Campus Chest Drive Begins Monday
Che Bdttdlion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1962
Number
‘Kick - Off
Held Last
Fete
Night
“Aggies have always felt a deep necessity and deep
desire to help other Aggies,” Sheldon Best, president of the
Student Senate, told approximately 75 persons who attended
the kick-off smorgasbord of
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Wire
Review
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
NEW DELHI, India — Prime
Minister Nehru pledged India will
fight invading Chinese “until final
victory is achieved.” As he spoke
Thursday, the Defense Ministry an
nounced that Communist troops
captured the key trading and Bud
dhist town of Towang — 17 miles
inside India — in bitter fighting.
The Indian leader suggested a
possible dramatic shift in govern
ment policy, with the possibility
of accepting help from “friendly
nations” instead of insisting on
Raying cash for arms. In London,
British Prime Minister Harold Mac
Millan told the House of Com
mons Britain is ready to provide
practical help to India to defend
itself against the Chinese Com
munists.
U. S. NEWS
INDEPENDENCE. Mo. — Har
ry Truman said today in his
opinion international summit
meetings “don’t amount to a
damn.”
The former president made the
comment at a press conference
in which he announced he was
canceling the remainder of his
campaign speeches.
Asked if he though anything
could be accomplished in a sum
mit conference on the Cuban
situation, Truman said: “I don’t
believe in them. They don’t
amount to a damn. I have been
to two of them and nothing was
accomplished.”
Truman said he did not like the
attitude of Canada in the Cuban
situation. The Canadian prime
minister has refused to associate
the country with other nations in
the Western Hemisphere in sup
port of the American stand a-
gainst arms shipments to Cuba.
★ ★ ★
PITTSBURGH — Former Presi
dent Dwight D. Eisenhower called
the 21 months of the Kennedy ad
ministration Thursday night one of
sluggishness, in economy, continu
ed unemployment, deficit spend
ing and abusive ridicule.
However, Eisenhower urged the
nation to make personal sacrific
es whenever and to whatever ex
tent is needed, in the Cuban cri
sis.
“Until this urgent problem is
solved to the satisfaction of our
nation,” Eisenhower said, “every
loyal Ameracn will, without hesi
tation, carry out and conform to
any instructions, pertaining to it,
proclaimed by the commander in
chief.”
Navy Reports
Feared
On
Ships
Retreat
WASHINGTON (A 3 ) — Soviet
ships which turned back from
Cuba were reported today to in
clude most of those suspected of
carrying offensive weapons. A
huge vessel designed to transport
missiles was reported among them.
Informed government sources
said no new Soviet ship had been
sighted moving toward Cuba and
the fleet of blockading U.S. war
ships strung out acx-oss a broad
area of the Atlantic.
It appeared likely that the Navy
might intercept one of the on
coming Communist cargo ships
during the day. This could bring
the first actual order to halt and
be searched.
THE DEFENSE Department an
nounced Thursday that at least
a dozen Soviet vessels had turned
back “presumably because they
might have been carrying offen
sive materials.”
This apparently left about 13
Communist cargo-type ships still
on course toward Red Cuba. Sec
retary of Defense Robert S. Mc
Namara had. said just after Presi
dent Kennedy ordered the block
ade into effect that an estimated
25 Communist vessels were moving
toward Cuba.
“Most of the ships the Navy is
interested in have turned around,”
one government official said.
IT WAS indicated that among
the dozen Red ships divei'ted from
Cuba was one identified by in
formed authorities as the Polo-
tavia.
Three days ago, the Navy was
reported keeping an especially
close areial watch on this big, mod
ern Soviet ship which experts said
is rigged to carry missiles.
Assistant Secretary of Defense
Arthur Sylvester told reporters
late Thursday. “I don’t have any
idea” what direction the dozen
ships were traveling after altering
course away from Cuba.
Informed authorities said they
believed the ships were steaming
back toward Europe.
SYLVESTER SAID the vessels
are being kept under surveillance,
but he did not indicate how far or
how long they would be trailed
by patrol planes.
i
The government made it . clear
Thursday that the quarantine
blockade will continue, despite any
diplomatic discussions that may
take place with Moscow over the
issue of Red arms supplies to Fidel
Castro’s Cuba.
Sylvester said, “We have no way
of knowing,” what is in the Soviet
ships still headed for Cuba. Ob
viously, the quarantine alone will
establish that.
“Furthermore, on Cuba itself the
missile site work is progressing
at the same rapid rate and you
will recall that the President in
his proclamation said the ultimate
objective was the removal of those
missile sites,” he added.
After Game Parties
Planned For Ags
Two after-the-game parties will
be given in Waco Saturday night.
One is being- given by the Waco
Aggie Wives Club, Waco Aggie-
exes, and the Waco-McLennan
County hometown club, fi'om 11
p.m.-2 p.m. at the Karem-Temple
Ballroom, at 208 N. 7th St., in
downtown Waco. Tickets may be
purchased here or at the door.
