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t 1 Battalion Number 38: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1955 Price Five Cents News of the World By The ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM—Israeli and Egyptian forces clashed yes terday in the El Auja-Nitzana demilitarized zone. Each side blamed the other and gave conflicting accounts, of the inci /lent. The Israeli army said Egyptian soldiers penetrated Israel territory and attacked an Israeli police post, killing an Israeli policeman, wounding three and kidnaping two others And Egyptian government communique said the Egyptians occupied the post after the Israelis had launched an attack 'inside Egyptian territory. ★ ★ ★ NEW YORK—Reporter Magazine says Gov. Allan Shivers offered to swing the Texas vote to Sen. Estes Kefauver at the 1952 Democratic convention if the Ten nesseean would give “just consideration” to Gulf state offshore oil claims. tAt ★ ★ UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—The Soviet Union insisted yesterday upon Red China’s participation in any international conference to set up an organization for peaceful uses of atomic energy. Russia’s stand and an Indian declaration opposing any “rubber stamp” label on such a conference xhrew a roadblock into efforts of the United States and Brit ain to obtain an unanimous U. N. vote on atoms-for-peace. HOUSTON—Texas Baptists interrupted their 70th * annual meeting yesterday to commend the Baylor Uni versity football coach for kicking five players off his team. ★ ★ ★ GENEVA—A Western diplomatic source reported last night the big Western Powers have decided against big new arms supplies for Israel to balance Communist arms ship ments to Egypt. The informant said the United States, Brit ain and France also have ruled out any immediate new secur ity guaranty for Israel, whose leaders have said they fear attacks from their Arab neighbors. Until Czechoslovakia en tered the Mideastern military scene with cargoes of heavy weapons for Egypt, the Western Powers had been rationing military equipment to Israel and the Arabs. ★ ★ ★ SAIGON—Premier Ngo Dinh Diem yesterday pro- 4 claimed free Viet Nam a republic and promised a new constitution within the year. Diem proclaimed himself the first president of the new republic following his overwhelming victory in the Sunday referendum that ousted former Emperor Bao Dai as chief of state. * ★ ★ ★ SYDNEY, Australia—Alan Hoad, father of Australia’s 20-year-old tennis ace, said last night his son Lewis signed an agreement in the United States to turn professional subject to the approval of his parents. ^ ifcr NEW YORK—The heads of the CIO and the AFL, Walter Reuther and George Meany, said yesterday the merger of the two into a single labor organization is all but completed. lr. '•»' ■ r fHi % mmrnf iast-W'estConcentrates On Geneva Conference >' if* J : I ^1/ f v ,. • <•* Ot'Vv' * v‘e. ARTISTIC ROCK—“The Stone Head,” by Emily Japhet, was rented from the Art Rental Show of the Contemporary Arts Association at Houston by students of the Landscape Design Class. The piece of sculpture will be on display in Room 317 in the Agricultural Engineering Building until Dec. 10. Club Aid Requests Should Be Finished Technical and departmental clubs and societies have until Tuesday, Nov. 1, to get in requests to W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, business manager Great Issues’ Extra Burgess To Speak Nov. 4 While he is here for the ob servance of Fall Military Day, Car ter L. Burgess, Assistant Secretary of State for Manpowei’, Personnel and Reserve, will speak at a Great Issues’ Extra. The program will be held Nov. 4 at 8 p.m. in the ballroom of the Memorial Student Center. Fall Military Day, for which there will be a Corps Review, the football game between A&M and Southern Methodist University, and a large number of visiting dignitaries, will tie Nov. 5. Burgess received his present po sition by a recess appointment by pwight D. Eisenhower, President of the nation, on Sept. 20, 1954. He was sworn in Sept. 24 of that year, and received Senate confirm ation on Dec. 2, 1954. Born at Roanoke, Va., on Dec. 31, 1916, he holds a bachelor of arts degree from the Virginia Military Institute, graduating in 1939. Prior to World War II, he was with a New York insurance company and then with a printing and manufac turing company in Virginia. Rose to Colonel During the war, Burgess rose from a second lieutenant in the army to a colonel, serving in vari ous capacities, including aide de camp to chief of staff, European Forces; assistant secretary of gen eral staff, AFHQ (North Africa); assistant secretary, general staff, SHAFF (Europe); and administra tive secretary at the Casablanca Conference in 1943. From 1945 to 1946, he was spe-' cial assistant to the assistant sec- Ur-V r r n> * TWm& HI,*:* h ONLY 75 CENTS—Mrs. Janice Cocke, wife of Aggie track- /nan Bill Cocke, makes a sale of one of the new Student Directories, published by Student Publications at A&M. Mrs. Cocke will be back in the MSC today by the Post Office * entrance, in case anyone wishes to buy the yellow-covered 75 cent directory. The books also can be bought in the Student Publications