Che Battalion COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1963 Number 146 Bond Issue Passes 297-89 Count one) products pipes. campus train )5— o $2,500. ' provide > world’s grained, d sweet, jrmanent ssures a National Science Foundation Info Now Available At Graduate Office Details of the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships for the 1964-65 academic year are available at the office of Graduate Dean Wayne C. Hall. Applications must be relayed to Washington by Jan. 3. The NSF plans to award approximately 4,000 graduate fellowships in science next year. These will be distributed between the Foundation’s Graduate and Cooperative Gradu ate Fellowship programs, which provide the same basic stipends. The Graduate Fellowships will be awarded on the basis of ability for study or work in a variety of areas. Applicants must be United States citizens who have demonstrated ability and special aptitude for advanced train ing in the sciences and have been admitted to graduate status by the institution they select or will have been admitted prior to beginning their fellowship tenure. Awards will be made to individuals studying for either masters or doctoral degrees. COLLEGE BOWL SCRIMMAGE UNDERWAY Dr. H. P. Kroiter shoots questions at Cadets Darling, Dresser, Clifton and De Frank Students Begin First Round Battle For GE Bowl Berths TANE it's the ie lighter, igarettes. for pipes, your pipe miniature Cartridge, u take it ■ About 15 students met in Room 111! of Nagle Hall Tuesday night and began oral sessions that will eventually determine who is to ;represent A&M on the “General Electric College Bowl.” ■ The students were asked ques- Eons prepared by their coach, Dr. Harry P. Kroiter. These sessions 'jill be held every Tuesday and [Thursday night until October 18. ■ TWELVE SEMI FINALISTS will are from medical and general sciences, one fourth are. from math and engineering and one sixth are from miscellaneous fields. A&M Meats Team Advances To KC Graduate Training Deadline Is Nov. 1 Information concerning the For eign Area Fellowship Program for graduate training in the social sciences, including education and the humanities may be obtained at the office of Graduate College Dean Wayne C. Hall. Deadline for submitting applica- i tions for the 1964-65 year is Nov. Castro Escapes Drowning In Oriente Province River 8 Cent Tax Raise Goes Into Effect By MIKE ODOM Battalion Staff Writer Voters in the A&M Consolidated School District approved a $250,000 bond issue 397-89 Tuesday. “The school board greatly appreciates the overwhelming support of the voters in favor of this matter,” said W. T. Riedel, district school superintendent. The $250,000, plus a cash surplus of $100,000 and a gov ernment loan of $25,000, will make up a total expenditure of $375,000 for a building program. The passage of the bond issue means an eight cent in crease over the present tax rate of $1.90 per $100 property evaluation. THE BUILDING PROJECT, proposed because in- tcreased enrollment and curric- The A&M University Senior; f ore jg n areas are Asia and Meats Judging Team leaves Wed- I the Near East> the Soviet Union k u ^ ; nesday to compete in the Ameri-1 and East e rn Europe, Africa (south n C J° Se ^ by ? ,° be r i ’ a n d ° n I can R °y al ^stock Show Oct. ll-j of the riahara) and Latin Ameri _ October 29 eight tinahsts will ap- j 19 i n Kansas City, Mo. fou don’t contest ■pipe set I receive ilnst the ;d grain, jywoodie aws and nc. Send pesr as two teams on KBTX-TV in Bryan. From these eight final- lists four students will be chosen as the A&M team, which on Nov ember 10 will travel to New York Bity to appear on NBC-TV against glbme other college or university ■am, ■ Perhaps the most important fac- jtpr in determing who will be on FA&M’s team will be the perfor- piance during an oral rehearsal of |» panel session before a live au- Hience. It will involve timed res- 1 ponses and quick recall. K “NO STUDENTS will be elimi nated until after the oral sessions fare completed,” said Kroiter. ■ Of the 35 students that are pre sently competing for the team, one third are from the fields of history and literature, one fourth About 20 teams, representing the nation’s major agricultural schools, are expected to test their skills in the Oct. 15 contest. Aggie team members are Ver non Fritze and Jerry Simon of San Antonio, Gail Wood of Spice- wood, Franklin Reagor of Llano and Clifford Spaeth of