12 COPIES 1 US Carrier Sails Into .« Cuban Port Ttv The Asisfieiaf erl T , r , e | 5 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