A Nice View From SWC Summit!
Texas
A&M
University
Che Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1964
&
V
Number 193
Vets, Medics
Study Calves
For Research
Calves are being used in re
search here to study certain
congenital heart defects in
children.
The work is a co-operative
project between the College of
Veterinary Medicine and the
Baylor University College of Medi
cine in Houston.
For Baylor medical personnel,
the main purpose of the research
| is to learn more about the total
effect of congenital heart ailments
in infants and to determine the
optimum time for corrective sur
gery.
The central objective for A&M
is to widen basic knowledge of
bovine physiology and to enhance
surgical techniques.
THE A&M PROJECT leader is
MS Students Due
To File Contracts
All cadets currently enrolled in
| Military Science 222 will file con
tract application at 8 a.m. Satur
day, at Sbisa Hall. Any student
not currently enrolled in MS 222
but desiring a contract during the
1964-65 school year, should also re
port to the Corps dining room.
The ROTC Qualification Test
(RQ Test) will be administered at
i that time. This will be the only
scheduled RQ test this semester.
If you have any questions, see
Lt. Colonel Vernon or Lit. Colonel
Hertzog, Basic MS Section, Room
304, Trigon, before Saturday.
Wire
Review
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
NICOSIA, Cyprus—Bomb ex
plosions damaged the American
Embassy and a Greek-owned ho
tel housing British guests at
Nicosia Tuesday night. The U.
S. ambassador immediately au
thorized voluntary evacuation of
all American women and chil
dren on the island.
In Washington, the U. S. gov
ernment expressed shock and de
manded punishment of the guilty.
U.S. NEWS
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A
Teamsters Union official stunned
Teamsters President James R. Hof-
fa Tuesday with testimony about
proposed jury-fixing in Hoffa’s
1962 conspiracy trial.
Edward Partin, secretary-treas
urer of Teamsters Local 5 in Baton
Rouge, La., who is under indict
ment for stealing union funds, tes
tified as a surprise government
witness in the jury tampering trial
of Hoffa and five others.
★★★
WASHINGTON — The Senate
handed the Administration an
other big victory Tuesday night
by turning back, 47-44, a Repub
lican effort to strip repeal of
the 4 per cent credit on stock
dividend income from the $11.6-
billion tax-cut bill.
Earlier in the day, the Senate,
with a 48-45 roll-call vote, turned
down an effort to grant special
income tax reductions to parents
whose children are in college.
This also was opposed by the
administration.
STATE NEWS
Gov. John Connally filed at mid
day Monday for re-election after
a tide of rumors that perhaps he
wouldn’t run again.
Houston attorney Don Yarbor
ough, a 38-year-old liberal who
says he is a “Kennedy - Johnson
Democrat,” also filed Monday.
A third Democrat in the race
mailed his papers into party head
quarters. He is the Rev. M. T.
Banks, 69, a Negro minister from
Beaumont.
Republicans seeking the gover
norship are Harry Diehl of Hous
ton and C. G’. Weakley Jr. and
Jack Crichton, both of Dallas.
Dr. Richard H. Davis, associate
professor in the Department of
Veterinary Physiology and Phar
macology.
On the Baylor research team are
Dr. James D. McCrady of the
Physiology Department; Dr. S. D.
Greenburg, Pathology Department;
Dr. Grady L. Hallman, Surgery
Department; and Dr. Dan G. Mc
Namara and Dr. Harvey S. Rosen
berg of the Pediatrics Department.
According to Dr. Davis, calves
are used because of the size of the
Thoracic (heart and lung) cavity
and the main pulmonary and sys
temic vessels permit handling ease
comparable to that of the human.
THE CALVES ARE OPERAT-
^ED on when they are 12 to 24
hours old. Lesions (atrial septal
defects), similar to those in in
fants, are purposely made in the
heart walls of the calves.
Left to right shunts, or by-pass
es, are installed by placing a dac
ron tube graft from the aortic
artery to the pulmonary artery
which leads to the lungs. One
of the major pulmonary vessels
also is tied off.
The idea, Dr. Davis said, is
to produce pulmonary hyperten
sion, a condition often associated
with certain congenital heart de
fects.
He said the calves are then
sacrificed at various ages to study
changes in pulmonary vessels
caused by the hypertension.
BAYLOR PERSONNEL hope
the research will help them deter
mine the best time to conduct cor
rective heart surgery in infants.
For example, if surgery is de
layed too long, irreversible pul
monary hypertension may develop.
GRACEFUL, BALLET IN CONFERENCE PLAY
Dick Stringfellow (20) looks for stray ball during: first half action
Civil Rights Bill Still Intact;
Alger, Opposition Defeated
Voter Forms
Now Available
For Election
Voters who have not obtained a poll tax or exemptions
certificate, but who want to vote in the federal election this
year may register at the Brazos County Tax Collectors office
“from now until 5 p. m. March 6,” Raymond Buchanan, coun
ty tax collector and assessor, said Wednesday morning.
