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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1963
Number 113
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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
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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-
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It Senate Banquet
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The annual Student Senate A-
rards Banquet was held Wednes
ay evening in the Ballroom of the
femorial Student Center, featur-
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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.
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: 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)
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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.
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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.”