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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, May 23, 1961
Tractor - Prisoner
Trade Shaping Up
WASHINGTON—A Trac-
tors-for-Freedom Committee was
organized Monday and began ne
gotiating with Prime Minister
Fidel Castro for the release of
more than 1,200 prisoners captured
in last month’s Cuban invasion.
The private group went ahead
in the face of some shai’p protests
in Congress.
Considerable uncertainty devel
oped over Castro’s offer to I’elease
the prisoners in return for 500
American-made tractors, however,
when the Cuban radio quoted
Castro as saying the United States
was taking an insulting attitude
toward his offer to release the
captives in return for farm ma
chinery.
He threatened to call the deal
off and mete out summary punish
ments to the captives.
Nevertheless, the citizens group
set out to raise the millions needed
to buy 500 tractors and announced
it was telegraphing three condi
tions to Castro, as follows:
1. Castro will allow a small
group of Americans to go to
Havana to work out details, in
cluding the type of tractors.
2. Castro will supply a list of
prisoners to be freed.
Goldwater told the Senate the
United States could not abandon
moral responsibility to the cap
tured Cubans but said: “How can
we stand up to Castro when he
attempts to blackmail us by offer
ing 1,000 lives for 500 tractors and
by' throwing in what he calls ‘the
Fascist priests’ for free?”
In the House Rep. August E.
Johansen, M.-Mich., said he was
appalled at the apparent eagerness
to “comply with the ransom terms
laid down by Communist stooge
Fidel Castro.”
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CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
r
3. Castro promises to release the
prisoners as tractors arrive.
Walter P. Reuther, head of the
United Auto Workers Union and
cochairman of the citizens’ com
mittee, announced the group was
cabling Castro it would go ahead
with the deal if the conditions
were accepted.
Cries of “Communist blackmail”
came from Republican Sens. Barry
Goldwater of Arizona and Homer
E. Capehart of Indiana.
Capehart said if this country
“yields to Castro’s blackmail we’ll
be the laughing stock of the world.”
He said that instead of making a
deal with Castro “I’d have gone
to war.”
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(Editor’s note: This letter was
written to The Battalion by the
mother of junior business admin
istration major Rudolph H.
Stevens, Jr.)
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. . . I thought it would sorta dress up th’ room!”
Editor,
The Battalion:
I would like to express my ap
preciation to all committees who
planned the wonderful Parents’
Day. It was the most enjoyable
Mother’s Day I have ever ex
perienced.
At Splash Day in Galveston Mr.
Stevens brought me some Aggie
rifles to hold while he made pic
tures of the A&M boys. After he
left me and I was too far to get
in touch with him I realized he
had the keys to the car.
Here I stood on the busiest
corner with a rifle in each hand.
The passers by gave me puzzling
glances as if to say, “Have you
joined the cops?”
I felt a bit ill at ease, but after
seeing the review Sunday the
Freshmen Drill Team and the
Ross Volunteers’ exhibition I
realized that I’d gladly stand on
any street corner and hold any
Aggie’s rifle.
I am sure every mother there
would be willing to stick by her
guns for her Aggie son!
Shot Ready
BOCHUM, Germany—ffl-Th
Soviets have entered the fin:;
phase of preparations for a ne:
manned space shot, Heinz Kamfe-
ski, head of the local observaton
said Monday.
He said he bases his stateiwl
on monitoring of frequencies ust
at the time of Yuri A. Gagariii
space flight. These have beenven
busy in the last week, Kaminsl;
added.
Mrs. R. H. Stevens
110 Persimmon
Lake Jackson, Texas
The ideal wife is one who kiM
when her husband wants to 1*
forced to do something agaia
his will.—Sydney ,J.. Harris
Babcock Essay Winner
\
Named At SP Banquet
(Editor’s note: Winner of the
1961 Babcock Essay Competition
was John Norris Harrington, ’61,
liberal arts major from College
Station. Harrington’s essay,
“Educational Assets I Find at
Texas A&M,” won him $250, pre
sented by C. L. Babcock, Beau
mont insurance man, at the Stu
dent Publications Banquet Friday,
May 19.)
