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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, April 10, 1964 BATTALION EDITORIALS Research Closing Gap On Cancer Problem Are we closing- in on the cancer problem? There are hopeful indications. Great gains have been made. Greater gains can be made now. Research has produced major advances in recent years. Scientists are coming up with new and encouraging findings. This accounts for the feeling — as one scientist has said — that cancer might be conquered in our lifetime. The hopeful facts are that this year the lives of 48,000 people will be saved from cancer — people who would have died of the disease had they developed it a decade ago. Another hopeful fact is that half of those who develop cancer in any year can be saved if the disease is diagnosed early and treated promptly. This could mean 270,000 lives in 1964. A half century ago, few cancer patients had any hope of cure. Today there are more than 1,200,000 persons alive in the United States, cured of cancer. Despite this steady progress against cancer the problem remains a major one. Some 48,000,000 Americans now alive will develop the disease if present rates continue. This is one fourth of the population. Stark as this figure is, something can be done now. We are saving only one out of three who develop cancer. We could save one out of two. As the American Cancer Society says, an annual health checkup for everyone would go a long way in saving the one out of two. This means getting to your doctor in time. As for the other half, only future research can save them. A vast research effort, supported in the main by the ACS and the government’s National Cancer Institute, is being made to find ways of saving the one out of two who cannot now be saved. But the research effort goes beyond this. It is seeking ways of preventing all cancer through a vaccine or other means. It is hunting for drugs that will cure cancer. Despite progress made against cancer we cannot afford to stand still. The pace of research and education — our two most potent weapons against cancer — must be stepped up if we are to realize the hope the future promises, based on the facts we have today. Voluntary public-supported health agencies have been a major factor in combating diseas. They have offered the public an avenue to express its deep concern for the peoples’ health. The Salk vaccine against polio is a good example of what can be accomplished. If a vaccine against cancer is found — and all of us hope that it will be found — it may be your dollars contributed to the American Cancer Society during its annual April Crusade that helped make it possible. Residents Rate First equate women’s housing. “We have had more than 3,000 requests for applications from out-of-state women that could not be fulfilled,” an official reported. Inadequate housing is a greater barrier for women than for men. Auburn University closed appli cations for women on January 31, when it had accepted enough women to fill all available hous ing space. Cut-off period was four months earlier than for the period before the Fall 1963 quar ter. Florida State University has already filled its quota for women for next Fall’s freshman class—1,425 students, although a similar quota for freshmen men hasn’t yet been filled. For the past four years, the University reports that the quota for women has been filling up progressively earlier, and this year earlier than ever. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and operated by students as a university and community news paper and is under the supervision of the director of Stu dent Publications at Texas A&M University. Members of the Student Publications Board are James L. Lindsey, chairman ; Delbert McGuire, College of Arts and Sciences ; J. A. Orr, College of Engineering; J. M. Holcomb, College of Agriculture: and Dr. E. D. McMurry, College of Veterinary Medicine. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M is published in College Sta tion, Texas daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods. Septem ber through May, and once a week during summer school. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter here in are also reserved. A principal responsibility of the state and land-grant institu tions is to provide educational opportunity for residents of the state where they are located. Since residents are applying in greater numbers, many institu tions must perforce cut down on the number of non-residents they admit—in order to assure ad mission to qualified residents. One large and growing Mid western institution closed its quota for New York and New Jersey residents in early January, at the same time declaring it would continue to admit all quali fied residents of its state. A uni versity in the Far West announc ed it would decrease the number of out-of-state freshmen admitted to the 1964 Fall semester. A third university, in the Middle Atlantic region, doesn’t send ap plications for admission to out-of- state women, because of inad- MEMBER: | The Associated Press Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally by National advertising Service, Inc., New York City, Chicago, geles and San Francisco. ew Yoi Los A n- Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school year. $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 2% sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA Building; College Station, Texas. News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the editorial office. Room 4, YMCA Building. