che battalion - texas a&m...
TRANSCRIPT
The Kici ' dominat; &ics have three tin
ies confe; andout pit ' in on?; Hard pos;; Vtike Pit dx unasji0 and Bs a offense, )f quartan ‘ hamper is expect ts this tj be at full,- gie confe gainst ta1 Austin'l
Che Battalion TexasA&M
UniversityVolume 61 Price Five Cents COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1964 Number 104
rrV
I.7”!
Grad Faculty Sessions Open Here Thursday
The A&M University Graduate Faculty Colloquia, a series of monthly sessions planned to help faculty and students learn more of research efforts on the campus, will begin its second year Thursday, Graduate Dean Wayne C. Hall announced.
The Department of Agricultural Engineering will report at 4 p.m. Thursday in the Biological Sciences Lecture Room. Coffee will be served from 3:30 until 4 p.m.
“The colloquia provide opportunities for researchers in many areas of graduate study to exchange ideas and to learn something of the progress being made by others on the campus,” Dean Hall said.
Faculty members in engineering, humanities and the sciences will report in coming months. A colloquium usually is presented by one department.
“Those departments and units volunteering programs not scheduled this year will be scheduled for 1965-66,” the dean said.
The 1964-65 schedule following the presentation Thursday lists: Dec. 15 — “Contributions of Cytogenetics to Plant Improvement,” Department of Soil and Crop Sciences; Jan. 14—“Literature and the Individual,” Department of English; Feb. 23—“Research in Chemical Engineering,” Department of Chemical Engineering; and
March 17—“Recent Advances in Recovery Methods,” petroleum engineering; April 22—“The Biological Effects of Chronic and Fractionated Gamma Irradiation,” Department of Biology, radiation Biology Laboratory and Texas Engineering Experiment Station; and May 11—“Parasitisms of Domestic Animals,” veterinary parasitology.
CK
rue21
5 Grants Given For Ag Work
Five grants totaling $24,344 have been presented to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Dr. R. E. Patterson, station director, has announced.
The largest grant was for $10,- 000 from the Morris Animal Foundation for research on infectious anemia in horses.
A $7,500 grant was presented by the Grain Sorghum Producers Association of Amarillo for research on sorghum midge control.
The Stiles Farm Foundation presented the station with a $5,300 grant for employment costs, and $1,000 was provided by Hoffman- La Roche of Nutley, New Jersey, for studies on the influence of supplemental Vitamin-A on range cow reproductive performance in the Trans-Pecos region. The firm also provided $150 worth of injectable Vitamin-A.
Eight tons of cottonseed cake, valued at $544, was received from the Plains Co-operative Oil Mill of Lubbock.
Where Is The Mud?The 1964 cutting area is surveyed by Aggies yet. Although the rains have not descended, who will man axes, saws and muscles to wait’ll next week, make the 1964 Aggie Bonfire the biggest
Creatures Visit A&M’66 Orders ’68, ’67 Loses Girl
A bold freshman in Squadron 14, turned a junior’s prank into a personal triumph and may have stolen a sophomore’s girl in the process.
The fish, who asked that his name be withheld for obvious reasons, revealed that he merely carried an order a little farther than the junior intended.
He was told to “whip out” to a visiting Austin girl, and he did. Then he decided to find out more about her, which he also did, including her address.
The freshman didn’t reveal whether he got a date for Turkey Day. GEZA DE ROSNER
Soviet’s Shelepin Is Man To Watch
Associated Press News Analysis MOSCOW—As the post-Khrushchev power structure be
gan to clarify Tuesday, the man to watch in the younger generation of Soviet leaders is Alexander N. Shelepin.
Stalin used him to control youth as boss of the Young Communist League. Khrushchev used him as head of the
Soviet secret police, the KGB.
Bargain Rates Mean Cheap VacationIf you are interested in tour
ing Europe for $3 a day, John and George Long of El Dorado, Ark., can tell you how to accomplish the feat.
“It’s easy,” they quipped in unison, “Just live about three levels lower than the Europeans themselves.”
The Long brothers are students here. John is a 21-year old senior mechanical engineering major, while George is an 18-year old sophomore electrical engineering major.
