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Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 9,1961
Number 80
ITS Stars
Also Appear '
At Rue Pinalle
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Entertainment unlimited is
scheduled for tomorrow night, be
ginning with the Intercollegiate
Talent Show followed by Cafe Rue
Pinalle lasting until early Satur
day hours.
Ten acts, featuring the tops in
talent from a five-state area, will
perform at the ITS in G. Rollie
White Coliseum. Following the
show, four of the 10 attractions
will entertain at the Cafe Rue
Pinalle, providing a floor show for
the occasion.
Included in the Rue Pinalle en
tertainers are Miss Lollie Kremer,
sultry jazz singer from North
Texas State College. She is a
freshman from Wichita Falls
majoring in advertising art, and
is in Chi Omega sorority.
Miss Kremer, who was last seen
on the A&M Campus Feb. 16 when
she performed with the NTSC Lab
High School
Day Flans
Completed
Plans for A&M’s 13th Annual
High School Day to be held Mar.
18 have been completed.
The all-day program for the
prospective Aggies will feature a
comprehensive tour of A&M fa
cilities. It will also include per
sonal career counseling with mem
bers of the faculty concerning the
particular degree programs that
A&M has to offer.
After registering in the Memor
ial Student Center upon their ar
rival, the high school students will
attend an orientation assembly at
10 a.m. in Guion Hall. There they
will be welcomed to the college by
Dean Frank W. R. Hubert, School
of Arts and Sciences.
I Others on the program are Ro
land Dommert, president of the
Student Senate, Syd Heaton, Corps
Commander, and Robert Laird,
Corps Chaplain.
Following lunch in the college
dining halls, the students will tour
the college by groups which are
arranged according to their field
of interest. These tours conducted
between 1:30-4 p.m. will include
the Departments of Engineering,
(See HIGH SCHOOL on Page 4)
Band, was first place winner of
her college’s freshman talent show.
Last year, she was first runner-
up in the “Junior Miss Texas”
pageant, and winner of a gold
trophy, and was elected “High
School Most Beautiful” when a
senior in Wichita Falls.
Another entertainer on tab for
the Cafe Rue Pinalle will be Johnny
Knowles from Texas Christian
University. Knowles is a guitar
soloist who has performed on tele
vision and worked with several
stage bands. He is a 1960 gradu
ate of Lamar High School in Hous
ton, and is a freshman physics
major at TCU.
Clyde Bateman, smooth vocal
solist from Texas Tech, will be the
third showman scheduled for the
“after hours” night club setting.
Bateman sings in “Sinatra-Bobby
Darin” style, and has appeared on
the Tech “Raider Rambles,” and
Radio Station KLIF in Dallas’
“Starmaker” show, and placed
third in each contest.
The freshman architect major
from Paris has various activities
on the Tech campus, including the
Arts and Entertainment Commit
tee of the Tech Student Union,
vocalist with the Tech stage band,
and member of the Tech choir and
glee club. '
Fourth Attraction
For the Rue Pinalle Dance, a
fourth attraction from ITS will
play, the Jokers from Louisiana
State University. This stage band
will be making its third return to
the A&M Campus, and is famous
for its original style and arrange
ments.
Breakfast will be served at 1:30
a.m., consisting of coffee, orange
juice, doughnuts and sweet rolls,
and admission to the event is $2
per couple, to be held in the Lower
Level of the Memorial Student
Center.
Other acts on ITS will include
Miss Sandra Chuddy from LSU,
who holds the title of “Miss New
Jersey” of 1960; among various
other titles won both in her home
state and at college.
Also on the show will be “The
Trio Columbia” from the Uni
versity of Texas, Miss Dorothy
Nelson from the University of
Arkansas, a dance trio from South
ern Methodist University, and
Charles Marshall, comedian from
Texas A&M.
A&M Cadets Prep
For Military Day
Grade Report
Shows 1.116
Overall Mark
North Texas’ Lollie Kremer
. . . appears on Campus second time
DUEAPRIL 14
Babcock Essay
Deadline Nearing
The title for the annual Babcock essay contest, with its
first prize of $250, has been announced. The subject of
this year’s composition on some facet of life at Aggieland is
“Educational Assets I Find at Texas A&M.”
