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} the In jj 3:52,{ Stanfm l:47J, ' winnei as Re]., definii; The ii"; ^kend’si colleg. I 3:01,5 «theft 1 recoij The Battalion Volume 69 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1961 Number 95 38 Candidates Vie In Run-Offs •ce me! )k theji « relit he fou Y tor ingle ! 5 mrnrr, ntef r t irs vice ?n Cars’ l 2-4511 HMMIj yr>\ H Amendment Not Needed Special To The Battalion By The Associated Press AUSTIN—A simple act of the Legislature is all that would be needed to change the name of Texas A&M College, Atty. Gen. Will Wilson; said Tuesday. A constitutional amendment would not be necessary, the attorney general told H. B. Zachry of San Antonio, presi dent of the Texas A&M board of directors. Zachry had re quested a ruling on the subject. The school was created by an act of the Legislature in 1871 rather than by a provision of the constitution and any change in the name would not require a constitutional amend ment, said the opinion approved by Wilson and written by Asst. Atty. Gen. John Reeves. Officer Positions To Be Determined By TOMMY HOLBEIN Runoff elections for class officers will begin tomorrow, with 38 candidates listed on the voting machines in the Me morial Student Center. Last week’s elections showed a lack of interest in the event, with only 1,825 ballots being cast in the primary elec tion, although a large field of 177 candidates were in the running. Still in the race for class offices are the following: Class of 1962 Roque C. Rodriquez and John (Waddle) Waddell in a runoff race for president. * Chuck Cochran and- Cecil Baily will have a runoff con- Insurance Plan To Be Discussed Representatives from the Pan American Life Insurance Co. will meet with A&M System employees tomorrow to ex plain the workings of a new “major medical” hospitalization insurance plan, according to System Insurance and Safety Director John W. Hill. 4 Two meetings, one at 2 p. m. and another at 4 p. m., will be held in the Biology Lecture Room. System employees will have a chance to hear how the new plan, designated “Plan IV,” will work and to ask any questions they may have. Hill also said any department wishing to hold a meeting for its own employees could make special arrangements by calling the in surance and safety director’s of fice in the system comptroller’s office. The new plan provides insurance coverage for extremely large hos pital and medical service charges up to a maximum of $10,000. How ever, Plan IV cannot become ef fective until at least 500 system employees, who are currently in sured in one of the three existing hospitalization plans, agree to ac cept the new service. Presently 2,024 persons are insured with some type of System sponsored hospitalization insurance. Costs for Plan IV for one em ployee run $4.91 a month or $14.73 quarterly; for an employee and one dependent, $9.35 a month or $28.05 quarterly; for an employee and two or more dependents, $12.64 a month or $37.92 quarterly. Decision to enroll in the plan is entirely voluntary. test for vice-president. Jan F. Ahart and Charlie W. Moore in a runoff for sec retary-treasurer. Johnny M. Martinez and “Shakey” Powell in a runoff race for social secretary. Bob D. Bates and Donald L. Dod- gen in a runoff for historian. David Halm and Jeff Went worth in a race for Memorial Stu dent Center councilman. Bill C. McClain, Jim T. Davis and Tom H. Ralph in a runoff for yell leaders. Two will be elected. Class of 1963 Roger John and Paul Barrett named to a runoff for president. Scottie Brown and Charles Blaschke in a runoff contest for vice-president. Bob Garrett and A1 L. Weaver in a runoff for secretary-treasurer. Don (Ollie Owl) Brister and Shelby Traylor in a runoff for social secretary. Paul Smith and Mundo Riojas in a runoff race for MSC council man. Bill Brashears, Tom (Doc) Nel son and Dudley Griggs in a runoff for yell leaders. Two are to be chosen. Class of 1964 Mike C. Dodge and Bill Rector (See ELECTION on Page 3) DUE NATIONAL PROMOTION Singing Cadets Record Album Finish For RCA The A&M Singing Cadets have just finished cutting a new record album for RCA Victor. The al bum, which will receive nation- wide promotion and distribution, will go on sale in the Gift Shop of the Memorial Student Center May 14. The 12-inch, 33-% rpm album will sell for $4.98. The album features a complete Singing Cadet concert typical of the type of program presented by the Cadets in their area-wide sing ing tours. Included in the album is the complete “Testament of Freedom” with music by the world- renewned American composer Randall Thompson. The words of this work were written by Thomas Jefferson. In addition to the “Testament of Freedom,” the album includes music ranging from serious hymns to light and gay popular numbers. “The Spirit of Aggieland,” “Adoramus Te,” “She Walks in Beauty,” “Elijah Rock,” “Birth of the Blues,” the traditional state song “Texas Our Texas” and the wellknown benediction “The Lord Bless and Keep You” are included in the sparkling recording. Robert L. Boone, Director of the Singing Cadets, had this to say about the album: “In these times of world disor der and confusion, we feel it is a part of the responsibility of the Singing Cadets to remind Texans and Americans everywhere of the great prices that have been paid not only by our generation, but by all American generations, in order that we may live in this great country of ours, practicing the freedoms given to us by men and women who have suffered and died in this cause. “In a day when a declaration of patriotism seems to be ‘square’ or ‘old hat,’ we feel the need to be even stronger, and if our presen tation of the ‘Testament of Free dom’ accomplishes the purpose of reminding Americans of their glor ious responsibility and heritage, we will be well rewarded.” RCA Victor, processing com pany of the record album, expects it to sell very well throughout the nation and especially well in Tex as. The Cadets will receive royal ties from sales of the album. 