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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Tuesday, January 26, 1967
Soil, Crop Science Dept. Professor
Presents Papers At New Orleans
Dr. E. C. Holt, professor of the
Soil and Crop Science Depart
ment, will present two technical
Aggie Hams Aid
Hostage Citizens,
Contact Relatives
“If you’re gonna take up pipe smoking, maybe you’d bet
ter get one with a shorter stem !”
Scientist
Nuclear
Predicts
Curbing
A breakthrough in the East-
West deadlock on non-prolifera
tion of nuclear weapons may be
imminent, an internationally not
ed nuclear scientist said here re
cently.
Dr. G. R. Keepin, who recently
returned to his post at the Los
Alamos Scientific Laboratory
after serving two years with the
International Atomic Energy A-
gency in Vienna, expressed this
opinion during a banquet talk be
fore delegates to a “Coupled Re
actor Kinetics” national confer
ence at Texas A&M University.
Speaking on “International Co
operation and the Control of Nu
clear Energy,” Dr. Keepin said
negotiations at the 18-member
Disarmament Committee meeting
this spring could result in ssune
form of international treaty, per
haps curbing the sale or transfer
of nuclear weapons across inter
national boundaries.
“Even the achievement of such
a seemingly limited agreement
would, in fact, be highly signifi
cant and could well mark the be
ginning of a new era of expand
ing East-West understanding and
cooperation in arms control and
disarmament,” Dr. Keepin declar
ed.
He said little progress in the
area of non-proliferation has been
made thus far simply because the
diversion of nuclear materials
from peaceful to military uses has
not really been a pressing prob
lem. In the past, he noted, there
have not been sufficient quantities
of material available for large-
scale diversion.
“But now, with the coming
worldwide proliferation of nuclear
power, and its natural result, the
proliferation of sensitive nuclear
materials, the situation has chang
ed drastically,” Dr. Keepin noted.
“We are now in an interim per
iod between the time when pluton
ium was peculiarly the province
of government, because of its
important military value, and a
time — only three years away —
when plutonium will be ‘just an
other commercial commodity’.”
This statement was in reference
to the Private Ownership of Spe
cial Nuclear Materials Act which
Congress passed in 1964 and goes
into effect in 1970.
“The coming widespread avail
ability of nuclear materials will
pose many new safety and secur
ity problems,” the speaker point
ed out. “Some recent develop
ments have indeed intensified of
ficial concern about future illicit
and black market traffic in nu
clear materials or devices.”
Dr. Keepin outlined the unique
role of the International Atomic
Energy Agency in nuclear safe
guards and control. The IAEA
was formed in 1957 as a direct
outgrowth of former President
Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace”
program. It has grown to a total
of 96 member states, represent
ing both East and West, with es
sentially the same membership as
the United Nations.
Dr. Keepin cited President
Johnson’s recent statement that
the U. S. looks on the IAEA’s
safeguards system as one of the
principal instruments for prevent
ing the spread of nuclear wea
pons.
Relatives of U. S. citizens held
hostage in a Managua, Nica
ragua, hotel by rival election fac
tions were notified of the situa
tion by Texas A&M ham opera
tors.
Glen Reid of Pasadena and
John Beckham of College Sta
tion were patching phone calls
from A&M personnel in the Do
minican Republic when the emer
gency arose.
A HAM IN California broke
their transmissions to inform the
Aggies an operator outside Ma
nagua needed assistance with
calls into Texas.
Reid and Beckham contacted
relatives of the hostages in Alvin
San Antonio and Taft to tell
them the people held were safe.
The two-day revolution in
downtown Nicaragua broke out
prior to a national election. Elev
en Americans were caught in the
city as they left work. They
were held in the Grand Hotel. All
public communication from Ma
nagua was cut off as the Nica
raguan army cordoned off the
downtown area.
PRESS REPORTS indicated 10
persons were killed and 100
wounded in the political uprising.
No U. S. citizens were casualties
and the American embassy negoi
ated release of the hostages, it
was reported.
papers during the annual meet
ing of the Social Agricultural
Workers Association Jan. 30-Feb.
1 in New Orleans.
Dr. Holt, vice president of the
social section of the Southern
Branch of the American society,
will discuss in two different sec
tions, his studies of hybrid sudan-
grass and light characteristics in
pecan orchards.
