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» The Battalion Number 97: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1955 Price Five Cents Rescheduled Dates Of Class Elections Chosen Yesterday Civilian aigns OK Filing’s for the class of ’56 and ’57 officers will reopen April 28, the Election commission decided yesterday. The filings will close May 5. ¥ The election will be May 12, and any run-offs that may be neces sary will be May 18. Run-offs for 'the class of ’58 will be on this date also. “Our action was to fulfill the Student Senate’s request,” said Dave Lane, chairman of the com mission. Previously, the commis sion had ruled that primaries had been held to determine candidates in the army junior and sophomore classes. They referred the matt- ter to the senate for any action that was to be taken. In a special session last Thurs day, the senate ruled the filings for the elections should be thrown out because the primaries were held. They also voted to ask that the college include a rule in the college regulations outlawing pri maries not held by the Election commission. The commission is a committee of'the senate and has jurisdicition bver all campus elections. The filing and election dates chosen yesterday by the commission "are the same as those for the elec ted members of the election com mission. Lane said the group chose these dates so they wouldn’t have to hold a special election for the class officers. However, there are no run-offs in the election commission race. “We did what the senate told us to do,” Lane said. “The commis sion felt about the same way the senate did on the whole problem.” I Fees Fight Has Senate Working Late AUSTIN—(A*)—After a two- hour wrangle over student ac tivity fees in state colleges, the Senate yesterday recessed un til 7:80 p.m. for a rare night session. The recess motion came at 5:30 p.m., after Sen. Jimmy Phillips had banged on his desk and rasped invective in a sandpaper voice for more than an hour as he tried to block the bill. The measure would author ize college governing boards to levy a compulsory activity fee up to $15 for all students. Sen. Ottis Lock told the sen ate last week that smaller schools need his bill to finance student activities. on of WHERE’S M’SPEEDBOAT?—Guy Lombardo turns around and smirks at the audience during a number by his orches tra last night in the White coliseum. The Royal Canadians and, a variety show played to about 5,000 persons for the last Town Hall show of the year. News of the World By The ASSOCIATED PRESS RUSK, Texas—All was quiet yesterday at Whrd 7, where 80 criminally insane Negroes at the State Mental hospital rioted Saturday and injured 13 persons. Pharoh Tilley, a Negro patient injured when he tried to aid a white attendant, was in a critical condition. His head was beaten by a base ball bat. •g -g 'g WASHINGTON—Chairman George (D-Ga.) of the Senate Foreign Relations committee said yesterday he sees no immediate need for a congressional check-up on the safety of the U.S. 7th fleet in Formosan waters. ★ ★ ★ NEW YORK—Drug manufacturers indicated that near ly all their output of polio vaccine so far has been ear-marked for public distribution to school children—with only a trickle to private physicians. Six companies are producing the vac cine. ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN—A plan to feed another 100 million rollars into the scandal-scarred veterans land program and to reorganize its administrative board won Senate commit tee approval yesterday. ★ ★ ★ TAIPEI, Formosa—Red China now says Formosa must be “liberated” becaus an effort was made to kill “our beloved Premier Chou En-lai,” a phrase that sounds both dangerous and different. The phrase was uttered in Peiping by Li Teh-chuan, head of Communist China’s Red Cross. 'k PITTSBURGH—Tireless Dr. John Salk, ever the inquiring scientist, said he wants to keep working on his proven anti-polio vaccine to make it as nearly perfect as possible. Dr. Einstein Dies A tier Long Illness PRINCETON, N. J. — (A>) — Dr. Albert Einstein, whose search for knowledge led him to become the greatest scientist of his age, died yesterday and, in death, sought to further medical science. Sales Clinic Op ens Here Tomorrow The sixth annual Sales Clinic, sponsored by the business admin istration department, the Houston Sales' Executives club, and the A&M Marketing society, will be held tomorrow in the Memorial Student Center. The first session will be on re tailing and will begin at 3 p.m. Discussion will be held on opera tion and problems of the large or small retail store, how to set up sales territories, how to set up sales quotas, and how to compen sate salesmen. Verne R. Lane, H. G. Thompson and Tony Specia make up the Sales Clinic committee. The 76-year-old physicist, who revolutionized scientific thinking, left his brilliant brain and his major body organs to research. His body was cremated, without fu neral services. The organs will be studied by Princeton hospital, where he died at 1:15 a.m. of a ruptured aorta— the main artery of the body—and hardening of the arteries. The brain was left, in accordance with Einstein’s wishes, to Dr. Har- i’y Zimmerman of the Montefiore hospital in New York. President Eisenhower said in a statement: “No other man contributed so much to the vast expansion of twentieth century knowledge. Yet no other man was more modest in