3 SCONA Delegates Attend Meet “The Merging Africa” is the subject of a four-day public affairs conference which is now being held at Principia College in Illinois and attended by three students from A&M. Vic Donnell, Vice-Chairman elect of SCONA VII; Gene Jameson, Chairman-elect of the SCONA VII Arrangements Committee, and David Halm, a member of the Arrangements Committee for SCONA VII, left Monday by car for the conference. ■ The three students are scheduled to register for the conference when it opens today. The site of the conference is a small liberal arts college located near Elsah, 111. Principia College itself is a four-year co-educational school which was established in 1898 at St. Louis. The college has an enrollment of about 450 drawn from 40 states and 10 foreign countries. The working of the conference will follow a plan similar to that used by SCONA. Questions will be presented to the assembly by various speakers after which the delegates will form into small round-table discussion groups. These groups will then strive to find plausible answers to the ques tions that were presented earlier and as a conclusion will present these ideas to the assembly as a whole when it reconvenes. The A&M delegates are expected to return to the campus Sunday after the confei’ence ends Saturday afternoon. World Wrap-Up By The Associated Press JFK Launches Discrimination Drive WASHINGTON—President Kennedy personally launched a drive Tuesday to remove “every trace of discrimination” from the filling of federal jobs or hiring by contractors who do business with the government. Kennedy told the first meeting of his new Committee for Equal Employment Opportunity that he had, armed the group with powerful sanctions so it can be an effective in strument against job discrimination. ★ ★ ★ More Laotian Delay Said Serious WASHINGTON—Any further delay in a Laotian cease fire agreement, a State Department spokesman said Tuesday, “would be a matter of very serious concern.” This assessment came from press officer Lincoln White after Secretary of State Dean Rusk told reporters he expects a Soviet reply “within a very few days” to a British proposal for an immediate cease-fire in Laos. Government Sues Electric Companies PHILADELPHIA—Eleven electrical companies, con victed conspirators in antitrust price-fixing and bid-rigging, were sued by the U. S. government Tuesday for millions of dollars in damages. Six separate complaints were filed in U. S. District Court accusing the firms, including the nation's two biggest—Gen eral Electric Co. and Westinghouse Electric Corp.—of cheat ing the Tennessee Valley Authority and a dozen federal agencies in the sale of equipment used for generation, trans mission and distribution of electricity. ★ ★ ★ JFK Calls Latin Problem “Critical” WASHINGTON—President Kennedy said Tuesday night “if we don’t move now” to aid Latin-American nations, Cuba’s Prime Minister Fidel Castro “may become a greater danger than he is today.” The President also asserted that Latin America “is in a most critical period in its relations with us.” ★ ★ ★ Physicians Says Astronauts Need Tranquilizers LONDON—An eminent British physician said Tuesday he is convinced that man must have alcohol or tranquilizers to survive in today’s jet age. “The use of these drugs is necessary for man’s continued existence in our so-called civilized world,” he said. “If he did not take them he would commit suicide when things got too bad for him.” UNCONFIRMED. Space Flight Questioned By The Associated Press MOSCOW—London’s Communist paper, the Daily Worker, reported Tuesday night that the Soviet Union shot a man into space orbit six days ago and brought him back to earth suffering from “after-effects of the flight.” There was no official confirma-"* tion of the report here, however, and Western correspondents could find nothing to bear out the story. A spokesman for Tass, official Soviet news agency, said reports abroad of a Soviet space man came entirely from unofficial sources. The Tass spokesman did not flatly deny, however, that there had been a flight. A spokesman at Britain’s Jod- rell Bank radiotelescope observa tory, which keeps track of space ships and satellites, said he had no knowledge of a new Soviet launching. Communist newspapers in Eu rope, including Rome’s L’Unita, which often is first with news from Moscow, had not received stories similar to the London Daily Worker’s. The London Daily Worker, at tributing its information to well- informed sources in Moscow, her alded “the first man in space” in splashy big headlines and said the astronaut was the test pilot son of a leading Soviet aircraft de signer. Said Confirmed In New York City, CBS radio broadcast a report from Moscow in which correspondent Marvin Kalb said he had confirmed the London Daily Worker story London Daily Worjker story through unofficial sources in the Soviet capital. Kalb said the flier was probably the son of Sergei Ilyushin, designer of the Ilyushin jet planes. The London story said the astro naut “is understood to be suffer ing after-effects from his flight,” and was under constant attention 2nd Campus Chest Drive Begins Here Tomorrow Tomorrow marks the start of the year’s second Campus Chest Drive. The chest, which collected only $293 on their first try last fall, hopes to raise $3,000 during