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Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 75: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1959
Price Five Cents
Civilian Experts Predict
Big Space Expenditures
Adventures to Cost
Billions of Dollars
WASHINGTON UP)—Civilian space experts said Thurs
day their plans for satellites, a man-in-orbit and other space
adventures will cost billions of dollars over the next few
years.
Dr. T. Keith Glennan, head of the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, said it is planned to launch 30
satellites and some 140 probing rockets this year and next.
Asked whether there will be a pay-off on these costly
efforts, Glennan said he is positive there will be.
Glennan appeared before a Senate Space subcommittee
♦to testify in support of
Problems and Solutions
The Rev. John H. Prichard is shown leading hill Presbyterian Church in Fort Worth. He
the discussion group made up of Dorms 6 said of the group, “Nearly every man spoke
and 8. The Rev. Prichard is from the Hemp- his opinion.”
This Morning in Guioii
‘Good Life’ Rem ley’s Topic
For Final Talk of RE Week
By ROBBIE GODWIN
Battalion Staff Writer
“The Good Life” was the topic
of the Rev. Dr. Ernest Remley’s
fifth and final talk in Guion Hall
this morning.
This was the'last in the Relig
ious Emphasis Week series. Dr.
Remley has spoken on topics which
in the words of Dr. James E. Wood,
professor of religion at Baylor,
“hit at the aspect of oiir daily
News of the World
By The Associated Press
Macmillan May Visit U.S.A.
LONDON—Prime Minister Macmillan said Thursday
night he may go to Washington on his return from his Mos
cow trip with a view to developing a united Western policy.
Macmillan emphasized the visit to Moscow was not for
direct negotiations but “to try to break the ice and get some
feeling of the general situation before the next stages.”
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Cyprus Crisis Over
LONDON—Peace came to Cyprus Thursday after four
years of violence. A five-party conference reached agree
ment on independence for the island after 81 years under
the British flag.
A historic document establishing the Mediterranean
island as a republic was initialed Thursday night in a London
hospital room by the prime ministers of Britain, Greece and
Turkey.
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Ike Pledges Support to Mexico
ACAPULCO, Mexico—President Eisenhower said Thurs
day he will always meet neighboring Mexico more than half
way in solving problems because he never wants the U.S.-
JMexcican border defended by guns.
“We want it to be guarded by the friendship that lives
within the hearts of your people and ours,” he said.
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Debbie Gets Divorce
LOS ANGELES—In a five-minute court hearing, actress
Debbie Reynolds won a divorce and a possible $750,000 from
singer Eddie Fisher Thursday.
“My husband became interested in another woman,”
she testified simply and fearlessly, never mentioning the
name of Elizabeth Taylor.
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Beck Convicted for Taxes
TACOMA, Wash.—Dave Beck, onetime Teamster Union
president, was convicted of tax evasion Thursday by a federal
court jury.
The jury of eight men and four women returned the
verdict at 3 p. m. Beck has been accused of evading $240,000
in income taxes for the years 1950-53.
life.”
President M. T. Harrington said
this about the speaker, “I was
greatly impressed by his interest
in theology and in people. I think
he brought his topics well.”
John Partridge, Corps Chaplain,
was very impressed. “As a whole,
everyone was pleased with his
speeches and the way they were
delivered,” he said.
Friday, Dr. Remley brought the
question, “What Must I Do To
Gain Eternal Life?” He showed
how the different gospels described
one man who asked Jesus the same
question. He was a ruler, accord
ing to Luke; young according to
Matthew; and a righteous man in
the eyes of Mark.
Yet Jesus told the man, “If you
would be perfect, go sell every-
think you have and give the money
you get to the poor and come and
follow me.” But there were other
things more dear to that young
man than Christ, so he went away
sorrowful.
He showed that this man already
had the advantages the, world re
gards as the elements of a good
life. He added that in the sight
of Jesus they were false values.
“Money is not enough, power is
not enough, youth is not enough,
even high moral standards are not
enough. Only complete devotion
to God is enough,” said Dr. Rem
ley.
Dr. Remley’s last question was
“How is it with you?”
Society to Show
Movie at 7:30
The Memorial Student Center
Film Society will present the film
version of Richard Llewellyn’s
prize-winning novel, “How Green
Was My Valley,” tonight at 7:45
in the Ballroom of the MSC.
Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck
and directed by John Ford, the
movie stars Walter Pigeon and
Maureen O’Hara.
A&M Impresses
RE Counsellors
Religious Emphasis Week dorm
counsellors expressed their pleas
ure at the interest the Aggies
showed in the Week’s activities,
especially in the dormitory and
faculty forums.
The Rev. Jack H. Prichard of
Fort Worth, who led the groups
in Dorms 6 and 8, said “Nearly
every man spoke his opinion.
Most of the men wei’e interested
in the correction of bad personal
habits, the church and its mission,
and the problems and solutions
of marriage.”
He said the crowds, averaging
about 25, seemed to thoroughly
explore the questions brought up
by the questionaires.
Rev. Paul B. Frank from Dal
las said he had no difficulties get
ting the men to talk about the sub
jects.
“The men were very concerned
with their faith and the exam
ination of their own lives,” said
Rev. Frank. “My observation is
that A&M is like every other cam
pus in that they are searching for
the real answers.”
