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Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1963
Number 140
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UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
JP) — Britain made a bid
hursday to join the planning
or a NATO nuclear fleet but
ncountered U. S. resistance
n one of London’s terms.
Diplomatic sources listed
the bid as one of the main re-
f ults of a wide-ranging dis
cussion between Secretary of
State Dean Rusk and British
Foreign Secretary Lord Home.
The two meet with Soviet For
eign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko
Saturday.
I ALSO DURING the Thursday’s
ession, it was authoritatively re-
orted that:
1. Rusk told Home that the So
viet Union has shown an interest
in buying -corn as well as wheat.
The Russian approaches about a
possible purchase have been made
to private U. S. traders but not to
he U. S. government.
2. Rusk and Home agreed that
ny NATO-Warsaw bloc nonag-
;ression pact-which they expect
Jromyko to propose Saturday
should include a guarantee of
freedom of West Berlin.
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Sponsors 9 Day
49 Display On Campus
The Annual Gulf States Camera
Clubs Council Salon opened an ex
hibition to the public Friday in
the Memorial Student Center.
Sponsored by the MSC Camera
^Committee, the exhibition will con
tinue through Oct. 6.
Photographs in the showing were
taken and processed by amateur
photographers in Texas, Missis
sippi, Louisiana, Florida, Oklaho
ma and Alabama.
The exhibition consists of ori
ginal black and white photographs
selected from the recent Ninth An
nual Gulf States Camera Clubs
Exhibition held in Jackson, Missi
ssippi, in June.
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In Thursday’s Battalion we ran
a picture on page one, mistaken
ly identifying Dr. R. L. Skrabanek
of the Department of Agricultural
Economics and Sociology as John
M. Skrivanek of the Department of
Modern Languages.
BOTH SIDES agreed that Presi
dent Kennedy’s plan for a sea
borne Polaris missile force to be
operated by interested NATO
members was a prime topic. Brit
ish Prime Minister Macmillan
originally was sympathetic to the
idea Nassau last December.
But since then the Macmillan
government, pressed by domestic
political problems, has shown re
luctance to join in the program-
ning. The United States has
pushed ahead with talks with West
Germany, Italy, Greece and Tur
key and a new round of discussions
is slated to start in Paris Oct. 7.
NASA To Hold
Gemini Flight
Late In 1964
WASHINGTON <A>> The first
flight of the Gemini space-craft
may come late next year, and the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration said the crew for
that earth-orbiting flight will not
be selected until shortly before
hand.
In answer to a report by CBS’
news commentator Charle von
Fremd that Maritime Lt. Col. John
H. Glenn Jr., had been chosen as
one member of the two-man flight
team, the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration said:
“No selection of a Gemini crew
member has been made, and there
will not be any until shortly be
fore the flight.
Most of the speculation by those
close to the program has been that
Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr., the
nation’s first astronaut, was the
most likely choice to “pilot” the
first Gemini flight, with one of
the newer astronauts as his co
pilot.
However, NASA officials said it
is pointless to attempt to select
a crew this far in advance of a
manned flight of Gemini is
unlikely before November 1964 at
the earliest.
Von Fremd also described Glenn
as “dismayed” by reports that he
might quit the space program for
politics or for higher-paying pri
vate employment.
On Monday of this week Leo
DeOrsey, lawyer for the astronaut
team, said Glenn had turned down
a $l-million job offer from pri
vate company because he is only
interested in “what can you do for
your country.”
Wire Review
By The Associated Press
U. S. NEWS
WASHINGTON — Turncoat
mobster Joseph Valachi emerged
from government-guarded hiding
Thursday and spent 2% hours
telling senators what he knows
about the vast world of crime in
which he once moved.
In a closed-door session that
amounted to a dress rehearsal for
public hearings starting Friday,
termed frank and unrestrained
testimony about the vast crime
syndicate called Cosa Nostra—
“our thing.”
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WASHINGTON — A man
who said he wanted to tell
President Kennedy that “com
munists are taking over North
Carolina” drove his pickup truck
through the northwest gate of
the White House Thursday.
The man, who identified him
self as Doyle Allen Hicks, 39,
of Waynesville, N. C., almost
reached the north portico—the
main entrance—before White
House police and Secret Service
men stopped him.
“I just have to see the Presi
dent,” he told police.
After the truck was stopped,
guards took the man, who was
unarmed, back to the guardhouse
for questioning, as he screamed
loudly.
Some 45 minutes later, he was
taken to D. C. General Hospital
for observation. Officers de
scribed him as “very sick.”
TEXAS NEWS
TAYLOR — U. S. Rep. Homer
Thornberry, D-Tex., resigned
Thursday night as congressman
of the 10th Texas District effec
tive Dec. 20.
