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Panamanian Visitors
Air Canal Zone Views
More Money, Jobs,
Slouch Gets Degree
Cadet Slouch is going to get a Doctor’s Degree this week
end. At least the man who regularly takes pen in hand and
creates the Aggie favorite will have the degree bestowed
upon him. Jim Earle, who started drawing the Slouch car
toons as an undergraduate student—he’s of the Class of
’54—will receive the Doctor of Education degree.
Earle is currently an assistant professor in the Depart
ment of Engineering Graphics.
Incidently, Earle will continue to draw Slouch.
The members of The Battalion staff express their con
gratulations to Jim. The Battalion is probably the only stu
dent newspaper, if not the only newspaper, which has a car
toonist with a Doctor’s Degree.
Ahhh, Almost Out!
J. L. Rodriquez doesn’t have a care in the final exams,
world. He is one of the lucky graduating
seniors who doesn’t have to worry about
He gets his Chemical Engi
neering degree Saturday.
‘YANKEE GO HOME’
Panama Officials Say No
To Diplomatic Relations
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PANAMA (JP)—An authoritative
official source said Wednesday
night that Panama is going ahead
with a complete rupture of diplo
matic relations with the United
States until America agrees to ne
gotiate a new Panama Canal
treaty.
The sources said President Ro
berto Chiari had asked the Costa
Rican government to take over
Panamanian affairs in Washing
ton and that Costa Rica had agreed
to do so.
Panama has also asked the U.S.
government to withdraw its di
plomatic personnel from this tense
capital, the sources said, adding
that Panama is bringing home its
envoys from Washington. Pana
manian Ambassador August© Ar
ango already has been returned
here.
The new turn in the U.S.-Pana
ma crisis came as defiant univer
sity students shouting, “Yankee,
go home” received Chiari’s assur
ances that he will not abandon
Panama’s demands for a new trea
ty to replace the 6-year-old pact
which gives America control of
the strategic waterway.
Although the United States and
Panama had agreed earlier Wed
nesday to settle their differences,
the new crisis developed over in
terpretation of that agreement,
which Panama views as a U.S.
commitment to negotiate a new
treaty.
The United States said it agreed
only to discuss—not negotiate—
the issues between the two coun
tries.
Panama’s Foreign Minister Gali
leo Solis issued a statement saying
“Panama will not renew relations
until the government of the United
States gives assurances to Panama
that negotiations will be started
for a new treaty to replace exist
ing agreements.”
Nearly 1,000 students staged a
bitter anti-United States rally at
the University of Panama, then
Wire Review
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By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
PARIS — The 12-story steel
and concrete skeleton of an a-
partment house collapsed Wed
nesday, killing at least 15 work
men.
Another 18 workmen were in
jured, and rescuers dug fran
tically toward the weak cries of
men buried under the estimated
100,000 tons of debris... Two of
the injured were freed with
hacksaws and chisels. About 10
men still were missing.
U. S. NEWS
WASHINGTON — The first
break in the John F. Kennedy
White House team which President
Johnson inherited came Wednes
day with the resignation of spec
ial counsel Theodore C. Sorenson.
Sorensen, 35, will leave the
White House staff at the end of
February to write a personal ac
count of his 11 years with the
assassinated chief executive.
The Nebraska lawyer told a
news conference his book will be
something of a substitute for one
which he disclosed Kennedy had
planned to write after leaving of
fice.
STATE NEWS
AUSTIN — Texas draft boards
have received notice to begin
now to carry out President John-
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Room Assignments
son’s wishes — classification of
men immediately after they reg
ister at age..—..the State Se
lective Service director said
Wednesday.
Whereas previously most men
have been classified initially be
tween the ages of IS'/z and 20,
the President requested Jan. 5
that this policy be changed.
marched five miles to the presi
dential palace to make their de
mands known to Chiari.
Health
Stipend
Physicists’
Available
A $2500 fellowship is available
but there were no takers at A&M
as of Tuesday—and deadline for
applications is Feb. 1.
These fellowships are available
in the health physics field. A&M
is one of 10 universities at which
the program will be offered.
HEALTH PHYSICS is primari
ly concerned with the study, eval
uation and control of radiation
hazards and the development of
procedures to protect workers in
nuclear plants.
Mrs. Jenrette To Receive
Deceased Husband’s PhD
Mrs. Jacquelyn Jenrette is ex
pected to walk across the stage
Saturday to receive from A&M
University the Doctor of Philoso
phy degree conferred upon her late
husband, Air Force Capt. James
P. Jenrette.
He had completed all course
work for the degree in meteoro
logy with his dissertation in the
final stage when he was involv
ed in an auto accident Dec. 15. He
died three days later.
