The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, May 11, 1960, Image 2

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, May 11, 1960, Image 2

Newspaper Page TextTHE BATTALION College Station, Texas Wednesday, May 11, 1960 CADET SLOUCH BATTALION EDITORIALS . . . Journalism Which Succeeds Best —and Best Deserves Success— Fears God and Honors Man; Is Stoutly Independent, Unmoved by Pride of Opinion or Creed of Power • . . Walter Williams King Keglers The A&M Bowling Team was officially designated the king of the Texas Intercollegiate Bowling Congress in Dallas last Saturday when they were presented with a trophy after running off with the loop title. The Cadet keglers not only annexed the loop crown, but walked off with the trophy with a 20%-game margin in the 72-game schedule. The University of Texas, Arlington State College and Southern Methodist University were distant bunched competitors. The victory marks the second in the past three weeks for College athletics as the golf team secured the Southwest Conference links crown. Unusually enough, the A&M keglers are not a College-sponsored organization . . . Just $65,000 . . . Excellent progress has been made in raising funds for the new Crestview Home for the Aged to be located in Bryan. The Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce, which is endeavoring to raise $100,000 for the home that is being valued at $1,000,000, has but $65,000 remaining to complete the goal. A special dinner was held last Friday for people planning to donate gifts larger than usual in an effort to increase donations. Most people in the area do not realize there is an office open at the intersection of Washington and 24th Streets in Bryan for citizens to donate funds for the Home. Many citizens have been contacted personally in an effective program to raise funds, but those who have not been con tacted can do their part by dashing to the office to contribute. Examples of the usefulness for such homes are prevelant everywhere. The Home for the Aged in Lockhart is an ex cellent example as are other homes across the state and na tion. It is a chance for Bryan-College Station area to illustrate what the cooperation of the citizens can do to improve the region. The remaining donations needed to complete the drive may appear quite large when the figure $65,000 is mentioned. But some $35,000 has already been given and the $65,000 left is but a relatively small fraction . . . Dr. Bill Turner Miller Schedules Attends Music Meet b} Jim Earle Eisenhower Faces News Conference On U2 Flight Dr. Bill Turner, music coordin ator, will attend the national meet ing of the Intercollegiate Musical Council to be held at Wayne Uni versity, Detroit, Wednesday through Friday. Turner is a member of the board of directors and the executive com mittee of the Council. Prof Picked For Meeting Dr. Norbert A. McNiel, assist- int professor in the A&M Depart ment of Genetics, has been selected to participate in the National Con ference for College Genetics Teach ers to be held August 8-26 at Col orado State University. In New Mexico the dog was the Indians’ ^nly domesticated animal until they were introduced to sheep and horses by 16th Century Span ish colonists. HAVE CASH WILL BUY ALL BOOKS Of Current Edition SlJfer’* Booh St ore North Gate College Station Open Until 5:3C Every Day THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu- ient writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non profit, self-supporting educational e7iterprise edited and op erated by students as a community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&M College. Members of the Student Publications Board are L. A. Duewall, director of Student Publications, chairman ; Dr. A. L. Bennett, School of Arts and Sciences ; Dr. K. J. Koenig, School of Engineering; Otto R. Kunze, School of Agriculture; and Dr. fi D. McMurry School of Veterinary Medicine. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M. is published in College Btati'm, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office In Colle Station, Texas, Act of Con- lege nnder the iress of March 8, 1870. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally by N a t i o n a 1 Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles and San Francisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin pi In are also reserved. wise credited in the paper and local news iub origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter hei Mail subscriptions are $3.60 per semester, $6 per school year, $6.60 per full year. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion Room 4, YMCA, College Station, Texas. News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the 'ditorial office. Room 4, YMCA. