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Army May Give Graduate Deferments The Battalion Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1962 Number 104 Rice Prexy IVo' Address May Grads The president of Rice Univer- torate from the University of Cal- sity in Houston, Dr. Kenneth S. Pitzer, will be commencement speaker during graduation exer cises May 26. Approximately 900 graduating seniors will hear the internation ally known chemist’s address in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Pitzer became the third pi*esi- 'ient of Rice University in 1961. He was formerly dean of the Col lege of Chemistry at the Univer sity of California at Berkeley. A native Californian, the sci entist received his B.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology in 19.35 and his doc- Ross Volunteer Company Sets Annual Fete The Ross Volunteer Company Vill hold its R.V. Banquet and Ball here Saturday night. The banquet will be held in the banquet room of the Triangle Res taurant at 6 p.m. Guest speaker will be Reagan V. Brown, extension rural sociol ogist, Texas Agricultural Exten sion Service. Brown, a native of Henderson, received both a B.S. and M.S. at A&M. He has done graduate work at Colorado and Cornell Universities. Wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, he was discharged from the 69th Infantry with the rank of captain. He is a member of Epsilon Sig- hia Chi, honorary extension serv ice fraternity, and teaches the Men’s Bible Class at the First Methodist Church in Bryan. Invited to the festivities as hon or guests are Chancellor and Mrs. M. T. Harrington, President and Mrs. Earl Rudder, Dean and Mrs. James P. Hannigan, Mr. and Mrs. Pinky L. Downs Jr. and numerous other friends of the company. Ross Volunteer sponsors and their wives will also attend as honor guests of the company. They are Col. and Mrs. Joe E. Da vis, Lt. Col. and Mrs. T. A. Hotch kiss, Capt. and Mrs. W. C. Swindle, Capt. and Mrs. J. B. Killebrew and Capt. Charles Hornstein. The ball will be held at 9 p.m. in the ballroom of the Memorial Student Center. The well-known Aggieland Combo will play for the dance. The MSC patio will also be open for dancing. The famed cadets, honor guard for the state governor, recently returned from Austin, where they took part in Gov. Daniel’s public dedication of the new Texas State Library and Archives Building. They are best known, however, for their participation in the an nual ReX Parade and Ball during the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. They traditionally lead the parade as personal honor guard of King Rex, “Lord of Misrule,” and re ceive invitations to the ball held in his h<mor. Library Schedule Library Director Robert A. Houze has announced the fol lowing schedule for Cushing Memorial Library during the Easter Holiday: Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed 8 a.m. to 12 Noon Closed Closed Resume Regular Schedule ifornia in 1937. He then joined the faculty of the College of Chemistry, in which he advanced to full professorship and later to dean. Pitzer has been by presidential appointment since 1958 a member of the General Advisory Commit tee of the Atomic Energy Com mission and has served as its chairman since 1960. In addition to holding membership in many national professional and honor ary societies, he has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Mills College and Harvey Mudd College. In 1950 he was given the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce Award as “one of the ten out standing young men in the na tion.” $150,000 SOUGHT Run - Off Candidates ‘Clam Up’ All 25 candidates in Tuesday’s run-off of the annual spring class election Thursday night declined to make campaign speeches, John R. Authis, chair man of the election commission, announced after a special called meeting of the group. The election commission had already rented the Chemistry Building lecture room for pos sible speeches before the candi dates expressed their desires. DR. KENNETH S. PITZER . . . commencement speaker Smorgasbord Set Tonight Original foods will be featured tonight at the third annual Latin American smorgasbord, to be held in the Memorial Student Center Dining Room from 5:30 to 8, with over 200 people expected for the event. Tickets went off sale yes terday at 6 p.m. Following the smorgasbord, Dr. C. M. Tiller, dean, of engineering at the University of Houston, will present the main address of the week in the MSC Assembly Room, at 8 p.m. Tiller has been very active in Latin American affairs, and is presently engineering advisor to the Organization of American