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■M 3SSTW. : iOli 8 "ounced tt( 'i 11 get J We. W ( id nduoted 'Petition >>eKinnijj. semester, The Battalion Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1962 Number 66 tion or 1 duty, loth tug Casting Being Completed Last night completed casting for the Aggie are- from right to left, Ester Hord, Don Players’ spring production, “Tiger At The Malcolm, Marcia Ransom, Mary Holbein and Gates”, with over 20 roles being filled in Bob Hipp. the play. Show at tryouts for the production ‘Tiger At The Gates’ Cast Completed; Players Ready By TOMMY HOLBEIN Battalion Managing Editor After two nights of casting, the Aggie Players completed tryouts for roles in their spring production, “Tiger At The Gates,” a two-act play by the French playwrite, Jean Giraudoux. Producer for the play is C.K. Esten, who has been with the Players during the past 11 years. His final selections resulted in a cast of 20 actors, including stu dents, student wives, professors and other interested people of the community. The play has an ancient Grecian setting, and its general theme deals with the natui-al tendency of the “old men” — philosophers, poets and statemen — to glorify war, and the feeling against it by the younger men who must actually do the fighting. “Written as a farce on war, the play contains clever satire which was first viewed by a Nazi German audience during the oc cupation of Paris. The Germans were reported as fully enjoying the play, even though it figuretively “slapped them in the face,” said Esten. Famous names of Greek litera ture can be found in the list of characters, including Hector play ed by Bob Hipp; Paris, David White; Hecuba, Dotty Armstrong; Helen (of Troy), Marcia Ransom; Ulysses, Richard Metz; Ajax, Don McGown, and Priam, David Jones. Other characters in the play are Cassandra, played by Ester Hord; Andromache, played by Mary Hol bein; Demekos, David Lee; Abneos, Larry Walker; Busiris, Charles Taite; Olpides, Mike Lutich, and Troilus, played by Dan Malcolm. The play also has a sailer, two “old men”, a Mathematician play ed by Mike Gay and a topman, played by Mike Hagler. Senate Passes $2.67 Billion College Education Aid Bill WASHINGTON (A>) _ The Senate passed Tuesday a $2.67- billion college education aid bill carrying funds for 212,500 student scholarships and for construction of thousands of classrooms. The bill specifically carries out the scholarship and construction provisions asked by President Kennedy in the education message he sent to Congress earlier in the day. The vote on passage was 68 to 17. The President’s supporters won a big victory shortly before final passage of the bill when they turned back 50 to 37 an attempt to strip out the scholarship sec tion. The measure now goes to con ference with the House, which last week passed a $1.5-billion bill car rying only construction funds. Senate sponsors plan to try to keep in at least a part of the scholarship provision in the con ference, but concede they will have a tough fight. Democratic leaders put aside such a program when the House acted because of strong opposition there. The Senate version would: 1. Authorize $300 million annu ally for the next five years in loans to public and private col leges for construction of class rooms, libraries and laboratories. 2. Authorize 212,500 four-year scholarships over the next five years estimated to cost $924 mil lion. 3. Authorize $50 million annual ly for five years in matching grants to help build community junior colleges. Sponsors called the proposed federal aid essential to meet the tidal wave of college students ex pected in the next decade as ba bies born after World War II flood into the universities. Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore., floor manager for the bill and a for mer law school dean, said both the classroom and scholarship provisions would make it possible for thousands of youths to attend college who otherwise would be shut out by high costs or lack of facilities. The construction loans would be at a favorable interest rate of about 3% per cent under current market conditions. The institution ■would have to agree to put up one-fourth of the cost of the pro ject covered by the loan, so that the bill is expected to generate $2 billion in construction. It is estimated this could mean 40(,000 additional classrooms or other facilities. The House bill provides that 60 per cent of the construction aid would be in the form of grants, 40 per cent loans. The Senate bill provides all loans. The scholarships would be a- warded by state commissions on the basis of competitions conduct ed by them. The amount of each scholarship would be determined by the commission, taking into ac count the family need, but the maximum would be $1,000 a year. A scholarship winner could at tend any school that would admit him and could take a course of his choice. A college would get $350 a year for each scholarship recipient in attendance. The junior college grants would be matched by the states in ac cordance with a variable formula based on the state’s resources but no state would have to pay on more than a two-for-one basis. “Tiger At The Gates” will open in Guion Hall beginning April 11 and playing through the 17th, pre sented in the persenium. The en tire area of Guion Hall will be used, with an elaborate set on stage portraying Greek architec ture. Costumes for