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Number 30: Volume 55 The Battalion COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1955 Price Five Cents Ike Renews Bid To Soviet Union For Arm Check DENVER — (/P) — Presi dent Eisenhower formally re newed yesterday a bid to Rus sia to help dispel “fear and suspicion” by combining' both Vis own and a Soviet plan for mu tual checking on military instal lations and movements. Eisenhower made the offer in a letter to Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin, signed Tuesday and de livered in Moscow yesterday. Eisenhower’s letter to Bulganin was in partial reply to one from the Russian Premier on Sept. 18 that used conciliatory terms but still dashed cold water on the chief executive’s proposal that Russia amd the United States trade mili tary blueprints and permit mutual aerial inspection of military es tablishments. * Bulganin plugged for his own idea of creating “conti’ol posts” at large ports and railway junc tions and on highways and air fields to “prevent dangerous con centrations of troops and combat equipment” and “remove the pos sibility of sudden attack.” “I hope that we can agree on it,” Ike said, “not as a cure-all, but, as I said at Geneva, to show a spirit of nonaggressiveness on both sides and so to create a fresh atmosphere which would dispel much of the present fear or sus picion.” IE Club Offoers’ IVames Correction Something happened last Friday in the story about newly-elected officers of the Industrial Educa tion Club. Gremlins in the type writer is our only excuse for mis spelling almost every name in the group. But here they are ’again, and correct this time, we hope. Sam Kikei- is president; Bob Mc Cain is vice-president; A1 Step hens, secretary; Glen Pfeil, treas urer; Pete McMillan, program chairman; Jim Newman, social chairman; Carl Livesay, parlia mentarian; Bob Vett, financial thairman; and Gordon DeMarrais, reporter. Frank Nixson of the I.E. department is sponsor. Town Hall Program STARTING POINT—Friday is the start of the first Corps trip weekend for this year, and shown is the starting point Irom which more than 4,000 students will travel to Fort Worth for the game Saturday with TCU. It’s around 180 miles to “Cowtown,” and many students are expected to make long or short stops in Denton, home of the Tessies of TSCYV. Friday night, a dance and a yell practice will be held on the TSCW campus. Court Okays Funds For Mixed Schools AUSTIN, —UP) —The Texas Su preme Court yesterday upheld ex penditure of public funds for schools attended by both Negro and white students. It emphasiz ed it’s ruling does not require im mediate integration. The nine-man court unanimously struck down a 79-year-old provis ion of the state Constitution inso far as it would require segrega tion in public schools. cil’s request for an injunction to block use of state money in schools attended by Negro and white stu dents, Atty. Gen. John Ben Sheppard who had argued state funds could not be used for integrated schools, said yesterday’s decision “settles the law in Texas on a statewide basis, but the time of integration will still be a district-by-district matter.” It also voided a 50-year-old sta tute prohibiting mingling of Negro and white students in a school. The decision rejected an appeal by the Texas Citizens Council from a ruling by District Judge Charles Sullivan in a test case orig inating in Big Spring. Judge Sull ivan had turned down the coun- Gov. Shivers, vigorous critic of the U.S. Supreme Court desegre gation decision, issued a statement emphasizing “neither the Texas nor the United States Supreme Court had said that schools must desegregate immediately.” He said a desegregation decision is still a matter of local discretion. Chorale Here The second program in the cui’- rent Town Hall series will be pre sented Wednesday night at White Coliseum, featuring the Robert Shaw Chorale, a group of 30 sing ers, known for concert tours, ap pearances with top-flight sym phony orchestras, and a long list of recordings made for RCA Vic tor. Starting time is 8 p.m., with the doors to open at 7. The engage ment for Town Hall is one of 90 appearances which marks the Chorale’s .tenth American tour, during which Shaw and his singers have appeared in every state in the Union except South Dakota and Nevada. Director of the singing ensem ble and the orchestra which ac companies it, is the California- born 38-year-old Shaw, a familiar figure in the art of choral singing- all over the nation for the past de cade. He holds two honorary doc torates in music. Perhaps best known nationally from tours, recordings and numer ous appearances with Arturo Tos canini and the NBC Symphony coast-to-coast broadcasts of such classics as Beethoven's Ninth Sym- phoney and “Missa Solemnis”, Shaw holds a firm belief that a wide awake musical organization