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Volume 61 Cbe Battalion JE, COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1964 Number 87 Johanna Leister Named Sweetheart Johanna Now Pinned To 8,000 Aggies TWU Sophomore ‘Can't Believe It' A blue-eyed blonde from Orange began her reign Sunday as the 1964-65 Texas Aggie Sweetheart after being chosen over 12 other finalists from Texas Women’s University. Johanna Leister, 19-year-old speech and drama educa tion major, will be officially presented to the student body during halftime ceremonies at the SMU-A&M football game in Dallas, Nov. 7. The Aggie Sweetheart stands 5 feet 2 and one quarter inches with measurements of 34-23-34. She was a freshman beauty finalist last year at+ TWU. Other honors include membership in Alpha Lamda Delta, Zeta Phi Eta pledge and freshman dormitory coun selor. “This is unreal ... I just can’t Bright Look For Lions The College Station Lions Club will conduct an all-out drive Tues day and Wednesday nights to sell electric light bulbs to residents. All proceeds will go for sight con servation and other community service activities. The light bulbs will be sold in handy Project-Paks, each contain ing a popular household assortment of eight bulbs for $2. The entire membership of the Lions Club has been organized to supply friends and neighbors with light bulbs delivered to their doors. College Station residents have been asked to leave their porch lights on these nights. ALONG THE CAMPAIGN^ TRAILS Texas Campaign Continues Emphasis On National Race By The Associated Press The next-to-last week of the po litical season opened in Texas Mon day with emphasis again on the national campaigns. Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson cam paigned in the place of the Presi dent in Fort Worth, and U. S. Sen. John Tower campaigned for the Goldwater-Miller ticket in College Station. The struggle for Texas 25 elec- Faculty Exchange Gets New Location The Faculty Exchange which provides campus mail service will open Thursday in a new location across from the Exchange Store, Tom D. Cherry, Director of Busi ness Affairs, announced. The move into the larger quar ters using a portion of the Military Property Custodian Offices Build ing will allow the closing of an ex change substation in the Agronomy Building. The substation has been used since the Faculty Exchange quarters on the main floor of the Academic Building became too Students Wanted For Talent Show A&M University students have been invited to audition for a spe cial talent show scheduled by KHOU-TV, Channel 11, Houston. Local auditions will be held at 7-9 p.m. Oct. 27 in Room 119 of G. Rollie White Coliseum. David L. Rawle will represent KHOU-TV at the auditions. All types of talent, from trained seals to fancy-dress folk singers, are invited to audition, Rawle said. small. “This move is a decision of the Executive Committee,” Cherry said. “This new location will be tem porary, as the building will be eventually demolished,” Cherry said. “When that time comes, more suitable quarters of a permanent nature will be provided.” The centralized mail metering service provided by the Faculty Exchange has increased the space needs and there are possibly other services to be offered. “All of this grows out of recom mendations from the state auditors that we go to metered mail service and they have helped us with this program,” Cherry said. The present quarters of the Fac ulty Exchange will be converted to office space. The campus mail service proc esses 15,000 pieces of mail daily, Wallace Dean Beal, director, said. The operation is a seven-day week service for A&M, the System of fices on the campus, Agricultural and Engineering Experiment Sta tions and Engineering Extension Service offices on campus. toral votes will continue Thursday and Friday. Former President Eisenhower will speak Thursday in San An tonio for the Republican ticket, as will former Sen. William Knowland of California, in a Houston appear ance. Former Vice President Rich ard Nixon will speak in Houston Friday. President Johnson said Monday that developments in the Commu nist world require a “careful watch and only reinforce the need to con tinue basic, bipartisan foreign pol icy.” The President made the state ment while talking with newsmen following a 2%-hour White House conference attended by 17 congres sional leaders of both parties. He said the congressional lead ers had been briefed on the world picture and steps the United States is taking in light of the shakeup in the Soviet leadership and Com munist China’s first successful nu clear test. Johnson also told newsmen that he would meet with his special ad visory committee on foreign policy Wednesday. He said