The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1959
Number 32
In Music Room
Bond Vote Set
For Tuesday
List of
Needed
Civilian Students
for Bonfire Work
By ROBBIE GODWIN
Battalion News Editor
The history of the A&M Consoli
dated School District has been one
of progress since its founding in
1939. This Tuesday the voters
again go to the polls to vote for a
$350,000 bond issue which is de
signed to build more facilities and
to repair and renovate existing fa
cilities.
The polls will be located in the
Music Room of A&M Consolidated
junior high school building. They
will open at 8 a.m. and close at 7
p.m. Absentee ballots may be cast
in the County Clerk’s office until
Saturday noon.
Only qualified voters in the A&M
Consolidated School District may
vote, according to the Texas Con
stitution. A qualified voter is de
fined as one who owns property
rendered by the tax assessor-col
lector, and who has lived in the
school district for six months.
According to J. K. Jackson,
school board president, the ballot
makes three propositions. Propo
sition 1 states for or against
“Maintenance tax.” Proposition 2
provides for or against “The issu
ance of bonds and levying of the
tax in payment thereof.” Propo
sition 3 states for or against “The
assumption of indebtedness and the
levying of a tax in payment there
of.”
Proposition 1 has in its back
ground Senate Bill 116, said Jack-
son. This bill provides that a max
imum tax of $1.50 may be assessed
by the school board if the bonded
indebtedness of the school district
is no more than seven per cent of
the tax valuation. If the indebt
edness is no more than eight per
cent, the school board may assess
a maximum maintenance tax of
$1.40. This is the category that
Consolidated falls into.
However’, the school board is on
ly setting up $1.35 of this amount.
The present tax rate setup calls
for a maintenance tax of $1.16 and
payment on bonds of $ .34 per $100
valuation of property. This is a
total tax of $1.50 per $100 valua
tion.
Under the new program, the
maintenance tax would be $1.35
and the payment on bonds out
standing $ .55 per $100 valuation,
totaling $1.90 per $100 valuation.
Proposition 2 is the actual vote
for the bond itself. Voting for
this proposition would be voting
for the $350,000 bond and the $ .55
tax per $100 valuation for payment
on bonds outstanding.
Proposition 3 spreads the present
indebtedness over the whole school
district. This measure was nec
essary since the last bond election,
the district has expanded, bringing
in 12 more people. In order for
them to legally share the tax, the
proposition is necessary.
Voting against either of the first
two propositions kills the bond is
sue, according to board members.
The board set up a chart showing
the estimated cost to a typical
homeowner. It showed that on a
$12,500 residence, the assessed val
ue at the presept valuation rate
of 45 per cent would be $5,500.
The tax for this typical situation
would be $104.50 per year. Under
the present program, it is $82.50,
showing an annual increase of
$22.50.
Filings Op en
For Offices
On Senate
Filing for freshman positions
on the Student Senate, election
commission and class offices be
gan last Wednesday at 8 a.m. at
the cashier’s cage in the Memori
al Student Center.
Other positions also being filed
for are junior agricultural repre
sentative to the Student Senate
and a sophomore recording secre-.
tary.
Qualifications for these posts
are: the junior must be majoring
in the school of Agriculture and
have no less than 60 hours and
no more than 94 hours of college
credits. He must have a grade
point ratio of 1.25. The sophomore
must have at least 30 hours and
no more than 50 hours of college
credits. He must have a grade
point ratio of 1.60.
The entire student body will
vote on the Student Senate and
election commission posts with
the exception of the junior agri
cultural representative position.
Only junior agricultural majors
will vote on this position. Also,
only freshman class members will
vote for their class officers.
Rules governing election and
campaigning pi’ocedures may be
found in the College Regulations
Book.
United Fund Drive
Set In College View
College View residents will be
called upon tonight between 7:30
and 9 by members of the Apart
ment Council to collect funds for
the College Station United Fund
drive.
