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is» - The Battalion Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1960 Number 95 Space Administrator ... Great Issues speaker Space Expert Speaks T onight Dr. T. Keith Glennan, administrator of the National Aeronautics Space Administration, will speak in Guion Hall tonight at 8 on the “United States Space Program.” The program is being presented by the Memorial Stu dent Center Great Issues Commit--t tee. Glennan arrived in Houston Seventeen Posts To Be Filled In Tomorrow’s Election Runoffs Th irty - Six Fiigh t To Win Class Posts' shortly after noon and was brought to the campus by college plane. In his job as administrator, Glennan heads a staff of scientists, engineers, technicians, and other employees engaged in research and development in aeronautics and space matters. He is a member of the president’s National Aeronau tics and Space Council. Yale Graduate He is president-on-leave of the Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, Ohio, which he has Vandals Hit Over Weekend With Swastikas Unknown vandals hit the campus and College Station sometime Saturday night. The B’nai B’rith Hillel Foun dation and three autos, one in College Station and two on the campus, were painted with swastikas by the paint-smear ing vandals. Two swastikas were painted on the doors of the Hillel building and a part of another was started on the white brick front of the structure. The Hillel Foundation building is located at 800 Jersey St. A foreign car in College Sta tion was painted with the one of the other swastikas and two cars in one of the college park ing lots were painted. College Station Police Chief Lee Norwood and Chief of Campus Security Fred Hick man are investigating. headed since 1947. Glennan was born in Enderlin, N. D., in 1905, and attended the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University where he graduated in 1927 with a degree in electrical engineering. Following graduation, Glennan became associated with the newly developed sound motion picture industry, and later became assist ant general service superintendent for Electrical Research Products Co., a subsidiary of Western Elec tric Co. During his career he was studio manager of Paramount Pic tures, Inc., and Samuel Goldwyn Studios, and was briefly on the staff of Vega Airplane Corp. Columbia War Research He joined the Columbia Uni versity Division of War Research in 1942, serving through the war. He received the Medal of Merit in his work. Glennan is in charge of the 260 major space shots scheduled for the next ten years. He reported to Congress that “the Soviet Union still holds a substantial space lead in the eyes of the world.” He esti mated that it would take the U. S. 12 to 18 ( months to match the power of present Russian rockets, four to five years to establish superi ority in rocket thrust. Heads Space Group Since the NASA absorbed the Army’s Redstone Missile Project, Glennan’s job has become increas ingly important. In addition to his former duties, he is now in charge of the team of space scientists headed by Wernher Von Braun. Tickets for the event will be sold at the door at $1.50 per person. High School students will be ad mitted for 50 cents. Great Issues season tickets will be honored. By ALAN PAYNE Assistant News Editor _ Thirty-Six students will be fighting it out for seventeen positions in tomorrow’s Class Election Runoffs in the Me morial Student Center from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Voting machines will be set up in the hall between the Bowling Alley and Gift Shop. They will be run by Election Commission members. In last Thursday’s first election, two positions were de cided without benefit of a runoff. Ronnie Frazier was elected Class of ’61 Student Entertainment Manager and Pat K. Crouch was elected as a representative to the MSC Council from the Class of ’62. Frazier is a junior architecture major from Dallas and Crouch is from Lufkin ma- 4 joring in agronomy. Class of ’61 In the Class of ’61 runoffs Marvin J. Girouard, a junior from Groves majoring in business administration, and Larry J. Hay- good, an education major from Ft. Worth, will vie for president. Mike Ogg and Guy Keeling are in the vice presidential race for the Class of ’61. Ogg is a phys ical education major from Lufkin and Keeling is a Palestine business administration major. Secretary-treasurer finalists for the Class of ’61 are Nevel Ehr- hardt, a mechanical engineering major from Shreveport, and T. Stump Reid, an industrial engi neering major from Dallas. Monty G. Montgomery anH Dar ryl Bush will be competing for the Class of ’61 social secretary position. Montgomery is from