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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.