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Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1962
Number 44
Mrs. A&M, AF Sweetheart Named
Mrs. A&M
Billie Sue Williams, Mrs. A&M of 1962, clutches the symbol
of victory, a cup presented by the Bryan-College Station
Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. Williams was sponsored in
the contest by the Aggie Flying Cadets.
Winners Revealed
At Weekend Dances
Two annual dances held last
weekend were highlighted with the
selection of beauties who were
given the titles “Air Force Sweet
heart” and “Mrs. Texas A&M.”
Mrs. Billie Sue Williams, spon
sored by the Aggie Flying Cadets,
was named Mrs. Texas A&M Sat
urday night at a dance hosted by
the Aggie Wives Council.
Miss Carolyn Fish, escoi'ted by
David Minaldi, was awarded the
title of Air Force Sweetheart at
Friday night’s Air Force Ball.
Finalists in the Air Force sweet
heart selection, Suzanne Harper,
linger Lewis, Lynn Addison and
Jan Sharp, were given engraved
charms.
Mrs. Williams won 50 silver dol
lars, a cup from the Bryan-College
Station Chamber of Commerce and
a bouquet of roses from the Ag-
gieland Florist.
Runner-up in the Mrs. Texas
A&M contest was Mrs. Linda
Olivei’, who received JO silver dol
lars and a gift certificate from
the Lady Fair Beauty Salon.
Second runner-up, Mrs. Nancy
Gore, was given 20 silver dollars
and a gift certificate from the
Beverley Braley fashion store.
Finalists in the selection of Mrs.
A&M were Cherry Cockburn, Tracy
Lewis, Shirley Porter, Jo Ann
Fields, Sydney Gillis, Karen Jones
and Joan Harrison.
Program Boasts
Vice President
By RONNIE BOOKMAN
Battalion Managing Editor
The eighth Student Conference on National Affairs, big
gest and packed with more action than any of its predeces
sors, begins tomorrow. A program boasting the vice pres
ident of the United States and the president of the council
of the Organization of American States gives the conference
a towering stature.
Registration for an expected 150 delegates from univer
sities throughout this country, Canada and Mexico begins at
8 a. m., with the first plenary session coming at 2 p. m. The
overall theme for SCONA VIII is “Sources of World Tension.”
Retired Gen. Frederic H. Smith, former vice chief of
staff of the Air Force and commander of Air Force troops
in Europe will speak in the
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Replies Corning In
On LRJ Invites
Flowers For The Sweetheart
Carolyn Fish, Air Force Sweetheart, 1962, is presented a
bouquet of roses by Robert Thorton at Friday night’s Air
Force Ball. Miss Fish was escorted by David Minaldi.
Wire
Review
By The Associated Press
U. S. NEWS
WASHINGTON — Four men
suspected of taking part in the
$1.5-million Plymouth Mass., mail
robbery are under constant sur
veillance in a cat-and-mouse game
which fedei’al authorities hope will
lead to recovery of the loot.
James F. Kelleher, special as
sistant to the postmaster general,
told newsmen Monday that feder
al officials have asked all police
agencies in Massachusetts to help
keep a close check on the four
suspects.
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NEW YORK — Secretary of
labor W. Williard Wirtz stepped
into the three-day-old printers’
strike Monday night in an effort
to get New York’s nine major
newspapers back on the street.
He called a closed meeting with
both sides for Tuesday.
Wirtz, who was credited with
settling a strike a few weeks ago
against The New York Daily
News, said he will bring the head
of the Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service, William E.
Simkin, with him.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme
Court agreed Monday to hear a
new school segregation case which
poses the question of whether mi
nority groups must exhaust all
administrative remedies before ap
pealing to the courts.
Unlike most school segregation
appeals, this one involves a North
ern community, Centreville in
Southern Illinois.
The case is only the third the
court has agreed to hear on the
subject since its historic school
integration decisions of 1954-55.
TEXAS NEWS
AUSTIN _ Atty. Gen. Will
Wilson held Monday that a Texas
law requiring an election prior to
integration of a public school sys
tem is unconstitutional.
The opinion went to Duval
County-the Benavides Independ
ent School District — that the
law was first used recently to
withhold funds for a district’s in
tegrating without an election.
MENU VARIATION SOUGHT
Senate Dining Hall Study
Opens In Thursday Meet
A representative of the Student
Senate will attend a dining hall
meal-planning session Thursday
and present Senate suggestions for
improved food services.
John G. Peniston, dining hall
food manager, extended an invita
tion in last week’s Student Sen
ate meeting for a Senate committee
or member to sit in with his staff
as it makes menus and discusses
dining hall operations.