the possession of the power that is knowledge, more sure that power’ without wisdom is deadly.” Einstein, who had been in poor health for the past year, became ill Wednesday, but opposed sur gery as his condition worsened. He was hospitalized Friday. Police Baffled On Burglary Of Narcotics No further information the theft of a drawer full narcotics valued at $75 Fri day night had been turned up Monday. The Madeley pharmacy, on Jer sey street on the south side of the campus, was entered by a thief or thieves who forced the lock on the front door. They knocked the han dles off of two safes, left alone about $5 in change in the cash reg ister, and took the drugs. College Station Chief of Police Lee Norwood said he thought the theft was chiefly for the narcotics, as bottles of drugs had been dis arranged on the shelves. The lock ed drawer which held the narcotics had been forced open and entirely removed. The pharmacy, owned by Edward Madeley, is next to the Southside Food market, which was broken into two weeks ago. The two thefts were similar in the method of en try, and in both cases, handles had been knocked off the safes in fruit less efforts to open them. In both thefts, the stores were lighted. Norwood did not say whether or not the same person or persons were involved in both cases, but he did say that the evidence indicated the jobs were done by amateurs. County Sheriff J. W. Hamilton, whose office is assisting in the in vestigation, said yestei’day after noon the case Avas still being in vestigated, but no evidence had been found. He also said Friday’s burglary was the first involving narcotics recently. SLC Authorizes Limited Campaigning The Student Life committee yesterday approved a pro posed college regulation that would allow civilian students to campaign for civilian elections next year. The committee also passed a constitutional change in the method of choosing its civilian members. The civilian campaigning recommendation, which will go to the Academic council for approval, would allow the civil ians to campaign for elections in which only civilian students were running, and then only within their dormitory areas. The proposal will not go into effect until next September. Here are the rules the committee recommends: 1. Campaign posters will be only on civilian dormitory "♦bulletin boards and will not be any bigger than 8” by 11”. posted on Fish ED Contest To End Saturday The last phase of the annual Freshman Engineering Drawing contest will be held Saturday eve ning. This part of the contest will be devoted to solving an engineering problem by applying the principles of descriptive geometry. Students currently enrolled in engineering drawing 106 or descriptive geomet ry, may participate in this part of the contest. The working drawing and free hand sketching phases of the con test wei’e held in the fall semester, Freehand lettering is being c ducted this semester. Salk Polio Vaccine Class Filings Will Close Wednesday at 5 Filings for the general elec tion positions will close at 5 p.m. Wednesday. As of Monday, less than 100 people had filed for the 49 positions open in the election. Fil ing forms are available in the stu dent activities office, Goodwin hall. The election is scheduled for April 27 in the Memorial Student Center post office area. Positions open and the qualifi cations for each are as follows: Student Senate — 15 from the class of ’56; 10 from the class of 57; 6 from the class of ’58; one from each civilian dormitory; one from College View; 2 from the day students. Qualifications for senator are a 1.0 grade point ratio and attend ance at A&M for the two previous semesters. The senators, includ ing those from the civilian dormi tories, may be either corps or civ ilian students. Student Publications board — e student from the class of ’56 from the corps, and one civilian student from the class of ’56. Qual ifications are a 1.5 grade point ra tio. Civilian Student Life committee members — three civilian students who are at least sophomores and have attended A&M for the two previous semesters. They must have a 1.0 grade ratio. Civilian yell leader — any civ ilian student who is either a junior or senior at the time of election and who has a 1.25 grade ratio. Mahler To Speak Dr. Henry R. Mahler, of the Uni versity of Wisconsin, will give graduate lectui’e on “The Role of Proteins, Vitamins and Metals in Fat Metabolism” at 8 p.m. Thurs day in the Biology building. The public is invited. Schools To View Dentistry Show A puppet show, “Jack Goes Western,” will be given in the Brazos county elementary schools April 18-29, according to Dr. E. S. Freeman, director of the Bryan- Brazos county health unit. The show will deal with the sub ject of dental health. It was brought to the county by the State Department of Health. They cannot be painted surfaces. 2. Hand cards will be per mitted. 3. Posters will be permitted in the college apartment area only, and the posters must be no bigger than 2’ by 3’. The posters can be mounted on stakes. 4. Posters will be prohibited outside the apartment area and the civilian dormitories. 5. Maximum cost for campaign expenses will not be more than $15 for each candidate. 6. No parades, bands, or demon strations will be permitted. 