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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