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ige sllborn, Jerry iiffey at line als, Dan Soli- LaGrange in iders resume ,f ternoon and esday, Thurs- a y. Another f tp for Sato- j !he workouts .m. and 3:35 ite in the an- game at 7:30 Field. Che Battalion Texas A&M University Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1965 Number 160 I K S l. Car Radio > Service TA 2-19U SJTED ew area to iron 15’M IR SALE »e. North Giu, 160.00 per monlt isii; 1SS fITIES CHISE coating used c: or or exterior lied on Asphii; Asbestos, Hut mpletely elioi. lied to Wo* s. This finiik oats and tutO' ITION nnulas in demail y and homes. So in vestment— f.OOO. Investmont Factory trsintd up your busim descriptive liten- :» & Paint Corj, Mo. 159UI ice before grada- i hour, part list sy schedule. Oil 159th JNANCE NOT A LONGHAIR PIANIST . . . scheduled for Town Hall Friday. Top Jazz Pianist Town Hall Guest NO. 426 OVIDING FOR 4 THE QUESTIOli RACT OF LANB CRAWFORD BUR. BNTLY ZONED AS IRST DWELUKG ' DISTRICT NO. i, TRICT. jy the City Couneii Station, Texas: Planning and 1m- ommended that tkit - rezoned as Distris district, that a public hnr. e City Hall at 1:1* 5, on rezoning ce city limits, mon as follows; of land 170' x 2« nett League, men 3 that tract of lux >ad between Weir! >wned by Alphons >sa F. Holik, sat ►lik’s Grocery Store ? shall be publish^ xeral circulation it tion at least fiftce: taring. ROVED this 22t( ED: )rr PRO TEM 159'J KELFORD, ized Comet Dealer , and Parts ors Financing •vice Dept, tint Dept, ervice Mgr. TA 3-5476 o the new, rket today, asy to use Peter Nero wears his hair in a style longer than a crew cut but he’s no “longhair” pianist. No doubt about it, the critics say, the 30-year old Nero is one of the hottest pianists in the country, performing at supper clubs and top hotels—the Shore- ham in Washington, the Crescen do in Los Angeles, the Ameri cana in New York, the London House in Chicago, the Statler- Hilton in Boston, and the Chase in St. Louis. ★ ★ ★ Civilian Ducat Sale Ends Wednesday Students who plan to attend Civilian Student Weekend activities Saturday must exchange their ac tivity cards for tickets no later than noon Wednesday. The tickets may be obtained through the offices of the various civilian counselors. A fall card may be exchanged for one dance ticket while spring card may be exchanged for barbecue ducats. A $25 gift certificate to the Exchange Store will be raffled off at the dance Saturday night. Con testants must register in the store to be eligible for the prize. dAGIC AID. ntee. Please Age tate ire, Oklahoma Graduate Lecture By Stanford Prof Slated Thursday Dr. Karl Brandt, professor emeritus of the Food Research In stitute, Stanford University, will give a graduate lecture at 4 p.m. Thursday. “Moral Presuppositions in a Free Society and its Free Enter prise Economy” is the title of his address set for 4 p.m. in the Biological Science Lecture Room. Brandt has also scheduled two other lectures on the A&M cam pus. He will give a departmental lecture. “The Role of Agricul ture in Economic Development” at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the Social Room of the Memorial Student Center. Another departmental lec ture, “This Business of Being Un derdeveloped” was slated for 3 p.m. Wednesday in the MSC Social Room. Prior to becoming director of the Food Research Institute in 1962, Brandt served as professor of eco nomic policy at Stanford for 24 years. He was a member of Pres ident Eisenhower’s Council of Eco nomic Advisers from 1958 to 1961. Brandt took up residence in the United States as professor of agri- cultral economics in the graduate faculty of Political and Social Sci ences in the New School of Social Research in New York. The speaker has been adviser and consultant to numerous pri vate and governmental agencies in the United States and abroad. He is the author of several books and articles in professional journals. The reviewers say he’s an en tertainer, a warm, easy-to-watch- and-listen-to all around perform er who combines talent, technique and taste to make him more than just a magical soundmaker. Nero has been booked for Fri day performance at G. Rollie White Coliseum. Tickets are on sale in the Student Programs Of fice in the Memorial Student Cen ter. During his appearances in night clubs Nero discovered a wit and sense of humor which he sprinkles among his selections. It usually receives enthusiastic responses from audiences. Television personalities have spotlighted Nero on their shows. Perry Como, Ed Sullivan, Steve Allen, Dinah Shore and Andy Williams, have hosted Nero. Among his most popular ren ditions are “The Best is Yet to Come”, “Reflections”, “Wives and Lovers”, “Hello Dollie”, “Night and Day”, “Walk Right In”, and ‘The Girl From Ipane- ma.” Nero likes to kid the more sombre aspects