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Number 31: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1957
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Gloria Hunt
What Houston’s football
squad lacked was made up in
the person of the band’s drum
majorette. Miss Gloria Hunt.
Schools Level Off
Riedel Tells Lions
Leveling off of the Consolidated
School System enrollment should
come about within the next four
years, W. Taylor Riedel, superin
tendent of the Consolidated School
System told the College Station
Lions Club yesterday at the Lions’
luncheon meeting in the Memorial
Student Center.
Riedel, speaking on the Con
solidated School System’s past, pi'e-
•jent and future, told the Lions that
fize of classes is fairly uniform
from the eighth grade down, which
indicates that the enrollment will
be steady in about four years.
Riedel gave the group a brief
histoi'y of the schools since their
beginning in 1939, when College
Station citizens collected money and
began the first classes on the A&M
campus. College Station schools in
clude the high school, junior high
school, elementary and the Lincoln
Colored school.
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1 ur
React
With Restraint
On T r oop Entry
S tudy Pro blent
Long, Seriously
By WEBB McKINLEY
ANKARA, Turkey (/P)—Turkish political circles spoke
with marked restraint yesterday about the surprise arrival
of Egyptian soldiers in Syria. The Turks appeared undis
turbed.
There were strong indications that Turkey—recently
engaged in bitter exchanges with its leftist Arab neighbors—
will study the troop movement long and seriously before
saying anything publicly.
The news of the plane guarded landing at the Mediter
ranean port of Latakia, 40 miles south of the Turkish border,
apparently caught the government by surprise.
One Turkish source said about 5,000 Egyptians may
♦■have been involved. Estimates
in Washington and London
were lower, ranging from
1,000 to 1,600. Reports indi
cated most of the men are in
armored units.
Special
Dewey Attends
Session
Of Legislature
R. IT. Dewey, Jr., 44th Dis
trict State Representative^
left Sunday for Austin for
the called Special Session of
the 55th Legislature which
convened Monday.
The Special Session was called
to place regulation on lobbyists
both before the legislature and
state agencies; to appoint a com
mission to study means of . im-
proving law enforcement and
crime prevention; to create and
finance a state-wide water plan
ning agency to work in coopei’ation
with other agencies to plan a wat
er conservation storage in federal
I’eservoh’s project, and to consider
and act upon such subjects as the
governor may submit.
Dewey is on the House Approp
riations, Congressional and Legis
lative Districts, Rules, Interstate
Cooperative, and Privileges, Suff
rage and Election committees.
Dewey does not plan to co-au
thor any bills.
Political circles said the Foreign
Ministry’s reluctance to comment
is due primarily to the fact it has
as yet received no reports from
its own representatives on the
situation.
Secondly, these circles said,
Turkey has recently established
good relations with Egypt and is
aware that Syria, Egypt and Saudi
Arabia have a military treaty.
Thus, in this moderate Ankara
view “some military expeditions”
between these countries might be
normal.
There also is evidence here that
Turkey might consider the Egyp
tian arrival as aimed not at Turkey
but at Israel. The whole Arab
bloc considers Israel an enemy
with aggressive aims.
“It is quite possible that Israel
has stimulated this action,” one
informant said.
Government sources said they
realized much importance may be
attributed to the Turkish reaction.
Therefore, they said, Turkey will
comment only “after seriously con
sidering the matter.”
Underwater Diving Course
Gaining Acclaim On Campus
By JOHNNY JOHNSON
SCUBA. Mean anything? To
most people it doesn’t, but to a
few people who really know their
sports, it does. It’s the designation
for a phase of one of the newest
forms of recreation of the Ameri
can public.
Commonly called skin diving, it
is in reality a self-contained under
water breathing apparatus diving
when an oxygen tank is used.
How does that affect Aggies?
Monday night, for the third year,
a SCUBA Diving Short Course be
gan. Available at a cost of $10 to
students, the course will last 11
Journalism Head
Speaks to Cadets
Donald D. Burchard, head of the
Journalism Department, spoke to
the AFROTC Juniors Thursday on
“clear writing.”
Burchard stressed the impor
tance of being able to express one
self and to read analytically and
intelligently.
Industry is looking for men who
know their field and can talk and
write effectively, Burchard pointed
out.
weeks, with Peter B. Kelly, of the
Department of Oceanography and
Meteorology, as instructor. John
Henderson, graduate student, is
assistant instructor.
