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6 n 12 COPIES The Battalion Volume II COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1961 Number 83 Polar Explorer Dr. Paul Siple . . . tells of experiences in Arctic, Antarctic EXPLORER RELATES EXPERIENCES Conquering Tear Of Ice’ Big Factor In Explorations The conquering of man’s in stinctive fear of the ice of the Arctic and Antarctic polar regions ms the greatest step in the even tual explorations of the polar re- Jions, Dr. Paul A. Siple said last tight as Great Issues speaker. Siple told the story of his ex plorations to a Guion Hall audi ence in two parts. He first ex plained the experiences of his ex plorations and then showed color slides of the expeditions to the audience. “Although an American was one of the first to assert that there was actually a continent at the South Pole, the United States re acted toward the idea of the use of this area in the same way we did when Seward bought Alaska. ‘What good is this large hunk of ice?’ “But then in the International Geophysical Year which began in 1957, both the Arctic and the Ant arctic had to be included in the scope of the investigation. World Wrap-Up By The Associated Press U. N. Deferring Negotiations Collaspes UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—East-West negotiations aim ed at deferring cold war issues in the U. N. General Assem bly collapsed Tuesday and delegates braced themselves for at least six weeks of stormy debate. Frederick H. Boland of Ireland, aassembly president, said the special Political Committee will meet Wednesday. ★ ★ ★ Tax Shift Proposed For Highway Program WASHINGTON—More taxes to keep the federal super highway building program on schedule were urged yesterday by a battery of Kennedy administration officials, who said operators of heavy trucks should pay a bigger share of the cost. “The desirability of such a shift of the tax burden is clearly borne out by various state and federal studies,” Sec retary of the Treasurer Dougles Dillon told the House Ways and Means Committee. ★ ★ ★ U. N. Authorizes Congo Shipments LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo—U. N. experts disregard ed the Congolese government Tuesday and authorized the shipment of money and gasoline to the blockaded rebel pro vinces of Oriental and Kivu to stave off famine and economic disaster. “The blockade is having serious effects,” Umbricht told newsmen. “Trade is almost at a standstill and the big cen ters of popuation are faced with, the threat of famine.” ★ ★ ★ Industrial Aid Bill Proposed In Senate WASHINGTON — The Senate Commerce Committee staff proposed yesterday a broad new program, much like the depressed areas aid bill, to help industries and communi ties which are hurt by foreign imports. Declaring foreign trade policy must serve the national interest, the staff report said this policy sometimes must involve hardship to a particular industry and the community or region in which it is located. “During the year in which the studies were conducted in the South Pole regions all nations were able to work together in scientific discovery. Since that time there has been a treaty drawn up which allows the use of military forces; to assist and support scientific activities, but the treaty prohibits the use of the polar regions for military purposes. “Although the predominant ac tivity at the South Pole is scien tific, there is some industry there. The first was vying for fur seals, then the hunters turned from seals to whales for their oil to use in lighting. “Now there is a new trade; stamp collectors all over the world send letters to the pole so they will be stamped, and they can have a postmark from the South Pole. Also there is a tourist trade of a sort which goes on in Antarctica. Each year hundreds of people fly or go in by ship to visit the icy continent, most of them dignitar ies and scientists from countries ail over the world. “But what of the future of the poles? In most places in Antar- tica the land is covered by ice more than a mile thick. And so far no mineral deposits have been found which would pay to compete with mineral deposits in other parts of the earth. “This points to a dark future for the continents at the ends of the world,” said Siple. “But we are living in a world where we need space and we are running out of space. And the poles have great quantities of space if practical ways can be found to make use of them. Be sides this the ice on the poles is one of the earth’s greatest supplies of chemically pure water which can be used in industry.” In the second half of his talk, Siple showed color slides taken at both poles. In explaning the slides, he showed how advances were being made in the exploita tion of the areas. The slides illustrated installa tions at the poles and showed how construction is carried on in the snow and ice to make the life of the men there as comfortable as possible in the sub-zero weather. Town Hall Series Presents Symphony In Coliseum Noted Scientist Plans Lecture NationalOrchestra ComingTomorrow The world-famed National Symphony Orchestra will be presented in concert tomorrow night as part of the Memorial Student Center Town Hall Series. The orchestra’s concert, under the direction of Howard Mitchell, will begin at 8 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The orchestra enjoys a special role in the social life of Washington, D. C., where they are based. Its list of boxholders is always headed by the President of the United States and Box 13 is known as “The Presi dent’s Box.” Former President and Mrs. Eisenhower have heard sev eral concerts and the same is expected of the new regime of President John Kennedy. In former years President and Mrs. Truman were fre quently in the audience. Al though President Roosevelt loved music, his disablement meant that he could not climb the stairs to the box, but members of his family and their friends used it, as did his wife