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Kennedy Becomes America’s 34th President 47 The Battalion Volume 69 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1960 Number 30 DONATIONS MOUNT Chest Report Slated Today The second report on the amount of donations submitted , to the United Chest is due this afternoon as the drive for the Chest’s goal of $15,150 reaches the stretch. This afternoon’s report is due from the Federal em ployees, with final reports and dis-4— cussions slated Friday afternoon at 4 in a meeting of the group chair men and volunteer workers in the Memorial Student Center. One-Third Collected Over one-third of the United Chest’s preliminary goal has al ready been collected, with figures through Monday afternoon show ing $5,800 in the Chest’s coffers. Even though donations thus far exceed figures recorded last year, the precentage of the goal reached has not varied significantly, chair man Dale F. Leipper declares. In both instances, approximately 35 per cent of the goal has been reached. Leipper also added, “From ev erything I have heard, the people have been wonderful about contri buting to the drive; they seem to be in the habit of giving to United Chest, and the 75 workers on the various committees have met with excellent success.” Varied Services The program has provided the city of College Station with ser vice to many community, charity, medical and youth agencies. Organizations included in the organization are the College Sta tion Community House, Salvation Army, Texas Rehabilitation Cen ter, Brazos County Hospital Fund, Crippled Childrens Therapy Cen ter and the College Station Recrea tion House. Rice Professor Gives Address Dr. John B. Pickard, professor of English at Rice University, will address the Aggie Newman Club on “The Catholic Leader and His Reading” tonight at 7:30 in St. Mary’s Student Center. “Pickard was voted number one professor by Rice students for out standing work with students,” said John Matthews, club president. Pickard will use current best sellers such as “On The Beach,” “From The Terrace” and “By Love Possessed” as examples during his talk. Committee W ill Study, Submit Safety Changes -♦ ‘Tank Traps Stop Christmas Seal ^Winterset” Ready To Open Monday By TOMMY HOLBEIN Time draws near for the opening of “Winterset”, great American tragedy by Maxwell Anderson, scheduled for Nov. 14-18, by the Aggie Players. To open in Guion Hall, the play will begin at 8 p. m. Monday night featuring a cast oft 19, with numei’ous other members of the group on backstage crews. “Winterset” is the story of Mio, a victim of society in the slums of New York. The three-act pro duction takes place under a bridge in Manhattan, on a winter night, thus the name, “Winterset.” The Players have been rehears ing since the last week in Sep tember, and the set crews have been equally busy preparing props for the stage layout. Large Cast Cast in the production includes Davie White as Mio; John Paxton, Trock; Sue Abbott, Piny; Richard Reiser, Shadow; Ray Simmons, Garth; Marlene Rushing, Miri- anne; Harry Gooding, Esdras; Sam Cely, the hobo; Libby Alexander, first girl and Gale Wilson as the second girl. Others in the cast are Jack Gladwell, playing Judge Gaunt; Gerald Fletcher as Carr; Juan Lo- bo as Herman; Alfredo Garcia, Lucia; Bob Hammons, a sailor; Tickets Available For Aggie-Texas Turkey-Day Game Tickets for the annual Thanks giving A&M-Texas University classic will go on sale tomorrow at the Athletic Office near the main entrance to Kyle Field, The ducats, which will sell for the usual $1 for students and $4 for dates, will be available until Friday, Nov. 18. Student activity cards will be required for the purchase of tickets. This year’s battle is slated in Austin’s Memorial Stadium the afternoon of the 24th. The annual bonfire on the A&M campus has been scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 22. Dudley Griggs, a radical; Mike Yates, a sergeant, and Charlie Hearn and Dave Woodard, two men in blue serge. Spectators attending “Winter- set” next week will see a skyline of New York, a replica of a large New York bridge, and a flowing river in the sets for the play. Action is centered in an alley, except for one scene taking place in a basement apartment, with lighting used for atmospheric ef fect. The play is written in free verse, one of the few American plays written in this style to be success ful, according to C. K. Esten, di rector. Effort In Production Producing such a play is no pic nic for anyone involved, for it includes a large amount of sacri ficed time, holding rehearsals in precedence over all other respons ibilities. The Players began by reading their’ parts, taking the lines slow ly with Esten directing them on diction and action on stage. As their lines improved and became learned, the characters they are portraying became living persons within them. A process of eliminating the many tiny errors in each individ ual’s acting evolved; meticulous work so essential for the produc tion of such a play. Finally, the day of dress re hearsal came; the props received their finishing touches, and the entire set was arranged on the barren stage of Guion Hall. The large, empty hall is the