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WASHINGTON—Great Britain, in consultation with the
United States, started an urgent new effort Wednesday night
to draw Russia into serious negotiations aimed at ending the
crises in Laos.
The move came as Vice Presi-4
dent Lyndon B. Johnson in effect
gave the Soviets a warning of pos
sible strong new measures by the
United States to prevent the
Southeast Asian kingdom from be
ing taken over by Soviet-backed
rebels.
Johnson said this country does
not intend to stand by and let
Laos be “gobbled up by an armed
minority supported from the out
side.” He made the statement
amid reports that President Ken
nedy may be planning more mili
tary help to Laos unless Moscow
MSC To Open
Guest Room
Reservations
Requests for Memorial Student
Center guest room reservations for
the football weekends, or any of
the major event weekends, for the
l%l-62 school year will be ac
cepted from students and former
students during the month of May.
: Only one room per family can
be reserved for each event. Since
reservations will not be transfer
able, one must cancel reservations
with the Memorial Student Center
if he cannot use the rooms.
• Following the May 31 deadline,
a drawing will be held to determine
'who will receive accommodations.
After the drawing, notices will be
mailed to each person submitting
requests for guest room reserva
tions indicating whether or not
their names were drawn.
The requests not drawn will be
■placed on the “waiting list,” and
■those persons making the requests
Vill be notified at least two weeks
lefore the event should a room be-
jome available due to a cancella-
A deposit will be required of
those persons receiving a reserva
tion, Unless this deposit is re
ceived no later than two weeks
'prior to the event, an automatic
cancellation will occur.
agrees quickly to a diplomatic
solution of the crisis.
The British move took the form
of a new note delivered to Soviet
officials in Moscow. Russia had
proposed an early 14-nation con
ference on the Laotian crisis as a
means of seeking settlement. The
British reportedly made a count
er-proposal.
The counter-proposal, it is un
derstood, carries a provision that
the fighting in Laos be stopped be
fore a conference is held.
Kennedy, earlier in the day,
scheduled a news conference for
6 p. m. EST Thursday with ar
rangements for live radio and tel
evision coverage. This gave rise
to speculation that the President
plannede a statement of U. S. pol
icy on the increasingly dangerous
situation in Laos.
The timing of the British note
and the president’s news confer
ence- give rise to a rumor that
Kennedy was in effect giving So
viet Premier Nikita S. Khrush
chev a 24-hour ultimatum.
But administration officials were
quick to deny any such intention.
A White House spokesman said
that “the story of any 24-hour
time limit is totally inaccurate.”
First Briefed
Johnson read his statement af
ter he and congressional leaders
were briefed by Secretary of State
Dean Rusk and Allen W. Dulles,
director of the Central Intelligence
Agency.
“I am not going to attempt to
characterize the information that
we received,” Johnson said.
“I think I can say, however,
that this is a situation which must
be viewed, not with alarm, but
with great seriousness.
“And I think it should also be
known to the world that the Uni
ted States, while it is going to be
reasonable and prudent in all of
its moves, is not in a mood to
meekly permit an independent na
tion to be gobbled up by an armed
minority supported from the out
side.”
The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 23,1 961
Number 88
Consolidated
Group Wins
Fair Prizes
The four A&M Consolidated
High School entiles in the Hous
ton Post’s Regional Science Fair
last weekend, came back with five
major awards.
Alphonse Marek, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joe G. Marek and a senior at
Consolidated, won first place in the
Biological Division. His study of
spiders was also named Grand
Champion Exhibit of the fair.
Besides winning two trophies
and ribbons, Marek will receive an
all-expense-paid trip to the Na
tional Science Fair in Kansas City
May 12-16. His sponsor, Kenneth
Morgan, will also receive a free
trip.
Other winners include Bennett
Hardeman, son of Mr. and Mrs.
