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Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1963
Number 55
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the Bln tv; AUSTIN (/P)—John Connally wears a Stetson—type
cowboy hat common to most past Texan governors- but the
2 t°r the similarity ends there.
al LeagiifH Connally goes to the governor’s mansion, not by way
of the political ladder, but from the snap-decision world of
e hard-ruijhlgh finance and power politics.
his FLshH' His business and political connections long- ago crossed state lines
en one lito spread far from his modest 4 C Ranch near Floresville.
He won quick respect from determined military leaders as Pres
ident Kennedy’s first navy secretary.
fg â– . WHY DID HE RESIGN FROM the cabinet to run for governor?
R “With the conviction that military strength alone cannot guar-
vls. Ac: arree our security and our way of life ... it is my firm conviction
hey lostfthat responsible political leadership of the separate states is an essen-
iuseofatajd foundation upon which this -leadership must ultimately depend,’’
16 unfoitjhe asserted when he resigned.
Hips was■ To show he‘could p)-ovide “responsible political leadership,” in
T. Texas, Connally ran his first political campaign with little political
Hard Pail;jfreworks. He characterized the campaign as one with “no gimmicks,
iy conveii 110 glamour. I tried to talk reason.”
lillips 1 HE UNSEATED GOV. PRICE DANIEL, who wanted another
H4rm, with a minimum of hard feelings. Above all, he prevented a
h! to ret S P'’^ anion K Maverick Democrats and drove home a party unity theme
friendlytl a t s ^ a ^ e conver| Hon.
the rifl Party unity is a must if Connally is to realize his analysis that
, .j. Texas’ 38th governor will be one which will set in motion a new
I ilJ political, financial and educational atmosphere.
“Do you realize that we will have a completely new team fot
alula ql e — a new governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and
u *LB ea k er 0 ^* bouse,” Connally asked enthusiastically.
1 “Think what a golden opportunity it will be to come to grips with
lg look 1 ih<' many problems we are facing.”
the floe# THIS ENTHUSIASM TO TACKLE Texas’ wide range of problems
ded as a* is the same enthusiasm which has fueled a career of successive tri-
ufriphs.
Houstonâ–  Connally was born Feb. 27, 1917, on a farm near his ranch south-
FollowrlIpt of San Antonio. His father was a barber, butcher, bus driver
5 sarfai'M tenant farmer until he bought a small ranch in 1932, shortly be-
>f thinkili f o re Connally entered the University of Texas.
There he headed an impressive list of top campus organizations,
-iboiltCl | 0n ' s t U( l en ^ body presidency and climaxed a spectacular college career
wvds"iffij carrying the university sweetheart, Miss Idanell Brill.
• L They have three children, Mark, 9, Sharon, 12, and John B.
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L ^ ‘M WHILE STILL IN SCHOOL, Connally worked in two statewide
political campaigns and also for Lyndon Johnson’s race for congress,
â–ºuston re* Later he became a secretary to Johnson. During World War II,
he became, a lieutenant commander and won two medals.
After the war he organized and headed an Austin radio station,
KVET, still helping with pesky details of other candidates’ political
campaigns.
Between 1952 and 1960, Connally was a lawyer and administrative
^executive for the late Sid Richardson and Perry Bass, wealthy oil
operators.
H Connally made the nominating speech in Johnson’s 1956 bid for
RiV the Democratic presidential nomination. Adlai Stevenson won. In
53.960, Connally was considered a leading planner in Johnson’s second
bid for the presidential nomination, won by John Kennedy.
Wire Review
Boot
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By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
I LAGOS, Nigeria — The army
junta which seized Togo Sunday
seemed Monday night to be pon-
sidering three men in quest for
a leader to fill the shoes of the
assassinated president, Sylvanus
Olympic. All are supposedly in
Lome, the capital,
fc Sporadic breaks in communica
tions impeded news from Lome,
f on the Gulf of Guinea 140 miles
west of Lagos.
[| But Radio Lome announced To-
f go would respect its foreign trea-
[i ties. These treaties include a tech-
; nical and economic cooperation
[/pact with the United States signed
Dec. 28, 1960. Public roads were
Righ on the list of U.S. aid pro-
[•' jects.
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BONN, Germany — West Ger-
E'many lined up Monday behind
IS the U. S. plan to give NATO
r a multinational nuclear force.
K American sources said the plan
I will be pushed despite opposition
B by President Charles De Gaulle
H of France.