Doss. Dr. Zerle Carpenter and Dr. R. J. Cooper of the A&M department of animal husbandry coach the students. He said the team will be hon ored Oct. 13 at a dinner spon sored by the A&M Heart of Amer ica Club in Kansas City and will attend an awards banquet Oct. 15 in Kansas City Livestock Ex change Building. The Aggies will return to Col lege Station Oct. 17. t 0 z Wire Review By The Associated Press of President Kennedy’s civil lights LONDON — Prime Minister program. arold Macmillan entered a hos- Approval by a 14-3 vote came pital Tuesday night for a prostate after the committee stuck in many Operation and cancelled plans to exemptions, including those neigh- lell a Conservative party rally borhood shops not part of an in- Saturday his plans for the future. - terstate chain and some rooming iricic houses with fewer than five rooms SAIGON, Viet Nam—Pamph- to rent, lets circulated in Saigon Tues- ★★★ day calling for the army, civil WASHINGTON—The Senate Applications are invited for grad uate students and from persons who already have received the doc torate in one of the social sciences or humanities but who wish to add foreign area and language train ing. Deadline Set For Selection Fo Who’s Who servants, students and shop owners to stage a general sit- | down strike against President Ngo Dinh Diem’s regime. ★ ★★ ALGIERS — President Ahmed Ben Bella, already battling an Al gerian Berber r*evolt, charged that Moroccan irregulars attacked Al gerian troops Tuesday and 10 per sons were killed. WASHINGTON — German- born rocket expert Wernher Von Braun said Tuesday that a space budget as low as $5.1 bil lion this year would mean “we as a nation will have to back out of our publicly stated com mitment and admit defeat.” The $5.1-billion figure is what is before Congres-s this week. ★ ★★ WASHINGTON — The Senate Commerce Committee toned down and then approved Tuesday a bill to ban racial discrimination in public accommodations—the heart passed its first major education bill of the year Tuesday, au thorizing $3.2 billion for voca tional training, college loans, and impacted areas. The bill expanded a straight vocational education bill that was passed by the House earlier this year. The new version must win House approval before it can go to the White House. Nominations for 36 A&M Uni versity students for listing in “Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Col leges” is underway and will con tinue until noon Oct. 17, Dean of Students James P. Hannigan an nounced Tuesday. “Members of the Who’s Who Se lection Committee or a student on | his own behalf, may submit nomi nations,” Hannigan said. “The committee may consider names for which no nominations have been received in cases where they feel that a meritorious person has been overlooked.” SCHOLARSHIP AND extracur ricular activities are key factors in selection of students for the national publication, he said. Nominees must be seniors aca demically and expect to receive a degree by June. “Veterinary medicine students j are eligible if they will become I seniors by February, 1964, and graduate before September, 1964,” ' the dean said. The nominees must have an HAVANA — Prime Minister Fidel Castro narrowly escaped drowning in an Oriente Province river flooded by the rains of Hur ricane Flora, Radio Havana said Tuesday. The story of Castro’s mishap Monday was broadcast to the Cu ban people in the wake of a gov ernment order halving their food rations to compensate for Flora’s damage to crops, poultry and live stock. The Tass correspondent in Ha vana reported to Moscow that “the toll of human casualties is continuing to grow” but gave no figure. THE BEARDED prime minister was on an inspection tour of the hurricane-ravaged eastern prov inces. He and his party were tra veling by automobile along the island’s central highway when they found high water had knocked out a bridge over La Rioja River, be- | tween Victoria de las Tunas and Holguin. ' Radio Havana said Castro and 1 three aides transferred to an am- j phibious truck for the crossing. | The swift current pushed the ve- I hide against a tree and waves | washed over its open back. Swamped, the truck began to sink. PEASANTS quickly backed a heavy truck to the water’s edge, knotted ropes to the truck and hurled the free ends to Castro’s party. The prime minister and his aides pulled themselves to safety. Castro completed his trip to Holguin on a bus. The eastern provinces