Guide Posts
“I tell you that as long as I can
conceive something better than
myself I cannot be easy unless I
am striving to bring it into exist
ence or clearing the way for it.—
G. B. Shaw
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. . . kick-off at 2 p. m. in Houston
Review Set Saturday Morning
Rice Game, Corps Parade
Highlight Football Weekend
By BOB SAILE
Battalion Staff Writer
Highway 6 runs both ways, as
the old saying goes, but for most
Ags this weekend it runs south to
Houston, the center of Corps Trip
activities.
Aggies will begin leaving the
campus for “Big H” after their
last classes Friday in order to
arrive in time to set up weekend
headquarters.
The A&M-Rice football game
at 2 p.m. Saturday and a Corps
parade down Main Street at 9:30
a.m. will highlight events tomor
row.
The Corps Trip parade will start
at 9:30 Saturday morning at Clay
and Main Streets in downtown
Houston and will move north on
Main to Texas Street. Marching
units will turn right at Texas and
continue to Fannin Street where
they will again turn right. They
will then advance down Fannin to
Clay, the original forming place,
and will be dismissed.
Commanders and guidon bear
ers will assemble at 8:30 a.m. in
the four-block area contained by
the intersections of Clay and Bell
streets with Main Street. Other
outfit members will form at 9
a.m. and units will begin moving
out at 9:30.
Order of march for the parade
is as follows: The Band, 1st Wing,
2nd Wing’ 1st Brigade and 2nd
Brigade.
The official reviewing stand will
be located in front of the Rice Ho
tel at Main and Rusk streets.
Among those present on the re
viewing stand will be Chancellor
M. T. Harrington, President Earl
Rudder, Col. Joe E. Davis, com
mandant Lt. Col. Frank S. Vaden,
Jr, assistant commandant, and of
ficials from Rice Institute.
Corps headquarters for the week
end will be located in the Rice
Hotel.
Gametime for the A&M-Rice
game in Rice Stadium is 2 p. m.
Saturday. The Aggie student sec
tion will be located in the lower
east stands.
Teacher Tests
Planned in ’60
Special to The Battalion
PRINCETON, N. J.—The Na
tional Teacher Examinations, pre
pared and administered annually
by Educational Testing Service,
' will be given at 160 testing cen
ters throughout, the United States
on Saturday, February 13, 1960.
Yell Leader Tells
CivilianCouncil
By DAVE STOKER
Battalion Managing Editor
“A list of all civilian students who are going to work on
the bonfire is needed by Tuesday morning of next week,”
Civilian Yell Leader Ken Cox told members of the Civilian
Student Council last night.
Cox said that the list is needed in order for the mess
hall to know how much more food to prepare. Officials at
the mess hall have already figured pn feeding the Corps,
but do not know how many civilians will be working on the
bonfire.
Cox also said that work preference would be included
by the student’s name on the list which is to be made out in
the dormitories and then given to Cox by Tuesday morning.
The Campus Chest was an-+"
other major topic discussed
by the councilmen. Roland
Dommert, vice'president, told
the councilmen that collection
dates for civilians have been set
at Monday and Tuesday following
the Thanksgiving holidays. He
pointed out that the dormitory
presidents would be in charge of
the collecting.
Help Presidents
“I want to urge you to work
with the dorm presidents and help
them in anyway you can in col
lecting this money,” Dommert said.
Annual Thanksgiving projects
were brought up at the meeting
by President Charles Graham. He
told the members how dormitories
had helped needy families in the
past and hoped that every dormi
tory would participate in such a
program this Thanksgiving.
Dommert complained of the lack
of announcements on the civilian
side in Sbisa Dining Hall. Robert
O. Murray Jr., civilian counselor,
told the members that he would
call Col. Vaden and get the matter
straightened out.
Standing Committees
Standing committees were dis
cussed also. Graham told the mem
bers of the importance of the Civil
ian Weekend Committee and also
pointed out that everyone would
get a chance to. work on a com
mittee.'
