Volume LII Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia, March 22, 1963 Number 22 Marshall Foundation Robert C. Mathews Awarded Receives Large Grant Annoufuccmenit in New York to- The liatie Jiohn D. RaokeMl'er, Jr., National Science Fellowship day by the Ford Foimdaltion of a gave $150,0000 In 1956 Ito insbi- $200,000 gramit to tihe G«crge C. tiuite the researoh program, and Ms MatishaM Reisearoh Fo^lTlJdalt'ion was widow ilsiter oomtribuited an addi- Physics Major To greelted with "estireme igratiifioa- tiionial $50,000. Since libs fioiuniddnig tion" iby General of (the Army the Foundation ihas received gifts Studv At U.Va. Omar N. Braidll'eiy, MairsthaiU Foun- or pledges totalling alose -to daitiicTi Presidenit. Genieral BradTJey 000,000, of which appnoximaitely a Robert Chrisman Mathews, a saLd, "This mtot gemjeroais gilfit is quarter of a milHiion dollars has first class phv'sics major from of apecilal sianiifiicance to the Mar- beten expended in lammassimg the Shaill Foundaitiion ibecause it was mufttibudiinous collection lof hiis- Charleston, West Virginia, receiv- ittaidie iaft«r lOaireful •studjy by Fotrd tcrtcaU mHalterial miow <3an&idiered ed word last Sunday he has been Fouttdialtron lofficials and coiiiiiti- unique idf its kind. The Foumdiat'ion awarded a Cooperative Graduate itiUtes lan einidoirseimeiDt by one of currenitly has aipproximate'liy $450,- fellowship for one year's study at the Naitiion's igreatest philanthropic 000 avaiiLable fcr construdtion of the University of Virginia's Grad- trusts of Jihe vialue of bhe Mairsihaill the ihailf-'million dollar Research uate Department of Physics. The Researoh pricigraim's aiims' methods Library, which will ibe located naar award js sponsored by the Nation- and laoccimpM&hmerJts. This grant is the Viirgiiniia iMiliitary Instiibulte from al Science Foundation, a govern- not lonily of imimense valine in iit- wihiich Genclral MarSbaill graduated ment organization whose purpose eelf bult lit ciffielis proof ito other (Continued on Page 7) in making the grants is to increase imidivMuials and foimdatiions of the educational opportunities for gift- uxwr'thineiss of itlhe effort to effec- ed science graduates throughout tively inDomora'liizez tlhe life and Weather Bureau the countrj-. career of a great mam." Application for the fellowship The iFord Foundation's a^\"ard Grants Contract is made through the institmion domes laflter imoniths of study by Ford Foun'daitioin ctfificiiaJs of lihe which the graduate wishes to at- JVIairshaill Foundlaltionis progiram. To Physics Dept. tend. Only one application may be Terms of the gnant stipulate ithat su!bmitted. In most undergraduate The phj-sics department of the it lis ito ibe used for la program of schools, one of the members o£ Virginia Militarj- Institute ha? continiuing ireseairoh itnlto the na- the faculty is authorized to coun- tion's military and diplomatic his- been awarded a contract by the ROBERT C. MATHEWS sel interested students. dopy, for lOither expenses incident U. S. Weather Bureau of the De- Awards are given on the basis *o i^esearch, amd for reseiarch f^il- partment of Commerce, Maj. Gen. of the applicant's undergraduate ^hwsihips ibo ibe awarded when the George R." E. Shell VMI superin- work, the recommendations of his I IVOarsHteiM Foimdiaitiian's projected tendent, announced Wednesday. IRC Delegatiop To professot^, and the results of tbe I Resesarch Library in Lexinigtion, Vir- The contract will support an en- Graduate Record Elxaminatioii (tha [ ginrfa, lis oampactied. The Library,_ gineering analysis on the mechani- graduate school equivalent to Col- oottidtirucit'ion wfhidh .is expected to' cal design of a satellite spectro- Attend National Meeting lie Boards). start ithis monlth, wMll ibe completed meter which will be used in con- Mr. Matthews applied through midttiaiy of 1964. The Library