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The Battalion
Volume 69
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY. OCTOBER 6, 1960
Number 11
10 More Flu
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Cases Reported
By Hospital
The College Hospital has reported ten new cases of flu or
had colds that require hospitalization. Only seven patients
were released as on the road to recovery.
“The average for stays are at least two days,” said a
1 ♦’spokesman for the hospital.
Date For Poll
Tax Exemption
Is Saturday
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Texas election law requires that
former minors and former non
residents who have become eligible
to vote by reason of age or length
of residence obtain exemption cer
tificates from the Tax Collector in
the county of their residence not
later than Saturday, thirty days
prior to the General Election.
This action is necessary to vot
ing absentee, as applications for
ballots, to be furnished voters next
week, must be accompanied by the
voter’s poll tax receipts or exemp
tion certificate, or in lieu thereof,
an affidavit that the same has been
lost or mislaid.
A postal card to your Tax Col
lector will suffice, stating the
voter’s name and purpose for writ
ing, his voting (or home) residence,
and date of birth or length of resi
dence in that county.
Fish Tryouts
Still Underway
Try-outs for the crack Fresh
man Drill Team are currently un
derway. First and second elimina
tion sessions were held earlier this
week. More than three quarters of
the 500 freshmen who originally
came out have already been elim
inated.
“We would like a combined team
of around 75 members to start off
with,” said Roger John, command
er of last year’s team. “This will
allow us leeway for any scholastic
deficiencies later on in the year,”
je said.
Pat Stancil will be the student
advisor to the Fish Drill Team.
The onslaught of flu that has
attacked the A&M student body is
not the well known Asian type.
“It is more of a virus variety,”
said Dr. C. R. Lyons, director of
student health services.
Lyons said that although the
situation was not an emergency it
is the worst that the college has
had in three years.
The key to keeping well is get
ting enough sleep. Flu vaccine is
available at the hospital. One shot
costs $1 and it is to be followed
by another next spring.
The hospital has added another
nurse to its staff to facilitate the
treatment of colds. The “cold
clinic” has greatly .increased the
number of cold cases treated.
Since Sept. 29 the College Hos
pital has had a total count of 532
A&M students requiring treatment.
Dr. Lyons said the hospital has
been rushed by an average of 150-
300 students daily.
Dr. Lyon said the seizure began
after the drenching rains at"~Tne
A&M-Texas Tech game two weeks
ago.
Students are urged to come to
the hospital between the hours of
8 a.m. and 5 p.m. if they desire
treatment. Because of the overload
due to flu and colds, only emergen
cy cases can be treated after 5
p.m. The nurses are kept busy at
tending the bedridden patients.
With only one nurse and one
assistant nurse on duty at night a
problem is created when students
want treatment for minor ailments
after the regular hospital hours.
However, any student who really
needs attention will not be turned
away. The hospital has recently
had to tighten up on after hours
treatment.
Dr. Lyons called the seizure the
worst since 1957 when 2,000 stu
dents were struck with the Asian
flu.
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Miss Louise Kuehn of Corpus Christi smiles gratefully as
she is named 1960-61 A&M Sweetheart. The junior at
Texas Woman’s University was picked over 12 other fina
lists last Sunday in Denton by a 14-man -committee repre
senting A&M. Miss Barbara Evans, Lee Griggs, Marvin
Girouard, Paul Phillips, Bobby McDaniel and Mike Carlo
look on. (See pictures on Page 4)
LESSEN STRONTIUM—90
Milk, Meat, Eggs
Called Protective
Milk, meat and eggs are the best protective foods to les
sen strontium-90 acumulation in human bodies, Dr. George
K. Davis of the University of Florida said during the annual
Texas Nutrition Conference yesterday.
The scientist, a nationally known-^— ;
authority on nutrition and one of
the main speakers at the confer
ence, told the group that milk in
particular has lately received much
publicity about its radioactivity
content. This came about when
the Atomic Energy Commission
searched for a ready indicator of
radioactivity accumulation in food
products. The AEG selected milk
because it is produced everyday
throughout the year in almost ev
ery section of the country and is
readily sampled.
“In other words, milk is the best
New MSC Cafeteria Now
Officially Open For Public
The new $8,000 Memorial Stu
dent Center cafeteria is now open
on a full-time basis at its location
immediately east of the main lobby
of the big center.
