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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
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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.
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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.
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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.