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Bryan Scout Post Wins Conservation Society Honors Explorer Scout Post 735 of Bry an received the William T. Horna- day Award Monday night at an awards dinner at the Ramada Inn. The William T. Hornaday Award for Distinguished Service in Conservation has been given since 1920 in cooperation with the New York Zoological Society. THE BRYAN UNIT is believed to be the first in the Sam Houston Area Council to receive the award. “Only six, seven or eight units out of the more than 130,000 Scout units in America receive the award annually,” Scout Executive Minor Huffman of the Council said. SCOUT RECORDS show that five units throughout America re ceived the award in 1958 and not more than eight in any year since. Members of Post 735 worked for more than two years on water, soil, and wildlife conservation, forestry and outdoor manners and good deeds projects. THE LOCAL SCOUTS planted more than 3,500 seedling trees, helped with the whooping crane census, brought about the rebuild ing of a washed out dam, cleared trails at Mission Tejas State Park and completed other conservation projects before applying in late summer for the award. Fifteen Explorer Scouts from the post were interviewed Monday afternoon by a special committee from Houston to determine if they will receive William T. Hornaday Badges for individual service. Air Force Beauty Competition Begins Air Force cadets have been re quested to enter their dates for the Air Force Ball to be held Dec. 7, in Air Force Sweetheart Competition. The girl’s name, address, vital statistics and her escort’s name and address are required on the back of an 8x10 photograph to be turned in to the respective Wing Commanders not later than 5 p.m., Friday, said Jerrell Sieglin. THE COLLEGE OF AGRICUL TURE has 17 per cent of the en rollment and the College of Veter inary Medicine claims eight per cent. The Texas Maritime Academy has the smallest proportion of en rollment with .6 per cent of the students. It is in its second year of operation. Of the 3,140 students in the Col lege of Arts and Sciences 392 are in accounting, 232 are in mathe matics and 225 in education, as the School of Business accounts for slightly less than one-third of the enrollment—1,019. THREE DEPARTMENTS in the College of Engineering constitute almost half of the 2,941 students enrolled in this college. The Department of Electrical en gineering has 524 students, while the Department of Mechanical en gineering has 450 and the Depart ment of Civil engineering boasts of 396. The Department of Animal Hus bandry, with 201 students, is. the largest department in the College of Agriculture. The Ag school has a total enrollment of 1,381. Tied for second with 174 stu dents each are the curricula of ag ricultural economics and agricul tural education. The College of Veterinary Medi cine has an enrollment of 655 stu dents. THE TEXAS MARITIME Academy has 52 students enrolled, according to the registrar’s report. The breakdown according to classes is seniors 1,676; juniors, 1,271; sophomores, 1,214, and 2,510 freshmen. Fifth year students number 115; sixth year, 55; special students, 102; masters candidates, 744, and doctoral students, 365. U. S. Says No To Cuban Deal UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (A 5 ) The United States rejected Mon day Cuba’s demand that the Guan tanamo Naval Base be given up as the price for establishing a nu clear free zone in Latin America. Charles C. Stelle, U. S. dis armament negotiator, also told the General Assembly’s main political committee that the United States would vote against a resolution seeking an international confer ence for drawing up a treaty out lawing use of nuclear weapons. Cuban Ambassador Carlos M. Lechuga declared that before his country would agree to any pro posal to ban nuclear weapons from Latin America the United States would have to agree to put Puerto Rico and the Panama Canal in the proposed zone. OLE ARMY FIGHT HANK HAD REASON TO SMILE Cbe Battalion Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1963 Number 168 Big Bonfire Weekend Set Band Gets Six Ton Log The Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band brought in paid rental on a truck furnished by M. G. this log from Jacksonville “just to show the Moore to haul the 12,000 pound Bonfire Band’s burning desire to ‘Beat the Hell out kindling which is 35 feet long and three feet of TU.’ ” Sophomore members of the Band in diameter. McNamara Warns Soviets Of Atomic Might In Europe NEW YORK CP> The United States has let the Soviet Union know that it has 400 million tons of nuclear force on tap in Europe, ready to be used in whatever quan tity needed. The official word came Monday from Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in a major policy speech understood to have been coordinated with the White House and State Department. THE TIMING and tenor of the prepared address to the Econo mic Club of New York made it obvious that this was a cold re sponse to recent truculent talk by Soviet Premier Khrushchev. It was intended also as new re assurance for Allies concerned a- bout speculation of U. S. troop withdrawal from Europe. In the latest showdown on the Squadron 8 Gets First In Houston Squadron 8 took top honors in the Corps of Cadets parade in Houston this weekend as they ac cumulated 78 points out of a pos sible 100. Squadron 14 followed in second place with 76 points. Company F-l, Company G-3 and Squadron 12 tied for third place with 74 points. Sharing the sixth place position with 73 points were the Combined Band and Squadron 2. Squadron 7 and Company 1-3 tied for eighth place with 72 points, while Squadron 1 secured tenth place with 71 points. Berlin autobahn, Khrushchev mut tered menacingly about nuclear button-pushing. And there has been more Moscow growling about Soviet interests in Cuba. THE MIGHTY nuclear potential — expressed in terms of TNT equivalent — in Europe is essen tially in realtively small tactical Fish Begin Filing For Class Offices Freshmen began filing Monday for candidacy in 13 class