The cafeteria opened officially
Sept. 26 and response has been
“very pleasing” according to
Charles E. Cosper, assistant MSC
director and manager.
Hours that have been estab
lished for the new cafeteria are 7
a.m.-l:30 p.m., Mondays through
Fridays and 11 a.m.-l:30 p.m. and
5:15-7:30 p.m., Saturdays and Sun
days.
Breakfast at 7
Breakfast on weekdays is served
Pakistani Group
To Hear Dr. Nance
Dr. J. M. Nance, head of the
Department of History and Gov
ernment, will deliver the main ad
dress at a meeting of the Pakistan
Students Assn, tomorrow night at
7:30 in the YMCA Building.
The 1960 Presidential election
will be 'the topic of Nance’s talk
to the group, which is planning
monthly lecture or discussion meet
ings on subjects of cultural arid
related aspects of Pakistani and
American life for the year.
from 7-9 a.m., while no breakfasts
are served on Saturdays and Sun
days. Coffee, which is also not
served on Saturdays and Sundays,
is offered from 9-11 a.m. on week
days.
Lunch is served seven-days-a-
week from 11 a.m.-l:30 p.m., while
dinner, which is also served seven-
days-a-week, is served from 5:15-
7:30 p.m.
Exceptions to the breakfast and
coffee sessions will be observed on
big campus weekends, Miss Gladys
Black, food advisor, added yester
day.
Student Labor
Students make up the majority
of the cafeteria force, with posi
tions being filled as waiters, bus
boys and in the serving line.
The cafeteria, which was origi
nally scheduled to open the week-f
end of the Texas Tech football
game, seats approximately 75 per
sons, in addition to the spacious
dining room facilities that accom
modate over 100.
The entrance is directly across
from the west entrance to the gift
shop, where a display case former
ly stood.
Work on the project, which be
gan Aug. 10, was done by Ralph
Mulhouser, kitchen engineer from
Houston, who served as advisor
and consultant for the project.
Labor was provided by MSC
maintenance personnel.
Adolphe F. DeWerth, head of
the Department of Floriculture and
Land Architecture, was in charge
of the floor construction.
J. Wayne Stark, MSC director,
announced shortly before the com
pletion of the cafeteria a new
acoustical ceiling has been added
to the dining room, which has been
in operation several years, in an
effort to decrease excessive noise.
The dining room features an
option between table service and
going through the cafeteria line.
Portions of the dining area are
also being reserved for special
occasions.
All Praise Cafeteria
Miss Black, Cosper, Stark and
numerous other MSC personnel
have praised the new cafeteria and
hailed it as the answer to accom
modating large and unruly week
end crowds. A particularly desir
able factor is that the cafeteria
line will enable many more persons
to be waited on in a shorter amount
of time.
One of the main features of the
new establishment is a “Lazy
Susan” revolving, circular salad
and chilled fruit display.
Still another of the cafeteria’s
many features is the glassed-in
lobby at the entrance.
indicator we have of the status of
fallout in the country as a whole
and in any of its parts,” he said.
Radioactive Element
Strontium-90 is one of the radio
active elements of major concern
from fallout resulting from nu
clear explosions during the past 10
years.
Davis said the publication of
values for the level of strontium-
90 in milk has aroused fears as to
damage which may result from
consumption of the food, when ac
tually the product gets by far most
of its radioactivity from natural
sources such as cosmic rays.
Although the northern lattitudes
have approximately the same ra
dioactivity accumulation. The rea
son is that in the southern regions,
vegetables and cerealjs supply most
of the calcium in the diet as op
posed to milk in the northern hem
isphere.
“It may be well to point out that
the highest levels of strontium-90
in bone were found in those people
with rice diets in southern hemi
spheres,” David said.
Must Be Apparent
The nutritionist explained that
it must 'be apparent that among
factors influencing accumulation is
that populations receiving dietary
calcium from milk and milk prod
ucts are getting relatively lower
levels of strontium-90 in their
bones than those consuming pri
marily vegetable and cereal prod
ucts.
“Fortunately for us, the cow is
a good buffer between us and ra
dioactive isotopes which may fall
on our soils,” he said. “The cow
exerts a strong discrimination
against strontium. Because of the
cow, milk will contain approxi
mately one-seventh the per-centage
of strontium that was in the feed.”
The speaker presented an even
brighter picture for meat. He said
that about 90 per cent of the stron
tium-90 in the diet of meat ani
mals is retained in their bones.
