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1 US Carrier
Sails Into
.« Cuban Port
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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-+
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. .
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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
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Two-Man TAC Reviewing Team
. . . Captains Robert J. Spencce and Ernest P. Couture