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The Battalion Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1962 Number 78 Stars In ‘Music Man’ Performance Harry Hickox (right) plays the starring which will be presented at 6:30 and 9:30 role while six-year-old Scotty Bloom is the p. m. Friday in Guion Hall, leading supporting actor in the ‘Music Man’, Three Professors Schedule Addresses Here In March A&M will play host to profes sors from Pennsylvania State Uni versity, the University of Texas and Northwestern University dur ing March, when they will be here speaking to various departments. Dr. George E. Brandow, profes sor of agricultural economics at Penn State, will be a visiting pro fessor Mar. 5-8 in the Department of Agricultural Economics and So ciology. He will conduct four afternoon seminars and a graduate lecture during his stay, which is part of the continuing in-service program of the department for students and staff members. Brandow’s seminar topics are “Purpose and Methodology in Ag ricultural Economics,” Mar. 5; “Demand for Agricultural Prod ucts,” Mar. 6; “In Search for Prin ciples of Farm Policy,” Mar. 7; .and “Opportunities for Greater Co operative Research Between Agri cultural Economists and Sociolo gists,” Mar. 8. His graduate school lecture, “Issue In Farm Policy,” will be Mar. 6. The professor specializes in price, price analysis and agricul tural policy. He is also president elect of the American Farm Eco nomic Association. Dr. Robert T. Gregory, associate professor of mathematics and sen ior research mathematician for the University of Texas Computation Center, will lecture Mar. 1 on “The Maitrix Eigenvalue - Eigenvector Problem—A Survey,” at 8 p.m. in Room 231 of the Chemistry Build ing. Dean of Graduate Studies Dr. Wayne C. Hall, said the subject of eigenvalue has become impor tant in the solving of applied problems in physics, aerodynamics and other scientific and engineer ing fields. It is particularly per tinent to the general area of com puter science and the solution of complex applied problems. He said Gregory’s lecture is pre sented through the Visiting Sci entist’s Lectureship Program of the National Science Foundation NSF’s ‘Project Mohole’ May Be Drilled By Houston Firm WASHINGTON (A 5 )—The United States, flushed with a victory in space, turned some attention yes terday to a project in the opposite direction—drilling- a six-mile hole through the ocean and the earth’s crust. The National Science Founda tion announced plans to negotiate a contract with Brown & Root, Inc., of Houston, Tex., to start final work on Project Mohole. Mohole, hailed by Director Alan T. Watex-man as “man’s gx-eatest single geological project,” is an effort to drill through the earth’s crust to the denser mantle below. The mantle, an estimated 1,800 miles thick, is made up of X’ock heavier and harder than the crust. A foundation spokesman said it Would be at least a year before the $35-to-$50-million project be gins. It will take three to seven yeai’s to lower a drill pipe through water more than three miles deep and penetrate possibly three miles of crust rock. The feasibility of sinking a drill through deep ocean water and into the earth’s cx-ust was demonstrated last year. Dx-illing was conducted in 3,000 feet of water off La Jolla, Calif., and in 11,000 feet off Guad alupe Island near Mexico. At La Jolla, the di-ill i-eached 1,035 feet beneath the ocean floor, off Guadalupe Island, 601 feet. Because of the results of those experiments, the foundation de cided to attempt to reach the Mo- horovicic discontinuity,” or “Mo- ho,” the boundary between the crust and mantle. The announce ment said: “an ocean site is planned for the mohole because the mantle is closest to the earth’s surface under the deep ocean, where the cx-ust averages only five miles thick and may in some places be as thin as three miles. It is estimated the mantle can be reached by a drill string 30;000 to 35,000 feet long. The pipe would pass through 15,000 to 20,000 feet of water and 15,000 feet of crustal rocks. and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Gx-egoi-y has been a mathemati cian at the U.S. Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgi-en, Va.; a consul tant for the Space Technology Laboratories, Los Angeles, Calif J instructor, Florida State Univer sity; assistant professor, Univex-- sity of California, Santa Barbara; and is now at the University of Texas. Dr. Ali Bulent Cambel of Nox-th- western University, will lecture Mar. 7, on “Magneto-Gas Dynanx- ics: Its Science and Technology,” at 8 p.m. in the main lecture room of the Biological Sciences Building. Associate Professor of Wildlife Management Dr. Richard J. Bal- dauf, said that Sigma Xi, a na tional Organization for the encoxir- agement of scientific research, is sponsoring the lecture and the pub lic is invited. Magneto-gas dynamics, a rela tively new science, is important in the attempt to control the energy of hydrogen bombs for peaceful pux-poses. Cambel’ will describe the program of research. He will discuss how scientists and engineers, concerned with de velopment of re-entry vehicles, hope to make use of magneto- aero-dynamic drag to help slow down a vehicle returning to the eax-th’s surface. According to Cambel, the mathe matician finds a storehouse of px*oblems to study in this field, and the biophysicist speculates about the effects that ionized gases may have on the “daily dis position of the