The certification of the federal poll tax ban amendment
in Washington Tuesday has given all citizens a free vote in
the election of Federal officials. In order to register for the
free vote one must only meet the qualifications that are re
quired for anyone obtaining a pool tax or exemption.
“I hope the people all understand that if they have ob
tained a poll tax receipt or an exemption, that they do not
have to register again,” Buch-*
anan said. He said the regis- m*- | •
Moon Landing
In Decade
Now Doubtful
(A») — House supporters of the
civil rights bill handily defeated
the first assault on the key public
accommodations section Tuesday.
By a vote of 165 to 93 they
turned back a Southern-led drive
to restrict to interstate travelers
the ban on racial discrimination by
hotels and motels.
The vote led backers of the bill
to hope the controversial section
outlawing discrimination in hotels,
restaurants, movies, sports arenas
and other places open to the pub
lic might be retained virtually in-
Globetrotters Ready
To Entertain Ags
The Harlem Globetrotters, now
in their 37th season, will battle
the San Francisco Golden Gaters,
in G. Rollie White Coliseum at 8
p.m. Monday.
A team that seldom loses, the
Globetrotters won 265 games and
lost none during their 1963 sea
son. Their all-time record is 7,677
triumphs against 310 setbacks.
The ’Trotters have performed in
82 countries, including crowds of
75,000 for a single game in Berlin
Olympic stadium, 50,000 in Brazil
and 35,516 in the Rose Bowl. Their
largest gathering was 90,000 in
Prague.
The College Station show is
Fish Drill Team
Makes First Trip
To Tucson Contest
The Freshman Drill Team will
enter its first major competition
of the year this weekend in the
Sun City Drill Competition in
Tucson, Ariz.
They will march against 50
other teams from throughout the
United States. The team will leave
early Friday in U. S. Air Force
planes and return Sunday. This
will be the earliest the Fish have
ever entered a major meet.
Team advisors feel that this
meet will act as a molding factor
for the competition at Purdue Uni
versity Feb. 22. With outstanding
performances at Tucson and Pur
due it would be possible that the
team would be asked to the nation
al competition in Washington, D.
C., in April.
ABC Television’s Wide World of
Sports has expressed an interest
in the coverage of the competition.
However, it will not be known until
arrival if the event will be tele
vised.
The team is commanded by Ric
hard Grossenbacker of San An
tonio.
sponsored by the A&M Sigma
Delta Chi chapter, national jour
nalism society. Tickets will cost
from $1.25 for students to $2 for
adult general admission and $2.50
reserved seats.
The halftime show will feature a
variety of talent, including Cab
Calloway, two unicylists, a juggler,
comic acrobats, equilibrists and
trampolinists.
The ’Trotters have three teams
that circulate throughout the Uni
ted States and other countries.
One of the featured attractions
will be Bob (Showboat) Hall, a
14th year pivot man and star
comedian. At least one Texan,
Charles (Tex) Harrison from
Houston, is still with the team.
Immediately preceding the Globe
trotters show, The Battalion staff
will challenge the Bryan Press
Club to what should be an amus
ing ten minutes of basketball.
The Batt men have been practic
ing and that should make it even
worse.
French Diplomat
To Give Seminar
Yves Rodrigues, consul general
of France in Houston, will be sem
inar speaker Thursday at A&M
University.
Faculty and graduate students
in the Department of Agricultural
Economics and Sociology Depart
ment will hear the consult discuss
“France and World Affairs” at
3 p.m. in the Memorial Student
Center.
Ivan W. Schmedemann, assistant
professor in the department, said
Rodrigues is the “dean of the
consular corps” in Houston.
The speaker holds a degree in
philosophy and certificates from
the National School for Overseas
Studies, Faculty of Law in Paris,
and the National School of Ori
ental Languages.
tact.
REPUBLICANS JOINED with
non-Southern Democrats to defeat
the limiting amendment proposed
by Rep. Edwin E. Willis, D-La.
The vote, taken by counting mem
bers as they stood by their chairs,
was not recorded.
Just before it was taken the ar
gument between the two opposing
groups was shown in a confronta
tion between Reps. Bruce Alger,
R-Tex., and Charles S. Joelson, D-
N.J. Alger, urging adoption of the
amendment, said, “The most basic
human right of all is the right to
own property.”
REPLIED JOELSON: “I think
the most basic human right of all
is the right to be free.”
MOST OF THE EARLIER de
bate leaned heavily on constitu
tional law, with Willis and his sup
porters saying the Supreme Court
in 1883 ruled invalid a statute sim
ilar to the one now being proposed.
Rep. John V. Lindsay, R-N.Y.,
who carried the brunt of the de
bate for the bill’s backers, said
Supreme Court decisions in the
civil rights field since 1883 had
greatly narrowed the force of the
earlier ruling.
