The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, April 26, 1961, Image 1

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, April 26, 1961, Image 1

Newspaper Page TextThe Battalion Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1961 Number 103 GENERAL ELECTIONS More Yoting Due Tomorrow The voting machines are once more set up in the corri dors of the Memorial Student Center and tomorrow voting will begin to fill eight Student Senate positions and to find a Civilian yell leader. A run-off will also be held be- + tween Dave Halm and Jeff Went worth to select the Class of ’62 representative to the Memorial Student Center Council. Tlje election commission decided on the run-off after a decision to a coin caused an out-cry against haphazard methods of running student government. Candidates as listed on. the offi cial ballot are: Student Senate president: Mal colm W. Hall, Ballinger, and Hugh llcDaniel, Wanwatosa, Wis. Student Senate vice president: Ronald E. Fix, Tyler; Frederick T. Sraham, Houston; James Ed Sar- hin, Dallas, and George A. Wie- ieraenders, Norman, Okla. Student Senate parliamentarian: Cecil D. Bailey, Dallas, and James 1 Fadal, San Antonio. Student Senate recording secre tary: Larry Burgoon, Odessa; Warren Dillard, Houston; Frank L Kiolbassa, San Antonio, and Hiomas H. Meadows, Lake Jack- n. Student Senate Public Relations Committee chairman: James W. Carter, Fort Worth, and Homer L. Denuing, Bryson. Student Senate Student Welfare Committee chairman: John R. Anthis, San Antonio, and Don C. Ince, Rio Vista. Student Senate Issues Commit tee chairman: Norris R. Gilbreath, Sit. Pleasant; William B. Snead, Austin, and Rudolph H. Stevens, k, Lake Jackson. Student Senate Student Life .Committee chairman: Kenneth oyce, Empire, Mich.; Edward H. Sohutek, Jr., San Antonio, and Carry W. Wallace, Houston. Civilian yell leader: Robert E. Anderson, Montgomery; James W. Carter, Fort Worth, and Walter R. Crazier, Dallas. CSC Filing Closes Monday Candidates for Civilian Student Council must file applications with their respective dorm counselors before noon Monday. One representative will be cho sen from each of the sophomore, junior and senior classes and one from fifth year and graduate stu dents. Any full time student liv ing in any civilian area, with a 1.25 overall grade point ratio arid who is clear from all probation is eli gible to file. Counselors are Robert O. Mur ray, Room 203, Aggieland Inn; William G. Breazeale, 1-H Puryear Hall, or Robert L- Melcher, Room 27, Milner Hall. Blood Drive Set Tomorrow Senate Worker Registers Donors . . . Warren Dillard (left), Dean Houser, Charles Sullivan Algerian Rebels Surrender; One General Reported Dead By The Associated Press PARIS—The generals’ revolt in Algeria collapsed Wednesday with the surrender of Gen. Maurice Challe and the reported suicide of Gen. Raoul Salan. The French gov ernment confirmed Challe’s surren der but had no official word on Salan’s suicide. The office of President Charles de Gaulle announced that Challe had put himself at the disposition of the French government. Challe’s surrender spelled the end for the dramatic insurrection of paratroops and dissident gen erals that began Saturday. Paratroops have pulled out of Algiers, the last big Algerian city held by the insurgents. The insurection ended with dra matic suddenness—as it began. In the announcement from De Gaulle’s Elysee Palace there was no mention of the other top gen erals involved—Andre Zeller and Edmond Jouhaud. De Gaulle had already opened the legal proceedings that could result in death sentences for all the insurgent leaders. It was just after midnight in Exhibit By Tops NIFA Thunderbirds Highlights A&M will be host to the Na- 'fflal Intercollegiate Flying As- •lation’s 13th Annual Flying l !eet and Conference at Easter- Wod Airport tomorrow through Saturday. Representatives from over 40 afferent colleges and universities well as aviation dignitaries -Dm all over the nation will be ■a hand for the meet. A highlight of the meet will be ‘Saturday noon exhibition of pre- !; sion flying by the Thunderbirds, ■'e official aerobatic team of the •nited States Air Force, flying F-100 Super Sabres, the Rmnderbirds will perform their ■‘tire show at a low altitude and ^hin a mile radius of the show !r ta so the audience can easily see •’tty maneuver. The actual competition will be- A® Friday and last through Sat- and a full schedule of ae ries is planned for the partici- *nts between events. Saturday at 8 p.m. the Corps of ^ets will pass in review in honor town Hall Interviews Set Interviews will be conducted to- '°frow night for junior positions ’the Town Hall Staff, Gary An- ^*on, Student Entertainment Wger for next year, has an- ^anced. Jhe interviews will be held in the * j! Tn 2 Conference Room from :: ?0 to 9:30. All sophomores with grade point ^ios of at least 1.25 are eligible. There will be around 20 vacan- ^ available, Anderson concluded. of Lt. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, Commander of the Air Research and Development Command, and the delegates of the NIFA. Just prior to the exhibition by the Thunderbirds there will be a Western-style barbecue at the air port given under the direction of the Saddle and Sirloin Club. The meet wil Ibe climaxed Sat urday night with an awards ban quet in the Memorial Student Cen ter. The main address will be given by Gen. Schriever. Made up of 94 colleges and uni versities from all parts of the United States, the NIFA air meet is held annually to promote skill, safety and sport among its mem bers. Membership in the associa tion ranges from commercial pilots to those who are just learning to fly- Hosted by A&M for the first time, the meet makes its third ap pearance in Texas; both previous meets in Texas were held in Fort Woz'th at Texas Christian Univer sity. Three categories of competition will be included in the meet: pow er-on and power-off spot landings, flour bomb dropping and filing and flying a cross country course. A fly-a-way breakfast Sunday at Easterwood Airport will officially end the meet. The Air Force exhibition team, the Thunderbirds, in their demon strations in all pax-ts of the world have as their objective a threefold mission: First: For the most favoi'able display of USAF technical and pro fessional capability. Second: To demonsti’ate the team work, coordination, discipline and precision flying ability that is re quired and vitally necessary for a highly effective combat-capable air power. Thii'd: Through x-apid and com plete unit deployment, split-sec ond timing of men and machines, long-range in-flight refueling and an ever-ready state of prepared ness, to graphically illustrate and epitomize the flexibility and po tential of all commands in the U. S. Air Force as a world wide “Power for Peace.” Capt. R. H. Everett , . . with ‘Thunderbirds’ Aggieland 4 61 Deadlines Near Friday is the deadline for both Vanity Fair and Senior Favorite entries in The Aggieland ’61, it has been announced by Eidtor Dick McGaughy. Photographs may be entered in either division at the Office of Student Publications in the base ment of the YMCA Building. Paris when the collapse of the re bellion became apparent. Radio Algiers first reported the suicide of Salan and the suiTender of Challe. The voice of the insui’gents, i*a- dio Algiers, was recaptured Tues day night by French marines and immediately rejoined the French national network. It reported Gaullist forces were taking over the French Noi'th Af rican capital, the last major hold out remaining in the hands of in surgents- Oran and Constantine earlier had been reported back in Gaul list hands. One salient fact stood out in a welter of confusion in Algiers: The insurrection that vowed to keep Algeria under French rule against De Gaulle’s course for dealing with Nationalists was dy ing in high di’ama. The generals’ coup, came with out warning early last Saturday morning, and France had gone on the defense in anticipation of an air borne invasion of Paris from Algeria. De Gaulle had taken the stexm- est measures with orders tej wipe out the insurgents by war if nec essary. The tide seemed to turn quickly after that. Algiers radio claimed that “i’e- publican law and oi’der” was be ing re-established in the capital of the North African teri'itory. The report followed a broadcast saying that street fighting had raged briefly in the streets of the capital Tuesday night. The fighting was reported after Gaulle, with wide support of his military arms, ordered Fi’ench soldiers in Algeria to smash the Algiers genei’als’ x’evolt with open warfare if necessary. The street fighting appai’ently broke out about the time the in- sui’gent leadership called for a mass rally. Radio Algiers reported the fight ing, in a brief bx*oadcast, and then said the situation had returned to normal. The radio carried an ap peal to the people of Algiers to I’emain calm and go home. While it was still uncertain here whether the rebels still controlled Algiers, radio transmitted a dis patch from David Mason, Associat ed Press correspondent who> sailed across the Mediterranean from France with other newsmen to reach Algiei’S. Mason reported that life in Al giers appeared normal except that one noted strong military guards at strategic points and much of the city was decorated with blue, white and red. G. Rollie To House White Giving By GERRY BROWN Plans are completed in preparation for the annual Aggie Blood Drive to be held tomorrow in G. Rollie White Colisreum. The actual donating will take place from 8 a. m. until 3 p. m. and a large number of donors is hoped for. Student Welfare Committee Chairman Clayton L&Grone reminds students that everyone may give blood in tomorrow’s drive although they were not able to register beforehand. Supervising the collection of the blood will be staff mem bers from the Wadley Research Institute & Blood Bank lo cated in Dallas. The contribution that A&M makes tomorrow will be used in helping 22 clinics and hospitals in 15 cities. The blood also aids in the research di- 4- rected toward cure of Leuke mia or cancer of the blood which causes the death of 12.000 persons in the United States each year. The Wadley Research Institute and Blood Bank was established as an independent, non-profit or ganization by Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Wadley of Texarkana, Ark., in memory of their little grandson who died of leukemia. The insti tute exists solely from gifts, re search grants and services render ed. Research scientists at the insti tute study blood diseases of all types with major interest placed on blood cancer, hemophilia and var ious anemias. Patients are usually refei’red by their family doctors. They come fi’om 38 different states and three foreign countries. The institute’s staff processes 25.000 pints of blood each year and is composed of 123 members. Through its research it has been responsible for a number of ad vancements including: 1. Discovery of a new and impoi't- ant kind of antibody. 2. Discovery of a process for the large scale pi - oduction of potent anti-Rh serum. 