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The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1961
Number 99
ll
in
ampus Chest
Stays Short
Total collections for Campus Chest still stand at $324,
ng short of the desired $3,000 goal, according to Clayton
LaGrone, chairman of the drive and member of the Student
'elfare Committee of the Student Senate.
Left to be tabulated are collec-"*
inns conducted in the old area,
lorras 14-17, day student funds
aid the receptacles around cam-
ms still must be included, said
La Grone.
The chairman also said it was
tslikely that more than $500 will
i? collected in all out of the oriff-
nalgoal of $3,000; last year, the
lest collected a total of only $293
it of a similar goal.
This two-day spring drive was
liginally intended to put the
Impus Chest back on its feet
(cause of lack of donations in the
'ill; however, this second endeavor
«ill apparently fail to a large de-
pee in its purpose.
Squadron 11 still leads in con-
hlutions, contributing more than
ay other unit or organization with
i total of $49.42; on the other
Md, another unit on campus con
tributed only $6.16 to the Campus
Chest case.
Lee Griggs was in charge of ci
vilian student collections, Ben
Johnson was in chrge of day stu
dent collections and Roger Ratliff
handled collections in the old area.
The collections were handled
through cadet unit commanders,
civilian dormitory presidents and
the recptacles in the Memorial
Student Center.
La Grone said the majority of
funds which have been contributed
thus far have come from the civil
ian dormitories.
“They have borne their share of
the load, and I don’t expect much
more contributions from the civil
ian dormitories; what is left will
come from the old area, day stu
dents and the receptacles in the
MSC,” said La Grone.
iTSP.M. TOMORROW
General Election
Filing To Close
Tomorrow marks the last day that student hopefuls may
I for the 1961-62 Student Senate officer’s positions and a
ian Yell Leader post.
Officers to be chosen in the election, set Apr. 27, are a
Rate president, vice president,^
Hording secretary and parlia-
"intarian. Other open positions'
5 chairmen for senate commit-
sson Student Life, Student Wel-
sre, Public Relations and Issues
Swell as the Civilian Yell Lead-
t spot.
The qualifications for the vari-
t;jobs are as follows:
President—must be classified as
ifuiior (senior next year) and
a 1.5 grade point ratio or
liter,
Tice president—must be classi-
y as a sophomore (junior next
ffl) with at least a 1.5 g.p.r.
Recording secretary—must be
Ossified as a freshman (sopho-
ire next year) and have a 1.5
it or better.
Parliamentarian—must be clas-
fol as a junior (senior next
with at least a 1.5 g.p.r.
Senate committee chairmen—
tstbe classified as a junior (sen-
# next year) with at least a 1.25
ir.
Civilian Yell Leader—must be
taified as either a junior or
fcmore (senior or junior next
^f) and have a 1.25 g.p.r. or
for.
Students may file in the lower
! el of the Memorial Student Gen
ii
Today’s Batt
Seem Small?
Well, It Is
Notice something different
about today’s Battalion?
If it seems smaller, easier to
hold, easier to turn the pages,
it’s because we’ve cut two inches
off the edge.
The Battalion, after printing
eight columns on each page for
more than a year, has returned
to its earlier seven-column size.
The reduction in the number
of columns on a page will mean
more'six- and eight-page papers
in the future. And the new size
will be considerably easier to
handle.
The Battalion was originally a
two-column, 36-page weekly bul
letin. During its history, the
paper has changed the size and
the number of columns on its
pages several times. The last
change was in February of 1960
when The Battalion changed from
seven to eight columns.
uban Revolution
ndorsed By JFK
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—President Kennedy Tuesday night en-
Tsed the.effort to overthrow Cuban Prime Minister Fidel
^tro and told Soviet Premier Khrushchev this country will
Je action if the Russians interfere militarily in Cuba.
h the event of any military
any
Mention by outside force, we
; immediately honor our obli-
®°ns under the inter-American
to protect this hemisphere
to'st external aggression,” Ken-
v told Khrushchev.
Kennedy pledged anew that the
"kd States will not intervene
^ force in the battle between
foo’s forces and those seeking
overthrow him, but he said
^ricans do not conceal their
Oration for those who wish to
democracy re-established.
