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Aggieland, Please Lloyd G. Smithey, aero major from Rosenberg', picks up his Aggieland from Mrs. C. L. Dyer, secretary in Office I of the Student Publications. Students may now collect yearbooks at the office. About 3,000 Aggielands have al- [ready been distributed. Island Bill ent To President! [fter Compromise e Hoo?i idy of til r ered fM that e for and k& ort Worta WASHINGTON (AP)_The long- Dawson Bending bin to establish a national also ^peashore area on Padre Island was ■ from'bent to the White House Tuesday, order u| The Senate completed congres- ;ixth-p'%i)na] action on the measure by [ccepting House amendments cut the i in Anif-I ess, Ho'-i enior Steak Fry s Near Sell Out Almost the entire allotment of i50 tickets for Thursday night’s nior class steak fry for the foot- iall team has been sold, Class IPresident Charles Blaschke report- led late Tuesday. I The steak fry is scheduled at 1:30 p.m. in Hensel Park, with |J. Gordon Gay, coordinator of re- ■gious affairs, handling all de- Jtails. I After the meal, Coach Foldberg Will speak briefly and the players Sind seniors will have the oppor- lunity to mingle and become ac quainted. " No tickets are needed for the Wter-meal festivities, Blaschke re- lorted. mother Summer Fatality Reported Walter C. Sanders Jr., 19-year (old member of the Class of ’64, lied Aug. 13 in a Ft. Worth one- (ar accident it was reported today. Sanders suffered a broken neck. A members of Co. G-l, he was an rchitect major from Weatherford, he accident occurred as Sanders rove to work in his week-old ports car. ting the park from 88 to 81 miles. President Kennedy, who urged creation of the seashore area, is expected to sign the measure soon. THE NATIONAL Park Service will build roads from the north and south ends of the 117-mile- long island and will service the area. The narrow island clings to the Gulf coast from Corpus Christ! to Port Isabel, near Brownsville. Three separate measures to es tablish the park w^ere submitted at this session of Congress, all by Texans. The Senate version, written by Sen. Ralph Yarborough, D-Tex., would have allowed 88 miles of the island for the federal pai'k. Reps. John Young and Joe Kil gore, in whose districts Padre Is land lies, offered bills for a 65- mile-long area. THEY SAID many property owners urged the shorter length so more land 'would remain avail able for private enterprises such as motels and restaurants. THE COST OF acquiring land is estimated at between $4 and $5 million. Conrad Wirth, director of the National Park Service, had asked Congress’ fast action before costs rose. The House version of the bill authorized $5 million to buy land. The southernmost 12 miles of the seashore area—between the Port Mansfield cut and the Wil- lacy-Cameron County line—will be split to leave the Laguna side of the island open to private develop ment. Land between the mean high tide of the Gulf and a line 1,500 feet to th west will be included in the seashore area. ed Kennedy Picked or Senate Race BOSTON GP) — President Ken edy’s kid brother, Edward M. Ted) Kennedy, won the Massa- husetts Democratic senatorial mination Tuesday night over dward J. McCormack Jr. McCormack, nephew of House Peaker John W. McCormack, con- eded defeat by his 30-year-old op- °nent. He pledged himself to upport Kennedy and the Demo- r atic ticket in the general elec- ion. Kennedy thus won, in his lr st bid for elective office, the ‘irht to contest with a Republican Pponent to serve out the two re- aining years of the Senate term resident Kennedy vacated in 1960. At the point where McCormack onceded, the count from 351 of e state’s 1,988 precincts stood: Kennedy 96,988; McCormack 51,- 638. AFTER A CLOSE early battle m which the lead was exchanged several times, Rep. Laurence Cur tis hacked out a small, but appar ently growing lead over .George Cabot Lodge for the Republican nomination. EDWARD M. KENNEDY Cbe Battalion Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1962 Number 140 Anti-Polio Drive Cancelled NEAR WAR SITE Aggies Help To Build College In North Africa At Chott Maria near the Tunisi an city of Sousse, Aggies are now playing a vital role in the build ing of a new agricultural college. Veterans of the North African campaign remember the Sousse area as the location of Gen. Eisen hower’s headquarters. Not far to the north, at Enfidaville, the last of Nazi Germany’s “Afrika Korps” panzer divisions surrendered. This summer Henry Ross, A&M professor of agricultural educa tion, made his third visit to help the Tunisian government plan an American-type agricultural college. A three-man team, composed of Ross; W. R. (Dede) Matthews, a Bryan architect; and Dr. Jack Grey, coordinator of foreign pro grams for the A&M System, visit ed Tunisia last spring. A&M Chan cellor M. T. Harrington visited Tunisia in late August. A permanent five-man team is expected to follow this fall. Five others will be added to the group next year. By the fall of 1964, a 15-man A&M team is expected to be working in construction and or ganization of the new college. Tunisia’s new agricultural col lege is to be based on the Ameri can land-grant concept of “liberal, scientific and practical Higher ed ucation.” Ross made his first visit to Tunisia in May 1961, following a Tunisian government request to the U. S. State Department for aid in building an American-style college of agriculture. The Tunisian government seeks to relate more closely agricultural education, extension and research to current problems of Tunisian farmers — much the same as Am ericans have done since President Abraham Lincoln signed the Land- Grant Act of 100 years ago. While Tunisia has existing