must also perform contemporary music. He has taken his faith in contem porary music one step further than performance—to sponsorship. In 1952, he scheduled contempor ary works alongside the classics for a series of seven Sunday nights of choral masterworks in Carnegie Hall. This venture, unprecedented in New York’s musical history, rolled up a deficit, which repre sented most of Shaw’s savings to date. But the concerts reaffirm ed an idealist’s belief in the value of choral music, both classic and contemporary. Tickets for the program are on sale at the Office of Student Ac tivities, located on the second floor of Goodwin Hall. Cost for indi vidual tickets for students is $1, general admission, and for non students $2. For reserve seats, students must pay $1.50 and non students $2.50. Persons holding Town Hall sea son tickets, part of the student ac tivities fee, are of course admitted on these. Corps Trip Weekend To Start Tomorrow After Classes End News of the World By The ASSOCIATED PRESS TSCW Dance, TCU Game Are Features WASHINGTON—Rep. Chudoff (D-Pa.) yesterday ac cused Interior Department chiefs of ‘brazen and barefaced repudiation’ of the public power laws and demanded that they change their tactics or resign. Chudoff’s blast was de livered after his House Government Operations subcommittee had smoked an opinion by Atty. Gen. Brownell which rules against an interior Department plan to sell publicly produced power to a private firm. ★ ★ ★ UNITED NATIONS—Poland’s Juliusz Katz-Suchy warned yesterday the budding spirit of international co operation will be seriously hampered if Poland loses its bid for the U.N. Security Council. U.S. Chief Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. who is backing the Philippines against Poland for the seat held by Turkey, promptly countered that Poland is not fit for the Security Councii. “Communist Poland is clearly not a nation which has con tributed to international peace and security within the meaning of the Charter or which is in position to do so,” Lodge said. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—The government yesterday made mil lions more children and pregnant women eligible for first call on Salk anti-polio shots. Expanding vaccine supplies enabled Secretary of Welfare Folsom to announce a new flexible pro gram for inoculations which broadens the priority age group by five years and includes pregnant women. ★ ★ ★ LONDON—Field Marshal Lord Montgomery urged yesterday that Western air forces be united in “one single mighty weapon of air power” commanded bj^ an American. He said if war comes the West should set up a single political authority—with headquarters in North America—-to direct global operations. The deputy su preme Allied commander in Europe made his statements in a lecture at Britain’s Royal United Services Institu tion. ★ ★ ★ MOSCOW—The Soviet Union warned Iran yesterday her action in joining the pro-Western Baghdad defense pact en dangers peace in the Middle East. In a statement handed to the Iranian charge d’affaires here by Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, the Russian government declared it “attaches ser ious significance” to the move. ★ ★ ★ TOKYO—Peiping radio said this week only 66 Americans remain in China and all but 19 accused of crimes are “free to leave China any time they apply for departure.” ★ ★ ★ DALLAS—Gen. James A. Van Fleet said yesterday that “the Korean Army is ours to use in any part of the world where it is needed.” He added: “President Sygman Rhee has told me that repeatedly.” ★ ★ ★ MOSCOW—Eight disappointed U. S. congressmen left yesterday after a three-day visit in which they saw the sights but were unable to get any business accom plished. The lawmakers intended discussing foreign trade and international air transport into the Soviet Un ion with top Soviet leaders. More than 4,000 students will begin straying from the campus tomorrow, leaving a bare look in classrooms, for the first of two scheduled Corps Trips this year. The other Corps Trip is to Houston, Nov. 12. Saturday classes are cancelled for the annual trips. ’ Units will begin forming at 9 a.m. Saturday morning and will move out at 10 a.m. The order of march is the Band, Corps Staff, first regiment, second regiment, first wing and Second wing. Students will form by the Pittsburg Plate Glass Co., just south of the Texas and Pacific Railway terminal. Route of march will be up Main St. to Fifth where a left turn will ♦be executed to Houston St. where a right turn will be made and then a right tum on Weatherford St. where students will be dismissed. The march will include about 24 blocks of actual marching. The parade will be graded with the reviewing stand located in front of the Texas Hotel. The band will be located on Eighth St., across from the hotel. Uniform for the parade is class A summer with