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Quarterbacks See Page 6 Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY/SEPTEMBER 20, 1962 Number 1 System Accepts 5,000 In Language Profs 9 Tours Almost Encircle World 'ah Students enrolled for courses-in Iny of four modern languages will lenefit from summer projects of offi iaculty members. In addition, :d ii fifth member of the department pam^ias resumed his academic duties esda; Bui herinf r’s ii ffter spending a year in Morocco. Language teachers are Dr. Jack Senate Slates First Meeting 1 )f Year Tonight The Student Senate kicks off he new year Thursday night with ts first meeting- at 7:30 in the Press Club Library of the YMCA pudding. Highlighting the first agenda hill be proposals for traffic safe ty and the improvement of tele phone service in dormitories. In addition the senate will ap- oint a chaplain, name a four-man elegation to the Exchange Store dvisory Board, hear committee eports and approve a budget for the year. Due for discussion in the com- ittee reports are the student in surance program, seating at Kyle Field for football games and the annual blood bank. I Preliminary talks are also [Scheduled on possible means to achieve national recognition for gjhe college, according to Sheldon Best, student body president and 'head of the senate. A. Dabbs, J. Donald Deliz, Martin Gottschalk, M. C. Quinn and Dr. John M. Skrivanek. They con ducted research projects or stud ied in France, Germany, Mexico, See Picture On Page 4 Morocco and among Russian refu gees now residing in this nation. One faculty member, Dr. John M. Skrivanek, and another scholar of the Russian language have completed a textbook and made tape recordings of Russian as spoken by lifelong speakers of that language. DABBS SPENT a part of Au gust in Mexico City working in the National Archives. His re search concerns the development of the archaeology of Latin Amer ica. Student Insurance Policies Available New Student Insurance Poli cies remain available and can be obtained until Oct- 6 in the fiscal office, according to Ken Stanton, chairman of the wel fare committee of the Student Senate- The policies, underwritten by National Home Life Assurance Co. of St. Louis, Mo., cost $8.50 for coverage until Sept. 1, 1963. A total of 112 policies were sold during registration, Stan ton said. He gathered new information about the archaeological expedi tions of Capt. Guillaume Dupaix, who was one of the first qualified students of the old cultures of the Aztec, Maya and Zapotec Indians. Deliz attended courses at the Sorbonne in Paris, and he made tape recordings of French as spok en by various people in Paris. Gottschalk attended a special one-month course at the Univer sity of Heidelberg. The course consisted of seminars and lectures on German culture, history and language. In addition to his stud ies, he brought back several tapes made by native Germans. Quinn had an opportunity to travel extensively in Morocco, usually with Moroccans. He vis ited in many Moroccan homes and was able to learn a great deal about their way of life and the problems facing the newly inde pendent nation. SKRIVANEK, who teaches Rus sian, received a grant from the Texas Engineering Experiment Station for the summer months of June to August. His research project, entitled “Selected Russian Readings and Conversation,” is now being submitted to a publish er. A special feature of their work used 20 native Russians in pre paring tape recordings of all of the lessons. Skrivanek woi’ked in the New Jersey-New York area in making the tapes. TOPIC: WORLD TENSION'- Smooth Machine Sets Scene For- By RONNIE BOOKMAN Battalion Managing Editor In less than three months an :xpected 175 delegates from uni versities in the Umited States, Mexico and Canada will converge >n the A&M campus for the iighth annual Student Conference In National Affairs. Delegates, all top students and ielected by the president of their respective schools, will arrive to find a smooth running machine that will expose them to the en tire spectrum of opinions on the topic “Sources of World Tension.” SCONA VIII Chairman Vic Don nell kept his sub-chairmen and co- workers busy throughout the sum mer months planning and prepar ing for the giant conference. The senior from Dallas, also command ing officer of the second brigade, spends most of his class-free time readying for the Dec. 12 opening session. He said: “Everybody connected with SCONA has to spend a lot of time on it. “This conference is the largest °f its kind—in the number of People participating and in finan- oial responsibility. “For speakers