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Che Battalion Fifth Woman Prof Here... See Page 4 1 1 (I Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1963 Number 61 'Ul'oague "s Space Committee SjTo Visit Fiesta, Facilities iSix ■ 'ULT.'ssmen, members of a subcommittee on Manned pace Flight, are planning to be ^TlMampus Friday to attend the “pace Fiesta now underway and sit space related research f'aciii- es. After leaving here the group lltt 11 r tudy s Pe n< fing of federal T^T¥ w lf Houston’s Manned Space- aft Center. The subcommittee includes Olin Teague, from College Station, lailman of the House subcom- ; M|iRe on Manned Space Flight; ^^^Halter Itiehlman, K-N.Y., |ult|n, R-Penn., Joseph Karth, Emilio Q. Daddario, and Thomas G. Morris, D-Minn. D-Conn. D-N.M. Accompanying- the g-roup will be Wesley H. Hjomevik, deputy direc tor of business administration for the Manned Spacecraft Center, and Phillip Yeager, a special consultant with the subcommittee. While on campus the visitors will tour facilities at the Nuclear Science Center, Data Processing Center, Activation Analysis Labor atory and the A&M Annex where moon probe projects are underway. The group will leave for Hous ton early Saturday. Wire Review ^By The Associatetd Press WORLD NEWS ¥ * i layup ap ohn Pt LONDON — -The opposition abor party, keeping its ballot box - *a!ed until Thursday, predicted Wednesday night a photo finish in 1 S*11AE le three-way race for a new : Bal'l arty leader. The victory would * ecome the next prime minister , ■ P .. Laborites win in coming nation- 11, t/ Uil elections. I Harold Wilson, 4(5, left-of-center 5 top tableirfign affairs expert, and right- ded by the Singer George Brown, 48, the the School arty’s deputy leader, were re- College Us arded as favorites. The third our names; -emdidate is middle-roader James ''hese three lallaghan, 50, an expert on fiscal ter sweateolieies. M. The death Jan. 18 of Hugh school at tte a 'tskell, who achieved a sem- o the natio^f® of unity anlon e the Party’s ivergent elements, created the oid the party’s electoral college klahoma, L j obliged to fill. The 249 Labor id Arkansas, arty members of Parliament com prising the college have cast se- ret votes in the last two weeks. ★ ★ ★ BONN, Germany — In a plea for Western unity, German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer took issue Wednesday with President Charles de Gaulle of France by urging Britain’s admission Into the Common Market and Urengthening of the North At lantic Treatv Organization un der U. S. leadership. i;The West German leader a- voided criticizing the French president in a policy statement to the Bundestag parliament. But Adenauer’s words carried the ring of a stern reminder to his old French friend. “Europe knows that it cannot defend itself without the support of the United States,” he said. “I therefore, declare with all em- J, phasis that to us there can never be anything but close cooperation between free Europe and the United States.” TEXAS NEWS ■FORT WORTH — An 18-year- old boy died Wednesday of a wound suffered when a military M-l rifle accidentially discharged at suburban Haltom City high school. He was Claude Spivey, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Spivey. ■ The rifle was one used by Na tional Defense Cadet Corps stu dents at the school. ■ A witness told investigators that Spivey was standing behind the east end of the school build ing when the gun discharged. IV UGHJ -ing-Temco- spontaneity rations and /vth. ■ Get resentatiKC' -a modern sronautical, iresentativ* TRONIC* Canadians Will Air Problems In Elections OTTAWA (A 5 )—Canadian voters will get a chance to settle at the polls April 8 the issues that led to the overthrow of Prime Minis ter John G. Diefenbaker’s govern ment. High among those issues is a controversy over Canada’s still un honored commitments to arm its military forces with U.S. nuclear warheads at home and in North Atlantic Treaty Organization ser vice abroad. Diefenbaker, 67, dissolved Can ada’s 25th Parliament on election date. The two-month election cam paign is customary. THE PRIME minister acted after an emotion-packed caucus of his badly shaken Conservative party closed ranks behind him and avert ed, for the time being at least, a split over party leadership. Diefenbaker demanded and got each of his Cabinet ministers re maining after the resignation of Defense Military Douglas Hark- ness. Some were reported to have wept as they voiced their support. THE PRIME minister later de clared the caucus had given him “the most overwhelming support that I have ever received in all my years of politics.” Widespread rumblings remained around the