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GE OF TEX Battalion Number 37: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1955 Price 5 Cents ^ v I ' ^ • 'V Mp * • ^-Mr - 'H' mm m PLANT TOUR—A&M officials toured the Dow Chemical company’s Texas division plants in Freeport during the holidays. Pictured are, left to right, Ide P. Trotter, dean of the Graduate School; Joe M. Parish, Texas division chief engineer; M. T. Harrington, A&M System chancellor; Earl B. Barnes, Dow’s director of organic research; and Da vid H. Morgan, A&M president. $20,000 Goal Polio Drive Opens Today By BILL FULLERTON Battalion City Editor The 1955 Brazos County March of Dimes opened with a goal of $20,000, according to Mis. John Perry, co-chairman of the drive with Mrs. Lucille Foster. Headquarters for this year’s drive opened at 9 a.m. at the Uni ted Fumiture store, 214 East 25th. Space has been donated for the en tire month and will serve as the fcearquai’ters for all activities and %s a distribution center for cam paign materials and polio literature i)f interest to the public. Many workers, including teen agers, have already volunteered their services for the polio drive, but more are needed, said Mrs. Foster. Volunteers are invited to visit the headquarters where they will find many opportunities to help with the drive that can be fit ted into school activities and home or office work, she said. Contributions can be mailed or taken to the headquarters or put in tlie special plastic coin jars in dif ferent stores. This year, envelopes will be mailed to potential contrib utors for their donations, said Mrs. Perry. About 500 A&M Consolidated elementary school children receiv ed gamma globulin polio immuni zation shots Oct. 27-28. The chil dren were in grades one through four. Five children dropped out oi Consolidated this year because 'of polio. L. S. Richardson, superin tendent of- the Consolidated schools, said that parents had taken the situation calmly. Salk Polio Vaccine Another possible protection against polio paralysis is the Salk polio vaccine which was field test- Town Hall Show Set For Thursday Town Hall will present the Houston Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m. Thursday in White Coli seum. A special matinee will he pre sented Thursday afternoon for school children. It will be a program of lighter music than the evening performance. The price of non-student tickets for the matinee is $1. General admission tickets will be sold at the door for $2 for adults and $1 for children. News of the World By The ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON—Republican leaders predicted yester day, after previewing President Eisenhower’s State of the Union message with him at the White House, that it'will be well deceived by the country. Eisenhower will deliver it per sonally to a joint session of the Senate and House on Thurs- | day * ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN—Arguments both for and against rules to * curtail optometry advertising were laid before the State Board of Optometry at a public hearing yesterday, but the board took no action. Dozens of optometrists from throughout the state told the board it should reinstate rules revoked after short duration recently, restricting advertising and setting up “professional standards.” ★ ★ ’ ★ VATICAN CITY—Pope Pius XII yesterday, urged the world to transform the current “cold peace” into a true'peace W °soon as possible. He called upon Christians to help build “ S bridge of peace” between East and West. But he warned anew against Communist propaganda. ★ ★ ★ NEW YORK—General Motors Corp. yesterday, asked its stockholders to help raise 325 million dollars to meet expanding needs. Present shareholders will be of fered the right to subscribe to one new share of common stock for each 20 shares held. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—A congressional committee urged yes- terdav that the United States launch immediately “a posi- - r tive bipartisan, political offensive” to counteract what it 1 ca ]]ed a Communist plan for lulling the free world into in action and starting World War III at a time of the Kremlin’s ed last spring and is now being evaluated at the University of Michigan by Dr. Thomas Francis jr. and his staff. Their findings will be ready this spring. D’ the 'vaccine is ro-dVui 1 to oe ef fective and is licensed, it will be offered at no charge for the pro duct to some of the nation’s most susceptible groups for immediate use, according to the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis. The groups are approximately 7,750,000 children enrolled in the first and second grades of public, parochial and private schools in the United States, Hawaii and Alaska. Also included will be about 1,390,000 children who did not receive vaccine in the trials, but a harmless substance. There were 1,830,000 children who participated in the 1954 field trials for the vaccine. About 440,000 of these “Polio Pioneers” received vaccine last spring, but the others did not. The tests were sponsored by the national foundation and pkid for with .