1964-01-15 The Auburn Plainsman

              THE AUBURN PUUNSTVUN
To Foster The Auburn Spirit
VOLUME 91 AUBURN UNIVERSITY AUBURN, ALA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1964 8 Pages NUMBER 14
Peace Corps Concept
Added To ACOIA Slate
The agreement of Dr. J. Norman Parmer, director of
the division of university, private and international co­operation
of the Peace Corps, to address the Auburn
Conference on International Affairs (ACOIA) culmin­ated
a busy week of activity for the conference com­mittee.
Parmer will address the con­ference
on the Peace Corps as
a new concept in foreign aid.
Chairman Ned Pierce stated
that letters of invitation to
delegates from other universi­ties
. are ready to be mailed.
The conference is expecting a
minimum of 200 visiting dele­gates,
according to Pierce.
The ACOIA chairman also
noted that contacts have been
made with representatives of
the Indian and Israeli govern­ments.
He stated that experts
from these countries would be
of special importance to the
conference theme of foreign
aid. Israel was a former reci­pient
of foreign aid. It is one
of few countries which h as
asked for U.S. aid to be stop­ped
after assisting the country
in accomplishing certain speci­fic
objectives. India is one of
the largest recipients of U.S.
assistance.
Dr. J. Norman Parmer is a
history specialist in the area
of Southeast Asia. He has also
studied in the field of econo­mics.
Parmer received his B.A.
degree from Indiana Univer.
$282,000 In Grants
Given To Auburn
Federal grants totaling over
$282,000 will go to various Au­burn
research programs, ac­cording
to an announcement by
President Ralph B. Dratighon.
Included is $176,850 from the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration for pre-doctoral
space related science training
programs, approximately $80,-
000 from the National Institutes
of Health for five new research
grants, $15,750 for a college
teacher research participating
program under the National
Science Foundation and another
$9,530 from the Foundation to
support a summer science train­ing
program for secondary
school students.
NASA GRANT
The grant from NASA will
enable 10 trainees to receive
stipends over a three-year per­iod
in any of 10 departments
eligible to participate at the
doctoral level, according to
Dean W. V. Parker of the
Graduate School which admin­isters
the program. A similar
group is now in the first year
of pre-doctoral training under
the program.
Departments eligible to par­ticipate
in the NASA program
are agricultural engineering,
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sity, his M.A. from the Univer.
sity of Connecticut, and h i s
Ph.D. degree from Cornell
University. He is considered by
many to be one of the Peace
Corps' top three officials.
Parmer has lived and work­ed
in Malaya for about four
years out of the last 10. He
has written books and articles
on Malaya. Dr. Parmer return­ed
from Malaya last February
after having served as the
Peace Corps representative in
that country. His regular posi­tion,
from which he is on leave,
is professor of history at
Northern Illinois University.
ACOIA officials s t r e s s ed
Parmer's importance to the
conference as a representa­tive
of person to person com­munication
as a factor in fore­ign
aid. An ACOIA spokesman
said that Parmer is expected
to illustrate the effectiveness
of the Peace Corps as a deter­rent
to similar person to per-s
o n propaganda techniques
used by communist countries.
Parmer is the third foreign
aid expert that the ACOIA
committee has obtained for the
conference. Previous signees
are Eleanor Lansing Dulles
and Ambassador Walter C.
Dowling. C h a i r m a n Pierce
stated that ,three more foreign
aid experts are to be signed
and announced in the near fu­ture.
Four Lads Performance
Highlights Greek Week
Twelve Greek Goddess Hopefuls
Chosen To Reign Over Festival
The Four Lads, well-known American folk singing
group, will appear Friday at 8 p.m. in the Student Acti­vities
Building. The appearance will be the main attrac­tion
of 1964 Greek Week festivities, according to Bill
Rainey, publicity chairman of Greek Week.
No admission will be charged
CANDIDATES FOR GREEK GODDESS will be presented at 1 p.m. Saturday, at which
time the 1964 Greek Goddess will be announced. Candidates for the title are (left to right)
front row: Amelia Chatham, Mary Dixon, Karen Kelly, Diane Karaus, and Dottie Pepper;
back row: Marilyn Parker, Barbara Keller, Martha St. John, Hannah Williams, Lulie Ed­monson,
Linda Vaughan, . and Cindy Smith.
er.
Selects Members
Fifteen undergraduate stu­dents
are new members of Tau
Beta Pi, national engineering
honor society.
Initiatees i n c l u d e seniors
James M. Foster, George B.
Frost, Randal R. Harvey, Ar­thur
H. Reeves, Fred R. Rob-nett,
Sol M. Rocklin, Berkly H.
Steele and Norman L. Williams
and juniors William A. Day,
William B. Day, Wayne J. Fer­nandez,
Stewart V. Horn, James
E. Roberson, David Scarbrough
and Dennis N. Scogin.
Members must be ranked in
the upper one-eighth of the
junior engineering class or in
the upper one-fifth of the sen­ior
engineering class and ex­hibit
exemplary character.
A banquet attended by mem­bers
and their guests was held
at the Heart of Auburn Motel
following the recent initiation.
Dr. Y.. S. Touloukian, director
of the Thermophysical Proper­ties
Research Center at Purdue
University, was the banquet
speaker.
Polio Vaccination Set For Thursday
By JIMMY STEPHENS
The second of three Sabin
oral polio vaccines will be dis­tributed
on the campus tomor­row
free of charge.
The drive is sponsored by the
Lee County Medical Associa­tion
as part of the national
campaign to eliminate polio as
a crippling disease. There will
be no charge for the vaccine,
but donations of 25 cents will
be asked to help defray ex­penses
of the campaign.
The second dosage gives im­munization
against type three
polio, the - secon,d.. mast preya«
lent variety.'' The tftfee oVal
vaccines give complete immun­ization
to polio with no neces­sity
for boosters in the future.
According to Medical Asso­ciation
officials all three oral
vaccines are necessary for com.
p 1 e t e immunization, even
though Salk injections may
have been taken in the past.
Drew Ragan, leader of the
campus drive, stated that he
encourages those who have not
had the first type of vaccine or
who took it some place other
than on the campus last quar­ter
to take the second dosage
here tomorrow. The order or
time intervals between the
three vaccines is of little im­portance,
according to Ragan.
Immunization stations will
Instructor Named
Dean's Assistant
Haniel Jones has been nam­ed
assistant to the dean of the
School of Engineering to suc­ceed
James D. Wade who re­tired
Jan. 1 after 22 years in
the Engineering School, ac­cording
to President Ralph B.
Draughon.
The new assistant to the dean
is a native of Birmingham and
a resident of Notasulga. Jones
is a graduate of Millsaps Col­lege
in Jackson, Miss., and
Duke University. His previous
teaching experience includes
Millsaps College and the Me­thodist
High School in Ran­goon,
Burma. Before assuming
his new position Jones was an
instructor of engineering gra­phics
here.
Wade, a native of Montgom­ery,
graduated from Auburn
with a Bachelor of Science de­gree
in electrical engineering
in 1921. He' was employed by
General Electric in Schenec­tady,
N. Y. and Detroit, Mich.,
before returning to Auburn.'
Rotary Reviews
U.S. Tour Letters
By RICHARD1 BROOKSHIRE
Letters of application are
now-being considered for an
all-expense paid tour of the
United States by an Auburn
foreign student. Deadline for
submitting applications was 5
p.m. yesterday.
Although present plans are
for sending one student, there
may be a possibility of sending
two, according to Bill Renne-ker,
chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee.
Selection will be based on
the submitted applications and
on personal interviews with
the Foreign Relations Com­mittee
and the Auburn Rotary
Club. A decision is expected
by Jan. 21.
In return for the trip the
student will write an article
for The Plainsman expressing
his impressions of America. He
also will give speeches to the
Auburn Rotary Club and short
talks to other Rotary clubs in
the places he visits.
The selected student may
choose any parts of the United
States he wishes to visit. Tra­vel
will be by Greyhound bus.
Arrangements will be handled
by Brownell Travel Bureau in
Birmingham.
again be set up in Funchess
Hall, Willmore Laboratories,
the Commons Building Lobby,
Magnolia Dormitories and the
women's dining hall lounge.
No proof of age will be ne­cessary
for those who have
taken one of the oral vaccines
previously, but students should
bring their other Sabin immun­ization
cards.
A total of 2,953 students re­ceived
the first dose of the
vaccine which was administer­ed
Tuesday, Dec. 3.
According to Ragan, the first
turnout was satisfactory con­sidering
those who already had
taken the vaccine in other
places.
THE FOUR LADS, popular American folk-singing group,
will highlight the annual Greek Week festivities at 8 p.m.
this Friday in the Student Activities Building. No admission
charge will be necessary.
IBM Collection Now
On Exhibit In Biggin
Part of the IBM Collection
featuring 19th Century paint­ers
and illustrating art in
America during the 1800's is
now on display in Biggin Art
Gallery here.
The exhibit, open to the pub­lic
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
throughout the week, will con­tinue
through Jan. 23.
ATTENTION
MARCH GRADUATES
All candidates for degrees in
March will be notified to report
to the Registrar's office' for a
final credit check. This will be
done alphabetically. Please re­port
promptly when notice is
received.
Qualification Test Set
For AFROTC Cadets
Applications to take the Air
Force Officers Qualification test
must be in the administrative
office of AFROTC not later
than 3 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 6.
The test will be administer­ed
Friday, Feb.'7 in room 312
of Broun Hall. Council of
Deans excuses from classes all
day on Friday will be obtained
from examinees.
Tests will be given to all
present and former AFROTC
cadets who want to seek a
commission in the Air Force
through completion of the Ad­vanced
AFROTC Program on
campus.
Students who want to take
the exam should contact Sgt.
Frank Moore, room 331, Broun
Hall, during a 20-minute free
period.
Questions concerning eligibil­ity
on the part of former
AFROTC or other ROTC stu­dents
for the Advanced AF­ROTC
Program may be taken
to Maj. John Jeff or Capt. Lee
Bovinett, whose offices are on
the third floor of Broun Hall.
Series Features
Choral Group
The Roger Wagner Chorale
internationally known concert
choir, will appear in concert
Jan. 27 at 8:15 p.m. in the
Student Activities Building.
The appearance is a part of the
chorale's annual North Amer­ican
tour.
Headed by impresario S. Hu_
rok, the group, numbers 24
voices, equally divided among
men and women. Originally
formed 15 years ago in South­ern
California, the Chorale has
toured widely in North a nd
South America and in Europe.
It was invited to perform in
London during Queen Eliza­beth's
Coronation Season and
was chosen by the President's
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Student Official
Vacates Position
The position of superintend­ent
of public relations in the
Student Body executive coun­cil,
is vacant, according to Jim
Vickrey, president of the Stu­dent
Body. Former Superint­endent
Shelby Mcintosh is not
in school this quarter because
of failure to meet minimum
grade standards.
Vickrey stated that candi­dates
are now toeing consider­ed
for the position. The presi­dent
of the student body ap­points
members of the execu­tive
council with the approval
of the Student Senate. The
new superintendent will serve
until the end of spring quar­ter.
Main duty of the superint­endent
of public relations is
the planning of the weekly ra­dio
program, the Auburn Hour.
Other duties include holding
better relations meetings and
planning various banquets.
for the event, which will be
open to all students, according
to Rainey.
The Four Lads have been
voted one of America's "Fa­vorite
vocal groups" by trade
magazines and musical publi­cations.
The group has sold
some 16 million singles and al­bums
including their Gold Re­cords
"Standing on the Corn­er,"
"My Little Angel," "Mo­ments
to Remember," "Who
Needs You," and "No, Not
Much."
The Lads met as choir boys
in their home town of Toronto,
Canada. They were booked by
the Canadian Radio Cavalcade
where Mitch Miller "discover­ed"
them. Members of the
group are Frankie Busseri,
baritone, Jimmie Arnold, high
tenor; Bernie Toorish, t he
composer and arranger; and
Johnnie D'Arc, the newest
member of the group.
GREEK GODDESS
Greek Week festivities will
continue Saturday afternoon
with the presentation of the
Greek Goddess, to be elected
by fraternity vote, arid her
court, in Cliff Hare Stadium at
1 p.m. Candidates for the title
and their nominating sororities
are Marilyn Parker, Alpha
Gamma Delta; Amelia Chatam,
Delta Delta Delta; C i n dy
Smith, Alpha Delta Pi; Lulie
E d m o n s o n , Kappa Kappa
Gamma; Mary Dixon, Kappa
Alpha Theta; Karen Kelly, Phi
Mu; Dottie Pepper, Delta Zeta;
Hannah Williams, Zeta Tau
Alpha; Martha St. John, Pi
Beta Phi; Barbara Keller, Chi
Omega; Dianne Karaus, Kappa
Delta; and Linda Vaughn, Al­pha
Omicron Pi.
OLYMPIC GAMES
A torch lighted by President
Ralph Draughon, and run to
the stadium from the Presi­dent's
home, will open the
Greek "Olympic" Games to be
h e l d immediately following
STAFF NOTICE
There will be a staff meet­ing
of THE PLAINSMAN to­day
at 4 p.m. In the Union
Building for the purpose of tak­ing
pictures for the GLOM-ERATA.
Debaters Place
Second In Meet
By KLAUS DANNENBERG
The Auburn Debate Team
placed second in the negative
division of the All-South De­bate
Tournament held at Agnes
Scott College Jan. 10-11. Jim
Vickrey, a member of the Au­burn
team, was top scorer of
the tournament, collecting 105
points of a possible 125.