and the family of Herbert Hoover. Although the orchestra receives no subsidy from either the federal government or the District of Co lumbia, it frequently participates in official functions. The group has played in two Presidential in augural concerts and several White House “command performances.” On other occasions semi-official conqerts have been given as ges tures of welcome to foreign heads of 'state, with the appropriate na tional anthem preceding the regu lar program. There have been concerts for the foreign ministers of the American republics, their names on the program and their presence in the circle of boxes acknowledged by the evening’s soloists. With each year the National Symphony reflects an amazing record of growth, both artistically and statistically. Starting in 1931, the orchestra gave 34 concerts. Last year it per formed 181 times in the United States before an estimated audi ence of 385,716. The current director and con ductor, Howard Mitchell, conducted 128 of these concerts. Assistant Conductor Lloyd Geisler conducted 35 and guests conducted the others. Regular youth concerts are an other feature of the orchestra season. Last year the group played to a total audience of 77,994 Wash ington area school children. Deadline Date Announced l or Health Grants Brazos Countyvstudents seeking National Foundation health schol arships must file applications by Apr. 1, Dr. I. W. Rupel, chairman of the organization’s county chap ter, said today. More than 500 scholarships will be offered nationally for training in medicine, nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy and medical social work, Rupel said. Each scholarship amounts to $500 a year for four years for a total of $2,000. Graduating high school students planning to enter college in Sep tember of 1961, may apply for scholarships in nursing, physical therapy or occupational therapy. Sophomores ready to enter the junior year in college who plan to continue the graduate study neces sary to qualify as medical social workers are eligible for the med ical social work scholarships. Undergraduate students who have been acceptecd for the first year in medical school beginning in 1961 may apply for the scholar ships in medicine. Application blanks may be ob tained from local school principals or counselors, or from Rupel in the Department of Dairy Science. They may also be had by writ ing to the National Foundation Health Scholarships, 800 Second Avenue, New York 17, N. Y. Augusto Gansser . . visiting - AGI scientist Photo Contest Deadline Fast Approaching The deadline for the Texas A&M Review Photo Contest is fast ap proaching, but ample time remains to enter potential prize-winning photographs. Prize money for the winner is $25, with 2nd and 3rd places re ceiving $15 and $10 respectively. In addition, winners and runners- up alike will have their entries published in the pre-summer issue of the Review. There are hardly any rules to follow, with the exception that subject matter be limited to the state of Texas and submitted prints be 8" x 10". Photographs will be judged on such merits as originality and thought devoted to pointing up the subject of the picture by means of design and composition. Print quality will also be a factor in the final decision of the judges. Prints should be submitted in the basement of the YMCA at the Student Publications window on or before Apr. 1 in order to be con sidered for judging. More than one photograph may be submitted per student, as long as each one is properly identified. JFK Urges Appropriation To Aid Latin Americans By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — As a first move toward his heralded “alli ance for progress,” President Kennedy asked Congress Tuesday to vote $600 million on aid for Latin America. The reaction from Latin Ameri ca was apparent disappointment. In his message to Congress, Kennedy cautioned that if the United States does not help its neighbors, “we face a grave and imminent danger that desperate peoples will turn to communism or other forms of tyranny as their only hope for change.” His specific proposals, however, asked only that Congress appro priate funds it already had au thorized last year. At the request of President Dwight E. Eisen hower’, Congress had authorized $500 million for the U. S. share of a Pan American aid program set up by the treaty of Bogota and $100 million for rehabilitation of areas in Chile ravaged by earth quakes and fires. Latin - American governments Broussard Given 4 Look’ Award—Page 4 withheld comment after Kennedy sent his message to Congress. But an undertone of disappointment was evident. In Buenos Aires, Argentina, for example, officials privately com plained of a letdown. They said Kennedy’s speech had led them to expect a Marshall Plan for Latin America—with the President item izing the dollars and cents the United States would put into a massive program. At a White House reception Monday night, Kennedy unveiled for Latin-American diplomats a 10-year cooperative aid program for the hemisphere. He said the program was of “towering di mension,” but he put no price tags on it. Perhaps mindful of the Latin criticism, U. S. officials privately said there was a great deal more in the President’s program and message than met the eye. The officials said the 10-year Latin-American' program could not be compared with the Marshall Plan, which rehabilitated Europe after World War II. The Latin-American plan, offi cials said, involves a job that will be harder, longer, and more com plex than rebuilding industry in once-powerful lands. In some cases, the program may be hampered by the traditional attitudes of big land owners, who often have a dominant voice in their country’s affairs. Other ob stacles are illiteracy, unhealthy water supplies, poor sanitation, outmoded economic programs, lack of planning, unworkable fiscal policies, poor governments. Officials said advisers of Ken nedy are convinced