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Students Conference on National Affairs committeemen
lehrd last December’s operation termed a success Monday
night at a general meeting and critique.
I Chairman Vic Donnell praised the student workers and
heard committee reports describing functions and duties
cotipled with suggestions for improving next year’s con
ference.
H THE MOST interesting presentation was given by
PAtES lance boss John Krebs, who directed the acquisition of
ICONA funds totaling more than $18,000.
j Krebs said that the four-day conference spent $3,700
for meals and a whopping $5,600-plus for delegates’ and
»phone Bakers’ transportation. ♦
■n one week alone, he said,
he committee approved ex
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By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
IROME — Presidential decrees
tonday dissolved Italy’s Parlia
ment and set for April 28-29 a
Kieral election that will be crucial
for the Western alliance.
'Ballot box decisions of the 30
million Italian voters are expect-
K to determine this nation’s role
ini the multilateral nuclear force
proposed for the North Atlantic
peaty Organization. That in-
clldes the question of Italian
ban s for U. S. Polaris-armed sub
marines.
®li?resident Antonio Segni signed
$the decrees. He acted on the
recommendations of Premier A-
mintqre Fanfani, who counter
signed them. The new Parliament
will hold its first meeting May 16.
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I BERLIN — West Berlin’s So
cialists, victorious in Sunday’s
municipal election, nominated
tjieir leader Willy Brandt Monday
|to head the city government
■igain as mayor. He has headed
t! city administration since
i! 17.
■ With his party holding a clear
majority in the city Parliament,
Ihis election when the new house
iheets March 5 will be a mere
formality.
I Brandt announced he would
Week to form another coalition
government.
I U. S. NEWS
hB BNEW YORK — Five wives of
Kficers ■ missing on the Marine
Bplphur Queen out of Beaumont
Bed suit Monday for $2.5 mil-
Bm.
■They charged the tanker was
■nsafe, unseaworthy and im-
■■operly loaded.”
■ The Marine Sulphur Transport
i ■>• and the Marine Transport
ll6 WW* 5 ’ ^ nc '’ owners of the vessel,
■ere named defendants.
TEXAS NEWS
* B AUSTIN — One of Gov. John
CtlBmnally’s prime demands met op-
T dtion in a house committee
B on day night, but skidded through
■>r later House debate.
■ The House State Affairs Com-
' ■ittee approved on a voice vote
proposal by Rep. James Gotten,
eatherford, to merge the State
|arks Board and the Game and
ish Commission.
The proposal was one of Con-
Jally’s major requests for legisla-
ive action. The six-man parks
ard and the nine-man game
|nd fish commission would be
erged into a three-member
ame, Fish and Parks Commis-
Kon.
five-cent stamps, $336 for phone
calls and telegrams and $2,253 for
motel and guest rooms.
KREBS ESTIMATED SCON A
would wind up with about $40 in
the till when everything was said
and done, but he said that the or
ganization was still paying bills
that were coming’ in.
Krebs, whose 4-man committee
planned the finance drives to soli
cit funds, said Houston and Dallas
respectively provided the most
money. He said a total of 120
sponsors gave support to SCONA.
Arrangements committee chair
man Mundo Riojas spelled out his
group’s jobs, which included tend
ing to the details of each dinner
or food event and setting up round
table rooms.
Frank Townsend, head of the
planning committee, explained his
duties. Major functions, he said,
are the obtaining of top-notch
speakers.
TOWNSEND expressed his
thinks to Congressman Olin Teague
for help in lining up the speakers.
Van Phillips, chairman of the
secretary committee, likened his
job to personnel management and
administration.
Joe Horn, who heads the pro
gram committee, said his main job
was to think up topics for the con
ference.
HORN SAID criticism of the
conference this year came from
delegates who thought the topic
of “Sources of World Tensions”
was too broad to get into in such
a short meeting.
Conference manager Bob Hall
explained his duties as the co
ordination of the other committees
during the conference, dispensing-
tickets to dinners and registering
delegates.
liege
Sweetheart Beams
Ginger Lewis, a freshman
at Sam Houston State
Teachers College, was picked
as sweetheart of the Class
of ’66 at Saturday night’s
Dance. She was escorted by
Richard Burns of Raymond-
ville.
escue Attempt
By Uncle Fails
By GERRY BROWN
Battalion Associate Editor
Flames swept through a five-room frame house at the
corner of Live Oak and Turner Streets in east College Station
Monday afternoon, killing two children and gutting and
destroying the home where they lived.
