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Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Inspection
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Number 105: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1959
Price Five Cents
Cong. Teague Speaks at Gathering
Muster Tradition Termed
As Moment of Reflection)
Hon. Olin E. Teague •
. . . in outer space lies hope of permanent peace
At Saturday Banquet
Artist - Preacher
To Address BSU
By GAYLE McNUTT
Executive News Editor
Jack Hamm, a preacher with a
unique method of reaching his con
gregation, will speak Saturday
night before an expected 150 or
more guests at the annual Bap
tist Student Union Banquet.
Hamm, a commercial art instruc
tor at Baylor University at Waco,
does his preaching through free
syndicated religious sketches and
cartoons. The Waco artist spends
several hundred dollars each week
from his own pocketbook, and
sometimes goes in debt, to supply
the cartoons free to any newspaper
in the world that will print them.
He has many takers. Current
ly his drawings appear in more
than a thousand publications
throughout the U.S., and through
translations, in 30-odd foreign
countries. Through this media, he
reaches a public estimated at more
than 30 million persons each week.
He has been interested in art
since the age of 5 and turned his
back on a promising career in
commei'cial art to answer the call
of the gospel. Combining his ar
tistic talent and his desire to
spread God’s word, Hamm’s home-
styled syndicate was born.
Hamm started the free service
as a hobby. But the hobby grew
into a job that is a day-and-night
project, taking up three-quarters
of his time. Each week he and
his wife mail out two cartoons (in
order to give editors a choice) to
each publication on his long list
of “subscribers.” In the past he
CS Resident Hurt
In Collision Here
A car-truck collision at East
Gate of College Station at 12:55
p.m. yesterday injured a College
Station man, C. C. Rice of 1013
Walton' Dr.
Rice, di'iver of the car, was hit
by a truck driven by an unidenti
fied Bryan Negro. The truck was
loaded with cattle.
According to College Station
Police Chief Lee Norwood, Rice
was said by witnesses to have run
a stop sign crossing Highway 6
and apparently did not see the
truck approaching. The truck
slammed into the right side of
Rice’s car.
Only Rice was injured. He was
taken immediately to Bryan Hos
pital by Callaway-Jones Ambu
lance. His condition is reported
satisfactory.
has found it necessary to take
part-time jobs such as illustrating
comic strips to pay the tremendous
costs of his “hobby.” Except for
donations from friends he has car
ried the entire expense of mater
ials, production and postage, not
counting the man-hours of labor
on his own shoulders. He staunch
ly refuses all offers of pay for his
service.
“For me it is God’s way,” states
Hamm. “I believe that religion,
not world-wide diplomacy, is the
answer to today’s problems.”
The 43-year old artist has won
international acclaim for both his
art work and service to Amei’ica
and the religious field and has
Won several national awards for
his work.
“Mi’. Hamm is without the most
outstanding man in the field of
religious art,” commented Rufus
Spraberry, BSU director. “We are
indeed fortunate to have him as
our guest and speaker.”
The banquet will be held at 6:30
p.m. at Clayton’s Restaurant in
Bryan. Tickets for the dinner are
$2 and reservations may be made
at the BSU Office at North Gate
or by calling VI 6-6411 by noon
Thursday, according to Ben Trot
ter, BSU president, who will em
cee the banquet program.
Tells of Man’s Last,
Greatest Frontier
By BILL REED
Battalion News Editor
The 57th annual Aggie Muster
was termed as “a moment of re
flection, of prayer, of thanks
giving for the past, of hope in the
future,” by the Hon. Olin E.
Teague, ’32, member of U. S. Con
gress, as approximately 5,000 per
sons attended the program in G.
Rollie White Coliseum yesterday.
“Today—on the 123rd anniver
sary of the winning of Texas in
dependence—we participate with
Texas A&M men all over the world
in a living tradition of loyalty and
comradeship.