country, however, with some Conservatives express ing misgivings over the outcome of the election if Diefenbaker con tinues to head the party. Space Speaker Says U.S. Communications Ahead McNamara: Offensive Arms Out Of Cuba Three Named lo A&M Board KThi’ee new members were named to the Board of Directors of the Texas A&M College System today by Gov. John Connally. ■They are Dr. A. P. Beutel of Lake Jackson, Tex., an official of Dow Chemical Co.; L. F. (Pete) Peterson of Fort Worth, an inde pendent oil operator; and Gardner Symons, an official of the Ten- ittfessee Gas Transmission Co. of Houston. ■The new board members replace Eugene B. Darby of Pharr, William J. Lawson of Austin and L. H. Ridout of Dallas whose terms end ed this year. Next meeting of the board is scheduled for Feb. 23 on the campus. Student Senate Eyes Selection Of Sweetheart Details for changes in the Ag gie Sweetheart selection procedure will be presented at the Thursday night meeting of the Student Senate, according to Jerry Vion, chairman of the student life com mittee. The report will be based on stu dies that have been made on the A&M campus as well as the TWU campus. The study stemmed from complaints about the present pro cedure voiced on both campuses last fall. Student Body President Sheldon Best said the possibility of plac ing a student member on the traf fic appeals court will also be dis cussed at the Thursday night ses sion. Best said that some steps have been taken to gain approvable for a student member on the court. A report is due on efforts to continue through the spring semes ter the extended library hours which have been on trail. Best said that Gregg Laughlin, vice president of the Senate, has been working with library officials throughout the project. Also scheduled for the meeting is a discussion of a program for presenting the opportunities of the Peace Corps to students at A&M. WASHINGTON hF) — Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara said Wednesday that he beleives “beyond reasonable doubt” that all offensive weapons systems “have been removed from the is land of Cuba and none have been reintroduced.” McNamara led off at a special, hurriedly arranged news confer ence that was a part of an ad ministration effort to clear the air on the current situation in Cuba. MCNAMARA NOTED questions have been raised about offensive weapons in Cuba, and stated his belief that such weapons have been removed. Padre Island Bill Approved In Committee AUSTIN OP)—The Texas Sen ate State Affairs Committee ap proved Wednesday a bill to create a National Seashore Area on Pa dre Island. House members, meanwhile, gave as much attention to politics as to the bills under debate. The Padre Island bill is a sub committee substitute for a meas ure introduced by Sen. Bruce Rea gan of Corpus Christi. It would permit 134,000 acres of land on Padre Island to be turned over to the federal government for a park 82 miles long. The land is in Kleberg, Kenedy, Willacy and Cameron counties. It porvides that mineral inter ests be retained by the state and that the U.S. secretary of the in terior shall permit the use of land and water surface for develop ment of oil, gas and other min erals under regulations of the Tex as Railroad Commission. When Reagan attempted to amend the subcommittee bill, oth er committee members suggested it be returned to subcommittee for five days. Chairman A. M. Aikin Jr., how ever, ruled amendents could be proposed only on the Senate floor. In the House, Republicans in jected the name of Vice President Lyndon Johnson into their request for faster committee action on a proposed change in the election law. He said that since July 1 over 40 reconnaissance flights have been flown over Cuba by U.S. air craft. He said this formed the ba sis for national decisions taken by the country in October, the mili tary decisions to support those de cisions, and the evidence to docu ment the evidence. The flight recorded the remov al of the weapons and continue to show such weapons have not been reintroduced, he said. McNamara then introduced John Hughes, an assistant, to give a photographic explanation to the reporters. HUGHES, SPECIAL assistant to the director of the Defense In telligence Agency, said the Soviet offensive buildup in Cuba led to “one of the most intensive mili tary reconnaissance efforts” ever directed against a single area. He said the U.S. reconnaissance effort has continued up to the present time. The Soviet were building nu clear weapons storage areas at each of their missiles sites, Hughes said. HE PROMISED a review of sur face to air missiles sent to Cuba by Russia, other missiles facilities and MIG fighters. Hughes said