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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Friday, March 18, 1960
CADET SLOUCH
BATTALION EDITORIALS
. . . Journalism Which Succeeds Best —and Best
Deserves Success— Fears God and Honors Man; Is
Stoutly Independent, Unmoved by Pride of Opinion
or Creed of Power • . . Walter Williams
Short of Goal
The Student Senate-College Station Lions Club spon
sored Blood Drive fell short of its proposed 400 pint goal by
almost one-third—getting onlyjtn estimated 280 pints.
All of the blame for the failure of the Blood Drive to
reach its goal, does not fall upon the Men of Aggieland.
Many of the Army and Air Force ROTC juniors showed up
to give blood, only to be refused because they had recently
had shots.
The long winter has caused many students to still have
colds and these people could not give blood.
Last year when the Blood Drive got 396 pints of Aggie
blood, the weather was not too much of a factor and the shots
for ROTC juniors were given later and did not intefere with
the Blood Drive.
Had more of the Men of Aggieland signed up in advance,
undoubtedly more blood could have been donated to the Wad-
ley Foundation for research use.
But, the Blood Drive is now past history and the Men
of Aggieland will have to use their standby platitude, “Wait
’til next year,” to improve their blood donation record.
The College Station Lions Club under the leadership of
David Fitch and the Student Senate under the leadership of
Jake Sekerka can take credit for setting up the drive which
will give blood to aid in the Texas Children’s Research Foun
dation for their use in fighting hemophilia and lukemia—two
dread killers of children.
To all who gave blood or assisted in the collection The
Battalion says thanks for the children of Texas who might
be saved by the donation.
★ ★ ★
An Invitation
The annual Civilian Student Weekend opens tonight with
a flurry of activity marking the social program.
In addition, the civilian students have extended a cordial
invitation to the Corps of Cadets to attend the weekend
functions. Much planning has gone into the event and stu
dents in the Corps of Cadets would undoubtedly find it more
than worthwhile to consider attendance.
Moreover, the School of Military Science has authorized
members of the Corps of Cadets to wear civilian apparal to
the festivities.
The invitation to the Corps of Cadets is a very compli
mentary gesture on the part of the Civilian Students of Tex
as A&M, It will be an excellent weekend . . .
★ ★ ★
A New Group
The Texas A&M Student Chamber of Commerce, still
in the embryonic stage, took its first organization step last
night in forming a group to construct an effective public
relations program and organize the various ideas of the de
partments on the campus.
The ideas formulated will be utilized college wide in of-
?ering a publicity docket on the aspects and activities of the
College.
Many visiting personalities are impressed with Texas
A&M as being a ‘military college that teaches agriculture,’ or
similar visions. However, the new organization will serve to
pool all the ideas of the departments across the campus and
offer a vivid picture of the College.
The Texas A&M Student Chamber of Commerce should
be an accurate benefit to the entire College.
Letters To The Editor
The
for
publication
Editor,
The Battalion:
I have been reading a lot lately
in The Battalion about the de
structiveness of Aggies with re
gard to road blocks, etc. Yet
something which is rarely ever
mentioned is the frequent paint
ings of the state of Lawrence
Sullivan Ross. His latest job
shows a yellow stripe down his
back.
Vandalism of any kind is
cheap, but it looks to me like it
takes a lower form of Aggie to
paint the statue of a man who
meant so much to A&M than to
tear down road blocks. And I
hope no one is so naive as to
blame someone from another
school.
Edwin N. Broesche, ’62
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JOHNNY JOHNSON EDITOR
Bill Hicklin Managing Editor
Joe Callicoatte Sports Editor
Bobbie Godwin News Editor
Ben Trail, Bob Sloan, Alan Payne Assistant News Editors
Nelson Antosh, Ken Coppage, Tommy Holbein, Bob
Saile and A1 Vela Staff Writers
Joe Jackson .—Photographer
Russell Brown CHS Correspondent
by Jim Earle Soviet Union, West Staying 1
Away from Hot West Berlin
“I’m not really gonna be th’ one that picks th’ Civilian Sweetheart, but I’ll bet that I’ll be
popular with th’ girls this weekend!”
JOB INTERVIEWS
The following companies will
interview graduating seniors
Monday and Tuesday in the
Placement Office on the third
floor of the YMCA.
