Campus Smoking—After The Storm
By MIBB BBCB
If the Justice Department
clears the recent cigarette manu
facturers’ advertising restriction
code A&M students may have
seen the last of (free) cigarette
samples on their dining hall
tables.
One section of the code pro
posed by the cigarette makers
specifically ends the distribution
of free sample cigarette to any
one under 21 and the distribu
tion of advertising promoting
cigarette smoking on school or
college campuses.
According to an announcement
made Monday by the Tobacco
Institute of the United States,
cigarette makers have agreed to
a strict advertising code. The
code contains sections that pro
hibit ads which “represent that
cigarette smoking is essential to
social prominence, distinction,
success or sexual attraction. Al
so in the code are many restric
tions on advertising which are
aimed at persons under 21.
This action being taken by the
Tobacco Institute came as a re
sult of a government official re
port issued in January declaring
cigarette smoking a grave menace
to life and health.
In an opinion poll conducted
early this year concerning this
government report students, fa
culty and employees who offered
their opinions were of the gen
eral concensus that smoking is
detrimental to health and that
there would be a brief decline in
smoking, but that it would soon
recover and surpass the previous
amount of tobacco usage.
Students and employees who
offered their opinions in a similar
poll on smoking early this week
held more varied opinions but
for the most part felt that these
earlier predictions had materia
lized.
All the discoveries, controvers
ies and announcements made in
the past three and a half months
seem to have had only a small
influence on A&M students.
The influence on the sales of
tobacco products in the Memorial
Student Center is considered
hardly noticeable by John Corn
ejo, bell boy in the MSC. Cornejo
also handles the ordering of
tobacco products for the front
desk.
Cornejo said, “It (the govern
ment report) hasn’t really af
fected the sales much. For about
two days the students bought a
lot of cigars but that was about
all the change I noticed.”
According to a salesgirl in the
MSC Gift Shop, the sale of tobac
co, pipes and cigars had gone up
but recently the volume of cigar
ette sales are also on the rise.
She felt that the increase in cigar
and pipe sales and the decrease
in cigarette sales had not been
because of the government report.
She explained, “When the wea
ther is cold students tend to
smoke pipes more. In the sum
mer they don’t like to bother
with carrying them around so
they smoke more cigarettes. Now
that the warm weather is here
they’ll buy more cigarettes.”
Another salesgirl in the gift
shop, Mrs. Susan Westmoreland,
estimated that about one-fourth
of her customers had changed to
cigars or pipes in the past three
months.
Raymond Prewitt, sophomore
Business Administration major,
expressed an opinion in the poll
held by many students who en
joy smoking.
He said, “I enjoy smoking and
though I’m not the most athle
tic person I know I’m not hurt
ing myself right now. Besides, I
want to die happy. I have con
sciously cut down since all those
reports came out though. My
pocket book can’t take it.”
Many students stated they have
cut down since the report came
out but that they do not have the
will power to completely stop.
One married student said that his
wife had limited him to one-half
pack a day but that he felt he
couldn’t stop altogether. He also
said that some of his friends had
taken up cigar smoking at the
rate of from five to ten a day.
Bobby Vacker, a sophomore B.
A. major, kas of the opinion
that smoking is not necessarily
as dangerous as the report con
sidered it to be. He said that his
parents smoked a pack a day
and they are perfectly healthy.
Vacker said, “I used to smoke
until I got bronchitis and then
everytime I’d smoke after that
I’d start coughing, so I gave it
up.” Vacker added that his bron-
chities was not connected with
his smoking.
George Thomas, a freshman
mechanical engineering major,
was not so interested with smok
ing as he was with his personal
need for cigarettes. Thomas said,
“I’m a nervous person and it
helps me to calm down if I have
a cigarette. I’ll probably quit
this summer when I go home.
I was like this all the way
through high school. Whenever
I’d have to take a test, my mind
would usually go blank, I was so
nervous.”
Phil Filburn, a sophomore aero
space engineer major, is a non-
smoker who feels that the choice
is up to the individual. He said,
“Both my parents are smokers.
I just never have started, but if
I did I probably wouldn’t stop be
cause someone told me it was
dangerous. If someone told me
right now that milk was danger
ous I’d go ahead and drink it
anyway because I like it. If
people want to kill themselves,
let them; it’s their lives.”
With several persons giving up
smoking, several cutting down
and many more continuing as us
ual the A&M campus appears to
be in stride with national public
reaction to the Surgeon General’s
report.
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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1964
Number 40
USSR Wants
Anti-China Aid
From Yanks
WASHINGTON <*») —- U. S.
officials are intrigued by evi
dence that the Soviet Union now
would like this country to give
her a hand in Moscow’s strug
gle with Red China.
This seems to be what the Rus
sians are aiming at with their
lecture to the American press
Thursday about printing Red
Chinese charges against Soviet
communism.
