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V. 18,440 READERS THE BATTALION Welcome Parents Number 274 : Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1957 Price Five Cents -Off the Cuff- What Goes On Here Here’s a quick way to make an easy $100. A consulting research company in Massachusetts is offering the $100 for the best photograph tak en during 1957 showing lighting inside and around a tornado fun nel. With all the camera bugs around the campus and the frequency of tornados, the offer shouldn’t be left begging very long. * * A “little boy blue” was the other day charged with the “abor tion of brass” and punished ac cordingly by his instructor. It seems that he wore a set of wings with the propeller filed off to his Air Science class. In defense of his maimed collar ornaments, the student said, “If I planned to fly prop plane I would have left it in tact . . . but I’m going to fly whiz n-zoomers.” Punishment was assessed at 4 demerits. Civilian Fish To Be Oriented For A&M Life Civilian freshmen next year will be given special training to oi'ient them to life at A&M as a result of a decision by the Civilian Stu dent Council last night to accept a plan of freshman orientation sub mitted by the Traditions Com mittee. John LaCroix, chairman of the committee, outlined a plan to Council members which would provide classroom instruction for new civilian students to learn about A&M life. The plan called for upperclass men instruction of these students on such things as the basic Aggie traditions, college rules and regula tions, history of the College, work of the college’s many departments and other similar subjects which would make them better students. The plan was submitted to student Affairs for drafting. (Ed. note—a more detailed account of the plan will be published next week.) The Council also took action to revise the present constitution. Several changes were made and the completed draft will be brought before the Council at the next meeting. Classes Out Sat. At 10 Classes will be dismissed Saturday morning at 10 for the retreat-review to be held in honor of Secretary of De fense Charles E. Wilson Secretary Wilson, who will be accompanied by his aide. Brig. Gen. C. A. Randall', USMC, and W. T. Doherty, president of the board of di rectors, will arrive at Easter- wood Airport at 9:30 and will leave after a lunch in his honor for Houston, where he is to address the Houston Junior Chamber of Commerce. Three Local Men Participate in Meet L. K. Jones, Pierce Wood and R. F. Matthews, members of the Engineering Extension Service, will participate in the annual confer ence of the American Society of Training Directors to be held May 13-17 in Fort Worth. The three will have charge of preparing and presenting a display of training materials produced by industrial organizations, schools and colleges throughout the United States. Jones will also serve as modera tor of a panel that will discuss “what colleges and universities will be doing for training pi’ograms for business, industry and govern ment ? ” <- S !%t c, A NUCLEAR TRAINING REACTOR of this type is to be purchased for training in nucle ar energy technology in the physics and chemistry departments, beginning in the fall of 1957. Funds for the purchase are from a $156,800 grant from the Atomic Energy Commission. Aggies Await Visitors Entertaining Activities Planned Exhibits, demonstrations, dedi cations, a musical comedy, an all college dance and a pair of reviews are scheduled to honor Aggie/ parents on their traditional week end which begins Saturday. Activities begin at 8 Saturday morning. Big event of the morn ing is a formal retreat-review in honor of Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson, who will arrive at Easterwood Airpoi’t at 11. The Ross Volunteer Company will serve as honor guard for Secretary Wil son, who will be accompanied by his aide, Brig. Gen. C. A. Randall, USMC, and W. T. Doherty, presi dent of the A&M System Board of Directors. Other morning activities include a Coffee for Mothers’ Clubs, given by the Brazos County Mothers’ Club in rooms 2-C and 2-D of the Memorial Student Center at 9; presentation of Awards and Auc tion for the Ninth Annual Chick, Poultry, and Egg Show in De- Ware Field House at 10; annual conference of the A&M Federation of Mothers’ Clubs in the Assembly Room of the MSC, also beginning at 10. McNeal Tells Lions Of Pakistan Affairs Dr. Norbert McNeal of the Ge netics Department spoke at the weekly luncheon of the College Station Lions Club in the Memor ial Student Center Monday. He told of affairs in Pakistan from where he recently returned after teaching there as an ex change professor. Three new members which were installed into the club by Presi dent L. C. Grumbles were Capt. Gene Williams of the Air Science Department, George Draper of the Poultry Science Department and Wayne Showers of the Texas Ag ricultural Experiment Station. Wife Won’t Move; Texas Too Foreign CHICAGO, May 9 — Marvin Goldman, 21, wanted to move to Dallas to beat the cost of living. But his wife, Judith, balked—she claimed Texas is too much like a foreign country. Norman Becker, Mrs. Goldman’s attorney, today told Circuit Judge Julius Miner that Goldman said it was Dallas or nothing and left his wife. Judge Miner granted Mrs. Gold man, 18, custody of their two months