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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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.
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Carter L. Burgess
Gi*eat Issues Speaker For Nov. 4