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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1964
Number 94
Prof Upholds
Bible Theory
Of Evolution
By CLOVIS McCALLISTER
News Editor
Dr. John McIntyre, professor of
physics in the Cyclotron Institute,
spoke on Science and Religion at
the Apollo Club Thursday night.
McIntyre said the Bible con
tained problems but they could be
worked out similar to the working
out of a problem encountered in
physics. He said that the whole
Bible should not be thrown out
because a few things might not be
1 correct.
He said that most university and
college campuses have a wide field
of academic freedom but when the
topic of religion is raised, every
one appears embarrassed.
The speaker said he feels from
talking to students that psycholo
gy and philosophy professors are
more inclined not to believe in
Christ than the scientist.
When questioned about the in-
| terpretation of Genesis: 1, Mc
Intyre said he took it to mean
what it said but he did not con
strue the days to be literal days
since the moon and sun for the
measuring of days was not created
until the fourth day.
He added that the biblical story
of creation is close to the idea held
by the scientists.
The scientist said evolutists can
give examples and signs of evolu
tion but the theory does not have
a law for the evolving.
Ag Extension
Week Honors
2 Specialists
This week has been proclaimed
as Texas Agricultural Extension
Service 50th Anniversary Week by
Gov. John Connally.
A part of the A&M University
System, the Extension Service now
employs 834 persons. Of these, 159
are specialists, including Dr. Dale
Burnett and F. A. Orts in the De-
pament of Animal Husbandry.
Orts, meats specialist, has been
studying streamlined lamb carcass
es to boost lamb sales in wholesale
and retail markets. Orts explains
that lamb carcasses are stream
lined by removing plate, brisket,
fore shanks and flank from the
earcasses. The streamlined carcass
es will make it easier to study the
relationship of tenderness to meat-
•ness and carcass quality, said
Orts.
Burnett, horse specialist, heads
a four-year-old 6,000-membership
°rse program designed for Texas
4 -H Clubs.
Burnett said the purpose of this
P'ugram with horses is to help the
°ys and girls achieve (1) a better
understanding of the horse and its
Pace in agriculture and recreation,
2) a knowledge of breeding, feed-
'Ug, training, management and use
° fhe kinds of horses found in the
nited States and especially Texas,
) an ability to judge horses, (4)
a se nse of achievement through
] & row ;ng, training and showing ani-
m als under their management, (5)
a nowledge of record keeping that
. demonstrate to them a finan-
c 'al gain or loss and improve their
managerial abilities, (6) a per
sonality liked by all through com-
Petition and training in 4-H Club
and other activities, and (7) a love
Ior borses.
A&M Home Finale Scheduled
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LEON BIBB
Minority Popular Vote:
Fame, Fortune Or Fate?
By GLENN DROMGOOLE
Managing Editor
If this year’s successful Presi
dential candidate receives less
than half the popular vote, will
he follow the unlucky paths of
his predecessors?
In the history of the United
States, 12 Presidents have been
sworn in although they lacked a
majority total vote: John Quincy
Adams, James Polk, Zachary
Taylor, James Buchanan, Abra
ham Lincoln, Rutherford B.
Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grov
er Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison,
Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman
and John F. Kennedy.
Only one of these served two
complete successive terms in the
White House. This poses the
question: Are minority Presi
dent unlucky?
It would appear so. The first
popular election was held in 1824,
with Andrew Jackson polling 50,-
000 more votes than his nearest
rival, John Quincy Adams. Jack-
son also drew more electoral
votes, but not a majority, so the
election had to be decided by the
House of Representatives. Adams
was declared the winner, a deci
sion extremely unpopular with
Jackson supporters. He never
served another term, for in 1828
Jackson solidly defeated him.
The next minority President
was James Polk, who gained a
38.000 plurality but lacked 24,000
votes having a majority. Polk, a
Democrat, lasted only one term,
as Whig Zachary Taylor won the
1848 Presidential race. However,
Taylor also fell short of a ma
jority by 160,000 votes. “Old
Rough and Ready” died in office.
In 1856 James Buchanan lacked
370.000 votes being a majority
President, and he held office only
four years. His party—like the
Democrats—were not to regain
the Presidency for 28 years.
With this party splitting its
votes between Stephen A. Doug
las and J. C. Breckenridge in
1860, Abraham Lincoln, often re
garded as our greatest President,
was elected although he repre
sented the minority by 950,000
votes. After pulling the Union
through the Civil War, Lincoln
was re-elected. He had hopes of
reuniting the nation as painlessly
as possible, but he became the
victim of an assassin’s bullet be
fore his second term was com
pleted.
In the election of 1876 Ruther
ford B. Hayes not only lacked
a majority vote, he did not even
have a plurality.
Samuel J. Tilden gained 250,-
000 more popular votes than
Hayes, but the election returns
of Florida, Louisiana, South
Carolina and Oregon were dis
puted. An electoral commission
was created by Congress to deter
mine the outcome, and it named
Hayes, a Republican, the winner
by giving him all 22 disputed
electoral votes for a 185-184 mar
gin.
