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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1963
Number 63
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Station in 14 hours Saturday were
Wk in class Monday, but one of
he two students who dropped out
Jof the informal trek at 34 miles
Bis in the college hospital.
(■Van K. Veselka, ’G6 from Bell-
tire, and Ted Hopgood, ’65 from
Billings, Mont., sprinted across the
wish line at 10:15 p.m., complying
| with a 1908 presidential order that
prescribed a 50-mile hike for Mar
es within 20 hours.
The order was recently exhumed
by President Kennedy and Marines
across the nation have taken to
the trail to prove that they equal
their counterparts of 50 years ago.
VESELKA AND Hopgood, mem
bers of Company 1-3, composed of
cadets enrolled in the Marine
Platoon Leaders Class program,
left Huntsville at 8:15 a.m. Sat
urday accompanied by Tom Nel
son, ’63 from Bryan, and Anson
N. Holley, ’64 from Corpus Christi.
Nelson and Holley quit at 4:45
Wire Review
y The Associated Press
WORLf) NEWS
JBEIRUT, Lebanon —r Iraq’s new
Blent were reported waging a
bloody campaigh Monday to anni
hilate Communists throughout the
nAtion. Moscow^ nevertheless join-
i|| Washington and London in re-
■^Pgnizing the revolutionary regime.
ffllBThe machine-gunning of Iraqi
■Communists died down ..in Bagh-
Kd, the capital. But reliable re
ports to other Arab capitals said
■ommunists were being wiped out
■sewhere in the' fiercest offensive
pn this part of the world'since the
■ood bath in 1959 in Mosul.
I Premier Abdel Karim Kassem;
iiverthrown Friday and. shot. Sat
urday, crushed an uprising in the
■orthern city that year. Then the
■ommunists slaughtered hundreds
■ho had led a- revolt against
Kassem. «
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I GENEVA — The Soviet Union
■asserted Monday new U. S. un-
nities for fash
lectrical, irifi'
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3 nd business
Wife Wins
Top Beauty Honors
fU Dallas Show
Carolyn Croft, wife of archi-
«cture student William B. Croft,
aptured first place in a state
,e auty show in Dallas Saturday.
The contest was sponsored by
be Texas Association of National
lairdressers and Cosmetologists
Association. Mrs. Croft was re
presenting Bryan Unit 57 of the
t your copy 0/1,association.
[unities boolt' I A mother of a two-year old
Or writ 6 Col' ® au ghter and president of the
jfem Electric ■Architectural Wives Society, the
oadway- Netf Beauty queen is presently modeling
0 arrange for m 0T the four-day Texas Hair Fash-
iH System re- mf°n Show being held in conjunc-
canl pus this li°n with the contest.
I Martha Bell of Milady Beauty
Salon of Bryan styled the winning
;ystb^ (Ml contestant’s hair.
derground nuclear blasts are a
blow to hopes for a test ban
treaty. Pessimism engulfed dele
gates on the eve of the resumed
treaty talks.
An official statement by the
Soviet news agency Tass, dis
tributed from Moscow, said the
Nevada testing “gives impetus to
a new nuclear arms race” and
“the government of the United
States bears full responsibility
for the possible consequences of
this step.”
U. S. NEWS
WASHINGTON — Asian flu, a
deadly threat to the elderly, ap
pears to be building up- to a na
tionwide epidemic, belatedly ful
filling a grim forecast.
The Public Health Service re
ports that pneumonia-influenza
deaths have been running over
the epidemic threshold for four
weeks, according to samplings
from 108 cities.
TEXAS NEWS
AUSTIN — Most Texas Na
tional Guard units will not un
dergo major changes in a pro
posed reorganization, State Ad
jutant General Thomas Bishop
said Monday.
Bishop said the plan, which
w'ould take effect March 1, still
must be approved by the Depart
ment of the Army. No men will
be discharged and no unit loca
tions will be abandoned.
Linder the plan, 36th Infantry
Division units in Corsicana, Ker
ens, Athens, Mexia, Temple,
Wellington, and Shamrock, will
go to the 49th Armored Division.
