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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.