As elected chairman of the
Crops Division, Dr. Holt will pre
side during the session, which
is a part of the Agronomy Divi
sion. Regarding his presentation,
he said it will cover his “cultural
studies with hybrid sudangrass to
determine factors affecting yield
growth characteristics and forage
quality.”
Dr. Holt will discuss his study
of light energy available in pecan
orchards as factors in grass pro
duction in the Crops Session Feb.
1.
Leadership Committee Plans
Trip To Houston March 11-12
The Leadership Training Com
mittee of the Memorial Student
Center is planning a spring trip
to Houston March 11-12.
Dennis Hohman, Leadership
chairman, said the trip for stu
dent leaders is to “obtain views
of culture, business aspects and
entertainment.”
Thirty-one students and four
sponsors will make the trip. The
students are corps leaders, stu
dent senate members, civilian stu
dent leaders, athletes, and M.S.C.
counsel and directorate members.
“Two high points will be the
Houston Symphony, with Andre
Previn conducting, and the Alley
Theatre production of ‘The Sea
Gull’,” Hohman said.
They will visit with the Alley
Theatre cast and staff after the
performance.
Other probable features of the
trip are tours of Jones Hall, the
Museum of Fine Arts and the
Astrodome. They will have din
ner in the Warwick Hotel and the
Charcoal Terrace of the Sham-
rock-Hilton.
On Dec. 20, Hohman and six
students traveled to Houston to
make arrangements for the spring
trip.
“We talked with Eric Hilton i;
the Shamrock-Hilton and visits
the Petroleum Club in the Hurntj,
Building,” he said. They were alsi
able to set up arrangements fe
the symphony and the Allij
Theatre.
Students pay $15 for the tti)
but money is solicited from A;,
gie-exes in Houston' to pay f®
the fees.
Prof Has Article In National Publication
P. D. Weiner, assistant profes- of the American Association f®
sor of mechanical engineering, is Oil Well and Drilling Contrat
the author of a technical article tors.
in the current issue of “Well
Servicing”, a national publica
tion.
“An Important New Device De
veloped for Controlling Tubing
and Casing Make-up” is the title
of the feature in the magazine
The English word “copper 1
comes from Kypros, the Greek
name for the island of Cypres
Ancient Cyprus was famed f®
its ore.
Aggie Exes
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“The association was the first
agency to lend money to stu
dents,” Buser said. Since 1942
more than $1 million has been
given to students through a scho
larship program called the “Op
portunity Award Program.”
THE BRICK AND MORTAR
organization is a fund raising pro
gram through which the associa
tion raises money for university
projects. Former students make
contributions through this pro
gram which strives to meet extra
needs of the university.
“Brick and Mortar” has been
responsible for such things
the Memorial Student Center, the
All-Faiths Chapel, Wofford C.
Cain Olympic swimming pool, and
the university golf course.
Since 1942, $3,500,000 has been
raised through this program.
BECAUSE IT HAS done so
much for the university, the as
sociation deserves all the recogni
tion that it has, and will con
tinue, to receive.
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TV Auditions
Statewide television program to be seen in the Spring of 1967 auditioning
for campus talen — vocalists, musicians, groups, dancers, variety acts.
Hour-long program, produced by Corinthian Special Productions and spon
sored by Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, will be produced on-loca
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KIND OF TREE THIS
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last year it ate twentv-foi/r of
AY/ KITES' IT JUST REACHED OUT
AND GRABBED THEM (dlTH ITS
6REEDV BRANCHES, AND THEN IT
STOOD THERE AND ATE THEM...
BE CAREfUL!
PONT GET TOO
' CLOSE.'
After a long
WINTER WITHOUT
AM KITES IT CAN
GET PRETTY MEAN!
PEANUTS
PEANUTS
< YOU HATE THAT
TREE, D0NT YOU
CHARLIE BROUlN? J
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A KITE IN
A TREE ? HAVE YOU NOTICED
HOW IT HAN6S THERE FOR WEEKS ?
IT'S A KITE-EATIN6 TREE,
AND I HATE IT'
THEN,SUDDENLY, ONE
DAY IT'S GONE!
YOU KNOW WHY I HATE IT?BECAUSE
IT'S GREEDY, THAT'S WHY!EVEN WHILE
IT HAS A KITE IN ITS BRANCHES, IT'LL
REACH OUT AND GRAB ANOTHER ONE'IT'S
LIKE A LITTLE KID EATING FRENCH FRIES