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The Battalion Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1962 Number 63 Glenn And Space Ship Astronaut John Glenn poses in front of the Atlas missile which is scheduled to take him on an orbital flight from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atop the missile is the Mercury space craft in which Glenn will ride on his three-orbital trip. (AP Wirephoto) m NEW HITCHES All Is Ready For Glenn’s Space Try CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UP) _ Optimism washed over this space port Wednesday as -preparations for astronaut John H. Glenn Jr.’s orbital voyage moved ahead with out any reported new hitches. White-clad technicians checked and rechecked the towering Atlas and the bell-shaped spacecraft which-if all continues to go well Senate Tangles On State Support For San Angelo College AUSTIN UP) — Texas senators tangled Wednesday with the prop osition of making San Angelo Col lege fully state supported but put off a decision until after the loan shark regulation fight. At the same time the House withheld final action on the San Angelo College proposal and a similar measure for Pan Ameri can University while members argued over natural gas for irrigation pumps. There was the possibility of a night session for the House. By a 15-13 vote the Senate voted to recess until 10:30 a.m. Thurs day, the exact time set earlier for start of debate on a house- passed small loan regulation bill. A motion by Sen. Dorsey Harde man, San Angelo, to begin debate on the San Angelo College issue was pending at the time the Sen ate quit. The recess vote had the effect of putting off any action on Hardeman’s motion until the Sen ate acts on th^ loan regulation issue. It was the second delay in the Senate for the San Angelo College bill. Senators refused Tuesday to take up the measure out of its regular order on the calendar. The House gave tentative ap proval Tuesday to both the San Angelo College and Pan American University bills but a final vote Was postponed. After the Senate session Wednesday, the Senate State Af fairs Committee quickly sent to a subcommittee a bill (SB51) pro posing state control of city annex ations. “As far as I am concerned, that kills it for this session,” said the author, Sen. Preston Smith, Lub bock. “We just didn’t have time to pass such a bill in a special session. It will take a regular session.” This special 30-day session ends at midnight Feb. 1. -will carry the 40-year-old Ma rine pilot around the earth three time on Saturday. Glenn was keeping close touch with the progress of these checks, space agency sources said. This close to launch day, the astronaut schedule normally tap ers off after months of repeated ground rehearsals and condition ing. This is a time for relaxiation and rest, a bit of exercise in the warm Florida sun. Glenn, a hard muscled Marine lieutenant colonel, was due to take the second half of a routine but thorough prelaunch physical Thursday. It will be a general ex amination, officials said, with some special attention to the as tronaut’s inner ear which affects sense of balance. After the first half of the ex amination Monday, the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration said Glenn’s doctors found him physically fit and ready to go into space. That part of the check up involved, among other things, Glenn’s heart and his eyes, ears, nose and throat. As things stand now, the count down will begin Friday. It is split over two days, as technicians run over a thick checklist for about five hours Friday and then finish the remaining six hours of the process in the early hours of launch day. Rising hope that Glenn’s orbital flight-first for an American may go off Saturday after three pre vious postponements was not dimi nished by a space failure early Wednesday. The United States had hoped to hurl five separate satellites . into orbit with a single rocket, a Thor- Able-Star. But the rocket’s upper stage didn’t develop enough thrust and speed and the cluster of satellites, containing a variety of space study experiments, plunged into the ocean several hundred miles south of here. KK’is Praise Aggie Drivers On Safety Campus Security officers report ed only two accidents on campus during the recent wet-icy weather blanketing the area. Poor visibility caused by ice- covered windshields were blamed for both accidents. Officer C. E. Bolton compli mented campus drivers for driving safely during the unusual weather conditions. New Semester Approaches Automation May Overtake ‘Slow People’ Future benefits from automation in industry are tremendous, but scientists and engineers who don’t “keep up” face technical obsol escence. That’s the warning executives giving keynote addresses said at the 17th annual symposium on In strumentation for the Process In dustries currently underway here. More than 300 process and in strument engineers, and industry representatives are attending the conference sponsored by the De partment of Chemical Engineering. It will end tomorrow after pre sentation of nine technical papers dealing with aspects of continuous fluid flow industrial processing. “Because of automation, “said W r . S. Quimby of Texaco, Inc., “our nation turns out 33 per cent of the world’s total production of goods and services and almost half of its durable goods. This is because our national genius has found its greatest expansion in industrial and scientific technology.” Quimby, coordinator of automa tion for Texaco in Beacon, N. Y., asserted that increased industrial efficiency from automation bene fits the companies, investors, the workers, consumers and the gpv- ernment. Engineers and scientists must take time—all the time—to keep up with the rapid instrumentation advances, Robert T. Sheen, pres ident of Milton Ray Co., St. Peters burg, Fla., said. “Your engineering and technical skills are in greater danger of be coming obsolete than the equip ment in your plant, if you don’t keep up,” he warned. Technologists Offering $22,000 In Grants Presbyterians Purchase Old Bank Building The old College Station State Bank Building was recently pur chased by the A&M