Office in Goodwin Hall. retary of state in charge of ad ministration. He was deputy ex ecutive secretary of the Interna tional Secretariat at the United Conference at San Francisco in 1945. Other positions held by Burgess have been with Trans-World Air lines and General Airline and Film Corporation. In 1953 he became assistant to- the president of the University of South Carolina. Dur ing this time he served as consult ant to the President on White House staff organization and on Cabinet and staff organization, consultant to the Senate Ai’med Services Committee on Title IV of the National Defense Act, and con sultant to the Under-Secretary of State on staff organization. He was also acting staff diretcor of the Secretary of Defense Commit tee on Fiscal Organization and was, also acting staff director of State’s Public Committee on Per sonnel. At present Burgess is a mem ber of the Board of Governors, American Red Cross, and a member of the Board of Directors, United Service Organizations, Inc. He has been awarded the Legion of Merit, French Legion d’Honneur, and Croix de Guerre and the Brit ish Order of the British Empire. An interest sidelight to Aggies is the fact that he has five daugh ters. It is not known, however, whether any of them will be here Nov. 4 and 5. Corps Will Change To Winter Uniform Effective at the Monday morn ing breakfast formation, the wool en uniform with ties will be the prescribed uniform of the day. Prior to Monday, winter uni forms are optional after the even ing meal formation, Sundays, so cial occasions and when off the campus. Field jackets and short coats are authorized for wear in formations, but they must be uniform through out the units—either all field jack ets or all short coats. of Student Activities, in order to qualify for club aid this year. The office is located on the sec ond floor of Goodwin Hall, and is open from 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. Forms, which may be picked up at the Student Activities Office, will not be accepted after the deadline, Hardesty said. Funds are available from Ex change Store profits, which may be used by eligible clubs to help defray expenses of deligates on tournament trips, speakers brought to A&M for meetings, and rental of technical films. The club aid program will pay one-half of the cost; the club or society must furnish the rest. About $4,000 was spent last year in aiding 33 technical and depart mental clubs with their programs, Hai’desty said. More funds, be sides those given by the Exchange Store, will be available for aid from the Student Activities De partment. After the request forms are fill ed out and returned to the office, they are processed by Hardesty. Funds will be readily available if the total amount requested by all of the clubs does not exceed the total money available in the club aid progrem. If the total asked for exceeds that which is available, Hardesty will make a blanket per centage deduction from all of the requests. This program was begun about 10 years ago, and since its begin ning* has helped send Aggies to cities in almost every part of the nation, besides helping at the pro grams held here on the campus. Foreign Ministers Hope Spirit Will Be Retained GENEVA—(TP)—East and West concentrated on Geneva last night to see if the spoken desire for world peace can be put into practical form. ( Both Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov and U. S Secretary of State John Foster Dulles expressed hope on their arrival that “the spirit of Geneva” created by the summit parley can be retained as the keystone in diplomatic efforts to reduce East-West friction. In spite of their hopeful comments, the two diplomats spelled out differences of opinion. Dulles said his delegation would work hard to carry out the Big Four aim of handling the closely linked problems of “German reunification and European security. He men tioned these in that order. In his equally careful de scription of the objectives, Molotov listed European security first, Germany second and disar mament third. British Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan observed merely that the fox*eign ministers were meeting to take up the wox*k started by the heads of state. He offered “a prayer to px*ovidence that we may succeed.” Fx*ance’s. Foreign Minister An toine Pinay, embroiled in his na tion’s multiple worries over rebel lious Moi’occo and Algeria, the Saar’s upsetting pro-German vote and the possibility of his own gov- enxment facing a vote of confi dence, came late. Facing the Big Four were these basic problems: 1. European security and reuni fication of divided Germany. 2. Woxdd disarmament. 