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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.”
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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.