Beneath the surface, however,
the Soviets actually appear to be
trying to use their dispute with
the Red Chinese in an effort to
wring concessions from the United
States in fields of disarmament,
nuclear arms for NATO, or the
future of Germany and Berlin.
Pravda published an article
Thursday criticizing U. S. news
papers for printing what the pa
per called “rude’ gross, anti-Soviet
iwentions” of the Chinese. It
said one effect is to perpetuate
the “myth about the aggressive
nature of the Soviet.”
The Pravda article implied that
the U. S. press publishes only
Chinese charges. It ignored the
extensive coverage by American
newspapers, radio and television
of both sides of the dispute that
has changed the shape of the Com
munist world.
U. S. experts said the Soviet
purpose in Thursday’s article was
not clearly developed but that
it had been brought out in a Mos
cow English language broadcast
to North America 12 days ago.
This developed two themes:
that Soviet Communists are work
ing for world peace and deserve
U. S. support for their efforts, and
that the Soviets do not like the
views of “such men as Sen. Barry
Goldwater and members of the
John Birch Society.”
Wire
Review
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
MOSCOW — Gay splashes of
colored bunting decorated Moscow
for the May Day holiday as the
capital took on a festive air Thurs
day despite the schism with Com
munist China.
★ ★ ★
HAVANA — Prime Minister
Fidel Castro warned against
more U. S. plane flights over
Cuba, declaring: “We will de
fend our sovereignty, whatever
it may cost and wherever it may
happen.”
U. S. NEWS
WASHINGTON — A Republican
council urged Thursday an end
to U. S. curbs on anti-Castro
raiders and establishment of a
Cuban government-in-exile.
It said such a government
should be set up in Latin Ameri
ca to rally 300,000 Cuban refugees
“to work openly for the liberation
of Cuba.”
★ ★ ★
BOSTON — The United States
plans to resume its troubled
Hanger moon probe program in
June and to rocket a camera
carrying Mariner spacecraft
toward Mars in November, space
scientists reported Thursday.
Area Precinct Polling Places
PRECINCT NO.
& LOCATION
MILLIGAN
WELLBORN
A&M CONSOLIDATED
STEEL STORE
HARVEY
KURTEN
TABOR
EDGE
SMETANA
BEN MILAM SCHOOL
TRAVIS SCHOOL
RELIANCE
CROCKETT SCHOOL
FANNIN ELEM. SCHOOL
AMERICAN LEGION
COLLEGE HILLS
BOWIE SCHOOL
STEPHEN F. AUSTIN SCHOOL
BRYAN FIRE STATION
County Selects
Party Choices
This Saturday
Brazis County residents will begin their selection
of nominees for state and county offices in the Republican
and Democratic primaries Saturday.
Along with the nominees, the parties will select their
respective officers in county conventions which will also
begin then.
The Democrats in Brazos county have 49 candidates in
28 races on the ballot. Incumbents are unopposed in 15 races.
These do not include the candidates for precinct chair
men.
The Republicans in Brazos County have 19 candidates in
16 races. Incumbents are unopposed in 15 races.
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Prof Writes
Study Satire
A satire on scholarly studies at
tempting to prove that almost any
one except Shakespeare wrote the
plays and poems has been written
by A&M University Asst. Profes
sor of English J. F. Peirce.
The satire, entitled “The Great
Shakespeare Mystery,” appears in
the current issue of “Ellery
Queen’s Mystery Magazine.”
Peirce, who teaches creative
writing and other English courses,
also is the author or coauthor of
two other recent stories in the
same publication.
“The Lonely Ones,” a story of
crime and detection, appeared in
the March issue.
Seat Belts Here!
The last shipment of seat
belts, model J800, have arrived
and may be picked up at the rear
of the old fire station across
from the Exchange Store from
5-6 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Former Students
Reward Lindsay
Dr. James D. Lindsay, head of
the Department of Chemical Engi
neering, was recently presented
with a 1964 Chevrolet Impala.
The car was purchased with
money given by former students of
Lindsay in appreciation of his ef
forts to aid them in starting their
careers. Lindsay is scheduled to
retire Aug. 31, after service to the
university dating from 1938.
Enough extra money was re
ceived to set up a scholarship in
Lindsay’s name. It amounted to
$1600 by Saturday night as con
tributions continue to come in.
At an appreciation banquet
Lindsay also received a scrapbook
filled with letters of appreciation
from his former students. A lov
ing cup was presented to Mrs.
Lindsay.
Under the direction of a steer
ing committee, letters were sent to
Lindsay’s 1200 former students
asking them to send contributions
to the fund and suggesting that
one dollar for every year an ex
had been out of school would be a
reasonable amount.
Members of the steering com
mittee were Edward Ivey, Oliver
Osborn, C. A. Kroll, R. J. Lane and
Russell Huddleston.
