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.