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Page 4 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Wednesday, March 4, 1964 Board Chairman Aids Horticulture A boyhood recollection by Ster ling C. Evans of Houston, presi dent of the A&M University Board of Directors, is helping in attempts to develop new apricot varieties. Evans, hearing of the work at A&M to develop new plants for the South, wrote horticulturist Fred Brison that he remembered picking and eating native apricot fruit while walking to school in the Devine area. Ags Selected To UN Council Two Aggies this week assumed high posts in the state organiza tion of the Collegiate Council for the United Nations. The council is described as a national student organization de voted to develop informed student opinion about the United Nations and international affairs. Dan R. Davis Jr., son of as sociate professor and Mrs. Davis of College Station, is the new state chairman for the council. Davis was appointed by regional director David Hall, Texas Christian Uni versity student. C. E. (Ed) Lamb, of Caldwell, Idaho, has been named by Davis to serve as state field representa tive. Both Davis and Lamb are sen iors in the Department of History and Government. “I think it is an excellent ve hicle for learning about interna tional relations,” Davis said of the Collegiate Council for the Unit ed Nations. The A&M senior was a member of the Model United Nations pro ceedings last year at the Uni versity of Texas and later at tended the annual Leadership In- stitiute on the United Nations in New York City. Lamb has served as treasurer of the Great Issues Committee and was a delegate to the Model United Nations proceedings at Austin. Candidates Begin Office Registration “Candidates for class offices next year began filing Monday and registration will continue through March 10,” said Wayne Smith, advisor to the Education Commission. “I would like to encourage stu dents of the classes of ’65, ’66 and ’67 to file early for these positions. Applications may be filed in the Student Program Office, lower level of the MSC, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., said Smith. Applicants for the positions of president, vice president, secretary- treasurer and social secretary for each class as well as historian for the class of ’65 must have a 1 grade point ratio, both over-all and last semester. Student entertainment manager of next year’s Senior Class, yell leaders for the Junior and Senior Classes and MSC Council repre sentatives for all classes must have a 1.25 GPR, both over-all and last semester. Brison’s work along this line is in co-operation with the U.S. De partment of Agriculture Project S-9, “New Plants for the South.” The project involves 11 states and Puerto Rico and is attempting to find and study native plants fot development of new varieties. AFTER CORRESPONDING with Evans, Brison then contacted C. P. Du Bose, editor of the Devine News, and H. E. Howard, Devine area rancher. Next he traveled to Devine, found the trees described by Evans and brought back speci mens. The trees that brightened Evans’ walks to and from school are known to botanists as Prunus tex- ana. Common names are albicoque and hog plums. Brison said that an earlier at tempt to bring in an apricot tree specimen from the Llano area failed because of difficulty in get ting a good root system. The roots had grown in and around granite rock. ANOTHER PLANT was found close to the A&M campus at Ken neth Bailey’s home. Efforts to grow the pits failed. Bailey is an assistant professor of mathematics. Brison said native apricots in Texas probably served as food for Indians and the early Spaniards. They are now often used for pre serves or eaten as fresh fruit. He pointed out that the Devine area tree specimens will be kept at A&M for propagation work. Then they will be maintained as stock for use by researchers at other institutions. Burglars Figure In Double Trouble The Institute of Electronic Science at A&M University had a couple of “considerate but unwel comed” guests over the weekend, the institute's officials reported Tuesday. Burglars broke into the building, located at the Research and De velopment Annex, and selected only two of each type of hand tool used by students at the institute. They, for example, took two hammers, two electric drills, two wire cutters, two boxes of hand tools, and two sets of wrenches. L. K. Jonas, the institute’s chief instructor, said apparently the “visitors” were supplying their own needs. The tools were marked with a red, white and blue color pattern. Law enforcement officials are investigating. Erupting Volcano Brings Nightmare SANTIAGO, Chile UP) — Vil- larrica Volcano erupted Tuesday with an awesome roar, spreading new terror a day after its first eruption started avalanches that buried a village in southern Chile and drove thousands from their homes. With an officially estimated 3,000 persons huddled in blind ing rain on the mountains, res cue teams fought floods and the torn earth to try to get food and supplies to the area 500 miles south of Santiago. Graduate Student Council These three men are officers of the A&M University Graduate Student Council which has adopted its new constitution and by laws. Organization of the council has been underway for several months. Pictured, left to right, are James J. O’Brient, the secre tary-treasurer ; Herbert L. Ernest, vice president; and Richard L. Bennett, presi dent. The 12-member