THE
BATTALION
Civilian
Council
Meets Tonight
Number 243: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1957
Price Five Cents
Off the Cuff-
What Goes
On Here
One particular phone call for
information to the Housing Office
last night left a student employee,
Buddy Barton, more than a little
bumfuzzled for a few minutes.
Barton said he answered the
phone’s ring with, “Student Infor
mation,” and waited for the tele
phone operator to continue.
He waited a little longer and
repeated: “A&M College, Student
Information . . .”
Finally the operator asked in a
honey sounding voice, “Who would
you like to speak with?”
The puzzled Barton explained
that she was the one who was look
ing for someone, and the conver
sation continued.
“I started to tell her I would be
glad to talk with her,” BaiTon said
remembering the sweet sounding
voice.
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The Municipal Electric short
course, sponsored by the Electric
Engineering Department, is set for
March 25-27 in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
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Seniors wishing to have their
rings before the ring dance have
been reminded by H. L. Heaton,
registrar, to order them before
March 30. Orders must be placed
by this time to have them before
the dance.
Aggie Crooners
Enter S’West
Talent Shows
A&M will be represented in
talent shows at two other
Texas schools this week.
Tomorrow night the Fifth
Annual Intercollegiate Talent
Show of Sam Houston State
Teachers’ College will be present
ed in Huntsville. Dave Goldston,
senior pre-med student from Here
ford, will be the featured Irish
tenor for the program.
The program will be on a com
petitive basis with a first prize of
?50, second prize $35 and third
prize $25. Last year an Aggie
Combo, the Hi Five, brought home
second money.
Goldston and two other Aggies
will appear on the third annual
ICT Show at Baylor Saturday
night. Jerry (‘A’ Model) Hatfield,
winner of the recent talent show
here, is slated to appear on the
Baylor show. Another freshman,
Jerry Williams, will sing popular
songs.
Armed Cubans Rebel
Against Government
Holim Kim
‘From Korea to A&M 1 ”
Ex-ROK Soldier
Is A&M Student
By LELAND BOYD
In 1945 a Korean family in Man
churia gathered up their belong
ings and fled the onslaught of Rus
sia’s Communistic expansion. The
members of the family included an
aging merchant and part-time
farmer, his wife and daughter and
his nephew, then 14-years-old.
The nephew, orphaned since he
was 12, was Holim Kim, now a
freshman at A&M.
The story of Kim’s adventures
since his family left Manchuria to
settle in North Korea 12 years ago
is typical of hundreds of Korean
youth who harve lived in the midst
of conflict and inadequate living
conditions.
Attends Korean Schools
During his earlier teens, Kim
worked in his mei’chant-uncle’s
sundry shop, but had oppoi'tunity
to wedge in middle school, similar
■to U. S. junior high, and three
years of high school, comparable
to U. S. high school with more ad
vanced subjects.
In the meantime, Red influence
had grown stronger in North Ko
rea. So the family had moved to
Seoul, in South Korea, in 1947.
Kim had shortly before com
pleted the high school when in
1950, June 25, a highly tense cold
war tempered into a flaming-hot
Community Supper
Earns $600 Total
Profits from the annual A&M
Consolidated Mothers’ and Dads’
Club Community Supper totaled
$600 and will be used to purchase
additional equipment for the
schools, accoi’ding to Mrs. Robert
M. Stevenson, chairman of the sup
per.
“We fed about 1,000 people at
the supper last week,” Mrs. Steven
son said. “It is held at that time
each year in honor of Texas Public
School Week.”
Club president Maj. David E.
Phillips expressed his appreciation
to the 15 local mei'chants who
contributed goods and services to
the supper and all others who
helped in any way.
battle, rocking back and forth
across the 38th parallel.
“On June 28, I wakened and
saw Red Korean tanks rolling into
Seoul,” Kim says. “We had not
even thought of leaving because
we had confidence in the South Ko
rean forces and expected the North
Koreans to be stopped.”
He remained in Seoul for one
month after the Reds captured it.
But one day he and four fellow
Koreans took to ‘the country side
and made their way across battle-
torn fields and paddies to the Nak-
tong river, famous for General
Walker’s orders “retreat no more.”
