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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.