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* The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 Thursday, September 19, 1957 11 tirricane Esther’s Rains May Flood NEW ORLEANS —Tropical storm Esther broke up into squalls as it moved inland yesterday, threatening areas of three states with floods. There was little wind damage as Esther hit the Louisiana coast, but high tides and heavy rains took three lives by drowning • and Aggie Dancers Slate Twelve Dance Sessions Registration began last night in the Memorial Student Center for Dance Classes with some 100 Aggies registering for the Basic and Interme diate courses. Students will dance under the su pervision of Instructor Manning- Smith, with partners from Bryan and College Station. Dance Class Chairman Bob Moody has an nounced the following schedule with room assignments for the Fall Semester: September 17—Assembly Room September 24—Ballroom . October 1—Assembly Room October 15—Ballroom October 22—Ballroom October 29—Ballroom — Halloween Party November 5—Assembly Room N ovember 12—Ballroom November 26—Ballroom December 3—Ballroom December 10—Ballroom December 17—Ballroom — Christmas Dance The Basic classes will meet from 8 to 9 in the evening and the In termediate class will be from 9 to 10. All late registrations may be made at the Directorate Office through September 30, 1957. Wh a 1 9 s Cooking The following clubs and organi zations will meet tonight, Sept. 19, at 7:30: Austin Hometown Club meets on the first floor of the Academic Building with a discussion of rides home scheduled. Colorado-Fayctte County Home town Club will meet in Room 103, Academic Building with a special invitation extended to freshmen. East Te£as Homctotvn Club meets in Roorh 105, Academic, to discuss a meeting place and “buddy ride” system. Laredo Hometown Club meets in Room 106, Academic. R e d Riter Valley Hometown Club meets in Room 3D, MSC. fan property damage into the thou sands of dollars. The Weather Bureau predicted the deluge that hit the Louisiana and Mississippi coast av o u 1 d spread into east central Mississip pi and Alabama during- the night, then farther to the northeast to morrow. Buras, about 50 miles southeast of New Orleans, received 13.36 inches of rain in 24 hours, while New Orleans got almost 7 inches and Biloxi, Miss., on the Gulf of Mexico, got 8. A small twister struck Booth- ville, about 70 miles southeast of New Orleans, during the height of Esther’s winds and rain. It dam- hged one house. The highest winds recorded near Ncav Orleans were 64 m.p.h. early yesterday morning-. Brookley Air Force Base at Mobile, Ala., re ported gusts up to 67 m.p.h. dur ing a squall at 1 p.m. The Weather Bureau said the center of the storm was over south east Louisiana at 4 p.m. CST with highest winds 35 to 45 m.p.h. in scattered squalls that occurred as far east as the Alabama coast. In its final advisory, issued at 1 p.m. CST the Weather Bureau said tides of 3 to 5 feet would occur along the Mississippi coast and eastward to Pensacola, Fla. Small craft were advised to re main in port until ■ the winds and seas subside. Cadet Slouch by Jim Earle Aggieiand Overlooked' In-Ciirrent Coed Trend By FRED MEURER A&M has a great football team. It also has an outstanding educa tional system. Facilities here are out of this Avorld. The Corps of Cadets is tops, not to mention the spirit. But let’s face it, Aggies. There is one glaring element missing around the campus' this sun-splash ed autumn as in eA^ery autumn be fore; an element Avhich more and more colleges and universities around the “48” are adding to their ivy-studded landscapes to keep everyone happy. It’s women—better known as coeds! Following World War II, for reasons still unknown, life became ” WI4Y DIDKJ'T <&OMEfibODV *bAV A4M WA'bhl’T COED BEFORE 1 J?EGIE.TERE.D ? Meteorology, Bait To Report Weather By ROBERT WEEKLEY “Rain, rain, go away” is a pop ular saying this time Of year. Coaches don’t like it, farmers pray for it, but nobody tries to make it their business like the Meteor ology Department does. Wind, rain and temperature are their business, and since The Bat talion now plans to use their fig ures for the daily weather report, we decided to find out how they go about checking the weather. The Meteorology Department is not a U. S. Aveather bureau re porting station, but they have the same facilities and equipment that would be used by a bureau. Stu dents in the department check these instruments and record their data. These same students make weather maps using this data for a clear picture of the weather sit uation. On the South side of Bizzell are the two boxes that hold the instru ments used to record the temper ature, humidity and amount of pre cipitation. There arc three types of