The Battalion
Volume 69
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13,1960
Number 46
SCON A Over-
Four Days Of
Ideas and Rain
A highly successful, if a bit damp from week-long rains,
SCONA VI concluded its four days of meetings, discussions
and addresses Saturday with a luncheon and an address by
Houston Post Managing Editor William P. Hobby.
Hobby summarized the problems'^
presented during the Conference,
putting them into two categories—
Communism, and problems relating
to a changing world.
“If the conflict between Com
munism and freedom can be re
strained, short of unlimited war,
only the most apathetic negligence
can cause us to lose,” he said.
“The other problems would
exist even if there were no rivalry
between freedom and Communism.
These are problems which hard
work and sacrifice can solve, if
we are willing.”
Concerning the Conference as a
whole, Hobby said, “The discus
sions began on a note of fear. They
end on a note of hope.”
This year, the Sixth Student
Conference on National Affairs
saw some 140 students from 63
colleges and universities repre
senting the United States, Canada
and Mexico gather on the A&M
campus. These student conferees
heal'd four addresses by top au
thorities on the domestic and for
eign policies of the United States.
Then they met in six “round
table” sessions to discuss among
themselves the problems and ideas
brought out in the talks.
SCONA VI Chairman Tom Reid
said the Conference went “as well
as any. . .and better than some.”
Reid said the wet weather prev
alent throughout the Conference
Christmas
Library
Schedule
Assistant Librarian Michael V.
Krenitsky has announced the fol
lowing holiday schedule for Cush
ing Memorial Library:
Dec. 16—8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Dec. 17—8 a.m.-12 noon
Dec. 18—Closed
Dec. 19-23—8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Dec. 24-27—Closed
Dec. 28-30—9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Dec. 31—Closed
Jan. 1-2—Closed
Jan. 3—Regular Schedule
did cause some transportation
problems, but these were worked
out.
Student delegates to SCONA VI
seemed most impressed with the
ideas presented at the round-table
sessions by their fellow conferees.
Their biggest complaint against
the Conference seemed to the
“ramblings off on tangents” the
round-table sessions experienced,
and the “lack of controversy” in
the keynote addresses.
The Conference began Wednes
day, Dec. 7, in the Memorial Stu
dent Center. The first day, dele
gates heard Secretary of the Air
Force Dudley Crawford Sharp
speak on “World Disarmament”
and Pakistan Ambassador Aziz
Ahmed on “Economic Development
and Social Change in Under-De
veloped Countries.”
In his address, Sharp said there
are many forces working against
disarmament in the world, but
there are also enough positive
forces so that “if the problems (of
general disarmament) are attacked
with rationism and idealism, the
desired goal of disarmament will
someday be achieved.”
Ahmed told the delegates the
world was witnessing a struggle
between democracy and totalitar
ianism, and the under-developed
countries of the world were the
fight-arena.
Thursday, after a “Texas-style”
barbecue moved inside DeWare
Fleldhouse because of the rain,
dedegates heard Horace H. Smith,
State Department Advisor to the
War College of the Air University,
speak on “United States Foreign
Policy in the Changing World.”
Smith said America’s greatest
strength was her free, productive
and educated citizenry, and her
greatest weakness was a lack of
understanding and faith on the
part of the American public to
ward “their elected government
leaders.”
Friday’s keynote speaker was
Thomas C. Mann, Assistant Sec
retary of State for Inter-American
(See SCONA on Page 3)
Aggie Talent Show
Starts Tonight At 8
The All-Aggie Talent Show will start tonight at 8 p. m.
in Guion Hall, featuring seven sensational acts of local talent.
Emcee for the show is Joe Easly, junior from Eagle Pass.
Easly served in this capacity in the talent show last year.
He is presently employed with +
KBTX-TV in Bryan.
First on the agenda for the show
are the “F. O.’s”, a combo com
posed of Billy Schulz, Flip Curran,
Jery Freeman, Dane Langford and
Ernest Herrisa. This group has
played in supper clubs and lounges
in and around the Bryan area.
Following the “F.O.s” will be
George Clarke, ballard singer
from Lake Charles, La., and Clarke
will be; followed by Rick Berg, pi
anist from Washington, D.C. Berg
has had three years experience
playing in night clubs in his home
city.
The fourth act is the Bobby
Williams Combo, composed of Mike
Reeves, Jerry Gray, and Bobby Wil
liams. This will be followed by
Charles Marshall, who will pre
sent a comedy monologue in true
“Shelly Berman” fashion.
Sixth on the agenda is a guitar
team composed of Jose Maher and
Richard Novez. Maher will be re
membered as the winner of last
year’s talent show for his outstand
ing classical guitar.
