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BATTALION
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
12 More Days
Until Finals
Number 54: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1959
Price Five Cents
Soviet Rocket Loses
Beep Before Orbiting
[iVetrs of the World
By The Associated Press
Ike Sketches Defense Budget
WASHINGTON — The Eisenhower administration
. sketched out a $40*900,000,000 defense budget Monday for
leaders of the new Congress.
There was mention, too, of a timetable for rocketing a
man to the moon.
* The reaction to the spending plans was less than en
thusiastic. Some key Democrates challenged the space and
missile financing as too small.
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Auto Industry Increases Output
DETROIT—The auto industry shifted back into higher
output volume Monday after two holiday-shortened weeks
that temporarily slowed its best output' level of many months.
Last week the factories built 95,249 cars against 104.907
the preceding week. In the like period a year ago, 77,677
cars were built. The industry built 591,264 cars in December
for a 1958 total of 4,241,327 cars. Its 1957 total was 6,115,-
454 cars.
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Rifle Spree Takes Boy’s Life
FORT WORTH—A boys’ game played with men’s weap
ons ended in death Monday for 15-year old Millard Henry
(Sandy) Mayo Jr.
A 22-caliber bullet fired from his own gun by his hunting
pal, 16-year old Rodger Leigh Eames, took young Mayo’s life.
The boys were at Mayo’s home in Westland, just west
of Fort Worth, demonstrating to each other how fast they
could aim and fire their rifles.
Nuclear Center
Due In Year
Within the next 12 months, A&M
may have in operation the largest
and most powerful nuclear reactor
center in the world.
Dr. Richai'd E. Wainerdi of the
Engineering Experiment Station,
who will direct the million dollar
center, told members of the Col
lege Station Lions Club yesterday
that if all plans run smoothly
workmen should begin pouring
concrete on the project early in
the summer. The center will be
located just south of Easterwood
Airport.
Wainerdi said the nuclear cen
ter would be used for research pur
poses by practically all depart
ments on the campus and would
require five or six full-time staff
members, others to come through
the departments using the facili
ties.
“We are now living in an atomic
age, whether we like it or not,”
Wainerdi said. “And we are
learning how to tame nuclear en
ergy to the point of making it use
ful in all fields—from agi’iculture
to medicine.”
“The nuclear center can serve
A&M in many ways—alphabetical
ly speaking from Agronomy to
Veterinary Medicine. It will be a
big step in keeping A&M one of
the nation’s top producters of en
gineers, scientists, agriculturalists
and other specialists.
The reactor will be capable of
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Placement Officers
Attend Conference
A group of leading college place
ment officers and industry and
government recruiters will play
key roles in an interagency con
ference on campus recruiting in
Washington, D. C., Jan. 8.
The meeting will be held in the
Department of Commerce auditor-
xxm.
Highlighting the agenda will be
an address on college recruiting
by W. R. Horsley, president of the
College Placement Council and
Placement Office director, A&M.
After his talk Horsley will join
a college placement officer panel
* in an appraisal of government re
cruiting methods as seen from
their vantage point.
producing 10 million watts, which
is much more powerful than any
other research reactor in the na
tion and twice as powerful as that
possessed by a college in any for
eign country. It will produce
twice as many neutrons as the
reactor at the Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology and 10 times
as many as the one located at the
University of Michigan.
Wainerdi said preliminary plans
for the center’s construction have
already been approved and that
detailed inside plans are nearing
completion, when they will be sub
mitted to the A&M Board of Di
rectors for approval.
At this time $075,000 has been
approved for the project by the
Board of Directors, Wainerdi said,
and funds are also hoped for
through the Atomic Energy Com
mission, although nothing has
been definitely confirmed as yet.
He said the new center would be
located at Easterwood instead of
on the campus, for three reasons:
(1) The Atomic Energy Commis
sion requires a 2,000-foot exclusion
zone in every direction; (2) be
cause of the needed research ma
terials arriving chiefly by air, it is
important that the center be easily
accessible to air transportation;
and (3) plenty of room for future
expansion is very desirable in a
project of this type.