Carol Blevins and Vickrey,
composing the negative team,
won four out of five debate
rounds, defeating the Univer­sity
of Georgia, Florida State
University, Agnes Scott Col­lege,
and Berry -College. Their
only loss was to Emory Univer­sity.
The affirmative team, David
Hiley and Eddie Freeman, did
not place in its division.
Overall winner of the tour­nament
was the University of
the South. Other schools parti­cipating
were the University of
Kentucky and Georgia Tech.
The tournament is the largest
of its kind in this section of
the country.
The Auburn Debate Team
will go to the Harvard Invita­tional
Tournament in Cam­bridge,
Mass., for its next chal­lenge.
Starting Jan. 30, this
tournament will last several
days. With over 100 colleges
from around the nation parti­cipating,
this is the largest de­bate
tournament in the United
States, according to debate
coach Jim Kilpatrick.
the presentation' of the Greek
Goddess.
The games will consist of
five races lasting approximate­ly
two hours. Each fraternity
will enter 14 men who will
complete in a tug-o-war, a
wheelbarrow race, a bicycle
race, an egg toss, and finally
a greased pig chase. Each in­dividual
winner will receive a
wreath and the winning frat­ernity—
the one compiling the
most points—will be awarded
a rotating trophy presented by
the Interfraternity and Pan-hellenic
Councils.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Activities will continue Mon­day
from 3 to 5 p.m. at the
Student Activities Building.
Approximately 50 o r p h a ns
from this vicinity will be1
treated to entertainment and
refreshments provided by rep­resentatives
of the Greek or­ganizations.
Tuesday will be fraternity
and sorority night. Sorority
members will eat in the frat­ernity
houses at 5:30 p.m. La­ter
in the evening sororities
will hold open house in their
..chapter rooms for fraternity
members.
Mrs. Ellen Hofstead of Nash­ville,
Tenn., chairman of the
National College Panhellenic
Committee will speak on the
"Spirit of Greek Week" at a
Panhellenic convocation Wed­nesday,
Jan. 23, following the
weekly sorority chapter meet­ings.
BANQUET
On Thursday at 5:30 p.m.,
IFC and Panhellenic members,
fraternity and sorority presi­dents
and invited faculty will
attend the annual Greek Week
Banquet in the Union Build­ing.
John L. Blackburn, Dean
of Men at the University of
Alabama, will be the speaker.
Following the banquet, Dean
Blackburn will speak at 7:30
p.m. in Langdon Hall. This
event is open to all students
and to the general public, ac­cording
to Rainey.
RALPH B. DRAUGHON
Draughon Praises
Auburn Calmness
Through Crisis
Auburn students, faculty and
staff members, and the citizens
of the City of Auburn and Lee
County are praised in a recent
statement by President Ralph
B. Draughon for the "wonder­ful
cooperation and support
they have provided the Univer­sity
during the past few days."
He thanked students for
helping to see that "the Feder­al
Court order was carried out
without any significant inter­ruption
of the institution's edu­cational
program."
Draughon said, "We are
grateful to all the law enforce­ment
agencies, particularly to
the Alabama State Troopers,
for providing a security force
that would prevent any possible
incident." He thanked Gov.
George Wallace for providing
the security measures.
Dr. Draughon also expressed
gratitude to the visiting news
personnel for their "fine co­operation
and understanding."
He said, "Without an excep­tion
they observed the ground
rules set forth by the Univer­sity
for press coverage and
their fine sense of fair play is
greatly appreciated."
• • ATTENTION j
MARCH GRADUATES
Candidates for degrees
March must clear all deferred
grades (Incomplete and Absent
Examination) prior to Jan. 20.
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'Loveliest Of The Plains'
LOVELIEST ANN OVERTON sets the scene for the gala,
celebration of Greek Week. Ann is a freshman elementary
education major from Nashville, Tenn. She is a Zeta Tau
Alpha pledge living in dorm 8.
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Young Democrats Launch Drive
To Encourage Poll Tax Payment
The Auburn Young Demo­crats
have launched a drive to
encourage Auburn students' of
voting age to pay their poll
here is a book
that is
helping us
to
get along
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Satisfying human relationships
can make a big difference be­tween
success and failure in
college. Whether it's a room­mate,
a professor, your family,
or friends, you want to get
along well with them. We are
learning a lot about this
Christian Science textbook,
through our study of the
Science and Health with Key to
the Siriptures by Mary Baker
Eddy. You can, too.
We invite you to come to our
meetings and to hear how we
are working out our problems
through applying the truths of
Christian Science.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
ORGANIZATION
AUBURN UNIVERSITY
Meeting time: 7 p.m. Sundays
Meeting place: Union Bldg., Rm. 213
Science and Health is available at all
Christian Science Reading Rooms
and at many college bookstores.
Paperback Edition $1.95.
tax and to register to vptp "in
this year's presidential election.
Vernon Loyd, president of
t h e local Young Democrats,
points out that a student must
pay his poll tax by Feb. 1, if
he wishes to vote this presiden­tial
election year in Alabama.
Everyone must pay poll tax ex­cept
veterans with service prior
to 1955 or National Guardsmen.
The tax may be paid at the
tax collector's office in the stu­dent's
county according to Loyd.
It may be paid by mail or a
friend or parent at home may
pay it for you.
The Young Democrats also
points out that every person
over 21 must register to be able
to vote. To register one must
apply in person to the Board of
Registrars in his home county.
All boards meet the first and
third Mondays in each county
in Alabama. During January,
the boards meet 10 days.
The student may register af­ter
Feb. 1 to vote in the May
Primaries, the Young Demo­crats
say, but poll tax must be
paid by Feb. 1 to be able to
vote this year.
Poll tax is $1.50 per year. If
one has been delinquent for
several years, the njaximum
that can be charged is $3.00
SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS HONORED. Winners of Auburn agricultural engineering
scholarships were honored recently at a banquet hosted by Covington Planter Co., Dothan,
and Southeast Ford Tractor Co., Atanta, donors of the grants. Here W.'F. Covington, president
of Covington Planter Co., confers with recipients of awards presented by his company.
Left to right* are: Mr. Covington; Ben Spratling, Larry Cook, James Stutts, Dennis Stinson,
Larry Rosser, and John Parker. Parker and Stinson won sophomore scholarships and the
others received freshman grants. •*•
The Engineer — *A Composite'
Franklin Studying
Without Incident
Harold Franklin, Auburn's
first Negro student, continues to
attend classes and reside in
Magnolia Dormitory without
incident. Franklin spent the
past week-end in Montgomery
with his family.
Early last week Franklin
substituted a course on U. S.
political parties under Assoc.
Prof. Edward C. Williamson for
a course in the history of Rus­sia
taught by Prof. O. T. Ivey.
Franklin is also taking his­tory
of England and U. S. do­mestic
policy to 1865. He had
been advised at the time of r e ­gistration
that this schedule of
courses would be more suitable,
but he did not make the change
until the add and drop period.
2—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, January 15, 1964
"Integrity, fairness and a
thorough education are the
three critical characteristics of
an engineer."
Dr. N. W. Dougherty, dean
emeritus of engineering at the
University of Tennessee and
one of the fathers of engineer­ing
professionalism, gave this
key to Auburn engineers in a
recent talk. In his lifetime, Dr.
Dougherty said, the traditional
man in khaki has become the
professional furnishing ideas
to government, industry and
education, doubling the number
of Ph.D.s in his ranks yearly.
"The engineer is a compo­site,"
according to Dean Dough­erty.
"He applies all fields to
engineering—mathematics, the
humanities, law, philosophy.
Ideas and design are the typi­cal
products of an engineer,
cuting across all levels of civi­lization."
DISSATISFIED
D e a n Dougherty further
pointed out that studies have
shown that the engineer is the
most dissatisfied of all employ­ed
by industry. However, this
is not a lack of happiness in his
job. It is a dissatisfaction with
the state of the art. He must
always improve existing know­ledge.
Dean Dougherty ex­plained
that this is "the real
business of the engineer."
George Westinghouse is one
of the three outstanding engi­neers
named by Dean Dougher­ty.
One of Dougherty's former
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Roger Wagner...
(Continued from page 1)
Special International Program
for Cultural Presentations to
tour 10 Latin American coun­tries.
First winning distinction for
its series of performances with
the Los Angeles Philharmonic,
the Chorale has since recorded
for Capitol Records in a series
of recordings ranging f r om
folk songs, sea chanties a n d
Christmas carols to the masses,
cantatas a n d madrigals of
Bach, Monteverdi, Palestrina
and Vaughan Williams.
In 1958, the Chorale received
(the "Grammy," highest award
of the recording industry by
the Academy of Recording
Arts and Sciences for its al­bum
"Virtuoso," named Best
Performance in the field of
operatic and chorale music on
all labels.
January 14-17 Set
For Marine Visit
A Marine Officer Selection
team will visit the Auburn
campus Jan. 14-17 to talk to
college men and women about
the officer training programs
offered by the Marines.
Freshmen, sophomores and
juniors in good standing are
eligible for Platoon Leaders
Class, which prepares a man for
a Marine commission through
two summer training camps,
each six weeks long, during
summer vacations. During the
school year there are no classes
or drills. Both camps are held
at Quantico, Va. Candidates are
paid at camp and receive
transportation to and from
Quantico. U p o n graduation,
they are commissioned Second
Lieutenants.
Seniors and recent graduates
are eligible for the officer can­didate
course program which is
a direct assignment from civi­lian
life to a ten-week course
as an officer candidate. Com­pletion
of this course, also held
at Quantico, yields a Marine
commission as a Second Lieu­tenant.
students, Dr. Charles H. Weav­er
holds the professorship in
electrical engineering named
for Westinghouse as well as
being chairman* of Auburn's
department of electrical engi­neering.
DOUGHERTY
Dean Dougherty holds de­grees
in civil engineering from
University of Tennessee and
Cornell. He is author of the
only accepted textbook on en­gineering
professionalism, "The
Image of the Engineer," and is
named in "Who's Who in En­gineering
and in American
Men of Science. Since his re­tirement
he has held a position
as consultant to Arnold Engi­neering
Research Center in
Tullahoma, Tenn.
Sigma Pi Sigma
Selects Members
Five new members and five
new associates were received
by Auburn chapter of Sigma
Pi Sigma physics society last
Saturday.
New members are Lynda
Cecile Arnold, Richard Edwin
Fast, Thomas Lee Ferrell, J.
Bradford Merry a n d James
Lynn Smith.
New associates of the society
are B e r n e r Shi Chesnutt,
James Philip Golson, William
L. McLain, James McEllis Ste­wart
and James William Ward.
Immediately following t h e
initiation, a banquet was held
in honor of the new members.
William B. Day, this year's
winner of the Allison Award,
given for excellence in sopho­more
physics, was a special
guest.
Charles H. Weaver, head of
the Auburn electrical engi­neering
d e p a r t m e n t , was
speaker for the banquet.
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agronomy and soils, animal
science, botany and plant path­ology,
chemistry, electrical en­gineering,
mathematics, me­chanical
engineering, physics
and zoology-entomology.
NIH GRANT
Funds from the NIH are for
research programs, three in the
department of botany for pro­jects
headed by Dr. Donald E.
Davis, Dr. H. Hanley Funder-bui-
k Jr. and Dr. Urban L. Die-ner.
The other two NIH support­ed
projects are under direction
of Dr. Ray Allison in zoology-entomology
and Dr. Paul Melius
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School of Chemistry will have
its first college teacher research
Professors Named
To Graduate Jury
Dr. Carl Benson of the Eng­lish
department, Dr. Paul La­timer
of the physics department
and Dr. C. E. Scarsbrook of the
department of agronomy and
soils are new members of the
Auburn Graduate Council, ac­cording
to an announcement by
President Ralph B. Draughon.
The three were appointed to
three-year terms ending Dec.
1966.
At the same time, re-appoint­ment
of Dr. W. D. Spears of
the department of phychology,
who was earlier appointed to
fill an unexpired term of a
former Council member, was
announced.
The Graduate Council con­sists
of from 12 to 15 members
appointed from the Graduate
faculty by the president upon
the recommendation of the
Graduate Dean who serves as
chairman of the council.
Primary responsibility of the
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graduate curricula and work
leading to graduate degrees.
Members are selected from var­ious
schools and departments.
participating program under
the NSF grant.
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to Dean C. R. Saunders of
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pre-doctoral and three post­doctoral
teachers from smaller
colleges will receive stipends
for ten weeks participation in
research activities with faculty
members in the School of
Chemistry.
The program is designed to
improve and expand teaching
in science and to modernize
curricula in colleges and junior
colleges of the southeastern
United States. Assisting Dean
Saunders in directing the sum­mer
program will be Dr. Rob­ert
H. Dennis and Dr. J. Mar­shall
Baker.
Auburn will be conducting its
third consecutive s u m m er
science training program for
secondary school students un-
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Misunderstandings Faculty Feature
The Auburn Plainsman to­day
begins a series on "Our
Misunderstandings" as an edi­torial
service to Auburn stu­dents.
Articles are reprinted
by permission from the Royal
B a n k of Canada Monthly
Letter.
MORE DISAGREEMENTS between
people and between nations
can be traced to misunder­standing
than to any other
cause. The bitterest conflicts
within families and within of­fices
and workshops have not
been waged for great ideals,
but for one opinion against an­other.