3. Tx*ade and cultural exchange between East and West. Ci*eeping into the picture were last minute developments the coxx- fex*ence may have to deal with before it closes, pimbably in three weeks. One of these issues is an Isi'aeli complaint that the Soviet Union is supplying ax*ms to Egypt Chest Budget Includes Youth Project Aids (Ed. note: This is the sec ond in a series of articles on the agencies which will bene fit from your contribution to the A&M College-College Sta tion Community Chest-Red Cross Drive to be held Oct. 31 to Nov. 12.) The College Station Youth Ac tivities Council was founded in 1945 by the Kiwanis Club and the City Council. Funds wex*e appi'o- pidated by the Community Chest, and a constitution was set up stat ing the aim of the committee to be work “in the interest of the youth of College Station.” Since this time, the committee has helped with improvements on Kiwanis park, provided local schools with many kinds of equip ment, and their latest project, pro vided Lincoln School with a lighted softball park. The last project was completed with $1,000 alloted to the commit tee by the Chest last yeax*, and the balance on hand in the bank Weather Today Forecast is pax*tly cloudy today with a cold front expected some time tomorrow. Temperature at 10:30 a.m. was 76 degi'ees. Yes- teiday’s high of 80 degrees drop ped to 55 degrees last night. Unexpected expenses were taken ] throu ^ h satellit e Czechoslovakia, cai’e of when four of the commu nity’s Negro citizens, Eddie Chew, W. A. Tarrow, Joe Payton and Sam Kerney obtained a loan from the College Station State Bank at their own expense. About $140 is needed to pay the debt for the project, which was the center of activity for that section of the city this past summex*, ac- coi’ding to all reports. Another $60 is needed for improvements axxd pui'chase of equipment. The Youth Committee will re ceive $200 of the Chest’s $12,000 budget. (This series will continue tomor- x*ow with a summary of the activi ties of the College Station Com munity Center Inc.) Civilian Students Have Aggie Spirit The Aggie Spirit seems to be spi*eading mox*e and more to the civilian students here in Aggie- land. The fii'st evidences of the grow ing spirit were the raising of signs on Milner and Law Halls. It seems now that it has spread to another dorm. Students passing Hart Hall couldn’t help but notice the sign which the non-regs in that dorm had raised Sunday night. At a meetings of the civilian students in that dorm last week, they decided to erect a sign to show that they too had the Aggie Spirit and were backing the team all the way. Each non-reg in Hai’t ag*reed to pay a snxall fee to pay for ei*ecting the sign each week. The sign was drawn this week by Dave Ashci’oft and Joe Bob Walkex*, architecture students in Hart Hall. Who’s Who Closes Monday Morning Monday is the last day that nom inations for this years Who’s Who will be accepted. Candidates must have at least a 1.5 grade point i*atio and be a classified junior or senior. The registrar’s office will be the final authox-ity as to classification and grade point ratio. The nominees will be chosen on the basis of popularity, leadership and participation in activities at A&M. Students shoxxld turn in the en- tii*e first and last names and the Extension Staff Will Confer With Specialist Mary Louise Collings, chief. Personnel Training* Branch, Extension Research and Training Division of the Uni ted States Department of Ag- ricultui’e in Washington, will be here Nov. 3-9, to woi’k with mem bers of the Agricultural Extension Seiwice staff. The Extension Service has been in annual confex*ence on the A&M campus since Oct. 21 and will con tinue to Nov. 4. Miss Collings will wox*k with the extension administi’ative staff and Kate Adele Hill, studies and train ing leader, in reviewing the train ing program for county extension agents in Texas. She also will as sist with planning a study on the effectiveness of a daily newspaper column in getting information to homemakers. Dr. Ruth M. Levex*ton, assistant director of the Oklahoma Agricul tural Experiment Station, will open Thursday’s px*ogram with the top- “Food for Health.” Di\ Lev- erton, who is listed in American Men of Science and Who’s Who in Education, is an outstanding auth ority in the field of food and nu trition. “A Healthy Home Fits the Family,” will be discussed by Frank Robex*tson, px*esident of the Texas Lion’s League for Crippled Children in Keriwille. Basil D. Abney, and Bess Roth man of Volk Brothers in Dallas, will relate clothing to health in their presentation of “Feet Fii’st.” Concluding the progi'am on Thxxrsday afternoon, Paul Cain of the Cain Oi’ganization, Inc. in Dal las will discuss “Healthy Public Relations.” CSC Will Meet In Center Tonight The Civilian Student Council will meet tonight in the Senate Chaxxx- bers of the Memorial Student Cen ter, to discuss the adoption of a constitution. Also on the agenda is discussion about an assistant civilian chaplain, civilian-coi'ps football game, nonxi- nations for Who’s Who, letter jack ets being wox*n by civilians and col lecting magazines for McCloskey General Hospital in Temple. Degree Deadline Tuesday is the deadline for stu dents graduating this semester to apply for a degree. A formal ap- middle initial of their nominees; no I plication must be made out at the “nick-names”. Registrar’s office before this date. Senior Ring Orders Monday is the last day Senior Rings may be ordered for delivery before the Christmas holidays. Any student with 95 hours or more may purchase the ring. Orders may be placed with the x*ing clei’k in the Registrar’s Office from 8 a.m. to 12 noon Tuesday thi*ough Satur day. Wk Carter L. Burgess Gi*eat Issues Speaker For Nov. 4