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6416. BILL HICKLIN EDITOR Robbie Godwin Managing Editor Joe Callicoatte Sports Editor Bob Sloan, Alan Payne News Editors Tommy Holbein , i Feature Editor Ben Trial, Lewis Reddell, Nelson Antbsh and A1 Vela Staff writers Joe Jackson and Ken Coppage Photographers How To Downgrade A&M Gripe about boredom: a good point to bring games, Town Hall shows, drama produc- when talking to a prospective student is tions., athletics, MSC activities, swimming, boredom at A&M. You’ll find it difficult to clubs and all the many other activities avail- keep a straight face when you tell your able. If you work at this you can talk a story. Be sure and not mention football prospective student out of attending A&M'. 75-Foot Radar Tower Owned By Air Force: Trip To Europe Jarvis Miller, assistant profes sor in the Department of Agricul tural Economics and Sociology, will travel to Great Britain, France and The Netherlands during May and June to study mohair market ing, handling and uses at firms en gaged in the mohair trade. Approximately 80 per cent oi: United States mohair production is exported to Great Britain. Mohair production is a major en terprise in Texas. In 1959, the value of the Texas mohair clip was estimated at more than $22 million. By TOMMY HOLBEIN Battalion Feature Editor Piercing up between Goodwin and Bizzell Halls stands a radar tower 75 feet tall with an eight- foot parabolic disc at its top. The tower is part of a $250,000 radar unit used in the Depart ment of Oceanography and Me teorology. The radar set is owned by the Air Force and the Department is able to use the set through the Air Force Cambridge Re search Center and the Geophys ical Research Directorate, ac cording to Dr. Vance Moyer, as sociate professor of meteorology. “The radar unit has two dis tinct purposes, which are to first of all carry out research and sec- Job Calls The following companies will interview graduating seniors Wednesday in the Placement Office on the third floor of the YMCA Building: San Antonio Independent School District will interview graduates in biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, industrial education and engineering drawing for work as teachers for the school year 1960-61. ond to instruct,” said Moyer. “Our main purpose in research is to diagnose thunderstorms and through developing methods of determining weather conditions within a 400-mile radius, to in directly protect lives and prop erty.” Moyer explained much of the research done with the radar is in the form of tabulated data, which is compared with the data obtained at Great Blue Hill Ob servatory in Milton, Mass., one of the oldest meteorological stud ies centers in the country. “ ‘Project 287,’ ” which deals with the radar and sferics anal ysis of thunderstorms is one of our more developed phases of research,” said Moyer. He con tinued by explaining the proj ect included taking cross-section pictures of a thunderstorm with the radar unit and a Fairchild camera, and shooting a series of cross-sections of the storm at different altitudes, niany exceed ing 60,000 feet, thus gathering information concerning the com position and inner ‘ structure of the storm. “We ‘slice’ portions of the storm and by making pictures of them, we can stack these up and build a picture of the interior,” WEDNESDAY “OPERATION PETTICOAT” With Cary Grant Pius “THE TRAP” With Richard Widmark CIRCLE TONIGHT Robert Mitcam Julie London “WONDERFUL COUNTRY” Also Alan Ladd “MAN IN THE NET” LAST DAY m mu SOPHIA LOREN ANTHONY QUINN. HELLER in I■sr PINK TIGHTS I TECHNICOLOR Also A Special Feature “CIRCUS STARS” PALACE Bryan 2-SS79 STARTS TODAY Joshua*'A that 1 LOSANS Jit!* col tegs eMw-itlBw .girl l. who* can't »he!p lovin' Jail Saturday Night Prev. 11 p. in. THE UPR0A8I0US MOVIE FhU't THE BEST-SHIER! ■•“! DORIS U<* BAVffi NiVEH » Cinerr«ScOf.« and QUEEN HELD OVER HECHT-HILUANCASTER present BURT AUDREY tiMf; TECHNICOLOR' touiM*. UNITE&OQiRlISTS said Moyer. Continuing, he ex plained how data taken from a storm can be converted into graphic form and ah “average” graph for a given weather condi tion can be determined. “Then, and weather condition spotted on the radar scope can be analyzed and a graph made symbolizing its characteristics. This graph can then be identified through other graphs and the severity of the weather condition can be determined,” said Moyer. Moyer went on by stating the weather data obtained was not used as a public service directly, but in case of a serious and se vere weather situation, the op erators would cooperate with the local Civil Defense Team to cope with any disaster. “Instruction in radar is ob tained in the graduate elective course for meteorology majors and within four semesters we have had 55 students to take the course,” said Moyer. He added that a probable increase in stu dents taking this course should be found in the fall semester, since it is easier for many to work it into their schedules. “Radar is actually a very young thing; it can accurately be dated back 20 years and we in this field are still pioneers. Much progress is still left to be made,” said Moyer. “But of course, this is true of the entire science of meteorology and it is thousands of years old,” he added. Church Meet June 20 The annual Rural Church Con ference will meet for the 15th time on campus June 20-22. The Rev. Jesse W. Roberson, presi dent of the Texas Rural