Thornberry trembled with emo
tion as he made the announce
ment to about 1,500 men attending
an appreciation barbecue-picnic on
the banks of the San Gabriel River
near Taylor.
Gov. John Connally, one of those
present to honor Thornberry, said
he would make an announcement
in a “few days” concerning the
special election to name Thorn-
berry’s successor.
Vice President Lyndon Johnson
told the crowd it was his “guess”
that the 10th district’s next con
gressman would be selected at an
election Nov. 9 when Texas voters
ballot on four constitutional
amendments.
Thornberry is resigning to ac
cept a federal judgeship.
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CSC Discusses
Corps Relations
Steak Fry Planned
For Council—Corps
CIVILIAN STUDENT COUNCIL MEETS
Better Corps-Civilian relations proposed.
Batt Resumes Use
Of Offset Press
The Battalion resumes publica
tion today with its new $33,750
Goss “Community” offset press,
after a trial run last week.
Beginning with today’s issue,
The Battalion will be the only
college newspaper in the South
west Conference which has its own
offset press. Other collegiate
papers use the offset method, but
their papers are printed by in
dependent printing companies.
The method is not new, since
the basic principal was first used
in 1792. The “offset” processes
was added near the turn of the
century, and has become a major
printing method used by weekly
and small daily papers.
IMPORTANT TO STATE ECONOMY
Agriculture
With $2.4
Is Credited
Billion Business
A Texas Farm Bureau official
said here Thursday that the state’s
agriculture is now an annual $2.4
billion customer of business and
industry.
The size and importance of
farming and ranching to the over
all economy was described by Mil
lard Shivers of Waco, organization
director of the Farm Bureau, and
a speaker at the 13th annual Texas
Industrial Development Confer
ence, held in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
“AGRI-BUSINESS contributes
about $6.3 billion to the economy
of Texas each year,” Shivers said.
“Of the $2.4 billion that farmers
and ranchers get for their pro
ducts, they keep $.6 billion for con
sumption items and spend $1.8
billion for production items.”
He said 96 per cent of the na-
ID Cards Available
Til Saturday Noon
The Office of the Registrar has
announced that new identification
cards are now available at the
warehouse across the street from
the Exchange Store.
A representative said each stu
dent is expected to present in
person his old identification card
for exchange before noon Satur
day.
Cost Of Living
Shows No Rise
WASHINGTON <A>> — The cost
of living held firm during August,
and no major changes are expect
ed during the autumn months.
This is the outlook reported
Wednesday by the Labor Depart
ment’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The consumer price index for
August was 107.1, the same level
as in July. This compared with
a jump of five-tenths of a per
cent from June to July, and a
three-tenths of a per cent rise
from May to June. The August
index, however, still was 1.5 per
cent over August 1962.
It meant that $10.71 purchases
the goods that could be bought for
$10 during the 1957-59 base period.
A spokesman for the bureau
said the index is expected to re
main firm through September.
“We don’t see any big increases
in the months ahead. We don’t
see any strong inflationary trend.
Any increases will be moderate
and in line with the trend in re
cent years,” he said.
Major factors during August
were a drop in food prices and an
offsetting rise in transportation
costs.
tion’s farms are still family own
ed and operated. There are fewer
hired men than 20 years, and there
is a continued decline in co-opera-
A&M Students
To Study, Work
In Space Field
Seventeen Aggies, mostly engi
neering students at A&M Univer
sity through an expanded program.
The students receive appropriate
pay from their employers for off-
campus work. By working or
studying during the summers they
also can complete all degree re
quirements in only slightly more
time than other students.
THE MANNED Spacecraft Cen
ter has registered most of these
co-operative education students, as
the A&M co-op programs gained
impetus earlier this year through
an agreement with the National
Aeronautics and Space Administra
tion.
Aggies also are enrolled current
ly in co-operative programs with
the White Sands, N. M., Missile
Range and Texas Instruments,
Dallas.
“Now,” says J. G. McGuire,
assistant dean of engineering, “an
electronics firm and a chemical
firm plan to send representatives
here in October to investigate
establishing their own co-operative
programs.”
MCGUIRE IS especially interest
ed in hearing from sophomores
majoring in engineering, mathe
matics or physics. He points out
that co-operative programs open
ings are filled on a competitive
basis with academic records being
of considerable importance. Stu
dents with “C” averages may or
may not gain positions.
The NASA program also re
quires the student to take a Civil
Service examination administered
in Bryan at intervals. There is an
October deadline for the November
test.