This commission, consisting of
eight Republicans and seven Dem
ocrats, voted strictly by party
lines in awarding him the deci
sion. After Hayes’ one term in
the White House, the Republicans
discarded him and nominated and
elected James A. Garfield in 1880.
Garfield was chosen by a 7,000
vote plurality as he squeezed
past his nearest opponent, despite
being 310,000 votes short of a
majority. Chester A. Arthur had
to finish the term, for Garfield
was assassinated on July 2, 1881.
Grover Cleveland became the
first Democrat elected President
after the Civil War when he
gained a 62,683 plurality over the
Republican nominee, James G.
Blaine, in 1884.
He was 220,000 ballots short of
50 percent of the total vote, how
ever, and in 1888 he was defeated
and had to relinquish the chair
to Benjamin Harrison, a Repub
lican. Harrison finished second
in the popular vote total that
year, but not in the all-important
electoral college. Cleveland out-
ALONG THE CAMPAIGN^ TRAILS
Shabby Code Of Conduct
Is Charged By Goldwater
By The Associated Press
The Republican presidential can
didate, Arizona Sen. Barry Gold-
water, accused the Johnson admin
istration Thursday night of a
“shabby code of conduct.”
Sen. Goldwater cited the case
of Otto Otepka, former State De-
3Dorms ‘Definitely’ To Open Monday
A&M University students “de
finitely” win move Monday and
Tuesday into three new dormitor-
Dean of Student James P.
nnnigan announced. The move
W >11 complete the occupancy of
^■-conditioned student housing
l0r more than 2,100 students,
Pa rt of a $4,000,000 project.
, We have arranged with Build-
and Utilities for trucks to
t}\ U ^ e k ac k and forth between
e dormitory 12 area and the
Dormitory 15 area to carry foot-
lockers and such,” the dean said.
More than 700 students are
expected to occupy the 384 rooms
in Dormitories 14, 15 and 16.
The students will move into the
new dormitories from Dormitor
ies 3, 9 and 12 and Milner and
Mitchell Halls.
Two new dormitories and four
renovated dormitories were oc
cupied in September. All but
one of five new student lounges
already are in operation.
partment security officer, stating
Otepka had been relieved of his
duties because he had testified be
fore a congressional committee on
State Department security prac
tices.
“Taken alone, the treatment of
Otepka is bad enough,” Goldwater
said in a speech for a rally in the
civic arena.
“When it is viewed in the con
text of the coverup of the Bobby
Baker matter, the Billie Sol Estes
matter and the casual reaction to
the Jenkins affair, it is indeed a
sordid picture,” Goldwater said.
“What can we expect at lower
levels in government if this is the
shabby code of conduct that pre
vails at the Cabinet level, in the
State Department and in the White
House?” he asked.
President Johnson said Thursday
night next Tuesday’s election re-
i turns “will prove to all in this
land” that “there is not going to
be another crack in the Liberty
Bell.”
“I know — and you know —
that the returns will serve notice
that this generation of Americans
intends to hold the course of peace,
of patience and perserverence, of
prudence and preparedness.”
“When the votes are counted and
the returns are in the free world
and the Communist world will
know that the alliances of free men
are going to stand together in
greater unity, with greater pur
pose and with greater confidence
for whatever is to come,” Johnson
said.
“The meaning of this election
will be clear to all: “that a united
America is going to lead the world
in uniting free men to win the con
test of this century for freedom
and justice and decency on this
earth.”
polled Harrison by 100,000 votes,
while Harrison was falling short
of a majority by 500,000 ballots
en route to victory. His bid for
re-election was spurned by Cleve
land, who regained the Presidency
with a 380,000 plurality. Once
again Cleveland was elected by
a minority, 900,000 votes away
from a majority.
For the next 20 years the Pres
idents were chosen by a majority
vote. But in 1912 Woodrow Wil
son, William H. Taft and Theo
dore Roosevelt engaged in a heat
ed campaign that saw Wilson
elected even though he lacked
1,320,000 votes getting a 50 per
cent count.
(See Presidents, Page 4)
Aggies To Host
Convocation, Pigs
By JERRY COOPER
Staff Writer
A weekend crowded with reunions, dignitaries, an open
house, entertainment, the second biennial convocation, and
the A&M-Arkansas football game will begin with a Town
Hall performance by Leon Bibb at 8 p. m. Friday.
At the third Town Hall attraction of the year, Bibb will
be making his third appearance on the A&M campus. Visit
ing first in 1962, he returned in March of this year and then
was immediately booked for Friday’s performance. The
singer’s range goes from folk songs to ballads to Broadway
show tunes.
Tickets for the performance in G. Rollie White Coliseum
are $2.50 and date tickets are $1. Student activity cards will
be honored.
Following Town Hall the traditional Midnight Yell Prac
tice will be held in Kyle Field.