If, as has been said, life may
be defined as the continuous
adjustment of internal rela­tions
to external relations,
then here is an area where we
may contribute greatly to our
peace of mind.
Adaptation implies toler­ance.
Intolerant people have a
limited outlook in an age
which demands that we take
wide views. Their intolerance
shows itself in many ways,
from simple withdrawal from
society to "Hate-gnarled fea­tures,
twisted by passions as
old as mankind," as a news­paper
reported a race riot in
the United States.
The argument against intol­erance
is not only a moral ar­gument,
but rests solidly upon
two single considerations: (1)
it is not humanly possible to
know all the facts, or even all
of any one fact; (2) we live
in a tense age in which the
overmastering need is to ac­cept
the rights, duties and
privileges of individuals re­gardless
of tfteir f a m i l y,
church, political and national
background and environment.
Open-mindedness
A closed mind is merely a
machine, automatically churn­ing
over and over again the
little that is in it, believing al­ways
whatever it now believes.
It is prone to exclude, wheth­er
neighbors from a country
club or books from the library.
The open-minded person has
a question which he asks reg­ularly
in order to prevent mis­understandings:
"How d o es
this look f r o m where he
stands?" It applies to members
of his family, to a neighbor,
to those who live in another
city or province, and to those
whose homes are at the far
ends of the earth.
When you look at the spec­trum
you see the colors/ from
violet to red, side by side but
shading into one another with
no boundaries to indicate, pre­cisely
where one color ends
Jump Out The Window-Please!
Then Well Walk Toward Funchess
By DIANE SNODDY
. " J u m p out t h e window if you want to; i t 's your blood,
not mine." And the English instructor talked on.
However, to one of the class members this was not
s t a n d a r d teaching procedure. It was, instead, a shock—
one of many received by 13 Auburn High School Sen­iors
who spent a day on cam
pus Monday.
The girls, all members of
Future Teachers of America,
were here as guests of the
Student Education Association
and the School of Education.
The program was sponsored in
an attempt to familiarize fu­ture
teachers with college re­quirements
in their curricula.
Familiarization c e r t a i n ly
took place as the girls were led
around a n d introduced to
everything.ifrom Davjtrto to
the Womens Dining Hall.
On Dr. Ivey, "He's inspir­ing."
On the Dining Hall,
"Let's eat in the Union Build­ing."
There were other com­ments,
too. Some were really
enthusiastic about the educa­tion
courses which they at­tended;
others thought them
boring but "probably neces­sary."
Asked for examples of the
"probably necessary" classes,
they replied, "the ones that
teach you how to print well."
And an explanation, "That's
important for an elementary
teacher to know."
One young lady Hyasfiate in
meeting the others for lunch.
In explanation, she panted,
"Have you ever walked to
Funchess?" There was- a re­ply,
"Yes, all the way from
Broun."
3—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, January 15, 1964
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and another begins. That is the
way to look at people, too.
There is no such thing as a
life that is all black or all
white, all indigo, blue, green,
yellow or orange, although one
or another will predominate at
one time or one place.
The Athenians gave us the
first example of the explicit
recognition of the importance
of social tolerance. They had
minds open to new ideas and
thoughts. We recall that on his
journey up and down the coast
of Asia Minor Saint Paul was
mobbed and imprisoned and
ridiculed and beaten, but when
he came to Athens t h ey
brought h i m to Mars' Hill,
their highest court, and said:
"May we know what this new
doctrine, whereof thou speak-est,
is?"
Open-mindness is not emp-ty-
headedness. It m'eans hav­ing
a desire to learn as well
as having freedom from pre­judice,
partisanship and other
mind-closing habits. If you
have an open mind you are
not content to uncover errors:
you go a step farther in an
attempt to establish true opin­ion
to take their place. And
when you come upon some­thing
excellent you like it, no
matter whose it is.
Some causes of
misunderstanding
It will help us to avoid mis­understandings
if we know
some of their causes.
There are m a n y sparks
which s e t misunderstanding
ablaze, and since they are of
about equally frequent occur­rence
there is no better order
in which to mention them than
alphabetically from anger to
pride.
Trader Horn, the e a r t hy
philosopher in Mrs. Lewis's
story, said: "There's nothing
brings us closer akin to the
apes than the tantrums we get
into." When we lose our tem­pers
we offer humiliating
spectacles, with dignity, com­mon
sense and justice thrown
out the window.
The causes of anger may be
brought under two headings:
fear and mortification. When
someone lets us down at work
or in society the emotion of
anger arises"'instinctively. We
fear -the outcome of the1 pier-son's
blunder or' w e ' are' hu­miliated
because he did that
to us. We get so worked up
that like Aase, one of the char­acters
in Ibsen's Peer Gynt we
"could make a meal of flints."
Then, forgetting that it is
our reaction, and not the af­front,
which counts, we lose
control of the situation. We
write a snarling letter or speak
a growling word. Our emo­tion,
without the curb of our
brains to guide it, leads head­long
into a major misunder­standing.
We need to recognize the
fact that we have control only
over our own reactions. In our
daily contacts with people we
are like the lowly amoeba,
unable to push others around
but only to withdraw or flow
past them.
This1 is why the man who
seeks to avoid misunderstand­ing
flies into a* great calm in­stead
of into a great rage. His
calmness offers nothing ,that
another can grasp; it disarms
his opponent; it heightens his
own stature.
A man is as big as the things
that make him mad. It is said
that Sir Lancelot had several
sizes of spear, and would call
for his Great Spear or his Les­ser
Spear as occasion demand­ed.
It is wise, in our own in­terests,
to err on the side of
gentleness.
Anxiety is a frequent cause
of misunderstanding. It results
from the clash of desire and
fear. In this country, where an
Pulitzer Prize Nominee Evaluates
Proficiency Of History Department
Professor Malcolm C. McMillan
Auburn's Drum And Bugle Corps
Performs Unique Campus Service
By GARY WINSETT
Two years ago, the Auburn
ROTC Drum and Bugle Corps
consisted of a lone snare drum­mer.
Today it has developed
into a tri-service 18-member
band which performs a unique
service on campus.
Army Lt. Col. G. H. Shu-mard,
the officer in charge, said
before the Drum and Bugle
Corps was formed, band music
was available during ROTC
drill periods on special occas­ions.
Recognizing the need for
a drum beat during drill per­iods,
ROTC cadet LeDell Pear­son
volunteered his services as
a snare drummer in the fall
quarter of 1961. During the
same quarter, the group bor­rowed
a bass drum from the
Navy ROTC department and
added a bass drummer.
Winter Quarter Shows
Enrollment Increase
By MARY WHITLEY
A total of 9391 students are
enrolled in Auburn for winter
quarter, according to Registrar
Charles Edwards. This total re­presents
an increase of 856
students over winter quarter,
1963.
The figures include 8879 on-campus
students, while 512 of
the total are enrolled in the
teacher and field-lab courses.
Edwards attributed the high
winter quarter enrollment to
the fewer scholastic failures
among freshmen, due to higher
admission standards recently
put into effect.
YOUNG REPUBLICANS
The Auburn Young Republi­cans
Club will meet Tuesday at
7:15 p.m. in Thach 202.
outstanding job has been done
in the w a y of decreasing
deaths from many diseases, we
have an increasing number of
people who find life miserable
because they are torn by anx­ieties.
Many of our anxieties are
out of all proportion to the
real dangers of the situation.
Propagated as they are by the
methods of news distribution
which pursue us throughout
our waking hours, and nurtur­ed
on our ignorance- of the
many facts displayed by life
today, these anxieties become
mothers of evil broods.
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ROTC officials immediately
made plans to increase ,the
number of drummers and to add
buglers. The band continued to
grow. By the spring of 1963 the
band numbered 17 members in­cluding
cadets from all three
branches of ROTC.
During the summer quarter
of 1963, the Corps suffered a
loss of personnel but was back
to full strength with 17 mem­bers
during the past fall quar­ter.
The band now has 18 mem­bers
including drummers, bug­lers,
a baritone horn player and
a cymbalist. Plans are to in­crease
the band to 24 cadets
and to add clarinets.
According to Colonel Shu-mard
the members provide
their services on a voluntary
basis. The Drum and Bugle
Corps has the same status as
drili teams and the Army's
counter-guerilla warfare unit.
This allows cadets to fulfill
their leadership laboratory re­quirement
by .participating in
the Drum and Bugle Corps.
They are authorized distinctive
uniform accessories.
Colonel Shumard said the
general improvement of drill
due to the band is very obvious.'
He had high praise for the band
members, who are the first ca­dets
on the drill field and the
last ones to leave.
The Corps, which is general­ly
for basic cadets, takes part
in all parades. They performed
in the Auburn Christmas Pa­rade
last year. Commander of
the group is cadet corporal
Glenn Sylvest.
By WALTER MASSEY
The words "Pulitzer Prize,"
when used to describe a schol­arly
work lend it such a sweet-sounding
authority that further
description is hardly needed.
Research Prof. Malcolm C. Mc­Millan
of the history depart­ment
currently has his recent­ly
published Alabama Confed­erate
Reader under nomination
as the best historical work for
this year 1963. One may rest
assured that his "fingers are
crossed" in awaiting the decis­ion
of the Pulitzer Prize judg­ing
committee.
Professor McMillan's out­standing
work in Alabama and
Southern History has, in fact,
already won him considerable
recognition. He is presently a
recipient, of a grant from the
Gugginheim Foundation for re­search.—
only 15 historians in
the international competition
were similarly honored.
Professor McMillan was born
in Stockton, Ala., Aug. 22, 1910.
He finished high school at
Baldwin County High School
in 1928 and then attended
Southwestern College at Mem­phis
for two years. He trans­ferred
to the University where
he earned his A.B. and M.A.
degrees. After teaching history
in public and preparatory
schools for six years, he con­tinued
his education at the
University of North Carolina.
His dissertation for the Doc-troate,
(Constitutional Devel­opment
in Alabama: a Study
in Politics, the Negro and Sec­tionalism,
1798-1901); publish­ed
by the University of North
Carolina press, was a virtual
sellout.
EVALUATION
In evaluating the Auburn
history department, Professor
McMillan stressed the quality
of instruction in the areas of
Southern and American history,
but admitted that European
history is weak because of a
shortage of Continental his­torians.
He said political science
also needs to be strengthened.
One of the drawbacks, ac­cording
to Dr. McMillan, of. the
course in American History,
HY107, which many students
are required to take, is that it
attempts to deal with such a
vast amount of material in such
a short time. There is little
time for the personalities in
American History to be vivid­ly
drawn. Historical treatment
is so factual that students gen­erate
a distaste for history, he
says. Additionally, Professor
McMillan contends students
want to know a concrete an­swer
or fact, instead of realiz­ing
that history often leaves
room for interpretation.
VAST FIELD
. History, itself, Professor Mc­Millan
continues, is not an
exact science. It is invaluable,
however, in analyzing that
which has happened in order
to facilitate man's adaptation
to the present.
History has greatly changed
over the centuries, according to
Professor McMillan. Modern
history has its foothold in the
civilization of the ancient
Greeks, he says. The Greeks
were interested in recording the
QUIPS "ES
By SALLY QUILLIAN
BLUE BOOK
The Interfrater'nity Council
at the University of Pittsburgh
plans to publish a course evalu­ation
booklet. Booklets of this
type are in print at a number
of ivy league schools already
and contain a critical analysis
of each subject and respective
teacher, giving specific ratings
to the value of the course and
competence of the instructor.
At some schools the student
government sponsors this item,
"informative to the student and
challenging to the teacher."
(from The Pitt News)
FEMININE
Sorority relations blackened
at the University of Alabama
last quarter when the member
of one sorority bit a rival sor­ority
member on the thumb.
The occasion was the Sigma
Chi Derby which was vividly
and grotesquely described on
the front page of The Crimson
and White. Competition in one
event became so heated that
the dean of women asked the
chairman to call off that event.
DISCOUNTS
The student senate at Emory
University has a committee
called the Student Discount
Committee which will soon set
up a discount service for Emory
students with stores in the area.
Such a service helps the mer­chants
increase their sales as
well as benefits the students.
Merchants receive free adver­tising
in a phamplet listing the
stores which subscribe to the
service. Included would be ser­vice
stations, dry cleaners, flor-.
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social and economics phases of
their life, as well as the politi­cal.
In the interlude between
the Greek civilization and that
as we know it today, history
has dealt with rulers and later
politicians, but only recently
has history begun to deal with
the total of the civilization and
culture at hand, says Dr. Mc­Millan.
Scientific objectivity
can never replace the subjec­tivity
that allows man to rise
above a situation by knowing
that man in the past has been
required to face a similar pro­blem
and has successfully sur­mounted
it.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Among Professor McMillan's
other accomplishments are a
score of articles and reviews
written for periodicals in Ala­bama
and many other states
as well. He has participated in
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Greek Week
Friday night initiates an anual affair
known about the campus as Greek
Week. It is a week of fun, frolic and
seriousness for campus Greeks. We
think that it is a good time to survey
Auburn's fraternity system.
Generally speaking,.it is our belief
that fraternities and sororities have
made a lot of progress in the last year.
Greeks are finally beginning to notice
their powerful critics. They are not,
however, taking a defeatist attitude.
There is some good and some bad in
any large system. Auburn Greeks are
obviously realizing this fact and are
taking steps to rid themselves of their
bad points. We have heard of several
instances in which individual fraterni­ties
have voluntarily ceased undue phy­sical
harassment of pledges and initi­ates.
This has been one of the strongest
points for criticism.