Church Conference and Pastor of Carlisle Methodist Church in Price, Tex., will be in charge. Dr. Joseph Ackerman, manag ing director of the Farm Founda tion in Chicago, will be one of the featured speakers on the pro gram. Other speakers will in clude several on the staff of A&M. WANTED Old Established firm needs a part - time bookkeeper who is not afraid of heights. Know ledge of Greek is helpful. Shaf fer’s buy all books in current edition. SHAFFERS By LEWIS GULICK WASHINGTON (A 3 ) — President Eisenhower faced a news confer ence quizzing today on one of his toughest foreign policy predica ments in his years at the White House. Congressmen of both parties closed ranks behind the President —at least temporarily—in defense of the administration’s sending of high flying planes on spy missions deep into Soviet territory. But U. S. Allies fretted, and Premier Nikita Khrushchev ham mered away at the incident of the U. S. plane which went down in side the Soviet Union. Formal Protest Moscow, in its first formal pro test against the May 1 flight by the American U2 jet plane into the Soviet Union, announced Tues day it would bring “to account under Soviet laws” the pilot it has captured — 30-year-old Francis G. Powers of Pound, Va. U. S. officials today awaited a Soviet response to their plea that an American diplomat be allowed to interview Powers. It was expected here that the Reds would try Powers as a spy. Khrushchev has hinted at a trial. But forecasting the American’s treatment under Soviet law was regarded as hazardous because the Kremlin has shown the law is what it wants it to be. Hostile Acts Moscow’s protest also accused the United States of premeditated “hostile acts” by flying over Soviet territory and threatened reprisal in the future. The U. S. position is that it has made reconnaissance flights into the Soviet Union in the past, and may do so in the future, in self defense to lessen what Washing ton says is the danger of a sur prise attack coming from behind the iron curtain. Hitting back at Khrushchev’s threat to strike at allied bases used for any future U. S. spy flights, the State Department Tuesday de clared there is “no doubt” but that America will fulfill its pledges to defend its allies in case of attack. The Department said Turkey, Pakistan and Norway—the U. S. Allies Khrushchev named as bas ing points in the US flight—were not responsible for Power’% ac tivities. Strong Support Meanwhile the President was getting strong bipartisan support from Capitol Hill. Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, D.-Tex., the Senate majority leader, cau tioned against using mistakes in the spy plane case as political fodder against the administration. Johnson declared Khrushchev “cannot use this incident in such a way as to divide the American people and weaken our national strength.” TO YOU SENIORS THAT ARE GRADUAT ING OLE ARMY LOU WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS HIS APPRECIATION FOR YOUR BUSINESS THESE PAST YEARS; AND WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK IN THE COMING YEARS. Loupors Do \bu Think fbrfburself? (TAKE OFF ON THIS QUIZ AND SEE WHERE YOU LAND*) IF YOU ARE caught by the Dean in an infraction of a rule, would you (A) try to impress him with your sincere personality? (B) develop a strong argument against the injustice of the rule? (C) confess and take the conse quences? AD BD CD "YOU’VE BUTTERED your ^ bread—now eat it” implies (A) a veiled threat made by a margarine manufac turer; (B) you can’t escape the results of what you do; (C) stop talking and eat! An B□ CD IF YOU ACTUALLY found a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, would you (A) run to see if there was another at the other end? (B) make an appointment with a psy chiatrist? (C) hire a rain maker to make more rain bows? aD bD cD YOU’RE THINKING of chang ing to a filter cigarette- hut which one? Would you (A) depend on what your friends tell you? (B) figure out what you want in a filter cigarette—and pick the one that gives it to you? (C) go for the one with the strongest taste? AD BD CD It’s a wise smoker who depends on his own judgment, not opinions of others, in his choice of cigarettes. That’s why men and women who think for themselves usually smoke Viceroy. They know the Viceroy filter is scientifically designed to smooth the smoke the way a filter should. A thinking man’s choice ... has a smok ing man’s taste. *lf you checked (B) on three out of four of these questions—you think for yourself! Familiar pack or crush- proof box. THE MAN WHO THINKS FOR HIMSELF USUALLY CHOOSES VICEROY A Thinking Man’s Choice—Viceroy Filters ... HAS A SMOKING MAN’S TASTE! © 1960, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. PEANUTS Bv Charles M. Schulj PEANUTS TrllS SEASON WE'RF GOINS TO i _ . EMPHASIZE SPEED! luJE'RE GOING TO HAVE A REAL RUNNING TEAM! WE'RE GOING TO STEAL BASES AND STEAL MORE BASES!RON!MRON! WE'RE GOING TO BE THE RUNNINGESTTEAM (NTH£ LEAGOEi IT'S GOING To BE GC! GO! go! IT'S going To., (TcAn'tstAnd it! S--//

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