A 49th unit in Huntsville will go
to the 36th.
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AUSTIN — Gov. John Connally
said today he will undergo major
surgery for hernia next week.
He will enter St. David’s Hospi
tal here Sunday.
p.m. with about 16 miles to go—
suffering from blisters and cramps.
Monday Nelson was hospitalized
with swollen, legs and blisters —
and a sour disposition. Holley was
able to attend class.
“I figured there was no use in
going on and being a cripple all
week,” Nelson said Saturday. But
he ended up bed ridden anyway. He
blamed his failure on going too
fast at first. Said Nelson:
. “Hell, we covered six and a half
miles the first hour by walking
and running. We just couldn’t
keep up that pace.”
BUT VESELKA and Hopgood
with their 14 hours stood well in
the front of the majority of march
ers across the nation! The record
is a quick 10% hours by a Cali
fornia Marine lieutenant, with the
average running abdut 15 or 16
hours. Attorney General Robert
Kennedy tramped 50 miles in 18
hours to prove the 1 ruling clan
is fit. The president himself even
joined in the fad to lead a tour of
secret service men gnd reporters
around several blocks in Washing
ton, D. C. . j
Enrollment Up
Five Per Cent,
Heaton Says
An increase in student enroll
ment of more than five per cent
over a comparable time a year ago
was announced by Registrar H. L.
Heaton Monday.
A total of 7,261 students regi
stered for the spring semester, as
compared with 6,902 students who
registered at this time last year.
This enrollment hike parallels
that of the fall semester. A total
of 8,142 registered last fall, up
more than five per cent over the
preceding September.
Heaton warned students that no
more course may be added, and
that Wednesday is the deadline for
dropping courses. After the dead
line, all students who drop courses
will receive a failing grade for the
semester.
Courses may be dropped by a re
quest at the department office for
a drop slip. A notice is sent to
professor teaching the course and
the student must take one to his
dean for approval.
Students who withdraw from
school before Wednesday will re
ceive a “withdrew passing” or a
“withdrew failing” for the course.
Thu original order to carry out
the grueling hike came from rough-
Craft Shop
Reopening Set
On Trial Basis
The crafts shop in the lower
level of the Memorial Student Cen
ter will be reopened on a trial
basis in the next few weeks by the
creative arts committee of the
MSC.
Bill Adams, chairman of the
creative arts group, made the an
nouncement.
The shop will be open nine hours
a week, with a student in charge
of operations. Hours will be 7-10
p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays
and 2-5 p.m. on Wednesdays. A
$2 fee per semester will be charg
ed.
A meeting of interested students
is planned next Monday night,
Adams said.
The shop was closed two years
ago when the permanent operator
resigned. According to Adams,
students will now operate the shop
with the goal of having it open on
a full-time basis next year. Shop
work will be devoted to sculpture,
ceramics, leatherwork and paint
ing.
Adams added that his committee
hoped to conduct a student art
show in May. Serving as critics in
Connection with the art show and
the resumption of shop activities
Twentieth Century
Is Background
“Faith and the Twentieth Century” will be the theme
cf Religious Emphasis Week scheduled Feb. 17-21.
A new system of presenting the program of religious
emphasis will be used this year, according to J. Gordon Gay,
coordinator of religious life. Rather than presenting one
speaker throughout the week at one location, there will be six
speakers each evening at six different locations.
Gay said the plan has been adopted in an effort to better
familiarize the students with the churches of their choice.
He said it is also felt the meetings will he more meaningful
if broken down'into smaller groups.
THERE WILL be 10 religious denominations participa
ting in the program. :
“Students and the public
rider Teddy Roosevelt in 1908. It'; will be Wendell G. Horsley, Joseph
specified that Marine officers
should be able to march 50 miles
in 20 hours, with softies being able
to strech the time over a three
day period. The last half mile
was to be run at double time and
the last 200 yards at a dead run.
