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LIBRARY FE 12 COPIES I V THE BATTALION 50 Days Til Final Review Number 257: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1957 Price Five Cents Off the Cuff- What Goes On Here A testimonial to the fact that not all English courses are difficult is posted outside the door on one of the English classrooms in the Academic building. Although somewhat hidden among the mass of mid-semester grades, a big “C” shines out be side the name of a boy who drop ped the course approximately seven weeks ago. ★ ★ ★ Two “A” Chemical seniors were literally “caught with their pants down’' Thursday morning at Fed eral Inspection. Rushing around taking care of last-minute details the pair lost track of the time until, to their horror, they heard the room next to their’s being call ed to attention. While one strug gled into his uniform, the other grabbed a double handful of stray articles and began stuffing them into a laundry bag in his closet. The inspector, Col. E. Beverly Caldwell, strode into the room, pushing the door shut on the senior and caught the other still putting his shirt into his pants. One look told the story and Col. Caldwell left, commenting: “He wasn’t quite ready, was he?” not aware that another man was still in the closet, hitting a brace. ★ ★ ★ Although the Air Force had quite a rough time in the inspection yesterday morning due to the West Point second lieutenants, the tradi tional “rough” inspections of the Army seemed to be “watered.” down. Could it have been the stag party given by the hosting A&M officers for the visiting inspectors ? If it was, it proves the Air Force boys have more expei-ience in the party line. Senate Favors Integrated Civilian Seating UN CLUB DANCER—Mrs. Tri- veni P. Popat of Bombay, India was one of the featured dancers at last night’s U. N. Club meeting in the YMCA. Mrs. Popat is work ing on her master’s degree in Ed ucation at Texas University and her husband is working for a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry. Great Issues To Present , Overstreets The “Overstreet Team,” Dr. Harry A. Overstreet and his wife, Bonaro, will address the Great Issues on “Being An In dividual In Today’s World,” Wednesday at 8 p.m., in the Me morial Student Center Ballroom. Dr. Overstreet is one of the most widely read and respected au thors in the field of self-under standing and human relations. He has made many lectures over the world and made many philosophi cal and psychological contributions to his audiences. Bonaro Overstreet is also inter nationally known for her contri butions in the field of human re lations. She has written many psychological books and also pub lished many books of poetry. She has written for the National Par ent-Teacher and other educational and religious journals. For the past 10 years, Dr. Over- street and his wife have become widely popular for their “Over- street Colloquy,” a platform con versation in which, with spontane ous back-and-forth talk, they de velop together their central theme. The Overstreets, who were mar ried in 1932, both studied at the University of California Pa rking So lu tion Proposal Passed By JIM NEIGHBORS Student senators last night voted to integrate Corps and Civilian juniors and seniors with reserved seats for everyone in those sections at all home football games next fall. In a surprise move, the Senate also approved a report to raise the car registration fee to $2.50 per semester with the money used for improvement and construction of parking lots for students. The report will be sent in the form of a recommendation to the president for further action. After a heated debate with several Corps juniors ar guing against the seating integration, the Senate voted to (1) raise the date ticket price to $3.50, (2) combine Corps- Civilian seating and (3) favor the entire reserve seating * program. Following the action by the CS Elections Still Unsettled Counseling, Probation Services May Be Cut By VAL POLK Brazos County will be without a probation officer and counseling service if the County Commis sioner’s Court does not appropriate $28,000 for two people to do these jobs. The county is already without a probation officer since Vic Ehlers, who is now both probation officer and guidance counseler for the county, is swamped with just com piling case histories and back grounds for the various juveniles before the juvenile court. Ehlers has been informed that the Division of Mental Health which has been paying his salary the last two years, has had its budget cut and can no longer af ford to keep him and other such Mother of the Year Entries Close Wed. Wednesday is the last