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Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1962
Number 66
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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.
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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.