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The Battalion Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1961 Number 21 National Radio, TV Possible For Bonfire Radio, and possibly television coverage of the 1961 bon fire was announced by Head Yell Leader Jim Davis at a mfire Committee meeting Wednesday night. Davis said the American Broadcasting Co. had indicated him the bonfire would be tea- ♦ (fed on the Paul Harvey radio! apre of bif? trucks, a Corps’ Trip jlh program, and added there 1Houston which will hamper the ay be a possibility for television building schedule and no definite Wage as well. pmediate problems facing: con- iictioa of the big fire (set t<> Urn Nov. 22, the day before the !iJ|-University of Texas football (Klein Kyle Field) are a short- ,, County TB Drive Nears lickoff Date Eager hands of a group of wo- pfrom the St. Andrews Church ((Bryan were busy Monday at the lib of the Brazos County TB issociation as nearly 8,00u name hWs were stuck on envelopes to lined in the 19G1 Christmas Seal (impaign. Hrs. Hickman Garrett Jr., coun campaign chairman, was in Aarge of the work. “Sticking name labels on enve lopes is just one of the many steps in the preparation of the appeal liters which will be mailed Nov. 13 to residents of Brazos County.” Jrs. Garrett said. “AH this work is ke by volunteers, who save the IB Association hundreds of dollars I asked that anyone with an idea for “cutting area” location. Yell Leader Tom Ralph said some trucks used in the past were no longer available. He asked that anyone having access to a large truck that might be used in building the bonfire get in touch with any of the yell leaders. Davis said the Corps Trip to Houston for the football game with Rice I’niversity Nov. 18 would shorten the building time normally allotted for the bonfire by one full day. He said skeleton crews will work Friday and Sat urday, Nov. 17 and 18, but the majority of work will be done Sunday and Monday. No classes will be held Monday in the under graduate school so students may work on the bonfire. The Office of Physical Plant said it would erect two mercury vapor lights in the “stacking area” Friday before bonfire work begins so stacking can proceed around the clock. The center pole is also ex pected to be put in place Friday. John M. Beakley, a member of the Bonfire Committee, said a def inite location for a new cutting area had not been selected. He said the area used last year was not suitable this year. Beakley ltd many hours of staff time. This Honey and time saved can be used itheTB control work.” Those helping Mrs. Garrett in- Wed Mrs. E. N. Pianta, Mrs. G. I Morris, Mrs. Mackin Jones, Irs, Walter Doney, Mrs. Leon Iienckman, Mrs. Gay Osborne and ik Charles Edge. a cutting area call him at VI 6- 9907. Steadman Davis, Bonfire Traffic and Safety Sub-Committee chair man, asked that anyone wishing to serve on that committee con tact him at VI 6-4402 or come by Walton Hall, Rm K-10, before Fri day, Oct. 27. Rudder Honored President Earl Rudder here is presented a Distinguished Service Medal by A. Garland Adair, Executive Director of the Texas Heritage Foundation. The scroll, here being Examined by the two following presentation this week, is Presented to outstanding Texans “in recognition of distin guished and meritorious public service in preserving the Texas Heritage.” Similar medals and scrolls were presented Travis B. Bryan of Bryan, and Col. Maybin H. Wilson, in the Texas Ad-jutant General’s Department of Austin. (Col lege Information Photo) Silver Taps Honors Aggie Killed Tuesday Silver Taps was held last night for Herbert Ernest Rodg ers, Jr., ’61 majoring in electri cal engineering and business ad ministration from Hebbronville, Tex., living in Hart Hall. The 21 year old student was horn Dec. 28, 1939. His death, caused by injuries sustained when his car overturned at the intersection of Enfield St. and Texas Avenue, occurred at 11:40 p.m. Tuesday in a local hospital. Yesterday, the body was flown home by Callaway Jones Air Ambulance Service, where it will rest in state in the Hebbronville Baptist Church until interment in Green Hills Cemetery tomor row afternoon. Funeral services will begin at 2 p.m. Immediate survivors are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert E. Rodgers, Sr., of Hebbronville; one sister, Mrs. Lily Mae Long of Alice, Tex., and paternal grandmother, Mrs. Lily Mae Clark of Alice. Post Office Remodeling Set In MSC Plans are being made for im proving facilities in the Memorial Student Center station of the Col lege Station postal department in the near future, according to Post master General J. Edward Day. Day said the planned improve ment and modernization of the