will Wlhlle mlo'st of the Corps wil be The itiheme of this year's Con- nection with one of the current U. Va. last fall. He was singularly house miamy tihousands of papers relaxing and enjoying tihemseh-es fererjce lis The Atlantii'c Commomi- orbiting satellites of the Weather well qualified. ha\ing posted the amd othier Msitorioal material the (in tlhe sUmniy South dluring the tjj- amd a miosit distingulished list Bui-eau. highest score in the VMI physics Marslhall Foundlaition tos oodlected Spring Furlougli, tihree members of (Oif speakers has been made up. Lt. God. D. Rae Carpenter, Jr., department on the Graduate Re- sinoe its foiHidiinig in 1953. It i® ex- •the VMI Inteimaltiomal Redsitiorjs These speakers are well known associate professor of physics at cord E;.xamination this year. In pected (to serve las am invaluable Ciub will ibe attt'einding to. matters and qualified to talk on ithe vari- VMI, will be in charge of the pro- addition to this, he could cite a repository of histoirioall scairce ma- of world affairs. Charles Pecbham, oaiis .aspects of "The AtlarJtic Com- ject. He will be assisted in the teml for students in tIhe field in President of the IRC wil lead a imuniitj'" Mr. Ernst rYederic-^Kahl, three-year record as a Ehstinguish- program by Col. J. B. Newman, ooaninig years. The 'buikliinig wild delegation consistiimg of himself, a Director of the European ed Student. professor of physics, and Maj. Wil- also h'ousie a Miusoum lin wihich wll Dani Ogle amd Lyman Goff to lihe Ecoaiioniic Community; IMy Tyige As a cadet, he was preceeded by liam L. Patrick, assistant profes- be exhibited ma^ itctms ooraiedied 16th laimual cohfctretncie of the Daih'igaard, BoonjomJic Counselor of lU3 fatrher, an iimcle and a girealt- ^ with the life and. career of the sor of civil engineering. Aasociialtioin of Intemation Rela- .the Danish Embasiso" Mir. Stanley' graiidfather. During his rat year, " late Generai of the Army George The spkrtrometer is an instru- ticins Ombs at Amorjoain Interr^a- M. Cleveland, Ddrector of the Of- he earned the Chicago Tribune Oaitlleitt MairshalU, who \\ias Ohief ment to measure infrared radia- tional CoMege to SprtogfieM Masea- fice of AtlantJlc iPoiliitical - Eoono- R.O.T.C. Award. His second year of Staff during Wlonld War n and tion and will be contained in a {ihusJeitts. The delegation wall leaive srJic Affalirs; Mr. Clarence Streit, here, he held the rank of corporal lalter Secretory of SDalie. Nimbus-tj-pe orbiting satellite. The firom itheir respectdve hoones early Pre€
CVRUS VANCE, (front row center) Secretary of the and found it to be a highly enjoyable and profitable one, Rules Conunittee. The Club's President. Cadet J. Clifford Army and the speaker for VMI's graduatkm exerciiies lir addition to Secretary Vance, the VMI group called upon Miller, is shown standing between Secretary Vaikce and oa June 9, was one of the officials and statesmen visited several Virginia legislators, including Senator A. Willis Colonel Alexander H. Morrison, the Faculty Advisor to by the VMI PoUtical Science Society on its trip to Wash- Robertson ,of Lexington, Republican Congressman Rich- The Political Science Society. ioglou last week. Some twenty-one cadets made the trip, ard A. I'off, and "Judge" Smith, Cliairman of the House (x>l. Gilliam Pianist Brockman Is To Participate 111 World Tour Praised By Reviewer J. Bunting III Lt. Col. Bates McCiuer Gilliam, and in the Ondine from Gaspard de la Nait, hie pla&'ed with a fine Assistant Professor of Historj" at Thomas Brookman. pianist, was delicacy and suipptte, fkien't shad- VMI, will be among approximate- guest gdloiat 'in tlhe third of this ings. ly one hundred members of the yeiar's Ro>ckbrldge-Cicincea-t Theater The brea'cV'h oif tihe program was American Political Science Asso- Series. Brockman played in grealt, raraiirig from the Vlariaitiona ciation participating in the First Jacksion Memorial Hall before a large land most eintbusiastic audi- on a M'nuet Cif Duport, K 574 by Vorld Tour*Seminar which will eraco. Mozart, to Ravel. Brockman'^s best begin this summer. The soloiis't. who had played perfcifmainrce cf tlhe eveiniing, it Col. Gilliam explains that he is here in 1957 wiitlh Howard Mit- seemed to this reviewesr, came im making the tour in order to gather oheTi amd itihe Naitiioinall Siymphiony tlhe D TVIinior Sonota of Bee ihoven, material for a proposed course in Or