he wants to draw on broad experience on a bi- Seniors Selling Trays, Pennants Senior class sales of serving trays and pennants began Monday in campus dormitories. The trays and pennants, selling for $5.95, can be ordered during the next two weeks with any year printed on them. Dormitory salesmen will be blanketing the campus. Additional civilian and Corps salesmen are needed and may enlist by calling Bill Altman at VI 6-6110 after 6 p.m. Delivery of the items will be completed before adjournment for the Christmas holidays. partisan basis in his consideration of last week’s events in China and Russia plus recent developments elsewhere in the world. He expressed hope they would join in renewed efforts to prevent the further spread of nuclear pow er. And he noted the possibility that Red China might try to en gage in “nuclear blackmail” stem ming from its successful test of a low yield device Friday. believe it,” she said, smiling through happy tears moments after the announcement of her selection was made in the Memorial Student Center. Frank Muller, president of the Student Senate, was chosen “Mr Congeniality” by the finalists. Other finalists included Judi Ma- haney, Judy Jones, Melanie McCoy, Romelia Quintanilla, Sallie Mag- ruder, Whitney Vickers, Olivia Payne, Carol Ann Schuster, Suz anne Hunt, Dianna Lynn Kenny, Belinda Davis and Cecilia Ruiz. The finalists arrived on campus Friday and were escorted by a 14-man Selection Committee. The weekend activities included eating in Duncan Dining Hall, attending Town Hall, Midnight Yell Practice Friday, and a brunch in the MSG and the football game Saturday. Saturday night the finalists were guests at the formal dinner-dance. Sunday included chapel in All Faiths Chapel, breakfast, a caucus of the committee and the selection of Miss Leister. Garry Tisdale pinned Miss Leis ter with the Aggie Pin and pre sented her Sweetheart Roses and an orchid from Hawaii. The executive selection commit tee consisted of Muller, Terry Odd- son, Jim Benson, Mike Palmer, Tis dale, Robert Nalley, Charles Wal lace, Don Warren, Bill Camp, Hale Burr, Neil Keltner, Mario Maca- luso, Jay Jaynes and Frank Cox. Foreign Ags Feted Sunday A reception honoring the 433 foreign students was held Sunday in the Memorial Student Center. A&M President and Mrs. Earl Rudder and Chancellor and Mrs. M. T. Harrington were among University officials who met the students at the two hour event. The reception in the MSC ball room was sponsored by the Ameri can Association of University Wo men, the Campus Study Club, the Pan American Round Table and the Extension Service Club. Fire Causes Minor Damage An overheated wall heater in a student apartment resulted in a fire causing “minor damage” at 12:45 a.m. Monday, Walter H. Parsons Jr., superintendent of buildings and utilities reported. Insurance adjusters and univer sity representatives were assess ing loss from the flames Monday. The blaze was in an apartment of Project House 13-B. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Owen occupy the apart ment. Mrs. Owen reported the bathroom was damaged exten sively. Toilet Poets On New Kick: Politics Remember when the most un printable things in the world materialized mysteriously on rest room walls?. Well, there isn’t room in Nagle Hall’s men’s room for risque jokes, now. The politicians have taken over! Here is a sample of the run ning debate between anonymous people who air their presidential learnings in the place traditional ly occupied by “fools’ names and fools’ faces.” “Help Goldwater stamp out peace!” “Help Johnson stamp out us!” “Help stamp out people who want to stamp out others.” “History demonstrates that the best way to go to war is to be come weak (elect Goldwater).” “Where did you study your history ? ” “Who says we are weak with our nuclear capacity?” “But Johnson won’t use it any way.” Does this indicate the depths to which a campaign can sink, or merely that restroom poets are becoming political science students ? Great Issues Host Robert St. John Robert St. John, noted writer and traveler, will speak at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom as part of the Great Issues series. The speaker has written 14 books, including several best-sell ers. “Ben-Gurion, the Biography of an Extraordinary Man” was an instant success in 1959. By the end of that year it had gone through nine editions and had been translated into eight foreign langu ages. In 1961 St. John rewrote the book for children, calling it “Builder of Israel.” Because of his intimate knowl edge of Israel, St. John was com missioned by Life magazine in 1962 to write the definitive vol ume in its Life World Library on the history, geography, culture, and future of Israel, published