Volume 60
The Battalion
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1962
Number 74
Collegians Can Be Lost In Masses’
‘MOST WONDERFUL DAY
America Stood Still
During Glenn’s Flight
NEW YORK UP) — Breathless
ly, Americans waited.
With mounting' tension they
dung to their television and ra
dio sets.
Then they prayed.
And then they cheered.
‘Go! go! go!” arose their cries.
“Make it John! God bless you!”
Across the nation, citizens unit
ed to form a vast rooting sec
tion. America had put its man
into space orbit at last.
Business workers, government
officials and just plain people
dropped everything where possi
ble to follow the proceedings sec
ond by second.
Stores were empty in spots. Tele
phone activity came to a virtual
halt in some places. Housewives
deserted the dishpan. School class-
work was curtailed. In Reno, Nev.,
gamblers quit the gaming tables.
President Kennedy arose to
watch the preparations on a TV
450-500 EXPECTED
11th Ag Aviation
Conference Nears
One of A&M’s most popular
meetings, the 11th annual Texas
Agricultural Aviation Conference
and Short Course on Pest Control,
Will be held Feb. 25-27 in the Me
morial Student Center.
Conference Chairman Lambert
Wilkes of the Depai-tment of Agri
cultural Engineering said that
about 400 persons attended last
year. This year he expects from
450 to 500 pei’sons to attend.
The sessions this year will cover
the latest developments in agri
cultural chemicals, aircraft and
Houstonian Maltz
Named To Board
Melvin Maltz of Houston has
been elected to the Executive
Board of Directors of the Associa
tion of Former Students, accord
ing to Frank Harvey, president.
Formerly a district vice-presi
dent of the association, Maltz is
tow a director at large, covering
the entire association. He was
also appointed Development Fund
Chairman for Houston, a fund
raising group which supports the
activities of the association and
the college.
Maltz is secretary-treasurer in
charge of the packaging division
at Houston Paper Co.
Army Giving
Scholarships
In Languages
Language scholarships for col
lege graduates are being made
available by the U.S. Army In
telligence Reserve, the Department
of the Army has announced.
Students who will be graduated
by June 15 are eligible to apply
for the scholarships. Spaces have
been reserved at the U.S. Army
Language School, Pres-idio of Mon
terey, Calif., and the U.S. Army
Intelligence School, Fort Holabird,
Md., for the training of Army In
telligence Reservists who enter the
program in fiscal year 1963.
Duty assignments include inter
rogators, translators, interpreters
and security specialists.
The reservist will report within
120 days after enlistment to an
Army training center for eight
weeks of basic combat training.
The next eight to 12 weeks, de
pending on MOS assignment, will
be spent at the Army Intelligence
School and the final 47 weeks of
training will be at the Army Lan
guage School.
A&M students interested in the
program can get further details
by going to the U.S. Army In
structor Unit (ROTC) at the col
lege.
distributing systems, weather fore
casting, medical considerations, air
pollution, state and federal regu
lations governing agricultural
chemicals and legal responsibilities
of aerial applicators.
Wilkes said the 1961 conference
drew persons from 18 states, in
cluding Florida, California, Ohio
and New York. Nicaragua, Mex
ico, England and the Netherlands
also were represented.
One of the main attractions will
be a field demonstration of ground
and aerial equipment used in ae
rial spraying operations. Expert
low-level flying will be seen. In
charge is Fred C. Hall of the De
partment of Aeronautical Engi
neering.
Wilkes said the field demonstra
tion is scheduled for 3:30 p.m.
Feb. 26, but the time might be
changed to suit weather conditions.
Pre-program activities start
with registration at noon Feb. 25,
followed by a meeting of the Texas
Aerial Applicators Association.
Talks begin at 9 a.m. Feb. 26.
Subjects include dynamics of agri
culture in the 1960’s, developments
in pesticides, new state regula
tions for pesticides, brush control
and problems encountered with
pesticide formulations.
