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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.