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COLLEGE STATION. TEXAS THURSDAY. MARCH 21, 1963
Number 85
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Pierce Receives Burns
In Chemistry Experiment
A pathologist in the School of Veterinary Medicine was
iverely burned Wednesday afternoon in a chemistry experi-
(.,
He is Dr. Kenneth R. Pierce, assistant professor of pa-
lolosiy, whose laboratory is located in the Veterinary Med-
ine building.
Pierce was working on an ether experiment when the
iplosion occurred, sending flames scorching his hands caus-
?second-degree burns.
Pushed to St. Joseph Hospital, Pierce remains in fair
ition. His attending physician says he cannot tell yet
b Pierce will he released.
THEY DON’T KNOW US’
Senate Probes
Old Skeletons
By DAN LOUIS
Battalion News Editor
Thursday night’s Student Senate
meeting will he a session of at
tempting to resurrect the dead,
namely the Texas Maritime Aca
demy and the collage’s museum.
The agenda for the regular ses
sion at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3-D of
the Memorial Student Center calls
Architects
Old Beer,
Seek To Remove
Sandals Image
By KENT JOHNSTON
Battalion Staff Writer
Head of the Division of Archi-
tture T, R. Holleman feels that
Jlefe is the best place to eli-
inate the “beer and sandals im-
[e”which is associated with archi-
'ture students.
He said:
“It’s an image that the average
fps has of the architecture stu-
We think that the best time
Jbeil the image is right here
[college.
This thing is acre old. It’s a
aeof people thinking of an archi-
as being a pretty picture
tawer.”
UNOY MOORE, fifth-vear stu
nt from Dallas, said: “They see
at parties dressed as beatniks,
it if they want to believe we’re
ally like that, it’s childish.”
Charles Hearn, Bay City fifth-
car architect, said:
"Don’t get us wrong. We don’t
lay around up here on the fourth
Mr. We work hard and then we
lav hai'd.
'We haven’t been realistically
htified. Other students don’t
now what we are. If they want
Anew, let them come up here and
•Higate for themselves.”
olleman explained that he and
staff are in the talking stage
treating methods to “let others
see what our students have to go
through and the work they are
capable of doing.”
RICHARD MOORE, junior from
Sam Antonio, said:
“Due to the environment and the
lack of culture here at A&M, most
students associate us with ab
stract ideas, wild clothes and far
out, meaningless art when they
really don’t understand the mean
ing behind those works of art.”
Hearn said:
“We aren’t that far out. Sure,
we have to be different. We have
to identify ourselves with society
while we’re tied down to a techni
cal school.
“Here at A&M, the courses of
study are greatly technical. We
can’t get any of the related arts
which act as stimulants for de
sign, things that give us a frame
of reference to design a form. At
any other school, we wouldn’t be
such a bastard child.
“I REALLY" DON’T care what
they think, but when they want
something done, look who they
come to for poster designs, publica
tions art work, setting up dances.
Town Hall and the Aggie Players.
These are things that are unknown
but have to be done.”
Vanoy Moore added:
“When people aren’t cultured,
Wire Review
By The Associated Press
U. S. NEWS
WASHINGTON — Vice Presi-
:t! >t Lyndon B. Johnson, calling 1
'Aa “a showcase of failure,” said
Tuesday it is costing Russia
$1 million a day to prop up
^ Cuban economy.
“Even this support has been un-
^ to arrest the deterioration and
*Hine of the Cuban economy,”
'Wn said.
Die vice president spoke at the
'Wst Inter-American Defense Col-
is an advanced studies insti-
for senior officers of member
of the Organization of
^erican States.
He estimated it already has
Russia more than !j>l billion
'Hp Cuba.
"At this moment, the most ur-
™problem in our hemisphere is
existence of communism in
V’ Johnson said.
★ ★ ★
Washington —The Senate
^estimations subcommittee is
Siting the relations of Under-
’‘rttary of Defense Roswell L.
