Campus Smoking—After The StormBy MIBB BBCB

If the Justice Department clears the recent cigarette manu­facturers’ advertising restriction code A&M students may have seen the last of (free) cigarette samples on their dining hall tables.

One section of the code pro­posed by the cigarette makers specifically ends the distribution of free sample cigarette to any­one under 21 and the distribu­tion of advertising promoting cigarette smoking on school or college campuses.

According to an announcement made Monday by the Tobacco Institute of the United States, cigarette makers have agreed to a strict advertising code. The code contains sections that pro­hibit ads which “represent that cigarette smoking is essential to

social prominence, distinction, success or sexual attraction. Al­so in the code are many restric­tions on advertising which are aimed at persons under 21.

This action being taken by the Tobacco Institute came as a re­sult of a government official re­port issued in January declaring cigarette smoking a grave menace to life and health.

In an opinion poll conducted early this year concerning this government report students, fa­culty and employees who offered their opinions were of the gen­eral concensus that smoking is detrimental to health and that there would be a brief decline in smoking, but that it would soon recover and surpass the previous amount of tobacco usage.

Students and employees who offered their opinions in a similar

poll on smoking early this week held more varied opinions but for the most part felt that these earlier predictions had materia­lized.

All the discoveries, controvers­ies and announcements made in the past three and a half months seem to have had only a small influence on A&M students.

The influence on the sales of tobacco products in the Memorial Student Center is considered hardly noticeable by John Corn­ejo, bell boy in the MSC. Cornejo also handles the ordering of tobacco products for the front desk.

Cornejo said, “It (the govern­ment report) hasn’t really af­fected the sales much. For about two days the students bought a lot of cigars but that was about all the change I noticed.”

According to a salesgirl in the MSC Gift Shop, the sale of tobac­co, pipes and cigars had gone up but recently the volume of cigar­ette sales are also on the rise. She felt that the increase in cigar and pipe sales and the decrease in cigarette sales had not been because of the government report.

She explained, “When the wea­ther is cold students tend to smoke pipes more. In the sum­mer they don’t like to bother with carrying them around so they smoke more cigarettes. Now that the warm weather is here they’ll buy more cigarettes.”

Another salesgirl in the gift shop, Mrs. Susan Westmoreland, estimated that about one-fourth of her customers had changed to cigars or pipes in the past three months.

Raymond Prewitt, sophomore

Business Administration major, expressed an opinion in the poll held by many students who en­joy smoking.

He said, “I enjoy smoking and though I’m not the most athle­tic person I know I’m not hurt­ing myself right now. Besides, I want to die happy. I have con­sciously cut down since all those reports came out though. My pocket book can’t take it.”

Many students stated they have cut down since the report came out but that they do not have the will power to completely stop. One married student said that his wife had limited him to one-half pack a day but that he felt he couldn’t stop altogether. He also said that some of his friends had taken up cigar smoking at the rate of from five to ten a day.

Bobby Vacker, a sophomore B.

A. major, kas of the opinion that smoking is not necessarily as dangerous as the report con­sidered it to be. He said that his parents smoked a pack a day and they are perfectly healthy.

Vacker said, “I used to smoke until I got bronchitis and then everytime I’d smoke after that I’d start coughing, so I gave it up.” Vacker added that his bron- chities was not connected with his smoking.

George Thomas, a freshman mechanical engineering major, was not so interested with smok­ing as he was with his personal need for cigarettes. Thomas said, “I’m a nervous person and it helps me to calm down if I have a cigarette. I’ll probably quit this summer when I go home. I was like this all the way through high school. Whenever

I’d have to take a test, my mind would usually go blank, I was so nervous.”

Phil Filburn, a sophomore aero­space engineer major, is a non- smoker who feels that the choice is up to the individual. He said, “Both my parents are smokers. I just never have started, but if I did I probably wouldn’t stop be­cause someone told me it was dangerous. If someone told me right now that milk was danger­ous I’d go ahead and drink it anyway because I like it. If people want to kill themselves, let them; it’s their lives.”

With several persons giving up smoking, several cutting down and many more continuing as us­ual the A&M campus appears to be in stride with national public reaction to the Surgeon General’s report.

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USSR Wants Anti-China Aid From Yanks

WASHINGTON <*») —- U. S. officials are intrigued by evi­dence that the Soviet Union now would like this country to give her a hand in Moscow’s strug­gle with Red China.

This seems to be what the Rus­sians are aiming at with their lecture to the American press Thursday about printing Red Chinese charges against Soviet communism.