there is over whelming sentiment in the hemi sphere for correction of social and economic evils that make life miserable for the common people. But, officials said, these advisers also feel that unless reforms, particularly social reforms, are made first, U. S. aid would be useless. The United States has no in tention of telling a Latin-Ameri can republic how to reform its economy or social order of gov ernment, the officials said, but they added the United States might hesitate before granting a huge loan to a country if all its land was owned by a few people. Such a loan, officials said, merely would make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Angusto Gansser, a visiting AGI international scien tist, will lecture tomorrow night on “Salt Domes and Vol canoes” in Room 105 of the Geology Building. The public is invited to the 8 p.m. address. Gansser is director of the De-4 * partment of Geology, Federal In stitute of Technology, University of Zurich, Switzerland. He was born in Milano, Italy, in 1910. He received his high school training in Trogen, Switzer land, from where he made his first geological exclusions into the classical Santis mountains. He completed his PhD in natural sciences at the University of Zu rich in 1935. In 1934 he was able to participate as a geological as sistant in the East Greenland ex pedition of the Danish Government under the leadership of Dr. Lauge Koch. His interest in exploring hither to unknown regions was fully re warded in 1936 during a nine- month scientific Himalaya expedi tion with Prof. Heim, where he ventured alone into Tibet, dressed as a Tibetan Lama in order to carry out his geological research inconspicuously. As an assistant at the Geological Institute of the Swiss Technical High School he worked on the Himalaya material which lead to a comprehensive publication, joint ly with Meim, on the Geology of the Central Himilayas, now a classic in Himalayan literature. South American Work Early in 1938 he joined the Shell Oil Co. and began exploration work in Colombia, South America. He traveled extensively in all remote parts of this country and enlarged his knowledge through visits to Ecuador and Peru. He contributed to the geological investigations of the high Andes and particularly the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Later, from 1947-1949, he was assigned the position of Chief Geologist in Trinidad, where he did some regional compilation work with visits to Venezuela. During a leave season he traveled togeth er with his wife over remote parts of southwest British Guiana and north Brazil in order to complete his investigations on the enigmatic table mountains covering the Guiana Shield area. From 1950 to early 1958 he was engaged in exploration work in, Persia and was substantially re sponsible for the discovery of the spectacular oil find of Oum in central Iran. His great scientific interest in regional geology re sulted in the completion of a geo logical map of Persia, which was worked out together with his col leagues of the Iran Oil Co. “This excellent sample of a mod ern regional geological, map was subsequently published by the Tran Oil Co.,” Dr. Wayne Hall, Dean of the Graduate School says. In 1958 Gansser was appointed pro fessor in geology and director of the Geological Institute of the Swiss Federal High School and the University of Zurich. Gansser has always remained an enthusiastic outdoor geologist, and whenever possible, he tries to retuim to his regional studies, be it ou the crystalline tectonics in the Alps, the ophiolites in the Al pine chains. Grants Given Geophysicists The Department of Geology and Geophysics has been awarded two scholarships in geophysics, one by Mobil Oil Co. in Midland and the other by Mobil International Pro ducing Co. in New York. Each scholarship gives the re cipient a $400 cash award and pay ment of tuition and academic fixed fees to a maximum of $500. Any fourth or fifth year stu dent receiving a degree in geo physics before Sept. 1, 1962, is eligible to apply for one of these scholarships. Application should be made through the Department of Geology and Geophysics, S. A. Lynch, Head of the Department, has announced. Kiwanis Club Hears Scouts Mrs. J. R. Hillman, executive director of the Bryan-College Sta tion Girl Scout Council, presented a Girl Scout Week program to the College Station Kiwanis Club yes terday. At their regular meeting in the MSG, the group heard Mrs. Hill man and Miss Jean Loveless, a senior Girl Scout, tell how girl scouting contributes to girl de velopment. College To Join Graduate Council A&M has been invited' to become a charter member of the Council of American Graduate Schools. An organizational meeting will be held in Chicago Mar. 22 to bring this new national organization into being. Dr. Wayne C. Hall, Dean of the* Graduate Studies, has been desig nated to represent the college by President Earl Rudder. “The overall purpose of the Council on American Graduate Education,” Hall said today, “is to provide graduate schools in the United States with a comprehen sive and widely representative body through which to counsel and act together. Its purpose is the improvement and advancement of graduate education and permitting the leading institutions to speak as one voice in matters pertaining to graduate training.” It is planned in organizing the states, to consolidate into one na tional organization the six exist ing organizations of graduate schools: Association of Graduate Schools, Western Association of Graduate Schools, Land Grant Di vision of Graduate Work, Midwest Conference on Graduate Study, Southern Conference of Graduate Schools and the New England Con ference on Graduate Education. Charter membership in the new council has been extended to only 100 of the top graduate schools of the nation. Rice University and the University of Texas are the only other schools in Texas offered new council, the announcement charter membership.