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12 18,440 READERS 10 Days Until Final Review Number 276: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1957 Price Five Cents MRS. W. PAUL HOLLADAY was elected president of the Federation of Texas A&M College Mothers Club for the coming school year. Mrs. Holladay is from Baytown. Seated from left to right are Mrs. Holladay, Mrs. Frank Milstead, vice president at large and Mrs. Ralph Plumlee. Standing from left to right are the remaining club officers Mrs. W. E. Du Plantis, Mrs. Ernest T. Olson, Mrs. J. M. Simpson, Mrs. John Hall Brown, Mrs. E. W. Blitch and Mrs. A. P. Boyett. Yugoslavs To Gel Military Supplies Vie Zuekero Showing Slight Improvement Vie Zuekero, “B” Field Ar tillery senior who was strick en with spinal meningitis during an intramural softball game last Wednesday, came out of his coma yesterday in St. Joseph’s Hospital and is making a slow improvement, reported his at tending physician, Dr. J. E. Marsh, Jr. Marsh said despite the slow pro gress, he couldn’t say yet what the patient’s condition will be later. He said Vic was resting comfort ably, realized where he was and what his condition is, and was co operating without complaint. Earlier reports said Zuekero was in an oxygen tent, hut Marsh ex plained he had only been given small amounts of oxygen from time to time. The Vic Zuekero Fund was start ed on the j^&M campus today when the Student Senate placed buckets at several prominent locations on the campus. A goal of at least $600 has been set to help pay their Aggie buddy’s hospital bill which mounts by $100 each day. Though Zuekero has some insur ance; it is not enough to combat costs such as these. In addition, productivity on the Zuekero farm at Simenton was stopped by re cent floods, which forced the fam ily to evacuate their home. The land is still under water and is rendered useless for the time be ing. Renick Wins Two Honors At Banquet Jim Renick won the Block and Bridle Merit Trophy and the Brew er Award at the Awards Banquet preceding the Cattleman’s Ball, sponsored by the Saddle and Sir loin Club, Friday night. Renick is a fifth year Animal Husbandry major from Llano and a member of Phi Kappa Phi, na tional scholastic fraternity. Stanley Keese, junior animal husbandry major from Llano, was picked as the outstanding junior of the year with Mel Lebo, presi dent of the Saddle and Sirlion Ckib amd master of ceremonies for the evening, chosen as the outstanding senior. Joe Van Zandt was given the award for outstanding sophomore of the club and Hudson Glimp, ani mal husbandry major from Bur net, was picked as the outstanding freshman. Patsy Williams from Llano was selected as the sweetheart of the Cattleman’s Ball. She was es corted by Jim Renick. After the awards banquet, the annual dance was held in the American Legion Hall in Bryan. Sfx hundred tickets have already been sold for the Senior Ring Dance, according to Bill Cartel’, ring ceremonies chairman. “We have already doubled the expectations of Student Activities on our ticket sales,” said Carter. “This will be the largest ring dance ever held at AM and the smoothest run of everybody will cooperate with us. One of the biggest events in the life of an Aggie is passing through the “Ring” at the dance to turn his ring around. Pictures will be taken to record that special mom ent that every Aggie has waited four years to do. Carter and his committee have made special arrangements this year to make the operation of tak ing the pictures more rapid and less confusing. Seniors and their dates are asked to line up in numerical order at the time their ticket calls for with Freshman Bruised In Tuesday Mishap Billy J. Barfield, freshman from Wharton, suffered a bruised leg and knee, a chipped tooth and a cracked lip yesterday afternoon when he dashed out from between two parked cars and smashed into a moving auto in front of the YMCA. The unidentified driver rushed Barfield to the College Hospital, where the cadet received treat ment and had X-rays taken of his leg. He was kept in the hospital for observation last night. Barfield insisted the accident was entirely his own fault. He said he emerged from between the cars without looking where he was going. Kemp High Choir Will Sing Here The Kemp High School Choir, a choral group which has appeared throughout the state this year, will sing in the A&M Wesley Foun dation Forum tonight from 7 to 8:15. The club has appeai’ed before the State Teachers Assn., in San An tonio, at the Fine Arts Festival of Texas Southern University i n flouston and the Service Clubs in Fort Worth. In addition, the choir has made recordings for KORA and appeared at Religious Mission Week at Bryan AFB. The public is invited to attend. Admission is free. the exception of the 8:00 p. m. schedules. They have been asked to line up five minutes early in order to begin the picture schedule on time. While in line the couples are asked to keep the talking and noise down to a minimum so the photo grapher can do a fast and efficient job. Each picture must