5 Aggies Injured
In Auto Accident
Five Aggies were injured Sun
day night when their 1960 Falcon
ran off the side of the road on
Highway 6, five miles north of
Calvert, and hit a ditch.
Injured in the accident were
Edmond B. Chambliss, freshman,
Squadron 10, driver of the car,
chest contusions and abrasions on
left side of face; Donald P. Har
rell, freshman, Squadron 17, pos
sible head fractures, contusions of
University Joins
African Travel,
fork Organization
A&M University has been in
vited to become a “cooperating
institution” in “Operation Cross
roads Africa,” a privately sup
ported organization in New York.
Its purpose is to give young
Americans an opportunity to work,
to study and to live with peoples
of the numerous countries of Afri
ca, Lindsay White, a representa
tive of the project, told a group
of faculty and students Monday.
Lindsay discussed the project in
detail at a meeting in the Me
morial Student Center.
James Ray of Conroe and Paul
Bleau of Lynn, Mass., both parti
cipants in the summer of 1963,
were among those present. Ray
went to Uganda, and Bleau visit
ed Nothem Rhodesia.
Lindsay said a letter will be
sent to President Earl Rudder ask
ing A&M to become a participat
ing institution. University offi
cials would be responsible for
screening applicants for the Afri
can project.
right face and elbow; Gary A.
Boyd, freshman, Squadron 17,
lacerations on legs, contusions of
right back.
TREATED AT HEARNE Gen
eral Hospital and released were
Mike Kleypas, freshman, C-3, and
Roger Shipman, freshman, C-3.
Coming south on Highway 6
from the Fort Worth Corps Trip,
Chambliss, driver of the car, said
that he pulled into the left lane
to pass two other cars, not know
ing that there was a curve ahead.
An oncoming car forced him off
to the left side of the road into
what he thought was the shoulder.
The car plunged down an embank
ment, ran into a small field,
hitting a ditch, turning the car
over.
“I saw the ditch coming and
ducked down into my seat,” said
Boyd, a passenger.
All five boys were taken to
Hearne General Hospital and then
transfered to the University Hos
pital, where they are expected to
be released in two or three days.
Range, Forestry
Makes Big Effort
Many groups are 100 per cent
contributors to the College Station
United Chest fund campaign, but
one contributed more than 100 per
cent.
Clark C. Munroe of the United
Chest reported that the Depart
ment of Range and Forestry has
17 faculty and staff members, and
18 contributed.
A visitor caught in the depart
mental fund drive was the other
contributor. C. L. Leinweber is
head of the department.
Wire Review
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
DUBLIN—Prime Minister Sean
Lemass told the Irish people Mon
day night his visit to the United
States showed a wealth of good
feeling towards Ireland and held
put prospects of valuable business
■ties.
During the visit Lemass was
[entertained by President Kennedy
at the White House.
| “The atmosphere of cordiality
and friendliness toward Ireland
there was very noticeable,” he said.
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U. S. NEWS
WASHINGTON—The Soviet
Union and Cuba confront a
much stronger and more alert
, United States than they did
; just a year ago when the
| opposing sides stood at the
brink of war over Soviet
; missiles on Fidel Castro’s
| island.
The latest intelligence in-
| formation indicates:
1. There has been no Soviet
effort to reintroduce offensive
missiles or bombers.
2. The Soviet military forces
in Cuba have been trimmed
gradually from a high of about
22,000 to somewhat more than
7,000.
3. A formidable amount of
up - to - date Soviet - supplied
tanks, artillery, battlefield
rockets, MIG fighters, missile-
equipped patrol boats and anti
aircraft missiles remains.
In the years since that crisis,
U.S. long-range striking power
has grown significantly.
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WASHINGTON—Official Wash
ington took calmly Monday’s Soviet
blast at the multi-national nuclear
force, a pet project of the Kennedy
administration. Some officials
termed Moscow’s objections rou
tine.
The blast was delivered by Tass,
the Soviet news agency, which said
the project, aimed at establishing
a mixed-crew, Polaris missile-
equipped surface fleet in the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization, is in
“complete contradiction to the
spirit” of the limited nuclear test
ban agreement.
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MANTEO, N. €. —Ginny,
barely packing hurricane force
winds at her center, gyrated
slowly off the North Carolina
coast Monday in a direction
that could take her out to sea.
Two ships were in trouble
from the storm’s smashing
waves.
Cbe Battalion
Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1963 Number 152
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... AND TWO FIRST LADY’S MEET
WAS NAPOLEON MURDERED?
Graduate Lecture Series
Hosts Historian-Physicist
By JOHN WRIGHT
Asst. News Editor
Just how did Nepoleon die?
