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i) The Battalion the h*. Volume GO COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1961 N umber 4 ptudents Face Possible Active Duty Most ’60- 49th Ordered Graduates Employed To Actim Dut ‘Review Shows $425-$525 Starting Pay Class Of ^5 Accepted r / Cadet Col. of the Corps Bill Cardwell pins the Corps in signia on the collar of Michael P. Sievers, a freshman from Galveston, signifying the Corps’ acceptance of the Class of ’65 at All-College Night. The ritual will become an an nual event every All-College Night. (Photo by Bennie Gulls') New Sabers Due Here November 1 A&M is jjettinp: its own custom earned saber, etched with sym- ols of AfOfieland. The first ship- nent of the new sabers is due bout Nov. 1. The blade etchings are the only nodification of the regulation U. ?. ^rmy saber now standard here. The new saber is the result of a lesign by the N. S. Meyer Co. of Mew York and Col. Joe Davis, •onunandant of cadets. The New York firm has previ- msly designed sabers for Virginia Mijitary Institute and Culver Mili- ;ary Academy. The company also narkets various military insignia md devices. %Carl Birdwell, manager of the Exc hange Store, said the idea be- ?an last March, with final designs Jeing approved the middle of Au gust. Birdwell said the scrollwork on the blade of the symbolic military weapon now incorporates a pic ture of Sully, the arm patch de sign, the A&M collar insignia, the legend “A&M College of Texas” and the founding date of the school. The new saber will not replace the standard army saber, but will be available for cadets desiring them. They may be used by cadet officers instead of the standard sabers. The Exchange Store has placed an initial order of 50 sabers with the Meyer Company. Price of the sabers will be the same as the old models. Birdwell said he believed other uniform and military supply stores in the area would carry the new sabers since all of them had accounts with the Meyer firm and all carried other Meyer products. Almost all available A&M graduates of the 1960-61 classes were employed by Sept. 1. This and other em ployment information is con tained in the annual review of the activities of the placement office. Starting salaries for those with a bachelor’s degree increased, the report showed. The scale ran from about $425 a month for non technical personnel to more than $525 for engineers and science ma jors. > “Employment, however,” W. R. Horseley, director of the placement office, said, “of recent college graduates during the past aca demic year is still reflecting the recent ‘downturn’ or ‘recession’ in business. Statistics show a reduc tion of ten to 15 per cent in the number of employers seeking grad- j uates, as compared to the 1959-60 school year. “One of the factors, the report shows, influencing this situation is the recent rash of mergers and reorganization of many of the na tion’s larger business organiza tions. In this region, too, the problem of foreign oil and over supply of some products has had a pronounced effect on employ ment in certain disciplines,” Hors ley said. Employers are continuing to seek well-trained college grad uates, the report reveals, for op portunities with good futures in their organizations. Employers are much more selective today and many graduates “have reason to wish they had spent more time on the books, so that a better grade average would furnish a less diffi cult entree to a job. “Placement of experienced alum ni dropped off at about the same rate as that for current grad uates,” Horsley said. “However, there is an increasing demand for experienced men in the fields of electronics, data processing, phys ics and accounting. There is also an increased need for those with advanced degree training. Per haps this accounts for the approxi mately two and one-half per cent increase in graduate training shown by this year’s report.” Registration Confusion A mass of the predicted morp than 7,000 students that have registered for the semester is shown iri Sbi.sa Dining Hall during Friday's registration proceedings. Students are still registering and changing courses, and will do so the remainder of the week. (Photo by Johnny Herrin) MAN ON MOON SOUGHT Houston Awarded Huge Space Site WASHINGTON </P)—A spraw ling 1,000-acre site in Houston, Tex., was picked Tuesday for a $60-million laboratory command center—the mastermind of Amer ica’s efforts to get a man to the moon. Here the crews will be trained to fly the missions and the space craft themselves will be designed, developed and tested. This is the final step in assign ing the major centers from which project Apollo—the moon mission —will be coordinated. American scientists hope to get a man on the moon by 1970. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that its manned space flight re- Study Group Due Tomorrow Outstanding Texans from all over the state will begin arriving on the campus tomorrow for the Meeting Room Applications Open j Applications for meeting rooms in the Memorial Student Center will be accepted beginning Fri day, Sept. 29, it was announced today by MSC Social Director Mrs. Ann Keel. The rooms, for student organi zations and clubs, may be reserved by contacting Mrs. Keel in the MSC Social and Education De partment. Pet. Engineering Awards Banquet Scheduled Tuesday The annua] Petroleum Engineer ing Awards Banquet will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the As sembly Room of the Memorial Student Center. M. Scott Kraemer, ’43, division engineer for Pan American Pe troleum Corp., Houston, will be the principal speaker. The recipients of undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellow ships will be recognized at the banquet. Tickets at $2.55 per person will go on sale at the MSC main desk, tomorrow at 1 p.m. All petroleum engineering students and their wives and dates are invited to at tend. first series of meetings 100-man Century Council. The members of the council will endeavor to find the path A&M should follow during the next 15 years. The Thursday and Friday meet ings will be the first time the group has met since members wei’e appointed last Aug. 1. During the two-day meeting, three nationally known speakers will address the council, college officials and other guests at a P’orecast Conference designed to acquaint them with the problems facing them. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, editor of the Tulsa Tribune, will be keynote speaker at a banquet in the Me morial Student Center tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. He will discuss “The World and Its Challenge for the College Graduate—Class of ’76.” Abraham Hyatt of Washington, D.C., director of program planning and evaluation of the National Aeronautical and Space Adminis tration, and Dr. Richaixl Johnson, Head of the Department of Eco- of the nomics at Southern Methodist University will address the group Friday morning. Tokyo Professor Slates Lecture Here Tonight Dr. Yasuo Meijaki of Tokyo Uni versity will lecture on “Penetra tion of Artificial Radioactivity in the Pacific and Rate of Vertical Diffusion of Sea Water,” tonight at the Department of Oceanog raphy and Meteorology. A visitor this week to the de partment is Dr. Richard Caldwell, physicist of Socony-Mobil, Dallas. He is due to discuss a proposal for drilling the mohole. John W. Antoine is visiting the Lament Geological Obseiwatory, John Ewing and his staff for final evaluation and computation of re sults from the joint A&M-Lamont Seismic Cruise of January, 1961, search laboratory in Houston would be the command center for project Apollo and subsequent space flight missions. It previously announced that the launching pad to the moon will be at the giant space base at Cape Canaveral, Fla. The rockets to loft the first American to the moon will be built at the govern ment-owned Michoud Ordnance plant in New Orleans. The space agency said both the warm climate and the nearness to educational institutions influenced its choice of Houston for the com mand center. The thousand acres of water front land in Harris County, bor dered by Clear Lake and salt water canal, was made available by Rice University. Rice and other nearby univer sities will be tapped for scientific know-how and educational facili ties, a NASA spokesman said. About 200 miles away at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Tex., is the Aerospace Medical Center, where the effect of space travel on humans is being inves tigated. | The Canaveral - New Orleans- Houston moon-shoot complex is a region permitting out-of-doors work for most of the year, NASA pointed out. Boys Scouts Need 3 Troop Leaders Boy Scout Troop 380 .is looking for three assistant scoutmasters. The troop, sponsored by St. Thom as Episcopal Church in College Station, wants Aggies with previ ous scouting experience to fill the three posts. Any student interested in the scouting work should contact Phillip Buchannan at Buchannan and Associates in Bryan. By The Associated Press DALLAS—The Defense Department Tuesday ordered the 49th Armored Division of Texas, an outfit with atomic capabilities, to active duty. The division, called by the Texas adjutant general pos sibly the finest National Guard division in the nation, will report to Ft. Polk, La., Oct. 15. Gov. Price Daniel said these other military units also were placed on active duty: The 122nd Transportation Co. medium helicopter. Hous ton; 277th Engineer Co. and'the 349th Military Intelligence Co., both ^)f Dallas; the 490th Civil Affairs Detachment of Abilene, the 347th Military Intelligence Platoon, Fort Worth; the 980th Engineer Battalion,’ 4 ' Wichita Falls; and the 974th Quartermaster Co. of Galves ton. The 49th Division was alerted Sept. 5 and told that it had a high priority for a call to active duty, j The division commander, Maj. Gen. Harley B. West of Dallas, said the division largely will be Ags ’ Status Hazy The official status of A&M students in Bryan’s 49th Divi sion unit. Headquarters Com pany, 386th Engineer Battalion, is not yet known, Maj. Howard S. Perry, Battalion staff assist ant, said late yesterday. Maj. Perry said indications are that some of the students will be required to leave for ac tive duty, while others will be permitted to continue their stud ies. He said the unit hopes to have official word from defense head quarters by Sunday afternoon, when a drill has been scheduled. beefed up to combat strength of 14,000 men and officers by a call up of ready reserve men. He said that 800 men will prob ably be inducted early to prepare Ft. Polk for the troop arrival. On length of time the division will remain on active duty, Gen. West said, “Anything about that is speculation.” He said the division personnel will i-eport to their home stations Oct. 15 and start moving to Ft. Polk about 10 days later. Answering a question about wives and children and whether they can go to Ft. Polk, he said: “I do not knovy the answer to that. My guess is that they will stay at home. Certainly there is no hous ing there for them.” The general said the division is equipped with two weapons cap able of using atomic warheads. These are the eight-inch howitzer and the Honest John Rocket. He indicated the division has no such warheads at this time. Course Draws Delegates Of 3 Nations A two-week course in petroleum reservoir engineering will begin Monday in the W. T. Doherty Pe troleum Engineering Building, at tracting students from two coun tries other than the United States as well as students from across the nation. Robert L. Whiting, head of the Department of Petroleum Engi neering, said the session includes 12 hours of lecture on rock prop erties, 12 hours of lecture on fluid properties, six hours of lecture on analysis of field rock and fluid data, 12 hours lecture on estima tion of oil and gas in place, six hours lecture on basic reservoir mechanics and 28 hours devoted to prediction of future performance and estimation of reserves. The current offering is an out growth of courses initiated in the summer of 1956, and together with the advanced petroleum res ervoir course, scheduled Oct. 30- Nov. 10, provides a complete study of the latest developments in res ervoir engineering. Companies represented are the Atlantic Refining Company, Hous ton; British American Oil Com pany, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Colorado Interstate Gas Company, Colorado Springs, Colo.; California Standard Company, Calgary, Al berta, Canada; Skelly Oil Com pany, Tulsa, Okla.; Texas Gas Transmission Corporation, Hous ton; Truckline Gas Company, Houston, and Venezuelan Sun Oil Company, Maracaibo, Venezuela. Instructors are Whiting, James W. Amyx and D. M. Bass Jr. mmi Consolidated Twirlers The four girls above are leading the A&M Consolidated Band as twirlers every Friday night at Tiger grid battles. Kneeling is trick twirler Margaret Brown, while standing, from left, are Suzanne Medlen, Carolyn Brazzell and Sherry Holland. (Photo Courtesy Ag Information Office)