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Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1964
Number 196
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The Teacher Retirement System
as announced a reversal of policy
ncerning the effective date of
■etirement and a ruling concern-
ing the tax exempt status of TRS
nefits.
The Teacher Retirement Law un-
itil 1956 and the Board policy since
that date have held that retirement
did not become effective until the
[ue date of the first retirement
arrant. In Opinion No. C-201
dated January 10, 1964, the At
torney General reversed this policy
jy ruling that the death of a mem-
jer after the date of retirement
ut before the due date of the
irst warrant was to be considered
is a “retired” death rather than
a death “in service.” Under this
pinion a member may revoke
a request for retirement until the
itated retirement date but not
ifter that date. A member may
|io longer revoke a request for re-
irement until the due date of the
lirst warrant — the last date at
jvhich a retirement may be re
cked is the nominal or stated
ate of retirement.
“On January 13, 1964, in Attor-
ley General’s Opinion No. C-202,
j it was held that any benefits, an-
mities, etc. received under the
’eacher Retirement Law since
November 6, 1956, are exempt
from state and municipal taxes, in
cluding the State Inheritance Tax.
CYCLOTRON PIT-
PUMP ROOM
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Wire
Review
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
TOKYO — Peking Radio report
ed without comment Tuesday night
Nationalist China’s decision to
sever relations with France. The
Taipei regime took the step be
cause France has decided to ex
change charge d’faires with Com
munist China.
U. S. NEWS
WASHINGTON — The failure
of Ranger 6 send back pictures
of the moon may have resulted
from a brief accidental turn-on
just after the launching, the
of radio telemetry equipment
space agency reported Tuesday.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON — President
| Johnson said Tuesday that we are
| a much beloved people through-
i out the world — “regardless of
| what some of the bellyachers say.”
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PHILADELPHIA — The first
John F. Kennedy half dollars
were struck Tuesday in Ameri
ca’s mints in Philadelphia and
Denver.
TEXAS NEWS
HOUSTON — An expert on
the .life of William Marsh Rice
began testifying Tuesday in a suit
by Rice University trustees to ad
mit Negro students and charge
tuition at the school.
Project Deemed
South’s Largest
The Atomic Energy Commission has joined A&M Uni
versity in the construction of a $6,000,000 cyclotron, Ster
ling C. Evans, president of the A&M Board of Directors,
announced Wednesday.
The AEC approved $3,000,000 for A&M’s cyclotron which
will be the largest in the South. A&M had pledged $3,000,000
in its cyclotron proposal to the AEC two years ago. The
Robert A. Welch Foundation will provide $1,000,000 with
$2,000,000 coming from University funds.
' Annual operating budget for the Institute is expected
to be approximately $1,000,000. The AEC will pay seven-
tenths of the operating costs and the balance will come from
A&M’s budget.
SELECTION OF A&M is
A cutaivay view of the variable energy cyclotron complex
at the University of California at Berkley, after which the
A&M cyclotron will be patterned. Note size of the instal
lation in comparison with the man sketched in the right
foreground. Cost of A&M's Cyclotron Institute is estimated
at million. Target date for completion is J9d6.
VIEW OF APPROVED CYCLOTRON
Atomic Energy Commission to join A&M in the construction.
‘ANOTHER TRADITION DYING’
RE Week Hits All-Time Low;
One Church Plans Services
Naval Recruiting
Team Plans Visit
A specially trained team from
the U. S. Naval Air Station in
Dallas will be on campus Feb.
17-21 to present information
concerning the Navy’s Flight
Training Programs to interested
students.
The team led by Lt. Com
mander Tom Weir will set an
information booth in the Mem
orial Student Center which will
be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
during the stay on campus.
Actual qualifying test will be
offered to interested students
without obligation. The scores
are good for four years. Test
may be retaken after 12 months.
Those qualifying on the test
who have required number of
hours will be flown to NAS in
Dallas for the physical. There
is no obligation.
By GLENN DROMGOOLE
Battalion News Editor
A&M University’s 18 year-old
Religious Emphasis Week appears
to have fallen to a minimum ob
servance. The A&M Church of
Christ is the only local church
group planning any special ser
vices for the week.
