Trail Blazers Across The Lawns
Because students have habitually been wearing down the
lawns on the campus this year, the Grounds Maintenance
Crew of the college has found it difficult to keep campus
grass attractive. Paths and trails weaving through lawns
are becoming more visable every day, such as the one in
the picture which crosses the Academic Building lawn
from the flag pole to Nagle Hall, and another across the
Chapel lawn.
PERFORMS SATURDAY
Gymnastics Team
Busy This Year
The A&M Gymnastics Team has
plans for a busy year this year,
according to their Coach, Henry
Walton, to include tournaments
and exhibitions.
Following a hit with the crowd
at the halftime of the Lamar
Tech-A&M game, the group will
again perform at the A&M-Texas
13,677 Visit
A&M Campus
Since June
A total of 13,677 visitors were
on the A&M campus during June,
July, August, September, October,
November and December 1961, P. L.
Down Jr., official greeter of the
college, announced today. The visi
tors attended short courses, con
ferences, class reunions and other
scheduled meetings.
Downs said the college had 730,-
193 visitors on the campus for
scheduled meetings and activities
during the 12 year and seven
months period from June 1, 1949,
to Jan. 1, 1962. It is estimated
that each visitor spends an average
of $21.00 per day.” If this be true
then the 730,193 visitors for the
12 year and seven months period
from June 1, 1949, to Jan. 1, 1962,
would spend $15,334,053.00 in this
community,” Downs said.
There were 1,116 visitors on
campus in December.
Engineering
Expert, Frede,
To Head Meets
Elmer Frede, supervisory train
ing specialist for the Engineering
Extension Service, will be confer
ence leader at two up-coming 15-
hour courses in personnel relations,
it was announced here today.
The first course will be held
Jan. 15-19 at the central YMCA
in Fort Worth. It will be held
for supervisors, foremen and man
agement people from Fort Worth
area industries, business and trade
firms.
Hardin-Simmons University in
Abilene will be the site of the
second course Jan. 22-26. This meet
is scheduled for supervisors, fore
men and management personnel
from the Abilene area.
“Purpose of both courses will be
to improve the supervisor’s under
standing of himself, the employee
and the employee group in work
situations and then to use this in
formation wisely to increase ef
ficiency of operations and to de
crease frequency and seriousness
of management-employee problem,”
Frede said,
Tech game Saturday night.
This time the team will per
form on the parallel bars. Jim
Ellisor, Mike Beaumont, Woody
Powell, Pat Higgins and Ramey
Galindo will do the straight acts,
and Charlie Teas and Coach Wal
ton will act as clowns.
In addition to local appearances
the team plans to compete in the
Gymnastics Festival in Lafayette,
La., the Mid-South Collegiate In
vitational Championship in Natchi
toches, La., the Southwestern AAU
meet in Dallas and dual meets with
Georgia Southern University,
Northeast Louisiana State College
and the University of Texas.
The gymnastics team is not a
varsity sport, according to Coach
Walton, but is instead a recrea
tional club which is financed
through Exchange Store funds and
student members.
Walton said he welcomed men
who would be interested in working
with the team. The club is com
posed of about 15 members at
present. They have been invited to
several more tournaments than
their budget will afford, according
to Walton.
Dozen Dead,
40 Wounded
In Algeria
ALGIERS (AP) — Continuing
waves of violence between Alger
ians and Europeans left more
than a dozen persons dead and at
least 40 wounded yesterday in
various parts of Algeria.
Officials in Oran counted up the
day’s clashes and reported a toll
of nine dead, including one
French soldier, and at least 28
wounded.
Both in Oran and in Algiers,
the capital, authorities seemed
powerless to control the out
break between independance-
minded North Africans and Euro
pean settlers determined to keep
Algeria French. At least 72 per
sons have died in the four-day-old
new year.
One of the dead in Oran was
a Moslem city councillor, shot
through the head at the entrance
to the city hall. The killer es
caped.
In another incident in Oran, a
band of eight Moslems fired on
a group of French troops in a
cafe, killing one soldier and a
police officer. The troops returned
the fire, killing one of the Mos
lems. The others were captured.
On the strictly military side,
French army headquarters had a
belated report of a clash between
a roving patrol and a band of na
tionalists early Sunday at Bougie
in eastern Algeria. Headquarters
said six rebels were slain and a
quantity of arms seized.
The Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1962
Number 54
Hampton Wins
Architecture
$500 Prize
John Hampton, 26, fifth-year
architecture student was notified
just prior to Chi’istmas recess
that he had won a $500 Monarch
Tile Scholarship for promising
architecture students.
Two awai-ds of $500 and $250 are
given yearly by the Monarch Tile
Company of San Angelo. The basis
of awards depends on scholarship,
need of the applicant and char
acter.
The scholarship is limited to
fifth-year architecture students of
A&M, Texas Tech, University of
Houston, Rice University and Uni
versity of Texas.
A maximum of five students are
allowed to enter the scholarship
competition from each school.
Applications are judged by the
board of directors of the Texas
Architecture Foundation, through
which the scholarship is sponsored.
Hampton’s over-all grade point
ratio is 2.25. He was sponsored
by Artist-Lecturer Joseph Donald
son and W. G. Wagner, assistant
professor of achitecture.
Hampton and his wife have four
children. They live at 110 Gil
christ Ave. East, College Station.
Saxton Named
No. 1 Amateur
DALLAS (AP) — James Saxton,
whose feats on the gridiron at
Texas earned him All-America
honors, was selected Thursday as
amateur athlete of the year.
The Texas Sports Writers Asso
ciation picked Saxton by a heavy
margin.
Carroll Broussard, basketball
star of Texas A&M, was second
in the balloting.
Dudley Wysong, who went to
the finals of the National Ama
teur Golf Tournament, was third.
Next in line were Earl Young,
Olympics quai^er-miler of Abi
lene Christian College, and Chuck
McKinley, Davis Cup star from
Trinity University.
Reactor Expert
To Speak Here
A project engineer for General
Dynamics Corp. in Fort Worth will
present a special lecture today for
nuclear engineering students and
faculty.
Dr. John Romanko will discuss
reactor irradiations of materials in
a high vacuum at low temperatur
es, Dr. Robert Cochran, head of
the Department of Nuclear Engi
neering, announced. The lectux-e
will begin at 4 p.m. in Room 211
of the W. T. Doherty Petroleum
Engineering Building.
All persons interested in nuclear
engineering are invited to attend,
Cochran said.
Romanko has been in aerospace
research for the past six years
with General Dynamics. He earned
his degree in molecular physics at
the University of Toronto, Canada.
Meeting For Graduate Exams
Postponed By Student Senate
Aggie’s Christmas
Program Praised
“Many children ip the Bryan-
College Station area wei'e given
a more joyous Christmas in 1961
through the efforts of the college
students and Mrs. Nina Foster,
Chapel secretary,” a letter from
Clay Protests
Limits Placed
On Authority
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gen.
Lucius D. Clay, President Kenne
dy's special representative in Ber
lin, is reported to have protested
strongly to Secretary of State
Dean Rusk against limits put on
the authority of the American
commander in Berlin to deal with
any anti-Communist uprising by
East Germans along the border.
Clay made his protest in a mes
sage to Rusk late last month, in
formants said. That was after
Rusk had forwai'ded to Berlin
plans agreed on by the Allies for
dealing with any of various emer
gencies which might arise on the
border.
The Washington Evening Star
said Thursday that Clay told
Rusk emei'gencies arising in Ber
lin may require faster action than
would be possible if consultation
with higher headquarters was
necessary.
In Berlin a spokesman for
Clay said the general issued
a one-word statement, “Ridicu
lous,” when asked about the
story.
The problem posed by Clay was
understood to be that even the
best contingency planning could
not deal with all situations which
might in fact arise and the U.S.
commander in Berlin, Maj. Gen.
Albert Watson II, might be con
fronted with the need for fast ac
tion when his instructions speci
fied only that he should consult
higher headquarters. The consul
tation could involve the govern
ment in Washington, North Atlan
tic Treaty Organization headquar
ters at Paris and U.S. European
military headquarters at Heidel
berg.
Announcements In
For January Grads
January graduates are request
ed to pick up graduation announce
ments in the Memorial Student
Center’s Record Playing Room No.
1. Extra announcements are on
sale now at the Cashier’s window.
Bennie Zinn, head of the Depart
ment of Student Affairs said this
week.
Zinn was referring to the units,
dormitory groups and wives clubs
who participated in a program to
provide clothing, food and toys for
160 children from 32 families in
the area.
This year, the students and
wives didn’t just bring children to
the campus for a meal in the din
ing hall or simply send presents to
the families indiscriminately.