The second party is being given
by the Baylor Law Wives Associ
ation, at 10 p.m. in the Raleigh Ho
tel Ballroom. Music will be pro
vided by George Nethery’s Orches
tra. Tickets will be sold at the
door.
Hannigan Donates First Dollar
The first dollar of the 1962 Campus Chest the student welfare committee of the Stu-
Drive was donated by James P. Hannigan, dent Senate. Sheldon Best, president of the
center, dean of students. Receiving the senate, looks on.
donation is Ken Stanton, right, chairman of
STATE CAMPAIGN WRAP-UP
Candidates Continue Tours
As Race’s Pace Quickens
the Campus Chest Drive last
night.
The group included unit com
manders and dorm representatives.
Special guests were Dean and Mrs.
James P. Hannigan, Mr. and Mrs.
R. O. Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Bennie
Zinn and Col. and Mrs. Joe Davis.
ORGANIZATION of the drive
was reviewed by Ken Stanton,
chairman of the student welfare
committee of the senate. He said
he and his committee hoped that
greater effort than ever before
to reach this year’s $8,000 goal.
The goal can be reached easily
if every Aggie will donate $1,
Best pointed out. He went on to
explain that the committee realized
that some Aggies might feel that
a dollar was too much.
“In this case,” he said, “en
courage him to scrape up 50 cents,
25 cents or even 10 cents.
STANTON SAID donations will
be handled by commanding officers
in military dorms and by dorm,
presidents and floor and ramp
representatives in civilian dorms.
During the week of the drive a
chart will be displayed in the Me
morial Student Center to list the
progress of each outfit and dorm
in the drive.
A bronze plaque will be pre
sented to the corps unit or civilian
dorm that averag-es the most do
nated per man. A certificate will
be given to those corps units or
civilian dorms that average a dol
lar donated per man.
The drive will officially start
Monday and will continue through
next Friday.
The chairmen of the various
committees of the Student Senate
explained the functions of their
committees to the group. Student
body representatives were encour
aged to be mindful of feelings of
the students they represent and to
feel free to approach any member
of the various committees with
any comments.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
You’ll probably get a chance
to see one or more of the three
Baylor Barricades Campus
Against Non - Kissing Ags
The Baylor campus in Waco will be guarded Friday night
against Aggies—not by federal troops, but by freshman
students.
Freshmen traditionally guard the campus during Baylor’s
homecoming weekend, which falls this weekend this year.
They barricade all entrances to the campus and won’t admit
a couple until they kiss.
How two boys would be admitted is still a question.
During the barricade, groups of freshman boys will
handle three work shifts. The shifts will be from 9-12 p. m.,
12-3 a. m. and 3-6 a. m.
The barricades will be located between the bear pit and
Student Union, between the Student Union and Science Hall,
between Seventh and Speight streets, between Collins Hall
and the adjoining parking lot, between Collins and Dawson
halls and between Seventh and Kokernot streets.
Central headquarters for the barricaders is in the park
ing lot in front of Pat Neff Hall.
23 Students To Go
On ‘Culture’ Tour
. I don’t know why they’d blame the TCU game on me!
Twenty-three A&M student lead
ers will leave campus early Sun
day for Houston to “broaden their
cultural experiences and back-
g-round.”
The trip, sponsored by the IVfem-
orial Student Center Council
through the MSC directorate, re
presents an experiment in the coun
cil’s annual program for train
ing student leaders.
Accompanied by five faculty and
staff members, the students will
travel to Houston where they will
register at the Shamrock-Hilton
Hotel.
Activities scheduled Sunday af
ternoon include a tour of the ship
channel and Port of Houston a-
board the yacht “Sam Houston.”
Sunday night the group will visit
the Alley Theater, where they will
see the play “Becket.”
Monday the students will visit
the Houston World Trade Center
and Houston Museum of Fine Arts.
They will conclude their trip by
attending the Houston Symphony
and will return to campus late
Monday night.
According to J. Wayne Stark,
MSC director who will accompany , ^ ^ ree with an enemy and dis _
the students, ‘this represents a
good cross-section of student lead
ers from the various areas around , ... ......
i CONNALLY
candidates for governor before
the end of the week.
The three candidates were in
the midst of plane, bus and car
tours that will lead them into
almost every section of the state
in the next few days.
Democrat John Connally spent
Thursday in the Houston, Port
Neches and Beaumont areas.
REPUBLICAN Jack Cox began
a bus tour of Central and North
Central Texas, including stops
Thursday at Bastrop, Taylor, Tem
ple and a Waco night rally. A
Western band furnishing the music.
Constitution Party candidate
Jack Carswell began his planned
flying campaign of 40 Texas cities
Thursday.
“I calculate, on the basis of
what I have learned from getting
up earlier and staying up later,
that Connally has lost this race
and that Jack Cox will be the new
governor of Texas,” Cox told a
breakfast group in Bastrop.