the production will be in traditional ancient greek dress, simplified, with large use of color associated with chai’acters. Rehearsals will be conducted every Monday, Tuesday and Thurs day nights in the Music Hall for the cast. The first two and one half weeks of rehearsals will be spent in speech training under the direction of Vic Wiening, a di rector in the organization. “The play has many subtle un dertones, and there are many, many lines that must be said with proper interpretation for them to have full effect,” said Wiening. Emphasis has also begun on players' movement on stage; even during tryouts, Esten began in jecting training in certain stage movement techniques. NIH Grant Is Among Largest Ever Here 500 Teachers Expected For Conference Teachei’s of vocational trade and industrial arts will meet here Feb. 23-24 at the annual Indus trial Teacher Coriference. Approximately '500 teachers are expected from throughout the state for the conference in the Memorial Student Center, Dr. Leslie V. Hawkins, conference director and professor of industrial education, announced. Principal speakers will be Dr. John P. Walsh of U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C., and Dr. G. Wes ley Ketcham, State Department of Education, Hartford, Conn. The vocational industrial section of the conference will open at 9 a.na with a joint meeting of trade and industrial directors, supervisors from Texas Education Agency, and trade and industrial teacher trainers. Walsh, who is director of the ti'ade and industrial branch, U.S. Office of Education, will address this group and serve as -a consult ant in their meetings. “Industrial Arts in Transition” is the theme of the industrial arts section that formally opens at 1:30 p.m. Friday. Ketcham, state consultant for industrial arts in Connecticut, will discuss the tran sition of industrial arts before this group. Aggieland Plans To Omit Favorites Senior favorite pictures will not be a part of the Aggieland for 1962, according to an an nouncement from the Office of Student Publications and Aggie land editor Raleigh Coppedge. Wire Wrap-up By The Associated Press World News TOKYO—The Robert F. Kennedys, safely through a display of hostility by a few score leftist students at Tokyo’s Waseda University, turned their attention today to in dustrial and cultural centers of Japan. The poise with which the couple met the jeers that marred an otherwise roaring, cheering welcome yesterday by 6 000 students at a Waseda auditorium remained a topic of animated discussion. The President’s brother and his wife heckled by perhaps 100 young people scattered strategically throughout the standing room crowd in an auditorium built for 4,000. ^ 'At "At ALGIERS—The terror war between the European Sec ret Army Organization and French security forces resumed full blast yesterday, hours after President Charles de Gaulle in a nationwide broadcast lifted the hopes of Algerian na tionalists for independence. In Bone, a powerful explosion charge burst inside the 6,541-ton French Line steamship, Ville de Bordeaux, as it was lifting anchor to sail for France. Four persons were killed, several wounded and the liner was badly damaged. U. S. News CAPE CANAVARAL, Fla.—Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr.’s projected round-the-world orbit flight has been delayed one additional day, until Feb. 14, to permit more time to ready his Atlas booster rocket. The postponement, reported by reliable sources yester day, came as Glenn resumed preparations for the flight, which had been held up on six previous occasions. Source here and in Washington said no specific problem has developed with the Atlas. But the job of preparing it for the orbit attempt will take longer than anticipated last week when a Feb. 13 date was announced. At At WASHINGTON—The inquiry into alleged Pentagon muzzling was stalled by failure again yesterday to break a deadlock over whether the Pentagon should say which cen sors altered specific anti-Communist speeches. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara firmly stuck to his refusal to let the censors be identified during a la bour peace talk behind closed doors with the investigating senators. A similar fruitless talk was held last Friday. Reiser Heads 7 - Year Study Dr. Raymond Reiser ... to head study One of the largest amounts of research money ever com mitted to an individual’s project at one time here has been granted to Dr. Raymond Reiser by the National Institute of Health. The $600,000 grant was given to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station by the National Institute of Health. Reiser is the principal investigator, and will use the funds for a seven-year study of the basic mechanisms involved in the digestion and absorption of fats. The N.I.H authorization is broken into grants of $89,690 for the first year, $87,630 for the second and $90,000 for each of the five succeeding years. ^ In these sums Aggie Debaters To Face NTSU On Television Sunday A&M’s debate team will oppose The A&M debaters are Robert M. a mixed team from North Texas State University in the Texas in tercollegiate television debate tour nament, “Young Amercia Speaks,” at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. Sinclair Refining Co., sponsor of the show, will contribute $1,000 to the scholarship fund of the winning school and $500 to the loser. The A&M team, coached by