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THF BATTALIOM
Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, May 22, 1962
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Science Center Dedication
A Forward Step For A&M
A&M will move another step forward in its program of
service to citizens of Texas itnd the United States when the
new Nuclear Science Center is formally dedicated in ceremon
ies on campus and at the center Friday.
Scientists from throughout the nation are due for the
dedication—and to study the complex center that will event
ually operate at a level of five million watts.
Friday’s twin ceremonies—one in the Memorial Student
Center and another at the site of the center near Easterwood
Airport—will bring to a gratifying end to more than two
years of work and planning by the Department of Nuclear
Engineering and the Texas Engineering Experiment Station.
The center, now in operation, has already proved an
excellent source of nuclear energy for use in science and
industry throughout Texas and the Southwest. Its main
feature continues to be a high-power, research-type “swim
ming pool” reactor, the apparatus that will eventually operate
at five million watts.
Even now, the reactor is operating at a power-level of
100 kilowatts.
In the future the center will be used extensively for
neutron radiation experiments, and to process materials for
new educational and industrial uses.
Another possible use could be in conjunction with the
new manned space laboratory being constructed by the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration near Houston.
Surely the center will be one of the most capable and available
places for research by NASA scientists.
Add to these facts plans for an expanded program of
nuclear study at A&M and other colleges and universities,
and the true value of the center comes into clearer focus.
The Battalion salutes all those behind the new Nuclear
Science Center—its completion and Friday dedication add
greatly to the prestige and capabilities of A&M as a first-
class state institution.
Sound Off
Voting Disappoints
Sister, Sweetheart
Editor,
The liattalien:
Being an Aggie sister a n d I
sweetheart, I would like to say
that I am truly disappointed in
the results of the poll taken May
9. The men of Aggieland don’t
really know how it feels to be
proud of the fella one goes with
when that fella is an Aggie.
The men who make up the
( orps of Cadets have always
had my admiration and congrat
ulations for sticking with what
they believe in and love. For
eight years my admiration has |
been growing steadily because I
can see what fine men my broth
ers are and they both graduated
from A&M.
If the Aggies who voted for
a coeducational school would on
ly think ahead instead of think
ing how good it would be to have
girls on campus, they would see
that Aggieland is not like Texas
I niversity and therefore it
should not be coed. If the ones
" voted for coeducation want-
ed it in the first place, why
didn’t they attend a coed school ?
I certainly hope a nationally
famous tradition a n d “spirit”
“ . . . I get th’ feeling these graduating seniors are rubbing
it in!”
Yarborough Challenged
To Name Campaign Aides
WASHINGTON UP) —The
Washington Post said in an edi
torial Monday that Sen. Ralph
Yarborough, D-Tex., should pub
licly identify everyone who
helped finance his weekly radio
broadcasts in Texas.
Yarborough has acknowledged
that indicted Texas financier Bil
lie Sol Estes, now under investi
gation here in connection with
gift giving to Washington offi
cials, was among contributors to
the program.
The Post, noting this, said Yar
borough’s involvement points up
the failure of Congress to deal
with the issue of campaign con
tributions and financial assist
ance to members of Congress.
The editorial said the Senate
Investigations subcommittee, now
looking into the Estes case,
should determine whether it
reaches into Congress as well as
the executive department.
The editorial stated in part:
“Sen Ralph Yarborough sought
to minimize his present embar
rassment by saying that when
he was taking financial help
from Mr. Estes, the latter was
being hailed as an ideal young
American.”
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Student Publications at Texas A&M College.
The Post said some executive
officials involved made the same
point, but said their predicament
stemmed from accepting gifts
from individuals with an ax to
grind.
“In one instance,” the Post
said, “Sen. Yarborough obtained
$1,000 from Mr. Estes to pay for
10 tickets to a Democratic Na
tional Committee dinner ... In
other instances he obtained a
total of $1,700 to help defray
the cost of his weekly radio
broadcasts . , . The senator ac
knowledges that others have al
so contributed . . . The public
ought to know who they were
and how much they gave.”
