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Number 250: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1957
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Twining Named
Joint Staff
Chairman
WASHINGTON, (^—Pres
ident Eisenhower yesterday
ordered the biggest reshuffle
of top military leaders since
the year he took office.
Named to head the Joint Chiefs of
Staff was Aii- Force Gen. Nathan
F. Twining.
Twining, a member of the Joint
Chiefs since 1953, will succeed
Adm. Arthur W. Radford as chair
man on Aug. 15. Radford will step
down after serving two two-year
terms-the longest tenure which the
law allows.
Eisenhower also nominated—
subject to Senate confirmation-a
new Air Force chief of staff, a
new deputy secretary of defense
and a new secretary of the Air
Force.
Donald A. Quarles^ now secre
tary of the Air Force, was named
to be deputy secretary of defense,
the No. 2 position in the defense
establishment now held by Reuben
Robertson.
To succeed Twining as com
mander of the Air Force, Eisen
hower nominated Gen. Thomas D.
White, now the vice chief of the
USAF.
James H. Douglas, undersecre
tary of the Air Force, was chosen
to fill the secretaryship being va
cated by Quarles.
Adm. Ai-leigh Burke was at the
time nominated for a second two-
pear term as chief of naval oper
ations.
The White House said Gen. Max
well Taylor will continue in his
term as Army chief of staff until
June 29, 1959. The Pentagon said
that, unlike the other chiefs who
get two-year terms, the Army
commander serves “during the
pleasure of the President but not
for more than four years/’
New Insurance r
Plans Studied
The Student Senate Hospital
Committee and Insurance Commit
tee yesterday afternoon in a ses
sion with two representatives from
Continental Casualty Company
asked for rates on several insur
ance plans.
The group, including chairman
of the hospital committee John
Webb and executive committee
member Joe David Ross, outlined
the following student insurance
plans for the company to quote
rates on:
1. $1,000 blanket accident cov
erage with and without $1,000 ac
cidental death payment.
2. $1,000 blanket accident cov
erage and $750 sickness coverage
with a schedule for sickness pay
ments, with and without $1,000
accidental death payment.
3. $1,000 blanket accident cov
erage and $500 blanket sickness
coverage, with and without $1,000
accidental death payment.
CHS Jrs. Present
Class Play Friday
The junior class of A&M Con-
’ solidated will present their annual
class play “Onions in the Stew”
Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Con
solidated auditorium, according to
" Frank Coulter, director.
“The show is a three act com
edy dealing with a family seeking
happiness,” Coulter said. “Millie
Caughlin and Bill Farrar hold the
leading roles and Ann Cleland,
Mary Margaret Hierth, David Me-
Neely and Johnny Turner have
supporting parts.”
Mary Garcia is in charge of the
ticket sales. The tickets, costing
50 cents each, were printed by
Black’s Ridgecrest Pharmacy.
“Onions in the Stew” is the same
play that was presented earlier
*this year by the senior class of
Aggie 4-H’er Wins
Elgin Story Contest
Alden Smith, freshman from
Burkburnett, has' been named one
of 10 winners in the “Time of
Your Life” story contest.
The contest was open to persons
who attended last year’s LH Con
gress as a delegate and sponsored
by Elgin Watch Company. Smith
will receive at 19-jeAvel wrist watch.
The prize winning story by Smith
Stephen F. Austin High School of i was about his experiences while at
Bryan. the national 4-H Club Congress.
Room Applications
In MSC Accepted
Applications for Memorial Stu
dent Center guest room reserva
tions for football or other major
event weekends during the 1957-
58 school year’ will be accepted
from students and former students
during May, according to Mrs.
Mozelle Holland, guest room man
ager.
Limitations have been set at
one room per family. A drawing
determining recipients of accommo
dations will be held after the May
31 deadline. A notice will be mail
ed to all applicants indicating
whether or not their name was
drawn.
Names not drawn will be placed
on a “waiting list”. These persons
will be notified at least two weeks
before the event should a room
become available for them.
Reservations are not transfer
able, and reservations should be
canceled if anyone cannot use the
rooms.
Persons receiving a reservation
must make a deposit no later than
two weeks prior to the event to
avoid automatic cancellation, Mrs.
Holland said.
