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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Thursday, June 6, 1963
CADET SLOUCH
BATTALION EDITORIALS
by Jim Earle
A Big Step Forward
With scarcely any effort at all A&M took one of its
largest steps forward Monday.
Actually, it all began last year when the Board of
Directors adopted a policy to “admit qualified students
regardless of race” throughout the system. But the im
portant part of the story came early this week when the
policy was first put into effect on the main campus.
The forward stride was not made because of 92-year
color barrier was dissolved. The mere fact that three
Negroes are now attending classes here has little, if any
thing, to do with it.
It is reflected, however, in the fact that A&M and
its students were willing to accept an obligation they had
no power to ignore without pointless, die-hard refusals.
Even though the registration of the trio was un
announced and conducted quietly, there was plenty of
opportunity afterward for people to make fools of them
selves—but no one did.
The three men entered this institution as mature
college students; their intentions were identical to those
of the majority of summer school students. They did not
come as civil rights demonstrators or rabble-rousers.
We feel that A&M can be proud of the dignified accept
ance of these men on the part of the students. Regardless
of how each individual felt about the issue, he was able to
see that ugly disorder like those now occurring in much
of the South w'ould not ultimately change things and
would serve only to give A&M a black eye.
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Got any gripes ?
If you do, it might help to bring them out into the
open. At least there may be someone else with the same
ideas and you can get together so that misery will have
company.
During the regular school terms The Battalion runs a
“Sound Off” section on page 2. Experience tells us that
its popularity is rivaled only by the “Slouch” cartoons.
This column is filled with letters from readers. Some
times they are expressions of gratitude, sometimes tidbits
of information that readers feel might interest others,
but mostly they are expressions of opinions about current
issues.
We see no reason why the summer Battalion can’t
feature a similar column. All we need is to receive letters—
lots of them.
The only requirement is that the letters be signed by
the person or persons submitting them.
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The Battalion would like to print announcements of
activities of any campus or community non-profit organi
zation.
Unfortunately we can’t keep track of all the many
things that are planned. But the readers can help.
There are some simple forms to be filled out and placed
in a box in the Office of Student Publications in the base
ment of the YMCA building (left of the outside steps).
Or, we’d be happy to receive the announcements in the mail.
Keep dates in mind, though, and the fact that we’ll
have to have the notices’ by 5 p. m. every Wednesday.
Musician, Artist Now Uses
Skills As Medical Sculptor
A&M Ph.D Seeks Better
Nuclear Detection Method
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WASHINGTON GP) _ Dr.
Charles C. Bates, a 44-year-oid
Texas-educated Ph.D., ranks rs
one of the government’s top ,ncn
in seeking - ways to impro. e the
detection of underground nuclear
explosions.
What Bates and his associates
learn through research has a
bearing on efforts of negotiatoi's
at international conferences in
Geneva seeking eventual agree
ment on a nuclear test ban.
Bates, whose doctorate in
oceanography was the first ever
issued by A&M, testified recently
before a House Merchant Marine
subcommittee. He told of under
water research off the California
coast and then discussed a year
long study expected to start soon
near the center of the Gulf of
Mexico.
The water in that area, he said,
has a depth of 12,000 feet.
In the Gulf of Mexico tests,
he said, highly sensitive record
ing instruments—made according
to government-provided specifica
tions by two firms in the Dallas
area—will be encased in a con
tainer and let down by cable to
rest on the bottom.
The instruments, which record
earth shockwaves on tape much
like a seismograph, cost about
$50,000 each. In earlier tests in
the Pacific, only one was lost.
Heretofore they have been built
to submerge to 4,000 feet but the
newer devices are capable of tak
ing recordings at 20,000 feet.
In connection with the Gulf
tests, Bates said, a 5-kiloton
nuclear device will be detonated
at the bottom of a 2,000-foot well
drilled into a salt dome near
Hattiesburg-, Miss. When the ex
plosive material is set in place,
he said, and detonation mecha
nism connected to the well will be
cemented so that the shock waves
will radiate through the earth.
