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r-® yj jn| g 4 f # Ihe Mattalian Number 138: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1956 Price Five Cents Blast Destroys I Student Home; No One Hurt Fire set off by an explosion of undetermined origin com pletely demolished the resi dence and belongings of Mr. and Mrs. Don A. Keith, early Sunday morning. The fire was first discovered at 4:20 a.m., but help ari-ived too late ^ to combat the raging windswept blaze. Patrolmen flanked both sides of the roads and kept on lookers safely pushed back as the roaring flames completely engulf ed the frame construction, leaving nothing but shambles and ruined furniture as remainders of the home. Keith, who is a graduating sen ior in architectural construction, and his wife Carolyn, who is sec retary of the journalism depart- ' ment, were in Dallas visiting rel atives at the time of the fme. They are now staying in the home of William E. Street of the engineer ing drawing department. C. H. Bernard of the physics department has offered to rent the couple a completely furnished house during the summer months. The destroyed house, w h i e h belonged to Mrs. Phillip Arhos of Bryan, was located in Lake View Acres, three miles south of High way G on the Caucasian Kennel road. The sudden explosion, followed immedjately by a raging blaze, completely ravaging the dwelling, while firemen struggled vainly to curb the billowing flames. The general concensus of opinion is that if the couple had been in the house at the time of the explosion, they would not have escaped alive. The couple, who returned to find their home in shambles, said, “Were just thankful to be alive. Everyone has been so kind. I don't know what we’d have done without help." The A&M College Church of Christ has taken up a collection to aid the Keith’s. SiipremeCourtUpholds Union Shop Agreement Speculation Arises Over Influence of Government AUSTIN—UP)—The U. S. Supreme Court yesterday erased state “right to work” laws applying- to the railroad industry, and speculation flared here as to whether the de cision might open the door to union shop agreements in other fields. Justice Douglas delivered the unanimous decision in a Nebraska case, upholding a 1951 amendment of the National Railway Labor Act which authorized the railroads and labor unions to enter into union shop agreements. The tribunal’s decision left intact state laws banning uriion shops in other industries. “There is concern now whether this decision will give ♦Congress the go ahead to ex tend union shop agreements THIS WAS A HOUSE—Mr. and Mrs. Don A. Keith returned home Sunday from visiting her parents in Dallas, and found this wreck where their home in Lake View Acres had stood. An explosion of undetermined origin early Sunday morning was blamed. — (Picture by Weldon Jones, Battalion City Editor) YMCA, YWCA To Hold Meet In Oklahoma News of the World • Flash Bulbs Pop This Week In MSC News photographers and photo- joumalists from all parts of Texas are attending a short course in news photography this week in the Memorial Student Center. The short course is co-sponsored by the National Press Photograph ers Association and the Encyclo paedia Britannica. It started yes terday and will continue through 1 tomorrow. “This is the first short course conducted by the NPPA,” said Gor- den Yoder, course director and vice- president of NPPA. This session is an experiment," he added. “It could be a good basic start for the beginning news photographer.” Donald D. Burchard, head of the Journalism Department, is the local member of the planning committee. Speakers at the meetings include Texas newspaper editors, camera manufacturers’ representatives and television station technicians. The annual Classen Confer ence, sponsored by the South west Regional Student Coun cil, YMCA-YWCA, will be held June 7 at Camp Classen, ac- cording to J. Gordon Gay, general secretary of the A&M YMCA. Camp Classen, five and one-half miles southwest of Davis, Okla. covers 300 acres and is owned by the Oklahoma City YMCA. Students will study their goals and purposes in life with the theme of the conference being “Strangers Without A Cause.” Activities will include worship, Bible study, lead ership training, platform address es, and recreation. David Howell, YMCA World Service Secretary, recently return ed from Liberia, will be the even ing speaker. Dr. Waldo Beach, professor of Christian social ethics at the Divin ity School, Duke University, Dur ham, N.C., will lead the morning platforms. Bible study will be under the di rection of Dr- William Hage, pas tor of the First Presbyterian Church, Stillwater, Okla. Recreation will include swim mingy boating, sports, riding, lis tening to music, and campfires. A&M students have attended this conference for the last 40 years. Any student interested in attend ing should contact Gay at the YM CA as soon as possible. Seniors Get Refund Seniors who will graduate May 25, and live in a dormitory, can pick up $2.65 at the Cashier’s window of the Fiscal Depart ment, the Fiscal Office has an nounced. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NICOSIA, Cyprus—Cypriot reb els hiding among rioting school girls tossed bombs at British troops trying to r-estore older in Nicosia yesterday, killing one Briton and Wounding three others. Bomb splinters injured seven Greek Cy priot civilians in nearby shops, and two policemen. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—The Penta gon’s top brass played down as “eager beaver” squabbling yes terday a sudden upsurge of Army - Navy - Air Force rivalry over national defense policy. It didn’t look, however, as if any serious punishment was in store for relatively junior officers who stirred up the weekend fuss. ★ ★ ★ MARSHALL, I.—A Martinsville farmer who doesn’t like parking meters proved it last night. He smashed 33 of them on the city square and was irked at missing two others. Ronald Medsker, 30, came to Marshall in his farm truck, drove it onto the sidewalk and around the square shearing off the meters like bowling pins. it it + WASHINGTON — The House Appropriations Committee yes terday recommended an appro priation of almost 24 million dol lars for waterways projects in Texas. A $6,900,000 project for Buffalo Bayou was the largest of the 13 projects. Two others ★ ★ ★ DALLAS—Sen. Lyndon Johnson and Speaker Sam Rayburn joined yesterday in an apparent series of give-and-take trades to make sure Tuesday’s State Democratic Con vention runs smoothly and with a minimum of static. Rayburn sharply reprimanded the Democrat ic Leaders who bolted the party along with Gov. Shivers in 1952, Hillel Plans $150,000 Building Players Finish Year With Banquet; Presentations The Aggie Players showed their appreciation to director C. K. Es- ten last night as they presented him a gold wrist watch at their annual awards banquet. The banquet brought to a close what was one of the Players most successful years, according to Ted Castle, president of the group. Certificates and keys were presen ted to the members with gold keys going to Joe Dannenbaum and Bill Swann. Silver key awards went to Lari Wester, Clint White, Connie Eckard, Gene Logan, Don Fisher, Lester Cochran and Hugh Lank- tree. Roger Clark, Roy Cline, Toby Hughes, Ken George, Rocky Ar nold, Paul Ross, Ken Webb and Lee Greer also received silver keys. Certificates .of appreciation went to Ardith Melloh, Florence Dela- plane, Chris Pavelka, Maxine Kamm, Shirley Cannon, Ronald Ruth, John Kessinger, Dan Elling ton, Phil McNemer, Bill Fink, Ward Boyce, Pete Justice, Martin Brittain, Chuck Kinkaid, Bill Schroeder, Vince Giardina, Dan Ry an and James Calhoun. Jim Leissner was elected pres ident for the coming year, with Toby Hughes vice-president and Gene Logan re-elected secretary. Ken George was elected business manager and Jim Neighbors was named junior representative to the Arts and Sciences Council. The B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation of Texas A&M is actively engaged in a fund raising campaign to provide the Jewish students with a re ligious and social centersimilar in scope to the Wesley Foundation, the Newman Chib, and the Pres byterian Centers. The goal is $150,000 of which two-thirds is al ready on hand- The building will contain a sanc tuary, a library of Judaica, a semi nar for class rooms for Jewish re ligious education, a music room and a social hall for cultural meet ings which will also serve as a dining hall for Passover and other traditional holidays. There will also be indoor recrea tional facilities; but, said Mrs. Taubeuhaus, the director of the local Hillel Foundation, “The place will not be a country club.” She stressed the point that the primary purpose of the building will be for religious and cultural activities. The center will be of rockstone and glass and will be air condition ed throughout. A hedge will be erected around the south and west end of the building and all parking will be within the grounds. The building will be on Jersey and Dexter Streets, facing the A. F. drill field, one block west of the Episcopal Church. The archi tects of the building are Gabert and Wisdom who built Temple Emanu-El in Houston, one of the outstanding Jewish Temples in the Southwest. Students Are Urged To Store Bicycles Students are urged to store bi cycles and other equipment before leaving the campus for the sum mer, according to Bennie A. Zinn, head of the Department of Stu dent Affairs. The Agronomy Society is pro