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Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1962
Number 47
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MRS. JOHNSON MEETS GUESTS AT TEA
from left, Mrs. W. T. Moore, Mrs. Earf Rudder, Mrs.
Johnson, Mrs. Glen Williams
m :
JOHNSON GESTURES AFTER SPEECH
. . . crowd surrounds vice president
FACIO CHATS AT LUNCHEON
. . . delegates Carlos Diaz listens
MORE THAN PILLS
Study
Johnson Urges
Of SCONA Topics
Vice President Lyndon B. John
son told the eighth Student - Con
ference On National Affairs here
Thursday thht relief for world
lension involves more than pro
viding the under-developed na
tions with pills, payrolls, prestige
and peace talks.
Johnson asked the delegates to
the annual conference to examine
their topics for discussion—the
population explosion, economic
problems, nationalistic aspirations
and the arms race-—to see if “these
are the real sources of world ten
sions.”
“Do these merely happen to be
the problems which are easiest to
measure with our statistics and,
hence, most convenient to discuss
and debate?” Johnson asked.
HE SAID if our perspective is to
he realistic and our efforts to re
lieve world tension are to be fruit
ful we must recognize that:
“First, many of the most ex
plosive tensions worldwide are
generated by local issues, rather
than global forces.
“Second, in most areas, animosi
ties of race, religion, caste and in
equality are central sources of
tension.
“Third, tension comes from the
restriction of free movement of
peoples, not only in geographical
terms but as a problem of move
ment up or down, within tradi
tional social structures.
“Fourth, in the emerging por
tions of the world, a very real
source of tension, with many ram
ifications, is created by a lack of
tradition and experience in orgam
izing for mutual effort on a basis
of mutual trust.
“THESE FACTORS are often
overlooked by peoples of the de
veloped nations, especially Amer
icans,” the vice president said.
“We concentrate on the conspic
uous. We neglect those sources
of world tension which are not
conveniently measured by statis
tics.”
Johnson said that technically we
have the solutions to the world’s
development problems, but that
the gap that remains open meas
ures our failure in the political
realm.
“If we are seriously to under
take the relieving of world ten
sions, a greater degree of political
courage, political imagination and
political innovation will be re
quired, in both the developed and
under-developed worlds,” Johnson
stated.
“The tensions of our world re
sult not because couples are having
too many babies but because po
litical leaders are having too few
ideas for Answering the world’s
ancient problems with the capa
bilities of today’s modern technol
ogy,” he added.
SCONA Sessions
To End Saturday
Following is the schedule of
remaining events for the eighth
annual Student Conference On
National Affairs:
Friday
6-7 p.m.—Buffet supper, MSC
Ballroom
8-10 p.m.—Plenary session and
fifth keynote address by James
J. Wadsworth; reception for all
participants in MSC Assembly
and Birch rooms
Saturday
7:30-8:30 a.m.—Coffee and in
formal discussion among speak
ers, delegates and chairmen,
MSC Serpentine Lounge
8:30-11:15 a.m.—Fifth round
table meetings
12:15-1:45 p.m.—Luncheon and
final plenary session, with round
up address by Felix McKnight.
PRAISES ALLIANCE
OAS President Says
Cuba Ripe For Fall
If the communist appeal to the
Latin American masses is to be
overcome, the United States must
become the guiding force of libera
tion, Gonzalo J. Facio, president
of the Council of the Organization
of American States, told delegates
to SCONA VIII Thursday night.
Making the fourth keynote ad
dress of the conference, Facio used
the example of Cuba to show “The
Sources of Tensions in Latin
America.”
Wadsworth, McKnight Still
To Be Heard By SCONA'
Delegates to SCONA VIII spent
this morning expressing their own
opinions and commenting on the
points brought out Thursday in
speeches by Vice President Lyn
don B. Johnson and Gonzalo J.
Facio, president of the Council of
the Organization of American
States.
Tonight the 150 delegates will
Aggu
‘Best
T alent
T alent’
Show Offers
On Campus
Veteran radio and television per
former Tom Martin will act as
master of ceremonies at the Ag
gie Talent Show Friday night in
Guion Hall at 7:30.
Martin, a combination magician,
comedian and toastmaster, has
made appearances in Las Vegas,
New York, London, Rome and
Spain. Aside from presiding over
the evening’s entertainment, he
will also present the feature act
of the show.
The entertainment will range
from folk singing to a piano solo,
according to Ed Duncan, program
chairman.
Acts include the Avantes, a four-
man combo that played at the
party following the Aggie-Baylor
football game this past season.
Last year’s runnerup in the Ag
gie Talent Show, the Wayfarers,
have also been included in the
nine participating groups.
RETURNING FROM a third- j collegiate Talent Show later in the
place finish in 1961 will be Glen year.
Barrows, a solo folk singer.
Also appearing will be Eddie I
Bale and LaiTy Ewers in a guitar !
duet, as well as Darrell Carr, who
will be the lone pianist on the pro
gram.
Other acts include Jose Antonio
Naher, playing the flamenco gui
tar; Melvin Beyer and his combo
singing blues numbers; and
Sal Marquez, a solo trumpet play
er, who plays in the Aggie Band
and the Aggieland Band.
The nine acts were selected from
16 hopefuls who tried out for the
show.
According to Duncan, the pro
gram will have the “best talent”
on campus, as well as an outstand
ing guest in Martin.
Judges will select the best act
from the show. The winning per
formance will advance to the Inter-
get another dose of food for
thought when they will hear a
speech by former United Nations
ambassador James J. Wadsworth,
a veteran of Khrushchev’s shoe
thumping two years ago.