They went into the homes of the
people and visited with the par
ents and the children. They asked
what was needed — and found
that toys were not the main thing.
Then they got clothing sizes, shoe
sizes, and information about the
families.
They purchased the gifts most
needed by the families and pre
sented them. They were all grate
fully received.
Mrs. Foster acted as the agent
through which the units select
ed the family they wanted to help.
She compiled a list of persons
and the units chose from that
list in most instances.
Units participating in the Christ
mas affair were Squadrons 2,8,10,
11, 12 and 14; Companies A-3,
B-2, B-3, C-3, D-l, D-2, D-3, E-3,
F-l, F-2, F-3,‘ and G-2.
Mitchell Hall and the Civilian
Student Council were Santa to two
families.
Wives Clubs also took up the
work. Contributors were Agricul
tural Economics Wives Club, Agri
cultural Education Wives Club,
Animal Husbandry Wives Club,
Entomology Wives Club, Mechani
cal Engineering Wives Club, Nu
clear Engineering Wives Club,
Range and Forestry Wives Club.
Also helping in this project
were the Rainbow Girls and the
A&M Church of Christ.
MSC Council
Elects Two
Bob Stark, ’63, and Gilbert Fore
hand ’64, were elected to the Me
morial Student Center Council Dec.
18.
Stark, a business administration
major from Louisville, Ky., is vice
chairman of the Talent Committee.
Forehand, a electrical engineer
ing major from Haynesville, was
recently elected first vice chair
man for Region Nine of the Amer
ican Association of College Unions.
The only other vacancy on the
council will be filled by a member
of the Civilian Student Council
next week.
49 YEARS AGO
70 Per Cent Of Students
Expelled After Petition
Approximately 70 per cent of the
A&M students were expelled 49
years ago, “The Story of Texas
A&M”, a volume in the Cushing
Memorial Library, reveals.
The incident, involving the fresh
man, sophomore, and junior class
es began when the governor of
Texas received complaints of ex
cessive hazing at A&M. The com
plaints were sent to President
Robert Milner who in turn read
them to the student body.
Near the end of January of 1913,
the conflicting points of view be
tween the cadets and the people
of Texas pressured the faculty into
a showdown. Twenty-two students
were expelled for hazing.
The corps, whose shock soon
turned to anger, sent a proclama
tion to President Milner on Feb.
1, in which they asserted the dis
missals had been made for political
reasons.
The document demanded that the
22 men be reinstated in good stand
ing and given their daily average
as their term grades.
Attached to the proclamation
wei’e 466 individual signatures re
presenting practically every mem
ber of the junioi', sophomore, and
freshmen classes.
However, the faculty refused to
honor the document on the grounds
that the petitions concerning mat
ters of discipline must be sub
mitted by the persons concerned.
All of Texas was brought into
the squabble through publicity in
the newspapers as students called
a strike for Feb. 1.
When students began collecting
i-ebates from the college, the facul
ty dismissed, on the grounds of in
subordination, all 466 signers of
the petition.
One account of the incident
which followed, said: “Before leav
ing, the underclassmen held a
‘final’ dress parade. Seniors ar
ranged themselves along the side
lines as if it were a graduating
dress parade, and when the under
classmen passed in review, there
were 140 seniors with bared heads
and teai’-dimmed eyes in what they
thought would be the last military
ceremony they would see.”
Eventually, more than half of the
students were reinstated, but some
200 never were.
Senate Decision Due
At Meeting On Jan. 18
Plans for a called meeting of
the Student Senate to render a
decision on A&M’s participation
in the Graduate Record Examina
tion program have been aban
doned, President Malcolm Hall dis
closed today.
Dean of Instruction Dr. William
Graff first outlined the progx-am
to the Senate Nov. 16, but no fur
ther decision has been rendei’ed.
The dean asked that senators
study the plan and consider mak
ing it a requirement for seniors.
Foldberg To Speak
At Beaumont Fete
Honoring Gridders
A&M Head Football Coach Hank
Foldberg will be guest speaker at
a buffet supper to be given by
the Beaumont A&M Club Wednes
day, Jan. 10.
The supper will honor the all
district high school football teams
of Districts 11AAAA, 10AAA,
23AA, 24AA, 25A, 32B and Catho
lic District No. 1.
