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Number 19: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1957
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Crowd Hinders m
Integration
At Little Mock
By KEITH FULLER
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept.
23—UP)—The bloody assaults
of an inflamed crowd of white
rnen and women thwarted an
integration attempt at Little
Rock' Central High School today,
but President Eisenhower has
warned that further violence will
be met with federal forces.
Eight Negro students slipped in
to the school during a wild melee
this morning but were removed
about noon when officials feared
the fighting mad crowd would be
come an uncontrollable mob.
It was a wild day of hate and
violence in which at least 11 news
men were assaulted.
The violence brought these swift
developments:
1. President Eisenhower said he
would use the full force of federal
power to deal with further vio
lence and issued a proclamation
ordering the rioters to cease and
desist.
2. Cov. Orval Fan bus, attending
the Southern Governors’ Confer
ence at Sea Island, Ga., said the
President could not send federal
troops into Arkansas without the
governor’s request and, “I don’t
plan to make any such request.”
Faubus said today’s violence
was what he had tried to avoid
when he encircled the high school
Ivith National Guardsmen for
three weeks until a federal court
Jast week ordered him to stop in
terfering with integration.
3. Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann
of Little Rock said the “seeds of
hate, carefully sown and tended,
bore their ugly fruit this day.”
It was Mann who first chal
lenged Faubus’ contention that
violence was imminent when the
governor put guardsmen around
Centr-al High with orders to keep
Negroes out.
4. Lt. Gov. Nathan Gordon, act
ing executive while Faubus is
away, said he would call out the
National Guard upon written re
quest from Mann.
5. A Negro spokesman said the
eight students will not go back to
the school until President Eisen
hower assures them of protection
“against the mob.”
The day’s violence started at
8:45 a.m. and continued until an
hour or so after the students had
been removed.
Flu
11 i
Days
Morning News
Jarrin’ John Gets Injured
John Crow, bruising Aggie halfback, was
injured Saturday in the Maryland game on
this play when the Terps’ tackle, Fred Cole
clamped a vise-like grip on the All Ameri
can’s left leg. Crow had carried the ball
four times for a total of 12 yards. Aggies,
Roddy Osborne, 12, and Loyd Taylor look
on as Crow is halted.
Aggies Win Despite Sour
Weather, Little Support
By JOE BUSER
Texas Aggies pounded out a sog
gy 21-13 victory over Maryland in
the Cotton Bowl Saturday in spite
of sour weather and a virtually
non-existent 12th Man.
Russell to Confer
In Washington,I).C.
Prof. Daniel Russell of the Agri
cultural Economics and Sociology
Department will be in Washington,
D.C. Sept. 22-24 to confer with In
ternational Cooperation Adminis
tration officials concerning his
work in El Salvador this summer.
Russell is an old hand in this
field since this is his third tour of
foi’eign duty. Parts of his manual
on rural community development
for underdeveloped areas and his
helpful hints on rural community
organization now have been dupli
cated and circulated in 15 or more
languages.
Other interests Russell has in
his Washington trip are to discuss
training programs in community
development for foreign service
workers and students from foreign
countries.
Funeral Services
Scheduled For
Dr. John Delaplane
Euneral services will be held
Wednesday at 10 a.m. in the Hillier
Funeral Home chapel in Bryan
for Dr. John Paul Delaplane, head
of the Department of Veterinary
Microbiology, who died Sunday. In
terment will be in the Bryan City
Cemetery.
Dr. Delaplane was a nationally
recognized figure in research on
virus diseases of poultry, and was
particularly well known for his
work in connection with isolation
of the agent causing ornithosis in
chickens and turkeys.
A native of Greenville, Ohio, he
graduated from the high school in
that town in 1925, received his doc
tor of veterinary medicine degree
from Ohio State University in
1929 and a master of science de
gree from the same university in
1931.
He was made head of, the De
partment of Veterinary Microbiol
ogy in 1958, the position he held
at the time of his death.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Ethel Delaplane; and two
daughters, Cynthia, a student of
Sam Houston State Teachers Col
lege, and Jane, a Stephen F. Au
stin high school student. They
reside at 1600 Woodland, Bryan.
The Aggies played sluggish foot
ball in Dallas, and the loss of John
Crow in the first quarter didn’t
help their cause any. But the team
plugged away at th,e under-rated
Terps despite rain that reached
downpour proportions! by the final
gun, while the majority of the
Corps evidently cheered them on
to victory from television sets in
cozy, dry rooms.
Those Aggies that made the first
“unofficial Corps trip” stood their
ground, however, until the rain
started to fall.
Lindsey Nelson told the million
plus TV viewers:
“Look across the way, the fa
mous 12th Man of Aggieland stand
ing their ground, despite the rain.”
