Che Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1963
Number 90
Sky divers Slated To Open
Civilian Weekend
Barbecue, Dance
Planned Saturday
Civilian Weekend will officially begin Saturday at 3 p. m.
with a skydiving exhibition by the A&M Parachute Club. The
sky divers will perform their jumps over the civil engineering-
survey field northeast of the Systems Administration Build
ing.
Five members of the group are slated to exhibit a 30-
second delay. Dr. H. J. McCullen, club advisor, and Tom Wil
liams of the Flying Kadets will fly the airplanes for the
jumpers. Participating in the jump will be Bob Richardson,
Bob Sholly, Jay Wheelock, John Olden and Pat Works.
Following the opening event for the weekend will be a
barbeque, dance and selection of the civilian sweetheart.
FIFTEEN finalists have
High Court Judge
Blasts Education
MISS SHIRLEY
MISS ALLEN
WASHINGTON <£>) — Justice
Pffim, 0. Douglas described
toierican education Thursday night
blemished'by “more propaganda
we appreciate”—some of it
toial, some religious and some
HttloficaL
"Americanism is often taught as
< brief for whatever American
Ngn policy may be in effect, no
■Mtter how defeating it may be,”
foe U. S. Supreme Court justice
Sid in a speech prepared for the
National Civil Liberties Clearing
Muse,
"MANY TEXTS subtly down-
Ne the Negroes in favor of the
•bites,” he said. “Some proclaim
fotestantism over Catholicism and
ftristianity over Judaism by fail
's to describe the history of re-
feus liberty in a fair way.”
“Teaching 1 communism is becom-
flS a fad,” Douglas continued.
‘Moreover, the tendency has been
serve a political rather than an
''me-Change
faring Set
Initial legislative action on the
tolleffe’s name-change bill is
^heduled next Wednesday, Rep.
h'id Haines of College Station
Wd The Battalion Friday inorn-
The bill, which proposes a
•smechange to Texas A&M Uni-
%sity, will be discussed at 7:30
m. Wednesday in the House
'bamber by the state affairs
; ommittee, Haines said.
According to Haines, the com
mittee most likely will then re-
isr the measure to a subcommit-
to iron out technical details.
Action on a name-change was
first approved by the A&M Sys-
'em Board of Directors meeting
bcre in January. Haines later in-
hoduced the bill in the House
in February.
educational need. Those who
travel in Communist lands know
that a Communist regime is not all
black, while we are all white. Is
there enough courage and in
dependence left to disclose what
features of the Soviet system are
not evil ?”
DOUGLAS, in his sharp criticism
of American education, enumerated
several cases of censorship by
school boards of school, libraries.
He included the case of a California
school board he said banned “a
brocure ‘The Rule of Law in World
Affairs,’ by a Justice Douglas.”
“Education by those standards
is largely propaganda for one point
of view or one school of tought,”
Douglas said.
“That is indeed precisely the
Communist approach to sociology,
political science, history and art.”
been been selected for Satur
day night’s sweet-heart con
test. Included in the group
are Judy Burns of Abilene,
escorted by David W. Glover; Bob-
bye Foster of Waco, escorted by
Donald B. Neumann; Sandra Hul
sey, Fort Worth, escorted by Keith
Clark; Sarah Gibson of Kilgore,
escorted by Juan G. Dominguez.
Dolores Mullenix, Dallas, es
corted by Mike Spence; Jean El
lington, Huntsville, escorted by
Ronald Rell; Pam Hall, Corpus
Christi, escorted by Joe G. Smyth;
Carolyn Fish, Nederland, escorted
by David Minaldi; $ue Risinger,
Dallas, escorted by , George Eitt;
Dorothy Allen, Baytown, escorted
by Mike Bridges.
Patricia Jo Rasor, San Antonio,
escorted by Richard W. Kistner;
Diane Shirley, Huntsville, escorted
by Jack Cunningham; Mrs. Faith
Heine, College Station, escorted
by Bobby Heine; Mrs. Diane
Booker, College Station, escorted
by Jon Booker; and Mrs. Sarah
Kay Brice of College Station, es
corted by Travis R. Brice.
A STAGE band from Southwest
Texas State Teachers College will
provide music for the dance at
9 p. m. Saturday in Sbisa Hall.
During the dance the sweetheart
will be selected by the couples
present. Each couple will have two
votes in the election.
The girls, nominated by each
dormitory or housing unit, will be
introduced at the barbecue and
were presented on KBTX-TV’s
“Town Talk” at 11:30 a. m. Friday.
For Satm*day’s dance, Sbisa
Hall’s dance floor will be divided
into three sections to carry out a
San Francisco theme, representing
Fisherman’s Wharf, Chinatown and
a view of a park.
BARBECUED beef and chicken
will be served in the Grove Satur
day afternoon between 5:30 and
6:15 p. m. Beef will come from
the grand champion Hereford steer
of the Houston Livestock Show.
Students who have civilian stu
dent activity cards are entitled to
a barbecue ticket for one person
and a dance ticket for a couple.
