Registration Schedule
Registration for the Spring Semester 1964 will be con
ducted in Sbisa Hall. Registration cards will be issued in
accordance with the following schedule:
FRIDAY, JANUARY 31
1:00 to 3:00—All whose surnames begin with G, H, I, J, K.
3:00 to 4:30—All whose surnames begin with A, B.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1
8:00 to 10:00—All whose surnames begin with T, U, V, W, X,
Y, Z.
10:00 to 11:00—All whose surnames begin with L, M, N, O.
1:00 to 3:00—All whose surnames begin with P, Q, R, S.
3:00 to 4:00—All whose surnames begin with C, D, E, F.
and next week—Stew!
Che Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1964
Number 191
Space Fiesta To Draw
Solons, NASA Officials
Exhibits, Speakers
To Highlight Show
U. S. Blasts Ahead
With Saturn Shot
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. US) —
The great Saturn 1 rocket hurled
the world’s heaviest man-made
satellite into orbit Wednesday giv
ing the United States added fire
power to challenge the Soviet
Union in the man-to-the-moon
race.
President Johnson watched the
launching on a television set in
his White House office in Wash
ington and then issued a state
ment hailing it as a “giant step
forward for the United States
space effort.”
JOHNSON DESCRIBED it as
the largest payload ever launch
ed by any nation and said this
country has now “proved we have
the capability of putting great
payloads into space.” He con
gratulated the space team on be
half of “a grateful and proud na-
Governor Candidate Elected
Former Student President
A recently announced Republic-
ian candidate for Texas Governor,
Jack A. Crichton, has been presi
dent of the 40,000-member Associ
ation of Former Students.
Crichton, a 1937 graduate and
also Dallas A&M Club president,
replaces L. F. Peterson of Fort
Worth. Election of officers for
John H. Lindsey
Reds Announce
Downing U. S.
Training Jet
WIESBADEN, Germany (JP) —
The Soviet Union announced today
a Russian fighter plane downed a
U. S. jet trainer over Communist
East Germany, killing the three
officers aboard. The U. S. Army
commander in Europe called on
the Russians to make an immedi
ate investigation.
The Soviet Union disclosed the
fate of the T39 trainer, missing
for 24 hours, in a note released in
Moscow accusing the United States
of a provocative flight designed to
increase tensions.
Shortly thereafter, Gen. Paul L.
Freeman, U. S. Army commander
in Europe, sent a note calling for
an investigation to Col. Gen. Ivan
Yakubovsky, the Soviet command
er in Germany.
In Washington, the U. S. State
Department summoned a Soviet
Embassy official to its office to
“protest in the strongest terms
the shooting down” of the jet
trainer.
Officials said Asst. Secretary of
State William R. Tyler had called
Georgi M. Kornienko, No. 2 man
in the Soviet Embassy, to come to
his office at 3:30 p.m. EST to re
ceive the protest.
Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F.
Dobrynin could not be summoned,
officials said, because he is ill.
1964 highlighted the annual con
ference of association members
here this weekend.
John H. Lindsey of Houston, a
partner with the Lindsey Insur
ance Agency, became association
vice president. Active in other
former student groups, Lindsey is
a former district vice president
of the association.
Crichton is president of Crich
ton and Associates, 1963 vice presi
dent of the association and chair
man of the A&M Development
' Foundation.
Three new members were added
to the association’s executive
board. They are Royce Wisen-
baker, Tyler; Mike Dillingham,
Alice; and John Cunningham,
Gainesville.
In addition, the new slate of of
ficers included 11 district vice
presidents and representatives to
major committees.
District officers are Dale Nix of
Canadian, District 1; Frank
Thompson of Midland, District 2;
Frank Pool of San Angelo, Dis
trict 3; B. L. Byrd of Wichita
Falls, District 4; Bybee Weisinger
of Gilmer, District 5; Bill Cham-
lee of Temple, District 6.
Others are Jeff Montgomery of
Houston, District 7; Will Ed Jauer
of San Antonio, District 8; Jim
Heldenfels of Corpus Christi, Dis
trict 9; Fred Clarke of Lafayette,
Louisiana District, and Harvey
Lynn of Los Angeles, Calif., At-
Large District.
Retiring board members include
A. W. Davis, College Station;
Dick Haas, Corpus Christi and
Melvin Maltz, Houston. Holdover
members are Guy King Jr., Waco;
John M. Younger, Midland, and
Jake T. Long, Gilmer.
Jack A. Crichton
San Antonio Group
Sets Performance
The San Antonio Symphony
Orchestra, under the direction of
Victor Alessandro, will be on
campus Feb. 6 for two concert per
formances.
All public and private schools in
the Bryan-College Station area
have been invited to hear the
orchestra at a special 1:30 p.m.
concert in G. Rollie White Coli
seum. No admission will be
charged.
The main concert, at 8 p.m.
Thursday, is open to Town Hall
ticket holders. The orchestra is
one of several events scheduled as
a part of the Memorial Student
Center Town Hall series. Tickets
are available for the Thursday
night concert, Bob Boone, A&M
music coordinator, reported.
