■
.Gossett Asserts
* . *
^ Washington, April 6 — (vP)
—Rep. Ed Gossett of Wichita
, Falls said yesterday he ex
pected a bill giving stales
clear title to oil-rich tidelands
would be approved by the House
^ Judiciary Committee by April 20.
The Texart belongs to the corn
er mittee. and is a sponsor of the
measure.-A subcommittee approved
the Bill Peb. ».
Gossett said that basically the
bill is the one advocated by the
states. It gives them undisputed
ownership of lands.from the shore
line out of three-mile limit ex
cept in the case of Texas.
The Texas limit would be 10*4
tmles off shore. When Texas join
ed the union, she had the under
standing that the claim to this
i coastal strip be recognized.
" A section of the measure pro-
Ivides for a' division of revenpes
- -'between the Federal government
and the states on oil produced
i /dong the tidelands. The percen-
, tages of revenue each is to receive
hai not y^t been decided. A com
mittee hide said.
f Another measure before congress
would give full ownership of tide-
- lands to the -Federal Government,
which also is seeking titlp to such-
\ lands in Supreme Court suits
against Texas and Louisiana. At
torney General Price Daniel of
- Texas argued his state’s case be
fore the court last week. '
\ A* Gossett was commenting on
this measure today, the Magnolia
Petroleum Company announced its
first off-shore oil discovery- The,
welt is 211 miles off the Ixmisiana
coast, and- extends tidelands oil
production to its farthest point
out in \the Gulf of Mexico. ^
^ Frank Barnes
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
. Barnea of ^Highland S-t reel.
. Frank is' carrier boy for The
Battalion^ His territory includes
\ College Park.
Library Announces
J i
Easier Schedule
The library has.--announced the'
following schedule of. open hours
during the Easter holidays:
Thursday, Friday, and Monday
-—8 to 5.
Saturday 8 to 12 noon.
Sunday—closed all day.
Richard Badgcfct
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Badgett of Pershing Stri «t.
Richard is newspaper carrier for
The Battalion. He delivers the
paper in the Oakwood addition.
Courts Askle
To Honor
Insanity Rulcjs
Austin, Tex., Apifil 6—
(AP)—The court of Grimina
Appeals yesterday -was aa ke<
tb set up a new principal o:
law that would give an Ai mi
court martial finding of! Insinit
the same force and effect aa iucI
n finding in a Texas court.
The request came in oral u rgu
menta in the a^eal of Kjcharl W
McGee from convictioniand teat!
sentence in the pistol-hlayin r o
R. L. Austin* of Lubbock, fi thejr
of McGees fiancee.
Austin was shot! July 7l 194k, a
the back door of hiis hoine two davi
after he had urged t.iat hiis daugh
tef and McGee wait until they fin
ished school to get married, tb
court s Wap told. McGee anc 1
were students at h di
te Teachers College
.—
Col. E. A. Simpson, attorney fo;
McGee, argued that an Army I
had found McGee insane aft«
had been- returned from ovei
where he was with the airforce. Hi
said tliat McGee was drawinji 1
per' cent disability allowance
the Veterans Administration
insane person and that his mother
and sister and psychiatrists
sidered him insane.
PUBLISHED i |?V THE INTEREST OF A GREATER
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 6,1960
All Churches Plan
faster Services
Gofer Accepts Duty
With Military Districjt
Captain David B. Cofei- t
Coast Artillery-Reserve,. ha£
cepted a temporary tour of
with the Texas Military Distinct
Austin..
Gofer, a native of. College
tion and a ’43 graduate of 1
A&M College, spent two yeaj
ing the War with Coast Ai}
units in the Panama Canal
■vDuring the past year, he has
a student in the Law School pt the
University of Texas. *!
Cofer is a former Editor j
Battalion, having served fi
capacity during the school
1942-43.
He is the son of Dr. am
D. B. Cofer of College Statjdn.
Mrs.