Also included in the evening’s
activities will be the showing of
the 1961 A&M-SMU football game
films.
Frank Harvey, ‘41, president of
the Association of Former Stu
dents, will be a special guest at
the dinner.
Senate Probe
Of Pentagon’s
‘Muzzling’ Set
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
long-awaited Senate probe of
charges that the Pentagon is
muzzling men who seek to speak
out against Communism will begin
Jan. 23. It is expected to be
lengthy.
This was announced Thursday
by Sen. John Stennis, D-Miss.,
chairman of a special subcommit
tee appointed by the Senate
Armed Service Committee last
September to conduct the inquiry.
Stennis, in outlining the broad
plan of the hearing, said one wit
ness will be Edwin A. Walker,
the resigned major general who
has been a key figure in the con
troversy. It had been indicated
before he quit the Army that
Walker might merely testify
through a statement.
The hearing will focus first,
Stennis said, on “speech censor
ship procedures and policies of
the Department of Defense and
the Department of State.” This
will be investigated in detail, the
senator added.
Later, he said, the senators will
look into “tx’oop information and
education programs and the par
ticipation of the military in sem
inars and other public informa
tion activities.”
Most of the hearings will be
open to the public, Stennis said.
The inquiry had been scheduled
to start Nov. 27 but was post
poned.
It was prompted by Sen. Strom
Thurmond, D-S.C., who contended
that Pentagon reviewing officers,
in censoring speeches to be de
livered by military men, deleted
“hard statements against commu
nism.”
Walker, who recently has been
making speeches accusing the
Pentagon of muzzling the mili
tary, was removed from his com
mand of the 24th Infantry Divi
sion in Germany last year and
admonished after an Army inves
tigation.
The announcement of the ac
tion said Walker had made dero
gatory statements about promin
ent Americans-including former
President Harry S. Truman.
Plans were first made for a
called meeting before the Christ
mas holidays to decide the mat
ter. This meet failed to material
ize, as had a second, tentatively
scheduled but not held last night.
The examination, which is now
required for entrance to the A&M
Gi’aduate School, includes three
specific tests. These are Area
Tests, designed to assess the broad
outcomes of education in liberal
arts; Advanced Tests, which yield
measures for evaluating mastery
in selected fields; and Aptitude
Tests, which test the student in
his major field of study.
Graff, in his initial talk to the
Senate, listed four reasons why he
advocated approval of the tests.
These were:
1. The exams would aid the in
dividual student in planning a
graduate school career and are re
quired at many institutions.
2. They would assist employers
in evaluating prospective employ
ees.
3. They would assist A&M in
assuring that the college is grad
uating “a good product.”
4. The test results could be
placed on the student’s permanent
record.
Graff explained that from the
college’s viewpoint the main ad-
vaxxtage of the exams would be in
comparing results over a period
of years to determine if various
departments were either increas
ing or lowering academic stand
ards.
His proposed plan would have
all graduating seniors take the
examination every spring.
A decision on the program is
expected from the Senate at its
next regularly scheduled meeting,
Jan. 18.
Also due for further considera
tion at this meeting is the possi
bility of changing the name of the
Senate and its president’s title.
Aggie Debaters Set
State TV Duel With
Abilene Christian
On Jan. 21, debate teams repre
senting A&M and Abilene Christ
ian College will discuss “Foreign
Affairs” on a state-wide television
network.
Robert Denney and Dick Stengel
will represent A&M and argue for
the discontinuation of direct aid to
foreign countries.
The two students will leave Sat-
urday for an all-expense paid trip
to Dallas where the broadcast will
be made.
A $1,000 scholarship will be
awarded to the winning school and
$500 will be awarded to the other.
At the end of the year the English
department will decide which de
bate student will receive the schol
arship. R. B. Nichols is faculty
advisor for the team.
Judges for the touimament have
not been chosen but usually include
a federal judge, a college profes
sor and a businessman.
Press Club
Formed Here
A pi’ess club for the Bryan-Col-
lege Station area was voted official
at the Triangle Restaux’ant last
night in the second meeting of
approximately 25 persons partici
pating in communications pi’ofes-
sions.
Delbert McGuire, head of the
Department of Journalism at Texas
A&M College was elected club
chaii’man, to be assisted by Lee
Duewall, director of A&M College
Information and Student Publica
tions, was voted secretary-treasur
er.
The club will meet on the first
Thursday of each month at 6:30
p.m.
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