overseas caps. This same uniform will be worn to the football game but the winter uni form is optional for Saturday night festivities. A&M cadets received much praise in the 1953 trip to Ft. Worth on conduct and appearance. Two prominent Ft. Worth civic leaders, L. R. (Dutch) Meyer, TCU athle tic director and Walter Humphrey, editor of the Fort Worth Press, complimented the student body on LETTER TO EDITOR Dear Editor: On behalf of the TSCW dele gation to Tuesday’s yell prac tice, I want to say thanks a mil lion to the Aggies for the won derful reception we received. All the girls had a great time and we are looking forward to seeing you at our Pre-Corps Trip Dance in the Union Build ing on Friday night. Southern hospitality, particu larly that exhibited by the Ag gies Tuesday night, is a wonder ful thing . . . we hope you en joyed having us just half as much as we enjoyed visiting your campus. Sincerely, Madelyn (Cooky) Pulver President, TSCW Student Body 6*300 Tickets Sold For 'Trip ’ A total of 6,300 tickets have been sold to A&M students for the Corpp trip game this weekend, said Pat Dial, Athletic Department business manager. This includes 2,000 date tickets, 300 student tickets stamped “date” and 4,000 student tickets. “After this we will be unable to sell more than 2,000 date tickets,” Dail said. “For home games we have an allotted amount of space and can’t go beyond that.” Tickets for the Baylor game will go on sale Monday through Friday or until they are sold out. . conduct while in their city. In a letter to W. L. Penberthy, then dean of men, Meyer said the conduct of students was “certainly enjoyed and appreciated by evei'y- one.” Humphrey stated, in his daily column in the Press, that “it gave me a tremendous lift, reaffirming my pride and hope in American (especially Texas) youth.” The well-known editor ended With “you can’t find a finer looking group of young men anywhere.” Starting this weekend off will be a dance at TSCW Friday night. All A&M students received a spe cial invitation from a group of TSCW students who visited here Tuesday liight. The danbe will start at'. 8 p.m. and end at midnight. A yell pi’ac- Community Chest Drive To Star l Oct. 31 The annual A&M College-College Station Community Chest - Red Cross got underway last night, when the planning board met in the library to finish arrangements for the 1955-56 drive. The drive will begin Oct. 31, and continue until Nov. 12, according to Robert A. Houze, college librar ian and chairman of this year’s drive. Budget hearings will be held Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center. All agencies who participated in the drive last year will be notified of the meeting. Methods of collections to be used will be the same as in previous years. Forms wil be supplied to all of the departments on the cam pus so that college employees will be able to contribute. College Sta tion business firms and firms do ing business in College Station will also be canvassed. Residents of Gollege Station who are stationed at Bryan Field and others not cov ered in this list will be contacted individually. Agencies which took part last year were American Red Cross, American Cancer Society, Brazos County Tuberculosis Association, Brazos County Charity Hospital Weather Today CLEAR Clear skies and continued cool is the forecast today. Temperature at 10:30 a.m. was 73 degrees. Last night’s cool front dropped the ther mometer to 64 degrees with a high yesterday of 92 degrees. Fund, Boy Scouts, College Station Recreation Program, College Sta tion Y.M.C.A., College Station Youth Committee, Girl Scouts, Local Chest Charity fund (includes Needy Children Fund*), Salvation Army, and the county USO. Last year the Chest’s goal was $14,707. Donations totaled $11,- 960. After required expenses, the present balance is $1,877. Goal for this year will be set after the budget hearings. Houze was appointed chairman of the Committee by College Sta- (See CHEST DRIVE; Page 6) tice will be held sometime during the dance and as one of the TSCW girls here Tuesday said, “another will probably be held after we have to be in our rooms.” A I’ecord crowd of 36,881 will be in Amon Carter Stadium Satur day afternoon at 2 to watch the A&M-TCU grid contest. The game became a sell-out in Ft. Worth Tuesday when 3,000 tickets were sold. Sports writers have picked TCU to take the Aggies by eight points. Charlene Seth, Aggie Sweet heart, will be presented at half- (See CORPS TRIP, Page 6) PLANNING COMMITTEE—Members of the 1955-56 Community Chest Committee mt yesterday to organize plans for the drive which opens Oct. 31. Going around th table, left to right, are Bob Reid; C. W. Landis, publicity director; Mrs. R. L. Elkins; ( A. Roeber; R. A. Houze, ■ chairman; J. B. Hervey; S. C. Brown; John Milliff; and R. I Patterson. About 10 other members are on the committee.