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fcg: • Battalion COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1962 Number 112 Seventh Aggie Dies During School Term W. Dudley Griggs Dies In Smashup :: m m New A&M Fool [These two Consolidated High School girls in the foreground. Both are in the 10th [were testing out the new A&M Olympic grade. The pool was first opened for swim ming Saturday. , (Photo by Ben Wolfe) The Associated Press WORLD NEWS VIENTIANE, Loas — The royal Laotian government Monday con- fceded loss of strategic Nam Tha Jto a pro-Communist rebel offensive jwith an I told-you-so aside to the Jnited States. It charged the Red aim is to set Laos ablaze with civil “Everybody should now realize lhat good faith of the Communists is illusory.” said Information Minister Bouavan Norasing. ★ ★ ★ m i MOSCOW — East German Com munist leader Walter Ulbricht dashed cold water Monday on hopes for an early Berlin settle ment. He said in a Pravada inter view that East Germany never will accept international control of the access routes to Communist- sur rounded West Berlin. Establishment of such control is a key feature in reports of current U. S.-Soviet contacts on the future of the divided city 110 miles inside East Germany. U. S. NEWS WASHINGTON — The submar ine crew that fired the first “liveV Polaris missile from be neath the Pacific scored a near bullseye with its nuclear warhead at 1,400 miles, it was learned I Monday. f Navy sources said the test firing Sunday was a starkly real exer cise. It was conducted just as if the United States were at war and the Polaris submarine. Eathan Al len had received orders ,to fire its 10 missiles against enemy targets. BOSTON — An 11-member com mittee was set up Monday to aid any Negro families that accept one-way trips from the South to Boston at the urging of segrega tionist groups. The committee met at the Bea con Hill office of Edward M. Ted Kennedy, youngest brother of President Kennedy, and elected the Rev. Richard Ownes, of the People’s Baptist Church, as chair man and O. Phillip Snowden, of Freedom House Inc., a Negro or ganization, as coordinator. 1,100 ATTEND The seventh Silver Taps ceremony of the year was con ducted Monday night. The ceremony was held in memory of William Dudley Griggs, who lost his life Sunday afternoon in a head-on collision on a hill of Interstate Highway 45 serv ice road three miles south of Huntsville. Griggs, a junior, was from Hamlin, Texas. He was a busi ness administration major and a member of Company F-2. Also killed in the accident were Miss Sharon E. Jackson, 19, of Navasota, and Dee Ann Tacker, 13 month old daughter or Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tacker of Huntsville. Tacker received face and neck cuts in the collision and was taken to Huntsville Memorial Hospital. Miss Jackson, a Student Art Fair Held On Campus More than 1,100 teenaged crafts man and teachers participated here Saturday in the Annual Texas In dustrial Arts Fair. The junior and senior high stu dents from schools throughout Tex as brought 500 top quality indus- tilal arts projects ranging from a full-sized Civil War model cannon and a four-posted bed to artfully handcrafted earrings. Snyder High School of Snyder won the outstanding school trophy, which was awarded to the school with the greatest number of win ners. Ector High School of Odessa was runnerup. Lamar High of Houston took third honors. The “most ingenious project” was the Civil War cannon, sub mitted by John Butler of Lamar of Houston. The “most creative de sign” award went to Richard Wright, Ector of Odessa. Larry Hayes of Snyder exhibit ed a four-poster bed which was chosen “most outstanding project”. The students brought projects to compete in 14 areas — architecr- ture, ceramics, electrical, jewelry, leather, machine shop, mechanical drawing, pattern making, plastics, upholstery, wood, wrought metal, models and open classification. Duke Miller of A&M Consolidat ed won third place in the junior high school woodworking division. On-campus students entered par ticipation contests by taking exams in woodwork, metalwork, crafts, electricity, technical speaking and drafting, which is part of the Tex as state drawing competition spon sored by the Department of En gineering Graphics^. President Earl Rudder was prin cipal speaker at the awards ban quet held Saturday night in the Memorial Student Center. Sponsor ing the fair was the Texas In dustrial Arts Association. The De partment of Industrial Education was host of the fair. freshman student at Sam Houston State Teachers College, was riding with Griggs in a sports car. Both were killed instantly. Griggs was driving south on the service road, according to highway patrolman Joe Miller. Miller said Griggs was attempting to pass another car on the hill when his car and Tacker’s collided head-on. Miller said the service road was campleted in 1959, without a yel- ow stripe to remind motorists not to pass on hills. Tacker, the injured man, is a senior at Sam Houston. His wife was at the couple’s apartment when the , accident occurred. DUDLEY GRIGGS . .dies in auto crash This year will be remembered among those in which the greatest number of Silver Taps ceremonies was conducted in memory of Ag gies. Blood Drive Begins With Registration The annual Aggie Blood Drive will begin Tuesday and continue through Wednesday with the re gistration of donors in the booth next to the gift shop in the Memor ial Student Center. Registered donors