Radar Tower Rises
On Campus Center
Bars Available
Under R.O.C.S.
Opportunities for college stu
dents to become Naval officers
were announced recently hy Ad
miral Walter C. Schnidler, Com
mandant of the Eighth Naval Dis
trict.
College students between 17 and
27% years of age, except seniors,
are eligible to’ apply for Reserve
Officer Candidate School. A small
number of students are selected
each year by the Navy for officer
training and those selected attend
eight-week courses for two sum-
vnei’s. Upon completion of train
ing and no later than the summer
after graduation, the student is
commissioned as an ensign in the
Naval Reserve.
Students interested in this pro
gram should write to the Procure
ment C o m m a n d, Commandant,
Eighth Naval District, New Orle
ans, 40, Louisiana, before February
8.
And to demonstrate what he
meant, the cameras panned the
stands just as the famous 12th Man
scurried for the shelter of the up
per deck, observers noted.
Only the Aggie Band and a cou
ple of hundred other Ags with
stood the elements during the last
quarter. Not because ■ they had
raincoats or because they were
forced, but because they wanted to.
As one very wet bandsman put
it, “The team was out there play
ing in the rain; the least I could do
was watch from the stands.”
The college made every possible
effort to make it convenient for the
boys in khaki to attend the Dallas
game; classes began an hour ear
lier than usual Saturday to insure
everyone plenty of time to get to
the game. Yet only an estimated
40 per cent of the Corps turned out
for the game.
The remainder of the famous
12th man, which is known across
the nation as the student body that
“stands” with their team, appar
ently watched the game over TV
or listened to it over the radio.
Security Men
Hold School
Here In MSC
Industrial security officers
from across the nation opened
the sixth Industrial Plant Pro
tection School of Texas yes
terday in the Memorial Stu
dent Center. The meeting is sched
uled to last through Saturday,
Sept. 28.
Feature of the meeting will bo
a panel discussion, “The Role of
Industry in Civil Defense”, which
will deal with industry’s role in
aiding their community in time of
enemy attack or national disaster.
The school, the only permanent
plant security school in the nation
according to Wallace D. Beasley,
coordinator of the program, which
is a part of the Engineering Ex
tension Seiwice, will also have top
industrial officials and specialists
as guest instructors on public re
lations, theft prevention and de
tection, care and preservation of
evidence, and prevention and de
tection of sabotage.
Col. George E. Painter, provost
marshal section, Fourth Army
Headquai’ters, Fort Sam Houston,
will act as moderator for the pan
el. Other members of the panel in
clude Fred A. Randall, insurance
supervisor, Carbide Chemical Corp.,
and chairman of the Texas City
Industrial Mutual Aid System; In
spector C. O. Layne, coordinatoi
of police resources and civil de
fense activities, Department of
Public Safety, Austin; J. B. De-
Laune, plant protection superinten
dent, Cities Service Refining Co.,
Lake Charles, La.; A. T. Deere,
general superintendent, industrial
security, Dow Chemical Co., Free
port and Walter C. Ilgenfritz, di
rector, technical advisoi’y office,
Region 5, Federal Civil Defense
Administration, Denton.
Hospital Received
600 Yesterday
Flu at A&M took on even bigger proportions yesterday
as about GOO men reported to the College Hospital to raise
the total cases to over 1,500.
From noon Sunday until 1:30 that night some 500 men,
mostly Corps members, staggered and dragged over to the
Hospital. Crawling through both the front and back doors,
the men occupied every one of the hospital’s 140 beds.
More than 125 students had been taken home hy their
parents at 1 p.m. yesterday. At the present time over 1,000
men are bed-ridden in the military dormitories.
Only 36 civilians have reported to the hospital with the
flu.
Because of the increasing : *
numbers of men stricken
with . flu, the hospital was
forced to return patients with
temperatures of less than 102
degrees back to their dorms to be
taken care of by their respective
outfits.
All Corps companies and squad
rons have been issued medical sup
plies to take care of their men.
At noon yesterday, the Dining Hall
Steak Fry Called Off
The Town Hall steak fry sched
uled for tonight has been postponed
according to C. G. (Spike) White,
director of recreation and enter
tainment for the Department of
Student Activities.
“We will have it when the flu
epidemic is over,” White said.
Basilio Scores
Split Decision
Over Robinson
By JACK HAND
NEW YORK, Sept. 23—UP)
Blood smeared Carmen Bas
ilio, a dogged body puncher,
won the world’s middleweight
championship from S u g a r
Ray Robinson, 37, on a split deci
sion last night after 15 gruelling
rounds at Yankee Stadium.
There were cheers, mingled with
a few catcalls from the crowd of
about 35,000 in the ball park this
cool fall evening as Basilio was
hoisted high in mid ring by his
co-managers and handlers.
