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(Photo by Ben Wolfe) Snow, Sleet Fall As Mercury Drops An unheralded blizzard swept the entire length of Texas yester day, killing at least eight persons throughout the state and sending the temperature below 20 degrees in the Bryan-College Station area last night. The cold monster, which swept all the way into the Rio Grande Valley, swept through College Sta tion with full force early yester day morning. Yesterday’s high recorded at 1 a.m., was 53 degrees. By 8 p.m. last night the mercury had dived to 19 degrees. Temperature was below freezing from mid-morning on. The Federal Aviation Agency Weather station at Easterwood Air port recorded .61 inches of mois ture yesterday in the form of rain, sleet and snow. The Weather Bureau predicted Wednesday temperatures as low as 12 below in the Texas Panhan dle, 2 below zero in North Central Texas, and near zero in northeast Texas. The rich vegetable-citrus area in the Lower Rio Grande Valley expected the coldest weather in a decade with readings as low as 20 degrees above zero in the west ern section and to 26 along the coast by Wednesday night. “Things look grim,” a forecast er said. As the state braced for even colder weather, Northwest Texas and North Central Texas expected clearing skies Tuesday night. But Northeast Texas looked for more snow in its eastern and southern portions. Texarkana already had dVz inches on the ground, more than at any time in 20 years. The intense cold with sleet and snow struck early Tuesday with out warning and continued most of the day in the northern half of the state as blizzard conditions moved quickly southward. Roads iced over from the Pan handle to the Gulf and a low of 22 was predicted for the Houston area, where freezes rarely occur. Snow continued late in the day at Wink, Midland, Lubbock, Abi lene, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, Junction, Carthage, Tyler, Corsi cana, Greenville, Longview, Waco and even at Beaumont in the state’s extreme southeast corner. The Texas Highway Depart ment pleaded with citizens to stay at home if they lived north of a zig-zag line that ran through the Big Bend National Park, San An tonio, Houston and to Jasper in East Texas. Reason For It All By CHARLIE MAULDIN The cold, wet weather that’s been freezing Aggie ears and coating campus sidewalks with ice may be blamed on Christmas. Christmas fell on Monday this year, and according to a recent edition of the Territorial Enterprise o/o Virginia City, Nev., this might have been an ill omen. In 1865 Christ mas also was on a Monday, and the following appeared in that paper: If Christmas day on Monday be, A great winter that year you’ll see. And Full of winds both loud and shrill; But in Summer, truth to tell. High winds shall there be, and strong, Full of tempests lasting long; While battles they shall multiply, And great plenty of beasts shall die. They that be born that day, I ween, They shall be strong each one and keen. He shall be found that stealeth aught; Tho, thou be sick, thou diest not. The following year was the year of the Austro-Prussian War and a year of disastrous gales and cattle-plague. In 1871 Christmas again fell on Monday. Cattle plague in the north and some great storms marked 1872, but one must go back a few months into 1871 to find the “battles.” In that year came the capitulation of Paris and the conflict with the Commune. In 1876 Christmas fell on Monday for the third time in a dozen years. So if you see an Aggie slip on the icy sidewalk, help him up gently because it’s not really his fault. It’s just that Christmas was on Monday in 1961. OPEN TO FACULTY, STAFF Workshop Opens Next Week On Use Of Movie Projector The Department of Education and Psychology will hold a work shop Jan. 17-19 in the use of the latest model overhead projector. Dr. Paul Hensarling, head of the department, said the projector is known as the Tecnifax, a device designed to assist teachers to develop excellence in teaching. Dr. Hensarling said the work shop is open to all A&M faculty and staff members and teachers in the College Station and Bryan school systems. “In order that we may deter mine space and material require ments necessary for the work shop, we request that you notify us by Jan. 10 concerning the mem bers who will participate from your department,” he said. Clifton W. Darby, an educational consultant for the Tecnifax Cor poration, will help conduct the Intellectual Life Missing, Sociology Professor Claims “The most important problem on the A&M campus, academic ex cellence” was the topic of a talk given by Dr. C. Harold Brown, as sistant professor in the Depart ment of Agricultural Economics and Sociology, to members of the Economics Club last night in the Memorial Student Center. In opening his talk Brown stat ed that “excellence” has become the watchwood of our time. Every goal is expressed as a striving for “excellence,” although exactly what this “excellence” and the charact eristics of its composition are, is left in doubt. In regard to the question of academic excellence, Brown went on to say that merely