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Number 259: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1957
Price Five Cents
Off the Cuff
What Goes
On Here
Recently, while this campus was
graced with the latest Elvis Presley
movie, where the hero is assassi
nated, the following statement was
overheard:
“I don’t care what they say.
I’ll never believe Elvis is dead.”
★ ★ ★
Three goats which escaped being
slaughtered yesterday morning by
breaking out of the pen behind
the Animal Husbandry Depart
ment’s Meat Laboratory gave an
interesting afternoon to members
of the Campus Security Force and
spectators.
Migrating down to the System
Administration Building the goats
celebrated their “stay of execution”
by grazing on the peach buds now
in bloom-or which were in bloom
in front of the building.
Leaving there for greener past
ures they next invaded the area
which is normally inhabited by the
CE surveying classes.
During this move the first mem
ber of the trio was recaptured by
converging forces from the Meats
Lab. The other two escaped into
the 100-acre pasture and hid in the
tall grass.
Yesterday afternoon two volun
teers from the Housing Office,
Buddy Barton and Don Parsons,
Biased one more of the goats down
nnd turned him over to the Meats
Lab.
At last report the third and last
goat was still roaming the pasture
Uncaptured.
ELECTION DAY—Rolo Sanchez, Toby Hughes and James McKnight (I. to r.) listen as
W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, Organizations Advisor of the Department of Student Activities,
explains the workings of the voting machine to be used in today’s election.
Mass Polio Shots Available
For Aggie Wives, Families
Calendar Session
Scheduled May 1
A meeting to reserve dates for
all student functions on the 1957-
58 All-College Calendar has been
set for Wednesday May 1, at 5
p. m. in room 101 of the YMCA,
according to C. G. (Spike) White
of the Student Activities Depart
ment.
All the interested departmental,
class, club and organization officers
are invited to attend the meeting,
he said.
Those wishing to schedule events
which fall on week nights need not
attend the meeting but may place
their events on the calendar by
mail, White said.
“Anyone wishing to discuss Stu
dent Activities Committee'policies
concerning this calendar may see
me,” White said.
By DAVE McREYNOLDS
A dream of many months and
the culmination of common effort
by many people will come to pass
Saturday afternoon when Salk
Polio Vaccine will be made avail
able to Ag’gie wives and their
families (at cost) in B-2-C College
View.
Members of the various Aggie
Wives Clubs and the Aggie Wives
Council have contacted numerous
local authorities for the “ok” on
such a project and yesterday the
Saturday date was set for the ini
tial shots. '
The shots will cost $1 each, and
this will g - o toward defraying the
costs of the vaccine and postage.
The remainder will be turned over
to the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis’ local chapter.
There will be plenty of Salk
Polio Vaccine on hand Saturday
and shots are scheduled to begin
at 1 p.m. and run through 3 p.m.
Four local registered nurses have
volunteered their services for the
occasion and Jean Huff, Bryan
City School Nurse, has secured
permission of the County Health
Unit to borrow their equipment for
giving the shots.
Great Issues Presents
The Overstreets Tonite
Dr. Harry A. Overstreet and his
wife, Bonaro W. Overstreet, will
address the Great Issues on “Be
ing An Individual in Today’s
World,” at 8 tonight in the Ball
room of the Memorial Student
Center.
The Overstreets write a syndi
cated newspaper column, “Making
Life Make Sense” which appears
weekly in about 25 papers.
Dr. Overstreet has written “The
Mature Mind,” a Book-of-the-
Month selection and best seller for
two years, “The Great Enterprise,”
“The Mind Goes Forth” and was
co-author with his wife on “The
Mind Alive.”
He finished his undergraduate
work at the University of Califor
nia and graduate work at Oxford
University.
Mrs. Overstreet was educated at
the University of California and
Columbia University. Since her
marriage to Overstreet she has
worked with him in the fields of
adult education and mental health.
She has become nationally and in
ternationally known for her con
tributions in the field of human
relations.
Her books, “How to Think About
Ourselves” and “Understanding
Fear,” have been book club selec
tions and best sellers.
Concerning the Overstreet’s book
“The Mind Goes Forth,” William
Lynch, in the Saturday Review,
said, “The Overstreets take the
pedantry out of psychology and
replace it with the tender warmth
for which the much-abrused word
compassion is singularly descrip
tive,” and “They see hundreds of
clues to a good life and a good
society.”
Season tickets will be honored
and others may be purchased at
the door for $1 each.
KlettTo Present
Paper In Dallas
George Klett, agricultural ad
ministration senipr, won honorable
mention for a pap%r on folklore in
the Texas Folklore Society’s an
nual student contest.
His paper, “Ghosts of the
Medio,” is a ghost story he heard
in his native Bee County. The
Texas Folklore Society has in
cluded the paper on its program
for its annual meeting in Dallas
Friday.
