The Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1962
Number 107
Junior Ball, Federal This Weekend
Review
Team On
Campus
BULLETIN
As of 10 Friday morning, both
the inspection and review were
still planned in spite of rain,
Lt. Col. T. A. Hotchkiss an
nounced. If rain prevents the
inspection, cadets will move in
side to continue the proceedings.
The review would be cancelled
in case of continued rain, the
colonel said.
A team of 12 inspecting officers
from Fourth Army Headquarters
at Fort Sam Houston has arrived
on campus to conduct the annual
Federal Inspection of Army units
in the Corps of Cadets.
The group, headed by Lt. Col.
Thomas F. Bienvenu, inspected fac
ilities of the Department of Mili
tary Science and Tactics Friday,
and will view the Corps Saturday
morning.
An inspection in ranks of each
Corps Army unit is scheduled from
7:45-8:45 a. m. Saturday, with a
review of the units to follow at
9:15. The inspection will be held
at the respective drill areas, with
the review on the Main Drill Field
in front of the Memorial Student
Center.
Col. Bienvenu and two other
members of the inspection team ar
rived here Thursday around 5 p.m.,
while the other nine inspectors
reached campus around 3 Friday
afternoon.
The official itinerary for the in
spection begin. Friday morning
with a briefing with Col. Frank
Elder, professor of military sci
ence. This was followed by a con-
! ference with Dean of Students
James P. Hannigan and Comman
dant Col. Joe E. Davis, after
which the visitors inspected ad
ministrative records in the Mili
tary Science Building.
They then inspected instruction
and classroom facilities in the MS
Building and lunched with the
Corps in Duncan Dining Hall.
Friday afternoon they conferred
again with Col. Edler, visited and
were briefed by cadet officers and
inspected ROTC property facilities,
the motor pool and the rifle range.
In addition to the inspection and
review Saturday morning, the in
spectors are expected to offer a
critique of their findings.
CLAUDE ANN RIGGS
. . . James Collins
MARY ANN PREJEAN
. . . Edward Bellow
NANCY JEAN CRADDOCK
. . . Jeff Brainerd
JUDITH ANN FARMER
. . . Paul Vilcoq
CASSANDRA SMITH
. . . Dan Scarborough
The ‘’Cajun’ Appears
Tonight In G. Rollie
A man with some serious ideas
and a usually serious job will turn
over a new leaf in G. Rollie White
Coliseum tonight at 8, as he steps
on the stage with a hearty “I
Gawr-On tee!”
Justin Wilson, a professional
safety consultant in his usual role,
will take on his comedy role of
“The Cajun” in an appearance
here.
“Ole’ Joostan,” as his Cajun fri
ends call him, is a native of Den
ham Springs, La. It was through
his work as a safety consultant
that he has become known as a
foremost American humorist. His
first album was a recording of
one of his many safety talks, but
many people thought his perform
ance was exceptional and brought
his recording.
Wilson says he tells his famous
Cajun tales and “when they ain’t
looking, I slip in a few things a-
bout safety.”
This routine has met with the
wholehearted approval of column
ists and writers, who have com
mended his handling of the Cajun
dialect, along with his ability to
entertain and inform all kinds
of people.
The doors will open at 7:15 p.m.,
with the price of admission either
an activity ticket and identifica
tion card, or $1. No seats have
been reserved, according to Robert
L. Boone, Town Hall adviser.
Appearing with Wilson will be
June Terry, who has had recent
engagement on television and in
Wire Review
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
MOSCOW — Soviet scientists
sent the fourth Sputnik of their
Cosmos sertes chasing around the
earth Thursday.
The launching of Cosmos IV,
apparently an unmanned vehicle,
was announced in the midst of a
busy international day in space.
U.S. NEWS
NEW YORK—The nation’s two
largest steel producers, U.S. Steel
and Bethlehem, were indicted
Thursday with two smaller firms
/on federal charges of rigging bids
and fixing prices on forgings.
Sales involved were estimated at
?100'million a year.
The grand jury complaint had
no connection with the $6-a-ton
increase in steel prices earlier this
month, which was spearheaded by
U.S. Steel. The increase later was
★ ★ ★
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—
The United States and Great
Britain teamed together Thurs
day and launched a scientific
satellite.
This feat, coupled with a joint
U.S.-Japanese rocket launching
at Wallops Island, Va., signaled
a new era in international space
cooperation.
■A" tAt
WASHINGTON — Secretary of
State Dean Rusk differed Thurs
day with Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei A. Gromyko about the ex-
'tent of progress toward a Berlin
settlement. Rusk said that there
is no agreement yet on any par
ticular point at issue in the current
U.S.-Soviet talks.
He added, however, that a num
ber of problems could be speedily
resolved if the central points in
dispute could be settled. Rusk
emphasized that this would re
quire Soviet acceptance of the con
tinued presence of Western forces
in West Berlin and guarantees of
access to Berlin
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WASHINGTON — Arthur S.
Flemming protested Thursday
he has been put in a position of
seeming to withhold information
from a Senate investigation of
government stockpile contracts.
Actually, he said, he is the vic
tim of a faulty memory.
