The Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1961
Number 50
38 Aggies Named To 6 Who’s Who’
Selection Brings
Anxiety To End
Aggie Talent Show On Stage Tonight
Sen. Bob Baker
... for It. governor
Sen. Baker,
Supporters
Hap Strategy
State Sen. Robert W. (Bob)
Baker, '44, met for the first time
lith the newly organized “Aggies
For Baker” Club Wednesday night
ud began mapping strategy for
fe senator’s coming campaign for
lieutenant governor.
Baker recently announced he
tould seek the Democratic party
nomination for the spot at the
Democratic primary in May. The
Aggies For Baker Club was form
ed soon after with Joe Tom Easley,
fS as president.
Baker, 40, told 25 Baker support
ers, guests and newsmen at Clay
ton’s Restaurant he was “just an
every day run-of-the-mill sort of
fellow.”
Tm moderate. I’m conserva
tive,” he said. “If you put liberals
« the left and reactionaries on
pright, you will find me in the
in to 65 per cent bracket.”
Opposing Baker in the primary
are Senators Preston Smith of
Lubbock and Jarrard Secrest of
Temple.
Baker described both his oppon-
ants as “having about the same
political philosophy as I do.”
Other “Students For Baker”
Clubs are being organized at Texas
L'niversity, Baylor and the Univer
sity of Houston, however the A&M
tlub was the first to form, Easley
Hid. The club will meet for an or
ganization coffee before the Christ
mas holidays to further plan the
tampaign.
10 Acts
On Tap
For Show
Two instrumental groups,
five vocalists, one comic mon-
ologuist, a pianist and a Latin
music group will present this
year’s Aggie Talent Show to
night at 8 in Guion.
As a special guest feature, Miss
Ann Hite from College Station,
currently starring at the Adolphus
Hotel in Dallas, will present two
or three song and dance routines
during the program and a final
number while judges are deciding
on the top three acts, according
to Robert L. Boone, program ad
visor.
Robert Stark, vice-chairman to
the MSC Talent Committee, said
that it was difficult selecting the
acts from the various talent try
ing out for the show. Try outs
were held in the Music Hall Stark
said, and the acts were chosen
after six nights of interviewing
students and observing their acts.
Those chosen to appear were
Glyn A. Barrows, vocal and guitar;
Niki Hagler, comic monologue;
George W. Clarke and William C.
Sturgeon, folk music; Sam M. Ga
lindo, vocal and guitar; Charles
K. Garner, piano solo; Jim P.
Hudson, folk music; Fred J. Barr
and Foy E. Varner, vocal accom
panied by guitar.
Also John M. Rieves, Gordon
Brett, Tom Prisk and Eddie Saenz,
jazz group; August© B. Cruza-
legui, Jose Maher Juan L. Mar-
ciacq, Richard Novey, Santiago
Tribadow, and Abraham Saloma,
Latin American Music; Paul Hick
man, Warren Dillard, Jim W.
Woodfin, John Powell, Joe Altick,
and Glyn Barrows vocal and in
strumental.
First, second and third place
winners will recieve $25, $15, and
$10, respectively. According to
Boone, the first place act will rep
resent A&M in the Intercollegiate
Talent Show next spring.
Miss Hite, who arrived this
afternoon for dress rehearsal,
brought her own combo. A gradu
ate of A&M Consolidated High
School, she is an active model and
entertainer in Dallas. Boone said
that she recently hall the leading
role in three musical reviews held
at the Adolphus Hotel.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Raymond Hite, 1004 Wind
ing Road. Hite is supervisor of
the Data Processing Center here.
Hiss Clark Named Pan-Am
flub ‘Good Neighbor’ Queen
Miss Melanie Clark was selected
is the Reina de Belleza, “Queen
of the Ball”, by the Pan-Ameri
can Club during their Parranda
Navidena or “Christmas Gale” in
tbe ballroom of the MSC Satur-
iay night.
Mis Clark daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Stanley P. Clark of College
Date Ducats Now $1
For Cagers’ Games
Student tickets for the remain
ing home basketball game will
cost only $1, according to Pat Dial,
athletic business manager.
Dial said the student must pre
sent his student activities ticket
book and indification card at the
Window. The tickets will be avail
able for only one girl per student.
Tickets had been selling for $1.50
at games in the past.
Station, will reign during Pan-
American Week next April as well
as functions before then.
The dance was preceded by a
dinner at Chapultepec Restaurant,
complete with guitars and singing
after dinner. Music was furnished
by Hilario Vazquez and his or
chestra from Monterrey, Mexico.
