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The Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1962
Number 101
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rek To Polls Wednesday
GOVERNOR CROWNS ‘KING
TWU Lassie Named ‘Queen Cotton’
Three
To Be
Winners
Chosen
Gov. Daniel Chats At Reception
Texas Governor Price Daniel enjoys a friendly chat with
friends at the reception given in his honor. Saturday in the
Memorial Student Center. Daniel was on campus to of
ficially crown King Cotton, William A. Stuhrenberg, at the
28th annual Cotton Pageant Saturday night in Guion Hall.
Daniel later attended the Kiwanis Club pancake supper in
the Bryan National Guard Armory. (Photo by Ben Wolfe)
Taps Honor Aggie
Killed In Accident
Silver Taps were held at 10:30
last night for Jerry Wilson Mon
roe, 21, a junior from Sanderson.
He was the sixth Aggie this school
year to die in a traffic accident.
Monroe was killed early Sunday
hiorning when his car hit a'dirt
embankment 2.3 miles southwest
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Voting L
COS Elections
J- 0. Alexander Jr. joined in
cumbents J. B. Hervey and G. B.
Hensarljng Jr. an the A&M Con
solidated School Board of Trust
ees Saturday after a turn-out of
0i >ly 197 voters for the local
election.
Alexander defeated Herbie T.
Johns for the post left vacant by
Milton Williams. He polled 165
v °tes, to 78 for Johns.
Hervey, the incumbent, president
°t the board, received 180 .votes.
Hensarling, like Hervey running
^opposed, was given 159 votes.
KV’s Color Guard
For Gov. Daniel
Around 80 members of the Ros?
Volunteer Company were in Aus
tin Tuesday to serve as Governor
Lice Daniel’s color guard at the
Public dedication ceremony of the
Texas Archives and Library.
Baniel for the $2.5 million build
.ess for the $2.5 million build-
iug, while Mrs. Daniel, great grand
daughter of Sam Houston, presid-
e d at the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The building, which houses the
ex as State Library and Archives
and the general land office, will
feature displays for the remaind-
er of this week in observance of
National Library Week.
Office hours for the new build
ing will be 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on week
days and 8 a.m.-noon on Satur
days.
of College Station on K o p p e
Bridge Road.
Services were held yesterday at
4 p.m. in Sanderson.
Texas Highway Patrolman
Wynn Williams, investigating of
ficer, said Monroe was traveling
about 45-50 miles .an hour when
the accident occurred. He said
that the agriculture major' never
hit his brakes or attempted to cor
rect the vehicle’s direction as he
left the road.
Officers said hd had been drink
ing.
The accident is believed to have
happened about 12:30 a.m., but
wasn’t found untfl an hour later.
Monroe was alone in the car.
Officers said the automobile
was so twisted the body had to be
removed through the right rear
door. Monroe suffered multiple
head and chest injuries.
The mishap was discovered by
three Aggies involved in a second
incident nearby. None of the
three were injured.
Monroe, who would have been
12 in about three weeks, is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Jack C. Turner,
Box 177 in Sanderson. He lived
it Route 4, Bryan, while attending
A&M.
Highway Patrol
Voices Warning
Highway Patrol officials in
Bryan announced yesterday that
they were going to keep a tight
er watch on rural roads in this
area in an effort to curb acci
dents like the two occuring on
Koppe Bridge Road over the
past weekend. Authorities said
a “stiffer-than-usual” fine was
also possible.
Officers of the Department of
Public Safety said they would
be watching for Aggie “beer
busts.” They added that such
drinking parties were the caus
es of several accidents on coun
try roads recently.
A Texas Woman’s University
coed from Arkansas, Melanie
Hearnsberger, was named Queen
Cotton at Saturday’s 28th annual
Cotton Ball and Pageant.
Miss Hearnsberger, a 20-year-
old brunette senior, defeated 15C
other girls for the title. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. G.
