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‘Wayfarers’
Win 1st Place
In Talent Show
A crowd of about 1,300 watched
a four-man group called The Way-
farers take first place in the
1962 Aggie Talent Show Friday
night in fluion Hall.
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Barrows was the runner-up in
[last year’s Aggie Talent show when
he gave several solo renditions of
folk songs.
Winning over nine other acts,
the group played and sang their
way through three folk-song num
bers including “Johnny Booker,”
‘Bevond These Mountains” and
“Going Away For To Leave You.”
The students making up the group
are Olvn Barrows, Bill Sturgeon,
Mack Moore and Louis King.
Second place winner Friday night
was a folk song duo of Jimmy Post
and Barry King. The third place
winner was Sal Marquez, a solo
trumpet player, who plays in both
imIi the Aggie Band and the Aggieland
Orchestra.
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Veteran radio and television per
former Tom Martin acted as mas
ter of ceremonies for the Show.
Martin used sleight of hand along
with his comedy routine to keep the
audience laughing.
MARTIN, WHO has made ap
pearances in Las Vegas, New York,
London, Rome, and Spain also pre
sented the feature act of the show.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1962
Students’ Gift to TB Drive
Ronald L. Mull, ’68, gives Mrs. W. E. McCune, chairman of
the Brazos County Christmas Seal Drive, $195 which is the
student body’s donation for this year. The money is 10 per
cent of that collected by the Campus Chest.
Campus Chest Winners
Ken Stanton, chairman of the Student Welfare Committee,
presents Jim Nance, first sergeant of Squadron 1, a plaque
for Squadron 1, the unit which gave the most per man to
the Campus Chest.
INSIGHT INTO ISSUES. .
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Looking Back At SCONA
Other acts which were included
in the show were The Avantes, a
four-man combo; Jose Antonio Na-
Naver playing the flamenco guitar,
Darrell Carr as a piano soloist,
Eddie Bale and Larry Ewers in a
guitar duet and Melvin Beyer and
his combo.
The Wayfarers won $25 for their
first place effort. Second prize
was $15 and the third place winner
received $10, according to Ed Dun
can, program chairman.
As the winners of the Aggie Ta
lent show, The Wayfarers will
compete with college talent from
all over the southwest at the an
nual Intercollegiate Talent Show
here Friday, March 8.
The nine acts which made the
show Friday night were selected
from 16 hopefuls who auditioned
for a place on the show.
By KENT JOHNSTON
Battalion Staff Writer
Students and officials of A&M
and other state-suported Texas
colleges may see some important
changes made to courses, degrees
and tuition in mid-January as the
58th Legislature and two other
state agencies meet to settle edu-
dational matters.
The Texas Legislature will de
cide whether or not to increase
tuition by $100 per year, the State
Commission on Higher Education
may allow A&M to offer three
more degrees and the Legislative
Budget Board will recommend that
colleges not receive money to
teach courses labeled “high school-
ish.”
The question of raised tuition
is a complicated one, and will be
one of the stickiest fiscal problems
facing the legislature.
Inflation, Texas pride and gen
eral economic conditions are three
factors in the issue which will in
fluence lawmakers’ decisions.
The raise would mean an ad
ditional $11,000,000 in higher edu
cation funds, would mean that
some students on the financial
borderline could no longer attend
college and would also determine
how much more tax money Texans
ttill be asked to divy out in fu
ture years.
RIGHT NOW, students at state
schools are paying only one eighth
of their educational costs, and if
they were to transfer to private
Schools, they would have to pay
fees from five to eight times big
ger, point out those who favor
the fee hike.
By RONNIE BOOKMAN
Battalion Managing Editor
Can withdrawal of U. S. aid
from a foreign country help rela
tions with that country?
Is socialism the answer to help
young, independent, but underde
veloped, nations get off on the
right foot?
Is education a pre-requisite to
a solution of the population ex
plosion ?
These were some of the many
questions on the tongues of dele
gates to the eighth Student Con
ference on National Affairs. The
conference, which ended Saturday,
brought together representatives
of about 65 schools in the United
States, Mexico and Canada. About
For instance, Austin College
charges $800 for tuition; Trinity
charges $820; Texas Christian,
$600; Baylor, $600; and South
ern Methodist University charges
$750. In addition, most of these
schools have other required non
tuition fees.
