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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.
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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
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You’ll Always Win
The Showdown
When You Get
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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.
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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 ,
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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.
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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
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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?”
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