“And, also, today we dedicate
ourselves to the challenging and
essential task of making our own
constructive contribution to the
existing tradition which our fore
bearers have built,” the congi’ess-
man said.
Speaking at the 57th year of
gatherings to honor the heroes of
the Battle of San Jacinto and to
pay homage to all A&M men who
have passed on, Cong. Teague de
scribed the United States’ conquest
for peace.
He told of the bombing of Hii’o-
shima and the development of the
atom and more recently the de
velopment of missiles and outer
space travel.
Outer space is “man’s last and
greatest frontier,” he said in ex
plaining to the students that “it
will be your generation’s task to
win this last, essential frontier and
hold it.” In it “lies the hope of
total, permanent peace.”
“When I sat where you are now
sitting, I thought I was facing a
challenging future,” he said. “Com
pared to what you face, the chal
lenge of 1932 was mere child’s
play.”
He told that it will no longer be
sufficient for an educated man to
conform, from now on he must
pei’form. There are certain in
tangibles that he told that ai’e
taught better in the U.S. than any
where else on earth.
“I refer to those intangibles as
self-reliance, imagination, loyalty,
coui-age, daring, industry and hon
or. These have been the proud
characteristics of A&M men in the
past.”
He cited that Gen. Randolph
Pate, Commandant of the Marine
Corps, told him recently that “in
all his experience he had never had
an officer from A&M who was not
a top officer.”
In closing, Cong. Teague told the
gathering to “hold fast to your
tradition, hold fast to what you
have been taught, and hold fast to
what you believe,” and “if the
world is to be saved from dissolu
tion, it will be saved by you and
by others like you in every corner
of the free world.”
Jack Hamm, noted religious cartoonist, who sends his work
free each week to more than 1,000 publications in the
United States and foreign countries, displays one of his
larger drawing samples. He will speak Saturday night at
the Baptist Student Union Banquet.
Army Inspector Tearn
Due Here Tomorrow
Annual Inspection
Set All Day Friday
News of the World
By The Associated Press
War In Germany “Militarily Hopeless”
MOSCOW—The Soviet Union warned West Germany
Tuesday that its position as a nuclear arsenal of the West in
any future war would be “militarily hopeless.”
The note re-emphasized that West Germany is laying
itself open to dangerous consequences by arming with U. S.-
supplied nuclear weapons, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko said.
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Starkweather Goes to Chair May 22
LINCOLN, Neb.—Nebraska’s pardon board refused
Tuesday to commute killer Charles Starkweather’s death
sentence.
It set May 22 as the new date for his death in the elec
tric chair.
The decision followed quickly after a hearing at which
the 20-year-old redhead told the board, he “just wasn’t repre
sented right” by counsel at his trial last year.
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Dalai Lama Resides in Exile
MUSSOORIE, India—The Dalai Lama took up residence
in exile Tuesday in a 32-room mansion 75 miles south of the
snow-covered Himalayan border of Tibet.
The Tibetan god-king ended his trip by foot, donkey,
pony, car and by train five weeks after fleeing from Lahasa,
his Communist-occupied capital.
Scores of security police and plainclothes men dotted the
55-acre grounds of his new home behind a still incomplete
barbed wire fence as the Dalai Lama arrived with his usual
sunny smile.
Senators Refuse
Teacher Raises
AUSTIN (TP)—Senators balked
Tuesday at considering passage of
the 123 million dollar a year Hale-
Aikin school package without hav
ing any money to pay for it.
The school improvement pro
gram, centering on an $800 a year
teacher pay raise, may be lost
for the regular session unless a
tax bill and final appropriations
budget are whipped through be
fore the session dies in three
weeks.
Sen. A. M. Aikin Jr. of Paris
got only a 16-15 vote on his mo
tion to lay out his bill, SB5. Two
thirds of the members voting, or
21 votes were necessary.
Aikin admitted the vote “was a
bad setback, but I’m not going to
to give up. I may try to bring it
up again if the opportunity pre
sents itself. I’ll do all I can to
pass it.”
