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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1962
Number 138
Varsity Team Introduced
Head Coach Hank Foldberg 1 introduces the monies in G. Rollie White Coliseum Monday
Season’s varsity football team to a roaring night,
rowd during the All College Night cere-
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By the Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
JOTTED NATIONS, N.Y.—Am-
isador Adlai E. Stevenson, chief
. delegate to the United Na-
s, will deliver his country’s
icy speech to the U.N. G'eneral
sembly Thursday, a U.S.
'kesman said Monday,
t is the first time that the
manent head of the U.S. dele-
ion has been selected to deliv-
the policy address. Usually the
retary of State or one of his
uties or the President gives
address.
he spokesman had no comment
ier than to say Stevenson had
'n picked by President Kennedy
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
the speech.
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[COPENHAGEN, Denmark —
Fiet astronaut Yuri A. Gaga-
In, who traveled at 17,500 m.p.h.
the world’s first astronaut,
fes fast travel on earth as
f-ll. During a recent visit here
got into an American sports '
|r and raced at 80 m.p.h. in a
|ur of the provinces.
★★★
U. S. NEWS
Washington — The first nu-
ar reactor in the government’s
lap 8 program” — a potential
irce of power for interplanetary
ice travel -— was operated Mon-
' duping ground tests at Santa
?ana, Calif., the Atomic Energy
mmission announced here,
fhe still-experimental reactor is
the type designed ultimately to
>pel a spaceship further into
ce by electrical propulsion —
ir the spacecraft has been
sted into orbit by rockets em-
dng conventional fuel.
1‘The expected high performance
I electrical propulsion devices
hmts the use of smaller and
s costly missile booster systems
perform missions in space,”
AEC said in announcing the
|cess of the test.
★★★
[COLUMBIA, Mo. — Students
a 20th Century literature
|ass at the University of Mis-
uri were taken aback when
Ny reported to their assigned
pom. No. 110 in the Arts and
hence Building.
[Room 110 is a women’s rest
om.
[Dr. Donald F. Drummond, the
structor, moved the class to
bother room, commenting:
! fa It’ S a very small ladies room
fcd there are 105 students in
■•e course.”
TODA Y IN EL PASO
Sliort’n Sweet—
Democratic Theme
EL PASO DB—Texas Democrat
ic party leaders bave set their
sights on the shortest, happiest
state convention in recent party
history.
Last night, Democratic guber
natorial nominee John Connally,
Gov. Price Daniel and their work
ers freely said they saw nothing
but harmony in store for Tuesday’s
state-wide gathering at the El
Paso County Coliseum.
Two things might disturb the
current peaceful co-existence of
liberal and conservative Demo
crats who battled bitterly for state
party control at previous state
conventions.
1. THE HARRIS COUNTY
delegation, which swings the larg-
Education Aid
Bill Presented
To Congress
WASHINGTON UP)'— Senate-
House conferees, smashing a long
deadlock, Monday reached final
agreement on a $2.35-hill ion fed
eral aid bill for the nation’s 2,040
colleges and universities.
Both sides gave ground in the
final compromise, but all three
types of assistance from the orig
inal Senate bill were included.
These are: classroom construc
tion aid for all institutions, funds
for needy students, and grants for
community junior colleges. Pres
ident Kennedy has backed the Sen
ate bill. .
The House voted only for the
construction funds.
Leaders of both sides praised
the final product and predicted
that it would win passage in both
House and Senate with bipartisan
support.
The college bill seems certain to
be the only part of Kennedy’s big
education aid package to win final
approval in the 87th Congress'.
Married Students
Are On Record
Aggie Wives Council has com
piled a list of all married stu
dents with their addresses and
major. Clubs interested in hav
ing the names of those pertain
ing to their clubs can obtain
them from the master list by
contacting Aggie Wives Council
secretary, Mrs. Sylvia Bookman,
A-10-Z College View, VI 6-8668.
est vote of the convention—665
out of 5,461—attended a caucus
Monday night while other dele
gates attended a series of fund
raising $12.50-a-plate dinners hon
oring Connally.
An ultra-conservative group
urged t adoption of a resolution
asking that National Democratic
Committeeman Byron Skelton,
Temple, be ousted for his so-called
liberal tendencies. Skelton’s term
runs until the 1964 presidential
year.
2. A FLYING SQUAD of high
union officials continued negotia
tions with Connally and other par
ty leaders over a party platform
that would favor labor more than
platforms of previous years when
state labor forces were allied with
convention minorities. State AFL-
CIO President Hank Brown prom
ised a progress report early Tues
day.