Pageant Creator
To Crown King
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Joseph S. Mogford of College
Station, originator of the Cotton
Pageant and Ball, will crown Na
than R. Boles of Winters as King
Cotton during coronation ceremon
ies at the 29th annual event on
April 6.
Boles is a 21-year-old senior
agronomy major. He was chosen
for the honor by Agronomy Society
members in recognition of his stu
dent activity record.
He is social secretary and past
vice president of the society and a
distinguished student.
Mogford is chief cotton breeder
for Northern Star Seed Co. of
Waco and a retired A&M agronomy
professor. He originated the Cot
ton Pageant and Ball in 1932.
The Cotton Pageant and Ball, one
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of the top social functions of the
year, is considered the outstanding
event of its kind in the nation. It
is sponsored by the Student Agro
nomy Society in honor of the state’s
main cash crop, cotton.
Master of ceremonies at the
pageant will be Johnny Watkins,
farm director of KWTX-TV in
Waco.
Pageant activity begins at 7:30
p.m. in Guion Hall, and the ball
is set for 9:30 p.m. in Sbisa Hall.
A highlight of the pageant will
be the naming of Queen Cotton
and eight members of her court
from among 150 coeds representing
colleges, universities, clubs and
other organizations. Selections ai - e
made by authorities in fashion and
art fields.
LOOKING FOR A JOB
Retirement Starts
In New Career
Byrns’
Efforts
Retirement usually denotes the
beginnig of a life of .leisure, but
for Lt. Col. Robert E. Byrns of
the Department of Military Science,
it will mean looking for a job.
Col. Byrns, whose retmement
becomes effective April 31, said
“What will I do when I retire ?
I hope I can find some place to
teach. I’m struggling with a
masters in history right now.”
Civilians Debate
Seating In Sbisa
Conflicting opinions were ex
pressed in Thursday nig-ht’s Civil
ian Student Council meeting as
heated debate took place over a
group of proposals submitted by
the traditions committee headed, by
Dale Atkinson.
Most debate was focused on a
suggestion to have tables set aside
in Sbisa Dining Hall for dormitory
residents to eat meals as a group.
Officer Team
Will Inspect
Army ROTC
A team of inspectors from Fourth
Army Headquarters, Fort Sam
Houston, will conduct the annual
general inspection of Army ROTC
cadets and the Department of Mili
tary Science next Friday and Sat
urday, Lt. Col. Thomas A. Hotch
kiss, operations officer, announced
Thursday night.
Friday morning a preliminary
team, composed of Col. Ayres, chief
of the inspection team, and two
accompanying officers, will inspect
records, procedures and classroom
instruction in the Military Science)
Building.
In the afternoon, these officers
will be bidefed on cadet corps or
ganization by Bill Nix, corps com
mander; John Meyer, Third Bri
gade commander; and James John
son, Co. D-2 commander; at Corps
Headquarters in Dorm 2.
Nix will discuss the basic or
ganization of the corps. Meyer will
present the organization at the
brigade level and Johnson will
speak on organization at the com
pany level.
Later in the day ten additional
officers will arrive from San An
tonio to /complete the inspection
team.
The 13 officers will conduct an
inspection in ranks Saturday morn
ing at 9:15 on the main drill field.
Malayan Economist
To Speak Monday
Professor Emeritus T. M. Silcock
of the University of Malaya will
speak Monday in a graduate lec
ture.
The topic for the lecture at 8
p.m. in Room 229 of the Chemistry
Building will be “The Role of Uni
versities in Economic Development:
Reflections of Southeast Asia.”
Silcock who holds a Ph.D. from
Oxford, is considered an authority
on the economics of Southeast
Asian development.
He was head of the Department
of Economics at Raffles College,
later known as the University of
Malaya, in Singapore from 1937
until 1960.
The traditions committee’s ideas
began as proposals. Some were
treated as motions, but all were
finally returned to their original
status as undecided proposals.
ATKINSON SAID that the pur
pose of -the reserved table idea is
to promote communication and
unity within the dormitories and to
improve the present seating me
thod in the civilian section of Sbisa
Hall.
The proposal was stated: “Have
residents of each dormitory eat
together in Sbisa Hall.”
Councilman Rex Bunkley opposed
the proposal on grounds that it
implied compulsory buying of meal
tickets. Bunkley said he prefers
eating in the dining hall but dis
favored an implication that dormi
tory residents be required to buy
meal tickets.
FRANK STARK JR. made the
the proposal into a motion which
was restated: “Have residents of
each dormitory who have meal
cards eat together as a group,”
but voting changed the motion back
to a proposal.
Stark, a Hart Hall athlete, said
that half of the members in his
dormitory have tables reserved fof
them.
He commended the seating me
thod saying that because of it, he
is freinds with every resident in
his dormitory.
Stark challenged other members
of the council with the statement,
“Do any of you know every person
in your dorm?”
THE VETERAN OF 33 years of
military service, of which 25 have
been on active duty, came to A&M
in 1958 from a three-year assign
ment as a member of the U. S. Ad
visory Group to the Danish Army
in Copenhagen. He has been serv
ing as the officer in charg-e of
advanced section in military sci
ence.
