The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1960
Number 85
Ball, Barbecue
Civilians Prep
For Weekend
_ The highlight of the year for A&M Civilian students, the
Civilian Weekend will get under way Saturday afternoon at 5
in Deware Field House, Mike, Carlo, secretary of the Civilian
Student Council said today.
Finalists in the Civilian Sweet-
heart contest will be introduced at
that time, Carlo said.
A barbecue dinner consisting of
one half barbecued chjcken, potato
salad, beans, pickles, onions and
soft drinks will be served in De-
Ware at 5:30, he said.
Concluding the weekend’s activ
ities will be a dance, starting at
9 Saturday night in Sbisa Hall.
Les Blume and his band from La-
Grange will provide music for the
occasion.
At 10, finalists in the Sweet
heart contest will be judged. The
judging will be by popular vote of
everyone attending the dance. Up-
Dotina Brock
. . . Hart Hall
Judy Carroll
. Walton Hall West
Mrs. Doris Evans
. . . Day Students
on entering, everyone will be given
a car'd, which will be used for
voting, Carlo said.
This year’s voting will mark the
first time the Sweetheart has been
selected in such a manner. In
previous years, faculty and staff
members made the selection.
The card will have a place for
two choices of Sweetheart, and
each person will indicate his choice
for first and secand place, then
drop the card in boxes provided for
that purpose, he explained.
Cost of the barhecue is $1 per
person with children under 12 be
ing admitted for 50 cents. The
admission to the dance will be
$1.50 per couple.
The Battalion will run sev
en of the Sweetheart final
ists in today’s issue. The re
maining seven will appear in
tomorrow’s issue.
Blood Drive
Under Way
In Coliseum
The Student Senate’s annual
blood drive is currently under
way on campus and will con
tinue 'through 5 this afternoon.
Students who are donating
blood are doing so in G. Rollie
White Coliseum. A goal of 600
registrants has been set for the
year to equal last year’s output
of 400 pints.
A total of 500 students regis
tered to give blood but some
will be turned away due to mi
nor ills and other causes.
Postcards were sent to those
who registered to inform them
of the time they were to regis
ter. These times were arranged
during the student’s off hours.
Students who did not register
may still give blood, however.
According to Jake Sekerka,
president of the Student Senate,
those who wish to do so need
only report to the Coliseum
some time today.
Proceeds go to the Wadley
Foundation in support of the
Texas Children’s Research Foun
dation.
621 Make DS List
For Fall Semester
By BOB SLOAN
Assistant News Editor
The Office of the Director of Admissions and/Registrar
has announced that 621 undergraduate students were desig
nated Distinguished Students for the. Fall Semester, 1959-60.
In order to be placed on the distinguished student list,
a student must be registered for* —
at least 15 hours and establish a
grade point ratio of 2.25 or bet
ter.
William D. Edmonds, a fresh
man science major from Dallas,
posted a 3.18 for the highest un
dergraduate GPR last semester.
In all, 36 students posted GPR’s
of 3.0 or better. Six of these 36
posted over a 3.0.
The three and their grade point
ratios are Edmonds with a 3.18;
City Election Vote
Planned April 5
On Mayor, Council
The citizens of College Station
will elect a mayor and three coun-
cilmen in a city election to be held
April 5, according to Ran Boswell,
city manager.
The present mayor, Ernest
Langford, is the only candidate
who has announced for the mayor’s
post. Carl W. Landiss is'running
for Ward 1 councilman, Joe H.
Sorrels for Ward 2, and A. P.
Boyett is running in Ward 3. All
are councilmen whose present
terms are expiring. They are the
only announced candidates for
election.
Absentee ballots applications
may be filed beginning today in
City Hall, and the deadline for ab
sentee votes is April 2. Poll tax
receipt or 'exemption slip is re
quired to register for the vote,
said Boswell.
Robert K. Wright, sophomore
aeronautical engineering major
from College Station with a 3.13;
Arthur T. Moore, sophomore elec
trical engineering major from
Hempstead with a 3.11; Lynn
Bellamy, sophomore science ma
jor from Bryan with a 3.05; Sam
Piccolo, sophomore business major
from Bryan with a 3.05; and Mar
ion M. Walton Jr., sophomore Eng
lish major from New Iberia, La.,
with a 3.05.
Of the students in the 3-point
bracket, 13 were seniors, 10 were
sophomores, 7 were juniors, 5
were freshmen and 1 was a fifth
year architecture major.
There were 21 students who just
made the DS list — posting the
minimum 2.25 GPR. Of these there
were 7 seniors, 6 juniors, 6 sopho
mores and 2 freshmen.
About one of every 100 students
was designated a Distinguished
Student for the Fall Semester.