Purpose of the course, according
to Henderson, is to familiarize in
terested persons with SCUBA div
ing equipment and mainly safety.
Goodwin Hall was the site of the
fii-st meeting. Henderson said
plans call for six students to re
ceive some practice with diving-
gear in the college pool at each
meeting night.
As there are only six lung units,
the course is limited to approxi
mately 36, with first preference
being given to oceanographists,
biologists and geologists in case of
too many applications. The reason
for the preference is the possibility
of those persons using the skill in
their work according to Henderson.
The only equipment needed by
the students is a pair of flippers
and a diving mask.
Included in the fee is a free phy
sical examination at the College
Hospital.
Two prerequisites for the course
are that the person be a fairly
good swimmer and unafraid of the
water, said Henderson. Henderson
added that anyone filling these
qualifications and being in good
physical condition can learn to
dive.
The course, operated by the De
partment of Oceanography and Me
teorology and the Short Course
Office, has more than $1500 worth
of diving equipment at its disposal.
Henderson stressed that the pur
pose of the course is not to teach
students to dive, but to prepare
them to learn to dive.
Brazos County
Commission
To Meet Tonite
Reports of joint committees
of the Brazos County Plan
ning Commission will be
heard, at a dinner meeting to
night at 7:30 in the Triangle
Restaurant.
Joint committees were appointed
by the commission last year to
gather information and plan action
on the projects of proposed expan
sion in Brazos County.
R. B. (Pete) Butler is head of
the five man executive committee
in charge of the Commission. J. A.
Orr, representing College Station;
S. A. Wright, A&M College;
Casey Fannin, Bryan and Brazos
County Judge A. S. Ware, Brazos
County, round out the executive
committee.
The City of Bryan will host the
commission at tonight’s meeting.
College Station was host to the
last meeting of the group held in
February.
The commission is aimed at the
“Future Growth and Common Wel
fare” of the citizens of Brazos
county. Reports will be heard to
night from utilities, street and
other committees.
Weather Today
Rainfall totaling 3.61 inches
drenched the College Station area
during the 24-hour period ending
at 8 this morning, the college
weather station reported today.
Another 1.39 inches fell from 8
to 10:15.
The rainy and generally unsettled
weather here is the result of a
broad cm-rent of moist unstable air
over the central portion of the
country.
Forecast for today and tonight
calls for more cloudy skies, showers
and local thunderstorms over most
of Texas.
Yesterday’s maximum tempera
ture—73 degrees—came at 11 a. m.,
but by 4:30 p. m. the mercury had
dropped to a low of 62 degrees.
Soviets May
Have ICBM
In Two Years
WASHINGTON— </P>— Sen. Sy
mington (D-Mo) said yesterday
Russia does not now have an oper
ational intercontinental ballistic
missile (ICBM) but that within
two to three years it will have one
capable of attacking any part of
the United States.
Symington told a news confer
ence his information was that un
der present programs this country
would not develop such a weapon
on an operational basis for four
to six years.
Present American missiles pro
grams are on a business as usual
basis, he said, and amount to “plan
ning to drop further behind” the
Russians.
Symington, first secretary of
the Air Force, said the United
States must take several steps at
once to catch up with the Soviets.
One of these, he said, was to
eliminate overtime restrictions on
defense contractors. Another was
to junk the strict 38-million dollar
defense ceiling imposed by the Ei
senhower administration, if this
action is necessary to get more
funds to the missiles program.
Exam Slated For
Future Teachers
The National Teacher Examina
tions, prepared and administered
annually by Educational Testing
Service, will be given at 250 test
ing centers throughout the United
States Saturday, Feb. 15, 1958.
A Bulletin of Information des
cribing registration procedure and
containing sample test questions
and an application may be obtained
from college officials, school super
intendents or directly from the Na
tional Teacher Examinations, Edu
cational Testing Service, 20 Nassau
Street, Princeton, N. J. Applica
tions must be in by Jan. 17, 1958.
Setting up Sputnik Display
Mrs. Rosemary Boykin is shown arranging
a display of the Russian satellite “Sputnik”
and the proposed United States satellite in
Goodwin Hall. The display is sponsored by
the Department of Oceanography and Me-
terology and seems to be very high in stu
dent interest.
Oceanography Dept.
Has Satellite Display
The Department of Oceanogra
phy and Meteorology is currently
sponsoring a display on the Russian
satellite, “Sputnik,” and the pro
posed United States satellite on
the first floor of Goodwin Hall.