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
§1 gave his support after meeting
â–  with U.S. Undersecretary of
p State George W. Ball, who was
If; here to explain the agreement to
â– ; create a NATO nuclear striking
K force worked out by President
R Kennedy and Prime Minister
| Harold MacMillan of Britain at
Nassau, Banamas.
U. S. NEWS
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. —-
The United States and the So
viet Union opened a new round
of high-level disarmament talks
Monday aimed chiefly at exploit
ing possibilities of progress on a
nuclear test ban.
William C. Foster, the new top
U. S. disarmament expert, met
With Semyon K. Tsarapkin, veter
an Soviet arms negotiator, at the
Soviet mission to the United Na
tions.
Foster, who heads the U. S.
Disarmament and Arms Control
Agency, appealed for a more flex
ible attitude on Russia’s part and
said if that is forthcoming ways
can certainly be found to nego
tiate the deadlocked issue of in
spection measures.
TEXAS NEWS
AUSTIN — The Texas Com
mission on Higher Education
voted Monday against putting
four-year state colleges in San
Antonio, Laredo and Odessa.
The commission approved 9-5
a staff report which said state
' funds could be better used at
the state’s 20 colleges and uni
versities.
Commission program examiner
Dr. Lester Harrell said it would
cost $10.3 million during 1965-7
to elevate junior colleges in the
three cities to full four-year
status.
Commission Member Jack S.
Woodward of San Angelo tried
unsuccessfully to order the staff
to give the requests further
study.
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AUSTIN — The State Highway
Commission announced Monday a
$100 million program to meet
highway needs in Southeast
Texas near the National Aeronau
tics and Space Administration
Manned Spacecraft Centex-.
Highway construction and im
provements costing $99.4 million
are planned for Hands and Gal
veston counties dux-ing the next
sevex-al years.
The hux-ried schedule is de
signed to meet i-apid growth in the
area brought by the new center.
The sudden growth was not antici
pated by highway department
long-range planning.
The commission said the outline
of its expedited program will en
able federal, county and city
agencies to coordinate work on
roads and streets to supplement the
department’s work.
On ‘Day Student Only’' .Basis
Solon Pushes For Co-Eds
Battalion Begins
Exam Schedule
With this issue, The Battalion
begins an abbreviated schedule
for the upcoming final examina
tion period.
Only one more issue will be
published this week—on Thurs
day, Jan. 17. Also only one is
sue will be published next week
—on Thursday, Jan. 24.
The following issue will be on
Thursday, Jan. 31, with regu
lar publication dates to be as
sumed on Tuesday, Feb. 5.
Parking Fee Due
With Other Fees
Student vehicle pax-king permits
for the spring semester will be
paid for at the time of class re
gistration and included on the fis
cal office fee slip, chief of campus
security Fx-ed Hickman advised to
day.
Hickman said that the parking
permit woxxld then be issued to
the student when he presented his
fee slip at the campus seeux-ity
office.
The fee for registration will re
main at $3 per semester. Addi
tional vehicles may be registered
for .50 cents each.
NSF Office Moved
To YMCA Building
A&M’s branch of the National
Science Foundation will move to
a new location this week, accox-d-
ing to Coleman M. Loyd, coox-din-
ator of the local px-ogram.
NSF will occupy Room 105 of
the YMCA Byilding.
Loyd said that the Department
of Military Sciences would use his
px-esent office in the basement of
the Militax-y Science Building for
classroom space next semester.
Haines Wants
Amendment
If Bryan’s freshman legislator has his way, women will
be knocking at A&M’s gates in short order. Rep. David
Haines, Class of 1951, announced Friday he will press for a
constitutional amendment to make A&M co-educational.
Haines said he thinks classes should be opened to females
on a day student basis. He said such a change would be a
boon to girls in the Bryan-College Station area who want to
g-o to college.
“The girls in this area should be able to take advantage
of what A&M has to offer if they want to go to college,”
said
THE STATE legislator, who took Brownrigg Dewey’s
seat in the capitol building in-
the Democratic primary, said
he thinks that a bill to admit
women would not be success
ful.
He said former students would
be able to defeat sxxch legislation
by pressure on the individual law
makers in their own districts.
Haines said that he believes a
constitutional ammendment is the
correct approach, since it would
submit the question directly to the
voters of the state. He said that
it is the people of Texas who really
own A&M, not the former students.
He said:
“I WENT TO A&M, my father
went to A&M, and I would like
for my daughter to go to A&M.
