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12 COPIES 1 US Carrier Sails Into .« Cuban Port Ttv The Asisfieiaf erl T , r , e | 5<s HAVANA—The U. S. aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roose- ^ velt sailed into Guantanamo Bay yesterday, setting off new yCuban charges of imminent invasion from "the north. A high ^ official said all Cuba is under the equivalent of martial law. / iThe semiofficial newspaper Rev-+ add* it, {olucion accused the United States nijOf mining Guantanamo Bay, site a; ,.of the big U. S. base in eastern ry Ciiba. It said also that large quan tities of medicine were being un loaded at the base. (■Lespite denials from U. S. offi- ii(; ff cials at Guantanamo—last U. S. t, jjfoithold in Cuba—of any aggres sive intent, Prime Minister Fidel 3, ? Castro’s radios and newspapers kept up the invasion warnings of Ug the past 10 days. I jWtevolucion said the carrier 71 Rqiosevelt would be incorporated Btwith various destroyers into a com bat unit to be stationed in the area. The U. S. Navy said the carrier Appli ^Activity Rebate ieations Open Monday igCraduating seniors who paid the Student Activity Fee and will not be in school the Spring Semester *1 may obtain the refund on the Lispring portion of that fee by mak- Lfing application at the Housing Of- fije. ^■Students must present their Tawn Hall, Great Issues and Ath- lletie tickets in order to be eligible Jlyfor refund. Dormitory students mist turn in their mattress covers before claiming any refund. ■Graduating seniors who live in ITE Scrmitories may obtain a refund Df the last week of dormitory fees 2^ by reporting to the Fiscal Office dining next week. ) Mstudents other than graduating seniors, who will not be in school during the Spring Semester, may make arrangements for their Stu dent Activity Fee refunds when they turn in their clearances prior to leaving the campus. was just there on a refresher train ing mission long planned. Cuba stepped up its defense preparations against what Revo- lucion called the threat of “aggres sion by Yankee imperialism.” Army regulars marched into po sition along the waterfront and set up tents between the National Hotel, a former tourist center, and Cuba’s memorial to the battleship Maine. The highway along the wa terfront was closed to all but mili tary vehicles, creating traffic snarls along streets in the water front area. A special volunteer committed was formed to gather food for the thousands of men and women on defense duty along the coasts. Maj. Raul Castro, defense min ister' and younger brother of the prime minister, is believed to be in personal command of Cuban forces in Oriente Province, where Guantanamo is located. ‘Merely Coincide’ U. S. spokesmen in Guantanamo said current sea maneuvers and visits of fleets units to Guantana mo were planned months ago and merely coincided with Castro’s na tionwide anti-invasion alert. Fleet headquarters at Norfolk, Va., said the sea maneuvers are well to the east of Cuba. A con voy of 22 ships, including the car rier Boxer, 12 destroyers, and four- submarines, headed for Vieques, an island 20 miles east of Puerto Ri co, for amphibious exercises. In a separate maneuver, 52 ves sels, including three guided mis sile cruisers and two nuclear sub marines, steamed for two weeks of maneuvers off the Carolinas but will not enter Caribbean wa ters, the Navy said. The official who reported Cuba is under what amounts to mili tary law had been appealed to by U. S. newsmen. They, asked for help in carrying out news and pho tographic missions. “Everything is in the hands of the military because of the inva sion,” the official said. Iv) World Wrap-Up By The Associated Press Houston Chemical Plant Hit By Strike HOUSTON—Pickets marched at the gates of the Hous ton plant of the Phillips Chemical Co. yesterday—the third day of a strike by the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union. The plant was shut down after the 600 workers went on strike at midnight Friday. ★ ★ ★ Communist Forces Near Laotian Capital LUANG PRABANG, Laos—Pro-Communist rebel forces seem to be closing in toward this royal Laotian capital from the north while government forces maneuver for a drive that officers say will be aimed at the adjacent Plaine des Jarres from the south. ★ ★ ★ Students Protest Integration ATLANTA, Ga.