council serves in an advisory capacity as the voice of the grad uate students. Bennett studies mechancial engineering, Ernst studies poultry science, and O’Brien studies meteorology. FINGER LICKIN’ JOB Aggie’s College Education Is ‘Frosting On The Cake’ Students do the oddest things sometimes to get through college. James Allen Rupley, an Aggie sophomore, puts icing on cakes for his earnings to meet educational costs. “It all started,” the 6-4 cadet explained, “after I got a job wash ing dishes at an eating place at the Grand Canyon. I sorta gradu ated to cake making, after one of the bakers left.” Rupley now is the chief cake decorator for the Memorial Stu dent Center, and has held the po sition for two years. A MATHEMATICS major from El Paso, Rupley confronts “practi cally no mathematical problems” in cake making, but he admits “more engineering knowledge might keep the cakes from col lapsing.” Bollinger, Burr Set To Attend Confab Lee S. Bollinger of Brookshire and Hale Burr of Vidor have been named to represent A&M at a con ference on “Outer Space” at the United States Air Force Academy April 1-4. Student leaders from 70 colleges and universities throughout the United States will attend the sixth annual Air Force Academy Assem bly. The conference is co-sponsored by the American Assembly of Co lumbia University. Both have assisted with the Stu dent Conference on National Af fairs, which annually attracts 160 students from the United States, Canada and Mexico. mro •ii Courtesy Transportation To Townshire The Aggie Mobile will be stopping at three locations to pick up stu dents who wish to shop in Townshire Shopping Center. On Friday and Saturdays, students may meet the Aggie Mobile at 2:30 p. m. at these locations. 1. Steps, at the entrance to the new area. 2. Front of the M. S. C. 3. Front of the Exchange Store. All students will be returned to the campus by 5:00 p. m. This is another of the many services of The VARSITY SHOP See you Friday and Saturday! Bryan c \Arsif 9 Sho Townshire • Texas Rupley has worked at the Grand Canyon site during summer “vaca tions.” He added that the “slight est vibration” at the higher sea level will cause cakes to fall. In College Station, the problem is not so great. Love Created Thru Marriage Speaker Says Dr. Sidney Hamilton told ap proximately 150 students that when they get married they are not in love but are infatuated. The couple grows into love through marriage. Hamilton, speaking at the first in a series of four marriage forums, said the couple should spend more time before marriage analyzing each other. With this approach there would be more time for romance instead of analyzing after marriage, he said. The North Texas State Uni versity professor said the divorce rate of college men and women is one tenth of the mean U. S. divorce rate. He added that more chaste women are those with the better educations. The part-time marriage coun selor told the students not to worry about finding the right person but for them to be the right person. “Jealousy is a feeling of inade quacy” and it will kill love, Hamil ton stated. He said love becomes possible “when you value someone else more than yourself.” The professor said “without love you are nothing.” Data Processing Conference Set For April 27-29 A wide variety of data proces sing topics have been programmed for the 1964 College and Universi ty Machine Records and Confer ence April 27-29 at A&M. Don F. Morrison, program chair man and research mathematician asociated with the Data Proces sing Center, said the conference theme is “New Horizons Through Thought.” He said about 450 persons, re presenting 150 educational insti tutions in 30 states and Canada, will attend the session. “The conference is an annual meeting planned and presented by persons associated with data pro cessing in colleges and universities throughout the country,” Morri son said. The first general session start* at 8 a.m. the first day at the Ramada Inn, where most meetings will be held. A&M President Earl Rudder will deliver an address of welcome, followed by the keynote speaker, Jack R. Woolf, president of Arlington State College. That afternoon, leading speakers are Eugene Brock of the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration in Houston, and the Rev. R. J. Henle, academic dean of Saint Louis University. HE OFTEN encounters other problems as well, like the time he wrote “Bon Voyage” on a cake in stead of “Happy Birthday” due to some mixup in communications. Rupley, due to the time it takes to bake the cakes, only does the decorating. Help is on the way, however. He’s engaged and plans to be mar ried this summer to Miss Patty Jo Watson, a Texas Woman’s Univer sity coed from El Paso. Redistricting Delay Asked By Democrats AUSTIN <A>) — Texas officials drew up a federal court motion Tuesday they hope will put off mandatory congressional redistrict ing until after the 1964 elections. Meanwhile, Republican politi cal candidates and others tried to force Gov. John Connally into calling a special legislative ses sion for redistricting without the federal court delay. The U. S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that Texas’ present con gressional districts are unconsti tutional and discriminatory be cause rural voters have more re presentation than city dwellers. HOWEVER, the court gave the state’s Democratic administration until April 1 to ask the Houston federal court to exempt this year’s elections from the lower court order