day for submitting the Mother of the Year entries. The entries, in the form of a letter telling of her qualifi cations, should be sent to the Stu dent Senate in care of the Social Committee in the Office of Stu dent Activities. In order to be in the running, the mother must have a son pres ently enrolled in A&M. The award will be presented at the Mother’s Day ceremonies. men employed in the counties where they are working. The federal government helps support the state agency and they may cut the budget that has been helping the division. Ehlers said that there are 800 children that need the kind of help he can give them. He works with children 4-16 in age in counseling and guidance. As of now he only has two days a week to counsel since his other duties take up the remainder of his time. He gave the committee some statistics which showed that 77 per Dr. Briles to Attend Research Conference Dr. W. E. Briles of the Poultry Science Department will attend the 10th annual Research Conference of the Biology Division' of Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Gatlinburg, Tenn., Monday through Wednesday. Briles, a nationally recognized expert on blood genetics is attend ing in connection with a local re search project concerning blood groups. A&M Radio Club Aids in Emergency By staying on the air until after midnight calling families of Aggies who live in the Dallas area, the Texas A&M Radio Club gave aid in the emergency created by the tornado there Tuesday. Over 35 messages were handled by the amateurs after it became known that the local telephone com pany was swamped with calls. In many instances the students were allowed to talk to their par ents over the short wave hookup. Don Arnold, president of the club, stated that the radio service would be available during any emergency. cent of the offenders are white, 93 per cent are boys and 85 per cent are citizens of College Station and Bryan. At the present time 95 per cent of the people coming to him for guirance are white, He said, “Colored people aren’t using the service.” Since Ehlers has come to Brazos County he has helped to lower the delinquency list 47 per cent and in the two year period he has been here only 10 per cent of the first offenders have repeated. When Ehlers first came to this county an average of 4.2 delin quents were being sent to training schools. Now only 2.5 delinquents are being sent to training schools and this average has been raised by a boy from Houston with a long record of offenses who was sent to a training school for a theft he committed here. Brazos Co. Planners Organize The Brazos County Plan ning Commission heads met yesterday in R. B. (Pete) Butler’s office to organize and break down into their various groups for planning action on the projects of expansion in Brazos County. Butler is head of the five man executive committee, with J. A. Ch*r representating College Station; S. R. Wright, A&M College; Casey Fannin, Bryan and Brazos County Judge A. S. Ware, the county. Each representative will appoint a committee to work under him oii^a special problem of the expansion. Two committees have already been appointed. Wright appointed Knox Walker, Fred Sandlin and Ran Boswell to work with him on the Utility problems. Orr, in charge of street planning, appointed Gibb Gilchrist, W. J. Ware, Fred Benson and Ran Boswell to assist him. Both com mittees met and discussed problems concerning their part of the ex pansion. The committees will attend a talk by Bill Parker, urban renewal and pre-development specialist for Caudill, Rowlett & Scott, local architect designers, Monday at 4 p. m. in the Memorial Student Cen ter. The public is invited to at tend the talk. Weather Today CLEAR This morning’s 10:30 tempera ture reading was 60 degrees. The mercury rose to 81 degrees yes terday and dipped to a cool 46 this morning. PS Profs Travel To Nacogdoches Dr. W. F. Kruger and C. B. Ry an of the Poultry Science Depart ment will be in Nacogdoches Sun day through Wednesday at Texas Experiment sub-station 11 assist ing data collection on progeny of meat line crosses of chickens be ing bred at the main station. The research project is expected to yield information on the rela tion between color patterns in chickens and broiler growth rates. Law Hall Starts Dormitory Council At a meeting last night called for planning a dormitory social event, Law Hall took steps to form a dorm council and look into possibilities of adopting a con stitution. The action aroused spirited in terest and brought favorable reactions from a majority of the group. Discussion started when Roy Andrews, Law representative to the Civilian Student Council, mentioned a constitution that a committee of the Civilian council had drafted this year. Andrews asked the group to express their sentiments. Amidst considerable participa tion in the discussion, members of the group brought up the following advantages that could be gained from having a dorm council. 