All the plans call for non-com-
pulsory participation.
The insurance company repre
sentatives say they will get their
“slide rule men” to work and re
port rates as soon as possible.
The senate insurance committee
hopes to wind up with an accept
able policy this semester so it
could go into effect next Septem
ber.
The Continental representatives
expressed surprise at the facilities
available at the College Hospital
and figure their rates will be low
ered considerably.
Yesterday’s meeting was one of
several held since a compulsory
plan failed to pass in a student
referendum, in an effort by the
committee to line-up a policy it
feels is best.
earns ler Boss Beck
Uses 5th. Amendment
SenatorsAttend
TISA Meeting
Tomorrow
Ten A&M student senators
are expected to leave tomor
row for the annual Texas In
tercollegiate Student Associa
tion meeting being held this
year in Beaumont.
Senators making the trip are Joe
David Ross, Malcolm A. (Buddy)
Maedgen, Paul Costa, Don Kirby,
Jerry Gleason, Tom Miller, Ross
Hutcheson, Bill Markley, John
Thomas and Bill Jobes.
Included in the three-day meet
ing are panel discussions on legis
lative affairs and seminars dealing
with problems of the member
schools.
Approximately 350 students from
39 schools representing more than
100,000 students are expected to
attend the meeting.
Specific topics for discussion are
integration, increasing enrollment,
student-faculty relationships, pub
lic relations, academic freedom and
the role of students in world af
fairs.
Brazos County
Area Under
Traffic Study
Origin and destination traf
fic study for the Bryan-Col-
lege Station and Brazos Coun
ty area was conducted yester
day and today.
The survey is being made to pro
vide information that will lead to
the devolpment of an over-all fu
ture highway plan for the area,
according to C. B. Thames, dis
trict engineer for the State High
way Commission.
The interview takes about 30 or
45 seconds and the contents of the
interview will be regarded as con
fidential. No questions on law en
forcement are being asked, Thames
said.
There are 10 stations located
around the Bryan-College Station
city limits conducting the survey.
The Texas Highway Department
conjunction with the cities of
College Station and Bryan and
A&M College and Bryan Air Force
Base and Bryan Chamber of Com- On the way back, they will at-
merce is furnishing cold drinks for tend a field day for the Lone Star
the interviewers on the question- Shorthom Breeders Association at
ing days. | Ennis.
Dr, Butler Leaves
On Kentucky Trip
Dr. O. D. Butler, of the Animal
Husbandry Department, and L. A.
Maddox, extension Animal Hus
bandman, will participate in meet
ings of the American Beef Cattle
Performance Registry Association
at Louisville, Ky., Thursday
thi’ough Saturday.
Dr. Butler will address the group
on the “Relation of Conformation
to Carcass Traits.”
Practice Teachers
Leave Next Week
Junior agricultural education
majors, 66 strong, will spend next
week in 33 Texas high schools ob
serving operation of vocational
agriculture departments as part of
their preparation for a teaching
career.
Those doing observation teaching
will be Alton Moellering, Donald
Jenkins, Clyde Castleberry, Joe
Mm
■ —..JKmSmSS'
Van Smitherman, Billy Rosser,
Emerson Brister, Tom Falls,
George Svatak, Thomas Owens,
Bill McCallum, William Heldt, Phil
Hurley, Robert Jackson, Richard
Little, Chester Booth, Dan Black-
stock, Carlos Pena.
Marvin Ansley, Eugene Mills,
Robert Spillars, Jack Wilkenson,
Henry Williams, Chaidie Rice,
Robert Matus, Gerald Dale, George
Dillin, Dink Carson, Clinton Spotts,
James Nuckles, Bedford Gallaway,
Travis Herring, William Barefield,
Weldon Newton, Jack Stone, Ray
mond Parker, Freddie George.
Bob McCord, A. T. Kutch, Donald
Oakes, John Watson, Bill Appelt,
Walter Hartman, Larry Cooper,
Wayne Dugger, Carl Anderson, El-
wood Hargers, John Piegsa, Harvey
Pearcy, Thomas Zipp, Walter Mil
ler, Joe Bertino, F. R. Wright.