“It is past time when the work
ingman automatically votes Demo
cratic,” Brown told reporters Mon
day. “We are not going to be
hard-nosed about it but we will
work hardest for the candidate
wdio offers us the most.”
THE SAME 27 platform de
mands presented Democi’ats were
offered the state Republican con
vention in Fort Worth Monday.
Otherwise, there was nothing
but harmony signs for the con-
ventory that temporary chairman
Dolph Briscoe, prominent Uvalde
ranchman and former legislator,
will gavel to order.
“I believe it will be the most
harmonious convention I have ever
attended, and I have attended
quite a few,” said Daniel in his
last appearance as titular head
of the party Monday. Connally
officially became the party leader
at the convention.
Aggie Players
Prepare To Open
New Season
This year’s first Aggie Players
meeting' will be held Tuesday at
7:30 p.m. in the Music Hall. The
year’s program will be outlined
by director C. K. Esten.
Two of the productions hilled
for this year are “The Male Ani
mal” Nov. 6 and “The Lady’s Not
For Burning,” opening Dec. 9.
Casting for these plays will con
tinue today through Thursday.
All Aggies and residents of the
Bryan-College Station area inter
ested in participating are invited
to attend.
Polio Vaccine’s Fate
Here Under Study
GOP Prepares
Convention To Top
Democratic Rally
FORT WORTH DP)_-Texas Re
publicans wheeled through various
preliminaries Monday and set the
stage for what promises to be
their most lousing convention in
history.
On the eve of the convention,
some 3,200 delegates were still
drawing battle lines in the race
for state Republican chairman.
Seeking the state post are Peter
O’Donnell of Dallas, state cam
paign manager for GOP guber
natorial candidate Jack Cox, and
steel company executive Don Na
pier of Richmond, in Fort Bend
MSC Hosts
Management
Seminar Here
Some 30 management personnel
of the Dallas Power & Light Co.
arrived on campus Sunday after
noon. They are participating in a
management seminar which began
Monday and continues through
Saturday afternoon.
President Earl Rudder wel
comed the visitors to the campus
Sunday evening during an infor
mal meeting and buffet.
President C. A. Tatum of the
Dallas Power & Light Co. opened
Monday’s session of the seminar
with a discussion of “The Man
agement Job.” Other speakers to
address the personnel include in
dustrial consultants and members
of the academic world.
The A&M Division of Business
Administration is conducting this
seminar for persons from the mid
dle management echelon of the
Dallas utilities firm. A similar
program is planned Oct. 21 for an
other group of some 30 manage
ment pei'sons of the same firm.
The annual executive develop
ment course held on the A&M
campus early each year attracts
management personnel from a va
riety of. regional and national
firms.
The seminar planned for the
Dallas Power & Light Co. person
nel is similar to that of the an
nual course, Eckles said.
County.
Tad Smith of El Paso is retiring
from the post.
TEXAS’ LEADING Republicans,
Cox and U.S. Sen. John Tower,
lean toward O’Donnell as do most
of the GOP officials.
The executive committee Mon
day approved a rule which in ef
fect will leave Smith in the driv
er’s. seat until after the Nov. 8
election. It was pointed out that
this step was taken to insure the
status quo of the campaign and
to diminish the possibility of any
major changes at this stage of the
race.
The executive committee heard
a report from the state finance
chairman and concluded, Smith
said, that the party must “counter
John Connally’s dollars with Re
publican workers.”
■ Smith said the Republicans can
not match the Democratic guber
natorial candidate’s finances but,
he added, “we have a weapon—a
whole lot of enthusiastic door-to-
door workers Who can wage an
extensive local campaign.”
“I WOULD RATHER have
10,000 workers than $10,000,”
Smith declared, “or even one mil
lion dollars for that matter.”
Aggie Dies
In Auto Crash
Robert J. Strange, 21, member
of the Class of ’63, was killed in
stantly last Wednesday in the
head-on crash of his car and an
other on a crowded Nevada high
way.
Three other persons died in the
crash.
Strange attended school last
fall’s first semester after two in
itial years here. He was a former
member of Co. C-2 and the Fresh
man Drill Team.
Others killed were James E. Un
derwood, 20, a Texas Tech student
accompanying Strange; Robert
Hammond Jr. of Las Vegas, the
driver of the second car; and Ron
ald Bowman, also of Las Vegas,
who was a passenger in the Ham
mond auto.