The eight round-tables, chaired
by leaders in the fields of educa
tion and business, already have
plenty to talk with Johnson’s com
ments on w'orld tensions and Fac-
io’s cry for Castro’s demise.
Wadsworth, whose topic is
“Prospects for Permanent Peace,”
is scheduled to speak at 8 p.m. in
the Memorial Student Center Ball
room.
A question and answer session
will follow the speech, which will
be open to the public.
SATURDAY MORNING will be
; used by delegates, representing 65
to the show will sell for | schools in the United States, Mex
ico and Canada, for a final round
table and then at 12:15 p.m. the
! final plenary session will be held.
Felix R. McKnight, executive
editor of The Dallas Times-Herald,
! who quizzed Khrushchev face-to-
■ face this summer in Moscow, will
present the final or “conference
j round-up” address.
McKnight has served as a mem-
! ber of the Pulitzer Prize jury and
j is a winner of the Sigma Delta Chi
professional journalistic society’s
editorial writing award. He'is the
j immediate past president of the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors.
On campus yesterday for the
J vice president’s speech was Ralph
i McGill, publisher of the Atlanta
Constitution and nationally syndi-
[cated columnist. McGill flew es
pecially to attend the SCONA ses
sion with Houston Chronicle editor
William Steven.
“In building the base for offen
sive nuclear missiles in Cuba, the
Russian government made several
mistakes,” Facio stated. “Among
others, it provided a clear illustra
tion of the deadly uses of a cap
tive Caribbean satellite in the grip
of Soviet imperialists.”
FACIO STRESSED the fact that
the presence of a communist re
gime, even though it is the dis
credited Castro regime, poses a
threat w^hich cannot be ignored.
“I believe that the Cuban situa
tion has reached a stage where
developments inside Cuba could
achieve the purpose of the hemi
sphere and at the same time avoid
the adverse consequences of an in
vasion by the United States armed
forces,” he said.
Facio emphasized that w'ere the
Castro regime to be overthrown,
the same economic and social con
ditions, if not improved within a
short time, could cause the birth
of a similar regime in other coun
tries of the hemisphere.
“The HOPELESSNESS of an
impoverished people is the real
challenge to our liberty in the west
and in the world,” Facio com
mented. “It is at the same time
a challenge to take action; action
not by military strength, but by
the exchange of ideas and ingenu
ity, and by dedicated energies,” he
added.
“I have faith that the Organiza
tion of American States, now in
possession of the forceful instru
ment of the Alliance for Progress,
shall provide persistent support to
the men of America who yearn to
carve our true democracy, where
social advantages and progress
are maintained in a fruitful eco
nomic development that facilitates
the cultural advance of our
peoples,” he concluded.
Wire Review
By The Associated Press
TEXAS NEWS
PALESTINE—A mammoth plas
tic balloon loaded w r ith more than
three tons of concrete blocks had
scientists trying Thursday to coax
it back to earth after it failed to
heed their radio command to des
cend.
The balloon—described as look
ing like two giant eggs tied to
gether—was sighted by thousands
the play included offensive lan
guage.
WORLD NEWS
PARIS—The United States told
its Western Allies on Thursday
the headaches of the cold war are
moving to Moscow. The NATO
allies responded with a call for
the West to seize the advantage
through carefully planned diplo
matic action.
Tickets
25 cents and may be purchased at
the door.
U.S. Secretary of State Dean
as it drifted aimlessly at 80,000 R us k told a NATO ministerial
feet over Southeast Texas and | meeting here that Russia’s Cuban
Southwestern Louisiana. ! an d internal problems give the
Late Thursday night, a project | West an upper hand in the East-
spokesman said the giant balloon ' West power struggle,
was 15 miles high over Central '
Louisiana.' He said the big bags
“were healthy” and danger to per- I
TOM MARTIN
sons on the ground is almost non
existent.
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HOL T STON—A college profes
sor said Thursday the Texas In
stitute of Letters will be asked
to censure the Baylor University
administration for banning a
Eugene O’Neill play from the
Waco campus and express sup
port for Paul Baker, chairman
of the Baylor drama department.
Presentation of O’Neill’s
“Long Journey Into Night” was
cancelled last week after Abner
McCall, Baylor president, said
U.S. NEWS
WASHINGTON — Mariner II,
a 447-pound package of measur
ing devices and radio equipment,
brushes past Venus at 3:01 p.m.
Eastern Standard Time Friday,
a mere 20,000 miles or so from
the planet.
Scientists on both U.S. coasts
prepared to eavesdrop on Mari
ner’s 42 minutes of special near-
Venus reports.
The coded signals, as received
by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
tracking station at Goldstone,
Calif., will be relayed by tele
phone and amplified over a pub
lic address system at a news con
ference here.
Wood Awarded
AEC Grant
For $12,000
A $12,000 continuation contract
fbr basic research about medically
important micro-organisms has
been awarded by the Atomic En
ergy Commission to Dr. Norris P.
Wood.
Wood, a microbiologist, is using
non-disease producing bacteria to
learn about the influence of vari
ous nutrients on control of enzyme
reactions in cells.
Thus far, the AEC has com-
! mitted about $34,000 to the project.
Knowledge of the mechanisms
| controlling cell processes is im-
! portant to the health of man in
; the study of cancer and the con-
; trol of abnormal growth.
IN THIS CASE, Wood is using
j Streptococcus faecalis, an organ-
j ism found in the intestinal tract,
i The particular reaction he is
studying involves the use of radio-
I active formic acid as a starting
material.
The bacteria incorporate the
j i-adioactive portion of formic acid
i into the pyruvic acid molecule, the
| key intermediate of glucose metab
olism. Radioactivity of pyruvic
| acid is measured in a gas flow
| counter which is the only way the
reaction can be studied.