We think that the fraternity system
is wise in discarding its intangibles as
public defenses. Communication with
other people must be based upon the
tangible. No amount of talk about the
brotherhood or sisterhood "that only \
we can .know, and enjoy" will make„
Greekdom acceptable to other minds.
We feel that Auburn fraternities and
sororities are realizing their responsibi­lities
to the social, physical, and acade­mic
welfare of the university. Greek
grades have improved. They are con­tributing
physically and financially to
community and university projects.
We shall never say that a fraternity
or sorority is a vital need of every col­lege
student. It is not. The fraternity
can however offer tangible benefits to
those who are desirous of membership
in such groups.
It is our belief that this must be the
real purpose of Greek Week. This is a
time when each fraternity and sorority
should evaluate itself. Each organiza­tion
must carefully analyze its inner
workings and its relationships with the
outside world. The good must be main­tained.
The bad must be recognized and
abolished.
We believe that Auburn fraternities
and sororities are headed in this direc­tion.
If such be the case, the Greek fu­ture
should be bright and Greek Week
should be deserving of meritorious no­tice
by all., . „.
'The Education Congress'
President Johnson has seen fit to
label the 88th Congress of the United
States "the education congress." While
we think it admirable and politically
sound that Mr. Johnson has found a
way to cast meritorious recognition up­on
our esteemed legislative branch, we
do not think that education owes very
much to the 88th Congress.
It is quite true that the multimillion
dollar construction bill of 1963 will be
of some benefit to institutions of higher
learning. The fact remains, however,
that this bill is not nearly so signifi­cant
to education as the GI Bill or the
National Defense Education Act of
which Alabama Representative Carl
Elliott is the co-author.
There is also the additional fact that
the support granted to education by
the 88th Congress is lower percentage­wise
than government aid to education
for the academic year 1952-53.
To some minds, decreasing federal
assistance to education is a cause for
rejoicing. We accept this premise in
theory. Education's needs can likely
best be served by local and state sup­port.
In some cases, this principle has
worked successfully. These cases have
unfortunately been few.
One educator noted recently that the
entire outlay of the construction bill
passed by the 88th Congress could not
provide the states of Alabama and Geor­gia
with a "good" school system. The
term "good" referred to standards in
education now maintained by the states
of California and New York.
Incumbent congressmen seeking re­election
should get a lot of mileage out
of the President's statement. Educa­tion
forces, on the other hand, don't
have much to look forward to if the
88th was indeed "the education con­gress."
A Touching Story
We had the unfortunate experience
this week to receive a phone call from
a "lady in distress." It seems that this
woman's billfold had somehow been
stolen. Yes, we know that it happens
every day.
This was one of those stories, how­ever,
that had the human element de­signated
by biblical scholars as capable
of moving mountains. The young lady,
a secretary on the campus, is working
to put her husband through school. Our
subject matter, the bright red billfold,
contained seventy dollars to be used
for this .purpose. This paltry sum was
the result of many long hours spent
typing a thesis for pay. Now there's
no money. Even the lady's identifica­tion
is gone.
It is a common story, a much too
common one. Life's hopes and aspira­tions
are too precious to be dashed to
the ground by the hand of a thief. We
are very sad that such "trivial inci­dents"
can cause such big woes to our
fellow man. We are even more disil­lusioned
that the causes for such sor­row
abound in our midst.
Tobacco Substitute?
It seems that a great many of us are
destined to die of lung cancer. The gov­ernment
report on smoking is serious
business, but we doubt that it will
cause any great degree of consterna­tion
among college smokers.
There are too many of us who are
unwilling to become nervous wrecks
by giving up the habit. Don't, however,
resign yourself to lung cancer. Re­searchers
tell us that there is still hope.
UK ijflaff*...--. m. tcame-
Introspectives . . .
Panama Wants Justice, A Canal;
How Can We Deny Her This?
By Bobby Boettcher
Experiments with vegetable leaves
as replacements for tobacco are now be­ing
conducted in a New York labora­tory.
Through various and sundry con­glomerations
of vegetation and artifi­cial
flavorings, a synthetic is in sight.
The only remaining task is for the
scientists to come up with a tobacco­like
aroma.
Can you imagine walking into a drug­store
and asking for a pack of menthol
lettuce leaves?
What is happening now in
Panama was inevitable. Pana­ma,
taking note of the steady
relinquishing of colonial hold­ings
by world powers is ask­ing
to have the canal for its
own—or at least that the Unit­ed
States leave. And because for
years we have quelled tacitly
any intimation of this sort of
situation in Panama, we now
find ourselves bare-faced with
no more presence of mind than
to yell desperately, "protect
our interests" and "communist
subversion." Seemingly, we are
unable to view the dilemma ob­jectively.
We were caught un­prepared
and without a solution
except to caU out the Marines
and scream slogans.
The newspapers tell us that
there is no alternative to pos­session
of the Canal; yet, the
United States has realized for
several years that the Canal
will be incapable of handling
increased traffic in the future,
and has considered the possibi­lity
of building a new canal at
another site in Central Ameri­ca.
Sen. Karl Mundt would
have us turn loose our 10,000
troops in the Canal Zone on
the Panamanian populace as a
"show of strength." Sen. Rich­ard
Russell warns that we must
not allow the Canal Zone to fall
into the hands of "Castro sup­porters
and subversives." In­deed,
we must not; but are we
to define "Castro supporters
and subversives" in Panama as
everything and everybody ex­cept
the good ole USA?
Undersecretary of S t a te
George Ball reports that the
rioting in Panama showed evi­dence
of communist exploita­tion,
but not communist insti­gation.
The uprising was inspir­ed
by nationalist feeling such
as that expressed by Panaman­ian
President Chiari, when he
promised "to obtain justice for
Panama once and for all." If
t h e United States speaks
through threats and military
might, it will run the risk of
leaving Panamanian nationa­lism
with nowhere to turn but
to the exploitation of commun­ism.
,
Will the United States, which
opposed old friends Britain and
France in supporting Egypt's
1956 nationalization of the Suez
Canal, now try to perpetuate its
control and "interest" in Pana­ma
by quoting old treaties
which it forced upon the Re­public
of Panama? If so, we
shall find ourselves groping for
defense against charges of in­ternational
double-dealing, and
our racial double standard here
at home, for which we know
there is no defense.
For at least two years, a war
of nerves has been waging in
Panama. It came to a climax
last Thursday when some
American high school students
raised an American flag in
front of their school in defiance
of a recent U.S.-Panama agree­ment
that the flags of the two
countries would be flown to­gether.
The fighting which
broke out as Panamanian stu­dents
tried to raise their flag
at the school furnished the
spark for nationwide anti-U.S.
demonstrations and riots. The
ensuing destruction of Ameri­can
and Panamanian life and
property was appalling.
The incidents of last toeek
are not just a result of two
years of seething discontent, but
of 60 years of U.S. domination,
the benevolence and benefits of
which often have been offset
by dubious American motives
and methods. The Republic of
Panama itself was created by
the United States government,
which tormented a revolution
in 1904 against Colombia—of
which Panama was a territory
at that time—mainly because
Colombia asked more money
for US rights to canal construc­tion
than President Theodore
Roosevelt was willing to pay.
After the Republic was estab­lished,
it became an instrument
of the "dollar diplomacy" of
Presidents Theodore Roosevelt
and William H. Taft, in mak­ing
the Caribbean Sea 'an
American lake."
Today the United States pays
Panama only 1.9 million dol­lars
annually for perpetual oc­cupancy
of the Canal Zone.
American citizens in the Canal
Zone receive privileged status,
including higher pay, special
food, and special recreational
facilities—somewhat reminicent
of the old British gentleman
drinking his gin and tonic at
"the club," unconcernedly over­looking
the slums of Calcutta or
Bombay in Rudyard Kipling's
time.
Merely allowing the Pana­manians
to fly their own flag
is not enough to placate them,
and justifiably so. Somewhere
between the present arrange­ment
and communist takeover,
there lies an area where a so­lution
to the problem can be
found. Perhaps an international
management of the Canal
would be feasible: one in keep­ing
with the first Hay-Paunce-fote
Treaty of 1900 between
the United States and Great
Britain. This treaty specified
that the Canal be open to all
nations in peace and war, and
guaranteed against political in­fluence
and territorial en­croachments
in Central Ameri­ca.
Saber rattling and narrow
self-interest do not provide so­lutions;
they only invite disas­ter
for even a well-meaning
United States.
AVA President
Praises Spirit
Editor, The Plainsman:
The Auburn Veterans' As­sociation
would like to express
its thanks and extend its con­gratulations
for the fine spirit
of cooperation and patience ex­hibited
by the Auburn student
body during registration for the
winter quarter. It was this spir­it
which enabled registration
to proceed very smoothly, and
without undue disturbance or
difficulty.
Winston Payne
President, Auburn
Veterans' Association
NOTICE
The Society For The Ad­vancement
of Management will
meet Jan. 20 at 7 p.m. in Dun-stan
Hall room 103.
BOOK EXCHANGE
The A Phi O Book Exchange,
located in the L Building tun­nel,
will be open-every Mon­day
from 1 to 4 p.m. this
quarter.
Can The U.S. Quell Communism
Without Offensive Cuban Policies?
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Editors
By George McMillan, Jr.
There is only one power
which can stop the spread of
communism f r o m Cuba and
that power is the United
States. The U.S., however,
cannot stop the Communist
advance until it stops being
more concerned about peace
and mere existence than it is
about its moral duty to sup­port
freedom.
At present, the United States
has no serious policy of any
kind toward Cuba. The hap­hazard
combination of air and
sea surveillance plus half­hearted
economic sanctions
plus training of minor exile
units plus occasional pin-pricking
raids is in no wise a
serious- policy. In fact these
activities have not only failed
to weaken Castro's regime, but
in most instances have served
to strengthen it. Cuba contin­ues
to develop as a center for
Latin American revolutionary
operations while we infuriate
our allies and neutrals, by be­ing
a Castro whipping post. If
we were going to get rid of
Castro for now and forever, all
well and good, as they see it.
But if we are just playing
around, what ,right do we have
to tell them what credits their
banks may give or what cargo
their ships may carry? "After
all, we sell wheat to Russia.
Misconceptions about Cuba
are current in this country,
a m o n g anti-communists as
well as "co-existers." The Cu­ban
economy is- in bad shape
and many Cubans are hungry;
however, it does not follow
that Castro is on the brink of
collapsing. On t h e contrary,
his regime is rapidly becoming
firmly entrenched. Its armed
forces - are well-equipped and
formidable, and have been get­ting
first class training. Cuban
leadership has had several
years to perfect defensive
strategy and tactics suited to
their locale and to prepare the
revolutionary offensive that is
being directed throughout the
Caribbean basin.
Castro and his henchmen are
not going to collapse because
of their own weight nor from
external half-measures. T he
potential unrest is present, but
it will not open into active re­belliousness
without a real
prospect of success — particul­arly
with the Bay of Pigs
slaughter, quite fresh on the
Cuban's minds. Castro's re­gime
is shaky a n d might
crumble fast once it started,
but a push will be needed too
big for .anything short of U.S.
pow;er to propel.
ThWty-S. doesn't necessarily
have to make an all-out invas­ion
of Cuha Milder forms are
still available, such as the mo­tions
of a nominally exile land­ing,
declaration of new govern­ment-
which requests aid, re­cognition
by Washington and
immediate response to request.
Recent OAS demands for ac­tion
tq get rid of Castro add
another. bright prospect—that
of joint action between t he
U;S. and a number of the Ca­ribbean
countries.
How this problem is solved
is of b u t secondary impor­tance;
the crux of the matter
is to eliminate Castro and his
regime through quick decisive
action. When that is done, the
results will be accepted. And
the idea that the action—if
done with speed and skill—
will project into nuclear war is
outrageous. Khrushchev w i ll
not sacrifice Moscow for Ha­vana.
As the noted columnist James
Burnham has said, "There is
no solution for the Cuban
problem other than the ousting
of the communist regime. The
evidence shows that we cannot
stabilize a coexisting situation.
The continuation of the regime
progressively undermines our
strategic arid political situation
within this hemisphere and
our global prestige a n d in­fluence."
Wholesale Education . . \
The Tiger Of Ignorance Must fad;
Should He Be Killed-Or Trapped?
By John Dixon
"Unless opportunity for ed­ucation
beyond the high school
can be made available to all
. . . then the American promise
of individual dignity and free­dom
cannot be extended to
all."
This statement appears in a
report issued last week by the
Educational Policies Commis­sion
of t h e National Educa­tional
Association. Further on
in its report t h e commission
specifically states that it be­lieves
that the concept of free
universal education should be
extended to at least a hypothe­tical
fourteenth grade. The re­sult?
Each person would be
entitled to two years of col­lege—
without a n y personal
expense involved.
The EPC proposal recom­mends
that this two-year pro­gram
be aimed at a liberal arts
curriculum. Undoubtedly this
idea stems from the concept
that more training in "think­ing"
is involved. They main­tain
that technical knowledge
of "almost any specific skill is
apt to become obsolescent.'*
Reaction to their report is
varied. In the current issue of
Newsweek is the statement by
a school superintendent in
Long Island: "The problems
are n o t insuperable. Such a
system would ease the pres­sure
on the colleges and also
on a labor market that is al­ready
glutted with this a ge
group. True, the EPC sugges­tion
doesn't solve the prob­lems
of high-school dropouts,
but you have to match that
against the increased producti­vity
we would get out of the
ones that do go on." Opponents
6f the EPC proposal, as News­week
relates, consider it "Uto­pian
in an era when 35 per
cent of American youth fail to
finish high school."