postal services in the MSC are part of a nation-wide program to stimulate the economy and at the same time improve the efficiency of the postal service. The present quarters are to be improved and modernized, includ ing refrigerated air-conditioning equipment, fluorescent lighting, interior painting and modernized screenline. College Station Postmaster Er nest Gregg said the old post office boxes will be torn out and re placed. These new boxes will be trimmed in foi-mica to match the rest of the trimming around the MSC. According to Gi^egg, there will be new “banker” type service counters also trimmed in formica. Gregg said the old postal head quarters at North Gate is now un dergoing complete remodeling .and will have the same improvements as the MSC station but on a much larger scale. The work, which be gan Aug. 1, will probably be fin ished by April or May. State BSU Meet Opens Tomorrow In Dallas Church Plans are now being completed by the A&M Baptist Student Union for the annual State BSU Convention to be held in Dallas starting tomorrow. State President Bill Harrison, '62, reports that 55 Aggies have signed the list of those to attend. These Aggies .will register at the Gaston Avenue Baptist Church in Dallas. A program of speakers, Bible study and conferences along the theme of “A Living Church in a Revolutionary World” will follow the registration. Harrison will preside at the convention. Transportation from Dallas to Ft. Worth for the parade and the football game will be provided for those attending the convention. Interested students may obtain additional information from the Baptist Student Center. Leipper At Meet Dr. Dale Leipper, head of the Department of Oceanography and Meteorology, is participating in the Shallow Water Conference through Saturday at Johns Hop kins University in Baltimore, Md. Five Tessies Arrive To Kickoff Activities Corps Trip Day Drawing Near By ALAN PAYNE Battalion News Editor Initial Corps Trip activities began today with the arrival of five Texas Woman’s University representatives for yell- practice, Student Senate meeting and to invite students to the Denton campus over the weekend. The five, headed by Aggie Sweetheart Ann Edwards, were greeted at 4 p. m. with a saber arch into the Memorial Student Center. TWU representatives are Anita Franklin, president of the student council of social activities; Linda Hearn, pres ident of the campus government association; Carroline Far ris, sweetheart finalist; Carole Everhart, Miss Texas con testant, and Miss Edwards. \ pj" * 0 A. #' ;# + vsrJ Ann Edwards They will be escorted while on camous bv Malcolm Hall, John Waddell. Lurry Chris tian. John Anthis and Bill Cardwell, respectively. The delegates will eat dinner tonight in the college dining halls and will attend yell-practice at 7:05 in The Grove. They will then be guests at 7:30 at a Stu dent Senate meeting. They will return to Denton by car Friday. At yell-practice, the five will issue invitations to all students for the pre-Corps Trip Dance at TWU Friday night at 8. Also on tap on the Denton cam pus over the weekend is a junior reception at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow. Saturday, of course, the Corps of Cadets will be in Ft. Worth for a 10 a.m. parade and then the Aggie-TCU game at Amon Carter Stadium. At the game. Miss Edwards, a Anita Franklin Linda Hearn ‘NEED PEACE FOR SUCCESS’ Carroline Farris Carole Everhart sophomore nursing major from Houston, will be officially crowned Aggie Sweetheart for the ’61-’62 school year. Civilian Student Council Presi dent Doug Schwenk and Cadet Col. of the Corps Cardwell will preside at the crowning ceremonies. Nikita Says Soviets Can Crush 6 Any Challenger’ — P r e m i e rmunism over the world, our party 47 th Annual Forestry Meet Set Tomorrow The 47th annual meeting of the Texas Forestry Association is schedulel tomorrow in Nacogdo ches. Speakers include Tom Anderson, nationally recognized for his edi torial page in the Farm and Ranch Magazine; Desmond Barry, listed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce among the nation’s top public speakers; Warren E. Dietrich, vice-precident of the Louisiana Forestry Association, and J. E. McCaffrey, vice-president of In ternational Paper Company. Registration will begin at 9 a.m., with the actual meeting open ing at 1:15 p.m. Activities will continue into the evening. Rockefeller Grants For Theological Study Available The Rockefeller Foundation is awarding a one-year fellowship to graduating seniors who may be interested in attending graduate theological school. Fellowships are awarded those who are. not now planning to at tend graduate theological school but who would be willing, if awarded a