“BY EVERY sign I have seen,
I have no hesitancy in predicting
that Texas’ greatest gains in near
ly a century lie just ahead. Less
than two weeks from this very
day, Texas will have ended for
ever its tradition of one-party
man rule,” Cox said.
Connally told a breakfast meet-
nig in Houston that as governor
he will make his own decisions. I
“And when I make a decision j
you won’t have to look beyond i
the governor’s chair,” he haid. “I
have enough confidence in myself
been in Washington this year but
his Republican opponent, Cox, has
been there three times.
“I don’t go to Gettysbux'g to get
my signals,” Connally said. “Dur
ing this campaign I have tried to
stay with the dominant theme
with which I stai'ted — the issues
and problems of Texas.”
Atty. Gen. Will Wilson said he
has a team of investigatox*s in
South Texas to check absentee
voting.
“This is simply a precaution to
make sure no irregularities oc
cur,” he said.
In July, Wilson obtained coui’t
ox’ders that all general election
ballots in Duval, Zapata and Starr
county be impounded at once after
being counted and taken to a Cor
pus Christ! bank for safe keeping.
Today’s Thought
The size of a man can be
measured by the size of the
thing that makes him angry.
— J. K. Morley
Students To Obtain
Oral Polio Vaccine
Nov. 4 In Coliseum
Sabin Type II ox-al polio vaccine
will be offered to A&M students
Nov. 4 fx'om 1-5 p.m.
A station will be set up in G.
Rollie White Coliseum according
to Dr. Charles R. Lyons, director
of the college student health serv
ice.
Brayn-College Station ax’ea re
sidents will be offered the vaccine
at the same hours in stations set
up in all of the Bryan elementary
schools.
Students wives and children may
be innoculated here or at one of the
Bryan elementary school stations.
All three types of the Sabin
vaccine can be taken in any order,
and students can take Type II vac
cine 'whether or not they have had
Type I or the Salk vaccine, Dr.
Lyons said.
“Sabin Type III will not be given
because there is some disagx’ee-
ment among doctoiTS.
Bonfire, Student Dress Pose
Hurdles For Civilian Council
agree with a friend, if that appears
necessary.
said he had not
the campus.”
Students making the trip will I
be David C. Coleman, J. Don Mor-j T^meS M. Roberts
gan, Gilbert H. Forehand, James j "
E. Ray, Teri'ence A. Oddson, Keith 'y^ing Sdlclte Post
P. Watts, Richard Moore, Arthur!
R. Richardson, Charles L. Blasch- j J ames M. Roberts, economics ma-
ke, Alfred’ W. Hughlett, Donnie jor from M ichita, Kan., was elected
Rudd and Bobby Ken Robertson. 1 sophomore Arts and Sciences repre-
Also Victor L. Donnell, Frank ; sentative to the Student Senate j
M. Townsend, Joe W. Windley, I in a special run-off held yester-1
Fred Kirk Blackard, Gerald M.
Brown, Donald E. Willis, Sheldon
J. Best, Raimundo Riojas, James
A. Dotson and Huley J. Horn.
Faculty and staff membei*s ac
companying the group are Dr. H.
O. Kunkel, Claude Bitner, Maxwin
Butler and Bill Hite.
day, accoi'ding to Albert N. Wheel
er, election committee chairman.
He defeated Cecil M. Bourne, a
pre-vet student from Marquez. Ro
berts received 59 votes while Bour
ne got 19. Only sophomores -en-
x-olled in the School of Arts and
Sciences were eligible to vote.
By KENT JOHNSTON
Battalion Staff Writer
The Civilian Student Council,
main problem-solving group for
over 50 per cent of the student
body, had a large share of A&M’s
woes on its back in last night’s
meeting.
Civilian status in the building
of the bonfire is one of the coun
cil’s biggest hurdles. Members di-
sected the problem into these parts:
1. Most civilians do not have
enough information about bon
fire planning and work to ac
quire the high amount of interest
needed for successful participa
tion.
2. A strong and well-supported
organization spearheaded by dorm
itory councils will be necessary.
3. The long weekend preceeding
the bonfire will be a major obstacle
to civilian participation. It was
stressed that the Saturday of the
Rice football game will be an
ideal time for maximum effox-t.
4. Accomplishments made by ci
vilians will desexwe publicity and
should be credited to them.
5. Civilians should recognize the
fact that plenty of woi'kex*s are
needed — enough leaders are al
ready available.
A goal, undeveloped so far, is
to organize as many 50-100 man
log-carxying crews as is possible
from each dormitory.
Council members asked for an
all-out effort on the part of dorm
itory councils and civilian leadei’s
to fui'ther the drive for a bonfixe
which can be labeled as one which
was, to a sizeable extent, built by
civilians.
Second most important topic of
discussion was poor dress habits
of a small minority of students
who prefer to wear shower shoes
rather than street shoes on campus.
Sbisa Dining Hall was named as
a site of many violations of proper
dress.