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.' • ::. . • ■ '•• ... ; .' '. •• • $ : i**-»• • HE BATTAUO Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1962 Number 58 Annual Dairy Meet To Start Here Monday A film ami talk on the effects of nuclear weapons, toxic chemicals and biolog-ical warfare on dairy products will be the feature of the annual Dairy Manufacturers Conference Monday through Wednesday in the Memorial Student Center. H. J. McConnell, Director of* Civil Defense training with the O 1 1 Bryan Schools Reopen Despite Continued Cold Food and Drupr Administration, will present the talk during a din ner at 6:30 p. m. Tuesday. Dr. A. V. Moore, propram chair man and a professor of dairy science here, said that between 75 to 100 dairy product processors are expected to attend the con ference. They will come from all parts of Texas and will represent the 150 processing plants in the state. The conference is sponsored by the Department of Dairy Science in co-operation with the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Texas Agricultural Extension Serv ice and the Texas Engineering Ex tension Service. Activities the first day start at 11:30 a. m. with registration. At 1:30 p. m., Dr. R. E. Patterson, iean of agriculture, will give an uddress of welcome. Next is “The Dairy Outlook” by Dr. I. W. Rupel, head of the Department of Dairy Science; a film and talk by L. K. Jonas, Engineering Extension Serv ice; and “The Origin and Control of Market Milk Flavor,” H. C. Ol son, Oklahoma State University, and Moore. Subjects and speakers the second day are “Automation for the Medium Size Processing Plant,” G. G. Ripma, Cherry Burrell Corporation, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; “Food and Drug Regulations for Dairy Foods,” R. J. Ramsey, Ram sey Laboratories, Cleveland, Ohio; and “How Effective Is Dairy Foods Promotion?” R. E. Branson, De partment of Agricultural Econom ics. The talks will be followed by group discussions on milk plant problems and frozen foods prob lems. Other subjects and speakers the second day are “Safe Use of Pesti cides,” J. C. Gaines, head of the Department of Entomology; “Volume-Weight Relationships in Dairy Products.” Carl Vanderzant, A&M Department of Dairy Science “Cottage Cheese and Buttermilk Scoring,” I. I. Peters, Department of Dairy Science and Olson. Activities start on the last day with “What’s Wrong with Sherbet Consumption?” by Ramsey; “Im pact of Producer Problems on Dairy Foods Processing,” R. E. Burleson, extension dairyman, USDA Federal Extension Service; and “Efficiency in Moving Materials and Products,” by Ripma. Tradewinds Club Destroyed By Fire The club alternately known as the Avalon or Tradewinds, west of Bryan on Highway 21 across the Brazos River, burned to the ground yesterday afternoon. The blaze was first noticed about 1 p.m. by two men working in a nearby liquor store. The fire apparently started in the kitchen on the east side of the one-story frame building. Flames were visi ble through the windows when the fire was discovered. According to the owner, Roy Dunn, the club closed Wednesday night and was not to have opened again until 4:45 p.m. yesterday. No one was around when the fire started. He said that he did not have in surance and estimated the loss at 145,000. Both Bryan and Caldwell fire fighting units answered the alarm but by the time either arrived the combination club and cafe was a total loss. Bryan public schools reopened today after a two-day vacation, despite the bitter cold wave that continued to hold the entire state in its freezy grips. Many county schools remained closed until Monday, however. Classes at A&M and Allen Acade my have continued through the cold wave. The U. S. Weather Bureau fore saw no immediate relief from the cold that has set historic lows in many places, brought widespread suffering and many deaths. Lower Rio Grande Valley farm ers and citrus growers faced pos sible vast financial losses from the crop — ruining cold. They crossed their fingers hoping the weather will spare their citrus trees. “The freeze got everything but my fence posts,” declared one val ley farmer. Others held hope that things were not that bad. At least 21 persons died from weather related causes — some in traffic accidents and others from fires or faulty heating systems. Deaths included T. L. Powell, 65- year-old Houston janitor who was fatally burned while pouring kero sene into a stove; and Lee Mc- Lellan, 58, of Friona, who died of asphyxiation. Authorities blamed overheating and improper ventila tion of McLellan’s home for the death. Jess McCorquodale, 65, Linda Glass, 12, and Gary Glass, 9, drowned in a pond at Ida, 30 miles north of Navasota in Grimes County yesterday. School was out in the area and it is believed the children were skating on the ice pond when the ice broke and Mc Corquodale went to their rescue. 