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' 1 18,440 READERS THE Student Senate Meets Tonite Number 239: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1957 Price Five Cents Resigned James E. Rep. Cox May Run Again Claims Friends Support For Campaign In Future CONROE, Tex.—State Rep. James E. Cox, who resigned after being indicted for agreeing to accept a $5,000 bribe, said tonight he “would seek re-election if my friends wanted me to do so.” “Lots of my friends have come to me and want me to seek re-election,” he said in an interview. Cox said newsmen had misquoted him as saying that 85 per cent of the legislators have taken payoffs in some manner. “I did not say that about the payoffs and I did not say anything about that $100,” Cox said. He also had been reported by some news services as —♦stating that a member of the Off the Cuff What Goes On Here Not being satisfied with his own license plate bearing the score of the 1956 A&M-TU football score of Topped Texas 34-21 P. L. (Pinky) Downs made another trip to the office of Tax Assessor and Collector in Bryan with another request. This time he got license plates for Aggie Basketball Coach Ken Loeffler bearing the inscription T-for Topped; T-for Texas 61-55. Beau Bell might be left out in the rain—license plates are sup posed to be purchased by April 1. A A A A call to VI 6-6122 will probably get an aswer of “John Crow is not here”. Seems that the well-known Ag gie halfback has that number lis ted with his name in the Student Directory, while actually the num ber was reassigned about 10 days ago to John Simmons of 4301 Mi lam St. These last 10 days have been hectic ones for Simmons, who spec ulates that he has received at least one call each day, at all hours of the night and from everywhere. Says Simmons: “One long dist ance call seemed to be from his mother. If I ever see him I will tell him to call her.” ★ ★ ★ Aggie football team has what may be unique in college circles— a “language account” at the locaf* bank. Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant does not care for vulgar language on or off the football field. The rules: for cursing, a player pays 25 cents; coach, $1; and for Bryant, $10.00. The account now stands at about $200! Plans are being made for a party after football season. Wonder how a person would go about writing up an invitation to a party like that. legislature had offered him $100 to change his vote on a bill. “I have made the statement I would seek re-election if my friends wanted me to do so. They have been the ones to be hurt by all this.” Cox’s reference was to the acid thrown in the face of Dr. Robert E. McMeans, Jr., 32-year-old chir- oprator and friend of Cox, Tuesday night by an unidentified man. McMeans had testified before a state House committee investigat ing the charges. Cox said he thought the attack on McMeans was a result of the chiropractor’s testimony. The House committee’s investi gation is to resume tomorrow. No date has been set for an election to fill Cox’s unexpired term. Famous ‘Life’ Photographer Coming Here Photography enthusiasts will have a chance to hear the world famous Life Magazine photographer, Alfred Eisen staedt speak on “Pictures . . . Life . . . and Texas Newspaper Photo Coverage” in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom at 3:30 p.m. Friday. The discussion is part of the eighth annual Mechanical Confer-* ence and Texas Newspaper Clinic sponsored by the A&M Journalism Department and the Texas Press Association Friday and Saturday. Everyone is invited to attend the photography sessions which will begin at 1 p.m. Friday in the Ball room of the MSC. Also included in the photography discussions will be talks by four other speakers on fast photo graphic films and papers, photo graphic lighting and picture com position. Eisenstaedt started to work for Life before the magazine was nam ed and is one of Life’s four origi nal staff photographers. Since that time he has been on hun dreds of assignments. Born in Germany in 1899, Eisen staedt became an amateur photo grapher at an early age. When he began to submit his pictures in amateur photographic contests in Europe, he won almost instant success and recognition. He has worked for the Associa ted Press covering news events. He has covered the League of Na tions sessions at Geneva and the reparation and disarmament con ferences in the Hague and Lau sanne. Eisenstaedt has covered stories for Life in all parts of the globe. His latest major set of photo- (See EISENSTAEDT, Page 2) Officials Give Okay To Flight Program City Police Warn Drivers To Pay Fines. Traffic and parking viola tors with overdue tickets will soon be receiving “last warn ings” from the City of College Station to pay fines or face arrest, Police Chief Lee Noi’wood said yesterday. “We have been a little lax lately and as a result, there'is a backlog of unpaid tickets,” Norwood said. “Now we have a court clerk for the College Station Corporation Court, and we hope to be able to collect these overdue violation fines.” Miss Ann Scarmardo, has been given the duties of court clerk following official approval for cre ating the office given at a recent city council meeting. “There are over 100 of these tickets, some of them dating to last year,” Miss Scarmardo said. ‘They come from all over Texas and nine other states.” She pointed out that many of the violations were committed by A&M students, Armed Forces per sonnel and other non-permanent residents, making it often hard to find the present