we have had am bassadors, to governmental lead ers and controversial political fig ures—SCONA has a fine record f°r its interesting programs and *ts educational offerings to stu dents.” ALREADY CONFIRMED this lear as one of the top speakers f°r the four-day meeting is James d- Wadsworth, former U.S. am bassador to the United Nations. Backing up Wadsworth will be other major speakers, yet to be announced, and a host of prom inent round-table co-chairmen to skillfully guide student delegates in their discussions. Perhaps the biggest and most back-breaking task connected with SCONA has fallen to John Krebs, senior from Victoria and Corps Scholastic Officer. He was given the task of find ing funds to finance the transpor tation, food and housing of all delegates as well as other expenses of a cultural exchange such as SCONA. A budget of $18,660 was set last January. Krebs is directing a fi nance drive that has netted $12,- 000 to date. CALLS ON businessmen started during the Easter holidays in Houston, Dallas, Corpus Christi and San Antonio. During the sum mer almost every Texas city, as well as many in Louisiana plus Monterrey and Mexico City, were canvassed. Krebs said: “Our workers pitched i n and made 185 individual calls on pros pective patrons. Although we are some $6,000 short now, more mon ey comes in each day. “I feel sure that with a little more effort,' especially on the ]part of those committeemen who were not able to help out in the summer finance drive, that SCONA VIII will have $17,000 from about 80- 100 sponsors safely on deposit by Thanksgiving.” PLANNING COMMITTEE Chairman Frank Townsend, in co operation with Bob Wimbish, MSC Great Issues head, have been se lecting speakers. With former U.N. Ambassador Wadsworth already on the agenda, letters to other speak- VIC DONNELL ers of the same high caliber-have already been written. Program Committee boss Joe Horn and his six-man team plotted the general course of this year’s conference last spring. The topic, “Sources of World Tension” was selected ’ and sub-topics of “Na tionalistic Aspirations,” “Popula tion Explosion” and “Arms Con trol” were chosen. Horn’s work is continuing. He explained: “Now we are in the process of preparing a bibliography for the use of conference delegates in get ting ready for SCONA. It will also be our job to select Aggies to fill in as recorders for the roundtable sessions.” Peter C. Forester, chairman of the Housing Committee, said his group had reserved all rooms in the Memorial Student Center dur ing the conference ending Dec. 15. He added: “Over the summer our commit tee assisted in the finance drive. We will naturally become more active just prior to and during the conference.” The work of the conference man ager and his assistants is begin ning to increase. Manager Rob ert Hall will be in charge of tick ets, meeting rooms and the ever- important food events. Dave Thrasher, chaii-man of the secretariat committee, is prepar ing to issue the first of four sep arate booklets, including informa tion to introduce SCONA to dele gates and sponsors, provide a his tory of the conferences as well as a sketch of the overall operation and explanation of particular de tails to those attending. Donnell, examining the progress of SCONA VIII, said: “We have a tremendous problem to overcome. We have to top last year’s conference. Each year has been such*an increased success it’s a real challenge to SCONA VIII. But with our schedule of speakers and topics I don’t think we’ll have any trouble.” Keimedys Vote Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy and his wife leave voting- booths after casting their ballots in the Massachusetts primary at the Charles Street Meeting House in Boston. The President’s younger brother scored a sweeping victory over Edward J. McCormack Jr., state attorney general and cousin of House Speaker John McCormack for Democratic nomination as U. S. Senator. (AP Wirephoto) New Also Degrees Okayed CLASHES DUE 9 en Opponent aigns BOSTON <A>> — Edward Kenne dy and George Cabot Lodge were off and running- Wednesday in a fevered Massachusetts senatorial campaign likely to explode in for eign and domestic policy clashes: Kennedy, 30, swamped his op ponent, Edward J. McCormack Jr., in Tuesday’s record - shattering- voting to win the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat his oldest brother, John F., swapped for the presidency. Lodge, 35, scion of a politically famous clan, won a narrower but clear-cut victory over Rep. Lau rence Curtis, 69, for the Republi can nomination. Both Lodge and Kennedy are seeking their first elective office. COMPLETE