Just when Robinson appeared to
have run out of gas, he staged a
sensational last gasp finish in the
late rounds to make it close.
Both judges voted for Basilio,
the welterweight champion, but
Referee A1 Berl had Robinson out
front 9-6. Judge Artie Aidala
scored it 9 5 1 for Basilio and
Judge Bill Recht 8 6 1. The AP
card was 6 6 3.
A radar tower capable of pre
dicting storms within a 250-mile
radius of College Station is being
set up between Goodwin and Biz-
zell Hall by the Department of
Oceanography and Meteorology. It
will go into operation early in Oc
tober according to Dr. M. G. H.
Ligda, associate professor of the
department.
“The equipment, valued at S200,-
000, was loaned to A&M by the Air
Force Cambridge Research Center,”
Ligda said.
The radar unit, model AN/CPS-1,
will transmit signals to a repeater
scope in a room on the third floor
of Goodwin Hall, allowing students
to observe storms with the latest
techniques in weather analysis. The
unit will be used for research in
various phases of Weather such as
toimadoes and hurricanes.
A&M’s unit is one of the three
non-military models of the type in
the United States. The other two
are located at McGill University
and the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
The tower is 75 feet high from
the ground to the platform and
has high-voltage electrical equip
ment on it, Ligda said.
“I hope students will not try to
watch parades or try to take pic-
tui’es from the tower,” Ligda said.
“They, may not only injure them
selves but they might also damage
the equipment.”
Sqdn. 23 Needs
One More Man
Squadron 23, an organization for
men desiring to be in the Corps
but who do not have a contract,
lacks one man having enough for
an outfit, said Gary Lemmon, first
group commander.
Thirty-nine have signed up, in
cluding two day students.
“Interviews for the commanding
officer will be conducted the latter
part of this week,” Lemmon said.
“The first sergeant will be left to
the discretion of the C. O.”
Those interested should contact
Edward W. Wyatt, acting C. O.,
in Dorm 9, Room 213.
handed out over 1,000 meals for
the men in the doi’ms. Many out
fits are buying juice and boullion
for the flu victims in their dorms.
At the hospital over 18,000 cold
capsules were dispensed within the
last five days and over 12 gal
lons of cough syrup have been con
sumed. Every hospital patient re
ceives at least two penicillin shots
each day and over 600 were given
yesterday.
Normally there are 24 on the
hospital staff, but over 48 people,
including volunteers are maintain
ing a high rate of efficiency dur
ing the hectic sick call. Gray La
dies, Red Cross members in Bryan,
have been on the job for two days
or more and are working eight and
ten hour shifts.
All the local hospitals have of
fered assistance and supplies if
they are needed. The local medi
cal society is assisting by having
several doctors on call.
Two temporary nurses have al
ready been attacked hy the flu and
even though all the staff members
have been inoculated with vaccine
it is surprising that more are not
sick.
A spokesman in the State Health
Department Laboratory has pi’edic-
ted that more cases of the flu in
the state will be diagnosed before
the end of the week.
Up to now, none of the local
cases has been diagnosed as Asiatic
flu, however, a report from the
state lab is expected within the
next day or two which will defin
itely tell whether or not A&M has
been invaded by the Asian variety.
Weather Today
College Station yesterday soak
ed up 1.2 inches of rain as the
cold front moved through this
area meeting a low pressure area
from the Gulf of Mexico, college
meteorologists said this morning.
Yesterday’s high temperatures
reached only a mild 68 degrees
while this morning’s low at 7:40
a.m. was a pleasant 63.7 degrees.
Relative humidity at 8 a.m. this
morning was a damp 71 per cent.
Meteorologists fox-ecast consid
erable cloudiness in this area with
mild temperatures through tomor-
I'OW.
—Battalion Staff Photo
CHS Coeds Precede Consolidated Band
Out in front of the CHS Band this year
will be Kathy Gould, Drum Major Anne
Williamson and Mary Varvel (1. to r.). Car
ol Dew, not shown, completes the quartet
of majorettes.
Dr. Fledges Retires
After 45 Years
Dr. Charles C. Hedges, professor
and worker in the A&M Depart
ment of Chemistry for 45 years,
retired this semester.
Born in Walton, Kentucky, he re
ceived his B.S. degree from the
University of Kentucky in 1906
and continued his studies at Cornell
Univei - sity where he received the
Ph. D. degree in chemistry and
bacteriology in 1912. From Cornell
he came directly to A&M as as
sociate professor of chemistry.
From 1913 until 1947, Dr. Hedges
served as head of the department.
In 1947 he went on modified service
as professor of organic chemistry,
serving in that position until this
fall. During the period of 1936-
1940 he also filled the position of
vice-dean of engineei'ing.