'Upatric’s former law firm with
General Dynamics Corp., which
’*5 awarded the controversial
^5! warplane contract.
Sen. Karl Mundt, R-S.D., dis
cing a check is under way of
k't business and professional
‘■'filiations of everyone who nar
rated in the contract award,
Wednesday both Gilpatric
‘^Secretary of the Navy Fred
Korth will be summoned for ques
tioning.
But he told reporters that Gil-
patric, who will appear Thursday,
will not be questioned on “this
possible conflict of interest,” but
on an anonymous Pentagon state
ment released over the week
end criticizing the committee.
No date has been announced for
Korth’s appearance, but Mundt
told reporters: “I didn’t know
when we started this investiga
tion, that he was so highly in
fluential a citizen of Fort Worth,
Tex.,” the city where General
Dynamics would work on the
TFX contract.
TEXAS NEWS
AUSTIN — The House bogged
down for the third straight day
Wednesday on the touchy question
of limiting city annexation powers.
The bill, originally by Rep. Hen
ry Grover of Houston, was amend
ed 13 times before a committee
substitute for the original measure
was given a 111-31 vote of ap
proval.
★ ★ ★
AUSTIN — Texas senators
brushed aside protests of state
AFL-CTO officials Wednesday and
confirmed the reappointment of
J. Ed Lyles as labor’s represent
ative on the Texas Employment
Commission.
Lyles will serve his first full
term, ending in 19G8. He was ap
pointed in 1960 to serve out the
unexpired term of the late R. F.
Newman.
they can’t understand us. We’re
here for a rounded education. That’s
why we are found in so many dif
ferent fields of activity.
“We have to dabble in all the arts
to do what we want to do. We’re
concerned with total environment.”
On the subiects of education and
environment, Hearn said:
“We’re not any different from
anyone else. We’re goinig to school
for the same thing that other stu
dents are — to get an education.
Blit ,to do it, we have to gain a
type of attitude rather than a lot
of specific knowledge.
“WE DON’T DEAL with spec
ific things like accounting or
government.” Vanoy Moore added.
“We deal with human environment.
If an architect or city planner did
n’t dream about where we are
going, who would? Not engineers.”
Hearn said, “Other than English,
there’s little culture here. Archi
tecture is one of the only brushes
some students have with culture.”
Vanoy Moore continued: “Others
don’t understand people in the art
fields. Practical people don’t un
derstand philosophers. We have
to be philosophers in that we have
to question what has been done and
what can be done. We have to be
critical of ourselves and other peo
ple to come up with an answer to
what we want.”
“WE ARE SOMETIMES com
pared with a doctor in a specialist
field,” said Hearn. “Where the
doctor is concerned with health, the
architect is concerned with environ
ment.”
Richard Moore summed up his
ideas with a definition of what an
architect represents:
“Because of the drastic change
from the old domestic style of
architecture to the fresh, contem
porary free-form style of today,
people tend to think of the archi
tect as a man out of touch with
reality.
“Actually, he is a man trained
and educated in the profession,
design and construction of all forms
and types of structui’es.”
for, among other things, a study of
Texas Houston of Representatives’ ' "
decision to cut out appropriations
for the Galveston headquarters of
the academy and the recent clos
ing of the museum.
THE CLOSING of the museum
occurred when the Department of
Range and Forestry moved into
the new Plant Sciences Building.
Until that time members of the
department who had offices in the
museum building had maintained
the museum.
Operation of the museum by the
department was prompted in 1959
by a rider to an appropriations bill
in Austin which stated that a
museum such as the one on cam
pus could not be maintained by
state funds.
However, Doug Hotchkiss, chair
man of the student issues com
mittee of the Senate, said Wed
nesday that he feels the museum
should be maintained as an educa
tional aid.