Hearnsberger. of Pordyce, Ark.,
and was escorted by Robert Sand
ers of Dallas.
The winner represented TWU’s
student chapter of Alpha Beta
Alpha.
Before Hearnsberger’s presenta
tion, eight other contestants were
presented as the Queen’s courts.
They were:
Becky Cardiff of Katy, agricul
tural economics club; Mrs. Caroline
Folwer of College Station, indus
trial education society; Nancy
Etoile McCelvey, Bell County A&M
Club; Mary Esther Ruenes, Our
Lady of the Lake College Student
Council of San Antonio; Raye Ann
Shachelford, Texas Lutheran Col
lege; Ann Dawson, Beaumont
Hometown Club; Marcia Ransom,
A&M Women’s Social Club; and
Pam Wolters, College Station
Lions Club.
Prior to the Queen selection,
Governor Price Daniel officially
crownttd William . Stuhrenberg,
’62 from Palacios, as King Cooton,
Stuhrenberg is president of the
Agronomy Society, Avhich sponsors
the ball and pageant, and was
named the 28th King Cotton se
veral weeks ago.
After King Cotton crowned his
new Queen, proceedings adjourned
from Guion Hall to Sbisa Hall for
the ball.
Dr. C. Harold Brown, assistant
professor in the Department of
Agricultural Economics and Socio
logy, served as master of cere
monies.
King Cotton And Mis Queen
King 1 Cotton William A. Stuhrenberg congratulates the
newly crowned Queen Cotton, Melanie Hearnsberger, after
her crowning at the annual Cotton Pageant Saturday night
in Guion Hall. The new Cotton Queen, a 20-year-old senior
at Texas Woman’s University, defeated 150 other girls for
the title. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Hearns
berger of Fordycs, Ark. (College Information Photo)
Pan Am Week Now
Underway In MSC
The seventh annual Pan Amer
ican Week began Sunday in the
Memorial Student Center with ex
hibits, traditional music of the Pan
American countries, special food
events, and a series of programs
planned through Saturday night.
During the week, flags of the
20 countries in the Organization
of American States will be fly
ing over the main entrance to the
MSC; inside, the building is fea
turing original decorations in con
nection with the Pan American
theme, and appropriate music is
being played and piped throughout
the Center.
One of the main decorations is
an “OAS mobile” hanging in the
main . stairwell of the MSC. De
signed to represent ; the member
nations of the Organization of Am
erican States in their actual geo
graphic positions, it also illustrat-
OAS Background
Provides Varied
Topics Of Interest
Since much of the activity of
the Organization of American
^States' has made headlines’ with
in the last several years, most peo
ple are aware of its existance.
But there are few who actually
understand its historical back
ground,’ its aims, basic principles
and the manner in which it func
tions.
The initial spark of the organi
zation, origin by Simon Bolivar,
who called the first inter-American
conference at Panama City. How
ever his contemporaries were in
capable of grasping his ideas of
hemispheric unity.
It was not until 1889 that Boli
var’s plans began to be realized,
when the United States invited
the countries of the Americas to
participate in the first Interna
tional Conference of American
States. A significant result of this
conference was the creation of the
“International Union of American
Republics” and the “Commercial
Bureau of the American Repub
lics.”
In 1910, the latter organization
became what is today the General
Secretarist and central working
agency of the OAS. As it exists members of the Pan Am Week
, Wednesday: “Operation OAS,”
Assembly Room of the MSC, 8
p.m.
Thursday: Colombian coffee
in MSC Cafeteria, to be served
free 9:30-10:30 a.m. and 2:30-
4:30 p.m. Also “Villa,” Cinema
scope color movie, Assembly
Room at 2:30 and 4 p.m.
Friday: Latin American
Smorgasbord, MSC Dining Room
from 5:30-8 p.m. Also Pan
American Week main speaker.
Dr. C. M. Tiller, Dean of Engi
neering at the University of
Houston.