Galveston majoring in business ad ministration while Bush is a busi ness administration major from Odessa. Historian Race In the historian race, Bob Burn side and Giles L. Dodson will be competing. Burnside is a petrol eum engineering major from Hous ton whereas Dodson is from Cor pus Christi majoring in agricul tural engineering. Ronny J. Hampton, a junior in the School of Veterinary Medicine from Shreveport, and Bob Laird, a physical education major from Dayton, reached the runoff in the race for Class of ’61 MSC Council delegate position. In the Class of ’61 yell leader race, Sonny Todd, Ken Moore and Eugene Stuggs will be pitted in the finals. Todd is from Houston and is in the School of Veterinary Medicine, Moore is a business ad- (See SEVENTEEN on Page 3) Filings Being Accepted For CSC Positions Filings are now being accepted for sophomore, junior, senior and 5th, 6th and graduate candidates to serve on the Civilian Student Council for the 1960-61 school year, according to Robert O. Murray, counselor with the Basic Division. The filings will close at 5 p.m. Friday, he said. Any qualified per son may file with any one of the three counselors, W. G. Breazeale, IrH' Puryean'UR. L. Melcher, 27 Milner, or R. O. Murray, 212 Basic Division Building. Filings will also be accepted by Bennie A. Zinn, Director of Student Affairs, in Room 19-A of the YMCA Build ing, Murray said. To qualify as a candidate for class representatives to the Civilian Student Council a person must have a grade point ratio of at least 1.25. He must plan to be in attend ance for both the fall and spring semesters of next year, he must be free of scholastic and disciplinary probation and he must have been a civilian student all this semester, living in the civilian area. The elections will be held Mon day, April 11, from 7:30 to 10 p.m., in the civilian dormitory area and in College View and'Project House, Murray said. Day students may vote in the lobby of the Housing Office on the grqund floor of the YMCA Building all day Monday. Winning candidates will be notified prior to the Easter holidays, Murray said. “We invite and ui’ge good men to run and work for better civilian student government,” he said. OFFICERS TO GIVE TALKS TO JUNIOR MS CLASSES Brig. Gen. John J. Lane and Lt. Col. Charles A. Lewis, will give talks to the junior military sceince classes this week. The officers will talk on the role of the Transportation Corps. Gen. Lane will give his talk between 8 a.m. and 12 noon, Wednesday, and Col. Lewis will talk between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m., Thursday. The talks on the role of the Transportation Corps will include the mission, history, organization and functions of the TC. At the talks a question and answer period will be held. Cadets interested in an appoint ment with the officers may con tact Maj. H. A. Lowe, Room 105, Military Science building, prior to Wednesday. Gen. Lane, a native of Massa chusetts, graduated from the U. S. Military Academy in 1933 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps. He is also a graduate of the Coast Artillery School, Com mand and General Staff College, Naval War College and the In dustrial College of the Armed Forces. During World War II, he served in the European Theater of Opera tions as commanding officer of the 438th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion. Following World War II, he transferred to the Trans portation Corps. Since that time, he has served two tours of duty as a member of the Department of the Army General Staff and has also served as Transportation Officer, United States Conti nental Army Command. Gen. Lane is presently assigned as Assistant Chief of Trans portation for Military Operations, Headquarters, Department of the Army. Col. Lewis is a 1941 graduate of A&M and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps (reserve). He was called to active duty upon graduation. During World War II, he com manded an Anti-Aircraft Artil lery battery in the Obina-Burma- India Theater of Operations. Fol lowing World War II, he was integrated into the regular army and commissioned in the Trans portation Corps. He is a gradu ate of the Coast Artillery School, the Transportation School and the U. S. Army Command Gen eral Staff College. Since World War II, he has served in various staff positions in the United States and in over seas command, includihg assign ments as transportation officer, 5th Infantry Division and as Movement Officer, 7th United States Army. Col. Lewis is presently assigned as executive officer, Office of the Assistant Chief of Transportation for Militatry Operations, Wash ington, D. C. Ag Fraternity :s Initiated a Zeta Five