agri cultural schools, none presently is patterned on the land-grant idea. The Chott Maria Agricultural School will be Tunisia’s experiment in agricultural education the Am erican way. Consolidated By Next Fall A&M Consolidated Independent School District has been ordered to desegregate its classes by Sep tember of next year. Superintendent of Schools W. T. Riedel said that he did not believe that the school district would ap peal the ruling by Federal Dis trict Judge Joe Ingraham of Hous ton. Judge Ingraham railed Monday that desegrating is to start in the first grade next year and advance one grade each year thereafter through 1974. All grades must be desegregated by 1975. Riedel expressed the hope that a local election would not have to be called in the issue to keep from losing state support. It is a state law that a local election must be held to acquire public approval for integration or state support will be withdrawn. As we see it, the results of such an election would be of no value in the face of federal requirements, he said. It has been ruled by the attor ney general in cases where deseg regation was voted down, that the school districts had done their part in complying with state laws and that state aid would be continued despite the action taken by the federal government. Riedel said the ruling came as no surprise to him. A ruling had been anticipated toward the end of September or early in October. Initial plans call for opening the school at 7th grade through college freshman level. Later the first three grades will be dropped and three new grades, 14, 15, and 16, added to give the seven-year school senior college status. Staff members going to Tunisia from A&M will be given two months of intensive orientation here, including language study (French) and instruction in cul- Labor-Demo Friction Heats Convention EL PASO </P)—An eight-word plank in the party platform—“Re tention of our Texas right to work law”—sparked all the explosive action at the state Democratic Convention Monday. Gubernatorial nominee John Connally rammed through his platform without change of a com ma or period despite bitter oppo sition by organized labor to the right to work provision. TEXAS AFL-CIO President Hank Brown immediately an nounced that labor would recon sider its July 19 endorsement of the Democratic nominee. He called another meeting of the Committee on Political Education in Austin on Oct. 13 to give a second look at its earlier endorsement. Brown called the so-called right to work plank “totally unaccept able to us.” THE PLATFORM committee re sisted all efforts to make any changes in the 12-page long, 71- plank document. C o m m i 11 e e Chairman Frank Erwin Jr. of Austin called it “the most .exhaus tive and specific platform you have ever seen no matter how many conventions you’ve at tended.” Included in the rejected changes were nine resolutions passed by the conservative Harris County delegation, an attempt to include 13 demands made by Brown be fore the committee and a list of planks on voter registration, elec tion law changes and state con stitutional revision submitted by the League of Women Voters. National Science Foundation co ordinator Coleman Loyd has an nounced availability of fellowships for the academic year, 1963-64. The program offers a senior postdoctoral with eligibility re stricted to a doctoral degree and five years or’ more experience. In Thursday’s Balt: SCONA’s Standing In tomorrow's Battalion you will read a complete and up-to- date progress report on the eighth annual Student Confer ence on National Affairs, to be held here starting Dec. 14. SCONA VIII, with a budget ex ceeding $15,000, has already scheduled James J. Wadsworth, former U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations, as one of the main speakers. Freshmen and newcomers to the A&M campus will want to read about this gigantic educa tional conference. So will upper classmen and seasoned members of the academic community. — Thursday in The Battalion. tural adjustment, economics of un derdeveloped countries, and me thods of technological change. Selected Tunisians will be sent to A&M to study in a long-time parti cipant education program. Tuni sians are expected to be selected for both undergraduate and post graduate studies leading to the Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in agriculture and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in specialized fields of science and agriculture. The long-time participant pro gram in Texas is expected to de velop leaders to build agriculture in Tunisia and to provide faculty and staff members for the new agricultural college. Matthews made the trip to Tun isia last spring as an A&M con sultant, studying suitability of the college location, materials avail able, and methods of construction most likely to be used. Later Mat thews probably will design the school and handle working draw ings and supervision of construc tion in collarboration with a Tun isian architect. What is the philosophy of the A&M Tunisian team? Dr. Gray sums it up: “It’s a real challenge for all of us.” State GOP Ends Record Convention FORT WORTH (A>) — Harmoni ous Texas Republicans wound up their largest convention in history Tuesday, naming Peter O’Donnell state chairman and sounding re peated cries for return of two- party rule to the state. O’Donnell, a 38-year-old Dallas investments broker, won unani mous approval to the party’s top administrative post by the more than 3,000 enthusiastic delegates. The new chairman, replaces Tad Smith of El Paso who stepped down from the post voluntarily. However, under a rules commit tee provision, Smith will remain in power until after the Nov. 6 General