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Che Battalion «£* Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1965 Number 148 MARRIAGE FORUM Most Marriages Are Happy Ones Expert Believes By GLENN DROMGOOLE Managing Editor “The vast majority of all marriages are very happy marriages,” Dr. Sidney Hamilton told about 200 persons attending the YMCA’s opening Marriage Forum Tuesday night. “Divorce is not a problem of college-educated people,” the North Texas State University professor continued. The first of four sessions of the 10th annual Marriage Forum was concerned with “How Can You Tell It’s Love.” Hamilton divided the topic into five parts. 1. How can I be sure of marrying the right person? 2. Has sex desire influenced my choice? 3. Personality factors—courtship—infatuation vs. love. 4. Relationship of freedom to romance. 5. Should time and distance interfere with true love? The student audience, about 95 per cent male, was told not to worry about marrying the right person. — “The important thing is that you be the right person,” Hamilton said. “Spend more i| time analyzing and less time romancing be fore marriage. “The desire to maintain integrity is the , most potent motivating factor in life. To maintain one’s integrity in marriage, to maintain one’s integrity as a lover, you must respect yourself,” the hip-shooting speaker noted. “One of the cornerstones of a good marriage is sex desire. You have to learn sexual behavior after marriage. The longer a couple is together, the more delightful the sexual experience because it is love. “There needs to be a strong physical attraction between man and woman, but sex |i itself won’t make a good marriage.” Distinguishing between sex and love, Hamilton said: “Sex is common to all beasts. Love is unique to humans. “Sex is a call for nature. Love is a call for culture. “Sex is indiscriminant. Love is per sonal. “Sex is violent. Love is considerate. “Sex is temporary. Love is permanent.” Other comments by Hamilton: “You aren’t really in love until you’ve been married 10, 15 or 20 years. “You won’t be in love until you get to know this young lady—knowing her faults but appreciating her qualities. “There is not a master in a good marriage. “Infatuation is necessary. It gradually grows into love. “Time and distance should not interfere with true love. True love becomes possible only when you value someone more than you do yourself. Next to integrity, the greatest desire in life is to be loved. “Without love you cannot maintain integrity. The need to love is almost as great as the need to be loved. “Without love you are nothing. “In love you receive in proportion to what you give. “There can be no romance where there is sexual promis cuousness. “The three major difficulties in marriage are finances, sex and communication” in that order, Hamilton said. Next week’s forum concerns “Making Marriage Mean ingful” and will host Dr. Henry Bowman of the University of Texas. HAMILTON To Match A Pair University technicians hoist half of a 15-foot antenna to complete the only known matched set of radars for weather research. The system may be in operation in two weeks. Jake Cangelose, research engineer, supervised placing the antenna on Bizzell Hall. Committee Grants A&M Budget Hike 78 Candidates File For Class Elections Scheduled Next Week The Senate Finance Sub-Com mittee recommended Tuesday an increase of $8 million in appro priations for the main branch of A&M University. The bill will provide money for most of the improvements in higher education that Gov. John Connally recommended. Included in the bill is a salary increase for some faculty members. However, a rider attached to the bill states that the money appropriated for the faculty sal ary increase will not be used for an across-the-board increase. All faculty members may receive a 1.5 per cent increase, but most of the money appropriated may be used to give salary increases to members who do “outstanding work and shall be meaningfully and effectively rewarded.” The bill’s recommendations for A&M and its branches, with the first figure being the current budget and the second being for the following two years beginning on Sept. 1 are: 1. Administrative and general offices, $550,370 and $631,695. 7. Engineering Extension Serv ice, $1,213,060 and $1,469,882. 8. Forest Service, $3,120,311 and $3,331,860. Ags Set TU Debate Aggies from Fort Worth and Irving have been chosen to re present A&M in a televised debate with a University of Texas team as part of the Southwest Confer ence Tournament March 19 and 20 on the Texas Christian Uni versity campus. Cary Kell, Aggie debate coach, said Simeon T. Lake of Fort Worth, and James W. Seabolt of Irving, will be the A&M team for the debate before color TV cameras. Plans call for the TV debate to be videotaped for show ing on “The Question Is” program of Station WBAP. Date and time of the showing are to be set. Seventy-eight candidates had submitted applications for class office positions when filing closed Tuesday evening. This does not mean that all that filed will be placed on the ballot for the March 18 election. All candidates will be screened by the Election Commission and three positions—Memorial Stu dent Center Council representa- A&M Adjunct Plans Variety Of Courses A greater variety of courses is planned this summer for the two six-week sessions at the A&M Uni versity Adjunct, the university’s “Hill Country School” at Junction. The plans were announced by W. D. Kutach, A&M faculty member. Greatest share of the more than 200 students at the Adjunct are freshmen. The facilities also are used as a base for