location of rehearsals this week, as the Players prepare to perform before a live audience. But the feeling of playing before an audi ence cannot be reproduced until next Monday night, when the Players are “On Stage” once more for the enlightenment and enter tainment of those attending “Win terset.” Halfback Randy Sims skirts his own right end in the first quarter of Saturday’s Aggie- SMU game in Dallas to run headon into SMU guards, Jim Crowe (65) and John Rumley End Sweep (63). The Houston senior gained four yards on the play, unreeled midway in the first quarter. Also shown for A&M is quarter back Powell Berry (41). Hodges Paces Rifle Team Over Arlington McCloud Bradford Hodges, III, has lead the A&M .22-caliber rifle team to a 1,436-1,420 victory over the Arlington State College team in a shoulder-to-shoulder match fired at Arlington. Arlington State was the ROTC champion of the Fourth Army in 1959 and 1960. McCloud, the high scorer, had a 293 out of a possible 300. This marked the first time that the two seniors on the team had been on a winner over Arlington. They were J. Michael Wilkerson, Jr., of De Leon and Franklin Loudermilk of Rt 1, Comanche. Hodges is from Arlington, Va. Third Installment Fees Payable By November 21 Third installment fees may now be paid at the College Fiscal Of fice in the Richard Coke Building, in was announced yesterday. The deadline for paying fees is Nov. 21. Prexy Selection Completes Exchange Club Formation Signs Considered The A&M Accident Prevention Committee voted yester day to make numerous recommendations to the College Traf fic Committee and to conduct several studies at its initial meeting of the year. Purpose of the 15-man committee, chaired by H. G. Seg- rest, is to make the A&M campus a safer place for students, college employees and visitors. Major recommendations include the following: Asking the Traffic Committee to consider removing the concrete “tank traps” that control traffic in the vicinity of the Memorial Student Center. It was decided by the Commit tee that the concrete barriers, affectionately called “tank —ttraps”, were more of a hinder- Organization of the Exchange Club of Bryan-College Station has been effected here with the elec tion of George Shelton as presi dent, Gus Ellis as vice-president, Dorsey McCrory as secretary and Robert P. Wood as treasurer. The Club is operating under au thority of The National Exchange Club, oldest and largest of service clubs in the national field, until such time as it is formally char tered. It meets every Monday at 12:10 p.m. at Clayton’s Restau rant. Serving on the executive mem bership committee are Shelton, Ellis, Marion C. Pugh and Travis Bryan, Jr. Exchange Clubs are located in principal cities and towns of every state in the nation. As its slogan “Unity for Service” implies, the Club is an organization of busi ness and professional men, de signed to encourage the exchange of ideas, plans, and methods of promoting the community. Through the Club, the individual members collectively exchange their combined efforts in return for an improved community and a stronger nation. It is strictly national in scope and therefore agriculture, purely American in its aims and objectives. ‘Many Opportunities’ Describing the new Club, Presi dent Shelton said, “Exchange Clubs provide members with an oppor tunity to serve. . .and to learn. . . and to enjoy good fellowship. Meetings are devoted to listening to instructive talks, planning proj ects for the community, or enjoy ing wholesome programs of enter tainment.” Although Club projects are un dertaken on the basis of local needs, The National Exchange Club makes available a compre hensive program of education to every local Exchange Club. This flexible program is all-inclusive, and adaptable to every American community. National objectives in which lo cal Exchange Clubs participate in clude citizenship education, na tional defense, service to youth, crime prevention, aviation educa tion, model aviation, service to control of juvenile delinquency, federal youth reha bilitation, service to the aging and tax education. Club Activities Activities set up by The Na tional Exchange Club for local Clubs include installation of the Freedom Shrine in high schools; the Book of Golden Deeds for rec ognition of noble deeds which or dinarily go unsung; Boy-of-the- Month recognition; Sunshine Spe cials for the less fortunate young sters; provision of university schol arships; observance of Constitu tion Week; Traffic Safety pro grams, and Fire Prevention Week. The first Exchange Club was formed in 1911 at Detroit, Mich. It had a nucleus of leading busi ness and professional men of that city. Other Exchange Clubs soon followed. In the last four decades, Exchange Clubs have been formed in practically all of the principal cities and towns of the continental United States and the Common wealth of Puerto Rico. MAJOR TEST FAILS Mercury Capsule Falls Into Atlantic By The Associated Press WASHINGTON—A major test in the man-in-space pro- j gram flopped Tuesday. It involved the launching of a Mercury ! capsule under conditions of extreme stress. The capsule failed to separate from its booster rocket after the launching at