Another attraction was the
Pinata, a candy-filled paper burro,
which is suspended from the ceil
ing while a blindfolded girl swings
at it with a stick. The sequence
ends when the fractured burro
scatters candy to the crowd.
Selection of the sweetheart was
made by Mrs. Art Adamson, Mrs.
M. E. Vincent, W. P. Worley and
club sponsor Robert D. Thompson.
“That is a beautiful example of
good neighborliness,” remarked
one of the club members when the
selection was made.
By ALAN PAYNE
Battalion News Editor
Thirty-eight A&M seniors have been named to Who’s
Who in American College and Universities, it was announced
yesterday by Who’s Who national headquarters in Tuscaloosa,
Ala.
Naming of winners culminated a lengthy selection pro
cess than began in mid October and ended with the mailing
of A&M’s recommendations the latter part of November.
Winners were:
Jan Fredrick Ahart, Gary Ralph Anderson, David Louis
Beauchamp Jr., Martin Lewis Bowers, James William Card-
well, Charles Marvin Cloud, George Michael Crawford, Thadis
Wayne Crooks, James Norman Crouch,
Jim Trice Davis Jr., Homer;*-
Lee Denning, Jason Monroe
Edgington, Johnny Burrell
Fenley, Christian Anze Galin
do, Francisco Jose Garza, El
mer Eldridge Goins, Terrence
Doyle Gossett,
Malcolm Wardlaw Hall, Jack
Omar Harrington Jr., William
Henry Harrison Jr., Aubrey Murl
Jameson, Joe Wood Lindley, Gary
Lively, Ramsey Kermit Melugin,
Thomas Charles Paul, Barry Stew
art Phillip,
Thomas Henry Ralph Jr., Max
Henry Rhinehart, Robert Edmund
Christmas Carol Time Arrives
Pictures On Page 4 and 5
Corps freshmen and sophomores have begun
their annual ritual of singing Christmas
carols to juniors and seniors nightly between
now and the Christmas holidays. Company
E-2 members here, complete with candles,
are (left to right) Martell Battle, Minor
Peeples, Thomas Land, Gordon Davis, Ron
Johnson and Eugene Triesch. (Photo by
Jim Hamilton)
THREE BIDS SUBMITTED
Dillon’s Text Book
Prove Most Modern
May
Today
Dr. Lawrence S. Dillon, associate
professor in the Department of
Biology is writing what may prove
to be the most modern biology text
on the market today.
The new book will incorporate
the latest information on biology
and a new method of classifica
tion of organisms.
Three publishing companies have
displayed interest, and* have sub
mitted bids for the manuscript.
Dillon said he also expected to re
ceive bids from possibly three
other companies.
He said there were two reasons
behind his decision to write the
book.
“First, there is no satisfactory
one semester biology text on the
market. Second, absolutely no
books have incorporated the lat
est findings on the subject. The
content in our biology books has
not appreciably changed in 30 or
40 years,” the A&M scientist said.
Not only is the material behind
the times, but he is completely dis
satisfied with the methods used
in teaching biology, he added.
“Text books are slow to incor
porate new materials,” he said.
“Like everything else they resist
change.”
As an example, Dillon said that
upon returning to the academic
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Grants Disclosed
The Ralston-Purina Company’s
resarch fellowship awards program
for 1962-63 has been announced.
$2,000 fellowships will be award
ed in nutrition and physiology
as applied to dairy poultry and
animal husbandry and for re
search in transimissible diseases
of livestock and poultry.
Not more than 10 research fel
lowships will be awarded annual
ly, based upon qualifications, with
three each in dairy husbandry,
animal husbandry and poultry hus
bandry; and one in the field of
veterinary science.
Fellowships are awarded on an
annual basis and the recipient of
an award may be eligible for ap
pointment not to exceed three
years.
field after 15 years in museum
work he found that biology texts
had only three changes in them
since the time he had left.
One of the most significant
changes in Dillon’s book concerns
the relationships of organisms. In
all previous books, life was classi
fied under one of two kingdoms
—plant or animal. Under the class
ification system presented in this
book, the plant kingdom encom
passes all life.
“Even man is simply a highly
modified plant,” Dillon said.
The A&M professor said he
thought there might be some ini
tial difficulty in acceptance of this
system of classification. However,
he feels sure that this method of
classifying organisms will prevail.
Five chapters of the book have
been completed. Dillon began work
ing on the manuscript in June of
1960. His “hope date” for comple
tion is actually two dates, since
technically he is writing two books.
June, 1963, is the completion
date for the shorter volume, which
is to be used in one semester
biology courses. September, 1963,
is the date set for the larger
volume, to be used in two semest
er courses.