Beneath the surface, however, the Soviets actually appear to be trying to use their dispute with the Red Chinese in an effort to wring concessions from the United States in fields of disarmament, nuclear arms for NATO, or the future of Germany and Berlin.

Pravda published an article Thursday criticizing U. S. news­papers for printing what the pa­per called “rude’ gross, anti-Soviet iwentions” of the Chinese. It said one effect is to perpetuate the “myth about the aggressive nature of the Soviet.”

The Pravda article implied that the U. S. press publishes only Chinese charges. It ignored the extensive coverage by American newspapers, radio and television of both sides of the dispute that has changed the shape of the Com­munist world.

U. S. experts said the Soviet purpose in Thursday’s article was not clearly developed but that it had been brought out in a Mos­cow English language broadcast to North America 12 days ago.

This developed two themes: that Soviet Communists are work­ing for world peace and deserve U. S. support for their efforts, and that the Soviets do not like the views of “such men as Sen. Barry Goldwater and members of the John Birch Society.”

WireReview

By The Associated Press WORLD NEWS

MOSCOW — Gay splashes of colored bunting decorated Moscow for the May Day holiday as the capital took on a festive air Thurs­day despite the schism with Com­munist China.

★ ★ ★HAVANA — Prime Minister

Fidel Castro warned against more U. S. plane flights over Cuba, declaring: “We will de­fend our sovereignty, whatever it may cost and wherever it may happen.”

U. S. NEWSWASHINGTON — A Republican

council urged Thursday an end to U. S. curbs on anti-Castro raiders and establishment of a Cuban government-in-exile.

It said such a government should be set up in Latin Ameri­ca to rally 300,000 Cuban refugees “to work openly for the liberation of Cuba.”

★ ★ ★BOSTON — The United States

plans to resume its troubled Hanger moon probe program in June and to rocket a camera­carrying Mariner spacecraft toward Mars in November, space scientists reported Thursday.

Area Precinct Polling Places

PRECINCT NO. & LOCATION

MILLIGANWELLBORNA&M CONSOLIDATEDSTEEL STOREHARVEYKURTENTABOREDGESMETANABEN MILAM SCHOOL TRAVIS SCHOOL RELIANCE

CROCKETT SCHOOLFANNIN ELEM. SCHOOLAMERICAN LEGIONCOLLEGE HILLSBOWIE SCHOOLSTEPHEN F. AUSTIN SCHOOLBRYAN FIRE STATION

County Selects Party Choices This Saturday

Brazis County residents will begin their selection of nominees for state and county offices in the Republican and Democratic primaries Saturday.

Along with the nominees, the parties will select their respective officers in county conventions which will also begin then.

The Democrats in Brazos county have 49 candidates in 28 races on the ballot. Incumbents are unopposed in 15 races.

These do not include the candidates for precinct chair­men.

The Republicans in Brazos County have 19 candidates in 16 races. Incumbents are unopposed in 15 races.

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Prof Writes Study Satire

A satire on scholarly studies at­tempting to prove that almost any­one except Shakespeare wrote the plays and poems has been written by A&M University Asst. Profes­sor of English J. F. Peirce.

The satire, entitled “The Great Shakespeare Mystery,” appears in the current issue of “Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.”

Peirce, who teaches creative writing and other English courses, also is the author or coauthor of two other recent stories in the same publication.

“The Lonely Ones,” a story of crime and detection, appeared in the March issue.

Seat Belts Here!The last shipment of seat

belts, model J800, have arrived and may be picked up at the rear of the old fire station across from the Exchange Store from 5-6 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Former Students Reward Lindsay

Dr. James D. Lindsay, head of the Department of Chemical Engi­neering, was recently presented with a 1964 Chevrolet Impala.

The car was purchased with money given by former students of Lindsay in appreciation of his ef­forts to aid them in starting their careers. Lindsay is scheduled to retire Aug. 31, after service to the university dating from 1938.

Enough extra money was re­ceived to set up a scholarship in Lindsay’s name. It amounted to $1600 by Saturday night as con­tributions continue to come in.

At an appreciation banquet Lindsay also received a scrapbook filled with letters of appreciation from his former students. A lov­ing cup was presented to Mrs. Lindsay.

Under the direction of a steer­ing committee, letters were sent to Lindsay’s 1200 former students asking them to send contributions to the fund and suggesting that

one dollar for every year an ex had been out of school would be a reasonable amount.

Members of the steering com­mittee were Edward Ivey, Oliver Osborn, C. A. Kroll, R. J. Lane and Russell Huddleston.