Flemming, a former director
of the Office of Defense Mobil
ization, was questioned for the
second day about orders he is
sued in 1955 which permitted
copper producers to reap hand
some profits which he himself
had described as a “possible
windfall.”
TEXAS NEWS
DALLAS—Vice President Lyn
don B. Johnson and his wife, Lady
Bird, escaped injury Thursday
when a twin-engine militaiy jet
aircraft slipped off a Love Field
runway.
Las Vegas Clubs. She is a popu
lar singer and has songs out on
the Dot label. Miss Terry is now
appearing at the Boulevard Club
in Houston.
School Boards
Set Meeting
Here May 2
School board members and su
perintendents of schools from 18
counties will meet here for a one-
day workshop May 2 to discuss
vital issues and problems in Texas
public school education.
Sponsored by the Department of
Education and Psychology, the
1962 workshop is part of a state
wide effort of the Texas Associa
tion of School Boards to determine
ways of helping schools improve
their programs.
Dr. Leon Graham, assistant com
missioner of education, Texas Edu
cation Agency, will speak on “Cri
sis in Public Education” at the
dinner session Wednesday evening.
The concert choir of A&M Consol
idated, under the director of Frank
C. Coulter, will supply the enter
tainment.
The workshop will get underway
at 3 p.m. with a welcoming ad
dress by J. B. Hervey, president
of the A&M Consolidated School
Board, followed by a panel dis
cussion of “Quality Education—•
Achievement or Goal?”
Deadline Near In
PhotographContest
The deadline for The Texas A&M
Review annual photography contest
is rapidly approaching, according
to Thomas Nickell, editor of the
Review. Entries should be sub
mitted before 5 p.m., May 11.
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 categories of the contest are
scenery, portraits, action, and hu
man interest and design. The hu
man interest and design category
will include picture stories and
photographic effects.
In addition to the four categori
cal awards, a sweepstakes award of
$10 will be given the photographer
whose overall efforts indicate him
to be versatile, imaginative and
capable.
Print size is limited to only 8
by 10 inches. Entries should be
submitted to the Office of Stu
dent Publications in the basement
of the YMCA Building, and anyone
who holds a current student iden
tification card is eligible.
Winners will be announced in the
summer issue of the Review along
with a display of their photo
graphy. Announcements will be
made in The Battalion later as to
the dates entries may be picked
up.
Travel Committee
Requests Return
Of Display Books
Due to an apparent misunder
standing on the part of some
persons, 30 books and 58 pam
phlets are missing from the MSC
Travel Committee’s display,
which was set up in the MSC
Fountain Room.
Reggie Richardson, chairman
of the committee, said the per
sons aparently thought the
books could be removed from
the fountain room and the pam
phlets kept. However, the com
mittee had borrowed the books
and pamphlets from Cushing
Memorial Library, and face a
heavy expense if they are not re
turned.
Richardson asked that if some
one had mistakenly picked up a
pamphlet or book, he would ap
preciate the return of it to
either the Student Program Of
fice in the MSC or to the second
floor of Cushing Library.
“We will appreciate this help,
and are sorry if there was some
misunderstanding about the
books and pamphlets,” Richard
son said.
Annual Awards
Talks Highlight
MSC Banquet
James Ray officially took office
as president of the Memorial Stu
dent Center Council last night at
the annual council and directorate
banquet held in the MSC Ball
room.
Program for the evening fea
tured an exotic banquet meal, pre
sentation of various MSC distin
guished service, appreciation and
special awards, the annual address
by Michael M. Schneider, outgoing
Council president, and the main
address of the evening by Dr. Earl
E. Harper, director of the Iowa
Memorial Union, State University
of Iowa.
In his address, Harper sought
to portray the full image of the
College-university union, in its
many areas of service and activity.
The noted college union author
ity presented basic ideals that are
common with all unions, to in
clude fostering personal fellow
ship between professors and stu
dents, and between students and
other students.
He explained the responsibility
of the union to the university fam
ily, which includes even much more
than students, faculty and adtnin-
istration members, or others di
rectly associated wjth the educa
tional institution, but to the many
guests visiting the “living room”
of any campus as well.
“Recreation is important, and
there are many fine products of
it. After one is relaxed, an es
sentiality for anyone, he is ready
to tackle the job at hand with
much more enthusiasm and ability.
The union provides for this in a
number of ways,” said Harper.
“But if we are not careful, the
union can easily become consid
ered a glorified fun palace and
extended snack bar.
Prof Sets Summer
Study At Oak Ridge
Jack M. Inglis of the Depart
ment of Wildlife Management will
study the effects of radiation on
man’s environment during a seven-
week institute this summer at Oak
Ridge, Tenn.
Inglis is one of 20 college and
university teachers chosen to learn
how to evaluate the effects of ra
diation on plants and animals
in nature.
During the first phase of in
struction, Inglis will hear discus
sion to set the stage for the study,
followed by field trips and field
experiments.
Later the professors will learn
uses of radioisotopes and other
new tools in teaching and conduct
ing research for a better under
standing of the impact of atomic
energy on man’s environment.
