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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.
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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.