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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1962
Number 112
Seventh Aggie Dies
During School Term
W. Dudley Griggs
Dies In Smashup
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New A&M Fool
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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.
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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)