the two-day drive tomorrow and Fri day. Student Welfare Committee Chairman Clayton LaGrone has called a meeting of all units com-1 manders for 6 p.m. tonight to publicize the drive. LaGrone has announced that Lee Griggs will be in charge of Civilian student collections, Ben Johnston Roger Ratcliff will be in charge of collections in the west Cadet area and LaGrone will be in charge in the east Cadet area. Collections will be handled through Cadet unit commanders, civilian dormitory presidents and special tubs located in the Memo rial Student Center. The Campus Chest is a fund that has been established to aid stu dents in cases of extraordinary hardship. All applicants are carefully screened by members qf the De partment of Student Activities be fore funds are distributed. and observation of leading Soviet medical specialists and space sci entist. The paper said he completed three orbits around the earth some 200 miles out in space last Friday before his 4y2-ton vehicle returned to earth on command. The story appeared only a day after rumors swept Moscow that the Soviet Union was about to an nounce the completion of a manned space flight. Communist newsmen here apparently had been tipped off from source to expect an an nouncement. No statement was issued, how ever, and a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday night that he knew nothing about it. Some correspondents here raised questions, when no announcement was forthcoming, whether some thing might have gone wrong. BSU Installs Exec Council Jirii Carnes, a junior from San Benito has been installed as the president of the Baptist Student Union. The installation was held Sun day, April 9, in the Emmanual Baptist Church in Bryan. In ad dition to the placing of the new president in office, the new Exec utive Council was put into office. Other men put in office were Walt Cavitt, secretary; Jack Con nor, vice president; Bill Harrison, Vespers chairman; Wendell Irby, enlistment chairman; Howard Da vis, publicity chairman; Don Dav idson, local missions chairman; Johnny Winder, social chairman; Don Willis, editor of The Link; Larry Braidfoot, student center chairman; Rusty Dunn, station wagon chairman; Dennis McClure, summer missions chairman; Tom Harris, international student com mittee chairman; Larry Hynson, Christian Life Committee Chair man; Don Costlow, campus or ganization chairman; Dr. Bardin Nelson, faculty advisor, and the Rev. Wesley Hatcher, pastor ad visor. will handle day student collections Films Feature Pan-A m Week Pan American Week’s second day of programs was highlighted last night by films in the Memor ial Student Center Ballroom show ing sports and recreations of the Latin American countries. Three films, “Winds to South America,” “Acapulco” and “Fish ing in South America,” were shown to a large audience of students and local residents. “This is one of the ways we feel that we can reach the people of the United States and show them our way of life,” said Daniel Gram- atges, president of the Pan Amer ican Club. The three films showed some of the resort areas and sporting places of the countries of South America and Central America. One of the pictures showed the Mexi- Aggie, Tessie Sophs Planning Dance In an interest to improve A&M- TWU relations, the sophomore class of Texas Woman’s Univer sity, working with the A&M sopho more class has planned a get-ac quainted party for April 22 at Denton. A personal invitation to the class of ’63 will be extended by a dele gation of sophomores Tessies who will visit A&M Friday. Festivities will open at 6 p.m. Saturday afternoon, April 22 with a picnic in Houston Hall court yard. Dress will be informal. Jerry Cline’s Combo will pro vide music and atmosphere for a semi-informal dance slated from 9 to 12 p.m. in the Student Union Building Ballroom. Admission to the dance will be $1 with pre-party ticket sales scheduled at both schools. A&M pre-party sales will be di rected by the sophomore class of ficers and officers-elect. can resort of Acapulco, a favorite spot for the vacationers of the Americas to spend their time in leisure and water sports. “We hope that these films serve to give the students and people of this area an idea of the beauty of the Latin American countries and encourge more people to visit them,” said Carlos Rivera of Costa Rica, the chairman of the film pre sentations. Scheduled on the program for tonight are more films on the Latin American nations. There will be six documentary films shown free to the public in the MSC Main Lounge showing facts and points of interest about the Coun tries of South and Central Amer ica. Another attraction has been add ed to the Pan American Week oh- Tracksters Prime For Dallas servance. There will be free cof fee in the MSC during several sur prise hours throughout the week. The coffee will be made from donations made by coffee growers in Colombia, secured by several of the members of the Pan American Club. The free “coffee from Co lombia will be served in the MSC Fountain Room at unannounced hours during the week. Coming up on the agenda for Pan American Week are several other attractions. Thursday there will be a three act play in the MSC Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. The play is written and produced by Latin American students. Friday there will be a Latin American Smorgasbord in the MSC Dining Room featuring recipes furnished by students from Latin American countries. Following the dinner there will be a talk by Dr. Martin Cottoni, Consul of Paraguay. Sat urday there will be a soccer meet and a barbecue for the participat ing teams. Observing MSC Murals . . . students study Pan-American displays