Volume 60
The Battalion
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1962 ' Number 79
Greco's Spanish Ballet Here Monday
Senate Study
Due On SWC
Student Group
Discussion, and possibly a vote
on ratification, for the newly
proposed Southwest Conference
Student Association are on tap
Thursday night in a regular meet
ing of the Student Senate in Room
3-D of the Memorial Student
Center.
The Senate agenda, mailed to
members Tuesday, did not specify
a vote on ratification. Student
Body President Malcolm Hall had
reported last Friday that the
Senate would vote to ratify the
new organization’s constitution.
Six of the eight SWC schools
must ratify the constitution before
the March 15 deadline. Student
governing bodies will vote at each
school for or against ratification.
Maurice Olian, president of the
Student’s Association of the Uni
versity of Texas, has been named
temporary chairman of the associ
ation. Another University student,
Konnie Cohen, was named tempo
rary secretary-treasurer by dele-
fates at a meeting in Fort Worth
Feb. 17. A&M was not repre
sented by a voting delegate at this
meeting.
The association, if ratified, will
Astronauts Set
Houston Move
This Summer
HOUSTON—t^i—Lt. Col. John
Glenn and the nation’s six other
astronauts will be moving to
Houston this summer.
This was the announcement
made Tuesday ’ night by the chief
spokesman for the astronauts, Lt.
Col. John Towers, public affairs
officer for Project Mercury.
Powers had said earlier the as
tronauts probably would be here
in June but that the exact timing
Would depend on when Glenn’s long
delayed orbital flight could be
carried out.
The nation’s long range space
program is to be planned and de
veloped at a $90 million manned
space research center the National
Aeronautics and Space Adminis
tration is building here. NASA
already has several hundred em
ployees here and expects to have
about 1,500 by June. Laboratory
personnel already are occupying
temporary quarters in five Hous
ton buildings.
Powers spoke Tuesday night be
fore the Men’s Club at St. Luke’s
Methodist Church.
He said the United States could
definitely profit under a system
of American-Russian cooperation
in outer space.
“True, general international co
operation is the best way to con
quer space,” he said. “A collective
brainpower effort would bring
faster and better accomplish
ments.”
But, he said, the United States
Wants some answers to questions
about Russia’s space accomplish
ments.
He said such questions include
bow Russian astronaut Titov got
sick.
“Did he drink vodka the night
before he went up?” he asked.
Powers said the United States
also needs to know how the Rus
sian astrounauts landed. There is
need also, he said, for a personal
view of a Russian spacecraft.
“All we’ve seen are pictures,”
he said. ‘‘We’d like to examine
the material they are made of.
And, of course, we’d like to know
a little about their 650,000-pound
rocket thrust.”
meet twice yearly, once in Sep
tember or October in Dallas, and
once in February in Fort Worth.
Each school will have only one
vote, but may send three delegates
to general conventions, including
the student body president of each
school or his representative.
As it is now set up, the associa
tion will have three executive offi
cers, who will not have a vote.
The chairman and secretary-treas
urer will both be appointed by the
individual schools on a rotation
basis.
Four other items are included on
the Senate agenda for Thursday’s
meeting.
A vote is due on a proposal in
troduced Feb. 15 to hold student
services each Sunday morning in
the All-Faiths Chapel. James D.
Carnes, representing the Interfaith
Council, told senators that pro
grams would be presented by cadet
units and civilian dormitories ex
clusively for students.
Further discussion is also due
Thursday on the possibility of add
ing additional concession machines
and coin-operated machines to stu
dent dormitories.
Student Life Committee Chair
man Kenneth Joyce reported Feb.
15 that Dean of Students James
P. Hannigan has requested a re
action from the Senate on the
possibility. The machines, if placed
in dormitories, will be there on a
trial basis.
Two other items of new business
are on the Thursday agenda. One
is the formulation of plans for
the annual Blood Drive later in
the spring, and the second con
cerns the possibility of holding a
“Carroll Broussard Night.”
A&M’s all-time basketball great
will play his last game as an Aggie
in G. Rollie White Coliseum Tues
day . night against the Baylor
Bears.
CSC Votes To Ask
For 12th Man Bowl
Of Civilians, Corps
Civilian Student Council mem
bers voted last night to request
the Student Senate to change the
Twelfth Man Bowl so that a civil
ian team would oppose a corps
team, instead of the present Army-
Air Force contest.
According to Doug Schwenk,
president of the Civilian Student
Council, the civilian students in the
past have made up about one-half
of both the army and air force
teams.
In speaking for the civilian stu
dents, Schwenk went on to say
“Since the Twelfth Man is sym
bolized by all Aggies we would like
to contribute to it openly and not
in disguise, as the situation now
exists.”
Also taken up at the CSC special
session was a discussion concern
ing the establishment of a Student
Government and Information Com
mittee.
The purpose of this committee
would be to inform the civilian
students on the matter of when,
‘how, and why they should become
.interested in student government
at A&M, and to encourage them
to seek offices and responsibilities
in student government.