“I think it is unique and fitting that students should do something of this nature for a professor who has made their lives after gradua­tion a little easier,” said Fred H. Parrott, ’39, of Houston and a for­mer student of Lindsay’s.

Champ FundTwo more outfits joined the

Champ Fund honor roll, as Squadron 8 and Company E-l sent in contributions.

Ronnie Fann, Battalion editor, said the project had now sur­passed the $500 mark.

FFA Honors Top Students

The A&M University Collegiate Future Farmers of America Chap­ter will honor top students and professors at its annual Student- Prof Banquet Friday.

Charles Urbanic of Galveston, junior agricultural education ma­jor and banquet committee chair­man, said activities start at 6:30 p.m. in the Ramada Inn.

The main speaker is Benny Mays of Brashear, state FFA president.

Urbanic said other guests will include George Hurt and Clemon Montgomery of Austin, state di­rector of vocational agriculture and executive secretary of the Tex­as Association of Future Farmers of America, respectively.

Vernon Cook of Perryton, A&M Collegiate FFA chapter president, is master of ceremonies.

Awards will go to the outstand­ing seniors in the fall and spring semester, to the outstanding junior of the school year, and to the outstanding professor in the Col­lege of Agriculture and the Agri-

| cultural Education Department.

If one includes the pres­idential preference primary on the bottom of the Republi­can ballot there are an addi­tional four candidates. These are Barry M. Goldwater of Ari­zona, Nelson Rockefeller of New York, Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, and Harold Stassen of penn.

The GOP senatorial nomination race—with four active campaign­ers—has been drawing a great deal of attention because a heavy vote is expected to pick the man who will join Sen. John Tower as the second GOP senator from Texas.

Because of this and the pre­ferential primary it is hoped by many Republicans that there will be a record vote for their pri­mary in Brazos County.

Herbert Shaffer, Brazos County Republican chairman, said Thurs­day night that there were four times as many absentee ballots filed this year as last year. “I hope that this is indicative of the future of the two party sys­tem in Texas.” Shaffer would not hazard a guess at the number of voters in the Republican pri­mary, but expressed his desire to work for an effective two party system in Texas. “With a two party system there is competition and a healthy balance.” added Shaffer.

Shaffer said that the polling places will be open from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. He further stated that all precint conventions will be held at 7 p.m. after the polls close.

Buddy Williams, Brazos County Democratic chairman, said that he hoped that 10,000 voters would turn out for the Democratic pri­mary. “There are close to 15,000 eligible voters including the over­aged,” said Williams.

“A small vote is not always good, for if a large number of voters show up people are more satisfied with the results of the election,” said Williams. “I feel like the people have spoken after a large vote,” added Williams.

Both Williams and Shaffer are uncontested in their respective races for county chairmen.

Although the results of the presi­dential preferences primary on the Republican ballot will not be bind­ing on the delegatios to national convention on July 13 in San Fran­cisco, a victory could give the winner a big boost. County chair­men have been instructed by the state GOP chairman to count write- ins.

Grad Lecture Set Monday

Professor Robert S. Hansen of the Iowa State University chem­istry faculty will present an A&M University Graduate Col­lege Lecture at 4 p.m. Monday in Chemistry Building Room 231.-

Dr. Hansen has published ex­tensive research results and is recognized as one of the out­standing surface chemists of the world, the announcement from Graduate Dean Wayne C. Hall’s office said.

“Field Emission and Flash Filament Studies of Reactions of Hydrocarbons on Metals Sur­faces,” is Dr. Hansen’s an­nounced topic.

Grade Schools Seeking Men, Survey Shows

Additional male teachers are sought for elementary schools, 63 Texas school systems reported in an A&M University survey.

The school survey was conduct­ed by Dr. Paul R. Hensarling, head of the Department of Education and Psychology, and a graduate student, Anne Letbetter.

“To help boys to acquire the male influence in their lives” was cited as the prime reason for want­ing additional men teachers.

Elementary education offers good opportunities for advance­ment, Dr. Hensarling’s report not­ed.

“The school systems indicated a desire to have a ratio of one man teacher to four women,” Dr. Hen­sarling said. The current ratio is 1 to 13.

The schools indicated they want men as well as women teachers in the third through sixth grades. Fewer than two per cent want men to teach the first two grades.

Most of the reasons listed by the school officials for increasing the number of men teachers revolves around the “male image.”

Other reasons included the need for men to work with boys in ex­tracurricular activities, standards of discipline, leadership, authority, responsibility, technical knowledge and the fact that men are more permanent in the profession.