The Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1962
Number 86
MARION WALTON
Aggie Senior
Named Fellow
Marion M. Walton Jr., ’62, from
New Iberia, La., has been named
a winner of the highly coveted
Woodrow Wilson National Fellow
ship. He is Corps Scholastics of
ficer.
Walton, majoring in English,
was among 1,058 winners this year
representing 46 states, eight prov
inces in Canada, Puerto Rico, Pan
ama and the Canal Zone. Winners
were selected by 15 regional com
mittees from 9,975 candidates
nominated from 965 colleges and
universities.
He was one of 54 winners in
Rejnon 12, made up of Texas and
Louisiana. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Marion M. Walton of
New Iberia.
Two other A&M students re
ceived honorable mention honors
as nominees. They were John R.
Stough Jr. or Arlington, Va., an
other English major, and James
R. Sullivan of Fort Worth, major
ing in physics.
Pr. John P. Abbott, professor
of English and campus represen
tative of the Woodrow Wilson
Foundation, said the purpose of
the fellowships is to provide funds
and incentive for graduate study
for young men and women of high
academic standing who are inter
ested in college and university
teaching careers.
He said there are now 645 for
mer Fellow winners teaching at
293 institutions of higher learning
and another 641 expecting to com
plete their doctorates by fall.
Walton says he plans to work
toward his master of arts degree
and doctorate and go into college
teaching.
Abbott said awards this year
culminate the first five year pro
gram of the Woodrow Wilson Fel-
'.owship Foundation, made possible
by a Ford Foundation grant of
$24.5 million in 1957.
The fellowships have now en
abled about 5,000 college graduates
to begin careers leading to teach
ing. Of those previously appoint
ed, 80 per cent are either teaching
at the college or secondary level
or are continuing in graduate
school.
Each fellowship award covers a
full year’s tuition and fees at a
graduate school of the fellow’s
choice and a living allowance of
$1,560, Abbott said.
He said that a candidate accept
ing a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
assumes a moral obligation to com
plete at least one year of graduate
studies and to give serious thought
to a career in college teaching.
The fellowships may be held at
any graduate school in the United
States or Canada admitting the
Fellows.
Peace Corps Meet
Set For Dallas
On March 23-24
A student regional Peace Corps
Conference on the Southern Metho
dist University campus will be
held in Dallas, March 23-24. Stu
dent senates of SMU and Bishop
College are joint sponsors. The con
ference will begin with a 5 p.m.
registration March 23.
Leading Peace Corps officials
from Washington will direct the
conference. An optional feature
will be a final $2.75 a plate din
ner and address by Sargent Shriv
el*. director of the Peace Corps.
Delegates may arrange for their
own housing or stay at the Statler-
Hilton Hotel on student rates of
$3.50 per night with three or four
per room. Registration fee for the
conference will be $5.
Students desiring to attend the
conference who have not already
sent in their fee and registration
request should see Daniel Russell,
Room 316-17, Agriculture Building,
no later than Thursday.
Wire Wrap-
By The Associated Press
World News
GENEVA—American and British officials, anxious to
present a united face, declared themselves in accord Tuesday
night on proposals to the Russians, including President Ken
nedy’s concept of safeguards against secret preparations for
nuclear test explosions.
A public record of agreement was given to newsmen fol
lowing an afternoon discussion between Secretary of state
Dean Rusk and British Foreign Secretary Lord Home on the
eve of the 17-nation disarmament conference.
U. S. News
WASHINGTON—The annual foreign aid battle in Con
gress was launched Tuesday when President Kennedy formal
ly asked for $4,878,500,000 to help other nations combat
threats of communism, chaos and tyranny.
Kennedy insisted that the total cannot be cut “if the
partnership on which we are now embarked is to demonstrate
the advances in human well-being which flow from economic
development joined with political liberty.”
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WASHINGTON—The House Foreign Affairs Committee
today approved a bill to expand the Peace Corps to 10,000
volunteers at home and abroad.
The measure authorizes an appropriation of $63,750,000
—the full amount asked by the administration—to continue
the buildup of the corps in the year starting July 1.
Texas News
HOUSTON—A former state Republican chairman said
Tuesday he may challenge the legality of the May 5 Demo
cratic Primary in Harris County.
Thad Hutcheson, Houston attorney, said the county
Democratic executive committee failed to meet Monday as
prescribed by article 13.34 of the Texas Election Code.
