The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1960
Number 15
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EXCAVATIONS NUMEROUS
Campus Construction Work
Begins Year In Full Swing
In the past several weeks, the
campus has been covered with new
construction projects, extending
from north to south and all in be
tween.
A center of construction activity
is the area surrounding the Physics
Building and Military Science
Building, where new wings are
being added to both, simul
taneously.
These wings are being built by
the Stokes Construction Company,
which has blocked the street run
ning between the two buildings to
hold equipment for the jobs.
The addition to the Military
Science Building will house Mod-
nm, air conditioned classrooms for
military science instruction, ac
cording to Col. Joe E. Davis, Com
mandant. Davis said the class
rooms in the three-level structure
will house 35-40 student classes,
and several will have folding
panels, making it possible to seat
approximately 100 students at one
time for instruction purposes.
The new physics wing, to be
completed by next June, will be
four stories high, and its capacity
will be nearly as great as the two
old wings combined, according to
Dr. J. T. Potter, head of the De
partment of Physics.
Potter said the new building will
be used exclusively for advanced
laboratories and physics research.
Totally air-conditioned, the new
building will also house two large
demonstration lecture rooms, each
with a seating capacity of 150
students.
Construction on a new plant
science building has begun in the
vacant area east of the Biological
Sciences Building. This new build
ing will contain all modern facili
ties for plant science research, and
will take well over a year to com
plete, according to Raymond L.
Rogers, of the Building and Campus
Utilities.
White Elephant?
“Behind Dormitory 1, across
from the greenhouses, lies a large,
gapping excavation rumored to be
everything from a new swimming
pool for the cadet area to a water
trap for the golf course,” said
Rogers.
“Actually, this is a location of
about 100 square yards where the
top soil has been pushed away,
Trigon Project
... heading campus construction
leaving a place for the clay from
the various other excavation sites
on the campus.
“$'e plan to put the clay from
the Militatry Science wing, Physics
Building wing and Plant Science
Building and put it in the ground
here. This is good clay, and when
covered with the top soil now lying
in great mounds around the area,
it will help level out the low area
there, and will furnish good, rich
undersoil for grass to grow,” said
Rogers.
Other major improvements in
the physical plant of the college
include continuation of street curb
and guttering, and resurfacing.
Street Repairs
Major repairs on streets are
taking place on the street in front
of the Exchange store, running be
tween Milner hall and the. Military
property.. New curbing and gutter
ing are being installed, and an
asphalt top will comprise the sur
facing. Also, a new, wide sidewalk
is being built, said Rogers.
After the work crew is finished
with this project, they will begin
curbing and guttering the street
east of the power plant, making
the street of solid concrete slab,
he added.
In the dormitories and other
buildings, roof repairs continue; at
present, a crew is working on the
roof of the YMCA building.
A&M Accepts
UofH Apology
For Incident
The University of Houston student body this week apolo
gized to the A&M student body for the unsportsmanlike con
duct displayed toward A&M last Saturday at the Cadet-
Cougar grid clash in Rice Stadium.
♦" The apology was accepted by
m I^T 1 A&M student leaders and deemed
1 wo A anted
A&M Rhodes
Finalists
Two candidates for Rhodes
Scholarships to Oxford University
have been selected to represent
A&M in state competition, accord
ing to Dr. Richard H. Ballinger,
Rhodes representative for the col
lege.
The two men are Donald R.
Cloud, 1959 graduate majoring in
economics, and Aubrey C. Elkins,
a senior majoring in English.
Cloud, who was cadet corps com
mander his senior year, is from
Kerens, and plans to study juris
prudence (law) at Oxford if select
ed as a Rhodes Scholar. Elkins,
from Fremont, Tex., is commander
of the White Band, and plans to
study English at the world-renown
university.
Competition is very high among
students for Rhodes scholarships,
said Ballinger. He said the first
step is the state level, where candi
dates of the different colleges and
universities in the state compete
for selection of two to ( represent
the state in district competition
Most dsitricts in the U. S. have
six to eight states, and from the
approximated 16 candidates, four
are selected from each district.