“Our secret was living at bargain rates. We quickly learned to ‘talk down’ prices,” George confided.
In this manner, the Long boys spent three full months visiting Holland, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, Luxemburg, England and Wales. And the $3 per day covered their travel costs as well.
Only on rare occasions did they patronize expensive restaurants or hotels. They usually stayed in youth hotels for about 25 cents a night. For an additional 50 cents, two meals were included. Much of the time, however, they bought food at markets and ate at park plazas along the route of their travels. They often bought a bottle of wine, some cheese and sausage, and ate a picnic lunch spread on a raincoat.
The brothers arrived in Rotterdam in early June aboard a student ship from New York. They hitch-hiked 30 miles to Amsterdam and eventually bought a Dutch motorcycle with an English engine to carry them on their international tour.
“I had never been on a motorcycle in my life,” George explain-
Aggie Brothers Lived In Europe For $3 Per Day During Summer
ed, “After I bought it for $45, I spent a couple of days learning how to drive it.”
John bought a motorcycle in patnership with another Aggie in Copenhagen, but sold his share in Berlin and rode double with George. Together, they drove the
machine 3,000 miles, spending only $8 for repairs before finally selling it in Paris for $60.
Part of their lodging was free. They spent 13 nights in England and had to pay for only one night’s lodging. The rest of the time they were guests of people
Travel Experts To SpeakTravel Emphasis Week on campus will be highlighted at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday night with a series of talks by overseas travel experts and by students who traveled abroad last summer.
Travel enthusiasts will hear James Gross Jr., representing Operations Crossroad; Ohmer B. Moody, director of the West for the Experiment in International Living; Frank Gordon of the International Student Travel Service; John and George Long and John Burke, A&M students who toured Europe for $3 a day last summer.
The meeting will be in the Assembly Room of the Memorial Student Center.
Posters will be displayed on campus throughout the week to motivate students to apply for foreign travel programs next summer. Frank Ray, chairman of the travel committee, said students in the rest of the nation usually make applications for travel in November and December. The applications take a long time to process, he said, necessitating early applications in order that students may apply for other travel assistance if their first preference is already filled.
History, Historians’ Opinion Of Wars Traced By Speaker
“When the doomsday machine starts ticking, our time has run out.” So concluded Dr. Frank E. Vandaver at the History Club Tuesday night.
Vandaver, professor of history at Rice University, is a noted authority on military history. He has
ray $ ing sefc e in f
Texas Wildlife Commission Creates LBJ State Park
:ed si' lazin? ;plasl
By The Associated PressAUSTIN — The Texas Parks
and Wildlife Commission created Tuesday a “Lyndon B. Johnson State Park” directly across State Ranch Road 1 from the President’s famous LBJ Ranch 65 miles west of here.
A member of the three-man commission, Johnson’s long time friend and business associate, A. W. Moursund of Johnson City, estimated the size of the park at 200 acres, adding it is now being surveyed.
In a surprise resolution, adopted unanimously without discussion, the commission directed immediate action to acquire the necessary land.
The resolution ordered that the land be acquired “by purchase of condemnation as the case or cases may be.”
The commission and its executive director, J. Weldon Watson, gave few details about the park, which Watson said had been
the subject of “lengthy and careful study.”
In a news conference after adoption of the resolution, commission members said the action had nothing to do with reported plans by three Travis County men to build a curio stand and possibly a snack bar across the road from the front gate of the ranch.
Asked what features the park would offer the thousands of tourists that drive through the area each month for a look at the ranch — which is becoming known as “the Little White House” — Watson and Moursund said it probably would have picnic tables.
“There will be no camping,” Watson said.
In answer to another question, Moursund said the park had been discussed with neither the President nor the Secret Service. Only last Saturday, the Secret Service
and state highway patrol set up roadblocks barring traffic in front of the ranch each time the chief executive or Mrs. Johnson ventured from the house. One such roadblock lasted 1% hours and held up about a dozen carloads of tourists waiting for a look at the ranch.
