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18,440 EtlADiRS THE TALION ASIAN FLU DIAGNOSED Number 22: Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1957 Price Five Cents Nationally ess Tech Raiders Slated For Slaughter By GARY ROLLINS Battalion Sports Editor With due respects to DeWitt Weaver, head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders, its almost impossible to make his team look like a pigskin powerhouse. Graduation, flu and ineligibility have dealt the Lub bock 'college blow after blow, and Weaver is having trouble keeping enough boys on hand to even play the game. Although the game is a complete sellout, and spirit is at an all-time high, the chances for an upset of the nationally- ranked Aggies are very, very slim indeed. If A&M wants to keep its good standing, they’ll have to slaughter Tech. Last week, the Farmers played fair against a good team, and barely maintained number two position. Essay Contest For Personnel iors Offered Arkansas? Aggie John Gilbert, 195-pound senior center from Russellville, Ark. will begin his second game as starting center Satur day night when the Aggies invade Lubbock. He is a two- year letterman. Leggett Hall Civilians Elect Representatives Leggett Hall elected floor repre sentatives last night and in an un precedented move elected a dormi tory athletic officer. Using a regular voting booth at the front entrance to the dorm, there was almost an 80 per cent turn-out for the election. Every floor of the dorm is rep resented by two m,en, one for the north end wing and one for the south. Candidates and winners for each floor are as follows: first floor south side — Tannie L. Piz-zitola (winner), Archie Andrews and Da vid Maza. Second floor south side •—Jerry Horn (winner), George Svatek, Ricardo Guerra and John Morrow. Second floor north side— Charles E. Hathaway, (winner), Tommie Purifoy and John Stan ley. Third floor south side—Pat Kutch (winner), Jay Kaufman and James W. Benett. Third floor north side—Worth Nowlin (winner), Hugh McLeland and Cliff Gard. Fourth floor south side—Norman Bonnett (winner), ■ Marvin McKelvy and John Syler. Fourth floor north side—three-way tie between James R. Jones, James Sellers and Harry Barnard. Other candidates wei’e Carro Osbourn, Charles Wiseman, Floy Johnson, William G. Hundley. New athletic officer for Leggett Weather Today Partly cloudy skies through Saturday with little temperature change is the college weather sta tion’s forecast for this vicinity. The low pressure center affecting this area for the last sevei-al days has moved eastward, resulting in clearing skies. In the 24-hour period ending at 8 this morning, .02 inch of rainfall was recorded. Relative humidity was 82% and the temperature, 69 degrees. Yesterday’s maximum tempera ture reading was 78 degrees at 3 p.m. This morning’s low, coming at 6 o’clock, was 63 degrees. is Ray Rankin. Other candidates were Ruben Gutierrez, Larry Hanes, Jack Brady, Worth Nowlin, Bill Perry and Mike Kuich. • The new representatives will meet Tuesday night at 10 to elect officers for the dorm and appoint a representative to the Civilian Student Council. Dr. Balling er Represents Scholarship Rhodes Scholarship hope fuls may place their applica tions with Dr. R. H. Ballin ger, who has recently been appointed A&M’s College rep resentative for the Rhodes Schol arship by President ■ D. W. Wil liams at the time Williams was president. Ballinger will receive applica tions for Aggies desiring the schol arships at his office in room 302- C in the Academic building before October 4. Persons seeking the scholarships should meet the following quali fications: Be a male citizen of the United States, with at least five years residence, must be sin gle, be at least 19 and not more than 25 years of age by October 1 of the year for which he was elected. (Ex-servicemen who have had at least 90 days of active du ty since June 27, 1950 may deduct the period of their service from their actual age if by so doing they will qualify under the regulations, and by the time of application have at least junior, preferably senior academic standings at some recog nized degree granting school in the United States. Candidates may apply either for the state in which they have their residence or for any state in which they have received two years of college training. A nation-wide contest to stim ulate the interest of college and university students in industrial human relations will be co-spon sored this fall by International Re lations News and the American Society for Personnel Administra tion. The contest is open to full-time students who are taking-personnel- administration or industrial rela tions either as a major or minor course of study. A prize of $200 in U. S. Savings bonds will go to the student writ ing the best essay on “What Phil osophy and Principles Should Guide the Relations of Management and Employees ?” The contest will close on mid night, Dec. 14 and the winner's, including two for honorable men tion, will be announced at the an nual conference of the American Society for Personnel Administra tion to be held May 10-21, 1958, in Philadelphia, Penn. Contest rules and entry blanks may be obtained from Industrial Relations News, 230 W. 41st St., New York 36, N.Y., or from the American Society for Personnel Administration, Room, 5, Kellogg Center, E. Lansing, Mich. L a s t season, against a strong Tech team, who later posted a victory over Cotton Bowl-bound TCU, A&M plas tered a 40-7 licking on Weaver’s wayward West Texans. Even though injury has raided the Aggie camp, the Cadets are capable of blasting Tech worse than last year'—and worse than any Red Raider team has ever been beaten. When the score of the Texas A&M-Tech contest is released ov er national wire services late Sat urday night, the truth will be known. If Coach Paul Bryant’s potent Cadets fail to register enough pomt§* , on the scoreboard, the truth will be known by all and every team in the Southwest Conference will anxiously await their turn at the “over-rated Aggies.” Aggies Fleeing Flu Epidemic Two Aggie “fish” wait for a ride at the sent many students