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Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1961
...MARKED TREND
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Salaries Rise
In Two Fields
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, with Tea
i odist, All
ege Statif
’exas Clrii
An increase in salary offers to liberal arts and biological
science candidates is the most marked trend to date in the
College Placement Coimcil’s national survey of starting sal
aries for college men.
Electrical engineers, however, ;
itersectia
continue to hold a lead in volume
of offers and top the dollar scale
at $553 a month.
Statistics of the survey for the
spring period were released today
by W. R. Horsley, Director of the
]{j ce5 . Placement Office. A&M is one
and
of the 61 colleges and universities
A&Mplai participating in the study.
More than 5,360 individual salary
offers were processed in the April
Participsl re P or t an( l covered a period from
ent.
the Broil
and Bayli
Cotton Ball
Final Plans
Now Complete
Final plans for the 27th Annual
Cotton Pageant and Ball to be pre
sented by the Agronomy Society
Saturday nears completion with
the announcement of musical en
tertainment for the pageant.
Dorothy Nelon of the University
of Arkansas, who sang in the 1961
Intercollegiate Talent Show, will
sing during one of the interludes
in the Parade of Duchesses.
I The other two breaks in the pro
gram will be filled by a solo by
Kobert Boone, music coordinator
of the MSC, and a ballet number
by students of the Guerard School
of Ballet, Bryan. Featured in
the ballet group are Carol Thorn
ton, who has the lead role, Penny
Guerard, Sally Lane, Kathy Mohr
and Mary Scoates.
, The parade of some 160 duch
esses competing for the coveted
title of Queen Cotton will be led
by Miss Doris Hawkins of Abi
lene, who is the Agronomy Society
Swetheart. The duchesses repre
sent A&M mothers clubs, home
town clubs, student wives clubs,
tampus clubs and other colleges,
Universities and organizations
throughout the state.
The Queen will be selected by
Miss Dorothy Sinz, Dallas Times
Herald; Mrs. Kim Dawson, Ameri-
tan Fashion Association, and
George Dawson, Dallas fashion
photographer.
The pageant will begin at 7:30
p. m. in Guion Hall with the pre-
(See COTTON on Page 3)
the beginning of the recruiting
season last Fall.
Following electrical engineering
at the top of- the five curricula
drawing highest salary offers were
aeronautical engineering at $547,
mechanical engineering at $541,
chemical engineering at $5^0 and
physical sciences, including mathe
matics, at $539.
In this group, mechanical engi
neering moved from fifth position
to third since the last report in
January. Leading offers contin
ued to exceed last year’s averages
by some $15 to $19 a month.
The national monthly average
for technical graduates in all cur
ricula was $544 with non-technical
graduates being offered $451. The
highest bid for non-technical cur
ricula was accounting at $470 a
month. General business students
are being offered $444, while lib
eral arts and biological science
graduates increased $19 to $442 a
month since the council’s January
report.
Leading curricula in terms of
volume are, in order: electrical
engineering, mechanical engineer
ing, chemical engineering, general
business and accounting. The bulk
of the offers continue to be con
centrated in the scarce technical
categories.
The types of employers bidding
most actively for graduates this
year are headed by aircraft and
parts; manufacturers followed by
electronics and instruments; chem
icals, drugs and allied products;
electrical machinery and equip
ment, and public utilities.
Employers making the highest
dollar offers were in the fields
of electronics and instruments at
$553; aircraft anpi parts at $551;
electrical machinery and equip
ment at $544; petroleum and allied
products at $534, and chemicals,
drugs and allied products at $532.
The median, or mid-point, of all
average offers to date is $517.
The College Placement Council,
a non-profit organization repre
senting the eight Regional Place
ment Associations of the United
States and Canada, limits it salary
survey to male, bachelor-degree
candidates in the 11 most active
curricula and 16 key areas of em
ployment. High, low and weight
ed averages are reported for each.
World Wrap-Up
By The Associated Press
Prime Minister Macmillan Talks With President
WASHINGTON—British Prime Minister Harold Mac
millan arrived Tuesday night for foreign policy talks with
President Kennedy saying they face “plenty of problems.”