This means that each year, 32 men
in the country are selected as
Rhodes scholars to attend Oxford
University in England, said Ballin
ger.
In the past years, A&M has had
two men continue their studies
after graduation at Oxford as
Rhodes scholars. The first was
Charles Wright Thomas, who
graduated in 1922 with a B.S. in
chemical engineering. He studied
English at Oxford, and is presently
head of the Department of English
at New York State Teacher’s Col
lege in Courtland, N. Y.
The second was Jack Edward
Brooks, who received a B.S. in
electrical engineering in 1947, and
continued to study physics at Ox
ford. Brooks is now on the techni
cal staff of Ramo-Woolridge Corp.
a forgotten matter.
Apology came first from two
U of H cheerleaders who visited
the campus and met with A&M
student leaders. The cheerleaders,
Phillip D. Kelly and Sam. E. Wood,
both sophomores, said they came
without incentive from the U of
H administration and wanted to
apologize for their actions in
leading yells against the A&M
student body.
A formal apology came yester
day in a letter addressed to Ro
land Dommert, president of the
Student Senate, expressing regret
for the Saturday actions.
Kelly, head cheerleader, said in
the meeting on the A&M campus
that the “spirit at the University
of Houston runs high for the A&M
game, since we consider A&M one
of our top rivals.”
He explained there was no in
tent to defame the A&M student
body, but that they were exploit
ing the spirit generated for the
contest won by the Cougars, 17-0.
“The last time spirit was that
high,” Wood recalled, “was when
the University of Houston beat
A&M two years ago.”
Both of the U of H cheerleaders
said there would be no repeat of
such actions in future A&M-Uni-
versity of Houston athletic con
tests.
The apology was accepted by
Syd Heaton, Corps Commander,
Mike Carlo, president of the Ci
vilian Student Council, John Har
rington, Corps Intelligence Offi-
mer, Sonny Todd, head yell leader,
and Bill Hicklin, editor of The
Battalion.
Judging Team
Planning Trip
To Chicago
The A&M Dairy Products Judg
ing Team will leave Oct. 26 to
compete in the 26th Collegiate
Students’ International Dairy Prod
ucts Judging Contest Oct. 31 in
Chicago.
Team members will match skills
with about 30 other teams repre
senting colleges and • universities
throughout the United States.
Making the trip will be James
W. Bennett of Bryan, Alvin Louis
Novosad of Wheelock, Jimmie C.
Hagler of College Station and Joel
Gambrell of Copeville. All are
seniors in dairy manufacturing.
Dr. A. V. Moore, professor of
dairy science and team coach, said
that enroute to the international
contest the group will compete in
a regional dairy products judging
event Oct. 28 at Louisville, Ky. The
Aggies will be among 10 teams
from southern schools.
Dr. Moore said dairy products
judging mainly involves flavor
evaluation of American cheese,
vanilla ice cream, butter and
market milk. He said it is a diffi
cult task and requires extensive
training.
Marketing Group
Selects Officers
For New Year
Officers for the coming year
were elected recently by the Mar
keting Society in an organizational
meeting.
Named to the positions were
Dick Meyer, president; Richai-d L.
Smith, vice president; Homer L.
Denning, secretary; Willis White,
treasurer; Gary Anderson, junior
representative to the Arts & Sci
ences Council; Cliff Jones, senior
representative to the Arts & Sci
ences Council; Jim Simpson, pro
gram committee chairman, and Da
vid Anderson and Harvey Jones,
program committee members.
Annual Conference
To Begin Monday
The seventeenth annual Junior College Conference will
be held Monday and Tuesday in the Memorial Student Cen
ter, according to Dr. C. H. Ransdell, chairman of the Junior
College Relations Committee.
Registration for the conference-f
will be held in the Serpentine
Lounge of the MSC starting at 8
a.m. Monday. A $3 registration
Farm Bureau Prexy Speaks
Wednesday To Great Issues
(See Picture On Page 6)
Charles B. Shuman, president of
the American Farm Bureau Fed
eration, has been revealed as the
initial speaker of the A&M Great
Issues Series.
