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The Battalion Number 56: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1955 Price 5 Cents Final Prepa ra lions On First SCOA A Now Being Made Finishing touches for A&M’s first “Little Geneva,” the Student Conference on National Affairs scheduled here Dec. 14-17, are be ing put on by workers on the SCONA Committee, headed by John W. Jenkins. The conference will draw to A&M delegates from colleges and universities in the Southwest with experts in foreign affairs from government, industry and education on hand to guide the discussions. So far 105 delegates representing 44 schools in 15 states and Mexico have accepted invitations to attend the conference. Some of the dele gates will have to come a long .distance; for example, West Point, Air Force Academy, Mexico City College, Missouri University, Ken tucky University, University of Mexico, and others. Principal speaker's for SCON A will be Lamar Fleming Jr., chair man of the Board, Anderson, Clay ton & Co.; Thruston B. Morton, assistant Secretary of State; and, tentatively, Ogden Reid, publisher, New York Herald-Tribune.' The Conference Faculty will in clude State Department personnel, instructors from the Air War Col lege and the Army War College, professors from five Southwestern universities, a foreign news anal yst from a leading Texas newspa per, a university vice-president, Lederle Veterinary 4wards Announced The 1955 Lederle Veterinary Hedical Students Research Schol- Irships have been ' awarded to James R. Pearce and Beryl' Cline, according to Dr. Mark Welch, Ani mal Industry Consultant for Led erle Laboratories. The scholarships, amounting to $1,000 for each accredited veteri nary school in the United States and Canada, are designed to com bat a shortage of well-trained re search workers in the field. Pearce and Cline ar - e both sen ior veterinary medicine students at A&M and both are from Bryan. Student Senate To Meet Tonight The Student Senate will meet in the Senate Chamber of the MSC tonight at 7:30 p.m. Included on the agenda of the meeting will be a discussion on the partial refund of physical edu cation fees and the 12th Man Bowl Scholarship. head of Social Sciences at West Point, a congressman on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and a former assistant Secretary of State. A complete list of names will be announced later. These men will be serving as round-table chairmen, advisor, pan el speakers and roving observers. The conferees will divide into six round-tables which will meet four times during the conference. Delegates from visiting schools will have all expenses paid while on the campus, and those traveling by air will have one-half of their air travel paid by the conference budget. The cost of SCONA is approxi mately $12,000, which was financ ed by 15 corporations, individuals, banks and foundations in Texas. Federal Education Aid ‘Indicated,’ Says Labor A-m mm John Scott Speaks Tonight On Latin America 7:.‘>0 In Student Center TIME Staffer To Speak John Scott, assistant to the pub lisher of Time Magazine, will de liver an address here tonight based on his observations during a recent extended tour of South and Central America. The talk, entitled “Prosperity and Poverty in Latin America,” will be given at 7:30 in the ballroom of the Memorial Student Center. The distinguished speaker, correspon dent and commentator, will speak under the auspices of the A&M Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi jour nalism fraternity. Admission is free, and all A&M students, staff members and the public are invited to attend the program. Scott has just recently returned from a four-month fact finding tour of South America and Europe. He brings to his listeners knowl edge gained from many years abroad. He worked for moi'e than eight years inside the Soviet Union, and for more than seven years in Germany, France, Britain, the Bal kans and the Middle East. He first joined Time in 1941, filing dispatches from Japan. A year later he became contributing editor for the magazine in New York. In 1943, he covered the State Department for Time in Washington, D.C., and later that year he was sent to London and then to Stockholm to be chief of the Time-Life bureaus there until 1945. He was in Europe until 1948 and then in New York. In 1951 he was editor for Time, Inc., on a secret Air Force project pro duced by the March of Time. For the past four years, he has been in his present job doing as signments which have taken him all over the world. Scott worked for five years in the Soviet Union in industrial plants there. In 1937, the