due to the four- day week between the Rice and Thanksgiving- Day' University of Texas games.
Head yell leader Neal Adams of Tyler said special guard detail will remain on campus Saturday to protect the week of work.
MAJ. GEN. George P. Munson Jr., U. S. Army Reserves (Ret.), will review the 18-block parade. He is chairman of the Houston Chamber of Commerce Military Affairs Committee.
Cox-ps Staff, headed by Cadet Colonel of the Corps Lonnie C. Minze of Houston, and the Texas Aggie Band will lead the parade north on Main, right on Texas and south on Fannin to the assembly and dismount area on Clay and Bell Stx-eets.
The Aggie Band will turn onto Rusk to play the graded parade past the reviewing stand, at the
Oceanography Profs To Go To Big Confab
Leabo To Speak At NSPA Meet
C. J. Leabo, Journalism Department head at Texas A&M will be a speaker for the National Scholastic Press Asociation convention Nov. 24-25 in Chicago.
Leabo, former assistant director of the NSPA, will discuss photography and picture editing in workshop sesions of the high schol publications’ organization.
corner of Rusk and Main.With General Munson on the
stand will be A&M Pi-esident Earl Rudder, A&M Board of Directors President L. F. Peterson of Fort Worth, Dean of Students James P. Hannigan and Miss Kathy Heldman of Caldwell, the 1967-68 Aggie Sweetheart.
ALSO, MR. and Mrs. Charles Arnold, president of the Southwest Houston A&M Club; Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Richardson, Houston A&M Club vice president; Col. Jim H. McCoy, A&M commandant, and Col. Vernon L. Head, professor of aerospace studies.
Bandsmen directed by Lt. Col. E. V. Adams will make a second official appearance of the day at halftime of the A&M-Rice game. The band drill will be under the batons of drum majors Richard C. Westbrook of Beaumont, Marc A. Sheiness of Alice and James W. Criswell of Brady.
Work on the bonfire started last Saturday and will resume at 5 a.m. Sunday following the Corps Trip. The large stack of logs will be ready for the match at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 22.
Rain Predicted For Corps Trip
The heads of all the major oceanogx-aphy schools in the United States will be in Houston Monday and Tuesday.
“A r e a students considering studying oceanography will be intex-ested to know the U. S.’s major oceanography institutions will be represented at the ‘Manpower for Oceanography’ symposium,” noted Dr. Dale F. Leipper of Texas A&M.
Leipper is president of the American Society for Oceanography, which is sponsoring the educational symposium with the Gulf Universities Research Corp.
Speaking at the two-day symposium at the Shamrock Hilton will be Dr. Richard H. Fleming, recent oceanography head at the University of Washington; Dr. William A. Nierenberg, director, Sci'ipps Institution of Oceanography, University of California; Geosciences Dean Dr. Horace Byers and oceanography head Dr. Richard A. Geyer, A&M;
Also, Allyn C. Vine and Paul M. Fye, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Dr. Herbert F. Frolander, biological oceanography professor, Oregon State; Dr. Charles R. Stephan, ocean engineering head at the new Florida Atlantic University, and the former Scripps dean, Norris W. Rakestraw, now retired.
Leipper, the first A&M oceanography head, said numerous A&M graduate students plan to attend the symposium. Industrial and government representatives and educators will pool ideas on how p.roperly,-trained scientists and engineers can be provided for the rapidly-expanding field of oceanography.
Cloudy, over-cast conditions and a few rainshowers are expected to mar the Texas Aggies’ Corps Trip to Houston Saturday and weekend bonfire work.
Jim Lightfoot, Meteorology Department weather station manager at A&M, said a Pacific front is the key to weekend w-eather. He said the fx-ont should move through the area Thursday night or Friday morning.
“Indications are that it will become stationary along a line just off the coast,” he said. “Under such conditions cloudiness and rain will build up along the coast and gradually move inland over the weekend.”
A&M meets Rice in a SWC game at 2 p.m. Saturday. A 9:30 a.m. Corps parade will precede the game.
With the fx-ont stalled, the kickoff forecast is for cloudy skies with a few rainshowers, 66 degrees, winds south at 10 mph and about 80 per cent relative humidity.
The campus will be on the edge of the cloudy area Saturday, with the moisture moving into Southeast Texas Sunday, Light- foot continued. Students will x-e- turn to the campus after the gaine to continue work on the Thanksgiving game bonfire.
Above seasonal temperatures and clear skies are expected with a clearing tx-end next week. Bonfire work will continue Monday through Wednesday. The stack of logs will be burned Wednesday evening.
Lightfoot said little in the way of inclement weather will accompany the front itself.
Second Fete Set For Profs, Staff
The Texas A&M Faculty-Staff Dinner Dance Club’s second fall program is planned for 7:30 p.m. tonight ifr the Memorial 'Student Center Assembly Room, announced Mrs. Anne Elmquist, committee chairman.
Mrs. Elmquist said individual dinner dance tickets will be on sale at the MSC reservation desk through noon Wednesday. Tickets are priced at $3.75 per person.
The dinner is a smorgasbord and dress is informal, she noted.
The Aggieland Combo will provide dance music.
Other dinner dances are scheduled Feb. 22 and April 22.
University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
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