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