“With the advent of the Geneva
nuclear test ban negotiations in
1958,” Bates told the committee,
“it became evident that there was
a strong requirement to develop
a more sophisticated understand
ing of seismic phenomena.”
Pointing out that there are
about 40 measui-able earthquakes
annually in the United States
alone, he said it is now virtually
impossible to distinguish them
from nuclear explosion shock
waves. One of the main purposes
of his research, he said, is to learn
how to distinguish them, and to
more nearly pinpoint the location
and determine other details of
the violence.
Bates, a native of Illinois and
a 1939 graduate of DePauw Uni
versity, first went into oil ex
ploration work in Mississippi g
Kansas.
As a field artillery private
World War II, he was orders;
take courses in meteorology j
oceanography at U.C.L.A., fin
which he received a masterss
gree. He then was assigns!
England as a wave forecaster:
connection with the planning;
the Normandy invasion.
The end of the war found 1
in the Pacific area as an.li
Force captain, specializing i
wave forecasting for the plana
invasion of Japan which use
took place.
During the war Bates to;
buddy of Dale Leipper, li
founded and still heads theill
Department of Oceanography!!
Meteorology. Thus it was nata
that Bates should go to CA;
Station for advanced studies,d
was one of the two to get dm
degrees in that field in 1953.
“They were presented alp
betieally, so I got mine fc'
chuckled Bates. “My colleagn
name was Thompson.”
In 1960 Bates, formerly ri
the Navy Hydrographic Off:-;
joined the Advanced Reser.
Projects Agency which hail
such diverse programs as thek
velopment of anti-missiles is
research into guerilla wadi?
tactics and high energy fuels
GALVESTON — Medical
sculptors are rare, and Joseph
Paderewski traveled the road to
that title through music, ceramics
and artistic sculpture.
Now he is medical sculptor at
the University of Texas Medical
Branch in Galveston. He has
held the job for 11 years;
His particular field is to re
create parts of the body for per
sons who have been disfigured
from accidents, burns, radical
surgery or other reasons.
Physicians use his skill in re
storing the patient’s appearance
to normal.
He first came to the attention
of doctors when he did several
bronze busts of staff members of
the Texas School of Medicine.
A plastic surgeon watched him
work and interested him in creat
ing wax models to illustrate
surgery for teaching purposes
and for use at medical conven
tions. v
Demands for his work grew
and the position of medical sculp
tor at the Medical Center was
created especially for him in 1952.
Paderewski was born in Linden,
N. J., 48 years ago, but spent
most of his early life in New
York City, where he studied at
the Cooper Union School of Art
and Columbia University.
Prior to his moving from New
York to Galveston, he was assist
ant conductor and first cellist
under conductor Andre. Koste-
lanetz.
For five years he was cellist in
the Houston Symphony Orchestra.
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Wart Cures
Compiled By
A&M Class
By Associated Press
Research by folklore and folk
song class at A&M recently re
sulted in a list that sounds like
something Mark Twain wrote. The
subject: How to remove warts.
The 35 members of the class
interviewed 112 persons about
how they would cure a wart.
Persons from 45 Texas counties,
seven other states and Mexico
were interviewed.
The most generally accepted
method calls for applying or
otherwise using physical objects,
a summary of the opinions shows.
Vegetables, cloth, stump water,
oil, plants, wood, fruits and other
objects were included.
A Tom Green resident advo
cated rubbing a grain of corn on
the wart until the wart bleeds.
Then the corn must be fed to a
chicken, but the patient must not
see the chicken eat the corn.
“Steal a neighbor’s washrag,”
a Cherokee County expert said,
“and bury it under the bask door
step for three days,” Nothing
was said about touching the wart
with the dishrag.
An Ouachita Parish, La., resi
dent suggested the use of water
which has stood in a tree stump,
a generally known remedy.
Rubbing the wart with the
milky juice of a fig tree stem is
a treatment advised in Mexico
City.
Thirteen responses said a per
son with special “powers” could
remove warts.
From Howard County came a
belief in the ability of a seventh
son to rub off warts. The same
belief was told by a Brazos
County resident, but he added
that money must not be accepted.
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