7. Any violation of the above rules will disqualify candidates, with the Election corpmission as judge. From Senate The method of choosing civilian members of the Student Life com mittee approved yesterday will have the civilians chosen from the Student Senate. The Civilian Student Council had requested that the civilian mem bers be chosen by and from their council, instead of ejected at large as they now are. The new method will not go into effect until the ’56-’57 school year, because filings are almost complete now for the posts next year. The three civilians chosen in the gen eral election April 27 will serve next year, then the change goes into effect. Here is the new plan: Of the 12 student members of the commission, four will be mili tary students, four will be civilian students, and four can be either. The Student Senate president will automatically be on the com mittee, plus five other senators, elected by the senate. These six will be half military and half civilian. That is, if the senate president is a military stu dent, the senate will * then elect two more military students and three civilian students, to balance the six. If the senate president is a ci vilian student, then the senate will elect two more civilian students and three military students. Also on the committee will be the colonel of the corps and the president of the Civilian Student Council. Students automatically on the committee who can be either (See STUDENT LIFE, page 2) Immunization of Children Begins Immunization against paralytic polio began yesterday with the Salk antipolio vaccine being given to first and second graders at Travis School in Bryan. The first shot will be given at the other schools today through Friday. The second shot will be given two weeks later. These first two shots are free, given by the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis. Information on the third shot, which is to be given sometime between November, 1955 and February, 1956, will be releas ed later. It is not known at this time whether the third, or booster, shot will be free or not, according to Jack T. Kent, chairman of the Brazos County chapter of the foun dation. Doctors and nurses involved in Weather Today The weather outlook for today is windy and cloudy with a continued slight warm-up. Yesterday’s high was 86, low 66. The temperature at 10:30 this morning was 78. this program are offering their services without charge. There will be at least one doctor, two nurses and one clerk at each school. Par ents are not needed at the schools or at the County health unit where the four rural schools and two pri vate schools will give tfteir shots. Kent emphasized it is important each child’s parents sign and return the permission slip, either to the child’s teacher or to the health unit. Otherwise, the child will not be given the immunization shots. At 8:30 a.m. today, the shots will be given at A&M Consolidated school, and at 1:30 p.m. at Lincoln school. Tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. shots will be given at Carver school, and at 1:30 p.m. at Wash ington school. Crockett school is the scene of the 8:30 a.m. shots Thursday, with the shots being given at St. Joseph school at 1:30 p.m. that day. Friday rounds out the schedule with the polio shots being given at Bowie school at 8:30 a.m., and Ben Milam school at 1 p.m. Wednesday, doctors and nurses at the health unit will give shots to the four rural schools at 8:30 a.m., and to two private schools, Mother Goose and Mi's. Harda way’s, at 2 p.m. Children should be in school at these times, and will be transported to the health unit by school busses. Parents are not needed, and can pick up their childi’en at school at the regular time. Kent also explained the status of children of persons who lived in test areas last year and have since Peru via n Exes To Hold Muster A&M graduates in Pern will have their Muster ceremony April 21 too, like more than 40 A&M clubs all over the world. All A&M graduates living in Pe ru have been invited to the Muster, which is sponsored by the A&M club of Lima. Dr. G. N. Stroman will preside at the Mustei'. Others on the pro gram will be Dr. F. L. Thomas, Carlos Malatesta Boza, and Jose C. Barrios. moved to this community. These persons should write immediately to the health department of the state from which they moved, Tex as included, or the state in which the children received the shots. The letter should include the par ents name and address of that state, give the name of the child and the age at the time of the shots and the name of the school which the child was attending in the state in which he received the shots. There will be one of two answers returned to the parents in about a week, Kent said. If the child re ceived a dummy shot, this area will give them the fii’st two shots at a later date. If the child received the actual vaccine, this area will provide a booster shot at a later date. Pregnant women will not receive the free shots, Kent said. They are on the top of the list to receive shots from doctors at about $4.50 for the three vaccine shots, he said. The maximum charge is $15, but the amount varies in different areas of the nation, Kent added. COWBOYS—Five members of the six-man Aggie cowboy team admire the team cham pionship trophy they bull-dogged at the Arlington State College NIRA Rodeo recently. They are, from left to right,, Curtis Burlin, Don Turner, Billy Steele, Lowie Rice and Rod ney Butler. Clyde Martin, is the other team member not pictured.