viding storage space in Walton Hall and Dorm -3. to other fields,” a spokesman in the attorney general’s of fice said. In Phoenix, Atty. Gen. Shep- perd commented: “By this decision the court has tightened the knot of federal in terference ... it approves forced union membership of unwilling workers, who must now join oj - go hungry.” Jeffery Holleman, executive sec retary of the Texas AFL, called the decision a “great step forward preservation of democratic union ism..” He added, in a statement, that the action “insures for the railway union members a protection in fed eral law which still is denied to other union members in Texas.” The statement also said at Dal las : “The Texas State Federation of Labor firmly believes that Con gress should extend this same pro tection to the rest of the workers in the country. “What is good for one part of the working people is good for the other. Unfair state laws, such as those of Texas which prohibit any form of union security, discrimin ate against union members under a false guise of ‘right to work.’ ” A similar case here is pending before the State Supreme Court and the attorney general’s office spokesman said yesterday’s decis ion “probably will effect the Sands- berry case.” This case involves the issue of whether the Santa Fe Railway and the unions should be prevented from signing a slosed shop agree ment. Batt Awards Given Friday At Banquet At the annual Press Club Award Banquet Friday night seven men received Battalion Awards for their help and service to the Battalion dur ing the school year. Fi*ed Hickman, chief of Campus Security; Dr. Bardin Nelson, of the Agriculture Economics and So ciology Depaztment; Staff Sgt. T. M. Buford, of the Department of Air Science; Charles E. Sulli van, of the A&M Press; Jones Ramsey, publicity director of the Athletic Department; Ross Stra der, director of Student Publica tions and Dean Robert B. Kam, dean of the Basic Division and Student Personnel Services were recipients of the annual awards. Southwestern Veterinarian Ap preciation Awards were given to Steve Andert, A&M Press com posing room foreman; Charles Schoedel, Press make-up man and Dr. R. D. Turk, head of the Veter inary Parisitology Department- Approximately 200 keys were given to students who have worked for one of the student publications. The keys were awarded by the ed itors of each of the publications. Peggy Prock, Harriet Cox, Anne Walker, Jan Turbeville, Sheila Nel son and Sarah Longquist were chosen for Vanity Fair. M. T. Harrington, chancellor of the A&M System, accepted a cash award on behalf of the Battalion for the third place prize won by the paper in the Lumbermens Mu tual Casualty Company’s Safe Driving Day contest. W. F. Bran denburg, of Lumbermens Mutual, presented a check for $100 to Har rington who in turn gave the check to Bill Fullerton, editor of the Bat talion and master of ceremonies of the banquet. President, Deans Reception Repeat Because of the success of the “President and Dean’s Reception” held Parent’s Day weekend, a sim ilar affair will be held immedi ately following the commencement services Friday evening, May 25. The reception, which is for the purpose of honoring graduates, their wives, parents and friends will again be held in the Ballroom of the Memorial Student Center. Coach Loeffler Speaks On Immaturity (Ed. Note: The following speech, minus the opening ad dress, was given by Coach Ken Loeffler at the Senior Banquet Saturday evening.) “In the next few weeks, over the entire country, college graduating classes will be bombarded with ad vice. Politicians will be telling them of their future responsibilities in the political world. “Business and financial wizards will be expounding on the formu las of success in the making of money, sounding the theme of free enterprise and aggressive individ ualism. Scientists will mount the platform and urge the entry into specialized fields and the search for the unknown and the Military will warn of the dangers that awnit if the Russian Bear forges to the front in the race of instruments for human destruction. “You will have your fill of this information so I would prefer to spend a short time this evening on an examination of the greatest in strument of human destruction— ‘The Immature Mind.’ “Yes, the immature mind as rep resented by one who grows to phy sical maturity but remains a child emotionally. May we refer to him as the ADULT INFANTA LIST ? We must deal with this carefully, for many of us who look grown-up on the outside may be childish on the inside. Remember the little boy who said, ‘My Dad would be bigger than your Dad if his sus penders didn’t hold him down?’ And conversely, manj^ who look childish on the outside may be surprisingly mature on the inside. ‘Mankind,’ wrote Alfred North Whitehead ‘is now in one of its rare moods of shifting its outlook —the mere compulsion of tradition has lost its force. It is the business of philosophers, students, engineers and other practical men to recreate a new vision of the world—a world conservative and radical—a world including those elements of both reverence and order without which society lapses into a riot!’ “This vision must be penetrated through and through with unflinch ing rationality, and you as grad uates will be called upon to create it. This can only be done with a mature mind. Side by side in Congress, faculty meetings, citizens meetings, coach ing staffs and board of directors meetings, we encounter the mature and the immature. I am reminded by the congressman who tried to imitate Lincoln in his every manner and dress. Coming out his dooi in Washington one morning, he looked thoughtfully and majestically up and down the street and then strode toward the halls of Congress in a manner he thought befitting only the great Lincoln. “Whereupon from across the street, from an understanding col league came the audible comment— ‘Look at him, he hopes someone will assassinate him.’ “Yes, many are criteria of the immature, the adult infantalist. While attending the U. of Pitt Law School, I was the basketball coach in a little western Pennsylvania college nearby- One of my teams had defeated the nationally famous Long Island L 7 niversity team of New York, giving them their first loss they had had in seven years on their home court. “To compound this felony, the next night the same group of boys defeated the equally famous City College five of New York. Need less to say the little western Penn sylvania College town was enthu- siasfic over the accomplishment of this small group of students and reacted naturally—that is all ex cept the college prexy and a psy chology professor who were enthu siastic only for college prexies and psychology professors. “Upon my return to the campus several days later, I was called into the prexy’s office and without men tioning the fine perfovraance of the team, the kindly prexy told me I must surely be working the boys too hard because some of them were sleeping in a certain psychol ogy class. I found later that others than athletes did their sleeping in that same class. “But wait—adult infantalism is not alone peculiar to the collegiate sphere. Any business organization of any size is filled with executives, junior and otherwise, who spend a great part of their time in telling their counterparts what terrific jobs they are doing, lavishing senseless meaningless praise on other little children like themselves. I think this group is commonly re ferred to as ‘The Mutual Adoration Society’ and they belong to the 13- year-old ‘Praise Response Bracket.’^- “During the last war, a friend of mine, a highly successful business. man and a trustee of Cornell Uni- PARTLY CLOUDY versity, felt he should contribute to Partly cloudy with winds from the war effort. After the required the south is forecasted for College processing, he was commissioned Station today. Yesterday’s high and sent to Washington to head and low were 89 degrees and 67 de- the Middle East Intelligence branch grees. Temperature at 10:30 this (SeeLOEFFLER SPEAKS, Page2) morning was 84 degrees. Civic Assn. Clean-Up Under Way Trucks picked up trash in the South Side of College Sta tion yesterday, and are expect ed to move to east and north parts of the city today. The occasion is the College Station Civic Association’s (formerly the College Station Development Association and Chamber of Commerce) seven teenth b i-a n n u a 1 city-wide Clean-Up Drive. The City of College Station is donating trucks and drivers to pick up trash deposited by residents, who are urged by the Civic Association to “use this opportunity to clean up our city for summer.” “We will try to get all trash left over in all the areas to morrow,” said Ran Boswell, College Station city manager, who is directing the drive. “We hope, however, that ev eryone gets their trash out on the right day.” Coach Ken Loeffler Weather Today BA Will Become Division Sept. 1 The Department of Business Ad ministration will become the Divis- ! ion of Business Administration, ef- ; fective Sept. 1, according to W. H- j Delaplane, dean of Arts and S«i- ences. The records of all students ma- I joring in business administration j will be transferred from the dean's I office to the business administra tion office in Francis Hall some time in August. Students who have counseling problems or stu dents who are transferring to BA are advised to counsel directly with the head of that division thereafter. These students may also consult with him now if they need counsel ing.