Schwenk asked that all civilian
students interested in the estab
lishment of such a committee leave
a note in the CSC office in the
basement of the M.S.C. stating
their interest, name, address, dorm
and room number.
Fancy Stepping
Jose Greco and three members of his troupe Rollie White Coliseum. The program is
do a high-flying step which will be part of sponsored by the MSC Town Hall Commit-
Greco’s Spanish Ballet Monday night in G. tee.
ED UCA TION FOR CITIZENSHIP ’
California Microbiologist
To Open Seminar Friday
Dr. Max Marshall, professor of
Jnicrobiology at the University of
California Medical Center in San
Francisco, will be the main speak
er at the second of two teaching
improvement seminars here Friday
and Saturday.
Dr. Lee J. Ashworth, assistant
professor in the Department of
Plant Sciences and member of the
Committee for the Improvement of
Teaching in the School of Agricul
ture, said Marshall is a dynamic
speaker and an authority in the
area of college and university
teaching.
“College Education for Citizen
ship” is the subject of the two-
day session in the Biological Sci
ences lecture room. The first sem
inar, held Feb. 16-17, had “Stu
dent Motivation” as its theme.
Marshall is a regular contributor
to the “Improving College and Uni
versity Teaching Journal.”' His
professional research areas are
milk, bacteriophages, undulant fe
ver, disinfectants, vaccines, serums
and skin test products.
The speaker received his BS de
gree in 1918 at the University of
Massachusetts; MS and PhD de
grees, 1922 and 1925, University
of Michigan; research bacteriolog
ist, 1923-27, Michigan Department
of Health; University School of
Medicine, 1927; consultant, San
Francisco Department of Public
Health, 1937-52; Distinguished
Visiting Professor, Michigan State
Fish Drill Team
Third At Laredo
The Freshman Drill Team,
A&M’s elite freshman marching
team, won third in the annual
drill competition at Laredo in con
nection with George Washington’s
Birthday ceremonies.
Of the six drill teams entered
in the competition, A&M’s was the
only one exclusively freshmen. The
first place winner was St. Mary’s
University, while the Buccaneers
of the University of Texas were
second.
The team participated in a parade
through the streets of Laredo Sat
urday morning. Then at 2 p.m.
the competition was held, follow-
fed by the presentation of awards.
The teams were graded only on
fancy drill, and not on basic drill
and personal inspection, as previ
ously planned.
University, March-June, 1928.
The seminar session will start at
7:30 p.m. Friday with Dr. Murray
Brown, Department of Dairy Sci
ence, presiding, and opening re
marks by Dr. J. P. Abbott, dis
tinguished professor of English-
Marshall’s talk will follow.
The next session begins at 8:30
a.m. Saturday. Ashworth will pre
side and Marshall will make bis
second talk. At 10:15 a.m. a panel
discussion will be held, with Fred
Brison, professor of horticulture;
C. W. Crawford, associate dean of
engineering; and Dr. H. E. Joham,
Department of Plant Sciences as
members.
Dr. G. M. Watkins, director of
agricultural instruction, will sum
marize the seminar.
Dr. Benton Storey, asociate pro
fessor of horticulture and chair
man of the Committee on Improve
ment of College Teaching in Agri
culture, said all faculty and staff
members and students are invited
to the meetings.
Wire Wrap-Up
By The Associated Press
World News
PARIS—French and Algerian rebel spokesmen agreed
Wednesday night that a final round of negotiations to end the
7-year-old Algerian nationalist rebellion will open soon,
perhaps by the end of the week.
In Tunis, Algerian rebel sources said French and nationa
list delegates will meet Saturday or Sunday somewhere along
the French-Swiss frontier to put the finishing touches to an
agreement ending the conflict.
The agreement would provide for Algeria’s self-deter
mination and eventual independence.
U. S. News
WASHINGTON—An appearance of U2 pilot Francis
Gary Powers before congressional committees investigating
his spy-plane flight over Russia was apparently delayed
Wednesday night until sometime next week.
The postponement developed when John A. McCone,
director of the Central Intelligence Agency, informed the
groups he would have to put off a scheduled briefing Thurs
day on the interrogation of Powers.
McCone said he had not had time to complete his review
of a report prepared by the special board of inquiry that
questioned Powers.
’’At At tAt
THOMPSONTOWN, Pa.—The Pennsylvania Limited
plowed into buckling cars of a passing freight train Wednes
day sending 18 persons to hospitals. Miraculously nobody was
killed.
Most of the passengers suffered from inhalation of
ammonia fumes from a derailed tank car of the freight train.
tA' 'At 'At
WASHINGTON—A White House commission proposed
Wednesday a drastic overhaul of work and pay practices on
the nation’s railroads.
The 21-man panel handed President Kennedy an exhaus
tive report recommending methods for the railroads to cut off
many thousands of workmen it said were not needed to
operate moving trains—while meeting their income loss tem
porarily as they are schooled for new jobs.
