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A. zone fc 1 a tft 42-6 anj kidoS See Page 3 Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1962 Number 16 ■ Next SHIRER AUTOGRAPHS BOOKS . . noted author spoke here Tuesday night. Shot Off, fry Due In November CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (A 3 ) — The space agency Tuesday night postponed for about four Weeks the launching of the Rang er 5 mooncraft because of the threat posed by Tropical Storm Ella. . The shot had been scheduled for Wednesday morning after a one-day delay because of trouble with a radio telemetry system in the spacecraft. A statement by the National Aerinautics and Space Adminis tration said the storm, churning some 300 miles off the Florida coast, made it impossible to Active Agfenda For Senate Discussion of plans for the Cam- Pus Chest drive will probably highlight the Student Senate meet ing at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Room 3-D of the Memorial Student Cen ter. The annual di'ive is scheduled the week of Oct. 29-Nov. 2. Privileges of distinguished stu dents are also listed on the a- Senda for debate. On tap are airing "'nys in which distinguished stu dents can be given more recogni tion than is presently bestowed up on them. It has been pointed out in previous meetings that the civil ian distinguished student receives nothing more than a wallet card ior his achievement and that the co rps distinguished student has the card and a i-ibbon which only can t> e worn with the uniform. A sportsmanship dinner for TCU student leaders will also be discuss ed at the meeting. Also likely for the session will no a report by the issues com mittee on extended library hours, which have been on trial on Satur days. This committee will also re port on efforts to have the library kept open until midnight on week nights. There will be a report on the tecent sweetheart selection and of plans to present the sweetheart, Lynn Parks, to the student body. launch the rocket to the moon in the four-day favorable period in October. The period ends Friday. The next opitmum launch peri od, when the moon is in a desired position for launching, starts about Nov. 13. THE MIAMI Weather Bureau earlier had warned interests along the southern Atlantic coast — especially an area between Palm Beach and Daytona Beach, Fla. — to keep in close touch with Ella advisories. Cape Canaveral lies between the two cities. A NASA spokesman reported that predicted winds for the Cape on Wednesday would be marginal for the launching. If the count down were undertaken, he report ed, there might be a possibility the shot would get off. However, he explained, if the winds proved too severe — more than 31 miles an hour-or if some other trouble developed to halt the launching, officials might face a “desperate situation” in remov ing the rocket and spacecraft from the pad to the safety of a hanger in case hurricane winds should hit Cape Canaveral. If Ranger 5 ( is launched in No vember, it is to streak across 227,500 miles to the moon. As Ranger 5 approaches the moon it is to snap more than 140 television pictures of the surface. ‘Third Reich’ Author Speaks By RONNIE BOOKMAN Battalion Managing Editor William L. Shirer, former foreign correspondent and author of “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” said Tues day he couldn’t understand why the Berlin wall hasn’t been blown up. “I don’t know why there aren’t 10 or 15 dynamite ex plosions along the wall each night.” he said. The famous “voice from Berlin” and precise historian of the Nazi regime made the remark Tuesday afternoon at an autograph party for his books. “You have to remember that at the time the wall was built the United States had perhaps 5,000 troops in Berlin. The British and the French had perhaps 5,000 more. The Russians had about 27 divi- - * Aggie Gigger Strikes Again; Gets Struck A part-time reporter for Time- Magazine, well-known if not re spected in College Station for his schoolhouse reporting, has been charged with the assualt of the principal of a school he was in vestigating in Lubbock. According to a report carried by the Associated Press, Robert W. (Bob) Sherrill, author of a re cent Time article about A&M, has been charged with simple assault of Robert Rich, principal of Fren- ship School in Lubbock. The AP reported that Sherrill was in West Texas doing research on the impact of migrant labor on school districts for the Texas Em ployment Commission. Rep. Don