of music . . . that he’s a superb shirt de-stuffer, and believes music is made to be enjoyed, not suffered through. “In order,” he says, “to hold the attention of audiences, you’ve got to relate to them not only through your musicianship, but through your personality as well. They’ve got to respect you for the way you play . . . but more im portant, like you for the kind of guy you are.” House Okays Amendment To Lower Voting Age 7 9 - Year - Olds Would Get Ballot vote By The Associated Press AUSTIN — Young Texans are mature enough to at age 19, the House decided Tuesday. A 103-34 vote sent to the Senate a proposed constitu tional amendment lowering the voting age from 21 to 19, sponsored by Rep. V. E. (Red) Berry of San Antonio. An expected House battle over poll tax repeal was de layed a week after the sponsor of a constitutional amend ment to abolish the voting requirement counted heads and found several supporters absent. Voting rules and qualifications kept the House busy most of the morning. First, there was Berry’s 19-year-old voting amendment. “President Johnson en- + dorsed the 18-year-old vote last Saturday at his LBJ Ranch,” Berry said, referring to the President’s March 20 ranch news conference. “The 19-year-old of 1965 is just as immature as the 19-year- old was 95 years ago,” said Rep. Billy Williamson of Tyler. “Voting is a responsibility that must not be treated lightly.” “They are capable of going over and fighting for us and getting shot up,” Berry replied. House members quietly approv ed proposed constitutional amend ments authorizing dissolution of hospital districts HJR48 and al lowing conservation and reclama tion of district directors to have terms of up to six years, HJR21. Both proposals go to the Senate. Then Houstqn Rep. J. E. John son’s election code revision bill HB114 came up. It was tenta tively approved, 95-48, with an other vote needed. The bill’s major provision substituted a positice check or “x” system of ballot marking for the present “scratch system,” in which the voter strikes out the names of candidates for whom he does not want to vote. That provision was amended out of the bill. “I know a lot of people that take great deal of pleasure in scratching certain names,” said Rep. Jack Woods of Waco, who offered the amendment to keep the scratch system. Rural legislators divided over a section of the bill that takes away from persons over 60 liv ing in towns of less than 10,000 population the right to vote with out an exemption certificate. An amendment leaving that right un touched was tabled, 88-52. Johnson said the bill would take small town election judges “off the hook” in having to de cide whether an elderly person asking to vote without an ex emption certificate is entitled to do so. :j:j - — — - — — — S A&M Due New Look Within Next 2 Years s g: X* % A&M is due for a face lifting within the next two years. Plans are in the making for: 1. Expanding the Memorial Student Center and Cushing Memorial Library. 2. Air-conditioning Guion Hall, G. Rollie White Coliseum and Sbisa Dining Hall. Students Against New Parking Law A new parking ordinance for the North Gate area of College Station is causing increased com ment among A&M students and several local religious leaders. The ordinance, passed and ap proved by the College Station City Council on Feb. 26, estab lishes a two-hour limit on parking on FM 60 (Sulphur Springs Road) between Nagle Street and Old Highway 6 and on the first block of all streets intersecting FM 60 from the north between Nagle and Old Highway 6. The limit is in effect from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day except Sunday. The other streets involved are Stasney, Lodge, Tauber, College Main, and Boyett North. A&M students have indicated to The Battalion that they are dissatisfied with the new park ing rule and cannot understand SCONA Starts Personnel Drive A personnel drive for the 11th Student Conference on National Affairs at A&M is scheduled through Friday. Craig Buck, SCONA terested SCONA chairman for XI, said all students in- in participating in are urged to apply in the office of the director of the Memorial Student Center. Students participating in SCONA are required to have a 1.0 overall grade point ratio. They cannot be on scholastic or disciplinary probation, and must have a “genuine interest in SCONA.” The World at a Glance By The Associated Press International SAIGON, South Viet Nam—Premier Phan Huy Quat and U. S. Deputy Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson issued separate statements Tuesday de nouncing the bombing of the U. S. Embassy. “This Viet Cong terrorism, this savagery, was not an act of war, but an act of murder,” the premier said. “We Vietnamese of Free Viet Nam will not rest in peace until justice is done to the murderers. And justice