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I ^es aps Che Battalion Vet Returns Degree.., See Paffe 4 b forthcoming k over and tliej the coach hasi ire. He tate 1 1 and trainer ;he seat of the) are very sore, rer and trainer, Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1963 Number 113 ns: ’ar Deal! r s, Meteor, s on Balance, rust G3. NG on Wish To Pick Up Your Cooper Aims Around Globe For 22 Orbits By BEM PRICE CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (iP)—Astronaut Gordon coper, a superbly performing- space pilot, sped on toward mpletion of his marathon 22-orbit flight today, heading )r an afternoon splash-down in the Pacific Ocean. With astronaut and spacecraft Army Corps Commander Takes ‘March In’ Salute ipital. Pick ar One For Us. 3 Too! ’45 it Center Friday May 17 (excellent working order, Merc- ry Control Center flashed the Sod word to Cooper during hh ith orbit that he had the green jht to go all the way. If there is no emergency hitch le reverse rockets on Cooper’s aith 7 cansult are to be fired eas" Shanghai, China, about 6:30 m, Eastern Standard Time to !gin a gradual descent to a para- nite landing in the Pacific some I miles southeast of Midway (land. Touchdown time was scheduled tat 6:23 p. m. - 12:23 p. m. Mid- ay Time. Whirling along at five miles a jeond more than 100 miles up in ie sky, Cooper shattered the ark established by Walter M. irra, Jr. Schirra did six trips round the world on Oct. 3, 1962. Words like “excellent,” “beauti- and “perfect” have been frown about gaily, matching- taper’s own exhuberance as he into outer space. "It feels good, buddy,” said the onnally laconic Cooper. Those intricate chores demand- LEASE ^ iof an astronaut were being per med almost perfectly, includ- US jlrango eatured It Senate Banquet WANTEll The annual Student Senate A- rards Banquet was held Wednes ay evening in the Ballroom of the femorial Student Center, featur- •tonf 0 BuSnJW | Dr. Ramon E. Arango, of the ~ Madison,'S? fe P artment of ^tory and Govern, i, Polk, Tyler, Cri» s Mnt, e Box 162, in, Texas 1® UER JOBS * Part Time, he following i L NOTICE Arango spoke on the observa- »ns of American students who Uvel abroad, and the remarks of treigners about Americans. Service. Mt# Student Body President Sheldon ker, VI 6-7024. ^ ^ received a gavel from the so- - iomore class, student senators re plied .keys and Dean James P. Innigan and Wayne Smith re vived engraved cigarette lighters. ’RINTING COMPAtf a ] s0 rece j vec ] the traditional !old watch for his year’s service. lALITY — Multilithin; king — Typing Patricia : 6-8387 e Station : ng the release of a small satellite vhich revolved around him, send- 'ng out a flashing light. There had been some doubt as o whether this was successful, but Cooper finally set them right on Cooper’s moon. “I was with that little rascal ill night last night,” he said. “I’m not exactly worried any more — just anxious for it to be over,” Hattie Cooper said Wednes day after her only son had begun a 22-orbit space flight. After the tension of the count down had eased, Mrs. Cooper said a successful mission for her son would be a perfect birthday pres ent. The flight ends Thursday aft ernoon, her 63rd birthday. Mrs. Cooper is staying at her mother’s home in this small cen tral Oklahoma town of about 2,600 oopulation. She said she had left her home at Carbondale, Colo., a couple of week ago “to ti-y to hide.” Mrs. Gordon Cooper described the launch of her astronaut hus band’s mercury capsule with a single word, “Beautiful.” Mrs. Cooper and her daughters — Camala, 14, and Janita, 13 — watched the launch in the privacy of the master bedroom at their home 25 miles east of Houston. Mrs. Cooper is said to have gone mto another room to watch it alone. All by herself she saw this al ways terrifying moment, just as her husband, cradled high above this fearful, smoking monster, al so faced his moment of terrible truth alone. Mrs. Cooper had a special ra dio set so that she could listen in on astronautical talk when he whizzed within range. President Kennedy, glued to a television set in his bedroom, set the pattern for millions of Ameri cans to see this tremendous event. He said he was very happy at the success of the flight. All around the world the reaction seemed pretty