Monday
E. I. de Pont de Nemours & Co.,
Construction Division, will inter
view B.S. and M.S. degree candi
dates in civil, electrical, indus
trial and mechanical engineering.
The Firestone Tire and Rubber
Co., Houston, will interview de
gree candidates in business ad
ministration and economics.
The Firestone Tire and Rubber
Co., Dallas, will interview degree
candidates in accounting.
Touche, Ross, Bailey & Smart
will conduct interviews with de
gree candidates in accounting.
Internal Revenue Service will
interview candidates for degrees
in accounting.
U. S. General Accounting Of
fice will interview degree candi
dates in accounting.
Monday and Tuesday
Amoco Chemicals Corp. will
hold interviews with candidates
for degrees in chemistry, chem
ical and mechanical engineering.
Tuesday
Cameron Iron Works, Inc. will
interview degree candidates in in
dustrial and mechanical engi
neering.
U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey
will interview candidates for
B.S. degrees in civil engineering.
The College Life Insurance Co.
of America will interview candi
dates for degrees in agricultural
economics, business administra
tion and economics.
Boys Scouts of America will
conduct job interviews with can
didates for degrees in agricul
tural economics, sociology, busi-
tration.
Henke and Pillot, Division of
the Kroger Co., will conduct job
interviews with candidates for
degrees in accounting, business
administration (marketing, re
tailing) and agricultural econom
ics.
Union Carbide Consumer Prod
ucts Co. will interview degi’ee
candidates in agricultural eco
nomics, business administration,
economics and industrial distri
bution.
SCHOOL CLOTHES
When making a tittle girl a
dress or a small boy a shirt, sew
a small piece of the cloth some
where in an inside seam, such as
ness administration, education & the side seam g0 that it will lie
psychology, industrial education
and industrial engineering.
Burroughs Corp. will interview
candidates for degrees in ac
counting and business adminis-
SUMMER JOBS
The following companies will
interview juniors Monday in the
Placement Office on the third
floor of the YMCA Building:
Proctor & Gamble Manufactur
ing Co. will interview juniors ma
joring in chemical, civil, electri
cal, indstrial and mechanical en
gineering and chemistry for full
summer jobs in Cincinnati, Ohio.
# DRIVE-IN
^THEATRE
FRIDAY
“WESTWARD THE
WOMEN”
With Robert Taylor
Also
“STARS IN MY CROWN”
With Joel McCrea
LATE SHOW FRIDAY NIGHT
“HORRORS OF THE BLACK
MUSEUM”
Plus
“THE HEADLESS GHOST”
SATURDAY
“LIVE FAST, DIE YOUNG”
“THE BIG BEAT”
“HOT CAR GIRL” -
“IN - BETWEEN AGE”
CORPS SOPHOMORES
Yearbook
Portrait
Schedule
All sophomores in the corps
should have their portrait made
for the yearbook according to
the following schedule. Portraits
will be made in class “A” win
ter uniform, at the Aggieland
Studio, between the hours of
8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on the
days scheduled.
March 14-15 Company I-M,
Maroon & White Bands
March 16-17 Squadrons 1-8
March 21-22 Squadrons 9-17
COURT’S
SHOES
SHOE REPAIR
North Gate
Open Weekdays At 6 p. m.
Saturday & Sunday At 1 p. m.
FRIDAY
•WALT DISNEYS
and the ‘
, little Beaplr
TECHNICOLOR •
SATURDAY
JAMES CASEY
DOSO
iTHY MALONE M
»MARJORIE RAMBEAU • JIM BACKUS • ROGER SMITH
A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE
Plus
mWiZM
.A l«S8il Piy.iT • liiiCT WSITHS BEAST
A UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAt PKTURc
Preview Saturday 10:30 p. m.
Also Sunday & Monday
JAMES STEWART
LEE REMICK
BEN GA22ARA
ARTHUR O’CONNELL
EVE ARDEN
KATHRYN GRANT,
r ^
andJOSEPH N. WELCH as Judge Weaver
t Columbia release
flat and be unnoticed when laun
dered. When the youngsters tear
the garment you will have a scrap
of cloth for a patch that is the
exact shade of material as the gar
ment for it will have been laun
dered the same number of times.