address of the per sons involved. Group To Launch Bill Ousting White SAN ANTONIO, —CP)— Repre sentatives of all parts of Texas agriculture voted last night to in troduce a bill today in the Texas Legislature which would oust Ag riculture Commissioner John White. It would also place the State Agriculture commission in the hands of 21 persons appointed by the governor. The action came shortly after Austin Anson of Harlingen said he “will reiterate my statement of earlier today when I said his (White’s) inspectors are collecting money for his senate campaign.” Anson, executive manager of the Texas Citrus and Vegetable Grow ers Assn., and a long-time foe of White, said: Weather Today Forecast calls for partly cloudy skies. A low reading of 37 de grees was taken this morning, and yesterday’s high was 60. “I didn’t mean to say it earlier in the day in front of newspaper men, but it’s true.” White is a candidate for the U. S. Senate post made vacant by the election of Price Daniel as Texas’ governor. At Austin, Agriculture Com missioner White told The Associa ted Press, “the whole thing origi nated in Sec. of Agriculture Ben son’s office. Anson has admitted that.” White said he' was not worried about the proposed bill. “They think they are hurting my campaign, but I don’t think so It just makes me work harder to get a little closer to Benson and take some more swings at him,’ White said. White said Benson and Anson were fighting him “because they want to take over the only State Agricultural Depahtment that has spoken out against him (Benson) Army Flight Plan Rece ivejs Seru n ity By JIM NEIGHBORS Approval for A&M’s flight training program was given yesterday by officials from Air University, kicking off training for 120 AFROTC seniors. v Col. William J. Hall, director of operations received a telephone call Wednesday from AFROTC headquarters ap proving the contract which A<%M had sent to them recently. A telegram confirming the decision was expected last night or this morning. With the approval of the contract, A&M becomes the 42nd school in the United States to have the flight program. Training leading to a private pilot license will be given in small single-engine aircraft. Flight training for the pros--* pective pilots is under the di- Polio Group Ur ges Citizens To Take Shots Brazos County Chapter of National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis has voted unanimously to recommend and urge that every cit izen in the county take Salk vac cine. The chapter said the vaccine is safe, not expensive—and may save you from living in a wheel chair the rest of your life, or even worse. Chairman Jack Kent discussed the merits of the vaccine at a re cent meeting of the chapter. He said only three persons out of 14 polio cases last year had taken Salk vaccine. The three had each received two shots and do not have paralysis. New officers elected for 1957 are Mrs. Lucille Foster, chairman; Dr. Tom King, vice chairman; Miss Alma Ewing, secretary and A. B Syptak, treasurer. Outgoing chair man Jack Kent was elected execu tive committeeman. Mrs. P. W. Barker, chairman of the 1957 March of Dimes, was pre sented a National Foundation Award for “outstanding service Mai’ch of Dimes this year netted $12,000. Chapter awards were presented to Mrs. Lucille Foster and Mrs. Nelda Faye Howard. rection of a commercial flying school from Dallas. They will be “immediately contacted so we can get those boys flying as soon as possible,” said D. W. Williams, president of the college. Plans will be put into ef fect to fulfill the contract require ments. A&M officials submitted a pro posal to Fourth Army head quarters Tuesday and Col. Delmar P. Anderson, PMS&T, “expects headquarters to sign the proposal and return it later this week.” Ground school training for the AF cadets is almost completed with the exception of studying CAA regulations, according to Hall. The men are ready to begin their flight training. After receiving 35 hours of dual and solo training they would be eligible for private licenses. Both flight and ground training in under CAA authorization and the only connection the Air Force has with the prograVn is the cadets themselves. Men who receive the flight training must be senior Category I (pilot) contract stu dents. As soon as the aircraft and per sonnel arrive, flight training will begin at A&M, according to Presi dent Williams. Ike Given Command Car Of WWII WASHINGTON, —UP)— A de lighted President Eisenhower to day got a surprise gift — the 1942 limousine he used in Eu rope during and after World War II and later in the United States. “Oh, it’s my old command car,” the President exclaimed with an ear-to-ear smile as he spotted the car on the south grounds of the White House. The car, which now has been driven 67,000 miles, recently was purchased by a group of anony mous friends of the President at an Army motor pool auction in Germany. Seniors Draft Ring Dance Band List Senior class members draft ed a list of bands they want for the coming Senior Ring Dance Tuesday night in the Chemistry Lecture Room. Douglas DeCluitt, class presi dent, said the first choice was Harry James and then Buddy Moi’- row, Sammy Kaye, and Jan Gar ber. The list was then turned over to Durward Thompson, social sec retary. The class decided to donate the college a gift and left selection of the donation in the hands of a committee headed by Byron King. The amount that each class mem ber will give to the gift fund is not yet decided. Also discussed were sales of class pennants and