20 Aggies Asking Peace Corps Duty; One Now A Woman “The only Aggie in the Peace Corps today that I know of hap pens to be a girl,” commented Daniel Russell of the Agricultural Economics and Sociology Depart ment faculty, while preparing his report on a Peace Corps confer ence he attended in Oklahoma City a few months ago. “Although we have received about twenty applications from other Aggies, the only known member of the Corps associated with A&M is a girl working with the Extension Service in the Pan handle,” said Russell. Russell will give his report at the Agricultural Extension Quar terly Conference here at the Me morial Student Center on Monday. The purpose of the conference is to bring the employees of the Ag ricultural Extension Service to gether to perfect plans for their work for the following few months. Highlights of the conference which ends a week from today, will be a report by Joe Wilson, a former 4-H member, on his partic ipation in the International Farm Youth Exchange Program in Ire land; a presentation by Jack Bar ton, extension agronomist, on the Blacklands Program being devel oped by the Extension Service, and a report by Ralph T. Green, director of the Texas Commission on Higher Education, on “The Du ties and Responsibilities of the Commission.” Two Pair and a Final Examination Coming Upcoming finals don’t seem to bother these two freshmen, as one obviously has two pair, and the other, judging from the smile on his face, also has a good hand. Putting final examinations off to the last minute are Roland Davis (left), ’65 mechanical en gineering major from Bryan, and Thomas R. Arnold, ’65 engineering major from Bry an. (Photo By Ben Wolfe) Freshmen Prep For Finals In 1,700 Different Ways By RONNIE FANN Battalion Staff Writer Approximately 1,700 freshmen will take final exams, college style, for the first time, starting Monday, Jan. 22. To these beginning students of A&M this will be a totally new experience climaxing their first semester of college life. The ways and means of study ing for finals are many and va ried, and the advice from upper classmen is abundant. One freshman from Company E-l said, “There are as many ways to study for finals as there are up perclassmen in my outfit. It seems that everyone has his own patent ed way for studying, and his meth od will ultimately lead to success, while others are doomed to fail ure.” Advice seems to range from, “Don’t sweat them,” to “These things are going to make or break you.” Most of the class of ’65 plan to take a middle of the road course in studying. “When besieged by such conflict ing advice, what else can we do?,” is the general opinion. As the last weekend before “dead week” approaches, the ques tion ultimately arises “Shall I go home one more time before finals?” Kennedy Proposal Would Cut Taxes WASHINGTON WP> — President Kennedy’s forthcoming request for standby authority to cut taxes in a recession \vould involve a reduc tion of up to 25 per cent in first- bracket rates. The proposal, which Kennedy mentioned briefly Thursday in his State of the Union message, will be spelled out in detail in the President’s economic report which will go to Congress Jan. 22. In his address, Kennedy merely said that to help fill what he called a basic gap in anti-reces sion protection, he would urge “presidential standby authority, subject to congressional vote, to adjust personal income tax rates downward within a specified range and time, to slow down an eco nomic decline before it has drag ged us down.” Tax rates would revert to their regular levels at a date that would be fixed at the time they were lowered. Sources familiar with the pro posal said it would allow a re cession reduction of as much as five percentage points in the 20 per cent first-bracket tax rate. That would mean a cut of one- fourth and it would take quick ef fect through reduced tax with holding by employers. George Jones of Leggett Hall plans to get away just once more before finals start. “I haven’t missed a weekend yet, and I don’t plan to start now,” he says. Corps freshmen might find it a little harder to get away than ci vilian students. Many outfits are not accepting passes except in emergencies. “I am certainly not going home or anywhere else, and I think that anyone who does is crazy,” says Bill Bender of Squadron 2. “These guys who waste this last good op- BSU Banquet Set Thursday The A&M Baptist Student Union will hold its annual sports banquet Thursday at 7 p.m. in Sbisa Hall honoring some 100 Baptist ath letes participating in sports at A&M. , Donn D. Moomaw of Berkeley