Boone said the special student
concert is designed to acquaint the
younger people with symphonic
music.
The Texas-bred symphony and
Texas-born conductor have ap
peared throughout the United
States and Mexico. Their concerts
have been heard over nation-wide
broadcasting facilities, as well as
the armed services network and the
Voice of America.
United States
Asks Details
On Jet Junking
GENEVA bP) — The United
States has asked clarification of
the new Soviet proposal to de
stroy strategic bombers.
The U. S. disarmament nego
tiator, William C. Foster, and the
Soviet delegate, Semyon K. Tsarap-
kin met over an hour in the Ameri
can delegation headquarters and
subsequently lunched together in
a downtown hotel.
An American spokesman said
Foster and Tsarapkin, cochairmen
of the 17-nation disarmament con
ference, discussed the future work
of the conference.
Other conference sources said
the new Soviet proposal to “make
a bonfire” of strategic bomber
fleets was among the subjects
discussed.
Tsarapkin made the proposal to
the conference Tuesday, leaving
Western officials somewhat puz
zled over what he really meant.
There was a notable difference
between his formal statement in
the conference room and his sub
sequent explanation to a news con
ference.
In his formal proposal he said
strategic bombers although obso
lete can still constitute a threat
and should be destroyed. At his
news conference he said he meant
all bombing planes of all nations.
I:!:
tion.”
In the opinion of many U. S.
experts, the striking success of the
colossal booster on its first two-
stage test flight gave the United
States a lead over the Soviets in
rocket power.
WHILE THE Saturn 1 recorded
its significant success, another
Cape Kennedy crew prepared for
Thursday’s scheduled launching of
the Ranger 6 space craft to the
moon.
Mothers Clubs Set
Executive Meeting
The Mid-Season Executive
Board meeting of the Federa
tion of A&M University Mothers
Clubs will be held Saturday.
The 14 officers who comprise
the Executive Boacd will trans
act much of the business and
planning for the Federation
which is composed of more than
50 clubs and over 2,000 members
from all areas of Texas.
Mrs. M. T. Harrington is the
First Honorary President of the
organization and Mrs. Earl Rud
der is the Second Honorary
President.
Deadline Set
For Cost Bids
On 2 Projects
Bids are to be received here
Feb. 6 for air conditioning proj
ects and other work involving
two buildings on campus. Total
estimated cost of the projects
is $370,000, W. Howard Badgett,
director of the University’s phy
sical plant said.
Opening of the bids is timed
so as to allow their submission
to the February meeting of the
Board of Directors.
“If the Board awards the
contracts on these two buildings,
it will give us 40 buildings total
ly air conditioned or the major
portions air conditioned,” Bad
gett said. Among the 40 are
seven under construction or maj
or renovation. These will pro
vide air conditioned living quar
ters for one-third of all dormi
tory residents.
Bids to be received Feb. 6
are for air conditioning Bolton
Hall, which houses the Depart
ment of Electrical Engineering,
and portions of the Mechanical
Engineering Shop Building. In
Bolton Hall the contractor also
will make certain renovations.
The portion of the Mechanical
Shops Building to be air condi
tioned includes most of the base
ment and that portion of the
main floor which houses class
rooms, offices and some of the
laboratories and shops.
Willy Ley
The 11-member House subcommittee on manned space
flight, headed by Congressman Olin E. Teague will visit the
A&M University Space Fiesta Feb. 14.
Teague said the subcommittee will be accompanied by
George M. Low, newly-named National Aeronautics and Space
Administration’s deputy director for the Manned Spacecraft
Center and other NASA officials.
Visitors at the Space Fiesta will be able to make a rocket
trip around moon minus the rigors of space flight training
and without leaving mother earth.
It’s one of several exhibits planned during the two-week
observance of the nation’s efforts to cope with space, Fiesta
/ J officials reported. The eventf
is sponsored by the Memorial
Student Center Great Issues
Committee.
THE ORBIT AROUND MOON,
called a “Space-A-Tarium,” is an
imaginary, vivid trip giving the
public an inkling of the wonders
to be experienced by Project Apollo
astronauts on their forthcoming
roundtrip moon voyage. Its spon
sor is General Electric.
Wernher Von Braun
Robert A.
The exhibit, resembling a hemi
sphere, has four portal entries. In
the dim light inside, the visitors
will see a large model of the world
with stars twinkling overhead.
There are four control panels to
stimulate various space activities,
including the moon flight.
At another station the partici
pants can blast-off into space, and
the lunar expedition gives the
viewer the feeling of really mov
ing into space as earth becomes
smaller and smaller during the
trip. A narrator’s voice describes
what is taking place as the moun
tains and craters of the moon ap
pear.
AT ANOTHER PANEL, would-
be missile marksmen have an op
portunity to shoot a guided missile
into the universe. At a fourth
panel, the visitors can launch and
guide a missile over the top of
the world.
Space authorities such as X-15
astronaut Robert A. Rushworth,
Feb. 7; Willy Ley, Feb. 13, and
Warnher von Braun, Feb. 14, will
be the speakers.