temperature gauges used. Southside Golf Service gilbert luedeckE ★ -k 300 Jersey St. College Station One is used to measure the daily high, one the Ioav, and another re cords the temperature continuously during the day. The humidity gauge measures the amount of moisture in the air, while the pre cipitation gauge is nothing more than a two-bit word for a gauge measuring the amount of rain, if any. The national weather picture is received daily on the department’s teletype circuit. The teletype gives the department such information as the weather, upper air data, and the forecast for the following days. This machine operates seven days a week. THE BATTALION The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors The Battalion, daily newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, is published by students in the Office of Student Publications as a non-profit educational seivice. The Director of Student P'ublications is Ross Strader. The governing body of all student publications of the A.&M. College of Texas is the Student Publications Board. Faculty members are Dr. Carroll D. Laverty, Chairman; Prof. Donald D. Burchard, Prof. Robert M. Stevenson and Mr Bennie Zinn. . Student members are W. T. Williams, J-ohn Avant and Billy W. Libby. Ex-officio members are Mr. Charles Roeber, and Ross Strader, Secretary. The Battalion is published four times a week during the regular school year and once a week during the summer and vacation and examination periods. Days of publi cation are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year and on Thursday during the summer terms and during examination and vacation periods. Subscription rates are $3.50 per semester. $6.00 per school year, $6.50 per full year or $1.00 per month. Advertising rates furnished on rerjuest. Entered. as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Con gress of March 8, 1870. Member of: The Associated Press Texas Press Association Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., a t New Mew City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fran cisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the nsc for republi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telephone (VI 6-6618 or VI- 6-4910) or at the editorial office room, on the ground floor of the YMCA. Classified ads may be placed by telephont (VI 6-6415) or at the Student Publications Office, ground floor of the YMCA. JOE TINt>EL Editor Jim Neighbors Managing Editor Cary Rollins Sports Editor Joy Roper Society Editor Gayle McNutt, Val Polk City Editors Joe Buser, Frfed Meurer .News Editors Don Collins . Art Editor John West ... Chief Photographer Johnny Barger CHS Correspondent George Wise Circulation Manager Army Closing Three Ammo, OrcL Plants WASHINGTON, CP) — The Army yesterday announced plans to close three g-overn- ment owned ammunition plants and to reduce activity in live otherSf All of the plants except one are operated for the Army by private industry. The plants to be shut doAvn are the Badger Ordnance Works, Bar- aboo, Wise., operated by the Lib erty Powder Defense Corp., a sub sidiary of OJin Mathieson Chemi cal Corp.; and the Milan, Term., arsenal industrial activity opera ted by Proctor & Gamble whose president Neil McElrdy Avill be come Secretary of Defense next month; and the St. Louis, Mo., Ordnance Plant operated by the L.S. Defense Corp., another sub sidiary of Olin Mathieson. How to SHINE At Party Time Let our experts put new life into your party clothes .... CAMPUS CLEANERS Phone Worker Pickets Drop In Texas Cities By the"’Associated Press Picketing activity dropped off slightly in Texas cities Wednesday as a strike by tel ephone workers rolled through another day with no break in sight. A union official in Dallas said more telephont workers theft Avoilld AValk oht as a result of a meeting between his local and of ficials ' of Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. A Bell spokesman said at least 24 exchanges were being picketed Wednesday. Picketers were with drawn at Odessa and Mount Pleas ant and added at Pecos. Albert Bowles, president of the Communications Workers of Amer ica operators local in Dallas, said the meeting there was called be cause oi letters sent out by the company Tuesday. He said the letters claimed that only a fevV employes were directly involved in the strike and that there was dis- criminatory picketing. Employes of the Western Elec tric Co. who install equipment for Bell walked off their jobs Monday after a deadlock of several weeks over a new contract. Operators unions have honored the picket lines in most cities. Bowles said he did not know how many additional Dallas op erators would walk out because of the meeting. — THURSDAY & FRIDAY — THREE VIOLENT PEOPLE’ with ANNE