Although these comparsions may
or may not be revlevent, the real
problem facing the decision-makers
is this dilemma:
SHOULD TEXAS have inexpen
sive schools on a less than first
rate level, supported by the taxes
of all Texans, or should students
pay more in order to raise school
standards and lighten the tax
payer’s load ?
The powerful Legislative Budget
Board will recommend to the Leg
islature on Jan. 15 that low-level
courses taught in state colleges be
abolished because they feel that
institutions of higher learning are
not the place to give students a
second chance at high school cours
es in which they were weak.
The boai'd wants to get rid of
courses in “remedial reading,”
“advanced arithmetic” and “begin
ning algebra” which earned stu
dents a calculated 73,041 semester
hours of credit last year.
THE UNIVERSITY of Texas,
West Texas State College and
Texas Tech were the only state-
supported colleges from a total of
20 in Texas which were not blam
ed for offering the courses.
A&M was named for “giving
away” 2,577 hours last year to
students taking remedial algebra
and other high-school level courses.
150 delegates attended the foui’-
day exchange of ideas.
High points of the conference
were major addresses by Vice
President Lyndon B. Johnson, who
drew more than 9,000 persons into
G. Rollie White Coliseum last
Thursday, and other top spokes
men of the free world.
WEDNESDAY, retired Gen.
Frederic H. Smith, who was vice
chief of staff of the Air Force
until last June, and Mason Will-
rich, advisor to the U. S. Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency
spoke.
Smith said that the answer to
nuclear weapons is to find new
weapons that will neutralize power
of so-called “ultimate” weapons.
. The board feels that Texas is
paying twice for teaching some
students reading and math, and
particularly criticized college cours
es with the titles “Study Tour
of Europe,” “American Theatre
Tour” and “Literary Tour of Eu
rope.”
A&M has asked the State Com
mission on Higher Education to
allow it to grant bachelor and
master of arts degrees in govern
ment when the Commission meets
Jan. 14.
Permission is also sought by
A&M to conduct a program in lab
oratory animal medicine leading
to a master of science degree.
Rudder To Speak
In Chapel Series
President Earl Rudder will speak
at 7 a.m. Wednesday in the All
Faiths Chapel in the final program
of the current series of the Faculty
Christian Fellowship. His an
nounced topic is “The Idea of a
University — in a Christian Sur
rounding.”
The Faculty Christian Fellow
ship has met each Wednesday since
the first week of November with
a different faculty or staff mem
ber speaking briefly. Coffee and
doughnuts are served at the YMCA
Building following the program.
A vote is scheduled Wednesday
to determine the future of the Fa
culty Christian Fellowship.
Music for meditation will be
played from 6:50 a.m. until the
program begins.
The West Point graduate said:
“This is not senseless exten
sion of the arms race. It is, in
stead, a reasoned and natural ef
fort to bring the defense into bal
ance with the offense. And, in
fact, to provide a new way to
prevent wars.”
Smith said that in 2,500 years
of recorded military history there
had been no “ultimate” weapon.
Willrich, 29-year old ex-delegate
to the 18-nation disarmament talks
in Geneva, said:
“The issue before us is whether
the leading powers in the world
today will be able to effectively
deal with the crisis in human his
tory which the revolutionary de
velopments of modern weapons has
produced.”
HE SAID the U. S. must meet
two challenges which might well
decide the survival of this country
as a nation. The two hurdles
are the challenges of communism
and the challenges of the arms
race, he explained.
The second day of the conference
was loaded with food for delegates’
ears. Vice President Johnson, in
his address that afternoon, said
that a solution to world tensions
involved more than “pills, payrolls,
presitge and peace talks.”
He said:
“If we are seriously to under
take the relieving of world ten
sions, a greater degree of politi
cal courage, political imagination
and political innovation will be
required — in both developed and
underdeveloped worlds.”