States. He was a founder of the University of Guayaquil in. Equa- dor, and also assisted in founding the Universidad Central de Equa- dor. Tomorrow, Pan American Week will feature the third Southwest ern Intei-collegiate Soccer Tourna ment, on the soccer field starting at 1:30 p.m. Conclusive event of the week will be “Cafe Tropical” in the Lower Level of the Memorial Stu dent Center starting" at 8 tomor row night. | Wire Wrap - Up By The Associated Press World News GENEVA — The United States and Britain rejected Thursday a Soviet demand for an unpoliced moratorium on nuclear weapons tests, despite mounting pressure from small nations in favor of such a step. The two western powers told the 17-nation disarmament conference they had been fooled once by Russian promises on the subject of testing and did not intend to tall into the same trap again. 'At MOSCOW—Soviet leaders splurged on an observance Thursday of the anniversary of the first manned orbit in space and the hero of the flight, Maj. Yuri Gagarin, told them there soon will be more achievements to celebrate. Premier Khrushchev, looking chipper, was vigorously applauded as he marched onto the stage with Gagaim and the Soviet Union’s other cosmonaut, Maj. Gheiman Titov, before 6,000 persons in the Kremlin’s Congress Hall. Khrush chev’s speechmaking was confined to two inteiruptions. U. S. News WASHINGTON—New U. S. Soviet talks on Berlin will start Monday and Gen. Lucius D. Clay said Thursday a peace ful settlement of the long-festing dispute may be possible. State Department press officer Lincoln White announced that Secretary of State Dean Rusk has called m the new Soviet ambassador. Anatoly F. Dobrynin, Monday afternoon for another U. S.-Soviet discussion on ways to solve the Ler- many-Berlin issue. 'Ar WASHINGTON—The Shah of Iran gently cautioned Congress Thursday to continue U. S. foreign aid. But he coupled this with a pledge that his nation will not surrender to communism, regardless of America’s action. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi departed from the prepared text of his address to a joint session of House and Senate to say of the aid program: ‘T recognize that it is a burden, and I sympathize with the desire to lay it down. But the need tor it is not yet finished. The threat has not ended* 'R 'R 'k NEW YORK—A teachers union reluctantly bowed to a court order Thursday, and ended a one-day strike that crippled the New York public school system. Picket lines vanished and classrooms almost instantly returned to noimal in the city’s 900 schools. , Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller announced that he was step ping into the school deadlock, which revolves around money available to the city for teachers’ pay increased. Development Fond Aims At New Goal A program to aid A&M with its most pressing needs has been an nounced by the Former Students Association, in which they hope to pour $150,000 into the economy of the college. The Executive Board of the As sociation has approved the new goal, which more than doubles the amount sought for 1962 Develop ment Fund objectives. The action was taken because of the tremendous early response to the 1962 Development Fund, the new issue of “The Texas Aggie,” the Association newspaper’, re ports. The association’s goal for academic excellence now totals $268,500 in unrestricted gifts dur ing 1962. The association board asked President Earl Rudder and the deans to outline the most urgent and timely needs of the college. As a result, the board adopted the “revolutionary and far-reaching program which will make avail able to the college an unrestricted $150,000” above the original allo cations, which also included pro visions for sponsoring some facul ty research projects, faculty achievement awards and similar programs. Largest single item in the pro gram is $50,000 in unrestricted funds for faculty and staff salary supplementation. The college fund for academic excellence, listed to receive $36,- 000, and faculty research projects, listed at $30,000 are other major goals dollar-wise. The $36,000 allocation is for fel lowships for advanced study by the faculty, attendance at technical and scientific conferences, and similar purposes. The research fund will finance projects and sup port faculty lectures and publica tions. The increased goal also means that $15,000 should become avail- Easter Egg Hunt Sunday A free Easter Egg Hunt for all children of day students and resi dents of college apartments will be held in Hensel Park at 3 p.m. Sunday, according to Tomy Thom as, co-vice president of the Apart ment Council. Prizes