old daughter and $110 a month temporary support. “Texas is not exactly foreign, of course, but Mrs. Goldman is not obliged to move down there if she doesn’t wish to,” the judge said. Afternoon schedule starts with open house in all departments and in the MSC, then a fly-over by a squadron of T-33 jet aircraft from Bryan AFB; pouring of molton iron in the Mechanical Engineering shops at 3; and the dedication of the Administration Building, to be named Richard Coke Building, be- gining at 4:30. Slated for the big evening is the final judging for the Little South western Livestock Show in the Beef Cattle Center, beginning at 7:30; the 1957 Aggie Follies, “Operation Coed,” in Guion Hall, at 7:30; and the All College Dance, in honor Weather Today SHOWERS The temperature climbed to 80 degrees at 9:30 a.m. today with showers forecast for this after noon. High yesterday was 82, low 70 with .89 inches of rain. of Aggie Parents, in the Grove at 9:30 with music by the Aggieland Orchestra. Sunday’s schedule begins at 8:15 a. m. with the flower pinning cere mony in the Corps areas and the presentation of the best drilled freshman and sophomore in each unit. The Corps review honoring parents begins at 9:15 in front of the MSC. Following the review the Fish Drill Team will give a demonstration of precision march ing and a program in Guion, Spon sored by the Student Senate, rounds out the full morning of activities. Sunday afternoon activities will be highlighted by the President and Dean’s reception for students and their parents, to be given at 2:30 in the MSC Ball Room; a special drill by the Ross Volunteer Com pany on the Main Drill Field at 1:45 and a “Sing For Fun” pro gram in Guion, starting at 4. A&M Granted Atomic Reactor Wilson s Visit Sets Additional Corps Activity Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson will arrive at Easterwood Airport Satur day morning at 9:30 to be guest of honorat a Cadet Corps review. Wilson will be conducted on a one hour tour of the campus in cluding the outlying farms and the Campus proper. Members of the Ross Volunteers will form an honor guard at East- ei’wood Airport for Secretary Wil son. At 11 a. m. the Corp will march in review on the main drill field for Wilson and his party, after which President D. W. Williams will hold a luncheon in the Memor ial Student Center for Wilson and party. Accompanying Wilson will be his aid, Brig. Gen. C. A. Randall, USMC, and members of the Hous ton Chamber of Commerce. At the conclusion of the luncheon Wilson will return to Houston where he will address the instal lation of officers for the Chamber of Commerce. At the present time Sec. Wilson is in Houston conferring with the newly appointed Under-secretary of Defense in charge of Manpower, W. H. Francis. W. T. Doherty, president of the board of directors, cpnfered with Wilson about visiting the college and Wilson agreed to make the short visit. Wilson will return to Easter wood Airport at 1 p.m. and will leave by plane for Houston. Sweetie Photos Ready Civilian sweetheart pictures may be picked up at the student publi cations office according to Ross Sti-ader, director. ^Operation Coed” Aggie Follies Begin Tonite The curtain rolls back at 7:30 tonight in Guion Hall to open the Parent’s Day weekend activities with the 1957 Aggie Follies, “Op eration: Coed.” Plot for the hour and a half show dwells around the hypotheti cal problem of girls getting them selves enrolled at A&M. One by mistake and one because nobody suspects one would try such an achievement. “Music carries the story through out the pi'oduction. Some of the best music groups in the country were found right here at A&M”, Director Connie Eckard said last night as the cast concluded re hearsals. Musical highpoints of the show are reached by a rhythm and blues trio, “The Three Notes” and a pair of appearances by a vocal group called “Several”. Doyal Boring, John Page and John Bar ger make up “The Three Notes”. “Several” consists of Howard Har well, Fritzie Landers, Don Fried rich, Lari Wester and Bill Heard on the guitar. Backbone of the show’s music has been pianist Maurice Adams. Another Adams, named Clyde, has been responsible for most of the song adaptations. Assisting on the instrumentation will be G. A. Zernial, Gene W. Adams, Richard Harris and John Barger. Picture the plight of poor Char lie Brown, played by Clint White, who tells his girl, played by Mil dred White, to go register and she does. Before he can solve this problem he finds that the housing office has moved still another girl student, played by Joan Moore, into his room. Charlie Brown’s buddies, played by Wayne Edwards, Jerry Williams and Don Demming, see him through the ‘ show as well as shouldering their own problems. Comedy highpoint of “Opera tion: Coed” is the rolicking “Book store” scene where Doris Bahlmann and Amaryllis Roberts come up with new and better ways for sell ing books. WUflLUJ ? a ]c WE SELL MORE BOOKS THAT WAY—Amaryllis Roberts outfits fish Jim Rector with everything needed for “the ca det of good sense” in the hilarious bookstore scene of “Op eration Coed” opening tonight in Guion Hall. The show will kick off Parent’s Day weekend at 7:30. Nuclear Education To Begin in Fall A self-contained AGN nuclear reactor and control con sole have been purchased for the college by the Atomic En ergy