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The Battalion Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1960 Number 17 A&M Senior Mysteriously Shot in Hand By TOMMY HOLBEIN Jerry Gilliland, senior from Liberty, was mysteriously Knot in the hand last night by an unidentified sniper while returning to Dorm 17 from Sbisa Dining Hall about 7 p. m. “I left Sbisa Dining Hall about 6:55, because I had an Army Flight Training Program — meeting to attend in Bagly Hall at 7 p.m. I walked on the new con crete laid on the lane to the dining- hall until it ran out, and then stepped on some reinforcement steel they were using in the con crete; about that time I heard a shot, sounded like an air rifle, and a half second later, I felt the bul let hit me in the hand. Scared “It scared me at first, because I didn’t know what it was; I looked down at my hand and it was bleeding, and swelling up real bad. I immediately ran over to Walton Hall and challenged the person who shot me to come down out of the dorm. “I was yelling up at the dorm then one of the dorm counselors came out, and asked what was wrong. I told him what had hap pened, and he suggested I go over to the hospital for treatment, which I did immediately.” At the hospital, a doctor and nurse examined his hand. The hole made by the bullet wasn’t too big, but there was a large bruise on the back of his hand. “The doctor said the bullet had apparently hit a bone and had been knocked back out; there was no trace of metal in my hand, as x-rays determined a few minutes later,” said Gilliland. “While they were bandaging my iand, Col. Robert L. Melcher and '{wo dorm counselors from Walton Hall came in and asked me some questions. About that time, the campus security officers came in and also asked me a few questions, and then left. “I was late to the Flight meet ing, but I went on over and attend ed it,” said Gilliland. Buddy Helps -Returning from the meeting, Gilliland met T. J. Feagins, an other senior in his outfit, C Co., 2nd Brigade. “I asked him what had happened, and he said he got shot; at first I didn’t believe him, but when he convinced me, I began to collect facts, and remembered some sopho mores who had been in the qua drangle about the same time as Jerry,” said Feagins. “I called Maj. E. L. Scott, who in turn called Col. Joe Davis and informed him of the incident. In the meantime, I had located the four sophomores, and asked them questions concerning what they had seen or heard while in the quadrangle,” said Feagins. The sniper’s location was posi tively identified as the roof of Walton Hall by A1 Weaver, sopho more from Houston, who had been in the Quadrangle returning from Sbisa Hall to Bonn 17 about five minutes before Gilliland. Weaver’s Statement “I was going back to the dorm to get ready for intramurals, and I heard a shot; I immediately looked up and »aw someone duck down from the roof of Walton Hall, and since he hadn’t hit me, I didn’t pay much attention to what had happened. “Then, five minutes later, Jerry got shot, and I knew that the per son must have taken a shot at me, too,” said Weaver. After talking with Weaver and several other sophomores who had been in the area when the shoot ing took place, Col. Melcher, sev- (See SHOOTING on Page 3) Great Issues Start Tomorrow Night The president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, Charles B. Shuman, will inaugurate 1960’s version of A&M’s Great Issues Series tomorrow night at 8 p. m. in the Ballroom of the Memorial Student Center. Topic of his address will be> “What Should Be The Future Ag ricultural Policy of This Nation?” Shuman will arrive here tomor row afternoon by plane and will leave early Thursday morning for Houston. According to Joe Bindley, chair man of the MSG Directorate’s Great Issues Committee, no speak ers have definitely been confirmed after Shuman. Tickets for the address will sell for $1 while student activity cards will admit students into the Ball room. Shuman is a stock and grain farmer from Sullivan, 111. He lives on and actively participates in the farming., operations of his 270 acre farm near Sullivan. The farm has been in his family since 1853. Since his graduation from the University of Illinois, he has been active in Farm Bureau, cooperative and community affairs. He has held several offices in agricultural organizations through out his career, including positions on the board of directors, of the Illinois Agricultural Assn., presi dent of the IAA, the board of di rectors of the American Farm Bu reau Federation and president of the organization, serving two terms m that position. He has also served as director of two production credit associa tions, president of a rural electric /.nnnerative and served as director and secretary of a livestock ship ping association. Shuman is also a director of a rural school, president of a com munity consolidated school district and played an important part in school organization in his county. He has five children: Charles W., who operates the home farm, twin sons, John and Paul, college students, Janet, in high school and an infant son, George. The Tying Two Babe Craig (16) zips into the end zone to provide A&M with a 14-14 tie with Texas Christian Saturday in Kyle Field. The knotted count was the second 14-14 tie for the Cadets in Southwest Conference play. Craig scored the two extra points on a pass-run option. Bobby Huntington (81) moves over to offer aid. CLASS ‘A’ OR TIE Dress Changed For Dallas Party Cadet Col. of the Corps Syd Heaton announced yesterday cadets attending the Corps Trip party in Dallas following the SMU game Nov. 5 will be required to wear either Class “A” uniforms or coats and ties. Heaton explained the change in 4 uniform was requested by officials of