The United States government
^ take no action to stifle the
of liberty,” he said.
Kennedy, replying to a note
^ the Soviet premier, at the
fro time appealed to Khrush-
*v not to use the situation in
Cuba as a pretext “to inflame
other areas of the world.”
“What your government believes
is its own business,” the President
said. “What it does in the world
is the world’s business. The great
revolution in the history of man,
past, present and future, is the
revolution of those determined to
be free.”
The President called in Khrush
chev to match words with action
in the Soviet leader’s statement
that steps should be taken to im
prove the international atmos
phere. There are opportunities to
do so at once, he said.
“A prompt cease-fire and peace
ful settlement of the dangerous
situation in Laos, cooperation with
(See PRESIDENT on Page 3).
Dr. L. H. Hope
. . . joins college staff
Baylor Dean,
Dr. L. H. Hope,
Accepts Post
Dr. Lannes H. Hope, Assistant
Dean of Men at Baylor University,
will join the A&M Counseling and
Testing Center staff this summer.
S. A. Keiley, director of the
Counseling and Testing Center,
said Hope will come to the depart
ment with the rank of assistant
professor of psychology.
“We are very fortunate to get
a man with the training and back
ground of Hope.” “He brings to
us excellent training in counseling
and research and a varied exper
ience in many phases of teaching
and student services,” Kerley said.
He said Hope’s addition is part
of a program of expansion of per
sonnel in the Counseling and
Testing Center.
Hope is a graduate of the Coun
seling Training Program at the
University of Texas and holds a
PhD degree in this area.
In addition to service as a clin
ical psychologist, he will also par
ticipate in research and teaching.
His services are available to the
entire college and he also will
Work in conjunction with Dr. C.
R. Lyons, Director of Student
Health Services.
Hope has been a member of the
staff of the Dean of Men and of
the psychology faculty at Baylor
for the past nine years. He has
been Assistant Dean of Men for
the past five years.
He is a native Texan and holds
BS and ME degrees from Texas
Technological College. He receiv
ed his doctorate in educational
psychology in 1960 at the Univer
sity of Texas.
The psychologist served with the
United States 3 Army from 1940 to
1946, two of those years as an of
ficer with the 1st Infantry Divis
ion in the European Theatre. At
present, he is a major in the U.S.
Army Reserve.
Hope is a member of Phi Delta
Kappa, a national honorary edu
cation fraternity; the American
Personnel and Guidance Associa
tion; the Texas Association of
School Personnel Administrators,
and the Texas Personnel and Guid
ance Association.
Dr. and Mrs. Hope are the par-
etns of a son, Brain, 13, and two
daughters, Kerry, 10, and Kris, 8.
Kennedy Asks
For Urban
Committee
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President
Kennedy formally asked Congress
Tuesday to create a Cabinet-rank
Department of Urban Affairs and
Housing to help cities deal with
their growing problems.
The new department would sim
ply take over the functions now
assigned to the federal Housing
and Home Finance Agency and its
satellite offices.
Sen. Joseph S. Clark, D-Pa., who
introduced Kennedy’s legislation
in the Senate, said it would add
no new programs or operations to
the housing agency’s present role.
He added that others may be tack
ed on in the future by legislation
or reorganization plans.
58th Annual Muster
To Be Held Friday
Aston To Speak
At Campus Muster
World Wrap-Up
The Associated Press
Strike In Panhandle To End
DUMAS. Tex—Officials of Phillips Chemical Co. and the
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union said
today that their negotiators have agreed to end the 103-day
strike at the Cactus plant at midnight Wednesday.
The agreement will be submitted to union members for
ratification at a meeting tonight. Terms were not disclosed
pending action by the union members.
★ ★ ★
Laotian Peace Hopes Fade
VIENTIANE, Laos—The Laotian government reported
large movements by enemy soldiers on the northern and cen
tral fronts today as hopes for a quick cease-fire faded.
A government statement said pro-communist Pathet
Lao rebel units “openly directed by foreigners” were on the
move north of the royal capital of Luang Prabang. It gave
no further details.
