Texas
A&M
University
Cbe Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1963
Number 161
Crutcher Talks
On How Others
Live In Europe
By ROBERT SIMS
Battalion Staff Writer
John Crutcher of Hutchinson, Kansas, spoke to members
of the Bryan-College Station Knife and Fork Club Tuesday
night in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom on “How the
Other Half Lives in Europe and Asia.”
The Trezettes, an A&M Consolidated vocal group, enter
tained the members prior to Crutcher’s talk.
Crutcher has spent every summer since 1957 in either
Russia or one of its satellites.
He began his talk with a few jokes which were accepted
heartily by the audience.
HE DISCOVERED, during his stay in Viet Nam, that,
contradictory to the thinking of many people, the war was
♦not going very well for the
Smoked Gobblers
To Pay Expenses
Smoked turkeys are being sold
by the A&M Poultry Science Club
to raise funds for club expenses,
according to Gary Estep, club
president.
Estep stated Tuesday that the
U. S. Grade A birds weigh 8 to
10 pounds and may be purchased
at the A&M Poultry Center for
$1 a pound or ordered to be
shipped for $1.25 a pound.
The profits will be used to
finance out-of-state judging trips
and other club activities, Estep
said.
Editor Promises
That Review Will
Appear By Nov. 14
“After being delayed, the Re
view will come out no later than
the second week of Nov., promises
editor David Jones.
The issue will contain a special
feature on the six Aggies who won
the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Jones describes the article as a
“real tiger story.”
The twenty page magazine will
also contain fiction stories, a fea
ture on the A&M Skydivers, rules
for the ’63-’64 Review writing con
test and a Coed Corner.
Representative magazine of the
College of Arts and Sciences, the
Review is also scheduled to be pub
lished in Dec., Feb. and April.
Succeeding issues will contain
features on Alpha Phi Omega, the
Boy Scout Service Fraternity; a
four page special supplement of
the poems entered in the ’63 poetry
contest sponsored by the Bryan-
College Station Poetry Society;
and interviews with the Brothers
Four and the Kingston Trio.
Jones said that anyone wishing
to work on the Review should
leave his name with the Student
Publications office.
American cause. Crutcher
said the main trouble is that
90% of the people are Bud-
dists and the other 10% are
Catholics. The Catholics, however,
are in control of the country, he
noted. Crutcher also found that
the soldiers did not care whether
they won the war or not.
Only three or four per cent of
the people are communist, but
most of these are leaders, the
speaker said. The people are
afraid to talk to visitors when
there is a chance of being observed
by Communist officials, but they
are eager to learn of the Ameri
can people and customs, he added.
They are particularly interested in
the factory conditions for the com
mon laborer, Crutcher observed.
DURING THE AMERICAN ex
hibit in Russia, nearly three mil
lion people were given a tour
through the typical American
house. Most Russians asked how
many families lived in the house,
indicating the cramped living
quarters in Russia. Also very
popular with Russians were the
automobile exhibits, while the
women were amazed at the prices
of clothing listed in the mail
order cataloges.
Beaumont Aggies Erupt
Into Fiery Co-Ed Debate
A&M Consolidated
FFA Chapter Wins
Sweepstakes Prize
A&M Consolidated High School’s
Future Farmers of America Chap
ter took sweepstakes honors at
A&M University Tuesday in the
annual district FFA Leadership
Contest.
Consolidated teams scored two
firsts, two seconds and a third in
competition against other high
school FFA teams from seven
counties in the district.
The Rockdale FFA was second
in sweepstakes, and Bryan was
third.
In the order named, placing in
the six contests were the follow
ing:
Junior Chapter Conducting:
Lexington, Rockdale, A&M Conso
lidated; Caldwell, Giddings, Bryan
and Thorndale.
Senior Chapter Conducting: Gid
dings, A&M Consolidated, Bryan,
Rockdale, Caldwell and Lexington.
FFA Quiz: Bryan, Caldwell,
Snook, Giddings and Lexington
tied, lola, Rockdale, Somerville and
Thorndale.
Radio: A&M Consolidated,
Bryan, Snook, Rockdale, lola and
Giddings.
Greenhand Farm Skills: Buck-
holts, A&M Consolidated and Gid
dings.
Chapter Farmer Farm Skills:
A&M Consolidated, Snook, Buck-
holts, Giddings and Rockdale.
The top two teams in each event
will compete next in the Area 3
contest Nov. 23 in Brenham.
Martin Luther Film
Set By Protestants
The first part of the film “Mar
tin Luther” will be shown at the
All Faiths Chapel Wednesday at
7:15 p.m. under the joint sponsor
ship of Protestant student groups
on the campus.