year of the great purge in Russia, he, along with thousands of other foi'- eigners, was foroed from his job. He told about his life there in his first book (1942), “Beyond the Urals.” He has written three other books, “Duel for Europe,” “Emx>pe in Revolution,” and his most recent one published this year, “Political Warfare.” He remained on in Moscow as a correspondent for a news agency, and in 1940 and 1941 he took two long trips through the Balkans, the Middle East and Asiatic Russia, writing reports which attracted at tention in many countries. Two weeks before the German attack on Russia, the Soviet authorities ex pelled him from .the country for “slandei'ing” Soviet foreign policy and “inventing” reports of Soviet- German friction. At this time he left the country for good, went to Japan, and shortly aftei’wai’ds joined the staff of Time. Trend Not Reflection Of Conference Views Washington, (JP)—A caucus of labor delegates to the White House Education Conference said last night that the indicated trend among conference participants was “for gen eral federal aid to education.” However, Joseph Kusaila, conference press chief, imme diately declared that, “This expression of labor views in no way reflects the views of the White House Conference.” General aid would include assistance for school operating costs, including teachers’ salaries and purchase of text books as well as for school construction. The school aid question came up after the conference accepted a report saying few states seem ready to meet their ‘ ♦'school building needs for the five years ahead. This is true even though no state has demonstrated it couldn’t raise the money, said a I’eport drafted after discussions among the delegates. Foi'ty - eight laboi* representa tives, members of the AFL, CIO railroad brotherhoods and United Mine Workers, said in a statement after the caucus that polls of the 48 discussion tables they attended showed 250- delegates -favored gen eral federal aid and 169 opposed it. The labor group is plugging for such aid. Conference participants total about 1,800. They sit at 166 round tables. Thei'e are about 100 labor delegates in all. Carl Megel, pres ident of the AFL American Federa tion of Teachers, told reportei's the labor delegates have “no procedure outlined at the moment” to push for a conference declaration in fa vor of federal aid. (From our ai’ea two men are attending the conference — A&M Chancellor M. T. Harrington and George Adams of Bryan.) Graduate Lecture Tonight (Cancelled The graduate lecture plan ned tonight with Prof. M. S. Sundaram as speaker has been cancelled. Sundaram, ed ucational and cultural coun selor, Embassy of India, Wash ington, D.C., has been ordered by his doctor not to make the trip due to illness. Dr. Ide P. Trotter, dean of the Graduate School, said the lecture by Sundaram will be rescheduled for sometime next February. Weather Today RAIN Foi’ecast for College Station area is continued cloudy and rain with possible fog. No change in tem perature foreseen. Yesterday’s high of 42 degrees dropped to 37 degrees early this morning. Tem- pei'ature at 10:30 a.m. was 41. Next Tuesday Night Town Hall Presents Pianists A&M’s fifth Town Hall attrac tion of the year will bring the Philharmonic Piano Quartet to White Coliseum Tuesday night at 8:30. The Quai’tet consists of two women and two men, who in their own rights are piano virtuosos. They are Gisela Richter, Moi'eland Kortkamp, Emmet Yokes and Hei’- bert Rogers. They bring to A&M an especially prepared, varied program which will range through a program of classics and light music, arrange- mfents of moderns and masters. All four pianists studied at New York’s Juilliard School of Music and have given successful individ ual concerts. As a Quartet they have recorded two albums for Co lumbia Masterworks. In' addition to their recitals, they have played at New York’s Lewisohn Stadium, Denver’s Red Rocks, and the Roxy Theatre in New York. Gisela Richter was born in Ber lin, Germany, and began her musi cal studies at the age of five in Basle, Switzerland. She was a scholarship student at De Paul Uni versity in Chicago- where she stud ied with Katja Andy and Sergei Tarnowsky. She was a three-time recipient of G. Schirmer scholar ships and twice won the Leopold Schepp Foundation Award while attending Juilliard School in New York. Moreland Kortkamp was born in Alton, Ill., but reared in California where she began her piano studies at the age of nine. She won the Southern California Allied Arts Contest two times and a six-year scholarship at the Juilliard Grad uate School. After graduation she tom-ed