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12 Mostly cloudy and mild through Wednesday with some scattered light rain or dri/zle. THE BATTALION 4 More Days Until Finals Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus Number 58: Volume 58 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1959 Price Five Cents State Approves Nuclear Study AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Commission on Higher Education Monday added space-age pro grams to the University of Texas and Texas A&M. A nuclear engineering depart ment—first to be offered in a Texas college—was approved for A&M along with a new depart ment of astronomy for the univer sity. Usually requests for additions to college programs are studied by the commissions staff headed by Dr. Ralph Green. Green said the timeliness and the urgency of the programs were such that im mediate action was desirable. The approvals were made unanimous ly. A&M President M. T. Harring ton said “the most pressing nu clear science need in Texas is a source of trained manpower. With the anticipated industrial develop ment of Texas, the industx-ial uses of nuclear science and engineer ing will develop rapidly.” The astronomy department will be linked with the University of Chicago with part of the work at the McDonald Observatory, near Fort Davis. Doctoral degrees will be awarded jointly. Dr. Logan Wilson, University of Texas president, said he had Tot’s Kidnaper Found in New York NEW YORK OP) — A baby Stolen 10 days ago from her hos pital bassinet was restored Mon day to its tearful, happy mother. A vague, distraught woman who herself had borne eight children was held as the kidnaper. The alleged abductor of Lisa Rose Chionchio was Mrs. Jean lavarone, 43, who is to appear in Brooklyn Felony Court Tuesday. She is charged with kidnapping, punishable by a maximum 2 0 years to life in prison. Police said Mrs. lavarone want ed a newborn child to pass off as her own to pressure an unidenti fied boy friend into marrying her. Livorce and death had shattered her two previous marriages and scattered her seven living child ren, the youngest 3. “It feels wonderful to 'have her In my arms,” said Lisa Rose’s mother, Mrs. Frances Chionchio, 26, as she cradled the baby in her left arm. The reunion took place in St. Peter’s Hospital in Brook lyn, where the child was kidnapp ed Jan. 2, 2 1 4 hours after birth. Police had set up a special tele phone line for tips on the kid naper. Over this Sunday night came a report from a carefully guarded source. It led officers to Mrs. lavarone’s neat but humble Brooklyn apartment where she lived alone. It was only 14 blocks from St. Peter’s Hospital. There, asleep in an old-fashion ed wicker crib, was Lisa Rose, safe and healthy. Said Asst. Dist. Atty. J. Kenneth McCabe: “As far as we know she never left the house with the child.” Changes in the baby’s formula w r ere printed in the newspapers for the benefit of the kidnaper. Death Plunge Near For Atlas Satellite CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (A > )—Atlas, America’s biggest artificial moon, Is expected to plunge in flames Jan. 21 after orbiting the earth more than a month. But nobody need worry about the 4%-ton satellite crashing to earth, the Smithsonian Astrophys- ical Observatory said. The moon- let, mostly empty fuel tanks, is expected to burn up in the atmos phere, 30 to 50 miles aloft, much the same as the Soviet Sputniks. The Smithsonian considers that the final stage rockets of Sputnik I and the complete satellite of Sputnik II, the dog-rocket, weighed about the same as Atlas. Like Sputnik II, Atlas is both a final stage rocket and instrument package in one. not pushed for development of graduate degrees in astronomy in the past because there was little demand. Now he said there was a big step up in demand for trained men in this field. The McDonald Observatory, ope rated largely by the University of Chicago, is suitable for extensive study of the planets, he added. An application has been filed with the National Science Foundation for the development of a new infra— red microwave facility with most of multi-million dollar cost to be borne by the federal government. In other action the commission agreed that the work of the cot ton research committee should be continued but the committee it self eliminated. The research will be done by four state schools. The current appropriation of $202,730 for the committee will be added instead to the recommenda tions to the Legislature of the schools’ budgets, less $14,000 