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* BATTALION
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
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Number 85: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1959
Price Five Cents
Editor Filing
Deadline Set
Next Monday
Deadline to apply for an editor-
phip of a student publication is
Monday, L. A. Duewall, director
of Student Publications, said yes
terday.
The list of editorships includes
The Battalion, The Agriculturist,
The Aggieland, The Southwestern
Veterinarian, The Commentator
and The Engineer.
Students who wish to apply for
editor of The Agriculturist should
get their application blanks from
the office of O. R. Kunze in the
Agricultural Engineering Build
ing.
Application blanks for The Bat
talion and The Aggieland are
available at the Office of Student
Publications in the YMCA.
The Commenator application
blanks are at the office of H. L.
Kidd, in the Department of Eng
lish.
Dr. E. D. McMurry of the
School of Veterinary Medicine has
applications for The Southwest
ern Veterinarian.
Further information may be ob
tained at the Office of Student
Publications, Duewall said.
University of Oklahoma Comedy Duo
. . . Larry Bledsoe and Curt Schwartz
Industry Reveals
New Type Rubber
NEW YORK t^P)—Industry offi
cials lifted the wraps Tuesday
from a new competitor for natural
rubber. They said the man-made
product will do everything that
tree-grown rubber does — and is
just as cheap.
Commercial production of the
synthetic was announced by Rich
ard C. McCurdy, preside/it of Shell
Chemical Co., at a news confer
ence in the offices of U. S. Rubber
Co.
John W. McGovern, president of
U. S. Rubber, said his firm is now
using the Shell product in place
of natural rubber in some of its
truck tires.
The two officials said the new
product—dmown as poly-isoprene—
could make the United States in
dependent of foreign-grown natur
al rubber in time of war.
Polyrisoprene is made from a
white liquid that looks like gaso
line,' and is said to have the same
molecular structure as natural rub
ber. McGurdy said Shell’s process
for making it cheaply is a closely
guariled secret.
Garber Orchestra
To Play Saturday
For Military Ball
The Corps of Cadets will dance
to the music of Jan Garber and his
orchestra at the annual Military
Ball Saturday night from 9-12 in
Sbisa Hall.
Garber, known as the “Idol of
the Airways”, and his 13-piece
orchestra are currently engaged at
the Blue Room of the Roosevelt
Hotel in New Orleans.
Members of the armed forces
from Washington, D. C., and 4th
Army Headquarters, Fort Sam
Houston, w r ho will attend the
Spring Military Day functions will
be guests at the event. Other
guests include President and Mrs.
M. T. Harrington, Vice President
and Mrs. Earl Rudder, the Execu
tive Committee of the college, unit
faculty advisors and other college
officials.
The Ross Volunteers will serve
as ushers for the guests and the
Fish Drill Team will act as the
honor guard for the arriving dig
nitaries.
Singing Cadets
Try for TV Show
A talen auditioning was
held in the A&M Music Hall yes
terday in search for amateur tal
ent for the nationally televised
Ted Mack Amateur Show.
W. M. Turner, music co-ordina
tor of the Department of Student
Activities, said that he called
Buddy Page, talent auditioner
from New York City, to audition
the Singing Cadets of A&M.
Show Nearing
Three More Acts
Scheduled for ITS
A Comedy duet from the Uni
versity of Oklahoma, a pianist
from the University of Arkansas
and an organist from Texas Christ
ian University ai‘e three more of
the acts to be seen Friday night
at 6:30 in the eighth annual Inter
collegiate Talent Show.
The show, to be staged in G.
Rollie White Coliseum, will feature
10 acts selected from more than
130 auditioned at 15 colleges and
universities in Texas, Oklahoma,
Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississ
ippi.
The Kilgore Junior College Ran-
gerettes will be special performers
at the show. Joel A. Spivak, disc
joCkey for Houston’s Radio Station
KILT, will serve as master of cere
monies.
Advance sale general admission
tickets' aVe being sold by battalion
and group commandei’s at 75 cents
each. General admission at the
door will be $1 and reserved seats
are $1.25. Children’s ducats are 50
cents each.