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Cadet Fygi closes his column with the For the Corps, the pledge is lifted and the poetic expression, "Even here (a concen- weather predictions call for a very pleasant tration camp) is the Russian still a Russian." week, so there is no reason for this to be This may be, but the non-Russian minority anything other than a peasurable vacation, of the Soviet Union, plus the non-Russian would like to warn the Corps, however, satellites, present grave problems to the against poor driving practices, swimming masters of the Kremlin. The majority of accidents, and. above all, driving while under these peoples wish the Russians back where the influence of alcohol. We realize that this, they came from, and only the numerous Red more than most years, is a time to release Army divisions keep them in check. the pent-up tensions of the long, dreary win- Imre Lipping ter months, but it is also a vacation from which we would like to have everyone return unharmed, sans hangovers and wife. Fygi's Reply The argument presented here, when ex- tricated from the dalliances into the area of facetious but irrelevant name-calling, is es- sentially that the Soviet Union cannot be LETTERS equated with the Russian State. This is largely true, and any treatment of the two NoxrH mn as being considered as one frdm the stand- point of internal national consciousness is Lipping V, Fygi As tih'e iSptiMg 's^eiason appiroachies ing ;sieinvicei&? No, ibecause itilM only not correct. and itihle fheiaiits of ciadiets turn affects the First Class and they In last week's OUTLOOK column — which However, in a more generic sense, the tx> itlfaloughitis lof drinSc, drinik and can ^ways r^ lihe funonies Mer. source of power of the Soviet Union is the Mone dmink'S, we onice algadin are Then it must be the Pledge, but is usually very enlightening — Cadet Fygi foiioeid itk) survey ithfi' emviiltioinlmeinit tbait'is out, too ibedaiuse the prob- Russian state; the RSFSR remains the ideolo- proceeded to comment on the nationalism tihiait indies suoh Ikougihits in thle leim lin question was lihie cause of in the Soviet Union — a very wonderful task. gical, political, and industrial core of the minds of it}ie "eneiaim of Ameriiea's the 'greait drau^. It ^muelt be' th« , However, issue could be taken with certain Soviet Union — hence the tendency, though youth." Wliialt ctnives itheee troope thiouigjhlt (that lt)he whnOie Corps haov bors dteieip jm itheiLr hieaiitis, thait is, I aspects of the column. technically incorrect, to equate the Soviet to drtok? How can they foi^et Union and Russia. In this respect was my the Spirit of Youth, JM Hall, the thought ithalt Hhey lare not The young, energetic History major tries nldblle 'ennulaitliion.ete. e/tlc. Could iit quite ireadKing up to ViM stand- to refute a view that has persisted in the treatment of the question of Russia/Soviet be itlhalt ttihey iresient Ihaiving ito sit ards. West since the foundation of the Soviet national identity co^ect; the area of the in ithe lower faioor of JIM Hall dtir- (Continued on Page 5) Union; namely, that in the blob of an empire Soviet Union where a sense of nationalism there can be no national feeling. "The facts MATTERS is the Russian state. belie this," says the young columnist, "his- The myopic misanthrope next