Calif., will address the group. Ar all-time football great at UCLA. Moomaw achieved an athletic rec ord seldom equalled, being named one of the world’s 10 greatest ath letes by Stanley Woodward in “Who’s Who in Sports” in 1953. He has been named All-Ameri can and lineman of the year by the Associated Press and United Press International. He was named college player of the year, and was co-captain and most valu able player of the North team in the annual North-South game. While a junior at UCLA he de cided to become a minister. In June, 1954, he was a member of the Billy Graham team in the fa mous London Crusade. Moomaw graduated from the Princeton Theological Seminary and was ordained to the ministry in the United Presbyterian Church in 1957. He is now called “Minis ter of the New Life,” serving the First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, Calif. Student chairmen for the ban quet are Wayland Simmons and Eddie Van Dyke, and master of ceremonies will be Don' Costlow. Donn D. Moomaw k . . BSU speaker portunity to study during a week end are asking for trouble when finals get here and everyone is pressed for time to study.” It might be interesting to note that Bill’s home is in Virginia, though. As is tradition with the corps, all third and fourth classmen will receive junior CQ privileges while studying for finals. For many freshmen this will mean that for the first time since the beginning of the semester it will be entirely their choice on whether to study, and how much to study. “I plan to study at least a little ; n bed,” says Ronnie Florence of B-l. “It might be quite a while before I get that opportunity again, and I sure plan to take ad vantage of it!” By far the most popular method used by freshmen in studying is to “burn the midnight oil just be fore the quiz and hope.” Although many have developed unique, to say the least, methods, the majori ty plan to use the same procedure they used in high school. It remains to be seen just what the average freshman will have to say about final exams when they are over, but one thing is certain, they will have lived an experience that they will not long forget. Rode To Speak At AIEE Annual Fete Norman F. Rode, national direc tor of the Ameiican Institute of Electrical Engineers and professor of electrical engineering at A&M, will be the guest speaker at the annual banquet of the AIEE at the Beaumont Country Club next Tuesday. Rode, the only national director of the AIEE to come from A&M, will speak on “Some Non-technical Aspects of a Technical Education” and on the merged of the AIEE and the Institute of Radio Engi neers. He has served as student coun selor, chairman of student activi ties, chairman for technical papers for district meeting, chairman of the Houston section, vice president of the seventh district in Beau mont and national director. Rode, besides his contributions to the field of electrical engineer ing, has personally taught over 80 per cent of the electrical engineer ing graduates from A&M and has been active in the American So ciety of Engineering Education, having served on the national council as the elected representa tive from the Southwest. He has directed research on electrical analog computers as re search engineer of the Engineer ing Experiment Station. In 1957, Rode received a “Dis tinguished Teacher Award” from the Association of Former Stu dents. SWC Student Group Planned By 7 Leaders Work is continuing behind the scenes for the official formation of a Students’ Association of the Southwest Con ference. President’s of the seven SWC-member schools in Texas ♦will meet in Fort Worth Feb. 17 to officially organize the group. Improvement Noted After Traffic Pleas The Civilian Student Council held its first meeting of the new year last night in Memorial Stu dent Center. Opening the night’s business ac tivities was a report by the traf fic safety committee. Gerald Grey, chairman of the committee, an nounced that the pi’oblem of un authorized student traffic in the college apartment areas has im proved. He went on to commend The Battalion for its aid in mak ing students aware of the prob lem. Hank Farrow, CSC representa tive from Milner Hall, disclosed his replacement as representative by Bob Ritchey. Ritchey will take his place at the CSC round table at the next meeting of the council. Closing the brief meeting was a plea by Doug Schwenk, president of the CSC, asking students to refrain from making paths and trails in various lawn areas around the campus. Problem ai-eas specifically mentioned were those of the Academic Building and the Chapel. Students were also reminded that it is in violation of college regulations to wear letter jackets from schools other than A&M. Architects