A special ticket booth will be
Waco Councilman
To Talk Thursday
In Biology Building
Herb L. Lanier, representative
of the Greater Waco Safety Coun
cil, will speak Thursday night at
7:30 to the Student Safety So
ciety’s weekly meeting in the Bio
logical Science Building Lecture
Room.
Lanier will speak on the Or
ganization of the City Safety
Council.
“Such organizations will become
more widespread among larger
cities within a few years,” accord
ing to Frank Nixson faculty spon
sor of the student society.
Nixson added that the meeting
will be open to any interested per
sons as are all of the society meet
ings.
The Student Safety Society has
an informative lecture on safety
each week during the school year.
opened tomorrow beginning at 1 p.
m. between the Memorial Student
Center Gift Shop and the Foun
tain Room and tickets will be on
sale there until Friday afternoon.
The comedy team is composed
of Curt Schwartz and Larry Bled
soe, both OU students from Okla
homa City.
The team has won first place in
four talent shows on the Oklahoma
campus, two second places and have
made two guest appearances on
some of the shows as previous win
ners.
They also represented OU in the
Big Eight Conference Talent Show
at the University of Kansas last
spring.
Pianist Bob Flowers for the
University of Arkansas placed sec
ond in the All-Naval Talent Show
in 1956 before he entered college.
He was also first place winner at
the University of Arkansas Talent
Contest and placed second in the
Region IX of Student Union As
sociation’s talent show last winter
at Weatherford, Okla.
John Bell will represent TCU as
a popular music organist. A soph
omore, Bell participated in the
Frog Follies on the TGU campus.
A music and English major, Bell is
from Trinity, Tex.
John Bell
. . . organist from TCU
Cafe Rue Finale
Set Friday Night
Aggies and their dates will have
an opportunity to do as the popu
lar song says and “dance all night”
when Cafe Rue Pinalle holds an all
night dance Friday.
The dance will be held in the
newly excavated basement of the
Memorial Student Center follow
ing the Intercollegiate Talet Show.
Music will be furnished by The
Jokers, a dance band from Louis
iana State University.
Tickets are $1.50 for couples
and 75 cents for stags. Included
in this price is a breakfast snack
to be served in the early morning
hours.
Space Research Gets
48 Million Dollars
4. +
Senate Gives Nod
To Ike’s Progrant
WASHINGTON (TP) — Without a dissent, the Senate
voted Tuesday to authorize every penny the Eisenhower ad
ministration asked for stepped up spending on civilian space
research this fiscal year.
Nearly half of the $48,354,000 in the bill would go into
Project Mercury, a program looking toward space flight by
man., i
The Senate acted on a 90-0 roll call vote after hearing
Sen. John Stennis D-Miss say “the threat to our security
could be disastrous” if an enemy nation beat the United
States in developing a space vehicle capable of unleashing
nuclear weapons.
— 4.
Daniel Names
Bryan Woman
To State Post
Mrs. Eloise T. Johnson, spec
ialist in family life education for
the Agricultural Extension Service,
has been appointed by Gov. Price
Daniel as a member of the Texas
committee for the 1960 White
House Conference on Children and
Youth.
The Texas committee is com
posed of leaders in education,
health, social work, recreation and
other fields related to children and
youth.
Dr. Guy D. Newman, president
of Howard Payne College in
Brownwood, is chairman of the
committee.
The committee’s first meeting to
make plans for the state’s parti
cipation in the conference will be
held Saturday in Austin.
Mrs. Johnson joined the A&M
System in 1944. Prior to that she
had taught at Texas Woman’s
University in Denton, having re
ceived her B. S. degree in home
economics there and her M. S. de
gree in home economics education
and child development.
Her present job. involves work
ing with county agricultural agents
and home demonstration agents in
regard to human growth and de
velopment and human relations.