Shuman will speak at 8 p.m.
in the Ballroom of the Memorial
Student Center. The Farm Bu
reau president will arrive at A&M
by plane Wednesday afternoon
and leave early Thursday morning
for Houston.
Tickets for Shuman’s address
will sell for $1 while student ac
tivity cards will get students into
the Ballroom.
Shuman’s topic will be “What
Should Be The Future Agricul
tural Policy Of This Nation?”
Joe Bindley, chairman of the
MSC Directorate’s Great Issues
Committee, has announced no
speakers have been definitely con
firmed after Shuman.
Shuman, a stock and grain
farmer of Sullivan, 111., lives on
and actively participates in the
farming operations of his 270-acre
farm near Sullivan. The home
farm has been in the Shuman fam
ily since 1853.
Since graduation from the Uni
versity of Illinois, Shuman has
been active in Farm Bureau, co
operative and community affairs.
He was elected a director of the
Moultrie County Farm Bureau in
1932 and its president in 1934.
He served as County President un
til 1938. He was elected to the
Illinois Agricultural Assn. Board
of Directors in 1941 and was
named President of IAA in Nov.
1945, when Earl C. Smith, IAA
President, retired.
He was elected to the American
Farm Bureau Federation Board
of Directors in 1945 and to the
Presidency of AFBF in Dec. 1954,
following the retirement of Allan
B. Kline. Shuman was re-elected
for a two-year term at the Dec.
1957 Federation Convention in
Chicago.
Shuman has served as director
of two production credit associa
tions and later as president of one.
He was vice-president and later
president of a rural electric coop
erative and served as director and
secretary of a livestock shipping
association.
For many years he was a di
rector of the rural school he at
tended as a boy and served as
President of the Community Con
solidated District 3. The school
he attended was merged with four
other districts to make the consoli
dated district. Shuman played an
important part in bringing about
school organization in his county.
Shuman has five children:
Charles W., who operates the home
farm, twin sons, John and Paul,
who are in college, Janet, in high
school and an infant son, George.
fee will be charged, and confer
ence members will be asked to
purchase their conference luncheon
and dinner tickets when they reg
ister.
Monday morning, following the
invocation and wecome to A&M,
Dr. John W. Oswald, assistant
vice-president, state-wide, Univer
sity of California, will speak on
“Higher Education, Servant and
Leader of Society.” A discussion
will follow his address.
At 11 a.m., Dr. Alfred R. Neu
mann, Dean of the College of Arts
and Science, University of Hous
ton, will speak on “What Should
Be Done To Meet The Impending
Shortage of College Teachers of
History and English,” followed by
a discussion.
An informal luncheon and fel
lowship for conference participants
will be held in Rooms 2-A and 2-B
of the MSC starting at 12:20 p.m.
Two Discussions
The afternoon portion of the
conference will be divided into
two discussions, one on history
and the other on English.
Both sessions will begin at 1:15
p.m.
Dr. J. M. Nance, Head of the
Department of History, will pre
side over the history discussion.
Members of the panel will be Billy
Jones, of San Angelo College, and
(See CONFERENCE on Page 6)
JJ. S. Court Next
Stop For Women
By BOB SLOAN
Battalion News Editor
Texas A&M will remain an all-male school!
This was the ruling of the Texas Supreme Court in Aus
tin Wednesday, making final decisions of several lower Texas
courts.
The highest court in the state said it could find nothing
wrong in the action taken by the Waco Court of Civil Appeals
last June 9. The Waco court had turned down the appeal of
three Bryan women for a rehearing on their suit against
A&M for admission.
John M. Barron, attorney for the women, said in Bryan
Wednesday night the Supreme Court decision was nothing
but a formality clearing the way for him to approach the
United States Supreme Court."* —*
“I had no more chance of
winning my case in Texas
than Khrushchev would have
of winning an election for
justice of the peace in this county,”
he said.
Barron said he had already filed
an appeal with the Texas Supreme
Court, but this, too, was “just a
formality.”