“Both the Agricultural and En
gineering Experiment Stations will
use the center as well as the new
Data Processing Center.”
Wainerdi said all students, not
only those directly using the fa
cilities, would be encouraged to
visit the center to learn more about
the workings of nuclear energy.
He said he hoped classes in fields
such as military science could visit
the center in order to learn more
about what nuclear energy means
to them in their respective fields.
'GraduationNotices
Ready For Seniors
January graduation announce
ments for the graduating Seniors
may be picked up at the Office of
Student Activities.
Adidtional announcements are
available on a first come first
served basis.
Projectile Fades
After 62 Hours
MOSCOW (JP)—The Soviet cosmic rocket Mechta Dream
lost its voice Monday on its plunge toward an orbit around
the sun.
Radio signals of the IV^-ton projectile faded out as it
passed the 370,960-mile mark and its 62nd hour aloft, in a
headlong dash from the earth into man’s greatest conquest of
space.
Mute or not, Societ scientists expected it to streak into
a solar orbit Wednesday or Thursday on a pear-shaped course
that possibly—barely possibly—might one day swing it back
to earth.
It is due to enter an elliptical course between the earth
~~fand Mars, they said, taking
15 months to complete the
swing around the sun.
The Soviets originally an
nounced the rocket would
take 447 days to circle the sun.
Monday night they said there had
been a minor miscalculation that
one revolution would take 450
days.
The name Mechta Dream was
applied to the rocket Monday by
the Comhiunist party newspaper
Pravda. That name replaced the
original Lunik, a combination of
luna moon and Sputnik, which be
came outdated when the rocket
zipped past the moon at a speed
of 5,472 m.p.h. Sunday.
Tass announced depl^i° n °f
power killed the radio signals.
“The program of observations
and scientific investigations of
the rocket has been completed,’
the Soviet news agency said.
It reported the 62 hours of
radio communications enabled a
check on the work of scientific
instruments aboard and observa
tions of the rocket’s movements.
It was promised that the scientific
results will be published as the ob-
servatations are gradually pro
cessed.
The Soviets calculate the orbit
of Mechta will have a maximum
diameter of 214% million miles.
By their reckoning, the rocket
will cruise no nearer the sun
than 91% million miles. The
earth, with a tighter orbit, ranges
from 91% to 94% million miles
from the sun.
“It is not impossible the new
planet will again meet its mother
—the earth—because their paths
will eventually cross near the
place where our small planet first
flew into interplanetary space,”
Prof. Boris Kukarkin, deputy
chairman of the Soviet Astronomi
cal Council, said in a broadcast.
“If our rocket moved only un
der the influence of the sun’s
gravitation it would return absolu
tely to the point in space where
it went into oi’bit, but as its move
ments will be subjected to the in
fluence of other bodies in the
solar system it will return only
approximately to this. area.
Scholarship Fund
Started Honoring
Dean E. J. Kyle
“Dean E. J. Kyle Scholarship
Fund” has been started here to
provide scholarships for one or
more junior students majoring in
agriculture each year. This fund
will be permanent officials said
yesterday.
The fund was created by the
daughter and grandchildren of
Dean and Mrs. Kyle. They are
Mrs. Lily Bess Kyle Baker of
Memphis, Tenn., Mrs. Barbara
Baker Thurmond ' of Fort Worth,
and Thomas Harrison Baker III Pf
Garland.
Announcement of the fund was
made to Dean and Mrs. Kyle dur
ing the holiday season.
Although holding the highest ac
ademic degrees, Kyle is, most wide
ly known as Dean Kyle because of
his 35 years of service as dean of
the School of Agriculture at A&M.
He became the first dean of agri
culture of the college in 1911 and
was an outstanding agricultural
leader until retiring in December,
1944.
Kyle was also a leading figure
in athletic affairs of the college.
He served as chairman if the Col
lege’s Faculty Athletic Committee
for many years and was called to
head that committee several times
when athletic fortunes were at a
low ebb.
Kyle Field, the home of Aggie
athletics, was named honoring him.