L. B. Hardeman, who won first
place for his exhibit on the study
of mineral specimens in the earth
science division; David Kent, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kent, with
second place in the Physical
Science Division for his study of
radiation-caused mutations in bac
teria, and Loreli Brown, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney 0. Brown,
who won an Honorable Mention
Award for her exhibit involving
the brain-wave patterns in a white
rat.
.Hardeman and Kent are in the
ninth grade, while Loreli Brown is I
an eighth grader. All four stu
dents were top winners in the lo
cal science fair held Feb. 11.
Hardeman and Marek had won
awards in the Houston Science
Fair last year.
The local four, who swept the
field, were competing against 1,117
entries from more than 100 public,
prvate and parochial schools, in
cluding the Houston area schools
and others from a 17 county area.
11!
Many Legislators
Favor 4 A&M U’ Name
Letters Oppose
Current Proposal
MSC Daily Caffine Craze
Hits Stunning Proportions
By TOMMY HOLBEIN
"Let’s go get a cup!”
These words lead thousands of
Meats and professors to the con
stantly flowing fountain of coffee
each morning, the fountain room
of the Memorial Student Center.
They are also often the cause
of an enjoyable hour spent drink
ing coffee and listening to the gen
tle strains of the nickolodian at
the shop’s entrance, at the expense
of a cut class or missed appoint-
ihent.
[ However, apparently people on
[the campus appreciate the foun
tain room; maybe that’s why they
drink 50,000 cups of coffee each
month, a figure stemming from
Miss Gladys Black, food director
of the Memorial Student Center.
The coffee is made in two six-
gallon urns behind the shop’s food
bar each morning starting at 6:30.
The urns have a third one between
them which contains only hot wa
ter, used to flow into them mak
ing more coffee as the morning
passes.
Many Refills
Attendants in the shop make a
new urn of coffee every 20 or 30
jminutes during a normal morning,
when they open at 7 a.m. And as
{the urns become refilled and re-
pled, the caffeine consumers man-
jjage to down over 2,257 gallons of
feoffee in approximately 30 days.
Another interesting approach to
this consumption is the “energy-
expended” concept; in an experi
ment conducted yesterday after
noon, it was found that one full
icup of coffee weighs approximate
ly one pound.
This means that 50,000 pounds
of hot cups of coffee are lifted
each month by anxious customers
of the fountain room, and this
doesn’t include the other acces
sories; 1,400 dozen donuts, 1,500
dozen sweetrolls and 300 dozen
cookies eaten in a month.
Nor does it include the 900 pies
or 175 cakes devoured during the
sa,tae period,
To handle such a magnitude of
consumption, the fountain room
has a staff of 18 people, including
eight and six on the two daily
shifts, and four students.
The lower level of the Memorial
Student Center hosts a bake shop
which produces the “goodies” on
large scale, and all baking for the
fountain room, cafeteria and cater
ing service other than bread and
hamburger buns is done here.
Some might think the fountain
room, with this large quantity of
goods sold, does a whopping profit;
however, with the expense of pro
ducing them, the net intake is not
on the same proportion as quan
tity sold.
First, consider the number of
people that almost daily, during
the school week, stop at the Cen
ter’s fountain room to “get a cup’!
—it often runs into the five and
six thousand mark on busy days,
particularly during quiz weeks and
exam time.
A second thought about the
quantity of coffee, donuts and oth
er morning spack consistants is the
diet conditioning that all who come
to college receive — coffee, coffee
and more coffee; perhaps a cigar
ette or two along with it, and may
be a donut or two, but a morning
cup of coffee is a must for the
greater majority of people on any
campus.
With the number of students
and profs here at A&M, and the
number of morning classes off
that each student has, it is easily
understood why the Memorial Stu
dent Center fountain room must
remain the eternally flowing foun
tain of coffee and accessories, for
the good of all concerned.
Everything Goes
When the spring cleaning fad
hits campus, everything is in
cluded, from top to bottom.
Here BC&U workers trech-
erously paint the flag pole in
front of the Academic Build
ing, one of the apparently
more difficult chores in the
project.