for the committee's adminisrative staff. The recommendation calls for $27,000 more for the univer sity, $23,580 for Texas Woman’s University, $06,083 for Texas Tech, $65,817 for the Engineering Experiment Station and $6,000 for the Agriculture Experiment Sta tion. Industry representatives urged that the cotton research work of the committee be continued. At a previous meeting the commission decided to eliminate the 17-year- old research committee. Class Agents, Club Officers To Meet Here The program for the 8th an nual Class Agents’ and 13th an nual Club Officers Conference of the Association of Former Stu dents will be held Friday through Saturday in the Memorial Student Center, J. B. Hervey, executive secretary of the association, has announced. The program will get under way Friday night with the A&M- University of Texas basketball game. Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon, class agents will meet in the center. In the afternoon be ginning at 1:30 club officers are scheduled to hold their annual conference. The annual winter sports ban quet honoring the football and cross country squads will be held in Sbisa Hall at 7 p.m. The nominating committee will meet Sunday morning from 7-8. A stag breakfast will begin at 8 a.m. for class agents, club offi cers, nominating committee and guests. Lions To Host District Clubs Sunday in MSC College Station Lions made fin al plans yesterday to play host to 46 visiting Lions Clubs Sunday in the Memorial Student Center at the Lion District 2-S-3 Mid- Winter Conference. Approximately 300 Lions from this section of the state are ex pected for the conference which will begin with registration at 10 a.m. Sunday. A luncheon will open the program at noon with Finis E. Davis, Lions Internation al second vice-president, to give the luncheon speech. Davis is sup erintendent of the American Printing House for the Blind at Louisville, Ky. The afternoon session will be primarily a workshop for Lions Club officers and committees. A coffee at 4 p.m. will wind up the one-day conference. Yesterday at the luncheoq, Dr. A. B. Medlin, past district gover nor, outlined the structure of the club from the local level through the international level. Medlin said Lions International was organized in 1918 at Dallas with only a handful of clubs at tending, but today the Lions have grown to be the largest service club in the world. He said at the latest count there were 567,457 members, in 14,006 clubs, in 92 countries and locations. Senate Liberals Fail Filibuster Issue Group Loses Twice In Roll Call Vote AF Cadet Checks Due Within Month Air Force contract checks for juniors and seniors ijire expected the last week in January, ac cording to Sgt. Osdar Millican of the Air Science detachment. Cadets are requested not to contact the cadet records of fice concerning the contract checks until the checks have been received, Milican said. Leipper To Speak At Hillel Meeting Dr. Dale F. Leipper, head of the A&M Department of Oceano graphy and Meteorology will speak Wednesday evening to the discussion group of the Bnai’ Brith Hillel Foundation at 7:30. Subject of Leipper’s talk will be “a glimpse of life and science in Russia.” Journalettes Elect New Officer Slate Janice Peres was elected presi dent of the Journalettes, a club composed of journalism wives, at a monthly meeting last Thursday. Other club officers elected w'ere Janice Doss, vice president; Jean ette Coston, secretary; Marie Til ler, treasurer; Gerry Rivers, Aggie Wives Council representative; and Jeanette Zouzalik, reporter-histor ian. News of the World By The Associated Press Hoffa Ouster Attempt Planned NEW YORK—One of three court-appointed monitors of the Teamsters Union said Thursday he plans a court move to try to oust its president, James R. Hoffa. “I am at present working - on a petition that would oust Hoffa,” the monitor, Godfrey P. Schmidt, told a Young Re publican Club luncheon. He added that he hoped to have the petition ready in about a month for submission to Dist. Judge F. Dickinson Letts in Washington. Letts has been handling a dispute be tween Hoffa and a rebel Teamsters faction. ★ ★ ★ Judge Ignores Federal Court Order CLAYTON, Ala.