1. Betterment of dorm social life. 2. Aid freshmen to become orien tated to life as Aggies, by better ment of studying atmospheres and attitudes toward traditions of the school. 3. Allowing students a stronger voice in securing more satisfactory dormitory conditions. 4. Obtain more influence in cam pus affairs for civilians through organization. Members forming a temporary council to work toward getting the dorm government on a permanent basis are Gordon Baker, Larry Robinson, David Yost, Billy Sevier, James Roming, Edwin Burton, Rodger Andrews, Grady Satter- white, Lawrence Pecht, Marvin Pate, Richard Ruben, John Bayse, Winfred Kainer, Michael Maher, Blake Blakewood, Bill Montgomery, Louis Martin and Roy Andrews. Thursday at 4 p. m. the group will meet to present a plan for constitution. Senate, the recommendation will be sent to the Athletic Council for their approval. According to Senator Joe Ross, the council plans to hold a special meeting to act on the recommen dation. The senate committee that drew up the plan expressed the need for reserve seats in a report to the Senate. Advantages as given in the report include “cutting down the confusion due to the Corp’s rush for the best seats. Civilian Students would not have to come to the games so early in order to get decent seats, non-students would not be taking student seats . . . .” and several more statements of fact which make the program advantageous to student body. Procedure for securing tickets for the home games will be slightly different from the way it has been in the past. Students will still pay their student activity fee and re ceive the season ticket, but the week before a home game each junior and senior student will have to secure a reserved seat ticket fteom the ticket booths. First Come, First Serve Tickets will be handed out on a first come, first served basis with the juniors and seniors getting their reserved seats within their respective sections. Freshmen and sophomores would also be issued tickets but they will not be re served because it was felt by the Senate that there was very little difference in any end zone seats. No rise in date ticket price for freshmen and sophomores was stip ulated because conference regula tions say that date tickets must cost $3.50 if there are reserved seats in the end zone. With that reasoning in mind, freshman and sophomore date tickets would re main $2.50. In order to keep students within their proper sections, tickets will be torn in half at the entrance to Kyle Field and the stubs must be shown to ushers at the bottom of each ramp. Corps students will give one half of their tickets to the first sergeants to hand in through the proper channels.. For a date to enter the stadium she must have a complete ticket with “date” stamped on it and she can then go to her reserved seat to wait for her escort. Each ticket will correspond to a seat and both will be marked with numbers. The Seating Committee has studied and investigated for several weeks the various solutions and they feel reserve seating is the answer to most of the problems presented in seating the student body. The Senate concurred with them and only action by the Ath letic Council is needed to put the program into effect. Some discussion was raised by several senators who submitted to the meeting that with an increased cost and reserve seating for jun iors and seniors it would be more feasible for the Athletic Depart ment to furnish ushers at the foot ball games. Absent from last night’s meeting were Bernard Smith, Ross Hutche son, Paul Costa, Cy Holley, Paul Norton and Jim Rowland. By WELTON JONES The voting is over but the smoke hasn’t cleared in elections for the College Station City Council. In what has been called an “un precedented situation”, ward three of College Station is presently without a second representative on the council. The incumbent in the office, Sgt. Ernest Seeger, died last Thursday. His name was the only one on the official ballot for the election Tuesday. At the election, after city of-- ficials said that a special election would probably have to be called to fill the vacancy, 29 write-in votes were recorded. This total was opposed to 270 votes cast in ward one and 212 in ward two. “After examining all the laws and cases that I can on the subject, I think that a run-off election will have to be held between the write- in candidates