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.
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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