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The Battalion Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1962 Number 120 "Ladies Fair’ Of Vanity Fair MRS. LON I ETA PORADEK MISS JUDY SMITH MRS. SIDNEY GILLIS MISS EILEEN MARTIN Wire Review By The Associated Press WORLD NEWS PARIS — Official French sourc es said Tuesday a Secret Army Organization plot to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle has been discovered and about 15 per sons have been arrested in con nection with it. De Gaulle himself was safe un der reinforced guard at the presi dential residence, Elysee Palace, after completing a speaking tour of the provinces. ★ ★ ★ TAPEI, Formosa — National ist China offered Monday to help solve the refugee problem threatening to overwhelm Brit ish Hong Kong, saying it is ready to accept all fugitives from Red China who wish to conic to Formosa. This will furnish no quick so lution, however. Resettlement will be a slow and costly proc ess and many of the Chinese in Hong Kong do not want to come to Formosa. Officals in Hong Kong declined comment on the Nationalist proposal until more details are available. ★ ★ ★ U. S. NEWS NEW YORK — Representatives of the American Medical Associa tion asserted Monday that Presi dent Kennedy’s medical care plan would be “a cruel hoax and a de lusion”' for the aged. It would cover millions who don’t need it, ignore millions of others who do, lower the general quality of medicine and pave the Way for government medicine for all Americans, the medical group [leaders said. ★ ★ ★ TEXAS NEWS KERMIT, Tex. — Two sisters and a man died in a hail of bul lets Sunday night. The husband of one was arrested Monday and charged with murder. Riddled by bullets were Mrs. B. J. Autry, 50, wife of an oil field worker who was on duty away from home; Mrs. Georgie Dimple Frazier, 39; and Carl Louis Conner, 39, also an oil field worker. 'Ar ★ ★ DALLAS — Public reaction to the fire bombing of Midlothian’s Weekly Mirror has increased the newspaper’s circulation by 30 per cent and resulted in scores of let ters and contributions, Editor Penn Jones Jr. said Monday. State Education Mead To Address Awards Program TWO TESTIFY Estes Hearings Held In Secrecy WASHINGTON CP)—-The Sen ate investigations subcommittee plunged Monday into closgd hear ings on the Billie Sol Estes case then imposed a tight lid of se crecy on what it had heard. N. Battle Hales, Department of Agriculture official who has charged that Estes profited huge ly from favored treatment in that agency, and Walter Berger, who was a top department official un der the Eisenhower administra tion, were quizzed separately and alternately for 414! hours. Sen. John L. McClellan, D-Ark., the subcommittee chairman, for bade either man to discuss the testimony, and the senator him self refused even to acknowledge that they had been the witnesses. But McClellan said transcripts of any testimony taken in secret will be released if the witness MISS BETTY BURNETTE MISS SANDRA POWELL Vet School Gives Four Merit Awards Four students were presented the 1962 Faculty Award of Merit by the School of Veterinary Medi cine at the recent awards banquet of the Student Chapter of the AVMA. The Faculty Award of Merit is the outstanding honor given to a student in the professional curric ulum of veterinary medicine, The recipients were selected by vote of the faculty and students based on activities and scholastic achieve ments. Presenting the awards was Dr. A. A. Price, Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine. William Kay Read of Deport received the first year award, Warren Whit man Frost Jr., of Arlington, the second year award; William Earl Berkley of Houston, the third year award; and Joe Edgar Dawson of Bertram received the fourth year student award. Danish General Really Wasn’t At Senior Fate Nearly 500 seniors trooped faithfully to Duncan Dining Hall Saturday to hear Gen. Hans Christofferson, commander of the Army of Denmark, speak at the annual banquet preceding the Senior Ring Dance. Only Gen. Christofferson real ly wasn’t—instead he was Aus tin broadcaster “Cactus” Prior. Senior class officers had care fully concealed Prior’s identity under the disguise of the Danish general. Even a reception Sat urday afternoon and the banquet failed to collapse their scheme. The topic of Prior’s speech— “Never Believe All You Hear.” YMCA Camp Aides Needed The 9th Annual Freshman YMCA Camp headed by Paul Smith, general chairman, has be gun interviewing students to serve as counselors for the camp. The camp is to be held at Lakeview Methodist Encampment in Pales tine, September 8-11. The camp committee members, Smith, Don Willis and Howard (Butch) Johnston, aided by J. Gordon Gay, coordinator of reli gious life and general secretary of the YMCA, are interviewing the prospective counselors in the Council Room of the YMCA Build ing. Students interested in becoming a counselor should contact any of the camp committee members or members of the YMCA for fur ther information. The expected attendance at this year’s camp is 175-200 incoming freshmen. For an efficiently run camp, about 50 counselors are needed. At the present time, Smith reports that only 34 counselors have been approved. At Lakeview, the