3. Identification of the “little d” factor of the blood- 4. Development of the Adtevac process of drying blood plasma from the frozen state. Prospective donors are asked to report to the blood station which will be located just inside the physical education entrance on the east side of the coliseum, anytime between 8 a. m. and 3 p. m. to morrow. Beds have been taken from the college hospital and placed in the coliseum to accommo date the donors. Refreshments will also be served. ‘Elmer Gantry’ Book Reviews Set To Begin The first discussion meeting for participants in the Gi-eat Adven- tui’e Series will be at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, according to Tony Giardina, pi’esident of the Arts & Sciences Student Council, program sponsors. Discussion gi-oups, consisting of approximately 17 members and one faculty coordinator each, will meet for one hour. Topic of the dis cussion will be Sinclair Lewis’s “Elmer Gantry.” Participants in Doi'ms 1, 2, 3 and 4 will meet in the lounge of Dorm 1; Dorms 5, 6 and 7 will meet in Dorm 6; Doi'ms 8, 10 and 12 will meet in Dorm 10; Dorms 9 and 11 will meet in Doi-m 9; Dorms 14 and 17 will meet in Dorm 14; and Dorms 15 and 16 will meet in Dorm 15. Civilian doi’ms Mitchell, Legett and Milner will meet in Legett; Law and Walton will meet in Walton; and Puryear and Hart will meet in Puryear. Giardina said more than 150 students have registered to> T par ticipate in this Great Adventure Series. Minutes Changed To Correct Error The A&M System Board of Di rectors Saturday offically correc ted the minutes of their Feb. 25 meeting, giving System backing to the proposed change in the name of the school to “Texas A&M Uni versity.” The minutes of the February meeting indicated the Board au thorized A&M System Chancellor M. T. Harrington to “prepare and secure the introduction of a bill into the Texas Senate to change the name of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College to the Tex as Agricultural and Mechanical University, and change the name of the Texas Agricultural and Me chanical College System to the Texas Agricultural and Mechan ical University System,” accord ing to System Information Direc tor Henderson Shuffler. The minutes were amended to read, . . change the name of the Texas Agricultural and Me chanical College to Texas A&M University, and change the name of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College System to the Texas A&M University Sys tem.” Texas A&M University was the name originally recommended by the College Name-Change Study Committee and approved by the Executive Committe and the Aca- | demic Council. “The ‘A&M’ in the corrected minutes is written ‘A-ampersand- M’ with no punctuation and no space between the figures,” Shuf fler said. A bill (SB302) to change the name of A&M to Texas State Uni versity and the Agricultural and Mechanical College was introduced in the Senate March 8 by Bryan Senator William T. Moore. At the time Moore said the Board of Directors had requested he in troduce a bill to change the name to Texas Agricultural and Mechan ical University. “Such a name defeats the pur poses of putting university in the name. A university contains many schools, not just schools of agri culture and engineering,” he said. A spokesman for the Board of Directors said the Board wanted Texas A&M University, with A&M being independent of any connec tion with the words “agricultural” or “mchanical.” The bill is still pending on the floor of the Senate, however noth ing has come from Austin concern ing the status of the bill for some time. Indications are that an amendment will be introduced changing the name to Texas A&M University when the bill is brought before the Senators. ‘Activation’ Lecture Set Tomorrow Nile “The Potentialities of Activation Analysis” will be the theme of a graduate lecture to be delivered by Dr. W. Wayne Meinke tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. in Room 211 of the W. T. Doherty Petroleum Engi neering Building. He is an associate professor of chemistry, Memorial Phoenix Pro ject, University of Michigan. The public is invited' “Activation analysis is a quan titative and qualitative analytical procedure which makes use of the characteristic irridation resulting from nuclear activation,” Dr. Wayne C. Hall, Dean of the Grad uate School, says. “While activation analysis is a relatively new procedure, over 70 of the elements have been analyzed by this method, and often in de grees of sensitivity which are un matched by other analytical tech niques. Meinke is considered one of the outstanding national authori ties in this important new field.” Meinke received his BA degree from Overland College in 1947 af ter completing service in the Navy. He then studied at the University of California where he received his PhD in Nuclear Chemistry in 1950. He joined the staff of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Michigan in 1950. His chief professional interests are in the radiochemical field in cluding activation analysis, radio chemical separations, and study of nuclear decay schemes. He is author or co-author of approxi mately 80 papers in this area. He is also chairman of the subcom mittee on Radio-chemistry of the National Research Council and American Chemical Society repre sentative on the American Stand ards Association Sectional Com mittee concerning General Stand ards for Nuclear Energy- He also serves as a consultant to the Office of Isotopes Development of US Atomic Energy Commissipn. •Sr tha \ . Fish Leader H. W. Schmid of San Anton io, Saturday night led the Freshman Drill Team to its first 1st place in 29 years at San Antonio’s Fiesta Flambo Torch Parade. The Sam Hous ton Rifles of Arlington State College have copped 1st place in the parade the last 29 years. The Fish Drill Team is composed of 38 members and is supervised by Capt, Calvin Reese and Brian Stancil, a junior from Shreveport, La.

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, April 26, 1961, Image 1

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