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. DAN LOUIS JR EDITOR Ronnie Fann Managing Editor j Jim Butler Sports Editor Marvin Schultz, Maynard Rogers Asst. Sports Editors I CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle “Could you let me know what we’ll be doing in class next Monday just in case I’m not recovered from th’ Civilian Weekend by then?” ‘Baby Boon 9 To Hit Fall Semester 9 64 This is the year of the baby boom, the year when the first outsize crop of post-war babies was due to apply to colleges and universities for admission as freshmen in the Fall of 1964. The babies are applying even beyond expectations. A survey of over 60 state universities and land-grant colleges shows that in early March, applications for Fall admission were running 32 per cent higher than last year at this time, while at 174 state Bulletin Board SATURDAY Indian Student’s Association will meet in the Gay Room of the YMCA Building at 7:30 p.m. TUESDAY American Institute of Aero nautics and Astronautics will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 228 of the Chemistry Building. Attention Aggies Candidates for Vanity Fair for the Aggieland ’64 can be entered at the Office of Student Publications in the basement of the Y.M.C.A. A portrait (8x10) head & shoulders and 1 snapshot full length with vital statis tics should be included. The deadline for turning in pic tures will be May 1st. FRIDAY “THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE” SATURDAY “SERGEANT WAS A LADY” Saturday Nile Preview also Sunday “NOTORIOUS LANDLADY” GRADUATING SENIORS —are you in need of a car? There is no need to wait if you have a military con tract or a job commitment. Come in today — “Test Drive” the “Really Hot One”—the 1964 Plymouth. Brazos Motor Co. ‘Serving the Brazos Valley for 41 years’ 1211 Texas Ave., Bryan, Texas TA 2-7009 TA 2-1965 Plymouth - Valiant - Studebaker colleges the increase was about a third higher than last year. But state institutions have also gone beyond expectations in pre paring for the boom. The state and land-grant universities group will be able to absorb at least 16 per cent more freshmen this year than they could last Fall, while the state college group will be able to take 25 per cent more. And these figures of 16 and 25 per cent are minimal. They include the exact numbers of freshmen which each institution said it could admit, but they do not pro ject figures for those institutions which declare they would admit all qualified applicants from their state or which set no arbitrary limit on freshman acceptance. This doesn’t mean, however, that each state university or land- grant college can admit 16 per cent more freshmen this Fall than it did last Fall. Institutional dif ferences very from the ten which are unable to admit any more freshmen than they did last year, to those which can absorb only a small increase, to those which said they could admit all who applied. The U. S. Office of Education estimates that total enrollment in colleges and universities will rise by 20 per cent this Fall. Part of this increase will be due to the fact that more upperclassmen are returning to college and that more college graduates are going on to graduate school. But enter ing freshmen will account for the bulk of the percentage increase. PALACE Bryan Z’SS79 NOW SHOWING FEATURES 1:45 - 4:07 - 6:36 - 9:09 Gregory/ tony Peck /Curtis Captain Newman, m.d; AND COST AWING ANGIE DICKINSON* BOBBY DARIN = A UNIVtASN. PKTUKL AS C0RP0AAI HM T0WPKWS QUEEN DOUBLE FEATURE Tony Curtis In ‘THE DEFIANT ONES’ Robert Wagner In ‘A KISS BEFORE DYING” TEXAS POLITICS Republican Candidates Criticize Rights Bill By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Texas candidates for the U. S. Senate and governor Republican nominations criticized Thursday the proposed civil rights bill and federal farm legislation and a Democratic candidate for gov ernor proposed a state youth commission. The two Democratic U. S. Sen ate candidates, Sen. Ralph Yar borough and Gordon McLendon, had no speeches on their cam paign schedule Thursday. George Bush, GOP Senate can didate, said in Waco the wheat- cotton subsidy bill passed by the House Wednesday, will result in higher prices for consumers. “Such measures are folly,” Bush said. Jack Cox said in Abilene the proposed civil rights bill “goes a long way toward the creation of a police state and gives un paralleled power to the attorney general and executive govern ment.” The GOP senate candi date addressed a law school group in Austin and a young Re publicans meeting in Abilene. Milton Davis, another GOP Senate candidate, in Dallas termed the civil rights bill “the most dangerous piece of legisla tion of the past generation be- MacArthur Aides Differ On Jim Lucas’ Story WASHINGTON <A>)_Two for mer aides of Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur took opposing sides Thurs day in a controversy whipped up by an interview quoting Mac Arthur as saying in 1954 that the British betrayed his Korean War