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The Battalion Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1961 Number 32 Major General Reviews Corps Here Saturday Maj. Gen. Ralph Morris Osborne, deputy commander of the 4th U. S. Army, will be on campus Saturday to review the Cadet Corps. The general will attend the Ajigie-Southern Methodist football pme Saturday afternoon at Kyle Field as guest of President Earl Rodder. In Korea, Cen. Osborne served astheArmy member of the United Nation’s armistice delegation. At the conclusion of the armistice, he directed Operation Big Switch, the prisoner of war exchange program. His earlier tour of duty includes service with the 11th Field Artil lery Regiment in Hawaii, after yraduating from Massachusetts In stitute of Technology and num erous Army schools. At the time of Pearl Harbor, he ns a military observer in Eng- Russ Leader Admits Tests Are Harmful ‘We’ll Stop When Others Do,’ Nikita Tells Reception MOSCOW—tAP)—Soviet Premier Khrushchev acknowledged yester day that nuclear tests In the at mosphere are harmful to the health of the world’s people and that the Soviet Union is being criticized for them but said: “We will stop when Hie others stop.” The premier’s statements were made in a toast and to newsmen it a huge reception in the Krem lin on the 44th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. The recep tion followed the traditional Red Square parade, including a 21- minute military show'. Foreign attaches said they noted only two new items in the section piven to weapons. They included »hat appeared to be a short-range solid-fuel rocket with a heavy Undercarriage, and an amphibious vehicle slightly larger than seen here before. In his wide-ranging chat with newsmen, who pushed up to a terrier of tables separating high- ranking guests from the 4,000 per sons in the top-floor dining room of the new Kremlin auditorium, Khrushchev declared: "It is not good to push one an other around” about Berlin. The Soviet Union, he said, is not "superstitious about dates, whether the date is the 13th or the 31st” hut will not wait indefinitely for a solution. Khrushchev once set Dec. 31 for the signing of a German peace treaty but has since with drawn the deadline. Denied reports that three Soviet cosmonauts were killed in an abortive Sputnik launching in Oc tober, or that launchings had been planned for the traditional observ ance Tuesday during the recent Soviet party congress. "No matter how sure we are, certain risks are involved, launch ing is not 100 per cent sure,” he said, “It would be too bad if we had had to interrupt the congress to go to a funeral.” He added that there will be other launchings but none is planned in the immediate future. Student Insurance Receipts Available Students who have paid the Student Accident Insurance may pick up their receipts at the Fiscal Department, payroll sec tion, according to an announce ment by Walter F. Berndt, col lege auditor. land. In 1942, he was assigned to Research and Development Divi sion of Army Service in Washing ton, D. C., and later became di rector. In January 1945, he was assigned to the European Theater of Opera tions for duty as assistant chief of staff for personnel in the office of the deputy theater commander. In May 1945, he was assigned to the Intelligence Division of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Ex peditionary Forces in Europe, and in August 1945, Gen. Osborne be came chief of the U. S. element of that agency under the office of milittary government. After graduation from National War College in 1948, Gen. Osborne was assigned as artillery com mander of the 2nd Infantry Divi sion Artillery at Fort Lewis, Wash. He continued service with the Division until July, 1949, when he was assigned to the G-4 Division of the Army General Staff. In July 1952, the general was assigned to Korea as artillery com mander of the 3rd Infantry Divi sion where he served until becom ing artillery commander of the 11th Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky., in December, 1953. Other assignments include com mander of XVII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, N. C., 1955; assistant chief of staff for material develop ment at Fort Monroe, Va.; chief of staff of G2 of USAREUR in Germany; U. S. commander in Berlin in December 1959. He assumed duties as deputy commander of the 4th U. S. Army in June, 1961. Third Installment Fees Now Payable Third installment payments are payable in the Fiscal Office. Deadline for the payments is Nov. 21, according to a Housing Office announcement. Georgette Katool . . . sings here Saturday Aggies Offered MSC Danees This Weekend Two dances have been scheduled this weekend* for Aggies and their dates by the Memorial Student Center Dance Committee. Publicity Chairman David Kabell said that Cafe Rue Pinalle will be Friday night in the lower level of the MSC from 8:30 p.m. until mid night yell