¥
Medics May Axe
Sunday’s Drive
The fate of A&M’s next mass oral polio vaccine program
will be determined in a meeting tonight after the weekend’s
announcement from Washington that the Type III Sabin
vaccine might be harmful to adults.
Dr. Charles R. Lyons, director of the college hospital,
will meet with Bryan-College Station area physicians and
civic club leaders tonight to decide when to conduct the Type
III drive.
The drive was originally scheduled for Sunday, but will
probably be postponed, Lyons said. Type I vaccine was dis
tributed by the hospital during the summer.
TONIGHT’S MEETING comes on the heels of an an
nouncement by the U.S. Public* -
Health Service that use of the
Type III vaccine should be
temporarily halted for adults.
The decision, announced by
Surgeon General Luther Terry,
followed a day-long meeting of a
committee of polio experts who
advise the Public Health Service
on polio vaccines.
The committee’s session had
been moved up from Sept. 27 after
Canadian authorities recommend
ed against further mass use of the
mouth-administered vaccine pend
ing further study of its effects.
THE CANADIAN Federal
Health Department acted after re
ceiving reports of four cases of
paralytic polio among four million
persons who had received the Sa
bin live-virus vaccine.
The advisory committee met for
nearly 10 hours before making
its recommendation. Before Dr.
Terry read the official recommen
dation, Dr. Edward D. Shaw of the
University of California School of
Medicine, one of the experts, told
reporters what the panel had de
cided.
DR. SHAW said by adults, the
committee meant anyone past
school age.
Dr. Terry, in a news conference
following the meeting, said the
committee studied in detail 16
cases of polio that have occurred
in persons who received one of the
three types of Sabin oral polio
vaccine.
There were two cases in the
Type I group, one in Type II and
13 in Type III. All of those strick
en with Type III polio were adults.
The committee believes there is
sufficient evidence to indicate at
least some of these cases have
been caused by the vaccine,” Dr.
Terry said.
“May I Help You, Sir?”
Bill Andrews, ’63 from El Paso, finds the more pleasant with pretty Joan Payne deal-
grueling task of registering for classes at ing out rooms for the Housing Office.
Saturday’s organized madhouse is much
JFK Wed Only
One Time, Say
Publications
WASHINGTON UP)—A whisper
campaign that President Kennedy
once secretly married a divorcee
was branded baseless by two pub
lications Monday.
Newsweek magazine explored
the long-circulated rumor in an
article to be printed in this week’s
edition. The Washington Post,
which owns Newsweek, printed the
article in advance. Both publica
tions labeled the rumor ground
less.
THE RUMOR—the alleged “evi
dence” for which is an unsup
ported passage in a genealogy
book—has been current more than
a year. The White House declined
to comment to newsmen Monday,
as it has in the past.
To citizens who write the White
House about the rumor, this re
ply goes out: “The President has
been married only once—to his
wife Jacqueline Kennedy.”
The Associated Press and other
news organizations have checked
many sources over the months and
never found substantiation for the
report of an early marriage.
THE RUMOR stems from a pas
sage in a privately printed family
history, “The Blauvelt Family
Genealogy,” written by a member
of the family’s 10th generation,
Louis Blauvelt. He died at 82,
two years before the book was
published in 1957.
The Blauvelts came to this coun
try from Holland in 1638. In
tracing their descendants, one en
try in the book under the 11th gen
eration, says:
“DURIE, KERR, Malcolm, Isa
bel O. Cooper. We have no birth
date. She was born Kerr, but took
the name of her stepfather. She
first married Firmin Desloge, IV.
They were divorced. Durie then
married F. John Bersbach. They
were divorced, and she married,
third, John F. Kennedy, son of
Joseph P. Kennedy, one time am
bassador to England. There wei'e
no children of the second or third
marriages.”
The genealogy adds that a
daughter was born to the mar
riage to Desloge.
NEWSWEEK said that in Blau-
velt’s records, now in the custody
of his daughter, Mrs. William K.
Smith, of East Orange, N.J., there
is no substantiation for the Ken
nedy marriage reference in the
genealogy.
Under the entry for the alleged
marriage to ‘John F. Kennedy’
there is only an old clipping from
a Miami gossip column, reporting
Miss Malcolm and young Jack
Kennedy had been seen in a res
taurant right after World War II.
Mrs. Smith’s husband, William,
informed The Associated Press
that there is only one notation
concerning a Kennedy marriage
in the records of Louis Blauvelt.