Battalion
Number 29: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1955
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.