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I A&M To Develop New Space Course The Battalion Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1962 Number 68 CSC Requests Senate Probe Of Aggieland Members of the Qivilian Student Council called upon Lelve Gayle, CSC representative to the Student Senate, to propose an investiga tion of the removal of the “senior favorite” section from the 19G2 Apgieland at the next meeting: of the Student Senate. The action was taken at last night’s meeting: of the Civilian .Student Council and came about as the result of numerous student re quests that the CSC look into the omission of the long-standing: sec tion. Also taken up at the meeting was a discussion of proposed plan ning for the activities scheduled for this year’s Civilian Student Weekend. Determined at the meeting was Tax Advisor Will Assist Foreign Students Monday An official of the Internal Re venue Service will be in the office of the Foreign Student Advisor Robert L. Melcher on Monday and Thursday of next week to help foreign students in the preparation of their In come Tax returns. Melcher’s of fice is in 27 Milner Hall. the method of selection of this year's civilian student sweetheart and the type of awards to be giv6n to the civilian student sweet heart finalists. CSC members agreed that the method used in last year’s sweet heart selection was the best possi ble choice of three proposals. Under this method each per son is presented a 3x5 card when he enters the dance and on this card he is asked to print the number of the girl of his choice to be civilian sweetheart. The results are then totaled and the majority rules. The resignation of David Beau- camp, CSC recording secretary, was read at last night’s meeting by Doug Schwenk( president of the CSC. Following the reading of the re signation CSC members held a brief election to fill the position vacated by Beaucamp. George Ted- ford was voted by acclamation to be the new recording secretary. Also voted on at the meeting was the newly drawn up constitu tion of the Day Student Council. CSC members chose to accept the document in its presented form and in so doing officially inaugurated the existence of the Day Student Council. Concluding the meeting was the executive committee’s report on absences. Argentina Officially Breaks With Cuba A lively Paul Jones got things underway at the Faculty-Staff Dinner Club’s Valentine dance in the Memorial Student Center last night, and participation seems to be lively and enthusiastic. NASA Project To Man Center A&M has been selected for the development of a space technological course. Congressman Olin E. Teague, chairman of the House Science Subcommittee on Manned Space Flight, said Thursday. An agreement has been reached between the college and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under which the course will be developed. It will serve as a model for similar courses at other U. S. colleges and universities, Teague said. The eventual aim is to develop an intensive short course in space technology that can be adapted for use as part of a college engineering curriculum, be offered to graduate en gineers to familiarize them with the specialized space prob lems and also be used for training NASA personnel an aide of Teague’s said yesterday. Teague said the committee and NASA “have recognized that one of the acute problems facing the national space pro gram is the shortage of personnel in the space technology field.” Working with A&M in developing a model course will be Aero Geo Astro Corp of Alexandria, Va, which has taken part in various space projects. The course will be offered under the guidance of Dr. Edward A. Wolff, who is being supplied by the Alexandria firm, the announcement said. Dr. Wolff, who holds a PhD in engineering from the Universitv of Maryland, has been serving as consultant to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and has been a staff consultant to Aero Geo Astro, where he was re sponsible for co-ordinating the company’s universities partici pation in space programs. The course will be based on an intensive training pro gram for engineers who are interested in entering the space engineering field. It will emphasize space satellites and the fabrication and assembly of their components and sub systems. Teague said the A&M program will be designed to pro vide a source of personnel for the Manned Space Flight Cen ter now being built in Houston. On campus late Thursday, no further information was available pending the return of Dean of Instruction Dr. Wil liam J. Graff from a meeting in Chicago. Graff reportedly has been handling the details of the new study. Alfred E. Cronk, head of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, said Thursday night he has heard of the pro ject, but referred The Battalion to Graff and declined k) comment. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - — President Arturo Frondizi yielded under pressure of military leaders Thursday night and broke diplomatic relations with Fidel Castro’s Communist Cuba. The action, reversing Argen tina’s soft stand on Cuba at the recent Punta del Este Conference, increased to 14 the number of hem i sphere republics that have cut ties with the increasing ly isolated Castro. Argentina’s neighbor Uruguay may become the 15th to break with Havana. Frondizi’s government ordered Cuban diplomats to get out of the country within 48 hours. Officials immediately prepared for a possible outbreak of violence by aroused pro-Castro leftists. The break enabled Frondizi to ease tbe worst military crisis con fronting him since he took office more than three years ago. The crisis was touched off by Argentina’s refusal at the Punta del Este foreign ministers’ con ference to vote for a U.S. and majority-backed resoultion order ing Cuba ousted from the inter- American family. A communique announcing the country’s dramatic break with Cuba gave as the reason “reper cussions” from the conference vote to expel the Castro regime from the Organization of Ameri can States, GAS. There was no immediate word on the outcome of the military’s demand for resignation of Car- cano. The break came as a blow to other members of the six-nation bloc that held firm at Punta del Este against ousting Cuba—Bra zil, Mexico, Chile, Ecuador and Bolivia. Protests over the stand, though most noticeable in Argentina, have arisen in each of the countries. Frondizi had injected some doubts into the situation last Sat urday when he defiantly defended the Argentina position at Punta del Este. He asserted the six- nation block was upholding “the basic principles of self-determina tion and nonintervention.” In a speech at Parana, Argen tina, Frondizi also accused what he called reactionary elements in the United States of conspiring agents to foster insurrection against the national governments which fight for the dignity and in- denpendence of their peoples.” Argentina and its allies had con tended there is no provision at present in the OAS charter for expelling members. But observers saw the tipoff to a break when Frondizi last week recalled his ambassador to Ha- (See CUBA On Page 3) The Aggieland Combo, led by R. J. Baldauf, struck up a solid beat, featuring old favorites, plus some new tunes . . . RE WEEK COUNSELORS AF Chaplain, TU Named Discussion By RONNIE FANN Battalion Staff Writer Chaplain Lt. Col. Earl W. Minor of the Air Training Command, Randolph Air Force Base will lead the forums and discussion groups for Religious Emphasis Week in Dorms 10 and 12. Minor, a Southern Baptist min ister, is serving as Chief of the Professional Branch, Office of the Chaplain, Headquarters Air Train ing Command, Randolph Air Force Base at San Antonio. He graduated from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in May 1945 and was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the Chaplain Corps upon graduation. He was immediately sent to the South Pacific where he was awarded a Battle Star for the Luzon Cam- paijgn „ whille serving with the Sixth Infantry Division. His unit was one of the first to occupy Korea in October 1945. While Minor does not wear offi cial Air Wings, he is a true fly ing Chaplain since he holds a private flying license and has been active in Air Force Aero Club since 1953. Minor will live in Dorm 10 and will lead the forums and dis cussions for Dorm 10 and 12 in the lounge of Dorm 10. Rev. G. O. Linz The leader of the forums and discussion groups for Dorms 14 and 17 will be Rev. Gerhard D. Linz, and Episcopal Chaplain of the University of Texas. Linz graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1949 with a M.S. in electrical engineer ing. At Georgia Tech he was a member of Tau Beta Pi, the na tional honorary engineering frater nity, Phi Kappa Phi, and Eta Kappa Nu, the national honorary electrical engineering fraternity. He received his B.D. from the Minister Leaders Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest in 1956. He has done research work in electronics for RCA Laboratories, and the De fense Research Laboratory at the University of Texas. Linz will hold the forums and discussions groups for Dorms 14 and 17 in the lounge of Dorm 14, and will live in Dorm. 14. Rev. G. D. Linz Lt. Col. E. W. Minor and the ‘younger’ set responded with some lively steps of their own ... while others were satisfied with the more traditional types of swing. (Photos by Ben Wolfe) Wire Wrap-up By The Associated Press World News TOKYO—Communists tried to inflame industrial work ers Friday against Robert F. Kennedy, who has shrugged off minor leftist hostilities and called the Japanese the friendliest people he knows. The U. S. attorney general returned to Tokyo Thursday night from a triumphant, 48-hour tour of the Osaka-Kyoto area that ,took in farmlands, yillages and four cities. Scat tered groups of leftist youths booed him half a dozen times, but flopped as militant demonstrators. Kennedy planned tours Friday of a Tokyo factory and the smoky Kawasaki industrial section south of the capital. U. S. News NEW YORK—Treasury agents announced the seizure Thursday night of nearly $2 million in bogus $10 bill from plates which caused a Secret Service alert six months ago. The U. S. Treasury office said the counterfeit bills were seized in the cellar of a four-family house in Brooklyn. One prisoner was taken. He was identified as Joseph Maggio, laborer for a utility company, who with his wife and one child, had occupied an apartment in the building for four years. ^ NEW YORK—Former Republican Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon Thursday night criticized President Kennedy’s handling of the abortive Cuban rebel invasion last year. Nixon also expressed discontent with other phases of the administration’s foreign policy which he said follows only those anti-Communist measures that nation’s allies and neutral countries will support.