Closing out the show will be
“The Impacts”, a six piece “rock
’n roll” combo composed of Mar
vin Girouard, Bill Smith, Milton
West, Tommy Sweatman, Tommy
Holbein and Jerry Grey.
“The Impacts” are a popular
group on the A&M Campus, and
have been organized for two years.
They have played at numerous Ag
gie-University of Texas parties,
and recently played for a party in
Houston, following the game with
Rice University.
Rehearsal for the show was held
last night, and it has been decided
that each musical act will feature
three numbers unless others are
called for through appeal from
the audience.
Chest Drive
Begins Tonight
In Dormitories
Cessna 140 That Crashed Yesterday
. . . first at Easterwood since 1957
TOUCH AND GO’ LANDINGS
Texas A&M Senior Injured
In Light Plane Mishap
Guy Keeling, a senior business
administration major from Pales
tine, was injured Monday when his
light airplane crashed at Easter
wood Field. His injuries were not
believed to be serious.
It was the first accident at
Easterwood in 18,000 air miles and
also the first since 1957.
Kepling, a member of the Army
Flight Training Program, was
practicing “touch and go” landings
when the accident occurred.
“ A ‘touch and go’ landing is a
landing in which the craft merely
touches its wheels to the runway
and then takes off again,” Keeling
explained last night in St. Joseph’s
Hospital.
Keeling described the mishap
this way:
“I was doing these touch and
go’ landings. . . . over and over
again
I came in for one
I gpess I was doing about 45 miles
an hour.
“When I went to take off again
I gave the engine about half throt
tle. It started to sputter. I gave
it full gas, and the engine flooded.
“I cranked it, but the engine
wouldn’t start again. The wind
carried me to the left and flipped
me over. I lost consciousness as
soon' as I hit.”
He said he woke up when the
ambulance arrived, but lost consci
ousness again almost immediately.
Keeling said the crash happened
about 11 or 11:30 yesterday morn
ing. There was no fire after the
crash.
Witnesses said the safety belt
may have saved his life.
Keeling was flying a Cessna 140.
This type craft is a two-seater
with an 85 horsepower Continental
engine.
The Safety Belts
... may have saved Keeling’s life
Varsity, Fish Cop Victories — Page 4
He said he is to be released
from the hospital after X-rays are
taken today.
Keeling is the commander of
Co. A of the 2nd Brigade.
Club Picture
Deadline
Set Friday
A reminder has been issued to
all professional club officers on
campus of the Friday deadline for
scheduling club pictures in the Ag-
gieland 61 by Charles Moore, club
section editor.
Appointments for the pictures
may be made before 5 p.m. Friday
at the office of Student Publica
tions on the first floor of the YM
CA Building.
Climb Toward
$3,000 Begins
Campus Chest workers will begin tonight making solici
tation tours of all college housing units as the annual campus
drive begins in earnest.
Workers will call at both Corps and civilian dormitories
tonight and tomorrow night, while receptacles have been
placed in the Memorial Student Center and several other
places on campus.
Tonight and tomorrow night’s tours will be handled by
Corps commanding officers and civilian dorm presidents.
$3,000 Goal
The Student Senate Welfare Committee, which sponsors
the drive, has set a goal of $3,000 in this year’s collection apd
adopted a slogan of “A Dollar*
for an Aggie, From an Aggie.”
The primary objective of
the Chest is to have funds
available for sick or injured
students who are in dire need of
financial aid in their respective
crisis.
It also consolidates all other ap
peals and collection drives that
have previously been made on
campus into a single collection,
making it impossible for students
to be Asked to contribute to some
thing frequently.
Back To Students
Sixty per cent of the contribu
tions made to the Chest go direct
ly back to the student body as the
need arises. The balance is divided
among the following organizations:
the World University Service, the
College Station Community Chest,
the Brazos County Tuberculosis
Association and the March of
Dimes.
Last year’s funds were divided
in exactly the same manner, Clay
ton LaGrone, drive chairman and
a member of the Welfare Commit
tee, has revealed.
Last year’s goal, however, was
set at around $7,000, based on the
belief that every student could be
depended on for at least $1. This
proved impractical, LaGrone added,
thereby necessitating the change
that has been made this year.
Other members of the Senate
Welfare Committee are Lee Griggs,
George Weideranders and Den
Johnston.
MSC Council
Views Seven
College Topics
Discussions on a list of seven
different topics highlighted a
meeting yesterday afternoon of
President Bo Lee’s Memorial Stu
dent Center Council.
Topping the agenda was a de
cision to provide for a transfer of
funds in the camera committee for
the making of a set of special
slides depicting life at A&M. A
further report -on the project is
due in March.