—Two Negroes were greeted by a booing, yelling crowd of about 2,000 white students when they re turned to the University of Georgia late yesterday in an ef fort to complete registration under federal court order. ★ ★ ★ Riots Continue In Belgium BRUSSELS, Belgium—About 25,000 demonstrators were routed by police tear gas in Charleroi yesterday after stoning a jail and a Catholic newspaper office. Another 200 workers fought police in Mons. ★ ★ ★ Ex-Judge Faces Trial CLEBURNE—Joe Roy Stevens, Amarillo lawyer who resigned as Randall County judge last spring after vice disclosures, will face trial here May 1. He is accused of perjury and false swearing. ★ ★ ★ Scotland Yard Holds Five For Spying LONDON—Three men and two women charged with stealing British navy secrets for an unidentified foreign 1 Sower appeared before a court yesterday and were ordered held in close custody while Scotland Yard probes the case further. ★ ★ ★ Hagerty Resigns White House Post WASHINGTON—James C. Hagerty yesterday resigned as White House press secretary and will become a vice presi dent of the American Broadcasting Company. The Battalion Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1961 Number 52 Loop Leading Cadets, Hogs Meet Tonight In Coliseum Carroll Broussard , . top scorer in SWC play ‘Teens Against Polio’ Work Slated At Game Bryan-College Station teenagers will make collections tonig-ht at the Aggie-Arkansas basketball game as the “Teens Against Polio” Drive in the area continues. This month has been designated as the month for the annual drive. Local teenagers are participating in the project in order to raise money for the polio fund. Work began last Thursday and will continue through Feb. 4. Saturday a group of the teeners made collections from people pass ing on a toll road. Their next proj ect after tonight’s collection at the basketball game will be held Thurs day at a Stephen F. Austin-A&M Consolidated basketball game. Other planned projects are pea nut sales Jan. 14 and 21, another SFA-Consolidated basketball throw Jan. 24, a Radiothon for youths Jan. 28, the “Teens Against Polio” Talent Show Jan. 30 and a “Teens Against Polio” Dance Feb. 4. All citizens of the Bryan-College Station area have been urged to contribute to the drive since the money collected will be used in re search for better and more im proved ways of coihbating Infan tile Paralysis. Also money collected is used to make available more of the pre ventive cures and to assist in thera peutic treatments which are now in use in hospitals all over the na tion. . ★ ★ ★ Arkansas Seeks To Snap Ag Skein By JOE CALLICOATTE A&M’s basketball team lays a Southwest Conference lead on the line tonight in G. Rollie White as the Arkansas Razor- backs come down from the hills to play the role of challenger. Arkansas is fresh from a last minute “thriller” victory over Southern Methodist University’s Mustangs that left the Ponies dangling by a 76-74 deficit in Fayetteville Saturday n'ight. And of course A&M finished off the still hibernating Baylor Bears in Waco on the same night, 75-61. In the SMU game, Arkansas’ Pat Foster was the “hero” as he dropped in 21 points as well as made an assuring free throw with only six seconds left to play. However, the big man to' t man watch for the Hogs seems to be Jerry Carlton who had 19 points against the Mustangs. Carlton is the only Arkansas player in the top ten scorers in both season and SWC play. He is averaging 18.5 in the two confer ence games played and 18.6 for the season in 10 games. Even though Arkansas’ top scor er for I960, Clyde Rhoden, isn’t quite up to par this season, he is still quite a scoring threat. Rho den has just recently recovered from an early season ankle injury. Carroll Broussard is still the most talked about Aggie scorer as he is leading the loop in two con- ferende outings with a 26.5 aver age, but still ranks third in season play.' But, anyone who watched the A&M-Baylor tilt Saturday night found out it takes more than one man to play the game as the Stan ley Twins and Wayne Annett tor mented would be Bear scorers with their defensive antics. Also the rebounding of Jerry Windham was instrumental in the Aggie win. After Pat Stanley’s 20-point con tribution against Baylor, he moved into upper level of conference scor ing with a 16.5 average to hold down eighth place. LINEUP A&M Carroll Broussard. G Wayne Annette G Jerry Windham ..C Pat Stanley ...F Don Stanley „.F ARKANSAS Pat Foster G Jerry Carlton G Ronnie Garner : C Alan Morrison F Clyde Rhoden F Brazos Protection Against Polio Lags College Station Lions yesterday were told that Brazos Copnty has more than a dozen polio victims who continue