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Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1962
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Graduate Record Exams Approved
Bad Outlook Given
To Warehousemen
A Commodity Credit Corporation
official came up with a bleak
outlook for warehousemen attend
ing: the annual Grain Drying and
Storage Short Course today.
C. H. Moseley, director of the
CCC at Dallas, told the estimated
150 persons attending the meeting
that ‘‘hard times” probably lie a-
head for those who make a busi
ness of storing surplus grain. In
come is down and it likely will go
down even further.
“Personally, I think things are
going to get a lot worse before
they get better,” he said. “Let
there be no doubt about our (the
CCC) determination to reduce sur
pluses.”
He described the farm front fu
ture as bright. The government
is showing progress in supply
management and fair prices and is
making an effort to regain re
spectability for farmers.
But there is some facing to
do.
“We’ve got to recognize that
Last
Issue
The Battalion will publish only
one issue next week, on Thurs
day, Jan. 25. This edition of The
Battalion will be the last of the
Fall semester. The Battalion will
publish one paper Thursday,
Feb. 1 (during the semester
break) and will resume regular
publication Tuesday, Feb. 6.
SBB
Marines Will
Commission
Five Officers
Saturday, immediately following
the commencement exercises in G.
Kollie White, the Marine Corps
will commission five new officers
in the Social Room of the MSC.
To be commissioned are Her
bert L. Currie, Wayne W. Frazior,
John B. Hendricks, Fred H. Wrin
kle and Harry F. Sharp Jr.
The commissioning officer will
be Lt. Col. C. H. Pritchett, assist
ant director for personnel pro
curement, Eighth Marine Corps
Reserve and Recruitment District,
New Orleans.
Accompanying him will be Capt.
F. L. Tolleson, the officer procure
ment officer for this area, who
will make this his farewell visit
to the campus. Also with him will
be the new OPO, Capt. J. H. Gary.
American agriculture has the capa
city to produce more of individ
ual crops and more crops in general
than the commercial market will
take at reasonable prices over the
next decade,” Moseley said.
Reduced governmental expendi
tures, he emphasized, rests square
ly on development and acceptance
of effective supply management
programs in the more important
crops. Improved farm income must
come through effective supply
management programs.
“Improved incomes without ef
fective supply management means
unmanageable surpluses and un
manageable budgetary expenditur
es,” the speaker said.
Moseley praised the results of
the administration’s Feed Grain
Program.
The short course is sponsored
each year by the Department of
Agricultural Engineering and the
Texas Agricultural Extension Ser
vice in co-operation with the Tex
as Grain and Feed Association.
General program chairman was W.
S. Allen, engineer with the Texas
Agricultural Extension Service.
Another speaker, Warren Le-
Bourveau of Mathis, president of
the Texas Grain and Feed Associ
ation, cited the reduced storage
volume facing warehousemen. He
listed six alternatives for the grain
storage industry if the situation
worsens:
1 Forget about warehousing
and buy and sell only at harvest
time.
2 Buy grain for the warehouse
man’s own account and hold for
later resale.
3 Get into the feed manufac
turing business.
4 Try to buy grain and hold
for major buyers for later sale
and export.
5 Develop livestock feeder ac
counts.
„ 6 Turn storage buildings into
housing for some other industry.
LeBourveau said that a sound
country elevator system must be
backed up with a sound grain agri
culture. One is no good without
the other.
Robbers Get Buns
Instead Of Bills
LONDON (A*)—Payroll robbers
snatched a bag Thursday from a
15-year-old apprentice entering a
London factory.
They thought they had the
week’s wages.
But what they got away with
was a dozen currant buns des
tined for the afternoon tea break.
379 Finish Classes,
Graduate Tomorrow
Three hundred seventy nine
graduating seniors attended their
last classes today and will receive
degrees in graduation exercises to
morrow in G. Rollie White Coli
seum.
Commencement ceremonies are
scheduled at 10 a.m., with com
missioning exercises to be held at
1:30 p.m.
