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Volume 69
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1961
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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-
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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