that Texas must redistrict or all 23 congressmen would have to make statewide races. Connally, Atty. Gen. Waggon er Carr and Secretary of State Crawford Martin conferred by tele phone several times. Carr and his staff reportedly spent most of Tuesday drafting a delay motion in preparation for a meeting of the state’s big three Wednesday. Applications Open For Scholarships During the next 30 days cash awards totaling $11,000 will be awarded to qualified students by the Faculty Scholarships Commit tee, according to an announce ment by Dean of Instruction W. J. Graff, chairman. These scholarships will be available to the chosen recipients for use during the 1964-65 school year. Qualified students are en couraged to apply for these awards at an early date. Appli cation blanks may be obtained from the YMCA Building, Room 8, from the heads of departments, or from any one of the under graduate deans or division heads. They must be filled out and turned in no later than March 16 to R. M. Logan, Director of Stu dent Aid, YMCA Building, Room 8. Recipients of these awards will be selected on the basis of scho lastic records, leadership quali ties as evidenced by activities outside the classroom, and need of financial assistance. 1 Red Slaughter Yiet Nam GFs Advisor Shot TAN CHAU, South Viet Nam (2P)—Red gunfire ripped into two Vietnamese airborne battalions stalking Com munist guerrillas Wednesday near the Cambodian frontier and dropped 100 men—15 dead and 85 wounded. The quarry had turned on the hunter. Among the dead in an hour-long battle was a U. S. captain, an adviser to forward troop elements. Seventy miles away to the east, another American officer perished in a guerrilla attack on a Viet namese ranger unit to which he was assigned. Killing of the two Americans increased to 114 the roll of Ameri can combat deaths since the United States stepped up its aid in the anti-Communist war Dec. 1, 1961. American deaths from all causes rose to 192. Among the wounded in the frontier action was Brig. Gen. Ca Van Vien, commander of South Viet Nam’s airborne forces. His injury was described as not serious. “The damnedest firefight I have seen since World War II,” was a U. S. adviser’s description of the action, which cost the government its heaviest casualties in any single engagement in months. Vietnamese officials claimed more than 100 guerrillas were killed by fire of the parachute troopers and strafing planes, but confirmation was lacking. Ameri can advisers at the scene said a ground check failed to support the claim. The battle site was the flat valley of the Mekong River in Kien Phoung Province about 90 miles Tech Visit Slated By Statisticians Three A&M professors will visit Texas Technological College Fri day to present a statistics seminar. Dr. H. O. Hartley, director of the Institute of Statistics, also will give a lecture while on the Lub bock campus. The trip is one of several planned by the Institute of Sta tistics personnel. Dr. R. J. Freund, associate di rector of the Institute of Statistics; Dr. K. R. Tefertiller, assistant pro fessor of agricultural economics, and Dr. Hartley will visit Texas Tech. Tefertiller is an associate member of the Institute of Sta tistics. west of Saigon and little more a mile from the border of Ct bodia, a neutralist nation criti of both South Viet Nam and United States: The guerrillas, about 400 sto: got wind of the troop movenw and hit first. Striking on flanks, they smashed the lines* mortars, recoilless rifles and at matic weapons. The Red units were repone: have moved back toward Camfe after the action was broken ofi| late afternoon none was tobefej on the Vietnamese side. Hartley recently served as the National Science Foundation sta tistics lecturer to the University of St. Thomas, Texas Southern Uni versity and South Texas College, all in Houston. He also lectured to the Marine Laboratory staff at Galveston. He will serve as the National Science Foundation statistics lec turer to North Texas State Uni versity in the near future. Freund will attend a meeting March 13-14 of the Committee on Statistics of the Southern Region al Educational Board in Austin. President’s Commit!, M A Texas home econoiE ov leader, Mrs. Florence I, is Low, has been named 1 — serve on the Preside::^ Committee on Consumerlii terests. The committee: ^ composed of represer tives of the federal depa|- ments and agencies if gi concerned with consuG ha affairs. Foreign Student of In Record Num A record 364 students from ha er countries are enrolled for ed Spring Semester at A&M, Hi "C L. Melcher, foreign student! selor, reported. The students come from IS t tries around the world, two! nations than represented inL Fall Semester when 356 for|§ p e students were registered. 11 pl ( than half are graduate stude# ■ “A&M is becoming betterte| and recognized,” Melcher sail ry e The list of 46 countries Wi alphabetically from Argentina^ Australia to Viet Nam. COM- represented by more than 10 r dents: China, 16; Colombia, Be India, 47; Iran, 10; Mexico, pr Pakistan, 53; Panama, 12; Wl 15, and the United Arab Rep- 20. !— Returns From Cuba Trevor Burns, a 43-year-old Syracuse, N. Y., salesn kisses the asphalt ramp at a Hollywood, Fla., airport af returning from Cuba. Burns had to ditch his plane in Caribbean and was held in Cuba for two weeks. Bi' i said he spent 28 hours in the water before being rest by a Cuban Navy ship. Getting out of the plane is Lefleur, who flew to Havana to pick up Burns. (AP $ photo)