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sfles Isiflanied at Of SWC-Blackballed Coach Loeffler THE BATTALION Number 277: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY,MAY 16, 1957 Price Five Cents Surovik Wins Senate Presidency IJ n opposed ‘A’ Bomb Blast Scheduled For Grove Saturday “Operation Sandstone,” a film describing: an atomic bomb blast, will be shown Saturday night at 7:110 in The Grove with no admis sion being charged. “This is all a pai’t of ‘Operation Flick,’ ” said C. E. (Chuck) Gar cia, Signal Corps junior in charge of the program. “We plan to show films dealing with military sub jects every Saturday night. “Op eration Flick” will be sponsored by the Signal Corps in an effort to promote spirit and rivalry be tween outfits on the campus.” The films will be shown in the Memorial Student Center in case of inclement weather,” he said. “We will select films that will familiarize people with the activi ties of the different branches of service and their functions in the national defense. At the same time we will have non-technical films that will be of interest to everyone,” he said. This week “Operation Flick” will also feature shorter films en titled: “Hell on Wheels” (Armor), “Infantry Against Tanks,” “Ne cessity of Aircraft,” “Artillery Support” and a series on service oi’ganizations in action, such as “Unseen Army (Ordnance Corps).” Lamar High Choir Sings Here Tonite The 125-voiced Lamar High School “Choralettes” of Houston will give a free concert in G. Rol- lie White Coliseum tonight at 7:30. Under the direction of Lee S. Keding, Houston, the group will fill the Coliseum with such tunes as “Autumn Leaves,” “Mr. Won derful,” “In the Still of the Night,” “I Could Have Danced All Night,” “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” a medley of “Oklahoma” tunes and many other popular songs. Some of their r’ecent appear ances were on the Les Brown show, the National Automobile show, at the Houston Rotary Club, Baylor and Southern Methodist Universi ties and Rice Institute. Everyone is cordially invited to attend. Houston Takes Yell Leader By 2 Votes Winning - an unopposed seat as 1958 Student Senate pres ident yesterday was Bob Surovik who tallied 462 of the 582 votes cast in the general election. Don Houston defeated civilian yell leader candidate Rob ert Ring by a small margin of two votes, receiving 74 against Ring’s 72. John G. Thomas, who rang up 210 votes, will fill the vice-presidential seat in next year’s Senate. Other candi dates for the position were Wallis D. McNeill, 197 votes and Gary Pepper, 89. Running unopposed for Senate recording secretary was Joseph John Sekerka. He acquired 457 votes. Charles (Woody) Rice defeated John* R. Dosher for the post of Sen ate Parliamentarian, securing 275 votes. Dosher received 228. Pat Resley was elected chair man of the Issues Committee and obtained 297 votes defeating the only other candidate for the posi tion, Jerry A. Horn by 102 votes. Public Relations Committee chairman for next year is Bill W. Libby. He compiled 327 votes while his opponents Thomas E. Reddin and James Hudson received 131 and 70 votes respectively. Teddy R. Lowe was elected chairman of the Student Life Com mittee and balloted 302 votes. John Long was ruhnerup with 105 and William Wafer tallied 01 votes. James Brady emerged as win ner in the race for Student Welfare Committee chairman by out-point ing Charles H. Robison by 47 votes. Brady received 207 and Robison 220. Filings for school representa tives to the Senate opened this morning and will close Tuesday, May 21, at 12 noon. One sophomore and one junior from each school will be elected to the Senate. Election of the representatives is scheduled for Thursday, May 23. In order to qualify, a candi date must have a 1.25 g. p. r. Five men from each class will be picked for the Election Commission at the same time. A 1.0 g.p.r. is re quired to qualify. Sellult/; Wins Third In Essay Contest John C. Schultz III, Business Ad ministration major from Browns ville, tied for third-place in the an nual San Antonio Export-Import Club Essay Contest just conclud ed. He was awarded a medal for construction work in the contest. Fletcher Picked To Head A&M Teacher’s Cluh Robert H. Fletcher of the Mechanical Engineering De partment was chosen presi dent and Dr. A. B. Medlen, Biology, vice-president, at the A&M Chapter of the American Association of University Profes sors’ final meeting this year held in the Biology Lecture Room Tues day night. Fletcher and Medlen suceed Dr. Sidney O. Brown, Biology, and Mike Krenitsky, Cushing Library, president and vice-president, re spectively, during the last term. Walter S. Manning of Business Adrrtinistration has a year left on his two-year secretary-treasurer term. Dr. J. Q. Hays of the English Department, a member of the Na tional Council of AAUP, gave a repoi't in which he explained the purpose of the association — de fending the principles of academic freedom and tenure and working for teacher benefits. Test8 Available For A New CS Mailman Examinations for a substitute clerk-carrier at $1.82 per hour for employment in the College Station post office was announced by the U. S. Civil Service Commission this week. Further information and applica tion forms may be obtained at the post office or from the Regional Director, Eighth U. S. Civil Ser vice Region, Room 103, 1114 Com merce St., Dallas, Texas. Ike Charges Senators Senate Passes Slashed Bills Despite Eisenhower’s Appeal WASHINGTON, — CP) — The Senate, brushed aside President Eisenhower’s appeal for suppoi’t of his budget last night and passed a State and Jutsice Departments money bill slashed $102,564,000 un der his request. It stripped the U.S. Information Agency’s budget request of $144 million dollars down to $90,200,- 000. It also recommended USIA be put back in the State Department, and that the agency end any over seas activities competing with pri vate American agencies. Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Tex as, the Democratic leader, domi nated the debate, which followed the President’s nationwide radio TV speech last night urging ac tion against big cuts, which he said might endanger security. In this connection, Eisenhower men tioned the importance of overseas information pi’ograms. Only one Democrat, Sen. Neu- berger, of Oregon, voted against the USIA cut, which was approved on a 61-15 roll call. The Senate adopted an amend ment, recommended by its Appro priations Committee, giving USIA $90,200,000 to operate the Voice of America and other overseas infor mation programs in the fiscal year starting July 1. This was $15,900,000 less than the House allocated earlier, and $53,800,000 less than the President had requested. Eisenhower later challenged con- gressional budget cutters to show him how they can slash his de fense program without trifling with the nation’s safety. The President also defended anew his $71,800,000,000 budget by telling a news conference that gov ernment in 1957 must “study care fully the needs of the people to day, not of 1860.” Weather Today With mostly cloudy skies, scat tered showers are again forecast for the aiea today. Temperature reading’ at midmorning—83 de grees. Wednesday’s high—90. Low last night—73. Students Petition; Set Yell Practice By JIM CARR ELL and BARRY HART In a last-ditch effort to squelch the rumored firing of Ken Loeffler, Corps and Civilian leaders will meet with Pres ident D. W. Williams today to present a petition asking that the college support the popular basketball coach. Head Yell Leader Bill Dorsey has called a school-wide yell practice for 7:30 p.m. in the Grove to give further student support to Loeffler, who has been charged on four counts by the Southwest Conference. Former Students clubs in Houston, Beaumont and San Antonio are also circulating petitions to be presented to Wil liams. A strong rumor persists that the nationally famous cage mentor will be fired by t h e* COACH KEN Will he LOEFFLER slay? Girls, Awards To Highlight Press Banquet Vanity Fair final judging and presentation of awards for student publication work highlight the 1957 Press Club Banquet Friday night in the Ballroom of the Memorial Student Center. Jim Bower, editor of the Bat talion for the past year, will serve as master of ceremonies for the banquet, w r hich is held each year honoring student publications workers. A Smorgasbord dinner at 7 p. m. kicks off the affair, with Bower taking over afterward for the entertainment and presentation of awards. Dr. Carroll D. Laverty, chair man of the Student Publications Board will give the opening ad dress. Homer Garrison, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety will then pi’esent Bower a $500 check for The Battalion as first prize in the national safety issue contest for daily college newspapers. Editors and their staffs of all student publications for the past year are to be introduced and the editoi's presented watches.. Out going editors will then introduce their successors. Don Burt will introduce the Vanity Fair beauties and the win ner then picked. Pierce and Cassidy will announce winners of Southwestern Veteri narian Awards and Bower the Bat talion awards. Students from Sam Houston State Teachers College will provide entertainment for the banquet, featuring song, dance and musical acts. Junior Boot Dance Plans Being Made Plans are now being formulated for the annual Boot Dance given by the junior class for the new Corps seniors the night after final review. This year’s dance is scheduled for the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. It will begin at 9 p. m., with the Aggie Combo playing un til 12. Juniors with class dues mem bership cards will be admitted to the dance for $2 a couple, other wise the charge is $3 for the semi- formal dance. Two Seniors Hurt In Wreck Tuesday Two Aggi'es were injured Tues day at 12:45 a.m. when their car overturned after hitting a concrete culvert on the Jones Bridge Road. Robert Bruce Martin and Jerry Lee March banks, both seniors, told O. L. Luther, investigating officer of the Texas highway patrol, they hit the culvert after swerving to miss some cows in the road just beyond a <?urve they had made. Martin, the di’iver of the car, said his headlights were directed to the side of the road and he was unable to see the cows until he was almost upon them. He turned to one side and then the other trying to stay on the road. Upon hitting the culvert the car flipped due to the sudden im pact, he said. Martin suffered cuts and bruises around the ankle and ribs. March- banks was bruised and shaken up. The car was a total loss, Luther said. Both men are seniors here. college before the end of the week. The SWC has asked that Williams render a decis ion before the NCAA meets May 30. A&M just completed a two-year probation May 14, and athletic department officials are concerned over the possibilities of further restrictions to the program. The Aggies had been forbidden to par ticipate in any NCAA sponsored athletic event, including post-sea son football games. ★ ★ ★ Cadet Colonel of the Corps Jack Lunsford and four other students