of Oriente and Camaguey, prime producers of sugar cane, cattle and coffee, were hardest hit in Hurricane Flora’s five-day visit to Cuba. The Agrarian Reform Institute, which is in charge of food produc tion and distribution, said the marketing of coffee was halted be cause the crop was just in the process of being harvested. Rudder Promoted By Vance To Continental Command Post Maj. Gen. Earl Rudder, a World War II hero, was named by Army Secretary Cyrus R. Vance to a top assignment in the U. S. Continen tal Command Tuesday. The A&M University president is the new assistant deputy com manding general for mobilization of the command. Rudder has served since 1955 as commanding general of the all- Texas 90th Infantry Division, fat ed by Army inspectors as a com bat-ready component. THE GENERAL will be on ac tive duty in Continental Command headquarters at Fort Monroe, Va., for two weeks annually. In the event of national emergency re quiring massive buildup of the Army, he would be called to the post full time. Rudder has been active in the Army’s Reserve program since World War II. He led the Ameri can Rangers up the 100-foot cliffs at Pointe du Hoe on the Normandy shore during the D-Day invasion. “No soldier in my command has ever been wished a more difficult task than that which befell the 34-year-old commander of the Rangers,” General Omar Bradley, commander of the U. S. Forces in France, said at the time. RUDDER WAS commissioned in 1932 upon graduation from A&M. He became president of the insti tution in 1959 after resigning as state land commissioner. “I have felt great pride in serv ing with the 90th,” General Rud der said. “The officers and men of the division are the best I have had the privilege of serving with. Their leadership makes the 90th one of the Army’s finest.” Command of the 90th has been assumed by Brig. Gen. Robert H. Travis of San Antonio, assistant division commander. Division units are located in 40 Texas towns and cities. Church Group Will Hear Delinquency Discussed Tonight SmE Students Work sod:“.^tf“^!With X-15 Model Engineer Society Hears Discussion On New Operation ulum expansion, will be ex pended as follows: high school, $235,000; elementary school, $80,000; administra tion building, $28,000; architect fees, $28,000; financing fees, $2,000, and equipment, $10,000. The buildings to be built at the high school will include a library, a health and physical education building, a language laboratory and three new classrooms. The old library will be converted into two additional classrooms. The College Hills Elementary School will get six additional class rooms and possibly two more. THE INCREASED enrollment of high school students has made an expansion of the Health and Physical Education Building neces sary. The present building was built to accomodate 88 high school students and presently 832 high school and junior high students use the facilities. Mrs. C. K. Leighton, principal of College Hills Elementary School, said the elementary school has filled up two or three ahead of ex pectations. She gave credit for this rise to several factors: the expan sion of the A&M Graduate Col lege, the expansion of A&M itself and the growth of a new neighbor hood in the College Hills School area. Mrs. Leighton went on to say that the enrollment has increased so greatly that one section of the first grade had to be transferred to the A&M Consolidated Elemen tary School this year. If the bond issue had failed to pass the Col lege Hills School could have been forced to double sessions. of the Church in Combating Juve nile Delinquency” at the Presby terian Student Center, Wednesday at 7:15 p.m. Beck’s address will be given at the x’egular weekly forum held | jointly by the Disciples’ Student Fellowship, the Presbyterian Stu- | dent Association, the United i Church of Christ Student Organi zation and the Methodist’s Wesley Foundation. The Corps’ Call to Quarters is delayed until 8:30 on Wednesday TEXAS NEWS HOUSTON — A motion to throw out a brief filed in the Texas congressional redistrict ing suit w'as denied Tuesday by Circuit Judge John R. Brown. ★★★ HOUSTON — The space agency j Tuesday named Dr. Joseph F. ; Shea to head its Apollo space- j craft development effort at the j Manned Spacecraft Center. Shea becomes the third man within six months to lead the pro gram designed to place a man on the moon by 1970. ,, , . . nights to allow students to attend ovet-a gi