He added that his acquaintance
with the students was a wonder
ful experience to himself as
well. He expressed pleasure in the
interest shown by the students and
the faculty in the RE Week idea.
He added that this interest was
not always so prevalent on some
campuses he had visited.
Dr. James E. Wood, associate
professor of religion at Baylor,
was impressed with the faculty’s
concern in terms of their faith
as applied to their vocation.
He added that the race question
and the approach to it was of
real concern. He said they tried
to explore many possibilities of
solutions to the question.
Dr. Wood added that the idea
of having a meeting entirely made
up of faculty members was uni
que. The crowds ran from 50 to
60 each night.
NASA’s request for authority
to spend $485,300,000 in the
next fiscal year.
He said this is the last time,
at least in the foreseeable future,
that the agency will be asking for
less than half a billion.
Testimony disclosed that NASA
and its companion military agency
in the Pentagon, the Advanced Re
search Projects Agency, are spend
ing 450-500 million dollars this
year and will need 800 millions or
more next year.
Glennan said he would not be
surprised if just the civilian side,
NASA, will cost a billion or more
after two years.
He said 15 experimental satel
lites will be launched this year
and the same number in 1960. He
said 40 sounding or probing rock
ets will be fired into space in 1959
and about 100 in 1960.
As examples Glennan said:
“The manned-space flight pro
gram—project mercury—will cost
200 million dollars “before we have
completed this first U. S. effort to
put man into space.”
The efforts to build a 1%-mil
lion-pound thrust engine of a single
chamer eventually will cost another
200 million dollars.
A booster program for rocket
meters for space programs will be
more than two billion dollars.
Glennan said experts estimate
that the value of advances in me
teorology and communications re
sulting from the satellite program
will be in the billions of dollars.
License Plates Not
On Sale Yet in MSC
License plates will not be sold
in the Memorial Student Center
this year until approximately two
weeks before the April 1 deadline,
according to Mrs. Ann Keel, the
Social and Education Drector.
Mrs. Keel said license plates
will not be sold during the whole
period because sales are going too
slow to merit the use of personnel
on the campus.
Sigh and Bear It
Norman Floeck, C Composite junior, closes his eyes and
casually endures the tetnus injection .administered by
Nurse Marie Caswell. The shots were given to corps juniors
yesterday in preparation for summer camp.
INew Corps Code
To Be Aired Today
The Corps Honor Council will
meet this afternoon in the Corps
Conference Room to discuss the
work of a committee which was
appointed to rewrite the code, Har
vey Haas, chairman, announced
yesterday.
The committee was appointed
two weeks ago to completely re
construct the revised honor code
left by the class of ’58.
After the five-man committee
presents the new code, council
members, representatives from
each group and battalion in the
Corps, will discuss the changes,
he said.
Last week the Civilian Student
Council elected to “shelve the code
for the present time.” The mem
bers decided to wait until the
Corps Honor Council moved for
ward before taking their code up
again.
Haas expressed that, “We are
definitely going to move forward
with the Corps Honor Code be
cause we .think we really have
something.”
The council changed its views af
ter considering remarks made on
the 3,500 questionnaires distribu
ted in the Corps areas at the end
of last semester. The one big
problem that students recognized
in the present code concerned Ar
ticle 5, which says any student wit
nessing an honor violation is hon
or-bound to report it to proper au
thorities; and cadets did not like
the punishment under the present
code, which states that there is
only one punishment — dismissal
from school.
In the rewriting of the code, the
committee was authorized to add
new clauses to cover these mat
ters.
Members of the rewrite commit
tee are Bill Reed, chairman, Mike
Till, Frank Jordan, Allen Burns
and Bruce Dement.
Tickets on Sale
For Combat Ball
Tickets go on sale Mon
day for the 1959 Combat
Ball—the “bloodiest dance
ever to be held in Sbisa—”
according to Jay Bisbey and
Bobby Wilkins, co-chairman
of the event.
Priced at $1.50 a couple,
the tickets are available at
the Office of Student Act
ivities, Room 210, YMCA.
No collections will be taken
up in the Corps units invit
ed to the dance. The affair
will be entirely financed by
ticket returns, the two army
commanders said.
Plans for the dance are
being closely guarded and
are “classified” until all ar
rangements are made, said
Wilkins and Bisbey. But they
promised that “this year’s
event to be the nearest thing
to real combat ever — es
pecially for the Air Force.”
Only members of combat
arms units—Infantry, Ar
mor, Engineers, Field Artil
lery, AAA and Signal Corps
—and all Corps seniors have
been invited to the dance.
Fountain Room
Makes Changes
The Fountain Room of the Me
morial Student Center can now
serve their customers quicker and
more efficiently due to the addi
tion of a second cash register and
rearrangement of serving facili
ties.
Two cash registers make pos
sible two separate lines. There is
a line for short orders, pastry and
coffee breaks, both lines serve cof-
the left, a line for the cafeteria.
To help during the afternoon
coffe breaks, both lines serve cof
fee and pastries after 3:00 p. m.
Additional seating space was
made by arranging the booths in
the center of the room. Extra
space was gained by removing the
coffee booth near the door and
putting in seats.
Nfew Look In Fountain Room
The management of the MSC Fountain and more efficient service can be rendered
Room has rearranged the room so quicker to customers.