Shouting to American soldiers
on the opposite side of the Pusan
perimeter, the refugees caught the
soldiers’ attention and waded
aci’oss the mine-infested water to
(See FROM KOREA, Page 2)
Dallas
Denies
Senator
Bribe
AUSTIN, (IP) — Sen. George
Parkhouse of Dallas today said,
then denied, that he was offered
“a little bribe” in connection with
a bill on firemen’s and policemen’s
wages.
Speaking against SB 50, Park-
house said at a meeting of the
Senate State Affairs Committee:
“This committee would be sur
prised if they knew what happen
ed to me in Dallas before I came
down here. It would cause another
investigation.
“It was a little bribe offer.
That’s why I’m fighting this bill
right down the line.”
The bill would shorten working
hours for policemen and give po
licemen and firemen longevity
AE Sets Deadline
On Stanine Tests
Students interested in taking
the Air Force Stanine Tests
must report to M/Sgt. Duran,
in room 311, of the Military
Science Building by 2 p. m.
Monday.
These tests must be passed
by all students planning on
applying for an advanced Air
Force Contract.
bonuses. The bill was introduced
by Sen. Doyle Willis of Fort Worth.
Asked by reporters what he
meant, Pai'khouse said “I’m sorry
I popped off. I didn’t mean to say
that. I’m sorry.”
The committee recommended ap
proval of the bill.
After the meeting Sen. Willis
told The Associated Press that
“Parkhouse just built up some en
thusiasm against the bill. I didn’t
hear him say that.”
The league of municipalities
which was opposing the bill said
it would affect some 71 cities. The
league said 51 of the cities estimat
ed it would cost them $924,728 an
nually.
“We just want the bill to allow
the cities to vote as to whether
or not they want the increases,”
Leonard Mohrmann of the league
said. He said the bill would allow
the legislature to set the rates
without approval of the cities
which would be paying the in
creases.
Another firemen’s and police
men’s bill by Sen. Jep Fuller of
Poi’t Arthur was approved by the
committtee. It would require cities
from 10,000 to 100,000 population
to have a minimum salary of $250
a month, Mohrmann said.
Army’s Combat Ball
Sparks Friday Night
By YAL POLK
Army cadets and their dates
will dance to the music of the
Aggieland Orchestra Friday night
at the annual Combat Ball in Sbisa
Hall from 9-12.
Highlighting the ball will be - the
announcement of the Combat Cutie.
Finalists for the honor and their
escorts are Connie Boswell, es
corted by V. E. Hawes; Bettye
Moei’s, escorted by Jack Robert
son; Joanne Garner, escorted by
J. B. Bisbey; Dennis Campbell, es
corted by Charles Allen Jr., Bar
bara Martin, escorted by Jimmy
Wheeler and Barbara Jackson, es
corted by James A. Durda.
“In my opinion the Combat Ball
is the best ball of the year since
it is informal thereby allowing us
to let our hair down and have a
good ole time,” said Tom W. Adair,
co-chairman for the dance.
Gilbert N. Steile, program chair
man, said “The dance is the best
combat ball ever held because it is
one of the most decorated due to
detailed work and planning on
everybody’s part.”
“All of the detailed work on the
decorations could not have been
possible without the help of the
local merchants who donated such
things as lights and shrubbery,”
Steile said.
Going along with the theme,
“Combat Conditions,” dress for
the dance will be fatigues for
cadets and peasant blouses and
skirts for girls.
Program for the ball is accented
by the cartoons from “Up Front,”
cartoon book drawn by famed
World War II cartoonist, Bill
Mauldin.
Combat Battalions are listed in
the program under various comical
names. Infantry is listed as the
“Bug Crushers”, with the sub
title, “Intramural Water-fight
Champions ’56-57.” Engineers are
called the “Camp Followers” with
the motto, “We specialize in field
sanitation.” Field artille'ry is called
“The Cassion’s” and a motto of
‘What the - - - - is a cassion?”
