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‘DISCREDIT TO THE NATION’
Truman's Speech
Hit By Baptists
By The Associated Press
LUBBOCK, Tex.-A top South
ern Baptist leader Wednesday
called John F. Kennedy a bigot,
predicted Richard Nixon’s election,
and said Harry Truman ought to
be turned out of his church unless
be repents his use of profanity.
These statements by Dr. Ram
sey Pollard, president of the
Southern Baptist Convention, pre
ceded his address Wednesday night
closing the annual session of the
Baptist General Convention of
Texas.
‘Peace Corps’
Instead of Draft
JFK Suggestion
By The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO —Sen. John
F. Kennedy Wednesday night pro
posed the establishment of a peace
corps in which young men could
serve in underdeveloped nations
for three years instead of being
drafted for military duty.
Warning that “the enemy ad
vances now by nonmilitary meth
ods,” the Democratic presidential
candidate said this country must
have representatives abroad of
greater talent and *training, espe
cially in the newly emerging na
tions that need specialized help.
“We can push a button to start
the next war, hut there is no push
button magic to bring a just and
lasting peace,” Kennedy said in a
speech prepared for delivery at
the Cow Palace.
The talk marked the windup of
Kennedy’s final twa-day bid for
the 32 electoral votes of California,
home state of his Republican op
ponent, Vice President Richard M.
Nixon.
Earlier, Kennedy accused the
Eisenhower administration of us
ing national defense funds for po
litical ends and pledged, if elect
ed, to push for speedy action on
measures to raise educational
standards.
In his speech here Kennedy pro
posed that present efforts to aid
underdeveloped areas of the world
be supplemented by a corps of
“talented young men willing and
able to serve in countries in this
fashion for three years as an al
ternative to peacetime Selective
Service.”
He said the corps would be open
to women as well as men and that
all its members would be well qual
ified through rigorous standards
and well trained in the language,
skills and customs they would
need to know.
“We cannot discontinue training
our young men as soldiers of war,”
he said. “But we also need them
as “ambassadors of peace.’”
Kennedy said this would be a
voluntary corps drawn from every
race and walk of life, from among
young people “eager to serve the
cause of peace in the most useful
way.”
Consolidated
Mothers, Dads
Meets Postponed
The regular monthly meeting of
the A&M Consolidated Mothers’
and Dads’ Club will not be held
Tuesday, according to President
A. F. “Tex” Isbell. “This is election
day in Texas,” Isbell explained,
“and we are changing our meeting
date accordingly.”
The meeting will be held Tues
day, Nov. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Consolidated High School Audi
torium with the School Board serv
ing as a guest panel.
Student Safety
Society Officers
Named For Year
The Student Safety Society has
elected officers for the 1960 school
year.
The new officers are:
jerry Brown, president; George
Bond, vice president; Gene Dye,
secretary; Ralph Mathis, treasurer,
and Gordon Balke, program chair
man.
The society meets on the thiid
T„ P <dav of each month in Room
Pollard’s remarks about Truman,
a Baptist, answered a request for
comment on a recent campaign
speech by the former president in
Texas. Truman said Texans ought
to go to, hell if they vote Republi
can.
The Southern Baptist president,
from Memphis, Tenn., said such
language brought “discredit to the
nation, the high office of president
and the cause of Christ.” Pollard
added that Truman’s local church
should turn him out unless he “re
pents of his sins and ill manners.”
In Fishkill, N. Y., Truman re
torted: “I’ve already told the Bap
tists where they ought to get off
and I can’t add anything to it.”
Concerning the church ouster sug
gestion, Truman said: “I dare ’em
to do it.”
Pollard repeatedly asserted he
spoke only as an individual with
no authority to tell Baptists how
to vote. He said he would vote
for Republican Nixon for presi
dent, that he thought the religious
issue is not the only factor in the
race but that it will be highly in
fluential.
Pollard said he is going to vote
for Nixon despite recent declara
tions attributed to the GOP nom
inee and Henry Cabot Lodge on
state aid for church schools.
He said it is his opinion that
“Nixon and Lodge are hoping to
save a very few Catholic votes
for the Republican party as a mat
ter of expediency” but that this
would not change his decision to
vote for the GOP ticket. He said
Lodge has declared he was mis
quoted.
In the press conference and a
television interview Pollard said
he thought Kennedy is “a bigot
in some ways”. Pollard would not
answer a question as to whether
he thought Kennedy was sincere
in his expressed views favoring
separation of church and state.
THE BATTALION
Thursday, November 3, 1960
College Station, Texas
Page
Awakened From The Dead?
Buddy Luther, junior architect major has
that “What Am I doing here?” look on his
face as he peers from within the coffin the
architects have been carrying about the
campus for the past week. The coffin, made
by Jim Gleason and Lee Dodson, was used
as a promotion item for the fourth year ar
chitect students’ “Tomb Boom” party held
after the Arkansas game last weekend. They
went all-out for effect, hiring a group of
local morticians as a dance combo, to play
for the occasion. From all reports, the party
was a great success. The coffin is now rest
ing in peace in the fourth year architecture
lab on the top floor of the Academic Build
ing.
Public Utility Short Course Ends Tomorrow
More than 160 persons attending
the Public Utility Short Course for
Electrical Metermen, will wind up
their sessions here tomorrow.
Fred Benson, Dean of Engineer
ing, gave the welcome address at
the opening session Monday and
last night a film of the Thule,
Greenland, Air Base, was shown
by Fred C. Sandlin, Bryan city
manager.
Taking an active part in the ses
sions were top flight authorities
in the public utility field. A&M
staffers on the program included
H. C. Dillingham, John Denison,
Norman F. Rode and A1 Druce.
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Dr. Brian W. Logan has been
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the Department of Oceanography
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scientist, Dr. Dale F. Leipper, head
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He will work with Richard G.
Bader in conducting the research
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