speaking of “excellence” does not bring about the occurance of such a state. He added that when many students hear the use of the word “intellec tual,” they automatically think of a person who is a radical or is somewhat “eccentric.” Another opinion contributed to many students by Brown is that “a ‘C’ is a good enough grade for the average course and a ‘D’ is good enough for English or Chem istry.” Brown contents that this outlook on grades and the corresponding effort which brings about those grades tends to result in the re duction of intellectual competition and a mass effort to smooth off the individual student differences and put everyone on the same aca demic level. According to Brown, “There is a lack of intellectual atmosphere on our campus. This is not restricted to A&M’s campus but is perhaps more pronounced here.” In attaining an intellectual at mosphere at A&M, Brown went on to say, A&M must broaden its outlook. He added that students who come to A&M should have the chance to come into contact with ideas outside the fields of engineer ing, agriculture and military train ing. Bi’own stressed the need for a much increased liberal arts pro gram and added school support to the departments in the liberal ai’ts areas. In closing Brown stated that to attract the better students among our high school graduates, we must offer a comparative educa tion in all subject areas. Brown considers this to be but one step in acheiving- a state of “academic excellence.” Following the talk was a discus sion period in which Economics Club members probed Brown con cerning many of the problems now being considered by the Century Council. Producer Reviews Aggie Players Play “Tiger At The Gates,” a play by the French play write, Jean Girau- doux, will be discussed by C. K. Esten, producer of the Aggie Players, in a meeting Monday night for any persons interested in working with the production next semester to be held in the Music Hall. Esten plans to explain the play, and how it will be presented in the Players’ rendition set for April 16-21. “Tiger At The Gates” will be the thespian group’s major production for the spring semester. “The play is a satire on war, and is the story of how Hector and the Trojans were forced into a war with the Greeks,” Esten said. “It was first done in the 1940’s in Paris, and was then translated into English and presented on Broadway in 1955. The two-act play will be presented at A&M on the Guion Hall Stage. Spring Room Reservations Open Monday Procedures for spring semester room reservations have been re leased by the Department of Stu dent Affairs, and students are urged to comply with the re gistration methods, according to Harry L. Boyer, housing manager. In order to reserve the rooms they now occupy, all students now enrolled who expect to attend school during the spring semester should pay fees and reserve rooms beginning at 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 15, but following this procedure: Fees are to paid at the Fiscal Office in the Richard Coke Build ing, and students should bring fee slips to the Housing Office in the YMCA Building. Rooms should be reserved ac cording to the following schedule: Students who wish to reserve the rooms they now occupy should register between 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 15, and noon Saturday, Jan. 20. Those who wish to reserve any room other than the one they now occupy, including students chang ing from military to civilian dormi tories and vice versa, may do so between 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 15, and noon Saturday, Jan. 20 by pre senting written permission (room change slips) from both house masters and organization com manders concerned. A student moving from a mili tary to a civilian dormitory, in addition to other signatures, will also secure the signature of his tactical officer on his room change slip. Students in this category must also turn in a “clearance for dropping ROTC’” form to the Housing Office before registra tion. All remaining rooms will he available on a first come, first serve basis beginning at 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 22. Students moving from the cadet area to civilian areas are remind ed that they must turn in their mattress covers to the place they were drawn and draw new ones from the issuing agency for their new area. workshop. The workshop will be held for three afternoons. Each session is a successive step of certain techni ques in the use of the machine and the production of teaching mater ials, Dr. Hensarling said. The following is the schedule: Jan. 17—Uses of the projector, 1-2 p.m.; Diazo-master prepartion, types of bases, methods of block ing light, pencil, pen, cut-outs, 2-5 p.m. Jan. 18—Projectual preparation, exposure, development mounting, 1-2 p.m.; Diazo-master prepara tion, types of bases, methods of blocking light, pencil, pen, cut outs, 2-5 p.m. • Jan 19—Reversal techniques, 1-2 p.m.; photo-copying art from books and magazines, 2-3 p.m.; non-pro- jectuals, making copies on paper, cardboard and Technisheens, 3-5 p.m. Dr. Hensarling said there is