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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1957)
18,440 READERS >»f BATTALION Pogo Here Tomorrow Number 246: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1957 Price Five Cents Off the Cuff- What Goes On Here Do you have a strange car hang ing ai’ound your house ? Morris Maddox, patrolman for the Campus Security had one around his house for the last two days and finally became suspicious of the vehicle. He decided to f,ind out just who the car belonged to. It was a red, 1 Vz ton pickup with out-of-town license plates. Maddox phoned Bryan police who traced the plates to Houston and then found out the truck was re- poi’ted stolen there Sunday night. The truck was apparently un harmed, sitting there with the windows’rolled up and keys in the switch. Surely no Aggie “borrowed” the truck to return to A&M Sunday night. County Easter Seal Drive Under Way Easter Seal drive for 1957 is underway and will continue until April 21, according to Dr. John Sperry, president of the Brazos County Society for Crippled Children. Both Bi'azos and Burleson counties will participate in the drive and both will receive the benefits. The drive, carried on completely by volunteers and mostly through mail, will provide funds to establish a Crippled Children Therapy Center here with trained therapists from all over the state. Some gifts have already been donated towards this goal. A portion of the funds will be used to support the annual crippled children’s clinic which will be held here May 6. Doctors from all over the state will come to College Sta tion to diagnose any child’s case free of charge and recommend treatment. This clinic is sponsored jointly by the Kiwanis clubs and the Shriners. Money will be given also to buy special shoes and braces for local crippled children. In the last three years approxi mately 60 trips to the treatment center in Galveston have been made. This service, available upon request, will be continued. STILL TRAPPED by the sticky mud around his legs is A1 Hambrick, labor foreman of the Lufkin Construction Company. Workmen are shown trying to pull him free from the wet dirt which crashed from the sides of the storm sewer ditch under construction near the Power Plant. Ditch Cave-in Almost Claims Three Lives By JOE TINDEL Three men narrowly escaped death yesterday afternoon when the walls of the 20-foot deep storm sewer ditch under construction near the Power Plant crashed down on them. A1 Hambrick, labor foreman, and Tom Jones, a laborer, were rushed to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan. Hambrick was treated for a broken arm and Jones for two separated ribs. Dr. T. T. Walton says their condition is good. After the cave-in workmen hur ried into the ditch with shovels and began digging furiously to free the men buried in mud still soggy from recent rains. Kelly Potts, another laborer, buried completely in the mud, escaped injury when he groped blindly, found a sewer pipq opening and crawled through darkness to safety 100 feet away through the 36 inch-diameter pipe. Hambrick and Jones were buried slightly above the waist and con struction workers had to dig around them to work them loose from the clinging mud. Soon after the ambulance arrived Jones had been freed from the glue-like earth around him. Ham- 10 Per Student Point System Limit Set The student activity point sys tem, limiting students to 10 “actively points,” may be enforced more rigidly this year, according to W. D. (Pete) Hardesty of Stu dent Activities Department. Set up by a sub-committee last year, the system does not include points for ex-officio positions, which are positions automatically held in connection with other of fices. Hardesty says it is up to stu dents fhem selves to stay within the 10-point limit. Pointing out that class office filings are under way, he added, “We cannot stop students from filing for and being TOGO’S CREATOR, WALT KELLY, returns to the cam pus tomorrow night for a talk in Guion Hall. He was on the campus several years ago and this time is returning as the kick-off speaker for the Annual Southwestern Jour nalism Congress being held this year at A&M. Kelly’s talk is open to the public. elected to offices, but it is within out power to restrict them from their posts when we feel it neces sary.” The following is a list of students offices and the points attributed to them: Ten point activities include: president of the Student Senate; Cadet Colonel of the Corps; presi dent of Civilian Student Council; editors of The Battalion and The Aggieland and president of the Memorial Student Center Council. Positions counting six points are: senior class president; vice presi dent of the Student Senate, Deputy Corps Commander; Regimental and Wing Commanders; recording secretary for Student Senate; cor responding secretary for Student Senate; managing editor of The Battalion; sports editor of The Bat talion; editors of The Agriculturist, The Engineer, The Commentator and the Southwestern Veterinarian; vice president of MSC Council; student entertainment managers; senior yell leaders and presidents of honor societies, school councils and technical and departmental clubs and societies. Four point listings include: Stu dent Senators; MSC Council mem bers; civilian dorm councilmen; advertising manager of the Aggie land and junior yell leaders. Two point duties are: presidents of the sophomore and freshman classes; presidents and secretary- treasurers of all other student organizations; junior intramural managers and civilian dorm floor, ramp or row representatives. brick was still trapped ai'ound his legs and workmen continued dig ging. Curious onlookers crowded around the ditch. Workmen and police shouted frantically when they moved too close to the ditch whose walls threatened to thunder down again. Evidently suffering from shock and strain, Hambrick passed out once during the fight to release him. Fellow workmen held him up while others continued digging furiously. After 25 minutes of digging, Hambrick was lifted from the damp hole showing signs of the strain. He was placed carefully in a near by stretcher and taken to the am bulance. For moments afterwards work men seemed to hesitate before go ing back into the ditch as if they were afraid of another cave-in. Potts, who had crawled to safety, stood near the ditch still shaking a bit from the experience and watching the other two men being excavated. Senate Racket Comm. Indicts Teamster Ross Great Issues To Present Justice Clark