fellowship, to attend such a school for one year in order to consider the ordained ministry. Students interested in a fellow ship should contact J. Gordon Gay, coordinator of religious life and general secretary of the YMCA. William G. Shenkir, ’60, presi dent of the YMCA ’69-’60, received one of the scholarships to Drew Theological Seminary in Wisconsin. MOSCOW GP> Khrushchev declared Wednesday the Soviet Union means to have all the necessary nuclear and mis sile weapons of every range to crush anyone “challenging us to war.” But he said his “main chal lenge” to the capitalist world is the 20-year program he laid be fore the applauding 22nd Soviet party congress and “it can be ful filled successfully only in the con ditions of peace.” Khrushchev, who Tuesday spoke of exploding a 50-megaton bomb, 2,500 times the size of the first atom bomb at Hiroshima, prom ised as he has before to “disband our army and sink our atomic bombs and missiles in the ocean.” But this promsie was on the condition there is an agreement on general and complete disarma ment under strict international control. Western disarmament ne gotiators never have been able to get a satisfactory agreement on controls with the U.S.S.R. Khrushchev, in a six-hour speech —his second such in two days — outlined a 20-year program which he said would give the Soviet peo ple the highest production and liv ing standards on earth. He described it as a blueprint for the inevitable “downfall of im perialism and the triumph of so cialism on a world scale” which al ready has administered a big de feat for aggressive forces “who idolize the hydrogen bomb.” Forty million card - carrying Communists in 87 nations all over the world, he said, have made communism “the most powerful force of our time.” This force, he added, is working in “an epoch of revolutions, social revolutions, anti - imperialist na tional liberation revolutions, broad peasant movements” and all are merging in a capitalist-undermin ing process. “By hailing the torch of liberty, the banner of socialism and coni- has glorified the 20th century as a century of fundamental changes in the destinies of mankind,” de clared Khrushchev in the conclud ing part of his address to the nearly 5,000 delegates in the Kremlin auditorium. Tass, the official Soviet news agency, in commenting on the re action said delegates leaving the Kremlin felt as if they had made a “thrilling trip to the orbit of communism” that would be real ized in the near future. NEW YORK CP)—Fallout from a Soviet atomic test in 1957 was reported Wednesday, in an unof ficial and unconfirmed account, to have killed many Russians, caused widespread illness and contami nated water and crops. The report was broadcast by Radio Liberty, a private Ameri can-sponsored network which beams programs to the Soviet Un ion in Russian and 17 other lan guages. Radio Liberty said its informa tion came from a man who was an eyewitness. His name was kept secret. The network said it was transmitting his account to the Soviet Union on a 24-hour basis. The • story, as related on the broadcasts, was this: The blast was set off in the Soviet Asian Republic of Kazakhastan. Resi dents of the area around Semi- palatinsk in Kazakhastan were as sured that the test would not harm them in any way. However, Soviet scientists ap parently misjudged weather con ditions and a heavy fallout de scended in the region. Western reporters noted, how ever, that many in the audience, rather than being thrilled nodded frequently, only to be brought awake by waves of applause which seemed to break out at about 10- minute intervals. Toward the end Khrushchev be came hoarse and fell into a fit of coughing which lasted about a minute. “I probably have a cold,” he said with a grin, and the audience was swept with laughter. .uM Inspection teams soon discov ered radioactive contamination in farm animals and crops. They or dered all crops burned, and ’fields plowed. After that, poultry and cattle began to die. Authorities ordered their carcasses burned also, but the contamination continued to spread. Two weeks after the explosion, officials issued posters warning the area’s residents against drink ing water from uncovered wells and instructing them to report to doctors any sharp headaches and high fevers. Between two and four weeks after the blast, effects on humans began to appear. They suffered temporary pai’alysis, loss of hair, high temperatures, delirium and complications affecting the lungs, kidneys and liver. A high death rate ensued. Few others failed to be affected in some way. Soviet authorities sought to min imize the situation in domestic news reports by calling it an epi demic of “virus flu.” ’57 Soviet Bomb Reported Deadly