At Austin Meeting
Ag Secretary
Lauds A&M
Special to The Battalion
AUSTIN—The best background for a young man want
ing to enter the cattle business is practical experience and a
good education at A&M, according to Secretary of Agricul
ture Ezra Taft Benson.
Secretary Benson expressed-* ;—
these opinions at a Tuesday morn
ing press conference in Austin, in
coordination with the 83rd annual
Foreign Grads
May Apply
For Assembly
Approximately .50 openings are
available for visiting students dur
ing the International Assembly to
be held in Williamsburg, Va., June
10-14, according to Robert 0. Mel-
cher, foreign student adviser,
whose ofifce is in Room 27, Mil
ner Hall.
The two major eligibility re
quirements for attending the as
sembly are: The student must be
a citizen of a country other than
the United States and must intend
to return home at the conclusion
of the present academic year; the
student must have completed at
least one year of graduate-level
study by the end of the present
academic year.
Selection will be made on the
basis of the applicant’s personal
qualifications, campus record, and
reasons for wanting to attend the
International Assembly. Full con
sideration will be given to appli
cants from all geographic regions
and Horn small as well as large
educational institutions.
The central theme of the four-
day conference will be, “The Amer
ican Image: Shadow or Sub
stance?” with discussions being
led by 10 authorities in politics,
history, economics, communication,
and the arts. Emphasis at all
times will be on the relaxed inter
change of ideas and opinions.
The purpose of the theme, a pro
vocative topic, is to encourage a
frank and personal analysis of the
significant phases of the American
experience of each participant.
Informal presentations, question-
and-answer sessions, and general
discussion periods along with tours
of the historic area provide the
framework for the conference.
All foreign students interested
in applying for the Assembly can
get application blanks in Melcher’s
office in 27 Milner. Deadline for
applications is March 31, and ap
plicants will be notified before
April 30.
Texas and Southwestern Cattle
Raisers Assn, convention.
He congratulated the cattlemen
of Texas for their “freedom and
independence in the face of severe
economic difficulties in the past
. . . ” He spoke quite strongly in
both his address to the convention
and in the early morning press
conference against a planned and
subsidized economy.
“The trend of young ranchers
and farmers is the same as their
seniors . . . toward less price sup
port and for more freedom,” Ben
son said.
He lauded 4-H and Future Farm
ers of America projects as good
stepping stones for youth headed
toward a career in Agriculture.
They can get financing for projects
under these programs.
“Financing is a problem to the
young aspiring rancher, because of
increased mechanization and size
of ranches,” he said.
• Benson cited one formula for
entering the cattle business which
(See Ag Secretary Page 3)
The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1960
Number 88
Possibility of Closing Guion Hall
Presently Under Consideration
In Southwest Region
Wallace Nominated
For YMCA Post
David Wallace, junior history major from Pecos, has
been nominated for the position of co-chairman of the South
west Region of the YMCA, according to Bill Shenkir, presi
dent of the A&M YMCA.
Shenkir said the Southwest Re-"*
gional Assembly, which includes
Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas,
will be-held at Camp Carter near
Ft. Worth, Friday, Saturday and
Free-Lance Writer
Due Here Friday
Free-lance writer W. C. Heinz will speak Friday at a
convocation of all students in the Department of Journalism.
Heinz, a resident of Stamford, Conn., will arrive on cam
pus Friday morning. Following his arrival, he will tour the
campus, after which he will speak
to a group of 18 selected journal
ism students in a 3 p.m. coffee in
the Journalism Library.
His topic for the 7:30 p.m. con
vocation speach in the. Assembly
Room of the Memorial Student
Center will be “Writing for Na
tional Magazines.” He will then
remain on campus through Satur
day to cover the inauguration of
Deadline Today
For Election Filing
Today at 5 is the deadline for
filing for a place on the ballot in
the coming class elections.
Students wishing to file for
class office in the classes of ’61,
’62 and ’63 must make applica
tion by 5 p.m. today at the Cash
ier’s Window in the ground level
of the Memorial Student Center.
President Earl Rudder’.
Since 1950 he has been a free
lance writer. His fiction and ar
ticles have appeared in The Satur
day Evening Post, Cosmopolitan,
Collier’s Esquire, Life, Look, True,
The Reader’s Digest, Coronet, Ar
gosy and Sport.
His work has been reprinted in
more than two dozen anthologies
and he has won the E. P. Dutton
Award for best magazine sports
article of the year five times. In
1948 his first novel, “The Profes
sional,” was published by Harper
& Brothers.
Red Smith, the syndicated sports
columnist of the New York Herald
Tribune, called this work “a clas
sic in its field,” and of it Ernest
Hemingway wrote, “The Profes
sional” is the only good novel I’ve
ever read about a fighter and an
excellent first novel in its own
right”.
Sunday, at which time the co-
chairmen of the YMCA-YWCA for
the region will be elected.
Wallace has served as regional
co-chairman for the past year, and
will be attending the World Stu
dent Federation Teaching Confer
ence in Strasburg, Austria, this
summer, said Shenkir.
