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••.'V;-:-'-:. sjfc* :hnitzel, m Style Che Battalion Candidates Speak... See Page 2 Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1963 Number 107 H Silver Taps Honors Grad Last Rites Set Smith To Introduce Bill ly helps lay, goes : area of y! k! daily! m iM J f£S thesn^ field Ki | ’2' s ild, J" 1111 Funeral services for Lt. Col William G. Lucey of 907 itchell in Bryan, who died unexpectedly Monday morning, 11 be held in the Hillier Funeral Chapel Wednesday at a. m. Silver Taps Ceremony was con ducted Tuesday night in honor of the retired Army officer, Class of '37, who was a graduate student in the Department of Education. A Rosary prayer service is scheduled for Tuesday night in the Hillier Chapel. BURIAL for the World War II and Korean War veteran will be in the Ft. Sam Houston cemetery in San Antonio, Thursday at 3 p. m. Col. Lucey served in Okinawa, the Philippines, and Korea during Woidd War II, and commanded the 58th Field Artillery Battalion, 3rd Division, during the Korean War. He received many awards dur ing his 19-year tenure in the Army, including the Distinguished Serv ice Medal and the Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster. SURVIVING him are his wife, Mrs. Sylvia Lucey of Bryan, two daughters, Patricia Ann and Mar jory Mary, and two sons, William Jr. and John Christopher, all of Bryan. William Lucey Jr. is a Freshman at A&M. Other survivors include his mother, Mrs. Nellie E. Lucey of Fort Worth and a sister, Mrs. Mary Margaret Poinderter of Shreveport, La. IT. COL. W. G. LUCEY Wire Review By The Associated Press WORLD NEWS MOSCOW — Kremlin officials, inus Premier Khrushchev, gave ikn Prime Minister Fidel Cas- 0 an airport sendoff in Moscow iMonday on his tour of the Sovi- Union. At his first stop, Volgograd — rmerly Stalingrad, Castro got a elcome from thousands, the Tass iws agency reported. EDMONTON, Alta.—A Trans- Canada airliner with 71 aboard struck violent air currents in lain showers over the Rocky fountains on Monday and (lunged 800 feet in a split-second nightmare. One passenger was lilled and 25 injured. The dead man was L. M. jfhmidt, an elderly passenger horn Cudworth, Sask. An airline spokesman said all hit four of the injured were re- hsed from the hospital after a Hedical'checkup. U.S. NEWS BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Hun- ieds of Negroes skipped school Ipnday and followed Negro co- Wian Dick Gregory to jail in a Wes of marches protesting ra- kl segregation. An estimated 1,000 were arrest- 1 A jailer, who made the esti- 'nte, said 90 per cent were teen- Jtis. With the latest mass demonstra- k total arrests in the past five »ys of racial unrest soared near ■AOO. Most of the Negi’oes have ksen to stay in custody, filling 'P local jails. ★★★ WASHINGTON—Gov. Rocke ter’s political fate now is in ^fe’s hands, some believe, be- 'fOse much depends on the image t projects before the 1964 twdowns. Gov. Romney of Michigan could be the big gain- ^ if the divorce-marriage is- Sll es hurts Rockefeller, reports hdicate. ★★★ Epperson city, mo. — a ^am to enroll Roman Catholic ^chial students in public schools ^reading across Missouri. The ^dative committee will take an- look at bill it killed which td have provided bus transpor- % for private school students. TEXAS NEWS WILLIS, Tex. — A U. S. mail ^ck was boldly hijacked in Gntown Willis Monday night ■ robbers who tied up the driv- and escaped with 15 to 20 'ail sacks. An all points pickup was is- for the arrest of three ban d's shortly after the driver, B. A-Antrey, reported the robbery 'the Montgomery County sher ds office. In House Halting Co-eds EFFECTIVE JUNE 1 Business Division Names New Head Dr. John E. Pearson of North Texas State University has been named head of the Division of Business Administration effective June 1, Frank W. R. Hubert, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, announced Monday. Pearson holds two degrees from NTSU where he has been a faculty member since 1957. He is now a professor and is chairman of the Division of Business Services there. DR. T. W. LELAND retired as head of the Division of Business Administration at A&M in August, 1961. Dr. Robert M. Stevenson has been serving as acting head. Pearson has participated in two post-doctoral programs, after re ceiving his Ph.D. in economics from Indiana University in 1956. He will take part in a research workshop in marketing at the Uni versity of California at Berkeley, July 