Also it was revealed a total of
$320 was collected in the recent
lost and found, auction and a bud
get was approved for the Inter
collegiate Talent Show Talent
Committee.
Flying Kadet Chairman Clint
Murphy also reminded the council
of the National Intercollegiate Fly
ing Meet here in April and steps
were taken to begin planning for
the meet.
Six Atomic
Energy Grants
Again Offered
Repeating a fellowship program
begun last summer, six research
fellowships in atomic energy for
graduate students in Texas col
leges and universities will be offer
ed in 1961 by Texas Atomic En
ergy Research Foundation and
General Atomic Division of Gen
eral Dynamics Corporation, it was
announced today by J. E. Cunning
ham, president of the Texas A-
tomic Energy Research Founda
tion.
The Foundation is composed of
11 investor-owned electric utility
companies operating in Texas.
The recipients of the six re
search fellowships will work under
the direction of General Atomic
scientists on the controlled nuclear
fusion research program being
jointly sponsored by General A-
tomic and the Texas Atomic En
ergy Research Foundation at the
John Jay Hopkins Laboratory for
Pure and Applied Science at San
Diego, California.
The students will assist in the
oretical and experimental research
in controlled thermonuclear energy
as part of the world’s first and
largest privately-financed program
aimed at the ultimate use of nu
clear fusion for the generation of
power and energy. Nuclear fusion
is the process responsible for the
tremendous power of the hydrogen
bomb and the energy in the sun
and stars.
This research may eventually
lead to the harnessing of the might
of the hydrogen bomb for peace
ful purposes, including the gener
ation of electric power.
SECOND OF THREE
Nativity Enactment
Continues Tonight
The second performance of the college and student-spon
sored Nativity Play being presented at Spence Park through
tomorrow begins tonight at 8.
A third night of performances is scheduled tomorrow
after last night’s three opening
performances. Tonight’s schedule
calls for performances at 8, 8:45
and 9:30, while performances to
morrow night will begin at 8:30
and 9:15.
The play is made possible thru
the efforts of the Saddle and Sir
loin Club, the Aggie Players, the
Singing Cadets, the Industrial Ed
ucation Club, The Battalion, the
Aggie Wives Council, Building
Utilities, the College Grounds
Maintenance, the local clergy and
the students and their wives who
are participating in the perform
ances.
Public Invited
The public has been invited to
all performances.
The play highlights four selec
tions by Robert L. Boone’s Sing
ing Cadets. They are “Silent
Night”, “The First Noel,” “Angels
We Have Heard on High” and
“Away in a Manger.”
The singing group will also pro
vide music for the actual reacting
of the scene.
The play is constructed around
the Biblical readings of a narator
as he reads the story of the birth
of Christ.
Lighting Praised
The lighting effects used during
the play have also drawn praise
from first-night-viewers. The act
ing begins with only the light from
a star, changes to stable light, then
one light is turned off, a ground
light is turned on and finally a
tree light is turned on.
The majority of the cast is made
up of members of the Aggie Play
ers but a complete list of the cast
members and their respective roles
has not been released.
World Wrap-Up
By The Associated Press
Kennedy Names Foreign Policy Team
PALM BEACH, Fla.—President-elect John F. Kennedy
today chose the high command of the new administrations
foreign policy team. He named Dean Rusk secretary of state,
Chester Bowles undersecretary and Adlai Stevenson ambassa
dor to the united nations.
★ ★ ★
‘Un-Seat Kennedy’ Drive Continues
JACKSON, Miss.—The South’s 14 unpledged presidential
electors agreed after a five-hour session Monday to vote for
Sen.Harry F. Byrd, D-Va., in an effort to unseat Democratic
President-elect John F. Kennedy.
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Detailed Tissue Study Begins
SAN ANTONIO—Air Force scientists began detailed
examination Monday of seven types of human tissue and
other material recovered Saturday from the gold-plated nose
cone of the Discoverer XVIII satellite.
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Moslems Revolt In Algiers
ALGIERS—Moslems defiantly waving the flag of nation
alist rebellion rioted again Monday in Algiers but finally
were penned up in their teeming quarters by French soldiers
and riot police. The death toll from tour days of disorder
rose to 90.
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Soviets Press Arms Air-lift
VIENTIANE, Laos—The Soviet Union pressed its arms
air-lift to Quinim Pholsena’s leftist regime as the self-pro
claimed premier’s pro-Western enemies moved Monday to
undercut him with a direct appeal to King Savang Vatthana.
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Guinea Withdraws Troops From UN -
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—Guinea announced Monday
that it is withdrawing its entire troop contingent from the
U.N. forces in the Congo to protest the way the United Na
tions has carried out its Congo operation.