Wallops't" After the Vote—the Count Allen Denton and Mrs. Leonard Williams, College Station Precinct 3 election workers, count the votes after Tuesday’s election. Voters in Precinct 3, located at Consolidated High School, cast 864 votes for Vice President Nixon and 471 votes for John Kennedy, but despite their efforts, Brazos County went into the Kennedy column, 5,986 to 4,548. Island, Va. Both the Mercury vehicle and the 25-foot-tall “Little Joe” boost er plunged from an altitude of 53,000 feet into the Atlantic 13 miles offshore. Location Pinpointed Radar pinpointed the exact loca tion. Recovery crews rushed to the area, hoping to salvage at least enough material to help tell | them what went wrong. They found the wreckage under 70 feet of water. Divers went over board to see what they could re trieve. For the moment, it was not pos sible to gauge the effect of the failure on the man-in-space pro gram. This was the last of five Little Joe rockets, powerful boosters spe cially designed for the Mercury test program. No Backup “We don’t have a backup Little Joe,” one official said. “We may have enough bits and pieces around to put together an other one. We probably won’t know for sure about the next step for a week or so.” Another U. S. space failure Tuesday came on an Air Force attempt to hurl a radiation-study payload 24,500 miles skyward from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The Blue Scout carrier rocket’s second stage burned out too soon and the rocket assembly plunged into the Atlan tic Ocean about 250 miles south east of Cape Canaveral. The experiment could have led to methods of detecting nuclear explosions high above the earth. ance than an aid to campus traffic. Asking the Traffic Commit tee to consider putting stop signs in parking Iqts, facing cars leaving the lots. The Committee decided traffic leaving the lots is under poor control and the stop signs would lessen the chance of accidents. Asking the Traffic Committee to consider making the railroad crossing at the North Gate into an underpass. The Committee felt that action should be taken in this direction, whether it be through the Traffic Committee or another agency, to cut down the hazardous conditions created by the cross ings, especially in the mornings (See SAFETY on Page 3) Volunteers Now Working Volunteers innterested in unlim ited amounts of non-caloric stuff ing have been working all week at the office of the Brazos County TB Assn, stuffing the envelopes which will be received by the resi dents of Brazos County Nov. 14 as the 1960 Christmas Seal Cam paign gets underway. Mrs. Ran Boswell, College Sta tion, and Mrs. C. A. Nigh of Bryan directed helpers from the churches of the two communities in carry ing on this final step of the Christmas Seal Campaign. Mrs. Larry Bruner was in charge of 21 Girl Scouts as they stuffed 2,000 of the envelopes tt be mailed to A&M students. Helping Mrs. Boswell were Mines. Lizzie Patterson, J. D. Bird- sell, Amanda Fourman, W. K. Hen ry, A. F. Buchanan, W. F. Hemp hill, Charles LaMotte, J. D. Lind say, J. G. McGuire, C. A. Greer, W. C. Adams, Dora Duncan, Ross Smith and Miss Diana Duncan. Those who worked with Mi’S. Nigh includes Mines. O. A. Ash worth, Olen Cole, Donald Cothran, Ed Heaton, Chester Higgs, A. B. Syptak, E. M. Wesbrook, L. Don ley, N. C. Baker, Vanney Swansey, Bill Young and E. W. Bullock. World Wrap-Up By The Associated Press Turncoat Charged in Traffic Deaths SAN ANTONIO, Tex.—Claude Batchelor, convicted as a turncoat during the Korean War, was charged with two counts of negligent homicide Monday. The charges, alleging first-and second-degree negligent homicide, grew out of the death of Simona Barrera, 46, in a collision involving Batchelor’s auto last Friday. Conviction carries a maximum penalty of three years in jail or a $3,000 fine or both. Batchelor, 28, was convicted in 1954 of collaborating with his Communist captors during the Korean War and was sentenced to life imprisonment. It later was reduced to seven years. Batchelor, paroled last year, listed his occupation as clerk with a San Antonio firm. ★ ★ ★ Explosion Kills Four WILMINGTON, De.—Four factory workers were killed yesterday when a powerful explosion destroyed the front of a synthetic resin-making plant in a slum and industrial sec tion of the city. Four other men working in the front of the building were injured seriously. The remaining work force—about 15 persons—fled without being injured. The rear of the build ing was only slightly damaged. The explosion set off a fire at the two-story, loft-like Synvar Corp. building, but firemen said the explosion did most of the damage. It’s cause was not known and a damage estimate was not announced. ★ ★ ★ Five Die In Bomber Crash COLUMBUS, Ohio—A six-engine B47 Stratojet bomber crashed on take-off from nearby Lockbourne Air Force Base early yesterday killing all five persons aboard. The 2 1 /2 million jet exploded and burned on impact with the 12,000-foot runway. The crew was on a routine training mission, the base public information officer said. They were members of the 301st Bomb Wing of the 801st Air Division at the base. Their names were not released immediately pending notification of next-of-kin.