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V'olume 69
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1960
Number 40
97 PER CENT IN-
Chest Drive
Lacks $400
The United Chest drive is now within three per cent of
their overall goal of $15,150. Dr. Dale F. Leipper, chairman
of the drive, reported last night that $14,750 has come in so
far. leaving only $400 to be picked up.
He said all divisions had re-*
ported, but several checks were
still expected in, thus boosting the
accounted for 97 per cent.
Leipper had this to say concern
ing the overall aspects of the drive:
“The drive this year has gone
as it has in the past, but things
are jsut generally slower finan
daily than they were last year.
There were no real weak spots
the drive. The election may have
Math Contest
To Be Held
Here Saturday
The 21st annual William Lowell
Putnam Mathematical Competition
will be held at A&M Saturday. The
contest will be sponsored by the
Mathematical Association of
America.
The prizes in the contests will
be awarded by the William Lowell
Putnam Intercollegiate Memorial
Fund, created by Mrs. Putnam in
the memory of her husband,
member of the Harvard Class of
1882. It is hoped that this cor
petition will further the spirit of
intercollegiate scholastic rivalry in
far reaching value of which Put
nam believed.
Prizes will be awarded to both
the students who win in the con
tests and the schools which they
represent. The prizes awarded to
the five highest schools are $500,
$400, $300, $200 and $100 and the
members of the five highest teams
will receive $50, $40, $30, $20 and
$10.
The competition will be limited
to undergraduate students and will
tonsist of two categories, team and
individual competition. Each school
ivill designate a team of three con
testants to represent it.
As an added encouragement to
competition one of the five high
individuals will be given a $3,000
scholarship to Harvard or if the
contestant chosen is a woman the
scholarship will be to Radcliff
College. This may be applied, to
either undergraduate or graduate
work.
slowed down things a bit, but that
slump has now been overcome.”
Expresses Hope
Leipper expressed the hope that
since December pay checks would
be in soon, the needed total may
be met.
The drive opened Nov. 1 and was
scheduled to close Nov. 15. Because
the amount collected was so in
sufficient the drive was extended
until the difference could be
brought in.
Last year’s drive surpassed its
set goal.
The drive committee kicked off
efforts this year with the slogan
“One day’s pay, the united way.”
About 75 committee members
worked during the campaign.
Sub-chairmen for the drive are
John C. Calhoun, campus; H. E.
Burgess, city drive; and I. H.
Lloyd, federal agencies.
The team captains designated by
these chairmen are John E. Deni
son, R. H. Davis, R. L. Hunt,
Michael Krenitsky, Wayne Stark
and Ran Boswell. Also Don Dale,
Mrs. John Q. Hays, Tom E. Prater,
John IT. Pruitt, Mrs. Charles Rich
ardson, W. T. Riedel and T. E.
Whitely. Also Homer A. Adams,
Jack Bradshaw, O. B. Briggs, J. M.
Hendricks and Leonard J. Watson.
Appropriations
Here are the United Chest ap
propriations based on a total of
$15,150:
College Station Local Chest
Charity Fund;—$950.
College Station Community
House—$350.
College Station Recreation Coun
cil—$1,750'.
Boy’s Clubs of Bryan—$500.
Bryan Committee on Alcoholism
—$300.
Brazos County Crippled Chil
dren’s Therapy Center—$1,800.
Brazos County Hospital Fund : —
$300.
Brazos County Youth Counseling-
Service—$1,400.
Salvation Army—$500.
Bryan-College Station Girl
Scouts Area Council—$2,500.
Boy Scouts of America—$2,000.
Texas Rehabilitation Center—
$300.
American Red Cross—$2,000.
Texas United Fund—$500.
Marine Corps
Officer Team
Dee Next Week
The Marine Corps Officer Selec
tion Team, headed by Capt. F. L.
Tolleson, will be set up in the
Memorial Student Center from 8
a.m.-l p.m., Monday through Fri
day, next week. This will be the
last time this semester the team
will be here, so all interested stu
dents are urged to make use of
this opportunity to talk to Capt.
Tolleson.
Feelings Vary
On Possible
Name Change
SCON A Theme Centers
Around Free World Tasks
Sixth Meeting
Opens Wednesday
Controversy raged thick and
heavy yesterday with the reveal
ing a study is underway to pos
sibly change the name of A&M.
Students were quick to take one
of the two sides and most seemed
impatient to air their views.
Which of the two sides holds the
majority among the student body
is difficult to determine, with in
dications showing a fairly even
split.
Those in favor of the study and
eventual change of the name in
dicated prestige as their most
prominent motive, They were in
clined to believe the name “Col
lege” hurts the college attraction,
both to prospective students and
faculty and staff members.
Those opposed to a possible
change reported they did not like
the changes in tradition that would
result and the old traditions, es
pecially school songs and yells,
that would be done away with.
Without a single exception,
however, everyone expressing his
views to The Battalion agreed
A&M is actually a university and
no' longer a college.