Klett and Dr. John Q. Anderson
of the English Department will at
tend the TFS meeting. Anderson
was president of the society last
year and now is a councilor of the
organization.
Students from four state colleges
and leading folklorists from Texas,
Spain and Norway will give stories
at the meeting.
Other nurses working with Mrs.
Huff are Mrs. Virgil Parr and
Agnes Neal.
The program has been set up
primarily to provide adequate pro
tection against Polio for Aggie
wives and their children.
You do not have to be a mem
ber of any health plan or have
Local Artists
Dominate Show
Winners List
Winners in the annual re
gional art show held in the
Memorial Student Center last
week have been announced by
Mrs. Emileta Terry.
Winning awards were Bessie
Womble, oil, Caldwell; Nina Hen
ry, casein, Bryan; Hazel Naylor,
ink resist, Bryan; Ralph L. Terry,
oil, College Station; David Morris,
ink wash drawing, Colege Station.
Ina Himmelreich, sculpture-terra
cotta, College Station; Robert S.
Boyce, carving-cedar wood, A&M;
Jo Anne Walker, pencil, College
Station; Robert Monk, pencil, Col
lege Station and Ruth Mogford,
mixed media. College Station.
Those winning citations were
Robert S. Boyce, wood carving—
black walnut, A&M; L. V. Hawkins,
wood turning — walnut, College
Station; Bessie Womble, casein,
Caldwell; James B. Rabe, casein,
Bryan; Elam L. Denham, water-
color and ink, A&M; Robert S.
Boyce, watercolor and ink, A&M.
Cathy Konecny, crayola, Sam
Houston State Teachers College;
Robert Monk, pencil, College Sta
tion; Jo Anne Walker, pencil, Col
lege Station; Paul Ross, casein,
A&M; Wallace Dryer, watercolor,
Marlin; Jimmy Lee Phipps, Bryan
Air Force Base; Mae Goodlett,
casein, Bryan; Joyce W. Erdmann,
watercolor, College Station; Frank
Roberts, pencil, A&M; Hazel Nay
lor, ink resist, Bryan; Emalita
Newton Terry, casein, Colleg’e Sta
tion and Ruth Mog-ford, casein,
College Station.
paid the A&M College Hospital
fee to secure the shots, according
to Doris Purser, president of the
Aggie Wives Council. “All the
girls have to do is show up with
the dollar' and bring their chil
dren.”
Mrs. Purser has volunteered the
use of her home for giving the
shots as it seemed to be the most
centi’ally located spot.
A series of three shots com
prises the Salk Polio Vaccine. The
first two shots are given one
month'apart and the third within
six months.
Weather Today
SHOWERS
Forecast calls for partly cloudy
skies with a few showers in the
area after 2:30 P.m. Yesterday’s
high was 68 degrees, and this
morning’s low, 51. At 10:30 a.m.
the temperature was 63 degrees.
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ree
Chief Fireman Speaks
At Dallas Conference
“Arson Files and Reports” will
be the topic of a speech to be given
by Henry D. Smith at the second
annual Texas Arson conference in
Dallas.
Smith is Chief of Fireman Train
ing Depai’tment, Engineering Ex
tension Service.
The three-day conference, which
begins today, will be attended by
fire marshals, sheriffs, state police,
fire chiefs, police chiefs, private
investigators, insurance adjustors
and agents.
Pan Am Week
Highlighted By
Dance, Movies
Entertainment for Pan
American Week, currently be
ing observed in the Memorial
student Center, will include
such features as free movies,
guitar music, and a Latin Ameri
can dance with an all girl floor
show.
-Free movies on the Pan Ameri
can countries will be shown in the
main lounge of the MSC through
out the week. On the program for
Wednesday night is “Fabulous
Fishing,” “Holiday in Panama” and
“The Amazon Awakens” .and for
Friday, “Bridge of the Americas,”
“Maya Through the Ages” and
“Wings to Mexico and Guatema
la.” Saturday’s free movies in
clude “Meeting of the Americas,”
“Fabulous Fishing” and “Around
South America by Air.”
“Green Fire” with Grace Kelly
will be pi’esented by the Film So
ciety Thursday night at 7:30 on
the starlight terrace of the MSC.
Admission is 25 cents.
Saturday is a big day, entertain
ment-wise. At noon, the Music
Group presents Miss Sandra Sev
ier at the organ in the main lounge
of the MSC and at 3 p.m., Ray de
la Toi're, classic guitarist, will play
in the Ballroom, sponsored by the
Recital Series.
The All College Dance, Cafe de
Monte Carlo, which is a Rue Pin-
alle with a Latin twist, will begin
at 8:30 p.m. in the ping pong area
of the MSC and will feature an
all girl floor show.
The High-Five Combo will pro
vide popular music for the dance.
Admission is $1.50 per couple.