there were also certain problems of unique mili tary interest to which he invited particular attention. He listed among- these the re markable speed with which the Soviet were able to bring and in stall military equipment in Cuba. Herbert Trotter Jr. Address Lauds Big Achievements By GERRY BROWN Battalion News Editor The United States is well on its way to achieving global communications via satellite and space developments, Dr. Herbert Trotter Jr., General Telephone and Electronics execu tive, told visitors attending A&M’s Space Fiesta Wednesday night. Two outstanding scientific achievements of 1962 which have contributed to this goal are the Mariner space probe of Venus and the Telstar communications satellite, he said. Trotter, a major speaker of the Space Fiesta program, related the next step toward global communications as being the establishment of a, high*" altitude svnchronous station- Registrar Says 7,191 Students Now Enrolled - More than 7.000 students have registered for the spring semester, registrar H. L. Heaton announced. According to the registrar, the official count was 7,191 through Wednesday, with late registration to be continued through Saturday noon. An increase of six per cent over last year’s spring enrollment was noted in the 1963 registration. Some 6,782 students were counted in last year’s spring session. The fall semester showed an enrollment at the college of 8,142, as the spring count slacked off at an eleven per cent clip. This year’s fall registration showed a five per cent increase over the year before. Heaton said that some students were still registering, although the regular class schedule began Mon day. No breakdown has been made by classification yet, Heaton said. OJV BULLETIN BOARD Aggie Ads Offer Karts To Rings By GLENN DROMGOOLE Battalion Staff Writer In today’s fight to “make a buck” advertising agents some up with animated cartoons, songs, poems, beautiful scenes and vari ous jingles. Everything is advertised from beer to Koolaid, from cigarettes to toothpastes and from automobiles to funeral homes. Advertising effort is not en tirely confined to the national scene, however. On campus, in- JFK Stops U.S. Goods To Cuba WASHINGTON <A>> — President Kennedy Wednesday forbade the shipment of U.S. government-fi- napf-ed goods aboard any foreign vessel which has been to Cuba since Jan. 1. But if the offending shipowner promises not to sail his company’s vessels to Cuba again, he will be allowed to share in the U.S. gov ernment trade. Presidential press secretary Pierre Salinger announced the long - awaited Kennedy .order, which White House sources freely conceded falls far short of a tougher plan first proposed by the administration before last Octo ber’s Cuban missile crisis. These sources said the new order was limited because free world shipping to Cuba has already dropped off sharply because of U.S. diplomatic influence. Stiff- er penalties can still be invoked later if needed, they said, but would only provoke undue friction with friendly maz-itime nations now. The shipping order is part of the administration’s campaign to isolate the Red regime of Fidel Castro and make it more costly for the Communist bloc to supply Cuba. White House sources gave news men figures showing only 14 non- Communist bloc vessels went to Cuba in Januaz-y compared with 92 last July, 65 in October, 39 in November, and 21 in December. dividual advertisers ai’e growing very individualistic, both in their methods of advertising and in the products advertised. PERHAPS THE cheapest and most original advertisments can be found in the Academic Building on the bulletin board where many students and Bryan-College Sta tion residents hawk their wares which may range from Go-Karts to unused wedding rings. One student posted a sign which read: “For Sale — 1 One Dress Blouse,” to which some bz-ight stu dent added “With Bra.” Another Aggie, playing- upon the sympathy of would-be readers of his ad, attached this note: “Lost a gray-silver pen-pencil, Much sen timental value attached.” A TYPIST, advertising for work, typed an ad for the board which z-ead: “If u kant typ & need a papr typd kontac: (This line was typed by my husband.).” Some hopeful salesman had this to say about his “automobile:” “Have a ’33 Plymouth. It looks like a ‘32 Ford. It is a five-window coupe. It has a ‘48 front end and a ‘50 Mez-cury rear end. It has no engine.” Another student described the car he wished to sell in this techni cal manner: “’32 Ford Coupe. Olds Engine, 348 cubic inches, Isky cam, Jahn’s pistons, B&W DuCoil Dis tributor, magnesium rocker arms, Foz-d overdrive, turns 6500 R.P.M. constant.” Then to sum it up, he added “Runs