Two hundred seventy six under
graduates will receive baccalaure
ate degrees, while 103 other grad
uates will be awarded advanced
degrees.
The School of Engineering tops
the list of college schools with 116
candidates for baccalaureate de
grees. The School of Arts and
Sciences has 95 baccalaureate can
didates and the School of Agri
culture has 65.
The graduate school has 75 can
didates for masters degrees and
28 candidates for doctoral degrees.
Dr. Carlyle Marney, minister of
Myers Park Baptist Church in
Student Wives
To Help With
Dimes Drive
Wives of A&M students will con
duct a Mothers March for the 1962
March of Dimes Tuesday, Jan. 23,
in College View, Hensel and Pro
ject House college apartments. The
Battalion had previously report
ed the drive had been held last
Tuesday.
....Mrs. Joe Heilhecker, chairman
of the special apartment solicita
tion for the National Foundation,
said student wives will seek dona
tions from married students and
faculty living in the college hous
ing Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 8
p.m. The regular Mothers’ March
is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 30.
On that date all other homes in the
Bryan-College Station area will be
contacted.
The apartment drive will be held
a week early because of the A&M
semester exam schedule.
Mrs. Heilhecker said more vol
unteers are needed to help con
duct the drive. Student wives
wishing to assist in raising funds
for the March of Dimes are ask
ed to call her at VI-6-7523.
The National Foundation is con
tinuing its campaign to eliminate
polio and is concentrating research
efforts to learn more about crip
pling arthritis and child birth de
fects.
Campbell Soup Prexy
Speaks Of Ag Economy
Citing the hazards in the current |
trend toward marketing orders in
certain crops, Dr. W. B. Murphy,
president of the Campbell Soup
Company, said last night that the
new plant Campbell is construct
ing at Paris, Texas, “would not
be a practical thing without direct
contracts with farmers unhamper
ed by artificial barriers.”
Addressing faculty member and
graduate students in the Biologi
cal Sciences Lecture Room, Mur
phy said the farmer, the consum
er, and the processor “all fare
better under an unfettered grower-
processor contracting a r r a n g e- |
ment.”
He also pointed up the fallacy in
thinking that over-efficiency in
agriculture is responsible for pre
sent crop surpluses should not be
charged to research but rather to
the many attempts that have been
made to sidestep the inexorable
laws of economics.”
Murphy emphasized that artifi
cial government controls are not
needed by the grower, the pro-
William B. Murphy
. . . Campbell executive
cessor or the consumer “when there
is a sound contract between the
grower and the processor, accept
able to both parties, and when this
contract is backed by superior ag
gressive research work and skill
ful crop service.”
The speaker also reported that
when Campbell completes its new
plant in Paris, Texas, in 1964, a
considerable number of high-quali
ty ingredients -yvill be required and
the company will be contracting for
these with many Texas farmers.
“Campbell Soup Company’s
northern plants are already se
curing large quantities of vege
tables from the Rio Grande Valley
at certain times of the year,” Mur
phy said, “and are also conti’act-
ing for okra and rice in Louisiana
and large quantities of poultry in
Arkansas.”
In adition to the crop develop-
(See MURPHY On Page 3)
Charlotte, N. C., will deliver the
commencement address. Commis
sioning speaker will be Maj. Gen.
Ralph Osborne, deputy command
er of the U. S. 4th Army.
Gen. Osborne will also present
commissions to 51 A&M cadets.
Chancellor M. T. Harrington and
Eugene B. Darby of Pharr, chair
man of the Board of Directors,
will bring the opening greetings.
The invocation will be given by
Gary G. Lively, corps chaplain,
and the benediction will be pro
nounced by Jason M. Edgington,
civilian student chaplain.
Prior to the benediction Music
Director Robert L. Boone will lead
the graduates and the audience in
the singing of The Spirit of Ag-
gieland.
Bryan’s Radio Station KORA
will broadcast the commencement
address tomorrow morning.
Marney has lectured and
preached at more than 50 colleges
and universities. While he was at
the First Baptist Church at Aus
tin, he served as professor in
homiletics and Christian ethics at
the Austin Presbyterian Seminary.