Wanda Goodwin (left) and. Jean Royder are t
Consolidated High School 'students who
which were used in the annual College St
Easter egg hunt, held Wednesday for the Children of
Station. ^ • - *
The| people of College Station
ngregate this weekend to
each in his own way during
e holiest time of the year
ir. Special services have
mged by various denom-
s.
services will be held
night at 7:30 in the YMCA
according to Mrs. J. J.
haus. The Hillel Founda-
tl on Wednesday nights
in th4 YMCA.
A
A punrise Choral Communion
service will be held at 6 a. m.
at the St. Thomas Episcopal Chap
el, according to O. G. Helvey, pas
tor. Holy Communion and sermon
will be at 11.
“Are Sin, Disease, and Death
Real?” is the subject of the Les-
*on-Sermon of the Christian Sci
ence Sunday morning at 11. They
will meet in the Assembly Room
of the YMCA, according to Philip
Goode, chairman.
J | ★
Services at St. Mary’s Chape)
will be conducted by Father Sylves
ter Fuchs. Friday evening at 7:30
Good Friday services will be held
and mass: on Sunday will be at 9
a. m.
.
Sunday school will be at 9:30 at
the First Baptist Church pf Col
lege Station, according to R. L.
Brown, pastor. Morning worship
will be at 10.60 and evening wor-
■1 Tat 7:
ship
:15.
James |F. Fowler, pastor of the
A&M Church of Christ, has chosen
for his sermon topic Sunday morn
ing ^Delivered Up For Our Tres-
5 asses, And Was Raised For Our
ustlfication.” The pastor will
hold serrvices in North Zulch on
Sunday pvening.
“The New Resurrection” is the
sermon topic selected by Norman
Anderson, pastor of the A&M Pres
byterian Church, for his Sunday
morning services. Sunrise services
will be held at C a. m. on the
tarts Tomorrow
Numerous phases of engineer
ing education will be discussed at
Texas A&M College Friday and
Saturday, April 7 and 8, as the
southwestern section of the Ameri
can Society for Engineering Ed
ucation holds Jts 14th annual meet
ing.
Registration will begin at 10 a.
m. Friday in the lounge of Sbisa
Hall. A luncheon for members and
their wives will be held at noon
in the Sbisa banquet room.
The first subject to come up for
discussion Friday afternoon will be
“Senior 1 College Requirementa for
Students Transferring from Jun
ior Colleges.”
-The question of whether the
schools of the southwestern sec
tion should coordinate their post
graduate work and not require a
year’s residence will be next up
for discussion, with “Teaching Re
port Writing tp Engineering Stu
dents” following.
Top men in their fields from
Oklahoma, Texas and New Mex
ico will take part in the discus
sions.
church lawn and will be followed
by a breakfast.
Services will be held at 7 a. m.
at the American Lutheran Church
of College Station, according to
Fred Mgebroff, pastor, the ser
mon topic for Sunday morning will
be “More Of The Christ Of The
Resurrection.” There will be no
services at 10:45 a.'m.
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Church school will be at 9:46
at the A&M Christian Church,
followed by morning worship ser
vices at 11. The D. S. F. Supper
Group meets at 5 p. m.
A
“Christ, Alive Forever More”
is thd sermon topic chosen by
James F. Jackson, pastor of the.
A&M Methodist Church, for the
Sunday morning services. Sunday
school is at 9:30 and morning wor
ship services at 11.
‘Racing jVith the Moon
: I. R. B. Halpin
Halpin was re-elected Wat
councilman in the city < *
held April 4. This is his
term as representative of
Second Ward.
election
L
By CURTIS EDWARDS
R. B. Halpin was named coun
cilman of Ward ,11 by the College
Station City Council without the
run-off mentioned erroneously in
The BatUliOn yesterday.
The election returns were re
viewed and made official in the
meeting which also included the
taking of the oath of office by each
newly elected officer.
Large Ward II Vote J
The hottest contested race of
the election was for Ward II coun-
Sees Disc, Chases Same,
Only Venus, Such a Shame
1 Austin, Texas, April Bergstrom Air Force Base officials
sent a jet plane in pursuit of an unidentified object today and later
decided it must have been the Planet Venus.
