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Battalion Number 29: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1955 Price Five Cents ■■ '< iippss A FRIENDLY WELCOME—Judy Nuhn, Madalyn Pulver, Cynthia Thompson, and Rusty .Skinner exchange greetings with B. A. (Scotty) Parham, Student Senate president, in the Memorial Student Center after they had arrived here to extend a welcome to all Aggies to TSCW this weekend. They were presented at last night’s yell practice, at which activities of the Corps Trip weekend were explained. Southwestern Telephone Co. Moving To New Building New $60,000 Southwestern States Telephone Co. Building at 200 Nagle St. across from the Catholic Student Center has been completed and the business office will open there Monday, announced G. M. Brennam, Division manager. The 40 by 85 foot brick and fire proof structure will house a new inter-toll dialing system, which 1 is slated to go into operation Jan: 8. phone numbers will have to be &&M Students, Advisor Escape Injury In Crash Three A&M students and their advisor escaped serious injury yesterday when the automobile in which they were riding turned over near Bloomington, Ill. . The Dairy Husbandry judging team, E. L. McLaughlin, Arnold Henricks and Charles Briggs and their coach, A. L. Darnell turned over eai'ly yesterday afternoon aft- atr leaving a Chicago dairy judging tontest. Henricks received an ankle in jury. . The extent of injury was not reported. Other occupants of the wrecked car were reportedly unharmed. They were riding in a 1955 Ford station wagon owned by the col lege. Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $1200-1500, and was not covered by insurance. * The team had been in judging contests in Waterloo, Iowa and Chicago, and were returning to A&M. They are expected to re turn the latter part of the week as soon as the automobile can be repaired enough for the trip. Intef-toll dialing, Brennam ex plained, enables the operator to dial the number you give her with out going through another opera tor. In other words she dials the number direct, as it is given to hex*. Automatic Electric Co. of Chica go is installing the new system. Other equipment, such as switch boai'ds, is now scheduled to be moved into the new building Dec. 28. All College Station and Bryan changed befox*e the new system is complete, Brennam said. We hope to have this done before Jan. 8 he said. But other companies are having trouble meeting that dead line and it might be postponed until February. When the phone numbers are changed, Victor will be the prefix for College Station and TAylor for Bxyan numbers. News of the World By The ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS—The Soviet Union yesterday con ditionally approved establishment of an international agency to supervise President Eisenhower’s atoms-for-peace plan. It hedged with provisions that the agency must be subject on vital security matters to the veto-bound U.N. Security Council and must be wide open to all countries, including Red China and East Germany. ★ ★ ★ BONN, Germany—West Germany’s 79-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has pneumonia. The sud den announcement yesterday of his serious illness shock ed the nation. His physicians said Adenauer must re main in bed indefinitely. Vice-Chancellor Franz Blue- cher took over as acting chief of government. ★ ★ ★ PARIS—Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther today told European defense ministers they must unify their air defense systems if they hope to shield their populations from surprise aerial assault. The supreme Allied commander in Europe, at a se cret briefing, pointed to air defense as the “greatest single weakness” of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Europe. Officials who heard the general recounted the gist of his remarks to newsmen later. ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN—Sen. Price Daniel (D-Tex) has said much of the testimony his Senate Judiciary Subcommit tee will receive on illicit narcotics traffic in Texas will involve Mexico. The committee will hold the first of five hearings in Texas here today. Other cities to be visited are San Antonio, Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth. ★ ★ ★ MARGATE, England—The British Labor party yester day pledged its support to continuation of the American- British alliance and to Western policies on disarmament and control of nuclear weapons. Party moderates won these de cisions by a more than 4-1 margin against left-wingers. The left-wingers called for a “go it alone” foreign policy and a halt to British manufacture of nuclear weapons regardless of the attitude of the other two atomic powers—United States and Russia. ★ ★ ★ ASUNCION, Paraguay—The semiofficial newspaper Patria said yesterday Paraguay will intern ousted Pres ident Juan D. Peron of Argentina for making political statements while in exile here. The provisional Argen tine government which succeeded Peron had asked that he be kept far enough away from the Argentine border so “his presence cannot cause trouble.” & : j§ :t*r ; < ,.*‘§1 ^ STRAIGHT POOP—Assistant Coach Phil Cutchin takes time out to demonstrate the finer points of blocking to the Fish team in yesterday’s practice. The Fish tangle with the rough Baylor Cubs here Thursday night at 7:30. Ingenuity Saves Day College Deferment Test Set Nov. 17 The 1955-56 college qualification tests will be given Nov. 17 and Apx*il 19, according to a release by the Selective Service System. Students making a gx*ade of 70 or above, or maintaining gx*ades which put them in specified per centages of their classes, may be considered for educational defer ment by their local dx*aft boai'ds. Local draft boax*ds have final authoi’ity, subject to appeal, in de ciding whether a youth is to be given educational deferment. Stu dents desiring to take the Novem ber test must mail their applica tions prior to midnight Nov. 1. Applications for the Apidl test must be mailed by March 5. Fui’ther information is available at the Housing Office in Goodwin Hall. Community Chest Meets At 5 Today The College Station Community Chest Committee will meet at 5 p.m. today in the conference room on the main floor of the Cushing Library. It is hoped that all com mittee members will be able to at tend this meeting, as preliminary organization plans will be made, such as election of a tx-easurer, sec retary, publicity director and other needed officers. At a meeting next week, various social and welfare groups will meet with the committee to outline their needs for the coming year, from which the Community Chest can dx*aw up its budget. Health College Station had 20 cases of various diseases reported by the bounty Health Unit during the week ending Oct. 