Battalion
Number 165: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1956
Price Five Cents
Israeli And Jordanian Gunfire
Blazes Out In Holy City Streets
IT HAPPENS EVERY FALL—Workmen are pictured putting down an electrical con
duit system on Nagle Street. The system will serve the new Dairy and Biochemistry
Building.
Junior College Conference
To Convene Here Monday
The 13th annual Junior College
Conference will be held Monday
and Tuesday in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Leading educators and college
leaders from, the Southwest will
participate.
Howard Payne College Presi
dent Guy Newman will deliver the
kick-off address Monday morning.
He will talk on “Higher Educa
tion and Its Outlook.”
Dr. Robert B. Kamm, dean of
the Basic Division and Student
Personnel Services, will welcome
the conference members to the
campus.
Presiding over the general as
sembly session will be Joe N. Ger
ber. Gerber is dean of Stephen
F. Austin State Teachers College
in Nacogdoches.
Discussions groups will high
light the afternoon sesisons. The
discussions will be divided in two
phases.
One will emphasize agriculture
and the other engineering. R. C.
AIIE Chooses Two
Engr. Councilmen
Gerald Leighton, and Gerald
Kramer were named senior and
junior representatives respectively
to the Engineering Council by the
American Institute of Industidal
Engineers at their business meet
ing Tuesday night.
Other business at the meeting
included naming Harry Moore as
membership- committee chairman;
Louis Lavergne, program chairman
and Bill Johnson/publicity chair
man.
The possibility of organizing an
auxilliary club for wives of mar
ried members was discussed. A re
port will be given at the next
meeting.
Members voted to continue con-
structing Christmas toys for
under priviledged children in the
area. The program, started last
year.
Comm. Chest
Co-chairmen
Named In CS
Bob H. Reed and Dr. John H.
Milliff were appointed co-chairmen
of the 1956-57 College Station
Community Chest Drive today by
Mayor Ernest Langford.
Milliff, Reed and Langford will
meet soon to appoint the members
of the drive’s board of directors.
The meeting will be held upon
Reed’s return from Boston where
he is attending- a meeting. This
will be Thursday or Friday, Lang
ford said.
Reed, who lives at 212 S. Mun-
nerlyn St., is the head of the ar
chitecture research program in
the Engineering Extension Service.
Dr. Milliff, 400 Hensel Dr., is
head of the department of Veter
inary Anatomy.
Date of the drive, budget and
other decisions will be left to the
board of directors, Langford said.
The 1955-56 Community Chest
Drive was the first to exceed its
goal in many years.
Potts, assistant dean of agricul
ture, will head the agriculture dis
cussion group.
Speakers for the agriculture
group include Dr. H. O. Kunkel of
the animal husbandl y and biochem
istry and nutrition departments.
Panel discussions will make up
the rest of the agricultural group’s
program.
J. G. McGuire, assistant to the
dean of engineering will preside
at the engineering discussion.
A dinner for the delegates will
be held in the MSC Monday night.
Speaker at the dinner will be
M. L. Wardell, professor of his
tory at University of Oklahoma.
Wardell’s topic w-ill be “Interna
tional Relations”. C. H. Ransdell
of the Basic Division will preside
at the dinner.
A series of brief talks are listed
for Tuesday morning. Discussion
periods follow each talk.
Chairman of the Tuesday morn
ing- program will be W. J. Adkins
president of Laredo Junior Col
lege.
Ransdell will be general chair
man for the conference and chair
man of the junior college relations
committee.
Grady St. Clair, dean of Del Mar
Junior College in Corpus Christi,
is chairman of the advisory com
mittee.
Babe Zaharias
Dies of Cancer
In Galveston
BULLETIN
GALVESTON—UP) - Famed
woman athlete Mrs. Mildred
Didrikson (Babe) Zaharias,
died this morning; at 6:20
in John Sealy Hospital of can
cer.
Known the world over as “the
greatest woman athlete of all
times” she had slipped into a coma
last night and died peacefully this
morning.
Attended by her husband, George
Zaharias, constantly for the past
few weeks he said last night “This
is it. There is no more antidote.
It is life and death and I hope
God will be merciful and take her
soon. She is suffering.”
Hospital officials said that the
42-year old Mrs. Zaharias was ex-
treinely weak, but when awake
she recongized friends and her
family until the time she went into
the coma.
Culminating a 3-year battle
against the dread disease Babe
Didrikson Zaharias fought cancer
with the same fortitude and wise-
craks that made her internationally
famous for her feats in any sport
she ever tided.