C. L. Babcock, ’20, Beaumont in- - *
France man, sponsors the yearly
tonipetition which is designed to
Produce an outstanding paper on
some part of life at A&M.
In addition to the first prize of
1250 ten honor certificates will be
Warded to'the runner-ups. The
Wards will be made at the Stu-
dent Publications Banquet May 19.
In the past, winners of the con
test have had their writings pub
lished in the U. S. Congressional
Record and publications through
out the state.
The essays will first be screen-
d by members of The Battalion
staff and the best ones will be
sent on to a judging committee for
the final decision. The committee
"’ill be named by President Earl
Rudder.
Rules for entering the competi
tion are as follows:
Apr. 14 is the deadline for en
tries in the contest. Entries must
be typed in regular manuscript
form with double spacing, and the
original and two carbon copies
turned in to The Battalion office
on the ground floor of the YMCA
Building on or before the dead
line.
Manuscripts can be no less than
250 nor more than 1,000 words in
length.
Any full time student enrolled
in the college for the current se
mester, with the exception of
members of The Battalion staff,
is eligible to submit an essay.
Criteria used in deciding the
winner, according to Babcock, will
be the four principles of student
journalism: ‘Is It the Truth?” “Is
It Fair?”, “Will It Build Good
Will?”, and ‘Will It Be Benefi
cial?”
I World Wrap-Up
By The Associated Press
Brazil Suffers Severe Water Shortage
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Gov. Carlos Lacerda pro
claimed a “state of calamity” in Rio de Janeiro Wednesday
as this city of 3.5 million persons entered the fifth day of
the most serious water shortage in its history.
Just one-fifth the normal water supply was reaching the
city as engineers labored to repair pumps put out of com
mission last week by floods.
★ ★ ★
Two Die In Train-Truck Collision
ROARING SPRINGS, Tex.—Two men died in a thun
derous train-truck 'crash which knocked three Diesel loco
motives off the track and piled freight cars three deep late
yesterday.
The collision involved a heavy eight-wheeled truck load
ed with wheat and a westbound Quanah, Acme & Pacific
Railroad freight. It happened at the east edge of Roaring
Springs, 60 miles northeast of Lubbock in West Texas.
★ ★ ★
Texas Unemployment Hits New Peak
AUSTIN—Unemployment in Texas hit its highest level
since the depression of the 1930’s in mid-January, the Texas
employment commission reported today.
Some 222,800 persons, 6.3 per cent of the state’s civilian
labor force, were out of work. The TEC said a slight de
crease in joblessness is expected in mid-March.
★ ★ ★
Britain To Give Malta Home Rule
LONDON — Britain announced yesterday it will give
limited home rule to the Mediterranean fortress island of
Malta and hopes for election of a 50-member Parliament by
the end of this year.
Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod told the House of Com
mons that home rule will apply in all fields except defense,
foreign affairs and internal security.
★ ★ ★
Castro Militia Units Demobilizing
HAVANA—Militia units assigned to combat rebels in
the Escambray Mountains are being demobilized, the gov
ernment radio said yesterday.
Prime Minister Fidel Castro said recently that all but
small groups of rebels had been wiped out in the south-cen
tral Cuba region.
★ ★ ★
Goldberg Predicts Economic Trends
WASHINGTON — Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Gold
berg predicted Wednesday, April will see an upturn in the
economy, but also another rise in unemployment.
Goldberg linked his forecasts at Senate hearings with
an appeal for swift enactment of the administration’s emer
gency program to speed an additional $1 billion of unem
ployment compensation benefits to jobless workers.
★ ★ ★
Congolese Issue Five-Point Demand
LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo — The Congolese govern
ment yesterday presented to the United Nations a five-point
demand upping the price for permitting return of U. N.
soldiers to the vital supply port of Matadi.
The U. N. Command is expected to reject it even though
its bargaining position was weakened by the announcement
that Morocco is withdrawing 800 soldiers from the Congo
destined to reinforce the United Nations in Leopoldville.
Dances, ITS Show
Share Spotlight
By RONNIE BOOKMAN
Shoes and brass have to be shined. Uniforms have to
be cleaned and pressed. Rooms have to be scrubbed spot
less. With these and other chores ahead of them, the Ca
dets of A&M are busy in preparation for the annual Spring
Military Day ceremonies.