Donaldson and Alan L. Stacell, all
professors in the Division of Archi
tecture; Bill Hite, assistant stu
dent programs advisor; and Paul
Guzzardo, a student who is a form
er instructor of ceramics at Pratt
Institute in New York City.
Dr. Gilruth Named
isiting Professor
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Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, director
of Houston’s Manned Spacecraft
Center, Friday was named a visit
ing professor of aerospace engi
neering. Gilruth, who was on
campus to make an address at
the Space Fiesta, will begin his
duties in the fall of 1963.
The announcement of Gilruth’s
professorship came just before the
MSC director disclosed in his ad
dress that an aerospace summer
intern program for college stu
dents will begin this summer.
SPEAKING IN the MSC Ball
room, Gilruth told his audience,
“The program is designed to ‘tie
in’ practical experience with acade
mic training by giving assignments
and classroom training in the cen
ter’s space projects.”
Science and engineering students
will receive 20 of the internships
and 10 will go to public and ad
ministration students.
Undergraduates must have com
pleted. their junior year of col
lege work by June 17. Graduate
Students must have completed work
on bachelor degrees by that date.
IN HIS ADDRESS, termed a
progress report of the Manned
Spacecraft Center, Gilruth gave a
brief history of the MSC’s develop
ment and then outlined the five
following areas of activity accom
plished at the center:
1. “We have planned and carried
out a major move of our personnel
and facilities from Hampton, Va.,
to Houston.
2. “We have secured necessary
interim space in Houston to meet
our needs.
3. “We have planned for the de
sign and construction of our per
manent facilities at Clear Lake.
4. “We have vigorously pursued
the Mercury Project and have our
new projects of Gemini and Apollo
well underway.”
GILRUTH TOLD his listeners,
which included six U. S. Con-
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gressmen, that NASA and the
Manned Spacecraft Center are mov
ing ahead as rapidly as possible
with both the Gemini and Apollo
space projects.
“We are, of course, continuing
our work with the Mercury space
craft,’ Gilruth added. “Our Pro
ject Mercury office, astronaut Gor
don Cooper and the. entire govern
ment-industry team and currently
working intensively for the next
flight. We hope, and fully expect,
that the one-day mission will be as
successful as our previous flights.”
are invited to participate in
the Religious Emphisis Week
services of their choice.” Gay
said. Services are scheduled for
7:10 each evening during the pro
gram.
The call to quarters for members
of the corps has been rescheduled
to 8:30 p. m. Gay said.
Speakers and locations for meet
ings have been announced as fol
lows:
THE BAPTIST Student Union
will sponsor Dr. Robert A. Hing-
son, M. D., Western Reserve Uni
versity School of Medicine of Cleve
land, Ohio. The meetings will be
held at the First Baptist Church.
Lutheran meetings will be held
at the Lutheran Student Center.
The speaker will be the Rev. Sam
uel I. Goltermann, president of
Concordia College of Austin.
Joint meeting of the Methodist,
Presbyterian, Episcopalian and
Christian churches will he held at
the A&M Methodist Church. Dr.
Das Kelley Barnett, Vicar, St.
John’s Espicopal Church, of Palac
ios, Tex., will speak.
The Church of Christ Bible Chair
will be the meeting place for
Church of Christ members. The
speaker for their meeting will be
McCurrin Harrell, Minister, Cen
tral Church of Christ of Temple.
THE B’NAI B’Rith Hillel Foun
dation will have as its speaker
Rabbi Louis Firestein from Con
gregation Beth Israel of Austin.
The meetings will be held at the
Hillel Foundation.
St. Mary’s Chapel will sponsor
three speakers. They are the Rev.
Dr. McLeaish, Theologian to the
Bishop of Austin Vatican. Council;
the Rev. Donald Starkey, Assistant
Pastor of St. Mary’s Church of
Orange; and the Rev. M. C. Deason,
Pastor of Sacred Heart Church of
Austin. The meetings will be held
at St. Mary’s Chapel and Student
Center.