By JOHN N. HARRINGTON
Most people think of The Agri
cultural and Mechanical College
of Texas being strictly a techno
logical college, teaching only ag
riculture and engineering. It is
a technological college and one
of the best in this great nation
of ours. It is recognized as be
ing outstanding in technology be
cause of such educational assets
as the Data Processing Center,
where may be found not only an
IBM 650 and analogue computer,
but one of the three IBM 709
computers located at American
universities; and the Nuclear
Science Center with its swim
ming-pool type of reactor of 100
kw. power, which is to be expand
ed to 5 Mw. power.
Texas A&M has one of the sev
enteen schools of Veterinary
Medicine in the United States
and our Division of Architecture
had two students who were final
ists in the Pax-is Prize Competi
tion this year. The outstanding
Petroleum Engineering Depart
ment does joint research with
The University of Texas and the
Texas Railroad Commission. The
Manufacturing Chemists Associa
tion and the American Petroleum
Institute have recently trans
ferred their research program on
hydrocarbons from Carnegie In
stitute of Technology to the De
partment of Chemistry at Texas
A&M. »
The Department of Biochemis
try has done pioneer work in the
use of antibiotics in the field of
poultry feeding with the results
that one pound of chicken bi’oil- 1
ers can be produced with less]
than two pounds of feed. Th
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Department of Oceanography and
Meteorology at Texas A&M, with
it£ own ocean-going research
ship, the R/V Hidalgo, was the
first to do research on the Gulf
Coast. The School of Agriculture
has developed a hybrid sorghum
which adds $25,000,000 annually
to the economy of the State of
Texas; it bas developed varieties
of rice which make up 90% of
the rice grown in the Gulf Coast
Area; and it is how doing re
search on predicting the rate of
gain in cattle through blood tests.
But how do these educational
assets affect me, a liberal arts
major? The reason for a major
in liberal arts is to obtain a broad
education. Texas A&M is an out
standing school of technology and
it is also an outstanding school
of liberal arts. As a liberal arts
student, I take such courses as
literature, Spanish, history, eco
nomics, and philosophy. But at
Texas A&M many of the other
students in these courses are
technological students and, as
such, are exposed to the techno
logical educational assets men
tioned earlier. Thus I am ex
posed to many different ideas;
for example, an architect’s view
of philosophy, an engineer’s view
of economics, and an agricultural
student’s view of government.
All these different ideas help to
broaden my education.
Besides being indirectly ex
posed to these technological edu
cational assets, I am directly ex
posed to such educational assets
in liberal arts as the modern
language laboratory, which is the
largest and best-equipped in the
Southwest, and the strong course!
offerings in the departments of
history, English and economics.
I can also directly expose myself
to the technological educational
assets. For example, I can take
courses at the Data Processing
Center with math and industrial
engineering majors, courses in
biology and chemistry with pre-
med students, and courses in ani
mal husbandry and floriculture
with agricultural students. With
access to such educational assets
as these, I, as a liberal arts
major at a “technological” school
can get a broad education.
All educational assets, how
ever, are not to be found in books.
Here again A&M is exceptional.
Through dorm life, I have learned
to live with other people; through
intercollegiate and intramural
sports I have learned sportsman
ship; through the Corps of Ca
dets I have learned leadership;
and as a member of the famous
Twelfth Man I have learned to
lose and not be defeated. These
educational assets, which will
help me to master the art of liv
ing, are just as important as
those of technology and liberal
arts, if not more so.
As I graduate from Texas A&M
with my degree in liberal arts to
enter graduate study and then
my life’s work in law and foreign
affairs, I do so confidently. I am
confident because I know I am
well prepared as a result of the
fine educational assets offered to
me at Texas A&M, the educa
tional assets in liberal arts as
well as those in technology, co
operative living, sportsmanship,
leadership, and drive and de
termination. Yes, the Agricul
tural and Mechanical College of
Texas is an outstanding techno
logical school. It is also an out
standing school of liberal arts and
art of living.. It is a school with
educational assets second to none.
That is why I am well prepared
to enterHife and why I am proud
to be a Texas Aggie.
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