practice. Joe Daniels and His Trio will provide the music, with a jazz jam session featured during the eve ning. Tickets will be available at the door, and will cost $1.25, stag - or drag. Saturday night an All-College Dance from 9 until 12 p.m. will be held in the MSC Ballroom. The Aggieland Combo will play, fea turing vocals by Miss Georgette Katool of Southwestern University. Tickets are $1.50 at the door, stag or drag. China Ambassador Cancels Local Talk Ambassador George Yeh of Na tionalist China has cancelled his Nov. 15 talk for the Great Issues series, according to J. Wayne Stark, secretary-treasurer of the Memorial Student Center. Great Issues Chairman Donovan Kirkpatrick will call a meeting of his committee to decide on a post ponement of the presentation or a substitute speaker in the immedi ate future. Chest Plaque Presented Elmer E. Goins commanding officer of Squadron 4, ac cepts the Student Senate plaque for best unit participation in the Campus Chest drive from Dean of Students James P. Hannigan. Goins’ unit, which consists of 94 men, con tributed $163.75 to the drive. (Photo by Johnny Herrin) Act Creating A&M’s Now 100 Years Old Daniel Signs Land-Grant Proclamation Gov. Price Daniel signs the proclamation ton (far left), President Earl Rudder (sec marking the 100th anniversary of land- ond from right) and Prairie View A&M grant colleges in the nation. Looking on President E. B. Evans. (College Information are A&M System Chancellor M. T. Harring- Photo) JAMES P. MITCHELL UPSET Mayor Wagner, Hughes Sweep To Election Wins By The Associated Press Democrats clinched the victory laurels in Tuesday’s vital elections for mayor in New York City and governor in New Jersey—the two great prizes in Tuesday’s finger- in-the-wind elections. Robert F. Wagner and the Dem ocrats breezed past Republican Louis J. Lefkowitz and Independent Lawrence E. Gerosa in New York City, just as had been expected. But Richard J. Hughes had to battle hard all the way for an (Editor’s Note: This is the last in a series on agencies that are participating in the College Sta tion United Chest Drive now in progress. The drive started Nov. 1 and is to continue through Nov. 15, during which time the Chest hopes to collect $16,200.) The College Station YMCA is one of the agencies that has a part in the drive. They have set a goal of $300. The fund will be used toward the installation of perma nent equipment in Hensel Park. These improvements are for the use of community groups in the area of the new dome structure, constructed with a gift of approx imately $18,000 from the Ford Foundation. The funds will be used for the building of benches, tables and barbecue pits. Another party participating is the College Station Community House. Its main purpose is to furnish a nursery and kindergar ten for colored children, especially those of working parents. The parents of the children pay the majority of the teacher’s salary, with Chest funds used for equip ment and buildings. The Texas United Fund has re quested $750 from the Chest. The Fund includes such organizations as the USO, the American Social Hygiene Association, the National Recreation Association and others. The Texas United Fund aids in conducting the local United Chest Drive. Another agency is the Brazos County Youth Counseling Service, which provides professionally ori- upset on the political scoreboard over Republican James P. Mitchell in the contest for governor in New Jersey. Late counts of the balloting showed these totals: New Jersey governor—3,760 of 4,395 election districts: Hughes 942,066. Mitchell 912,280. New York mayor—4,620 of 4,765 districts: Wagner 1,135,229. Lefkowitz 751,442. Gerosa 310,629. ented counseling service for be havior, personality and emotional problems of children and for their parents. Almost 50 per cent of the cases deal with marital coun seling, according to a 1960 statis tics report. The College Station Local Chest Charity Fund is taking part in the drive and has requested $950. The charity fund supplies medi cine, food, clothing and medical attention for the needy in time of emergency. It is administered by a sub-committee of the Chest Committee, which investigates ■each case carefully. Damage Light After Bizzell Hall Blaze Fire broke out yesterday in Bizzell Hall about 3:10 p.m. where workmen are convei'ting the east wing to office space for the De partment of Oceanography and Meteorology. Firemen were summoned about five minutes after the blaze was discovered in a janitor’s closet. Workmen on the second floor were installing new electrical equipment and apparently sparks dropped into the closet, causing some paper towels and rags to smolder, according to one of the workmen. Damage was negligible because major construction work is being performed and none of the new equipment has been installed, ac cording to George Carrol, one of the fii’emen. Virginia elected a Democrat as usual, Albertis S. Harrison