scurrying to their Aggie line in Bryan as Asiatic flu outbreak homes, hoping to avoid the epidemic. Saturday Last Day To Drop Courses Saturday is the last day students can drop courses without a grade, college officials announced this week. An “F” will be placed on the record of those dropping courses after this date. Sully 9 s Maker Dies In S.A. Pompeo Coppini, 87, the man who literally formed one of Ag- gieland’s most renowned tradi tions when he sculptured “Sully”, died in a San Antonio hospital yesterday. The well-known Italian sculp tor completed carving the bronze likeness of Lawrence Sullivan Ross in 1918. Asiatic Flu Diagnosed In Most A&M Cases Asiatic flu was definitely diag nosed yesterday in a majority of A&M’s cases following a thorough examination by the Texas State Board of Health. But the announcement telling of Asiatic-type flu here came in the waning stages of the epidemic on the rain-soaked campus. Only 1,200 active flu cases were being treated on the campus yesterday, according to Dr. C. R. Lyons, Col lege Hospital supervisor. This figure compared with 1,600 cases Wednesday. The sharp de cline caused Dr. Lyons to com ment: “It is calming down.” Evidence that influenza here was of the Asiatic type could not he determined until yesterday since a 10-day period of close study is required to ascertain that a case is of the foreign variety. Board of Health officials have been mak ing a case study of the flu at A&M since the epidemic began over a week ago. Despite the flu’s let-up, hordes of Aggies have been streaming homeward for the past three days, seeking personal recovery. The Housing Office, the hospital and the military department have been swamped with letters and tele grams from anxious parents in quiring about their sons’ health and granting permission for them to come home. Numerous “homeward bound” Cadets, plus those recovering in the hospital and dormitories, took a large slice from daily class at tendance on the campus. Class make-up work next week will be done at the professor’s discretion. With his eye cocked on the new ly sunlit sky yesterday afternoon, hopeful that it will dry off the campus (pending the rain’s be havior), Dr. Lyon’s took an opti mistic outlook on the situation for the first time since it developed. He said the epidemic was defi nitely subsiding and estimated that it will have broken by the be ginning of next week. Faubus Calls Ark Defenseless Slate Labor Leader Speaks Here Tuesday Night LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—(A?)—Gov. Orval Faubus, in sorrowful but surprisingly conciliatory terms, last night urged a prudent calmness on ? i w% Arm Gametime? -Battalion Staff Photo Disappointment is reflected on the face of an Aggie faced with a typical situation this weekend as flu forces many to miss the trip to Lubbock for the Tech game. a state capitol now federal troops. “We are now an occupied terri tory,” Faubus said in a nationally televised and broadcast address. “There can be no question of the supremacy of the United States Army, when used against a de fenseless state. “Therefore, we must continue our peaceful pursuits of life, being good citizens as the overwhelming- majority of our people have always been. . . . To the people of my state I now ask again for calm ness and a law abiding approach to all our problems.” Faubus’ first detailed reply to President EisenhoAver’s historic dispatch of troops to enforce school integration came less than six hours after nine Negro students finished an uneventful second day with white students in strife beset Little Rock Central High School. There was no blood letting and no disorders outside the big school. It Avas ringed today as it was on yesterday’s first day of troop-en forced integration Avith steel-hel- meted, bayonet-ready United States Army regulars. Students coming out of classes reported no disturbances inside and the general air of tension that has gripped the campus shoAved definite signs of abatement. (See FAUBUS, Page 2) James B. Carey, President of the International Union of Electrical, occupied by Radio and Machine Workers, AFL- CIO, Avill be the first Great Issues speaker of the 1957-58 session. Carey will speak at 8 p.m., Tues day, October 1, in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. He aauII discuss the question “What is the Future of the American Labor MoA-ement?” A prominent national labor lead er, Carey was named one of Amer ica’s outstanding young men by English Exam Set For LA Majors English proficiency examination for students majoring in t h e School of Arts and Sciences, in cluding the Division of Business Administration, Avill be given by the various departments at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1. Passing of the examination is a requisite to candidacy for a de gree for those graduating in Arts and Sciences after January 30, 1958. Juniors are expected to take it noAV or in February, and others who have failed it may repeat the examination now. Students con cerned should consult Avith the heads of their major departments for further information. the U. S. Junior Chamber of Com merce in 1941. Parent’s magazine gave him its annual aAvard for out standing service to youth. He played a major I’ole in the merger that formed the AFL-CIO. A leader in the fight against labor racketeering, Cai’ey Avas a leader in the drive that removed Dave Beck from the Teamsters Union. He AA T as unanimously elected first president of the IUE-CIO in 1950 and was reelected unanimously in 1952, 1954 and 1956. Admission to Tuesday night’s presentation Avill be $1.00 per per son or a Great Issues season ticket. Hospital Releases Accident Victims Hugh Wharton, a senior business administration major from San Antonio, and his Avife were re leased from Bryan Hospital yes terday morning after treatment for injuries they received in a car accident Monday morning. The Wharton car skidded off the road near Calvert early Monday morning; Mrs. Wharton, Avho Avas driving the car, lost control as she approached a curve and hit a patch of AA-ater on the road. She lost control and A\’ent off the road into a deep culvert.