22 to Aug. 30. Pearson taught as an assistant professor at New Mexico State University from 1954-57. He also taught one summer at Indiana Consolidated One-Act Play Wins First In Class AA One-Act players from A&M Consolidated High School in College Station took 1st place honors in Class AA competi tions in Austin this week, their second state win an as many years. Miss Nancy Inglis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jask Inglis of College Station, was named best actress of the meet and given a $500 drama scholarship. She also was named winner of the Samuel French award, given to the outstanding player of the competition. A second Consolidated student, Rick Owen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Owen, College Station, was named to the all-star cast. Other players from here included Joe Jaros, Karen Stuverud and Jack Coffey. The Consolidated Players presented scenes from “An astasia” which won the district competitions held at A&M two months ago. Univei’sity’s South Bend campus and held a teaching fellowship at Indiana from 1948 to 1951. He is the co-author of “Basic Mathematics for Business Analy sis” and has written several arti cles on business. STUDIES IN population densi ties and housing are among his re search projects. Others include circular autocorrelation as a re search tool, product quality meas ures and the changing market ob jectives in industrial production. DR. JOHN E. PEARSON 5,000 Observe Parachute Meet An estimated 5,000 people at tended the first annual parachute meet sponsored by the A&M Para chute Club Saturday and Sunday. Thirteen parachute clubs were represented at the meet held on the A&M plantation, west of the Brazos River. The meet was the first held in Central Texas, ac cording to Bob Sholly, veteran jumper and member of the A&M club. SHOLLY WAS the chief judge for the vents. < There were 97 en tries in the competition. Bryan and College Station mer chants gave 21 trophies to the win ners of the events. Mike Richardson of A&M Avon first place in the novice spot jump from 2,800 feet, with a static cord. Lee Boyd, also of A&M, won third. Capt. Fairbanks of Ft. Sill won the advanced spot jump Avith 10 seconds delay from 3,500 feet. John Siniton of Southwest State College, Louisiana, won the hit- and-run event. Bob Crump of the Dallas Skydivers Club took second. CARLOS WALLACE, Houston Parachute Center, won the advance style with manipulation during 30 IN ALL FAITHS CHAPEL Jewish Scholar On Communist Lectures Theories Rabbi Robert I. Kahn, Jewish scholar and theologian from Hous ton delivered a lecture entitled “What We Must KnoAV About Com munism,” in the All Faiths Chapel Monday night. RABBI KAHN explained that to understand the Communist philo sophy 1 one must understand the theories of Karl Marx, the founder of the modern socialist school of thought. The Rabbi said that once an equality of Avage levels is attained the socialistic state has reached a point at which all men willl possess the same things. There will be no more greed, no more need of gov ernment, or police. They will in fact have reached a real Utopia of “cooperation without coercion.” TO ACCOMPLISH their aims the communists are willing to put to an end all forms of opposition by the quickest means available. In their creed the end justifies the means, said Rabbi Kahn. Starting with these basic pre mises of Marx, communism has made significant inroads to several conutries. “Remember that a box car full of revolutionaries from Germany were able to penetrate to the Russian interior and oust the Czar. This has been their basic method for installing communism; conquest by force followed by a puppet regime,” said the Rabbi. The success of communism in some countries has depended upon two basic needs said the Rabbi. “The exploitation of hunger and the hunger for an idea or an ideology that Avill satisfy needs.” ....