Moursund said approximately 200 acres would be included in the park. He said he did not know how many landowners were involved, only that the acreage has “more than one owner.” Moursund noted that the President already leases some of the land, and “I guess he is going to lost that lease.”
Watson said no estimate has been made of how long it will be until the park is opened to the public. He said no money has been appropriated, and Moursund added that “a great majority of the funds will have to come from public contributions.”
written books on Stonewall Jack- son, the Confederate command system, and is now writing a biography of Gen. Pershing.
Speaking on the topic “Historians and Modem War,” Vandaver traced the history of war and the historians’ opinion of war from the Civil War to the present day. In general, he noted that war is a part of human conditions that summons the best from man while condemning him to his worst.” It is a terrible horror and a high glory,” he added.
He noted that total war has its own special appeals. Even the man in the street can talk about “mass destruction,” “mass armies,” and “grand strategies,” and succeed in impressing himself with the glory of war and its noble causes. Vandaver said that because of this, the U. S. has accepted the philosophy of total war without question from the Civil War to the present.
Power politics especially adds to the credibility of total war. He attributed World War I largely to this situation. He said that Europe was so tied up with alliances, and every nation in Europe had its own “war plan,” that once the machinery was set in motion, it could not be stopped. Vandaver sees in this a lesson for the modem world and its “fail safe” nuclear deterrent system.
In conclusion, he sees the world today in a paradox where the military strategist calls for total victory, tradition calls for total victory and the world political situation calls for the utmost care and reason. “Historians, then, agree that total war in this nuclear age is unthinkable,” he said.
they met.Gas was the most expensive
item of the tour. The Longs averaged spending $2 a day for fuel. They were careful not to load themselves down with souvenirs. Some glassware in Venice and two Bogota bags in Spain were the major buys. They are still waiting for the glassware to arrive by mail.
“We didn’t expect Europe to be so thick with Americans,” George said. “Everywhere along the main routes we saw Americans. We wanted to visit with the natives, so we started taking all the side routes and visiting out of the way places.”
The boys were impressed with Berlin, especially their visit behind the Iron Curtain. They spent a day visiting East Berlin, taking note of women working with picks and shovels. Sputnik statues and Russian guards. They were allowed to carry their cameras through “Checkpoint Charlie,” where they caused quite an uproar by taking a picture of one of the guards. The guard whistled and yelled, but the boys got their picture.
“Most of the people in Europe are pretty friendly toward America,” John commented, “They think of the United States as a super economic society. They are astonished if you try to pinch pennies, because thye think all Americans are rich.”
Both students are planning to go back overseas next summer, this time to work as well as visit. They are hoping to set up a business to sell used motorcycles to other American students.
Now 46, Shelepin has joined the small elite circle of men who belong to both the key units within the Communistparty, which controls this country —the Presidium and the Secretariat. For good measure, he is a deputy premier.
Shelepin was elected Monday by a secret Kremlin meeting of the party’s Central Committee to full membership in the committee Presidium, its directing nucleus. He already was a committee secretary.
Only three other men now are on both the Secretariat and Presidium. One is Leonid I. Brezhnevn who took over from Nikita Khrushchev a month ago as party first secretary. The others are Nikolai Podgorny and Mikhail Suslov. None has a significant government job. Premier Alexei N. Kosygin is only on the Presidum.
In the top command, Podgorny now seems to be functioning as second man to Brezhnev, the way first Frol R. Kozlov—partly paralyzed by a stroke—and then Brezhnev were once Khrushchev’s No. 2 men. Suslov, the old Stalinist who voiced the criticism that toppled Khrushchev at the last Central Committee meeting, appears less active. Ill health might be a factor.
Shelepin is more than a decade younger than the other three leaders. He is the first of the generation born after the Bolshevik Revolution to gain the elite status.
This status and his youth make Shelepin the man most likely to succeed to eventual ranking as No. 1, if he continues to show his adroitness for doing the right thing within the high command.
Shelepin is something of a rarity in the present leadership, however, because he has been strictly a party professional.
Great Issues Brings Film From Deep
“Wonders of the Deep,” a color film showing creatures of the ocean depths, will be shown at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Ballroom of the Memorial Student Center.
