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.