The standing committees are the
Executive Committee, the Tradi
tions and Public Information Com
mittee, the Civilian Weekend Com
mittee, the New Student Week
Committee and the Outstanding
Council Award Committee.
Present at the meeting for the
first time was Wilton P. Thompson,
representative from Hart, who is
replacing Robert G. Watkins who
recently resigned.
Aggies Eligible
For Applieation
To SCONA
Under a new plan adopted this
year, students may apply to rep
resent A&M at the fifth Student
Conference on National Affairs
•as official delegates of A&M.
The 15 selected conferees from
A&M will be assigned to round
tables along with representatives
from 70 colleges in the United
States, Canada and Mexico. They
will hear talks by nationally-rec
ognized authorities on world prob
lems and will attnd all SCONA
social events.
To qualify as a conferee, a stu
dent must be classified as a junior
or above, have a grade point ratio
of 1.25 or better, have qualities
of leadership and make a good
appearance. No student on proba
tion will be eligible.
Application forms, available un
til 5 p.m. Thursday may be pro
cured at the Commandant’s Of
fice, the Housing Office (Depart
ment of Student Affairs) or at
the Memorial Student Center
(Post Office-Fountain room cor
ridor).
Applicants will be screened by
interviews • with a committee of
faculty, former student members
of the MSC Council and SCONA
faculty advisers. Interviews will
be set up between 5 and 7 p.m.
Thursday through Saturday. Ap
pointments for interviews will be
arranged when application forms
are submitted to the Director’s Of
fice at the MSC.
Bureaus Blamed
For Berry Mess
For Nuclear Science Training
Luedecke Commends Schools
Texas educational institutions
got a pat on the back Thursday
night from the general manager of
the Atomic Enrgy Commission for
their role in nuclear education.
General A. R. Leudecke, ’32, A-
EC’s general manager, told an
audience of nuclear scientists at
the second Texas Conference on
Utilization of Atomic Energy that
the state of Texas was rising to
the challenege of providing Better
training in nuclear science engi
neering, medicine and use of radio
isotopes.
“To our knowledge,” Gen. Lue
decke declared, “seven institutions
of higher learning in Texas are
active in atomic energy education.
A&M has a sub-critical assembly,
a teaching reactor, and is building
a research reactor.”
Gen. Luedecke declared that one
of the greatest current needs, na
tion-wide, is for recognition of
the importance of more training
of scientists for the atomic age
in which we have entered. Educa
tional institutions, he said, have
a “basic responsibility for seeing
that nuclear energy is presented
to students in perspective along
side the other basic energy sources.
To do this, of course, requires
that textbook authors and class
room instructors be aware of the
important fundamentals as well
as the newest applications of this
fast-moving field of technology.”
The AEG, Gen. Leudecke de
clared, is furnishing educational
institutions with substantial dollar
help in improving nuclear science
offerings through its programs of
assistantships and grants for the
purchase of scientific equipment.
But, he added, “I do not mean to
imply that we are doing the whole
job. I am sure they can do it and
will do it.’
His address to approximately
150 of the Southwest’s top nuclear
scientists climaxed the first day
of a two-day conference on atomic
utilization problems held in the
Memorial Student Center.
The conference opened yesterday
morning with discussions of high
ly technical nature, including ad
dresses on the studies of the
chemistry of fission products in
molten salt power reactor sys
tems, determination of trace ele
ment, and possibilities for storage
of radioactive waste materials in
abandoned gas reservoirs.
W. T. Mullins, of the National
Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee,
described activation analysis tech
niques by which material ariiounts
of as little as one one-millionth
of one one-millionth of one gram
can be successfully identified
through the use of analyzers. Such
information, he pointed out, has
practical applications in the manu
facture of such items as transis
tors, where control characteristics
are dependent upon the amounts
of impurities.