According to offical history he
died from the effects of a gas
tric ulcer. If modern science is ac
corded a chance to prove other
wise however, it may develop that
Napoleon died from one or more
doses of arsenic.
According to Dr. J. M. A. Leni-
han, regional physicist for the
Western Regional Hospital Board,
Glasgow, Scotland, analyization
of Napoleon’s hair has revealed
that this indeed might have been
the case.
Lenihan was a speaker at one
of a series of scheduled graduate
lectures in the Architecture Build
ing Auditorium Monday night.
AS A SPECIALIST in forensic
physics, Lenihan has played an im-
portan part in solving contem-
pary crimes and has also recon
structed various old crimes.
His application of the activa
tion analysis technique to various
phases of medical research has
opened the door to many prior
stumbling blocks.
Lenihan said that if a substance
is exposed to radiation it’s char-
Paul Alton Dresser Jr., of Corsi
cana and Lynn R. LaMotte of
College Station have been named
to represent A&M University in
Rhodes Scholarship competition.
The two Aggies were designated
by President Earl Rudder to com
pete in state-wide competition in
December for the coveted scholar
ships, Dr. Richard H. Ballinger,
campus representative for the
Rhodes Scholarship program, an
nounced.
The scholarships provide two
years of study at Oxford Uni
versity. The Aggies will compete
in the state contest in December.
Two candidates will be selected to
represent Texas in district compe
tition later on.
Thirty-two young men in the
United States will be chosen as
Rhodes scholars to enter Oxford
next October, Ballinger said.
Dresser, commander of the Cadet
Corps, is the son of Col. and Mrs.
Paul A. Dresser. LaMotte, son of
Dr. and Mrs. Charles LaMotte of
College Station, was named dis
tinguished student in 1962 and
1963. He is a junior mathematics-
economics major.
The Rhodes Scholarship program
has provided funds for outstand
ing young Americans since 1904.
Two A&M graduates have been
designated Rhodes scholars in the
ateristic composition becomes more
more readily measurable.
WHILE ENGAGING in analysis
of hairs from the heads of several
women working in the hospital,
Lenihan found an abnormal high
arsenic content in the hair.
Puzzled as to how this was
possible, he and his assistants
learned that some of the girls had
been taking detergent from the
hospital to wash their hair.
By notifying the manufacturer
of the detergent, a product con
taining a lethal dose of arsenic
was taken from the market.
HEARING OF Lenihan’s work
a Swedish scientist sent a piece
of hair to be analyzed.
Lenihan said that he found two
abnormal amounts of arsenic in
the hair, and sent the report back
to Sweden. It turned out that the
hair belonged to Napoleon.
Turning to other applications of
activation analysis in medicine,
Lenihan said that virtually all
processes in the human body are
controlled by enzymes. Thus if all
enzymes can be “at the mercy of
trace elements” we can go far in
the investigation of man.
Lenihan has also found many
past, Charles Wright Thomas and
Jack Edward Brooks.
Thomas, a 1922 A&M graduate,
later became head of the English
department at New York State
University. Brooks, a 1946 physics
graduate, joined the technical staff
of Ramo-Woolridge Corporation
after studying physics at Oxford.
CS United Chest
Passes Drive Goal
The College Station United
Chest climbed to $18,527 Tuesday
as receipts continued to trickle
in, Dr. Chris H. Groneman, cam
paign director, reported.
The $18,000 goal was reached
last Saturday. The 10-day drive
had been extended from Thurs
day.
“Generous contributions - many
equaling a day’s pay-have under
written the budgets of the 15
worthwhile community agencies,”
he noted.
Groneman applauded the volun
teer workers in the campaign.
“Sincere, hard work by drive
captains and their team put the
United Chest over the top,” Grone
man pointed out. “The community
spirit reflected in the number and
size of gifts is a monument to
College Station and A&M Uni
versity.”
applications for his technique in
cases of industrial poisoning,
homicide, and smoking and its ef
fects.
Lenihan is editorial board chair
man of the “British Journal of
Applied Physics” and author of
“Atomic Energy and its Applica
tions.”
He is a fellow of the Institute
of Physics, Associate Member of
the Institute of Electrical Engi
neers, and Honoray Associate, Fa
culty of Radiologists.
He holds the M.Sc. degree from
the University of Durham and
the Ph.D. from the University of
Glasgow.
COMMENTING upon his visit to
College Station. Lenihan com
mented that talking about Activa
tion Analysis at A&M, is akin to
“taking coals to Newcastle.”
He said that A&M had unequal
ed facilities in activation analysis.
Raymond Hite
Services Held
Here Saturday
Funeral services were held Sat
urday for Raymond Vernon Hite,
47, supervisor of the A&M Uni
versity Data Processing Center
and a prominent church layman.
Hite died Thursday night in a
Bryan hospital. He had been ill
with a respiratory condtion.