The field’s public information office reported that a “bright;, un
identified object appeared over Austin about 12:46 p.m. today.”
. Base operations sent a T-S3 Thunderjet trainer plane in pursuit
Maj. G. W. Alexander, 27th Fighter Escort Group operations officer,
and First Lieut , Wendell Oldham, 624th Fighter Escort Squddron,
flew the plane, |
The public information officer said the pilots reported as fol
lows: |
They located the object and followed it from Austin to San An
tonio, climbing to an altitude of 40,000 feet. The only change in ap
pearance of the abject was increased brightness as the Army plane
cliuibcd above the haze of low altitude.
The object did not seem to vary in size. It did not seem to be an
aircraft or any flying machine.
Col. Raymond Rutleli, deputy commanding officer at Bergstrom,
said University of Texas authorities had figured the object to be
a planet, possibly Venus. j :
Air base officials said the object did not register on Radar equip
ment. ~ '
E. E. Ames
Operator of the local bus sta
tion who wan elected council
man from Ward III.
Apri
On/
ril 10 Limit
Award*
object di
Deadline for submitting ap
plications for undergraduate
scholarships to be awarded
this spring is Monday, April
10.
“Students who expect to be con
sidered for one of these awards
should file applications immediate-
with the Secretary, Faculty Schol
arships Committee, Office of the
Registrar” R. G. Perryman, assist
ant to the registrar, said today.
The awards to be made are the
Krueger Award for $500, the Jes
se H. Jones Reward for Achieve
ment for $333, the Albert Banta
Award for $300, the Lulie Hughey
Lane Scholarship Award for $200,
the W. S. Mosher Memorial Scho
larship Award for $200, the W. S.
Mosher Memorial Scholarships,
(two) for $600 each, the Fort
Worth A&M Mothers’ Club Award
for $200, and the Brazos County
A&M Club Award for $100.
Forms to be used in applying
for one of these scholarships may
be secured in the Registrars’ Of
fice.
lewcomers
Female Att
“Texas is one of six states in
the United States with community
property laws,” Ifra. Mudgett, Bry
an- attorney, told Newcomers club
meeting Wednesday afternoon at
the YMCA.
A few other legal points upon
which Mrs. Mudgett enlightened
her audience were:
Texas does not grant alimony to
divorcees. Abandonment for a per
iod of ten years is considered per
manent. Common taw marriages
are recognized aa legal. Giris who
marry before the age of 21 attain
full majority except for the right
to vote. ,
Under the community property
law, Mrs. Mudgett said the law
gives the wife one half of all prop
erty acquired during the marriage
although the husband retains full
control and may sell any or all .of
it with the exception of the home
stead.
Preceding the program Mrs.
Lester Blank, was elected presi
dent of the organization. Serving
with her next year will be Mrs.
A. B. Currie, vice-pre/sident, and
Mrs. Clinton S. Walker, Secretary-
treasurer.
Battle of the Bulging Baskets
600 Find Eggs in Patranella Hunt
—py DEAN REED
Butt Easier Egg Editor
; Hundreds of College Station
boys and girls were lined up yes-
terdsy afternoon, eagerly awaiting
the starting whistle for the sec
ond annual Luke Patranella Mem
orial Easter Egg Hunt.
While C. G. “Sp'ke” White went
in search of the msplaced whistle,
an oxer-anxious young lad thrust
his fingers to his teeth, emitted a
long, high and shrill whistle, and
—the race was on I
The Battalion’s official Easter
Egg Editor found himself in an
extremely dangerous position, with
hundreds and seemingly thousands
of little people swarming at him
from every angle. All eyes were
concentrated on the grassed area
behind the Gilchrist home, where
no blade of grass was left un
turned the egg hunters. The re
mainder of the hunt was witnessed
by the Egg Editor from limb num
ber two of the nearest available
tree. ■ . T■
History behind it
There’s an interesting story be
hind this year's Easter Egg Hunt,
now sponsored by the College
Station Recreational' Council. For
about 10 years, a local merchant
-Luke Patranella — personally
sponsored the city’s largest Blaster
lie, one strictly for kids,
id then a sad note was struck
in the .hearts of many—Luke Pat-
ranella died suddenly of a heart
while in Mexico.