U. S. Supreme Court
He said he planned to take the
case to the U. S. Supreme Court
on a constitutional question raised
in the suit.
The case will be based on the
14th Amendment to the Federal
Constitution concerning equal pro
tection of women under the law.
The 14th Amendment reads in
part:
“No State shall make or enforce
any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens
of the United States; nor shall any
State . . . deny to any person . . .
(die equal protection of the laws.”
\
Attorney General Comments
Leonard Passmore, lawyer in the
attorney general’s office, said the
ruling meant only that the appeal
court’s ruling would stand and
A&M would remain all-male.
“Barron’s- next move would be
an appeal to the Texas Supreme
Court, then the case would go to
the U. S. Supreme Court,” he said.
Passmore said the attorney gen
eral’s office would back the A&M
Board of Directors all the way in
the fight.
The original suit from which the
several appeals were made and de-i
nied was filed by Margaret E.’
Allred, Sarah C. Hutto and Mary
Ann Parker. All three claimed
A&M did not have the right to
refuse them admission because of
their sex.
However, a question arose last
May 19 when the Waco Court of
Civil Appeals turned down Miss
Allred’s appeal. Miss Allred said
she wanted to major in floriculture
(See COEDS on Page 6)
Corps Trip,
Bonfire Head
CSC Agenda
More advanced plans for the
Dallas Corps Trip and the annual
Thanksgiving Bonfire will head
the agenda for tonight’s Civilian
Student Council meeting at 7:30
in the Senate Chamber of the Me
morial Student Center.
The advanced agenda for the
meeting, released yesterday by
Secretary David L. Beauchamp,
included a report on the Aggie
Sweetheart Selection, a report
from the Civilian Dress Committee
and other reports from the ab
sentee ballot committee, treasurer,
traffic committee ahd election and
constitutional committee.
In the last Civilian Student
Council meeting, held Sept. 22, the
proposed handling of absentee vot
ing took the spotlight.
William O. Richards, who pre
sented a plan to the council in
the last meeting, proposed the
group could best handle the voting
as a group.
Dallas Party Ducat
Deadline Extended
A new deadline has been set for
purchasing tickets to the Dallas
Corps Trip Party the night of Nov.
5 in the huge Dallas Memorial
Auditorium.
Syd Heaton, Corps Commander,
announced yesterday Aggies have
until 5 p.m. next Wednesday to
purchase their $4 tickets.
He explained the delay in con
tract checks arriving as the reason
for the new deadline.
World Wrap-Up
By The Associated Press
Germans Will Keep Atomic Secrets
BONN, Germany—The West German government said Wednesday
it has agreed to a U. S. request to keep secret new developments in
methods for refining raw materials used in nuclear weapons.
Foreign Office and Atomic Energy Ministry spokesmen said the
developments are based on the so-called ultracentrifugal process.
The development had raised fears in Washington that fissionable
uranium could be made cheaply enough for a dozen or more nations to
manufacture their own atomic bombs.
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English Demonstrate At NATO Leader’s Talk
COVENTRY, England—Scores of police were called Wednesday
night after crowds of jeering, whistling demonstrators tried to break
up a public meeting addressed by Gen. Lauris Norstad, NATO supreme
commander in Europe. The demonstration was pitched on the antinu
clear arms theme.
With a bleak smile, Norstad stood silently on the platform for 45
minutes while officials tried to get the audience under control.
The outburst seemed to be carefully planned demonstration against
the American general, who was paying a one-day visit to this bomb-
scarred English city from his headquarters in Paris.
★ ★ ★
Nixon Has Nose Troubles
HOLLYWOOD—“My trouble,” the vice president of the United
States said Wednesday, is my nose.”
Richard M. Nixon, tht Republican presidential candidate, often
seen on TV these days, was discussing makeup problems with other
leading lights of the medium.
One of the actors commented Nixon doesn’t look tired in person but
sometimes appears fatigued on television. Nixon replied with a laugh:
“I never look tired. It’s those darned lights. My trouble is my nose.”