GE OF TEX
Battalion
Number 37: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1955
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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-
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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