will be called on to give their blood Thursday in a clinic set up in the lower level of the MSC. Johnny Anthis, chairman of the Student Senate Student Welfare Committee, said that the donors will receive a card which they may use to get blood in case of an emergency for themselves or their Oak Ridge Scientist To Speak On Radioactivity In The Ocean TEXAS NEWS AUSTIN — Democratic guber natorial candidate John Connally Monday refused offers of radio and television debates with his run-off opponent, Don Yarborough. Yarborough had accepted the of fers earlier from Houston and Dallas radio and television sta tions KPRC-TV, radio station KXYZ in Houston and KRLD tele vision in Dallas. “My own view is that such de bates would produce more heat than light,” Connally said in a telegram to KXYZ President Les ter Kamin. Dr. Elizabeth Rona of Oak Ridge, Tenn., whose work in the radioactivity of the oceans is now classical, will speak Tuesday in another of the A&M graduate lecture series. Graduate Dean Wayne C. Hall announced that Rona’s lecture, to which the public is invited, is sch eduled at 8 p.m. in Room 229 of the Chemistry Building. Her topic will bq “Radioactivity of the Ocean.” Among her associates have been Drs. Otto Hahn and F. Strassman, co-discoverers of uranium fission; Madame Curie of radioactivity fame; and Drs. Hans Petterson, leader of the “Albatross” oceano graphic expedition around the world. Rona is one of the early workers to utilize the radioactivity of a material to give it a geological time setting and has done research work and teaching in a variety of fields and in major educational institutions on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Currently she is senior scientist, basic radioisotope course and research, at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies. Rona received her formal edu cation in the Latin School of Bud apest, and her doctorate from the University of Budapest. She was later a research associate in the Institute of Biochemistry of the medical school there. She also has done research work and teaching in such places as the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Berlin; the University of Blindern, Oslo; the Institute of Radioactivity, Paris; the Oceanographic Institute of Goteborg, Sweden; Trinity Col lege, Washington, D. C.; Argone National Laboratory, N. Y.; and at the Oak Ridge National Labora tory. Among many honors conferred on Rona are an American Philo sophical Society grant and, while associated with the Institute for Radioactivity in Vienna, the Hait- inger Prize of the Academy of Science for the outstanding work in physics over a three-year per iod. Also, she was a Carnegie In stitute Fellow, collaborating with the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Insti tute. immediate families. The card will be valid for a one year period. The Wadley Research Center will be in charge of receiving the blood and storing- it. Any donor may use his card to draw any amount of blood from the Wadley bank, whenever the need arises. All blood not used in the one year period will be given to leuke mia vicitims and used for research. Card holders will have first choice on the blood during the yearly per iod, but nondonor may draw from the bank with the approval of the student welfare committee. All students are eligible for the program, including graduating seniors. Married Students Take Top Honors In Civilian Grades A report compiled by Bennie A. Zinn, director of student affairs, show that students residing in col lege apartments had' the highest grade point average of civilian stu dents at mid-semester of this spr ing semester. The apartments area resident had a grade point average of 1.63 on a scale in which a grade of 76 to 83, inclusive, equals one point. Grades of 84 through 91 equal two points, and above 93 equal three points. The more than 1,600 day stu dents and the residents of Mitchell Hall were tied for second place honors. Their grade point aver ages were computed as being 1.56 points. The averages for civilian stu dents residing in other areas were listed as follows: Hart Hall ath letes, 1.25; Henderson Hall ath letes, 1.3; Hart Hall, 1.5; Law Hall, 1.36; Milner Hall, 1.3; Puryear Hall, 1.47; and Walton Hall, 1.29. Annual Spring Awards Given To Engineers The annual spring awards in Petroleum engineering were pre sented by Robert L. Whiting, head of the Department of Petroleum Engineering, at the meeting of the Petroleum Engineering Club Tuesday night. The George P. Mitchell Awards to outstanding petroleum reser voir engineering, went to Law rence R. Gardner from Houston, John F. Imle from San Antonio and Walter F. Whatley from Mc Allen. The George P. Mitchell Award to the most improved senior in pet roleum engineering was awarded to Billy W. Dunn from Odessa. The highest honor bestowed on any petroleum engineering stu dent, the George P. Mitchell Award to the most outstanding stu dent, was awarded to Conley R. Williams from Mineola. Following the presentation of awards, Jerry H. Doughman spoke on “Well Workover, Planning and Operations.” Doughman is mana ger of the production department of Delhi-Taylor Oil Corporation. Kahan New Head Of TEES Here Dr. Archie M. Kahan, vice presi dent and executive director of the A&M Research Foundation, has been appointed director of the Tex as Engineering Experiment Sta tion. In making the appointment, Fred J. Benson, Dean of Engineering said, “This will enable us to move Armed Forces Display To Be