The Combat Ball, the Intercollegiate Talent Show, a re
view and the Military Ball will help make this weekend a
hectic and fun filled weekend for Aggies.
Many special guests and dignataries are scheduled to
be on campus for the events. Louis Kuehn, Aggie sweet
heart; Gen. Clyde D. Eddlemen, vice chief of staff of the
Department of the Army, and Walter C. McGee, past presi
dent of the Former Students'*
Association, are on the guest
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list.
It is expected that more
than 5,000 persons will attend
the varied activities here.
The review will be held on the
main drill field Saturday at 1:30
p.m.
Gen. Eddleman and Congress
man Olin Teague will arrive here
tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. They will
be met by the Ross Volunteer
Honor Guard.
Included on the guest list are
Congressman and Mrs. Teague;
Gen. and Mrs. Eddleman; Maj.
Gen. and Mrs. R. A. Palladino,
military executive of the Reserve
Forces Police Board; Maj. Gen.
and Mrs. L. S. Griffing, 4th Army
deputy commanding general, and
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. K. L. Berry,
adjutant general of the State of
Texas;
Also on the list are Maj. and
Mrs. J. L. Thompson, Jr., com
manding general of the 49th Ar
mored Division; Brig. Gen. and
Mrs. Norman Callish, commander
of Mather AFB in Sacramento;
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. J. W. Sutton,
assistant division commander, 90th
Infantry Division, and Brig. Gen.
and Mrs. Graber Kidwell, division
artillery commander, 90th Infantry
Division.
Col and Mrs. John A. Way, chief
of staff national headquarters,
Civil Air Patrol; Col. and Mrs.
Delbert L. Bjork, senior advisor
90th Infantry Division; Mr. and
Mrs. Wiley Young, sponsor of the
Ross Volunteers at the New Or
leans’ Rex parade, and Mr. and
Mrs. C. R. Heaton, parents of the
Cadet Corps Commander.
Noted Explorer
To Speak At
‘Great Issues’
Dr. Paul A. Siple of Washing
ton, D. C., scientific advisor to the
Chief of Army Research and De
velopment and an internationally
known explorer, will be the speak
er next Tuesday for the Memorial
Student Center Great Issues Pro
gram.
The speaker’s topic will be “The
Challenge of the Polar Regions.”
He will be heard at 8 p.m. in
Guion Hall.
Siple is best known for his ex
plorations in the polar regions.
These actvities began 30 years ago
when he accompanied Adm. Rich
ard Byrd on the first expedition
to Little America.
Since then, Siple has made six
trips to Antarctica and three to
the Arctic. From 1954-1957, he
was director of scientific projects
on Navy operation “Deepfreeze 1.”
On this expedition, he was sci
entific leader in the first year of
operation of the U. S. Geophysical
Year Geographical South Pole Sta
tion. He endured a record low
temperature of a minus 102 de
grees.
The explorer is author of sev
eral books and many scientific ar
ticles. He has received honors for
his polar, scientific and military
work. He hold many academic
honors and the highest geographic
medals of the American, National
and Royal Geographic Societies.
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Sqd. 9
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Sqd. 17
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E-2
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Sqd. 2
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Sqd. 13
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Sqd. 16
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Sqd. 6
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Second Brigade outfits were able to take seven of the
top ten positions in the Corps grades. With the release of
the official Corps grade report Monday, by Clayton LaGrone,
Corps Scholastic Officer, Co. 1-2 showed to be the top unit.
Only two of the outfits which
were in the top ten at the report
ing mid-semester grades were
found to have dropped from the
top ten. These were Sqd. 7 and
Sqd. 15, which were replaced in
the new count by Co’s D-2 and F-l.
Co. Ct2, which was the number
one outfit in the mid-semester re
port, moved down to eighth place.
Overall in the Corps the grades
in the end-of-the-semester report
were lower than they were in the
mid-semester report. At the end
of the first half of the semester
the overall grade point ratio was Ffl
1.2428, while at the end of the 3.X .T llTH.
semester it had dropped to a mark
of 1.116. m n Cl
1 o Be Shown
Tomorrow
A film on the state’s tax prob
lem will be shown tomorrow at 5
p.m. and again at 9 a.m. Saturday
in Room 103 of the Academic
Building. The public is invited to
the showing of the film.