the Dallas A&M Club, which is sponsoring the party in the huge Dallas Memorial Auditorium. The corps commander also re minded the corps will be in winter uniform then, changing from sum mer attire especially for the Corps Trip. The party is scheduled from 9 p.m. until most of the expected 5,000 attending leave. Invitations have been extended to all Aggies, all TWU students and former stu dents. Liquid refreshments will be served. Tickets $4' Tickets sell for $4 and may be purchased either at the door or at the cashier’s window in the Me morial Student Center. Charlie Howard, Class of ’48, who is chairman of the committee planning the party, has said there will be three top bands to provide continuous music — Ted Weems, Jimmy Palmer and the Dave Klein Trio. The Weems and Palmer groups will appear on either the first and/or second floors of the huge auditorium and the Trio will spell each during its intermission. The Dallas A&M Club has al ready committed themselves to $5,000 for the festivities. Overall planning for the party calls for some 75,000 square feet of space for dancing — around 15 square feet per person. Unit Seating Also, the various units of the Corps of Cadets will be seated ac cording to outfits and dormitories, with an expected 1,700 couples oc cupying the first floor and 750 occupying the second floor. The Dallas Club has reminded that there will be no tipping, since they have made arrangements to take care of that. Former students are being re quired to pay $5 each for the "par ty, more than the $4 price being charged current students. Main Agricultural Problem Emphasized During Junior College Meeting The main problem in modern agricultural training is to decide what kinds of occupational revolution, Dr. G. M. Wat kins, director of agricultural instruction, said here Tuesday. Dr. Watkins, one of the speakers at the 17 Annual Junior College Conference, which concludes today, discussed “New Concepts in Training College Students in Agriculture.” The educator said the ever-changing agricultural picture, both from the production and economics standpoint, call for revised and expanded teaching programs. “With about 40 per cent of the nation’s working force employed in the agricultural industry in the broad sense, but Only one-fourth of those actually producing crops, livestock, dairy and poultry items, it is+ obvious that our programs of training must be directed in ways that are different from those of a generation ago,” he said. He said heavy capitalization, complex mechanization and tech nology, fantastic marketing and distribution processes, local and national policy and public relations services are all new and equally important considerations. Dr. Watkins told conference members that such argicultural specilization offers a vast field of career opportunities ‘It is becoming obvious that there are opportunities for service in a great array of specialties, and that these careers range from skilled labor through various categories of technicians to research workers, writers and business executives,” he said. The scientist posed this question: For how many specialties, to what levels and to what degrees of di versification should colleges offer training ? Better Co-Ordination ‘It seems that in the answer to such a question,” he §aid, “may lie the path to better co-ordination of the services of the various colleges which offer the elements or com ponents needed in training for careers in agriculture.” Higher education does not exist for the sake of higher education, but rather to serve society in the demands being placed upon it, Dr. John W. Oswald, assistant vice president of the University of Cal ifornia, said earlier today at the conference. Dr. Oswald told the attendants, more than 75, that ‘the junior col lege, the four-year liberal arts college and the land-grant insti tution, all unique to the United States, are excellent examples of the reflection of the American people’s will and philosophy and (See CONFERENCE on Page 3) ‘SECRET’ LABEL ATTACHED New Uranium Refiners Cheap By The Associated Press BONN, Germany — A lead ing German nuclear scientist says the day is approaching for urani um-refining machines costing about the same as an automobile does in the United States. The West German government a few days ago moved to hang the secret label on the patent for the gas centrifuge method of re fining uranium developed by Prof. Wilhelm *Groth. The move was taken at the request of the United States, which fears lest atomic weapons get into the hands of ir responsible small governments. Groth, 56, director of physical isotope U238. U238 is used as fuel chemistry at Bonn University, said in an interview that it will take at least a year, probably two, “be fore the instrument is developed enough to be used for commercial purposes.” Cost for installation: about 10,000 marks ($2,380). The greatest money saving the centrifuge method has over the accepted diffusion procedure now used in the United States, Soviet Union and Britain lies in the in stallation of the device, Groth said. The centrifuge is used to sep arate uranium 235 from the heavier in nuclear reactors. Both methods begin after the uranium ore has been reduced to gas. In the centrifuge method the gas is whirled about at enormous speeds, isolating the richer U235 much as wheat is isolated from chaff: In the diffusion method, the gas is pressed through tiny holes by the force of electrically produced thermal energy. This must be re peated many times to produce U235 rich enough to be used as fuel in nuclear weapons. Prof. Werner Heisenberg, Nobel Pi’ize-winning nuclear physicist Cadets In Second SWC Tie—Page 4 and director of the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, has said he did not attach