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College Station, Texas
Thursday March 9,1961
THE BATTALION y 0 R MERIWETHER
Weekend Schedule Shows
Eleven Events On Tap
The following is a schedule of
events for the upcoming Spring
Military Day weekend. The sched
ule begins with the President’s
Dinner tomorrow night and con
tinues through the Military Ball
Saturday night.
Friday
7 p.m. — President’s Dinner,
Rooms 2C and 2D, Memorial Stu
dent Center. '
9 p.m.—Combat Ball, Sbisa Hall
(preceded by the Intercollegiate
Talent Show in G. Rollie White
Coliseum at 7 p.m.) Cafe Rue Pi-
nalle, lower level of MSC.
Saturday
9:30-10:30 — tour of campus for
visiting dignitaries.
10:30-11:30 —- coffee in MSC for
visitors.
12-1 p.m. — commander’s lunch
eon, Assembly Room, MSC.
1:30 p.m. — Corps of Cadets re
view, main drill field.
2:30-4 p.m. — President’s recep
tion, Ball Room of MSC.
6 p.m. — informal buffet sup
per, Col. and Mrs. Joe E. Davis,
Birch Room, MSC.
9 p.m. — formal Military Ball,
Sbisa Hall.
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JFK Confident
Of Nomination
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President
Kennedy appeared assured today
of Senate approval for the bitterly
debated nomination of Charles M.
Meriwether as an Export-Import
Bank director.
Meriwether, segregationist and
political ally of Alabama Gov.
John Patterson, weathered the
first round of opposition to his
appointment when the Senate vot
ed 66-18 Tuesday against pigeon
holing his nomination.
By agreement, senators would
end what has been acrid debate
at 2 p.m. EST today to vote on
the nomination.
Sen. Kenneth B. Keating, R.-
N.Y., one of those who sought
unsuccessfully to send Meriweth
er’s appointment to cold storage
in the Banking Committee, pre
dicted approval of Kennedy’s
choice. He said it was obvious
that some Democrats were reluc
tant but had decided to go along
with their new President.
The Senate’s liberals, who had
led the fight against a nominee
stridently assailed by Sen. Wayne
Morse, D.-Ore., split on the crucial
vote pn a motion of Sen. Jacob
K. Javits, R.-N.Y., to recommit
the appointment to committee.
Classed Liberal
Most of the nine Republicans
and nine Democrats who voted
“yes” class themselves as liberals.
But several of the same political
persuasion joined Senate conserva
tives in rolling up the 66 votes to
keep the issue before the Senate
for final disposal today.
In testimony before the Bank
ing Committee last week, Meri
wether had denied that he was
anti-Negro, anti-Semitic or anti-
Catholic. He said he was never
a member of the Ku Klux Klan
but said he accepted support of
persons closely connected with the
organization when he managed
Patterson’s successful campaign
in 1958.
Morse fired a fusillade of
charges and inquries at Meri
wether. He said Kennedy had
made a mistake in picking the
nominee, but suggested the Presi
dent was the victim of poor staff
work.
At one point Morse told the Sen
ate “I think I have been reliably
informed” that Meriwether “does
have a police record.” He read a
telegram to Meriwether asking
the nominee whether he was “ar
rested on Sept. 11, 1947, or any
other time on a charge of issuing
worthless checks and using a car
without the owner’s consent.”
He also asked whether Meri
wether once was “fired from the
Utopia Dry Cleaning Co., in Bir
mingham, Ala., allegedly for
drunkenness.”
Why Refused
Morse also asked the nominee
to explain “why the low tire bid
of U. S. Royal to the state of
Alabama was turned down in favor
of a higher bid by B. F. Goodrich
at a time when it is alleged that
Robert Shelton, grand dragon of
the Ku Klux Klan, was state sales
representative of Goodrich.”
He got a reply only from a sec
retary who said Meriwether could
not be reached, Morse said.
The Oregon senator also sent
letters to Kennedy and to J. Ed
gar Hoover, FBI director, asking
for a check on the FBI’s files in
connection with some of these
charges.
Morse read a letter to Kennedy
in whi£h he said “it is charged
that he Meriwether at one time
was an alcoholic although his
friends now claim he is reformed.”
In the midst of a dispute over
what might be in Meriwether’s
FBI file, Sen. John Sparkman, D.-
Ala., angered Morse when he said
“I hate to see the ugly head of
McCarthyism raised in the Senate
again.”
Morse strode angrily over to
Sparkman storming that he re
sented the implication that he was
engaging in McCarthyism.
Sen. A. Willis Robertson, D.-Va.,
protested against what he called
“guilt by association” attacks
against Meriwether. Robertson
said he concluded that “the real
objection to Mr. Meriwether is
that he believes that segregation
in Alabama is best for Alabama.”
Test Ban Negotiations
Felt Nearing Deadline
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Evidence
mounted today that so far as con
gressional leaders are concerned
President Kennedy has only a
limited time in which to try to
conclude an agreement with the
Soviet Union barring test explo
sions of nuclear weapons.