championship pen nants. Top Jersey Heifer Consigned for Sale A&M College Dairy has consign ed one of its high quality Jersey heifers to be offered for sale at the Spring Texas Jersey Cattle Club auction to be held in Bren- ham Saturday. The Jersey association conducts the sale to enable 4-H Club and FFA members to purchase poten tially excellent dairy animals from winnings from calf scrambles or regular projects. Extra Attraction AF Group On Tour Seventy-seven Air Science II students left this morning for El lington AFB to tour observer training facilities, according to Capt. Rolla Griffith, coordinator for the trip. Students left from Bryan AFB in six T-29 “flying classrooms” with a navigator aboard to explain its equipment en route to Houston. They will return tomorrow after noon. Spanish Perform Dancers Monday By VAL POLK With applause still “ringing in his ears” from a recent European tour, Jose Greco and his company of Spanish dancers comes to the A&M campus for a program in Guion Hall Monday at 8 p.m. Greco, starring in “Around the World in 80 Days”, was hailed by Life Magazine as the “world’s fin est male Spanish dancer.” He also starred opposite Cyd Charisse in “The Bullfighter and The Lady”, stirring the excitement of almost everyone that saw the A&M To Host 27th Journalism Congress ANOTHER ‘TT’ JOINS THE RANKS—Bill Meals, “C” Infantry junior, picks up his 1957 license plates from the desk located in the MSC. Mrs. Harriet Ruez and Mrs. Jo Ann Johnson are issuing the new plates. TWSWA Opp oses New Sewage Bill Bills now before the state legis lature outlining a new state agency to control stream pollution were officially opposed yesterday by the 39th annual Texas Water and Sewage Works Association short school held here through tomor row. The group asked that existing laws be retained and the’ State Department of Health be allowed to stay in control of the program. Edward Geeslin of Brady was elected president of the group. Other officers include J. E. Wil liams of San Antonio, president elect and W. J. Weems, Texarkana; V. V. Gerber, Sour Lake; W. D. Cooper, Ozona and Claude Robin- l son, Yernon, all vice presidents. A&M will host the 27th annual Southwestern Journalism Congress March 21-23, according to D. D. Burchard, head of the Journalism Department. Headquarters for the congress is the Memorial Student Center. Registration will take place from 4 to 8 p.m. in the MSC, and the conference opens in Guion Hall at 8. Walt Kelly, creator of Pogo, will begin the congress with an address. R. B. Kamm, Dean of the Basic Division and Student Personnel Services, will give the welcome ad dress at the general session at 8:40 a.m., March 22. Talks will be made by Gay Pau ley, women’s editor of the United Press; Walter Beach, Humble Oil and Refining Co. and Gordon Jones, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. John T. Jones, publisher, The Houston Chronicle, will chair the Congress luncheon session. Speak ers are W. R. Hearst, Jr., D. D. Kingsburg Smith and Frank Con iff. Beginning at 2 p.m., talks are scheduled by Paul Ridings, public relations consultant; Kenneth Tow- ery, Pulitzer prize winner; Sig - Mickelson, CBS vice president for news and Bert Brandt, photo jour nalist. An MSC smorgasbord at 6:30 p. m. will be followed by a dance. Talks open the session Saturday at 8:30 a.m. John H. Noble, Nei- man-Marcus advertising staff; James H. Wagner, Houston Post and W. R. Beaumier, publisher of the Lufkin Daily News, will give the Saturday morning talks. At 10:30 a.m., a student assem bly will be held in the ball room of the MSC and a faculty meeting in room 3D. A luncheon for the Texas Daily Newspaper Association Internship committee is set at 12:15 p.m. Following each of the series of talks throughout the congress, a question and answer period will be held to give the audience a chance to bring up specific problems. The 13th annual University of Missouri news photo exhibit will be on display throughout the con ga-ess, Burchard said. Greco, a native born Italian, learned his sparkling dances from wandering Gypsies and watching the traditional Flamenco dances is Spain. Perfectionists in the art of Spanish dances found him amus ing in his youth and taught him some of the polish and skill that he now presents to his audiences. He was one of the first artists to appear in the Empire Room of the Waldorf Astoria for two en gagements in a six month period. He has also appeared on the tele vision shows “Toast of the Town” and “Omnibus”. He has been called “ A IVIaster ! of his Art”, “intoxicating”, “dy namic wizard of the dance” and “his sense of drama is like a draught of heady Spanish wine”. His stirring performances have created utter chaos all over the world. In Copenhagen he and his troupe drew 180 curtain calls. Greco’s show is not a Town Hall attraction but is an extra attrac tion by the Department of Stu dent Activities. Reserve seats will be $3 and $2 and general admis sion tickets will be $1. Season tickets will not be good for this performance. Tickets are now on sale in office of Student Activities and mail or ders will be accepted. Dr. Ewe ns to Chair Counselors Course A conference planned to assist administrators, teachers, and coun selors in improving school guid ance services will be held here March 11-12. Dr. Willis E. Dugan, professor of educational psychology at Uni versity of Minnesota, will be the visiting consultant. Dr. Robeit B. Kamm, dean of the Basic Division and Student Personnel Services, will make the welcoming address.