“We did get word to Jim that
his dissertation had been accepted
and his wife told me that although
he could not talk he indicated he
understood,” Dr. Kenneth C. Brun-
didge said. He is chairman of the
faculty committee which supervis
ed Jenrette’s doctoral studies.
This will not be the first grad
uate degree posthumously confer
red by A&M, although it is rarely
done.
“Mrs. Jenrette will occupy Jim’s
seat in the ceremony, and when the
Ph.D. candidates go forward, she
will accept his degree,” Dr. Brun-
didge said.
Cotton Duchesses
Get Entry Blanks
Any club interested in entering
a girl as a duchess for the Cotton
Pageant and Ball to be held in
early April should contact Kindred
P. Caskey, secretary of the 30th
Annual pageant. He may be con
tacted at the Department of Soil
and Crop Sciences.
Letters and forms have been
mailed to the various clubs and
civic groups in the College Station
area.
Battalion.
Midnights Out
For Uniformity
Says Dresser
“For the sake of uniformity of
the Corps, cadets wili not wear
the ‘Midnight’ uniform in its pres
ent form next year,” Paul A. Dres
ser Jr., Cadet Colonel of the Corps,
announced Wednesday.
“The decision was made by the
Commandant, Col. Denzil L. Bak
er,” said Maj. John Vilas, assistant
commandant. “It was based on a
thorough study by the Cadet Uni
form Committee, with the concur
rence of the Corps of Cadets.
Dresser said, “starting next
year, the wearing of the green
wool trousers and green wool
shirt will be discontinued.” In
stead, it will be a junior-senior
privilege to wear the ‘Midnight’
shirt in combination with ‘pink’
trousers. I booth will not be open Jan. 25, a
In this way all cadets will wear' Saturday, or Jan. 31, the last day
pink trousers to achieve uniformi- | to pay the tax.
ty in the Corps when in winter) Head also mentioned that the
uniform, Dresser commented. j MSC booth will not be authorized
“Many out-of-town people fail | to issue exemptions. He issued a
appeal to eligible A&M
gie uniform,” said Dresser.
Election Year Tax
Available At MSC
A&M University students and
Brazos County residents may pay
their 1964 election year poll tax
in the Memorial Student Center
beginning Jan. 20.
A special booth will be set up
in the post office area for the
convenience of those seeking vot
ing rights, announced Howard
Head, student president of the
MSC Council.
Hours of operation will be 8:30
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1 to 4 p.m,
Jan 20-24 and Jan. 27-30. The
His 134-page dissertation entitl
ed “A Laboratory Investigation of
Forcer Vortex Motion” was in
final rough draft at the time of his
death.
The cost of preparing the final
copies for filing, plus other fees
totaled $137.
“All of Jim’s fellow officers,
other graduate students and facul
ty and staff throughout the de
partment contributed toward the
necessary expenses,” Dr. Brun-
didge said.
Research Chemist
To Lecture Society
On Campus Friday
The American Chemical Society
will meet at 7:45 p.m. Friday in
Room 231 of the Chemistry Build
ing.
The guest speaker for the even
ing will be Dr. Max Blumer, an
organic chemist with Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution in Mas-
sechusetts. The subject of his
lecture will be “Hydrocarbon Cy
cles in Nature.”
Preceeding the meeting, all are
invited to join the speaker for
dinner at the dining room of the
Memorial Student Center, said J.
B. Beckham, secretary of the socie
ty. The dinner will be served
cafeteria style.
Blumer attended the University
of Basel receiving his Ph.D. in
Chemistry summa cum laude in
1949. He has done research at
the University of Minnesota con
cerning polarography.
Before coming to Woods Hole,
Blumer was a rare metals re
searcher for CIBA of Basel, Swit
zerland as well as spending some
time as a research chemist for
the Shell Development Company
of Houston.
Blumer also worked in Europe
with B.P.M. Shell at Amsterdam,
Holland.
Cadets should contact their or
ganization commander to find out
what their room assignment for
Spring will be rather than check
ing by the Housing Office as in
dicated in Tuesday’s story in The I to recognize ‘Midnights’ as an Ag- I special
students to become voters.
Sophomore Class
Changes Ball Date
The Sophomore Ball, original
ly scheduled for Feb. 29, has
been rescheduled for April 25,
Sophomore Class President Ric
hard Dooley announced Wednes
day.
“The date was changed due
to the fact that the Combat and
Military Balls are the weekend
following the original date,”
Dooley said.
To qualify for a grant a student
must be a U. S. citizen and hold
a bachelor of science degree in
physical sciences or in some field
of engineering.