The Great Issues Committee is sponsoring the film.
Narrator will be Geza De Rosner, a noted producer,writer-director of documentary films. De Rosner, is his own cameraman and editor.
His classic “Hunters of the Deep,” the world’s first full length, under-water documentary film — won the coveted Edinburgh Film Festival.
A native of Hungary, De Rosner came to the United States in 1937 and eventually settled in the Southern California area.
His 17 years of “higher studies” include medicine at Budapest, philo sophy - psychology - psychiatry at Vienna, liberal arts in Paris, comparative religion at Oxford, drama, motion pictures, TV, writing and speech at California’s UCLA anduse.
De Rosner also has written several books including “The Thirteenth Apostle,” the life of St. Paul, “Good Complex” and “Navel of the World,” the mystic land of Easter Island.
He also writes screen plays and free lances in the news and magazine fields.
Tickets for the film are available in the Student Programs Office of the MSC.
Cool Chicks Seek Aggieland Home:Feather Permitting
There are going to be a lot of “cool chicks” around A&M in the near future. But, relax fellows, these chicks will have feathers.
They will be part of a new research project recently approved by the Texas Agricultural Extension Service and the United States Department of Agriculture.
“The project, shared by the Departments of Poultry Science and Agricultural Engineering, will be concerned with environmental controlled housing of poultry,” said Dr. J. H. Quisenberry, head of the Department of Poultry Science.
Quisenberry said temperature would be the primary factor to be studied. He explained that environments would range from normal ventilation to complete refrigerated air with controlled humidity.
The proposed 10-year project will begin as quickly as an experimental house can be erected at the Poultry Center southwest of campus, he said.
Co-leaders of the project will be Dr. C. B. Ryan from the Department of Poultry Science and Dr. W. E. McCune from the Department of Agricultural Engineering.
The World at a GlanceBy The Associated Press
NationalST. PAUL, Minn.—Walter F. Mondale, 36, who
has served as Minnesota’s attorney general for the past 41/& years, was named Tuesday night as the replacement for Hubert H. Humphrey in the U. S. Senate.
★ ★ ★WASHINGTON—The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration said Tuesday it plans to launch two Explorer satellites into near-polar orbits with one rocket this week.
★ ★ ★WASHINGTON—Ten congressional committee
staffers—some from committees with little or no connection with the military - are on a 19-day tour of Air Force bases around the Pacific.
★ ★ ★WASHINGTON—President Johnson called in
House Democratic leaders Tuesday and asked them to be ready for prompt action in the new Congress on health care for the aged.
★ ★ ★WASHINGTON—The United States and Cam
bodia have agreed to hold diplomatic talks on problems that have seriously strained relations between the two countries, the State Department confirmed today.
★ ★ ★PHOENIX, Ariz.—The annual convention of the
Associated Press Managing Editors got into full swing Wednesday.
★ ★ ★WASHINGTON — Undersecretary of State
George W. Ball returned Tuesday from Germany voicing “a good deal of optimism” concerning prospects for agreement on an allied multilateral nuclear force.
★ ★ ★WASHINGTON—The Pentagon’s new purity
code reared its haloed head Tuesday at the convention of the Army Association.
Gone were the “Hospitality Suites” where in past conventions Army officers and other delegates with parched throats could get relief.
TexasDALLAS—Dist. Atty. Henry Wade said Tues
day’s confirmation of an extradition treaty with Brazil may bring Ben Jack Cage back to Texas.
“It isn’t going to be an easy road. He will be fighting extradition on every ground in the Brazilian courts,” Wade said.
Cage jumped $10,000 bond after his conviction and 10-year sentence in Dallas for embezzlement from his ICT insurance complex.
★ ★ ★SAN ANTONIO—A Russian space scientist re
viewed Tuesday the medical and physiological experiments performed by Soviet cosmonauts in space since 1961, but made no mention of their post flight condition.
★ ★ ★HOUSTON—A John Birch Society coordinator
said Tuesday a number of Houston police officers are members of the society.
Asst. Police Chief George Seber said he knew of no officers who have joined the Birch organization.