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5 I Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, January 8, 1963 CADET SLOUCH BATTALION EDITORIALS Plan Could Aid A&M The new plan being - proposed for future ROTC programs in land grant colleges and universities could be a distinct aid to military programs at A&M and other established military colleges. Actual details of the plan are still questionable and local officials aren’t positive how A&M will be effected, but it looks like the plan would definitely increase enroll ment and possibly even appropriations to military schools. As we see it, de-emphasis at other schools would only serve to increase emphasis at military schools where pro grams would not be reduced to two years. And it only fol lows that more funds would be available to the longer, four- year programs that would not be reduced. Of course, it really is too early to look ahead to the possibilities such a program would hold for A&M. The only thing we really know is that a change has been proposed. Judging by the performance of the last Congress, the proposal is far from being law. It does seem inevitable, however, that some sort of change will be made. And we believe few will find fault with the proposal put forward by Secretary McNamara. ★ ★ ★ New Plan Shows Services May Dislike Old Program (Compiled From Wire Reports) Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara’s proposal to end com pulsory ROTC programs irr land grant colleges seems to indicate that the military services are backing away from the large, compulsory programs they have been using- to get officers. McNamara’s plan, which col lege officials believe will not af fect A&M, would end ROTC pro grams in high schools, eliminate compulsory ROTC programs in land grant colleges and reduce all four-year ROTC courses to two years. Instead of the present four- year plan, incoming freshmen would be thoroughly screened by tests and interviews. Those qualifying would be offered scholarships to cover the costs of their education. Students who accept the gov ernment’s offers would not take part in any military training un til the summer between the soph omore and junior. Then they Bulletin Board Professional Societies Collegiate FFA Chapter will meet at 7:15 p.m. in Room 231 of the Chemistry Building. Offi cers for next semester will be elected. American Society of Mechan ical Engineers will meet at 7 p.m. in Rooms 3-B and 3-C of the MSC. Pictures will be taken. Wives Clubs Dames Club will meet at 8 p.m. in the South Solarium of the YMCA Building. Fashion Group of A&M Social Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Lady Fair Beauty Salon. A demonstration of spring hair fashions will be given. would go to summer camp, and continue their training on cam pus during the junior and sen ior years, with a second summer training period coming after graduation. At first the new program was not expected to get to Washing ton before 1964, but it now ap pears that the proposal will be taken up early in the first ses sion of the 88th Congress. Pres sure from universities and col leges and the armed forces is giving the new program a hard push. Even though McNamara’s ver sion has been announced, changes can be expected while the meas ure is before Congress. Among problems already encountered are the amount of the scholarships and when the new officers should be commissioned. The amount of the scholarships is one point that the Bureau of the Budget may alter. Scholar ships now granted under a Navy program, which is the prototype of the new program, range be tween $1,000 and $2,000 per year. Concerning the date of com missioning, one faction in the Pentagon is pumping for com missioning upon graduation. An other hopes to delay it until after the second summer camp. Many land grant institutions are showing that they do not have to wait for congressional action. They are required to of fer military programs—but not mandatory ones. Defense officials report that more than a dozen schools have anticipated the new ROTC pro gram by cutting back the manda tory two-year program to one year, and in some cases doing away with the mandatory provi sion entirely. Reputed Vulcan Successes >rm If lIMftT ; mML I AIRLINE RESERVATIONS AS NEAR TO YOU AS TA 2-3784 'jr Schedule Information ★ Domestic and International Reservations iv Tours - Hotels - Rent Cars FOR FAST RELIABLE SERVICE—CALI^ TODAY Robert Halsell Travel Service 1411 Texas Avenue THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. 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Frees is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter here- Second-class postage at College Station, T paid ex as. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Assn. ited nation: Represented na National Advertising Service. Inc, New York nally bj t i s i ng New City, Chicago, Los An- feles and San Francisco. Mail spbscriptions are $3.60 per semester; $6 per school year, $6.50 per full year. AJU subscriptions subject to 2% sales tax. Advertising rate furnished The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA Building, College Station, Texas. Address: on request. News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the editorial office. Room 4, YMCA Building. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. ALAN PAYNE EDITOR Ronnie Bookman Van Conner Managing Editor Sports Editor “ . . . Sir, you’d be playin’ a big role in helpin’ A&M attain academic excellence if you let me take a make-up quiz to raise my grade!” Sound Off Editor, The Battalion: I would, at this time, like to take the opportunity to congrat ulate the LSU Tigers for their most appropriate crushing of our teasipper “friends” in the Cotton Bowl. It is always refreshing to see an over-rated group of mice finally meet the cat. A most needed stomping is always inevitable when sheer luck runs out on the obnoxious loud-mouth. Future Dates TODAY Varsity and freshman basket ball, Rice, here Graduate lecture, Dr. Henryk Niewiadomski, Room 114 of Keep Building, 4 p.m. Fertilizer short course WEDNESDAY Ready-mix concrete conference Apartment Council Speaker in All-Faiths Chapel THURSDAY Civilian Student Council World Adventure Series, Russ Potter, MSC Ballroom FRIDAY Mid-winter vocational agricul tural conference SATURDAY Varsity basketball, SMU, there MONDAY Student Agricultural Council Dairy manufacturing short course Texas Agricultural Extension Service staff conference LSU, however, only fulfilled the predictions of the more learned sports writers all over the nation. I saw the Aggies outclass the children in orange on Thanksgiving Day. Further more, I understand that Rice had done even a better job a few weeks before. Sadly enough, an uncanny degree of luck remained with the belligerent and beaten Horns on both of these occasions, and they again emerged cham pions, of the score board. The cows and cowboys met their Waterloo in Dallas. Bevo was there, in all of “its” corpu lent obscenity, as was their fire cracker cannon that only went off once, and I believe that time by accident. Pity that someone wasn’t cleaning the barrel. The band seemed as confused as the team, but it made a lot of noise and waved plenty of flags, most of them white. Dan Louis, Gerry Brown News Editors “THANKS,” Aggies, For Allowing me to write over $520,000.00 worth of Savings and Protection plans during the year 1962. Please accept my sincere thanks for letting me serve you. Too often in the rush of business life, we fail to say “THANKS” loud enough for others to hear it. But you can be sure I never take your patronage for granted. To serve you is a real privilege and I am deeply grateful for your confidence in me. Thanks Again* BERNIE LEMMONS, ’52 "N PARDNER You’ll Always Win The Showdown When You Get Your Duds Done At CAMPUS CLEANERS For the first time I was almost glad that the teasippers had been lucky on Thanksgiving. There is nothing I like better than ground steer, chopped fine in a big Bowl. Rick Graham, ’63 LAST DAY ‘^OPERATION SNATCH” STARTS TOMORROW “HERO’S ISLAND” CIRCLE LAST NITE “2 WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN” & “NEVER SO FEW” May Be Sky bolt Argument A LONDON OP)—(Strong denials in London and Washington of published reports that British bombers pierced North American defenses in mock H-bomb attacks two months ago raised some questions Monday. Did Britain’s high-flying, swift Vulcan bombers actually break through in the big North Amer ican defense drills of 1961, whose results remain secret? And were the stories of the Vulcan’s reputed successes, splashed in four London news papers, designed to bolster the argument that the Skybolt mis- Texas House Delegation Stays Static WASHINGTON (A>) — There’s likely to be little change in com mittee assignments within the Texas House delegation as a re sult of the off-year election. Since no substantial shakeup in membership occurred, most po sitions will remain static. An exception will be a vacancy on the Armed Services Commit tee as a result of the defeat of Rep. J. T. Rutherford, D, Odessa. Texas will continue as the sixth largest delegation in the new congress which convenes Wednes day. The Lone Star delegation also is creeping up on two states which have the fourth largest memberships:. New York will have 41 House members, California 38, Pennsyl vania 27. and Illinois and Ohio 24 each. Texas is next with 23, an increase of one. With her two senators, the total delegation is at an all-time high of 25. The Texas delegation also pre served its record of never num bering a woma,n among - its mem bership. Women have aspired to that distinction on occasion. Among the three Republicans in the congressional delegation— the most ever—will be Odessa businessman Ed Foreman, who unseated Rutherford, a fellow townsman. The other two GOP members are Rep. Bruce Alger and Sen. John Tower. Foreman, at 28, certainly will be among the youngest, if not the youngest, member of the 88th Congress. Rep. Ralph Harding, D-Idaho, who is 33, was the baby of the 87th. He was re-elected. Seniority has kept Texans in powerful positions on House committees for decades, and this year’s rather status quo situation will keep them there still. PALACE Bnijan 2‘S$T$ LAST DAY DOUBLE FEATURE “MIGHTY CRUSADERS” & “WHITE SLAVE SHIP’ (Both In Color) STARTS WEDNESDAY Jerry Lewis In TT’S ONLY MONEY” QUEEN LAST DAY “LADY & TRAMP” & “ALMOST ANGELS’ sile, abandoned by the United States, might still be a weapon in the nuclear arsenal ? The Vulcan was to