Thursday nght the president of
the council of the Organization of
American States, Ambassador Gon-
zalo J. Facio of Costa Rica, told
the delegates that Castro was
ready to be knocked over by an
internal rebellion.
Facio, whose brother Alvero was
a star swimmer and diver at A&M
in the early ’40s’, said:
“AT THIS moment Castro is dis
credited among his own people.
His precarious hold on his fol
lowers can be easily broken, pro
vided we do not give him time to
recuperate. A few, but immedi
ate, blows by the partisians of
freedom can turn the tide and
bring him down.”
Facio, Costa Rican ambassador
to the U. S., said he felt an in
vasion of the Cuban island by A-
merican forces was unneccesary
because of Castro’s internal con
dition.
Friday night former United Na-
S tions Ambassador James J. ,Wads-
j worth, perhaps the most impos-
i ing and glib of the conference
i speakers, said the world will never
i have permanent peace as long as
a “playground” attitude among
nations exists.
He said that countries talk past
each other and make propaganda
speeches at the conference tables.
SATURDAY THE featured and
final speaker was Felix R. Mc-
Knight, vice president and execu
tive editor of The Dallas Times-
Herald. McKnight summarized the
conference’s high points and told
delegates that the United States
and the free world had been vic
timized by “a monumental bluff.” ,
Drawing on experience from a
trip to Russia and an interview
with Khrushchev, McKnight said:
“Don’t give Khrushchev ‘little
compromises’ to take him off the
hook with his own people, who
have heard him boast many times
that he would run up out of Ber
lin .. .
“Give him nothing. It is that
sort of diplomatic finagling that
would kill us.”
But while the delegates and ob
servers agreed that the speeches
were informative and highly
worth-while, it was the round
table discussion sessions that
brought the highest praise.
In these break-down groups
eight in all, students presented
their own comments and ideas
on the points covered by the
speakers. With leaders from edu-
ation and business to provide di
rection in case the discussion got
off the beaten path, students me
thodically examined every facet of
possible sources of world tension,
the conference’s main topic.
The students were not trying
to come to any conclusions about
the problems, but rather to gain
an understanding of them.
Gen. Smith, the first SCONA
speaker, hit the nail on the head
with his description of the con
ference: “An intellectual smorgas
bord.”
Battalion Holiday
Starts Day Early
The Battalion will begin the
Christmas vacation one day ear
ly, with our last edition before
the holidays scheduled Wednes
day.
Our annual safety edition will
be published Wednesday, while
no paper will be published Thurs
day when classes are recessed
for the holidays.
The first 1963 edition is sche
duled Friday, Jan. 4, with regu
lar publication to resume the
following week.
Classes will resume after the
holidays on Thursday, Jan. 3.
Big Changes In Making
From New Legislature
Number J8
Fish Election
Protest Heard
By Commission
A tie vote for secretary-treasurer in the freshman class
run-off election Friday prompted a protest before the election
I commission Monday night and a recommendation from that
group for disqualification of a candidate.
Kn other results from the election Charles W. “Bill” Mil-
; likin defeated Michael D. Ashworth for class president; Rich-
! ard M. “Tom” Dooley heat Michael E. Denney and Ellis C. Gill
for vice president; and in the run-off for social secretary
Early B. Denison defeated Elliott L. “E. Lee” Higgins.
In the protest Harris Pappas charged that his opponent,
Miro Pavelka, violated campaign regulations on the day of
the run-off. In his formal complaint Pappas stated, “My
opponent passed out hand"* ■
cards in two areas which are
off limits according to regu
lations. The areas were the
voting line and the grounds
of the Memorial Student Center.”
Pavelka told the commission, “I
have no defense other than the
fact that I didn’t know I was
violating a regulation.”
HE STATED that he would not
have been eager to “throw two
weeks of hard campaigning away
by knowingly violating a regula
tion.”
A1 Wheeler, election commission
chairman, told the commission that
he had explained the regulations to
the freshman candidates prior to
the opening of campaigns.
The question was raised as to
how the regulation reads. Shelton
Best, student body president, said
that the regulation was not a
written one, but a “rule of prece
dent.”
