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ill that if ting fe. aldberji Cbe Battalion 3 Car Wasli Areas Open. See Page 3 Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1962 Number 87 gielatl to tk wiitei, sabers; s. lie rfl sen- obtain dflagi r»ei ii i billed he col- om k ora tkt itotbe .0. ; of tie )y 19 1 day. i made h mess >w tie y Other iSo. 37 Ags Selected For ‘Who’s Who ’ Thirty-seven A&M students have been accepted by ‘Who’s Who Among Students In American Colleges And Universities,” according to Dean of Students James P. Han- tiigan. Selected to appear in the national publication honoring outstanding collegians are: Gary Leroy Balser, William Thomas Barnhart Jr., Shel don Joseph Best, Fred Kirkland Blackard, Charles Louis Rlaschke,, Gene Frank Brossman, James David Carnes, James ward Carter and Robert Bedford Carter. Also honored were: Warren Marcus Dillard, Victor Lee Donnell, James Alfa Dotson, James William Fadal, Ben Earl Johnston, Claude Randol Jones, James Lewis Keller, John Phillip Krebs, John Lloyd Kuykendall, Jerry Bryan Lincecum, Russell James Martin, Joe T. McKnight, John Henry Meyer Jr., William Dale Nix Jr. and Harry Alan Payne. Others chosen were: John Lewis Penrod, Bobby Ray Quisenberry, James Edwin Ray, Arthur Reginald Richardson, James Edward Sartain, Dan Murray Scarborough, Thomas Euclid Smith, Charles Bryan Stuckey, Frank Marion Town send, Carlos Vela Jr., George Arnold Wiederaenders, John David Winningham and Melvin Chester Young. These students were chosen by the “Who’s Who Commit tee from nominations received from faculty, student body and the committee. Serving on the committee were: Dean W. J. Graff, chairman; Dean Frank W. Hubert of the school of Arts and Sciences; Joe E. Davis, comman dant; Bennie A. Zinn, director of the student affairs depart ment; Corps Commander William Nix; Sheldon Best, pres ident of the student body; Richard Moore, vice president of the Civilian Student Council, Jeff Harp, president of the Civilian Student Council; and James Ray, president, Memor ial Student Center Council. While the criteria for this distinction includes many factors such as leadership, contribution to the school, and activities, by far the most important is scholastic standing. “A student must be in the top bracket gradepoint-wise |to even be looked at,” said Hannigan. Hannigan reported that seniors and juniors were eligible hit juniors usually waited in order to build qualifications. He also thanked the entire committee for their effort in coming up with the final selections. “It’s a tremendous job to decide on just 37 students with a student body as large as we have,” he said. Wire Review By The Associated Press WORLD NEWS LONDON — An authoritative British naval journal reported Tuesday the Soviet Union has 30 tnissi 1 e-launching- submarines—- twice as many as the United States. But the figures given by Jane’s Fighting Ships indicate the U.S. missile-launching submarines pack 5 more powerful punch with nine of the 14 in operation capable of firing Polaris missiles while sub merged at targets 1,725 miles away. The publication said the Soviet Union will start trials of a nuclear submarine armed with Polaris- type missiles probably before the end of 1963. It also said the nu clear icebreaker Lenin is “actu ally a parent ship for the nuclear- powered submarine flotilla.” ★ ★ ★ THE HAGUE—Former Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands died at her Apeldoorn Palace early Wednesday. She was 82. The former queen had suf fered from diabetes and a heart condition and had been in retire ment for years. A week ago a government spokesman said the state of her health was causing concern. She reigned for 50 years, re linquishing the throne to her daughter, Juliana, in 1949 when the old queen was 68. During her 50-year reign, Wil helmina saw the golden era of Dutch empire, bitter exile during the Nazi occupation and the loss of the rich Dutch East Indies. U.S. NEWS , OXFORD, Miss. — A fresttman s tudent whose room was ransacked offer eating supper with Negro 'femes H. Meredith has withdrawn from the University of Mississippi, °fficials disclosed Tuesday. John Craig Knobles III of Mer man left the campus more than fern weeks ago under the advice °f university officials and decided ^ to return. Along with seven °ther students—including one girl ■"he ate supper with Meredith -V. 12. Shortly afterwards, the dormi- room of Knobles and Bill temple of Washington, D.C., was fefisacked. University police in stigated but made no arrests. Oceanographer Will Join Russian Study Dr. Guy A. Franceschini, associ ate professor of the Department of Oceanography and Meteorology, will join Russian oceanographers aboard the U.S.S.R. research ves sel “R.V. Orb” next year to con duct i-esearch in the Antarctic. Franceschini will make an in tensive study of the Antarctic Convergence, a region of sharp temperature discontinuity where the cold waters of the Antarctic meet the warm waters of other oceans. The first American selected to work with Russian scientists aboard the “R.V. Orb” as part of a U.S.