“I think it is unique and fitting
that students should do something
of this nature for a professor who
has made their lives after gradua
tion a little easier,” said Fred H.
Parrott, ’39, of Houston and a for
mer student of Lindsay’s.
Champ Fund
Two more outfits joined the
Champ Fund honor roll, as
Squadron 8 and Company E-l
sent in contributions.
Ronnie Fann, Battalion editor,
said the project had now sur
passed the $500 mark.
FFA Honors
Top Students
The A&M University Collegiate
Future Farmers of America Chap
ter will honor top students and
professors at its annual Student-
Prof Banquet Friday.
Charles Urbanic of Galveston,
junior agricultural education ma
jor and banquet committee chair
man, said activities start at 6:30
p.m. in the Ramada Inn.
The main speaker is Benny Mays
of Brashear, state FFA president.
Urbanic said other guests will
include George Hurt and Clemon
Montgomery of Austin, state di
rector of vocational agriculture
and executive secretary of the Tex
as Association of Future Farmers
of America, respectively.
Vernon Cook of Perryton, A&M
Collegiate FFA chapter president,
is master of ceremonies.
Awards will go to the outstand
ing seniors in the fall and spring
semester, to the outstanding junior
of the school year, and to the
outstanding professor in the Col
lege of Agriculture and the Agri-
| cultural Education Department.
If one includes the pres
idential preference primary
on the bottom of the Republi
can ballot there are an addi
tional four candidates. These
are Barry M. Goldwater of Ari
zona, Nelson Rockefeller of New
York, Margaret Chase Smith of
Maine, and Harold Stassen of
penn.
The GOP senatorial nomination
race—with four active campaign
ers—has been drawing a great
deal of attention because a heavy
vote is expected to pick the man
who will join Sen. John Tower
as the second GOP senator from
Texas.
Because of this and the pre
ferential primary it is hoped by
many Republicans that there will
be a record vote for their pri
mary in Brazos County.
Herbert Shaffer, Brazos County
Republican chairman, said Thurs
day night that there were four
times as many absentee ballots
filed this year as last year. “I
hope that this is indicative of
the future of the two party sys
tem in Texas.” Shaffer would
not hazard a guess at the number
of voters in the Republican pri
mary, but expressed his desire to
work for an effective two party
system in Texas. “With a two
party system there is competition
and a healthy balance.” added
Shaffer.
Shaffer said that the polling
places will be open from 8 a.m.
until 7 p.m. He further stated
that all precint conventions will
be held at 7 p.m. after the polls
close.
Buddy Williams, Brazos County
Democratic chairman, said that he
hoped that 10,000 voters would
turn out for the Democratic pri
mary. “There are close to 15,000
eligible voters including the over
aged,” said Williams.
“A small vote is not always
good, for if a large number of
voters show up people are more
satisfied with the results of the
election,” said Williams. “I feel
like the people have spoken after
a large vote,” added Williams.
Both Williams and Shaffer are
uncontested in their respective
races for county chairmen.
Although the results of the presi
dential preferences primary on the
Republican ballot will not be bind
ing on the delegatios to national
convention on July 13 in San Fran
cisco, a victory could give the
winner a big boost. County chair
men have been instructed by the
state GOP chairman to count write-
ins.
Grad Lecture
Set Monday
Professor Robert S. Hansen of
the Iowa State University chem
istry faculty will present an
A&M University Graduate Col
lege Lecture at 4 p.m. Monday
in Chemistry Building Room 231.-
Dr. Hansen has published ex
tensive research results and is
recognized as one of the out
standing surface chemists of the
world, the announcement from
Graduate Dean Wayne C. Hall’s
office said.
“Field Emission and Flash
Filament Studies of Reactions of
Hydrocarbons on Metals Sur
faces,” is Dr. Hansen’s an
nounced topic.
Grade Schools
Seeking Men,
Survey Shows
Additional male teachers are
sought for elementary schools, 63
Texas school systems reported in
an A&M University survey.
The school survey was conduct
ed by Dr. Paul R. Hensarling, head
of the Department of Education
and Psychology, and a graduate
student, Anne Letbetter.
“To help boys to acquire the
male influence in their lives” was
cited as the prime reason for want
ing additional men teachers.
Elementary education offers
good opportunities for advance
ment, Dr. Hensarling’s report not
ed.
“The school systems indicated a
desire to have a ratio of one man
teacher to four women,” Dr. Hen
sarling said. The current ratio is
1 to 13.
The schools indicated they want
men as well as women teachers in
the third through sixth grades.
Fewer than two per cent want men
to teach the first two grades.
Most of the reasons listed by the
school officials for increasing the
number of men teachers revolves
around the “male image.”
Other reasons included the need
for men to work with boys in ex
tracurricular activities, standards
of discipline, leadership, authority,
responsibility, technical knowledge
and the fact that men are more
permanent in the profession.