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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, March 11, 1964 if it it Champ! it it ir Interest Running High Enthusiasm is running high for project Champ. If we could presently stack dollars as high as the interest shown in the project to purchase Coach Shelby Metcalf a car, the project would be at an end. Unfortunately we are not able to do that just yet. Our basketball team ended a season Monday night that can be considered nothing short of great. We are all well aware of the fact that the one man who played a leading role in the successful venture was Coach Metcalf. So Ag gies, get your units, dorms, clubs, etc. organized and get the dollars in so that we can express our appreciation to Coach Metcalf in a tangible form. Project Champ is not intended to be limited to students alone. We hope that any fans, former students, faculty or staff members will feel free to contribute to the project. We realize that the students are not the only people who are well pleased with the fine season the Aggie cagers had while capturing the Southwest Conference Championship. Dollars for Champ can be brought to the Student Publi cations Office in the basement of the YMCA Building or mailed to Champ, The Battalion, Texas A&M University, College Station. Bulletin Board cadet slouch by jim Earie Civil Rights Debate Brea fa Into Three- Way Wrangel WEDNESDAY The Aggies Wives Club will meet in the Memorial Student Center at 7:30 p.m. The Baha’i World Faith Organ ization will meet in the Ander son Room of the YMCA Building at 7:30 p.m. THURSDAY Hometown Clubs Abilene will meet in Room 208 of the Academic Building at 7:30 p.m. Bay Area will meet in Room 203 of the Academic Building at 7:30 p.m. Corpus Christi will meet in Room 3C of the MSC at 7:30 p.m. Eagle Pass will meet in the Art Room of the MSC at 7:30 p.m. El Paso will meet in Room 3B of the MSC at 7:30 p.m. Pasadena will meet in the Birch Room of the MSC at 7:30 p.m. Rio Grande will meet in Room 208 of the Academic Building at 7:30 p.m. to plan a party. Spring Branch will meet in Room 205 of the Academic Build ing at 7:30 p.m. Waco-McLennan County will meet in the Cabinet Room at 7:30 p.m. to elect officers. Wichita Falls will meet in the Biological Sciences Building at 7:30 p.m. Williamson County will meet in Room 2D of the MSC at 7:30 p.m. Job Calls THURSDAY Bureau of Public Roads — Civil engineering. Calallen Independent School District — Biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, English, history and government. Dallas Power and Light Com pany — Civil engineering, electri cal engineering and mechanical engineering. Ford Motor Company — Ac counting, business administration, chemistry, economics, mathema tics, agricultural engineering, physics, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, mechanical engineer ing and nuclear engineering. Jones and Laughlin Supply Di vision — Agricultural economics, Ferreri’s Triangle Restaurant Invites You To Try Our AGGIE SPECIAL Also, try PIZZA, Spaghetti, Raviola, Mexican Food, and Seafood. Book Your Banquets and Special Parties Early. 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Can’t figure why I didn’t see you!” business administration, econo mics, chemical engineering, elec trical engineering, industrial engi neering, industrial education, and mechanical engineering. NASA-Manned Spacecraft Cen ter — Aerospace engineering, electrical engineering and hie~ ; chanical engineering. Texas Employers’ Insurance Association — Chemical engineer ing, electrical engineering, in dustrial engineering, mechanical engineering and petroleum engi neering. Texas Power and Light Com pany — Electrical engineering, chemistry and business admini stration. WRIGHT by John Wright “Uniweaponism,” a term coin ed by Representative Melvin Price (Dem.), of Illinois, member of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, is cause for grave con cern not just for military people but for laymen also. Uniweaponism describes the condition whereby the nation sinks all of its military eggs into one basket and hopes. It is es sentially the condition to which Secretary of Defense McNamara is rapidly steering this countries’ military capability, all in the name of economy. There is no doubting the effici ency of McNamara. What wor ries the military is that he is too efficient. Too efficient in that the weapons that we are - rapidly discarding are not being replaced by other systems that will sustain depth to our weaponary. If a weapon is obsolete, as the the B-47s and B-52s that provide a second strike capability, then it is well and good that they are dis carded. If however, we discard this second strike capability be fore it is replaced with a more modern means of a backup for the missiles, then