The film will be shown tonight
at 7:30 p.m. for graduate students
in industrial education, agricul
tural education, education and psy
chology and business administra
tion’. The showing is sponsored
by the Department of Education
and Psychology.
The Texas Research League pro
duced the 30-minute film which is
narrated by James McGrew and
Alvin Burger of the league. It
had its first showing last week
in Austin before capitol newsmen.
The film is pointed out as en
tirely objective in its analysis of
the tax structure and that it does
not advocate one plan above an
other.
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Sqd. 8
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Sqd. 7
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Sqd. 14
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Sqd. 15
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Sqd. 1
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Sqd. 4
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Sqd. 5
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Sqd. 12
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UNCONSTITUTIONAL
JFK Slams Federal Loans
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In a plea
that religious and desegregation
interests not kill his education bill,
President Kennedy said Wednes
day federal loans to private sec
ondary schools — just like grants
— are unconstitutional.
At the same time, the President
told his news conference that the
question of loans — unlike the
question of grants — is open to
debate.
“If Congress and congressmen
wish to address themselves to the
problem of loans,” he said, “I am
hopeful that it will be considered
as a separate matter.”
Asked whether he would veto
such a separate bill, Kennedy re
plied: “I think it is always a mis
take before we even have legisla
tion to talk about what I am going
to do, but I think it is very clear
about what my view is of grants
and loans across the board to non
public schools.”
Kennedy’s $2.3-billion bill, under
consideration by Congress, would
provide federal grants to public
schools, scholarships to college
students, and loans to colleges.
Spokesmen for the country’s Ro
man Catholic bishops have an
nounced opposition to the bill un
less it is revised to include a pro
gram of low-interest loans to pri
vate and parochial secondary
schools.
The President spent much of his
30-minute conference with 350
newsmen discussing the question
of grants and loans to private
schools. At several points, how
ever, he turned to foreign affairs
and commented on U.S. relations
with Communist countries.
He discussed Communist China’s
belligerent attitude toward the
United States and its refusal Tues
day to accept an offer by this
country to exchange foreign cor
respondents.
“They have been unfailing in
their attacks upon the United
States,” the President said. “I
would like to see a lessening of
that tension. That is our hope
from the beginning.
“But we are not prepared to
surrender in order to get a relax
ation of that.”
Again and again, in reply to
questions, the President returned
to the problem of education aid.
A newsman recalled Kennedy’s
statement last week that “there is
no debate” about the unconstitu
tionality of aid to parochial
schools.
“No room for debate about
grants,” Kennedy said, clarifying
his previous statement. “There is
obviously room for debate about
loans, because it has been debat
ed.”
But, he added, “my judgment
has been that across-the-board
loans are also unconstitutional.”
Kennedy said he looks for com
pletion in the next few days of a
Defense Department study which
will indicate whether the Soviet
Union has a missile advantage over
the United States. A reporter re
minded the President that he said
some time ago that he expected
to have an answer from the Pen
tagon by this time.
As a result of a review of pur
chasing and construction plans in
the federal government, $660 mil
lion more will be spent before June
30 than had been planned orig
inally. The speedup is an effort
to spurt the lagging economy.
Under a program aimed at re
lieving unemployment hardship,
the number of people receiving
surplus food has doubled—from
3.5 million in December to 6.1 mil
lion at this time—Kennedy report
ed.
He added that the value of such
food being distributed monthly al
so has doubled. He estimated the
worth of allotments at $12.80 a
month before the expanded pro
gram went into effect, and at
$24.40 in current retail value.
At the outset of the conference,
the President announced that the
Cuban Red Cross, the American
Red Cross and the U. S. Navy be
gan combined efforts Wednesday
to combat a polio outbreak in
Guantanamo City, Cuba, about 31
miles from the American naval
base in that area.
Needed vaccine to deal with the
outbreak was acquired from U. S.
supplies.
Kennedy said this incident em
phasizes that U. S. differences are
with the Cuban regime and not
with the Cuban people.