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Of $1.9 Million Space Science Center — l—» Illillll Che Battalion Volume 61 few Yt: iday,”! a coif et. i suallyi COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1965 Number 195 Stop The \Presses I By LANI PR ESS WOOD Communist propaganda doesn’t ally mean much to you at a distance. wYou get this idea of a Red commentator carrying on an end less series of anti-American harangues punctuated liberally with the word “imperialist.” And you visualize a massive, brain- Iwashed audience absorbing with out hesitation the same old hack neyed spiel. if This is really a hazy picture though, and not many of us ever see the details of their argument. I I got a chance to do just that [recently when an unobtrusive letter with a Czechoslovakian postmark crossed the desk. 1 Inside was a “press release” from the Secretariat of the Inter national Union of Students, a group which is apparently based in Prague. The letterhead was printed in no less than six languages — English, Russian, Ifrench, Chinese, Spanish and Czechoslovakian. {[ The subject of this document [ Was Latin America in general and Cuba and the Dominican Re public in particular. K One comment on U.S. inter vention in Santa Domingo: 1 “This repugnant undertaking Was strongly repudiated by world public opinion and has mobilized ! the students and other democratic movements to defend the right to Iself-determination of Dominican 1 people and its national sove- Iteignty and for respect of the Imost elementary international laws.” I On Cuba: I “American imperialism has 'Continued its aggressive policy Pgainst the Cuban Revolution, maintaining tension in the Garib ian area, thus permanently en- langering world peace, and at tempting by all means, and par ticularly through the economic blockade, to frustrate the achieve- Bfients of the Cuban students and B>eople in economic, eduational |and cultural fields.” I The Alliance for Progress, the ilnter-American Defense Council, |the CIA and the OAS are called ‘instruments” for “imperialistic penetration and exploitation.” In a concluding shot at the pro posed Permanent Inter-American reace Force, the Secretariat [‘calls on them (the students of the world) to express by all means possible their most ener getic condemnation of this im perialistic project.” And some people still wonder why Nixon was stoned in Vene zuela. Enrollment Totals For 2nd Session Up 20 Per Cent Second summer term enroll ment at Texas A&M University has reached 3,837 students, an increase of 20 per cent over last year. 1964 registration for the sec ond summer term was 3,193. New air conditioned housing facilities and expanded summer school of ferings have been credited with producing the increase. This year’s enrollment, com pared with last year’s includes: Main Campus: 3,476, compared with 3,049 in 1964; Galveston Marine Lab: 224 (new program); Maritime Academy: 111 (new program ); English Institute: 45 (new pro gram); A&M Adjunct at Junction, Tex.: 178, compared with 144 in ’64. First term summer enrollment te set an all-time record of 4,327 students. This was an increase of 677 — 19 per cent — over the first summer term of 1964. A&M’s next highest summer enrollment was 3,934 in 1947. An increase in foreign student enrollment at A&M added to the second term totals. Foreign stu dent advisor R. L. Melcher re ported 351 now enrolled as com pared with 272 registered at this time a year ago and 200 stu dents in 1963. Graduate enrollment accounts for most of the foreign students registered for the second term. A record 433 foreign students registered last September. Last spring the total was 364, a rec ord enrollment for that semester, the first six weeks this summer Foreign students registered totaled 305. The foreign students now en rolled come from 45 nations with every continent represented. Stu dents come from European na tions and nations emerging from colonies. Space Center Construction Is Now Underway VIEW OVER BERLIN WALL This view of East Berlin overlooks the Berlin Wall. The photograph was sent from Germany this week by Herky Killings worth, whose column is appearing exclusively in The Battalion. His column in today’s issue deals with the world-famous wall (See Page 2). New Fallout Plays Begin 2-Night Stand Tomorrow * Barzak Named Associate Dean Dr. Robert William Barzak assumes expanded responsibili ties Sept. 1, advancing from assistant to associate dean of Texas A&M’s Graduate College. Barzak will continue to assist Dr. Wayne C. Hall, who becomes vice president for academic af fairs as well as graduate dean in September. “We are extremely happy to have a scholar of Dr. Barzak’s ability assume increased duties and responsibilities in our ex panding Graduate College,” Dean Hall said. Dean Barzak joined the A&M English faculty in 1955 as an instructor. He now holds the faculty rank of associate profes sor. An A&M English graduate in 1949, he completed graduate studies at the University of Illinois. Dean Barzak lists membership in Sigma Tau Delta, national English professional fraternity. The fallout Theater Workshop, after a three-week breather, will present two original plays by Texas A&M students this week end. “Sharon,” by Kipp Blair, and “A Child Is Crying,” By B. L. LeNoir, will be presented. The program will begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Monday. Blair is a senior electrical engi neering major from San Antonio. A member of the Aggie Players for three years, Blair has acted in more than a dozen plays at A&M. LeNoir, who is also directing his play, is a graduate student in education from Marlin. In July he directed “The Fisherman,” by Jonathan Tree, a Fallout produc tion which was presented out doors. “Sharon” is being directed by Tim E. Lane, a junior journalism major from Bryan. Lane previ ously directed “Hello Out There,” by William Saroyan in May, and “Courage, Brother,” a play of his own, in June. He plans to direct a longer version