-U.S.S.R. scientist ex change program, Franceschini will conduct research under a $28,400 grant from the National Science Foundation in cooperation with the Texas A&M Research Foundation. Major Changes Announced By Cushing Library Head Journals Moved To Increase Use All current scientific and technical journals received by Cushing Library are now being placed in special periodical reading rooms according to Robert A. Houze, library director. Also included in the special reading rooms are unbound issues of every scientific and technical journals. These have been taken from the general and popular magazines and the bins HOUZE POINTED OUT that journals in the humanities and social sciences have been placed in the Periodical Room on the first floor. He said an exception to this would be those of education and psychology, which will be placed in the education section of the Required Reading Room. Periodicals in the pure and applied sciences have been placed in the large reading room on the third floor. Houze said these journals are arranged by subject discipline, and then alphabetically. “The general and more popular types of magazines such as Life, Business Week, Field and Stream, Hobbies, etc., are now located in the main lobby in racks alongside the newspapers,” Houze said. THE DOCUMENTS Division is now in the room adjacent to the General Reference Department on the second floor. “In order to ac complish this move, several hun dred volumes had to be shifted to free standing racks in the General Reference Room,” Houze said. The College Archives has been moved to the room occupied by the Bindery Preparations Section which was moved into the Cata loging Room, all on the third floor. THE ENTIRE PROJECT re quired a period of six weeks. “This was accomplished only through the devoted and untiring efforts of many library staff members and the wholehearted support of the college administra tion,” Houze said. The change provides an open stack arrangement for current pe riodical files and constitutes the beginning of major improvements within the library system, Houze pointed out. Air Force Exams Slated For Dec. 1 Air Force Officers’ Qualifica tion Exams, part one, will be ad ministered in Room 231 of the Chemistry Annex at 8 a.m. Sat urday. The exams are scheduled for all Air Science sophomores who have not previously taken the tests. A&M Papers To Go Before Science Bodies Seven papers will be presented by research scientists at A&M at the National Academy of Sciences meeting Thursday through Satur day in Austin. Some 30 papers from A&M researchers will be presented to the Texas Academy of Sciences also meeting - at the same time in Austin. Aggie scientists will join the re searchers from the University of Texas, Rice University, Louisiana State University and others from throughout the nation to hear re ports on all aspects of scientific research. Only 54 reports in all will be given to the National body, while 200 are to be heard by the State group. A research paper on “Cosmic Ray Muons at High Energies” will be presented by Dr. Nelson M. Duller, associate professor of phy sics here. Other papers to be presented to the National Academy are by: Frank R. H. Katterman, David R. Ergle, Dr. Erma S. Vander- zant, Dr. Meta S. Brown, Nevin Weaver, Dr. Carl M. Lyman, A. S. El-Noekrashy, J. W. Dollahite, Dr. R. C. Fanguy and B. B. Bailey. Papers on research in mathe matics and the physical, earth, bio logical, social and environmental sciences will be given during the three-day meeting on the Uni versity of Texas campus. ^ « M Hi To Be Ready Soon The Plant Science Building will be ready for of its kind in the world,” was to have opened occupation in early January. The modern the first of this month but delays in building structure, described as “one of the finest equipment caused the postponement. A New Home Linda Payne and Connie Lennox, secretaries for the De partment of Range and Forestry, pause during a tour of the new Plant Science Building. The $2.3 million building will house the Departments of Range and Forestry, Plant Sciences, Soil and Crop Sciences and Botany plus other system offices. $2.3 MILLION COMPLEX Paul Harvey To Speak Here At Banquet Paul Harvey, nationally prom inent radio commentator, will be guest speaker at the Bryan-Col- lege Station Chamber of Commerce annual banquet here Jan. 28. The banquet will be held in Sbisa Dining Hall and is expected to attract 1,600 persons from the Brazos Valley area. Tickets for the banquet will go on sale in the near future at $4 per plate. Harvey, whose “Hello Ameri cans” is a daily trademark on the American Broadcasting Co. net work, will make his daily broad casts from. Radio Station KORA on Monday, Jan. 28. Earlier in the day he is expected to visit the A&M campus. A native of Tulsa, Okla., Har vey began his broadcasting career at station KVOO while a high school and college student in the 1930s. After gaining more radio ex perience in Kansas and Missouri, he launched his radio news com mentary career in Chicago in 1944. He has won six Freedoms Foun dation medals and a number of his radio commentaries have been en tered in the Congressional Record. He has also been honored by the three national veterans organiza tions. New Plant Science Building To House Four Departments The new $2.3 million plant sci ences building will be ready for its occupants in early January according to Dr. Charles L. Lein- weber, head of the Department of Range and Forestry. Leinweber said the Departments of Range and Forestry will share the new structure with the De partments of Plant Sciences, Soil and Crop Sciences and Botany plus other related offices. Dr. Ruble Langston of the De partment of Plant Sciences said that the move was first scheduled for the middle of November, but unforeseen delays in the construc tion and equipping of the build ing have caused postponement. The exact date for the move is not known. LEINWEBER pointed out that when the building is ready it will take quite some time for the actual transfer to take place. “You don’t just pick up a department and move it one lump,” he said. Langston said that the new stru- ture will be one of the finest of its kind in the world. Its facilities will provide much-needed space and equipment for teaching and re search. At present most of the labora tory equipment has not been moved into the building. The office furni ture is being moved in this week. Leinweber said that most of the important equipment will not installed until the departments I start to move in. In addition to its many class- j rooms and offices the four-story j structure will have more than i 20 research laboratories. THE BASEMENT will have an infra-red radiation laboratory and four controlled environment grow th labs. Dr. D. W. Rosberg and Dr. H. W. Schroeder will use the infra-red laboratory for studies of the effects of this type of radiation on plants. The environment cham bers will be used by various mem bers of the staff to study the ef fects of light, heat and chemicals on plants. Among the laboratories on the upper floors of the building ai ; e facilities for the study of nema todes (a group of worms that are often injurious to plants and soil), nucleic acids (acids found in the nuclei of cells which are important in heredity), and plant enzymes. Others are: a mineral nuitri- tion laboratory, an air pollution laboratory, a plant virus lab, ra diochemical laboratories, and a plant growth regulation labora tory. Christmas Is Near; NeedyKidsA bound By WILLIAM BRADEN Plans to help some of the needy and underprivileged children of College Station and Bryan need to be formulated as Christmas is drawing near, warns J. Gordon Gay, general secretary of the YMCA and coordinator of religi ous life. Reps To Academy Conference Named Two Aggies have been chosen to attend the 14th annual Student Conference On United States Af fairs to be held at the U.S. Mili- be j tary Academy at West Point, N.Y. Dec. 5-8. Selected for the trip were: Don McGown, junior economics major from Dallas, and Russell Huddles ton, junior chemical engineering major from San Antonio. Topic of the conference, run much like A&M’s own Student Conference On National Affairs, is “National Security Policies of the United States.” McGown and Huddleston are SCONA committeemen. Units and dormitories should make efforts to take needy fami lies and provide useful, lasting gifts rather than candy and fruit, Gay suggested. He said it could be profitable for the organization, after selecting a family or families, to visit the home, talk to the parents, and determine what kind of gifts are really needed and will do the most good. Articles suggested as most need ed include blue jeans, tennis shoes, dresses, skirts, blouses, shirts, sweaters, underwear, socks, soap, toothbrushes, and toothpaste. “The names of approximately 50 families have been turned in as people who are in need of assist ance,” Gay said. He added: “We have the number of children, ages, and sex in each of the families.” According to Gay, a unit or dorm representative should obtain the necessary information concerning a needy family or families at the All Faiths Chapel prior to 5 p.m., Dec. 12. “Your Christmas will be more profitable and enjoyable when you know that you have helped some child have a more joyous Christmas j season,” Gay said.