The Protestant concept of “Au
thority” related to Luther’s prin
ciples of the Scriptures as a source
and norm of Christian theology
will be discussed in a 20-minute
discussion following the film, said
the Rev. Luther Rostvold, assist
ant pastor of Our Saviour’s Lu
theran Church.
Everyone is welcome, added Mr.
Rostvold.
The second section of the film
will be shown Nov. 13. It will deal
with the principle of “Justification
by Faith Alone,” and the third
section will be Nov. 20, on “Priest
hood of Believers.” Discussion will
follow each section.
The groups participating in this
program include Lutheran Student
Association, Gamma Delta, Wesley
Foundation, Disciples Student Fel
lowship, Westminster Fellowship
and United Church of Christ.
Haskell M. Monroe Readies
Paper For Historical Society
Today 9 s Thought
“It is better to light a candle
than to curse the darkness.”
Dr. Haskell M. Monroe, assist
ant professor of history, will de
liver a paper to the Southern His
torical Association at its annual
meeting at Ashville, N. C., Nov.
7, 8, 9.
The title of JVIonroe’s paper will
be “The Considerations of the Mo
tives and Factors Governing the
Selection of the Personnel of the
Provisional Government of the
Confederacy.”
Last summer Monroe and his
wife traveled from Los Angeles to
Boston checking manuscripts and
letters. “Altogether we’ve spent
about three summers working on
this project,” Monroe said. “Some
day I hope to do something of book
length. This paper is just a small
part of the research I’ve done on
the formation of the Confederacy.”
Monroe’s research has been fi
nanced through two grants, one
from the Engineering Experiment
Station and another from the Uni
versity Funds for Organized Re
search.
Monroe also will speak at the
Presbyterian College at Clinton,
S. C., on “South Carolina and the
Presbyterian Church in 1861” as
part of a faculty lecture series.
Attending the meeting with
Monroe will be Dr. J. M. Nance,
head of the Department of History
Coffee To Honor
Author Dutch Hohn
Caesar (Dutch) Hohn, author of
the newly-published “Dutchman on
the Brazos,” will be honored with
a coffee and autograph party from
9 to 11 a.m. Saturday in Rooms
2A and 2B of the A&M Universi
ty Memorial Student Center.
Howard Head, head of the MSC
Directorate that is sponsoring the
event, said the public is invited
to attend.
Hohn also will be recognized at
the A&M - Southern Methodist
University football game here Sat
urday afternoon.
The book is a lighter touch ver
sion of Hohn’s experiences on the
A&M campus as he progressed
“from one of the greenest fish”
to winning campus honors as a
member of the Class of 1912.
and Government; Dr. Claude H.
Hall, associate professor of his
tory, and Garland Bayliss, assist
ant professor of history.
Freshmen Prepare For Pony Ride
Fish, left to right, Vitteto, Wilson and Van Horn remove
traditional spurs as they enter Academic Building. The
hand-made clothes hanger and bottle cap spurs are worn
each year preceding the SMU football game.
Nobel Prize Given
For Science Work
STOCKHOLM, Sweden <A>)_The
last of the Nobel prizes for 1963,
in physics and chemistry, were
awarded Tuesday to two Ameri
cans, two Germans and an Italian.
Maria Goeppert Mayer, 57, of
the University of California; Dr.
Eugene Wigner, 61, of Princeton
University, and Dr. J. Hans D.
Jensen, 56, of Heidelberg Universi-
64 RE Week Set
For Mid-February
The Executive Committee has
approved the dates of Feb. 17-21
for Religious Emphasis Week next
year.
In a memorandum to J. Gordon
Gay, Coordinator of Religious Life
at A&M University, James P.
Hannigan, dean of students, said
that the Executive Committee dis
approved the use of Guion Hall for
use of Religious Emphasis Week
services but approved on-campus
religious services being held at
the All-Faiths Chapel or YMCA
Building on a “first come-first
served” basis.
Not since 1962 have religious
speeches conducted in Guion Hall
during class hours on weekday
mornings.
According to the memorandum
to Gay, the Executive Committee
rejected a request for released
time from classes. They re-empha
sized the adoption of the following
policy last year: “Call to quarters
in military dormitories should be
gin at 8:30 p.m. for the six day
week to allow students to partici
pate in the meetings off campus.”
This, in effect, would be similar to
the regular Wednesday evening
schedule.
Beekeepers Slate
Ethics, Food Talk
Topics such as a code of ethics
and a Food and Drug Administra
tion report will be featured at the
Texas Beekeepers Association 82nd
annual meeting Nov. 11-12 at A&M
University in the Memorial Student
Center.