be taken within 30 seconds. Each ring is marked with either “A” green or “B” white which corresponds to the color of the ticket, Carter said. There is an “X” in the ring for the couples to stand on when the picture is being taken. The pictures will be taken in the annex of Sbisa Mess Hall, he said. Pictures may be picked up in Student Activities office in the YMCA the Thursday after the ring dance. Ticket stubs will be requir ed to pick up the pictures, Carter said. WASHINGTON, — OP) _ The United States, with the approval of President Eisenhower, is re suming shipment to Yugoslavia of jet combat planes, tanks and other heavy military equipment. This was announced yesterday by the State Department, ending almost a year’s suspension of ma jor military aid to the independent Communist country. The announcement said the de cision to start arms moving again was based on a finding by the President that “Yugoslavia is and firmly intends to remain indepen dent” and that “it is in the inter est of the United States” to keep it free of Soviet domination. Archi tect Stud cu t C i veil Sc h ol arsh ip Billy Ray Powers, fifth-year architecture major from Dallas, was recently awarded a scholar ship by the Texas Delta Chapter, Tau Beta Pi Association, engineer ing fraternity. The scholarship is intended to aid students in the School of Engi neering at A&M and to encourage superior scholarship and leadership among students. Powers is employed at the arch itectural research group of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station. The following is the senor ring picture schedule which is on the back of the tickets. The number on the ticket corresponds to the numbers to the right of the time i. e., 1-30 will have their pictures made in one ring between 8 and 8:15 and numbers 501-530 will have their pictures made in the other ring at the same times. 8:00 1-30 501-530 8:15 31-60 531-560 8:30 61-90 561-590 8:45 91-120 591-620 9:00 121-150 621-650 9:15 151-180 651-680 9:30 181-210 681-710 9:45 211-240 711-740 10:00 241-270 741-770 10:15 271-300 771-800 10:30 301-330 801-830 10:45 331-360 831-860 11:00 361-390 861-890 11:15 391-420 891-920 11:30 421-450 921-950 11:45 451-480 951-980 12:00 481-500 981-1000 The restored aid program will provide Yugoslavia with addition al jet fighter planes in the immed iate future. Some F86s and F84s released by this country’s Euro pean allies have already been re conditioned and are on European fields awaiting delivery. The military aid program, stai’t- ed about five years ago for Yugo slavia, was interrupted in m id- 1956 except for spare parts for American military equipment which the Yugoslav forces had previously received. The interruption was ordered by the President because of bitter ob jections in Congress to giving’ mil itary equipment to a Communist country, particularly after Yugo slav President Tito had joined in efforts with Soviet Premier Bul ganin and Communist party chief Khrushchev to improve Russian- Yugoslav relations. E. Pakistans Here For System Study Two leading educators of the government of East Pakistan have arrived for a four-day study of agreements between the college system and the government of Pakistan, involving technical as sistance to the Asian nation. The campus visitors are M. U. Sarker, secretary of the education department and officer in charge of that department for the minis try of education of East Pakistan, and M. Fazlur Rahman, assistant director of public instruction. The men will discuss operation of contracts through which the col lege is extending technical assist ance to the government of Pakis tan in the fields of agricultural and engineering research, teaching and extension work. Selective Trade PARIS, Ky. CT)—Hamlet Collier Sr. displayed his flaming loyalty recently. After the seat in his truck caught fire, Collier tossed it onto the bed behind the cab and drove almost a mile outside town to the Bourbon County Fire De partment. The Paris Fire Depart ment was closer but Collier passed it up. He’s an auxiliary fireman on call at the Bourbon County sta tion. “It was just a case of a fireman wanting to patronize his own fire station,” commented County Chief Walter Ishmael. Weather Today SHOWERS—MAYBE Cloudy skies promise possible thundershowers this evening. Tues day’s high temperature was 90. Low last night was 73. Schedule For Pictures In ‘Ring’ Announced Costs Are Necessary CHS Chooses Millie Caughlin Council Head Millie Cnuglilin was elected to head the Consolidated High School student body for the 1957-58 year in spring stu dent elections held Friday at CHS. Miss Caughlin defeated Jerry Mills for the top CHS student of fice. Also in Friday’s election, Jeanette Vance was chosen as head yell leader and Ann Cleland as senior yell leader. Judy Litton and Dolores Marguart defeated four other candidates to win positions as junior yell leaders. Mary Margaret Hierth, who was unopposed, was elected editor-in- chief of the “Tigerland”, the CHS yearbook, Junius Clark was elec ted senior business manager of the yearbook and