This man had such a largo and
faithful collection of friendo that,
Instead of sending flowers for the
funeral, enough money wee gath
ered to construct a Luke Patranelli
Memorial Slab at A&M Coneolldat
ed, now enjoyed daily by young
tennis players.
Several years and several Eas
ters passed without an egg hunt.
Then last year the Recreational
Council took up where Luke had
left off and dedicated the htmi
to him. * < '
1800 Eggs
Yesterday’s hunt wasn’t lacking
in children* nor in eggs.'About
600 of the former and 1,800 of the
letter combined for e colorful end.
interesting sight A record number
of prize* were awarded this year
by local merchants.
Eighteen yellow eggs were clsar*
ly “Prize Eggs.” Almost as many
children streaked up to Mrs. Luke
Patranella i to receive their re
wards—certificates entitling them
to gifts from the contributing
merchants of the area.
Top Worker
There was one person mainly
responsible for the success of the
1960 hunt She is modest, little
Mrs. Don Lindsay, chairman of the
Recreational Council’s committee
for the annual Easter affair.
Mrs. Lindsay had plenty of help,
with every bit of it well utilized.
The hunt was divided, with three
main areas marked off for the
pre-school children, the first and
iirtn grade
> Boehme,
ixhop, Mrs.
second graders, and those jn U>e
third and fourth grades.
Controlling the pre-school area
and seeing that everyl>ody was
happy were Nlta Smith, Ann Wing,
Betty McDowell, Mrs. Pete Smith,
and one-half of Girl Scout Troop
16.
Watching the first and second-
graders were Mrs. Raymond Koir-
«ra, Mrs, E. C. Kllpple, Mrs. PaU
ranella and Troop 14.
In the third and fou:
area were Mrs. TlIHe
Hasel Prewitt, Gladys Blsh ..
L. F. Walker, and the other half
of Troop 16.
Here’s a behlnd-the-scenet group
responeible for dying the near-
3,000 multicolored egge: Mrs. J.
\ Couch, Mrs. I. G. Adams, Mrs.
bhn Rogers. Mrs. Andy Solis,
~ tsabeth Wilson, Marjorie Drap
er, and Mrs. Lindsay. j
Prise Winners j .
Among the boys and gina; dis
covering the valued “prise eggs”
were the following group:.]
Manuel MartiAes (prise donated
by Pruitt’s Fabric Shop); Sherry
Smith (Black’s Pharmacy)!; Ron
nie Perkins (Ho^ry - A. Miller
Hardware Company;) John Webb,
(Lipscomb Pharmacy); Jimbo Se
vang (Charlie’s Food Market);
and Diana Jean Delaney, (College
Hills Beauty Shop).
Others were Dee Smith (Aggie
land Studio); Gloria Jenkins (Ag
gie Radio and Appliance)) Larry
Thurmond (Louis Mais Grocery);
Andy Adams (College Food Store);
i u
rj,*;. ..
Nation’s Top
Collegiate Daily
NASH
1949 Survey
-U
ms
oilman. More votes were cast from
Ward II this year than ever before
in its history.
Official returns /rdm the sec
ond ward found incumbent coun
cilman, R. B. Halpin, leading his
nearest rival, C. J. Keese: by one
vote—36 to 35. Candidates Billie
Mitchell 1 and L. G>. Berryman re
ceived 16 and 14 votes, respective
ly.
It was rumored that a run-off
election would be held -but this
was ^proved unnecessary by the
council upon interpreting the law
which read—“the city council shall
immediately open the returns from
each ward, casting up the votes
of the wards, and the persons
receiving . the highest number of
votes for the respective offices
shall be declared elected.”
