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The Battalion p PED Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1961 Number \ \ / el ft me HEPS FROM ACROSS TEXAS Graduate School Opportunity Meet Set March 20-21 Science students and faculty members from throughout Texas will be on the campus Mar. 20-21. They will be here for conferences on graduate school opportunities leading to teaching and research careers in the various natural sci ences. This, the last of a series of four Collegiate Science Research Con ferences, to be held throughout the state, is sponsored by the Tex as Academy of Science and sup ported by grants from the Na tional Science Foundation, Charles La Motte, of the Department of Eiology and state program direc tor, said today. The program at A&M is chaired ly John Beckham of the Depart ment of Chemistry and LaMotte. The opening session will be held Monday morning, Mar. 20, with LaMotte in charge. Registration will be held Mar. 19. Dr. Wayne C. Hall, Dean of the Graduate School, will give the wel come address and keynote address. Summaries of current research programs now in progress at A&M will be given by Dr. R. C. Potts, director of agricultural instruc tion, Dr. A. F. Isbell, Department of Chemistry, Fred J. Benson, Dean of the School of Engineering and Dr. R. D. Turk, professor and Head of the Department of Vet erinary Parasitology. Dr, Dale F. Leipper, Head of the Department of Oceanography and Meteorology, will deliver an 20, address Monday night, Mar. on “Preparation for Advanced Study in Science.” Monday after noon the conferees will be taken on tours of the research facilities. Tuesday morning they will visit and hold conferences with indi vidual professors in the science laboratories and meet with panels of research scientists to discuss op portunities for graduate study and lifetime careers in the various bio logical and physical science fields. Leading the panel discussions will be Dr. John J. Sperry of the De partment of Biology; Dr. H. 0. Kunkel of the Department of Bio chemistry and Nutrition; Dr. Rog er D. Whealey of the Department of Chemistry; and Dr. Peter Dehl- inger of the Department of Geol ogy and Geophysics. At the closing session Tuesday afternoon, Mar. 21, talks will be given by Dr. Frank W. R. Hubert, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Dr. Beckham. Colleges due to participate in clude Amarillo, East Texas Bap tist, Navarro Junior, Pan Amer ican, Sam Houston State, San An gelo, San Antonio, Southwest Tex as State, Stephen F. Austin, Sul Ross State, Tarleton State, Temple Junior, Texarkana, Texas Luther an, Texas Southmost, Wharton County Junior and Wayland; La mar Tech, Midwestern University, Our Lady of the Lake, St. Mary’s University, Texas A&I and the University of Corpus Christi. High School Program Offers Campus Insight The following is a schedule of events for the annual High School Career Day, to be held here Sat urday. The program gives the visitors an insight to the campus. From 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. students will be registered at the Memorial Student Center. The Corps of Cadets will hold a review in honor of the visitors on the main drill field from 9 a.m. until 9:45 a.m. At 10 a.m. a general assembly of the students will be held in Guion Hall. Robert Laird, Corps chaplain, will give the invocation. Dean of Arts and Sciences Frank W. R. Hubert will welcome the .guests and Roland Dommert, pres ident of the Student Senate, will then talk to the group. During the assembly the film, “We Are The Aggies,” will be shown and Deputy Corps Com mander Brantley Laycock will ad dress the students. At noon the student visitors will eat lunch in the college dining halls. From 1:30 p.m. until 4 p.m., tours of college facilities will be conducted. The tours will be ar ranged according to fields of in terest. All students interested in agri culture will meet in the Animal Industries Lecture Room. Stu dents interested in the arts and sciences will meet in the Chemistry Lecture Room. Those students whose major in terest is in engineering will meet in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The tour of veterinary medicine facili ties will meet in the Veterinary Medicine Lecture Room. Students who are undecided as to a program of study will meet in the Biology Lecture Room. Name Suggestions Sought Senators Looking For Student Voice By BOB SLOAN An unofficial visit was paid the Texas State Senate Tuesday by three Corps juniors in an effort to learn the feelings of the five A&M-exes in the Senate regarding the proposed name-change for A&M. The three, Joe Easley, Jim Coombes, and Jeff Went worth, all members of the Band, told a meeting of Wing, Brigade and Corps Staff juniors Wednesday they had been able to contact all of the A&M senators with the exception of Sen. George Moffett, ’16, of Chillocothe. They were also able to speak with Gov. Price Daniel, they ^aid. Easley said all the senators and Gov. Daniel seemed Federal Agents Arrest 35 In Pentagon Numbers Raid WASHINGTON — Govern ment agents Wednesday raid- ^ a ?500,000-a-year numbers fmg in the Pentagon and ar rested 35 employes. Joseph S. Bambacus, U. S. at- tomey for eastern Virginia, said ‘ ne gambling operation was cen sed in the defense supply serv- K an Army agency that handles •nfice supplies for the military departments. Ho