★ ★ ★
Navy Air Transport Crashes In Nevada
FALLON, Nev.—A Navy DCS plane with 19 persons
aboard crashed yesterday at Fallon Naval Air Auxiliary Sta
tion. At least seven men were killed.
A Navy spokesman said the plane, after taking off on a
return flight to Alameda Naval Air Station in California with
four crewmen and 15 passengers, climbed only 60 feet before
nosing down and bursting into flames.
★ ★ ★
House Extends Mexican Labor Act
WASHINGTON—The House Agriculture Committee
Tuesday approved a bill which would extend the Mexican
Labor Act until Dec. 31, 1963.
The act empowers the United States to enter into an
agreement with Mexico each year for importation of Mexican
farm laborers.
★ ★ ★
Baylor Chancellor, President Named
DALLAS—The Baylor University board yesterday pro
moted Dr. W. R. White to chancellor and named Abner V.
McCall as president.
White was president and McCall executive vice president
before Tuesday’s action in Dallas. The main university is in
Waco.
★ ★ ★
U. S. Embassy In Moscow Stoned
MOSCOW—Thousands of demonstrators hurling stones
to a chorus of “Hands off Cuba!” smashed U. S. Embassy
windows Tuesday.
Some of the crowd then battled Soviet soldiers and police
men guarding the building. The demonstration was similar
to others at times of international crisis in the past, but this
one got somewhat out of hand.
★ ★ ★
Former Texas Mayor Appointed Ambassador
WASHINGTON—Raymond Telles, former mayor of El
Paso, Tex., was sworn in yesterday as ambassador to Costa
Rica.
Friends, state department officials and other dignitaries
assembled in the department’s new reception room to witness
the ceremony.
Young, Ihms Win
Agriculture Honors
Two much-sought honors have been won by students in
the Department of Agriculture, it was announced today.
The students are Melvin C. Young, a junior from Lock
hart majoring in agricultural education, and Orlan Ihms, a
freshman from Georgetown ma-"^
joring in poultry science.
Young is the recipient of a 1961
Pfizer 4-H Scholarship Award for
$250. The award was made offi
cial at the annual National Exten
sion Training Conference at Pur
due University.
Young has been active in 4-H
Club work for 11 years and re
ceived the State 4-H Achievement
Award in 1960.
Active in campus organizations,
Young is a member of the Col
legiate 4-H Club, Collegiate FFA
Chapter, Student Chamber of
Commerce, Alpha Zeta Honorary
Fraternity, The Quartermaster As
sociation and the Cen-Tex Home
town Club.
Through his FFA activities,
Young received the Outstanding
Chapter Member Award and the
State Farmer and American Farm
er Degrees. He plans to enter the
extension field after graduation.
Ihms was given the highest hon
or a 4-H Club member can receive,
when he was named one of the four
Texas delegates to the National
4-H Club Convention to be held in
Washington, D.C., Saturday and
Sunday. -
He has completed 6 years of
outstanding 4-H work in poultry,
beef cattle, lambs and swine. He
has won statewide recognition as
a junior leader, public speaker and
demonstration team member. He
was a member of the state cham
pionship poultry demonstration
team in 1958, and in 1959 was
awarded a ti’ip to the National 4-H
Club Congress in Chicago and a
$350 college scholarship.
Ihms was a member of church,
school and community organiza
tions in his hometown. He was a
member of the Georgetown High
School Band, the Spanish Club and
the Hungry Five German Band.
He was a member of the National
Honor Society and the Luther
League and presently is a member
of the Aggie Maroon Band.
The 58th annual observance of Aggie Muster will be
celebrated Friday all over the nation and the world, with the
biggest ceremony on campus on the front lawn of the Me
morial Student Center.
James W. Aston, the president of the Association of
Former Students, will be the guest speaker for campus cere
monies.
'Aston, Class of ’32, is president of the Dallas Republic
National Bank. The topic of his address has not been an
nounced.
■' The Muster tradition originated on campus in 1903 when
the Corps of Cadets gathered together in observance of the
Independence of Texas and"*
the sacrifices made by those
feons at Goliad, the Alamo and
San Jacinto.