plans to the Chinese Communists. Maj. Gen. Courtney Whitney, MacArthur’s close friend and associate, denounced as “pure fantasy” the statements attrib uted to MacArthur about the British government. Whitney said the report of the interview by Scripps-Howard correspondent Jim G. Lucas was “fictional non sense.” Maj. Gen. Charles A. Wil loughby, who was MacArthur’s chief of intelligence, said he was “in substantial agreement with the accuracy of Jim Lucas’ inter view . . .” Despite the sharp reaction, there actually was not a great deal new in the general content of either the Lucas story or an other 10-year-old interview writ ten by Bob Considine of Hearst Headline Service and published Wednesday. The five-star general died Sun day in Washington. Lucas’ story, however, included many comments on personalities of the day which he attributed to MacArthur and to which Whit ney took sharp exception. Earl Attlee, who was British prime minister at the time, de nounced as “complete nonsence and perfectly ridiculous” the charges of British “pei’fidity” and betrayal. A high State Department offi cial said Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who was in charge of Far Eastern affairs during the Korean War, agreed with British leaders. —Job Calls— TUESDAY BJ Inc. — Chemistry, geology, mechanical engineering, petro leum engineering and physics. Hughes Tool Company chanical engineering. Me- cause of the frightening power it would place in the hands of enforcing agencies.” Robert Morris, also a GOP Senate candidate, told a Fori worth reception “non-denomina- tional prayers in schools are be ing attacked by atheists wbo hope to secularize America's schools to conform with the dic tates of the United Nation’s 191 UNESCO convention in Paris." Jack Crichton, GOP candidate for governor, told an eveninf rally in Tyler he believes tbe outcome of the Wisconsin pri mary “provided that people in the North are as concerned as the people of the South over en croachment of the federal gov ernment on their personal lib erties.” Gov. John Connally was in Houston to receive a special award from the Texas Associa tion of Retarded Chaldren, and his Democratic opponent, Don Yarborough, campaigned in South Texas. “I am going to make it my business to find a new plan for youth,” Yarborough said in Sin- ton. Proposing a youth commis sion “to tap the energy and re sourcefulness of Texas’ young people,” he said the commission could operate a summer program to “make top-level assignments to young persons.” In the congressman-at-large race, Bob Baker of Houston told an evening Tyler reception the incumbent, Rep. Joe Pool of Dal las , “is so busy taking care of his Dallas friends he doesn’t have time for the rest of the state,” Another Democratic candidate, Dan Sullivan, told LaMarque pre cinct workers Baker and Pool “both want the votes of Republi cans and pseudo-Republicans be cause they both voted the big business party line in the legis lature.” 0 rexas :omple bmoun ihickei Mi Dr. N( niversil or of “ amp P. [avy ca] d cast! Much.of the story of how Macr Arthur felt about what happened in Korea was told after he was relieved of his command by for mer President Harry S. Truman in 1951. Southeast Missouri State Col lege — Accounting, business ad ministration, economics, education and psychology, English, history and government, mathematics, physics, physical education and sociology. A thre ,&M U her ph lied b: They ;ation 1 ies to arch f a pro onal In Dr. D: Gldlife obert 1 an an Spring Branch Independent School District—Biology, chem istry, mathematics, modern lan guages and physics. NOW SHOWING youVe® met the rat pac© x f m\ii nooh 1 AGGIELAND PICTURES FOR CADET STAFFS (1) Group pictures will be taken of each staff this year for use on the staff’s pages in the AGGIELAND ’64. They will be made at the Memorial Student Center between 1700 and 1800 hours, according to the schedule below. (2) Uniform for seniors will be dark green shirts, pink boot pants and boots. Uniforms for juniors will be dark green shirts and trousers (Capt. Midnight). G-H hats will be worn. (3) Schedule: The staffs listed under “A” will assemble on the front porch of the M.S.C. on the appointed day promptly at 1700 hours. The staffs listed under “B” will appear at 1720 hours. DATE Thurs., April 9 Fri., April 10 Tues., April 14 Wed., April 15 Thurs., April 16 “A” 1st. Wing, 4th. Gp. 6th. Batt., 4th. Batt. 1st. Bgd., 3rd. Batt. Corps Staff 3rd. Bgd., 2nd. Batt. “B” 2nd. Wing 5th. Batt. 3rd. Gp. Band Staff 2nd. Gp. ADVANCE-THE RWR v PANAVTSlorf STARTS WEDNESDAY “DR STRANGE LOVE Or “HOW I STOPPED WORRYING” ryan, s Dlumbt g the FOR 1 lember: ifint ha cted s merica ore ab id hab A spe exas the &M re )le to ter Li “JUS" lid, “j coll Mama 'o san “Our I, “wil 'ea wl 'und.” LOVE THE BOMB’ CIRCLE LAST NITE Jack Lemmons In UNDER THE YUM YUM TREE” DISTANT DRUMS” (Both In Color) OUR SAT. NITE BIG 3 No. 1 “LAND OF THE PHAROS” (In Color) No. 2 John Wayne In COMMANCHEROS” (In Color) No. 3 “CIRCLE OF DECEPTION” PEANUTS By Charles M. Schulz PEANUTS “RABIES..AN ^ 1 infectious virus DISEASE OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SV5T£iUlND06Sy You shouldn't be fussins ABOUT SETTINS THAT SHOT.. WU SHOULD BE GRATEFUL! WELL, IF YOU'RE NOT GRATEFUL, Wu SHOULD BE// •v-zo