The head of dining hall service,
who was asked to attend the Sen
ate meeting to explain the dining
hall staff’s functions, spoke of
major changes which may be made
to dining operations in the future.
Senator Shelly Veselka will be
at Thursday’s planning session and
ask for more variety in menu ar
rangements.
KEN STANTON, chairman of
the welfare committee, said that
Veselka will not ask for different
dishes but will suggest a more
random meal arrangement rather
than regular occurences of parti
cular meals.
At the senate meeting, Peniston
explained that the only money
source for Duncan and Sbisa din
ing halls is the $1.50-per-day fee
paid by students who buy board.
$200,000 is the working capital tied
up in inventories at the beginning
of each school year.
“I have never been asked to
make a profit only to break
even,” he said.
“Our policy is to feed you the
best that we can with what we
have. If we can please 75 per cent
of you at any one meal, we’re doing
a good job.”
Senator Douglas Hotchkiss ask
ed if cadets could file into Dun
can Dining Hall from back to front
in oi-der to save time and mention
ed a need for cleaner plates and
silverware.
ON THE BASIS of a previous
back-to-front filing-in arrange- j
ment, Peniston said, in-coming '
units sometimes take food from j
other tables while on the way to '
their seats.
The sanitation department checks
closely for unclean eating utensils,
but both dining halls receive good
reports, he explained, saying he
would check into the matter.
Peniston said that a cafeteria
system may be used when new
dormitories are completed. This
arx - angement would allow serving
from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. with class
es being held during the noon
hour.
Used at many colleges, this sys
tem permits students to select their
lunch hour as they make out class
schedules.
Explaining the advantages of a
cafeteria system, Peniston said
that two or three hours would be
available for serving rather than
the 15 minutes allowed by the pre
sent mass serving method.
He predicted better-tasting and
better-looking food with cafeteria-
style serving.
Fac u Ity Fe l lowsh ip
Topic Is ‘Nihilism 9
“Nihilism” will be the topic
of a talk to be presented by Carl
Shafer of the Department of
Agricultural Economics and So
ciology at the Wednesday morn
ing Faculty Christian Fellowship
in the All Faiths Chapel at 7
a.m.
Music for meditation will pre
cede the program at 6:50. Do
nuts will be served at the YMCA
Building after the program.
Fish Run-Off Election Rally
Scheduled Tonight In Guion
The Election Commission will
sponsor a freshman election rally
in Guion Hall Tuesday at 7 p.m.,
according to Sheldon Best, presi
dent of the student body.
Run-off candidates for freshman
class offices will give campaign
speeches at the rally. In the run
off for president of the freshman
class will be Michael D. Ashworth
and Charles W. Millikin III.
Three candidates are compet
ing for the position of class vice
president. They are Ellis C. Gill,
Michael E. Denny and Richard M.
Dooley.
Running for freshman class se
cretary are Harris J. Pappas and
Miro Pavelka. Competing in the
run-off for social secretary are
Early B. Denison.
Run-offs are scheduled Friday
from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Voting will
be conducted under the supervision
of the election commission on vot
ing machines located in the Mem
orial Student Center’s bowling al
ley breezeway.
If the election campaign rally
Tuesday night proves to be suc
cessful and draws a good turn-out,
this event might be repeated for
the spring general elections, stated
Best.
Chib Conducts
Third Annual Sale
Of Pine Cones
Range and Forestry Club stu
dents are conducting their third
annual sale of pine cones for I
Christmas decorations.
Business has been brisk so far J
this season, according to Ernest j
Nimitz of Eldorado, a senior in j
the Department of Range and For
estry and head of the cone sales j
committee.
More than $400 in orders have j
been wholesaled to retail market- [
ing points in such cities as Lub
bock, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas
and Bryan. Retail outlets are us
ually A&M Mothers Clubs in those |
cities and grocery supermarkets.
The students raise money
through the sales to help pay club
and judging team expenses.
They select East Texas and Lou
isiana pine cones and package three
to six to the unit, depending on
cone size. Some of the cones are
left in their natural brown color
and others are dipped in aluminum
paint to produce a silvery sheen.
Nimitz said the silver cones are
by far the best sellers.
Bob Rhodes, associate professor,
is club sponsor, and Dr. Omer
Sperry works with the cone sales
group. Both are faculty members
in the Department of Range and
Forestry.
Talent Show
Will Feature
Nine Acts
Memorial Student Ballroom
on “Arms in Europe—Source
of Tension.”
FOLLOWING THE address,
the eight round-tables will hold
orientation meetings with their
chairmen.
The first food event of the con
ference will be at 6 p.m. with one
of the MSC famous smorgasbords
in the Ballroom.