And bones are rarely eaten by
humans.
“Eggs, too, are a protective
(See PROTECTIVE
FOODS on Page 3)
Sweetheart Selection Pictures—Page 4
Rough, Tough Aggie
Rodeo Begins Tonite
World Wrap-Up
By The Associated Press
Masquerading Bandits Stop Tourists
AUSTIN—Highway bandits held up four tourists cars, stole one
auto, took $1,000 loot and criminally assaulted a woman in holdups on
U. S. 62 east of El Paso early today, state police reported.
One of the three bandits was in an officer’s uniform.
The travellers were stopped with a spotlight on the lonely highway.
They were then driven, one at a time, to a side road where the robberies
and assault occurred.
Ranger James Nance, El Paso city and county officers and offi
cers in nearby counties are investigating.
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Two Stage Polaris Try Successful
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A Polaris submarine missile streaked
more than 1,200 miles Wednesday in another test of a lightweight
second stage designed for greater range.
The Navy reported all objectives were met as the 28-foot rocket
dumped its dummy warhead on target. A major goal was to test
techniques for arming and fuzing the nuclear warhead which will be
carried in war-ready Polarises.
The new second stage, which has been successfully tested a few
times previously, gives the Polaris a maximum range of 1,380 miles—
the distance aimed for with the first operational 1 rockets.
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Satellite Carries News Around World
WASHINGTON—The Army’s Courier satellite Wednesday car
ried news twice around the world, then relayed it back to 1 earth.
Associated Press and United Press International stories were trans
mitted to the communications globe, sent into orbit Tuesday, as it
whirled around the earth pn its 11th trip.
The stories were sent from Ft. Monmouth, N. J. They were stored
in Courier's recording devices until the 13th pass, when—at a signal
from the ground—the satellite relayed the stories back to earth.
They were picked up both by Ft. Monmouth and the Army Signal
Corps ground station near Salinas, Puerto Rico.
Three-Night Run
Begins At Arena
The All-Aggie Rodeo gets under way tonight with much
rough-and-tumble action promised by the Saddle and Sirloin
Club, the rodeo sponsors.
The 39th annual event starts at 8 p. m. in the Aggie
Rodeo Arena. Performances are scheduled for Thursday, Fri
day, and Saturday nights.
The show will feature five standard rodeo events, includ
ing calf roping, ribbon roping, bareback bronc riding, steer
dogging and bull riding.
Girl’s Barrel Race
In addition, this year the All-Aggie Rodeo has added a
girl’s barrel race. Sanctioned by the Texas Barrel Racer’s
Association, the event is ex- - * :
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as’ foremost cowgirls.
An intramural wild cow
saddling contest and a calf
scramble will also be featured
Thursday and Friday nights. Any
amateur cowboy in the Corps may
enter these intramural events.
Winning teams will assess intra
mural points for their outfit.
Saturday night the wild cow
saddling will be an open event.
Entry fee for a team of three is
$15.
A special cutting horse perform
ance is also scheduled for the Sat
urday night performance.
The rodeo will be broadcast
Thursday and Friday nights over
KORA radio.
First place winners in each of
the major events will be presented
A&M Engineer
Offers Paper
At Conference
Bob M. Callaway, research en
gineer with the Texas Transporta
tion Institute, presented a paper
to the Public Works Division of
the Texas Municipal League Con
ference yesterday.
Subject of the paper was “Slurry
Seals,” a relatively new tool for
city pavement maintenance which
is a product of research by the
Texas Transportation Institute.
The conference, attended by
2,500, was held in Galveston at the
Galvez Hottl.
Dr. Brown,
Sociology Prof,
Named to Staff
Dr. C. Harold Brown has joined
the Department of Economics and
Sociology as an assistant professor
of rural sociology.
Appointment of the new staff
member was announced by Dr.
Tyrus Timm, head of the depart
ment.
Before coming to A&M, Brown
was a research instructor in the
Pennsylvania State University De
partment of Agricultural Econom
ics and Rural Sociology, where he
received his doctorate in June of
this year. His dissertation was
“Personal and Social Factors Asso
ciated with the Migrant Status of
Young Adult Males from Rural
Pennsylvania.”
The professor’s duties at PSU
consisted of supervision of the
gathering and analysis of data for
research projects in rural soci
ology, and he assisted in teaching
a sociology course.