The article specifies that county executive committees
meet on the second Monday of March to determine the hour
and places for the precinct conventions of May 12.
Ac 'fc Ac
CONWAY, Tex.—A young girl hitchhiker, befriended by
the Henry A. Henderson family of Conway, was missing
Tuesday night with the Henderson’s 3-year-old daughter,
Sharon.
Carson County Sheriff John Nunn said Henderson told
him he left home about 3:45 p. m. and left the 19-year-old
hitchhiker, known only as Carol, to babysit with the little
girl.
He said he returned about 5:15 p. m. and found a note
saying, “We are going to New York.”
Marion Walton
. . . Wilson Fellow
Commission
Cites Profs
After Study
Six faculty members have been
cited for their service to the U.S.
Study Commission-Texas, President
Earl Rudder announced.
They are Morris E. Bloodworth,
professor of soil physics; C. A.
Bonnen, professor of agricultural
economics; Curtis L. Godfrey, as
sociate professor of agronomy;
Price Hobgood, professor and head
of the Department of Agricultural
Engineering; S. A. Lynch, profes
sor and head of the Department of
Geology and Geophysics; and J. H.
Sorrels, professor of civil engi
neering.
The U. S. Study Commission-
Texas made a recent survey of
river basins in Texas to determine
land and water resources. The
A&M men provided technical in
formation for the study.
Charles D. Curran of Houston,
executive director of the Commis
sion, said certificates have been
sent to the professors “in recogni
tion of their professional assist
ance to this commission and in
appreciation of their notable con
tribution.”
Plant Breeding
Topic of Talk
By Scientist
“Use of Ionizing Rays in Plant
Breeding” is the subject of a Uni
versity of Tennessee scientist who
will lecture here tonight.
The speaker is Dr. Thomas S.
Osborne, associate professor of
agronomy, lecturer in botany and
in charge of plant genetics re
search at the University of Ten
nessee-Atomic Energy Commission
Agricultural Research Laboratory
at Oak Ridge.
His talk is at 8 p.m. in the Bio
logical Sciences Lecture Room.
The public is invited.
Dr. Wayne C. Hall, dean of
graduate studies said Osborne’s
research interests center around
use of induced mutations in plant
breeding and factors controlling
and modifying the response of
dormant seeds to ionizing radia
tion.
He has published several sci
entific papers has recently com
pleted a popular monograph for
the AEG titled “Atomic Enei’gy
in Agricultural Research” and is
preparing a high school experi
mental manual “Experiments with
Radiation on Seeds.”
Osborne is a native of North
west Arkansas and studied at the
University of Arkansas, Oklahoma
State University and Washington
State University. His doctoral re
search at Washington State (1950-
53) was supported by an AEG
Predoctoral Fellowship and involv
ed radiation-induced chormosome
translocations in intergeneric hy
brids of the grass family
He has been a staff member
of the University of Tennessee
since 1953.
Walkers To Speak
In Bryan Thursday
Gen. Edwin A. Walker, demo
cratic candidate for the governor’s
nomination, will speak Thursday at
7:30 p.m. in the Stephen F. Aus
tin auditorium in Bryan. Walker
is touring the state in an active
campagin prior to the election.
Army Magazine Hints
At Changes In ROTC
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ON GUION STAGE
Players Continue
Spring Rehearsals
Rehearsing three nights a week,
the Aggie Players have been pre
paring their spring production,
“Tiger At The Gates,” to be played
on the Guion Hall stage April
25-31.
The campus thespian organiza
tion, under the leadership of C. K.
Esten, director, and Vic Wiening,
assistant director, has scheduled
the play as their major produc
tion for the semester.
To be performed in two acts,
“Tiger At The Gates” has an anci
ent Grecian setting, and its gen
eral theme deals with the natur
al tendency of the “old men” —
philosophers poets and statesmen
— to glorify war, and the contempt
for war held by the young men who
must fight and be killed.
Written by the French play
wright, Jean Giraudoux, the play
is a farce on war; it was first
viewed before an alien Nazi audi
ence in Paris during the World
War II German occupation of the
city. It was fully enjoyed by the
Germans, even though it subtly
“slapped them in the face.”
Costumes for the Guion Hall pro
duction will be traditional Greek,
dress, simplified, with large use
of color associated with charact
ers. Elaborate preparations have al
ready gone into the hasic prelimin
aries of preparing the costumes.
