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N 1 F ; 1 . H em i-fiaiil; >n ttei lc *ng tar and the thi# Adams, 'll thref all lead, The Battalion Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1962 Number 103 iNine Win Positions As Class Officers Charles Handel Jones . .’63 entertainment manager Paul A. Dresser ... ’64 president Tom K. Nelson . . . ’63 yell leader Jim T. Davis Jr. ... ’62 class agent : WORTH $200,000 Jimmie Moseley . . ’64 on MSC Council Jerry Don Morgan . . . ’*63 on MSC Council William H. Brashears . . . ’63 yell leader Mickey Durbin . . ’65 on MSC Council 12th Man Bowl Participants Hold Meeting The first meeting of all students interested in participating in the 1962 12th Man Bowl was held yesterday at 5 p.m. in the Biologi cal Sciences Lecture Room. Bill Snead, senior from Austin, is in charge of this year’s 12th Man Bowl Committee. Zay Gill- breath, senior from Dimmitt, is handling publicity. The game is to be held May 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Kyle Field and Will have 12-minute quarters in stead of 8 minutes as last years game. Profits will go to the 12th Man Bowl Scholarship Fund, ac cording to Snead. Bill Barnhart, junior from Tem ple, read the eligibility rules. They are: (1) participants are ineligi ble if they were ever a member of | a varsity football team at any junior college, college or univer sity and (2) must never have play ed as a member of a freshman team. Snead said that there are pro visions for an average of two men from each outfit on campus' and two from each civilian dorm. Coaches for the civilian team are: Keith Huggins, head coach; Ben Krenek; Ronnie Ledbetter; Bobby Huntington; Jim Keller; and Ray Kubala. The corps team coach es are: Wayland Simmons, head coach; Daryle Keeling; Babe Craig; Gary Finch; Ben Lester; Larry Broaddus; and Bob Caskey. “Anyone wanting to come out for the 12th Man Bowl has until April 16, at 5 p.m. to report to Pete Hardesty’s office across from the Browsing Library in the MSC,” said Gillbreath. OAS’ Opens At Pan Am T alks Week “Operation OAS,” a program of talks and discussion, opened Pan American Week’s series of events Wednesday, in the Memorial Stu dent Center Assembly Room, start ing at 8 p.m. Speakers on the program were Carlos Diaz, agricultural engineer ing major at A&M from Lima, Peru; Edward P. Fay, dmector of the Houston World Trade Cen ter; and R. D. Thompson, assistant professor in the Division of Busi ness Administration. Opening the program, which was moderated by Dorsey McCrory, as sistant to the president at A&M, Diaz spoke on the topic, “What is my role in Latin American Af fairs?” The student made four proposals for improvements at A&M. 1. Break up the campus “cliques” of Latin American students and en courage more intermingling be tween these students and United States students at the college. 2. Make some changes in Eng lish instruction for Latin Ameri can students, to include a three- month English prepratory course for these students before they be gin actual work on a degree. 3. Encourage more discussion of Latin American affairs in the A&M classrooms, and begin new courses in Latin American econo mics and sociology. 4. Translate these and disserta tions of the college into Spanish •and mail these to Latin Ameri can centers of learning. Diaz also encouraged improve ment in the scholarship systems for Latin American students, that they be given on a qualitative basis, instead of the “first come, first get” method now in action. The second speaker, Fay, spoke on “What is the role of the Unit ed States in Latin America?” and his talk emphasized the import ance of the U. S. combating com munist propagandists in Latin America. “Too long, we have been cast as a super-villian to these people, and compared to a decaying Rome. Why? Because of our indifference to Latin American problems. Our role should be that of a power ful democracy, and protector of freedom in Latin America,” Fay said. He continued by saying the many similarities between the U. S. and the Latin American coun tries should be sold to the nations to the South. Third speaker on the program was Thompson, discussing “The Role of A&M in Latin America.” His talk centered aro.tmd the edu cational needs of Latin America, and obeyance of the rule, “I am my brother’s keeper,” by A&M and the U. S. as a whole. “A&M’s role is limited by execu tive decision, and can be carried out only to that extent of planning and action,” said Thompson. He recapitulated several of the points mentioned earlier by Diaz, and stressed the demand for edu cation in the Latin American coun tries, which far exceeds the faci lities available at A&M or any other single institution. Following talks by the three speakers, an active discussion ses sion of questions and answers was conducted, with questions not only being aimed at the panelists, but intermingled among- members of the audience. Ten Traineeships Granted By NASA Ten predoctoral traineeships in the Science and Engineering Fields become available in the Graduate School as a result of a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Details of the grant were announced here Thursday by Dean Wayne C. Hall of the Graduate School, following the completion of the formal agree ment with NASA. Total funds to be made avail able over a three-year period are approximately $200,000 with pro visions made for stipends to the trainees throughout a three-year period and also to the college in support of the program. T. L. K. Smull, Director of the Office of Grants and Research Contracts, NASA, signed the grant for that organization. Applications from candidates for traineeships will be received until May 15, Hall said. These ap plications will be received for traineeships in the following dis ciplines or interdisciplinary fields: biochemistry, biology, chemical en gineering, chemistry, civil engineer ing, aeronautical engineering, elec trical engineering, geology and geophysics, mathematics, mechani cal engineering, nuclear engineer ing oceanography and meteorology, plant sciences (genetics, pathology, physiology), physics, structural en gineering and structural mechan ics. Basic purpose of the program, as outlined in the grant, “is to in- j Wire Wrap-Up By The Associated Press World News GENEVA—The Soviet Union shrugged off a warning from President Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to accept an enforceable test ban treaty or see new U. S. nuclear blasts in the atmosphere before the month is out. In an appearance Wednesday before the 17-nation gener al disarmament conference, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin carefully refrained from committing his government to any positive response. iAt 'At BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—President Jose Maria Gui do bid for congressional authority Wednesday to keep at least until fall the shaky presidential chair he inherited through a military coup. Argentines mulled resentfully over four drastic new monetary decrees that economists estimated would boost the cost of living at least 10 per cent. U. S. News WASHINGTON—President Kennedy bluntly denounced the major steel companies Wednesday for “a wholly unjusti fiable and irresponsible defiance of the public interest” in raising their prices by $6 a ton. A nationwide television audience saw the President speaking in cold anger and disdain—accuse “a tiny handful of steel executives, whose pursuit of private power and profit exceeds their sense of public responsibility with utter con tempt for the interests of 185 million Americans.” PLAINVIEW—An employe of West Texas financier Bil lie Sol Estes testified Wednesday that one of Estes’ grain storage companies earned about $8 million from the govern ment in a little over three years. The money, said Lloyd Stone, went to Commercial Sol vents Corp. of New York to pay for anhydrous ammonia fertilizer sold in Estes’ widespread sales system. The testimony came at a court of inquiry called by Texas Atty. Gen. Will Wilson, who says he is seeking infor mation for possible anti-trust legal action. crease the supply of scientist and engineers in space-related science and technology in order to meet the growing needs of the govern ment’s space research prpgram.” Applicants must be citizens of this nation and have as their goal the Ph.D. degree in any of the areas listed. Candidates may be students already engaged in a course of study leading to a doctor ate or students about to begin study, but they must show prom ise of being able to complete the doctorate within a three year per iod. The basic annual stipend, on a full year (12 month) basis will be $2,400. In addition, the trainee may receive up to $1,000 a year for dependency or other expenses. Dean Hall said that awards will be made by June 1. Interested students in the fields concerned may submit applica tions to the Graduate School office. Researchers Finish Study Of Ocean Shelf Two A&M scientists have com pleted the first biological, chemi cal and physical oceanographic study on the Continental shelf of Argentina. The two scientists, Drs. Sayed Z. El-Sayed and George Huebner, both of the Department of Oceano graphy and Meteorology, recently returned from Argentina. Purposes of the survey were to study the current patterns in Drake Passage between the At lantic and Pacific Oceans and to determine the organic production of the Continental Shelf. El-Sayed and Huebner flew to Buenos Aires to begin the study, where they conferred with marine scientists at the University of Buenos Aires on currents and other biological problems in the Passage. Their second stop was at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Buenos Aires where they also talk ed with scientists. The third of their conference was at the Insti tute de Biologia Marina at Mar Del Plata, Argentina. There the two boarded a ship, the “Captain Canepa,” furnished by the hydrographic branch of the Argentinan Navy. Capt. Louis Capurro, for three years a staff member of the Department of Oceanography here and presently chief hyrographer for the Argen tinan Navy, arranged for the study. The survey was made possible by a National Science Foundation grant. The two scientists said that Argentina’s hospitality was ex cellent and that the Argentinan scientists greatly appreciated A&M’s interest in the research be ing made in Drake Passage as well as on the Continental Shelf. The two scientists plan to re turn to Argentina in November to continue the study. 