TO BE REVEALED MARCH 11
Five Finalists Announced
For Corps Sergeant Major
Pine finalists in the race for
Corps Sergeant Major were an
nounced last night by Corps Com
mander Syd Heaton,
hey are:
lalcolm H. Hall from Ballinger,
James W. Cardwell from Luling,
Gary R. Anderson from Corpus
Christi, Stewart B. Carpenter from
Houston and Charles L. Cochran
from Houston.
They were chosen from a field
of 17 juniors.
AH will undergo further inter
views with Col. t Joe E. Davis, com-
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mandant of cadets; Dean James P.
Hannigan, dean of students and
Earl Rudder, president of the col
lege.
The winner will be announced at
the Militatry Bull, March 11.
The Corps Sergeant Major is
usually made Corps Commander
the following year.
General discussion and thought
questions dealing with Corps policy
and activities were asked the inter
viewees by a board of seven cadet
officers.
1 World Wrap - Up
By The Associated Press
Airliner Crash Fills Skating Stars
BRUSSELS, Belgium—The crash of a Boeing 707 jet
yesterday killed 73 persons including 18 young American
figure skating stars.
The S^bena Airlines plane spun out of control in circling
for a landing and crashed in a sunlit farmyard, killing a
former in addition to 61 passangers and 11 crew members.
The wreckage burned.
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San Amrelo Fire Controlled
SAN ANGELO, Tex.—Quick work by firemen confined
a spectacular fire, fed by exploding gasoline tanks, to a
limited area in the edge of the downtown San Angelo Wed
nesday.
Flames leaped 50 feet skyward and thick, black smoke
billowed over most of San Angelo from a forenoon blaze
at the Davis Petroleum Co. on the northwest side of the
business district.
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IT. S.—Canada Misunderstanding
CANADA—A recent flare-up in U. S.-Canadian relations
involved Canadian trade with the Cuban government of Fidel
Castro. This was caused partly by misunderstanding. Can
ada’s trade minister: George Fees, touched off sparks when
he told a visiting Cuban trade mission: “Canada couldn’t
do business with better businessmen anywhere.”
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Senate Candidate Record Broken
AUSTIN—The special U. S. Senate race assumed record
proportions yesterday as Curtis E. Hill, a Dallas attorney,
became candidate No. 30. . -
Hill’s payment of his $50 fee for a place on the April
4 ballot cracked the old record of 29 candidates which was
set in the 1941 Senate race.
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Wild Riots Disturb XJ.N. Security Council
UNITED NATIONS. N. Y.—American Negroes shouting
for Patrice Lumumba Wednesday broke into the Security
Council chamber with the wildest demonstration in United
Nations history to interrupt debate on the Lumumba-Congo
crisis.
The riot set off fights and tumult at the outset of a
speech by Adlai E. Stevenson, U. S. chief delegate.
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M. M. To Be Released From Hospital
NEW YORK—Marilyn Monroe will be out of the hospi
tal in a few days and is looking forward to doing a television
show, her press agent said today.
The blonde actress has been reported suffering from
emotional upset.
The board was composed of
Cadet Col. of the Corps Syd
Heaton, Cadet Col. Guyron Lay-
cock, Cadet Col. Richard Meadows,
Cadet Col. Harvey Barber, Cadet
Col. Kenneth Darnel, Cadet Col.
Bobby McDaniel and Cadet .Lt. Col.
Walter Willms.
Selection procedures started
when Wing and Brigade command
ers were asked to submit candi
dates for the top Corps non-com
missioned officer spot.
Juniors interviewed for the job
were:
Terry Gossett, Malcolm Hall,
Gary Lively, Bill Cardwell, Gary
Anderson and Robert. Timme. Also
Paul Heye, Steve Stevens, Skip
Seale and Jimmy Cash.
Stewart Carpenter, John Betts,
Chuck Cochran, John Winder,
Ramsey Melugin, Ben Trail and
John Waddle.
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. Cochran
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Physics Prof
Resigns; Takes
Another Post
Associate Professor C. H. Ber
nard, who has been with the De
partment of Physics since 1941,
has announced he will resign Aug.
31.
Dr. Frank W. R. Hubert, Dean
of the School of Arts and Sciences,
said Bernard will leave the college
to become Professpr and Chairman
of the Department of Physics at
Midwestern University at Wichita
Falls. His duties there will begin
on Sept. 1.
Bernard has spent most of his
time as a teacher while at A&M.
However, he conducted extensive
research in nuclear physics while
on leave of absence from the
school.
He participated in research in
1954-56 at Convair Division of
General Dynamics at Fort WbrEhT
and studied during the summers
of 1958-59 at Tennessee’s Oak
Ridge Institute pf Nuclear Studies.