advanced stu dents doing field work in geology and civil engineering. “Students are encouraged to ap ply immediately, as for a number of years we’ve been filled to capaci ty,” Kutach said. The courses to be offered each six weeks include English, mathe matics, history, education, physical education and science. “The varied course offerings planned for this summer will al low a student to complete five or six credit hours of work, plus required physical education during the six-week term,” Kutach said. He noted the diversity of courses will allow more flexible programs to better meet the needs of stu dents. The Adjunct located on the banks of the South Llano River offers university courses in a summer camp atmosphere. Emphasis is given to helping students make the transition from high school to uni versity studies. The Adjunct opens June 7 for the six weeks with the second term starting July 19. tive, yell leaders and student en tertainment manager—will also be checked by respective com mittees. Next year’s seniors had 32 stu dents file for eight positions. The rundown of students filing for offices is president, five; vice president, five; secretary-treas urer, five; social secretary, two; historian, three; student enter tainment manager, three; MSC Council representative, three, and for the two yell leader positions, six. Twenty-six applicants will be screened for six positions in next year’s Junior Class. Individual applications for the offices are president, six; vice president, eight; secretary-treasurer, four; social secretary, two; MSC Coun cil representative, one, and for the two yell leader positions, five. Next year’s Sophomore Class had 20 filing for five offices. The presidency has five candidates; vice president, four; secretary- treasurer, four; social secretary, four, and MSC Council represen tative, three. “For the benefit of all students who have not received voter’s Girl Needs Bee Stings SALMON, Idaho, <A») — Julie Ann Gott, 8, gets stung by a bee every week. It’s just what the doctor ordered. Julie needs the weekly stings to build up her resistance to bee venom, which nearly cost her life when she was stung accidentally last summer. She recovered after three days of antihistamine and oxygen treat ment. But doctors decided her resistance to the venom had to be built up. So they began injecting it. Then, when Julie’s resistance had been developed, the doctors went direct to the source. Every week Julie’s mother takes her to a bee farm. A bee is placed on her arm and left there until it stings. Julie is used to it now. registration cards, the Election Commission has prepared a sched ule to allow all students to get the cards and be able to vote in the class elections,” said Charles Wallace, Election Commission chairman. “All outfits’ C.O.’s, dorm mast ers and apartment council repre sentatives will receive instruc tions on how to get the cards to students under their jurisdiction. Distribution of cards will be started Thursday,’ Wallace said. FBI Reports Serious Crime Up In Suburbs WASHINGTON UP) _ The FBI Tuesday said serious crimes in crease was most marked in the suburbs. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said the total number of serious crimes is up to more than 2,151- 000 as compared with a 1963 to tal of nearly 1,900,000. The statistics are based on pre liminary reports from police de partments. A complete report on the crime upswing will be published in July. Hoover’s annual report of a crime increase came a day aft er President Johnson sent to Con gress a message outlining his legis lative proposals to combat that trend. Hoover’s report gave these in creases in crimes classed as serious by the FBI: murder, 9 per cent; forcible rape, 19 per cent; ag gravated assault, 18 per cent; rob bery, 12 per cent; burglary, 12 per cent; larceny of more than $50, 13 per cent; and auto theft, 16 per cent. The increase was most marked in the subburbs, with a rise of 18 per cent, Hoover said. The crime rate rose 11 per cent in cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants. The crime rate in the rural areas—re flecting predominately property crimes—rose 9 per cent. REPORTERS TELL STORY Goldmine Impressions Revealed County Naturalized 20 During 1964 Last year in Brazos County, 20 persons became naturalized citizens of the United States. Seven of those were residents of the county. The others were from the Ft. Hood area. Although Bryan’s 85th District Court is one of three courts in Texas which can naturalize citi zens, A&M avoids sending the court much student business. Of A&M’s 427 foreign students, 37 are on immigrant status which means that they have petitioned the government to let them stay in this country as long as they wish. They can become citizens later if they want and if they meet the requirements. According to Col. R. M. Meek er, advisor to foreign students, only around 15 of the 37 will probably ever became citizens of the U. S. “We encourage them to go home when they finish here be cause most of them have given their word that they would. We feel that they should keep their word and go back and help their countries,” he said. Eight general requirements must be met before one can be come a citizen of the U. S. The applicant must be 18 years of age, he must have entered this country lawfully, he must have lived in this country for five years and the state in which he is applying six months. He must have been physically present for this time, he can not have been out of the country for more than one year at a time, he must have references to his moral character and he must have knowledge of American govern ment and history. Before receiving his citizenship papers, one must also take an oath of allegiance. 