positions at the Student Activities Office in the lower level of the Memorial Student Center. Registration will be open until 5 p.m. Nov. 26. Class offices for which students may sign are president, vice presi dent, secretary-treasurer and social secretary. Also to be elected are four representatives to the Stu dent Senate and five representa tives to the election commission. Students filing for these posi tions must have mid-semester grade point ratio of at least 1.0. Candidates for the Senate must have a 1.5. The runoff election will be held Dec. 4. Today’s Thought A man who compromises his own beliefs destroys his ability to act effectively as an individual. weapons. It does not include the untold hundreds of millions of tons of TNT equivalent in missiles and bombs of the strategic forces, bas ed in the United States, or in Po laris submarines deployed within range of Soviet targets. McNamara’s speech also covered defense preparedness on a world wide basis and weapons systems for massive as well as little wars. “TODAY the thousands of U. S. warheads deployed in the Contin ent for the immediate defense of Europe have a combined explosive strength more than 10,000 times the force of the nuclear weapons used to end the second war,” he said. McNamara didn’t reduce this to terms of tonnage. Faculty Fellowship Features ‘Marriage’ “Marriage” from the point of view of Christianity, Judaism and Islam will be the topic as the Faculty Interfaith Fellowship meets as 7 p.m. Wednesday in All Faiths Chapel. This will be the last of six weekly programs. Speaking Wednesday will be Dr. Daniel Russel, sociologist, repre senting Christianity; Clarence S. Krunitsky, graduate student in physics, Judaism; and Dr. Abu-El- Ela, plant sciences, Islam. Coffee and doughnuts will be served at the YMCA Building fol lowing the program and discussion. Juniors, Seniors Start Wednesday By GLENN DROMGOOLE Battalion News Editor “If the weather keeps dry, we should have the biggest bonfire ever,” Mike Marlow, head Yell Leader, said Monday night. As final arrangements are being made, transportation still looms as the chief problem. Marlow said at least five heavy vehicles have been obtained, excluding two cranes which will be used at the stacking area. Junior and senior students will begin work at the cut ting area Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in their off periods, as they begin clearing the way for crews which will get into action early Saturday morning. THREE FULL WORKING days are scheduled for this year’s bonfire building activi-’ ties. The A&M University Executive Committee has approved excusing classes Monday to allow students an extra work day. The center pole is slated to be hoisted Thursday, and guarding will commence Thursday night. Marlow said first call will be sounded at 4:30 Saturday morning, with breakfast being served at 5 a.m. Students will begin loading up and moving out between 5:30 and 6. Sbisa and Duncan Dining Hall employees and student wait ers will prepare lunches for the workers each morning. THE SAME SCHEDULE will he followed Sunday and Monday, Marlow announced, with workers in the cutting area quitting about 5 p.m. each day. Since there will be lights in the stacking area, work at that location will con tinue until 7 or 8 p.m., Marlow said. Civilian students will be as signed a definite section at the cutting area, Marlow noted, and they have been encouraged to par ticipate in guarding the bonfire. THE CIVILIAN STUDENTS are really anxious to work,” Marlow continued. He said that Jeff Harp, vice president of the Civilian Stu dent Council, is in charge of co ordinating their efforts. The cutting area is located about 15 miles from campus, on the other side of Benchley on the highway to Hearne. Marlow said arrange ments have been made with the Highway Patrol to use Highway 6 in transportation to and from the area. A GUARD ROSTER has been made and will be distributed among the various outfits. Each Cadet unit will have a definite time allowed for guard duty, and it is hoped the civilians will share this responsibility, Marlow said. The bonfire is scheduled to be gin at 7:30 the night preceding the annual Thanksgiving Day football clash with the University of Texas. By this time one week’s work will have been completed by A&M students to make this year’s blaze “the biggest bonfire ever.” Faculty Dinner Set For Thursday The second A&M University Faculty-Staff dinner-dance is set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Memorial Student Center. Dick BaldauFs Aggieland Combo will furnish dance music. Individual and season tickets may be bought until 2 p.m. Wed nesday at the MSC Main Desk, said Dr. R. J. Kohel, treasurer of the club. Season tickets are transferable and dress is inform al, Kohel noted. Christmas Seals Mailed As Local Drive Gets Started The 57th annual Christmas Seal campaign began in Brazos County Friday with the general mailing of Christmas Seals to residents. Proceeds of the campaign will be used by the Brazos County Tuber culosis Association to combat tu berculosis and other respiratory diseases. Mrs. A. V. Moore, Christmas Seal Chairman, said that millions of lives have been saved since the first contribution was made for Christmas Seals. “But the saving of lives in not enough,” she added. “We are also continuing to wage a relentless fight against the suffer ing, tragedy, loss of time and money that result from TB and other diseases that affect breath ing. Many of these other respira tory diseases are not only gravely harmful in themselves, but in crease susceptibility to TB.” Figures released by the United States Public Health Service show that respiratory disease ranks first among disablers of people and fourth among causes of death. Mrs. Moore said, “We must expand our effort to find hidden cases of RD, including tuberculosis, in this com munity. One of our goals is to alert every person to the fact that chronic cough and shortness of breath, most common symptoms of RD, may indicate the presence of a serious ailment and require the advice of a physician.