BAXTER — Plus — HELLCATS OF THE NAVY’ with RONALD REAGAN —AP WirephoLo Added Attraction Shirley Snipes, a freshman at the University of Texas a n d “Miss Lockhart of 1957”, will capture more than one glance at the an nual Turkey Day football game this year v/hen she performs as a Longhorn Band mar jorette. H e r brother is a 1956 graduate of A&M. See Dr. Smith Professional Visual Care BRYAN OPTICAL CLINIC • Eyes examined ® Glasses prescribed 9 Contact lens fitted Dr. Smith and Staff Optometrists Convenient Terms TA 2-3557 105 N. Main a “woman’s world.” At about the same time, many educational in stitutions which had been barring their doors to the fair sex began realizing this fact, and quickly opened their doors to them, hiding a sly grin all the while. During this swing A&M remained staunch. According to an article in the Sept. 23 issue of NEWSWEEK, this flood of coeds isn’t all in the direction of women’s colleges. In fact, the tide turned the other way. Of the 1,170,000 college coeds on U. S. campuses this year, only 169,()()() signed for their college days in schools for women. Not only are men’s colleges lay ing out the welcome mats for wo men. Women’s institutions are also getting together with men’s in stitutions with coordinate programs of joint classes and extracurricular activities. This fall, five of the largest schools for ladies in the U. S. will have joined in such pro grams with nearby men’s schools. Why such a trend to co-educa tion? As Katharine E. McBride of Bryn Mawr in Pennsylvania, one of the big women’s colleges, put it: “l thinli the easy, regular as sociation of men and women in college is excellent, distracting to some, stabilizing to others—-but far superior to isolation. . . ” Male faculty members of other universities agree. For instance, according to the NEWSWEEK article, J. Paul Mather of the co ed University of Massachusetts said “Coeducation is good, natural and the thing to do.” And Nathan M. Pusey of Har vard commented: “We have come a long way since the day when Americans of both sexes had to be convinced that the female of the species had as much right and need for higher education as the male. . . It is quite natural, 1 think, that there should be an increasing trend in the direction of coordinat ed programs.” Taking a quick look at the figures, Pusey’s remarks aren’t unbiased. According to recent cal- eulations,v;of.Mthe»iperfect--4.() grade in effect, the annual average for women is 2.37, as opposed to the men’s 2.31. MEAL FOR MINK OTTAWA (A?)—-Mink thrive on porridge, says the Federal Agri culture Department. The experi mental farm at Nappan, N.S., has found that oatmeal and fish give as good results in fur production, at lower cost than horsemeat and commercial cereals. THURSDAY & FRIDAY WAfiuER Bros RSNDomi Scon i k The article points out four ways in which men and women students differ in class. The facts were gathered by Dr. Alexander Jones of MacMurray College in Illinois, a new coed school. They are: 1) Women are more imaginative and emotional and hence interest ed more in self-expression. He says women enjoy such things as descriptive composition writing, while men are content to discuss taxes or the proper method of in stalling an electrical switch. 2) Women are inclined to accept the instructor’s lectures as supreme* authority, and scribble lectures word for word. . . Men are inclined to challenge dogmatic statements and pop up with “Why”. 3) Women are less aggressive in presenting their ideas, and in a mixed class they remain silent while men monopolize discussions. 4) Women are more sensitive to criticism, sometimes feeling tliat a dissatisfaction with work implies a dislike to them personally. There fore, they require more encourage ment. The article says that the old myth saying college women couldn’t catch a man is wrong, and that the old adage that women go to college to find a husband is partly right. Of the 2.5 million women college graduates now liv ing, over 1.6 million are married. , Why do women go to college? Mrs. Kate Hevner Mueller of Indiana University, professor of education, explains that “all the 0 school and college girls of the pre sent decades will work not three or five or ten, but at least 25 years.” Many young women today are studying to become teachers or nurses with the specific idea of re turning to their professions aftel their children are grown. So where does A&M fit in? Your guess, reader, is as good a3 anyone else’s. But A&M does have a start. This past summer, 142 women enrolled at A&M for the first semester of summer school, and 70' signed for classes in the Second Semester. 1 The 212 total exceeds the 1956 A&M summer school women registration by quite a number. 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