Research Worker
To Give Graduate
Lecture Tomorrow
Dr. J. L. Franklin will deliver a
graduate lecture tomorrow at 8.
p.m., in the Physics lecture room.
The lecture is sponsored by the
Gi'aduate School.
He will talk on “Ion-Molecule
Reactions in the Gas Phase.”
Dr. Franklin is research associ
ate, Research and Development Di
vision, Humble Oil and Refining
Co., Baytown.
Franklin and co-workers have
made major advances in the study
of ionic reactions in the gas phase
by the use of mass specti'ometry
techniques. These studies aid in
the understanding of the complex
cracking and reforming operations
of a modem refinery.
He received the B.S. and M.S.
degrees in chemical engineering at
the University of Texas in 1929
and 1930. After spending 15
months at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology on research in the
Research Laboratory of Applied
Chemistry, he returned to receive
the Ph.D. degree in physical chem
istry at the university in 1934.
Dr. Franklin joined Humble Oil
and Refining Company’s laborator
ies at Baytown in 1934 and in 1938
he advanced to section head, in
charge of research on lubricants,
refining processes, and analytical
methods.
“Because of this it is hardly
possible the rocket will actually
return to earth, but it is possible
it will from time to time pass
by near the earth and then we
probably can observe it.”
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Aggieland Reveals
Civilian, Graduate
Picture Schedule
Civilian and graduate stu
dents started having pictures
made for the Aggieland ’59
yesterday.
Schedule for pictures at the
Aggieland Studio
lows:
is as fol-
Jan. 5-6
A-C
Jan. 7-8
D-H
Jan. 9-10
I-M
Jan. 12-13
N-Q
Jan. 14-15
R-S
Jan. 16-17
T-Z
Aggies Survive
Holidays With
No Fatalities
With the odds against them, mo
toring Aggies departed from the
campus and returned from the 16-
day holiday period without a, single
traffic fatality. The accident-free
vacation marked the third consecu
tive year without a Christmastime
traffic death.
The base of the Academic Build
ing fragpole showed no notice of
Silver Taps ceremonies.
Officials had predicted that mo
toring Aggies could not beat the
tremendous odds for a deathless
holiday period for the third year
in a row.
Sgt. O. L. Luther, head of the
local Texas Highway Patrol office,
and Fred Hickman, Chief of Cam
pus Security, both had gloomy pre
dictions for Aggies before they
left for the holidays. Luther pre
dicted, “There are no deathless
hands in the deck.”
Hickman sjiid, “I always dVead
the holiday period. It’s always
my fear that some student won’t
be around for the resumption of
classes.”
The last Christmastime traffic
fatality occurred in 1955 when two
Aggies were killed near LaGrange
on their way home for the holi
days.
A hunting accident caused one
Aggie fatality during the 1956-57
holiday period but the 1957-58 va
cation had no violent deaths.
Texas Water Belle,
“Get-into-the-swim” invites Betty Jo Anderson, one of
San Antonio’s attractive Poster Girls, as she prepares for
a dip. Tropical foliage and year-round swimming, as well
as pretty girls, are reasons for San Antonio’s popularity as
a winter vactionland. (AP Wirephoto)
Coed Dispute May Go
To U.S. Supreme Court
Plans to carry the A&M coedu
cational dispute to the United
States Supreme Court were reveal
ed yesterday by John M. Barron,
attorney for two Bryan women
seeking admission to the college.
The women, Mrs. Lena Ann
Bristol and Mrs. Barbara Alice
HAVANA, Cuba b'P'—Provision
al President Manuel Urrutia ar
rived in Havana late yesterday,
raising the prospect the martial
law in Havana province and a pros
pective curfew for the capital
would be lifted quickly.
Urrutia landed at Havana’s In
ternational Airport after a flight
from Camaguey province.
He arrived at the height of a
confused situation that pitted Fidel
Castro’s rebel forces against a
group of young revolutionary zeal
ots who had occupied the presiden
tial palace.
Castro’s men so far were resort
ing to persuasion. Apparently
they were meeting with success,
for the splinter group of revolu
tionaries left the palace on orders
from their leaders rather than em
barrass Urrutia’s struggling young
regime.