Commission and will be installed in the Mechanical En gineering shop building ready for use in September, Presi dent D. W. Williams announced today. A&M received a grant of $156,800 from AEC, for an education and training program in nuclear energy technol ogy. Besides the reactor and console, additional laboratory and demonstration equipment will be purchased for the Phys ics, Chemistry and Engineering Departments to use in nuclear education, beginning in September. Dr. John C. Calhoun, Jr., Dean of Engineering, will head ■♦■the nuclear training program for the college. He has named Dedication Of Coke Building To Be Saturday Tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 the new administration build ing will be renamed in honor of Richard Coke, governor of Texas from 1874 to 1876. The ceremonies will begin with an address by J. Harold Dunn, vice-president of the A&M Sys tem Board of Directors. At the conclusion of Dunn’s speech Student Chaplain Don Huff man will give the benediction. The prayer will be followed by the singing of “This is My Country” by the Singing Cadets. Dedication of the new building will be made by Dr. Walter Pres cott Webb, Distinguished Profes sor of History of the University of Texas. As a permanent memorial to Richard Coke, the faculty commit tee, which was appointed by the board of directors, chose a white marble tablet, recessed into the main wall of the building which will hold a medallion bearing the likeness of him. Inscribed in the tablet will be the reasons for the memorial and three quotations from the address Gov. Coke made to the students and faculty of A&M at the open ing of the school. Coke was elected Governor of Texas in 1874 and was instrument al in pushing appropriation and organization bills which made pos sible the opening of this college. Press Group Rates Batt ‘First Glass’ A rating of first class was awarded The Battalion recently by the Associated Collegiate Press, an organization for rating college newspapers. The Battalion barely missed the top rating. A total of 1,640 points was amassed by the local paper in its effort to reach the top rung for student newspapers’ All-Amer ican. Falling 60 points under the re quired 1,700, “The Batt hopes to improve the paper as much as pos sible and reach the All-American class next year,” said Editor Joe Tindel. In news coverage the paper was classed as excellent, with news sources and balance being the strong points. The ACP rated “The Batt” as “Very good” in treatment of copy and creativeness. Foreign Student Must Get 1-20 Foreign students who are plan ning to vacation outside the United States this summer must secure Form 1-20 before leaving the cam pus in May. This applies to those who are planning to return any time this summer or in September. The forms may be secured from Bennie Zinn, head of the Department of Student Affairs. E. H. Andrew, Jr., of the Elec trical Engineering Dept., as coordinator. Andrew and D. F. Weekes, of the*Physics Dept., will be the first staff members to secure training in operation of the reactor. They go to California this summer to begin training in opera tion of the equipment. “All phases of nuclear technol ogy and atomic energy are consid ered to be potential subject mat ter in the educational program of A&M”, Calhoun said. “But the col lege realizes that its growth in this area must be gradual, planned and founded on sound educational methods.” Several programs of study .are being made available in September that include training in one or more aspects of nuclear technology and atomic energy development, according to Calhoun. He said both graduate and undergraduate students will be trained, with most of the work being done in the grad uate field. “Within these programs the stu dent will have considerable lati tude in choosing the extent to which he will specialize in the nu clear field,” Calhoun continued, “He may select only enough cour ses in this field to give him a sig nificant working knowledge in gen eral nuclear science and in nuclear technology most closely related to his major field. Or, he may choose enough courses in nuclear science and engineering to make this his major, while his basic field be comes a supporting minor.” Ousted Aggies Discipline Final As Appeal Fails Fate of the two students re cently dismissed for playing a tape recording of filthy lan guage over a loud speaker was sealed yesterday when their reinstatement appeal was de nied. However, the Disciplinary Appeal Panel that heard the case set Feb- imary, 1958, as the date when they could apply for readmission. Prev iously the two had been told they could not return to school before February, 1960. Dr. Robert B. Kamm, dean of the Basic Division and Student Personnel Services, is the non voting chairman of the panel. Five other faculty members serve on the panel for one year terms. If and when the two former stu dents do return to school, they may not be permitted to live on the campus, according to Bennie A. Zinn, head of the Department of Student Affairs. Chapel To Be Open Saturday, Sunday A&M’s new inter-faith chapel will be open to Aggies and their parents this Saturday from 10 a.m. throughout the day. Students will lead tours through the new building. Organ music will be played during the day by three students, John O. Good, Mar vin Adams and Carl Moehlman.