Presbyterian Board for a Campus Christian Life Center. According to Dr. Harrison E. Hierth, retiring president of the board, the former bank building will replace the present Presby terian Campus Christian Life Cen ter now located at 200 Montclair behind the Southside Shopping Center. $1,200 Contest In Dallas Open To A&M Students All engineering and science stu dents have been urged to compete in the $1,200 tenth annual South western Student Paper Competi tion sponsored by the Institute of Aerospace Sciences. A&M and 12 other schools will be entered in the Apr. 26-28 com petition in Dallas. Papers from three undergrad uates and one graduate student will be selected here for the Dallas contest. First prize in each divi sion is $300, Second prize $200 and third prize $100. Paper content will be limited to a subject which is applicable to the aerospace industry. According to contest officials, “applicable is meant to include research, design, manufacture and operation of air craft, spacecraft, missiles and heli copters.” Entries here must be submitted prior to Feb. 16 to the Department of Aeronautical Engineering. Fur ther information may be obtained from Charles A. Rodenberger, faculty advisor of the student chap ter of IAS. The Institute of Food Technolo gists has issued its first call for applications for $22,000 worth of IFT-adminstered scholarships ef fective during the 1962-63 school year, Dr. A. V. Moore, chairman of the A&M Food Technology Committee, said today. Thirteen awards are offered ci tizens of the United States or Canada to encourage graduate work in the field of food science and food technology, and under graduate work leading to a bach- lor’s degree in food technology, food engineering or food science. At the graduate level, Florasyn- th Laboratories, Inc., provides a $1,000 fellowship for candidates having a bachelor of science de gree or equivalent, preferably with honors, who have “demonstrated scientific or engineering aptitude together with an above-average interest in research.” Nominations for the fellowship may be made only by the head of the department who supervises the work of the candidate and shall be made only on the official In stitute of Food Technologists’ No mination Form, Moore said. Personal applications on pre scribed forms are required from Aggies Should Get W-2 Forms By Wednesday A&M students who worked dur ing 1961 for wages should receive two copies of a “withholding statement,” Form W-2, on or be fore Wednesday, Jan. 31, Clarence E. Carlson, administrative officer of the Internal Revenue Service, said yesterday.. He went on to say that this statement will show the total wages paid and the income tax and social security tax withheld if any, during the calendar year 1961. Total wages shown on an em ployee’s W-2 must include amounts received as sick pay from his em ployer, even though no tax has been withheld on such sick pay. Sick pay is not required to be shown separately. According to Carlson, if it be comes necessary to correct a W-2 after it has been given to an em ployee, a revised statement must be issued and marked “corrected by employer.” Carlson reminded that taxpayer assistance is provided by the Bryan IRS office every Monday from 8:15 a.m. until noon. candidates for 12 other IFT-ad- ministratered undeigraduate and graduate awards. General Foods Fund, Inc., pro vides three General Foods Fellow ships, each worth $4,000, for sen iors or graduates who “intend to pursue graduate work in basic or applied chemistry, chemical engi neering or related sciences.” Each award is renewable upon appli cations and approval for a maxi mum of three years. The Samuel Cate Prescott Fel lowship providing a $1,000 award for graduate study is for one year only and is not renewable. Eight undergraduate scholar ships valued at $1,000 each will also be made for the 1962-63 school year. Six of these awards of $1,000 each are provided by the Gerber Baby Fund, Inc. A $1,000 scholarship is provided by Dodge and Olcott, Inc., and the Alexander E. Katz Memorial Scholarship, worth $1,000, is donated by F. Rit ter and Company. Deadline for receipt of applica tions and nominations for all a- wards, and the accompanying pho tographs and letters of reccom- mendations, is March 1. Requests for application and nomination forms, and the specif is deatils regarding the 13 scholar ships, should be directed to the Executive Secretary, Institute of Food Technologists, 176 West A dams St., Chicago 3, 111. Rudder Stresses Farm Importance Former Professor Given Honorary TSPE Membership Carl E. Sandstedt, formerly a professor of civil engineering at A&M and a structures consultant since his retirement, was pi'esented a certificate of honorary member ship in the Texas Society of Profes sional Engineers at a recent meet ing of the Brazos chapter. Sandstedt spent 35 years with the Department of Civil Engineer ing, holding the acting head’s of fice from 1942-45. Before coming to A&M, he held several profes sional positions with state and federal units. He was presented with the Tex as Society of Professional Engi neers’ “Engineer of the Year” award in 1957. Sandstedt is the author of several technical publi cations on structures and is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the National So ciety of Professional Engineers and the Rotary Club. Farming and ranching in Texas and the United States has become a strict: business in which only the efficient survive, President Earl Rudder told members of the 12th annual East Texas Bankers Agri cultural Conference today at Tyler. Rudder, the keynote speaker at the meeting, told the group that the agricultural revolution has set up a trend toward fewer but larger farms run by fewer farmers. Farmers now represent only 10 to 12 per cent of the total U. S. population, yet they are produc ing a super-abundance never be fore seen by the world, he said. This abundance is the result of applied technology, such as mec hanization, increased use of ferti lizers, improved breeds of live stock, improved seeds and plants, better management and ever-wid ening research. Although farmers represent only a small percentage of the popula tion, a