Extensive travels have taken
him through Peru, Brazil, Bolivia,
Argentina, Paraguay, Alaska, the
Yukon Territory, Korea and Ja
pan.
Marney has served on the Study
Committees of the’ World Council
of Churches, the Theological Com-
missiop of the Baptist World Al
liance, and is presently serving on
the Board of Trustees for the
Christian Century Foundation and
Mars Hill College.
Gen. Osboi-ne has seen military
duty in numerous areas through
out the world. He served as the
Army member of the United Na
tions armistice delegation. At the
conclusion of the armistice, he di
rected the prisoner of war ex
change program.
In 1945, he was assigned to the
European Theater of Operations
for duty as assistant staff for per
sonnel in the office of the theater
commander, and later assigned to
the Intelligence Division of the
Supreme Headquarters Allied Ex
peditionary Forces in Europe.
He assumed duties as deputy
commander of the 4th Army in
June, 1961.
Labs, Rooms
Completed In
Physics Wing
Construction has been complet
ed on the addition to the Physics
Building and the addition has been
accepted and approved by Texas
A&M officials, according to W. H.
Badgett, manager of the College
Physical Plant.
The addition to the Physics
Building, which houses the Depart
ment of Physics and the National
Science Foundation, increases the
gross area of the building from
about 36,000 to about 59,000 square
feet. The contract for the addi
tion was let in the fall of 1960.
The cost of construction was
$380,000, with another $80,000 for
new equipment for the wing. The
new wing was built of fire-resist
ant reinforced concrete to match
the brick of the original building.
The firm of Ingram and Harris of
Beaumont was the designer and
builder of the addition. Robert
Boyce of the A&M System was
the building inspector.
Annual
System
Report For
Released
Chancellor M. T. Harrington’s
annual report of the A&M System
was released for distribution yes
terday morning by the A&M Press.
The annual report this year
stresses further developments in
the Nuclear Science Center and
Data Processing Center, plus im
provements in fields related to
these two huge projects.
In the foreword, Harrington
states as his purpose, “Showing
that, given the tools, these men
(in the Nuclear Science Center and
Data Processing Center) are achi
eving results of value to the peo
ple of Texas as well as to the
scientific community not bounded
by state lines.”
The 40-page booklet indues arti-
des on Prairie View A&M, Arling
ton State College, Agricultural Ex-
Ag Journalism
Given 3 Grants
Renewal of three scholarship
grants for agriculture journalism
students, with 50-pei’-cent increase
in two, has been announced by the
supporting firms.
The three grants now total
$1,900, Delbert McGuire, head of
the Department of Jouralism, an
nounced yesterday.
The Clayton Fund of Houston,
which in the past has offered two
$500 scholarships, will increase
them to $750 each for the 1962-
63 school year, according to W. L.
Anderson, trustee of the fund.
The third scholarship of $400 is
offered by the Wildlife Manage
ment Institute of Washington, D.
C.
periment Station, Tarleton State
College, Agricultural Extension
Service, Texas Forest Service, En
gineering Experiment Station, Tex
as Transportationn Institute, and
Engineering Extension Service, as
well as A&M.
2 Examinations
Set For Seniors
By ALAN PAYNE
Battalion News Editor
Initial steps were taken last night by the Student Senate
to secure A&M’s participation in the Educational Testing
Service’s Graduate Record Examination program.
The Senate passed a four-point proposal tentatively
placing A&M in the program. Dean of Instruction Dr. Wil
liam Graff will now take the proposals to the college execu
tive committee for final approval.
The approved proposals were:
1. Aptitude tests will be given all graduating seniors,
while advanced tests will be given seniors in the specific
fields covered by the exams. Graduates in fields other than
those covered in the advanced tests will take the tests only
if their department heads de- 4
cide they should. The depart
ment heads will also designate
which tests the seniors will
take. (Whether the present
senior class will be able to take
the exams is still not known.)