Associate Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark will speak on “The Courts in the Free World” tonight at 8 in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. Another in the series of speakers brought to the campus under the sponsorship of the MSC Great Is sues Committee, Clark is a native Texan, formerly of Dallas. He was born in “big D” and was graduated from the University of Texas Law School in 1922. He practiced law in Dallas until 1938 when he was appointed special as sistant to the attorney general of the United States and assigned to the antitrust division of the De partment of Justice. He served as chief of the war frauds unit in 1943 and was as sistant attorney general in charge of criminal division in 1945. In 1945 he was appointed as at torney general of the United States and served In that position until 1949 when President Harry Tru man appointed him to an associate supreme court justice. Season tickets will be honored for this presentation and individual tickets may be purchased at the door. Tickets are on sale at the Main Desk in the MSC for $1 each or may be purchased prior to the speech. Jr. Banquet Ticket Sales End Friday Juniors must purchase tickets for the Junior Banquet by 5 p.m. Friday, if they plan to attend the affair March 30, according to W. D. (Pete) Hardesty of Student Ac tivities. Tickets may be purchased for $1.50 at the Student Activities Of fice on the second floor of the YMCA. Although the ticket sales were scheduled to end yesterday, the deadline was extended because so many tickets were unsold. "Veterinary Company’ In Blueprint Stage Plans are being made for form ing “A” Veterinary Company. The company will be composed entirely of veterinary medicine and preparatory-veterinary medicine students and is scheduled to go into operation in September. Ivan (Rusty) Davidson and John Fos ter, first year vet students, are initiating the action. “This way we will be able to have all the vets and pre-vets to gether,” Davidson said. “We will be better able to help those stu dents having trouble to make the grades necessary for entering vet school.” Nearly 40 of the students who met yestei’day indicated they were interested in the company. Maj. Edward L. Scott is tenta tively scheduled to act as tactical officer for the company. He plans to have the company live in Dorm 16. “The company will be open to both army and air force cadets and will function much like other out fits on the campus,” Davidson said. “Those students who meet all normal physical, mental and moral requirements and will be able to complete military or air science before the beginning of the third year in the School of Veterinary Medicine will be eligible for a contract,” Capt. Henry A. Pate, army opei'ations officer, said. Both Dean W. W. Armistead, of the School of Veterinary Medicine, and Col. Joe E. Davis, comman dant, are highly in favor of the idea, Davidson reported. “However, not being a member of the company won’t hurt your chances for getting into Vet School,” Armistead emphasized. Interviews fox* membership and consideration for rank in the com pany are scheduled to begin next week. Weather Today RAINY Overcast skies and light x’ain ai’e foi’ecast for the ai’ea. At 10:30 a.m. the mei'cury stood at 58 de- gi'ees. Yestei'day’s high and low 1‘eadings were 72 and 59 degrees. Iloffa Charged In ConspiracyA ttemp WASHINGTON, LT*)—A federal grand jury yesterday indicted James R. (Jimmy) Hof fa, a top leader of the Team sters Union, on charges of setting up a conspiracy to buy secrets of the Senate rackets investigation. Hoffa was arrested last Wednesday night by the FBI, and Chairman McClellan (D-Ark.) of the investigating com mittee said he was “very gratified” at the prompt indictment. “The Justice Department moved promptly and the grand jury with equal promptness discharged its responsibility,” McClellan told reporters. “I hope that trial may be had at an early date.” Indicted with Hoffa was Hyman I. Fischbach, a Miami Duncan Hall Slated For Face-li ■lifting Duncan Mess Hall will un dergo a “face-lifting” this summer in the form of a com plete remodeling of its inter ior, according to T. R. Spence, Physical Plant Manager, The A&M Board of Directox’s ap proved funds for the work, and con tractor’s bids will be received at the next meeting of the board on Apxdl 27. Woi’k is scheduled to begin shortly after the end of the spring semester. Remodeling will include the in stallation of a new acoustic tile ceiling, a new lighting system, tile floors, warm air ducts for heating, fi'esh paint on walls and modern draperies for windows. New tables and chairs were added to Duncan last fall. Plate Sales End Today is the last day to buy car license plates in the Memorial Stu dent Center. Members of the Bi'a zos County Tax Collector and As sessors Office will be there until 4 p.m. All that is necessary to get the plates is a certificate of title for the cal'. lawyer, who McClellan said last week acted as an agent for Hoffa in what the senator pictured as a plot to plant a spy in the midst of the inves tigators. The indictment, handed to U. S. Distinct Judge Richmond B. Keech, accused Hoffa and Fischbach of conspiring “cori-uptly to influence, obstruct and impede” the McClellan committee inquiry. The investiga tion up to now has been concerned primai’ily with allegations that the Teamstei’s Union trafficked with vice and coiTuption in the Pacific Northwest. WASHINGTON, OP)—A Senate x'ackets investigation x-olled out a mass of evidence yesterday that Frank W. Brewster, a top Team- stei's Union official, applied cash from the union till to a home, i-ac- ing stable, and costly tailormade suits. Thex-e was evidence, too, that the boss of the Teamsters Western Con ference doubled up on expense ac counts and got some of the gifts the xxnioxx spread around at Christ mas time. Hoffa is a vice president of the Teamsters Union and head of its Central States Conference, with headquarters at Detroit. Commit tee aides have said it was planned to question him later. Another witness the senators have been waiting to hear is Dave Beck, president of the Teamsters Union. EXAMINING ONE OF THE planes being used in the Army-Air Force ROTC flight training programs are (left to right) L. J. Starr, Chief Pilot Doyle Alexander, C. C. Jones and B. J. Boyd. The first training flights began this week and 10 planes are being used. College officials ear lier this week signed a subcontract with the Whiterock Aviation School of Dallas, officially putting the program into operation.