to need aid in therapy and rehabilitation. Speaking in behalf of the New March of Dimes Drive, Dr. I. W. Rupel, chairman of the> Brazos County Board of the Na tional Foundation, said an intense battle against crippling diseases— Students Plan Mexican Tour During Break A group of students, faculty members and both student and faculty wives will tour Mexico dux'- ing the semester recess under the sponsorship of the Memorial Stu dent Center Council and Director ate. The venture is the first such college-sponsored tour made by a group of students. ' The group will leave A&M Saturday morning, Jan. 28, and return Friday morn-' ing, Feb. 4. Spots of interest to be visited are the floating gardens, a bull fight, the Pyramid of the Sun and the Moon, Maximillian’s Palace, the silver mines of Texco, the Pal ace of Fine Arts, the University of Mexico City, the National Ca thedral, and the Shrine of Guada lupe. Anyone interested in going should inquire at the MSC Direct orate Office by 5 p.m. Friday. A&M Ad Club Gets Go Ahead For National President Earl Rudder announced Friday that the A&M Advei'tising Club may now proceed with plans to join Alpha Delta Sigma, the na tional professional advertising fra ternity. Affiliation with ADS has been a major goal of the A&M Adver tising Club for more than a year, according to Jim Riley, president of the Ad Club. Shortly before the Christmas holidays, Riley and sev eral members of the Ad Club wrote and submitted a petition for ap proval by President Rudder. Final preparations are now be ing made for the submission of a formal petition to the national chapter of Alpha Delta Sigma for admission into the national fra- ternity. According to Riley, a great deal of work still remains to be done, but members of the Ad Club are highly optimistic that final admis sion into ADS will come before the National ADS Convention in April. Tentative qualifications for mem bership require that pledges have at leas]t a sophomore standing, .an over-all grade point ratio of 1.25 and a grade point ratio of 1.75 in all advertising-related courses, ac cording to Riley. The Advertising Club will meet Tuesday night in Room 6 of Nagle Hall to have pictui’es made for the Aggieland and discuss final plans for writing the petition to ADS. • Anyone who is interested in the field of advertising is invited to at tend the meeting for further in formation about the club and its activities, said Riley. HIGHEST OFFER: $700 EE Majors Lead In Dollars Offered Special fo The Battalion A&M, one of 61 participating colleges and universities from coast to coast, released today the first report of the College Placement Council’s study of the starting salary of fers made by employers to male college seniors. Electrical engineers, the report^ indicated, continue to lead the field for top dollars being offered and are also in greatest demand by volume. The Council survey revealed the averages of 1,406 offers made by business and industry up to the time of the Christmas vacation. The next report is scheduled for early April and a summary will be released in June. Top Five The top five curricula being of fered highest starting rates at this point in the recruitment year are, in order, electrical engineering at $552, aeronautical engineering at $551, physical sciences at $546, chemical engineering at $540 and mechanical engineering at $536. Offers in top engineering cur ricula tended to be $15 to $20 high er per month than at this time last year. Leading curricula in terms Recognizing that the demand for technical graduates would domi nate the report, the Council’s com mittee under the chainnanship of Wendell R. Horsley, placement di rector, compiled avei’ages for both technical and non-technical cate gories. The national monthly av erage for technical offers in all curricula was $543 while non-tech nical showed an average of $444. Highest non-technical curriculum was accounting at $469. A further analysis of the latter group x-evealed that general busi ness students ai'e receiving offers at this point averaging $435 while those for students in liberal ai’ts and biological sciences ai’e averag ing $423 per month. The national averag-s indicated that while the more generous salary offerings take the limelight, a more realistic appraisal is suggested by the me dian or mid-point of these avei’ ages which was $517. The Council’s statisticians were quick to point' out that eai’ly of fers tend to be concentrated in th< scarce technical categories whilfe both ai’ts and business offers in crease in volume and value as the recruiting season progresses. For the purpose of its survey, the College Placement Council lim- °f the Y. olume of offers, are elec-li|gd the..gtudy.