$7,500,000 -of March of Dimes funds. Astronomy Films Presented Tonight Three astronomical films, spon sored by the physics department, will be shown tonight at 7:30 in the physics lecture room. Two of the films, “Solar Sys tem” and “Exploring the Uni verse,” will have sound. “Explo sions of the Sun”- will be silent but there will be a running commen tary during the showing of the film. Comments on the films will be offered by the physics astronomy class. The public is invited to attend the showing, J. T. Kent of the mathematics department said. Area Teachers Set Friday Meet Vocational agriculture teachers from the 23 countries in Area III will attend a mid-winter confer ence on the campus Friday and Saturday. They will take part in a pro gram designed to bring them up to date on improved classroom teaching methods and materials, problems facing farmers, social se curity for farmers, livestock selec tion, poultry judging, dairy pro ducts, meats and other subjects in which they have shown interest during past meetings. Panama Declares Temporary State Of Seige Goodwin Reported ‘Doing Very Well’ Move To Help Police In Hunt for Killers PANAMA—UP)—The National Assembly yesterday de clared a state of siege, temporarily suppressing constitutional guarantees, to help secret police hunting the machinegun as sassins of President Jose Antonio Remon. With ex-President Arnulfo Arias and two women among more than a score of persons already rounded up for question ing about the plot, the state of .siege—a modified form of martial law—was decreed to run 10 days. Remon, 46-year-old strongman regarded as the outstand ing president in the republic’s history, was shot down from the darkness Sunday night as he sat with friends in a bril liantly lighted pavilion at the fashionable Juan Franco race track four miles northeast oft this city. Two other men were killed and three were wounded in the exchange of gunfire between the assassins and the presidential bodyguard. Col. Saturnino Flores, deputy commander of the National Guard, Panama’s main military force, said the authorities have no defin ite clues to identify or motive of the assassins. But Floi’es indicated strongly the weight of suspicion fell on supporters of Arias, ousted from the presidency in the bloody 1951 coup by the National Guard which Remon headed. FloreS said that if the object of the assassination was to gain con trol of the government, the plot failed because the National Guard had firm control of the situation. He recalled recent threats of major developments by Arias’ followers. In New York, U.S. Secretary of State Dulles said apparently “no Communist issue was involved” in tb .' nnvajjTihvitL'n, • The National Assembly, which earlier yesterday swore in the first vice-pi’esident and foreign minis ter, Jose Ramon Guizado, as the new president, first considered de claring a 30-day state of siege. This was amended unanimously to the 10-day period. The two men killed with Remon were Jose Pei’alta, a secret police plainclothesman who passed by as the shooting began, and Danilo Sousa, an athlete apparently caught in the line of fire from the presidential bodyguard. The au thorities said the assassins opened up with machineguns from the darkened grandstand, after the day’s races were over, while Re mon and his party sat in the bril liantly lighted area near the pres idential box. All No No A&M students have been re ported killed or injured during the Christmas holidays. Both Col. Joe E. Davis, com mandant, and Bennie A. Zinn, head of student affairs, said yesterday that they had received no notice of any student deaths or serious in juries. Deaths and accidents occurring off the campus are usually report- Robert Goodwin, Bryan gradu ate student who was injured in a laboratory explosion here Dec. 14, is now in Galveston’s John Sealy hospital and “doing very well,” ac cording to hospital authorities. Goodwin was seriously burned in a natui’al gas explosion in the pe troleum engineering laboratory here. He was first treated at Bryan’s St. Joseph’s hospital, and then sent to the Galveston hospital the Saturday after the explosion. Not Need Grafting Robert Whiting, head of the pe troleum engineering department, Now Probably Ban Students A couple of A&M students discovered a new way to make money during the holidays. They live in Lubbock, which has banned what the city offi cials call “objectionable comic books.” So the enterprising