The commission agreed in effect with the carriers that
they have for years been saddled with “featherbedding” re
quirements to keep on unnecessary workers. It said some
35,000 firemen on diesel locomotives in freight and yard
service serve no useful purpose, and should be gradually
eliminated.
Regional, Classic
Dances Featured
By TOMMY HOLBEIN
Battalion Managing Editor
Jose Greco and his Spanish Ballet will be presented at
Town Hall Monday night, to be held in G. Rollie White Coli
seum with starting time 8 p. m. and reserved seat prices set
at $3.50; general admission is $2.
Bringing with him the most talented flamenco dancers
in the world, Greco and Company will present an intriguing
program of Spanish and Gypsy numbers from all parts of
Spain.
Two overwhelming favorites of audiences all over the
world are a pair of performers interpreting the dances of
their native country, Spain, with great artistry. The two
are Gitanillo Heredia and Maribel de Cirez; their popular
title is “The Bronze Gypsies.’
But the two are only a part-
of the overall Spanish dance
picture, which also includes
regional and classical dances.
Five outstanding masters of the
Spanish dance will be making their
American debuts under Greco’s di
rection this semester. Antonio
Monllor, one of Spain’s finest clas
sic ballet performers, will be seen
after a recent tour of the Europ
ean continent. Prior to the tour,
he was for several seasons the first
dancer at the far famed Teatro del
Liceo in Barcelona.
Lydia, Torea, Carmen Villa and
Mari-Carmen Fuentes also will be
celebrating their first season in the
Greco troupe. They have pre
viously been featured with such
outstanding companies as the Mar-
iemma Spanish Ballet, the Im-
perio Argentina Company, the An
tonio Spanish Ballet, Pilar Lopez’
company and the Jose Tamayo
troupe.
Rounding out the roster of new
comers is Martin Pelta, a Spanish
guitarist who has been the subject
of a long-time invitation to . tour
with the troupe, but who has been
so busily engaged in concert per
formances on his own that he has
had to defer , his arrival on these
shores for several years.
Along with regular members of
the troupe, including prima bal
lerina Lola de Ronda, Paco Fer-
dandez, Curro Rodriguez, Juan-
Mari Astigarraga (a Basque dan
cer), Pepita de Arcos, Lupe del
Rio and singers Manuela De Jerez
and Norina, the new artists are
members of the largest company
ever to travel under the Greco ban
ner.
Numbers to be presented will
include the regional dances, which
spring from the different ethnic
and folkloric traditions within the
Spanish population. The classic
dances will present more precise
forms, encompassing elements of
the folk, gypsy and flamenco
styles within the framework of
more formalized classical ballet.
Greco is noted as being a favor
ite solo performer at the White
House, having displayed his tal
ents before both Dwight Eisen
hower and more recently, President
John F. Kennedy.
Robert Boone, student programs
advisor, also announced that the
Cajun’s coming.
Seniors Hold
First Meeting
In Guion Hall
Explanation of a plan to partici
pate in the Former Students’ As
sociation development fund was the
main topic of discussion at the first
meeting in seven years of the sen
ior class, held yesterday at 5 p.m.
in Guion Hall.
Senior Class President John
Waddell opened the meeting ad
dressing approximately 100 mem
bers of the Class of ’62. Following-
several items of smaller business,
Dick Hervey, executive director of
the Former Students’ Association,
was inttoduced to explain the
functions of the organization.
Following Hervey’s talk, Buck
Weirus, director of the Former
Student Association development
fund explained the significance of
Aggies’ contributing to their fund
after graduation.
“The Former Students’ Associa
tion Development Fund Committee
has set an overall goal of $1,000-
000.00 in contributions from mem-
bers of the Association, and if
your class does succeed in the pro
ject of having,75-100 per cent of
the members contribute, this will
serve as an example to all other
classes, past and future. It could
start a chain of contributions from
all the classes,” said Weirus.
Earlier in the week, Waddell had
been quoted as saying, “We don’t
expect to equal the older classes
in amount, but we expect to start
with a 75 per cent giving record
and go up from there.”
The Former Students’ Associa
tion will soon launce a develop
ment fund campaign in 400 Texas
cities, and each Aggie-ex will be
called upon to contribute during
the Spring, Weirus added.
Letters have already been mailed
out to all members of the senior
class informing them of the plan
to foster more contributions; In
the letters are the following: a
personal letter explaining the “new
tradition” of contribution; a bro-
chure explaining the development
fund; an information sheet, and a
(See SENIORS on Page 4)
‘Music Man’ Fem Highlights
Jeanne Bal (left) and Elizabeth Allen are only two of the
top female personalities who will be here Monday night for
the dual performance of “Music Man” in G. Rollie White
Coliseum. Shows, featuring 60 performers and numerous
other backstage assistants, will begin at 6:30 and 9:30 p. m.
The musical is one of the largest hits in the history of
Broadway in New York City after 1,376 performances in a
three-year period. It was chosen the best musical of the
year in 1957 after surpassing records held by “The King
and I,” “Guys and Dolls” and “Carousel.”