asserts that torically, there has been a very definite Russian resistance to the Germans in World Spirit of national identity within Russia." War II, characterized as heroic, is "simply True enough, but Cadet Fygi seems to forget not true." In support of this assertion, Mr. Published Friday afternoon. Entered as second class matter September that Russia, although powerful, is only a Lipping cites the Kiev debacle — an engage- 19, 1946 at the Post Office in Lexington,- VirgiAia, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription, $3.50 out of barracks, $3.0« in barracks, part of the Soviet Union. Russia has a popu- ment wherein the Russian roll-up was as re- 30 issues. Address: Box 715, V. M. I., Lexington, Virginia. lation of roughly 110 million, the ^viet sultant from logistical and operational mis- MEMBER Union something like 200 million. How about handling as the broadly conjectural lack of Virginia, Intercollegiate Press Association Associated Collegiate Press the loyalties and nationalism of that very a "will to fight". Of course, Mr. Lipping does large minority? not mention the defense of Stalingrad, or the EDITOR-IN-CHIEF WILLIAM C. COWARDIN, JR. It is a fact, that the Soviet Union's inter- Russian ability to produce fresh divisions to nal policy is not too different from that of . halt the 1941 advance (which both surprised and perplexed the German General Staff), MANAGING EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER Czarist Russia — Russification is still carried Mell J. Lacy, Jr. Theodore A. Riedinger ' out with great vigor. In the schools of the or the fact that some of the best Russian units of the defense against the Germans were non- non-Russian constituent republics, Russian EDITORIAL STAFF is taught in every grade. Russians get more Russian Mongols, (demonstrating to an ex- favorable job opportunities, and Russians tent the validity of the concept of USSR co- NEWS EDITOR FEATURE EDITOR often takes prec^ence over the local lan- hesion/national feeling, perhaps), or the suc- Paul R. Thomson Denver E. Perkins cession of great Russian Winter offensives. guage. Non-Russian populace is persecuted or EDITORIAL EDITORS ASSISTANT EDITORS To say that these examples belie the exist- destroyed — let us remember the fate of the Anthony K. Holtry Wm. Stewart Buettner Ukrainians, the Baits, the Caucasians,' the ance of a heroic and determined resistance Preston W. Holtry J. Prank Frosch -Volga Germans. For example, several moun- is ridiculous. John M. Taft tain tribes in the Caucasus have been cbm- Mr. Lipping's statement that the evidence MILITARY EDITOR LAYOUT EDITOR pletey exterminated. Russians, no doubt, of Solzhenitsyn's book on the life of a Soviet Lance V.. Berins Gary R. Hermon have a certain feeling of nationalism toward concentration camp cannot be taken into COLUMNIST PHOTOGRAPHY EXpHANGE EDITOR ' the Soviet government, but this is not at all account as being representative of the truth Daniel J. Ogle David G. Bell Benjamin R. Gardner certain about the non-Russians. because no book published in the Soviet CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Cadet Fygi attempts to prove his assertion Union could openly den'ounce Communism is by maintaining, that the Germans, invading non sequitur; assuming that he has read the Robert R. Baldwin, William G. Crisp, i Russia in 1941, were resisted heroically. book in its entirety, Mr. Lipping probably Eric J. Fygi, Charles G. Peckham This is simpy not true. In the first weeks of would conceede that no punches are pulled CARTOONIST the war, Russians deserted by the thousands as to the portrayal of the situation at the William A. Wells to the Germans. In the great battle of Kiev, camp — in this respect it is truth. What was i NEWS STAFF the Germans took 800,000 prisoners — sure- illuminating about the book, however,' was ly not an indication