Cancer Society
Pushes Slogan:
Check, Checkup
“Fight Cancer With a
Check-up and a Check”, is the
slogan of the annual Cancer
Crusade which is in its second
week, according to Charles D.
Hart, local chairman of this year’s
educational and fund-raising cam
paign.
“We want to drive home this
idea of ‘Fight Cancer With a
Check-up and a Check’ until we
save those thousands of lives that
can be saved,” Hart said. “Many
persons die because cancer is not
discovered and treated in the early
stages.”
Hart said there has been pro-
gi'ess in cancer control and much
of the credit must go to the Cancer
Society’s Educational Pr'ogram.
Central Texas Life Underwriters is
campaign sponsor.
“If every adult in the United
States made a habit of yearly
checkups, 50 per cent of those who
get cancer could be saved. The
other cancer patients cannot be
cured with existing treatments,”
he said.
“One day research will find a
way to conquer this deadly enemy.
But research costs money. And
that is the reason for the second
part of our slogan. We hope all
citizens will be generous when they
fill out those checks,” Hart said.
A door-to-door drive to boost
the program and receive donations
will be conducted April 16. Co
operating with the Cancer Society
in its knocking on “every door in
Bryan and College Station,” will be
local civic groups and any one
else who wants to help, according
to Sid Loveless, publicity chairman.
Democrat Claims
ice Inefficiency
Shockley To Judge
Local Poetry Club
Martin Shockley, president of the
Poetry Society of Texas, will be
guest critic Monday for the Bryan-
College Station Poetry Society
meeting.
The meeting will be held in the
home of the McNeil Drumwrights
in Bryan. Preceding the meeting
there will be a no-host dinner at
Del Marmol’s restaurant in Bryan.
WASHINGTON, LT*)—Republican House leaders agreed
yesterday to back Postmaster General Summerfield’s request
for an extra 47 million dollars to maintain full postal services
through June 30.
But Rep. Cannon (D-Mo.) told the House ‘“don’t be
alarmed, don’t be stampeded” by Summerfield’s demands.
Cannon is chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
“It’s not going to destroy the republic,” Cannon said in
a floor speech, if the postmaster general carries out his
threat to curtail mail services drastically for the balance of
the fiscal year.
Rep. Martin of Massachusetts, the GOP leader, reported
the Republican Policy Com-'*
mittee in the House went over
in detail Summerfield’s re
quest for a deficiency appro
priation to carry his depart
ment thi'ough the last three
months of the fiscal year.
“We unanimously came to the
conclusion that if the services of
the Post Office Department are to
be continued at the necessary level
we must give it the 47 million
dollars,” Martin told newsmen.
Cannon told the House Summer
field’s threat to halt Saturday de
liveries wouldn’t hurt anyone be
cause most businesses are not open
on Saturday and Sunday anyway.
Halting the money order service
would also be unimportant, Can
non said, because “you can go to
any bank in the country and get
the same service cheaper.”
“The question here is not more
money, more money, more money,”
he continued. “The question here
is efficient business administra
tion.”
Everywhere, Cannon said, post
offices are “over-manned, over
staffed, over-equipped.”
Rep. Vursell (R-Ill.) issued a
statement defending the Depart
ment.
“Any charge of waste or inef
ficiency in the Post Office Depart
ment is ridiculous,” Vursell said.
“It is currently handling 20 per
cent more mail than six years ago
with approximately 10,000 less em
ployes.”
Cannon waxed sarcastic in dis
cussing Summerfield’s demands,
declaring the House, “the greatest
deliberative body in the world, has
stood up to Hitler, has stood up to
Mussolini, has stood up to Stalin,
but has stampeded before the post
master general.”
Registrar Says
Enrollment To
Soar By 1970
Enrollment at A&M is an
ticipated to reach an all-time
high of 13,143 in 1970 accord
ing to an estimate recently
released by H. L. Heaton, reg
istrar.
Present figures set A&M’s total
enrollment at 7,713 for the current
semester. Heaton’s estimates show
a gradual increase for the next
13 years with a maximum of about
500 each year.
Figures from graph compiled by
the Registi’ar’s Office give the
full registration totals from 1933
until 1957. There have been signifi
cant increases since 1933 when the
enrollment was 2,140. Student reg
istration moved steadily upward
until 1941 when it reached a peak
of 6,679.
After a slight drop in 1942, en
rollment plummeted to a scant
2,205 in 1943. However, with the
return of veterans in 1946, reg
istration records were set as 8,651
students started the fall semester.
From 1946 until 1953, yearly
enrollment dropped steadily. It
started on the upgrade in 1954 and
has continued to rise through this
semestei - .
PAN AMERICAN “TOURS by way of the movie, in color with sound, leave nightly
from the Mam Lounge of the MSC as part of the Pan American Week Program. Ex-
^ exican f 00( k Latin music and art displays add to the scenic air throughout the
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