As one said, though, “I just
can’t imagine this place as any
thing but Texas A&M. It just
wouldn’t be the same, no matter
I what else happened.”
Ahmed
Mann
Smith
‘UNSUNG HEROES’
Final Stage Set For Naming
‘Mrs. Texas A&M’ Saturday
One of Aggieland’s “unsung i The Aggie Wives Council is spon-
hefpes” will be honored Saturday soring the affair.
night when Mrs. Texas A&M will
be chosen from a field of 32 en
trants.
She will be named at a dance to
be held at 8 p.m. in the Ballroom
of the Memorial Student Center.
The dance features the music of
the Aggieland Combo, Tickets
are $2 per couple and they may
be purchased at the door.
Mrs. Jean Vaught, chairman for
the evening’s events, said the
Speaker Urges
Lenient Loans
Commercial lending agencies should become more liberal
and understanding with their credit or else farmers and
ranchers will seek and find other sources of loan money.
This advice was handed out here by Frank Schuster, a
Rio Grande Valley farmer and one*
Sims Gains Again
Randy Sims, (40) dives through the right classic in Austin last Thursday. Sims led
side of the Texas line for a sizeable gain dur- all ball-carriers with a net of 83 yards
ing the second half of the Thanksgiving gained. A white arrow points to the ball.
of the speakers at the 10th annual
Texas Farm and Ranch Credit
School for Commercial Bankers,
which ended yesterday.
Schuster said more credit under
standing applies especially to farm
mechanization, a subject on which
many bankers need education.
He said commercial bankers
need to place more emphasis on
what a machine can do for a farmer
instead of basing most or all of
their loan decisions on the farmer
himself.
Bankers are particularly reluct
ant to make loans bn specialized
equipment, the speaker said. He
cited the case of a spinach machine
costing $6,000. No loan could be
obtained, but after the implement
finally purchased, it saved
many times its original cost in
labor expenses.
Schuster, a past president of the
Valley Farm Bureau, advised that
farm machinery should be “tai
lored” to do certain jobs. Mecha
nization is one of the best ways
to successful farming.
The farmer said he did not agree
with current widespread opinion
that farms must become bigger to
survive.
‘Don’t Buy Theory’
“I don’t buy the theory that we
have to get bigger in this'business
if we want to stay in it. But we
do have to get better,” Schuster
said.
The bankers conference this year
was dedicated to Charles N. Shep-
of the Alvin State Bank at Alvin.
Shepardson started the school 10
years ago when he was Dean of
Agriculture. The school is designed
to keep commercial bankers up to
date on the latest policies and de
velopments in the field of agricul
ture and their impact on banking.
It is sponsored by A&M and con
ducted by the Department of Agri
cultural Economics and Sociology.
The program’s main banquet
speaker, Earl Coke, vice president
of the Bank of America in Cali
fornia, described ways the bank is
attempting to “penetrate” further
into agriculture in his home state.
He said California banks con
sider agriculture essential to the
overall economy and strive to stay
oriented to it. The Bank of America
now has a branch in each of Cali
fornia’s counties.
Coke, a former assistant to
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Benson, said bank officers are
taking agriculture short courses
and are urged to go into the field,
meet farmers and learn their prob
lems.
Used by Banks
Men especially trained in agri
culture, he said, are being used by
banks as appraisers and budget
makers for farmers.
One of the greatest problems,
the speaker said, is to stay modern
with constantly changing farm and
ranch conditions.
Coke described cheap insurance
programs the Bank of America is
dance was not limited to Aggies
and their wives, but only couples
would be admitted.
Mrs. Vaught said that the Bry
an-College Station Chamber of
Commerce would donate a cup to
the title winner. The Aggieland
Flower Shop is to give a bouquet
to the winner also.
The runners-up will be given
certificates for use at Beverly
Braley’s Women’s Wear Shop and
Lady Fair Beauty Shop.
Listed as judges for the contest
are representatives from Lester’s
Women’s Stores and Tino’s Hair
Stylists. Also named were M. J.
Purgerson and Virginia Erickson.
A member of The Battalion ed
itorial staff will also be on the
panel.
Mrs. Vaught pointed out that
all the money made from this
dance will be given to some Brazos
County charity at the end of the
semester. She said that books
for school libraries and retarded
children’s programs have been
past council projects.
Pictures of 16 of the candidates
are printed on Page 5. The other
16 candidates will be portrayed in
tomorrow’s edition of The Battal
ion.
The Sixth Student Conference on National Affairs—cen
tering on the theme “The Tasks for the Free World: Problems
and Opportunties in the 60’s”—will get underway Wednesday,
Dec. 7, at 8 a. m. in the Memorial Student Center.
The proposed program for SCONA VI breaks this central
theme down into five sub-divisions for informal round-table
discussions: “The Lesser Developed Lands,” “The Communist
Challenge—Free World Response,” “World Disarmament:
Ideals and Realities,” “Mobilization of Knowledge and Re-
sourses,” and “The Americas.”
