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FROM AIR FORCE Student Wins ! Special Medal 1st Lt. Thomas Z. Fraga, a student attending school on ' the Air Force Institute of Technology program, has been presented a special Air Force medal by Lt. Col. Kenneth W. Gruber, education and plans officer of the Department of Air ^Sciences. A O ITfcl • "I kt- Fraga was awarded the med- AS Physicals Next Monday al for meritorious achievement in successfully maneuvering his burn- —_ __ # ing F-100D aircraft away from a N n IftAMlfin heavily populated area near Whee- CclUI lus Field, Tripoli, Apr. 11, 1959. The lieutenant successfully jumped from the burning plane after assuring that it would crash into the Mediterranean Sea. He Physical examinations for those was rescued approximately 30 min- interested in applying for an Air Force' ROTC contract during the spring semester will be given, at the College Hospital the week be ginning Nov. 14, Maj. Benjamin F. Smith of the Department of Air Science announced. Maj. Smith added that students not currently enrolled in Air Sci ence 241 must report to Room 311 in the Military Sciences Building by Nov. 9 to be scheduled and ac complish the filling-out of neces sary' forms. utes after landing in the chilled waters. A release from the office of Capt. William F. Atwater, infor mation services officer, says: “The deliberate and unselfish decision to avoid placing military and ci vilian bystanders in danger re sulted in placing himself in a very hazardous position and exposing himself to a near fatal situation, which reflects great credit upon Lt. Fraga and the U. S. Air, Force.” The Battalion Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1960 Number 31 United Chest Collection Lagging ON Club Program To Feature US The United States will be featured tomorrow night in the first of a series of international programs to be presented by the United'Nations Club. The club, which meets every second and fourth Friday of each month, has recently named'+~ officers. Chandra K. Parekh of India is president, Md. Abdus Mia of Pakistan is vice president and Ronald Haley, an American, is secretary. Also chosen were Mrs. Brooks Cofer, social chairman, and Firooz Soulato of Iran, treasurer. Parekh invited anyone from the Bryan-College Station area to join the club. “We now have about 28 nations represented in the club,” said Pa rekh. “Our total paid member ship is about 60,” he added. Friday’s program will include accordion and violin selections, folk songs and piano numbers. Civilian Counselor Named TASPA Vice President William G. Breazeale, a civilian student counselor, is a new vice president of the Texas Association of Student Personnel Administra tion. Breazeale was named to the post at the recent meeting of the TASPA, held in Kingsville. Election Blamed For Poor Showing: By RONNIE BOOKMAN The United Chest goal of $15,150 by Nov. 15 is lagging behind. Dale F. Leipper, chairman of the drive, gave the total collected as $7,503. Leipper blamed Tuesday’s elections as the reason for the lag. “The next few days will show whether we will pull out of the slump or not,” Leipper said. “I think that the elections definitely had a lot to do with our falling behind schedule,” he added. Leipper said that the 75 workers on the various com mittees generally have met with excellent success. Coffee Friday A coffee will be held Friday* afternoon in the Assembly Room of the Memorial Stu dent Center for all committee men Leipper said. “We are going to tabluate every dollar collected, and determine in just what sections we are falling short,” ha said. A report Wednesday afternoon from the Federal employees show ed that the lag was a general trend. Up until now the drive has been ahead of last year’s mark, although the pei’centages are about the same as last year, Leipper pointed out. The drive has netted about $1,703 since figures were released Monday afternoon. Last year the goal of the Unit ed Chest was surpassed and it had been hoped that this year’s drive would pass the $15,150 mark. The program has provided the city of College Station with ser vice to many community, charity, medical and youth agencies. Organizations profiting from the (See UNITED CHEST on Page 3) AT SUMMIT Khruschev Manuevering For Meet With Kennedy December 1 Revealed As CPS Deadline The Bryan-C o 11 e g e Station Chapter of the National Secretar ies Assn, has announced that all local qualified secretaries inter ested in the Certified Professional Secretaries (CPS) Examination must submit their applications be fore Dec. 1. This area’s examination centers are in Waco, San . Antonio and Houston. The scheduled dates for the examination are the first Fri day and Saturday in May. Texas ranks second in the na tion in the number of CPS certifi cate holders with a total of 173. California is first with 204. The CPS rating is the symbol of