“The display is not exactly to
scale,” said Mrs. Rosemary Boykin,
who arranged the display. “If it
were, the orbits would only be %
inch off the globe.”
The display depicts the orbits of
the Russian satellite and the pro
posed orbit of the U. S. satellite.
They are placed around a globe
which is “spinning the wrong way,”
said Mrs. Boykin.
The Russian satellite follows a
north-south orbit. The U. S. satel
lite is scheduled to follow a west-
east orbit which will not pass over
the Soviet Union.
Baker Given
Position On
Texas Airways
Charles L. Baker has been
appointed assistant to the vice
president in charge of opera
tions of Trans Texas Airways,
TTA President, R. E. Mc-
Kaughan announced yesterday.
Baker is a 1942 graduate of A&M
with B. S. degree in Aeronautical
Engineering.
After graduation he took a posi
tion with Douglas Aircraft Com
pany, working with an engineering
unit at Santa Monica, California.
He was transferred, six months
later, to Douglas’ Oklahoma City
plant where he became assistant
supervisor and engineer dealing
with C-47 aircraft.
Between 1944 and 1946 he was
a lieutenant j. g. in the Navy, serv
ing as aeronautical engineering
officer. In 1946, upon returning
to civilian life, he joined TEMCO
in Dallas, working primarily upon
Douglas C-54 conversions. When
TTA commenced its operations in
1947, he returned to Houston to
become chief engineer with the air
line.
Baker, who is married and has
one son, Charles, lives in Bellaire,
Texas at 501e Tamarisk Lane.
Mrs. Beverly Kadhim, librarian
for the local International Geo
physical Year data center, will
keep all clippings in the display
up-to-date.
Satellite Watchers
Needed On Campus
Jack Kent, associate professor of
the Math Department and head of
Operation Moonwatch, has asked
those interested in observing the
man-made satellite to contact him
at once.
The Russian satellite, which can
only be seen here immediately
after sunset and just before dawn,
will appear Thursday morning and
again on Nov. 1.
The local Moonwatch organiza
tion presently has two and one-half
teams. About 24 more men are
needed to make a total of four
teams.
Kent can be reached at his of
fice, 229—B Academic Building by
phoning VI 6-5644 or at his home,
VI 6-6835.
“I believe students have been
more interested in this display than
any of the others that we have put
up,” said Mrs. Boykin.
US Working On
New Globe Scanner
WASHINGTON— (A>> —The U.S.
military is reported working to
ward a 500-pound sky spy which
might scan the whole globe for
hostile activities.
With three such all-seeing eyes
orbiting on criss-cross paths
through space, military sources ex
pressed belief they could keep the
world under almost constant sur
veillance.
In view of the current tight se
curity lid at the Pentagon no
source can be given for the report.
Nor was there any indication when
such a project might be achieved.
Russia has already put a 184-
pound satellite into the sky and
the United States expects to push
a lighter weight one aloft soon.
“When we jump,” the informant
said, “we want to make it a quan
tum big jump.” He added that
the snooper type “moon” did not
exist but was on the way.
Milner Hall
Publishing
Weekly Pap er
Milner Hall is now publishing
a weekly dormitory newspaper to
help form unity between its civil
ian residents, declared Clarence
Bolner, Milner Hall dormmaster.
The paper has had amazing re
sults in forming a good relation
ship around the dorm, says Bolner.
Varying with content, the paper
has jokes, editorial comments,
school news, dormitory news, per
sonals (i.e., deaths in families of
students, marriages, etc), and in
tramural sports news.
Since the selection of a name
for the paper is yet to be made
by the dormitory residents, it is
going by the name of “You Name
It” at the present time.
The paper’s editor is George
Wise, who is also circulation man
ager for The Battalion. Associate
editors for the paper are James
McElroy, A1 Kirst, and Leonard
Shoemaker.
Representatives from each of the
dorm’s four floors submit items and
articles to “You Name It” as well
as the men themselves who drop
by Wise’s room.
Since the issuance of the first
paper, other civilian dormitories
have expressed a desire for such
a newspaper, since the paper
brings the men closer together as
a group.
Date Tickets Off Sale
Date tickets for the TCU
game go off sale at 5 p.m. Wed
nesday, and date tickets for the
Baylor game go on sale Friday
morning.
The Athletic Department has
announced that there is a suffi
cient amount of tickets left for
the remaining games. These do
not include student and student
date tickets.