8. Influenza was the leader with eight cases, strept throat was second with six cases. •\Ionori*hea was third with three cases. Fort Worth Moms Will Have Booth The Fort Worth A&M Moth ers’ Club will have an informa tion booth in the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth Friday evening and Saturday morning to assist stu dents in any way possible, such as housing, finding rides and their way around the town. Shortage of Date Tickets Relieved Weather Today COOLER A slight cool front is expected after 10:30 tonight. Partly cloudy with scattered thunder showers this afternoon. Tempei*atux*e at 10:30 a.m. was 82 degrees. Yes terdays high read 92 degrees with a low reading of 72 degrees. Maybe He Should Try Wrestling One thing is for certain— singing isn’t a job for a sissy. Down in New Orleans, known world-wide for its jazz and blues, a senior musical stu- deiit at Tulape University, would be singing the blues himself—except that he can’t sing for the next three weeks. Seems that he busted his jaw, for the second time, while hit ting a high note. The student reported that he would be able to keep his po sition on the Tulane Glee Club, as his director “had been through this before.” By JIM BOWER Battalion News Editor American ingenuity was px’essed into play on the campus yesterday as date tickets ran the gauntlet of demand. Facing the ever growing crowd of anxious and wox*ried Aggies, tic ket sellers were faced with a ser ious problem when the 2,000 date tickets ran out at 10 a.m. yester day. . Much disappointment was aver ted when some ingenious person, identity unknown, hit upon the idea of transferring some of the student tickets to serve as date tickets. It took a little extra work on the part of the girls in the athletic of fice but it is imagined that they had rather stamp a few tickets than explain to the eager cadets that they would have to go without a date at the game this weekend. It was reported that, although 2,000 date tickets is the usual num ber, the pclasions whei*e they were all sold have been few and far be tween. Psylhologists could have a merry time figui’ing the motive for the unusual sale of the date tickets. It is time that the reserved seat tickets probably sold out because of the importance of the clash be tween A&M and TCU. However, it may have been that the starting figure of only 2,000 available date tickets was released, or because all Aggies predict A&M to scoi'e a few touchdowns and want to keep the old touchdown tradition in practice. Whatever the motive, the fact is established that just about every cadet who so desires may have a date, or rather date ticket, for the game Saturday afternoon. While sitting in the stands be side the sweet lovely thing who is acting as date for the occasion, Aggies should offer thainks to that good old American ingenuity that made the difference between dis appointment and a joyous weekend. Planned Nov. 1-4 CS To Have Clean-Up Drive College Station residents have been asked to cooperate with the first annual Clean-Up Drive, to be held Nov. 1-4 in the College Sta tion area. Co-sponsors of the drive are the College Station Development As sociation & Chamber of Commerce and the City of College Station. The project was first brought up I Persons wishing to have trash at the meeting of the Association, picked up should stack it in front Monday, on the recommendation of of their homes on the day desig- News Briefs THE ILLUSTRATED LECTURE scheduled to be given hex*e Thui*s- day night by Capt. William E. Mayer has been cancelled. Capt. Mayer, of the neuropsychiatric branch of the Department of pro fessional Science of Bimoke Army Medical Center, has been called to Washington. * * * A REPRESENTATIVE of North American Aviation Inc. will be on the campus next Monday to inter view winter graduates for posi tions in the Los Angeles plant. The aviation industry is able to ► utilize training in nearly all engi neering curricula. the Public Health Committee. The motion was made and passed that the college hold two clean-up cam paigns per year, one in November and one in May. Walter S. Manning, chairman of the committe was asked to contact Ran Boswell, College Station city manager, to make arrangements. Plans call for pickups from one certain area of the city each day. Any public health hazard reported to the city will be investigated also. nated for their section of town, Boswell said. Some homes have trash pick up in the alleys, but most of them lack the facilities. Schedule of pick-up is as follows: Nov. 1, Southside area; Nov. 2, area East of Highway 6; Nov. 3, North College Station, College View, and Culpepper addition and Nov. 4, final clean-up and pick-up in all areas. City tnxcks will -pick up any kind of trash including papers, garbage and clippings. Residents aim urged to use this opportunity to clean the city and campus for the holiday season. Kiwanians Hear Forest Fire Talk David A. Anderson, head of the Texas Forest Service’s Research and Education Division, spoke at the weekly meeting of the College Station Kiwanis Club yestei’day on “Some of our Foxmst Fire Pxmb- lems.” Anderson told of some of the 1954 forest fires and the casualties of that year. He concluded the progi-am by showing slides on the opex*ation of the Texas Forest Seiwice. At the recent District IX con vention held in San Antonio, the College Station club won fix*st prize of $20 for Club Administration dis play. Bob Cherry and Charles La- Motte attended from College Sta tion. The club has decided to sell box lunches at the remaining A&M home games. Lunches will be sold at the games from 12 noon until 2 p.m. STOVES—Work has started on the installation of new stoves in the College View apartments. The school re ceived 110 stoves Monday and are now installing them on B row of the student apartment houses. Work is expected to be finished by the end of this month. Non-Farm Work Shows Increase Non-farm employment increased during September in the College Station-Bryan area, the number of such workex-s climbing to 12,720 as of Oct. 1. Contract constx*uction and retail trade furnished the bulk of new job opportunities during last month. The number of jobseekex*s at the Bryan office of the Texas Employ ment Commission declined dui’ing September from 329 for August to 307 as of Oct. 1. There were 89 claimants for un employment insui’ance benefits during the past month; during Au gust there were 107 claimants. NEW QUARTERS—The new $60,000 building in College Station for the Southwestern States Telephone Company has been completed. The business office will move into the structure at 200 Nagle St. this coming Monday. Other equipment will be moved on Dec. 28 to complete the change to inter-toll dialing system, which will go in effect Jan. 8, 1956.