Kennard of Fort Worth, chairman of the House com mittee conducting the research, has gone to Lubbock to confer with Sbferrill and Rich about the in cident. sions.” Shirer said by “unofficial” nightly harrassment the East | Germans would be kept busy repairing the wall and the ex plosions would tend to scare them. He spoke last night before an almost capacity crowd at Guion i Hall as the kick-off speaker for the Memorial Student Center’s Great Issues series. Shirer began his journalistic ca reer as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in 1925 and in 1937 switched over to the Co lumbia Broadcasting System. IN ADDITION to “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” Shirer has authored “Berlin Diary” and “Midcentury Journey.” The author and analyst said the State Department and the Penta gon are deeply worried that Khrushchev will intensify the Ber lin crisis shortly after our elec tions are oyer in November. “The Berlin Crisis could be in tensified by Khrushchev to serve his own ends,” Shirer noted. “He will be trying to humiliate the Western democracies; he will be trying to strengthen his own position in Russia and in the rest of the world; and he will be trying to split . the Western Allies over the question of Berlin.” A MEMBER of the Council on Foreign Relations, Shirer said he thinks the United States will fight, if necessary, to save BeiTin, al though he wonders whether Berlin “with the whole of West Germany thrown in” is worth a nuclear war. Turning toward unification of East and West Germany, he said Russia positively wants to keep Germany divided. He said the Russian people were nearly brought to their knees twice by German aggression and they did n’t intend to make a third chance possible. “Also, the English and French people along with the smaller countries who have lived under German rule don’t want to see reunification,” he said. Shirer said the German people themselves are not in a frenzy for reunification. “The only persons interested in the reunification of Germany—for reasons I don’t understand—are the Americans,” he said. IS'ew ID Cards Delayed; Will Be Here Soon, Maybe William J. Graff, Dean of Instruction, announced Tues day that the new identification cards will be delayed for at least another week or so. Due to manufacturing difficulties cards have been re turned at a rate of 800 a day with only 3,600 having been re turned to date, Graff said. The new cards are embossed with the student’s name, identification number and address. They contain a pho tograph of the student and are similar to credit cards. The new documents will be used for cashing checks, checking out books in the library, fee assessment and regis tration. The maroon and white cards will be stamped with im printing machines similar to those used in service stations. All cards are expected to be returned the later part of next week. Arrangements have not yet been made as to when and where students can obtain them, Graff said. Football Seating Cards Required Civilian student are urged to pickup their football seating cards before Friday at 5 p.m. Jeff Harp, president of the Civil ian Student Council, said many student did not have the cards for the Texas Tech game and had to sit in places other than their respective sections. Harp said cards can be secured from counselors. Those without seating cards will not be permit ted to sit in upperclassmen sec tions, Harp said. Volunteers Take Oath Roger M. John, commanding officer of the estine, right, was guest speaker. Ninety- Ross Volunteer Company, left, presided at seven juniors took the oath of a Ross Volun- the Tuesday night banquet at which the teer at the banquet in the Main Ballroom of Rev. James Argue, Methodist pastor of Pal- the Memorial Student Center. One To One Ratio Set F or CampusChestDrive “A dollar from an Aggie for an Aggie” in the slogan for the Cam pus Chest drive scheduled for the week of Oct. 29-Nov. 2. This year’s goal for the drive is set at $8,000 according to Ken Stanton, chairman of the Student Senate’s welfare committee. Stan ton, said, “This simply means it will take one dollar from each stu dent to reach our goal.” A dinner for unit commanders, staff commanders and dorm presi dents will be held Monday night, Oct. 29, and will be the official symbol of the drive’s beginning. Stanton said donations will be handled by commanding officers in the military dorms and by dorm presidents and floor and ramp re- pi’esentatives in the civilian