‘Success, Failure 9
The second biennial convocation to begin at 2 p. m. Sat
urday will feature an address on “Success and Failure” by
Dr. Carey Croneis, chancellor of Rice University.
Distinguished Alumni Awards will be presented to four
former students by Earl Rudder, president of A&M, during
convocation ceremonies. Receiving the awards will be Tyree
Bell, '13, Wofford Cain, ’13, H. B. Zachry, ’22, and J. Harold
Dunn, ’25.
Bell is president of the Austin Road Co. in Dallas. Cain
is chairman of the board of Southern Union Gas Co. in Dallas.
Zachry is president and board chairman of H. B. Zachry
Construction Co. in San Antonio. Dunn serves as chairman
of the board of Shamrock Oil and Gas Corp. in Amarillo.
Dr. M. T. Harrington, chancellor of the A&M System, will
introduce the featured speaker.
The Singing Cadets will present two selections and lead
the audience in singing “The Spirit of Aggieland.”
Several campus facilities will host open house from 3:30-
5 p. m. Saturday. The Data Processing Center, architecture
building, plant sciences building and nuclear reactor are in
cluded in the tours.
Cadets Chase Hogs
Lt. Gen. R. W. Colglazier, commander of the Fourth
Army, will be on acmpus Saturday to confer with President
Rudder and others concerning the ROTC program. The
highest ranking Army Reserve officer today, the ’25 A&M
graduate will review the Corps of Cadets as they march into
Kyle Field Saturday night.
The College Station Kiwanis Club will be selling chicken
box lunches for $1 on all major streets around the campus
beginning at noon Saturday.
The final attraction of the weekend will be the 7:30 p. m.
meeting between the Aggies and the Arkansas Razorbacks.
Arkansas brings a perfect 6-0 record into the contest while
the Aggies are still seeking their first win after six setbacks.
The World at a Glance
By The Associated Press
International
MOSCOW—Nikita Khrushchev was ousted from
power on the basis of 29 charges that included
failure in the Cuban crisis and personally offending
Red China’s Mao Tze-Tung, Communist sources said
Friday.
★ ★ ★
VATICAN CITY—In a major turning point of
the Vatican Ecumenical Council, cardinals and
bishops spoke out forcefully Thursday for a search
ing new look at Roman Catholic theology on
marriage and birth control.
★ ★ ★
HAVANA—The Soviet Union will give technical
and material assistance to build a pig iron plant
and three metallurgical plants in Cuba, the Havana
press reported Thursday.
★ ★ ★
TOKYO—A delegation of Japanese Socialists
agreed with the Chinese Communists in Peking on
Thursday that, “U. S. imperialism is the common
enemy of the Japanese and Chinese people.”
★ ★ ★
CAIRO—A broadcast from the Sudan said Thurs
day that the Sudanese armed forces and the leading
civilian political group had agreed on steps to
restore peace to the Nile country.
★ ★ ★
MALACCA, Malaysia—About half of 60 Indo
nesian guerrillas who landed on the mainland’s
southwest coast early Thursday were seized and
the rest are pinned down in the swamps, a military
spokesman said Thursday night.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—The 1964 Nobel Prize
for physics was awarded jointly Thursday to an
American and two Russians for basic contributions
to discovery of the maser-laser effect, a fabulous
harnessing of radio and light beams to serve man
kind.
National
WASHINGTON—The State and Defense depart
ments said Thursday that no American ships were
involved in any incident like that reported by the
Communist North Viet Nam Radio today.
★ ★ ★
NEW YORK—A bomb scare Thursday night
forced Mrs. John F. Kennedy to evacuate her new
Fifth Avenue apartment. Police, firemen, Secret
Service men and FBI agents searched the premises.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON—Former President Dwight D.
Eisenhower said Thursday he could not recall facing
any moral problem during his administration.
Texas
HOUSTON—A spokesman for the Texas Depart
ment of Public Safety said some 40 law enforcement
officers raided a residence Thursday night and
smashed what he called a huge cigarette tax evasion
racket.
★ ★ ★
HOUSTON—Secretary of State Dean Rusk said
Thursday U. S. leaders are not shedding any tears
over the toppling of Nikita Khrushchev.
★ ★ ★
AUSTIN—Citizen groups from Dallas, Fort
Worth and Waco asked the Texas Highway Com
mission Thursday to get behind multi-million dollar
programs to strengthen the highway nets through
and around their cities.
Dallas To ‘Rock’ After A&M-SMU Game
The Dallas A&M Club will
sponsor a dance at 8 p.m. Nov.
7 after the Aggie-SMU game
for all A&M students, cadets and
civilians.
The dance will be held at Lou
Ann’s at 5218 Greenville Ave.
Two bands will furnish music
for the dance. One band will
provide “fast” style, while the
other will play the “slow” type.
All tickets will be sold for $3.
This price is both for couples and
stages.
Tickets can be obtained by
members of the Cadet Corp
contacting their wing or bri
commanders, while civilians
get tickets by contacting
Oliver, Civilian Student Co
president, in Room 1-6, Wi
Hall.