OTHER BUSINESS salted to be
discussed at the meeting includes
a full report to the Senators on
the veto by the Exeuctive Commit
tee of a proposal by the Senate
that parking stickers he pro-rated
so that student registrating cars
late would not have to pay the full
fee.
Jerry Vion, chairman of the stu
dent life committee, said Wednes
day that some definite steps have
been taken to place benches in
the dormitory areas. He promised
a complete report for the Thursday
session.
The agenda also calls for action
on election commission rules
change. Earlier in the year James
Carter, parliamentarian, was made
chairman of a committee to study
commission rules and to include
what was termed “rules of pre
cedent” in the written rules.
Mother Dies
Mrs. Lottie Neumann, last
year’s Aggie Mother of the
Year, died Tuesday after a
long illness in a Galveston
hospital. She is the mother
of Donald B. Neumann, sen
ior education major from
Chilton.
Lee Walker
To Head Opera
Committee
James E. Ray, president of the
Memorial Student Center Council,
has appointed Lee Walker as the
chairman of a committee to make
plans for a student trip to the Me
tropolitan Opera to be held in Dal
las in early May.
Ray said the idea of the Cultural
Leadership Committee is to sti
mulate the interest of the students
toward the cultural opportunities
which are available.
The committee has earlier re
ceived special rates to the “Tam
ing of The Shrew” in the Alley
Theater in Houston. A student with
an identification card could re
ceive special rates.
Ray said he appointed Walker as
the head of the committee because
“Walker is really interested in this
type of thing and he is also inter
ested in getting the students to
show their interest.”
EVANS
JFK Calls Cuba
Failure For Reds,
Winds-Up Meeting
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica <A» —
President Kennedy told an en
thusiastic crowd of university stu
dents Wednesday that Cuba is an
example of communism’s failure
to provide for its people. He held
up the $20-billion Alliance for
Progress as Latin America’s New
Deal.
“The myth of the 1950s,” he
said, the claim that communism
could build a better system, has
collapsed. “It is our advei’saries
who must build walls to contain
their people.”
Investigators Hear Conflicting
Testimony On Henry Marshall
FORT STOCKTON DP> — Con
flicting testimony as to the posi
tion of the late Plenry Marshall
on cotton allotment deals made by
Billie Sol Estes was brought out
Wednesday before a three-man
farmer committee hearing evidence
in the case.
The government made an im
portant point earlier as it sought
to prove its contention that Estes’
allotment deals were illegal.
J. Berry Ligon, Pecos County
ASCS chairman here, and Mrs.
Ruth Minear, his office manager,
both testified concerning a Jan
uary, 1961, meeting in Fort Stock-
ton in which Mai’shall participat
ed. Both quoted the former Agri
culture Department program spe
cialist as saying that Pecos Coun
ty allotment transfers were in
good order.
But J. Taylor Allen of Provo,
Utah, Southwest area director of
the farm aid program under the
Eisenhower administration, said
he attended the meeting and that
Marshall was not satisfied with
the manner in which the deals were
handled.
Marshall was found dead in June,
1961, of five gunshot wounds.
WINDING UP his three-day soli-
dai’ity meeting with presidents of
six Central American republics,
Kennedy told students and towns
people at the University of Costa
Rica they share in the task of
proving that men can protect free
dom and conquer want and ig
norance.
Reviving a quotation by Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, he said: “I can
say here to you: This generation
of Americans—your generation of
Americans—has a rendezvous with
destiny.”
AN ESTIMATED 10,000 people,
about half of them students, stood
quietly as the President spoke.
Near the end he was interrupted
by cries of: “Viva Kennedy.” He
stopped, smiled, looking a little
embarrassed, then continued. At
the end he said: “Viva Costa pica.
Muchas gracias”—many thanks.
In a late change Kennedy
dropped f-om his prepared text
at the university a declaration
that the Soviet Union must get out
of Cuba. He also omitted state
ments that Cubans should share
in the principles of freedom and
economic growth on which he said
the alliance is based.