will be done.” ★ ★ ★ SAVANNAKHET, Laos — Laotian government forces seized Thakhek without firing a shot Tuesday, ending a three-day rebellion by rightist troops. About 100 paratroopers jumped into the city, 60 miles north of Savannakhet, and occupied the airstrip without resistance. They then proceeded into the city. ★ ★ ★ LONDON—The British expect the United States to retaliate for the terror bombing of its embassy in Saigon, possibly by a massive air raid on the Communist North Vietnamese capital, Hanoi. Foreign Office experts sought Tuesday to assess the implications of what seemed to them the biggest and most spectacular Viet Cong operation of the war in South Viet Nam. National WASHINGTON—A full-scale investigation of the Ku Klux Klan was voted unanimously Tuesday by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The action was taken in closed session after federal officials indicated that Klansmen have been involved in what a committee spokesman called “a number of recent murders and other unconstitutional acts of violence and terrorism.” ★ ★ ★ MONTGOMERY, Ala—Gov. George C. Wallace listened Tuesday to the grievances of Alabama civil rights leaders, raising cautious hopes for easing the state’s bitter racial strife. Wallace received a petition from the group which asked his leadership in opening biracial communi cations. Neither he nor the civil rights leaders indi cated what might result from the meeting which lasted an hour and 20 minutes. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON — President Johnson Tuesday labeled the Saigon embassy bombing a “wanton act of ruthlessness” that will only strengthen American determination to help South Viet Nam. Texas AUSTIN—Major units headquarters for the new look in Texas National Guard and Army Reserves will be located in Dallas, Wichita Falls, Austin, San Antonio, the state adjutant general, Maj. Gen. Thomas Bishop, said Tuesday. Bishop said brigades replacing the 49th Armored Division will be located in North and East Texas with headquarters in Dallas. ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN—The second Texas Capitol bomb threat in less than two weeks emptied the House chamber Tuesday. The “all clear” was given after a 30- minute search produced no bomb. The telephoned warning came just before 4 p.m., and fire department searchers declared the House chamber safe at slightly after 4:30 p.m. what the North Gate merchants have to gain by keeping them from parking on the south side of FM 60. Some ministers in the North Gate area said that the ordinance has only caused employees of the business concerns to park in church designated parking areas. They also expressed a feeling the city council should have at least talked to them before en acting an ordinance that would affect the parking area around church property. “We will be glad to set up special parking for church staffs and already have in some cases,” Ran Boswell, College Station city manager said. “I signed the petition that started the city’s action,” J. E. Loupot, owner of Loupot’s Trad ing Post said. “The main pur pose is to stop some of these students from parking here all day and depriving other students of a chance to stop for a cup of coffee or come by for some shop ping.” Dean of Students James P. Hannigan affirmed that the south side of FM 60 is not university property and is under College Station jurisdiction. “There is sufficient parking on campus for all registered ve hicles although they aren’t all convenient to the dorms or class rooms,” Hannigan said. He went on to say that when the parking lots behind dorms 18, 21 and 22 are full the students in this area can park in the Law Hall lot. Teachers To Form Area Math Council At Meeting Here Area school teachers plan to organize a mathematics council af filiated with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in a meeting May 1 at A&M. The plans were announced by Dr. Robert S. Randall, tempor ary head of the committee. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Education and Psychology. The council’s area tentatively in cludes 10 counties, mostly to the north, south and west of Brazos County. The limits probably will extend to Giddings on the extreme southwest. Robert A. Knapp of the Hearne schools is chairman of the nomin ating committee and Mrs. C. K. Leighton, principal of the College Hills Elementary School, College Station, heads the constitution committee. Charter memberships will be available through May 1. Randall works closely with mathematics teachers of this area. Among his special projects has been producing a television show, “Understanding for Modern Math ematics,” shown Tuesday night over Bryan Station KBTX-TV as a cooperative effort. 3. Tearing up the railroad tracks near West Gate and re claiming the area for parking. 