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