“COMMUNISM promises an end to AA'hat may seem to be a mys tery.” Rabbi Kahn said that when an intelligent and educated man con- veids to communism it is usually because they are “hungry for an ideal.” In absence of channels for improvement is it a wonder that they seek to satisfy an outlet for their idealistic minds?” Rabbi Kahn said that basically there were three reasons for fail ure of communism. Marx said that communism Great Issues Plans Committee Meeting The Great Issues Committee will hold its spring organiza tional meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Rooms 2C-2D of the Me morial Student Center. Speakers and programs for next year will be discussed. AU students inter ested in working on the commit tee next year have been invited to attend. would come to power in a highly industrialized country such as Ger many or Great Britain. Ho\v T ever just the opposite occured; .com munism failed to take over or even partially succeed in such societies because Marx failed to comprehend democracy, capitalism, and man’s nature under such a of a system. , The basic tenant capitalistic society is increasing productivity. Therefore the dis satisfaction necessary to introduce the Marxist theories never af forded itself. SECONDLY MARX could not comprehend human nature. Marx believed that the family way of life was an outmoded thing. He failed to take into consideration however that the child needs love and a happy emnronment in which to develop. Compassion and mer cy Avhich are the basic creed of our way of life make a voluntary so ciety a workable way of life. This point in itself served to defeat the sequently today dictatorships and sequently today distatorships and totalitarian states seldom openly condone the liquidation of the fami ly unit. Third, Marx failed to compre hend religion. Rabbi Kahn said that Mara did not understand that religion can sometimes change to suit the society. seconds free fall that includes back loops and figure eights. Mrs. Tee Crump, wife of Bob Crump, won second. Charles Long placed third in the advanced style. He represented the Ft. Hood parachute team. Houston Parachute Center won the team jump of three men who exit the aircraft at the same time with a ten second free fall fox- accuracy. The Amarillo Skydiv ers placed second and the Ft. Sill Club placed third. Wallace won the over-all indi vidual trophy. The best over-all club honors went to the Houston Parachute Club with the Dallas club placing scecond. Ft. Sam Houston’s team won the best over-all club sportsmanship trophy. The meet Avas sponsored through the local Jaycees with the proceeds going to charity. Duke U. Biologist Will Be Featured At Sigma Xi Meet Affairs To Get Committee Resolution Rep. Will Smith from Beaumont told The Battalion Mon day night that he will attempt to introduce a bill in the House of Representatives Tuesday morning opposing the decision made by the A&M Board of Directors to admit co eds on a limited basis. In a special telephone interview, Smith stated that “the bill leaves A&M just about in the position it was a month ago.” The representative from Beaumont was optimistic about the success of the bill following its introduction. “I believe that if I can get it in, I will be able to get it passed,” he said. SMITH pointed out however, “It takes a four-fifths vote at this late date to introduced a bill, and that will be hard.’ Even if the bill cannot be introduced, the legislator in dicated that a House resolu tion requesting the Board of Di rectors to reconsider their actions will be heard by the House State Affairs Committee Monday night. House Resolution No. 80 asks that at least one state institution be maintained for men only and another for women only. “I think that I can put 1000 peo ple who are in opposition to co education in the gallery for the committee meeting,” Smith stated. “I could get 150 supporters from Beaumont just by picking up the phone,” he added. ANOTHER resolution which Avould request the A&M Board of Directors to hold up any further actions to admit co-eds will prob ably be introduced by Wednesday, Smith indicated. The second reso lution is in the process of being worded. When asked whether or not he thought the Supreme Court ruling of 1960, which gave the Board complete authority over the co-ed question, would hold up now, Smith stated: No Special Dorms Planned For Coeds Chairman Sterling Evans had an emphatic answer Friday aft ernoon when approached and asked if the Board of Directors planned special courses and dor mitories for coeds at A&M. “Nothing could be further from the thinking of the board,” he said. “We have no such plans in mind. And we do not believe future boards will be interested in adding these features.” Mr. E\ r ans visited with student leaders on the campus Friday after Thursday night’s closed meeting. Dr. A. W. Naylor, a Duke Uni versity scientist, will he the fea tured speaker at the 13th annual initiation and awards banquet of Sigma Xi Society here Wednesday. The event will be held at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom, Dr. R. J. Baldauf, pres