Work at the college is being done
for use by the AEG, using both
the A&M System’s Data Processing
Center’s high speed computers in
conjunction with the analyzer ap
paratus.
R. E. Wainerdi, A&M Engineer
ing Experiment Station, character
ized the Nuclear Science Center,
which is to become operable in 19-
61, as one of the largest in the
South, and one capable of extreme
flexibility of use.
“With this center,” Wainerdi de
clared, “We will be able to pro
vide scientists of the South with
tremendous help in the solving of
vast numbers of problems relating
to nuclear energy.”
Possibilities for stoi-age of radio
active wastes in suitable abandon
ed gas reservoirs were discussed
by George Crawford, of the Uni
versity of Texas.
Other subjects on the first day’s
agenda include afternoon discus
sions of problems of developing
mor thei’monuclear power, develop
ment of reactors for driving man
ned aircraft and missiles, and
problems in the design for the
A&M System’s regional Nuclear
Science Center, which will be one
of the largest on any college cam
pus in the nation when it goes
into operation in 1961.
At the one-day session a candi
date may take the common exam
inations, which include tests in
professional information, general
culture, English expression and
non verbal reasoning; and one or
two of twelve optional examina
tions designed to demonsti’ate
mastery of subject matter to be
taught. The college which a can
didate is attendin, or the school
system in which he is seeking
employment, will advise him whe
ther he should take the National
Teacher Examinations and which
of the optional examinations to
select.
A bulletin of Information, in
which an application is inserted,
describing registration proce
dures may be obtained from
college officials, school superin
tendents or directly from the Na
tional Teacher Examinations.
Educational Testing Service, 20
Nassau St, Princeton, N. J 1 . Com
pleted applications, accompanied
by proper examination fees, will
be accepted by the ETS office
during November and December,
and early in January so long as
they are received before January
15, 1960.
By GEOFFREY GOULD
WASHINGTON CP)—Two Re
publican congressmen from cran
berry-growing states blame “a stu
pid bureaucrat” and “bureaucracy
at its worst” for the present cran
berry mess.
Secretary of Welfare Arthur S.
Flemming’s announcement Monday
that the government was confiscat
ing two shipments of contaminated
West Coast berries has virtually
halted sale of cranberries at the
peak of the Thanksgiving market
season.
Rep. Joseph W. Martin (R-Mass)
said at Pawtucket, R. I., Thursday:
“The cranberry mess is a good il
lustration of what happens when a
stupid bureaucrat wanders into a
field about which his knowledge is
limited.”
And Rep. Thomas M. Pelly (R-
Wash) said at Seattle he would
demand “a thorough investigation
of the cranberry mess” when Con
gress convenes in January. “This
appears to be a classic example
of bureaucracy at its worst.”
Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-
Ore) had no harsh words but
joined others who have said the
goveimment has a responsibility to
protect innocent cranberry growers
from financial damage due to the
scare. Neuberger proposed that
the government buy up the un
tainted pai’ts of the 1959 crop.
The cranberry scare started
when Flemming announced that
traces of a weed killing compound
had been found in two shipments
of cranberries grown in Washing
ton and Oregon. Laboratory tests
of the weed killer, he said, indi
cated that it could cause cancer
of the thyroid in rats. It was as
sumed, but not proved, it might
affect humans.
He said there was no indication
of trouble with cranberries grown
in Massachusetts, New Jersey and
Wisconsin, which produce much
more than the Western states.
But Flemming did not say how
to tell the difference between East
ern and Western berries. He said
housewives who couldn’t be sure
should avoid buying any.
Flemming stood his ground
Thursday at another news confer
ence. He said he learned of the
danger only last Saturday and add-
ei - , “It is that kind of information
that I believe we have no right to
sit on.”
And he said he would stand by
his word that he would eat no
cranberries until the whole situa
tion is straightened out. He hoped
that could be done by Thanksgiv
ing, but said he could not be sure.