This writer is forced to agree
at least in part with the latter
group, who feel perhaps that
the proposal is too radical and
too wide-sweeping.
The intent of the committee
is indeed laudable: to upgrade
the general level of education
for the average citizen, a nd
thereby solve a multitude of
problems such as the increas­ing
n u m b e r s of unskilled
workers so detrimental to the
labor pool. On the surface their
solution might seem plausible,
at least to the extent that this
"educational level" w o u ld
probably be raised slightly.
Unfortunately, t h e i r pro­gram
would involve astrono­mic
expense in providing suf­ficient
classrooms and instruc­tors.
The question must be
raised: can these funds be put
to a better use and still begin
to raise the quality of the ed­ucation
offered at no cost to
non-college students?
Although the idea of Federal
aid to education is undesirable
to many, only a few will deny
the benefits which could be
derived if this money were
applied to upgrading school fa­cilities,
raising teacher salaries
riot to mention the possibility
of increasing the number of
Federal scholarships available
to highly-qualified high school
graduates. Such a program
would boost the quality of nor-riial
12-year high school cur-riculums
so that more could
be offered to serious students
who could have the | goal in
mind of Federal assistance for
their ventures into higher ed­ucation.
Also the better-quali­fied
teachers who could be at­tracted
by higher salaries very
possibly might instill in the not
so serious student a desire to
continue his education, and
consequently lower the current
35 per cent drop-out rate.
It seems that the Educational
Policies Commission of the
National Education Association
is trying to kill a tiger with
a block-buster. Why shouldn't
they re-examine their solution
and then try trapping him
simply with the tested net.
BILLFOLD STOLEN
been stolen from Mrs. Joyce
Brlttain. The identification and
personal papers contained in it
A billfold containing $70 has
are badly needed, and may be
left ajt the Union Desk or re­turned
by mail, no questions
asked.
Vil ews
| By HARRY WILKINSON
A little note arrived in the
mail the other day which evok­ed
the dissimilar responses of
admiration and amusement
from t h is
corner. The
note was a
statement by
Mr. J o hn
G r e n i e r,
titular head
of Alabama
R epublicans,
that the talk
and opinion
polls i n d i-cating
the
p o l i t i c a l
death of Sen. Barry Goldwater
were nonsense. Grenier noted
that the Junior Senator from
Arizona was the people's
"cherce" and would by popular
acclamation or revival become
the thirty-seventh president of
the United States.
The Odds Against . . .
Even with all the political
odds stacked against him, there
was no other statement Grenier
could possibly make. The story
is a long and interesting one.
Some months ago, and in
spite of the warnings flashed
by old-line republicans in Ala­bama,
Grenier became the
leading voice of what is known
as the "Draft Goldwater Com­mittee."
It was by this action
that Alabama Republicans be­came
tied to the coattails of one
man. Things rocked along
smoothly for awhile. Despite
such things as Goldwater's open
support of the "March on
Washington," Alabama republi­cans
were fairly sucessful in
endearing the senator to some
segregationist forces in the
state. And then President Ken­nedy
was assasinated. The pic­ture
changed rapidly.
In the first place, both Gold-water
and President Johnson
are from the Southwest. Many
moons have passed since both
parties^have nominated men,
from the same section of the,
fioud^rj;- ^PfograprJidally speak-"
ing, Jdh5s8n is a. Southerner.
One has to go back to the times*
of Andrew Jackson to find an-,
other man from this locale re-;
siding in the big house on
Pennsylvania Ave.
Although these factors are
politically relevant, they are
not the primary bases upon
which many forecasters are
spelling doom for Goldwater's
political aspirations. The es­sence
of the situation may be
derived from the fact that
Goldwater's support lies where
the votes aren't. One editor has
noted that William Jennings
B r y a n tried unsuccessfully
three times to win the presi­dency
with support from the
Southern, desert, and mountain
states. Herein lies the founda­tion
of Senator Goldwater's
claim to fame.
State By State . . I
If by any chance Goldwater
should become the Republican
nominee and carry Alabama,
Georgia, Louisana; Tennessee,
Kentucky, Mississippi, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Flor­ida,
Maryland, Arizona, Arkan­sas,
Colorado, Idaho, Montana,.
New Mexico, Nevada, North
Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah,
Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska,
Maine, New Hampshire, and
Vermont; he still would not be­come
President of the United
States. These states constitute
only 212 of the 270 electoral
votes required for election.
It is virtually inconceivable
that Sen. Goldwater could car­ry
all of these states. It is even
more inconceivable that he
could carry all of these states
and others. Do not belittle the
"prophets of doom" Mr. Gren­ier.
History is on their side.
It's a shame that John Gren­ier
has built the 1964 success
of Alabama's Republican Par­ty
on one man, but his courage
is admirable. He is fighting the
good fight to the very end. No
one knows better than Mr.
Grenier that there is no reward
for the supporters of political
losers. .. (
Sen. Goldwater isn't down for
the count, but he's staggering
on the ropes. State republicans
are staggering with him. And
as senior republicans in the
state tried to tell Mr. Grenier,
managers aren't supposed to
get hit.
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Fraternity Jewelry Salesman
Relates History Of Pin Sales
By SALLY QUILLIAN
The Greek sorority or fraternity pin is a small but
valuable item often acquired at college and prized for­ever.
Each year over one thousand Auburn students
order one of these items. An interview with E. B.
Benson, Balfour representative for the past 46 years and
official jewelry representative
at Auburn for nine years, re­veals
the following trends and
facts about t h e selection of
pins by members of Greek or­ganizations
on campus.
At Auburn, with 12 sorori­ties
and 25 fraternities, there
are nine diamond-shaped pins,
four shield-shaped, six with
overlaid Greek letters, three
crosses, and 15 others ranging
from the shape of a heart- to
Aladdin's lamp. Although the
shape of the pin does not vary
within any group, each mem­ber
must individually decide
on size, individual stones,
color of gold, price to pay, and
type of guard if purchased.
PRICES
Prices of pins range from
badges at $5.50 to the most ex­pensive
pins for $250.00. The
average amount spent at Au­burn
(not including the price
of the guard) is around $35.00.
However, many pins are sold
in the price range of $75.00 to
$100.00. More and more all-diamond
pins are sold each
year. These range in price
from $175.00 to $250.00.
In sales, white gold pins are
more popular and more ex­pensive.
The difference be­tween
white and yellow gold is
that all white gold is sold in
14 K and yellow gold comes
in either 10 or 12 K. In certain
organizations only yellow gold
is permitted.
STONES
The jewels most frequently
used today are pearls or some
combination of pearls with
other stones. The next most
popularly used stone combin­ations
are the sapphire in all
sapphire pins, and third a
combination of sapphires and
diamonds. After these combin­ations,
the most popular jewels
are emeralds and opals.
The popularity of stones is
changing. Up until as few as
three years ago blue sapphires
were used extensively, but to­day
there is a trend for other
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colorful and bright stones as
well. Boys tend to select more
colorful combinations t h an
girls who are content with
conservative and less brilliant
stones. Mr. Benson finds that
one of his biggest jobs is help­ing
a boy find the stone com­bination
that he likes without
using gaudy or clashing stones
together.
Relatively new in popular­ity
are white sapphires. How­ever,
only eight groups on
campus are allowed to use
them because of national re­strictions.
The stone closely
resembles the diamond to in­expert
eyes, but lacks the dia­mond's
color, brightness, and
quality. Because some national
headquarters feel that these
s t o n e s "imitate" diamonds,
their use is curbed.
Stones not available in frat­ernity
jewelry are topaz, ame­thyst,
turquoise, and light blue
sapphire. The first three of
these are not used because
they lack brilliance and there­fore
do not stand out enough,
but the light blue sapphire is
not used because of its inavail-ability
on the market.
LIMITED
Certain groups are strictly
limited to standard stone com­binations!
The available stones
adhere to the colors of the or­ganization
and in most cases
the one color stone may be
used with either pearls or dia­monds.
The prices of individual
jewels vary according to size
and stone. In fratetrnity jew­elry,
according to value, dia­monds
a r e first; emeralds
next; sapphires, rubies, and
garnets, third; and then opals
and pearls.
Most pin orders include an
order for the chapter guard.
More plain guards are sold be­cause
of their relative inex-pensiveness.
In yellow gold,
single letter guards are $2.75
and two-letter ones are $4.75,
but an additional one dollar is
charged for each letter if
white gold is used. For a jew­eled
guard with stones to
match the combination in the
pin itself, prices start at $7.75
for single letters, and $14.00
for double letters. A less ex­pensive
and smaller all-pearl
guard is available for pins
having a pearl combination.^
SIZES
Fraternities usually h a ve
three pin sizes to select, and
sororities usually have one,
but two at the most. Fraterni­ties
have large, regular, and
small sizes, but practically all
men today wear the regular
size pin. Mr. Benson recalls
the day when many overly
proud fraternity men ordered
the large size, known as the
"swagger," and the wearer did
just that, Mr. Benson says.
Women who have a selection,
most often select the minia­ture
s i z e as opposed to the
regular size. And when a man
orders a pin especially for a
woman, he will also select the
miniature size.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
FALL QUARTER
In accordance with Student Body Law, The Plainsman
prints a quarterly financial statement of funds derived from
the student activities fee. Below is the statement terminating
Dec. 31, 1963.
Don't Be Old-Fashioned
Save the modern way with a savings account
and add to it regularly. Your dreams will soon
come true with our big 3% rate of interest on
savings accounts.
BANK of AUBURN
Band
Debate
Dramatic Arts
Exhibits
Glomerata
Intramurals, Men
Intramurals, Women
Lectures and Concerts
Music
Plainsman
Religious Life
Student Body-
Student Union
Tiger Cub
WSGA
Student Social Life
Athletic funds derived
Unpaid
Purchase
Order
$ 992.58
144.00
472.16
133.90
55,955.32
443.35
270.05
5,759.00
1,301
16,330.68
3,031.47
637
42.50
211.16
Total Free
Expenditures Balancce
$ 3,520.78
862.05
1,951.98
1,135.89
2,059.53
4,051.18
674.65
6,740.23
543.91
12,672.23
293.50
3,682.35
6,446.18
2,065.85
1,140.43
919.50
$ 3,430.90
597.70
1,501.06
541.53
2,239.22
5,702.37
1,965.74
1,576.69
1,778.08
1,001.99
818.52
9,222.84
8,916.75
510.67
1,154.25
2,843.41
from the student activities fee are
placed in the regular Athletic Department budget.
Former Aubum Student Beginning
Malaysian Peace Corps Assignment
Theta Chi Begins
Formal Season
Auburn's winter social sea­son
began in a flurry of ex­citement
last Friday night as
Miss Elaine Lindsey, of Delta
Zeta Sorority, was named
Theta Chi Dream Girl for 1964
at the annual Theta Chi Dream
Girl Formal.
Dream Girl for 1963, Miss
Carol Goodlett, led the dance,
escorted by Otto Vollinger,
vice president of the frater­nity.
Dream Girl finalists for 1964
were also included in the lead-out.
They and their dates were
Miss Lindsey, escorted by Ray
McClendon; Joan Knight, es­corted
by Harry Strack; Cindy
Kitchens, Joe Turner; and Ca­rol
Ball, Wayne Lee.
Other fraternities and soror­ities
will be turning the winter
quarter into a constant stream
of formals and houseparties in
the weeks to come.
5^-THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, January 15, 19G4
Harold S. Kearns, Jr., an
Auburn alumnus, has begun a
two-year assignment as a
Peace Corps Volunteer in Sa-bah,
Sarawak.
He is one of 52 Peace Corps
volunteers who left Jan. 2 for
Sabah and Sarawek. These
volunteers will begin work in
the fields of education a nd
rural community action. This
group will join 88 other- vol­unteers
already serving there.
These areas are part of the
newly formed Federation of
Malaysia which incorporates
the former country of Malaya
and the territories of North
Borneo and Sarawak. The
Government of Malaysia is en­gaged
in a major effort to de­velop
the potentials of its peo­ples
and its resources. How­ever,
as a newly developing
country, Malaysia has a severe
shortage of trained personnel.
The Peace Corps Volunteers
with thejr diversified skills are
helping to fill this need.
These Americans will serve
as teachers to assist in prepar­ing
future leaders, and as ag­ricultural
extension workers in
rural communities. They train­ed
almost three months at the
University of Hawaii in the lo­cal
version of t h e Malayan
language, in the area's culture,
LETTER TO. THE EDITOR
An Open Letter
To Mr. Franklin
Editor, The Plainsman:
An Open Letter to Mr. Har­old
Franklin:
Welcome to Auburn, the lov-liest
village of the plains.
You entered our midst one
in ten thousand, with head erect
and quiet dignity. Many of us
walked wiSh you and were
proud of you. It is not a hostile
environment that you entered,
but rather one where unfami-liarity
coupled with self-con­sciousness
make initial over­tures
difficult. Be patient with
us as I believe we shall be
with you. You come here to
study and learn. That is why
all of us are here. It is hard
work even for the strong. It
takes time, quiet, and peace of
mind. These we can give you.
You are in the Auburn family
now. You share its triumphs
and fine traditions. All we ask
is that you grow to the best of
your abilities.
The path to understanding is
infinitely long and tortuous.