The Babe, as she was known to
millions of fans, won’t be forgotten
as long as records are kept. She
starred in every sport she tried,
and had fun doing it. To her,
prodigious accomplishment was
commonplace.
Daughter of a Norwegian ship’s
carpenter who , settled at Port
Arthur she starred in track, basket
ball, swimming, diving, lacrosse,
billiards, baseball and what have
you but, golf gave her the greatest
fame.
Brief But Bloody Result
Of 7-Hour Night Battle
JERUSALEM—UP)—Israeli and Jordan soldiers blazed
out with new bursts of automatic gunfire in divided Jeru
salem last night.
The city fighting was a brief but noisy aftermath of
the bloody 7-hour overnight battle touched off by an Israeli
reprisal invasion of Jordan. That battle ended yesterday
morning.
U.N. truce observers quickly ordered a cease-fire in the
Jerusalem clash last night. Both sides obeyed immediately.
No casualties were reported.
Jordan authorities have hinted at a massive Arab coun
tercampaign if the LT. N. Security Council fails to stop raids
♦'such as the Israeli incursion
2*4 niiles inside Jordan.
Jordan Captain
Relates Story
Of Night Attack
Veterans Asked
To Sign Now
For Pay Period
Veterans attending school
under the G.I. Bill for both
World War II and Korean con
flict are urged to sign up for
this months’ pay period, ac
cording to B. A. Zinn, veteran’s
advisor.
Deadline for applying- for checks
and receiving them on time is 4
p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4.
Last year’s figures show 1,024
veterans were attending A&M as
of Nov. 4, 1955. Total figures for
this year are not complete as there
are still a few who have not ap
plied for benefits. Estimates are
that the total will be about the
same as 1955.
Students who transferred from
other schools and those who at
tended A&M last year must re
apply at the Veterans’ Office be
fore they will receive their sub-
sisfance checks from the VA, Zinn
Warned..
The Office of the Veteran’s Ad
visor is located on the ground
floor of the YMCA adjoining the
Housing Office.
Civilian Filings
Close Tomorrow
Filings for representatives to the
Civilian Student Council will close
at noon Friday, according to Bennie
A. Zinn, head of Department of
Student Affairs
“Civilians from each class will
elect one representative in the
voting Monday,” Zinn said. “The
civilian freshmen elected William
M. Hewitt as their representative
when they were here for New Stu
dent Week.”
Those wishing to file for the
posts should contact their house
masters or counselors Friday, he
said. The candidates will be check
ed for religibility and their names
placed on ballots to be distributed
Monday.
One representative each will be
elected by sophomores, juniors
seniors and the group including
graduate students and fifth or
sixth year men.
43 Students Quit
Housing Off. Says
Forty-three students called it
“quits” and left A&M after a week
and a day of classes, according to
a housing office report.
“Of those who withdrew as of
Tuesday morning, 35 were in the
Corps and 'nine were civilians, 1
said Bennig A. Zinn, head of stu -j y es terday he is an honorary
Nixon Stumps
For Moderation
In Court Ruling
HOUSTON — (7P) — Vice
President Richard Nixon said
There was intensive consul
tation in Arab country capi
tals and at the U.N. Syria’s
Premier Sabri Assali said in Da
mascus a general conference of
all Arab country heads of state
was being considered.
Jordan acknowledged 31 Jor
dan .soldiers were slain and re
ported 90 to 100 Israelis killed in
the hand-to-hand fight that raged
into the early morning.
Israel announced the overnight
attacks as a self-defense measure
intended to discourage Jordan at
tacks, and said its figures wei’e
50 Jordanians killed, 5 Israelis
killed, and 9 Israelis wounded.
Jordan sources said the biigade-
strength Israeli attack was sup
ported by artillery.
But the Israeli major who led
the asault said no artillery or
mortars were used by his force in
smashing a fortress - type police
post and ambushing Jordan troops
that swarmed to the spot.
A Joi-dan army spokesman de
nied reports that the Arab Legion
counter-attacked Israel at dawn to
day.
BAGHDAD, Iraq, — The
Iraqi army last night was reported
ready to move across the Jordan
frontier if the latest Israeli attacks
on Jordan developed into war.
Jordan’s Foreign Minister Awni
Abdel Hadi arrived in Baghdad by
air late yesterday and immediately
went into session with Premier
Nuri Said. Their talks may deter
mine whether the time has come
for Iraq to send troops to the aid
of Jordan.
dent Affairs Department.
Civilian students leaving were
three freshmen, four juniors, a
sophomore and a special student.
In the Corps, 32 freshmen and
three sophomores left Zinn said
Zinn says a complete report on
housing changes, including students
who have left school and students
who have changed their status
from military to civilian or civilian
to military, will be issued early
next week.