Dr. J. G. Potter, Head of the
Department Of Physics, praised
Bernard’s teaching contributions.
“Bernard has been a very effec
tual teacher at A&M, and it’s going
to be hard to replace him. He
will do a fine job for the Mid
western University Department of
Physics. We hate to see him go,”
Potter said.
The professor and his wife have
been active members of the A&M
Church of Christ. He has been an
Elder for more than 12 years.
The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION. TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1961
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Total Enrollment Is 6,545
Figure Highest
In Four Years
H. L. Heaton, director of admissions and registrar, re
leased today the number of students who had registered for
the spring semester through the present date.
The final figures as compiled from college records listed
a total of 6,545 students now enrolled at A&M.
These figures fell short of an earlier count which was
expected to reach as high as 7,000. The count of 6,545 stu
dents however, represents an increase of 189 students over
the same registration period for the spring semester of 1960.
At that time the registration totaled 6.356. Looking back
into records the number of students enrolled for the spring
semester is the largest in four years, being greater than
the 6,137 students who en-*
rolled in the spring semester
of 1959 or the 6,355 students
who were counted for the
spring semester of 1958.
It has been pointed out several
times however that the .student en
rollment figures or “count” is not
necessarily a dependable indicator
of the role that is being played by
a particular institution in the
state’s higher education programs.
Many instiutions are heavily
weighed with students enrolled for
only one or a few courses. This
is particularly found in those areas
of large metropolitian population.
In contrast to this, with only a
few exceptions, those enrolled in
A&M are full time students who
are carrying a full academic load
of subjects.
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One-Minute
Prayer Slated
Here Tomorrow
The entire campus will be
thrown into a full minute of sil
ence in the midst of the mid morn
ing rush tomorrow for the offi
cial college observance of the
“National World Day of Prayer.”
President Earl Rudder has an
nounced the college whistle will
blow at 10 and 10:01 a.m. in ob
servance of the occasion.
Rudder officially proclaimed the
event by saying, “It is reouested
that we halt our activities for one
minute of silent prayer as we
unite with the people throughout
this country and around the world
in observing the ‘World Day of
Prayer.”
The move is sponsored by the
United Church Women of the Na
tional Churches of Christ in the
U. S. I !
‘Review’ Opens
First Annual
Photo Contest
With a top prize of $25 going to
the winner, the Texas A&M Re
view announces the opening of its
first annual photography contest.
Second and third prizes of $15 and
$10 will also be awarded, and
photos by the winners and runners-
up will be published in the pre
summer issue of the Review.
According to Review Editor Jim
Gibson, the contest will not be
divided into classes such as pets
or landscapes, and the only re
striction is that the subject matter
be in the state of Texas.
Pictures will be judged on such
points as print quality, originality
and creativity, and winnei-s will
be chosen by a panel of three
judges from the Department of
Architecture and Journalism facul
ties.
Print size is limited to only 8
by 10 inches, and prints should be
submitted by April 1. None will
be accepted after 5 p.m. on that
date. Entries may be brought to
the Office of Student Publications,
basement of the YMCA, and any
one who presently holds an A&M
Student ID Card is eligible.
Winners will be announced in
the pre-summer issue of the Re
view along with display of their
photographs. Announcement will
be made in the Battalion later as
to the date entries may be picked
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Aggie Ex
RE Speaker
By TOMMY HOLBEIN
Three outstanding - religious leaders will be conducting
forum and discussion groups in Henderson and Hart Halls,
and Dormitories 5, 7, and 10 during Religious Emphasis Week
starting Feb. 20 and lasting through Feb. 24.
Leading the groups for Hen-’t' ;
derson Hall will be Rev. Emil H.
Bunjes, of the Southeast Christian,
Church, Houston, Tex.
Rev. Bunjes attended Texas
A&M from January, 1948 to June,-
1950, majoring in journalism, dur
ing which time he wrote for The
Battalion,” was a member of the
Maroon Band, A&M Christian
Church, and the Singing Cadets.
From September, 1950, until
June, 1952, Rev. Bunjes attended
Southwestern Bible Institute and
was awarded the Bachelor of Sci
ence degree in theology. While
in attendance there, he was a mem
ber of the school orchestra, and
founded and edited the school
newspaper, “The Outlook.”
He received his B.D. degree
from Brite College of the Biblf
at Texas Christian University
where he majored in church his
tory from January, 1955 to June,
1958.
The minister has held pastor
ates, as a student, at Bertram and
Elgin, Tex., and a full-time pas
torate at Silsbee First Christian
Church. Before taking the pas
torate at Silsbee, he was assistant
editor of the Voice of Healing
Publishing Co. in Dallas for a
brief time.