much the same: a lot of interest. Commends Corps On 1st Inspection Brig. Gen. William R. Calhoun took the “march in” salute of the Cadet Corps at noon Wednesday and reacted with “I never saw a finer looking bunch of young men.” The new Villi U. S. Army Corps commander visited the campus on his first inspection trip to the Bryan-College Station. “We are complimented that General Calhoun would come to see us so soon,” President Earl Rudder said. A major genera] who commands Texas’ own 90th Infantry Division, Rudder was host at a luncheon in the Memorial Student Center for the VIII Corps leader. General Calhoun assumed the two-state Corps command ♦a month ago, moving to Aus tin headquarters from a Pen- Ready For Flight Into Space Astronaut Gordon Cooper looks out of his tour. Cooper is slated to complete his 22- space helmet during preparations in Cape orbit mission Thursday. (NASA Photo via Canaveral, Fla., for his round-the-world AP Wirephoto) for fishing, pi® 91 n. Children _ sm College on Bif'Jj Wire Review By The Associated Press WORLD NEWS PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti— G AND rURAL SUPPL1!! JE LINE PRINTS 'S • photosiJ* President Francois Duvalier gath- a score of American corre- tondents in his ornate white fee Wednesday and told them ^ feiatically: “Haiti will continue fer my administration.” Duvalier’s constitutional term : office expired Wednesday, hut Phono, Car Rf^ * declared himself re-elected for INDUSTRIES hur Spring! Rod ■N, TEXAS Hues Radio Sendee TA 2-1? 11 WRITERS MACHINE JTALS I0UT OUR OWNERSHIP LAN DONALD’S th Main St n. Texas S SHOP mte Service -y.- - ules & Efr RONG jfeore years after a rigged bal- P two years ago. His enemies marked him for assassina- ★ ★ ★ LONDON—The United States Britain searched Wednes- k) for ways of saving the Geneva nuclear test ban negoti- fes from collapse. The last-ditch efforts came at * time when the Soviet Union stiffening its position. Informed sources in Moscow Premier Khrushchev told President Kennedy and Prime Minister Harold Mac- 4 '!!an last week that he will fee no more concessions on e test ban issue. U. S. NEWS Washington — The House 213 to 204 Wednesday to N the national debt limit in two fes to a record $309 billion. (The action came just two weeks ®ore the debt, by Treasury esti- Ptes, is due to break through ^present $305-billion ceiling. ★ ★ ★ MONTGOMERY, Ala. — An angry Gov. George C. Wallace, accusing President Kennedy of setting up a military dictator ship, Wednesday promised a court suit to see if federal troops can be used in Birmingham. He told newsmen the suit will be filed “in the appropriate fed eral court” but declined to say where or when. AT PRESBYTERIAN CENTER Clergyman To Views Offers Rebuttal Of Agnosticism Rev. Fred Holt, Methodist min ister and Wesley Foundation direc tor at Rice University, said last night during an address at the Presbyterian Student Center that we live in an age of distrust, ac cepting' only those things that we can depend upon. Practical agnosticism deals with the reality of trusting that which is trustworthy, said Rev. Holt. T believe that we live in an agnostic age and that as such we are conservative of that which we find to be dependable.” REV. HOLT said that even liberalism is conservative in the sense that it may be willing to sacrifice an image in order to perpetuate its cause. The church itself, in trying to create a favor able image, sometimes compro mises the very faith for which it stands, said Rev. Holt. The problem of the age is that, in trying to find proof of our faith, we tend to kill that faith, he said. In committing ourselves to a cause we, and especially students, find ourselves in a state where we are cautious to accept only that Summer Storage Facilities' Slated To Open May 27 The Department of Student Af fairs released a plan Wednesday whereby students may stoi-e trunks, lamps, and other personal belong ings on campus during the sum mer. The basements of Dormitory 3 and Ramp A of Walton Hall will be available for storage May 27. The storage will be handled by the Agronomy Society and all revenues from the project will go to the Society. The announcement said that all possible precautions will be taken to safeguard students’ belongings but the baggage will be stored at the owner’s