MCGUIRE IS especially proud
that the A&M co-op programs do
not lengthen too greatly the time
required for a student to complete
degree requirements. Under one
schedule or sequence, a student by
studying or working year-round
would receive his degree in only
one semester more time than other
students.
“Those who have been in co
operative programs have found the
experience stimulating and benefi
cial,” McGuire said.
The on-job assignments are
planned according to the individual
student’s major field of interest.
tion-type farms.
SHIVERS pointed to U. S. De
partment of Agriculture figures
which showed that family farms
probably will continue to grow in
average size and decrease in num
bers. However, numbers of these
farms grossing more than $10,000
a year will continue to increase.
Moving into the political area,
the FB official said the following
questions must be answered by
farmers and ranchers:
Who will speak for farmers and
ranchers ? Who shall manage
farms and ranches? How much
government do we want in agricul
ture ? What’s the proper roll of
government? Should there be a
limit on how successful a man can
be in farming and ranching?
SHIVERS SAID he was amazed
at these proposals now before
Congress: Land reform, legisla
tion to govern the right to pro
duce, division of national wealth,
and supply management.
The conference ended at noon
Friday. Sponsors are the Indus
trial Economics Research Division
of the Texas Engineering Experi
ment Station in co-operation with
the Texas Industrial Development
Council.
By JOHN WRIGHT
Improvement of Civilian-Corps relations was the main
theme of the first meeting- of the Civilian Student Council,
last night at the Memorial Student Center.
Richard Moore, president of the civilian council, announc
ed that he would appoint members to a committee that would
seek ways to improve Civilian-Corps relations.
Indicative of the desire to improve conditions was the
suggestion by Joe Chapman, Corps Staff representative, that
the Civilian Student Council and Corps Staff should have
an informal get-acquainted steak fry in Hensel Park. A com
mittee was formed to arrange the details.
OTHER DISCUSSION at the council meeting revolved
around the topic of civilian ♦-
student attitude toward active
participation in such activi
ties as yell practice and Silver
Taps.
Royce Knox, civilian yell leader,
deplored the fact that so few civil
ian students showed up for yell
practice.
One council member said that
one civilian student had professed
that Silver Taps was not his af
fair, but that of the deceased. Af
ter many comments, it was sug
gested that the concerned dormi
tory council should ostracize that
particular student. The matter was
then cleared from the floor.
MOORE NEXT proposed three
committes should immediately be
formed: Traditions committee;
Civilian Weekend comittee and
New Student committee.
Jeff Harp, vice-president, gave
two reports. The first dealt with
the Lakewood conference. Harp
said that the conference enabled
him to meet with student leaders
from other colleges and universi
ties, and was a very helpful ex
perience.
THIS SECOND report dealt
with the Student Senate, whose
main topic, at the last meeting
was the Aggie Sweetheart.
After Harp had delivered his re
port, Jim Carter put forward a
suggestion that in the future voter
registration cards be utilized to re
duce the bottle neck at the student
polling station. At present there
is only one polling station because
all students must be checked by
a single voters list.
Ag Staffers
To Officiate
Houston Show
Thirteen A&M University facul
ty and staff members will partici
pate as superintendents in the 1964
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
Feb. 19-March 1.
The superintendents and their
show division responsibilities are
James Bassett, Department of Ani
mal Husbandry, assistant in open
sheep; J. W. Davis Agricultural
Extension Service dairy specialist,
open dairy; Harold Franke, De
partment of Animal Husbandry;
assistant in commercial steers; and
Joel Hillin, Department of Dairy
Science, assistant in the junior
dairy contest.
Others are O. M. Holt and Dr.
Earl Knebel, Department of Agri
cultural Education, junior breed
ing beef and assistant in 4-H and
FFA judging, respectively; A. M.
Meekma, extension service dairy
specialists, assistant in the junior
dairy contest; Donald Osbourn, ex
tension services animal husband
man, assistant in junior beef; and
Roy Snyder, retired extension serv
ice animal husbandman, commer
cial steers.
Also, T. D. Tanksley and U. D.
Thompson, extension service ani
mal husbandmen, 4-H and FFA
livestock judging and assistant in
open beef, respectively; Doug
Wythe, Jr., Department of Animal
Husbandry, assistant in fat lambs;
and V. G. Young, extension service
state agricultural agent, assistant
in steers.
Jerry Simpton of Port Bolivar shows how
its done at the opening night of the 1963
All-Aggie Rodeo, scheduled to run through
Saturday. The show features bareback
bronc riding, tie-down calf roping, a greased
Rodeo Begins First Night
pig race, bulldogging, ribbon roping, barrel
racing and bull riding. Admission is 75
cents for students and 90 cents for adults
at the gate.