Election. Convention delegates went on record supporting Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) as the party’s 1964 candidate for the presidency. A lengthy platform reaffirmed support of the state’s so-called “right to work” law. A science faculty ‘fellowship re quires three years of experience teaching science, mathematics or engineering at collegiate level as of time of application. Salaries run to a maximum of $15,000 per year. Under the cooperative graduate plan one must be admitted to graduate status prior to begin ning tenure. For 12 months the pay is $2,400 with supplements up to $1,000. To qualify for a summer gradu ate teaching assistant one acade mic year as a graduate teaching assistant at participating institu tion is required with pay ranging from $50 to $85 per week. A doctoral degree is needed for a postdoctoral with a compensa tion of $5,000 for the first 12 months and $5,500 for the second 12. Finally, the graduate fellowship allows for admittance to graduate status prior to beginning tenure. The stipend would range from $1,- 800 to $2,000 plus dependency al lowance. Applications and further in formation can be obtained by con tacting Loyd in Room 2, Military Science Building. A&M To Offer Engineers New Ph. D. Program The Texas Commission on High er Education has recently approved the offering of a Doctor of Philo sophy Degree in engineering here. The establishment of this gener al graduate program will permit the investigation of new concepts in engineering which are either identified with no existing branch of engneering, or include several existing branches to limited ex tents, but with no one branch suffi ciently emphasized for the concept to be clearly within its sphere of interest and competence. In order to administer this new program, Dean of Engineering Fred J. Benson has appointed a com mittee with the approval of the dean of graduate studies, Wayne C. Hall. It consists of Dr. Charles H. Samson, Jr., professor of aero space engineering and civil engi neering; Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr., professor of petroleum engineering and vice chancellor for develop ment; and Dr. Richard E. Wainerdi, professor of engineering science and associate dean of engineering. Wainerdi will serve as chairman of this committee. Students possessing a Master’s degree, or its equivalent, who de sire to be considered for the inter disciplinary degree program in en gineering should apply to Dean Hall. Applications and supporting material will be referred to-the In terdisciplinary Program Admini strative Committee for evaluation and recommendations. Silver Taps Honor Wesley P. Hudson The first Silver Taps cere mony of the 1962-63 school year was conducted Tuesday night in memory of Wesley Paul Hudson, ’64 from Houston, who was kill ed Sept. 9, when his car went out of control and overturned 21 miles south of Marshall, Ark. Hudson was the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Hudson, 709 Gale St. in Houston. He was scheduled to return this fall as a junior in Squadron 1. WORLD NEWS MOSCOW — The Soviet govern ment shifted its propaganda cam paign on Berlin into high gear Tuesday with a charge of mili tary collusion between France and West Germany “for revision of the results of World War II.’ A 2,000-word statement issued through the official news agency Tass said results of the recent visit of French President Charles de Gaulle with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer show an urgent need for “the con clusion of a German peace treaty and normalization on this basis of the situation in West Berlin.” No deadline was set. ★ ★ ★ BERLIN — Twenty-nine East Germans reached freedom through the longest tunnel ever bored under the Berlin wall. F uture Action Tabled Sunday’s planned mass polio innyculation with Type III Sabin oral vaccine has been definitely cancelled, Dr. Charles R. Lyons, director of the college hospital, reported late Tuesday. The action came after a meeting of local physicians and civic club leaders to decide the fate of the anti-polio drive. Definite action on the remainder of the program was tabled until a study could be made of decisions made in Houston, Dr. Lyons said. He added that a committee was selected to eventually set a date for giving Type II vaccine. No new date is expected in the near future. The college hospital is coordinat ing its anti-polio drive with Bryan- College Station and gave Type I vaccine during the summer. Lyons pointed out that Type I and Salk vaccine are still available at the hospital. INDECISION ON the use of Type III resulted from an an nouncement Saturday by the U. S. Public Health Service that use of the vaccine could possibly be harmful to adults. The decision, announced by Sur geon General Luther Terry, fol lowed 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. Ter ry read the official recommenda tion, 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. West Berlin authorities announc ed Tuesday. There was no indication the Communists had uncovered the underground escape route. The group which escaped last Friday night was the largest mass flight through the wall since it was built 13 months ago. The previous high was the escape of 28 through a tunnel last January. U. S. NEWS WASHINGTON — The House Appropriations Committee recom mended Tuesday a cut of nearly $1.4 billion in new funds for for eign aid and labeled some admin istration estimates of needs as “pie-in-the-sky figures.” There are strong indications that the 19 per cent cut will be sustained by the House when it passes the money bill later this week. National Science Foundation Announces New Fellowships Wire Review By the Associated Press