own risk. On Monday, May 27, the storage rooms will be open from 4 to 5 p.m. and then the basements will be open from 11 to 12 and 4 to 5 during the week until June 1. Students who will attend the first summer term and not the sec ond will be allowed to store bag gage in Ramp A, Walton, July 12, from 4 to 5 p.m. Those attending the second term and not the first may store belongings during the last week in May and withdraw them July 15 from 4 to 5 p.m. Items stored in the two rooms must be removed by 5 p.m., Sept. 20. The announcement stressed that any items not picked up by the above date will be disposed of so that the rooms will be clear. The following rates were listed for the summer storage: lamps, 40 cents each; all other baggage in containers not exceeding footlocker size, 40 cents per container; sepa rate articles not in containers, at proportionate rates with a mini mum of 20 cents; All bicycles, typewriters, radios, televisions sets, and similar articles not in boxes, $1.00. Storage charges must be paid at the time baggage is turned in, said the announcement. knowledge that we feel is depend able. Quoting a comedian, Rev. Holt said that “Everybody has his own thing going.” IN AN AGE where we feel secure in labeling persons not so much for what they actually are but what they assert they believe in, we try to categorize people, said Rev. Holt. “We therefore find people in various societies and minority groups all over the world trying to identify themselves in various categories.” “We are agnostic in the sense that we try to defend ourselves against surprise and we are un willing to open ourselves to con tradictory opinions and theories. As religious men we are distrust ful,” said Rev. Holt. Turning the discussion to faith, Rev. Holt said that people who have faith have the ability to hear alternatives and can even change. Rev. Holt said that science is based upon faith. “Science seeks to give credence to that which has previously been based upon faith.” For example, Rev. Holt said that the contemporary artist is faithful insofar as he is willing to express himself in fresh ways. Often these ways are incomprehensible to people. “IN THE PAST artists have mostly portrayed the most his torically sigmificant events. The contemporary artist trys to find ways to express the ordinary things and events in our lives.” Rev. Holt said that human re lations is another example of faith. “The relation of one person to an other is primarily expressed in terms of what is expected of one another.” In essence faith is the trust of that which is untrustworthy, said Rev. Holt. “While agnostics want freedom from the unexpected, the man of faith welcomes the irrational and unexpected aspects of life.” In expressing the alternative to Agnosticism in religious terms Rev. Holt said that God calls man out of his religiousness into faith. In the book of Job, Job assumed that he could receive certain goods and services because of his righteous ness and therefore cursed God when he did not receive them. THE GOD that is in the Bible is not so necessarily the God that is the answer to man’s quest. “He is the questioner of all our re ligious justification rather than the answer.” Rev. Holt received his B.A. from Hendrix College, Ark., and his Bachelor of Divinity from Southern Methodist University. After serv ing as a Lieutenant in the Air Force, he became a campus minis ter at Texas Tech and later West Texas State College. Co-ed Paper Is Cleared For Floor Debate AUSTIN 6P>—The House State Affairs Committee cleared for floor debate Wednesday night a resolution asking that A&M not admit females. Rep. Will Smith of Beaumont is the author of the resolution which brought about 300 A&M cadets to a public hearing on the measure Monday night. The House Monday gave Rep. Mack Edwards of Pattonville per mission to introduce a hill banning girls at A&M. Edwards said the school faces $1 million annual loss in donations because of its decision last month to let females attend the school during the regular terms. The A&M board ended 92 years of male-only tradition last month by its ruling. Degree Candidates Warned; 6 No Cuts’ The Academic Council Wednes day reminded undergraduate candidates for degrees that they are required to attend all sche duled classes