But he voiced faith that with unity among free nations “we
can face the future with confidence.”
Lending an air of optimism to the conferences scheduled
to begin Wednesday were reports that Soviet agreement on a
cease-fire in Laos may be near on terms acceptable to the
West. ,
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Unemnloyment Shows Decline For March
WASHINGTON—Unemployment edged down a bit in
March but the decline, the first in six months, was not up to
seasonal expectations.
The Labor Department reported yesterday that the
number of idle workers slacked off last month to 5.495,000.
This was a dron of 210,000 from February compared with
the 300,000 decline normally expected.
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Western Nuclear Proposals Accepted By Soviets
GENEVA—In its first reaction to the Western compro
mise offer on a nuclear test ban. the Soviet Union accepted
Tuesday four Western proposals involving no major Russian
concessions.
The four areas selected by the Russians for agreement
in principle embrace underground and outer space nuclear
tests, experimental earth-moving projects and the budget of
the organization that would police a ban on nuclear tests.
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Astronauts Near Final Tests
WASHINGTON—The three stretch-running Mercury as
tronauts will soon undergo intensive tests on a giant centri
fuge as the time nears to select one for a flight into space.
Officials of the Civilian Space Agency said yesterday
that beginning in about two weeks, the trio would get two
or three days of intensive workouts on a device which will
expose them to the same acceleration forces one of them
will face when he blasts off in a capsule atop a big redstone
rocket.
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New York Subways To Stress Chivalry
NEW YORK—The City Transit Authority reached back
to the Middle Ages Monday for an idea to improve a 20th
century institution—the subways.
The authority began erecting posters asking male riders
to display a little chivalry and give their seats to women.
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Re-Vamped Defense Budget Enters Congress
WASHINGTON—Secretary of Defense Robert S. Mc
Namara told Congress yesterday America’s military forces
are being remolded so they can fide out a massive nuclear
attack and not require hair-trigger response to survive.
That key theory behind the re-vamped $43,794,345,000
defense budget President Kennedy sent to Congress was
presented at the start of closed hearings on military spending
by the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Annual ClassElection
ScheduledT omorrow
Year’s 2nd Silver Taps Notice
... for Hearne senior Clarence E. Peyton
Mother Of Year
Nominations Open
Nominations for Aggie Mother of the Year may be sub
mitted starting Thursday, April 6, lasting through Wednes
day, April 19, according to Bob Bower, chairman of the public
relations committee of the Student Senate.
Bower said the only requirement for nomination is that
the mother must be the mother of an Aggie or Aggies pre
sently enrolled in school, and must be able to attend the
Parent’s Day Ceremonies May 14.
The nominations should consist of letters from Aggies
telling why they think their mothers should be honored as
the Aggie Mother of the Year, and mailed to Bob Bower, in
care of W. D. Hardest}’, Student Activities, Memorial Student
Center.
Clarence Peyton
Killed In Wreck
Silver Taps was held last night to honor an Aggie
killed late last Wednesday. Clarence Peyton, a 22 year-old
senior pre-med major from Hearne, was the first traffic
fatality of 1961 for Brazos County.
Texas Highway Patrolman
Wynn Williams, who investigated
the accident, said Peyton’s car
crossed the center stripe of the
road and hit an on-coming grain
truck.
He said that when he arrived
at the scene Peyton’s pulse was
very weak, but the student was
dead on arrival at St. Joseph’s Hos
pital in Bryan.
The accident occurred about ten
miles south of College Station on
Highway 6. The grain truck,
bound for Houston, was driven by
Jack Joyce, 42. Joyce was unhurt.
“I don’t believe there is any
question but that Peyton fell
asleep at the wheel,” said Wil
liams.
Peyton was returning from Nav-
asota, where he had preached at
the Church of Christ. He had also
been hunting and had several pos
sums and a rabbit in his car at
the time of the accident.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. L. Peyton of 107 San Antonio
St. in Hearne. A 1957 honor grad
uate of Hearne High School, Pey
ton was also listed as a distin
guished student here.
This was the second time for an
Aggie to die this school year.
John Sauer, 21, from Bellaire, was
shot during the Christmas holi
days.