Six Students
To Receive
NSF Grants
The Natnonal Science Founda
tion has selected six A&M gradu
ate students to receive fellowship
awards.
They include fellowship awards
under the National Science Foun
dation Cooperative Graduate Fel
lowship program and the Summer
Fellowships for Graduate Teach
ing Assistantships programs, Dr.
Wayne C. Hall, Dean of tne Gradu
ate School, announced today.
Julian Barham Coon of Pasa
dena and William Neal Lipe of
San Benito were two of the 1,100
chosen in the United States to
receive the Cooperative Graduate
Fellowship. Coon will continue his
study in the field of physics and
Lipe will continue in the field of
horticulture.
Selected to receive the Summer
Fellowship Awards for Graduate
Teaching Assistants for the sum
mer of 1961 were James W.
Bridges, Jr.,, civil engineering;
William D. Bunting, physics, and
Henry E. Heatherly, mathematics,
Bvyan-College Station; and Willie
C. Elsik, geology, Caldwell. These
four were among the 625 chosen
for the Summer Fellowship
Awards for the entire United
States.
The objective of this program,
Hall says, “is to provide support
to selected graduate teaching
assistants of high ability in order
to enable them to devote full time
to their own scientific studies for
research during the summer
months.”
Student Senate President Roland Dommert said Wednes
day he had received a number of letters from members of
the Texas Legislature favoring the Senate’s recommendation
that the name of Texas A&M be changed to Texas A&M Uni
versity in accordance with the wishes of the Board of Di
rectors.
Dommert said letters from both the Senate and House
of Representatives had been received in answer to letters
sent to every Senator and Representative by the Student
Senate. Letters were also sent to Governor Price Daniel and
Lt. Gov. Ben Ramsey, he said, “so they will know how the
students of A&M feel.”
The Student Senate’s letter+
was addressed to Sen. Wil
liam T. Moore of Bryan, the
principal author of the bill
(S. B. 302) which would
change the name of A&M to Texas
State University and Agricultural
and Mechanical College. Copies of
the letter were sent to all other
Texas legislaturers.
The letter express the Senate”s
disfavor at the proposed name, and
suggested the name be amended
to Texas A&M University. The
letter said the latter name was
the choice of the A&M Board of
Directors and a majority of A&M
faculty and students.
Several Senators and Repre
sentatives' fcaid they had planhed'
to amend the bill if they had the
chance.
Rep. John C. Alaniz, ’52, wrote,
“I assure you that if Sfen. Moore’s
bill passes the Senate, I will at
tempt to amend said bill on the
floor of the House of Representa
tives in order to comply with your
recommendation.”
Speculation was raised Monday
that the bill would ever reach the
floor of the House when Sen. Bob
Baker, ’44, the only A&M-ex in
the Senate who did not co-sign
Moore”s bill, told two A&M jun
iors he would make an amendment
to the bill if and when it came up
in the Senate.
Tuesday Moore said he was “go
ing to let the A&M bill simmer
for awhile.”
“I’d rather have no bill at all
than a name like A&M Univer
sity,” he said.
Dommert said original plans by
the Student Senate Executive Com
mittee, Cadet Col. of the Corps
Syd Heaton and Civilian Student
Council President Mike Carlo to
go to Austin to talk with Moore
and other members of the Legis
lature regarding the bill had been
postponed.
FOR 16-COUNTY AREA
School Official Meet Disclosed
School board members and
superintendents of schools in a
16 county area will meet on campus
Apr. 17 for a one day workshop
on school problems. More than
200 are expected to attend.
The 1961 workshop is a part of
the statewide program by the
Texas Association of School
Boards and is sponsored in this
area by the A&M Department of
Education and Psychology.
“The workshop is one of the
projects in which we are engaged
to assist county superintendents
and small schools in the improve
ment of their programs,” Dr.
Grady P. Parker, department head
said.
The meeting will afford an op
portunity to board members, super
intendents and other interested
citizens to study school board re
sponsibilities and effectiveness,
Parker stated. The workshop
should be of interest to PTA
leaders, he said, and is open to the
public.