North Africa and Italy as a member of a concert group. Emmet Yokes is a former stu dent of Anton Rovinsky in New Jersey, his home, and Frances Mann while at the Juilliard School. Recently he worked with Beveridge Webster and Sascha Gorodnitzky. He won the Olga Samaroff Award and Frank Damrosch Award at Juilliard. Herbert Rogers also studied at Juilliard and is a native Texan. He has been a soloist with the symphony orchestras of Houston, Dallas, SMU, Wichita Falls and Juilliard. He won the famous Dea- ley Award while in Dallas and holds the International Recording Prize of the National Guild of Piano Teachei*s. Moritz Bomhard is the official musical arranger for the Quartet and -at present is director of the Kentucky Opera Association in MORE FOOTBALL—Steve Long, commanding officer of Squadron 2, mashes in a tack on a poster advertising the 12th Man Bowl Football game which will be played on Kyle Field Dec. 15. Tickets are 50 cents and can be pur chased from outfit and dormitory athletic officers. Prof its support the 12th Man Scholarship fund and the Stu dent Aid Fund. Work-Out Rooms Open To Students Several of the work-out rooms in the new addition to G. Rollie White Coliseum are now open to students other than those now tak ing physical education, according to C. E. Tishler, head of the Phy sical Education Depaitment. Any student who pays the re quired P.E. fee may use the P.E. unifoi’ms, which are provided by the department, any time the lock er room is open. The locker room and work-out rooms are open from 8 a.m. until 9:30 p.m., Monday through Friday; 8 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. on Saturday; and 1 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. on Sunday. Russian Movie Set For Guion Friday A Russian movie of the agricul tural exposition now being held in Moscow, will be shown at 4 p.m tomorrow in Guion hall. Congressman Olin Teague of College Station, who recently re turned from a tour of Europe and the U.S.S.R., obtained the color picture with English narration. “I, personally, had the opportun ity to see the exposition within the past month and thought everyone interested in seeing what Russia is doing in the agricultural field, said D. W. Williams, vice-chancel lor for agriculture of the A&M System. Teague and Williams will be available for any questions follow ing the film. The public is invited Louisville, Ky., and of a success ful TV opera series there. A com poser in his own right, Bomhard has to his credit two symphonies, a suite for strings and a score to Sean O’Casey’s play, “Red Roses for Me.” The doors will open at 7:30 p.m. and admission will be by Town Hall season tickets or individual tickets. General admission tickets will be $1 for students and $2 for rion- (See TOWN HALL, Page 2) Election Filings Running Slow; End Wednesday Filings for freshman class officers and the student sen ator from the senior class have been going slow accord ing to the Office of Student Activities. Only seven students have flled for office, so fai’, and of these all were from the freshman class. So far no senior has filed for the senator’s office. The filings will close at 5 p.m. Dec. 7. Interested students may file any time between the hours of 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Office of Student Activities on the second floor of Goodwin Hall. Offices open for filing are pres ident, vice - president, recording secretary, social secretary, report er, treasurer and pai’liamentarian, and five members of the election commission. These are all open to the freshman class. One senator from the senior class will also be chosen in this election. Qualifications are that the stu dent be a member of the freshman class in the case of freshman offi cers and a member of the senior class in the case of the senator. All students filing must have a 1.0 grade point ratio. These elections will be held Dec. 14 in the MSC election booth. Dr. Banks Speaks For Symposium Dr. W. C. Banks, professor of veterinai’y radiology, A&M College was to speak today at a one-day symposium sponsored by the Amer- can Veterinary Radiology Society at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago. Banks, president of the A.V.R.S., will be one of eight medical au thorities describing how atomic radiology, X-ray and roentgen therapy' are used in veterinary medicine. He will speak on the use of radioactive cobalt in cancer treatment. PHILHARMONIC PIANO QUARTET — The stars who will appear on the Town Hall pre sentation Tuesday night are, top, left to right, Moreland Kortkamp and Gisella Richter; bottom, left to right, Emmett Yokes and Herbert Rogers.