with the most votes, City Attorney C. E. Dillon said. Col. Frank H. Mathews (Ret.) got the most votes with 10. Matt Warman followed with 9; the late Sgt. Seeger got six; Robert Andrews, 5; Rev. R. L. Brown, two and Bill Magee, two. “State and city laws specify that a write-in candidate must get a majority of the votes cast,” Dillon said. “Neither Andrews nor War- man were qualified voters and therefore they cannot run for the office and their votes are not count ed in the final tally. However, the law does state that votes of a deceased candidate count in the total.” This leaves the total number of votes in the ward three election at 20. Ten of these went to Col. Mathews and the other 10 were split between the remaining two candidates and Sgt. Seeger. “It would appear that there will be a run-off between Mathews, Magee and Rev. Brown,” City Manager Ran Boswell said, “Of course, each of these men can de cline to run if they wish. If they all decline, then a special election will have to be called.” Col. Mathews said he was “un decided” about running in the race. He formerly served at A&M as a sergeant with Seeger, but later re ceived his commission and re turned here after retiring. Magee had not decided yester day either. He has lived in the ward since last June but moved here in 1953 to take a job with, the Entomology Department. Rev. Brown, a retired minister, could not be contacted. “The decisions will be made Monday at 5 p. m. when the council meets to canvass the election re turns,” Boswell said. “We will just have to wait until then.” Moore Says ICT Paid Him $2300 AUSTIN, <A>) — Sen. William Moore of Bryan said yesterday he was paid $2,300 in legal retainers from ICT Insurance Co. in 1953 and 1954. Moore testified he was hired at $300 for each month which later was reduced to $100 monthly. He denied he was paid $100 monthly while the legislature was not in session and $300 a month when it was meeting. The Senator appeared before the special Senate Committee investi gating the collapse of BenJack Cage’s ICT enterprises. A copy of letter to Cage July 27, 1953 from Paul Sparks, ex ecutive secretary of the Texas State Federation of Labor and director of ICT, was introduced into the record. The letter said Moore had agreed to $300 a month while the legisla ture was in session and $100 a month when it was not. “I didn’t make an agreement like that,” Moore stated. He an swered “yes” when committee counsel asked him: “was Sparks incorrect in his statement.” Stark Gets Veep Of College Unions Wayne Stark, Memorial Student Center Director, was elected vice president of the National Associa tion of College Unions, at its an nual convention which ended Wed nesday in Salt Lake City. Stark was chairman of the Na tional Games Committee of the Union last year. Representing A&M along with Stark were Charles Haas, business director of the MSC and Ann Keel, social and educational director. They are due back in College Sta tion Sunday. Petroleum Banquet Set Monday Night Frank M. Pool, ’41, will be the principal speaker for the annual awards banquet of the Petroleum Engineering De partment Monday night at 6:30 in the Memorial Student Cen ter Ballroom. Following the smorgasbord ban quet, a number of scholarships will be presented to outstanding pet roleum engineering students by representatives from the petroleum industry. Recipients of the scholar ships are selected by the faculty of the department and are chosen on academic proficiency and over all achievement in college activities. Scholarships to be given to stu dents currently completing senior courses are Magnolia Petroleum Company Scholarship, $400, plus reimbursement for expenses in curred during the year to a maxi mum of $500 and $400 to the de partment; $500 from Lane-Wells Company, two $500 awards from Standard Oil Company of Texas; and a $125 gold watch to the sen ior who. has shown the most im provement in scholarship and a $125 gold watch to the outstanding peti’oleum engineering senior, pre sented by George P. Mitchell. Awards to be given to students currently completing junior courses are the Mission Manufacturing Company scholarship, $800 and $400 in unrestricted funds to the department; $450, plus reimburse ment for fee, tuition, and books to a maximum of $500 from the Cali fornia Company; the Socony Mobil Oil Company scholarship which in cludes $400, plus reimbui'sement up to $500 and $400 to the department; and three or more petroleum engi neering handbooks, presented by George P. Mitchell to outstanding junior students. Outstanding professor in the de partment will be awarded $150 from George P. Mitchell. Recipient is selected by the Dean of Engi neering.