He also served as a co-operative
employee of the Division of Farm
Population and the Rural Life
Branch of the US Department of
Agriculture and the Department of
Rural Sociology at Penn State.
Duties involved his being assistant
director of a research project which
included 2,810 young persons from
Pennsylvania rural areas. Empha
sis of the study was on the broad
problems rural young persons face
in making the transition from
youth to adulthood.
Brown was born in 1933 in
Spartanburg County, South Caro
lina, and attended high school at
Black Mountain, N. C., where he
was an honor graduate. He re
ceived his BA degree at Berea
College, Ky., in 1955, with a major
in sociology and a minor in psy
chology. In 1957, he was awarded
his MA degree in sociology at the
University of Kentucky. His thesis
title was “Relation of Suicide
Rates to Selected Indicators of
Urbanization for the Counties in
Kentucky for 1940 and 1950.”
Brown and his wife, Sally, have
two children, Laura, 2, and Mike,
6 months.
Ninety-Seven Juniors Named
To Ross Volunteer Company
Ninety-seven juniors were offi
cially approved members of the
Ross Volunteer Company yester
day by the School of Military
Sciences.
The 97 join 31 active seniors to
make up this year’s company,
headed by Glen Jones, commanding
officer.
Brig. Gen. Norman L. Callish
has accepted an invitation to speak
to the group at their initiation
banquet next Wednesday.
Callish, who was born in San
Jose, Calif., Sept. 29, 1906, was
commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in
1935 while assigned to Hamilton
Field, Calif, as a B-12 pijot.
He was promoted to captain in
1941 and rose through the ranks
of both major and lieutenant colo
nel in 1942. The general was pro
moted to his present rank in May,,
1959.
The general has commanded four
different navigation bases during
his long and colorful career. They
were Ellington Air Force Base,
Harlingen Air Force Base, Mather
Air Force Base and the 3535th
Navigator Training Wing, which
operates the USAF’s only ad-
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vanced radar-navigation-bombard
ment school.
Friday at noon has been set as
the deadline for RV seniors to pay
their dues and make reservations
for the initiation banquet.
John Kitowski and Guy Keeling
are in charge of the dues and ban
quet in the old and the new dormi
tory areas respectively.
The following, juniors were
named to the company yesterday:
Ahart, Jan Fredrick, Alvarado,
Richard Cervantes, Anderson, Gary
Ralph, Asbury, Gordon Ray, Ashy,
Joe William, Bailey, Cecil Dan,
Beakley, John Melvyn, Beal, Rich
ard Henry, Bednar, William Jo
seph, Berry, Laban Edward, Jr.,
Betts, John Alexander, Bradshaw,
Marvin Emmett, Jr.,
Cardwell, James William,
Carnes, James David, Carpenter,
Stewart Barnett, Cash, Jimmy
Lynn, Christian, Lawrence Walter,
Cloud, Charles Marvin, Cochran,
Charles Lee, Coombes, Jimmie Lee,
Crouch, Patrick Keith, Dahlberg,
Walter Gunnard, Danzeiser, David
Alan, Davis, Joseph Steadman,
Dean, Darral Don, Denning, Homer
Lee, Ellis, Kent Gordon,
Fenley, Johnny Burrell, Forga-
son, Richard Lee, Garner. Charles
Patrick Jr., Gilbreath, Zay Wil
liam, Goins, Elmer Eldridge, Gor
don, Charles Larry, Gossett, Ter
rence Doyle, Griffith, Daniel Riley,
Gudgen, Kenneth Paul, Hall, John
Lee, Hall, John Michael, Hall, Mal
colm Wardlaw, Hamm, John Wes
ley, Hatinger, Robert Dale,
Haynes, Frank, Hill, James Mil
ler Jr., Hinton, Robert Nelson, Jr.,
Hodges, Ted Lee, Hohman, Tom
my Alvin, Holley, James Ray,
Imle, John Frederick Jr., Krum-
rey, Gardner Doyle, Lively, Gary
Glenn, Lowke, George Edward,
Lowrey, Robert Edward, McClain,
Charles William Jr., McDaniel,
Hugh Hines II, M^tinez, Juan
Manuel, Miller, Teddie Irving, Mon-
teer, David Harold, Moore, Charles
Wilson Jr., Norton, David Jerry,
Oliver, William Thornton,
Patterson, John Shell, Paul,
(See RV JUNIORS on Page 3)
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