Pavelka told the commission
that an upperclassman had told
him that campaigning in the MSC
was illegal. He said that he went
to the advisor to the commission,
Wayne Smith, who also told him
that campaigning in the MSC was
illegal.
HOWEVER, Pavelka said he
left the conversation with Smith
under the impression that cam
paigning outside the MSC would
be legal. He said that he cam
paigned a short time outside the
MSC, but that he “felt so bad”
about the error he had made that
he went back to his dorm.
Pappas said, “If I had lost by
50 or more votes I could be com
pensated by the fact that Pavelka
quit campaigning. But, because it
was a tie, I feel that the illegal
campaign made the difference in
the vote.”
The vote by the commission
which recommended that Pavelka
be disqualified, places the matter
before the Student Senate for final
action. Pavelka may protest be- *
fore the Senate if he elects to do
so.
FOLLOWING THE vote on the
regulation the group began to
discuss the "vagueness of the elec
tion regulations. It was suggested
that steps should be taken to set
the regulations down in writing.
James Carter was appointed by
Wheeler to work as chairman of
a committee to study the present
regulations and to write a com
plete set of regulations to be con
sidered for acceptance.
Pavelka said that he did not
know whether or not he would
protest before the Senate. He did
say that he would be present at
the next Senate meeting to en
courage that some definite election
regulations be established.
“I hate to get off to a start like
this,” Pavelka said. But he said
that he has not lost his interest in
campus politics and that he will
definitely be trying again.
Louisiana Clubs
Schedule Parties
During Holidays
The South Louisiana and Shreve-
poi't Hometown Clubs have slated
two dances during the coming
holiday period.
The New Orleans Aggie. Exes
and South Louisiana club will spon
sor a Christmas dance Saturday
at 8:30 p.m. at the Loyola Uni
versity cafeteria in New Orleans.
Music will be furnished by the
Matadors. Admission is $2 a
couple.
The Shreveport club will hold
its annual New Year’s Dance Mon
day, Dec. 31 at 9 p.m. in the P&S
Hotel party room. Danny Harri
son and the Impacks will furnish
music.
All Aggies and their quests have
been invited to both parties.
Senator Calls Tuition Hike
Anti-Educational, Absurd’
HOUSTON <2P) _ Sen. Ralph!
Yarborough, D-Tex., warned Mon- j
day America is putting a money i
tag on* college education when the
proper unit of value should be the
brain tag.
“Texas suffers from a lack of j
college trained people, yet we
hear absurd proposals now to hike |
college tuition rates even higher j
at the next session of the legis-1
lature,” he said.
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“This is equaled in shortsight
edness only by a proposal at the
federal level that college students
finance their college educations by
bank loans guaranteed by the fed
eral government.”
Yarborough termed both propos
als anti-educational saying tuition
is too high now.
THE SENATOR said the loca-’
tion of space exploration activi- '
ties in Houston will prove a great i
stimulus to education in the South- j
west.
“But if Texas is to profit by i
this stimulus, it must have direc
tion and support,” Yarborough j
said. “That support must come '
from the public treasury, state |
and national.” , \
The senator spoke at an appre
ciation dinner given in his honor.
He said peace in our time is
possible if we work hard for it!
and spend money to prepare for |
it, as we prepare to spend money
for war.
“In an alternating hot and cold
war, we speak of education for
peace. Here at the beginning of
the Christmas season, it is not
too much to hope that some day
peace will break out, as we now
fear war might break out,” he
said.
Annual Service
For Christmas
Set Wednesday
The annual Christmas service
will be held Wednesday, at 8 p.m.
in the All Faiths Chapel.
Dr. Guy Greenfield, pastor of
the First Baptist Church of Col
lege Station, will deliver the Chris
tmas message.
The program will include the
following: invocation — A1 Hugh-
lett, chaplain of the 1st Brigade;
scripture reading by Bob Snedaker,
chaplain of the 2nd Wing; prayer
by Don Whitehall, civilian chap
lain; and introduction of speaker-
by Paul Smith, hand chaplain.
Special music will be provided.
This annual event is being pro
moted by the YMCA and the stu
dent chaplains.