Langford Mayor
! ' 1 j
Official results of the election
show Ernest Langford returned
to his major post) J. A Orr
chosen councilman of Ward I;
E. Ames re-elected to the Waiid
III council position; aid C. J.
Gorzycki renamed corporation
court recorder.
W. H. Freiberger, Col
tipn barber, received 11
Ames 16 in the Ward
man race.
Several write-in vote i
counted in the election,
ceiving these votes were
erall who received 10
mayor. J. C. Gaines re<
write-in vote for mayor,
withdrawal as a candidates
the running, Homer
ceived two votes for Wafd
cilman.
Oaths Administered
Mayor Langforfl adjninister^d
>w|y
ege Hta-
votes to
councljl-
wefe
Those re-
, oe Moth-
mtes fir
c lived one
Respite his
earty in
ams ris-
I coun-
' I
the newly
who then
lant
April e—(AP) —
A 67-year-old Detroit man
was alive and “doing well” to
day following a delicate oper
ation in which two surgeons
transplanted Into his chest a six-
inch long segmept of a deadman’s
main heart artery.
Officials at Henry Ford Hospital
announced that the patient was
“doing very well” following the
rare and dramatic operation that
Undoubtedly saved his life.”
The. patient, j whose name! was
nOt given, was admitted to the
hospital with ah advanced thoracic
aneurism, a condition in which the
walls of the main artery (aorta)
were diseased and giving way be-
■fore direct pressure from the heart.
Doctors said if the patient’s,
ballooning artery, which already
was distended to the size of a
small grapefruit, bad burst death
would have followed immediately^ .
The rara operation, performed by
Dr. Conrad Lam of the Ford Hos
pital staff and his assistant. Dr.
H. T. Aram, was not the Brat of
its kind. But it may: herald new
advances in vascular surgery
(operations oh blood vessels).
I. A. Orr
Who was unopposed, for re-
election as counciima* from
Ward I in a Tueaday’si munici
pal election,., "jy L [ • 4.-
Campus Study Club
Shown New Styles
A fashion program entitled, “Is
The Skirt Dragging In Texas”, was
presented at the Tuesday after
noon meeting of the Campus Study
Club by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bra-
ley.
Mr. Braley related the process of
manufacturing garments in his
talk, which was followed by a
fashion show with clothes and ac
cessories furnished by Beverly
Braley. Mrs. Braley was the nar
rator and soft background rpusio
set the mood for the showing. Cot
ton forming a huge cotton moll
standing about seven feet high was
the background of the stage where
fifteen models showed thirty dif
ferent styles.
\ Those modeling the fashions
were Mesdames W. F. Farrar,
Charles Tigher, W. D. Fitch, Ben
Ferguson, Carl Landiss, T. W. In
land, Otis Miller, J. T, L. McNew,
Edward Madeley, S. K. Lynch, A.
L. Barrack, John V. Rodde, John
Perry, Tom Stewart, and Leroy
Downey.
Dallas A&M Clilib
Plans Easter Picnic
E&itor
v
Tommie Jean Richardson (Ames
Travel Agency): Larry Spaulding
(A&M Photo Shop); and Joanna
Nemie and Johnny Camp (Campus
Theater),
Winners for prises donated by
Shaffer's Book Store, Taylor's
Variety Store, and the Beauty Bar
eluded the Kaatjer Egg Editor be
fore he could discover their names.
For Colored Children
This aft*rm8>n : another Raster
Egg hunt will take place, but
this time for the colored children
of Lincoln School. Also sponsored
by the Recreational Council, to
day’s hunt features prises from
Southslde Grocery, Madeley Phar
macy, Aggieland Pharmacy, Shaf
fer’s Book Store, and the Aggie
land Studio.
One little lady seemed to hit
the jackpot at yesterday’s Egg
Hunt—she collected a prize egg,
several others, plus a terrapin.
Children were still looking late
yesterday afternoon, among thpm
“Spike” Whited who immediately
thrust his eyes groundward when
he heard that someone had found
a golf ball.