UNOFFICIAL re turns from the state gave Kenne dy 559,251, McCormack 247,366. Kennedy won by about 69 per cent of the ballots cast id a Democratic contest that had been regarded in advance as likely to be close. On the complete count, Lodge rolled up 245,210 to Curtis’ 197,- 660. He won about 55 per cent of the total votes cast in the Repub lican primary. Based on ballots cast in the sen atorial primai’ies — representing about half of those eligible—the Democrats outpolled the Repub licans nearly 2-1. But this was traditional in modern times in a state that has so many independ ent voters that it went strongly for Kennedy for President and yet gave GOP Sen. Leverett Salton- stall an easy victory in 1960. WITH THE assumption that anything can happen in Massachu setts in November, both senatorial candidates took only short breath ers after the vote tabulation and swung immediately into a cam paign likely to furnish a thorough going- test of the popularity of President Kennedy and his pro grams. Young Kennedy got up with’ the Fall Enrollment Passes 8,000 Unofficial figures from the registrar’s office Thursday morning indicate this fall’s en rollment may have passed 8,000 with still more coming in. Registration doesn’t end until Saturday, but already 98 stu dents have moved into Hotard Hall arid innumerable others are living three-to-a-room. An 8,000-plus figure would be the highest here since 1948-49, when 8,536 enrolled for the fall semester. The highest peak reached since veterans returned from World War II was 8,651 in 1946-47. Last year’s fall enrollment total was 7,694. morning sun to make good on his election night pledge that the cam paign starts now. After a brief sleep, he was out at sunrise greet ing workers at the Boston Naval Shipyard and having a mug- up— hot coffee and breakfast —- with fishermen aboard a trawler. Matching this activity, Lodge took off on. a campaig-n swing to 'Spring-field, Mass. The Republican candidate had made his victory claim at 2:30 a.m., long after Mc Cormack, the state attorney gen eral, had conceded his defeat by Kennedy. Exes Planning Student Reception In Baton Rouge Plans for a reception for stu dents and former students in Baton Rouge this weekend were disclosed Wednesday by Skipper Post, ’61 from Baton Rouge. Post said the Baton Rouge A&M Club is planning the reception both before and after Saturday night’s game in the Caribbean Room of the Bellemont Motor Hotel. The hotel is on the Airline High- w*ay and visitors will pass by en route to the city itself, Post added. Post said Wendell Scott, presi dent of the Baton Rouge exes, was expecting approximately 100 for mer student couples and 75 stu dent couples for the reception. The room will open at noon Sat urday. Exes will also sell mums and corsages at the hotel. Post said, as well as provide travel infoi-ma- tion. Grants-in-aid, gifts, scholarships, fellowships and awards totalling $225,885,46 were accepted by the A&M System Board of Directors during Thursday’s meeting here. The board also awarded contracts worth more than $227,000 and approved requests from A&M and Arlington State College for the establishment of eight new degree pro grams at the two schools. A total of $67,965 was received by A&.M to be used for scholarships, fellowships and awards. The college received $1,000 from Dow Chemical Co., $1,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation and $500 from the Schlumberger Foundation to be used for research and grants-in-aid. Mrs. J. R. Tabor of Hous-"* * ton established the “J. Rodney Tabor Memorial Fund” of $10,000, the income from which is to be used for annual merit awards for students in the Division of Architecture. Tarleton State College received $1,200 from the Texas Power and Light Co. of Dallas for assistance in the scholarship program. THE TEXAS AGRICULTURAL Experiment Station received $96,- 994.50 in grants-in-aid from 23 donors and gifts valued at $3,908.08 from four donors. Among the contracts awarded by the Board of Directors were: $150,792 to W. E. Kutzschbach Co. of Bryan, for expanding the central heating system here; $48,- 960 to O. C. Braly of Overton for the building of eight fire lookout towers for the Texas Forest Serv ice; $19,242 to Hellencamp Engi neering Co. of Jacksonville, to air condition two Texas Forest Service buildings at Lufkin; and $8,990 to W. H. Branson Co. of Houston for reroofing the new Maritime Acad emy building at Fort Crockett in Galveston. UPON AUTHORIZATION of the Texas Commission on Higher Edu cation the following new degree programs will be offered at A&M: Bachelor of Arts in government, Master of