Before the vote, he told his col
leagues he would submit an amend
ment that the bill could not be
come effective until a financing
method has been approved.
Harrington Named
ToEducationBoard
President M* T. Harrington and
Speaker Waggoner Carr of the
Texas House of Representatives,
have been appointed to committees
of the Southern Regional Educa
tion Board, Chairman Cecil H. Un
derwood, governor of West Vir
ginia, announced today.
President Harrington has been
named to the Finance Committee
and Speaker Carr to the board’s
Executive Committee.
The SREB was established in
1949 through legislative action of
the Southern states for the pur
pose of making better use of high
er education resources of the
states through cooperation across
state lines. Its members are the
governors of 16 Southern states
and four persons appointed by
each governor.
Members of the board from
Texas in addition to Speaker Carr
and President Harrington are Gov
ernor Price Daniel; Dr. E. B.
Evans, president of Prairie View
A&M College; and Dr. Ralph
Green, director of the Commission
on Higher Education.
Sen. R. A. Weinert, Senate dean
and backstage voice of the con
servatives, led the charge in a rare
flood attack. He said “the timing
of trying to bring it up now is
utterly wrong. We don’t even
have a tax bill over here. . .no
one knows how much that tax bill
is going to raise.”
“The little land and home own
ers can’t take it any more. If you
were at home looking at the fam
ily budget you would figure you
had this much credit and could
afford to spend this much money.
This is going at it just backwards.
We ai’e going to spend it and then
how are we going to find the mon
ey to pay for it?” Weinert said.
Sen. Hubert Hudson of Browns
ville objected to the inclusion of
all recommendations of the Hale-
Aikin school study committee in
one bill.
By DAVE STOKER
. Battalion News Editor
An 11-man Army team, headed by Col. Robert J. Hill Jr.,
will arrive here tomorrow afternoon to conduct the annual
federal inspection of the Army Corps of Cadets all day Fri
day.
Expected to arrive with Hill and the team are Lt. Col.
John C. Allan, GS (Armor) ; Maj. George H. Worf, Artillery;
Lt. Col. Walter C. Henderson, Engineer Section; Maj. Festus
E. Harrison, Chemical Section; Col. Charles Askins, Ord
nance; Maj. Fred W. Dollar, Quartermaster Section; Lt. Col.
Gerald M. Cravens, Signal Section; Lt. Col. Gordon F. Tyrrell,
Transportation Section; Lt. Col. Harold M. Kennedy, GS (In
fantry), Combat Arms; and Capt. Arthur J. White, Army
Aviation Section.
Each officer will inspect his
respective branch here on the
campus.
The team is expected to ar
rive at Easterwood Airport, Bryan,
tomorrow at 3 p.m. Members to
comprise the inspection team will
mainly be several officers from
Fourth Army Headquarters, Fort
Sam Houston.
Federal inspection of the Army
will begin Friday morning. Ac
cording to Capt. John W. Sim
mons, Department of Military
Science, A&M, the team will cover
the campus Friday inspecting each
corps class, military science class
room instruction, the use of gov
ernment property and training
schedules.
The last 15 minutes of each
military science class will be giv
en to team inspectors who will ask
questions, Simmons said. Friday
at 5:30 p.m. the inspection team
will inspect the Corps in front of
the dorms.
A Federal Review will be held
on the drill field in front of the
Memorial Student Center Satur
day morning at 9, weather permit
ting. Maj. Gen. L. S. Griffing, dep
uty commanding general Fourth
Army, Fort Sam Houston, will be
(See INSPECTION Page 4)
CORRECTION
Tuesday’s Battalion reported
that this year’s Aggie Muster was
the 56th annual Muster gathering.
Since the Muster Ceremonies
were started on April 21, 1903,
this year makes the 57th year.
The Battalion regrets making
this error and wishes to record the
correct number for future use.