of “Courage, Brother,” to be presented this fall. The cast of “Sharon” includes Cynthia Smith, a junior physical education major from College Station, who plays the twelve- year-old Sharon; Mrs. Aileen Wenck, who is the wife of Aggie Players technical director Robert Wenck, as Sharon’s mother; Leon Green, a physics major from Houston, as a Negro psychologist with unusual ideas about han dling children’s emotional prob lems; and Virginia Gilcrease, an entering freshman at the Uni versity of Texas from Bryan, as a nurse. Kirk Stewart is stage manager, and Francis Flynn is in charge of lights. The cast of “A Child Is Crying” includes Vivian Barron, Bob Dansby, Harry Gooding, Harry Howell, Larry Manna, Margaret Curtis, Tom Morgan, and Tom McKnight. Mike McAdams is stage man ager, Kathi Wolcott is in charge of sets and props, and Cynthia Smith will handle lights. There will be folksinging and other intermission acts between the two plays. Admission will be 50 cents at the door of the workshop, at the rear of Guion Hall. Construction has recently be gun on a $1.9 million Space Re search Center and Data Process ing Center addition on the east ern side of the Texas A&M cam pus. Financial assistance in the amount of $1,170,000 was receiv ed by A&M in the form of grants from NASA and the National Sci ence Foundation with A&M pro viding the balance of the funds. One wing of the L-shaped, five- story, 80,000 square-foot, sand colored masonry and glass build ing will be devoted to data pro cessing while the rest of the building will be used for space research. “This unique combination of computers and accelerators com bined with the activation analy sis labs will give Texas A&M one of the few facilities of this kind in the world,” said Bernard G. Johnson, president of the Houston engineering firm of Ber nard Johnson Engineers, Inc., prime designers on the project. “With these facilities, NASA will be able to determine the chemical content of surface ele ments of the moon and other planets involved in our space ex ploration,” Johnson explained. “Through a neutron generator, the moon surface would be acti vated and by measuring the rate of radiation, the chemical content can be determined and radioed back to earth.” Two of the five levels in the building will be below ground and three will be above ground. It will be designed to support an other level. Specially designed walls seven feet thick with a four-foot thick ceiling were programmed for the neutron generating room in the lower underground level. “Space research is an ever- changing field and the design of this building reflects this,” Johnson said. “We developed vertical utility cores which feed out to any of the laboratories for flexibility.” Other facilities in the building were designed for plasma physics research; space life sciences sec tion; space structures research for strength of materials for cap sules; space electronics research; and space chemistry research. Felix Stone is the project man ager and the architects are Pierce and Pierce. The construc tion contract was awarded to Warrior Constructors, Inc. Consolidated School District To Face Tax Trial Monday The 85th Distrist Court will be the scene of a school tax suit against the A&M Consolidated School District Monday. The suit, which is styled Roy W. Kelly and others vs. A&M Consolidated School District, seeks to nullify the 1965 school tax reassessments on the grounds of inequitable valuation. Attorneys for the suing party, Bennett and Bennett of Norman- gee, have filed subpoenas for the appearance in court of several local residents. Among those ordered to ap pear in court Monday for the trial’s opening are cashiers at two local banks, several members of the Consolidated Board of Equalization, the CS school coun selor and the Brazos County Tax Assessor. Several other citizens were also subpoenaed. The controversy erupted when the school district revalued from a total valuation of less than $14 million to $32 million. The tax rate of $1.98 per $100 valuation was lowered to $1.15 but the as sessment was raised from 40 per cent market value to 80 per cent. The issue is mainly over equit- ability. The property owners who are filing suit contend that not all properties were rendered on the tax roll and further that the new assessments are not equit able. The school district, which has retained the law firm of Baker, Botts, and Associates, claims there that no intent was involved in any possible inequit- ability. One issue in the trial is likely to be the question of what con stitutes property which can be considered taxable by the local school district. District Judge John Barron will preside over the jury trial, which begins at 9:30 a.m. Tech School Grads To Get Higher Pay Sixteen men who averaged $200 a month or less two years ago as service station attendants or truck drivers will step into jobs almost three times that much in late August. They are the first graduating class from Texas A&M’s Insti tute of Electronics, a division of the Engineering Extension Serv ice. Students seeking something better than “dead-end jobs” en rolled in a 2-year program to prepare themselves as assistants to engineers and scientists in research and development fields. With a month still to go in the classroom, 15 of the 16 stu dents already have jobs aver aging $500 to $600 per month. “Our only pre-requisites,” Chief Instructor L. K. Jones ex plained, “call for applicants to be high school graduates and have high aptitudes in mathe matics.” Jonas said the two years of instruction cost $1,500. “This first class is consider ably older than we expect in the future,” he added. “Twenty- seven is the average age of this group, but we anticipate most of our future students to be just out of high school.” Three of the graduates will work for Union Carbide Corpor ation in Louisiana. They will service numerous computers in a highly automated plant. Next class at the Electronics Institute will begin September 13.