campers will meet future classmates in discus sions, sports and other activities. “The purpose of this camp”, said Gay, “is to get the freshmen in on the ground floor before the big rush at the beginning of school starts. By attending camp they will come to know campus organi zations, activities, student leaders and staff members.” does not later tell his story in public hearings expected to begin next month. He called that part of the cards-on-the-table probe he has pledged. ^ McClellan said both witnesses had answered every question. McClellan said the questioning had dealt mainly with grain stor age and cotton acreage allotments involving the 37-year-old Texan. The subcommittee is exploring allegations that influence deals in the department, and perhaps on Capitol Hill, helped Estes to amass a vast fortune through fi nancial manipulations under bdth programs. He said the subcommittee mem bers had agreed, and the witness es were admonished, to give no details about the testimony to any outsiders. It may be necessary to call the witnesses back for further ques tioning, the senator said, but a4ded that he does not now plan to reeaH them. He said the fact they were chosen as leadoff wit nesses is not significant. “We had to start somewhere,” he said. Berger, now an official of Com mercial Solvents Corp., which had' extensive business connections with Estes, appeared briefly at McClellan’s office in early after noon and then returned a short time later with an attorney. 1430 Students Were On MSC Committees Four hundred and thirteen stu dents participated as members of Memorial Student Center commit tees during the last year, accord ing to a report released by MSC Council Presidept James' E. Ray. Ray presented the report at a meeting of the council last night. Three committee chairmanship appointments were also made in council action. Robert Miller ’64 from Sinton, was confirmed chair man of the travel committee for next year. Juan Carlos Diaz, ’63 from Lima, Peru, was named head of the Pan Amercian committee. Randy Jones, ’63 from New Boston, was confirmed as Town Hall chairman for next year. The participation report showed 290 cadets and 123 civilian stu dents taking part in the MSC’s activities. Here is a breakdown by individ ual committees: Bridge: 18 corps, 27 civilians. Bowling: 39 corps, 28 civilians. Camera: 4 corps, 6 civilians. Dance: 9 corps, 3 civilians. Flying Kadets: 16 corps, 14 ci vilians. Great Issues: 21 corps, 7 civil ians. Music: 7 corps,. 2 civilians. Personnel: 4 corps, 0 civilians. Public Relations: 6 corps, 0 ci vilians. SCONA VII: 67 corps, 6 civil ians. Radio: 13 corps, 5 civilians. Talent: 10 corps, 7 civilians. Table Tennis: 31 corps, 12 civil ians. Town Hall: 32 corps, 0 civilians. Travel: 5 corps, 0 civilians. Chess: 8 corps, 6 civilians. LEE LOCKWOOD .. . faculty awards speaker Faculty Awards To Be Presented Lee Lockwood of Waco, chairman of the Texas Commis sion on Higher Education, will be speaker at the eighth an nual Faculty and Staff Recognition and Awards Program Thursday, President Earl Rudder has announced. The speaker is a well known Texas Mason and a promi nent business man in the banking and lumber company fields. He will be accompanied by Harry Provence, editor-in-chief of Newspapers, Inc., of Waco and a member of the Century Council. Lockwood will arrive on the campus in time for luncheon in his honor by Rudder. From 1:30 to 3:30 p. m., he will visit the Nuclear Science Center, Data Processing Center, W. T. Autopsy Ordered In Marshall Probe FRANKLIN <SP> — Judge John Barron of Bryan Monday ordered the disinterment of Henry Mar shall, dead nearly a year, in an effort to determine whether his multiple shooting was murder or suicide. The mystery death of the farm official rose to prominence when it was found that at the time of his death Marshall was investi gating Billie Sol Estes, West Tex as financier now under fraud in dictment and congressional inves tigation. Barron, of the 8ffth District Court, ordered the autopsy as he and Dist. Atty. Bryan Russ con vened a grand jury to look into the case. At the end of the grand jury’s session Russ announced he had received a telegram from Secre tary of Agriculture Orville Free man turning down an invitation to appear before the grand jury pro vided he had any information to give. Freeman earlier said much of the Estes case remains cloudy be cause many of the facts died with Marshall. Russ quoted Freeman’s telegram as saying “We know of none here who may have any first hand knowledge. We are continuing to check and if any names found will advise you as we want you to have our full cooperation in this matter. Russ told newsmen he found the telegram puzzling because on April 18 an unidentified repre sentative of the Department of Agriculture made a statement that Nuclear Science Center Dedication Slated For Friday A&M’s million-dollar Nuclear Science Center will be formally dedicated to education, science and industry at ceremonies here Fri day, President Earl Rudder has announced. Dr. J. R. Maxfield Jr., Dallas radiologist and specialist in nuclear medicine, will be principal speaker at a dedicatory luncheon Friday in the Memorial Student Center. Mayfield, who is president-elect