Other subjects on Feb. 26 are
problems encountered by an oper
ator in agricultural aviation, med
ical aspects of agricultural avia
tion and changes in legal trends
affecting agricultural aviation.
A banquet is set for that night
at 7, with Warren Nichols, presi
dent of the Texas Aerial Appli
cators Association, as chairman.
The guest speaker is Samuel J.
Rassmussen, public relations serv
ice, Rassmussen, Inc., Tulsa, Okla.,
whose talk is titled “Rockets Will
Run the Universe.”
Feb. 27 program subjects are
problems resulting from drift to
other crops, pesticides and water
pollution, air pollution, wildlife
management, weather forecasting
in the Rio Grande Valley, aircraft
design trends, helicopters for ae
rial spraying and a study of acci
dents.
set in his bedroom from 7:15 a.m.
to 8:50. He phoned Cape Canaver
al to make a personal check on
the situation. Otherwise, official
Washington came to a virtual
standstill.
Some 5,OOQ commuters halted
their morning dash to work upon
arrival in New York’s Grand Cen
tral Terminal to watch the rocket
firing on a huge television screen.
At the climatic moment, women
wept, men’s eyes moistened and
scores prayed together. Then a
mighty roar erupted from the
crowd.
In deadpan manner, the Marine
Corps notified astronaut John L.
Glenn Jr. that his 4-hour 56-
minute whirl around the earth
Tuesday qualified him for flight
pay this month — a matter of
$245. It takes four hours of fly
ing time a month to earn the
bonus.
In Nebraska, an executive of
Omaha’s largest department store
was asked the effect on business.
“I don’t believe there has been
any business,” he replied.
At the Michigan Statehouse
legislators and Capitol employes
joined to watch TV sets installed
in the House chamber and Senate
corridor.
The school board at North St.
Paul, Minn., quickly fired off a
telegram to Col. John H. Glenn
Jr. saying it was going to name
a new junior high school for him.
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Students Observe RE Week
Classes were dismissed at 10 a. m. today to enable students
and faculty members to hear Religious Emphasis Week
speaker Dr. C. Umhau Wolf. Classes will be dismissed at..
9 a. m. tomorrow and Friday for the observation of RE
Week.
Wolf Explains 4
‘Lost Men ’ Types
“The Lost Man on Campus,” was Dr. C. Umhau Wolf’s
topic this morning in his third speech of Religious Emphasis
Week in Guion Hall.
“The individual man, even when surrounded by a crowd
of people can easily become lost and withdrawn,” Wolf said
speaking to a sizable crowd of students and faculty members.
Wolf, pastor of Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church in Toledo,
Ohio, said that the college student can become lost in relation
to himself, his fellows and to God.
“Sometimes a man can be alone even when he has a wife
and children—even when he is living in a well-populated
dormitory or barracks,” the minister said.
He then listed four char- 1 *
acteristics of the lost man on rfi H/f • • .
1 wo Ministers
Tell Problems
Of Small Town
Veterinary Frosh
‘Teener Of Month
A veterinary medicine student
here has been selected “Teen-Ager
of the Month” in competation with
some two dozen other Dallas
County youths who were nomi
nated for the award.
Terrence A. Oddson, ’65, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Texas M. Oddson,
8949 Lanshire Dr., Dallas, will re
ceive the Troy Post Award which
is presented monthly by the Op
timist Clubs of Dallas County to
a deserving young Texan.
According to W. S. “Sol” Lan-
Batt Members, McGuire
Hold Workshop At Prison
Four members of The Battalion
staff, accompanied by Delbert Mc
Guire, head of the Department of
Journalism, conducted a news
clinic for publication workers at
the state prison in Huntsville yes
terday.
Staff members participating in
the one-day session were Bob
Sloan, editor; Tommy Holbein,
managing editor; Ronald Book
man, news editor; and Larry
Smith, sports editor.
The clinic for staff members
of The Echo, official monthly news
paper of the Texas Department of
Corrections, began at 10 a.m. and
lasted through 2 p.m. Approxi
mately 30 minutes, all editors or
correspondents for the paper, were
on hand for the session.