Trapped by the raging fire were four-year-old Cheryl
Denise Grayer and two-year-old Gregory Wayne Grayer.
An attempt to save the lives of the children, made by
their uncle Roland Grayer, was unsuccessful and the 16-year-
old Grayer was taken to St. Joseph Hospital suffering from
severe burns. He is listed in “fair” condition.
Neighbors who arrived on the scene early after the build
ing was engulfed by flames reported hearing the screams of
children inside. The house was
silent by the time fireman
arrived a few minutes later,
according to Fire Chief Gil
bert Eimann.
Firemen Battle Killer Blaze
Firemen fight the rain and last flames of a small children. A third person, the children’s
fire which swept through a small frame 16-year-old uncle, was severely burned in
house in east College Station killing two an ill-fated attempt to rescue the tykes.
A&M PROF HAS HIS DOUBTS
Houston Woman’s Geranium
Thrives On Radio Music
By GLENN DROMGOOLE
Battalion Staff Writer
If you think you would like
to listen to the radio all day and
night, you- ought to be a ge
ranium.
At least one geranium is up-
to-date on current affairs and
popular music as a result of an
experiment by Mrs. C. A. (Ele
ments of Houston.
For the past month Mrs. Cle
ments has kept a radio blaring
to one of two experimental flow
ers, and she found the music lov
ing plant prospered as a result
of the 30-day serenade.
The strange experiment oc-
cured after Mrs. Clements read
about an Illinois com farmer
who harvested a fantastically
large crop by playing “Rhapsody
in Blue” to the plants.
The Houston woman decided to
try the strategy on geraniums,
she prepared two plants for ex
perimentation. She and a fri
end picked out two identical
peach-colored plants which were
placed in identical pots. Both
flowers were given the same a-
mount of water and the same a-
Harvard Professor
Lecture Here
Is a new culture based upon the
sciences replacing the long-exist
ing culture centered upon the hu
manities ?
A Harvard University professor
will lecture at 8 p.m. Thursday on
some implications of a controversy
over this question. The graduate
lecture series presentation by Har
ry Levin, the Irving Babbit profess
or of comparative literature at
Harvard, will be given in the Biolo
gical Sciences Lecture Room.
“Cultures in Conflict: Some Li
terary and Education Implications
of the Snow-Leavis Controversy”
is Levin’s announced topic.
Snow, a British scientist, con
tends that a culture growing out of
the sciences is diverging more and
more from the historic western cul
ture.
LEAVIS, A Cambridge don and
literary critic, has attacked this
thesis and also has criticized Snow’s
abilities as a novelist.
Lecturer Leavin is a distinguish
ed critic, scholar and teacher. He
received his A.B. summa cum laude
from Harvard in 1933 and joined
the faculty in 1939. He also holds
honorary doctorates from Syracuse
University,' 1952, and St. Andrews
University, 1962.
He is a Senior Fellow at Har
vard and a member of the Ameri
can Academy of Arts and Sciences,
the National Institute of Arts and
Letters, the American Philosophi
cal Society and the National Aca
demy of Arts and Letters.
FRANCE IN 1953 made Levin
a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor,
and in 1962 the American Council
of Learned Societies awarded him
its Prize for Distinguished Schol
arship in the Humanities.
He has taught in California,
Paris, Salzburg and Tokyo, in ad
dition to Haiward. He was a Gug
genheim Fellow in 1943-44.
Levin presently is on the editori
al board of “Comparative Litera
ture,” the ‘Journal of the History
of Ideas” and “Inventario,” which
is published in Milan.
Among the books which he has
authored are “James Joyce: A Cri
tical Introduction;” “The Over-
reacher: A Study of Christopher
Marlowe;” “The Power of Black
ness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville;”
and “The Question of Hamlet.” In
addition, Levin has edited texts
of Ben Jonson, the Earl of Ro
chester, Joyce, Shakespeare and
Hawthorne and has written some
70 articles on literature and edu
cation.
2nd Meeting Slated
By Faculty Group
The second program of the Facul
ty Christian Fellowship spring ser
ies is scheduled at 7 a.m. Wednes
day with history professor Dr. Has
kell Monroe as the speaker.
The eight-week series in the All-
Faiths Chapel has as its general
theme “The Basis of Faith in the
Era of Exploding Knowledge.”
The meeting in the All-Faiths
Chapel is scheduled until 7:20 a.m.,
with coffee and doughnuts to fol
low;: at the YMCA Building.
mounts and type of fertilizer.