Saturday: Third Southwest
ern Intercollegiate Soccer Tour
nament on the soccer field at
1:30 p.m. Also Cafe Tropical,
MSC Lower Level at 8 p.m.
jor from Peru, speaking on, “What
is my role in Latin' American Af
fairs?;” Edwai’d J. Fay, director
of the World Trade Center, talk
ing on, “What is the role of the
United States in Latin America?”
and R. D. Thompson, assistant pro-
(See PAN AM On Page 4)
Wire Wrap-Up
es the natural geographical unity
of the countries of the hemisphere.
It was designed and constructed
by J. H. Hinojosa, Larry Raba,
Antonio deRos and Jorge Inchaus-
today, the OAS is a direct develop
ment of the Union of American
Republics. Its charter was signed
by the 21 American Republics in
1948 and became effective Dec. 13,
1951.
The aims and goals of the OAS
are many and diversified, but gen
erally they are to strengthen the
peace and security of the Ameri
cas, prevent disputes among the
American republics and settle them
by peaceful means when they a-
rise.
Publicity Committee.
Wednesday and Thursday morn
ings at 9 and 10 a.m., the following
films will be shown in the MSC
Fountain Room: “Central America
and Mexico;” “Continent of Con
tinents;” and “Journey Into Sp
ringtime,” (all about South Amer
ica).
Wednesday night at 8 p.m. a
program entitled “Operation OAS”
will be presented in the MSC
Ballroom. Speakers will be Carlos
Diaz, agricultural engineering ma-
By The Associated Press
World News
. UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—By a vote of 10-0 the U. N.
Security Council Monday censured Israel for a night attack
last month on a Syrian outpost overlooking the Sea of Galilee.
Only France abstained as the 11-nation council approved
a resoluation submitted by the United States and Britain
reaffirming a six-year-old directive condemning Israel for
resorting to military retaliation against her Arab neighbors.
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GENEVA—The United- States challenged the Soviet
Union Monday to agree that governments should restrain
their language on international issues and inform their own
people accurately about world problems.
U. S. Delegate Arthur H. Dean also called upon Moscow
at the 17-nation disarmament conference to outlaw publica
tions which dwell on the theory that war between the two
great blocs, communism and capitalism, is inevitable.
U. S. News
WASHINGTON—The White House said Monday Pres
ident Kennedy and British Prime Minister Macmillan are
weighing an urgent new plea to Russian Premier Khruschchev
in an effort to stave off resumption of atmospheric nuclear
tests.
Assistant White House press secretary Andrew T. Hat
cher told newsmen reports to this effect originating in Lon
don are true.
Hatcher announced he will hold a news briefing at 9:20
a. m., EST, Tuesday, presumably to elaborate on his terse
statement Monday.
Texas Neivs
HUNTSVILLE—Guards used tear gas Monday to quell
31 inmates who refused to return to their cells in the segre
gation unit of the state prison here.
Warden Thomas C. Sanders said the men remained in
the corridor of the cell block after a recreation period in the
unit’s exercise yard. When they were ordered to go to their
cells they began throwing shoes through plate glass windows'
and creating a disturbance.
★ ★ ★
HOUSTON—Major hotels in Houston quietly integrated
their facilities April 1.
“There have been no incidents,” said one hotel official
in confirming the action.
“The action was taken by all convention hotels in the
city and each one has accepted at least one Negro since the
action was taken,” he said.
He said motels have not integrated as yet.
Three positions will be decided and a list of 83 candidates
will be reduced to 30 in "Wednesday’s annual spring class
elections in the Memorial Student Center.
One of the largest numbers of voters in recent years is
expected to cast ballots in the all-day primary voting. Voting
machines will be open from 8 a. m. until 5:30 p. m. in the
MSC between the bowling alley and coffee shop.