2. Main university, $19,190,862 and $27,113,485. 3. Agricultural Experiment Sta tion, $11,695,383 and $12,619,898. 4. Agricultural Extension Serv ice, $16,706,225 and $17,913,628. The state will provide from $1 million to $5 million and the rest will be matched by the federal government. 5. Rodent and Predatory Ani mal Control Service, $771,664 and $790,659. 6. Engineering Experiment Sta tion, $4,460,567 and $5,000,111. By LAYNE CONNEVEY, JIM DAVIDSON Special Writers “We ain’t lettin’ nobody in.” The words hung in the air as we looked wistfully up the dirt road in the direction of an alleged fortune in gold and silver. We had traveled over 100 miles to find the “Salado gold diggin’s” and it looked like we were going to have to turn around and come right back. The speaker was “Pig Red”, celebrated guard of the mine. He had a red cap perched at an angle on his unruly The World at a Glance By The Associated Press National WASHINGTON—The State Department said Tuesday that a Soviet underground nuclear blast on Jan. 15 “may have constituted a technical viola tion” of the limited test-ban treaty but that it did not represent any threat to either the United States or the treaty. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—Government police waded into a crowd of singing, chanting demonstrators and hauled them away bodily Tuesday night from the office of Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach. The government guards, using only their bare hands, separated the demonstrators—white and Negro—who had locked arms as they swayed and chanted civil rights songs. LOS ANGELES—Singer Eddie Fisher filed suit Tuesday for partial custody of the daughter of Elizabeth Taylor and the late Mike Todd, Lisa Todd Fisher, now 7. Fisher legally adopted the girl during his mar riage to Miss Taylor, who now has custody of the girl. Fisher’s suit said there has never been a legal ruling on custody of the child. ★ ★ ★ MIAMI—Cassius Clay said Tuesday he wants to fight Ernest Terrell, Floyd Patterson and George Chuvalo in a single night and then retire from the ring "undefeated and unmarked.” The heavyweight champion called sports writers to a news conference and asked them to help him arrange the battles. “Because of my big mouth,” said Clay, “a lot of people want to see me get beat. I’ll help all I can to make that dream come true. Texas SALADO—Explorers continued digging on a new tunnel designed to go underneath and beyond a cavern which they believe contains gold left by Spanish conquistadors. Virgil Barker, president of the International Explorers from Houston, said they did not want to dig into the sought-after cavern itself, for fear of a cave-in. The efforts have been hampered by a defective pump in the main tunnel which resulted in a flood of water. The demolition expert also was absent this week; he went to extinguish an oil well in West Texas. hair and he was wearing shades. Combined with a white beard streaked with red, a gruff but friendly voice, and a tone of finality in his voice, the beard gave us the impression that “Red” was no one to fool around with. We were right. A .38 caliber convincer tucked in his belt erased any thought we had of sneaking to the mine. We had left A&M earlier, hot on the trail of a story of lost Spanish gold and treasure worth $36 million. “Red” informed us that “one of the bosses might be back a little later” and told us that we could wait around a little while. We did. An hour later, when we had almost decided to call it quits and head back home to A&M, we saw a car coming down the dirt road from Salado. Hoping that the driver was one of the “bosses’ “Red” had men tioned, we hurried over to the car and “whipped out.” The man identified himself as Virgil Bark er, half owner of International Explorers, Inc., one of the two firms involved in the venture. Barker looked like a suave businessman and his voice indi cated that he was used to authori ty and being obeyed. He told us to follow him inside and later told Gene Ritchey to show us around the mine and explain the operation to us. Ritchey is the superintendent of International Explorers, Inc. and looks like the soldier of fortune he professes to be. A young man of 24 with black hair and brown eyes, Ritchey was very friendly and eager to show us around. Accompanying Ritchey and add ing many interesting comments was H. D. McCord, a restaurant and liquor store owner from Dal las who is connected with Guerra Enterprises, the other firm in volved in the expedition. McCord, a somewhat older man than Ritchey, had grey hair and bushey grey eyebrows. He was extreme ly friendly and reminded us of a little kid who had found a won derful new and different toy and was just dying to show it off to all the other kids on the block. The enthusiasm of the crew was the thing that most impressed us about the operation. Every one was extremely friendly and open about everything and we had never seen men work harder in our life. We got the impression that the common laborers and big “bosses” really believed that there was gold under their feet. When we left A&M for Salado, we were very skeptical about the mine but now our views have simewhat changed. Gold fever must be catching, because we now think that there just might be gold in Salado. New MSC Leaders John H. Ridgers, left, newly elected president of the Memo rial Student Center Council and Directorate, looks over plans for the coming 1 year with David Graham, executive vice president. They will be installed at a banquet April 29«