J’QDAY THRU SATURDAY
Also
“THE SHEEPMAN”
Glenn Ford
Shirley McLaine
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STARTS TODAY
TONY DEAN JANET
CURTIS •MARTIN* LEIGH
QUEEN
HELD OVER
“BRAMBLE BUSH”
By JAMES MARLOW
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON (TP) — At this
moment the Soviet Union and the
West are trying not to touch
West Berlin with anything longer
than a 10-foot pole. They will
have to get a lot closer soon. That
city is potentially the hottest spot
in Europe.
It will be at the heart of the
summit conference in May. No
one is predicting the conference
will produce a solution on the
city satisfactory to both sides.
Perhaps the most that can be
hoped for in the foreseeable fu
ture—say for a couple of years
anyway—is a reluctance by the
Soviets to push too hard in their
drive to shake West Berlin out
of the Allied camp.
If they do push—by trying to
force the Allied troops out or
shutting off the city from the
West—shooting may follows. And
that kind of shooting could hardly
be limited to one city.
It is the belief of the Eisen
hower administration that there
can be no limited war in Western
Europe—such as was possible in
such a faraway spot as Korea—
and that any war there will mean
general war.
It was almost 16 months ago
that Premier Nikita Khrushchev
told the West to get its troops
out of West Berlin ■ which, al
though tied to West Germany,
lies 110 miles inside Communist
East Germany.
The departure of the troops no
doubt would weaken the will of
the West Berliners to resist the
What’s Cooking
The following clubs and organ
izations will meet Tuesday night:
7:30
The Student Chapter of the
American Meteorological Society
will meet in Room 306, Goodwin
Hall.
encroachments of the Communists
all around them. The loss of the
city would not be fatal to the
West. But it would be a psycho
logical disaster.
This week West Germany’s 84-
year-old Chancellor, Konrad Ade
nauer, came here, talked with
President Eisenhower about the
stand the Allies would take on
Berlin at the summit, and went
away feeling reassured.
He and the President issued a
joint statement that they were
agreed any settlement with the
Soviet Union on Berlin must pre
serve the freedom of the West
Berliners.
But when the Allies—includ
ing Eisenhower—sit down with
Khrushchev in Paris next May
their firmness in standing to
gether against damaging conces
sions to the Soviets will be tested.
At this moment Khrushchev—
following pretty much the peace
ful line he took at his Camp
David meeting with Eisenhower
here last fall—is quiet. But there
is absolutely no indication he in
tends to back down on Berlin.
All the heat now being gen
erated about Berlin may evapo
rate a bit—because for reasons of
their own the Soviets are willing
to let it evaporate—but it is un
believable they will subside per
manently.
To have the free and prosper
ous city of West Berlin deep in
the heart of Communist Europe
is like permitting a capitalistic
cancer to flourish in the body of
Marxism.
Tn short, West Berlin should
continue to be both a hot spot
and a sore one for years to come,
even though nothing violent hap
pens in the meantime.
Social Whirl
Friday
A game party sponsored by the
Business Administration Wives
Club will be held in the South
Solarium of the YMCA at 8 p.m.
tonight. All business adminis
tration wives and their husbands
are invited.
Monday
The Industrial Engineering
Wives Club will tour the Data
Processing Center at 7:30 p.m.
Refreshments will be served at
the home of Mrs. Stanley Wykes,
733 Inwood Dr. after the tour.
The Business Administration
Wives Club will meet in the
YMCA Gay Room at 7:30 p.m.
“The Woman’s Role in Civil De
fense” will be discussed by Mr.
Bennie Zinn.
The Mechanical Engineering
Wives Club will meet at 7:30 p.m.
at the Kraft Homestead home,
3820 Texas Ave.
The Petroleum Engineering
Wives Club will meet in the
YMCA Brooks Room at 7:45 p.m.
The Agricultural Engineering
Wives Club will meet at 7:30 p.m.
at the Sheer . Beauty Salon in
Ridgecrest for a demonstration.
Aero Wives Club will meet in
the Cabinet Room of the YMCA
at 7:45.
Industrial Education Wives
Club will have a party in the
Home of Mrs. L. B. Hardeman.
Wee Aggies
We Aggies like to read about Wee Ag
gies. When a wee one arrives, call VI
6-4910 and ask for the Wee Aggie Edi
tor. . . .
A future Corps commander
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Tackaberry, 400 First St., Col
lege Station, last Tuesday at St.
Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan at
6:08 p.m. Robert Roger Tacka
berry weighed 7 lbs. 7 oz.
Miss BETH LEGER,
Lovely Lake Charles, La., girl says:
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