will be given in several age groups. About 2,000 candy eggs will be hidden by members of the Apartment Council. Students, need not have pur chased activity cards for either the fall or spring semester. able for graduate fellowships and advanced scholarships. This is in addition to .the $10,000 listed for the famous Opportunity Award Scholarships under the origina goal. A $1,000 increase in the Faculty Achievement Awards funds also was approved. The additional money raise# the total in this cate gory to $8,000 and will allow es tablishment of an additional award for research. The executive board of the as sociation also allocated $15,000 of the anticipated funds to finance the A&M convocation scheduled Nov. 16. The convocation, which promises to be among the most important ever held on the campus, will include the college’s Board of Directors announcement of the new program and goals looking to A&M’s 100th birthday in 1976. The expanded Development Fund alsio makes provision for an addi tional for the President’s and Dean’s Emergency Fund. This fund is used in areas not covered by state or other appropriations, such matters as enabling faculty and staff members to travel and speak to various groups, and for supporting q visiting scholar pro gram. The board also adopted a plan for personal solicitation during 1962 of Aggies in more than 400 cities. MSC Council And Directorate Set Awards Banquet The Awards Banquet for out going members of the MSC Coun cil and Student Directorate is scheduled for the Thursday after return from Easter Holidays, Apr. 26, announced Kirk Blackard, Pub lic Relations Chairman for the Council. Awai’ds to be given at the af fair ai’e the “Distinguished Serv ice Award” and “MSC Apprecia tion Award.” Officers for the coming year are to be installed also. “We are planning to use a Ro man theme for the banquet, and we intend to invite student lead ers, members of the Board of Di rectors of the College, College of ficials, and top state officials,” said Blackard. All MSC committee members are invited, and tickets are avail able at the office of the MSC Cashier. Tickets for committee members will be $1.50 and for non- members the cost will be $3. Applications NoW' Being Accepted-' Applications for delay in call to active duty to pursue graduate studies in any field are now available to May grad uates and those in graduate school, according to Dean of Graduate Studies Wayne C. Hall. Under the revised order from the Department of the Army, reserve officers now in graduate or professional schools and those applying for admission in September of this year are eligible for postponement of active duty on a year to year basis. This postponement is not to exceed four years. AH students who previously applied and whose request was denied, or those who have not applied, but would like to take graduate courses must 4 submit applications which wdl! reach Army headquarters by May 1. Interested students present ly enrolled in Military Science IV classes, or those students who have completed their Military Science courses, and who will graduate and receive their commissions during the period of May 1962, through January 1963 are eligible. Interested students should con tact Sgt. Kenneth H. Truitt in Room 207 of the Military Science Building. Hall said that the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D. C., was instrumental in getting the Army to agree to this. “The president of the council wrote to all the graduate schools in the country to ask for sugges tions and support for this issue. This report was then sent to the Department of Defense, which re sponded to the suggestions,” he remarked. Lt. Col. T. A. Hotchkiss, opera tions officer in the Department of Military Science, said that a num ber of students had applied for deferment before, but only a few cases had been approved. “Now,” he added, “the ones who had their applications disapproved are eli gible to resubmit them.” Col. Hotchkiss reminded students that the delays ai’e dependent upon the student’s being accepted by a graduate school and his con tinued creditable performance in the school. Dorm 3 To Hold Chapel Services Ray Adams, ’62 plant and soil science major from Winters, will present the devotional at the cha pel devotional service Sunday. The services will begin at 8:30 and will end at 9'a. m. The opening prayer will be giv en by John Jackson, ’65 from Win gate. Ham McQueen, ’65 from Longview, will read the Bible pas sages. Song leader for the service will be Tommy Roberts, ’64 from Luf kin. Tom Freeland, ’65 from Crowley, La., will lead in the clos ing prayer. Students