pro fessional status in the secretarial field. Secretaries interested in making application should contact Mrs. Marie Francklow, education chair man of the local NS A chapter, at VI 6-7738 for application forms and further information. Frosh Wins Award Allan C. Peterson, a freshman engineering contest. Making the presentation is New student from Houston, receives the annual York Stock Exchange President Keith Fun- Junior Achievement Award for first place ston (left), in the Company’s junior achievement report Houston Frosh Cops National Report Prize A first place award for the best annual report by any Junior Achievement company in the na tion this year was presented re cently to Allan C. Peterson, an 18-year-old freshman engineering student from Houston. Peterson was president of Metal Engineering Co., one of Houston’s 121 Junior Achievement companies participating in this year’s contest. MECO, counselled by Humble Oil & Refining Co., merchandised aluminum snack tables in its suc cessful 1960 business venture. The presentation of MECO’s first place award was made at a luncheon in the New York Stock Exchange, sponsor of the annual contest, The Achievers were the luncheon guests of Exchange Pres ident Keith Funston. Peterson’s company was chosen from among 3,985 Junior Achieve ment companies operating in 39 states and two Canadian provinces. MECO manufactured and sold $2,034 worth of snack tables, showing a net profit after special Junior Achievement taxes of $200. The J. A. tax goes into a special fund for scholarships and other activities. MECO’s 118 stockholders each received back their 50-cent-per- share investment, plus a, 10 per cent return on their capital. BY COORDINATOR Elitor's note: A message from ; Soviet Premier Khrushchev to President-Elect John F. Kennedy ■lifters sharply in tone from some »f Khrushchev’s pre-election re marks. The possible significance is assessed in this interpretive ar ticle by John M. Hightower, vet eran AP writer on diplomatic af fairs. By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Soviet Pre mier Khrushchev is already ma neuvering for a summit confer ence with President-Elect John F. Kennedy. He has begun with soft words and this probably sig nifies a lull in the cold war for the next several months. Western diplomats here agree RodeoClub Defeats Gainesville Club With Clean Sweep Aggie cowboys have won the first matched rodeo held between the Aggie Rodeo Club and the Gainesville Junior College Rodeo Club, according to an announce ment from Joe Neff, Rodeo Club president. The Aggies won all five events and brought home the team tro phy, Neff said. Eddie Rosenberger, a pre-veter- inary medicine major, won the bareback riding; William Redmgn, an animal husbandry major, won the tie-down and ribbon roping, and Kenneth Beasley, a veterinary medicine major, won the saddle bronc and bull riding events. that Khrushchev’s interest in re suming negotiations looking to a new summit meeting was behind the unusual message of congratu lations which he dispatched to Kennedy Wednesday. Free Of Criticism The Khrushchev message, made public in Moscow, was notably free of some of the critical re marks he directed toward Ken nedy before the election. On one occasion he said that I Kennedy and Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon were both “lackeys of monoply capital.” He also called them “a pair of boots,” | asking “which is better, the right or the left boot.” In his congratulations to Ken nedy, Khrushchev called for a re turn to the kind of Soviet-U. S. relations which existed in the ad ministration of President Frank lin D. Roosevelt at a time when the two countries were allied against Nazi Germany. But he went beyond that reference to the past. He declared that in the interest of world peace the Soviet Union is ready “to continue the efforts to solve such a pressing problem as disarmament, to settle the German issue through the earliest conclusion of a peace treaty and to reach agreement on other ques tions.” “Any steps in this direction,” he said in a sentence that could embrace both summit and diplo matic negotiatibns, “will always meet with the full understanding and support of the Soviet govern ment.” Second Staff Dinner, Dance Slated Tonight Scientific Lecture Scheduled Tonight Robert A. Harte, coordinator of scientific information for Merck, Sharp and Dohme, will speak at 8 p. m. tonight in the Biological Sciences Building Lecture Room. The title of his talk will be “Documentation and Information Re- -ftrieval.” The College Faculty-Staff Din ner Club will meet tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Assembly Room of the MSC. Club Chairman B. A. Zinn said the occasion was the second dinner dance of the season. Music is to be furnished by the Aggieland Combo. Dress is to be either formal or informal. Dr. A. G. Caldwell, club secre tary, is