Other exhibits, which will be
only space-related subjects, include
N descriptions of Projects Mercury,
Gemini and Apollo. A replica of
the Gemini capsule will be dis-
Rushworth played.
Formal Dedication
Of TMA Planned
Texas Maritime Academy history
enters a new phase this weekend.
Formal dedication ceremonies
are scheduled at 2 p.m. Saturday
and the cadets will sail Sunday on
a two-month training cruise in
tropical waters and northward into
Maine.
The Academy combines a uni
versity education and training for
leadership posts afloat and ashore
with the maritime industries.
Local, state and federal officials
Heaton Forsees Few Changes
In Spring Enrollment Picture
Spring registration will follow the usual procedure this
year and the number of students enrolling probably will
be the same as last year, according to H. L. Heaton, Director
of Admissions and Registration.
Heaton said Wednesday that each spring there is a
decrease of 500 to 750 students from the number enrolled
during the fall semester. The decrease is accredited to
graduation, first year drop-outs, students transferring and
students not able to register for various reasons.
Heaton said he expects the spring enrollment to run
around 7,000 which was the number of returning students
for the spring semester last year.
There were approximately 200 new students last year
consisting of transfer students, mid-semester graduates and
graduate students. He said there were 30 graduate stu
dents enrolling in the graduate school last year and he
expects about the same number this year.
He added that the process for registering will be the
same as in the past with the directions inside the Official
Schedule of Classes.
will participate in the dedication
ceremonies in front of the Acad
emy headquarters on Galveston’s
shoreline.
A&M President Earl Rudder will
make the principal address.
THE PLATFORM GUESTS will
include Lt. Gov. Preston Smith,
House Speaker Byron M. Tunnell,
State Sen. Aaron R. Schwartz,
President Sterling C. Evans of the
A&M Board of Directors and Chan
cellor M. T. Harrington, Congress
man Clark W. Thompson, Admiral
Edwin J. Roland, commandant of
the Coast Guard, Rear Admiral
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Charles Lyman of the Eighth
Naval District and Capt. Thomas
King of the U. S. Maritime Ad
ministration.
Others on the program include
Rabbi Alfred S. Dreyfus, Temple
B’Nai Israel; the Rev. Amos C.
Carey, St. George’s Episcopal
Church; and the Rev. Joseph
Crosthwaite, St. Mary’s Cathedral.
Members of the Board of
Visitors of the Academy will also
participate in dedication.
The 15-man board advises the
president of A&M on Academy
matters. The members, chosen by
the Board of Directors of A&M
University, come from Texas cities.
Several are distinguished in ship
building, steamship operation, port
operations and international com
merce.
Glo hetrotters
Due Feb. 10
The Harlem Globetrotters, often
called the “Magicians of Basket
ball,” will appear in G. Rollie
White at 8 p.m. Feb. 10.
Abe Saperstein’s 37th edition of
the Trotters will take on the San
Francisco Golden Gaters in a per
formance sponsored by the A&M
Sigma Delta Chi chapter, national
journalism society.
In addition to the game, nu
merous other acts will be provided
for halftime entertainment, in
cluding Cab Calloway, unicylists,
equilibrists, juggler, comic acroba
tic and trampolinists.
John Wright of the SDX chapter
said tickets will be sold at Jarrott’s
drugstores in downtown Bryan and
Townshire shopping center and the
Exchange Store. Tickets prices
range from $1.25 for students and
dates to $2 for adults general ad
mission and $2.50 for reserved
seats.
Proceeds will be used to finance
projects undertaken by the jour
nalism organization, he added.
Members of The Battalion staff
will play members of the Brazos
Valley Press Club in a preliminary
game.
The Globetrotters have performed
in 82 countries, including some
behind the iron curtain, during the
last 14 years. Saperstein organ
ized the Trotters 37 years ago.
Wire
Review
WIRE REVIEW
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
WASHINGTON — Reports from
Saigon indicate that a South Viet
namese army corps commander has
ousted the military junta in a
bloodless coup, U. S. authorities
reported Wednesday night.
The leader of the Saigon insur
gents was identified as Maj. Gen.
Nguyen Khanh, 1st Army Corps
commander.
U. S. NEWS
WASHINGTON — A 5-cent
stamp in memory of the late
President John F. Kennedy will
be issued on his 47th birthday
anniversary, May 29, Postmaster
General John A. Gronouski said
Wednesday.
TEXAS NEWS
DALLAS — Mrs. Marguerite
Oswald said Wednesday that only
if the Warren Commission permits
her attorney to attend its sessions
and cross examine witnesses will
she be able to accept its findings
as to the guilt or innocence of her
son in the assassination of Presi
dent Kennedy.
Mrs. Oswald also appealed pub
licly to President Lyndon B. John
son to answer her telegram of Jan.
22 asking that her attorney, Mark
Lane of New York City, be per
mitted to represent her and cross
examine witnesses before the War
ren Commission.
'kirk
AUSTIN — City police armed
with shotguns pressed a citywide
manhunt Wednesday following
the shooting of two patrolmen
who were attempting to halt a
tavern burglary.