of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, will discuss the applications of nu clear science to medicine and in dustry. A ribbon cutting ceremony will follow at 2 p. m. at the Nuclear Science Center near Easterwood Airport west of the campus. The public is invited to attend both ceremonies. Dedication of the center—which will provide a ready source of nu clear energy for research use in science and industry throughout the southwest—climaxes two years of planning and building by the department of nuclear engineering and the Texas Engineering Experi ment Station. someone in the department had knowledge of the death. Russ did not elaborate further on this point. As for testimony heard by the grand jury Russ said he felt “a complete autopsy is warranted be cause of some of the testimony here today.” Judge Barron said a complete autopsy would be made by “a whole team of experts, including state chemists, pathologists and ballistic experts.” “We feel we can determine whether Marshall’s death was sui cide or murder,” declared Barron. Mrs. Marshall, who sought to I’eopen the case after the official verdict of suicide was issued, agreed to the autopsy, said the Judge. The autopsy order came the same day Barron and Dist. Atty. Bryan Russ convened a grand jury to look into the case. Mai’shall, 52, was the chief of production adjustment for the Texas Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Office (ASC) and had been investigating Estes’ transfers to Estes land of cotton allotments from land made unus able by public works. He was shot June 3, 1961, on his farm near here. Five bullets pierced his body, and authorities said he may have lived as much as five hours after the shooting. 13 Graduates To Receive Fellowships Thirteen graduates students, in cluding several from out-of-state, have received National Defense Fellowships for study at A&M. Dean Wayne C. Hall of the Graduate School, in announcing the listing, said the fellowships are for study toward the doctor ate with a combined total of six fields of study listed. A basic purpose of the fellow ship purpose is to encourage and assist graduate students to pre pare for careers as teachers in colleges and universities. The fellowships provide a stipend and dependency-allowance payments. The newly announced winners of fellowships and their fields of study were listed as follows: Plant Cytogentics: Byron Lynn Burson and Charles M. Taliaferro. Animal Husbandry: Christian Fischer Jr. and Max St. Clair Amoss Jr. Industrial Education: Jerry W. Hedrick, Robert E. Blumm and Al lan O. Boehm. Oceanography and Meteorology: Robert D. Boudreau, Jack More- lock and Tom E. Hoover. Physics: Billy Frank Barry. Plant Pathology: Robert Cleon Nims and Frank Seabury Jx*. Doherty Petroleum Engineer ing Building, the new addition to the Physics Building and he will see a demonstration of teaching by closed circuit tel evision in the School of Veterinary Medicine. The awards program, which be gins at 4 p. m. in Guion Hall, will feature eight Faculty Distin guished Achievement Awards of $1,000 each to A&M personnel selected for outstanding achieve ment in their professions. Cate gories include achievement in teaching, student relations, re search and extension work. A&M’s Association of Former Students provides the funds for the gifts. J. B. Hervey, executive secretary of the association, said names of winners will be kept secret until the program begins at 4 p. m. Also on the program will he cei-emonies honoring six retiring professors. Lockwood is president of the Waco Mortgage Company, owner of the Waco Lumber Company, chairman of the Waco Savings and Loan Association, vice chairman of the Farm and Home Savings Asso ciation of Missouri and director of the Merchantile National Bank of Dallas and the Citizens National Bank of Waco. He served for 13 years as pres ident of the Masonic Home and School Board; is vice president, Scottish Rite Education Associa tion of Austin; vice president, Scottish Rite Hospital of Dallas; member of the executive commit tee, George Washington National Memorial; and is president of the Scottish Rite Foundation of Texas. The speaker was a member of the Boa^d of Regents for the Uni versity of Texas from 1953 through 1959. In 1960, Baylor University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Law Degree. As a young man, he attended Baylor and the Uni versity of Texas. Tank Mishap Kills Five During Hood Training Exercise FORT HOOD (TP) — An officer and four enlisted men died Mon day when their M-48 medium tank plunged over a 30-foot cliff and burst into flames in the shallow watters of Table Rock Creek. All were members of Company B, First Battalion, 13th Armor, 1st Armored Division. Identifi cation was withheld pending noti fication of next of kin. Witnesses said the tank, which was involved in a platoon tactical exercise, burned for more than an hour after plunging over the cliff. The mishap occurred minutes after the platoon commander had entered the tank. He had left his own tank because of radio failure. The tank plunged over the cliff nose first and landed on'its tur ret, blocking the escape of the men inside. Flames set off by the rupturing of fuel tanks quickly enveloped the tank.