of the Russian will to not the presentation of fact, but the attitude L. H. Goff, J. W. Knight, P. D. Knoke, D. A. Kovach, fight. About a dozen Waffen-SS divisions and reaction of the labor-camp environment C. L. Gallup, W. B. Gaffney, I. Lipping, J. W. Mountcastle, — the resultant of the fact. Empirical evi- P. A. Norton, L. P. De Temple, G. R. Borum, wer.e formed from the non-Russian volun- J. H. Elder, III, J. R. Prosser, M. F. Prugh, teers, who fought fiercly against the Soviets. dence, such as the fact that little spirit of W. S. Scott, P. R. Taylor, W. C. Thompson, A pure Russian army under General Vlassov mass rebellion to the Soviet Union is extent J. R. Walker. J. H. Wilkins, F. H. Wittel was formed by the Germans. The contingent among those directly or indirectly involved with tenures in the camps (at least to the ex- of non-German troops from the occupied BUSINESS STAFF territories could have been vastly greater, tent of showing it, in the tradition of Poznan and the more recent Soviet "bread riots"), had not German arrogance alienated the new- ADVERTISING MANAGER CIRCULATION MGR. would tend to justify observation of the lack ly?liberated peoples. Alone the Ukrainian Tom W. Whitfovd Charles P. MaeDonaU, III contribution woud have been about forty of anti-Russianism among the persecuted as ASSISTANT ADV. MGR. ASSISTANT CIR. MGR. divisions, to judge from early enlistment portrayed in the cited work. Fred McBride David N. data. To say that non-Russian minority of the NATIONAL AbV. MG^ The young energetic columnist then pro- Soviet Union, plus the Soviet Satellites, pose BARRACKS CIRCULATION. ceeds to prove hi£ point by quoting from (Continued on rage 7) BiekW. 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Eveiryone on the KENNY REEDEK, one of the five lettermen on this year's edition ence and Co-Captain, Bill Welsh, (Carolina, and Duke University. team turned up thsir beat time of w!ho Willi probably share it)be hon- of the baseball team, will hold, down either shortstop or scevnd The fencing began in the morning the year in placiing ifiouiith in teiani witih Conrad Davis at starting and lasted all day. s'tandiiings. base. The team left for Hs southern t«ur today—(see Sportlight). posiition. Bruce Leve is also back. Ohio State proved to be the After pgoinig undefeaiteld in regu- Oomimg up fast from llhe fireahman strongest team of the day taking lar season conference dual meeits Che Kieydets were forced out by raitks iis Larry Swann. 57 of the 135 total bouts. VMI their Jack of fiiisit iplace wiiiuiers. ENDS: These are idhe boys tlhait took second place with 47 wins. The team's depth equalled aW buit get down ito ibusiness When the Racqueteers Rifle Team Duke and UNC followed with 19 one man to place :in the final going igets rough. Old faces are and 18 wins respectively. baaid-mioser Joe Bush land big Erfc sitandiTDgs behind tihe Citadel, VPI, Each of the competing teams Hant, both ragulars ilasit year. There Begin Work Takes Third and, UVa. is miore to dome' wi'tlh Don Giles fenced the other three. The results Bill Mendel turned in the be.st and Wallt Duryea backing 'them The Varsity tennis team, under The Southeirn Gonierence Rifle were: perfonm'ance for VMI with a rec- uip. One wiomld think that lihese the leadership of coach Fred Kel- ma(tcih was iheild last Saturday at Ohio 20—Duke 7 ord 200 yard breast sliroke time would be enough. Not sol Up from ley, is expected to field a much Fort Lee. In a fieild of seven Ohio 1&—VMI 9- for a few school records, but bould ladt year's rat team are Dan stronger team than last year. The teams, VMI placed itihird beihind Ohio 19—UNC 8 only manage a third place in the Phlegar who takes 'nothing from only loss from last year was Ham- Citadel and West Virgindia who VMI 17—UNC 10 • 50-yaa?d free sityle, wbioh was the anybody, Bill Bryant and John Tur- ner, the