Shown Sunday As part of Parent’s Day activi ties and in connection with the be ginning of Armed Forces Week, the Department of Military Sci ence will present a display of the Army’s newest equipment in front of the Richard Coke Building from 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Sunday, Lt. Col. T. A. Hotchkiss, Army operations of ficer, said Monday. To be featured in the exhibit will be the Honest John Rocket with truck launcher, an Aerial Sur veillance Drone, a 106 mm recoil less rifle, an operational mine de tector, a flame thrower, radio sets netted and operational, the “Mutt,” an operational radiac meter, and the new M60 machine gun and M14 rifle, according to Lt. Col. R. L. Jones, Ft. Hood Armed Forces Day officer. The Honest John Rocket with truck mounted launcher is called the “Sunday Punch” of the 1st Armored Division. Also to be shown is an aerial surveillance drone, a radio conti’olled aircraft which enables front line troops to take pictures of enemy activity. The Army’s new one-fourth ton utility truck nicknamed “the Mutt” will be on exhibition. Mounted on “the Mutt” will be the M60 machine gun, which is capable of firing 600 rounds per minute, re placing the old light and heavy machine guns. Another of the features will be the all new M14 rifle, a versatile four-in-one weapon replacing the Browning Automatic Rifle, the Ml Garand Rifle, the Ml Carbine and the M3A1 submachine gun. The M60, praised by riflemen for its firing power and accuracy, uses ammunition interchangeable with weapons from all other NATO nations. forward in our research program by achieving coordination of all re search activities in engineering and other programs on campus.” “Under the leadership of Kahan, we are looking forward to a steady g-rowth in our research programs,” he said. Benson has been acting as di rector of the Engineering Experi ment Station since August, 1960. Kahan will continue as director of the A&M Research Foundation, an organization that has adminis tered $11,588,798 for research at A&M since 1944. The Texas Engineering Experi ment Station administers research and services at the Nuclear Sci ence Center, Data Processing Cen ter, the aeronautical wind tunnel laboratories, the Architectural Re search Group, radiation biology lob, activation analysis research lab, cottonseed products research lab, the Heat-Power Group and programs for chemical engineering, electrical engineering, sanitary en gineering, geology and geophysics, industrial economics and industrial engineering. He holds bachelor and master degrees in mathematics and chem istry from the University of Den ver and a M.S. degree in meteoro logy from California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in meteorological oceano graphy at A&M in 1959. Journalist To Talk At Issues Session The great issues committee will present Ogden Reid, noted jour nalist, author and speaker at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. He will speak on “Opportunities for Peace in the Middle East.” Reid, a graduate of Yale, is the former president and editor of the “New York Herald Ti’ibune” and has served as the United States ambassador to Israel. The journalist has co-authored “Threat of Red Sabotage” and “How Strong is America?” He has also served as chairman of the New York state commission against discrimination. Admission for the general pub lic is $1. Students will be admitted with student activity cards. Is Compulsory Corps Good? Arguments For Corps pre- and Following are arguments sented by student, faculty staff members for the retention of a compulsory Corps of Cadets: • Making the Corps of Cadets non-compulsory would cost A&M its status as a “military school,” and thus further cost of the De partments of Military and Air Science one half of their govern ment allotments. Since A&M is now classified a “military school,” the annual government allotment totals $202,- 675. In a non-compulsory system, the school would receive $101,337. Money presently being received is used for the replacement of new uniforms and to purchase new dress raincoats and service caps, to be issued for the first time next (See PRO CORPS On Page 3) Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of three articles on the issues that have been placed on Wednesday’s informal stu dent opinion poll. In Wednesday’s edition of The Battalion, similar articles, de picting both “for” and against” argument, will be printed on the co-education and name-change issues. The opinions expressed in the articles are not necessarily those of The Battalion or the college administration, but have been compiled by The Battlaion from members of the student body. Wednesday’s voting on the is sues will be held from 8 a.m.— 5:30 p.m. in the breezeway adja cent to the Memorial Student Center bowling lanes. Arguments Vs. Corps Following are arguments pre sented by students, faculty and staff members for abolishing the A&M compulsory Corps of Cadets: • The Corps would probably be improved because only those so desiring would be members of the Corps. Such a situation would also probably improve the spirit of the group, since no “dead wood” would be present to hamper operations. • Enrollment of the school would most likely increase among freshmen because none would have a “fear” of the Corps to prevent them from enrolling. It is also likely that more top- ranking high school seniors would be interested in the school, because the present trend is for the more (See ANTI CORPS On Page 3)