R. B. Nichols, instructor in English, will have the affirm'ative side of the question, “Resolved: that the U. S. schould discontinue its policy of direct economic aid to foreign countries.” MSC Celebrity Series To Present Program Of Songs The MSC Sunday Celebrity Seri es will present Dr. John Q. Andei*- son in a program of English, Scot tish, and American Folk songs Sunday at 3 p.m. in the ballroom of the MSC. In his illustrated lecture, Ander son will comment on songs and then will sing them, accompaning himself on the guitar. The program will include early ballads and love songs from England and Scotland and their variants in the United States. Among the American folk songs he will present are fiddle tunes and play-party games, Negro slave songs and early blues, and folk songs from the Texas Pan handle. The most unique of the American songs will be the Creole French “gumbo” songs. Denney and Dick Stengel. Both participated on the program last year. Denney is a sophomore civil en gineering major and is president of the debate club and captain of the debate team. He is a graduate of Amarillo high school and the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Denney of San Antonio. Stengel is a sophomore pre-law major from Garden City, Kan. He is secretary-treasurer of the Debate Club and election commis sioner. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Stengel of Garden City, Kan. Alternate for A&M will be Rich ard Heinrich, 22-year-old senior history major from Dallas. Debaters for NTSU, coached by Dr. William R. DeMougeot, direct or of debate and forensics, will be Anne Hodges of Dallas and John R. Swaney of Sherman. Both were also on the program last year. Robert Chambers is their alternate. Conservative Club To Meet Philosophy behind the new Eu ropean Common Market will be discussed by Dr. Alfred F. Chalk, head of the Department of Eco nomics, tonight, at a meeting of the A&M Conservative Club in the Memorial Student Center begin ning at 8 p.m., according to Doug Cherry, the club’s president. Cherry said the club will meet prior to the talk at 7:30 p.m. to elect officers for the spring se mester. is included about $45,000 annually which will support graduate assis tants and post-doctoral fellows who will act as Dr. Reiser’s assistants and co-workers. None of the funds go to Dr. Reiser, person ally. This program is an expansion and continuation of research con ducted for the past several years under Dr. Reiser’s direction, with support having come from a num ber of sources. The proposal on which this commitment was made was prepared by Dr. Reiser and made by the Experiment Station. The commitment was made on behalf of a unit of the N.I.H., the National Institute on Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases. The work is concerned with the development of basic information which, in turn, will be used by other researchers concerned with putting it to practice. As Dr. Reiser put it, “There is one kind of researcher who works at applying information and knowledge developed or discover ed by others. Always, this supply of basic data tends to be running out and these men keep needing more. It is this kind of informa tion we are trying to supply.” Dr. Reiser already is interna tionally known in his field as an outstanding authority on lipid (fat) chemistry and is the author of many publications on various aspects of the subject. He was the first research scientist on the campus licensed to use radioactive materials in his work. Thi’ough a grant from the Atomic Energy Commission, he used Carbon 14 and tritium as tracers to study what happens to various kinds of fats once they are absorbed by animals. RE WEEK COUNSELORS Houston, Port City Men Lead Dorm 5 And 11 Talks The Rev. Mr. Carl A. Nighs- wonger of the Methodist Ministry to the Medical Center, Galveston, will head the fof'ums and discus sion groups for dorms 5 and 7 dur ing Religious Emphasis Week, Feb. 18-22. Nighswonger received his educa tion at the University of Oklahoma from 1950 to 1952. He received his B.A. degree from Southern Methodist University in 1954. Ex tra-curricular activities included A.T.O. social fraternity, Campus “Y”, Methodist Student Movement, and Religious Emphasis Week activities. He also attended Perkins School of Theology, where he received his B.D. degree in 1957. He traveled and studied in Switzerland, Italy, France, Belg ium, The Netherlands, England, and Western Germany in the cour se of the tour conducted in the summer of 1950. This study was the result of serving on the Na- Counselors Rev. Carl A. Nighswonger, left, of Galveston and Peter Vanderhoef of Houston will be dorm counselors for Dorms 5 and 11 respectively during RE Week, Feb. 12- 16. tional Advisory Council of the American Junior Red Cross, 1949- 1950. Peter B. Vanderhoef Dorm counselor for Dorm 11 will be Peter B. Vanderhoef, of Hous ton. Vanderhoef was born in New York City and raised in Green wich Connecticut. He graduated from Deerfield Academy in Deer field/Massachusetts, attended Wil liams College in Williamstown, Maass., where he wa a member of Delta Psi, until he went into the Army Air Force. Lieutenant Vanderhoef was awarded the Dis tinguished Flying Cross. After the war he entered the public practice of Christian Sci ence, and was appointed the Com mittee on Publication for the State of New Mexico. He held this position until he moved to Phoe- when he moved to Houston.