Leggett Committee
Issues Request
For Better Walks
Ken Stephens and Hugh McLe-
land of the, newly formed Leggett
Hall Dormitory Council Improve
ment Committee, have made a for
mal request to Robert O. Murray
Jr., Director of Student Affairs,
to improve sidewalks in front of
the dorm and plant grass on the
grounds.
The request was submitted to
Murray through the office of the
dorm councelor, Alton Linne. Af
ter Linne’s endorsement it will be
sent through the proper channels
to bring action.
Linne seemed quite enthusiastic
about the council’s action because
he said it was the first time that
he knew of any civilian dorm
showing any interest to improve
their conditions.
Third Installment
Due by March 20
New payable in the Fiscal Of
fice is the spring semester third
installment, $61.40.
Deadline for payment is March
20. The $61.40 covers board, $43.55,
room, $14.20, and laundry, $3.65,
until April 23.
Trip Cancelled
For AF Seniors
The trip to Cape Canaveral for
senior air science cadets during the
spring recess has been cancelled,
according to Lt. Col. William F.
Barnard, assistant professor of
Air Science.
Col. Bamard said arrangements
for the trip were being handled by
the Missile Unit at Cape Canaveral
and notification from them indicat
ed the base would be unable to
handle and accommodate the 170
cadets who were expected to go
on the three-day tom’.
“We had been unable to get
transportation for the group at
the time we received word from the
Cape, but we would have continued
trying to get an airlift underway
if the notice we received from the
Missile Unit had been favorable,”
Col. Barnard said.
Law Prof Speaks
At ASUP Banquet
Tonight in MSC
J. W. Riehm, assistant dean of
the Southern Methodist University
School of Law, will talk on “The
Role of Law in a Rapidly Evolving
World” tonight at 6:30 at the an
nual banquet of the A&M Chapter
of the American Association of
University Professors in the As
sembly Room of the Memorial
Student. Center.
Riehm received his law degree
from the University of Michigan
School of Law in 1947 and joined
the staff at SMU in 1948 after
practicing law in New York City
for a year. He is a member of the
American, New York, Michigan,
Illinois and Texas Bar Associa
tions. The author of several articles
in the field of taxation, he is also
president of the Conference of
Southwest Foundations.
The banquet is open to the public
and tickets are $2 a plate.
Zachry Addresses
HighwayEngineers
“People today may be putting
too much emphasis on security and
not enough on opportunity,” H.
B. Zachry, a member of the board
of directors of A&M, said here
yesterday.
Speaking at the opening session
of the 33rd Annual Short Course
in Highway Engineering, Zachry,
president of the H. B. Zachry Co.
of San Antonio, said that the more
effort we put into opportunity then
the more -we will have, including
security.
“I know I want to turn my back
on security in search for oppor
tunity and never be counted among
those weak and timid souls who
have known neither victory nor
defeat,” Zachry said.
Continuing, he said ... “I want
to live dangerously, to plan my
procedures on the basis of calculat
ed risks, to resolve the complica
tions of everyday living into a mea
sure of inner peace; if I know how
to do this then I will know how
to live and if I know how to live
then I will know how to die.”
D. C. Greer, state highway engi
neer, presided at the opening ses
sion of the three-day short course
which is being held at the Mem
orial Student Center under the
sponsorship of the A&M Depart
ment of Civil Engineering and the
Texas Transportation Institute in
cooperation with the State High
way Department.
In his welcome talk to the more
than 600 engineers and others at
tending the short course, Vice
President Earl Rudder paid tri
bute to the Texas Transportation
Institute and to those who led in
setting it up—Greer, Gibb Gilchrist
and the late Thomas H. MacDonald.
Rudder said the Texas Trans
portation Institute, which is pro
viding new knowledge in highway
engineering through research, is
leading the nation in many phases
of highway development.
Next stop for the authori
zation bill is in the House,
where it is likely to get fast
approval.
The actual money would be
provided in separate legislation
later. It would be used by the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration during the remainder
of this fiscal year, ending June
30.
Senate Democratic Leader Lyn
don B. Johnson of Texas noted the
Senate was voting the exact
amount requested by the Eisen
hower administration for NASA.