THE GRANTS are available
through the Atomic Energy Com
mission. Each offers a stipend
and allowances. The basic stipend
is $2500. An additional $500 is
allowed for each dependent. It al
so includes tuition, fees and al
lowance for certain travel.
Anyone interested in applying
should contact Dr. Robert Coch
ran, head of the Department of
Nuclear Engineering, Room 301 of
the Petroleum Engineering Build
ing. Applications must reach the
Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear
Studies, Oak Ridge, Tenn. by Feb.
1.
Television Confab
Meets Here Friday
About 200 people are expected
to participate in an educational
television feasibility conference on
the A&M University campus Fri
day, according to an announcement
by Dr. W. J. Graff, Dean of In
struction.
The conference begins at 1:00
p.m. in the auditorium of the Vet
erinary Medicine Building. A de
monstration of instructional tele
vision will follow discussions led
by Lee Dreyfus of the University
of Wisconsin and Robert F.
Schenkkan of the University of
Texas.
The purpose of the conference is
to discuss the role of educational
television in school and communi
ty, and to determine the extent
of local interest in the medium.
Respect, Asked
By JOHN WRIGHT
Battalion News Editor
More participation in the running of the U. S. zone in
cluding the Panama Canal itself, more job opportunities and
better pay for Panamanian employees, more income from the
earnings of the canal and, perhaps most important of all,
more regard and respect for Panama and its citizens—all
are the basic points which Panamanian students, presently
enrolled at A&M, feel should be presented in any talks be
tween the United States and Panama.
Because of interest in the Panamanian opinion of the
canal zone flareup, several Panamanian students were asked
to express their views.
CARLOS M. PALM said “the rioting started when Amer
ican students raised the*
American flag.’’ This was in
direct defiance of regulations
which stipulated that the
Panamanian flag be displayed
with the U. S. flag. Said Palm,
“The Panamanian people want the
American and Panamanian flags
flying side by side in the canal
zone.”
“There are a number of Com
munists in Panama, but I think
they are not involved. The main
reasons for the conflict are flying
the flags and money policies over
the canal,” said Palm.
“THE UNITED STATES pays
Panama $1.93 million a year rent
on the canal and has an income
between $64 to $68 million a year
from shipments through the ca
nal,” said Palm.
“The people of Panama feel that
the tax money from the income of
the canal should be paid to Pana
ma and not the United States.
“The U. S. should provide or
allow more jobs for Panamanians-
better paying jobs too.
“You see, the Panamanians don’t
receive the minimum U. S. salary.
They get something like 60 to
70tf an hour, and 90 per cent of
the dirtiest jobs.”
SAYS JORGE OBEDIENTE,
“About one fifth of Panama’s na
tional budget is its portion of the
Canal revenue. If Panama’s share
was raised to 50 per cent it would
increase the per-capita income of
Panama by about a fifth.”
Rodrigo R. Marciacq, another
student from Panama, said that
there should be more of a cultural
exchange between Panama and
Americans living in the Canal
Zone. “The Americans in the
Canal-Zone tend to look upon and
treat the Panamanians as if they
were lower class.
“It is important that Americans
realize that it is a case of the
American flag flying next to the
Panamanian flag, not the Pana
manian flag being priviliged to
fly alongside the flag of the U.
S.” said Rodrigo.
Obediente also said that if the
U.S. civilian Canal Zone traffic
police were replaced with Panama
nian civilian police then relations
between the two nationalities
would be improved. Said Obed
iente, “At least I prefer to get a
traffic ticket from a Panamanian
policeman, than a U. S. police
man.”
Foreign Study Aid
Applications Taken
Aggies who graduate this year
and are interested in foreign study
may wish to consider the Rotary
Foundation Fellowships, Graduate
Dean Wayne C. Hall said Wednes
day.
He serves as the Rotary Fellow
ship program representative for
the Bryan-College Station Rotary
Club. He also will assist the Beau
mont Rotary Club in its search
for prospective candidates.
The Fellowships, tenable at uni
versities throughout the free world,
include a grant of approximately
$2,500 for the year.
The applicant may list at least
five universities at which he would
like to study. Not more than three
may be in the same country and
the applicant must have consider
able knowledge of the language.
Legal Holiday Set
For Local Banks
Monday will be a legal holi
day in observance of Robert E.
Lee’s birthday.
The following businesses will
be closed: City National Bank,
First National Bank, Bank of
Commerce, First Bank & Trust,
University National Bank, Com
munity Savings & Loan Associa
tion and Bryan Building & Loan
Association.
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diving contest, are members of the A&M
Parachute Team: front row, M. T. Works,
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back row, Mike Richardson, Bob Richard
son and John Olden.