It was agreed then to make
Muster an annual tradition.
The schedule of events for the
campus ceremony Friday is as
follows:
Star Spangled Banner—Aggie
Band
Introductory remarks—Roland
Dommert, President, Student
Senate
Invocation—Brantley Laycock,
Student Senate Chaplain
The Muster tradition and re
marks — Syd Heaton, Cadet
Colonel of the Corps
Introduction of Frank B.
Harvey, Vice-President, Former
Students Association, by Dom
mert
Remai'ks by Harvey
The Twelfth Man—A&M Sing
ing Cadets
Introduction of President Earl
Rudder—Dommert
Rudder introduces Aston
Principal address—Aston
The Spirit of Aggieland—Band
and audience
Roll Call for the Absent—Ed
ward A. Todd, Head Yell Leader
Silver Taps—Band Members
R. V. Volley
Auld Lang Syne — Singing
Cadets
Closing Ceremony—Dommert
Bill Harrison
Elected State
BSU Prexy
For the first time since 1940,
an Aggie has been elected state
president of the Baptist Student
Union.
Saturday, over 850 Baptist stu
dents from 55 Texas colleges and
universities voted unamiously to
accept William H. “Bill” Harrison
as their president.
The occasion was the 1961 Spring
Planning Conference at Latham
Springs Baptist Encampment north
of Waco. Harrison took office Sun
day morning from the out-going
president, Dick Hester of Baylor.
Harrison is a junior from Co
lumbus, majoring in agricultural
economics. He has held the corps
position of operations sergeant on
the Third Battle Group Staff this
past year.
He also has served this past year
on the state Summer Missions
Committee which selected the
members of Project Understand
ing, the Baptist Student Choir,
which will tour the Orient this
summer. In the local Baptist Stu
dent Union Harrison is Vespers
Chairman.
Famed Astronomer
Schedules Lecture
Dr. Hugh M. Johnson, an astronmer with the National
Astronomical Observatory, University of Arizona, will dis
cuss “Astronomy in the Southern Hemisphere” Tomorrow
night at 8 p. m. in Room 113, Biological Sciences Building.
4
Arriving tonight, the young as
tronomer will be available for con
ferences with students interested in
astronomy, space travel, astro
physics and related topics.
All intei-ested students should
arrange appointments with John
son at the Placement Office.
Other lectures to be delivered by
Johnson include “Interstellar Mat
ter” at 10 a.m. tomorrow in Room
320 of the Physics Building; “The
Star Cluster in the Orion Nebula”
at 4 p.m. tomorrow, same location,
and “The Magellanic Clouds,” 11
a.m. Friday, same location.
Johnson received his AB degree
in 1948, a BS degree in 1949 and
his PhD degree in 1953, all from
the University of Chicago. He
was a research assistant at the
Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay,
Wise., from 1950-53.
Since that time, he has been a
research associate with the Yerkes
Observatory, Department of As
tronomy, University of Chicago.
He was Assistant Professor, State
University of Iowa from 1954-59.
Johnson was a Visiting Fellow
with the Australian National Uni
versity and the Mount Stromlo
Observatory from 1958-59. He
became Associate Professor and
Associate Astronomer with the
University of Arizona in 1960.
Architecture
Lecture Set
Tomorrow Nile
Gene R. Summers, a Chicago
architecture, will be the sixth
speaker in the series of guest lec
tures sponsored by the Division of
Architecture? Summers will speak
in the Geology Building lecture
room tomorrow at 8 p.m.
A graduate of A&M, Class of
’49, Summers is an associate of
the famed architect Ludwig Mies
Van Der Rohe. He will show slides
of Van Der Rohe’s work in the
United States, South American and
Germany.
Summers is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. F. L. Summers of Bryan. His
wife is the former Ann O’Bannon,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. S.
O’Bannon of A&M.
Summers’ work with Van Der
Rohe has included being in charge
of the Seagrams building, new
York; the Bacardin buildings in
Cuba and Mexico; the U. S. con
sulate in Sao Paulo, Brazil; the
U. S. Federal Center in Chicago
and the Krupp office building in
Germany.