Don Ayera was chosen junior business manager. Both Clark and Avera were 'elected by write-in votes. Outgoing Consolidated High of ficers ai’e Maurice Olian, student body president; Ann Hite, head yell leader; Lupy Rogers, senior yell leader; Jeanette Vance and Caro lyn Wilson, junior yell leaders and Jo Anne Walker, “Tigerland” editor. No Cut In Spending Forseen By Ike WASHINGTON, (TP)—President Eisenhower told the nation last night “the price of peace is high.” He said he sees no immediate prospect for “relaxation of international tensions” to warrant a substantial cut in federal spending. Appealing directly to the people in an effort to stem the budget-cutting tide in Congress, the President said in an address prepared for coast-to-coast television and radio broadcast: “There is no cutrate price for security.” In a defense of the administration’s $71,800,000,000 spending program for the year starting July 1, the Presi dent declared that budget “Is huge,” but he called it neces- : ♦"sary to help wage peace and Kiwanians Present Award To Couple College Station Kiwanians hon ored Dr. and Mrs. Les Richardson yesterday at their regular lunch eon meeting and presented them with a scroll of appreciation. Dean Robei’t B. Kamm, of the Basic Division and Student Per sonnel Services, spoke to the group on the topic, “Good Teaching — Responsibility of Each of Us.” Russell Couch presented Mrs. Richardson with a bunch of flow ers and expressed the good wishes of the club for “continued success and happiness.” Storage Areas Set For Summer Terms Baggage may be stored this summer by students who will not be attending the first summer ses sion of summer school or who ai’e not coming back to A&M until next fall, according to Bennie A. Zinn, head of student affairs. Lamps, trunks and other person al belongings can be stored in either the basement of Dormitory 3 or “K” Ramp of Walton Hall. The storage will be handled by the Agronomy Society and they will receive all the revenue for their club. They will assume no responsibility for the property, but all possible precautions will be taken to safeguard it, Zinn said. Lamps will be stored at a price of $.40 each, bicycles, at $1 each, footlockers at $ .40 and all other pieces at proportional rates. Stor age charges will be paid at the time of storing. Students not attending summer school this summer or those at tending only the second session may store their baggage as to the following schedule. Monday May 27 4-5 p.m. and from llrl2 a.m. and from 4-5 p.m. from Tuesday May 28 to Saturday June 1. prevent war. “I can see no immediate re laxation of international ten sions to provide the basis now for substantial reductions of these spending programs for pre serving and waging peace,” Eis enhower said. “In fact, the gains we have al ready made impel us to press for ward with no letup.” Speaking from his White House office, Eisenhower noted that more than seven billion dollars in the budget is earmarked for payment of interest on the national debt. Referring to it as an obligation which must be met, the President went on to say: i< “Ours is not like the Soviet gov ernment, which recently told its people it would no longer pay the interest on its government savings bonds.” Repeating what he has said sev eral times the last few weeks, Ei senhower said of the budget: “No great reductions in it are possible unless Congress elimi nates or curtails existing federal programs, or all of us demand less service from the government, or unless we are willing to gamble with the safety of our country.” Rep. Martin of Massachusetts, the House Republican leader, re ported to newsmen after a call on Eisenhower that the President said he would “not want to assume any responsibility for the safety of the country if cuts were made of any substantial nature in missiles and aircraft.” FACULTY APPRECIATION AWARD WINNERS for the School of Arts and Sciences for 1957 are (left to right) V. Doyle Urban, Charles Heaton and Donald R. Huffman. The awards are presented annually to the students in the School of Arts and Sciences who show outstanding qualities in their academic work. * MSC Directors Pick Secretary; Plan For Fall Meeting yesterday after noon in its Memorial Student Center chamber, the MSC Di rectorate Council drew up plans for New Student Week in September, elected next year’s secretary and made plans for send ing representatives to a Leader ship Retreat next fall. With new president Don Mc- Ginty, junior from Spur presid ing, members present at the organ izational meeting elected Bill Hampton, junior from Wichita Falls, secretary of next year’s Council. Don Cloud, sophomore from Kerens, is vice-president for the next term. The council then discussed fin ancing and handling for Open House during “Fish” Week next September, deciding to have A&M’s president meet the freshmen in formally. Also at the meeting, the Direc torate decided to sponsor campus leaders at a Leadership Retreat scheduled for a Methodist en campment near Lakeview next fall, just before registration of new students.