Brisk Cold Wave
Brings Snow, Sleet
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
An unheralded cold wave swift
ly spread snow and sleet Monday
over two thirds of Texas.
Roads in most areas were haz
ardous for hours. Scores of
schools closed. A deep hard freeze
was in store for the whole state,
except the Lower Rio Grande
Valley at the extreme soutthern tip.
Snow continued falling over
much of the southern half of
Texas late Monday. At El Paso,
where 2.4 inches covered the
ground and closed schools, more
snow started falling Monday night
and the weather bureau said an
other one or two inches could be
expected.
There were snow flurries at San
Antonio while small hailstones
pelted Edinburg, Mission, McAl
len and Raymondville in the Low
er Rio Grande Valley.
Eevn the Brownsville Weather
Bureau warned the Valley that
temperatures would slide to 30 de
grees during the night and that
tender vegetation should be pro
tected. Citrus and vegetable
growers, with most of their crops
harvested, feared an. even colder
night Tuesday.
Facuity Fellowships
Begin Wednesday
The first presentation of the
spring program of the Faculty
Christian Fellowship is scheduled
for 7 a.m. Wednesday in the All
Faiths Chapel. The speaker will
be Bryan businessman Henry Park-
man, whose topic will be “Reli
gion and Business — A Business
man’s Appraisal.”
The Faculty Christian Fellowship
will meet each Wednesday morn
ing through April 3 with “The
Basis of Faith in the Era of Ex
ploding Knowledge” as the general
theme.
The public has been invited to
attend the programs. Coffee and
doughnuts will be served in the
Y T MCA Building after the pro
grams at 7:20.
Letters Against
Song Change
Sent To Austin
Letters opposing Texas
House of Representatives’
legislation which would
change the Texas state song
from “Texas, Our Texas” to
“The Eyes Of Texas” were
mailed to members of the Tex
as legislature Tuesday morn
ing by Doug Hotchkiss, chair
man of the issue’s committee
of the Student Senate.
The piece of legistlation, HCR-9
introduced by Rep. Bill Walker of
Cleveland, is presently under study
in. a subcommittee of the state af
fairs committee.
The student governments’ inter
est in the item of legislation was
sparked by a question asked in
a committee session last week by
Rep. Sam Collins of Newton. He
asked Walker whether the A&M
band could ever learn to play “The
Eyes Of Texas.”
BILL BARNHART, A&M band
commander, has said, “We could
play it. But we haven’t had an oc
casion to play the other state song.
In an effort to avoid the possi
bility of playing “The Eyes Of
Texas,” and especially as the state
song, the Student Senate adopted
a resolution opposing the idea and
mailed the protest to Representa
tives John Allen, state affairs
committee chairman; Dick Slack,
subcommittee chairman; Howard
Green and Gene Hewdry, committee
members; and David Haines and
Sen. W. T. Moore, legislators from
the College Station area.
A copy of the resolution was also
sent to Mrs. Charles A. Stephens,
president of the Texas State Song
Association.
THE RESOLUTION reads:
“Whereas, there is a bill in the
House of Representatives to change
the state song from ‘Texas, Our
Texas’ to ‘The Eyes Of Texas.’
“Whereas, this bill is presented
by a minority voice with selfish
and shallow motives.
“Whereas, the adopted song,
‘Texas, Our Texas’ is fittingly ma
jestic to represent our great state.
“Whereas, the proposed ‘The
Eyes Of Texas’ is a college song
originating as a minstrel’s mi
micking prank.
“Resolved, that we, the student
body of the Agricultural and Mech
anical College of Texas, urge the
House of Representatives to defeat
this proposed change and the retain
‘Texas, Our Texas’ which so. ably
represents the true character of
our state.”
Drawing Contest
Attracts Entries
The state-wide high school draw
ing competition sponsored by the
Department of Engineering Graph
ics has attracted a record number
of entries this year.
Assistant professor Jim Earle,
chairman of the 21st annual com
petition, said that 190 Texas high
schools with 7,000 entries had al
ready signed up for the contest.