Originally a week when religious
services were held on campus and
students were excused from classes
to attend, it was turned over to
the individual churches last year
in an effort to better familiarize
students with the churches of their
choice
Last year’s crowds were en
couraging as students turned out
to hear the six denominations dif
ferent speakers during the week.
This year the A&M administra
tion decided to let the individual
churches handle RE week again,
but plans did not develop and the
Church of Christ remained alone
in its intentions to observe the
week of special religious emphasis.
Efforts by the student chaplians
to retain the period devoted to
campus spiritual life failed to gain
support from area religious work
ers and RE Week, as such, fell by
the wayside.
Mrs. Raymond Reiser, president
of the Campus Religious Workers
Association, reaffirmed the report
that the administration had left
the week to local religious leaders.
“If any of the churches wanted
to continue with it, they could,”
she said.
Pertaining to last year’s at
tendance, Mrs. Reiser noted, “We
didn’t get as many people as we
have had, certainly not as many
as we had in Guion Hall in pre
vious years.”
f ‘We were hop-
_ tf —' ing that it would
work out better
if the individual
churches handled
it, but we found
out that it didn’t.”
Mrs. Reiser
said the lack of
interest could be
credited to “the
time we’re living
JONES in.”
Joe Chapman, Corps chaplain.
said that for all practical purposes
RE week is gone.
“It’s kind of like another tradi
tion dying out,” he said.
Dean of Students James P Han-
nigan said, “As far as the Uni
versity is concerned, Religious
Emphasis Week will go on as last
year. Cadets will be excused from
Call of Quarters to attend any
services that might be held. It
is still on the calendar as RE
week.”
Jon Jones, minister of the Uni
versity Church in Austin, will
speak at 7:15 p.m. Monday-Thurs-
day in the All Faiths Chapel.
Thomas Seay, local Church of
Christ pastor, said all students—
regardless of faith—are invited to
attend the services.
Jones will also conduct counsel
ing sessions at the YMCA Build
ing from 3-5 p.m. Tuesday, Wed
nesday and Thursday.
Enrollment
Shows Drop
H. L. Heaton, A&M University
registrar announced Saturday that
the enrollment for the spring sem
ester is down a bit, compared to
the same period last year.
Final enrollment figures show a
total of 7,126 students, as opposed
to 7,253 last spring. This differ
ence he credited to a greater num
ber of students graduating at
mid-term this year.
The number of women attending
A&M, however, is up by 11 per
cent. There are 201 women at
tending classes this semester, of
which only 27 are single. Last
semester, 182 women enrolled, in
cluding 12 single girls. By the
end of last semester, only 169
co-eds remained in school.
Heaton added that a compre
hensive breakdown of enrollment
as to classes, departments and
colleges, Corps and civilian stu
dents would not be available un
til late this month or early next
month. The registrar’s office is
still processing added and drop
ped courses and Corps membership.
COACH METCALF PRAISES SQUAD
“With this Spirit we will win.”
Aggies At Home |
Send Telegrams
Wait For Team
The Aggie basketballers ran into
a fired-up Tech team and 13,000
supporters in Lubbock, but they
were backed by almost 7,000 other
Aggies who hovered over their
radios and sent their encourage
ments by wire.
Carmon Tax, Western Union
operator in the Office of Student
Affairs, said last night that ap
proximately 30 telegrams were
sent to Coach Shelby Metcalf and
his team before the game. Most
of these bore the legend “Beat
the Hell Out of Texas Tech” and
represented the best wishes of
! Corps outfits and civilian dorms
and organizations.
Here at home, Dan Louis Jr.,
editor of The Battalion, and Head
Yell Leader Mike Marlow appeared
on radio station KORA to an
nounce a reception for the team
at Easterwood Airport. Other stu
dent leaders were quick to support
the gathering.
At the airport the team was met
by the Fightin’ Aggie Band and
a throng of well-wishers.
This is the kind of spirit that
promotes wins, Louis said. Our
ball club lost a game, something
that is bound to happen sooner or
later in the Southwest Conference.
But they are still tied for first
place and stand the best possible
chance to come out on top. This
is the time for the kind of support
for which A&M is famous.