Active in inter-church programs,
Rev. Bunjes, is a member of the
Board of Directors of the Associ
ation of Churches in greater
Houston. He participates in youth
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JAZZ SPECIALISTS
Mardi Gras Tales
Covering Campus
By JACK COOPER
At 10 a. m. Tuesday the Ross Volunteers led off to start
the Rex Parade and to wind their way through 6.2 miles of
screaming, pressing crowds at the Mardi Gras festivities in
New Orleans.
The R. V.’s left Camp Leroy
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North Texas Lab Band
Presents Concert Tonight
North Texas Lab Band In Action
. . . brings touted reput ation to Aggieland tonight
Mrs. Rudder Captures Prize
By ROBERT DENNEY
The North Texas State Band will
have a jam'session Thursday night
in Guion Hall at 7:30 p.m.
The group, which specializes in
jazz, has won many honors in com
petition with professional and
semi-professional bands across the
nation, including first place in the
Notre Dame Jazz Festival, third
in the Best New Band Contest and
the Gold and Silver Plaque Award
in the Georgetown Jazz Festival.
The band was featured at the
State Fair of Texas and the Stan
Kenton National Band Camp, and
is scheduled to appear at the Dallas
Fine Arts Festival as Guest Band.
Admission for the public is $1.00
and A&M students will be admitted
for 50 d.
Student work in college labora
tories isn’t usually the sort of
thing to attract big crowds, but
the Lab Band at North Texas State
packs them in every week.
Their subject is jazz and they’re
working toward a bachelor of
music degree with a major in dance
band. The laboratory is in the
Student Union Building, where
various groups, large and small,
play their own arrangements and
compositions at Thursday after
noon jam session.
The product of this unusual edu
cational system has attracted in
creasing national attention.
The “Lab Band,” as it is known
on the campus, has appeared on
Steve Allen’s network show, made
records for the Columbia label and
performed throughout the country.
In May, 1959, the band placed third
in the nation in the “Best New
Band” Contest sponsored by the
American Federation of Musicians.
The group won the honor in New
York in competition with profes-
Talent Show
Set Saturday
The speech class and girls’ drill
team of A&M Consolidated High
School has combined efforts in
putting on a talent show to be
held Saturday night.
Opening the first of 22 acts,
will be a dance routine by the
Bengal Belles. The show will
start at 8 p.m. in the high school
auditorium. Admission will be 50
cents per person.
the
sional bands after winning
semi-finals in Chicago.
In March, 1960, the Laboratory
Band won top awards at the 1960
Collegiate Jazz Festival held at
Notre Dame University. In com
petition with 28 other bands from
across the nation, the NTSC group
was named the outstanding band
of the festival and the best big
band.
The student musicians followed
that by winning a gold loving cup
and silver plaque for second place
at the Georgetown Jazz Festival
in May. Then in August the band
was the featured demonstration
band for the Stan Kenton National
Band Camp held at Indiana Uni
versity.
The fall of 1960 brought engage
ments at the “College Jazz at the
Coliseum” show of the State Fair
of Texas and as the Guest Band
for the opening of the Dallas Fine
Arts Festival, Nov. 1.
The Lab Band is the product of
a nationally recognized school of
music. It has been noted for years
for its Symphony Orchestra, Opera
Workship, Concert and Marching
Bands, A Cappella Choir, Grand
Chorus and a dozen smaller per
forming groups.
Johnson by buses and arrived at
the corner of Baronne and Felicity
streets about 9 a.m. The Aggie
spirit was there in full force and
it wasn’t long until a yell practice
had begun with Sonny Todd and
Tom Ralph adding a few words of
encouragement. The Tarleton State
College Band provided the music
as the Aggies sang the War Hymn
and sawed varsity’s horns off.
The parade was a little late get
ting started but the Aggies didn’t
waste a minute. With music from
a nearby juke box filling the air,
several R.V.’s danced with girls
who were standing around to watch
the parade.
When the parade got under way,
the R.V.’s stole the show. All along
the parade route favorable com
ments were heard.
One man was heard to say,
“When the boys from Texas A&M
quit coming down here, I’m gonna
quit coming to the Rex Parade.”
An Aggie ex was seen holding
his 3-year-old son up over the
heads of the crowd and saying,
“Look thei-e, son. Maybe someday
you’ll be able to mear an R.V.
uniform.”
Many times during the thi-ee-
hour long parade the platoons had
to march through gaps so narrow
that police had to be called in to
push the crowds back.
A continuous wave of applause
echoed through the Crescent City
as the R.V.’s executed the march
ing manual and exchange manual.
With rifles popping and heels click
ing, the Aggies made an impres-
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