Aggies bought several 10 cent comic books in College Station, and sold them for 25 cents each in Lubbock. Nothing objectionable about comics that can show that, kind of profit. said that Goodwin would not need skin grafting on his head or face, but that some grafting would be required on his hands. Whiting said what the hospitals first thought were third degree bums all over his body turned out to be less serious. It will probably be several months before Goodwin will be released from the hospital, said Whiting, who has been -in contact with the student. Other’s Released Two other students who were loss seriously injured in. the same ( erplbfMctti si-e now out of the hos pital. They are Denton Weiland, graduate student from Falfurras, and Howard Andrew, senior from Houston. Whiting said his department does not yet know the exact cause of the accident, and probably “nev er will find out.” He said some thing caused accumulated natural gas to explode, in turn causing gas and wood fires. Doirrg Experiment The graduate students were con ducting an experiment in involving filling a high pressure cylinder with the gas, and a leak some- whei’e caused the gas to accumu late. Whiting estimated the damage to equipment alone at $25,000. The graduate laboratory, which is a part of a larger laboratory, was completely destroyed. The larger laboratory was not as seriously damaged, and was back in use three days after the accident. Twenty-four students who were in the larger laboratory at the time of the explosion were unin jured. Return; Deaths ed to one or both of these depart ments. “We usually get the reports pretty early,” Zinn said. “There were probably some mi nor accidents,” Davis said, “but Ave were pleased that there were no serious ones.” Chief of Campus Security Fred Hickman said that there were no traffic accidents on the campus during the holidays, and College Station City Manager Ran Bos well said there were no accidents in the city either. Both agreed that “it was pretty quiet here without all the stu dents.” Texas and the nation didn’t fare as well as the Aggies during the holidays. The Associated Press reported last night that the latest count on accidental deaths over the nation for the holiday weekend was 362— 296 of them traffic deaths. Texas led all states with 20 traf fic fatalities, followed by Minne sota, 19; California, 18; and New York, 16. The National Safety council had estimated that 240 persons would die in traffic deaths between 6 p.m. Friday and midnight Sunday —56 below the latest count. mill RECITAL SERIES—Miss Fredell Lack, above, will give a violin recital here at 8 tonight in the Memorial Student Center as a presentation of the MSC recital series. Albert Hirsch will accompany her. Miss Lack, who has been featured soloist with several symphony orchestras, will present the program she will give in New York later this month. .--v Special Meet Called By 6 T’ Association A special meeting of the “T” association will be held Wednesday at’ 7:15 p.m. in the chemical en gineering lecture room, Lawi’ence Winkler, club president, said Mon day. Plans for the annual club din- ner-dance and the spring Sports Day will be discussed, Winkler said. Berry To Head A&M Chapter Of Sigma Xi Dr. R. O. Berry of the ani- m a 1 husbandry department will be president of A&M’s chapter of the Society of Sig ma Xi for 1955. Other officei's of the national honorary society will be Dr. Wayne C. Hall, plant physiology and path ology, vice-president; Dr. Meta S. Brown, agronomy, secretary; and Dr. Frank Gould, range and for estry, treasurer. Bei'ry, who will represent the A&M chapter at the society’s na tional meeting in Berkeley, Calif., replaced Dr. Chai’les La Motte of the biology department as presi dent. Three members of the group elected to the committee on ad missions were Dr. W. L. TidAvell, Dr. J. C. Gaines, and Dr. Issac Pe ters. The purpose of the society is “to encourage original investigations in science, pure and applied.” Scouts To Meet The Aggie Explorer Scouts and Scouters will hold an organiza tional meeting at 7 p.m. Wednes day in the YMCA, according to R. H. Fletcher of the mechanical engineering depai’trrient. Weather Today Fertilizer Meet Here Thursday About 150 persons from all parts of the state are expected to attend the annual Texas Fertilizer con ference here Thursday and Friday. The conference is sponsored by the agronomy department. Announcements In Graduation announcements for January graduates have arrived and may be picked up at the office of student activities in GoodAvin hall, announced W. D. (Pete) Har desty, business manager of student activities. PARTLY CLOUDY The forecast for today is con tinued cloudy. Yesterday’s high was 76, low 63. The temperature at 10:30 this morning was 69. 1