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Number 17: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1957
Price Five Cents
Corps Freshman
Before Sophomore
Meeting Sophomore
In the Corps
l ish Con ten ted;
Only 47 Leave
Py .TOR IUJSER
Corps freshmen over the campus
yesterday seemed contented, yet
47 of their “fish” buddies have al
ready left school or transfered to
Civilian dorms since registration.
Red China Visit
Costs Youths
Passports
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
State Department ahnounced
yesterday it will seize pass
ports of 42 young- Americans
who went to China, when they
return to American soil.
A formal department ruling-
charged they “wilfully violated” a
government travel ban by tour
ing the China mainland as guests
of the Peiping Communist regime.
The department announced the
Move at the same time it dis
posed a final decision against re
newing the passport of William
Worthy, who visited Red China
last December in his role as a
rorrespondent of the Baltimore
Afro American.
Worthy’s application has been
rejected, the department said,
mainly on the gi’ounds he has re
fused to promise to abide by regu
lations.
A State Department spokesman
hinted, however, that the 42 young
Americans as well as Worthy
might regain their passports if
they pledged never to violate re
strictions again.
All were given an opportunity
to appeal the department’s action.
They may turn to State Depart
ment passport officers for a re
view, or present their case to the
appeals board.
Weather Today
PARTLY CLOUDY
Yesterday’s high and low tem
perature readings—91 and 70 de
grees. At 10:30 this morning the
temperature was 88.
An unofficial count • yesterday
showed 28 Corps freshmen leaving
A&M and 19 transfering to Civil
ian dorms. Only two Civilian fresh
men have left school, one of which
was just one day out of the Corps.
Comments from the class of ’G1
vary from “I’m going to like it
here better after my freshmen
year,” as Harold Niccum of Squad
ron 17 says to “I’m disappointed—
I thought it would be rougher,” as
Charles Henicke, White Band, puts
it.
By far, the principal gripe with
this year’s freshmen as in years
past, is sophomores. Mike Flashie,
A Engineers, puts it this way.
“It’s hard like I expected. But
everything has a purpose and is
necessary—at least that’s what
they tell me.”
The majority of the short-hair
set are proud of their uniform and
the traditions which they are now
a part of. “I’m proud to be an Ag
gie and I like wearing a uniform,”
says James Walden of Squadron
17. Another fish put it this way.
Kenneth Hubbard, Squadron 7, “I
like everything. I’m learning to
take things as they come.”
“Being a freshman at A&M is
a maturing experience,” said Lewis
Ring, A Vet., “and a fellow who
only stays in the Corps for one
semester will benefit from it.”
Senators To Hear
Dean Kamm Speak
Dean R. B. Kamm, head of Stu
dent Personnel Services and the
Basic Division will speak to the
Student Senate at its organiza
tional meeting tonight at 7:30 in
the Memorial Student Center Sen
ate Chamber.
He will talk to the members on
their responsibilities and obliga
tions as senators.
Following the talk by Kamm,
the Senate will elect additional of
ficers and establish standing com
mittees.
Senators will appoint members
to the Executive, Constitution,
Seating and Insurance committees.
Band W orking On
Cotton Bowl Drill
The world famous 240 piece Tex
as Aggie Band is slated to put
the finishing touches tomorrow on
its drill for the coast-to-coast tel
evised half - time in the Cotton
Bowl Saturday.
The band will have about 10
hours of practice before the first
performance, very little time to
prepare the perfection which the
group is noted for. And yet, even
in view of the fact that about 100
of the bandsmen are marching
with the band for the first time,
the drill will reflect the members’
pride in their organization and
college.
The band will enter the field
Saturday Horn the north goal zone
and march to the south end of the
field, there executing a continuous
counter march. They will then re
turn to the north end of the field
and do a double delay counter
march from the outside and one
from the center.
The band will leave the field in
its traditional signature, the
marching “T”, to the “Warhymn.”
Head drum major for the band
this year is Reagan George from
Dallas. Maroon Band drum ma
jor is Raymond Roycroft from
Goliad and White Band drum ma
jor is C. T. (Skipper) Kirksey
from Lockhart.
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After Sophomore
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Saturday Last Day
To Add Courses
Saturday is the last day for en
rolling in the College for the fall
semester or for adding new cour
ses.
Also, students who did not com
plete registration last Saturday
must pay an additional fee of $4
for late registration.
No Vaccine Hera
Until Next Week
No cases of the widely publicized Asiatic influenza have
positively been diagnosed in the College Hospital, Dr. Charles
Lyons, hospital superintendent said Thursday.
Some 45 students are being- treated in the hospital for
upper respiratory inflammations, colds and virus but no cases
of the epidemic type flu have been noted on the campus or in
Bryan and College Station.
Seventy-five per cent of students treated yesterday were
freshmen, many of which were suffering from “sophomore-
itis,” Dr. Lyons indicated.