Principal Speakers
Invited as principle speakers to address the Conference
and participate in the round-
table discussions are the Hon.
Dudley Crawford Sharp, Sec
retary of the Air Force; Am
bassador Horace H. Smith,
State Department Advisor to the
Commander of the Air University;
The Hon. Aziz Ahmed, Ambassador
of Pakistan to the United States;
and the Hon. Thomas C. Mann,
Assistant Secretary of State for
Inter-American Affairs.
The round-up speaker for the
Conference will be William P.
Hobby, Jr., managing editor of the
Houston Post.
SCONA VI, an activity of the
Memorial Student Center Director
ate, is the outgrowth of an idea
begun in 1955 by several student
leaders. The purpose and aims of
the first Student Conference on
National Affairs in 1955, was the
same as the aims of every SCONA
since—“to give the students of the
South and Southwest an oppor
tunity to learn and appreciate the
complexities of America’s Foreign
Policies.”
SCONA I
SCONA I was an informal con-
(See SCONA on Page 3)
‘Our Town’
Presentation
Announced
“Our Town,” the famous Pulitzer 1
Prize-Winning Play by Thornton
Wilder, will -be presented by the
Senior Class of the A&M Con
solidated School next Thursday
and Friday in the School Audi
torium at 8 p.m.
This play is very unusual i£i
that the only props used are a
stepladder, stools and one table.
Thornton Wilder tries to make the
audience visualize the scenes as
they unravel before it and is very
successful in doing this.
The cast of players is as follows:
Bob Adams, stage manager; An
gela Wallace and Blair Perryman,
Emily; Bob White, George; James
Riggs, Mr. Gibbs; and Molly
Martin, Mrs. Gibbs.
Admission will be 75<( for adults
and 50^ for children.
World Wrap-Up
ardson, founder of the school and sponsoring. One is a life insurance
now a member of the board of
governors of the Federal Reserve
System, Washington, D. C.
The founder was on hand to re
ceive a plaque of appreciation pre
sented in behalf of the school by
Sam Rowe, chairman of the Bank
ers Advisory Committee and vice
president and agricultural officer
program which protects both the
farmer and bank. Another is a ci’op
and livestock insurance system.
Looking to the future, Dr. Rich
ard Johnson, chairman of the De
partment of Economics and direc
tor of the Graduate School of
Banking at Southern Methodist
(See BANKERS on Page 3)
Cadet Corps
Open House
Set Tomorrow
An open house for all professors
in all the dormitories of the Corps
of Cadets will be held tomorrow
night from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.
Clayton LaGrone, Corps Scholas
tic Officer, said that every pro
fessor on the faculty and staff will
be extended an invitation to attend
the open house, which is the first
to be held on a corps-wide basis.
Refreshments will be available in
the dormitory lounges and visitors
will be provided parking space in
the quadrangle of each area. Corps
juniors will act as ushers for park
ing in the two areas.
This year, the wives of all the
professors will also be invited. The
faculty sponsors and cadet com
manders will act as unofficial hosts
for the affair, which will be con
tinued next year if it is successful.
By The Associated Press
Venezuelan Troeips to Move on Students
CARACAS, Venezuela—President Romulo Betancourt
yesterday ordered evacuation of Caracas University, where
die-hard leftist students have carried on an armed uprising
against the moderate socialist government. The university
had been spared police intervention as a traditional academic
sanctuary.
Groups of young students seized a technical school on the
university grounds at the beginning of the outbreak last Fri
day and from their dominant position have been sniping at
loyal army troops who came within range. Observers said
the students appeared to be armed with machineguns.
Apparently only the traditional Latin-American respect
for universities and churches as places of refuge and asylum
prevented Betancourt from acting earlier to meet the persis
tent student threat.
The president has charged that Communists are behind
the student violence, and hope to replace his government with
a regime like Fidel Castro’s in Cuba.
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Federal Courts Pound In Integration
NEW ORLEANS—Federal judges (jammered down all
Louisiana barriers to school integration yesterday, then ap
proved a 12-year stair-step plan of integration for Dallas
public schools.
Bitter demonstrations by New Orleans housewives, try
ing to block white children from attending integrated schools,
grew in scope and intensity.
Police had to protect one mother whose child is one of
two still attending the William Frantz school.
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U. S. Protest Shooting by Cuban
WASHINGTON—The United States yesterday vigorous
ly protested as wanton and unprovoked the shooting of a U. S.
Embassy staff employe by a Cuban army officer in a Havana
night club Nov. 19.
The State Department announced that Daniel M. Brad-
dock,'U. S. charged d’affaires in Plavana, had formally pro
tested the shooting of Ernest Wayne Henderson of Pasadena,
Calif., who was wounded sediously. A note delivered to the
Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs by Braddock also called
for punishment of Capt. Jorge Robreno-Mariegos for what
was described as a brutal and unwarranted attack.