Services were held at the Saint
Thomas Episcopal Chapel, with the
Rev. William Oxley, pastor, of
ficiating.
Arrangement were made by Me
morial Funeral Chapel and burial
was in Oklahoma City.
Hite lived at 1004 Winding Road
in College Station. He was bom
July 30, 1917, at Cushing, Okla.,
and came to A&M in 1953 after
private practice as a public ac
countant. Here, he was supervisor
of tabulating equipment in the
Fiscal Department before going
to ,the Data Processing Center in
1958.
Hite was vestry member at
Saint Thomas Episcopal Church,
treasurer of the parish and a choir
member.
He is survived by his widow,
Emolove of College Station; one
son, William Alan of Baton Rouge;
one daughter, Mrs. Ann Reichman
of Dallas; one brother, Ernest of
Oklahoma City; one sister, Mrs.
John Conklin of Washington, D.
C., and one grandson.
The Hite family requested that
in lieu of flowers, contributions
be made to the Organ Memorial
Fund at Saint Thomas.
Pallbearers were vestry mem
bers at Saint Thomas, while hon
orary pallbearers were Data Pro
cessing Center staff members.
Dresser, LaMotte
In Rhodes Finals
Connally Says
No To Sessions
On Districting
AUSTIN UP)—Gov. John Connally said today that he
has no intention of calling a special session of the legislature
to realign Texas’ congressional districts “until all other
avenues of action are closed.”
Connally said he has asked Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr to
appeal and “oppose with every legal weapon” a Houston
federal court order that Texas’ law governing congressional
redistricting is unconstitutional.
The governor said an order will be sought to delay the
federal court’s action until the Supreme Court has time to
hear arguments Nov. 12 on a Georgia redistricting case that
could affect the Texas situation.
“I think the issue is very
clear: We all agree that re
districting needs to be done,”
Connally told a news con
ference.
“But it is the responsibility of
the legislature, not of the federal
courts. I have every confidence,
as I told the court, that the 59th
legislature will do the job. Just
as this state has done the job for
years, without being told to.
“I know of no great overwhelm
ing or compelling need or demand
for emergency action redistricting
outside of a few militant Republi
cans with obvious self interest.
“Certainly I’m not going to defy
a court. But just because these
two Republican judges say some
thing doesn’t make it gospel.”
The Houston federal court was
composed of two federal judges
appointed by President Eisenhower
and one appointed by President
Kennedy.
“As governor of Texas, I deeply
resent the arbitrary and presump
tive action by the Republican
special court in telling the people
of Texas how to run their busi
ness,” the governor said.
Sherry Holland
Crowned Queen
A pretty young honor student
was crowned homecoming queen
of A&M Consolidated High School
during half-time activities Fri
day night. She is Sherry Holland.
Sherry is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Curtis R. Holland and re
sides at 514 Kyle Street, in Col
lege Station.
Sherry is interested in fashion
designs and plans to attend Texas
Woman’s University beginning
next fall. She also plans to take
a limited number of courses in
music.
She is editor of the yearbook,
secretary of the Student Council,
a twirler for the band and a mem
ber of the high school choir.
GI Exercise
Begins Monday
From Austin
FT. HOOD LP) — A sleek Air
Force jet transport loaded with
Europe-bound troops of the 2nd
Armored Division streaked into
the Central Texas sky Monday
marking the start of historic
“Exercise Big Lift.”
The first transport, a C135 car
rying 75 troops and a crew of
nine, roared off the Bergstrom
Air Force Base runway at Austin,
70 miles south of. here, at 11:57
p.m., Texas time, on a 10V2 -hour
trans-Atlantic flight.
MOMENTS LATER, troops at
Sheppard AFB, Ft. Hood, and Con
nally AFB, Waco, were to be
come airborne.
By Thursday, the Army and
Air Force hope to have trans
planted 16,000 troops and 116 jet
fighters and other planes to West
Germany in the largest long-
range air lift of armed men in
history.
HEAD WINDS from Hurricane
Ginny off the Atlantic Coast Mon
day night threatened possible dis
ruption of the massive lift’s flight
schedules.
Gen. Paul D. Adams, chief of
the Strike command, running the
airlift, told reporters some of the
carefully planned flights of more
than 200 transport planes might
be affected.
By a late hour, however, no
major changes had been an
nounced.
Today 9 s Thought
Peace is patience. It means keep
ing our tempers and rising above
petty irritations. It is counting to
10 and avoiding hasty and impul
sive decisions.
Kingston Trio Performs
The popular Kingston Trio performed to a packed house
Monday night in G. Rollie White Coliseum as a special
attraction to the Town Hall series. In their traditional folk
style, the Trio sang selections from their best selling
albums.