Correspondents who ti’avel with
Kennedy noted that he frequently
departs from his prepared texts.
They saw no special significance
in his omission of the section on
Cuba.
Issue Discussed
Only Informally,
Directors Claim
By ALAN BAYNE
Battalion Editor
All nine members of the A&M Board of Directors have
denied reports that a board vote on coeducation is planned
i at an April 27 meeting of the directors.
Polled by telephone this week, the directors said that the
issue has been discussed informally, but a decision to take
a vote has not been made.
AGENDAS FOR THE APRIL 27 meeting have not been
compiled and agenda requests from members of the system
will be accepted until April 9.
Talk of a coed vote by the directors reached cam'pus dur
ing Spring Military Day weekend activities. One board mem
ber reportedly discussed the issue with cadets eating in Dun
can Hall.
The gist of the reports is that coeds will be admitted into
the graduate school in September, with the acceptance of
day-student girls to follow soon afterward. The board has
reportedly not discussed accommodations for coeds to live on
campus. i
AFTER THE APRIL MEETING, only
one more board meeting (in July) will be held
before the opening of the next fall semester.
Main motive reported behind the board’s
alleged move is a desire to let student wives
to attend graduate courses.
Board members have also been reported
in favor of as little publicity as possible on the
issue. As one report stated, “They want to
make the change with as little fan-fare as
possible.”
Should the board vote for
the admission of coeds, that
decision would be final since
no legislative approval is re
quired. Even so, there has
been talk on the issue in the
legislature, local Rep. David
Haines disclosed.
YES, I HAVE heard talk,”
Haines said, “but not from
any official sources. Also no
indication has been given as
to how soon a possible move
might be made.’’
Only one director, L. F.
Peterson of Fort Worth, said
a move might be made in the
near future.
“I don’t think it’s gotten
that far,” Peterson said, “but
it will probably be discussed
before school is out this year.”
He added that the question
was not discussed at the
board’s last meeting, held here
in January.
TWO OF THE DIRECTORS,
however,, said the question was
discussed at the January meeting.
Clyde H. Wells of Granbury, who
otherwise had no comment, said
there was some informal discussion
of the issue. Board vice president
John W. Newton of Beaumont also
said there had been discussion of
the matter in January, but he did
not specify whether the talk was
“formal” or “informal.”
Wells and Newton both added
that the directors reached no con
clusions during the January dis
cussions.
VETERAN DIRECTORS S. B.
Whittenburg and Sterling C. Evans
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WELLS
the board’s president, both said the
issue could come up at any time,
but that they knew of no planned
vote in April.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if the
issue had been talked about many
times in the past—and even voted j Tj 4. ¥ 1 O * Jj
on,” Whittenburg said. He added ¥ SLl lH GOdH HSlCl
that the administration has not
approached the board with a re
quest on the matter.
Naturally there is always in
formal discussion among board
members because this is a question
with which we are concerned,”
Evans related. “It might come up
at any time, but has never been
voted on since I’ve been on the
board.”
THREE BOARD MEMBERS,
Clyde Thompson of Diboll, H. C.
Heldenfels of Corpus Christi and
Dr. A. P. Beutel of Lake Jackson,
said the question was definitely not
discussed at the meeting in Jan
uary.
All three also said they knew
(See Coeds on Page 6)
State Department
Denies We Played
WASHINGTON <A>i —A State
Department spokesman denied
Wednesday Cuba’s accusation that
the United States was responsible
for the Sunday night raid on Cuba
which damaged a Soviet freighter.
Press officer Lincoln White is
sued the denial by rereading to
newsman Tuesday’s statement say
ing the U. S. government is
strongly opposed to such hit-and-
run attacks.
White said the U. S. investiga
tion to determine whether the fo
ray was staged from U. S. tenn-
tory or violated any U. S. law still
is under way. No protest has been
received from the Soviet Union,
he added.