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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.
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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.