met with President D. W. Williams this morning at 10, asking the President’s support of basketball coach Ken Loef fler who it is rumored is to be fired. The other students were Don Butter and three basketball play ers, Wayne Lawrence, 6-9 fresh man star, and graduating co- captains of the A&M team, George Mehaffey and Ted Har- rod. Lunsford met with Williams to report the backing of Loef fler by the student body and said “1 have amajority of the students behind me and they be lieve as I do, that the coach should be given full support and retained at A&M.” “The boys were very fine,” said Williams, after talking to the group. “I was very glad to hear from them and get their viewpoint.” ★ ★ ★ Let’s take the charges one at a time and examine the NCAA and SWC’s case against A&M and Coach Loeffler. No names are mentioned by either organization but there is little doubt left as to who is concerned. The first charge is of trying out prospective athletes. Loeffler de nies that he or anyone else ar ranged the so-called “workout”. “This all took place before I came to A&M to take over as head coach of basketball,” says Loef fler. “I was notified by wire the job was mine and I was to stay up East and recruit. I knew about Alex Roberts and called the man ager of the Pawtucket Boy’s Club and asked him if it would be pos sible to see him.” “He told me Roberts worked out three or four times a week and was a player in a summer basketball league. I went up and saw the boy play in a regular league game.” “It was all so innocent. I didn’t even talk to the boy at the time. Those boys up there play ball all year around. They have summer leagues in the Adirondacks and all over New England at resort hotels and they get the best ballplayers in the country to play for them.” Stu Heller, a 6-6 player from McKeesport, Pa., reports that “he has played in summer basketball leagues since he was in junior high.” He continued, “I even play ed up there last summer when I was home on vacation.” The second charge is of exces sive financial aid to 'student ath letes. The report states the trans portation of a prospective athlete from Pawtucket, R.T., the home of Roberts, to College Station for the purpose of enrolling in A&M was illegally provided in September, 1955. However, Loeffler admits that alumni paid for the transpor tation and at the time he thought it was legal. The third charge was an airline ticket illegally provided Roberts by “a representative of A&M col lege.” Loeffler denied this charge by Roberts during the investiga tion, so the SWC changed the statement to read “a representa tive.” From the NCAA report itself, Roberts stated he and Jim Mc- Nichol of Philadelphia, a room mate of his while at A&M, both received airline tickets to their homes from Loeffler for the Christmas holidays in 1955. As Roberts put it to the investi gating group, in substance as fol lows, “I received a ticket to fly home to Pawtuckett, R.I., from Loeffler. If you don’t believe me, you can ask Jim McNichol.” McNichol’s reply to the accusa tion was that he received an air- (See LOEFFLER, Page 4) New Car Regulations Approved By President New vehicle regulations have been approved and issued by Presi dent D. W. Williams including reg istration and use of the registra tion and fine money. New regula tions on the enforcement of these rules have also been approved by the president. These changes came from a list of recommendations by the presi dent’s appointed College Traffic Committee, which consists of staff members and students of a Student Senate committee. Students who operate motor ve hicles on the campus next year will have to pay a $2 registration fee and those attending summer school will have to pay a propor tional fee. Staff members will have to pay a $1 fee for registering their cars but it will be good as long as the vehicle is operated on the campus. Parking fines will be $2 next fall and moving vehicle fines will be $3. Fines will have to be paid within 72 hours next fall oi’ a de linquent fine of $5, as was charged this year, will be charged. This means that if a person wishes to appeal a fine he must do so with in the 72 hour limit. A person who cannot or will not pay a fine may be restricted from driving on the campus and from permitting any other person to drive his vehicle on the campus for a period of 30 days for each pend ing violation notice. Restricted student which violate the terms of his restriction will be requh’ed to pay, within 10 days, each fine notice he has received plus an additional delinquent fine. Failure to do this will be con sidered an act of disrespect to the college authorities and the matter then ceases to be one of traffic violation and becomes a disciplin ary matter to be handled in accord ance with college regulations, ac cording to Bennie Zinn, head of Student Activities. If a staff member is restricted and he violates his restriction a report will be forwarded to his dean or to the head of his depart ment for action. Fifty cents of the $2 registration fee will be used to cover costs as sociated with registration. The re maining $1.50 and the money de rived from traffic fines will be placed in a special fund for the development and maintenance of parking areas. Improvment of the parking lots by hard surfacing all the lots con sidered permanent and construct ing curbs and gutters in those lots for proper drainage is listed with the development part of the pro gram. Installation of lights in the lots when necessary and marking of parking lanes to attain the pro per spacing of the cars is also in cluded.