I feel there will be strong opposi
tion from ex-students toward this
proposal. However, I feel it is a
great disservice to women not to
be able to attend A&M.”
Haines said that he didn’t be
lieve female enrollment would be
vexy high with co-education on a
“day student only” basis.
He said that A&M must find
some other area fx-om which to
draw enrollment, since A&M would
lose esome students to the now
s t a t e-supported University o f
Houston.
DAVID HAINES
MSC Council Asks
Graduate Rep
The bewhiskered problem of
what to do with the vacant stu
dent post on the Memorial Student
Center Council was solved Monday
night—at least for the remainder
of the semester. And the group
is on the x - oad to taking care of a
provision which gives the Student
Senate an xxnwanted post on the*
council.
Under the gavel of council Pres
ident James Ray, the MSC’s policy
making board voted to ask Dean
of Graduate Studies Wayne C. Hall
to nominate a graduate student for
membership on the council.
The other problem stems from
a council constitutional provision
that calls for a representative from
the Student Senate. The Senate’s
constitution makes no such allow
ance, so the council comes up one
member short.
A majority of eight students
over seven faculty-staff-former
students members is x-equired by
Here Is Your
Final Exam Schedule
Here is the official schedule
the fall semester:
of final examinations for
Date
Time
Class
Jan. 19
1-4 p. m.
TWF3, TTHF3, TF3
Jan. 21
8-11 a. m.
MWF8
Jan. 21
1-4 p. m.
TTh8Fl
Jan. 22
8-11 a. m.
MWF9
Jan. 22
1-4 p. m.
MWThl
Jan. 23
8-11 a. m.
MWF10
Jan. 23
1-4 p. m.
TF1
Jan. 24
8-11 a. m.
MSTThlO
Jan. 24
1-4 p. m.
MWTh2
Jan. 25
8-11 a. m.
MWF11
Jan. 25
1-4 p. m.
M4TThll
Jan. 26
8-11 a. m.
TTh9F2
Jan. 26
1-4 p. m.
TF2
the council constitution.
Since the Senate hasn’t been
sending a delegate, the majority
was destx-oyed.
The constitution and by-laws
committee of the council first rec
ommended that all provision fox-
senate repx-esentation be stricken
and the graduate school clause sub
stituted.
The move failed by one vote of
having the necessary two-thirds
vote of membership.
Oppo-nents of the measure felt
that such action would destroy any
possibility of a future senate rep
resentative. Another argument
against was that a move of that
kind would antogonize the senate
and create ill will.
President Ray countered that
student body president Sheldon
Best had personally agx-eed with
plans to abolish senate x-epresenta-
tion provisions.
4th Army General
Pays Visit Here
Maj. Gen. Ralph R. Mace, deputy
commander of the Fourth Army,
was on campus Tuesday as part
of a quickie tour of ROTC units
at Texas colleges and universities.
Mace also visited Sam Houston
State Teachers College at Hunts
ville axxd Allen Militax-y Academy
in Bryan Tuesday. Wednesday he
has stops slated at Px-airie View
A&M College at Prairie View, Rice
University at Houston axxd the
Univex*sity of Houston.
Purpose of the visits is to permit
the recently assigned officer to
meet various school presidexxts and
professors of military science, to
inspect facilities and to obsex-ve
training programs.
Kennedy Calls For Slash In Taxes
During Third State of Union Message
WASHINGTON UP) — Presi
dent Kennedy urgently asked a
divided Congress Monday for an
unprecedented $13.5 billion tax
slash to help assure cold war vic
tory against a Communist empire
which he pictxxx-ed as in “disaimay”
in his third State of the Union
Message.
Kennedy said that tax reforms
would be aimed at x-ecovering
about $3.5 billion of the $13.5-bil
lion x-edxxction.
Many legislators have called
for economies to offset any tax
cuts, but Kennedy took the posi
tion in his 4,500 word addi*ess
that this cannot be done x*ight
now. He predicted, however, that
his plan would lead in time to
“a balanced budget in a balanced
full employment economy.”
THE TAX reduction, biggest in
world history, would become ef
fective in three annual stages, be
tween 1963 and 1965. About $11
billion of the savings would go to
individual taxpayers; the rest to
corporations. The first-step reduc
tion would take effect this year
and would be at an annual rate
of $6 billion-bxxt the reduction!
for 1963 would not be that much
unless it were made retroactive
to Jan. 1.
Present indications are Ken
nedy will not ask such retroac
tivity in his detailed tax x-equests.