177 In Running
For Positions
By TOMMY HOLBEIN
Class elections stand less than one day away, with 177
candidates still on slate for the various offices becoming ef
fective next year.
Two names, those of William H. Brashears and Thomas
H. Ralph, were inadvertently left off the slate of 177 candi
dates who have filed for the class officer elections.
Ralph, a junior from Clifton, is seeking the Senior Yell
Leader’s post and Brashears, a sophomore from San Antonio
is running for Junior Yell Leader.
Student Affairs director Pete Hardesty said that while
the two were ommitted from the original list of Qualified
candidates, the error was caught and their names will appear
on the Ballots.
Hardestv also said one of
the candidates for president
of the Class of ’63, Tommy
Max Thomas, has withdrawn
his name from the race. Thomas’
withdrawal narrows the field of
aspirants to this office to nine.
Seniors will vote on paper ballots
because of the small number of
candidates for senior class agent,
three, including Tom C. Reid,
Ernest E. Figari and Halley Oren
Bradford.
The election is to be held in the
Memorial Student Center, and
voting machines will he in opera
tion from 8 a.m. until 5:30 p.m.,
stretched from the Bowling Alley
to the Fountain Room.
Runoffs are scheduled for April
Bird well Wins
National Prize
In Contest
Carl Birdwell, manager of the
Exchange Store, was one of six
winners of a sales promotion con
test sponsored by The College
Store Journal.
The contest was inaugurated in
the Mid-Winter 1960 issue of the
Journal, the official publication of
the National Association of Col
lege Stores. The competition has
been designed to provide a helpful
sharing of experience and know
how among College Store person
nel in the field of promotion and
advertising.
Birdwill was present a check for
five dollars from the Journal by
President Earl Rudder for his
prize-winning promotion idea en
tered in the competition.
TEXAS GOES CONSERVATIVE
Tower, Blakley Lead Senate Race
By The Associated Press
Retired Foreman Honored
Otto P. Seeman, a former farm foreman for the Depart
ment of Animal Husbandry, was honored at the school’s
10th annual Swine Short Course which ended yesterday
for 31 years of service. He retired recently. A certificate
of appreciation and a watch were presented to him by Dr.
K.D. Lewis, (left), director of the Texas Agricultural Ex
periment Station.
Texas voters demonstrated in
smashing fashion Tuesday that
they like conservative candidates.
The ballot totals for the con
servative pair, John G. Tower and
William A. Blakley, tell the story.
They led the race.
Their combined vote as of early
Wednesday was 508,352.
The moderate pair of Atty. Gen.
Will Wilson and U. S. Rep. Jim
Wright together drew 285,150.
And the liberals could amass
only 198,802 votes for their can
didates of Maury Maverick Jr.
and Henry B. Gonzalez.
These other interpretations came
out of the election:
1. There was some labor and
Latin American voting.
2. Except for the Poll Bill, Texas
today would have a Republican
senator, the first since reconstruc
tion days.
The Poll Bill was passed after
Ralph Yarborough won a similar
special Senate election in 1957. It
was a winner-take-all election and
Yarborough went to Washington
after receiving less than 40 per
cent of the vote. Candidates now
must receive more than 50 per
cent of the vote or go into a run
off.
Most people believed Yarborough
won because conservatives split
their votes, leaving the field to
him. But it didn’t work that way
in Tuesday’s election. The con
servatives swept the board, pro
vided the count holds up.
The election appeared largely
one of political philosophies, for
none of the candidates could be
called a colorful, personal-appeal
candidate in the tradition of W.
Lee O’Daniel.
Most surprising outcome in the
election was the poof showing of
Wilson, the only man other than
Tower who had a nucleus of an
organization. But Wilson started
late and suffered a period of ill-
Ags Record Three SA Wins
ness, which probably handicapped
him.
Wright’s skyrocketing political
stature can be credited to an early
start in the race and dogged cam
paigning throughout Texas.
For a time during the tabula
tions it appeared he might win the
big prize—a spot in the ninoff.
What effect Wilson’s handling
of the Jefferson County vice situa
tion had is a matter of speculation.