Student Senate
Meets Tonight
Members of A&M’s Student
Senate will continue discussions
on the Reveille Fund, Twelfth
Man Basketball, the A&M blood
drive and the Aggie Muster
when they meet at 7:15 tonight
in the Senate Chamber Room of
the Memorial Student Center.
The Senate will also hear a
report from a special committee
for selection of an outstanding
staff member.
A&M Student CofC Plans
Meeting Tonight at 7:30
Promotion Plans
On First Agenda
Buys License Plates
Curtis Roberts, freshman engineering major
from Carlsbad, N. M., buys his 1960 Texas
license plates from Mrs. J. A. Orr in the
Memorial Student Center. The license plates
are on sale in the MSC Post Office area
from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. daily. Students and
faculty and staff members may buy their
license plates in the MSC through Thurs
day, March 31, except on Saturdays and
Sundays. March 31 is the last day for regis
tering cars without having to pay a penalty.
U.S. Officials Inspect
Adenauer’s Berlin Plan
WASHINGTON (A>)—U. S. offi
cials today began a friendly but
cautious inspection of Konrad Ade
nauer’s plan for a pre-summit
vote by West Berliners on whether
the Allies should stay in Berlin.
The West German chancellor
launched his surprise suggestion
in a speech to the National Press
Club Wednesday.
Today he arranged to wind up
his 2%-day visit to Washington
with sightseeing and a lunch with
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, then fly to California
where he will receive two honory
university degrees.
The State Department termed
Adenauer’s Berlin proposal “very
interesting” and said it had no
doubt West Berliners would vote
overwhelmingly to keep their
Western protectors.
It promised consideration of the
plan at the pre-summit strategy
huddles now under way among the
Western Allies, after the West
ggrmans supply a formal proposal
spelling out what Adenauer had in
mind.
The West German foreign min
ister, Heinrich Von Brentano, said
he will stay on in Washington for
several days of discussions after
Adenauer’s departure.
,; r"%
Mrs. Mary Gray
. . . College View
Ethvlene Henning
.. . Bizzell Hall
Mrs. Jo Ann Johnson
, . . College View
Judith Jones
... Law Hall
The 84-year-old Adenauer ack
nowledged Wednesday he had not
mentioned the idea to President
Eisenhower during their lengthy
meeting at the White House Tues
day. He said he had thought of
it only Wednesday morning.
As Adenauer pictured it, a West
Berlin plebiscite rejecting Nikita
Khrushchev’s demand that the big
powers pull but of the city would
strengthen the U. S. British and
French chiefs when they meet the
Soviet Premier at the summit con-
A&M Consolidated
To Fill Two Posts
In April 2 Election
Two positions on the A&M Con
solidated School Board will be
filled in an April 2 election, to be
held in the Music Room at the
A&M Consolidated Junior High
School.
According to W. T. Riedel, A&M
Consolidated Schools superintend
ent, Henry L. Allen and Charles G.
Carroll will complete their terms
on the board. Both men are run
ning for reelection.
In addition, three other men are
running for the positions. John
Longley, Herb Thompson and Mil-
ton Ford have filed for the board
position.
Riedel said that in order to vote,
a person must present a poll tax
receipt or exemption slip at the
polling place. He must also be a
resident of the A&M Consolidated
School District.
Absentee voting started Monday
in the County Clerk’s office in the
Brazos County Courthouse. Dead
line for absentee votes is Tuesday,
March -29.
Election judge will be L. G.
Jones. P. L. (Pinky) Downs, Jr.,
will serve as assistant judge.
ference starting in Paris May 16.
Khrushchev had called for with
drawal of the World War II oc
cupying powers so Berlin can be
come a “free city.” The Western
Allies’ position was reaffirmed by
Eisenhower at his news conference
Wednesday when he said the Al
lies will not abandon their rights
in Berlin except under a reunifi
cation of Germany.
Correction
Omitted from Wednesday’s
story in The Battalion were the
names of the three students who
filed for editor of The Engineer
Bob Bertrand, senior mathe
matics major from Beaumont;
Paul York, junior electrical engi
neering major from Marshall;
and John Kitowski, junior aero
nautical engineering major from
San Antonio, were the students
who filed for editor of The En
gineer for the 1959-60 school
year.
Methods of further promoting A&M will be discussed
tonight at 7:30 at the,first meeting of the A&M Student
Chamber of Commerce in the Lecture Room of the Biological
Sciences Building.
The main topic for tonight’s meeting will be an explana
tion of the workings of a Chamber of Commerce to the mem
bers. Following this original meeting, the Chamber will elect
officers in a meeting next Thursday and get to work on a
group proposals already confronting them.
A Board of Directors and,managing secretary will be
elected at next week’s meeting. The newly elected members
of the Board of,Directors will select their own president.
Following these first two
meetings, the Chamber will
probably revert back to call
meetings,, with communica
tions to members being made
by mail.