in a first edition of 500,000 copies. A major portion of St. John’s life during the past quarter-cen tury has been spent in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He has learned to speak several lang uages in his travels. St. John was a war correspondent in Europe in World War II for the Associated Press. He switched to the National Broadcasting Co. The World at a Glance By The Associated Press International HONG KONG—Peking, happy with the success of its first atomic test, will go all out now to boost its nuclear potential, specialists on Communist China said Monday. ★ ★ ★ MOSCOW—The Kremlin’s leaders pledged Mon day to push on to Nikita Khrushchev’s twin goals of peace and prosperity but suggested the old premier was “boldly cast aside” because he hampered progress. ★ ★ ★ LONDON—Prime Minister Harold Wilson called his first Cabinet together Monday under the threat of a dock strike and falling prices on the stock market. ★ 'k BELGRADE, Yugoslavia—Marshal Sergei S. Biryuzov, the No. 2 man in the Soviet defense ministry, and five other Soviet general officers died Monday in the flaming crash of a Russian air liner outside Belgrade in foul weather. ★ ★ ★ SAIGON, South Viet Nam—The stepped-up tempo of the Viet Nam war left 749 dead last week with Viet Cong casualties running nearly double those of the government forces, the Defense Min istry reported today. ★ ★ ★ NEW DELHI, India—Prime Minister Lai Baha dur Shastri warned India Monday “the Chinese are trying to build up a mighty war machine and thus create fear in the minds of all. We are confronted with a nuclear menace in Asia.” TOKYO—Japan’s Central Meteorological Agency said radioactivity collected Monday from dust over Japan increased by 100 times the normal amount. It added, however, that the amount was not dan gerous to human beings. National DETROIT—A three-day American Motors Corp. strike ended Monday. President Johnson meanwhile prodded General Motors and the United Auto Work ers to end the 25-day-old GM strike in the interest of the national economy. ★ ★ ★ LINCOLN, Neb.—Little Black Sambo, the fairy tale type story about a dark-skinned boy pursued by a tiger through the jungle, has been banished from the Lincoln public school system. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission ruled Monday that Sen. Barry Gold- water is not entitled to equal time on radio and television to answer President Johnson’s address to the nation Sunday night. Texas DALLAS—Teamsters Joint Council 80, which has jurisdiction in parts of Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas, has voted unanimously to support all Democratic nominees in the Nov. 3 election, W. L. Piland, secretary-treasurer of the council, said Monday. ★ ★ ★ LAREDO—Sam Hoover turned trial lawyer Monday in his tax fraud trial and cross-examined a government witness. in 1942, and became emcee of the “Believe It or Not” television show. The first volume of St. John’s autobiography, “This Was My World,” was published in 1953. He told of his first experience with bloodshed at the age of 16 when he ran away from home and got to France with the United States armed forces in World War I. St. John has lectured since early in World War II. In recent years he has divided his time between gathering stories abroad and one- night talks in America. NSF Grants University $202,800 The National Science Foundation has granted A&M University $202,- 800 to sponsor the 1965-66 science institute for junior high school science teachers, President Earl Rudder announced Monday. The nine-month Academic Year Institute again will sponsor 30 teachers’ advanced studies in the sciences. The new grant assures the fourth year for A&M under NSF sponsorship to offer the pro gram. Director of the institute is Dr. J. G. Potter, Department of Phy sics head. Applications have been invited from teachers under 40 years of age, with three years or more of junior high school teaching exper ience and a B average in under graduate work. Applicants also should have a year of college-level chemistry and physics and one semester each of college algebra and trigonometry. Interested teachers may contact C. M. Loyd, NSF coordinator on campus. Teachers chosen for the program in 1965-66 will arrive here in Aug ust. Each will receive a living stipend of $3,000 for nine months plus allowances for dependents, travel, tuition, fees and books. Most of the course work is ap plicable on a Master of Educa tion in Science degree. The first semester of study in cludes courses in analytical geo metry and calculus, oceanography, chemistry and physics, plus a semi nar. The studies also include geo logy, meteorology, astronomy and physics, plus a seminar, during the second semester.