The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 3, Ed. 1, Friday, September 25, 1964 Page: 1 of 8
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Optimist Staff 'Dogged' by Misfortunes Last Week
By FRANK SILVEY
This past week has been Na-
tional Dog Week and The Op-
timist never a paper to slight
an observance has been going to
the dogs headlong and making
Its staff dog-tired.
It started last Thursday when
the editor's bed burned just as
last week's issuo was going into
the forms. Her house though
THE
VOLUME 52
Austin Frosh
Billy Schmidt
Hit by Car
Billy Schmidt Austin fresh-
man was in satisfactory condi-
tion Tuesday afternoon at Hen-
drlck Memorial Hospital after he
was hit by a car on the Albany
Highway.
The 18-ycar-old Schmidt was
running with a companion Fred
Willmon Borgcr senior behind
the track field north of the cam-
pus. According to Willmon
Schmidt was following him north
across the highway and appar-
ently didn't see the Buick driven
by Mrs. Molly Freeman Brad-
shaw of Route 1 Abilene that
was approaching from the west
Willmon ran to a nearby house
and called police and an ambu-
lance. Schmidt was rushed to Hen-
drick Hospital where he was
treated in tlje emergency room
and taken to room 690.
Investigating officer Shelby
Fancher a traffic division pa-
trolman said Mrs. Bradshaw
swerved to the right and hit the
brakes when she saw Schmidt
but was not able to stop in time.
Schmidt was hit by the right
bumper of the car and was car-
ried 27 feet from the point of
impact before first hitting the
ground. He then rolled or skid-
ded another 20 feet according to
the officer.
Neither Mrs. Bradshaw nor her
mother Mrs. Grace Freeman of
Swcnson who was a passenger
in the auto were injured.
Schmidt's father Billy E.
Schmidt a fireman in Austin
was notified.
Schmidt lives in Edwards HalL
Oil Companies
Donate Funds
The Humble Oil Education
Foundation and General Crude
Oil Co. have donated a total of
$3750 to Abilene Christian Col-
lege. The $3500 donation by Humble
was made by Larry H. Byrd
Dallas area manager and Her-
bert I. McMillan marketing
manager for the Abilene district
to ACC President Don H. Morris.
General Crude Oil donated the
remaining $250.
The gifts will be placed in the
operational funds of the college.
"The contributions by Humble
and General Crude Oil' are an
example of the good support be-
ing given Abilene Christian Col-
lege by business" said President
Morris.
undamaged was smoked so
heavily as to be unlivable so
she and her husband moved into
a motel and tried to run the op-
eration of the paper while wash-
ing smoked clothes badgering
(or should one say dogging?) the
landlord to get the house fumi-
gated and even eating occas-
ionally. And then the press broke down
ABILENE CHRISTIAN
MRsm rW KHHsW
RESEARCH GRANT WINNERS These four senior chemistry
majors have received National Science Foundation grants.
They are (left to right) Robert Lee (Cotton) Hance Charlie
Wayne Propst Jim Leslie and Perry Clayton Reeves.
Senior Chemistry Majors
Named for Scholarships
Four senior chemistry majors
have been selected to receive re-
search scholarships under the
new National Science Foundation
Grants at ACC
They are Charlie Wayne
Propst Robert Lee Hance Perry
Clayton Beeves and Jim Leslie.
Propst has a grade point over-
age of 3.78 and plans to go on to
medical school.
Hance plans to attend graduate
school and go into a career of
teaching and research. He has a
3.80 grade point average
ACC Olympian Talks
To Chapel by Phone
This morning in second chapel
a long-distance telephone call
was placed to Billy Pemelton in
Pomona Calif.
Pemelton u former team cap-
tain and pole-vaultcr of ACC has
earned a berth on the 1064 U.S.
Olympic Team bound for Tokyo
Japan.
During the course of the call
Bill was able to hear the chapel
service in progress and to speak
back to the student assembly. A
brief message was given him by
Coach Bill McClure and by Hu-
bert Gill. The student body sang
the Alma Mater for him also.
The chapel phono call was
sponsored by the Students Association.
as the week's issue was starting
to run. (That's why The Opti-
mist was late last week.)
And then a mlxup at the
Bean where somebody forgot to
set up a room for Friday's staff
meeting threw the meeting into
utter chaos.
And then the list of reporters'
assignments got lost somehow
leaving the editor with no idea
PTIMIST
COLLEGE ABILENE. TEXAS
An industrial chemist Reeves
plans to enter graduate school
upon leaving ACC. He has a 3.73
grade point average.