first, Hawkins, and Jordan were first and second, respectively. VMI 16—Duke 11 higihest ipleateau reiaicih^d by any n'er. The end iposition should be (second men) returning. "Hiese The Keydet riflemen, firing The VMI fencing team ended a Keydet swimmeir. Keam'ey also a grciat aid on 'the road 'to a higlh- two will be close for first singles siome 20 ipoints below their season good season this year with a total scored a third in the 500 free lly siuccessful season nexit year. men. Also, there will be five re- average, wound up wi'tlh a total of 8 wins and only 3 losses. V style. score of 1405. This was tlhieir best turning lettermen plus good fresh- The outlook for the team next A relative newscomer to the dianae of the season to finish men depth. Their schedule begins year is very good. Graduating first swimming squad, Owen Ohambers, ahead of West Virginia who fired tuirnad in a j'uripjusing 5:24.9 in with Citadel there on April 5, and classman Anthony Holtry, Preston their season low of 1421.. tihe 400 individual, the sifume race contunnes: Holtry, and Jim Gray leave a The Keyd&ts were paced by in which Star Bill Rimm was dis* April 9—William and Mary, here strong team behind them. With Football Clinic Herb Thornton, who had a score qualified. The addition of an ex- April 15—Georgetown, here of 285 out of la possible 300, and the increased support and heavy cellent rait team and the maitUrti'n(g April 2(^Va. Tech, here fallowed by J. D. Taylor, who sihot' schedule planned for next year, of ithe present sophomores and Date Is Set April 26—Davidson, here a 284. The top indiivi'diui^ score another winning season is antici- jureioi's will make for a much im- April 27—Lynchburg, there was made by Jim BeM of The Cita- pated. proved te^ next season. April 29—Hampden-Sydney, here Coming events to be .siponswed del, who mainaigied a 296. May 2-4—Southern Conference, toy VlMil. include the Spring Prac- The team, ooacihed by Sgt. Washington, D. C. tice Foottoa/ll CJolaching Clinic (Ap Bweirs, will fiipe in tlie Nationals SPORTS STAFF ril 19-20) and Chie 2nd Annual after Spring vaoation. The targets State of Virginia Aquatic Clinic aire fired ait VMI and the scores EDITOR JOHN COCKEY (May 11-12). The Spririig Practice are/ sent to N.R.A. headquarters Oliniic is for sttialte high school where ithey are tabulated and a ASSOCIATES LENNIE FUSCALDO ooiaohsis and wild be conducted by Good Old team champioin is named. The Ciita- tibe VMiI tootball stiaff. Crinic du- deil, winner of tihe S. C. match, is LENNIE PETERS rector Clark King repojits that 175 the liavarite to win the National eoaahes have indicaitod llhey will but will be bard pressed by Ore- WRITERS gon State. V\H, with good liuck Attend. Spring Leave! amd good shootiog exipects to rank Nat Ward, Butch Land, Jim Sopolski, at le««t in the top twenty. Dee StaUiBgs, Jim Hickenoii, Peter Trible George Rapport the experimental and technical IRC Delegation FygVs Reply realities diunng the field trips, was (continued from page 3) especially valuable to them. (Continued from Page 1) (continued from page 4) the best physics students in their The field trip to four NASA New Yotrk Heraild Tribune round institutions. centers will be conducted during out itlhe speakers' list. "grave problems" to the masters of the Kremlin's quite true; In addition to being academical- the concluding week of the pro- The conference will last a total I do not believe, however, that historical and empirical evi- ly talented, the students are also gram. The group will visit Mar- of three days and promises to be dence indicates that these "grave .problems" can, by them- unusually well-rounded, showing shall Space Flight Center in HunU- a most rewarding experience foP selves, cause the dissolution of the USSR from within. That a vari^ of interests outside sci- ville, Alabama, for a tour of pro- the participating cadels. Along