dorms. During the week of the drive a chart will be displayed in the Memorial Student Center to list the progress of each outfit and dorm in the drive. Church Conference Begins Study, ‘Dignity Of Man’ The 17th annual Town and Coun try Church Conference is being held in the Memorial Student Cen ter Wednesday through Friday. The theme for the conference is “Dig nity of Man.” “The best juvenile authorities in the state of Texas” are meeting in group sessions to discuss and at tempt to find answers to many of the juvenile problems encountered by rural and small town ministers, according to Dr. Dan Russell, pro fessor of sociology here. The conference is sponsored by A&M in cooperation with the Tex as Agricultural Extension Serv- Students are urg-ed, Stanton said, to look for the tubs that will be set up for the TCU and Arkansas football games. Stanton said a bronze plaque will be presented to the corps unit or civilian dorm that averages the most donated per man. A certifi cate will be given to those corps units or civilian dorms that aver age a dollar donated per man. Stanton also announced Wednes day that the sale -of student insur ance policies had been completed and final figures had been tabulat ed. He said a total of $12,750 was taken in from the sale of 1,500 poli cies. Wire Review ive, Texas Agricultural Experi ment Station and the Texas Town and Country Church Conference. It is conducted by the Department Agricultural Economics and Socio logy. Moderator of the work. group sessions is Reagan Brown, socio logist with the Agricultural Ex tension Service. Serving as panel members are Mrs. Maxine Burling- U. S. NEWS ham, superintendent of the Gaines- JACKSON, Miss. (TP) — Gov. ville State School for Girls; Char- i Ross Barnett said Tuesday he les O. Betts, judge of the 98th Dis- never has claimed he purged him- trict Court in Austin; Clinton Ker- ! self of contempt in the James H. By The Associated Press WORLD NEWS HAVANA td?) — After Washing ton talks with President Kennedy, Algerian Premier Ahmed Ben Bella flew to Havana Tuesday and said, “Algeria is and will be with Cuba.” A 21-gun salute boomed out as Ben Bella left the special Cuban airliner that brought him to Ha vana from Washington. He em- bi'aced Cuban Prime Minister Fi del Castro. ★ ★ ★ SAIGON, South Viet Nam — — Another American spotter plane went down Tuesday in South Viet Nam’s rugged central highlands where Viet Cong ground gunners earlier had shot down two U. S. planes. Three American fliers died in one plane supporting an intensive government raid. It was not known whether the third plane fell victim to com munist fire. The American pilot of the third plane was reported in jured. In ground action, an American major was wounded severly in an explosion. The toll of Americans killed in action in Viet Nam has reached 24. DR. GEORGE BETO sey, director of Parole of Texas Youth Council; and Dr. George J. Beto, director of the Texas De partment of Corrections. Meredith case-nor has he any apologies for his actions. “My position is,” Barnett said, “that I have upheld the law and j fireman said am not in contempt of any court.” “My conscience is clear. “I am moved only by deep and abiding affection for the welfare of all the people of Mississippi.” At Oxford, Meredith, 29, strolled to class on a quiet University of Mississippi campus. A few build ings away, Mississippi Atty. Gen. Joe Patterson told law students they could refuse “to socialize or fraternize with an undersirable stu dent.” Patterson mentioned no name. But his remark was an obvious reference to Meredith, a Negro, now in his third week at the state university. TEXAS NEWS DALLAS (A 3 ) — A small paddle- wheel pleasure boat exploded and burned on the State Fair of ^Texas lagoon Tuesday night injuring 19 persons, at least one seriously. Most seriously injured, hospital attaches said, was Mrs. Ruth Heiderich, 70, of Corona, Calif. Officials at St. Paul’s Hospital said she suffered from shock and first degree burns. Most of the injured were rushed to Baylor Hospital, near Fair Park, but police directed ambu lance drivers to take victims to other hospitals when Baylor’s facilities become overcrowded. Cause of the blast that wrecked the picturesque little paddlewheel er was not immediately known. Fair officials said that the boat, which has a capacity of about 50 persons, had around 40 passen gers at the time of the explosion. “Everybody started jumping into the water as soon as the explosion occurred,” a Dallas