Saturday Last Day
Last day for dropping cour
ses without a failing grade of
“F” is Saturday. Up until that
time students may withdraw
from courses with a grade of
WP.
Weather Today
Flowers For
Stolen Car
COFFEE BREAK—The workers on Goodwin seem to be
taking- a well deserved rest after getting the asbestos layer
on the roof. No more will the rain come through—if it
ever rains.
PONT AUDEMER, France—CP>
—Robert Boisier is a traveling
man from Paris. His car was
stolen there and recovered here,
100 miles away, When Boisier
came to claim his car, he found on
the back seat a bunch of flowers
left .by the thief. Attached was a
card saying, “Say it with flowers.”
member of the National Assn
for the Advancement of Col
ored People but has “not paid dues
nor taken any part in the organi
zation’s activities.”
Nixon called for a “moderate
steady advance” in keeping with
the Supreme Court’s desegregation
ruling but cautioned against “ex
tremes on both sides.”
He said he was encouraged to
find that in the South the “moder
ate, clear - thinking people pre
vail.”
He told a press conference short
ly before leaving by plane to car
ry his 32-state campaign tour to
Springfield, Mo., that he was an
honorary member of many organi
zations.
“Any organization not advocat
ing the violent overthrow of the
government has the right to ex
press its views,” he said. “The
NAACP does not advocate the
overthrow of the government by
violence, of that I am sure.’ ’
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High, scattered clouds is today’s
forecast. Temperatui-es at 11 a.m.
was 87 degrees. High and low
yesterday were 91 degrees and 57
degrees.
Leland Attending
Accounting Meet
T. W. Leland, head of the Divi
sion of Business Administration at
A&M, is attending the annual
meeting of the American Institute
of Accountants this week in
Seattle, Wash.
Over 1,500 certified public ac
countants from over the US are at
tending the meeting where William
M. Allen, president of Boeing Air
plane Co. and Russell, C. Harring
ton, Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, head the speakers for the
five-day meeting.
Flossy Threatens
CAPE HATTERAS, N. C„ .CP)—
The tropical storm, Flossy, a weak
ened killer that showed signs of
possibly regaining hurricane for-ce,
swirled toward the coast of Vir
ginia tonight. In her wake were at
least 16 deaths, perhaps that many
missing persons, and millions of
dollars in property damage, princi
pally on the Gulf Coast.
HUSAN VILLAGE, Jordan
UP)—The little Jordan army
captain who commanded a po
lice post attacked by Israelis
with a surprise midnight
blow told his story yesterday.
“Six of my men were killed,” he
said bitterly. “I only had 30 men
in the post and they put up a des
perate fight for hours. But what
can 30 men do against a full regi
ment ?
“The enemy threw 36-pound ar
tillery and 3-inch mortar, fire at
us. They kept up a steady barrage
of fire with machine guns, bren
guns, and sten guns. We had only
light weapons.”
The captain, a veteran of six
border fights, stood in the ruins
of his police post at Shai’afa as he
described the attack. He refused
to let his name be used. “Just
call me Ismail,” he said.
The Sharafa police post sits atop
the high rock-strewn hill overlook
ing the frontier. The lights of Am
in Adan, an Israel village two
miles away, can be seen clearly.
“They launched their attack
from over there,” Ismail said,
looking toward Amin Adan. “They
started with a heavy artillery bar
rage at 7:30 and, under cover of
the barrage, infantry, mobile ar
tillery, halftracks and armored
cars moved across the border and
struck deep into our territory.
He said the Israelis finally cap
tured the post half an hour after
midnight. “Then they blew it up.”
The Israelis did an effective
job. Hardly a stone stands upon
another in what was once,a strong
post.
Range, Forestry
Plan Turkey Shoot
The A&M Range and Forestry
Club is sponsoring a “turkey shoot”
at Kyle Field Rifle Range* Nov. 19. f
to raise funds to send Its plant
identification team to the* national
contest in Great Falls, Mohtana.
Tickets are now on sale for $i
from club members, said ;Fritz
Landers, club president. ‘
Persons participating ' in the
event will fire at targets with guns
and ammunition supplied by the
club. Each entry in entitled to two
shots. Shooting is done in groups
of 10 with one man in each group
winning a turkey.
OOPS—An unidentified truck driver of a water truck
came too close to the edg-e of a 4*4 foot ditch and his truck
nosedived into the culvert at the bottom. Site of the un
fortunate incident (or accident) was the re-surfacing job
on Old Highway 6, south of Kyle Field.