on street.” qry satellite. The forerunner of this system is scheduled to be launched later this month) and will be called Syncom T. THE GLOBAL system would link all nations, together by voice and data communication and in addition would make it possible to transmit over four million pages of correspondence a day by means of one television channel. Using color elides to illustrate his points, Trotter described the operation of a single high altitude satellite whose stationar-y position would enajble it to make connec tions between 92 per cent of the world’s telephones. The scientist also pointed out the need for research in a number of other fields. The greatest need in research today is for systems en gineers who will examine problems as a whole, he said. ONE NEGLECTED area in re search, Trotter went on to say, is the problem of mass transporta tion. “The time required to com mute from Connecticut to New Yox-k City is as great today as it was 40 years ago, the speaker said. “Our housing and its methods of constz-uction are also anchored to the past.” Trotter is the holder of a Pres idential Certificate of Merit, which he received for his work in develop ing the “proximity” fuse, one of the most important weapona during World War II. HE PRESENTLY is serving as chairman of the board of General Telephone and Electronics Lebora- tories Inc. In association with his position, he acts as the principal point of contact between the GT&E system and engineering colleges and universities, as well as private research and development groups. Considerable technical woz-k is yet to be done before an operation al satellite communications sys tem can be achieved, Tz-otter said, but possibly it might be a reality by 1966. Concluding his speech, the scien tist emphasized the need for all the scientists and technical man power which our country can pz-o- duce. LT-YBoss To Address Fiesta Tonight By KENT JOHNSTON Battalion Staff Writer Gifford K. Johnson, president of Ling-Temco-Vought, Inc., tonight’s speaker for the Space Fiesta, will present a speech titled “Space: Greatest Adventure — Severest Challenge” at 8 p.m. in the Me morial Student Center Ballroom. Johnson began working in the aviation industry in 1935 and has held administrative positions in the industry since 1941, when he became chief industrial engineer for a Consolidated Vultee plant. HIS FIRST JOB with Chance Vought was as materials and pro duction manager in 1950. Johnson was executive president of Chance Vought when it merged with Ling- Temco Electronics in 1961, and be came president of the combined companies. Robez-t R. Gilruth, director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Manned Spacecraft Centex*, will give a progress report Friday on the Houston space facility which is making Texas the aerospace cen ter of America. Gilruth, one of the space age’s mental giants, holds honorary doc tor’s degrees fz-om three schools. Too busy to complete a doctoral program, Gilruth is responsible for some of the most significant early and z-ecent advances in space research and development. THE NASA-MSC director is the z-ecipiezit of znany achievement awards, including one z-ecently px-e- sented b y President Kennedy which was the highest federal award for civilian endeavor. Lt. Col. Paul L. Maz-et, assigned to Headquarters, Air Fox-ce Space Systems Command at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., will naz-z-ate the film “The Air Force in the Aez-o- space Progz-am” at 8:10 a.m., 10:10 a.m. and 3:10 p.m. today and Fri day. Discussion Series Planned By Faculty Christian Group The Faculty Christian Fellow ship plans to meet, beginning next week, eight consecutive Wednesday mox-nings for discussions centered upon “The Basis of Faith in this Era of Exploding Knowledge.” The group will meet at the All Faiths Chapel at 7 a.m. to hear a talk, and then go to the YMCA for coffee and doughnuts. A Bryan businessman, Henry Parkmen, will speak next Wednes day on “Religion and Business - - A Businessman’s Appraisal.” The The other speakers are faculty members or Texas Agricultural Extension Service staffers. In order of appearances they ax-e: Dr. Haskell Monroe, Dr. Vance Edmondson, Allen Schz-ader, Dr. Dan Russell, Dr. Ed Schlutt, Dr. Raymond Reiser and Dr. Carl Lyman. The Faculty Christian Fellow ship progz-am is continuing on a series basis as the result of a poll after the fall series. Votes showed an overwhelming preference for the series method of scheduling programs. Dx\ H. B. Soz-enson is chaiz-man of the committee. Membez-s are J. Gordon Gay, W. L. Penbez-tthy and the Rev. John Combs. The Rev. Carlton Rush acted as azz advisor in planning the spring series.