Yet the journey can be made
reasonably pleasant. At first,
while you are strange and nov­el,
we shall smile a greeting,
nod our heads, and say, "Hey."
With a little practice this will
be so easy that we shall stop
and talk with you. Perhaps a
cup of coffee, or lunch at the
cafeteria. These will be so easy
that no longer will you be one
in ten thousand, but just an­other
struggling student trying
to make the grade.
Here's to anonymity, Harold.
Cheers.
Dr. Paul P. Budenstein
Dept. of Physics
AVA NOTICE
The Auburn Veterans' As­sociation
will meet Jan. 21 at
7:30 p.m. in the Union Build­ing.
All veterans are invited
to attend. The officers urge all
members to attend.
ID CARDS
Today is the last day that
pictures for ID cards will be
taken. Students still needing
ID cards should contact the
Photographic Services office in
the L Building between 2 and
5 p.m.
history and traditions, as well
as in American history and in­stitutions.
Nearly 7,000 volunteers are
now at work in 46 nations of
Africa, Asia and Latin Amer­ica.
Requests for additional
volunteers are received daily.
Persons who took the nation­wide
Peace Corps Placement
Test on Jan. 11, can be con­sidered
for one of the many
summer training programs.
Faculty Feature..
(Continued from page 3)
programs sponsored by the
American Historical Associa­tion
and the Southern Histori­cal
Association. He has served
on the editorial board of the
Alabama Review and as a
member of the executive coun­cil
of the Alabama Historical
Association.
In addition to his position as
Research Professor here, Dr.
McMillan has served as a mem­ber
of the graduate council and
is a member of the research
council for co-ordinating re­search
at the University. Dur­ing
1960-61 he maintained a
weekly television program on
Alabama Educational Televis­ion,
"Civil War Alabama."
TUTORING
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Translations In
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FRENCH
ITALIAN
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Telephone 887-2377
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talent to be used as
floor show material for the
Eagle's Nest, student night
club, each Friday night Jan.
31 through Feb. 28. Auditions
for night club talent and also
auditions for bands interested
in playing at any Auburn Un­ion
function will take place
from 4 to 5 p.m. each Wednes­day.
Interested persons should
contact Tommy Lindsey by
Tuesday, Jan. 21.
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THE PLAINSMAN AUBURN, ALA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1964 PAGE SIX
George Gardner . . .
Coach "Swede" Is Tops
An athletic coach with a record of 141 wins, only 15 losses,
and five draws? Sounds unlikely, doesn't it? 141-15-5 . . . those
combined figures look even more unbelieveable. But that is the
record of Arnold "Swede" Umbach, head wrestling coach at Au­burn
ever since he organized the wrestling team in 1946.
What's more, three of those losses were sustained the first
year Coach Umbach organized his near-all-winning i squad.
"We didn't start work until after Christmas that year, and the
other schools we wrestled had teams for many years previously."
said Umbach. So discount that first novice year and the slate
is 140-12-5. And that, friends, looks almost unbelievable to me.
Arnold Umbach, one of Auburn's real claims to fame in the
sports world, is actually a product of Oklahoma, the "Sooner
State." He began wrestling at Oklahoma State University, when
it was but a prep school. Jokingly trying to hide his age, the
genial "Swede" said that he "began wrestling in the '20's."
Finishing high school, he moved on to Southwestern State
College in southern Oklahoma and began a fantastic college
career.
Learning under the tutelage of the late E. C. Gallagher
(Oklahoma State coach from 1916-1940), he began his assault on
collegiate records at Southwestern. Umbach was the champion
of the whole state of Oklahoma (that was then, as now, the
renter of collegiate wrestling) for each of his four college years
(1924-1927).
"No," he answered to our query, " I didn't enter the NCAA
championships." We were momentarily shocked. "They didn't
even begin the NCAA wrestling championship matches until
1928," he smiled.
Varsity Wrestlers Open Season
Against Tech In Sports Arena
Star Grapplers Dot Tiger Lineup
For Initial SEIWA Mat Contest
By JAMES DEMBOWSKI
The Auburn Tigers wrestling team will take on the
Georgia Tech Yellow Jacftets in the Sports Arena Sat­urday
at 7:30 p.m. This will be the Tiger's second
and the Yellow Jacket's fourth match of the current
wrestling season.
Nothing But Wins
Since leaving Southwestern, Coach Umbach has left a trail
of successful coaching stands behind him. He coached high
school football in Oklahoma for 14 years, where he had the
destinction of winning over 100 games. Leaving his native "Soon­er"
land, he moved to William and Mary College where he was
an assistant football coach from 1941-1944. That same year,
1944, was a fateful day in the history of War Eagle athletics:
Arnold Umbach and his family moved to the Lovliest Village
where he joined the war-weakened Tiger football machine as
an assistant coach.
' ^ ^ . After establishing the first Tiger
/K llm wrestling squad in 1946, Umbach was
• 'f c ^ the founding father of the Southeast­ern
Amateur Athletic Union in 1947.
However, the league was reorganized
in 1953 and is nd%- known as the
Southeastern Intercollegiate Wrestling
Association. The Auburn grapplers
have completly dominated the SEIWA
championship matches, winning every
year (17) since it was organized. Ac­cording
to Coach Umbach, the SEIWA
covers all schools located tn states re­presented
in the Southeastern Confer -
UMBACH ence-
Since 1928, Oklahoma State has dominated intercollegiate
wrestling at the NCAA level, but at the same time "Swede"
Umbach has held a strangle-hold on Southern intercollegiate
grappling. Although Auburn has never been represented at the
NCAA meet by av team, several outstanding individuals have
carried War Eagle colors to the national matches.
In 1953 Dan McNair from Auburn was responsible for Penn
State winning the national title from Oklahoma State (and OSU
hasn't lost the NCAA title but a half-dozen or so times since
1928). In the finals, NcNair defeated an OSU man to throw
the winning points to Penn State.
Sonny Dragoin, who now coaches the Tiger golf team, fin­ished
fourth in the NCAA finals. Incidently, Dragoin had only
wrestled for three years, (under Coach Umbach), whereas his
competitors had all wrestled for seven or eight years (including
high school). That was back in 1952—before Dragoin returned
to Auburn to join the coaching staff. After helping Umbach
with the frosh grapplers for several years, Coach Dragoin now
handles the golf team in addition to teaching.
Many Years, Many Honors . . .
Many honors have come his way since "Swede" Umbach
settled on the Plains. One of his prized possessions is a plaque
from the Helms Hall of Fame, denoting him as one of the
outstanding coaches in the nation. He was selected for this
honor in 1961. Also, he now serves on the selection board of this
same organization. Another national honor was bestowed on
Coach Umbach in 1962 when he was tapped for membership in
the Century Club. He was selected by virtue of having won
over 100 contests in wrestling, as well as for having posted
over 100 victories as a high school football coach.
In addition, Umbach served as president of American
Wrestling Coaches Association in 1955. He is also a member
of the NCAA rules committee, as is Coach Wilbur Hutsell (Au­burn's
retired track mentor). To us, though, one of the most
amazing things about Coach Umbach is his ability to recruit. Al­though
Auburn gives absolutely no scholarships to wrestlers,
almost all of the teams that the Tigers beat year after year
offer scholarships to their grapplers. Umbach's profound abili­ty
tb develop boys into top wrestlers is expounded in his book
"Successful Wrestling," which was printed in 1953.
We were absolutely astounded when Coach Umbach told
ur, about wrestling out in Oklahoma. "The Oklahoma-Oklahoma
State match last year drew over 8,000 people," he said, "and
they charge about $2 per seat." The NCAA tournament last
season attracted over 25,000 fans to its four sessions. "And that
was during spring vacation, when there were no students on the
(See page 8, column Ty
TIGER WRESTLERS Mark Hyman (left), Jim Welling-ham
(center), and Henry Starns (right) talk over strategy
as they prepare for Georgia Tech. The Auburn grapplers
will wrestle Tech at 7:30 p.m. Saturday night in the Sports
Arena. Hyman wrestles in the 177 lb. class, Wllingham in
the 136 lb. class, and Starns weighs in at 147 lbs.
AUBURN CAGERS FACE ALABAMA,
READY TO HALT LOSING STREAK
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By GERALD RUTBERG
Disappointing Alabama con­fronts
depth-shy Auburn this
Saturday evening at the Coli­seum
in Montgomery in an SEC
contest scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Prior to the 1963-64 season,
Alabama was touted as a very
formidable darkhorse to place
at or near the top in this year's
title chase. However the Tide
has not lived up to expectations,
posting a mediocre 8-6 record
overall for their first fourteen
games.
For Auburn, now 5-6 on the
season, finding adequate.)ben;c:h
strength to spell the starting
quintet has been the major
dilemma. In the Tiger's last
outing, against Florida, five
Plainsmen cagers played a con­siderable
portion of the game
with heavy foul loads and two
Tigers fouled out early in the
second half of play. Auburn
lost the contest 63-46.
Alabama's starting lineup
will include last year's sopho­more
sensation at the center's
position, Bob Andrews, now a
lanky junior who may have a
special incentive in this year's
intrastate clash. It was Andrews
who muffed an under-the-bas-ket
layup shot while complete­ly
unguarded in last year's first
Tide-Tiger battle which forced
the game into overtime. Au­burn
eventually won the game
and later in the season the Ti­gers
recorded another overtime
triumph over the Crimson
Tide.
Other probable starters for
Coach Haydon Riley's Crim­sons
include forwards Bob Per­ry
and Bambi Howland, and
guards Ken Moses and J. W.
Berry. James Boothe • is also
ticketed for game action.
Auburn will counter with
center Joel Newton, forwards
Freddie Guy and Lee DeFore,
and guards John Blackwell and
Larry Chapman. Tommy Fibbe
and Herbert Greene will also
see duty for the Tigers.
As the season progresses, the
Tigers are gradually gaining
experience, and while the Ti­gers
may be slight underdogs
according to pre-game sources,
this unusual role may prove er­roneous
by game's end if Au­burn
has developed more quick­ly
than the prognosticators
seem to feel. It will be the Ti­gers
first appearance in the
state of Alabama since late De­cember.
A near-capacity crowd is ex­pected
for this annual dog­fight,
played at a neutral site
to accomodate more patrons as
well as to reduce the possibili­ty
of any hostilities erupting
from such an intense rivalry.
WRA News
By SHARON ANTHONY
Winners of f a l l quarter
WRA tournaments are:
Shuffleboard Singles — Pat
Jerkins—Zeta Tau Alpha
Shuffleboard Doubles—Ste­wart
and Coker—Alpha Gam
Table Tennis Singles—Mar­tha
Knight—Zeta Tau Alpha
Table T e n n i s Doubles —
Knight and Stanley—ZTA
Finals of the fall double
elimination g i r l s ' volleyball
tournament w i l l be played
Jan. 14 between Alpha Gamma
Delta and Dorm 2.
Schedule for the Co-recrea­tional
Volleyball tournament
for the week of Jan. 13-16:
Wednesday, Jan. 15—AOPi-
PKT. vs. Delta Zeta-DX.
Thursday, Jan. 16—Dorm B-Marshall
Hall vs. Alpha Gam-
ATO.
Results of games this week
were:
Alpha Gam over AOPi
Phi Mu-KA over ADPi-Phi
Delta Theta
Women's Recreation Asso­ciation
monthly meeting. was
held Monday, Jan. 13 to vote
on rules and dates concerning
tournaments to be held win­ter
quarter.
Tournaments to be held are:
Basketball—Chairman, Nan­cy
Morgan—Phi Mu
Swimming — C h a i r m a n ,
Claudia Spence—Chi Omega
Bowling—Chairman, Elaine
McLcod, AOPi
Each team, to be eligible to
qualify for entry into the bas­ketball
tournament, must have
two practices as voted during
the December meeting. These
practices have started and will
extend through Jan. 24.
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The Tigers were victorious
in their first match, a quad­rangular
affair at Tallahassee,
Fla., between Tampa Univer­sity,
Florida State University
and the Jacksonville, Fla. Y.
M.C.A. The Techmen have
beaten Sewanee a n d Tampa
University. Tomorrow t h ey
will host Milligan College of
Johnson City, Tenn.
During the Tec h-Tampa
match, a Tech sophomore, Phil
G'reek, pinned George Barry,
the Florida AAU champion in
the 130-pound class. This is
Tech's second year to field a
wrestling team after dropping
wrestling following t h e 1955
season.
The Tigers will be featuring
many returning Southeastern
Intercollegiate Wrestling As­sociation
champions from last
year's SEIWA championship
team. The bill will include:
Bobby Stantford in the 123-
pound class, replacing last
year's SEIWA champ Bob Fac.
tora who has a broken bone
in his foot, which will keep
him out of competition f or
three more weeks.
SEIWA champ Sal Zarcone
who was undefeated last year,
competing in the 130-pound
category.
James Wellingham, third in
the SEIWA, contending in the
137-pound division.
At 147 pounds, will be
Henry Starnes, who placed se­cond
in the SEIWA.
Larry Rhodes, a sophomore,
will probabaly be the 157-
pound choice.
Sophomore Carmine Chem-into
will represent Auburn in
the 167-pound class.
Third place SEIWA finish­er,
Mark Myman, will wrestle
in the 177-pound weight divi­sion.
At 191 pounds will be Brook
Smith, a junior.
SEIWA heavyweight cham­pion
John McAfee will be
trying to repeat again this
year.