said some of the messengers " 0 through the Pentagon f °riidors in bicycle carts picked “P Dels for the lottery. The significance of today’s J ai i Bambacus said, “is organ- lze crime’s ability to make such ''fi elievable inroads into the nerve ce ntev of our nation’s defense es- ta olishment.” The federal prosecutor added ls was not meant as any reflec- 10n on the Defense Department. Taking part in the noontime oundup were 27 U. S. marshals, n criial Revenue Service agents n agents of the General Serv- ces Administration. Bambacus said the raiders were Tupped with photographs of the • 6n the y Wer e seeking. All those '°i'ed in the operation, he said, ei ' e “confined c|ffSs element.” to the laboring Th e Prisoners, all Negroes, were Cn by Bambacus as “writ- managers and.players” in the tubers operation. He estimated 6 annual gross of the operation said 1 ?- ?250 ’ 000 to $500,000 but m satisfied it comes close hal f a million.” char? ^ ose arrested were 'it? Wr ^ n g numbers and $50 . n ,° n J )ossess i on of the required ty-seve? gambling stam P- Twen heipati: fe< bral property. ne °f those taken in custody en were charged with par- n £ in a numbers game on had $1,045 in cash, which the fed eral attorney said represented one day’s receipts. Bambacus indicated that federal the officials first got wind of operation about a year ago. “We think we that have broken it up for the present,” he said. 500 Medical Study Grants Due Students More than 500 National Foun dation Scholarships will be award ed this year to students training for t the medical field. The grants, totaling $2,000 over a four year period, should be ap plied for by no later than Apr. 1, according to Dr. I. W. Rupel, chairman of the Foundation’s county chapter. Graduating high school students plar^ning to enter college in Sep tember 1961 may apply for schol arships in nursing, physical ther apy or occupational therapy. Sophomores entering their jun ior year of college may apply for medical social work scholarships provided they plan to continue the graduate work necessary. Application blanks may be ob tained from local school principals and counselors, or from Rupel in the Department of Dairy Science. very cordial and interested in the name-change problem. “What they need now is a voice of the student body in the Senate in favor of one name or the other, or no change at all,” he told the group. At present, only two names are being sei’ious considered by the lawmakers. Texas State Univer sity and Agricultural and Mechan ical College is the name presently in the name-change bill (S.B. 302) which was introduced by Moore Mar. 6. The other name possibility, Tex as A&M University, was sugges ted by the Board of Directors at their last meeting. Those present at Wednesday’s (See SUGGESTIONS on Page 3) Generals Laud Cadet Corps After Visit After inspecting the Ross Volun teers at the main entrance to the campus last Friday afternoon Gen. Clyde Eddleman, Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, made the comment that the Company cer tainly presented an outstanding appearance. He added, “their uniforms are immaculate, their weapons clean, and the young men themselves are a fine looking group of young men many of whom I look forward to having as offi cers in America’s Armed Forces.” After the military review on the parade ground in front of the Me morial Student Center, Gen. Lewis Griffing, Deputy Commanding General of the 4th U.S. Army, stated, “the Texas A&M Cadet Corps always presents a fine ap pearance on the parade ground and I do not recall ever seeing them look better than they did today.” Gen. Norman Callish, Comman der of Mather Air Force Base, stated, “I know of no finer group of potential officers in the country. The Air Force looks forward to receiving many new officers from the fine group of Air Force cadets who have just put on such a fine show.” World Wrap-Up Mahaney To Represent A&M At National Bowling Tourney Parks Mahaney, a 21-year-old senior electrical engineer ing student from Fort Worth, will represent A&M Mar. 25- 26 in the National Intercollegiate Bowling Tournament at Detroit, Mich. A regular member of the Aggie"* match team which last year won the Texas Intercollegiate Bowling Conference and also the team championship in the 10th annual A&M Intercollegiate Bowling tour nament, Mahaney rolled a 9-line series of 1,709, making him one of the top six collegiate bowlers in Region IX, composed of Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Mississippi. Sanctioned by and held in operation with the American Bowl ing Congress, the NIB.T is com posed of 12 regions with six mem bers from each region competing. Mahaney boasts a 190 average in league play. His all-time high game stands at 267 while his high series is 669 pins. A 2-year letter- man on the Aggie team, he also in 1957 won the Fort Worth Pas chal High School singles champion ship in an American Junior Bowl ing Congress League. In addition to being chairman of the Memorial Student Center Bowling Committee, Mahaney holds the honor of being a Dis tinguished Military Student, a member of the Ross Volunteers, and an intelligence officer on the Second Battle Group staff. Another Aggie, Jimmie Guy, a freshman electrical engineering student from Snyder, will not com pete in the tournament because of injuries sustained in a recent car