The proclamation of martial law
was made by Maj. Camilo Cien-
fuegos, Castro’s military chief for
Havana province. He said it would
remain in force until Urrutia was
installed in the presidential palace.
Instead of going to the palace
immediately Urrutia was escorted
to the army’s headquarters at
Camp Colombia in a Havana sub
urb.
This indicated that martial law
and a 9 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew
would continue at least through
Monday night, although Cienfuegos
insisted there was no abnormal
situation threatening the peace of
this weary capital.
Urrutia originally was scheduled
to reach Havana at 11 a.m. His
arrival was delayed because mem
bers of the splinter organization
called Directorio Revolucionaruo
insisted on staying in the palace
until their own leaders were on
hand to tell them to leave.
The young rebels also had been
insisting on talking to Urrutia to
Tittle, went to court after college
officials refused to admit them as
students during the spring semes
ter of 1958.
The Bryan attorney was making
preparations Monday for filing a
direct appeal to the nation’s high
est court. The appeal was prompt-
determine his plans for Cuba’s fu
ture.
A fresh warning was issued by
the embassy to American residents
to be cautious in their activities
and movements until the situation
clears up.
The proclamation of martial
law caused International Airport
to close down. Two plane loads
of passengers were called back as
they were about to board National
and Pan American World Airways
planes.
The disagreement developed
while thousands waited at the air
port for the triumphant arrival of
Urrutia.
The Rebel group, made up most
ly of students, stormed the presi
dential palace on New Year’s Day,
after dictator President Fulgencio
Batista fled to fhe Dominican Re
public.
A&M Gets Grant
For CE Student
A&M has received a collateral
grant of $500 from the Creole
Foundation of Venezuela and New
York.
The grant is to be used to sup
plement tuition fees for an Aggie
sophomore civil engineering stu
dent from Venezuela. Alejandro
J. Kato currently holds a Creole
Foundation scholarship.
A&M was among 36 United
States colleges and universities re
ceiving grants for the current ac
ademic year from the Creole Foun
dation and Creole Petroleum Corp.
for the 63 students now studying
in the U. S. under Creole auspices.
Creole Petroleum Corp., a U. S.
company and Venezuela’s largest
oil producer, has conducted a schol
arship program in the U. S. and in
Venezuela for more than 20 years.
ed after the Texas Supreme Court
last week refused a motion for a
writ of error filed after the Kith
District Court of Civil Appeals
at Waco had reversed a decision
made in a Bryan District Court
last spring which granted admis
sion to the women.
District Judge W. T. McDonald
ruled in their favor March 18, bas
ing his decision on women’s rights
under the 14th Amendment to the
United States Constitution. He
held that women’s rights had been
violated and that the A&M Boafd
of Directors exceeded its authority
in rejecting women students.
The court reversed the decision
ruling, “Since the state supports
one all-male, one all-female and
sixteen coeducational schools, it
exhalts neither sex at the expense
of the other. But to the contrary,
recognizes the equal rights of both
sexes to the benefits of the best,
most varied system of higher edu
cation the state can supply.”
Federal Loan Fund
Slated for Students
AUSTIN </P>—A gift from the
Brackenridge Estate of San An
tonio will set up a $60,000 federal
loan fund for students, the Uni
versity of Texas said Monday.
Dr. L. D. Haskew, university
vice president for developmental
services, said the figure would be
matched with funds from the fed
eral government under the national
defense act’s student loan pro
gram.
Local sources must put up 10
per cent. The federal government
will put up the other 90 per cent.
Ability to do successful college
work and financial need are the
major requirements for the stu
dent loans.
Priority will be given to per
sons who are preparing to teach
in elementary or secondary schools
and to those with outstanding abil
ities in mathematics, science or
foreign language. Loans cannot
exceed $1,000 annually per stu
dent and must be repaid within
10 years.
Haskew said at least $20,000 an
nually is needed for local sources
to provide enough monies for stu
dents. This would set up $200,000
loan fund each year at the univer
sity.
Cuban Curfew law
May Be L ifled Soon