Although without the serv­ices
of 147-pound champion
Jeff Maurer, third-place 177-
pound SEIWA winner Mike
Bass and 191-pound Newell
Miller, Coach Arnold Umbach
says this year's team can tie or
beat the record set last year
of nine wins and a draw.
Coach Umbach's wrestling
teams won the SEIWA cham­pionship
for the last 17 years.
Frosh Blast Tech
In Cage Contest
The Auburn freshman bas­ketball
team beat the Georgia
Tech i frosh 74-49 in Atlanta
last Monday night to extend
their season record to four
wins against a single loss.
At the half the Tigers led
the Yellow Jacket frosh 34-20.
High point man for Auburn
was Monk Montgomery with
20, followed by Bobby Buisson
(See page 8, column 1)
Big Gator Quintet
Subdues Auburn
By 63-46 Score
By TED HILEY
The Auburn Basketball Ti­gers
went down to their sec­ond
SEC defeat as the Florida
Gators trirnmed them by a
score of 63-46 in Gainesville
on Saturday night.
The Tigers, hitting at a 49.5
per cent field goal clip prior
to the Florida game, could
manage only 34 per cent of
their shots in t h e first half
while the Gators hit on 48 per
cent of their efforts and took
a 39-31 lead at halftime. Larry
Chapman led the Tigers' first
half scoring with eight points,
all in the last four minutes of
the period as Auburn cut the
Florida lead from 15 to nine
points late in the half. Chap­man
also led the Auburn re­bounding
for the period with
five.
Both teams opened slowly in
a second half typified by cold
shooting by Auburn as the Ti­gers
went six minutes before
hitting their first field goal.
John Blackwell fouled out
early in the second half and
was followed to the bench by
Newton and Guy as the Tigers
accumulated fouls at a rapid
rate and lost three starters to
fouls. Chapman and Lee De-
Fore each hit for six points in
the last half as Auburn scored
only 15 points in the last 20
minutes of play.
Florida ran up a 19 point
lead l a t e in the game, but
goals by Chapman and DeFore
closed the gap to 15. Larry
Chapman was t h e leading
point maker for Auburn with
14. Lee DeFore and Joe New­ton
each hit for nine points
and Freddie Guy added seven.
Johnny Blackwell picked up
four fouls early in the game
and was held to two points.
Tommy Fibbe saw limited ac­tion
but tossed in five points.
Thomlinson led t h e Gator
attack with 25 points. Florida's
fine guard duo, Baxley and
Henderson dropped in 13 and
10 points respectively.
The Tigers will attempt to
even their season record as
they take on cross-state rivals
Alabama in t h e State Coli­seum
next Saturday night in
Montgomery.
TOMMY FIBBE, a sophomore performing in the "sixth
man" position for the basketball Tigers this season, is
averaging 5.0 points per game thus far. He is expected to
see extensive action when the rebounding Tigers clash with
the Alabama cagers Saturday night at Montgomery. The
younger brother of former Auburn all-SEC star Jimmy
Fibbe, he is regarded as one of the best ball handlers on
the young Tiger squad.
Frosh Basketball Team Rips Snead
Following Earlier Loss To Pensacola
SYGCHARITIRIA!
"The Greeks Had A Name For It"
Well, anyway it is Greek.
We of Burton's take this opportunity to
congratulate the Greeks on our campus for
their leadership, unselfishness, co-operative-ness,
aggressiveness, and intelligence.
BURTON'S BOOK STORE
"Kati - Ti Neon Kathe Mera."
By TED HILEY
Rebounding from their first
loss of the season at the hands
of Pensacola Junior College
74-61, Auburn's freshman bas­ketball
squad romped past
Snead College by a score of
81-47 on Thursday night in the
Auburn Sports Arena.
In their pre-Christmas loss
to Pensacola, the frosh were
led in scoring by Jimmy Mont­gomery
with 19 points. Tee
Faircloth and Bobby Buisson
added 12 points each. The
Baby Tigers were hampered in
their efforts by frequent fouls
and lost three starters early in
the second half against the tall
Pensacola team.
On Jan. 9, the Auburn frosh
coasted to an 81-47 win against
Snead College. Auburn trailed
only briefly and after tying
the score at 7-7, the Baby Ti­gers
began to hit and opened
up a sizable lead behind the
shooting of Randy Thomas, Joe
M i 11 s a p and Montgomery.
Millsap with 21 points and
Montgomery with 11 led Au­burn
to a 45-20 halftime lead.
W i t h Montgomery hitting
four quick field goals early in
the s e c o n d half, Auburn
lengthened its lead and held a
65-35 advantage midway in
the second half. With 10 min­utes
remaining in the game,
Coach Davalos sent in a new
team to finish the game. Not
always exhibiting polished
play but always hustling, the
subs paced by Edwards, Wild­er,
Butler, Milligan and Caru-thers
pushed-the Auburn lead
to 38 points late in the game
and closed out the game with
an 81-47 victory.
Auburn's pressing defense,
led by Bobby Buisson and Tee
Faircloth, gave the Snead team
very few good shots and forced
the Parsons into numerous
floor mistakes. With Randy
battling aggressively, the Baby
Tigers controlled t h e boards
and gathered in most of the
rebounds.
"Joe Millsap paced the Au­burn
scoring with 22 points.
Jimmy Montgomery hit for 19
and Randy Thomas added 13
as nine of the Baby Tigers hit
the scoring column. J. Smith
was the leading Snead scorer
with 10 points, and was the
only Parson to hit double
figures.
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HEAD PLAINSMAN CAGE COACH
SULL ADJUSTING TO NEW POST
By GERALD RUTBERG
Experiencing his first year as
head coach of an Auburn inter­collegiate
squad, former assis­tant
and freshman basketball
coach Bill Lynn was asked to
reflect his feelings in a recent
Plainsman interview.
A native of Cullman, Ala.,
he served three years in the
Navy prior to enrolling at Saint
Bernard College in Cullman for
a two-year period. Coach Lynn
has been associated With the
"Loveliest Village" since 1948
in either a student or coaching
capacity. The lanky Tiger men­tor
transferred to Auburn in
1948 and played center and for­ward
for the next two seasons
under Coach Joel Eaves. Upon
graduation in the Spring of
1950, Coach Lynn was hired as
freshman coach and Coach
Eaves' assistant-everything in
the fall of that same year.
Married to the former Mar­tha
Hawthorne of Sylvester,
Ga., Coach Lynn's family in­cludes
five children ranging in
age from 11 years to seven
months, or just enough to start
a basketball quintet complete
with coach and manager.
"I find being head coach
quite a bit different," says
Coach Lynn of his new post.
"Now all of the head coach's
burden is on me." Speaking of
this year's team, Coach Lynn
stated that depth has been the
primary problem. "At times we
have played good ball, but sev­eral
players are having to go
all the way and foul troubles
have resulted. We have yet to
play forty minutes of consis­tently
good basketball."
While mentioning the pro­blems
which have plagued this
year's team, Coach Lynn was
quick to point out that he was
sure the team would improve
and had by no means given up
their initiative.
Asked to recall the best team
to appear on the Plains during
his sixteen year stint, Coach
Lynn replied by claiming the
famous "Seven Dwarfs" who
captured the SEC crown in
1960 as the best basketball
team ever to wear the orange
and blue. "They were not big
enough, but they were talented
and also very smart," was the
way Coach Lynn described that
championship squad. As a mat­ter
of record, the Auburn team
which Coach Lynn played on in
his senior year owns the third
best record in Tiger history in
regard to wins and losses.
At the present time there are
but eleven cagers on the Au­burn
varsity, and according to
Coach Lynn recruiting is the
most essential factor in future
success. Lack of having a better
gym to play in has hurt the
Plainsmen in recruiting out­standing
prep cagers. With bas­ketball
patronage g r o w i ng
throughout the South, Auburn
will have to provide proper fa­cilities
and increased seating
capacity for spectators to keep
pace with other areas as a first
rate competitor, as Coach Lynn
sees it.
He is looking forward to
gaining varsity help from sev­eral
freshman cagers and to­gether
with Coach Davalos the
pair are making efforts to sign
talented athletes from through­out
the country wherever there
is a chance of that person
choosing Auburn.
On Campus vtih
(By the Author of "Rally Round the Flag, Boyil" and,
"Barefoot Boy With Cheek.")
A GUIDE FOB THE GUIDERS
One of the most interesting academic theories advanced la
many a long year has recently been advanced by that interest­ing
academic theorist, E. Pluribus Ewbank, Ph. D. who holds
the chair of Interesting Academic Theories at the St. Louis
College of Footwear and Educational Philosophy. Dr. Ewbank
said in the last issue of the learned journal, the Mount Rushmore
Guide to Scholastic Advancement and President? Heads, that w«
might be approaching the whole problem of student guidance
from the wrong direction.
' Dr. Ewbank, a highly respected pedagogue and a lifelong
smoker of Marlboro Cigarettes, (I mention Marlboros for two
reasons: first, to indicate the scope of Dr. Ewbank's brainpower.
Out of all the dozens of brands of cigarettes available today,
Dr. Ewbank has had the wit and taste to pick the one with tb$
most flavorful flavor, the most filtracious filter, the most soft
soft pack, the most flip top Flip Top box: I refer, of course, to
Marlboro. The second reason I mention Marlboro is that I get
paid to mention Marlboro in this column, and the laborer, you
will agree, is worthy of his hire.)
But I digress. To return to Dr. Ewbank's interesting theory,
he contends that most college guidance counselors are inclined
to take the easy way out. That is to say, if a student's aptitude
tests show a talent for, let us say, math, the student is encour­aged
to major in math. If his tests show an aptitude for poetry,
he is directed toward poetry. And so forth.
All wrong, says Dr. Ewbank. The great breakthroughs, the
startling innovations in, let us say, math, are likely to be made
not by mathematicians—whose thinking, after all, is constrained
by rigid rules and principles—but by mavericks, by noncon­formists,
by intuitors who refuse to fall into the rut of reason.
For instance, set a poet to studying math. He will bring a fresh,
unfettered mind to the subject, just as a mathematician will
bring the same kind of approach to poetry.
By way of evidence, Dr. Ewbank cites the case of Cipher
Binary, a youth who entered college with brilliant test scores in
physics, chemistry, and the calculus. But Dr. Ewbank forced
young Cipher to major in poetry.
The results were astonishing. Here, for example, is young
Cipher's latest poem, a love lyric of such originality that Lord
Byron springs to mind. I quote:
He was her logarithm,
She was his cosine.
Taking their dog with 'em.
They hastened to go sign
Marriage vows which they joyfully shared,
And wooed and wed and pi r squared.
Similarly, when a freshman girl named Elizabeth Barrett
Sigafoos came to Dr. Ewbank to seek guidance, he ignored the
fact that she had won the Pulitzer prize for poetry when she
was eight, and insisted she major in mathematics. Again the
results were startling. Miss Sigafoos has set the entire math
department agog by flatty refusing to believe that six times
nine is 54. If Miss Sigafoos is correct, we will have to re-think
the entire science of numbers and—who knows?—possibly open
up vistas as yet undreamed of in mathematics.
Dr. Ewbank's unorthodox approach to student guidance hat
so impressed his employers that he was fired last week. He is
currently selling beaded moccasins at Mount Rushmore.
* * *
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the direct route to greater smoking pleasure. Try a
fine, filtered Marlboro, available wherever cigarette* art sold
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Coach Bill Lynn
John McAfee Seen Working Hard
In Preparation Of Title Defense
By HAL FRANKLIN LEE
After spending an afternoon
in the Sports Arena watching
the varsity and freshman
teams work out, one can read­ily
see why Auburh has such
magnificent seasons in sports.
While there I paid particular
attention to the wrestlers.
Among those working out for
the team was 6'1", 215-pound,
John McAfee.
John, who reigns from Map-lesville,
Ala., is a junior ma­joring
in Physical Education.
Many people know John better
for his outstanding season at
right tackle on the Tiger foot­ball
team than for his wrest­ling
ability.
The first match for John this
year will be Jan. 18 against
Georgia Tech in the Sports
Arena. Although he had never
wrestled until'last year, John
has compiled a remarkable
record of wins with only two
losses. He captured the South­eastern
Conference Heavy­weight
Championship last year
by defeating the former 191-
pound, champion from Chatta­nooga.
; i
According to Coach Umbach,
John has made his own success
as a wrestler. He praised John
on t h e fact that he applied
himself to learning the skills
of wrestling quickly and com-
YAF NOTICE
Professor Raymond W. Rit-land
will lecture on "A Pro­posed
Solution to the Farm
Problem" Tuesday, Jan. 21,
at 7 p.m. in 305 Dunstan Hall
as a presentation of the Au­burn
Young Americans for
Freedom.
bined these skills with desire
and determination to win.
Coach Umbach also stated that
he thought John would have a
better season this year than
last year because he now has
a year of experience to rely
on.
John, highly thought of by
all his teammates, received
high praise for his wrestling
ability as well as his outstand­ing
sense of humor. Known as
the practical joker of the team,
he is regarded as being ag­gressive,
using wrestling skills,
speed, desire and determina­tion
as well as muscle power
to overcome his opponents.
Sidle, Woodall
Set Records
Quarterback J i m m y Sidle
added his name to every Au­burn
offensive record and
place kicking specialist Woody
Woodall set three new records
and tied another in the season
just completed.
Sidle, a junior AU-American
from Birmingham, set a new
one year rushing record, gain­ing
1,006 yards on 185 attempts
for a 5.4 yard average.
A 6-2, 200-pounder, Sidle
moved up to second in total
offense for a career and second
in total offense for one year.