carry the Skybolt in Britain’s nuclear de terrent force before the United States decided to drop develop ment of the air-to-ground missile. Along with the Defense De partment, the British Air Min istry denied the newspaper re ports that four of the delta winged Vulcan bombers slipped through the North American de fenses two months ago and flew over New York, Washington, Chi cago and Los Angeles. However, an Air Ministry I 1933 spokesman did say that the Vnl- | ss j| ona i cans took part in Operation Sky. j ^- 0 res shield II in October of 1961. | S p ea ^ U.S. and Canadian planes ala-ting of participated in Skyshield II, a^ity seel exercise designed to test the domical S< fensive system of the NortlChamben American continent, including tiJj . meeti radar network. E , TT , 1. Wedne Its results never have beer (jhemis made public. Informants pointem tar y j out that detailed results of sucV m war games constitute importanl|L n j n g. defense secrets. dent Cer On Campus with MocShuhan {Author of”! Was a Teen-age Dwarf,” "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis," etc.) A GUIDE FOR THE UNMONEYED R. L. Sigafoos was a keen, ambitious lad, and when he finished high school he wished mightily to go on with his education. It seemed, however, a forlorn hope. R. L.’s father could not send the boy to college because a series of crop failures had brought him to the brink of disaster. (R. L.’s father raised orchids which, in North Dakota, is a form of agriculture fraught with risk.) It was, therefore, squarely up to R. L. He could go to college only if he worked his way through. This was a prospect that dismayed him. He had a deep-seated fear that the task would be too great, that lie would never be able to carry on a full, busy college life and still find time to do odd jobs and make money. Racked with misgivings, R. L. paced the streets, pondering his dilemma. One day, walking and brooding, he came upon a park bench and sat down and lit a Marlboro cigarette. R. L. always lit a Marlboro when he was low in his mind. R. L. also always lit a Marlboro when he was merry. The fact is there is no occasion—happy or sad, pensive or exuberant, cheery or solemn—when Marlboro with its fine filter and fine flavor is not entirely welcome, as you will discover when you go to your favorite tobacconist and buy some, as we—the makers of Marlboro and I and R. L. Sigafoos—hope you will do real soon. Sitting and thinking and smoking a Marlboro on the park bench, R. L. was suddenly interrupted by a small, quavering voice which said, “My boy, you are troubled. Can I help?” Ihamberh | for ser 1 has been :ining Ct opuient C ■rch spe the ana’ dear maf ifetry. I Brch on &rs, hig] iict read ion. alkin loot I I- G - M - •{cultural fed to spe: llhe Co' Bday at 1 in Dallas Vatkins \ ort on “ 1” at the the meeti or F It worksh ilbs Vail pie cond ler’s Cou inty Com ■from 7: ay, from wmm&m 1 'he ininfi cher: I inf jy 0: Seated beside R. L. was a tiny, gnarled man with wispy, snow-white hair. His skin was almost transparent, showing a delicate tracery of fragile bones beneath. His back was bent, and his hands trembled. But his eyes were bright and clear. R. L. looked into those eyes, into the wrinkled face. He saw wisdom there, and experience, and kindness. “Do you think, sir,” said R. L., “that a boy can work his way through college and still enjoy a rich, full campus life?” “Why, bless you, son,” replied the stranger with a rheumy chuckle, “of course you can. In fact, I did it myself.” “Was it very hard?” asked R. L. “Yes, it was hard,” the stranger admitted. “But when one is young, all things are possible. I, for example, used to get up at five o’clock every morning to stoke the furnace at the SAE house. At six I had to milk the ewes at the school of animal husbandry. At seven I gave a fencing lesson to the Dean of Women. At eight I had a class in early Runic poets. At nine I gave haircuts at the Gamma Phi Beta house. At ten I had dif ferential calculus. At eleven I posed for a life class. At twelve I watered soup at the Union. At one I had a class in Oriental languages. At two I exercised the mice in psych lab. At three I gave the Dean of Women another fencing lesson. At four I had qualitative analysis. At five I went clamming. At six I cut meat for the football team. At seven I ushed at the movies. At eight I had my ears pierced so that at nine I could tell fortunes in a gypsy tearoom. At ten I had a class in astronomy. At eleven I tucked in the football team. At twelve I studied and at three I went to sleep.” “Sir,” cried R. L., “I am moved and inspired by your shin ing example!” “It was nothing,” said the stranger modestly, shaking his frail white head. “It was just hard work, and hard work never hurt anybody.” “Would you mind telling me, sir,” said R. L., “how old you are now?” .“Twenty-two,” said the stranger. WAN ent wife ping - elect itary, busin iftYAN N.O. M/ © 1063 Max Shulmaa HC . RAE SALE KEN’S 303 W. 21 You don't have to be a rich man’s son or daughter to enjoy Marlboro cigarettes, available in soft-pack or flip-top box at your favorite tobacco counter. TYF Rental PEANUTS NOT S01N6 TO SCHOOL TODAtf. 1 MOMSAIDICOOLD ' \ \ STA^JiOME.. By Charles M. 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