But Johnson, chairman of the Sen :
ate Space Committee, said he
wanted it known this was no rub
ber stamp action, that it came
after careful study.
Simultaneously, Johnson said
his committee has decided to
put off action on a request for
485 million dollars for the coming
fiscal year. The delay is to allow
completion of a special subcom
mittee investigation of possible
duplication and interservice rival
ry in the space program.
Included in the 48,354,000 total
of the supplemental authorization
bill was 20% million for Project
Mercury. NASA previously allo
cated more than 37 million dol
lars for this space flight work.
And before it is finished, the
program is expected to cost about
200 million dollars.
The space agency already has
let contracts for construction of
space capsules, intended to carry
the first American outside the
earth’s atmosphere. NASA also
is testing potential space pilots
for the Mercury project. The first
such flights are believed at least
two years off.
Potts Named
King Cotton
Kent Potts, senior plant and soil
science major from Bryan, has been
named King Cotton of the 25th
annual Cotton Pageant and Ball
to be held at A&M on April 17.
A cadet lieutenant colonel on
the corps staff, Potts is a dis
tinguished student and also a dis
tinguished military student.
He has received two scholarship
awards from the Trans-Mississippi
Golf Ass’n and the National Plant
Food Institute award as the out
standing junior in the Agronomy
Department. He also received a
Danforth Fellowship which gave
him a two-week trip to St. Louis,
Mo., and a visit to a camp in
Michigan for agricultural study.
Potts is listed in “Who’s Who
in American Colleges and Univer
sities,” vice-president of Alpha
Zeta, agricultural honor society,
assistant editor of the “Agricul
turist”, reporter for the Agricul
tural Council, social secretary of
the Agronomy Society and a mem
ber of the Inter-Committee Coun
cil.
Last spring he received the
“Agriculturist” award for an arti
cle entitled “Turf, A Part of Mod
ern Agriculture.”
Potts is the son of Dr. and Mrs.
R. S. Potts of 3606 Cavitt in
Bryan. ;
His queen will be selected from
among more than 100 duchesses
who will be here from all over the
state as representatives of various
clubs and colleges.
★
Grad Orders
Due Thursday
Seniors who wish to order
graduation announcements for
May commencement exercises
have today and tomorrow to do
so, according to W. L. Pen-
berthy, director of the Depart
ment of Student Activities.
The deadline for ordering an
nouncements is 5 p.m. Thursday.
News of the World
By The Associated Press *
Government Restricts Oil Imports
WASHINGTON—The government Tuesday imposed re
strictions on imports of crude oil, gasoline and other principal
petroleum products.
The mandatory controls replace a voluntary program
which has been in operation since mid-1957. The new controls
are effective Wednesday in the case of crude oil and unfinish
ed oils, and on April 1 in the case of gasoline and other finish
ed products.
Texas officials and oil operators Tuesday saw the new
mandatory controls on oil imports as a shot in the arm to the
ailing economy of the domestic oil industry. Words of praise,
however, were tempered by a reluctance by some to accept
rigid federal controls. %
Gov. Price Daniel telegraphed President Eisenhower that
the action was essential to the domestic economy and to na
tional defense.
Lt. Gen. Ernest O. Thompson, chairman of the Texas
Railroad Commission, said the mandatory program will be of
great assistance to oil and gas regulatory bodies.
Morgan J. Dayis, president of Humble Oil & Refining Co.,
said preliminary reports indicate the new order will bring
about a substantial reduction in imports of crude oil and
products other than heavy fuel oil.
★ ★ ★
Rocket Ship Test “Successful”
CALIFORNIA—The space-aimed rocket ship X15 suc
cessfully went through its first captive flight test Tuesday.
A B52 bomber carried the slender black dart 38,000 feet
aloft on a 70-minute flight over the desert.
At the controls of tne X15 was test pilot Scott Crossfield,
who will guide the craft on its solo flights.
X15’s first venture into the air went off without a hitch.
After the B52 landed with its stubby-winged passenger, the
Air Force annnounced:
“Test objectives for the flight accomplished.”