Battalion Staff Photi
A Warning in Time Saves
Patrolman E. E. Folsom, of Campus Security, makes out a
ducat to the Fiscal Office for some chance-taking, luckless
Aggie. A large number of issued tickets can be expected
this year with increased car registration.
Successful' Cold
Vaccine Found
BALTIMORE —(/P>— The first
successful vaccine against a major
common cold virus was reported
last night.
The Baltimore Sun said the vac
cine was developed by Dr. Wins
ton H. Price, Johns Hopkins Uni
versity scientist.
In a copyright story in today’s
paper, Sun science writer Weldon
Wallace reported the vaccine pre
vented colds caused by the -JH
Retirement Plan
Up For Changes
State employees will get a new
and revised retirement plan if the
Employees Retirement System bill
passes in the Constitutional Am-
mendments election Nov. 5.
If the retirement system passes,
Texas will have a system ranking
favoi’ably with any throughout the
nation, say representatives of the
Texas Public Employees Associa
tion, one of the groups making
national surveys and drawing up
the plan.
Under the new system, retire
ment benefits will be a pei'centage
of total average earnings from
state employment in the five high
est consecutive yeai*s of the last ten
years of employment.
Under the present law, benefits
are related to past earnings and
these are limited to $3,000 per year
for purposes of retirement bene
fits. The new plan is designed to
help keep retirement benefits
abreast of changes in the price
level.
If the bill passes, a lapse of time
to Sept. 1, 1958 will be necessary
before the plan goes into effect.
virus in 80 per cent of 400 persons
inoculated in a series of controlled
tests.
The JH virus, isolated by Dr.
Price in previous studies, caused
30 per 1 cent of the common colds
which came to his attention in in
vestigations made over a two year
period.
The vaccine was made from the
killed JH Virus and produced no
symptoms, discomfort or side ef
fects whatsoever in persons who
received it in Dr. Price’s test, the
paper said.
Although an unknown number
of viruses are responsible for colds
and Dr. Price’s vaccine can’t be
expected to work against all of
them, the Sun called it “the first
breakthrough in finding a preven
tive for this ailment, one of man
kind’s most vexing complaints.”
To produce immunity, two shots
of the vaccine are given, the sec
ond following the first by four
weeks.
Five hundred influenza
which were yesterday, have
but are temporarily halted
due to a shortage of vaccine.
The hospital has an order
with a major drug company
for 500 cc. of vaccine a week
and Dr. Lyons expects shipment
by the middle of next week.
Plans are being made to accom
modate all students desiring the
flu shots, he said. As soon as the
vaccine arrives, he said a notice
will be given to The Battalion and
announced in the dining halls.
The vaccine is administered for
$1 a dose and is considered 70 per
cent effective in preventing Asiat
ic flu, Dr. Lyons said.
Dr. Lyons indicated that the var
sity football team had taken the
vaccine two weeks ago and none
had been treated for the disease
ygt.
“Judging from the effectiveness
of the vaccine, I’d say at least 70
per cent of the team will be in
good condition for the Maryland
game Saturday,” he said.
Meanwhile a mounting tide of
flu, some of it Asian and the re
mainder the ordinary fall variety,
surged through Texas yesterday.
More than a dozen cities and
towns were hit hard with school
children suffering the most casual
ties. About seven high school foot
ball games scheduled for this week
end were cancelled and others
planned to play the games with
crippled squads. Some teams were
almost entirely bedridden.
The State Health Department at
Austin said Tuesday 2,837 cases of
“influenza like illness” were re
ported in Texas last week.
The depai-tment added that
checks of specimens submitted for
analysis showed an influenza type
virus in a specimen from Paris
and “suspicious but inconclusive
reports” on specimens from Foi-t
Worth, Harlingen, McAllen, Long
view, Arlington, San Angelo and
Cuero. It did not classify any of
the specimens as Asian type.
At Fort Worth, registration
dragged at Texas Chi'istian Uni
versity. More than 500 TCU stu
dents were hit and about half were
sent to bed.
(See ASTATIC FLU, Page 3)
vaccine inoculations, 200 of
been given since registration
Are Invited
To Join Bowmen
The Brazos Bowmen, a newly
organized archery club, extends in
vitations to A&M students, faculty
and associates interested in archei’y
to become members.
The club has just completed a
fourteen target field archery range
just west of College Station and is
planning to increase the number of
targets, sponsor tournaments and
other activities associated with
archery.
Those interested in becoming
members are urged to contact Knox
Walker, Jr., VI 6-5512 or VI 6-4051,
T. B. Davich, VI 0-0018 or TA 2-
4979, or M. J. Steger, TA 2-3803.
SLe Appoints Man
To Post Office Job
NEWPORT, R. I., (/P)—President
Eisenhower today picked Edson O.
Sessions, Chicago management con
sultant, as deputy postmaster gen
eral. He succeeds Maurice H.
Stans, who was shifted to the post
of deputy budget dh’ector.