The President obviously will be
under very heavy pressure to re
sume testing of new U. S. atomic
weapons later this year unless the
Soviets make substantial conces
sions in, their proposals for a test
ban treaty.
Some further expressions of the
administration attitude toward a
new, round of negotiations, start
ing at Geneva in two weeks, may
come from Kennedy today at his
weekly news conference.
The President and his top dis
armament advisers conferred Tues
day at a luncheon meeting with
a dozen senators and House mem
bers who are active in the dis
armament field. Disarmament ad
viser John J. McCloy and Secre
tary of State Dean Rusk were
among those who participated in
the conference.
Afterward, Sen. Clinton P. An
derson, D.-N.M., a member of the
Senate-House Atomic Energy Com- The United States’ continuation
mittee, said a majority of the
committee was opposed to an in
definite extension of the mora
torium on atomic weapons testing.
The moratorium has been in
effect for 2 Vs years, beginning at
the same time as U. S.-British-
Soviet negotiations at Geneva on
a permanent agreement enforced
by an international inspection sys
tem to guard against sneak tests.
Members of the committee are
reported to have emphasized to
the President and other officials
that they feel the United States
is taking grave risks by not test
ing weapons in the absence of an
inspection system. .
The Soviets also, like the Brit
ish, have had a moratorium policy
since the Geneva negotiations got
under way. But many congres
sional leaders as well as officials
in the Defense Department and
Atomic Energy Commission fear
that the Soviets may have been
testing some devices in spite of
their public pronouncements to
the contrary.
Anderson said, “I don’t think
many members of the committee
trust the Russians.”
of a voluntary moratorium, An
derson said, amounts to giving
the Soviets a suspension ,of test
ing without any inspection to as
sure they live up to any bargain.
“They would like for this to
continue indefinitely,” Anderson
said. “Some of us do not agree,"
“Another member of the com
mittee, Sen. Bourke B. Hicken-
looper, R.-lowa, chimed in: “I am
one of those, too.”
Kennedy is reported to have
made a firm decision to do every
thing reasonably possible to get a
test ban agreement. The British
government, under heavy domestic
pressure never to resume, testing,
is even more eager than the United
States to get a ban and mucli
more fearful of the consequences
of resuming tests.
Authoritative sources in the
capital said it was apparent that
Kennedy is unwilling to fix any
deadline for the negotiations be
ginning March 21. However, in
administration quarters it is re
ported that McCloy feels that six
weeks to two months should be
sufficient time in which to find
out of the Soviets seriously want
a test ban treaty.
‘Supreme Being’ Belief
Bill Proposed For Teachers
By The Associated Press
AUSTIN—A bill aimed at keep
ing persons who do not believe in
a Supreme Being from teaching in
public-supported schools drew criti-j
cism Wednesday night from min
isters and church leaders.
The bill, HB548, by Rep. W. Tj
Oliver of Port Neches would re-j
quire all persons who would teaclj
in public schools, or state-sup-j
ported colleges and universities to
swear they believe in the existence
of a Supreme Being.
“I personally have, dedicated my
life to trying to convince people
of the existence of a Supreme
Being. As a Baptist and as an
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individual I cherish deeply the
freedom of any man to believe or
disbelieve,” said the Rev. Madison
Scott, pastor of First Baptist
Church, Austin.
Harold Kilpatrick, executive sec-
retary of the Texas Council of
Churches, said the council passed
a resolution Wednesday at its an
nual assembly in Waco opposing
the bill.
“The situation may occur where
we might be at the small end of
the barrel and we would be told
you cannot profess the religion
that you hold,” the Rev. Edmund
Heinsohn, minister emeritus of the
University Methodist Church, Aus
tin, said.
Twice during the hearing com
mittee chairman Bill Hollowell had
to halt laughter and applause from
the audience.
Oliver told the House State Af
fairs Committee:
“There are those who would ac
knowledge belief in a Supreme
Being if they were an atheist and
then teach atheism in their classes.
This would give the administra
tion a safeguard,” said Oliver, the
father of four children.
He said some of his constituents
have told him they believe some
teachers at Lamar Tech in Beau
mont are teaching atheism.
“What is a Supreme Being?"
Rep. Rayfojd Price asked.
“To different people it’s differ
ent things,” said Oliver. “We are
not here just by chance. This,is
what keeps up a civilized world,
This is what keeps us from de
vouring each other like animals,"
“What is
later asked.
atheist?” Price
“To me an atheist is someone
who does not believe in God, l!
Oliver replied.
HIGH SCHOOL
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Arts and Sciences, Agriculture and
Veterinary Medicine.
Later that afternoon the higli
school students will be invited to
attend an inter-squad football
game to be held at 4 p.m. on Kyle
Field.
The students will be able to visit
A&M students and spend the
nights of Friday, Mar. 17 and Sat
urday, Mar. 18 in the college
dorms.
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