A rts in government, Master of Science in laboratory animal medicine and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in education. New degrees to be offered at Arlington State are the following: Bachelor of Business Administra tion in accounting, Bachelor of Arts in government, Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and the secondary teaching- certificate. Two-Year-Old Escapes Harm In Car Scrape Daniel Carey, 2-year old son of Air Force Capt. and Mrs. Gerald J. Carey Jr., was struck by a car and slightly injured 6:30 p.m. Tuesday when he toddled from be hind a parked vehicle. The mishap occurred in front of the Carey home at 4300 Oaklawn. The boy’s father, a graduate stu dent at A&M working toward a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering, witnessed the acci dent. He said: “I was watching seven or eig-ht children playing in my yard just before dark. As I sat on the front; porch, I saw Daniel run into the street from behind a parked car. “I yelled for him to stop when I saw and heard another car com ing down the street with its brakes squealing-.” The car, driven by a woman, swerved to the rig-ht and brushed the blond, blue-eyed child with its left front'fender, Carey said. He added: “There was nothing- the driver could do. I thought Daniel was dead, but he was just bruised. Only a split second separated a bruise from a fatality.” Leaders Invited To Inauguration Chancellor M. T. Harrington and President Earl Rudder have been invited to attend the Oct. 10* inauguration of Dr. Kenneth Pit- zer as president of Rice Univer sity in Houston. Also invited is Richard J. Bal- dauf, associate professor in the Department of Wildlife Manage ment. Rudder will represent A&M, Harrington will represent the A&M System and Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges and Baldauf will repre sent the national president of The Society of the Sigma Xi. State Health Commissioner Favors Using Sabin Vaccine AUSTIN (A 3 ) — The state health commissioner’s oral polio advisory committee recommended Wednes day continued use of all types of oral polio vaccine in Texas, includ ing the controversial Type III. Grant Bui-ton, head of the State Health Department’s division of public health information, said the recommendation “should clear up any doubt in the minds of local medical people.” Bui’ton said the recommendation contains the same advice as one Monday by the state health com- ! missioner, but that it has more i status because the committee is ! made up of local authorities from five cities. The committee’s statement said: “Sabin oral polio vaccine Types I and II are licensed and effective and the members of this group feel that their use should be en dorsed and encouraged by local medical authorities. Type III vac cine is also a licensed and effec tive vaccine and should be used with infants, children and the en tire population when in the opinion of local medical authorities the presence of Type III polio consti tutes a threat to the community.” The five-hour meeting, which was called to formulate a uniform policy on the use of Sabin vaccine in Texas, was attended by repre sentatives from Dallas, San An tonio, Houston, Austin and Waco; the chairman and executive secre tary of the Texas Medical Associ ation; and State Health Depart ment staff members. Wire Review By The Associated Press WORLD NEWS TEHRAN, Iran—A special gov ernment committe says the United States, Sweden and Nor way have offered to rebuild three villages in Iran’s earthquake zone where 10,000 persons were killed recently. Iran has agreed to the proposal and the United States intends to build 1,000 houses under its own direction, the committee said. U.S. NEWS WASHINGTON—Great Britain proposed Wednesday a hotly con troversial overhaul of the free world’s monetary system, then quickly agreed that its sugges tions are not needed at present. The British plan, which would help bail out hard currency coun tries that run into monetary diffi culties, was advanced by Chancel lor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON — Red China will probably have some nuclear devices within a year to three years, the top U.S. disarmament official said in testimony re leased W’ednesday. William C. Foster, director of the Arms Control and Disarma ment Agency, estimated that “over 10 additional countries can acquire at least a few nuclear weapons and a crude delivery capability during the next 10 years assuming no basic change in technology.” TEXAS NEWS CLOVIS, N.M.—An Air Force Fll jet fighter crashed shortly after noon Wednesday in West Clovis but the pilot parachuted to safety.