One of the plants was placed on
a sun porch, while the other was
stationed in the house where the
temperature and light conditions
would be about equal. The only
difference in the two set-ups
was that one was equipped with
a radio.
Mrs. Clements said both plants
blossomed rigid away, but the
serenaded geranium produced an
other blossom and continued to
live, while the lonely blossom
wilted.
A. F. DeWerth, head of the
Department of Floriculture, ac
credited Mrs. Clements’ results to
coincidence. DeWerth said the
only way her idea could be prov
ed would be to subject several
hundred plants to the radio ex
periment under controlled condi
tions. He said there was no sci
entific fact to back up her find
ings.
Apparently DeWerth is not
the only person to doubt the ef
fectiveness of Mrs. Clements’
conclusion, for her husband even
makes jokes about the geranium.
He says he will sing to the plant
when the radio tubes burn out.
Mrs. Clements does not feel he
would help the plant, however,
for she said her husband could
not carry a tune in a sack.
THE STEADY rain did not slow
down firemen who battled the
blaze. “It took about five or six
minutes to get the fire under con
trol once w r e got the hoses hooked
up and the water started,” Eimann
said.
What touched off the flames is
still unknown. “At the present
time, I don’t have the slightest
idea how the fire started,” Eimann
related Monday night.
The mother of the children, Mrs.’
Annie Francis Grayer, was work
ing in Austin at the time of the
tragedy.
SOMBER FIREMAN
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Six RE Speakers Attract
‘Good Attendance’ In Services
Religious Emphasis Week is un
derway with “good attendance” re
ported at all services Monday even
ing. The six speakers slated to
speak at six different locations
each evening will be discussing sub
jects under the general theme of
“Faith in the Twentieth Century.”
The Catholics and Baptists got
off to an early start in the pro
gram. The Catholics presented the
Rev. Dr. Donald McLeaish of Aus
tin Sunday night. He discussed
“Observations on the Ecumenical
Council,” in which he reviewed the
action of the recent world-wide
Catholic meeting which took place
in the Vatican City. He was in
attendance at the session as the
theologian to the Bishop of Austin.
Baptist students heard Robert
Andrew Hingson, M. D., professor
of anesthesia at Western Reserve
University School of Medicine,
Cleveland, speak Sunday evening.
The scientist and physician was
leader of an interdenominational,
interracial medical mission survey
team, sponsored by the Baptist
World Alliance. Hingson, an active
layman, will be the Baptist speak
er for the entire week.
The Rev. Donald Starkey of
Orange spoke to the Catholic
group Monday night and will also
be the speaker for the Tuesday
evening session. Rather than pre
sent a speaker Wednesday night,
the Catholics have planned to hold
a special Mass in which the altar
will face the audience.
The four groups other than the
Catholics and Baptists will have
the same speakers Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings that they had
Monday night.
They are for the Christian, Epis
copal, Methodist and Presbyterian,
Dr. Das Kelley Barnett; the Church
of Christ, McCui’in Harwell; the
Lutheran, Dr. Samuel I. Golter-
mann; and the Jewish faith, Rabbi
Louis Firestein.
A panel discussion by the six
speakers Thursday evening at the
A&M Methodist Church will end
the program.
NAMED TO AIME BOARD
Calhoun Accepts New Title
JOHN C. CALHOUN JR.
Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr., vice
chancellor for development of the
A&M College System, will official
ly accept the title of president-elect
of the Society of Petroleum Engi
neers at the Society’s annual meet
ing to be held in Dallas next Tues
day.
At the same time, he will ac
cept seats on the board of directors
of both the society and its parent
organization, the American Insti
tute of Mining, Metallurgical and
Petroleum Engineers (AIME).
The society has some 15,000 mem
bers in many parts of the world.
Since joining the A&M System
in 1955, Calhoun has also served
as director of the Texas Engineer
ing Experiment Station, director of
the Texas Engineering Extension
Service and Dean of Engineering at
A&M.
Prior to 1955, Calhoun had been
head of the Department of Pe
troleum and Natural Gas at Penn
sylvania State University, profess
or and chairman of the School of
Petroleum Engineering at the Uni
versity of Oklahoma and a consult
ant for several private organiza
tions and research laboratories.
He received his B.S., M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees in petroleum and
natural gas engineering from Penn
sylvania State University, complet
ing the latter in 1946. He has serv
ed on several committees of honor
ary, professional and civic organ
izations.
A native of Pennsylanvia, Cal
houn and his wife, Ruth, reside
with their 4 children at 1106 Ash-
burn, College Station.