seniors, five juniors and ten sophomores were initi ated Monday into the Texas Alpha Chapter of Alpha Zeta, national honor fraternity of agriculture, in ceremonies held at 7:30 p. m. in the Dairy Biochemistry Building. Scientists Plan April Talks Three Scientific Lectures Set Three nationally and interna tionally known scientists will pre sent lectures here in April, Dr. J. B. Page, dean of the college, has announced. They are Dr. A. G. Everson Pearse of the Postgraduate Med ical School in London, England; Dr. Olle Dahl, director of Research of SCAN, Union of Scanian Co operative Slaughter in Sweden; ^ and Dr. Paul W. Merrill, astrono mer at Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories at Pasadena, Calif. Dr. Pearse, whose subject is “Enzyme Histochemistry and the Biological Sciences,'’ will be heard at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Room 113 of the Biological Sciences Building. Dahl will talk on “Animal Science, Food Technology and Meat Research” at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Animal Industries Building Lecture Room. Merrill’s subject is “Cosmic Chemistry” and will be heard at 8 p.m. Thursday in Room 113 of the Biological Sciences Building. Dean Page said the public is invited to the lectures. Dr. Pearse is a consulting path ologist at Hammersmith Hospital in London. He also has been a Reader in Histochemistry at the University of London since 1946 and carries on research at the Postgraduate Medical School. He was awarded degrees in medicine, natural science and path ology from Cambridge. In 1950, he received the Horton-Smith Prize from Cambridge for his M.D. thesis. His research interests are in histochemistry, particularly en zyme histochemistry and its appli cation to biology and medicine. A native of Sweden, Dahl re ceived his doctorate in the .bio chemistry department at the Uni versity of Lund. He has had 17 years experience in the field of meat and biochemistry research and has published 43 technical papers in the field of meat and has six other papers submitted for pub lication on biochemical research. The scientist has been director of research at SCAN, the Union of Scanian Co-Operative Slaughter, since 1942. SCAN is the largest packing association in Sweden. He has been a regular partici pant in the Institute of Meat Tech nology and Scientific Research meetings in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, West Germany, England, Holland, France, Switzerland and Portugal. Dahl is the Swedish founder of yeai’ly meetings of the European Meat Research Workers, an or ganization similar to the American Meat Institute Foundation in the United States. Merrill has been an astronomer at the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories since 1919 and is world famous in his field. His lecture will be of great interest to everyone interested in space travel. The astronomer received his A.B. degree from Stanford Uni versity in 1908 and his doctorate from the University of California in 1913. He served as an assistant and a fellow at the Lick Observa tory in California from 1909 to 1913; as an instructor in astron omy at the University of Michigan from 1913 to 1916, and then as a physicist at the Bureau of Stand ards from 1916 to 1918. He joined the Mount Wilson Observatories in 1919. In 1946, he was awarded both the Henry Draper Medal and the Bruce Medal for his achievements. He served as president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1927 and as president of the American Astronomical Society from 1956 to 1958. Merrill also is a member of the National Academy of Science, the American Association for the Ad vancement of Science, and the Philosophical Society. He is a Fel low of the Physical Society, an associate member of the Royal Astronomical Society of London and an honorary member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers. The scientist’s special work con cerns wave lengths of spectrum lines, photography in the red and infrared, and stellar spectroscopy. Merrill also will hold public lec tures on “Stellar Spectra” at 4 p.m. Thursday, “Modern Astrophysics” at 11 a.m. Friday and “Variable Stars” at 1 p.m. Friday, all of which will be heard in Room 320 of the Physics Building. The twenty pledges were initi ated by Ken McGee, senior agri culture major and chancellor of the chapter. The following pledges were in itiated: Jim Holloway,' senior agricul ture major from College Station; Bill Barfield, senior agricultural engineering major from Wharton; James C. Blue, senior agriculture major from Clifton; Franklin G. Lange, senior agriculture major from Bartlett; James G. Whitley, senior agriculture major from Bryan, Paul