prosperous agricdltux-e is vital to the nation’s welfare, Rud der added. Fully 440 per cent of Americans are economically de pendent on agriculture either di rectly or indirectly. About 300 bankers and business and farm leaders attended the con ference. Sponsors were the Tyler Clearing House Association and the East Texas Agricultural Coun cil. Bob Murdoch, farm director of Radio Station KTBB in Tyler and executive driector of the East Texas Agricultural Council, said the conference is held each year to provide up-to-date information on the changing economy of East Texas. The major role of agricul ture is emphasized in the discus sions. Rudder said that much of the applied science and technology on Texas farms and ran6hes is the result of educational services pro vided by A&M. He described the services as divided into three phases: instruc tion, or the teaching activities of the college for both undergradu ate and graduate students; re search, carried on by teachers and the Texas Agricultural Experi ment Station; and extension, which is the job of the Texas Agricultur al Extension Service to dissemin ate the latest agricultural and home economics information to the people of Texas. Rudder also described the work now underway by the Experiment Station and the Extension Service in East Texas. “As Texas oldest state-supported institution of higher learning, A&M is your school,” he said. “We are here to do what you need done. If you believe we are not doing the job, then let us know. JFK Still Seeking Urban Cabinet Spot WASHINKTON (A 5 ) — Presi dent Kennedy promised yesterday to battle in Congress for a new federal Department of Urban Af fairs and to put a Negro in the Cabinet for the first time in his tory. Kennedy’s choice: Robert C. Weaver, now head of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, who has had the inside track for months. The chief executive told a news conference he is going to try a legislative end run around the House Rules Committee with what he termed “a most valua ble and important proposal” to help city people solve such prob lems as “housing, transportation and all the rest.” The Rules Committee, with a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats in control, erected a blockade in the path of the Kennedy plan shortly before the president met with newsmen. It was a conference which spread out across such widely divergent topics as communism, a 25-hour work week and security risks. While he was at it, Kennedy said that, no, he hasn’t changed his leadership to a more conserv ative role in the last year. He said progress was chalked up dur ing his first year in office in carrying out the Democratic plat form and “we are staying at it.” Speaking highly of Weaver, Kennedy said he “has done an outstanding job” and that housing would be the most important part of the projected Urban affairs de partment. Therefore, he said, “I would ap point Mr. Weaver to be secre tary” — if the department is es tablished. The House Rules Committee un derlined the ‘if” by a 9-6 vote rejecting the administration’s bill to create the department. The nine included four Southern Dem ocrats and all fine Republicans on the committee. Kennedy said he was “some what astonished at the Republican leadership” for opposing the ad ministration’s urban affairs pro posal. Students Register Feb. 2-3 Ink on final semester grade reports will scarcely be dried when new students begin re porting next Wednesday for the beginning of another se mester. Returning students will join newcomers next Friday for the beginning of registration for the new semester. New Student Orientation Pro gram activities are planned both Wednesday and Thursday before the beginning of registration Fri day morning. Returning students will then be gin registering Friday afternoon. Registration cards will be re leased to all returning students outside Sbisa Dining Hall before they register. Students who were on pi'obation at any time during the fall semes ter, however, will have to have written authorization from their deans, directors of instruction or division heads to secure registra tion cards. Registration will be conducted according to the following sched ule: Friday, Feb. 2 1-3 p. m.—All whose surnames begin with T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z. 3-4:30 p. m.—All whose sur names begin with L, M, N, O. Saturday, Feb. 3 8-10 a. m.—All who surnames begin with P, Q, R, S. 10-11:30 a. m.—All whose sur names begin with C, D, E, F. 1-3 p. m.—All whose surnames begin with G, H, I, J, K. 3-4 p. m.—All whose surnames begin with A, B. Two Summer Institutes Set For Teachers Two institutes designed to up grade scientific prepartion of jun ior and senior high school teach- ers are scheduled at A&M this summer under grants from the National Science Foundation. A $63,600 NSF grant is under writing a Summer Institute in Earth Sciences for 64 junior high school teachers of science. It is scheduled of the Department of Geology and Geophysics. Summer Institute in Physical Science and Mathematics will be held at the same time for 64 junior and senior high school teach ers under a $72,700 grant from the NSF. Director is Dr. E. B. Middleton of the Department of Chemistry. In both programs, teachers & who must have at least three years of science teaching experience— will be able to earn up to 12 hours toward a master of education de gree with a science option at A&M. They will receive a stipend of $75 a week, plus a dependent’s and travel allowance, plus tuition fees. The Physical Science Institute will cover fundamental math con cepts through calculus, chemistry, physics — both classical and mo dern concepts that include atomic, nuclear and electronic develop ments. Teachers enrolled in the Earth Science Institute will take courses in meteorology and oceanography designed for secondary school teachers, and courses in geology and physics. Purpose of the institute is to give secondary teachers an oppor tunity to advance their education and to enrich the general and special science courses they teach in junior and senior high schools. All interested teachers may ap ply before Feb. 15 to C. M. Loyd.