was the crux of OUTLOOK'S commentary, and remains so. ence.. Many are active in sports. jects in piTopulfiion, rocket and with the noted speakers mentioned One scholarship winner is a star E. J. FYGI spacecraft. guidance and control, above the cadets will take part in center on his college basketball and spacecwrft development; the discussion groups which will listen Political Sage, 1st Class team. Another was intramural manned Spacecraft Center ia Hous- to a student written paper and wrestling champion last year and ton; the NASA launch facilities at then take part in a critique of the is struggling to retain the title this Cape ^Canaveral, and the Goddard topic. These discussions will en- Dine and Dance at CAPITOL TV year.' Space Flight Center in Greenbedt, compass a broad variety of topics , BRANDT'S RADIO CENTER The Institute program includes Maryland, for an examination of which are under the general head- Route 29 — 3 miles South 1827 W. Broad St. a daily two-hour lecture, afternoon experimental work in progress on ing of the following "Political of Lynchburg, Virginia Richmond 20, Va. problem session, and evening scientific satellites. Aspects of the Atlantic Commun- homework assignments, plus two G^rge has proven himself an ity," "The Atlantic Community and major examinations. Said Dr. Jas- active participant in extra-curri- the Soviet Bloc," "Economic As- trow: pects of the Atlantic Community," LEGGETT'S Flowers for all Occasions cular activities. He currently rep- "This is a rigormis schedule, resents the Class of 1964 on the "The Atlantic Community and the DEPARTMENT STORE ^^^ Flower Center but we have an extra-ordinarily tal- VMI Honor Court and was a re- Developing Nations," and "The ented group, and we expect to be cent representative of VMI to the U. S. and the Atlantic .Commun- Main Street 223 S. Main HO 3-4521 able to give them a good training West Podnt Conference on Inter- ity." Lexington, Va. in the elements of conveetive and national Affairs. One of the outstanding aspects radiative transfer, nucleosynthe- of this conference is the oppor- Datsun Motorcycles - sis, and plasma physics." tunity it gives the delegates to take Automobiles ^ Trucks Honda — Triumph This summer the program also Marshall Found. an active part in the proceedings. includes some lectures on experi- These parts include the positioa? mental prdblems and the techno- International Motor Mart (Continued From Pai^e 1) of discussion leader, rapporteurs, logy of space flight to give them a 1038 Kings Ave. and 1037 Hendricks Ave, paper readers, and paper critics as better background for their field in 1901. Other fujids ihaive been well as a voice in all discussions. Jacksonville 7, Florida given as a istort ixiwiaird an even trip to NASA research centers. Thus the conference not only gives tual endc'wmenit of $2,500.00. Students last year reported that the cadet an opportunity for learn- Joist Tecen'tly ithe Pound'ailiioin bfe- the combination of theory in the ing but also allows him to use his gain special ' solicitaition wiltihin lectures, followed by contact with leadership capabilities in the run-" Watts Cities Service the Sitaifie of Vinginia, and althaugh the conrarjittee of laippnoximiaitely ning of the conference.' Complete Automotive Repair and DR. M. W. RIETHMILLER 100 pnomiiinierJt VirgimiEms h«aded Road Service by fci-mer Gov^emor John S. 'Bat- Optometrist tle has hardly stai-ted its work, DATSUN SALES alreadj- more ithan $15,000 in cash RICHMOND, VIRGINL\ 4233 Atlantic Boulevard and iplediges has been (recedved. JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA Founiiatiion oificiaiTs beilieve Hhis amciUiVt will be sweClled by many Lynchburg, Virginia Jewely & Repair Work times in ocimimg wieeks. CHARLES LUNDIN THE TAP ROOM JEWELER FOR CADET'S PLEASURE AT 419 W. 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