The President, in his view of
the world, combined cautious re
joicing over Communist discom
fitures of the past year with a
stx-ong warning against compla
cency or any relaxation of cold
war efforts.
ALL THE traditional ceremony
and color marked the delivex-y of
the annual message, which was
broadcast nationally. Fox-eign dip
lomats, some clad in African
robes, trooped into the House
chamber. The Supreme Court was
in attendance.
Aside fx*om the tax proposal,
chief interest centex-ed on Ken
nedy’s cautious hint that the non-
Communist world may be on the
way to winning- the cold war.
It is true, he said, that the West
can find no grounds for rejoicing
in the Soviet-Chinese disagree
ment, since the dispute is “over
how best to bury the free wox-ld.”
“NEVERTHELESS,” he said,
“while a stx-ain is not a fracture,
it is clear that the forces of di
versity are at work inside the
Communist camp, despite all the
iron disciplines of regimentation
and all the iron dogmatisms of
ideology.
But he coupled that encoux-age-
ment with this wax-ning:
“But complacency or self-con-
gx-atulation can imperil our secu
rity as much as the weapons of
tyranny. A moment of pause is
not a promise of peace. Danger
ous problems remain from Cuba
to the South China Sea.
THE MESSAGE was studded
with xxxany recommendations, rang
ing from a domestic Peace Corps
to a renewed call for health care
for the elderly under Social Se
curity. Republicans and some De
mocrats didn’t applaud the Presi
dent’s plug for this medicax-e pro
gram, which lost in the 87th Con
gress.
Medicare, the President said,
would be much prefex-able to forc
ing- working people “to beg for
help from public chax-ity once
they are old and ill.”
Above everything else, he said,
there should be a quick ovex-haul
of an obsolete tax systexxi which
checks growth.
Kennedy conceded that his tax
plan would increase the prospec
tive deficit in his budget for the
coming fiscal year. This budget
will go to Congress Thursday and
is expected to call for spending
nearly $99 billion. But he argued
that business stimulation resulting
from the tax cut would offset this
in the near future.
Stark Fears
Kelly Paintings
Are Destroyed
Memorial Student Center Di
rector J. Wayne Stark said Mon
day he fears that the four paint
ings stolen from the MSC last
fall may have been destroyed.
Two students, sophomore Will
iam T. Roberson and freshman
Jorge Gonzalez, have been charged
with felony theft after admitting
that they took four pictures, wox*th
$500 each, to use to decoi-ate their
room.
IN THEIR statement the pair
said they abandoned the paintings,
outdoor scenes by the late “Cow
boy” Kelly, at the North Gate
when they learned how valuable
the framed pieces x-eally wex-e.
Stax-k told The Battalion that
the paintings were not insured, in
accordance with state policy. He
said that the MSC has only seven
paintings, purposely holding to
only valuable and wox-thy works.
NO ONE IS exactly sux-e when
the theft occurred. The students
don’t remember and Stax-k said no
one in the MSC noticed the empty
second floor wall until just be
fore the Christmas vacation—long
after the paintings had been taken.
He said the student don’t remem
ber when they dumped the paint
ings either.
The landscapes were presented
to the MSC about eight years ago
by the Ford Motor Co. Kelly was
a well knowtx West Texas ax-tist.
Retired Colonel
Will Assume
Position Here
Robex-t M. Logan, recently-re
tired Army colonel, has assumed
the post of inventory supervisor
for the college, Tom D. Cherry,
director of business affairs, an
nounced Tuesday.
Logan, who is an A&M graduate
with the Class of 1940, last serv
ed as a member of the Army’s
Military Management Team with
offices in Dallas.
“We ax-e happy to have a man
with Logan’s training and experi
ence in supply and px-operty man
agement,” Cherry said.
THE INVENTORY supexvisory
post is concerned with policy, pro
cedures and accountability of mov
able inventory valued at more than
$19 million.
Logan’s responsibilities dux-ing
his Army caxeer included both
command and staff duties. He
served for thxee yeax-s as px-ofessor
of military science and tactics at
Tarleton State College.
In the program management
field, Logan spent four years as
chief of the military personnel di
visions in two Army command
headquarters, as pi'incipal staff ad
visor in Kox-ea on Army-Air Force
Exchange operations, in overseas
supply operations for the Fax-
East, and as chief of a Depart
ment of the Ax-my Militax-y Man
agement Team.
ROBERT M. LOGAN