The meeting will get under way
at 3 p.m. and last until 9 p.m.
Consultants and speakers for the
conference include Dr. Donald
Nugent, executive director of the
Texas Association of School
Boards; Dr. Leon Graham, assist
ant commissioner of education,
Texas Education Agency, and Dr.
Geforge Wentz, Hays County
superintendent of schools.
The first session will feature a
panel discussing “Problems and
Issues in Texas Public Education,”
Cadet Rally Nips Gophers, 5-4—Page 6
followed by six discussion groups
on the following topics: school
finance, local school problems, the
school program, education legisla
tion, school-community relations
and new developments in educa
tion.
Dr. Paul Hensarling of the De
partment of Education and Psy
chology is coordinator of the work
shop. The area to be served is
composed of Brazos, Burleson,
Falls, Freestone, Grimes, Lee,
Leon, Limestone, Madison, Milam,
Montgomery, Robertson, San Ja
cinto, Walker, Waller and Wash
ington counties..
Neil Douglas
To Present
Film Lecture
One of America’s best known
explorers, Neil Douglas, will pre
sent a film lecture entitled “Rus
sia”—The New Face” tomorrow
night at 8 p.m. in Guion Hall.
Students will be admitted to the
lecture with their Great Issues
cards. Admission prices for non
students will be $1 for adults and
50 cents for high school students.
Douglas, writer, explorer, lec
ture!’, glacialist and photographer,
has led a colorful and exciting life
of world travel and adventure.
An honor graduate in civil engi
neering at Lafayette College, he
was also a charter member of Tau
Beta Pi and a two-year All-Ameri
ca center on the Lafayette national
championship football team.
He has received many honors
and recognitions including fellow
ship in the American Geographi
cal Society, The British Glacialogi-
cal Society, The American Polar
Society and the American Geo
physical Union.
He is a member of The Explor-
(See DOUGLAS On Page 3)
World Wrap-Up
By The Associated Press
Anti-Castro Council Formed
NEW YORK — Two principal anti-Castro Cuban groups
have agreed on the formation of a new “revolutionary coun
cil” aimed at the overthrow of the Fidel Castro regime.
But the exiles are carefully avoiding calling the new
council a government-in-exile, informed Cuban sources said
today.
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Unemployment Bill Passes Both Houses
WASHINGTON — Legislation providing for a $l-billion
emergency extension of unemployment benefits cleared both
houses of Congress Wednesday and went to President Ken
nedy.
The House passed the bill first by a roll-call vote of 361-
31. Then it won Senate approval on a voice vote.
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Ike Retains Five-Star Rank
WASHINGTON—President Kennedy Wednesday signed
legislation restoring former President Dwight D. Eisenhow
er’s Army rank of five-star general.
At the same time Kennedy wrote Eisenhower calling the
action “a reaffirmation of the affection and regard of our
nation for you.”
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Senate Passes Appropriation Bill
AUSTIN — The Senate overwhelmingly passed today a
$2.5 billion state appropriation bill, the largest in Texas his
tory.
Senate action sent the state spending bill to the House
where representatives are expected to pass their version in
about two weeks.
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SEATO Caotian Conference Opens
BANGKOK, Thailand—Military strategists of the South
east Asia Treaty Organization SEATO opened a three-day
conference today and quickly reflected President Kennedy’s
new touch line to keep Laos out of Communist hands.
Gen. Surajit Charusreni of Thailand, the conference
chairman, issued a statement on behalf of the eight mem
ber nations stressing the need for continued military plan
ning “to resist and repel Communist aggression, in the light
of recent developments in the treaty area.”
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Lobbing Bill Sent To Subcommittee
AUSTIN—Two bills tightening controls on lobbying were
heard by the House Committee on Representation today and
sent to a subcommitte for consolidation.
Both bills stress the need for publicizing contributions re
ceived by organizations advocating or opposing legislation.
Explorer Neil Douglas
. . . presents film lecture tomorrow