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Kennedy Warns of Mora! Decay The Battalion Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1959 Number 35 Wilson To Aid A&M Officials In Coed Suit Atty. Gen: Will Wilson was en listed Tuesday to defend officials of A&M from the current court at tack of three Bryan women seeking admission here. Wilson will represent A&M Reg istrar H. L. Heaton and the college board of directors when the case comes up in a Bryan district court, probably next month some time. Entering his second law suit to keep A&M an all-male college, Wilson successfully defended the 1958 suit brought by two other women who sought admission. The Brazos County District Court or dered them admitted but the Waco Court of Civil Appeals reversed the decision. The attoimey general personally argued the case before the Waco court. The Texas Supreme Court affirmed the Waco court and an appeal to the United States Su preme Court was dismissed. The current lawsuit was filed by John M. Barron, Bryan attorney who also filed the 1958 lawsuit. The three young women seeking admission now are Margaret E. Allred, now attending Texas Tech nological College, and wanting a iegrees in floriculture; Mrs. Sarah Jlutto, student at Allen Academy, aspiring to courses in entomology and biology; and Mrs. Mary Ann Parker, seeking a degree in archi tecture. Bridge Tourney To Be Sponsored Saturday by MSC A bridge tournament sponsored by the MSC Bridge Committee, the Aggie Wives Bridge Club and the Jets Bridge Club will be held Sun day, Dec. 6, in the MSC Ballroom. Registration begins at 1:30 and play starts at 2:00 p.m. The reg istration fee will be 25^ a person, according to Wieley Bunton, chair man of the MSC Bridge Commit tee. The tournament is open to all interested* bridge players in the community. The purpose of the tournament is to motivate interest in bridge in the College Station area, said Bunton. Master points and silver-cup tro phies will be awarded to the win ners in the tournament. Over The Brink The United Chest Fund thermometer shows the ex pected funds for this drive have been exceeded over $2,000. The drive went over its goal last Friday, nearing the $15,000 mark. Two new principal points are raised in the lawsuit. Miss Allred and Mrs. Hutto contend the courses they seek are offered at no other state institu tion in Texas. Also, the three wo men are seeking to open A&M to females generally. The previous lawsuit by two women did not at tempt to admit others. Barron has expressed hope that the latest case will take a speedy trip through the state courts and into the U. S. Supreme Court. Rudder Warns Ags Against Any Vandalism A&M students were reminded to day by President Earl Rudder of the agreement between A&M and the University of Texas regarding suspension of any student who vis its another campus with the in tention of defacing any part of either -campus or of actually com mitting such actions. President Logan Wilson of the University of Texas issued a simi lar statement to students of the Austin school recently through The Daily Texas, the campus news- papei\ “The agreement, made by the University’s Board of Regents and the A&M College of Texas Board of Directors, calls for the suspen sion,” said President Rudder. “The University of Texas and A&M College adopted this policy only because of the action of a few irresponsible, students in yedrs past,” President Rudder said. Last year an Aggie freshman was shot on the University of Tex as campus while attempting to de face a display at a fraternity house in Austin. “My hope is that we will see all of the energy' and enthusiasm dis played on the playing field and in the stadium and that there will be no acts of vandalism either before or after the game,” said President Rudder. The agreement calls for suspen sion for at least one semester of any student who visits anothar campus with the intention of paint ing, destroying or defacing build ings, statues, etc., or for the pur pose of perpetrating other of fenses. 1,800 Pack Guiort For La bar Speech By JOHNNY JOHNSON Battalion Editor Labor racketeering-buster Robert F. Kennedy warned 1,800 packed into Guion Hall last night the nation faces moral decay unless corrective measures are taken. Kennedy, former chief counsel to the Senate Select Com mittee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, wound up a whirlwind stop at A&M with the speech last night. Earlier Wednesday he flew into College Station after speaking at the University of Texas Tuesday night. Kennedy’s visit was sponsored by the Memorial Student Center Great Issues Committee as its first presentation of the year. Mike McGuire, ’60, heads the MSC group. He addressed an assembly of students and faculty mem bers of the Department of*~ Economics, held a press con- Senator, Kennedy Prior to Departure Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson stands with Robert F. Kennedy, former chief counsel for the Senate Select Committee on Improper Activ ities i?i the Labor or Management Field who spoke here last night, prior to their depart ure for Johnson’s central Texas ranch where the two are deer hunting today. Kennedy spoke to 1.800 in Guion Hall last night under the sponsorship of the Memorial Student Center Great Issues Committee as their first presentation of the year. In the fore ground with his back to the camera is Wal ly Cannon, vice chairman of the Great Is sues Committee. Bonfire Group Ends Plans; Center Pole Goes Up Friday The Bonfire Committee met for the final time last night in the Corps Confei-ence Room, ironing out last minute plans before work begins on the massive event. Highlight of the meeting was a report by Robert L. Whiting, head of the Department of Petroleum Engineering, and John R. Pedigo, associate professor in that depart ment, for fueling the bonfire short ly before ignition. The pair said they had procurred the services of a $35,000 rig from Halliburton Well Servicing and would apply kerosene to the bon fire through a variable speed and pressure pump. Fueling of the bonfh’e will be gin at 5 p.m., Nov. 25, and Whit ing said the entire operation would take only 45 minutes at the most, making the bonfire ready for ig nition as early as 5:45 p.m. Whiting and Pedigo have been working with the project since yes terday morning, surveying college equipment and capabilities before outlining the plan. The pair urged students and by- SENATE MEET SLATED TONIGHT IN CHAMBER The Student Senate will meet to night in the Senate Chamber of the Memorial Student Center with nu merous topics dotting the agenda. Heading the list are the seating arrangements for the A&M-Texas Thanksgiving grid clash in Kyle Field, the Twelfth Man Bowl, the Welcoming Committee and the Campus Chest. The Campus Chest will head the docket since it is tentatively set to kick off in early December. Marvin Schneider, chairman of the Welfare Committee, will head the Campus Chest and report Chest progress at the meeting. The Welcoming Committee, a project still in the embryonic stage, is the possible formation of a group of juniors and seniors to serve as campus guides and aids for visitors of A&M. Jake Sekerka, president of the Student Senate, will preside at the meeting—the third of the year. slanders to keep outside the 200- foot radius around the bonfire which will be roped off during and after the fueling. Joe Leeper, committee head, confirmed a re quest for authorized cadet officers in the Corps of Cadets to be cer tain no one enters this area during and after the fueling. Whiting and Pedigo said it would eliminate dousing the fire with kerosene by a “bucket brig- ade*’ as in the past. “We don’t want you fellows up anymore,” Whiting decalerd. “And anyone who has. been up there knows how hazardous it can be.” Twelve barrels—-approximately 500 gallons—of kerosene will be purchased by the College and Whit ing added any cost would be hand led by he and Earl Rudder, Presi dent of A&M. First logs begin coming in to morrow and Leeper said the cen ter pole will go up at approximate ly 1 p.m. ference and was guekt of hon or at a dinner in the Memorial Student Center Wednesday. Kennedy had lunch with the Corps of Cadets and spoke on a local television program Wednesday morning. The Senate investigator left Col lege Station last night shortly after 10 p.m. to spend today as the guest of Senator Lyndon B. Johnson at his ranch near Austin deer hunting. The Senate Majority Leader flew into Easterwood Air port in his personal plane to pick up Kennedy. In his speech last night he cited reports by both the Department of the Army and a Senate investi gating committee that showed one out of every three American pris oners of war cooperated in some way with the Cmmunists. He also said 50 per cent of American pris oners forced to make long marches were fatalities, while the Turkish Army, which usually was in worse physical condition at the start of the march, suffered no fatalities. He blamed the figures on the ignorance of the men as to why they were fighting and the com plete unconcern they showed for their fellow man. Kennedy said the Army wasn’t to blame for this, but that the Amei’ican public has fallen into this pattern in the last few years. He used these examples to back up the results obtained through the investigations and hearings of the Senate committee on which he was chief counsel. The committee, headed by Ark ansas’ Democratic Senator John L. McClellan, probed racketeering in labor unions and particularly the International Teamstei-s Union headed by James Hoffa. The Massachusetts-born brother of Sen. John Kennedy, Democi’atic senator and a leading contender for the Democx-atic presidential nominations, told his audience the committee found repeated incidents of corruption of both labor