Robert Sifford, Jeff Farris, Dale
Craig, Homer Marrow, Fidel Carlos
Ramirez, George C. Roeh, Bill
Conaway, F. J. Duderstadt, Wayne
Lacy, Elmer Jacob, Benjamin
Hajek.
E. V. Walton, head of the agri
culture education department, says
the time spent by students observ
ing and teaching permits them to
gain valuable experiences as they
prepare to become teachers of
vocational agriculture.
ishment by the AFL-CIO Ex
ecutive Council. He is a
Council member and an AFL-
CIO vice president.
If he was bothered by it all,
during a day-long grilling by a
special Senate committee. Beck
showed it not at all. He rejected
firmly a demand from Sen. Ken
nedy (D-Mass) that he hand in
his resignation as head of the na
tion’s biggest union.
“I’m personally confronted,” he
said, “with a situation I’m posi
tive will be disposed of 100 per
cent satisfactorily to me when the
final days of accounting come in
court.”
Beck declared he was exercising
his constitutional right against
self incrimination, under the Fifth
Amendment, only on the advice of
his lawyers. He did it dozens of
times, under a formula his attor
neys revised as he went along,
when confronted by contentions
from the investigators that he:
Used union funds to repay loans
from banks, build his Seattle,
Wash, home, bolster his own bank
account, and pay personal bills for
such items as gardening, shirts, and
expensive neckties.
Committee counsel Robert F.
Kennedy said some $85,000 of un
ion money was used to pay per
sonal bills. He said it was chan
neled through Nathan Shefferman,
Chicago labor consultant for busi
ness firms around the country and
a friend of Beck for some 20
years.
Shefferman himself took the
witness stand at the end of the
day and testified he paid Beck
$24,500 in 1949 and 1950. But he
said that was for business Beck
swung his way, including $61,000
Shefferman and his son made as
partners in a firm that got the
contract for furnishing and deco
rating the luxurious Teamsters
headquarters building here in
Washington.
The Senate committee hammered
away at Beck practically all day
and got none of the answers it
sought.
Senators Hint
Court Action
s'
WASHINGTON, (TP)—Dave Beck, boss of the far-flung
Teamsters Union, wrapped himself in the protective folds of
the Fifth Amendment yesterday and refused to say whether
he took more than $320,000 of union money for personal use
Beck also declined to say whether he was lying or telling
the truth before millions looking in on television March 17
when he said he had borrowed between $300,000 and $400,000
from the union in the last 10 years and repaid it without
interest.
The chunky, voluble president of the Teamsters imme
diately encountered not so veiled suggestions from Senate
probers that he may wind up on trial and may encounter
charges of contempt of Con-' 4
gress. He also may face pun- O
UN, bryan
Pancake Sale
Draws 1,325
Approximately 1,325 people
ate pancakes at the fourth an
nual College Station - Bryan
Kiwanis Club Pancake Fiesta
held in the Bryan Country
Club Saturday, according to College
Station club ticket chairman Bob
Shrode.
“If we go by past averages, only
two-thirds of those who bought
tickets attended,” Shrode said
“The proceeds of tickets sales will
be split between the two clubs
after paying expenses of the sup
per.”
Charles Richardson won the clubs
competition for the highest num
ber of tickets sold. He sold 54.
Dial Martin was second with 40
ducats; Charles LaMotte third with
37 and Micky McGuire fourth with
36.
Shrode sold 167 tickets but had
previously disqualified himself
from competition for the top four
prizes.
Two new members were intro
duced at the weekly luncheon in the
Memorial Student Center yester
day. They were Ed Segner, Civil
Engineering, and Ben J. Camp,
Chemistry.
Poetry Contest Open
To College Students
A national poetry contest is now
open to all college students under
the age of 26. The contest, called
the Riverside Poetry Writing Con
test, is being sponsored by the
Riverside Church in New York
City.
Only original, unpublished poems
in English under 100 lines will be
accepted. Poems published in Col
lege publications will be accepted.
Any student interested in this
contest should see Charles Lee
Hurley of the English Department
in his office at 104 Bagley Hall.
Civilian Council
Magazine Drive
Praised by Zinn
Work by the Civilian Stu
dent Council in gathering
magazines and pocket size
novels for the Veterans Hos
pital in Temple has been com
mended by Bennie A. Zinn, head of
the Department of Student Af
fairs.