The second keynote address, by
Mason Willrich, follows the din
ner at 8 p.m. Willrich, former
delegate to the 18-nation disarma
ment talks in Geneva and presently
an attorney-advisor to the U.S.
Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency, will speak on “The Arms
Race—A Source of World Ten
sion.”
According to Vic L. Donnell,
senior fi'om Dallas and general
SCONA chairman, a question and
answer session will follow both of
Wednesday’s plenary sessions.
Vice President Lyndon B. John
son and OAS Council President
Gonzalo J. Facio speak Thursday.
Johnson’s address is set for G.
Rollie White Coliseum at 1:30 p.m.
Facio, also Costa Rican ambassa
dor to the U.S., speaks at 8 p.m.
in the MSC Ballroom.
Johnson’s speech is to be on
U.S. policy.
Smith, 54, retired in June of this
year as Air Force vice chief of
staff. He also commanded Air
Force units in Europe and in those
capacities acquired a more than
working knowledge with the free
world’s problems in that area.
SPECULATION among SCONA
observers is that the former gen
eral will be in a position to take
more of a concrete stand on the
European situation now that he
is not hindered with military cen
sorship.
•Smith is a West Point graduate
who earned his wings at Kelly and
Brooks Fields in San Antonio.
During World War II he served
in various theaters of operation,
winning decorations including the
Distinguished Service Medal, the
Legion of Merit and the Air Medal
with oak leaf cluster.
Willrich, only 29, is a native
of Los Angeles.
He is known as a specialist in
the drafting of treaties and docu
ments, and from July until Sep
tember of this year he served as
Replies are beginning to pour
into SCONA VIII headquarters
from about 75 high schools invit
ed to send students to hear Vice
President Lyndon B. Johnson
when he speaks here Thursday.
The vice president’s address,
to be on “U. S. policy,” is sche
duled for G. Rollie While Coli
seum at 1 :30 p.m.
SCONA leaders last week sent
high schools within about a 75
mile radius invitations to hear
the speech.
The Aggie Talent Show, featur
ing nine acts with Tom Martin
of Houston as master of cere
monies, will be presented Friday
night in Guion Hall at 7:30.
The program, with the “best
talent on campus,” Ed Duncan
chairman of tha program said, will
present entertainment ranging
from folk singing to a piano solo.
The acts listed on the program:
the Avantes, a group of four, one '
artist on the drums and three on
guitars, who, Duncan added, play
ed for the after-game party for
the Aggies at Baylor during the
football season.
The second place winner last
year will be back, he added. They
are the Wayfarers, who will pre
sent folk songs.
Also appearing will be Eddie
Bale and Larry Ewers, in a gui
tar duet. Darrell Carr will be the
lone piano soloist on the program.
Others acts include Jose Antonio
Maher playing the flamenco guitar,
Melvin Beyer and his combo sing
ing and playing the blues, and
Sal Marquez, a solo trumpet play
er, who plays in the Aggie Band,
as well as the Aggieland Band.
To round off the program will be
Glen Barrows, a solo folk singer
who took third place last year
at the talent show.
The nine acts were selected from
16 which tried out for the show.
Auditions for the show were com
pleted Monday.
Tickets to the show will be 25< 1
at the door.
Signal 30
Film Opens
Safety Week
A capacity crowd filled Guion
Hall Monday night to see the show
ing of “Signal 30,” a safety film
sponsored jointly by the Insurance
Society and The Battalion.
Introducing the film was Floyd
Tippit, area safety officer from
the Texas Highway Patrol. “This
film shows what can happen and
what does happen as a result of
minor traffic violations,” said Tip-
pit.
Similar to last year’s movie,
“Death on the Highways,” the
grisly film kicked-off Safety Week
activities. Other safety efforts this
week will include displays in the
Memorial Student Center and near
the highway entrances to the cam
pus, sponsored by the Student Sen
ate traffic committee.
“This year’s program represents
the first time that the Student
Senate has joined in a co-ordinated
effort with The Battalion and the
Insurance Society to help in an
all-out campaign against needless
traffic fatalities,” said Richard
Moore, chairman of the traffic com
mittee.
Moore is scheduled to appear on
a special KBTX-TV panel discus
sion of traffic safety Saturday at
11:30 a.m.
Concluding this year’s holiday
delgate from the United States | .safety program will be the annual
to the 18-nation disarmament talks traffic safety edition of The Batta-
in Geneva. ' lion next Wednesday.
‘Good Game Lewis’
Coach Bob Rogers congratulates Lewis Qualls on his efforts
in assisting the Aggie basketball team grab a 78-67 win
Saturday night from the cagers of Memphis State.
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