—Circuit Court Judge George Wal lace, admittedly inviting a jail sentence, ignored a federal court order Monday and refused to hand voter registration records to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Wallace, with an avowed willingness to “face consequenc es,” turned the records in Barbour County over to a hurriedly summoned county grand jury. He left it up to the 18 jurors to say whether the federal agents get to see the files as part of their investigation of alleged denial of voting rights to Negroes. Four hours after at has been empaneled, the jury said commission agents had been invited to “examine these re cords jointly with us.” The report said the agents rejected the offer. ^ Corps Welcomes Cage Team The Corps of Cadets mobs members of the Aggie basket ball team as they step off the plane which ^brought them in from Arkansas early this morning. The Aggies overcame a 32-40 halftime deficit to nose out the Razorbacks 63-62 and get back in the midst of the SWC basketball race. After Win over Arkansas Ags Greet Cagers Com i ngfrom Hi l Is By BILL HICKLIN Battalion Sports Writer EASTERWOOD .AIRPORT—-A mob of Aggies rolled out of the sack this morning at 1:30 a.m. and headed for this local airport to greet the Cadet cagers return ing from Fayetteville and a con quest over the Arkansas Razor- backs. A few hours earlier in the Ozarks, the Ags had slipped past the Razorbacks 63-62 in a thrilling contest which saw the Farmers roar back into the midst of the Southwest Conference title chase. Looks of surprise were written on the faces of the bleary eyed Aggies as they piled off the plane to be met by a short, spontaneous yell practice. Grinning Coach Bob Rogers, evi dently pleased with the student support, was also pleased with the performance of his team. “They really did a fine job,” said Rogers. “And this is really some thing. It really is. And these boys will never forget this,” said the mentor. Most of the players stood around rather dazed as the Aggies ad vanced toward the plane. Only three yells were given be fore the Ags gathered around the team to offer congratulations and comment on the game. Big Jim McNichol, who poured in 16 points, second only to Neil Swisher’s 21, almost repeated Rog ers’ words when he said, “This is something to remember.” Wayne Lawrence, 6-8 Aggie for ward, simply stated, “Quite a sur- Guide Posts A wise man is not as certain of aything as a fool is of everything —Anon. prise—it sure is,” while other members of the team made similar comments. The victory, in addition to put ting the Farmers back in the con ference race in a third place tie with the same Razorbacks at 2-2, also extended their season record to 10-3. And the contest also found Swisher, the 6-1 playmaker, tak ing over the conference scoring- lead with 74 points in four games. His 222 total points also advanced him into second place in scoring for the season behind Tom Robi- taille of Rice. WASHINGTON UP)—Senate liberals faltered and failed twice Monday in a battle to make it easier to throttle filibus ters. Their two smarting defeats cleared away the major obstacles to a compromise on the filibuster issue. Although the ranks of liberals supposedly were rein forced by the last election, most members simply wouldn’t go along with the idea of letting a bare majority, 50 of the 98 senators, choke off debate and force civil rights or other legislation to a showdown. The roll-call vote was 67-28. Nor was the Senate in much more of a mood to raise the magic number to three fifths of those voting—a variable figure that could go no higher —* than 59. On that, the ballot was 58-56. On the majority rule proposal offered by Sen. Paul Douglas D-Ill., a biparti san band of Northerners and Westerners went down to defeat sounding predictions that chances for civil rights legislation were damaged or perhaps destroyed. The Douglas plan lost out to op ponents who protested what they called imposing “gag rule by sim ple majority.” Forty-three Democrats and 24 Republicans voted against Doug las; 20 Democrats and eight Re publicans were for his plan. Antifilibuster forces picked up only a handful of converts for the three-fifths plan suggested by Sen. Thruston B. Morton, R-Ky. They pleaded in vain that it of fered a roasonable, sensible, mid dle course. On this test, the party division was 24 Democrats and 12 Re publicans for the proposal; 38 Democrats and 20 Republicans against. Southern Democrats, who would prefer no change in the rules at all, voted a solid no on both is sues. The present rule requires the ballots of 66 senators, or two- thirds of the total membership, for cutting off unlimited debate. The longer the debate ran ort over the issue of curbing debate, the more apparent it became that the probable outcome would be a compromise as outlined by Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon John son of Texas. This