“Since September 1956, these
men have collected seven good car
loads of magazines and novels for
the McCloskey Hospital in Tem
ple,” Zinn said.
Students in College View put on
a special effort last week and col
lected about three car loads of
magazines on Friday night and
Saturday.
“Many Veterans Hospitals are
unable to subscribe to enough
papers and magazines to have suf
ficient numbers for the patients,
and the people in the hospital have
told us many times that the maga
zines sent by our students have
greatly helped in supplying the
need for reading material,” says
Zinn.
All papers, novels or maga
zines are needed at the Hospital.
In each dorm there is a program
set up for gathering these
materials.
College Mess Halls
Have Ice Problem
Two of the largest dining halls in
the world, Duncan and Sbisa, almost
had a problem of buying ice this
month, but now their worries are
over, according to J. G. Peniston,
head of the dining halls.
Up until March 1 the dining
halls had been purchasing ice from
the college ice plant. Due to the
lack of customers to buy ice and
the- need for room for a new power
plant turbine, the college decided
to discontinue making ice.
This decision left Peniston with
out a supply source for ice. After
shopping around a bit he found
that he could purchase the 60,000
pound monthly quota from the
Darwin Ice Company of Bryan.
Peniston, who has been with the
A&M mess halls for 30 years said:
I believe it is more convenient now
than before.”
Kid Stuff
RICHMOND, Va. (A>) — Medical
College Hospital reported it took
bit of explaining to convince a
distraught woman her child didn’t
have a new, strange disease when
they told her pediatric examination
was recommended.
Plans Made For CS
Young Republican's Club
WHERE ARE YOU GOING, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, AND WHAT FOR? asks a traf
fic origin-destination survey team of the Texas Highway Commission and Bryan and
College Station. The survey results will be used in planning an over-all highway devel
opment plan for the area. (John West Photo.)
Weather Today
CLOUDY
Skies are expei-ted to remain
partly cloudy all day, with possible
showers forecast for this evening.
At 10:30 this morning the tempera
ture was 68 degrees, 3 degrees
above yesterday’s high. The low
reading this morning was 45 de
grees.
By LELAND BOYD
If present plans go through to
completion. College Station and
A&M young people who lean to
ward the GOP ideology will have
an organization founded especially
for them.
A meeting has been called for
Thursday at 8 p. m. at which time
a group plans to form a Young
Republican’s Club. The group will
meet at the home of William F.
Osborn, 904 Ashbum Street in
College Station.
Behind the drive to organize the
club is the vivacious 24-year-old
wife of an A&M College Student,
Mrs. William F. Osborn.
It all started a while ago after
the Osborns had written Texas
Republican Headquarters for car
decals supporting the Thad Hutche
son for Senator campaign.
“We asked them for one sticker,”
says Mrs. Osborn, “and we got back
a garage full. I mentioned in the
letter that we were interested in
a Young Republican’s Club and
they were very anxious to help us.”
Soon after that, Mrs. Osborn
was talking with some friends after
church one day, and a member of
the group asked “Why don’t we
organize such a club?”
Mrs. Osborn, since that sugges
tion, has been doing all she could
do to get others interested, in the
time she could spare from caring
for their two small daughters.
“The purpose of the Young Re
publican’s Club will be to work for
a two-pai’ty government in Texas,
and give young Republicans op
portunity to work in their party,”
she says.
“We’d like to invite everybody
that is interested to meet with
the group,” Mrs. Osborn said.
Mrs. Osborn says she has been
interested in the Republican Party
for quite a few years, and worked
at the National Convention in
November.
At Colorado University and at
SMU where she attended college
before marrying Osborn, she was
amazed at the interest the Young
Republican’s Club stirred. However
she was never a member.
About Osborn’s attitude toward
her active part in the club, she
says: “He is a Republican him
self, so I guess he is tolerant to
ward my being so interested in the
Young Republican Club.”
County Republican Chairman J.
W. Hall, Jr. of Bryan says that this
is the first time anyone has started
a Young Republican Club here.
Hall plans to be present at the
roganizational meeting but says
he’ll be there mainly as just a
spectator.
“As long as someone like Mrs.
Osborn is working toward organi
zation of the club, there’s not
much else that needs doing,” Hall
said.