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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.