would allow two-thirds of the senators present and voting to halt debate and force an issue to a showdown. That was why Douglas wound up debate on his majority vote proposition! by assailing the John son plan as a meaningless ges ture that would “fool the Ameri can people into thinking they are getting something when they are getting nothing- at all.” “We might just as well put the emblem of king filibuster over the Senate,” Douglas said, “with a tobacco leaf on one side and cot ton stalk on the other.” Company Offers Aggie Scholarships Twenty scholarships of $250 each are being offered to juniors in Agriculture who meet required qualifications, it was announced yesterday by the Agricultural Scholarships committee. The Charles Pfizer Co. is offer ing the scholarships to form er 4-H club members who ai-e in terested in extension work as a career. The recipient must have a de gree plan which will qualify him for extension work, he must have indicated an interest in a career in extension and must have had successful 4-H club membership. The winner of the scholarship will be selected on the following- basis: record of 4-H Club Work completed; leadership ability of candidate as evidenced by posi tions of leadership held in con nection with 4-H Club work, stu dent activities in college and par- Library Gets $1,000 Grant Cushing Memorial Libi-ary has been awarded a grant of $1,000 by the Minnie Stevens Piper Founda tion to be used for the purchase of books, magazines and scholarly and scientific publications. “The grant will aid immeasur ably in the strengthening of our x-esources for the support of the work of this institution,” Robei't A. Houze, librax-y dix-ector said. “We are gx-ateful for this gx-ant.” The Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation was incorporated in San Antohio in 1950. The donors are Randall G. Piper and Minnie Stevens Pipex-. The purpose is chax-itable, literax-y, scientific or educational. The current fields of intex-est ax-e fellowships and schol arships, higher education, student loans, hospitals, medical education, nursing and social welfare. Chax-les M. McCauley is presi dent of the Foundation and Wil liam C. Wiederhold, secretary. ticularly as a student in profes sional extension coux-ses; definite interest in extension work as a career as described in student’s statement of future career plans; academic standing as evidenced by college record; a teaching plan for the home county (or county in which student has sei-ved as stu dent trainee) worked out by can didate on the subject of a “A Plan of Wox-k for an Extension Animal Health Program,” or a Plan of Wox-k for an Extension Relation of Animal Health to Human Health”; and evidence of ability to do extension work based upon satements made by the in structor, State club leader ox- others. Application forms are available in the office of the Dean of Agri culture and applications must be in the dean’s office not later than noon Feb. 14. Aircraft Company To Begin Work On Space Capsule WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States took a long stride Monday toward sending the first American into space. It did so in selecting the Mc Donnell Aircraft Corp. of St. Louis, Mo., to design and build a space capsule. This is the chamber that scien tists hope will carx-y a man into orbit around the earth and return him safely after a space flight of pex-haps 24 hours. The pux-pose is to study how he reacts to weightlessness dux-ing orbital flight, to high acceleration during launching and to high de celeration during re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere. A spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration said it will be at least two years before such manned space flight can be attempted. The capsule containing the pio neer man in space will be sent aloft by an Air Force Atlas in tercontinental ballistic missile, the NASA spokesman said. Later flights will use much more power ful rockets now under develop ment. Nobody has been picked yet to make that first trip ino space. There have been a number of volunteex-s, but space agency of ficials said most of these are not being considered seriously. The manned satellite px-ogx-am has been given the name Project Mercury. In Roman mythology, Mercury was the winged messen ger of the gods. The NASA announcexxxent said negotiations will begin at once looking to a formal contract with McDonnell, which was successful bidder among 12 fix-ms. The space capsule program is expected to cost more than 15 mil lion dollars.