Many of the famous names of
Gjreek literature can he found
in the play, for it is the story
of turmoil between the Greeks
and the Trojans. The setting will
be elaborate replicas of Greek ar
chitecture, and the players will act
on several levels constructed on
stage.
Much research has gone into de
signing the sets that they might
accurately portray the style of
construction characteristics of that
era.
Members of the cast will in
clude Dan Malcolm as Troilus;
Mary Holbein as Helen; Reige
Lundergan as Hecuba; David Lee
as Demekos; David Jones as Pri
am; David White as Paris; Bob
Hipp as Hector; Ester Hord as
Cassandra, and Dotty Ashworth as
Andromache.
Others are Mike Lutich as 01-
pides; Niki Hagler as a topman;
Richard Metz as Ulysses; Don Mc-
Gown as Ajax; Charles Taite as
Busiris; Larry Walker as Abneos;
and Mike Gay as the mathematic
ian.
Assistant to the director for the
production will be Sharon Satter-
white; on lights and sound will be
Charles Hearn and Corky Couvil-
lon; Set design, Joseph Donaldson,
Brit Jones, Bill Martin and Charles
Hearn; set crew is under the
direction of Jan Jones; Costumes
are being handled by Ruth Sim
mons and Jane Eisner; publicity
directors are Tommy Holbein and
Mary Ann Franklin.
‘Clean’ Wife Wins
Verdict In Divorce
LONDON (A 3 ) — A judge refus
ed Tuesday to break up a marri
age in which the husband claim
ed his wife was so clean she
wiped the cat’s paws every time
it entered the house.
Turning down William Harlock’s
divorce petition, Justice Sir David
Cairns said that although the wife
had unusually high standards of
cleanliness, such fastidiousness
was not grounds for divorce.
While she was nice to the cat,
Harlock said, his wife thought he
was dirty and even made him
sleep in a separate room from
hers.
Engineering Faculty Members
Hear Talk By Dr. A. A. Potter
In an address to 65 members
of A&M’s engineering faculty, Dr.
A. A. Porter, dean emeritus of
engineering, Purdue University,
spoke yesterday on improving
teaching methods in order to pro
vide the nation with more highly
trained and better educated engi
neering graduates.
Introduced by Dean of Engineer
ing Fred J. Benson, Potter point
ed out that the objective of high
er education is to help the indivi
dual prepare himself for the chal
lenge of his work and to find his
own individual happiness.
Potter said, “Engineers must be
useful, well-respected citizens, and
they must be able to do and to
create.”
Potter explained that the prob
lem existing today is preparing
the engineer so that his job will
not be “pulled out from under him
in the prime of life.”
He said that in the final analy
sis it is up to the teachers to
prepare engineering students for
the work ahead.
According to Potter, “Teaching
is something of a science, but it
is largely an art, and the great
teacher loves his students more
than his subject matter.” He said
that every teacher is a researcher
and his goal should be to do his
teaching in a better way than it is
being done now.
A 1903 graudate of the Mass
achusetts Institute of Technology,
Potter began his career by work
ing for General Electric Corp. In
1905 he joined the faculty of Kan
sas State College as assistant pro
fessor of mechanical engineering.
He became dean of engineering in
1913.
In 1920 he went to Purdue Uni
versity, accepting the position of
dean of engineering and director
of the Engineering Experiment Sta
tion, which he held until his re
tirement in 1953.
Potter is also past president
of Bituminous Gobi Research, Inc.,
and has been president of the Pur
due Research Foundation and the
Purdue Aeronautics Corp. He has
served in the capacity of consult
ing power engineer and consult
ant on engineering education for
more than 40 years.
NSF Grants A&M
Soil, Water Funds
The National Science Founda
tion has approved a gi-ant of $7-
735 for the support of 10 under
graduate research participants in
the Soil and Water Section of the
Department of Soil and Crop Sci
ences
Dr Morris E Bloodworth profes
sor of soil physics said the grant
is for the 1962-63 academic year.
He said the purpose of the
program, known as Undergradu
ate Science Education, is to select
outstanding students for graduate
work on the basis of their re
search performance
Local Personnel
Receive No Word
By RONNIE FANN
Battalion Staff Writer
Lt; Col. T. A. Hitchkiss, operations officer in the Depart
ment of Military Science and Tactics, said today that the
Department of Military Science has received no official word
on the proposed change to a two-year ROTC program for
army cadets.