J. C. Burgin, A&M entomologist
and program committeeman, said
the code of ethics session will be
a panel discussion at 4 p.m. the
first day.
The memorandum to Gay also
included the fact the Executive
Committee was faced with the
problem of how to encourage a
religious attitude among the stu
dents throughout the year and
through Religious Emphasis Week
without mixing church and state
in an unconstitutional manner,
without illegally employing state
funds for religious purposes and
without setting up a program
which ignores the Pluralistic as
pects of religion on the modem
campus since both concern differ
ent religions and different denomi
nations of such religions.
According to the memorandum
to Gay the Executive Committee
also desires students to take ad
vantage of the facilities around
the campus.
Drivers Confused
Over Speed Limits
“There still seems to be some
misunderstanding about the legal
speed limit for pick-up trucks and
small trailer combinations,” Cap
tain E. K. Browning Jr. said to
day.
Browning, Captain of the Texas
Highway Patrol in Austin, pointed
out that effective August 23, 1963,
all trucks, including pick - up
trucks, panel trucks, and trailers,
including boat trailers, have had
a maximum daytime speed of 60
mph and a maximum night speed
of 55 mph.
“We are receiving many com
plaints from drivers of pick-ups,
and drivers pulling boat trailers
who have been arrested for driv
ing 70 mph, because they mistak
enly thought that these vehicles
had the same maximum speed lim
it as a passenger car,” Captain
Browning concluded.
ty shared the physics prize for
their research into the structure of
the atom and its nucleus.
Two chemists who helped to
usher in the age of plastics divid
ed the chemistry prize. They are
Karl Ziegler of Muelheim, Ger
many, and Dr. Giulio Natta of
Italy’s Polytechnic Institute of Mi
lan.
German-born Mrs. Mayer is the
first woman residing in America
to win a Nobel Prize in physics
and the first woman to be so hon
ored since Marie Cure of France
shared the physics award with her
husband in 1903.
Rabid Supporter
Resigns Position
By DAVID L. MORGAN
Special To The Battalion
BEAUMONT—A regular meeting of the Beaumont A&M
Club Tuesday night exploded into a fiery session, as Charlie
Babcock, Class of ’20, resigned his position as executive secre
tary of the club and withdrew his support of A&M University
and its Association of Former Students.
“I’ll pay my dues; I’ll try to be a good Aggie,” Babcock
said, “but I am not going to be any part of A&M College until
we get that decision out of the way.” Babcock referred to
the Board of of Directors’ April 27 decision to institute
limited co-education at A&M.
THIS WAS THE SECOND outburst against the decision
by the Beaumont Club. Earlier this summer tempers flared
when Bob Rowland, Class of*
’57, and T. L. Smith Jr., Class
of ’98, both vehemently oppos
ed to co-education, spoke to
the club.
Babcock’s views were made clear
in an Oct. 29 issue of the “Beau
mont Aggie News,” the club’s
regular publication, in which he
said he would resign because he
had taken “a determined stand
against the board’s edict of April
27, admitting co-eds to the college.”
He wasn’t expected to get up be
fore the group.
Several members of the club
were supporting him with loud
applause, but there was consider
able dissent.
“I’LL NEVER SEE another foot
ball game; I’ll never contribute
again; I’ll never go to the A&M
campus again,” Babcock shouted.
“That’s how serious I am. That’s
how dedicated I am,” he said. “I
had a man, a member of the Board
of Directors, asking me to ‘please
don’t stop fighting this thing’.”
Babcock’s wouldn’t reveal the
man’s name, however, he said,
“This person said that Chancellor
Tom Harrington and E. E. Mc-
Quillen are heading the drive for
co-education ...”
THE CLUB president, Charles
Cook, Class of ’49, said that Bab
cock’s remarks didn’t necessarily
reflect the views of the club as a
whole. He allowed Babcock to
speak, he said, because he didn’t
want “to muzzle any one.”
In a fiery rebuff to Babcock’s
impromptu speech, George Morgan,
Class of ’18, a past president of the
club and a past president of the
Association of Former Students,
called for a sober approach to the
problem.
“WHEN I WAS AT A&M in the
1920’s and 1930’s, we had women
attending class and we weren’t co
educational,” he said. “The fact
that we have women there now
doesn’t make it co-educational.”
A&M can be co-educational only if
there is dormitory space set aside
for women students, he asserted.