human individuah” Cambel also will discuss scien tific and educational philosophy. Contest Open For Encyclopedia Set Some Aggie or A&M professor will win a 30-volume set of En cyclopedia Americana at a draw ing Mar. 9. The display of the new Amer icana edition has been set up in the Memorial Student Center, near the post office, where students and professors may x-egister for the set, according to Russ Phillips, di rector of university promotion for the Americana Coi'p. ‘Music Man’ To Open In Guion Hall Friday Foreign Jobs Soon Possible For Students Aggies will soon have the op- portunity to work with fox-eign business firms during the summer moxxths, as A&M is iix the process of becoming a member of the In- tei'ixational Association of Students in Economics and C o m nx e r c e (AIESEC-U.S.), according to Dr. R. M. Stevenson, head of the Divi- sioxx of Business Administi’ation. The pux-pose of this program is to enable an American student pre- pax-ing for a career in business to get px-actical on-the-job training expei'ience with a business firm abroad. This program also en ables a business student from any of the 37 member countries to ob serve for himself the American economic system in action. There are approximately 250 American business firms participating in this progi'am. The primary purpose of this organization, which was formed 13 years ago as an independent, non political, international organiza tion, is to establish and promote close and fx-iendly relations be tween members, said Stevenson. Students from approximately 45 American universities and colleges which are affiliated with AIESEC make up the membership of this program. In this area, Rice, the University of Texas, and the Uni versity of Houstoxx are active mem bers, contributing their pairt to the more than 200 Amei'ican students who participated ixx the program last summer. American university or college business or economics stxxdents se lected to participate in this pro- gi’am spend 8 to 16 weeks woi’king for a company in any of the for eign countries associated with AIESEC. The company provides the student with a stipend ade quate to meet his living expenses ($60 to $80 per week). Students who x'eceive the train eeship must pay their own trans- poxrtation abroad. To help allevi ate the cost, AIESES-U.S. has ar- x-anged for chax’ter jet flights from New Yoi’k to Europe and retuim for appx’oximately $325.00 round trip. At the present time, the A&M chapter of the AIESEC is striving to send at least three Aggiee busi ness or economics majors to Eu rope or South America. Graduate students may participate in the progx’am, but freshman students may not receive the traineeship, although they may belong to the local "chapter. For further information, contact R. T. Ames of the Division of Business Administration, AIESEC faculty advisox-. Adult Education Classes To Begin At SEA March 12 The third ten weeks term of Adult Education classes will be gin at Stephen F. Austin High School Mar. 12. Registration for classes will begin Feb. 26 and continue through Mar. 8 on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday nights. Students may also register during the daytime with Sam Crenshaw, Director of Adult Ed ucation at the office of the sxi- perintendent. Classes in English, history, mathematics, beginning typing, advanced typing and beginning bookkeeping will be offered. Any course that has a minimum of fifteen students will be of fered. Oceanography To Get Grad Student Grant A graduate educational gx’ant for a studexxt majoring in physical oceanogx-aphy has been made avail able by the U.S. Department of Intex'ior’s Bureau of Commex’cial Fisheries. Dr. Dale Leipper, head of the Department of Oceanography and Meteorology, said the gx'ant for the 1962-63 academic year provides a $3,000 stipend, a $1,000 family allowance, tuition and fees. A $500 grant-in-aid is also given to the department. The A&M award is one of 17 granted by the bureau to institu tions in the United States. The department has also helped in publishing a book called “Ocean ographic Vessels of the World.” It has beeen published jointly by the IGY World Data Center “A” for oceandgraphy here and the Na tional Oceanographic Data Center. Edited by Luis Capurx-o, a mem ber of the A&M Oceanography xe- seax’ch axxd the IGY data center staff, the book desci'ibes vessels throughout the world used by 66 nations in doing oceanographic re search. It was printed by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office, Washington, D.C., and contains photogi’aphs or engineering drawings of various ships and vessels in use today. Broadway Run Lasted 3 Years One of the largest hit musicals in Broadway history, “The Music Man,” will be presented on the Guion Hall stage Friday evening in two performances, one at 6:30 and the other at 9:30 p. m. Produced on Broadway by Kermit Bloomgarden, “The Music Man” had 1376 performances in New York over a three-year period, making it the fifth longest run in Amer ican musical history. In 1957, it was chosen as best musical of the year. Featuring 60 actors, dancers and singers, the company will also bring to College Station 12 musicians, six wardrobe mistresses, and other members of the sets and direction crews. 