during the period May 20-24. The announcement emphasized that any unauthorized absence incurred during the period will be considered sufficient cause to withhold the degree at the re gular commencement exercise May 25. tag-on assignment in Washing ton, D. C. His responsibilities include administration, train ing and supply of all Army Re serve units in Texas and New Mexico. He spent Wednesday morning inspecting reserve facilities in the twin communities and checking unit capabilities in conferences with officers. “I found the units in good shape with capable leadership,” the West Point graduate said. “Morale is phenomenally high.” General Calhoun toured the Data Processing Center, Activation Analysis Laboratory and other A&M facilities before continuing to Houston late Wednesday. His visit to this area was marked with an appeal for full strength in the Army Reserve with emphasis on combat ready status. ON HIS INVENTION Prof’s Help Asked For World’s Fair An A&M architecture professor, James H. Marsh III, has been asked to help design one of the New York World’s Fair buildings. The proposed one-story structure will feature a new building design concept, the “lift-shape process,” which Marsh invented. The A&M researcher supervised construction of a similar facility which serves as a picnic shelter in Hensel Park earlier. Marsh has been asked to be a consultant to the George A. Fuller Construction Co. of New Y'ork. The building, which will house a photography firm, will be placed in Flushing Meadow Park, site of the 1964-65 World’s Fair. The lift-shape pi-ocess involves the development of a structural steel skeleton in such a way that it can be fabricated on a flat plane and then lifted and “sprung” into final position for a spray coating of concrete or other materials. Before the concrete is applied, the framework resembles a “spider web” of steel rods. After the steel is lifted into position . to form a three-dimensional shape, concrete is applied. The World’s Fair model, designed with a 57-feet span, will have some modifications, Marsh pointed out. The Hensel Park structure is 50- feet in diameter. Adjunct Still Open To New Students Openings in both sessions of A&M’s Junction summer school camp for college freshmen are available but applications should be made immediately, W. D. Ku- tach, director said. The Adjunct was begun in 1951 to bridge the gap between high school and college. Students re gister for seven semester hours of credit for the six-weeks term in cluding freshman mathematics, English, physical education and guidance. Summer terms this year are June 3-July 12 and July 15-Aug. 23. Applications forms and in formation about the Adjunct are I available from the registrar. House Agrees On Poll Tax Ban, 109-26 AUSTIN <A>> _ The House agreed Wednesday with the Sen ate that Texas’ poll tax should be scrapped, but in a different man ner. The vote was 109-26. Sen. Abraham Kazen, Laredo, sponsor of the poll tax ban wdien it passed the Senate, said Wednes day afternoon he will decide Mon day whether to ask fellow senators to accept the House changes or ask for a conference committee to settle differences between the houses. The principal House change would send the proposed constitu tion change to voters this Novem ber instead of November, 1964, as specified in the Senate version. Under the House change the ban would become effective Dec. 31 this year, affecting all voting in important presidential election year of 1964. Should the $1.75 poll tax finally be repealed by action of the legis lature and voters, then a new voter registration law would be come effective—if it gets approval of this legislature. Different House and Senate ver sions of a voter registration law are in the hands of a conference committee which met Wednesday. “We agreed on everything ex cept the 25-cent registration fee,” said Rep. Don Hefton, Sherman, one of the negotiators. The Sen ate wants 25 cents per registration to repay counties for the work involved. The House wants free registration. Hefton said conferees agreed to a House change that would not exempt from registra tion persons over 60 years of age in counties of less than 10,000 population. “We are stuck on the 25-cent fee,” Hefton said. “It looks like we the House may be asked to ac cept it.”