25 Advanced, To Run - Offs: Nine students swept to uncontested victories and 25 others moved to positions in Tuesday’s run-off as a result of Wednesday voting in the annual spring class elections. Winners, all of whom either got a majority of the votes cast for their office or were running against only one oppo nent, are: Jim T. Davis Jr., Class of ’62 class agent, running un opposed. Charles L. Blaschke, Class of ’63 president. Charles Randel Jones, Class of ’63 student entertain ment manager. Jerry Don Morgan, Class of ’63 representative to the M8tC Council.. Wilh'am H. Bra«hears and Tom K. Nelson, Class of ’63 vel 1 leaders. Paul A. Dresser, Class of '64 rwesident. Jimmie Mose 1 ey, Ct^ss of ’64 renrecentative to the MSC Council, a write-in candidate whose qtiali- fications' v/il! have to be checked by the election commission before he can be officially declared a winner. M. E. (Mickey) Durbin, Class of ’65 representative to the MSC Council. In addition to »the 25 persons gaining berths in, the run-offs, yell leaders Brashear and Nelson will be pitted in Tuesday’s polling to determine the head yell leader. Pitted in the run-offs are the the following students: Charles Lee Nichols (149 votes) and Gariy L. Balser (145 votes) for Class of ’63 vice president. Their closest opponent received 83 votes. James Bryant Scott (245 votes) and Charles E. Frith (170 votes) for Class of ’63 secretary-treas urer. The third candidate in this, race, Dale Lewis Sinor, won 119 votes. Arthur Reginald Richardson, (178 votes) and Harry L. Zimmer man (164 votes) for Class of ’63 social secretary. Third candidate Robert R. Rice was close behind with 153 votes. Matthew B. Bader (185 votes) and J. L. Penrod (139 votes) for Class of ’63 historian. Their clos est opponent in a field of four received 125 votes. James A. Noake (151 votes) and Silas Edwin Duncan (149 votes) for Class of ’64 vice president. Their closest opponent polled 116 votes. Charles Graham (192 votes) and Gordon E. Davis (136 votes) for Class of ’64 secretary-treasurer. Their closest opponent received 117 votes. Winton Boyd Zimmerman (103 votes) and Louis W. Zaeske (92 votes) for Class of ’64 social sec retary. Two others tied for the third post with 77 votes. Mike C. Dodge (262 votes), (See ELECTION On Page 3) Math Contest Set For May 1 The annual sophomore, freshman mathematics contest, sponsored by the A&M Department of Mathe matics, has been scheduled to be held Tuesday, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. The sophomore examination will be given in Room 223 of the Academic Building and the fresh man test in Room 225. First place winners in the con test will receive gold wrist watches with cash prizes of $15 and $10 to be given the second and third place winners respectively in each class. All freshmen awards and the second and third sophomore a- wards are provided by the Robert F. Smith Memorial Fund, estab lished in the memory of the late Professor Robert F. Smith. The first place awards in the sopho more class is obtained through the Halperin Award Fund, establish ed by the estate of the late Pro fessor H. Halperin. Both Professors Smith and Hal perin were members of the Depart ment of Mathematics of the col lege. Run - Off Hopefuls Meet Tonite All students who won positions in Tuesday’s run-off of the an nual spring class election have been urged to meet Thursday night in the lounge of Dorm 15 at 7:30, according to John R. Anthis, chairman of the election commission. Purpose of the meeting, accord ing to Anthis, will be to arrange campaign speeches next week before the Tuesday run-offs. Twenty-five hopefuls reached the run-offs in Wednesday’s voting. Also to be in the run off are William H. Brashears and Tom K. Nelson, senior yell lead ers who will be vying for head yell leader. Photo Contest Features Four Areas, Prizes The staff of The Texas A&M Review has announced that en tries submitted to their annual photography contest will be divid ed into four categories this year. A prize of $10 will be awarded to the winner of each category and winning photographs will be published in the summer issue of The Review. The cetagories of the contest are secenery, portraits, action and hu man interest and design. The hu man interest and design category will include picture stories and photographic effects. Entrants can enter any number of categories and entries in each category is unlimit ed. The only restriction is that sub ject matter must be from the state of Texas. In addition to the four categori cal awards, a sweepstakes award of $10 will be given the photo grapher whose overall efforts in dicate him to be versatile, imagina tive and capable. Pictures will be judged on such points as print quality, originality and creativity, and winners will be chosen by a panel of three judges from the Department of Archi tecture and Journalism facilities. Print size is limited to only 8 by 10 inches and prints should be submitted by May 11. None will be accepted after 5 p.m. on that date. Entries may be brought to the Office of Student Publica tions, basement of the YMCA Building, and anyone who present ly holds an A&M student identifi cation card is eligible. Winners will be announced in the summer issue of the Review a- long with display of their photo graphs. APnouncements will be made in The Battalion later as to the date entries may be picked up. Speech Cancelled Dr. Lawrence Frederic, who-was to speak on campus today and tomor row, sponsored by the Department of Math, has taken ill and his lec tures have been cancelled.