A transfer from Sul Ross with
a 3.7 grade average Leslie plans
to go on to graduate school and
continue in research.
"These are all excellent stu-
dents" said Dr. Tommy McCord
professor of chemistry in an-
nouncing their recent honor.
KWKC Airs Game
Radio station KWKC will
broadcast the Abilene Chris-
tian College Lamar Tech
football game at 7:20 p.m.
Saturday.
The Wildcats will be play-
ing their toughest conference
opponent for the Inside track
to the first Southland Confer-
ence football championship
and a record-tying 11-game
winning streak.
The ACC record for the
most consecutive wins was
established In 1950 by the
squad on which current Wild-
cat coaches Les Wheeler Jer-
ry Mullins and James Lyda
played.
of who was covering what
And then the editor was sick
all week-end (Migraine the doc-
tor 'said; You need complete bed
rest She smiled wanly and went
on doggedly.)
And then the business manager
was in two successive wrecks in
ohe of which he raised a lovely
knot on his head. His car looks
I like well have you ever seen
SEPTEMBER 25 1964
Dr. Wilmeth Donates
Funds for Nursery
Dr. Marie Wilmeth head of
the Department of Home Eco-
nomics has contributed $15000
for the building of a new nursery
for the department.
The nursery which will be
used as a laboratory for home
economics majors is under con-
struction behind the home man-
agement house at 1341 Cedar
Crest Dr.
The red-brick structure will
correspond architecturally with
the house and contains 1300
square feet inside space and a
344 square-foot covered porch.
Present facilities provide only 475
square feet of space.
It will contain a large play-
room office for the director an
observation booth toilet facilities
for children and adults a kitchen
storage facilities and lockers for
children.
Operation of a nursery is a pre-
requisite for a college's offering
a degree in home economics
education. The nursery will serve
as a laboratory for observation
in two courses in child develop-
ment. The nursery directed by Miss
Lylian Ariedge of the home eco-
nomics department presently ac-
commodates eight children be-
tween the ages of three and four.
The new building will accom-
modate 12-15 children.
ACC's home economics nursery
was begun seven years ago when
Dean and Mrs. Walter Adams
donated their home for a home
Candidates' Petitions Due at 5 Today
For Freshman Officers Soph Senator
Nominating petitions for can-
didates for officers of the fresh-
man class and for the sophomore
candidates for the vacancy cre-
ated by James Voss are due at
5 p.m. today according to Jay
Garner director of elections.
Petitions must contain the
names of 25 class members and
should be turned in at the dean
of students' office.
An election rally will be held
on the steps of the Administra-
tion Building at 7 p.m. Monday
followed by voting in the ticket
booth Tuesday. Run-offs are
scheduled for Wednesday.
According to the constitution
Voss's election as cheerleader
caused his automatic resignation
from the Student Senate.
Thursday Oct. 1 candidates
will begin petitions for Student
Senate representatives of the
freshman class. Petitions are due
at 5 p.m. Friday Oct. 2.
Voting for senators will be
a slipper that a dog has chewed?
Still somehow this paper has
come out. But the staff has never
agreed more fervently with the
old newsman's saying when the1
presses start rolling for the first'
early-morning edition: "Another
issue of the Daily Miracle!"
(By the way that early morn-
ing edition is called the "bulldog.")
NUMBER 3
Dr. Wilmeth
management house and a portion
of it was set aside for the nursery.
However conditions since have
become very crowded according
to Dr. Wilmeth. The new struc-
ture will free a part of the home
management house so it can ac-
commodate more girls.
At present plumbing has been
installed a concrete floor laid and
the outside framework put up on
the new structure.
According to James E. Free-
man fiscal agent work will be
completed some time in October.
"It will be a real asset to the
home economics department the
education department and the
psychology department" Free-
man said. "All can use it to a
real advantage."
held Monday Oct. 5 in the tick-
et booth with the five students
receiving the most votes filling
the five freshman positions.
Mrs. Everett Taylor
Is Named to Faculty
Mrs. Everett Taylor a catalog-
er in the ACC library has been
promoted to the rank of assistant
instructor of library science.
Mrs. Taylor who also teaches
Latin in the Campus School has
worked in the library since 1957.
She had worked previously in
the library at Wright-Patterson
AFB in Dayton Ohio and had
taught school.
She has two daughters Karen
an ACC freshman and Ellen a
sixth grade student in Campus
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