“The first year I was on campus
I audited some history classes be
cause the history building- was clos
er than the English building,”
Byrns said. He explained that he
received a degree from Colorado
State College with a major in Eng
lish literature and a minor in his
tory in 1933.
“When they started offering a
master’s degree in history here. I
decided to try to get one. I should
complete my work this summer,”
he added.
COL. BYRNS, WHO was born
in North Dakota in 1910, began his
military career in the Colorado
National Guard in 1929. He was
commissioned a second lieutenant
directly from the Army Enlisted
Reserve. The officer was integrat
ed into the regular Army in 1947.
During World War II, which
Byrns refers to as “the war,” he
had command of the 540th Amphi
bian Tractor Battalion. In the
10 years immediately following
1946, Col. Byrns served in such
capacities as an instructor at the
Armor School at Fort Knox, Ken.,
chief of an ai-ctic test group for
armor in Army field forces in
Alaska and general staff officer
of the Continental Army Command
at Fort Monroe, Va.
COL. BYRNS WAS MARRIED
to Miss Lily M. Frederikson in
1937 and they have two sons, Bob
by, 10, and Steve, 8.
Col. Byrns said, “I’ll probably
teach in some junior college.” He
did say that he would not mind
being a part of the A&M faculty.
“I think the faculty here deserves
more recognition than they get.
There is just a lot of good men
teaching here. I know because
I’ve been in some of their classes.”
“My first assignment to active
duty was for 10 months,” Col.
Byrns recalled. “I guess it’s about
time I retire.”
Wire Review
LT. COL. R. E. BYRNS
... job-hunting time
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
WASHINGTON — Two uniden
tified jet planes fired shots near
an American vessel in internation
al waters off the north coast of
Cuba Thursday night, the State De
partment reported.
A terse State Department an
nouncement said:
“The U. S. Coast Guard has re
ported the receipt of a message
from the U. S. motor ship Floridi
an proceeding in international
waters off the north coast of Cuba
en route from San Juan, Puerto
Rico, to Miami, Fla.
“The message reported that at
approximately 6:05 p.m. Washing
ton time today two unidentified
jet aircraft had fired bursts
across the Floridian’s bow and
stern without sinking the ship.
U. S. NEWS
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
The Great Caturn rocket ended
the first phase of its test pro
gram Thursday, blazing to its
fourth straight success and de
monstrating that it can function
even with one of its eight engines
dead.
The second half of a scheduled
space doubleheader, the launching
of the Explorer 17 research satel
lite, was postponed because of
trouble with an atmospheric
measuring device in the payload.
TEXAS NEWS
EL PASO — The government
convicted promoter Billie Sol Estes
of four counts of mail fraud and
one of conspiracy Thursday—ex
actly one year after his flimsy fi
nancial empire crashed.
Federal Judge R. E. Thompason
deferred sentencing until after a
report by a federal probation of
ficer. This was expected to take
about two weeks.
Asked, by a reporter what he
though of the verdict, Estes said,
“No comment.”
★ ★ ★
BRYAN — Brazos County of
ficers said Thursday a 15-year-
old Negro boy who told officers
he beat M. J. Tx-emont, 72, to
death last Monday will be sent
to the Gatesville School for Boys.
Officex-s said he will be held in
Gatesville until he is 17, the min-
imuxn age in Texas for an indict
ment on a felony charge.
Aggie Players
Close Comedy
Saturday Night
Students have only two more
nights in which to view the Aggie
Player spring production, “The
Imaginai-y Invalid,” before the
comedy closes in Guion Hall Sat-
ui-day night.
Written by Moliere, a French ac
tor and playwright of the 17th cen
tury, the play satirizes the doctors
of that time and is centered around
an elderly hypochondriac (they had
them then too).
Argan, played by Bob Hipp, de
lights in his illness because of the
extx-a treatment and attention it
affords him.
HE EVEN cax-ries this so far
as to ti’y and marry his daughter
to the son of Dr. Diaforus, his
personal physician, with the hope
that it will enable him to receive
fi'ee treatment. His daughtei’,
Angelica, is played by Lynn Imle.
The part of the doctor’s son is
handled by Kipp Blair.
The author adds a sub-plot to
the comedy by having Argan’s
wife, Beline, scheme with Monsieur
Bonnefoy, a crooked lawyer, to
get Ax-gan’s money. Beline is play
ed by Charlene Ragsdale and Jack
Morris acts in the role of the law
yer.
Toinette, Argan’s maid, played by
Shax-on Prisk, spoils the plot and
saves Angelica fi’om an unwanted
marxiage.
OTHER CHARACTERS include
Cleante, acted by James Moore;
Monsieur Bei’alde, played by Bob
Stark; An Apothecai’y, played by
Ron Hunter; and Di\ Purgon, acted
by Richaxd Metz. The part of Dr.
Diafoi-us is filled by Bill Thoxmton.
The play begins at 8 p.m. Ad
mission for the pi’oduction is 75
cents.