Don Reid Jr., editor of the
Huntsville Item and advisor to
the Echo staff, arranged the
clinic. Reid, along with prison
officials, also assisted in a tour
of printing facilities at the prison
for all persons attending the meet
ing, during the noon hour break
prior to eating lunch.
Discussion during the clinic cen
tered around constructive criticism
and suggestions for improving the
Rudder Praises Aggies
For Basketball Manners
President Earl Rudder today paid tribute to A&M stu
dents for their sportsmanlike conduct at basketball games
this season.
“I am very proud of the way Aggies have conducted
themselves,” Rudder said. Especially do I want to express my
appreciation to the student leaders for the fine example they
have set.”
Rudder’s comment came after a newspaper sports col
umnist’s observation recently that” . . . going to a basket
ball game at some Southwest Conference institutions of high
er learning these days is like crossing the street blindfolded
at high noon. It’s living dangerously.”
“The Aggies have demonstrated their usual zestful spirit
in G. Rollie White Coliseum maintaining a high degree of
sportsmanlike conduct,” Rudder added.
imates’ publication. Various prob
lems of the different prison farm
correspondents were brought to
light, and solutions sought.
Following the departure of the
five-man group from A&M, the
Echo staff members spent the re
mainder of the afternoon in fur
ther discussion of problems and
techniques of improving the Echo.
Two Students
Win Leland
Scholarships
Joe N. Randolph and Richard
C. Waghorne, both majoring in
accounting, have been awarded
$150 Thomas W. Leland scholar
ships.
The two cash awards were pre
sented by Leland at a meeting of
the Accounting Society last night.
The scholarships were estab
lished in honor of Leland, profes
sor emeritus of the Division of
Business Administration, by alum
ni and friends of the college.
The two winners were chosen
by the accounting faculty on the
basis of scholastic achievement in
accounting as well as their overall
scholastic record, their interest in
accounting and their participation
in class activities and campus af
fairs.
Randolph is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Neil Randolph of 802 S. Dex
ter in College Station. He is a
member of numerous student or
ganizations, a lieutenant colonel
in the Corps of Cadets and a four
time winner of the distinguished
student award.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Max. E.
Waghorne of San Antonio, Wag
horne also is a member of various
student groups. He has been se
lected a distinguished student five
times.
ham, chairman of the county-wide
Optimist youth recognition pro
gram, Oddson’s nomination was
sponsored by the Hillside Optimist
Club. The nominating club mem
ber, Dr. A. F. Hopkins, said, “Ter
ry Oddson represents everything
good and decent and hard-working
and hard-playing that should typ
ify our American youth. To me
he is everything that Optimism
and the Troy Post Award stand
for.”
Before beginning his training
here, Oddson worked for Hopkins
as an attendant at Skillman Ani
mal Clinic. He also has been an
enthusiastic helper for his father,
who owns and operates the White
Rock Stables.
Oddson chose a career as a vet
erinarian and the tough six-year
course here because he has “al
ways been interested in animals,
and always liked people.” Ex
plaining the relationship of vet
erinary medicine to people, Oddson
said, “The average public doesn’t
realize how much a veterinarian
has to do with daily lives of hu
mans. He is responsible for the
good health of our food-producing
animals as well as the small ani
mals which generally are a part
of some person’s household. The
veterinarian is concerned with dis
eases afflicting these animals—
many of which are transmissible
to humans. Often it is the veteri
narian’s research which provides
a scientific breakthrough to under
standing or cure of a human dis
ease.” Oddson says there are
more opportunities for research in
veterinary medicine than in the
regular medical field.
Army Summer
Camp Slated
For Fort Sill
Summer camp for all Army ca
dets completing three years of
military science will be held at
Fort Sill, Okla., this year, accord
ing to CWO H. A. Plaisance, ad
jutant of the ROTC instructor unit
here.
To be attended by cadets from
schools throughout the Fourth
Army Area, the camp was orig-
inaly set for Fort Hood.