Today’s Thought
Let us have faith that makes
might. Abraham Lincoln
a tribute to the tireless ef
forts of Con. Olin E. Teague
of College Station to land the
cyclotron for his alma mater.
Chairman of the House subcommit
tee on manned space flight, Teague
did much in selling A&M’s bid for
the cyclotron to the decision mak
ers in Washington.
The 88-inch variable energy
cyclotron will be used to advance
understanding of the nucleus of
atoms and is termed “a real break
through into excellence” by A&M
President Earl Rudder.
A&M’s Cyclotron Institute will
attract top scientists and should
double doctoral studies in physics
and chemistry, he said. With full
operation planned in 1968, the
“atom smasher” at A&M will be
only the fifth of its kind on a uni
versity campus.
A&M ALREADY HAS FILLED
key positions in the Cyclotron In
stitute. Dr. George J. Igo, senior
staff member of the Lawrence Ra
diation Laboratory at the Univer
sity of California, Berkeley, has
been named institute director.
“Dr. Igo is eminently qualified
to head A&M’s Cyclotron Insti
tute,” Rudder said. “He will direct
a scientific team which will bring
great recognition to the Institute.”
Dr. Igo received his Bachelor’s
degree from Harvard and his Ph.
D. in physics from Berkeley. He
was a physics instructor at Stan
ford and a guest professor of nu
clear physics at the University
of Heidelberg, Germany.
CHOSEN TO ASSIST Dr. Igo
are Dr. John McIntyre, who came
to A&M from Yale where he was
an associate professor of physics;
Dr. John Gammel, a theoretical
physicist at Los Alamos, New Mex
ico, and Dr. Dwight Conway, assist
ant professor of chemistry at Pur
due.
Total staff for the Institute is
estimated at 14 plus graduate
assistants. The cyclotron will be
housed on the main A&M campus
to give researchers and students
access to the library.
Dr. McIntyre describes the cyclo
tron as a 400-ton magnet, measur
ing 88 inches across the pole face
Numerous small magnets will di
rect beams of charged particles
(ions) around the electrical field
created by the larger electromag
net.
The charged particles are accele
rated as if they were whirled in a
giant slingshot, until they are
traveling at thousands of miles
per second. Dr. McIntyre explained.
They are than flung into a chamber
where they strike “targets” under
study by the researchers.
Large Crowds
Swamp Floats
At Mardi Gras
NEW ORLEANS (A>) _ The
madness called Mardi Gras reach
ed a feverish climax Tuesday with
revelers so thick they almost
swamped the parades.
Asst. Police Supt. A. A. The
riot called it the biggest crowd
in Mardi Gras history.
“Too many,” he sighed.
MONSTERS, GORILLAS, kootch
dancers, devils, Indians, angels and
other costumed celebrators swarm
ed the midtown area by 9 a.m.
By the time Rex, King of the
Carnival, headed his fancy en
tourage toward Canal Street,
Theriot estimated “more than a
million” persons were packed a-
long the route.
The big parade “krewes” —
and little marching clubs that
came fore and aft — proceeded
by fits and starts as police
struggled to keep open a narrow
lane.
THE CRUSH STOPPED the
gaudy floats frequently. The
marching units and brass bands
were infiltrated from the sidelines.
Beer cans rattled and clattered
underfoot. Most stores were clos
ed, as were many restaurants. But
bars did a rushing business.
Mardi Gras-French for Fat
Tuesday — is the celebration pre
ceding the austerity of Lent.
Festivities opened with King
Zulu’s erratic arrival.
The once magnificent Negro
spectacle was but a weak echo
of former days. It has faded
steadily under criticism from Ne
gro civil-rights groups.
The 23-float Rex parade was
followed by about 140 other pa
rade units. The oldest krewe of
the lot, the Mystic Krewe of Co-
mus, hit the starting line as night
fell.
Sophomore Ball
Schedule Changed
Sophomore class president Ric
hard Dooley has reminded mem
bers of the Class of ’66 of the
change in date of this year’s
Sophomore Ball.
The ball, originally scheduled
for Feb. 29, was changed to April
25 several weeks ago because of
the Combat and Military Balls
which will be held the first week
end in March.
STUDENTS SWAMP RTURNING PLAYERS
Approximately 3,000 students were at the 1:30 a. m. arrival.
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