Cliffoi'd W. Lane, Jr., student
organizer of the Chamber, stated
the members of the groups will be
composed of student delegates
from the different departments on
campus. Each department has
been invited to appoint one junior
and senior per degree option as
delegates to the organization.
Lane said the Chamber, organ
ized under the Department of Stu
dent Activities, will be a student
effort to present material about
each academic department of the
college to correct what he calls
“the belief that A&M is strictly
a military and agricultural cpl-
lege.”
Material collected by the student
delegates on the various depart
ments will be turned over to home
town clubs and other similar or
ganizations to be presented to
prospective students.
The Chamber’s goal is to be
come an organization that people
and organizations will turn to for
information and ideas on how to
best picture A&M.
The Chamber will be organized
in committees which so far con
sist of the hometown club, special
project and information commit
tees. The information committee
will work with the other depart
mental delegates in organizing the
information pamphlets on each de
partment. These pamphlets will
be displayed on campus where
both visitors and students will
have access to them.
Military Men
Study Europe
As Missile Site
WASHINGTON (£>) — Military
leaders are studying the possibil
ity of equipping land bases in
Europe with Polaris missiles, says
Secretary of Defense Thomas S.
Gates Jr.
The solid-fuel Polaris is design
ed for firing from submarines and
will have a range of about 1,200
miles.
Gates was questioned about the
Polaris Wednesday when he testi
fied at a combined public hearing
by the joint Sehate Space Commit
tee and the Senate Defense Pre
paredness subcommittee.
Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-
Wash) later told a newsman he
believed the Polaris could be used
from the bases now being readied
in Great Britain and other coun
tries for the Thor and Jupiter,
American liquid-fuel missiles.
Gates again said more tests will
have to be made on nuclear-pow
ered Polaris submarines before a
decision is made on whether to ask
for funds to build more of them.
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-
Tex), chairman of both Senate
groups, said that in the past Con
gress had voted additional funds
for defense only to have the money
frozen by the executive branch or
used for other purposes.
Johnson asked Gates if he would
use the extra funds should they
be voted by Congress.
“That is always a question for
the President to decide,” Gates
said. He added he believed the
President would agree to any rec
ommendation he and the joint
chiefs of staff made.
Gates again told the senators
that military leaders believe the
nation’s defensive strength is ade
quate. He rejected suggestions
that the U. S. should match the So
viet Union missile for missile.
Bo Lee Voted
Council Head
Weldon (Bo) Lee was voted
new Memorial Student Center
Council and Directorate president
by secret ballot in a called meet
ing of the council this morning.
Lee took the majority of votes
over Rush McGinty, the other fin
alist.
Three Theology Professors To Speak
Colloquy Begins Tomorrow
The three day colloquy spon
sored by the A&M Methodist
Church Friday, Saturday and Sun
day will feature three members of
the faculty at the Perkins School
of Theology in Dallas.
The Rev. Dr. Fred Gealy, the
Rev. Dr. Van Harvey and the
Rev. Dr. Lamar Cooper will be
leaders in this new approach to
the study of the “Nature and Au
thority of the Bible,” “Christian
Insights and Moral Problems To
day” and “Theology in a Post
Christian World.”
Jack Kent, chairman of the
Commission on Education, has an
nounced that lectures and discus
sion groups will be provided for
ministers, laymen and college stu
dents. Kent pointed out a general
invitation is being given to mem
bers of all faiths to attend all
sessions of the study conference.
The sessions will be held at the
A&M Methodist Church in College
Station.
“People are searching for deeper
meanings and wider dimensions in
Grants Request
Deadline Friday
Students wishing to apply for
scholarships for the 1960-61
school year were reminded that
the deadline for the scholarships
has been set as Friday by R. G.
Perryman, secretary of the Fac
ulty Scholarships Committee.
However, the committee will
accept applications until 5 p.m.
Monday, Perryman said.
He encouraged any student
who has a good overall record
their religious faith,” stated the
Rev. James Argue, pastor of the
church, “and this colloquy offers
an unusual opportunity to those
who are seeking.”
The minister meetings begin to
morrow at 2:30 p.m., with the
Rev. Dr. Grealy. At 5:30 p.m.
day students meet with the Rev.
Dr. Harvey and at 7:30 p.m. Dr.
Cooper leads the laymen group.
Saturday from 9 to 11 a.m. all
gi’oups meet together. From 11
to 12 a.m. and again from 2 to 5
p.m. discussion sections will be
held separately for ministers, stu
dents and laymen.
The Rev. Dr. Grealy speaks to
all groups at 7:30 p.m. Saturday
and the Rev. Dr. Harvey will ad
dress all groups at 10 a.m. Sunday
morning. The Rev. Dr. Cooper
will preach the morning sermon at
11 a.m.