Sessions, 54, was previously in
government seiwice, from 1954 to
1955 when he served as a foreign
aid official at Bankok, Thailand.
The President, at the vacation
White House, gave Sessions a re
cess appointment to the $21,000
position. It is subject to confirma
tion b.y the Senate when Congress
reconvenes in January.
Photo Schedule
Announced For
Class of ’61
Freshman portraits for the
“Aggieland ’58” will be made
at the Aggieland Studio be
tween the hours of 8 a.m. and
5 p.m. on the following des
ignated days:
September 23-24—A,B,C, Infantry,
A Ordnance
September 20-27—B,C Armor, A,
P Engineers
September 30 — October 1 — A
Transportation, A,P,C Field
Artillery
October 3-4—A,B,C AAA, A Sig
nal
October 7-8—A Quartermaster, A
Chemical, A Veterinary
A,B,C Composite
October 10-11—A,B Athletics, Ma
roon Band, White Band
October 14-15—Squadrons 1-4
October 17-18—Squadrons 5-8
October 21-22—Squadrons 9-4.2
October 24-25—Squadrons 13-10
October 28-29—Squadrons 17-23
Portraits will be made in winter
dress uniform, Avith the blouses
furnished by the Studio. Each man
should bring his own tie and brass.
Faubus Deadlock
Approaches Court
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. UP)—
Gov. Orval E. Faubus, nearing
zero hour in his 16 day deadlock
with the federal government, held
two more long conferences behind
closed doors yesterday and appear
ed to be sitting tight.
The hours ticked away with no
sign that Faubus will attempt to
avoid the crucial hearing tomoi’-
row morning in Federal Court.
However, an informant high in
Democratic party councils in Ar
kansas, said he understood the
governor will go into court and
that an attorney will make two
motions at the outset:
1. That U. S. Dist. Judge Ron
ald N. Davies disqualify himself
and step down from the hearing.
2. That Faubus be permitted
to see the secret report prepared
by the Federal Bureau of Investi
gation.
Faubus, the source said, will be
represented by attorney Tom Har
per, of Pine Bluff, Ark. Harper
is chairman of the Democratic
State Committee.
The informant, who could not be
identified, is a friend of Congi’ess-
man Hays D-Ark. Hays was in
conference all day both on Tues
day and yesterday.
Judge Davies handed down the
original ruling ordering that Cen
tral High School be integrated.
Faubus has characterized Davies’
action as “high handed and arbi
trary.”
The governor said recently he
has not changed his opinion.
Reservations Open
For Meeting Rooms
Applications for meeting rooms
in the Memorial Student Center
will be accepted Friday, Sept. 20
by the social and educational de
partment of the MSC.
Student organizations and clubs
which desire meeting rooms ha\ T e
been asked to make application as
soon as possible after the 20.
AFL CIO Committee
Blasts Teamster Boss
By NORMAN WALKER
WASHINGTON—UP)—The AFL
CIO Ethical Practices Committee
yesteiday practically read Team
ster boss James R. Hoffa out of
the big labor federation.
It issued a report linking Hoffa
Avith Avhat it called a rogue’s gal
lery of hoodlums.
The haid hitting report served
on the Teamsters found the 1 Vz
million member union—the nation’s
largest—to be dominated by cor
rupt leaders.
It put Hoffa, union President
Dave Beck and West Coast Team
ster chief Frank W. Brewster in
that category and sternly pointed
to Avhat it said Avas a Teamsters
Union failure to gwe any ade
quate ansAvers to Senate Rackets
Committee disclosures.
The findings—due for formal
approval by the AFL CIO Execu
tive Council in New York next
week—strongly hinted that the 15
million member foundation will
kick out the Teamsters if Hoffa
is retained in any office of his
union, much less its presidency.
Hoffa, 44 year old Detroit na
tional vice president of the union,
is running for Beck’s job as Team
sters president. Beck, after being
enmeshed in union scandals, has
announced he won’t stand for re-
election at the Teamsters conven
tion starting Sept. 30 at Miami
Beach, Fla.
Hof fa’s strong grip over Team
sters affairs has weakened some
what in the wake of August - hear
ings into his affairs by the Senate
Rackets Committee.
Renewed hearings on Hoffa are
scheduled for next Tuesday, just
in adAmnce of the Teamsters con
vention.
Chairman McClellan, D-Ark,
said yesterday Hoffa “committed
flagrant, willful and contemptible
perjury” by testifying he could
not recall matters raised at the
Rackets Committee hearings.
Addressing a trade association
convention in New York, McClel
lan did not mention Hoffa by name
but described testimony only Hoffa
had given.
McClellan said he has asked the
Justice Department to give the
matter “prompt and preferred at
tention.”
The detailed report of the five
man Ethical Practices group, head
ed by President A1 Hayes of the
Machinists Union, amounted to an
ultimatum to the Teamsters Union
to rid itself of Beck; Hoffa, Bibav-
ster and others named in the re
port, or suffer ultimate exile from
the AFL CIO family of unions.