Material covered in both books is
the same, but the larger book goes
into more detail.
Dillon expects that each book
should sell approximately 30,000
copies. He said royalties are
usually 15 per cent of the list
price.
He also has written a laboratory
manual that correlates closely with
the new text. The lab manual was
completed in the spring of 1961
after three year’s work. It will be
published in 1962.
He has also written a 900-page
book entitled “Manual of Common
Beetles.” This book was published
in January of 1961.
Dillon has been teaching biology
for 13 years. Before this he spent
12 years in research at the Read
ing Museum in Pennsylvania.
Roberts, Michael Matthew Schnei
der, Douglas Richard Schwenk,
Robert Sidney Sloan,
Robert William Timme, David
Lee Voelter, John Stephen Wad
dell Jr., Marion Martin Walton
Jr., Jessie Ray White and Robert
Kincaid Wright Jr.
The nominating of A&M stu
dents to national headquarters be
gan with the naming of corps
and civilian screening subcommit
tees by Dean of Students James
P. Hannigan.
Recommendations for positions
on these subcommittees were made
by Cadet Col. of the Corps Bill
Cardwell and Civilian Student
Council President Doug Schwenk
and were approved in the final
stage by Hannigan.
These subcommittees were given
all applications after they had
been approved by the registrar’s
office. After study of each ap
plication, the subcommittees made
further recommendations to a
Who’s Who Selection Committee,
headed by J. Wayne Stark, direc
tor of the Memorial Student Cen
ter.
This committee made further
study of the applications, drew up
a final list and submitted the list
to Hannigan for final approval.
Hannigan furthered the list to
national headquarters.
Stark’s Who’s Who Selection
Committee included Col. Frank S.
Vaden, assistant commandant;
Robert L. Melcher, foreign stu
dent advisor; Walter L. Penberthy
of the Department of Health and
Physical Education; Donald L.
(See WHO’S WHO On Page 5)
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International Conferees
Comparing- notes in the activation analysis Dr. Richard Wainerdi of the Department of
lab are these scientists who are among- those
presenting papers at the International Con
ference on Modern Trends in Activation
Analysis that begins here tomorrow in the
Memorial Student Center. Standing (from
left) are Francesco Girardi of Belgium,
Werner Bockwerthmann of West Germany,
Petroleum Engineering, Lars O. Plantin of
Sweden, Derek Gibbons of England, G. P.
Guinn of San Diego, Calif, and G. W. Leddi-
cotte of Oak Ridge, Tenn. Seated is Lloyd
Fite of the Activation Analysis Research
Laboratory. (College Information Photo)
U. $,, Soviets
Join To Ask
Disarm Study
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (AP)
—The U. N.’s main Political Com
mittee approved unanimously last
night a joint Soviet-U. S. proposal
that a new 18-nation body resume
the long-dead locked negotiations
of disarmament.
In a rare display of unanimity
the two big powers joined in sub
mitting the resolutoin to the com
mittee, asking that the negotia
tions be resumed on an urgent
basis, and that the 18-nation group
report back by next June 1.
But both the United States and
the Soviet Union warned that the
road to eventual agreement would
be a difficult one.
Agreement was by acclamation.
No vote was taken.
Adlai E. Stevenson, chief U. S.
delegate, described the commit
tee action as “most gratifying.”
He added that is represented only
a beginning.
“We have found the way to re
sume consideration of actual dis
armament measures, but we have
not yet tackled the task of dis
arming,” he declared.
He said that “because the arms
race bears so cruicially on the
survival of the human race, even
a beginning must be welcomed by
vast relief by all the peoples of
the world.”
He suggested that the disarma
ment negotiations be resumed in
Geneva. No date has yet been
agreed upon.
He called the Soviet-U. S. agree
ment on the new negotiating body
a gratifying development.
Gilbert Forehand
Wins Position At
Union Conference
Gilbert Forehand, ‘64 from
Hainesville, La., was elected first
vice chairman for Region Nine of
the Association of College Unions
at the annual convention held at
the University of Texas last week
end.
This position is second highest
in the region. The meeting drew
346 delegates from five states:
Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma,
Arkansas and Texas.
As first vice chairman, Fore
man will be in charge of an ex
tensive publicity and coordination
program between colleges which
will include a monthly publication.
A&M sent 16 delegates to the
convention, according to Mike Sch
neider, president of the MSC Coun
cil. He said, “I heard several very
favorable comments concerning the
Aggies and feel we were very well
accepted at the convention. This
attitude was exemplified during
the elections.
“Although Gilbert was a last-
minute nominee and had very little
time to prepare an adequate cam
paign, he won the election by a
unanimous vote.”