we are leaving our selves wide open in the event that the Russians have developed a means of rendering our missiles inoperable before they even leave their silos. This prospect is not so far fetched as it may seem. Experts have already determined that this is quite feasible if the Russians are able to detonate a large enough bomb that would release vast amounts of electro-magnetic energy over the missile sites, and thus wreck or at least seriously disturb their sensitive electrical systems. In that case where would be the manned second strike capa bility that would deal a retalitory blow on sheer guts and determin ation? If the present trend con tinues, it would be laying in the Arizona sun with a broken back; just so much scrap metal. For at this monent there is no re placement for the aged B-52s and B-47s that are either in the pro cess of being scrapped, or wait ing to be so. The B-70 program is almost at a standstill, and unless there has been a development in man ned bombers that has paralled WRONG WASHINGTON (A>) _ The Senate civil rights debate broke up into a three-way wrangel Tuesday with Republicans press ing for longer sessions and fast er progress, Southern Democrats attacking the bill and the Demo cratic leadership defending its strategy. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, Democratic whip and floor manager of the House-pass ed legislation, said sessions from noon to about 7 p.m. will con tinue this week. But he left the door open for a quick change. Starting next week, he said, the leadership will “evaluate the situation.” Sens. Richard B. Russell, D.- Ga., John Stennis, D.-Miss., and others got in verbal licks for the Southern cause. Russell charged that civil rights proponents, who include both Democrats and Republicans, are “lusting for blood and thirsting for battle.” And Stennis charged the leg islation “tramples ruthlessly upon the most sacred and fundamental rights of the majority.” He said it destroys more “cherished hu man individual rights than it can possibly protect and pre serve.” The civil rights bill, consid ered the most sweeping in the nation’s history, is designed prin cipally to assure Negroes full access to public places, strength en their voting and employment rights, speed school desegregation and authorize withholding of fed eral funds from projects in which discrimination is practiced. Sen. Kenneth B. Keating, R.- N. Y., touched off the feuding. “I do not understand the strategy of having the Senate meet at noon and quit at 6 or 7 o’clock on this bill,” he said. “We are not meeting as long as we did on the tax bill or the farm bill.” He said he assumed one rea son for not holding longer ses- “Sports Car Center” Dealers for Renault-Peugeot & British Motor Cars Sales— Parts—Service I “We Service All Foreign Cars”! ■1422 Texas Ave. TA 2-45171 SERVING BRYAN and COLLEGE STATION * SAM HOUSTON ZEPHYR Schedule Change Effective April 26 Lv. N. Zulch 10:08 a.m. Ar. Dallas . . 12:47 p.m. Lv. N. Zulch Ar. Houston 7:31 p.m. 9:25 p.m. FORT WORTH AND DENVER RAILWAY N. L. CRYAft, Agent EX 9-2151 • NORTH ZULCH % X : .%• X; X* the development of the A-ll, we simply won’t have a manned sec ond strike capability, or for that matter any capability at all, ex cepting the Polaris subs and their missiles. Although there will undoubt edly be larger, or at least, more effective Polaris missiles, at pre sent their capacity to render mass destruction on any enemy is far less than the larger land based missiles. If then the Russians can suc ceed in neutralizing our land bas ed HCBMs, shoot down our slow subsonic B-52s and even slower B-47s, we will be left with a handful of supersonic B-58s and chairman of the agricultural mark- short range Polaris missiles. eting section of the American The man in the street ponders Marketing Association s national and comes to the trusting con- Con ^ erence J une 15-17 in Dallas, elusion that surely a nation like Branson is a professor in the the U. S. has something up its Department of Agricultural Eco- sleeve. I hope we have; by golly comics and Sociology. I hope we do! The professor said the section Anyway, cheer up. Perhaps we meeting will emphasize opportuni- will have another stupendous an- ties and marketing methods for nouncement at the next Presi- agricultural supplier industries in dential press conference. One that selling equipment and supplies to says, “There you see, wo do have farmers and ranchers in the South- an ace up our sleeve.” west. Prof Appointed Dr. Robert E. Branson of A&M University has been appointed QW How much cl0 you * <now about Latin A 140-PAGE Jj Jj America? About the Alliance for Prog- Dcpnor ress? Are Yanquis to blame for Latinos' nr , rri . r . rri T ATTW shortcomings? What does the Moscow- PREPARED FOR JU/lllil Peking split mean to