W. Unger, junior agricultural education major from Smithville; Alton H. Marwitz, jun- ion agricultural education major from Comanche; Virgil E. Lilley, junior agricultural education ma jor from Lampasas; and Roy V. Baker, Jr., junior agricultural en gineering major from Pecos. Merwyn Kothmann, junior range management major from Castell; Charles E. Bui’g. sophomore animal science major from Stonewall; Charles Berry, sophomore agricul ture major from Jacksboro; Don Beerwinkle, sophomore agriculture major from Temple; Tom Carpen ter, sophomore wildlife manage ment major from San Antonio; and Frank Hall, sophomore agri cultural education major from Seymour. Melvin Young, sophomore agri cultural education major from Lockhart; Harry Ohlendorf, soph omore wildlife management major from Lockhart; Dick Runge, soph omore range management major from Christoval; Walter Dahlberg, sophomore from Bryan; and Ar- land Schneider, sophomore agri cultural engineering major from Weimar. In order to be initiated into Al pha Zeta, pledges must be stu dents in the field of agriculture and be in the top 15 per cent of their class, according to chapter chancellor McGee. Above-average achievement in both academic work and extra-curricular activities is required of every chapter member, McGee said. An informal coffee session fol lowed the completion of the initia tion ceremonies. Review Scheduled AF Inspectors Arrive Today An Air Force inspection team will be on the campus Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to inspect the Depart ment of Air Science and all Air Force cadets, according to Capt. Baxter T. Duncan, assistant professor in the Depart ment of Air Science. The team, consisting of Lt. Col. Edward W. James and Maj. Frank C. Herron will arrive today after cempleting an inspection of the Department of Air Science at the University of Texas. They will leave A&M Thursday after com pleting their inspection, Duncan said. James and Herron are members of the AFROTG supervisory de tachment from Maxwell AFB, Ala. They plan to look into the opera tions and the administrative pro cedure of the Department of Air Two New Men Begin Terms On CHS Board John B. Longley and Herbert Thompson unseated incumbents George Carroll and Henry Allen in Saturday’s A&M Consolidated School Trustee Election. Of the 523 votes cast, Longley received 302, Thompson received 216, Carroll had 210 and Allen got 141. Last place was taken by Milton Ford, who had 104. There were two write-in candi dates, Grady P. Parker with 10 votes and W. E. Kidd with 9 votes. The voting turnout of 523 per sons was quite a contrast to the public interest indicated by the Thursday night town meeting in the high school auditorium. Only about two dozen people showed up to hear the four speakers express their views concerning the school situation. “I think the most important thing to have for a school is good teachers,” Thompson said. “I would rather have a good teacher and a bare room than a good room and an average or poor teacher.” Science as well as visit one or more air science classes, Duncan said. Besides visiting the regular class periods, the inspectors will take over one Air Science IV class and talk to that group of Air Force senior cadets to learn what they think about the way the course is' conducted. The inspection team will meet the detachment pei#onnel of the Department of Air Science for a brief review of departmental ac tivities Wednesday morning. They will have lunch with President Rudder Wednesday afternoon, said Duncan. Later Wednesday the team will meet with Air Science cadet staffs for a briefing. At 5:30 p.m. Wednesday there will be a review of all Air Force cadets on the main drill field honoring James and Herron. The team will have lunch in Duncan Dining Hall with Wing Commanders and their staffs at noon Thursday before leaving tha campus. Deadline Set For Senior Pic Entries April 25 is the deadline for submitting Senior Favorite pic tures to the Office of Student Publications in the YMCA. Three by five pictures or snap shots, no color, may be submit ted. Cost is $2 per picture. Who’s Who pictures and extra curricular pictures must be turned in to the Aggieland Stud io by April 9. Vanity Fair pic tures must be submitted to the Office of Student Publications by April 25. Any other pictures should also be turned in by this date. “Tender Trap” Charlie suddenly finds himself engaged to one too many women in the Aggie Players’ production of “The Tender Trap”, which opened in the lower level of the Memorial Student Center last night for a five-night stand. Left to right are Sylvia, played by Libby Alexander; Charlie, played by Travis Madole and Julie, played by Marlene Rush ing