offering season tickets for the affairs for $7. Early Bonfire Start Bonfire spirit got an early start in Squadron 8, and the sophomores made it an afternoon project yesterday to bring in the first log for the bonfire. After renting a flat-bed truck and armed only with an outfit axe, the 24 sophomores headed for the cutting area in search of an appropriate tree. It took them about an hour and a quarter to cut the log, and by 7:45 it was lying outside Dormitory 4. Dr. Wayne C. Hall, Dean of the Graduate School, says the public is wecome to attend the lecture. Harte will review the explosive growth of scientific literature in recent years and the efforts that are being made to organize that literature in order to make it avail able to those who need it. He will develop techniques of indexing by mechanized systems, and the phil osophy, logic and operation of the mechanized system . of Merck, Sharp & Dohme. Previous to his position as co ordinator of scientific information he held the positions of research administrator and of executive as sistant, administration, of the same company. Well-Qualified He is qualified to bridge admin istration and research, having worked for 10 years with Dr. Karl Ladsteiner on immunochemistry at the Rockefeller Institute and conducted research on nutrition and the chemistry of allergens as Chief Research Chemist for the Arlington Chemical Co. of Yonk ers,'' N. Y., for seven years, says Hall. Harte has been elected to sev eral offices in a number of pro fessional and honorary societies. He has twice been chairman of the Gordon. Research Conferences and the treasurer of the Division of Biological Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. He is presently serving on committees of a number of national and inter national -organizations concerned with documentation and retrieval of scientific information. The coordinator is also scheduled to review the future of mechanized systems of scientific literature re trieval. His main office is at West Point, N. Y. World Wrap-Up By The Associated Press Goldwater Blasts GOP Attitude PHOENIX, Ariz.—Cen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., sug gested yesterday that the Republican party lost the president ial race because it had a “me-too” candidate. He predicted the GOP will have to look to it conservatives in the future. The Arizona, leader of the GOP’s conservative wing, hinted at an intraparty power flight with New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller’s liberal forces, saying: “If Mr. Rocke feller can’t carry New York, he can’t be reckoned a figure to be contended with the Republican party.” Goldwater told a reporter: “Those who believe in tho traditional philosophy of government, which is clearly identi fied with the conservative cause, might very well decide the nation would benefit from a realignment of the party and a more frank disclosure of the philosophy of each group.” ★ ★ ★ Cause of Space Capsule Failure amed WASHINGTON—Failure of a Project Mercury test launched at Wallops Island, Va., Tuesday has been traced to a switch that failed to work under severe stress. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration yesterday said analysis of radio telemetry information from the test showed this. Because the switch did not do its job, the one-ton Mercury space capsule failed to separate from the 25-foot- long Little Joe booster rocket. The booster and vehicle, still attached, plunged into the Atlantic 13 miles from the launch site. NASA said divers were unable to recover the spacecraft and rocket from the- 70-foot water depth. ★ ★ ★ Wire Services Join Warning Net MIAMI, Fla.—The nation’s two major wire services will become an integral part of America’s Conelrad defense warn ing network, a federal communications commissioner re vealed yesterday. Commissioner Robert E. Lee said the lines of The As sociated Press and United Press International are to be linked directly to the North American Air Defense Command— NORAD-head-quarters, Colorado Springs, Colo. It is the NORAD post which will flash the warning of any enemy attack upon the United States. ★ ★ ★ Dynamite Bomb Injures Woman OAKLAND, Calif.—A home-made dynamite bomb wired zeneath an automobile explosed yesterday injuring Rosie Wil son, 38, as she pressed the starter button. Police jailed her husband, John Wilson, 53, and a friend, Jack Taylor, and booked them for invistigation of assault with a deadly weapon. Policeman Charles Wheeler said Mrs. Wilson told him her husband recently had “threatened to blow me up.” ★ ★ ★ Shivers Congratulates LBJ AUSTIN—Former Gov. Allan Shovers yesterday sent a telegram of congratulations to Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson and expressed his hopes that “we can now work together for a better Texas and a better America.” Shivers headed the Democrats for Nixon-Lodge drive in Texas.