union and management executives. He said this pattern shows the unethical practices becoming preva lent in the United States. Despite these discoveries of coi’- ruption of the union officials, in- dusti’y officials and lawyers, the only organization to take any (See Kennedy on Page 4) Oak Ridge Man To Give Talk On Genetics A graduate lectui’e, “Bacterial Viruses—a Tool for the Study of Genetic Action on the Biochemical Level,” was given today at 3:30 p.m. in the lecture room of the Biological Sciences building. The lecture was given by Dr. Lazarus Astrachan, lecturer of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn. Dr. Astrachan talked on his work on ribonucleic acid metabolism of bacteria infected with bacterio phage. It has been suggested that genetic information canned by bac teriophage is transferred to some material made by the infected bac teria. Dr, Astrachan believes that this matexnal may be xibonucleic acid, since shortly after the bac teria ai’e infected, ,a new ribonu cleic acid is synthesized and its composition apparently matches that of the infecting bacterio phage’s deoxyi’ibonucleic acid, the announcement states. After receiving a Ph.D. degree from Yale in 1951, Dr. Astrachan worked on a post-doctoral fellow ship with Drs. Kaplan and Colo- wick at the McCollum-Pratt Insti tute of John Hopkins University. At this time he worked on the mode of enzyme-coenzyme binding. Since 1954 he has been working on the biochemisti’y of bacteriophage in fection at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Schneider Urges Ags to Use Seals Aggies who have been receiving Chi’istmas Seals from the Brazos County Tuberculosis Assn, were ui’ged yesterday by Marvin Schnei- dei% chairman of the Student Sen ate Welfai’e Committee, to make use of the seals. Schneider pointed out the Cam pus Chest makes allotment for con- tributions to the County TB Assn, and Ags could use these seals on this basis. The Chest will get un derway in early December. 16 Schools to Attend Debaters Meet Friday The A&M Debate Club will meet with 16 other schools in a debate tournament held on the campus this Friday and Satui’day, Nov. 20- 21. The public is welcome to come to any of the sessions, according to Jay Hirsch, president of the De bate Club. The debates are to be held in various x’ooms of the YMCA, MSC and Academic Build ing. Both junior and senior division teams will be represented in this weekend’s touimament. Junior col leges may send only junior teams, made up of sophomores and fi’esh- men. Senior colleges may send both junior and senior teams. Thei’e will be six rounds in the tournament. The first round will be held at 1:00 p.m. Filday after noon. The second i-ound at 3:00 p.m., the third round at 7:00 p.m. and the foui’th round at 8:45 p.m. The fifth round will get underway at 8:30 a.m. Saturday morning^ and the sixth round starts at 10 US a.m. This is a learning touimament, according to Victor Wiening, pro fessor in the Department of Eng lish and Coach for the A&M De bate Club. Each team will debate three times on each side of the question. There will be no elimi nations. Trophies will be given to the top junior division team and the top senior division team. Certificates will be awarded to the best speak er in each division. Schools competing in the tour nament include: A&M, The Uni versity of Texas, the University of Houston, Baylor, TCU, Rice, SMU, Lamar Tech, St. Mary’s Univer sity, Del Mar, Southwest Texas State, Texas Lutheran, Stephen F. Austin, Hardin-Simmons, Wharton County Junior College and Blinn Junior College. The awards will be presented at the tournament luncheon Saturday afternoon at 12:15. The Southwest Conference de bate topic for this year is: “Re solved: That Congress should be given power to reverse Supreme Court decisions.” This topic will be debated all year by Southwest Conference debate teams. Each team will take both sides, the af firmative and the negative, at some time during the session. There are 10 members in the A&M Debate Club. Harrison E. Hierth, professor in the Depart ment of English, is director of the group. The A&M group is planning to attend the Southwest Conference tournament Dec. 4-5. The group also plans to attend tournaments at Tulane University; Natchez, La. and Nacogdoches, Tex., according to Don Williamson, a member of the group. The A&M Debate Club came in ninth and tenth in a recent Ft. Worth tournament in competition with 140 schools. Kennedy Awaits Arrival of Plane Robert F. Kennedy, third from right, stands at Easterwood Airport with members of the Memorial Student Center Great Issues Com mittee, Cadet Colonel of the Corps Bill Heye and Kennedy’s personal friend, Claude Hoot- en of Houston, whose back is to the camera on the left. In the picture are, left to right, Hooten; Heye; Mike McGuire, chairman of the committee; Kennedy; and Wally Can non, vice chairman of the committee.