The last two weeks will involve
independent research applying tech
niques learned with problems re
sulting from atomic waste dis
posal and fallout.
Following the summer project,
Inglis hopes to begin research in
radiation ecology here. He point
ed out that further study is need
ed on effects of atomic waste dis
posal and fallout on plants and
animals.
“Little research has been done,”
Inglis said, “regarding the effects
of radiation in nature. Ecologists
are about 50 years behind the
physiologists in study of nuclear
effects.”
The Oak Ridge project is spon
sored by the National Science
Foundation and the U. S. Atomic
Energy Commission, in coopera
tion with the Ecological Society of
America.
Inglis emphasized that the very
small quantities of radio active
materials in nature are not dan
gerous and “no catastrophe is ex
pected tomorrow.”
“But,” he added, “there is a need
to understand the implications of
releasing quantities of unnatural
radio active materials into man’s
environment. How, for example,
will low doses of radiation affect
man through his environment.
What effect will it have upon
plants and animals consumed by
man. What use can be made of
radioisotopes to study natural pro
cesses.”
Drill Team Leaves
For S. A. Fiesta
The Fresmman Drill Team leaves
Friday for the annual Fiesta
Flambeau Parade in San Antonio
to be held Saturday night.
The crack freshmen, command
ed by Jack Schmid, ’65, are enter
ed against 18 drill teams from
several states. The team will per
form its famous trademark, move
ment, the “Ripple,” at the parade
reviewing stand, according to
sponsor Capt. Calvin Reese.
This will probably be the last
trip of the year for the team, said
Reese. The team has participated in
competetions in Laredo and Baton
Rouge earlier this lear, compiling
an enviable record.
Underwood Given
Top R. A. Award
Moore
Banquet
Speaker
Clyde Moore, refuted as the
world’s “greatest barber,” will join
the “Debonaires” from Houston at
Saturday night’s Junior Ball and
Banquet in Sbisa Hall.
Moore, from Hearne, will be the
guest speaker, while the Deb
onaires will provide the music at
the 9 p. m. dance.
The banquet will begin at 6:30
p. m. in the annex to Sbisa Hall,
with the dance scheduled at 9 in
the main room.
Tickets, at $1.50 per person for
the banquet and $3 per couple for
the dance, are now on sale at the
cashier’s cage in the Memorial Stu
dent Center. They will also be sold
at the door.
An added highlight will be the
presentation of the Junior Sweet
heart from five finalists. The
finalists, and their escorts, are:
Nancy Jean Craddock from Aus
tin, escorted by J. F. (Jeff)
Brainerd.
Claude Ann Riggs from Beau
mont, escorted by James R. Col
lins.
Cassandra Smith from San An
tonio, escorted by Dan Scar
borough.
Judith Ann Farmer from San
Marcos, escorted 'by Paul Vilcoq.
Mary Ann Prejean from Neder
land, escorted by Edward J. Bellow.
Committee chairmen for the
festivities are Charles Blaschke,
coordinator; Sheldon Best and
Adrian de Graffenreid, program
and guest; Frank Townsend and
Dudley Griggs, tickets and finance;
A1 Weaver and Johnny Meyer,
decorations; Shelby Ti'aylor, sweet
heart; and Bill Brashears and Bill
Royal, publicity.
No theme has yet been decided
for the dance, according to Bras
hears.
Warning Issued By
County Attorney
County attorney Brooks Gofer
has requested that the citizens of
the Bryan-College Station area
be alerted to the fact that the Old
Koppe Bridge is dangerous and has
been condemned for vehicular traf
fic.
According to Gofer, vandals have
attempted to burn the timber left
in the bridge, and have been guilty
of “promiscuous” shooting of fire
arms in the general area of the
bridge.
Legal authorities have been
alerted to arrest anyone engaging
in such activities.
Leonard E. Underwood, son of
M. E. Underwood, 404 W. Com
merce, Brownwood, has been a-
warded the Wall Street Journal
Student Achievement Award as the
outstanding business student.
Underwood, who is a business
partner with his father in the
operation of Underwood’s Barbe
cue and cafeteria of Brownwood,
was selected for the honor by a
faculty committee of the Division
of Business Administration.
He has been a Distinguish
ed Student for six semesters. He
will receive his B.B.A. degree in
May.
Underwood is married to the
former Mary Jo Smith of Brown
wood. He is a 1958 graduate of
Brownwood High School where he
was the highest ranking boy sch
olastically in the graduating class.
In high school he won the Math
Award, was a Junior Rotarian, was
voted the boy most likely to suc
ceed, and was a member of the
National Honor Society.
At A&M he is a member of Phi
Kappa Phi, a national scholarship
society made up of those in the top
10 per cent of their graduating
class. He is a first lieutenant and
scholarship officer for Company
D-2.
Receives Journal Award
Leonard E. Underwood, right, of Brownwood, receives the
Wall Street Journal Student Award as the outstanding
business administration student at A&M. Presenting the
award is Rollin L. Elkins, associate professor of business
administration. Underwood was selected for the honor by
a factuly committee of the A&M Division of Business Ad
ministration. (College Information Photo)