Lima, Caracas, TIME’S PUBLISHER Aiurc’DTri a c-i— n ; r p ri »cope isavailable AMERICA " ? Stae!e,,ne 0, La,m TO COLLEGE TT« These are some of the questions that STUDENTS AND L|Jl TIME'S Special Correspondent John EDUCATORS Scott set out last summer to answer T*T firsthand. “How Much Progress?” is LJJUUOJ-I the result —a 140-page report to TIME’S publisher. It is the twelfth in a series of annual studies Scott has been making for TIME, analyzing major political, economic and social develop ments throughout the world. “How Much Progress?" also includes a comprehensive bibliography and com parative tables on Latin American pop ulation, GNP, exports, prices, mone tary stability, U.S. investments, and food production. A copy of Scott's report on Latin Amer ica is available to students and edu cators with our compliments. Write TIME Special Report Box 834, Rockefeller Center New York, N.Y. 10020 sions was that Democratic lead ers planned only “token opposi tion” to an upcoming motion by Sen. Wayne Morse, D.-Ore., to send the bill temporarily to the Judiciary Committee. Morse cannot make his motion until the bill is before the Sen ate. Present debate is over a motion to take up the bill. Keating said adoption of Morse’s motion would permit the Democrats to bring up meat import quota legislation or other bills they want. Democratic leaders, however, said they will resist and defeat Morse’s motion. Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N. Y,, charged the Southerners are in full control, debating as long is they wish. He added that “only they know when we will be al lowed to vote on the motion." On Campus with MaxShukin {Author of “Rally Round the Flag, Boys!" and “Barefoot Boy With Cheek".) THE SLOW RUSH Illustrated below is the membership pin of a brand-new na tional fraternity called Signa Phi Nothing. To join Signa Phi Nothing and get this hideous membership pin absolutely free, simply take a pair of scissors, cut out the illustration, and paste it on your chest. Let me hasten to state that I do not recommend your joining Signa Phi Nothing. The only thing I recommend in this column is Marlboro Cigarettes, as any honest man would who likes good tobacco and a good filter, whose heart is quickened by a choice of soft pack or Flip-Top Box, and who gets paid every week for writing this column. I am frankly hard put to think of any reason why you should join Signa Phi Nothing. Some people, of course, are joiners by nature; if you are one such, I am bound to tell you there are any number of better organizations for you to join—the Cosa Nostra, for example, or the Society for the Placing of Water Troughs in Front of Equestrian Statues. - I datitoddtld'tyote ii ok iotirdtit But if you insist on joining Signa Phi Nothing, let me give you several warnings. First off, it is the only fraternity which admits girls. Second, there is no pledge period; each new mem ber immediately goes active. Perhaps “inactive” is a more ac curate word: there are no meetings, no drives, no campaigns, no sports, no games, no dues, no grip, and no house. The only thing Signa Phi Nothing has in common with other fraternities is a fraternity hymn. In fact, two hymns were sub mitted to a recent meeting of the national board of directors (none of whom attended). The first hymn goes: Signa Phi Nothing, Shining star, How we wonder If you are. The second hymn, rather more poetic in content, is to be sung to the tune of Also Sprach Zarathustra: A Guernsey’s a cow, A road is a lane, When you’re eating chow, Remember the mein. Pending the next meeting of the national board of directors (which will never be held) members are authorized to sing either hymn. Or, for that matter, Frenesi. Perhaps you are wondering why there should be such a fra ternity as Signa Phi Nothing. I can give you an answer—an answer with which you cannot possibly disagree: Signa Phi Nothing fills a well-needed gap. Are you suffering from mental health? Is logic distorting your thinking? Is ambition encroaching on your native sloth? Is your long-cherished misinformation retreating before a sea of facts? In short, has education caught up with you? If so, congratulations. But spring is upon us and the sap is rising, and the mind looks back with poignant longing to the days when it was a puddle of unreason. If—just for a moment—you want to recapture those care less vaporings, that warm, squishy confusion, then join Signa Phi Nothing and renew your acquaintance with fecklessness. We promise nothing, and, by George, we deliver it! © 1964 Max Shulmao * * * We, the makers of Marlboro Cigarettes, promise smoking en joyment, and we think you’ll think we deliver it—in all fifty states of this Union. Marlboro Country is where you are. f PEANUTS By Charles M. 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