The theme of the meeting will
be “The Mission of the YMCA
On the Campus and In the World,”
and Mrs. Margaret Norton, nation
al executive of the Student YMCA
will be the platform speaker for
the Assembly, said Shenkir.
He said the students from A&M
attending the conference will be
in charge of worship services for
the weekend, conducting one Fri
day evening, Saturday morning
and evening and Sunday morning.
Students from A&M planning to
attend the assembly include Wal
lace, Don Willis, Dick W. Simpson,
Jimmy Wolfe, Steven Moore, Dan
iel Brown, Paul N. Smith, Ronald
G. Haley, Malcolm D. Maxwell,
William T. Barnhart and Shenkir.
BULLETIN
Faculty members will line up
on two sidewalks west of G. Rol-
lie White Coliseum for the in
auguration procession which will
move at 10:15 Saturday morn
ing, according to J. J. Woolket,
head of the Department of Mod
ern Language and head of the
Inauguration Committee.
Under CS ‘Pay-As-You-Go 'Plan
City Completes Three Streets
By BOB SLOAN
Assistant News Editor
Since the College Station “pay-
as-you-go” plan for street im
provement and pavement was
adopted by the city council Oct.
29, 1958, three streets have been
paved, two streets are being
worked on now and plans are be
ing made to begin work on five
more this summer, according to
Ran Boswell, College Station City
Manager.
Boswell explained that there are
two possible types of streets that
can be constructed, depending on
the desires of the property owners
along the street and the recom
mendations of the city engineer.
The first type is what is called
the curb and gutter section. This
street costs the property owner $3
for each linear foot of property on
the street. Any extra cost will be
paid by the city.
‘Six-Inch Base’
“The base for this kind of street
is six inches thick with one inch
of asphalt on the surface,” Bos
well said. “The curb and gutter
street may be required on some
streets to provide adequate drain
age or to provide ample traffic
lanes,” he added.
The other type, a ditch and
pavement section, costs property
owners 75 cents a linear foot, Bos
well said.
Ditches May Be Added
“For this type street, the exist
ing base coarse may be sacrificed,
additional base materials added
and the street shaped and com
pacted. Side ditches may be added
when necessary.
“The city then surfaces the
street section with a one-inch hot-
mix asphalt surface 20 to 24 feet
wide, the exact width to be de
termined by the City Council,”
Boswell added.
Three Streets Finished
Boswell said three streets have
already been completed under the
plan. Lee Street, in the Oakwood
addition, west of A&M Consoli
dated High School, was the first
street to be completed. Lee
Street was paved with the curb
and gutter section at a cost to
residents of $3 per front foot.
“There was 100 per cent par
ticipation by property owners on
the Lee Street project, eliminating
the necessity of having to assess
residents,” Boswell added.
“If all the property owners on
a street agree to the improvements
and complete all financial arrange
ments at the time the petition is
approved by the City Council, there
will be no need to pass a special
assessment ordinance, which would
require a public hearing,” Boswell
explained. “This would eliminate
some time in getting the work
starter.”
The other two streets which
have been completed to date are
Park Place from Timber to Glade,
a curb and gutter section and
Glade Street from Park Place to
Anna, a ditch and pavement proj
ect which cost residents 75 cents
per front foot.
Owners Participated 100 Per Cent
Property owners participated 100
per cent on both of these projects,
which are also located in Oakwood,
Boswell said.
Work has begun on a curb and
gutter project for Kyle and Wal
ton Streets in College Hills Es-
Vanity Fair Entry Deadline
Less Than 4 Weeks Away
Monday, April 25 is the dead
line for seniors to enter pictures
for the Vanity Fair section of
The Aggieland ’60.
The pictures, which must be
5x7 or larger, must be turned in
to the Office of Student Publi
cations in the basement of the
YMCA Building, according to an
announcement by Sam Barranco,
Vanity Fair editor.
Each picture submitted must
also include the candidate’s name,
age, weight, height, hair and eye
color and measurements.
The winning entry must be
able to attend the Student Pub
lications Award Banquet Friday,
May 13, the Senior Ring Dance
and have a portrait made at the
Aggieland Studio.
tales, east of the college. Work
on this project has proceeded more
slowly due to delays in the form
of a public hearing before prop
erty owner’s could be assessed and
bad weather, Boswell said.
Work is expected to get under
way on two curb and gutter sec
tion streets sometime this sum
mer, said Boswell. They are a
section of Thomas Street in south
east College Park and Moss Street
from Highway 6 to Foster. and
then Foster from Gilchrist to Kyle
in College Hills.
Plans are also being made to
construct ditch and pavement sec
tions on five streets this summer,
according to Boswell. They are
the entire length of Cooner Street,
Cross Street from Tauber to Nagle
in the Tauber development, Stas-
ney Street from F.M. GO to Cherry
Street and Cherry Street from
Tauber to Nagle, also in the Tau
ber development.
Boswell said the procedure per
sons desiring their street paved
should follow is simple. A peti
tion should first be obtained from
City Hall. The petition should be
signed by owners of at least 70
per cent of the front feet of prop
erty abutting on the street section
to be paved and then submitted
to the city manager.
The City Council will establish
the order of priority for street
construction, determine the length
of the street section and the type
of construction based on recom
mendations by the city manager
and the city engineer, Boswell said.