Plan New York Tivoli For Competition Eighteen fifth-year architecture students are cui'rently engaged in the preliminai’y stage of the 1962 Lloyd Warren Fellowship Compe tition, better known as the Paris Prize Competition. The competition, an annual proj ect sponsored by the National In stitute for Architectural Educa tion (NIAE), is open to anyone under the age of 30 in the U.S. The first prize is $5000, to be used to finance one year of archi tectural study in Europe. The competition this year is en titled “A Tivoli for New York City.” Architectural students be gan Wednesday on the three-day project. The problem is not a hypotheti cal exercise for a make-believe city with make-believe needs and re quirements, contest instructors note. The officials of New York City recognize that, barring nu clear war, their city will grow larger and larger. At the same time, woi’king hours will be short er while putting more money in the pocket of the working man. This means that people will have more time for leisure and more money to spend on leisure. The architectural problem of the near future may well be a search for ways to spend this new freedom. This project may be one of New York City’s answers to that search. Competitors must design a rec reation center to be located on Blackwell’s Island, in the East River, opposite the mid-town area of Manhattan. The park should include walks, plazas, fountains, sculpture, indoor and sidewalk cafes, a concert auditorium, a car rousel, hotel, helioport, children’s theatre and some means of trans portation, as public vehicles will not be allowed on the island. Il lumination of the island should also be considered both as to prac ticality and enhancement of archi tectural effects. Planning was initiated after SWC Sportsmanship Committee meet ings in Dallas prior to the Cotton Bowl game Jan. 1. The seven student body presi dents laid the groundwork for the formation of the organization. Work presently is being done to draft a constitution before the Fort Worth meeting. Student Senate President Mal colm Hall and Maurice Olian, president of the student body at the University of Texas, are draft ing the constitution. According to Hall, the main sub ject being pressed for approval at the Fort Worth conference is rep resentation. The constitution will call for one vote and two repre sentatives from each school. Purpose of the planned associa tion is to provide a channel through which ideas can be ex changed by leaders of the various schools. Student bodies at each member- school would probably have to rati fy the constitution of the associa tion. According to Olian of UT, who personally proposed the formation of the association, legislative pow er will stem from the fact that any’ proposals passed by the associa tion will have more weight than desires voiced by the governing bodies of each of the schools. Another of the first items to be brought before the group for consideration may be the question of integration in Southwest Con ference athletic activities. The student body presidents, act ing as individuals and not speak ing for their schools, drafted a resolution in Dallas during Cotton Bowl week asking for integration of SWC sports. Copies wei'e sent to faculty and athletic officials of each Southwest Conference member. The group, once formed, will probably meet three times yearly, SMU Students’ Association Presi dent Gary Cadenhead has sur mised. He listed these times as in the fall, spring and during Cotton Bowl festivities. JFK Discloses Plans To Add 300 Missiles WASHINGTON </P) — President Kennedy told Congress Thursday he plans to strengthen this coun try’s growing arsenal by adding nearly 300 more deep-striking nu clear-tipped missiles. This would give the United States about 1,600 such long range missiles by the mid-1960’s. In his State of the Union mes sage, Kennedy said his new de fense budget, expected to total about $50 billion, will include re- • quests for nearly 300 more Polaris submarine-launched missiles and advanced solid fuel Minuteman intei'continental ballistic rockets. The United States now has in place 45 liquid-fuel Atlas missiles and 6 Polaris submarines, each armed with 16 missiles—a total of 141 rockets able to hurl nuclear destruction at targets inside the Soviet Union. The solid-fuel Minuteman is due to become combat ready this sum mer. The present program con templates 600 of them in pi’o- tected underground bases by 1965. There have been reports this Min uteman force will be -swelled by about 150. In its first year, the Kennedy Administration won from Con gress authority to build 29 Polaris boats by 1967. The President now wants to increase this further by perhaps 9 boats mounting a total of 144 missiles.