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.
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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-
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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”
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also Sunday
“NOTORIOUS
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GRADUATING SENIORS
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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.
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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.”
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relieved of his command by for
mer President Harry S. Truman
in 1951.
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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.
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