Yesterday noon, after complain
ing at long length about his as
signment, the Easter Egg Editor
finally accepted his fate and trud
ged to the battleground. But, a
Tew hours later, he too, had the
A picnic in Dallas on
Sunday, April 9, was planned by
the Dallas A&M Club at ^ meet
ing Wednesday night. It will be
held at Flag Pole Hill, White
Rock l4ike, at 2:00 in the after
noon, and the Dallas A&M Exes
will be Invited.
Each club member will bring
food and drink sufficient for him-
salf and hU party.
m-’Am
the oaths of office to
re-elected councilman
elected J. A. Orr may( r protteiin.
Serving in this capacity Orr gave
the oath of office to Langfoijd.
Further businesii of the meeting
included the appointing of N.'jd.
McGinnis to continue ii his posi
tion as city secretary f >r another
two years. Under the new law this
office has been change: 1 from an
elective position to an appointive
office. ' Appointing is d >ne by the
mayor with the appro''al of the
council.
The first official meeting of this
year’s council will be held Monday
night April 10, at the ci y hall,'ac
cording to Langford.
On April 14, the Colli ge Station
and Bryan city cbunclli will hold
a joint meeting for the purpose of
opening bids on the newly proposed
sewer line. Th* telephone 1
tioin wifi also lie discusied at Oils
time.
Engineers
Annual Co
. neerijng
on Sat-
urday April 29 at the Annex
and at Anchor Hall on tlheir
campus. The i6-yea r-old con
test is sponsored by the Engin
eering Drawing Department.
The original date of the con
test was set as May 6, but it was ,
changed latter accordir g to B. F. •
K. Mullins of the Engineering
Drawing Department. ,
Those eligible to enter the four-
hour contest are usually recom
mended by their instiuctors and
have an A,, or B • in one of the
drafting codrseS.
The contest last year had four
classes of/ Engineering Drawing
work in which 86 stui ents enter
ed. The contest this year will have
four classes open. T icy are: a
freehand sketch of a m ichine part,
a working drawing, a f-eehand let
tering sheet and a p -actical Ide-
scriptive drawing problem.
I Entries will be judge 1 by a com
mittee and prizes will be award
ed for first, second and third
places in the four classes. TEs!
prizes are being doni ted by the
Eugene Deitzgen Company, the
Post Company and the College Ex
change store.
The prizes will be a varded at a
ceremony at the annet, at which
time a speaker from a Dallas
Engineering firm will address the
Rioup.
around
•els of
till:
on
year, the wheels of edu|c
slowly to a stop, H
profs alike anticipate
Idays and latter off
forts. .
Not so on the seculnil
Goodwin Hall where Tfv
office is located, A
last night a skeleton
pulling Associated Piens
the teletype j to sub*
non-existent rumpus
Just as the final
s time
ation grind
t|mlente and
Euster hoi-
their ef*
being put on today
t<
It today'*
one In the crew look:
a littered desk and
did anyone write a "Ta
yf”.
Wtute
t|ew$L i
tfebe* were
asper some-
.< d up from
c tiled, "Say,
ke a Break
per’s other
hadn't been
eggs!
Robert Cleland
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Clel
and of Fidelity. Robert i« a Bat
talion carrier. His territory in
cludes the North aGte Area and
Cooner Street.
today
Nobody had. The pi.
column, “Lqpkin’ Back”
written either.
One editor dashed tio the files,
whipped out a “Lookin Back” and
then racked his mind for a “Take
Break” item.
The mind was ev4nt blanker
than usual.
All of- a sudden lig its flashed,
wheels turned, and a t idea was
born. Attacking his typewriter
keys he wrote what ycu have just
read. At the end of »is copy he
added these few words.
“A Happy Easter to all • of yoi
from all of us. You h ive as
time as lye hope to have,
well be with you agairj in We
day's issue,”
n
floor of
o Battalion ir
mldnlgWiff-f
crew was <
copy from
for