living in Dormitory 3 are in charge of the services this Sunday. Because of the Easter holidays, no service will be held next week. Students in Leggett Hall will conduct the chapel serv ices on Apr. 29. IBM ‘604’ REPLACED Data Processing Center Expecting New Machine Replacement of the IBM 604 with an IBM 1401 tape-system computer is expected soon at the Data Proc essing Center. The new computer is expected to arrive June 8, according to Robert L. Smith Jr., head of the Center. The $300,000 compact center, built in 1958, is now packed with the IBM 709, worth $3 million, a $250,000 DYSTAG analog com puter and other i-elated equipment with a total value of more than $4 million. About 40 full-time employees are required for operation of the Center. The largest number of these are operators who punch the cards used in programming the work of the computers. ..The rest are programmers, tabulating equipment operators, computer specialists and supervisory per sonnel. Smith, a 34-year-old associate professor of industrial engineering, was cited this winter by the Texas Jaycees for the establishment of a mathematical technique for com puting radiation patterns pro duced by radium needles used by doctors in the cure of cancer. Smith has also developed a pro gram for the IBM 709 Digital Computer using a mathematical function called a “double cosine in tegral,” in which he feeds the computer data on the pattern made by the radium needles. The computer will print an exact pattern of the radiation that enables doctors to determine whether treatment is being con centrated in the right place. Smith has worked with all of the A&M computers since the first IBM 604 was brought to the campus in 1952. The 604 was supplemented by the IBM 650 in 1956 and by the IBM 704 in 1959. The 704 was re placed in 960 by the IBM 709. During the next five years, Smith expects to see the Data Processing Center double in size and increase its computational capability tenfold. This will be accomplished in part by the addi tion of an IBM 7090 computer and another 1401 in addition to the one now being installed. Computer education will also double at A&M. A master of science in computer science is ex pected to be offered soon, subject to the approval of the Texas Com mission on Higher Education. DR. EDWARD E. BURNS views fruits, vegetables Eat, Relation With Disease, Studied Here Food fat and its relation to heart disease was discussed here Tuesday by Dr. Morris Siperstein, associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Houston South western Medical School, Dallas. Speaking at the Human Nutri tion Workshop for Texas home demonstration agents, Siperstein dealt primarily with the disease atherosclerosis—a type of arterio sclerosis in which fibrous thicken ing of- the intermost coat of blood vessels is accompanied by athero matous degeneration. He discussed the properties of Lipids—a group of substances com prising the fats and other esters that possess analogous properties and are characterized by solubility in fat solvents and by insolubility in water and spoke of studies made on the relation between blood cholesterol and atherosclerosis. Raymond Reiser, professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition, set the stage for Siperstein’s talk by delivering a lecture entitled “The Fat Story.” He defined terms and discussed the chemistry involved in the fats and oils produced by plants and ani mals. Fats and oils constitute one species of a large group of com pounds known as lipids, Reiser ex plained, adding that the substances have a greasy feel and are soluble in solvents such as ether and chloroform. Oils are for the most part unsaturated, while the fats are more highly saturated. New methods of preserving and processing foods were discussed by Dr. Edward E. Burns, associate professor in the Department of Horticulture, who has worked in the fields of vegetable and fruit processing and storage. Freeze-dried, dehydro-frozen and dehydro-canned foods are now be ing processed, he said. He pre dicted that antibiotics will be used to extent the shelf-life of fresh meats, since fish and poultry al ready are being treated in this manner—-and said the use of atomic energy to presei-ve foods also is being explored on an ex perimental basis. “Radiation and Nutrition” was discussed by Dr. Sidney O. Brown, A&M biology professor, who de scribed research work now being done with regard to irradiation and food preservation at A&M and else where. Dr. Robert E. Branson, professor of agricultural economics and soci ology, discussed motivating fac tors in consumer purchases of food products.