much importance to the centrifuge method. No Reduction Heisenberg said he didn’t think the method would reduce produc tion costs considerably. He said the United States had experi mented with it but decided to use gaseous diffusion as the cheaper process. Groth suggested the reason the United States did not use the centrifuge during World War II was because of lack of certain raw materials necessary to pro duce the apparatus. “And now that the Americans have spent $3 billion on the dif fusion plants, they certainly are not going to change over,” he said. Trinity Voices Disapproval Of A&M Ways (Editor’s Note: The following article is taken from an issue of The Trinitonian, the student news paper of Trinity University.) “The mass invasion of the Trini ty campus and Alamo Stadium by Texas Aggies, Oct. 1, brought about a number of unfavorable, or possibly jealous thoughts by Trini ty ROTC students. “Scores of Aggies in uniform- were observed walking hand in hand with “female personnel.” While this may not seem criminal to “civilian” readers, ROTC stu dent will understand. A Trinity ROTC regulation forbids “displays of affection” while in uniform. Added to this was the fact that most of the girls were Trinity stu dents. “Regulations concerning the wearing of uniforms at A&M must be considerably different from those here at Trinity. Most uni formed Aggies were not wearing their caps. “To top it all, the Aggie system of rank seems to be entirely differ ent from that of all other ROTC units. An A&M cadet wearing the insignia of a cadet first lieutenant was saluted by several uniformed cadets from Trinity. Instead of re turning the salutes, he stated that he did not rate a salute and was not even an officer!” World Wrap-Up By The Associated Press Suit Against LBJ Rejected WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court Monday brushed off a legal move to bar Lyndon B. Johnson from running for two federal offices at the same time—U. S. senator and vice president. Without comment, the court refused to hear the contentions of Michael E. Schwille, a Dallas college student that this constituted an abridgement of his constitutional voting rights. The high court refused to interfere with an order of U. S. Dist. Judge Ben H. Rice Jr. dismissing Schwille’s suit to prevent Johnson from seeking the two offices in the Nov. 8 election. Rice said that in his opinion there is no substantial constitutional question involved in the case. ★ ★ ★ UN Approves World Peace Moves UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—The U.N. General Assembly Monday night unanimously approved a resolution urging constructive steps to achieve world peace—but only after bitter words between the Soviet Union and the United States. The United States and the Soviet Union both supported the reso lution. But just before the vote U. S. Delegate James J. Wadsworth ac cused the Soviet Union of trying to use the resolution sponsored by 28 nations as a means to fan the flames of international hatred and suspicion. ★ ★ ★ U. S. Will Resume Military Aid to Laos WASHINGTON—The United States has ordered resumption of its big military assistance program to Laos, including direct salary payments to the 25,000-man royal army, State Department officials said Monday night. The action ended a suspension of 10 days or more during which the Soviet Union sought to move into the vacuum with an offer of aid to neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma. The decision to resume American aid which amounts to about $46 million a year stemmed from talks with Phouma in the Laos capital of Vientiane by troubleshooter J. Graham Parsons, assistant secretary of state for the Far East. ★ ★ ★ More Sweet Smells From Russia LONDON—Some sweet smells from the Soviet Union blew into Britain Monday, bearing names like “Moscow Fires,” “Crimean Violet” and “Kremlin.” It was the first shipment of perfume imported from the U.S.S.R. under a trade agreement signed last year. Worth $11,200, it will be on sale for the Christmas trade. One brand, “Cosmos,” has a rocket on the label. ★ ★ ★ U. S. Deplores Cuban Drumhead Justice WASHINGTON—The State Department described as deplorable drumhead justice the trial and execution in Cuba of Allan Dale Thomp son and Robert Otis Fuller. At the same time, in a statement, the department warned Ameri can citizens to stay out of disputes in foreign countries. Thompson and Fuller were accused by the Castro government of participating in a small invasion force that landed in Cuba Oct. 5. The State Department said it did all it could within legal limits to help the two Americans, who were convicted by a Cuban military tribunal. gUMi Distinguished Air Science Students ... honored at Saturday review 17 Named Distinguished AS Students Distinguished Air Force ROTC cadet ribbons were presented to 17 Air Force cadets during a review held Saturday morning, Oct. 15. Cadets selected to receive the designation were in the upper third of their class academically, mili tarily and at their respective Air Force Summer Training Unit. Letters sent to each of the 17 designated cadets read, in part: “You have been accorded this high honor because you have dem onstrated that you possess out standing qualities of leadership and high moral character . President Rudder took the salute and presented the cadets with their Distinguished Air Force cadet ribbons. The 17 cadets honored at the review included James S. Austin, Jr., Alvin W. Dunlap, Glenn A. Jones, Richard L. Williams, Timo thy M. Cockburn. Malcolm R. Bolton, Jr., Charles C. Murphy, Larry K. Leighton, Donald F. Boren, Kenneth J. Demel, Aubrey C. Elkins, Jr. Elton M. Jordan, Larry C. Sud- derth, Joseph C. Wheeler, Richard M. Powell, Guyron B. Laycock and John V. Kitowski.