ident of the A&M chapter, an nounced. A professor of biology, Naylor will discuss the “themes and phi losophies of biologists in this day of new hoi-izons in science.” AT THE SAME time, the chap ter will initiate 50 local scientists into the organization, Baldauf commented. The new initiates Avill increase local membership to more than 300. “The sole purpose of Sigma Xi is the encouragement of original investigation in science, pure and applied,” Baldauf said. The banquet speaker received his formal education at the University of Chicago. He has had consider able experience in both teaching and research at Northwestern Uni versity, University of Washington, Yale, University of Bristol, Eng land, Oak Ridge and other institu tions. NAYLOR IS a Fellow of the American Association for the Ad vancement of Science and of the National Research Council. He has served several years as an officer in the American Society of Plant Physiologists. Currently a consultant to the National Science Foundation and the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, he has contributed over 60 research reports in journals and technical books in the United States and foreign countries. “There is no question that they have the authority. However, they have the authority only until it is changed by the legislature.” “Those of us who are supporting this resolution and bill hold noth ing against the Board of Directors and President Rudder,” the legis lator pointed out. “We are simply trying to represent the many thou sands who do not agree with the Board and President Rudder,” he said. HOUSE Representatives from the upper Gulf Coast, Houston and Dallas are receiving a lot of mail in opposition to the Board’s deci sion, reported Smith. He stressed the fact that Mon day night’s committee meeting would be open and indicated that the committee would hear anyone who wants to be heard. Noster, Creech, Ridley Are Chosen Band Drum Majors Drum majors for the 1963-64 Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band were selected Tuesday by a panel of 14, composed of students from each band and Col. Adams, commandant of the combined bands. Selected for head drum major of the combined bands Avas Wayne Noster, an electrical engineering major from Spring Branch. Bob by Ridley, a pre-med student from Dallas, was chosen as the Maroon Band drum major, and David Creech, a psychology major from Houston was chosen as the White Band drum major. The three selected by the com mittee were required to lead the band through marching and play ing maneuvers to qualify for the positions. Bill Barnhart, present command er of the combined bands, reported that the selections were tentative, pending approval of the trigon. Rudder Names First Director For Cyclotron Institute Dr. George J. Igo, senior staff member of the LaAvrence Radia tion Laboratory, University of California in Berkeley, was named Tuesday as director of the Cyclo tron Instisitute at A&M. President Earl Rudder said in the appointment that “Dr. Igo is emminently qualified to head A&M’s Cyclotron Institute vrhich, AA-heri completed, will be the larg est and most poAverful in the ScruthAvest.” Igo received his Bachelor’s de gree from Harvard and his Ph.D. in physics from Berkeley. He Avas physics instructor at Stanford and a guest professor of nuclear physics at the University of Hei delberg, Germany. He has published 40 scholarly papers and is a member of Sigma Xi and the American Physical So ciety. The 88-inch variable energy cy clotron proposed for institute Artll be fourth to be constructed on a college campus and the only one in the South, Dr. Charles F. Squire, associate dean of Arts and Science, said. Squire, a chemical physicist and coordinator of the institute, said the cyclotron will be used in me dian energy nuclear physics and chemistry to advance understand ing of nuclear structure. He de scribed the cyclotron as 400 tons of steel and copper wire and said design and construction Avould be supervised by Dr. Igo and his staff. Cost of the institute is estimat ed at $6 million, he said. Financ ing for the airplane hanger-size building to house the cyclotron as well as associated equipment costs are pledged from the Robert A. Welch Foundation in Houston and from A&M funds. A proposal un der consideration by the Atomic Energy Commission would provide a $3,250,000 grant for construction of the cyclotron itself, Squire said. Target date for operation of the institute is 1966.