He received some criticism in the
matter. He ran fifth in Jefferson
County.
Also not fully determined is
whether the national political par
ties will make an arena of Texas
for the runoff.
Already, former Vied President
Richard M. Nixon has offered his
help to Tower.
Whether such Texas political
powers as Democratic Vice Presi
dent Lyndon B. Johnson and House
Speaker Sam Rayburn will return
to Texas to campaign for Blakley
is not known at this time.
Had Wright won a runoff spot,
both Johnson and Rayburn could
be expected to tour the state for
him. But Blakley supported the
Republican presidential tickets in
1952 and 1956 w T hen Rayburn and
Johnson were doing all in their
power to keep Texas in the L>em<p-
cratic column.
Returns from two heavily in
dustrialized counties indicated that
organized labor can show some
weight at the polls. Maverick,
backed by the state labor hier
archy, led in Orange and Jeffer
son counties, which are highly in-
dusti’ialized.
Gonzalez was considered certain
to pull a strong Latin American
vote, and he appeared to do so.
He captured half a dozen Rio
Grande counties and edged out
Tower in his home county of
Bexar, which is heavily populated
with Latin Americans.
Tower led in more than 100 of
Texas’ 254 counties, including
Blakley’s hoqie county of Dallas.
Three Named To
Council Positions
Results of the College Station City Council Election
were released last night, the new councilmen from the city’s
three wards having been elected yesterday.
In Ward One, J. A. Orr was victorious over Mason Lee
Cashion for the councilman’s posi->
tion. Orr received 236 votes, with
Cashion receiving 170.
Ward Two was scene of one of
the closest races 4n local elections
in many years. D. A. Anderson
was elected councilman by one
vote, having 137 as opposed to
George Draper’s 136 votes.
Ward Three had only one candi
date, Antone L. Rosprim, who re
ceived 57 votes in the election. The
council will elect a mayor at its
first meeting sometime in the near
future.
13, and participating in these will
be the top two candidates running
for each office, unless the top
candidate has a majority of the
votes.
The runoff date, along with the
original voting date were both
changed because of college regu
lations stating that student candi
dates must be elected in primai’ies
held during the first week in April.
Results will be available Thurs
day night, but will not be an
nounced officially until Friday in
The Battalion.
New Reactor
Proposed For
A&M System
The Atomic Energy Commission
has given notice of intent to issue
a license to the A&M College Sys
tem for operation of the research
reactor recently constructed adja
cent to the A&M eampus.
The facility is an open pool-
type, light water moderated and.
cooled research reactor using em-
riched uranium as fuel and will
be operated initially at 100 kilo
watts. A&1VI plans ultimately to
modify the reactor for operation
at a power level of 5,000 thermal
kilowatts. Further information
necessary to complete an evalua
tion of operation at this level must
be submitted before the Commis
sion will consider authorizing a
higher power level.
The reactor will be used for re
search and development and con
stitutes a major element of the
nuclear science center being built
to serve the nuclear science annd
technology of Texas and the South
west.
Construction of the reactor was
authorized by a permit issued by
the Commission Aug. 4, 1959. The
permit was provisional to the ex
tent that additional information
necessary to complete the safety
evaluatio» was to be submitted.
This information has been re
ceived and a safety analysis by the
Research and Power Reactor Saf
ety Branch of the Commission’s
Division of Licensing and Regula
tion concludes that operation of
the reactor at 100 kilowatts as pro
posed will not result in any undue
hazard to the health and safety of
the public.
Notice of the proposed issuance
of the license was filed with the
Federal Register Mar. 29. The
license will be issued unless a re
quest for a hearing is received by
the Commission within 15 days af
ter that date. Requests for a hear
ing should be addressed to the Of
fice of the Secretary, Atomic En
ergy Commission, Washington 25,
D. C., or the AEC’s Public Docu
ment Room, 1717 H Street, N.W.,
Washington, D. C.
Before issuance of the license,
the reactor will be inspected by
representatives of the Cemmission
to determine whether it has been
constructed in accordance with the
provisions of the construction per
mit, as amended. The license will
be effective upon issuance and will
expire at midnight Aug. 4, 1979.