“The court is now considering
whether even the negative action
of a state—a state turning its back
on segregation — actually consti
tutes state action in support of
segregation, thus bringing it under
the 14th Amendment,” Lindsay
said.
Eckles To Direct
Seminar Series
For Managers
A new series of one-week semi
nars for managers of the South
west has been announced under
sponsorship of the A&M Univer
sity School of Business Adminis
tration. Four of the seminars have
been held previously.
The first of the new, separate
seminars will be held the week of
May 3, Dr. John E. Pearson, head
of the Schoq^ of Business Admin
istration, announced. Director of
the managerial programs will be
W. E. Eckles, business administra
tion professor and director of the
university’s three-week Executive
Development Course.
Other seminars will begin Aug.
9 and Oct. 25.
“Each seminar is an integrated
training experience rather than a
series of separate lectures and
conferences,” Eckles said. More
than three-fourths of the program
is devoted to the type of discussion
which encourages the interchange
and cross-fertilization of ideas.
Emphasis is placed on the inter
personal relations within an organ
ization, Eckles pointed out.
“We have conducted four of
these seminars during the past two
years at the request of several
corporations and they were so
highly received that these compa
nies and others requested we offer
them on a broader basis,” Eckles
said.
He described the seminars as
beneficial both to young and to ex
perienced executives.
Churchs To Debate
Playboy Doctrine
The Presbyterian Student As
sociation, the Wesley Foundation
and the Disciple Student Fellow
ship will meet at the Prebyterian
Student Center Wednesday at 7:15
p.m. to discuss, “The Christian
and the Playboy Mentality.”
The discussion will center around
“Playboy Magazine,” popular a-
round most college campuses. Art
icles by Harvey Cox, “Playboy’s
Doctrine of Male” from the jour
nal, “Christianity and Crisis” and
another by William Hamilton,
“Hefner’s Hasty Pudding” from
the magazine, “Motive,” will be
used in the discussion.
All interested students are in
vited to attend the meeting.
tration is required only for
people without receipts or
exemptions.
Buchanan said that he could give
no estimate of extra cost of main
taining a dual system of registra
tion because the number who will
register under the new system is
uncertain. He did say that he does
expect to register more than 500
persons under the new system.
More than 14,000 people pur
chased poll tax or obtained exem
ptions prior to the Jan. 31 deadline
Buchanan said. He said that was
more than had ever been purchased
before in Brazos County.
State officials said they ex
pect all Texans without poll taxes
who want to vote in 1964 federal
elections should be able to regis
ter by Thursday.
Publication in the federal reg
ister of a notice of the certifi
cation was made Wednesday.
This official notice put the Texas
30-day registration into effect.
State officials notified tax col
lectors of the publication of the
notice by telegram before their
offices open today.
During the registration period,
tax collectors will issue free poll
tax receipts marked “poll tax not
paid” to persons who would have
qualified for poll tax payments
but failed to pay them.
Persons eligible for exemption
certificates who failed to get them
by last Friday cannot register un
der the free system.
Tax collectors in several coun
ties plan to require persons reg
istering to sign certificates that
they do not hold poll tax re
ceipts in order to prevent doub-
ble registration.
At the polls, voters will be
separated into two classes on voter
lists and persons with free re
ceipts will use ballots with all but
candidates for federal office de
leted.
WASHINGTON <A>) _ James E.
Webb, head of the space agency,
said Tuesday the United States
still has a “fighting chance” to
get a man to the moon in this de
cade, but only if a full $5.3-bil-
lion budget request is granted for
the next fiscal year.
In addition, there will have to
be a $141-million supplemental ap
propriation to round out the cur
rent fiscal year, he said.
“We hope Congress will give us
this fighting chance,” Webb told
the House Space Committee as
hearings opened on the authoriza
tion bill for the next budget.
Webb said that in adjusting to
cuts in the budget for the cur
rent 1964 fiscal year, “we have
already sacrificed the margins and
early target dates which were
needed, and which in reality are
still needed . . .
“If we do not receive the
funds which the President has
requested, there is nothing left
to sacrifice except the national
goal itself.”
This national goal, of achiev
ing manned flights to the moon
and back by 1970, was set by
President John F. Kennedy in
1961.
Webb contended that each
year of delay in reaching the
moon would cost an extra $1 bil
lion because of enormous fixed
costs that would go on.
He recalled the estimate of sev
eral years ago that the total cost
of the lunar landing program
would be from $20 billion to $40
billion.
Young Mike Thompson demonstrates that
the Space Fiesta being held in the Memorial
Student Center is not just for the “big
boys” as he takes missile target practice in
General Electric’s “Space-A-Tarium” ex-
This Space Fiesta Is Fun!
hibit. Looking on are (left to right) his
sister Karen, his dad Herb, Marlyn Melcher
and an unidentified youngster who escaped
before the photographer could get his name.