Dates for the six-week encamp
ment are now pending, he said.
As originally planned, the camp
straddled both semesters of sum
mer school, eliminating any pos
sibility of students attending both
camp and summer school.
Plaisance said there' was a pos
sibility the dates would be revised.
carrmns.
Wolf said such a person is
“waiting for life” simply be
cause he. like many modern men,
has lost his reason for being.
The lost man is waiting for
“purpose and meaning: to life.”
Science, economics, aesthetics, so
ciology, psychology and many
philosophies are helpless in ex
plaining the mystery. Nothing
has yet taken the place of religion.
The lost man on campus is
“waiting for community life.”
Autonomous man soon becomes a
robot.
“Men yearn for togetherness but
paradoxically repel each other,”
Wolf said. “Is it just too painful
to give oneself? The I-it rela
tionship must be replaced by the
I-Thou.”
The lost man is “waiting for
God,” and “he seeks in a fog, un
aware that God has come.”
As convocation speaker, Wolf
will deliver his talks each morning
in Guion Hall. Thursday his
speech will be at 9 a.m. and Fri
day it will be delivered at the same
time.
The Ohio minister is one of the
17 outstanding ministers and edu
cators who are making talks and
conducting conferences during the
week. The dorm counselors are
available each afternoon for per
sonal conferences, and conduct the
forums and discussion groups each
evening at 7:15.
Wolf’s subject Thursday will be
“Marriage Is For The Mature.”
All classes are being dismissed so
that every student will have an op
portunity to hear these speeches.
Father Leonard Buxkemper of
Westphalia and Father John T.
Geiser of Cameron, Catholic
church ministers, were recent vis
itors here to discuss sociological
and economic problems of small
rural communities.
The Agricultural Extension
Service and Texas electric utility
companies sponsor the Texas Com
munity Improvement Program.
Rural ministers, such as Bux
kemper and Geiser, are interested
in the program because of the
trend of young people to move
away from rural communities.
Buxkemper said Westphalia has
suffered a sharp decline in num
bers of young people. Since his
tenure in the church there, he said
he has manned 49 couples and only
one remained in the area. He has
conducted 60 funerals. Twenty-
five families have moved away.
His plan to reverse the trend
has been to help promote a new
community water system. The
church is providing 100 acres of
land for house building purposes.
Geiser is a leader in the Rural
Town and Country Chui'ch Confer
ence held each year at A&M. Tom
Prater, farm management special
ist with Texas Agricultural Ex
tension Service, is chairman of'the
conference this year.
Wire Wrap-Up
By The Associated Press
World News
Britain unveiled Tuesday a civil defense plan emphasiz
ing evacuation of crowded cities rather than the vast en
gineering task of building underground shelters for protec
tion against nuclear attack.
Women and children would be moved first under the
plan announced by the Defense Department. Arrangements
also would be made to evacuate certain other unidentified
groups of people in priority classes.
The scheme would be worked out in detail with, the help
of local authorities.
U. S. News
The Post Office Department honored the first orbital
flight of a U. S. astronaut Tuesday. It issued a new com
memorative stamp placed on sale throughout the country
at the instant that John H. Glenn Jr. completed his flight.
It was the first time in Post Office history that a
previously unannounced commemorative stamp was issued
simultaneously with the event to be momoralized.
Ac ★
Francis Gary Powers “is cooperating fully with his in
terrogators,” including volunteering to take lie detector
tests, a spokesman said Tuesday.
The announcement by State Department press officer
Lincoln White was the fullest official account so far of the
still-secret quizzing of the U2 pilot released by the Russians
on Feb. 10.
White described as “totally inaccurate” a report that
Powers had been required by Central Intelligence Agency
interrogators to submit to lie detector tests and truth serum
drugs.
Texas News
Members of a House Interim Study Committee con
tended Tuesday that a 1941 survey showing a part of Padre
Island as land is in error. The area now is all under water,
they said.
The committee met with Houston surveyor Stuart
Boyles, who surveyed the island in 1940 and released the find
ings in 1941.