A news story in the “Army Times,” unofficial but known
to he based on authentic information, reveals that the Army
has moved a long way toward acceptance of the Air Force
plan for a two year ROTC program, and that implementing
legislation is expected to go to Congress during the current
session.
Major changes under consideration involve cash support
for the ROTC institutions, 4
increased payments for the
students and the number of
academic hours in the pro
gram. However, the most
controversial features is Army-Air
Force competition on some cam
puses.
AF leaders propose to switch
completely to a two-year plan,
dropping the ROTC designation and
renaming it the “Officers Educa
tion Program.” This could repre
sent a problem on some campuses
if the Army is to retain its four-
year program in any form. At
present, AF and Army share the
campus at 99 institutions including
A&M.
An Army plan recently under
consideration would allow each ed
ucational institution to decide
whether it wanted to maintain a
two-year or four-year ROTC pro
gram. If the college should choose
the four-year course, two-year
programs of all services would be
banned for that campus.
Under the Army’s two-year plan,
as developed so far, individuals ap
plying for enrollment in advanced
ROTC would receive four weeks
of military instruction at summer
camp before their junior year in
college. This would not be re
quired if the man completed the
basic course at a four-year institu
tion.
Army authorities have pointed
out that there are 593 junior col
leges in the U. S. where the stu
dents have no opportunity to re
ceive basic ROTC. The summer
camp plan would permit these stu
dents to enter the pre-commission-
Civilians Set
Paris Theme
For Weekend
An “Evening In Paris” will be
the theme of this year’s Civilian
Weekend activities to be held Mar.
31.
Beginning that evening will be
a barbecue in the Grove to start
at 5:30 p.m. with food being served
until 6:15. Music will be provided
by “The Hoasts.” In the event
of bad weather, the barbecue will
be held in the Animal Husbandry
pavilion.
Highlighting the activities will
be a dance in Sbisa Dining Hall
and the selection of the civilian
sweetheart from 14 finalists. Ci
vilian students will dance from
9-12 to the music of “The Hous
tonians” from Sam Houston State
Teachers College.
Tickets for the barbecue will
cost $1 for adults and 50 cents for
children under 12. Admission to
the dance is $2 “stag or drag.”
Students who bought spring activ
ity cards may exchange them fpr
their tickets to either the bai’becue
or the dance or both.
Tickets may be bought or ex
changed Mar. 19-29 from the re-
pective housing area counselors.
They will also be sold at the door.
ing program when they transfer
to degree-granting ROTC schools.
Under the Army’s proposal, the
pay of advanced ROTC students
would be increased from $27. to $47
per month. Between the student’s
junior and senior years, he would
go to summer camp for eight
weeks, instead of six weeks re
quired in the pi’esent program and
receive $111 per month, the same
pay as cadets at the service
academies.
The longer summer camp would
permit more of the military instruc
tion to he given separately from
the general academic program of
the civilian institutions, a trend
which has been pushed by lhe r
civilian educators. Also, the insti
tutions would receive $400 for each
ROTC graduate.
At present, the only federal sup
port received by the institutions is
through pay of the cadets and the
ROTC instructors. With school
populations rising rapidly, federal
authorities believe some form of
additional support will be needed
to prevent the services from being
gradually pushed off the campuses.
DPS Might
Release Test
Results Soon
AUSTIN (A 3 ) _ The Texas De
partment of Public Safety said
Tuesday the DPS will reveal no
results of the lie detector tests
taken by 22 Southwest Conference
basketball officials,
will be turned over to the South-
The results, when available,
west Conference, a DPS spokes
man said.
“We have given a total of 22
tests and the polygraph operators
are busy tabulating the results,”
the spokesman said. “We may be
able to complete the job this
week. As soon as we are through
the results will be turned over
to Southwest Conference officials.
None of the results will be re
vealed by the DPS before they
are given to the Southwest Con
ference.”
The spokesman said the details
of which SWC officials will re
ceive the results and where the
transaction will occur had not
been worked out.
Last week Abb Curtis, super
visor of SWC referees, came to
Austin with a group of referees.
He said a total of 21 persons vol
untarily submitted to questioning
about their connections, if any,
with basketball gambling. Later
a man who originally was sched
uled to take a similar test in Salt
Lake City came to Austin and took
the DPS test.
The investigation by the DPS
and the Federal Bureau of Investi
gation became known after a New
Yoi'k sports columnist, Gene Ros
well, wrote that East Coast gam
blers wouldn’t bet on results of
Southwest Conference basketball
games because of “hoop shenan
igans.”