4. Building an underpass and half a cloverleaf at the inter section of F.M. 60 and old High way 6. Dean of Students James P. Hannigan has disclosed that the A&M Board of Directors has ap proved the financing for expand ing the MSC. The three-story expansion will extend from the southwest corner of the present building to the edge of the park ing lot behind the Center. The new facilities will include hotel rooms and meeting rooms. Plans are also being studied for glassing in the sun deck by the Ballroom, Hannigan said. If the idea is architecturally sound, the new area will become an ex tension of the Fountain Room and will be reached by a spiral staircase situated in the Fountain Room. Hannigan also said that air- conditioning of G. Rollie White is being studied and that it should start within the next year. He said that funds have been appropriated to air-con dition and completely rebuild the inside of Guion Hall. The biggest undertaking will be the expansion of Cushing. The new building is to be completed in October of 1967, said Dean of Instruction William J. Graff. When the expansion is com pleted, it will house the library facilities now in Cushing and the present building will accommo date the “learning center.” The west side of Sbisa is now being air-conditioned and all of the dining facilities should be air- conditioned by the fall. Another project will involve tearing down the old railroad station and tearing nut the tracks nearest West Gate in order to build an underpass pass where F.M. 60 crosses the tracks. The university will reclaim the land from opposite Kyle Field to the intersection of old High way 6 and F.M. 60. MARRIAGE FORUM Davidson Warns Mixed Marriages Highly Dangerous Dr. John B. Davidson concluded the 1965 Marriage Forum series Tuesday by cautioning students against the dangers eminent in interfaith marriages. “It is a cross understatement to say that mixed mar riages are not good. . . . There are those that do work out, but couples involved in mixed marriages miss the abundance of life by not sharing a common faith,” Davidson warned. The Baylor University religion professor also discussed these consequences that must be considered when contem plating such a marriage: 1. Each marriage must have a common basis of ideas and purpose, and this is absent in a mixed marriage. 2. Each successful marriage must have the resources of man helped by a common involvement of man and wife, and this is also lacking in an interfaith marriage. 3. Mixed marriages rob the parents of communicating religiously with the children on a level of spiritual life. 4. Parents are robbed of the opportunity to give their children the best spiritual heritage that they profess. 5. Such a marriage disenables one from following his conscience strictly. Davidson also offered his solutions to the problem of increasing interfaith marriages and advocated non-marriage if a suitable compromise cannot be effected. “In marriage is the possession of life’s greatest happi ness or life’s greatest sadness. It is a matter of faith and faith takes the possibility of total loss or total gain. You don’t know which it will be and the only sure way is not to get married. “Each party must think of religious possibilities in terms of what he or she believes and what church comes nearest to his or her beliefs. Each party should also investi gate grounds for common belief. If none is found or if there is not enough common ground learned men should be con sulted, and both should then partake in the same worship services. “If it is discovered that the divergencies are so great that there are no grounds for cominality I would advise not getting married. A common religious undergirding is essen tial,” Davidson stressed. He discussed varying concepts on marriage as held by the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish denominations and also listed these serious fallacies regarding interfaith marriages: 1. Isolated illustrations—“Trying to give examples of couples who made it does not answer your own problem. One study has shown that the divorce rate for mixed mar riages is 250 per cent higher than for marriages between persons of the same faith.” 2. Silence—“Keeping quiet will not help, either. When silence is maintained, there is no grounds for consideration of differences.” 3. Birth control—“The Catholic Church forbids the use of contraceptives while most Protestant churches are much more liberal.” 4. The “We’ll work it out later” attitude—“This causes spiritual schizophrenia and a child in such an atmosphere won’t be able to nourish a religious sensitivity.” 5. The “We’ll let the child decide” attitude—“This makes the child feel that his parents don’t consider religion important. This also puts religion on a competitive basis among the children and creates an unhealthy situation.”