Last Bomarc Series
Snark ICBM Logs
Trip Over Atlantic
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (A 5 )—
A Snark intercontinental guided
missile logged an apparently high
ly successful round trip yesterday
after being fired by a crack mili
tary crew.
The fiery launching was one of
the final tune-ups for the 69-foot
Northrop missile that is expected
to be assigned to combat troops
within the next two. months.
Sources said the predawn shot
ran like clockwork as the sleek
missile cruised close to 1,000 miles
over the Atlantic, spun around and
alighted back on the Cape’s land
ing strip several hours later.
The same missile completed a
similar flight several months ago.
Later, a supersonic Bomarc in
terceptor missile blazed aloft to
seek out and “kill” a simulated
enemy target over, the Atlantic.
It was the final launching of the
present Bomarc series from the
Cape.
The sleek Boeing missile, which
has made more than 50 flights
from the Cape, was aimed at a
pilotless drone plane cruising some
200 miles out to sea.
Future Bomarc tests from the
Cape will be made with a super
version of the missile, capable of
twice the present range. The first
flight may come late this spring.
The regular Bomarc, dubbed
IM99A, will be run through fur
ther tests at a new launching base
on Santa Rosa Island of the Flor
ida Gulf Coast before it becomes
operational.
The new Bomarc, called Model
B, will be powered by a solid-fuel
booster. It will carry an improved
target seeker and will be capable
of ranges in excess of 400 miles.
The Snark, which can carry a
deadly nuclear payload more than
5,000 miles, used special landing
skids to drop back safely on the
Cape strip.
The missile was fired by crew
men of the Strategic Air Com
mand’s 556th Guided Missile
Squadron, which has been train
ing with the Snark for the past
year.
House Director
Speaks Tonight
In Ballroom
Dr. Charles S. Sheldon, present
technical director of the House of
Representatives Committee on Sci
ence and Astronautics, will speak
on “The Exploi’ation of Space: A
Challenge to America” tonight at
8 p.m. in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom.
Sheldon has helped prepare many
congressional space reports and
studies.
A graduate of the University of
Washington, Sheldon also received
M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Har
vard. At various times he has
taught course in economics; air,
rail, highway and water transpor
tation; foreign trade; and related
subjects at the University of
Washington.
He served intermittently in the
U. S. Navy from 1943-1952. He
first served as logistics officer of
the Oakland Naval Supply Depot
and on the staff of the Naval In
telligence School.
Since 1955 he has had assign
ments with the Joint Economic
Committee of Congress as staff
economist for foreign economic
policy, defense essentiality and
United States-Soviet comparisons.
Among other things, he has
studied at the California Institute
of Technology, White Sands Prov
ing Grounds and the atomic de
fense, biological and chemical war
fare schools at Fort McClellan,
Kan.
CS Kiwanians Host
Secretary Group
“Give your secretary your best
and she will give you her best,”
Mrs. Sue Cox, president of the
local chapter of the National Sec
retaries Assn., told College Station
Kiwanians yesterday.
In observing National Secretarr
ies Week, the Kiwanis Club hosted
28 secretaries of club members at
their Tuesday luncheon. In ac
cordance, the title of Mrs. Cox’s
speech was “You and Your Sec
retary.”
“A secretary appreciates a good
‘boss’ just as a good ‘boss’ appre
ciates a good secx*etary,” Mrs.
Cox said. “If she knows her work
is appreciated she will go out of
her way to see that she does a
better job than is expected of her.”
She gave a summary of the
characteristics that are required
to become a successful secretary,
as well as those necessary in an
employer to get the best work from
his secretary.
In closing, Mrs. Cox urged all
Kiwanians not to “let the world
pass their secretaries by” but to
help them in bettering themselves
by allocating time and money to
their secretaries for extra training
and membership in the NS A, which
is dedicated to raising standards
and efficiency of secretarial work.