2. Results of the tests will not
be placed on permanent record.
3. The test will be given free of
charge this year, and in following
years if possible.
4. The tests shall not be a pre
requisite for graduation.
The examination, which is now
required for entrance to the A&M
Graduate School, includes three
tests. These are area tests, de
signed to measure the breadth of
knowledge and understanding in
broad areas of the liberal arts;
aptitude tests, which yield meas
ures of over-all scholastic ability
expected of college graduates; and
advanced tests, which test the stu
dents in their major fields of
study.
Area tests were never consid
ered for A&M because, according
to Graff, “We would have to give
every student the same test twice
—when he first arrives on campus
and when he graduates—and this
would not be very feasible.”
Advanced tests are given in bi
ology, chemistry, economics, edu
cation, engineering, French, geol
ogy. government, history, litera
ture, mathematics, music, philos
ophy, physics, psychology, schol
astic philosophy, sociology, Span
ish and speech.
According to Graff, the main
purpose of the exams, other than
providing avenues for students en
route to graduate school, will be
in comparing test results over a
period of years to determine if
various, departments are either in
creasing or lowering their aca
demic standards.
If the tests are approved by the
college executive committee, sen
iors will take the exams during
(See EXAMS On Page 3)
Graff Explains Examinations
Dean of Instruction Dr. William Graff explains a point to
Student Senate President Malcolm Hall during- last night’s
Student Senate meeting concerning Graduate Record
Exams. TJie Senate voted to accept A&M’s participation in
the program. Graduating seniors will now take at least
one and maybe two exams the spring before they graduate.
(Photo by Ben Wolfe)
Soviet Subs
In Indonesia
For Support
JAKARTA, Indonesia CP> — In
formed sources said Thursday four
long-range Soviet submarines ai*-
rived Monday to augment the In
donesian navy in the conflict with
the Dutch over West New Guinea.
The first Dutch-Indonesian naval
engagement was a surface clash
on Monday.
The four subs were described
as long-range “W” class vessels
of 1,030 tons displacement, carry
ing 14 torpedoes each. Two of the
same type were delivered by the
Soviet Union to Indonesia in Aug
ust 1959.
Informants said the four new
subs arrived in Jakarta’s heavily
guarded Tandjung Periuk Harbor
under escort of a Soviet mother
ship from Vladivostok.
The mother ship was expected
to stay in Indonesian waters un
til Indonesian navy personnel com
pleted their training on the new
craft.
Indonesian personnel brought
the first two submarines in 1959
from Vladivostok with a number
of Russians aboard each.
Published specifications show a
“W” class sub has six torpedo
tubes, two 57mm and two 25mm
guns and calls for a crew of 60;
it has a surface speed of 17 knots
and an underwater speed of 15
knots.
A cruiser Indonesia is to get
from the Soviets under the $400
million arms purchase agreement
signed last year is expected to be
delivered about mid-1962. Indone
sians are being trained at Sevasto
pol in the Black Sea to man it.
There are reports that Indonesia
plans to urge the Soviet Union
to supply air-to-air missile weap
ons to match similarly equipped
Dutch fighter aircraft based in
West New Guinea.
Marine Officer
Loses Article
WASHINGTON OP) _ The De
fense Department and the Ma
rine Corps have refused to release
a Marine colonel’s article on the
service’s history.
A Defense Department spokes
man said today the articles seemed
to have the effect of charging a
conspiracy existed among several
former officials to kill off the Ma
rine Corps.
The spokesman said clearance
was refused because the article
appeared to impugn motives of
former presidents Harry S. Tru
man and Dwight D. Eisenhower,
retired Army Gen. Omar Bradley,
former Secretary of Defense Louis
Johnson and the late Adm. For
rest Sherman, once chief of naval
operations.
The incident comes to light vh’-
tually on the eve of opening of a
Senate inquiry into charges of
muzzling of military officers by
Pentagon officials. A Senate sub
committee probe is scheduled to
begin next week.
The institute sent the article to
the Pentagon on Sept. 15, the
spokesman said.