Files for Office
Buddy Bradford, junior science major from San Antonio,
registers for a place on the coming class elections. Deadline
for filing for election is today at 5 p. m. at the Cashier’s
Window on the ground level of the Memorial Student Cen
ter. Bradford filed for a spot in the Class of ’61 elections.
Ueckert Named As
Aggie CofC Head
The Student Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
met last night and elected a president, vice president and ap
pointed committee chairmen for the remainder of the current
year.
Bruce W. Ueckert, second year - *"
veterinary medicine major from
Houston was chosen president and
Eugene Stubbs, junior business ad
ministration major from Wortham
was named vice president.
The officers will serve for the
remainder of the year, and will be
candidates for office next year. In
following years, however, office
holders will not be eligible for
nomination to chamber offices the
following year.
Committee Heads
The council has set up four per
manent committees to serve in var
ious areas continuously. C. R. Jul
ian, junior chemical engineering
major from Crockett was chosen
to head the Visitors Program and
Information Committee. Byrum
W. Collins, junior business admin
istration major from Satin will
head the Local Relations Commit
tee. Clifford Lane, senior indus
trial education student from Col
lege Station will head the Profes
sor Relations Committee. Philip
H. Harrison, junior business ad
ministration major from Lufkin
and treasurer of the group will
serve as membership and funds
committee chairman.
From Student Volunteers
At the general organization
meeting held last week, membei’s
were asked to sign up for the com
mittees they would be interested
in working with. These names were
Employes Plan
Costume Dance
A costume dance will be held
Thursday, March 24 at 8:30 p.m.
in the Assembly Room of the Me
morial Student Center, Stan Clark,
chairman of the College Employes’
Dinner Club has announced.
“This will be a refreshment
dance—no dinner,” Clark says. “If
you are not a season ticket holder
get your tickets at the main desk
of the MSG before 2 p.m., tomor
row.”
placed on the committees of their
choice,, and other nanxes will be
added as new members indicate
a desire to serve, according to
Ueckert.
The Board also recomxnended
changes to the constitution of the
group which will be voted on in
the next general meeting.
Attendance Fall
Cited as Reason
By LEWIS REDDELL
Battalion Staff Writer
The possibility of closing Guion Hall, A&M’s movie
theatre, is now under consideration, J. Wayne Stark, direc
tor of the Memorial Student Center said yesterday.
“Costs of operating the movie have become prohibitive,
compared to the number of students who utilize this facility,
Stark explained.
Student Service
He pointed out Guion Hall was never intended to be a
money mdking institution, but rather a service to students.
Stark cited several reasons for the decline of attendance
at Guion, including an increased interest in television, more
activities available for students and a much greater percent
age of Aggies now have auto-^“
mobile transportation avail
able.
No definite steps have been
taken to close the theatre,
however, he said.
“In the event Guion Hall was
closed, the MSG Film Society
would probably increase the num
ber of films it shows,” Stax’k said.
These films would not be shown
daily though, he explained.
Built in 1917 and put into use
in 1911, Guion Hall was originally
used only for meetings, speeches
and plays. Not until 1941 was it
converted into a theatre for stu
dents.
Previous to World War II, pic
tures were shown on Wednesday
and Saturday nights in the old
Asseixxbly Hall. This was located
on the site now occupied by the
Interfaith Chapel. In 1941, all of
the equipment and facilities were
moved into Guion and started op
eration daily under the dii'ection
of Tom Puddy who held that capa
city for 18 years until last fall
when illness forced him to take a
leave of absence.
Puddy is presently convalescing
at Will Rogers Memorial Hospital
at Saxanac Lake, N. Y., and faces
several more months of hospital
ization.
Many important speeches and
presexxtations have taken place in
Guion; One noteworthy of men
tion was the presentation of an
Honorary Doctor of Law degree
to President Eisenhower in April,
1946. •
Kiwanians Plan
Inter-Club Visit
To Huntsville
The College Station Kiwanis
Club met at noon Tuesday and dis
cussed plans for an intex’-club visit
to Huntsville Monday of next
week.
W. A. (Cubby) Manning, presi
dent of the club, presided at the
luncheon meeting held in the As
sembly Room of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Club member Bob Shiller an
nounced the inter-club visit to the
Huntsville Lions Club next week.
Four members indicated that they
would make the trip Tuesday.
President Manning urged mexxi-
bers to step up ticket sales for the
club’s coxxxing Pancake Supper.
The annual supper will be held
April 2 at the National Guard Ar
mory at East 25th and Burleson
streets in Bryan. The supper will
last from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Club secretary W. F. Adams re
minded his • fellow Kiwanians to
pay club dues by the first of Apx’il.
Following the luncheon, Tony
Sorenson and Murray Brown led
the group in singing several Ki
wanis Club songs. Two quartets
were featured in the program.
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New Apartments Near Completion
The $2,500,000 F. W. Hensel Apartments, clean-up around the apartments. The 25-
located behind the College View Apart- apartment development is expected to be
ments, are nearing completion as shown by ready for occupancy next fall,
this picture showing workmen beginning