The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, May 10, 1957, Image 1

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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 ? ”
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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.
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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.