no charge for workshop participation. Physics Expert To Speak Here Friday At 4 Dr. Harold W. Schmitt of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory will a speak on “Recent Advances in the Physics of Fission” Friday at 4 p.m. in Room 211 of the W. T. Doherty Petroleum Engi neering Building. Schmitt will address the weekly seminar held by the Department of Nuclear Engineering, according to Dr. Robert G. Cochran, head of the Department of Nuclear Engi neering. Interested students and faculty members are invited, Coch ran added. Schmitt did all of his under graduate and graduate work at the University of Texas, receiving the Ph.D. in Physics in 1954. He was a research and teaching fellow at the University of Texas from 1948 to 1952, a research as sociate in physics at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory until 1954, and is presently heading the phys ics of fission group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn. Schmitt is a member of the American Physical Society and is listed in “American Men of Sci- Exchange Due In Two Months By RONNIE BOOKMAN Battalion News Editor Bryan Air Force Base, including about 159 buildings, will be turned over to A&M College in about two months, President Earl Rudder confirmed yesterday. The base will be used mainly for research purposes, Rud der said. The Air Force deactivated the reservation in 1958. Procedure for the turnover will be as follows: All base property not required by the college for its pro grams will be sold at auction Feb. 12. This amounts to about 198 buildings and an 11.2-acre radio range annex located on Mudville Road. Then the General Services Administration, now control ling the base’s disposition, will turn the land and buildings Solons Prep For Opening Of Congress WASHINGTON (AP) — A Con gress already on notice that Pres ident Kennedy wants to raise the national debt ceiling rings up the curtain Wednesday on what prob ably will be a rousing election year session. House Democrats got ready Tuesday at a caucus. Without a murmur of dissent they voted to nominate Rep. John McCormack of Massachusetts to be House speaker. They made Rep. Carl Al bert of Oklahoma their unanimous choice to step into McCormack’s old post of Democratic floor lead er. Thus in the House, whRh shapes up as this year’s major battleground, the chief responsi bility for piloting Kennedy’s pro gram over legislative shoals will fall on a new leadership team. Kennedy, of course, wants a lot more from Congress than a boost that probably will shove the legal limit on the national debt beyond the $300-billion mark for the first time. The ceiling now stands at $298 billion. High on the President’s list are proposals on traiff cuts, medical care for the aged under Social Security, aid to education, tax changes-but no general cut — a new farm plan, higher postal rates. The President skimmed through the list twice Tuesday, first with McCormack, Albert and other Democratic congressional 1 e a d- ers, then with his cabinet. The chief executive will unfurl it to public view on Thursday in the annual State of the Union message he will deliver in person to a combined Senate-House ses sion, in the House chamber. over to the Department of Health, Education and Wel fare. It will then be turned over to the school for educational purposes. The department of Health, Education and Welfare had requisitioned the base on behalf of A&M. “We will not confine research activities on the base to just one type” Rudder said. “It will be available to any department for their own particular research projects.” The president said the college would make use of permanent type dormitories, warehouses and han gars to be included in the turn over. The auction sale of the base’s buildings include dormitories, headquarters buildings, special training weapons buildings, traf fic check House, post exchange and warehouse, supply buildings, operation buildings and 22 duplex four-room family housing units. Handling the sale will be Ap ple’s Auction Services of McKin ney. All of the structures will be sold for cash with the radio range an nex land for cash and/or terms. According to auction officials the appraised value of the buildings and property will not be released. The material will be sold on an “as is” offer. It can be seen Jan. 29 through Feb. 2 and Feb. 5 through Feb. 12. Address Reports Due From Aliens All foreign nationals residing in the United States must report their addresses during the month of January, according to J. W. Holland, director of the San An tonio District of the U. S. Im migration and Naturalization Service. Address report cards are available from any Post Office or Immigration and Naturaliza tion Service office. New Kiwanis President Takes Gavel Bill Krueger accepted the gavel of the Kiwanis presidency from outgoing president Loyd Keel yesterday at their noon meeting in the Ballroom of the Memorial Student Center. Looking on from left to right are Isaac Peters, second vice president; Hall Beckman, secretary; and Ed Packenham, treasurer. First Vice President Bob Fletch er was unable to attend the meeting.