Anti-aircraft artillery has the title
of “Bird Watchers,” and a motto
of, “A guided missile could replace
you too!” Signal Corps carries the
title “Carrier Pigeons” with a
subtitle of “This is a combat
arm ? ”
Heading the dance committees
ai'e Tom W. Adair and Jerry Mac
Betsill committee co-chairmen; Gil
bert N. Steile, program committee;
J. O. Koehl, guest committee; Dale
B. Elmore, finance committee;
Gene L. Jameson, dance committee;
John W. Rinard, decorations com
mittee.
Chancellor M. T. Harrington,
President D. W. Williams, Col. Joe
E. Davis and the deans of the
college plus all of the instructors
for combat arms will be guests at
the dance.
Attack President
Leaving 40 Dead
HAVANA, Cuba, UP)—Armed rebels stormed into the
presidential palace yesterday in a bloody revolutionary at
tempt to seize or kill President Fulgencio Batista.
Twenty men were reported killed in battle inside the
palace.
Twenty others were reported killed in scattered fighting
outside the palace.
The 56-year-old President, a veteran of violence, survived
and directed a successful tank-led counterattack on rebel
supporters outside the palace.
Fifteen out of about 40 invading rebels and five palace
guards were reported killed within earshot of Batista.
The attack on the palace 4 ^
apparently was in two phases:
1—A 40-man invasion team
to tackle the palace guard and
fight into Batista’s private
quarters and take him.
2—A covering armed force to
deploy in nearby buildings and keep
up an outside attack.
The invasion force broke past the
guard and into the first floor where
Batista has offices. He was on the
second floor finishing a late lupch-
eon with two Cabinet members.
Heavy firing around the palace
lasted nearly three hours.
The government announced to
night the rebel forces at the pal
ace had been beaten back and calm
prevailed throughout the island.
The group that invaded the pal
ace apparently clashed with the
inner guard after storming the
outer gates, while others fired on
the palace from buildings nearby
in a concerted attack.
About 20 bodies were reported
found in the palace where the in
side battle took place.
The general attack was made by
students armed with machine guns,
pistols, rifles and grenades in the
heart of Havana.
Their apparent aim was to kill
or capture Batista and set off a
revolution to seize the whole is
land republic.
A university student president
and others were reported killed.
One bold group was beaten back
by palace guards as it tried to
force entry and reach Batista.
The President, finishing a late
lunch, directed a tank-led army
counterattack from inside the pal
ace. Late in the day the army
claimed it had beaten the rebels.
At 5:45 p.m. the shooting had
died down and the military com
mand, loyal to Batista, announced
“order has been re-established.”
CHS District Enrollment
The A&M Consolidated School
District enrollment now stands
officially at 1,460, according to
information released by Superin
tendent L. S. Richardson recently.
Of these, 1,116 are white pupils
and 344 colored. About 100 of
these are transfer students.
Local AAUP
Will Hear
Ralph Green
Dr. Ralph T. Green, direc
tor of the Texas Commission
on Higher Education, will be
the guest speaker at tomor
row’s meeting • of the A&M
Chapter of the American Associa
tion of Univei’sity Professoi's.
The meeting will be held in
the Assembly room of the Me
morial Student Center at 7 p. m.
Dr. Green plans to discuss the
accomplishments of the commission
to date, its program for the future
and some of the problems which
confront the higher education in
the state, according to Sidney O.
Brown, president of the local
AAUP chapter.
After graduating from A&M
with a B. A. and M. A. in
economics, history and accounting,
Dr. Green attended Duke Univer
sity, where he received his Ph.D.
Since that time he has served with
the Federal Reserve Bank, Ameri
can Institute of Banking and as
head of the Department of
Economics at Baylor University.
Weather Today
WINDY
A front was expected to move
into the area about 2 p.m., bring
ing with it 20 to 25 mile-an-hour
winds, blowing dust and low visi
bility. The temperaturo at 10:30
this morning was 68 degrees.
Six Combat Cutie Finalists
■ ?•;
.;iV
Barbara Martin
Jimmy Wheeler, escort
Connie Boswell
Y. E. Hawes, escort
Dennis Campbell
Charles Allen, escort
Joanne Garner
J. B. Bisbey, escort
Bettye Moers
Jack Robertson, escort
Barbara Jackson
James Durda, escort