“What earthly reason is there
why my daughter and wife or your
wife could not take a few courses
at A&M?” he asked. “There is no
better supporter of Charlie Bab
cock than I am, but why would he
try to sit up here and kill this
thing. A&Mi College is stronger
than all of this: let’s unite on this
thing; the legislature is not going
to change its decision.”
The 250-man crowd applauded
for Morgan as Roland and Babcock
sat quietly.
Injured Ag In Fair Condition
Following Tuesday’s Wreck
Travis H. Small, fourth year
veterinary student from Fort
Worth and the sole survivor of
Monday night’s auto disaster that
killed four persons, remained in
fair condition at St. Joseph’s Hos
pital Tuesday night.
Killed in the accident were Lar
ry Rathjen of Lyons, Charles
James Fillip of Caldwell, Bobbie
Lee Dlabay of College Station and
Carmello Castoria of Bryan.
All four of the young men were
employees of the A&M dining
halls. Castoria was to ftave begun
his first day of work Tuesday.
The accident occurred at 8:20
p.m. one mile west of the campus
on rainslick Farm Road 60, said
William Swanzy, the investigating
Texas Highway Patrolman.
The death car, a 1963 Falcon,
was traveling east and Small’s
Buick was going west when the
Falcon apparently went out of con
trol and into a skid, continued
Swanzy.
The two cars, welded together,
traveled 159 feet before coming
to rest on the right side of the
road.
Swanzy said that the cause of
the accident is still under investi
gation.
Funeral services for Castoria
will be held at 9:15 a.m. at St. An
thony’s Catholic Church. The Rev.
Peter Villani and the Rev. Harry
Bilski will officiate.
Burial will be in Mount Calvary
Cemetery.
Services for Dlabay will be held
at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Callaway-
Jones Funeral Home. The Rev. T.
J. Valenta will officiate.
Arrangements for Rathjen are
pending at Woods Funeral Home
in Somerville. Phillip-Luckey Fu
neral Home in Caldwell will be in
charge of funeral arrangements
for Fillip.
Russians Clear
U. S. Convoy
To West Berlin
BERLIN hS > >—An Allied offi
cial said Wednesday that the Sovi
ets have begun clearing the Amer
ican convoy they had held for over
42 hours on the Berlin highway.
The official said that the Ameri
cans persisted in their refusal to
dismount from their trucks and
be counted.
The Russians had earlier let a
British and a French convoy move
from Berlin to West Germany. The
Americans were stopped at Mari-
enborn on their way to West Ber
lin Monday morning.
Soviet forces lifted their block-
'ade of the 44-man U. S. Army"con
voy after having barred it access
to Berlin for 42 hours in a sharp
Russian-U. S. confrontation in di
vided Germany.
The first unit of the 12-vehicle
convoy started to move up the
11-mile highway to West Berlin
at 2:14 a.m., 8:14 p.m. EST Tues
day, an Allied official said.
The U. S. convoy, returning to
Berlin from maneuvers in West
Germany, was halted at the Mari-
enbom checkpoint at 8:01 a.m.
Monday. Marienborn is just inside
Communist East Germany on the
border with West Germany.
Educational Board
To Hear Request
On Economics Text
AUSTIN (A 3 )—The State Board
of Education will hear a request
at its Nov. 11 meeting that it re
ject a high school economics text
up for adoption.
The book was recommended by
the State Textbook Committee and
State Education Commissioner J.
W. Edgar over protests by three
persons that the book is too favor
able to socialism and big govern
ment.
The appeal will be made by Mrs.
A. A. Forester of Texarkana, Rog
er K. Harlan of Dallas and Mrs.
Joan Slay of Fort Worth.
The book is one of threfe adopted
by Edgar and the text panel from
a total of six high school econom
ics books. All but one of the six,
including two of the adopted books,
were protested.
Texas high schools are without
new economics texts this year be
cause the board of education found
all selections unsatisfactory.
Biologists To Hear
Biometry Lectures
A&M biologists will learn the
principles of scientific experimen
tation Thursday at the first of
a series of seminars on the appli
cation of biometry.
Dr. H. O. Hartley, director of
the Institute of Statistics, will
lead a discussion on the “Applica
tion of Experimental Design to
Biological Problems” at 4 p.m. in
Room 101 of the Biological
Sciences Building.
All interested persons have been
invited to attend. The series is
planned as a progressive sequence.
Lion’s To Continue
Door-To-Door Sale
The Bryan-College Station
Lion’s Club will continue door-to-
door calls selling light bulbs Wed
nesday night.
Some 200 Lions are participating
in the drive which began Tuesday
at 5:30 p.m.
All proceeds will be donated to
charitable institutions.