The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 48, No. 118, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 20, 1962 Page: 13 of 25
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TUESDAY MARCH 20 1962
THE OKLAHOMA DAILY University of Oklahoma Norman Okla.
Top High School Seniors
Honored at OU Banquet
Oklahoma high school seniors who were semi-finalists in the na-
tional merit scholarship program were honored at a Salute to Ex-
cellence banquet here Sunday night in the union ballroom.
Coach Bud Wilkinson. President Cross and Dr. Arthur Smith
Evanston 111. director of education services for the national merit
scholarship corporation were speakers.
Students who received commendation from the national merit
scholarship committee and had indicated an interest in OU were in-
vited to bring their parents. Nearly 400 people were present.
An afternoon reception at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Cross and
a tcr of the campus with members of the 1961-62 Presidents leader-
ship class serving as guides was included in the program which en-
tertained the students and their parents. Salute to Excellence ci-
tatcns were awarded to the students during the banquet by Dr. Glenn
C. Couch.
Entertainment for the banquet was provided by organist William
E. Winans Jr. a Presidents Leadership class member from Mays-
vde and the OU Mens Glee club and Soonerettes directed by
Chester Francis of the music faculty. Members of the university ad-
ministration were hosts in addition to the freshmen in the 1961 Presi-
dents Leadership class at the university.
By honoring these students for their academic achievement
sale1 Dr. Cross we hope to call attention to the outstanding work
being done in our Oklahoma high schools and -to focus attention on
acanemic excellence.
We are not merely honoring national merit scholars but all out-
standing high school students. As a society we are quick to recognize
athletic and other extra-curricular activities. We have not been so
quins to praise the achievement of our young scholars.
Coach Wilkinson and Arthur Smith both spoke on the importance
of scholars to society. Smiths speech was entitled The Moral Obli-
gation of Talent. He commended the students on the fact that there
were more than 300 students from Oklahoma who received letters
of commendation or achieved semifinalist status in the merit
program.
Smith told the students they were among the top 2 percent of the
nations 1.830000 youth who will graduate from high school in a few
short months. This banquet tonight can do much to give young
people a better perspective of what will really count in the long run
Srruh said. By your efforts the efforts of your parents community
school teachers and others you have accomplished excellence in a
mest meaningful way he added.
In his speech Coach Wilkinson listed several factors which pre-
vent people from developing their full capabilities. He said they in-
duced pressure to conform fear of failure and lack of ability to fol-
low' through on a plan. With Colonel Glenn in space truly a greater
frontier exists than ever befoie. The opportunities are for those who
don't fear failure. Sometimes we think education is training for a
way to earn a living. The real purpose of education is to learn how to
live he said.
Defense Urges
Housing Hike
WASHINGTON (UPD De-
fense Secretary Robert S. McNa-
mara declaring it disgraceful
that servicemens housing allow-
ances have remained unchanged
for 10 years urged Monday that
they be boosted by $300 million
yearly.
He told a news conference that
his plan if accepted by Congress
would increase these allowances by
an average of 184 percent. There
would be a maximum of 66 percent
for the two top sergeant ratings 17
percent for generals and 8 percent
for the three lowest enlisted grades.
McNamara said that housing
costs have gone up continuously
since the last allowance h i k e in
1952 and I think it is disgraceful
that the quarters allowance has got
fo far out of line. The allowances
are in addition to regular pay.
Rep. James E. Van Zant (R-
Pa.1 a member of the House
Armed Services committee agreed
with McNamara that action is
needed in this field. But he said the
secretarys proposal would have to
be studied in detail to determine
whether it fits the bill.
The worlds motorists wear rub-
ber off their tires at a rate of
2 billion pounds a year according
to the Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Co.
G.I. Loan Plan
Pleas Lower
WASHINGTON tfu- The Vet-
erans administration reported to-
day that appraisal requests for pro-
posed new housing units under the
GI home loan program decreased
in number during February.
The February requests numbered
12.034. compared with 12920 in Jan-
uary. However the February total
w as slightly ahead of the 11983 re-
ceived in February 1961.
The requests for proposed units
are regarded as an indicator of fu-
ture home construction activity.
The number of new housing units
started during February under the
GI program was 4992 up from 4045
in January.
Appraisal requests for existing
units numbered 10614 in February
compared with 9495 in January.
Applications for home loan guar-
anty decreased from 15087 in Jan-
uary to 12526 in February. These
reflect activity in previous months
in appraisal requests and building.
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Eek To Visit
Drama School
Dr. Nathaniel Sisson Eek director-elect
of the school of drama
will visit with the OU drama fac-
ulty Tuesday. He plans to see a
bill of Noel Coward 1-act plays in
the studio theater of the Drama
building.
Dr. Eek presently assistant pro-
fessor of speech at Michigan State
university will assume his new
position here July 1. He was ap-
pointed by the OU board of regents
last week to succeed Rupel Jones
upon his retirement from the
school of drama directorship.
Dr. Eek has speech and drama
experience at the University of
Kansas and was university theater
assistant at his alma mater Ohio
State university.
The new professor of drama re-
ceived his BA at the University
of Chicago in 1946 his BS in 1950
and his MA in 1954 at Northwest-
ern university. He earned his PhD
at Ohio State university in 1959.
He is a member in various pro-
fessional and civic organizations
including Central State Speech as-
sociation. Michigan Speech associ-
ation Theta Alpha Phi and the
National Collegiate Players.
Oil Slick Dissolves Hope
For Survivors of Crash
Neglected Farms?
MOSCOW (AP) Farm work-
ers in Russias Kazakhstan Repub-
lic are being prosecuted for neglect-
ing tractor repairs and the pre-
paration of seeds for spring plant-
ing. An issue of Kazakhstan Prav-
da cited the case of an agronomist
sentenced to a years corrective
labor for causing spoilage of seed
grain.
CLARK AIR FORCE BASE The
Philippines (UPD A ship
found an oil slick in the Pacific
Monday increasing speculation that
all 107 persons aboard a chartered
airliner plunged to a fiery death
when the plan exploded in flight.
The oil slick discovered by the
U. S. Navy supply ship Banner
was about 18 miles from the spot
where a freighter reported seeing
a bright flash on the night the
Flying Tiger airlines chartered
plane vanished.
THE CHANCES of finding any
survivors now are about one in
infinity said Maj. Gen. Theo-
dore R. Milton.
Milton commander of the 13th
U. S. Air Force which has led the
far flung aerial hunt for the plane
said he expects the search to be
called off Tuesday.
ANOTHER SEARCH ship the
minesweeper Gallant found an air
mattress not far from the oil slick.
But Flying Tiger officials said
they learned that the mattress
did not come from the Constellation
which was carrying U. S. troops to
embattled Viet Nam.
Aboard the plane were 93 U. S.
troops headed for Viet Nam three
Vietnamese soldiers and 11 crew-
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flash and then falling lights last
Thursday caused officials to give
more thought to the possibility the
plane might have exploded in
flight.
A' team of Civil Aeronautics
board (CAB) investigators mean-
time arrived at Burbank Cal.
headquarters of Flying Tiger which
was operating the plane under
charter to the Military Air Trans-
port service. The team immediate-
ly began an investigation of plane
and crew records for some clue
to its disappearance.
LATER THE TEAM will go to
Travis Air Foce base near San
Francisco where the plane took
off and then to Guam to continue
its inquiry.
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