Jimmy gained 1,712 yards total
offense in 1963, falling four
yards short of breaking Travis
Tidwell's record of 1,715 set in
1946.
In total offense for a career,
Sidle has gained 1,452 yards
passing and 1,400 yards rush­ing
for a total of 2,852. The
all-time Auburn record is 3,-
820 yards set by Travis Tid-well
who played four years,
1946-49.
In individual rushing for a
career, Sidle now ranks sixth.
His 1,400 yards on 246 carries
leaves him 613 yards short of
the record held by Fob James
(1,913) set from 1952-55.
Woodall, a senior from At­lanta,
broke Ed Dyas' career
record by kicking. 19 field
goals. Dyas' record was 17.
In the PAT department,
Woodall set a new record of
28 straight. He kicked 23 of 23
this year for a record of 100.0
per cent. And his 23 PATS in
one season tied the record for
the most PATs in one season.
During Woodall's kicking ca-v
reer, he provided the winning
points in 10 games. And in the
past two years, eight Auburn
victories have come on points
kicked by Woodall.
This year, Woody kicked a
field goal and two extra points
J o h n McAfee
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TUCKER FREDERICKSON, (SO), running interference
for Jimmy Sidle (12), displays the form that won him the
Jacobs' Trophy as the "best blocker in the SEC" during
the 1963 season.
'Van Dyke Best'
By Houston Vote
Auburn's Bill Van Dyke has
been voted by the Houston
Cougars as the best lineman
they faced in a representative
schedule last season.
Van Dyke received the a-ward
for his efforts in Au­burn's
opening game victory
over the Cougars last Septem­ber
in Houston where the Ti­gers
triumphed by a 21-14 mar­gin.
In the Houston press release
Van Dyke was referred to as "a
stubby 205-pound guard, who
made up for his lack of size
with speed, agility and knack
for hitting first and hardest.'.'
When notified of the honor,
Auburn Line Coach George
Atkins stated that, "Bill is most
deserving of any honors that
come his way. He was easy to
coach because he learned well
and almost always led the Ti­ger
linemen in everything they
did.".
Houston's schedule included
contests with Mississippi, Mis­sissippi
State, Alabama, Mem­phis
State, Baylor, and Tulsa.
Memphis State's Tigers placed
four men on the All-Opponent
squad.
in the Tigers' 23-21 victory
over Tennessee. Against Ken­tucky
he kicked both extra
points in a 14-12 victory.
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Basketball Launches IM Campaign
With All Teams Seeing Net Action
By BILL POWELL
Fraternity basketball was filled with action l a st
week, with the scoring ranging from a high of 66 points
by AGR and SAE to a low of 16 points made by DSP.
League One
In League One, the defend­ing
champion, SAE, started
this season off in the victory
column as it won both games
last week. SAE was too much
for PGD as Larry Morris and
'Ben Easterling led them to a
<66 to 24 point victory. Later
Sn the week Robert Sasser's
•hot shooting helped SAE de­feat
AP 51 to 21. •'
I KS and PDT also won both
Jof their games to keep pace
•with SAE. KS defeated PKP
fby a score of 43 to 25 and also
•won over PGD, 44 to 35. Sport
Ued KS in scoring as he aver-faged
23 points for the two
games.
PDT eased to their two vic­tories
as they beat AP 39 to
!28 and PKP 46 to 26. Charles
Leonard was high pointer for
iPDT ,in both games with 11
;and 10 points respectively.
League Two
t.
; OTS, last year's winner,
.found trouble early this season
Sas they were defeated in their
•first game by a hot PKT team
49 to 39. Jimmy Goodwin led
JPDT's scoring, w h i l e Del
fKrahwinhel was high for OTS.
In their second game, OTS
;found the range again as they
istomped TKE by a score of 64
'to 29. Virahwinger and Rich­a
r d Brooks were tops for OTS
•while David Rees was the high
'man for the TKE's.
ATO was also victorious in
'.their first outing, as they won
a close defensive battle against
Delta Chi. DC overcame a six
point deficit at halftime and
tied the, score in t h e third
quarter, but ATO scored last
to gain the 37 to 34 win.
SN squeezed by TKE for
their first victory in as many
games, by a score of 42 to 33.
The game was tied 18 to 18 at
the half and was a nip and
tug battle until late in the
final period when SN scored
several quick baskets' to seal
the game up. McCennre's 16
points and H e r b Casey's 13
points were high for SN. Don
Scott paced the TKE's with 13
points.
League Three
AGR seeded to be equipped
to defend their league title of
last year as.it outran and out-scored
LCA in a game that
ended 66 to 38. Dan Nichols
with 21 points "and Bobby
Shackleford with 19 points led
the AGR offensive attack.
Reggie Gilbert and John Net­tles
scored nine each for LCA.
KA and TX proved equally
tough in this well-balanced
league as they won their
games. KA beat SP in a real
tough game by a score of 42
- lo 35.' Frank and George Salter
sparked the KA offense, while
RonJjld Sheas and Bill Hop­kins
led SP in scoring.
TX had to overcome a three
point deficit at half time to
.edge DU 33 to 28. Bill Bethel,
who scored 11 of his 17 points
in the first half was high point
man for TX. Dave Worley's
eight points were tops for DU.
League Four
SC beat BP in a low scoring
game, 28 to 22. Cook, of BP
was the games highest scorer
with 11 points as SC's scoring
was equally divided between
the entire team.
SPE had little trouble in
gaining its opening victory as
it slaughtered DSP by a over­whelming
score of 56 to 16.
Michael Mixon with 16 points
and Hulbert Kennedy with 14
points were high scorers for
SPE.
Other league action found
PKA victors over TC in a close
battle t h a t ended 37 to 33.
PKA's Jerry Thomas found the
range early in the game as he
scored 19 points for the game.
F r e d d i e Forrester's eight
points were tops for TC.
Independent Basketball
Independent basketball got
off to an exciting start last
week as 16 games were played.
Games ranged from a nip and
tug battle between X2 and H
where X2 squeezed by H, 35
to 32, to a wide open game
where Rl trounced D, 74 to 21.
High scorers for the indep­endent
league were Don Col­lins
of Division D w i t h 24
points and Al Hinds of Rl
with 23 points.
Scores of last week's action
are as follows:
Dormitory
League 1
J 39—1 29, XI 41—P2 27.
League 2
Rl 74—PI 21, D 57—G 37
League 3
V2 35—H 32, N 50—Wl 16
League 4
T 35—M 23, E 38—K 28
Independents
League 1 -
Forhill 41 —Studs 32, Rebs
40—War Eagle 35
League 2
Wheels forfeit win over
Lunsford. Trotters forfeit win
_>ver Nesep.
League 3
Aces 31—Navy 21, Jombs 40
—Tops 29.
League 4
ASAE 30—Forestry 26
League 5
C of C forfeit w i n over
Newman
Bowling
Fraternity bowling started
this week as the following
games are scheduled:
Monday at 5 p.m. — League
2: DSP-PDT, SPE-KS, DU-KA.
League 3: AGR-SAE, SC-AP,
ATO-DTD.
Wednesday at 5 p.m. —
League 1: DC-TX, TKE-PKA,
SP-LCA. League 4: PGD-BP,
PKP-PKT, TC-SN.
Table Tennis
Fraternity table tennis also
gets underway this week with
the following games to be
played. All games are to be
played any time during the
scheduled week.
League
AP-TKE
League
PKT-TX,
League
DU-SP
League
SC-BP
1
AGR-OTS
TC-DSP
2
KS-SN
ATO-LCA
3
PDT-PKP
SP-PGD
4
SPE-SAE
DC-DTD
8—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, J a n u a r y 15, 1964
Lee DeFore Tops
Auburn Cagers
In Point Totals
Lee DeFore, a redshirted
sophomore who spent last sea­son
charting Auburn's offense,
is currently leading the Tigers
in scoring, field goal percent­age
and is second in rebound­ing.
A 6-5 forward from Syivana
High in Atlanta, DeFore has
scored 176 points in 10 games
for a 17.6 average. From the
floor he has hit 71 of 134 field
goal attempts for a .530 per­centage.
In rebounding, DeFore has
pulled down 74 to tie Joe
Newton for second place on
the Auburn squad. Freddie
Guy is the rebound leader with
87.
DeFore started the season by
scoring 17 points in his first
varsity game. His high for the
season is 25 against Duke in
the first round of the Sugar
Bowl Tournament. Southern
Mississippi held Lee to 10
points, his low for the year.
Guy also holds the indivi­dual
single game high with 30
points against SMU. Guy hit
11 of 14 field goals and eight
of eight free throws against
the Mustangs.
In free throw shooting, New­ton
has missed only four of 31
attempts for a .871 percentage.
DeFore is next with a .850 per­centage,
hitting 34 of 40 at­tempts.
In all, four starters are averr
aging in double figures. Trail­ing
DeFore are John Blackwell
(14.6), Guy (12.4) and Newton
(10.3).
Sophomore Tommy Fibbe of
Frankfort, Ky., is currently
pushing Guy f o r a starting
forward position. P l a y i ng
mostly in a relief role, Fibbe
has managed to pull down" 37
rebounds and score 50 points
in 10 games.
Fibbe came off t h e bench
against Mississippi State and
scored eight points, including
three free throws in overtime
to win the game. And in two
games Fibbe has b e e n in
double figures.
As a team, Auburn is shoot­ing
.495 from the field. The
Tigers a r e averaging 72.4
points per game, while giving
up 66.3. .
LARRY RAWSON eludes two.would-be Florida.State, tacklers,. end (83) Red.Dawson
and safetyman (16) Ed Pritchett in Auburn's 21-15 .triumph over the Seminoles last fali.
A senior, Larry is the second of the three Rawsori brothers from Pensacoia who have play­ed
football for Auburn in recent years.
ADMINISTRATION OFFICES SET
TO MOVE IN REBUILT LIBRARY
By JIMMY STEPHENS
The Buildings and Grounds
Department is currently reno­vating
the old library to pro­vide
space for administrative
offices. The $275,000 project is
expected to be finished in time
for use spring, quarter.
When construction is com­pleted,
the building will be
fire-proofed and completely
air-conditioned. It will have
three floors and will house some
nine administrative offices and
departments, alleviating cramp­ed
conditions in Samford Hall
and the Temporary Buildings.
The Registrar's Office will oc­cupy
the entire ground floor of
the fifty-year-old building. The
remaining space will accomo­date
the Dean of Students,
Dean of Ftculties, Dean of
Graduate School, the Graduate
Placement Office, Admissions
Office, Personnel, Student Fin­ancial
Aid, and University Re­lations
Offices.
Gardner Column
(Continued from page 6)
campus," he added. (The matches were held at Oklahoma State
University in Stillwater.)
After Coach Umbach voiced much optimism regarding this
year's Tiger team, we asked him about his plans for the future.
"I hope I never retire," he said. "I wouldn't last long if I did.
I like to be around young kids too much—I just wouldn't be in
the right place if I retired."
Thus, judging from the past, it is safe to assume that Au­burn's
complete dominance of the Southern wrestling scene is
certain to continue!!!
HOWARD SIMPSON, voted as the SEC Lineman Of
The Year by the Atlanta Journal, is caught by the camera
as he prepares to make contact with the turf. However,
it was one of the few times during the entire campaign
that the 6'5", 232 pound end found himself in this position.
NOTICE
The S t u d e n t Activities
Building will be open for bas­ketball
practice on weekends.
All persons interested may
practice when courts are avail­able;
h o w e v e r , intramural
teams h a v e priority. The
building will be open from 2
to 6 Friday, Saturday and
Sunday afternoons and from
9 to 12 on Saturday morning.
Frosh Blast Tech
(Continued from page 6)
who totaled 16. According to
Coach Rudy Devalos, the frosh
mentor, "Buisson played his
best game of the year, parti­cularly
on defense." Buisson
hit on seven of 11 field goal
attempts and was largely rer
sponsible for the comfortable
halftime margin that the Baby
Tigers enjoyed.
Tee Fairclpth s c o r e d 13
points ' in, the' contest, "which
preceded the Georgia Tech-
Mississippi State varsity clash,
and Randy Thomas and Joe
Millsap contributed 11 a nd
eight points respectively. Tho­mas
led the Auburn rebound­ing
with nine and Millsap
gathered in eight rebounds.
Commenting on t h e game,
Devalos stated that the start­ing
five players hit 66 per cent
of their field goal attempts, a
mark that is equaled by few
(if .any) teams in the nation.
"They played well," Coach
Devalos said, "and they want­ed
to w i n i t badly—after hear­ing
that the. Tiger frosh hadn't
beaten Tech over there in sev­eral
years."
In other recent games, the
victorious Tiger yearlings have
downed Snead College and
Alabama Christian College. On
Jan. 11, against A l a b a ma
Christian, t h e young Tigers
hustled to a 46-24. halftime
lead. Playing the role of visit­ors,
they went on to win the
contest by. the count of 85-56.
Monk Montgomery paced the
high-scoring Tiger attack with
24 ' points, followed by Tee
Faircloth and Randy Thomas
with 13 points each. Joe Mill­sap
'contributed 10 and Bobby
Buisson, playing for only 30
minutes of the one-sided con­test,
tallied nine points.
John Hollis led the Eagles in
scoring with 15 points. Coach
Devalos said that the boys
played a good game, "but they
were probably looking ahead
to the Georgia Tech game."
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The Auburn-Kentucky bas­ketball
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