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TILL WE MEET AGAIN
This i* the final column of my eighth year of writing for tlie
inakern of Marlboro Cigarettes, and this year, as in every pre
ceding year, when I come to the last column of the season, I
come to a problem.
My contract with the makers of Marlboro calls for me to
write a humor column and, truly, I do the best I can—all things
considered, I am not, I should explain, a jolly man by nature.
Why should I be? First of all, I am shorter than everybody,
Second, there are moths in my cashmere jacket. Third, I work
in television.
All the same, when it, comes time to write this column, I light
a good Marlboro Cigarette, put aside my trauma, and try with
all the strength in my tiny body to make some jokes. Some,
times it works better than others, but on the last column of the
year, it just flatly doesn’t work at all.
Even in the very beginning this was truc -and that, you will re.
call, was eight years ago when I was relatively young and strong
and had not yet developed that nasty knock in my transmission, j
Well do I remember sitting down to write the final column of my
first year. Day followed barren day, and not a yock, not a boff,
not a zinger did I produce. I was about to give up humor and
take a job selling mechanical dogs when all of a sudden, in a
blinding flash, I realized why I couldn’t think of any jokes!
I leapt up from my typewriter and ran as fast as my little
fat legs would carry me to the makers of Marlboro Cigarettes,
and I tugged my forelock, and I said, “Sirs, I am well aware
that you have engaged me to write a humor column, but today,
as I approach the final column of the season, I am fat too misty
to be funny, for the final column of the season is, after all, a
leave-taking, and when I think of saying goodbye to my audience
— the swellest audience any columnist ever had—the college
students of America—wonderful human beings, every man and
&
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woman of them—wise but kindly—astute but compassionate-
perspicacious bu4 forbearing—when, sirs, I think of saying goodi
bye to such an audience, I am too shook up even to consider
levity, and so I ask you, sirs, to let me, in the final column of the'
year, forego humor and instead write a simple, dignified®
straigh tf or ward farewel 1. ”
Then I took out my bandanna, wiped my eyes, ears, nose, and
throat and waited for a reply from the makers of Marlboro.
They sat around the polished board room table, the makers,
their handsome brows knit in concentration, puffing thought
fully on the Marlboros in their tattooed hands. At length they
spoke. “Yes,” they said simply.
I never doubted they would say yes. People who make a
cigarette as good as Marlboro must themselves be good. People
who lavish such care on blending tobaccos so mild and flavor
ful, on devising a filter so clean and white, on boxing a flip-top
box so flip-top, on packing a soft pack so soft—people like that
are one hundred percent with me!
And so from that day forward, the final column of the year
—including the one you are, I devoutly hope, now reading-
makes no attempt to be funny, but is instead a simple thank
you and au revoir.
Thank you and au revoir, makers of Marlboro. The memory
of our eight years together will remain ever fresh in my heart,
and I would like to state for all the world to hear that if yon |
want me back again next year, I shall expect a substantial
raise in salary.
Thank you and au revoir, college students of America. May
good luck attend all your ventures. Stay well. Stay happy
Stay loOSe. @ lUOJ Max ShiiuiiiU! ■
* * *
Small Max has said it all. We, the makers of Marlboro Ciga
rettes, can onlg add a heartfelt second chorus: Stay well.
Stay happy. Stay loose.
By Charles M. Sc^
ITS HARD SOMETIMES
TO BEAR all THIS
RESPONSIBILITV...
BUT SUDDENLY YOU SEEM TO
REALIZE THAT YOU ARE NOT
really alone ... actually
ARE SURROUNDED BY LOYAL
TEAMMATES _
You CAN DO IT, CHARLIE
BROtUN'SHOOJ HIM YOUR STUFF/
you're a better man than
HE IS, CHARLIE BROUN!
it
THROW (T RIEHT PAST HIM,
CHARLIE BROWN.. YOU CAN DO
IT'WE KNOW YOU CAN DO IT!