accident. Guy rolled a 9-line series of 1,763 to qualify for the Region IX team. By The Associated Press Federal Loans To Schools Conflict Continues WASHINGTON—President Kennedy and a lay Roman Catholic leader presented sharply conflicting views Wednes day on how and when the constitutionality of federal loans to parochial and other private schools should be tested. John C. Hayes, president of the Council of Catholic Men, told a Senate Education subcommittee that loans to private schools should be tied into Kennedy’s proposal for $2.3 billion in grants to public elementary and high schools over three years. ★ ★ ★ Polaris Missile Test Successful GAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The Navy’s “second gener ation” Polaris missile zipped 1,600 miles yesterday register ing its third success in two weeks and sixth in seven launch ings. Not far from the land launch pad used in this test, the nuclear submarine Theodore Roosevelt prepared for a series of Polaris underwater launchings, expected next week near Grand Bahama Islands. ★ ★ ★ Arms Cut Talks Moved Up WASHINGTON—President Kennedy disclosed Wednes day that the United States—after complaints by Soviet Pre mier Khrushchev of stalling—has speeded by a month its timetable for reviving arms cut talks with the Reds. The original Kennedy administration proposal for re newing disarmament talks which broke up in the aftermath of the U2 plane incident last spring called for a resumption Sept. 11, U. S. sources said. ★ ★ ★ UnemDloyment Steel Workers Demonstrate HIBBING, Minn.—Unemployed steel workers yesterday waved “we want jobs” signs in the faces of Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg and Minnesota Gov. Elmer L. An derson. About 50 persons, some coming 30 miles from Grand Rapids, Minn., greeted the officials as they arrived in this northeastern Minnesota city. Hibbing is in the heart of the Minnesota iron range, where inactivity at mines and steel plants has been a big reason for economic distress. ★ ★ ★ Fire Destroys Famous Japanese Shrine NIKKO, Japan—One of Japan’s famous tourist attrac tions at Nikko, north of Tokyo, was destroyed by a fire Wed nesday night. It is the Yakushido, a national shrine built in 1636, known for its echoes. The sounds are said to come from a “weeping dragon” painted on the ceiling. An electric heater is believed to have caused the fire. ★ ★ ★ Senate Passes Depressed Areas Bill WASHINGTON—The Senate yesterday passed Presi dent Kennedy’s $394 million bill designed to bring new jobs to communities long suffering from depression. The depressed areas bill cleared the Senate in almost exactly the form asked by the President. ^ Cuban Delegation To Netherlands Resigns THE HAGUE, Netherlands—The Cuban ambassador to the Netherlands and his staff resigned Wednesday in pro test against policies of Prime Minister Fidel Castro. it it it Harvard Professor Chosen Ambassador WASHINGTON—President Kennedy yesterday chose J. Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard professor of economics, to be ambassador to India. . Galbraith, 52, born in Ontario, Canada, served during World War II as a deputy administrator of the Office of Price Administration and as a director of the U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey. it it it West German Chancellor To Visit U. S. BONN, Germany—Wilhelm Grewe, West German am bassador to the United States, returned home Wednesday to prepare for the visit of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to Washington April 12-13. It will be Adenauer’s first meeting with President Ken nedy. CONCERT AT 8 IN COLISEUM Town Hall Series Presents Symphony Orchestra Tonite The National Symphony Orchestra . . . under the direction of Howard Mitchell S W C Baseball Play Opens — Page 6 The famous National Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Howard Mitchell, will perform to night in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The concert, which is part of the Memorial Student Center Town Hall Series, will begin at 8 p.m. The orchestra enjoys a unique “semi-official” position in Wash ington, D.C., where it performs many times each year. Its list of boxholders is always headed by the President of the United States and Box 13 is known as “The President’s Box.” Although the orchestra is not subsidized by the government in any way, it frequently plays at official functions. The group has played in two presidential inaug ural concerts and several White House “command performances.” On other occasions concerts have, been given to welcome foreign heads of state, with the approp riate national anthem preceding the evening’s regular program. Often, the nfime of the visiting head of state has appeared on the program and his presence has been pointed out by soloists on the pro gram. With each year the orchestra has shown great growth both ar tistically and in actual size. In 1931, the year of its beginning, the group presented 34 concerts. Last year, it gave 181 concerts to an estimated audience of 385,- 716. The present conductor and di rector, Howard Mitchell, conducted 128 of last year’s concerts, and 1 assistant conductor Lloyd Geisler conducted 35. The others were conducted by guests. Regular youth concerts are an other service performed by the or chestra. Last year they played to a total of 77,994 Washington area school children.