4— During the last year of its run, “The Music Man” passed many records established by some of the greatest musicals established in the history of the theatre, among them, “The King and I,” “Guys and Dolls,” and “Carousel.” “The Music Man” is the story of a small boy who starts a small town band, and marches acx-oss the countx'y. One of the high lights during the musical is when the play’s band leader, Meredith Willson, describes to the audience how it was when John Phillip Sousa was leading his band across the country; the stage band will blast foxth with appi'opriate mus ic in conjunction with the actor’s lines. Ticket prices for the mammoth spectacle on stage are set at $4 for i-esei-ved seats and $2 for gen- ei’al admission. Members of the cast will include Wire Wrap-Up By The Associated Press World News ALGIERS—The Algerian rebel parliament agreed in Tripoli Tuesday to the Paris-approved peace terms, informed sources said. But the rightist Secret Army Organization, vowing to keep Algeria French, and North African Moslems fought on. Though French authorities looked for a quick cease fire in the 7V2-year-old nationalist rebellion, the chance for an end to the terrorist bloodshed looked remote. French Premier Michel Debre ordered French military commanders to deplay reserve forces through Algeria’s major cities to curb the killings. ’jAr SAIGON, South Viet Nam—The aerial attack on Presi dent Ngo Dinh Diem’s palace was blamed Tuesday on two air officers whose erratic rebellion misfired despite expert marksmanship with fire bombs, rockets and machine guns. One rebel pilot was shot down and captured. The other was arrested in neighboring Cambodia after a crash landing in his bullet-riddled plane. One wing of the palace was reduced to flaming ruin, sev eral guards were wounded, and the sister-in-law of Diem, 61, was hurt slightly, but the president escaped. U. S. News WASHINGTON—President Kennedy sent Congress an urgent new appeal Tuesday for passage of his program of medical insurance for the aged, financed by an increase in Social Security taxes. The President’s renewed plea for legislation to fill what he called “a gap in our self-financed, contributory social in surance system” topped a series of recommendations for im proving the nation’s health. "At At 'At VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.—Discoverer 38 rocketed into orbit on a secret mission Tuesday. The Thor-Agena B combination usually reaches an orbit ranging from 100 to 500 miles high and completes a full swing in about 9 minutes. Sometimes in the next four days the rocket’s orbital second stage is supposed to eject a capsule that Hawaii-based planes will try to catch in the air. At ★ 'Ar NEW YORK—J. Truman Bidwell, board chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, was indicted Tuesday on charges of evading $55,908 in federal income taxes. He im mediately resigned, claiming persecution from “high places in Washington.” There was no indication in the grand jury complaint that the investing public suffered in any way. Bidwell called the charges a personal matter. Bidwell was accused of concealing capital gains, and faking expenses for travel, charitable contributions and en tertainment. He could go to prison for a maximum 1 year if convicted. Miss Lidie Murphy, an incandes cent redhead, who plays the rule of Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn, a comedy role in the production. In the role of Professor Harold Hill will be Harry Hickox, one of the best-known actors of past tele vision fame. The actor was a re gular on the prograxns, “Father Knows Best,” “Dx’agnet,” “Plav- house 90,” “Perry Mason,” “Studio One,” and many western produc tions. Miss Dianne Barton, in the role of Marian Pai’oo, has had wide experience in stage woi'k ranging from New York to the West Coast. This experience has in cluded summer stock perfonnances of “Carousel”, and “One Touch of Venus.” She was also featured as soloist in the Radio City Music Hall pi’oduction of “Badies in Toy- land.” In “The Music Man” she plays the part of a libx'ai'ian. Also featuring a quartet, the Easternaires, the musical will pre sent four RCA-Victor recording artists traveling in the show’s troup. The men are Bill Annichi- arico, bass; Ed Ryan, tenor; Bob Bohn, baritone and Ray Stone, lead tenor. Each of the four maintain ed regular non-theatrical jobs rang ing from tractor-trailer driver to freight booking agent while mak ing their Broadway debut in “The Music Man.” Other top members of the cast include Tom Flately Reynolds as Mayor Shinn; Axrt Wallace in the role of Mai’cellus Washbuxm; Eliz abeth Kerr as Mrs. Paroo; David Hxxddleston as Charlie Cowell; Scott Bloom as Winthrop Paroo; William Stanton as Toxximy; Mimi Funes as Zaneeta and Maxy Lou Metzger as Axxxai’yllis. Basically a one-man operation from the standpoint of authorship, the show was written by Mere dith Willson, who authored not only the story but also the music and lyrics. This feat earned Will- son great praise plus more than one million dollars in cash. During its broadway career, the produc tion bx’ought in over ten million dollars in ticket sales. The entix-e prodxxction has been staged by Morton de Costa, with dances created by Onna White. Music numbers will include “Seven ty-Six Trombones,” “Till There Was You,” and “Gai’y, Indiana.” Reds Tighten East German Diaper Sales BERLIN (A*)—The women of the East German city of Halle now can buy diapers only if they pro duce a px’egnancy certificate, the private West Berlin information agency Information Bureau West said Tuesday. The reason for the Comxnunist decree: too many women used diapei*s to make curtains or scarves.