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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.