Only 6ne winner is assured in the voting—Jim T. Davis
Jr. as class agent of the Class of ’62. Davis was the only
person filing for the lone senior class vacancy.
Other contests to be decided Wednesday are Class of ’63
student entertainment manager and MSC Council member.
Charles Randel Jones and
G e o r cr e A. Wiederaenders
have filed for student enter
tainment manager, while
James Ward Carter and Jerry
Don Morg-an are in the race for
MSC Council member.
Other hopefuls, by class, are:
Class of ’63
President: Charles Louis Blasch-
ke, James Howard Davis, John F.
Prickette, Tomy M. Thomas and
Jimmie R. Youngblood.
Vice president: Gary L. Blaser,
Joe Ronald Bower, Gerald Monroe
Brown, James Ward Carter, Wdl-
liam Dudley Griggs, James W.
Malthy, Eugene P. Miller, Charles
Lee Nichols and Allan Richard
Sassin.
Senior yell leader (two to be
elected): Robert E. -Armstrong,
William H. Brashears, Tom K.
Nelson and Michael Wayne Thur
man.
Secretary-treasurer: Charles E.
Frith, James Bryant Scott and
Dale Lewis Sinor.
Social secretary : Robert R. Rice,
Arthur Reginald Richardson and
Harry Louis Zimmerman.
Class of ’64
President: James Lee Boyd, Paul
A. Dresser, Charles H. Elliott,
Michael L. Lutich, George W.
Reynolds, Victor H. Thompson,
Abelardo Lopez Valdez and Byron
T. Wehner.
Vice president: John D. Agenend,
Silas Edwin (Eddie) Duncan, James
A. Noake and Leigh J. Soper.
Secretary-treasurer: Gordon El
liott Davis, Charles Graham, Don
nie Rudd and Terry C. Trahan.
Junior yell leader (two to be
elected): Mike C. Dodge, Joe Ed
ward Glauer, Richard P. Jeffrey
Jr., David Forest Lyons, Michael
McLernon Marlow, Jerry Par-
Library Week
Activities Now
In Full Swing
National Library Week began
Sunday and will continue through
the remainder of this week with
special displays, open houses and
the distribution of copies of a
selected list of “Notable Books of
1961.”
On campus, open houses are
scheduled at the Texas Engineers
and Veterinary Libraries, with a
display in the Cushing Memorial
Library.
Open house at, the Engineers
Library was held Monday after
noon, with the Veterinary Library
scheduling its open house Wednes
day afternoon from 4 to 6. Facul
ty Wives sponsor both open houses.
The display on the main floor
of Cushing Library is the focal
point of the local week-long obser
vance. The display includes a full-
page article from The Bryan Dai
ly Eagle describing Cushing’s
service, various pictures, library
micro-film used to file copies of
different works and a National
Library Week insignia and motto.
(See ELECTION On Page 3)
Scott Review
Reveals Night
Of Enjoyment
By TOMMY HOLBEIN
Battalion Managing Editor
Henry Scott is no ham! Instead,
the pianist presents a blend of
music and comedy that guarantees
an enjoyable evening for all who
see him tonight in Guion Hall.
From the first few moments
Scott was on stage Monday night,
he was getting chuckles from the
audience. As the show progress
ed, these chuckles became guffaws,
and occasionally spasms of laugh
ter poured from the almost all-
Aggie audience.
His program was a mixture of
humourous numbers on the piano,
(for example the treble part with
an orange — or grapefruit) and
fine classical numbers which il
lustrated the true artistry of the
man.
Scott also offered several pan
tomimes — which seldom go over
as humor anymore, unless they
are really top-notch. His drew
what might be, considered more
than favorable response.
Thre show wasn’t an enduring
one; time didn’t rush by, it calmly
floated. Scott’s brand of entertain
ment is a relaxing tonic of high-
quality music, and equal humor.
Scott’s last performance will be
in Guion at 8 p.m.; it’s worth the
walk over there.