Jr., in the only other race for governor in Tuesday’s balloting. The Republicans salved their political wounds a bit by capturing the mayoralty race in Louisville, Ky., for the first time since 1929. It was the New York City and New Jersey elections that claimed attention nationwide, because of their possible political portents for the congressional elections next year and the presidential election in 1964. President Kennedy jumped be latedly into the Wagner and Hughes campaigns. He pitted his prestige against that of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Naturally, K e n n e d y’s political stock went up. Eisenhower stumped New York City for Lefkowitz and New Jersey for Mitchell, who was secretary of labor in his cabinet. Former Democratic President Harry S. Truman staged political forays into both New York and New Jersey. So did Republican Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York—who may have had some hopes pegged to the outcome. The chairman of the Democratic National Committee, John M. Bailey, said Wagner’s third-term victory was a rebuff to Rocke feller’s “efforts to use the New York mayorality campaign to ad vance his own personal national ambitions and a warning to him that he faces a hard fight for re- election as governor.” Rockefeller comes up for re- election next year—and he hasn’t ruled himself out of a bid for the GOP presidential nomination in 1964. With his victory, Wagner now stacks up as a possible challenger to Rockefeller in 1962 and perhaps as U. S. Senate material in 1964. Yet Wagner wasn’t close to the 923,000 votes by which he picked off his second term four years ago —a fact that should offer Rocke feller and the GOP some conso lation. Rockefeller said, in fact, that Lefkowitz and the Republican city ticket “have revitalized the two- party system in New York City.” In New Jersey, Hughes was a relative unknown, a former state judge, who hit the campaign trail hard for months, turned out in hundreds of towns, shook tens of thousands of hands, and finally came from behind to win. Daniel Makes It Official Almost 100 years has passed since the Morrill Act was signed creating Texas A&M and Prairie View A&M, and Gov. Price Daniel has signed a proclamation declar ing the 1961-62 academic year “suitable lor the observance of the 100th Anniversary of the signing of the Land-Grant Act of 1862.” The Texas governor signed the papers in Austin Nov. 2 as college officials from the two schools served as witnesses. Actual date of the signing of the act was July 2, 1862. Provision has been made for a national celebra tion of the centennial by the United States Congress. “Texas has benefitled greatly from the educational programs and the training for citizenship and leadership in the development of agriculture and industry afforded students by these institutions,” Gov. Daniel said, in signing the proclamation. Texas A&M, the state’s oldest tax-supported institution of higher education, was opened Oct. 4, 1876, as a land grant college on a 2,416 acre tract of land near Bryan. Since then, the 85-year-old insti tution has grown in physical size to 6,200 acres in Brazos County, 3,192 acres in adjoining Burleson County, and 41 acres in Kimble County for the Junction Adjunct. The physical plant is valued now in excess of $47 million. Its fields of instruction include agriculture and engineering, liberal arts, science, teacher education, business administration and veterinary med icine. The college also offers an extensive graduate program. Prairie View A&M began opera tion March 11, 1878, when eight students were enrolled. Now in its 83rd year, Prairie View’s campus has grown from an original appro priation of $20,000 to over $10- million in physical facilities. Enrollment at the school has shown a steady increase. At pres ent some 2,920 are enrolled. Both Texas A&M and Prairie View A&M are a part of the A&M College System. Other institutions and services that make up the A&M System are Arlington State at Arlington, Tarleton State at Stephenville, Agricultural Extension Service, Agricultural Experiment Station, Engineering Experiment Station, Engineering - Extension Service, Texas Transportation Institute, Texas Forestry Service and other services. Teague Sees No Cold War GI Bill Congressman Olin E. Teague, chairman of the Congressional Veterans Affairs Committee, has indicated that there is no cold war GI Bill in sight, according* to Bennie Zinn, director of the De partment of Student Affairs and veterans advisor for the campus. Zinn said many students have inquired at his office recently as to the possibility of such a bill being passed. A cold war GI Bill would extend the educational benefits now re ceived by those who served on active duty prior to Feb. 1, 1955, to those who have served since that date. There have been many proposals introduced for a cold war GI Bill but none have passed, Zinn said. Chest Funds Go To Hensel Equipment