-tp the 11 curricula trical engineering, mechanical en-|and 16 areas of employment show- gineering, accounting, general bus iness and chemical engineering. of employment show ing the most activity in recent years. Employers making the five highest dollar offers were in the fields of electronics and instru ments at $551, aircraft «*md parts at $548, electrical machinery and equipment at $546, chemicals, drugs and allied products at $535 and pe troleum and allied products at $525. Highest individual offer — $700 —was made by an aircraft and parts employer in the east to a physical sciences student. CADETS HEAR, SEE ‘UNIQUE CAPABILITY 9 Briefing Team Outlines TAG polio, arthritis, and birth defects— is being waged, by the National Foundation. This, he said, is being done through research to determine causes and t o seek preventive measures, through education by providing scholarships in nursing, therapy and medicine, and through treatment by providing therapy and rehabilitation. Rupel also emphasized to the group the results of a recent sur vey made in local schools which showed an alarming number of children and parents unprotected from polio. The survey, said Rupel, showed that more than 37 per cent of the school children have fewer than three polio shots, 40.2 per cent of the preschool children have had fewer than three shots and 24 per cent of this group have had no shots, and that 52.3 per cent of the parents have had no shots. “Vaccines are available; but un used, they cannot protect,” Rupel said. He concluded by urging that each family arrange for protection against polio by seeing the family physician for a series of Salk vac cinations, and to give generously to the March of Dimes campaign now in progress. Rupel addressed the Downtown Lions Club today and will speak to the Bryan Rotary Club tomorrow. He will also address the Bryan Ki- wanis Club Jan. 20. He spoke to the College Station Kiwanis Club Jan. 3. ] ish Handed First Setback — Page 4 By RONNIE BOOKMAN “As a result of the continued pressure of militant Communism, the United States must have fast reacting forces which can counter with appropriate and politically ac ceptable military measures all ag gressions short of general war. The Tactical Air Command pro vides a unique capability to ac complish these tasks effectively.” This was the gist of a very vivid program presented to all Air Force cadets and Army advanced students Saturday morning in Guion Hall. A Tactical Air Com mand (TAG) briefing team from Langley Air Force Base, Va., made the presentation. Col. C. E. Gregory, professor of of Air Science at A&M, introduced the team, consisting of Capt. Rob ert J. Spence and Capt. Ernest P. Couture. The theme of the briefing was to show TAC’s place in the team of US Armed Forces. Gives Support “In the event the Army should become engaged in combat opera tions, TAG is the component of the Air Force that would give direct support to their operations,” said Gregory in introducing the team. Spence and Couture utilized lec ture slides and film strips in mak ing the briefing. The briefing teams from Lang ley present programs to almost every group that requests them. “If three men are standing on a street corner and we come along, they probably would get a brief ing,” Spence commented. New developments in missiles and aircraft, as well as techniques used in TAG operations were cov ered. “In general war, TAG forces in the U. S. will augment or re inforce the theater forces. To strengthen the European general war forces, TAG also provides ad ditional fighter squadrons on a regular four-month rotation sched ule to overseas bases. These squadrons are controlled by the theater commander after their ar rival,” said Spence. “To prevent any degradation of the theater forces general war posture, TAG may deploy small war forces from the U.S. direct to threatened areas or to the the ater to complement theater air forces. The deployments made to Lebanon in the Mid-East and Tai wan in the Far-East the summer of 1958 are examples of this,” Cou ture added. “The allocation of airlift is one example of the need for particu larly close cooperation between the Air Force and the Army. TAG is (See TAG On Page 3) Two-Man TAC Reviewing Team . . . Captains Robert J. Spencce and Ernest P. Couture