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18,446 READERS THE 13 iV IEp FALION Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus Number 32: Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1G, 1957 Price Five Cents Who‘s Who Nominations Begin Today Forms for nominating students for the Who’s Who list of Ameri can colleges and universities may be obtained from the Command ant’s office, the housing office, Student Activities office and the Main Desk of the MSC today through November 7. These forms must he filled out and returned to any one of the places where the forms were ob tained by Monday, October 28. A committee of five cadets will be appointed by Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins to assist in screening nom inees in the Corps. Five civilian students will also he appointed by Bennie Zinn, head of the Depart ment of Student Affairs, to screen nominees from civilian ranks. Student members of the Who’s Who selection committee will as sist these committees during the screening process. The committees wil 1 screen nominees to 68 candi dates, divided between Corps and Civilian students on a proportion ate basis. Final selection of 34 students will be made in. the early part of December. In oi’der to be eligible for se lection, a man must be an aca demic senior and be expecting. to receive his degree no later than June, 1958. He must have a grade point ratio of 1.5 or better, be active in student activities, show quali ties of leadership as indicated by positions held in student organi zations and be popular Avith fellow students. A student may he considered for Who’s Who one time only, and must be nominated by himself, another student or a member of the staff. F acuity F ellowship Meets In Chapel Faculty Christian Fellowship met for the first time yesterday at 6:50 in the Interfaith Chapel and had a short devotional program. The Faculty Christian Fellow ship is a growing movement on tollege campuses to unite faculty members into regularly meeting devotional groups. Only the inter est of individual faculty members keeps the movement going once it has begun on a campus. Dean Robert Kamm presided at the first meeting and presented a short devotional. He told of his personal experiences with the Faculty Christian Fellowship at Drake University before he came to A&M. Battalion Staff Photo Pinky Greets Sweetheart Aggie Sweetheart Nancy Norton was introduced to A&M at the yell practice last night in the Grove. She and her fellow students invited the Aggies to the annual Tessie dance in Denton Friday night. Community Chest Seeks $14,950 Second Payment Due Second installment payments are now payable in the Fiscal Office and must be paid by Oct. 22 to avoid tardy penalties. Amount of the payment is $56.20. Without board, pay ments are $15.70. A&M College - College Station Community Chest for 1957-58 set this year’s goal at $14,950 at the drive budget hearing Monday night and yesterday afternoon in the Memorial Student Center. The Community Chest Drive is scheduled for Oct. 29 through Nov. 12. Co-chairmen for the 1957 - 58 drive are Richard Vrooman and L. E. McCall. Other officers are sec retary, Bob Shrode; treasurer, Ray Hite; assistant treasurer, Reed Mc Donald; publicity chairman, Jack Tippit and assistant publicity chairman, Loyd Keel. By contributing to the Commun ity Chest, citizens may make their entire year’s charity contributions at one time and it will be distrib uted by the chest to needy and worthy organizations or services, Shrode said. The bulk of the chest Gansky Elected Ag Council Head Danny Gansky, senior dairy science major from Schulenburg, was elected chairman of the Agri culture Student Council Monday night at the council’s first meeting. Other officers elected were Jim Dixon, senior rural sociology major from Friona, vice chairman; James Traweek, senior dairy science maj or from Dublin, secretary; Carlton E. Gipson, agronomy major', treas urer and Ken Denmark, junior rural sociology major from Max well, reporter. Elected to serve on the Inter- council were Richard Pigg, animal husbandry major; Kindrick A. Holleman, poultry science major and Stanley Keese, animal hus bandry major. goes directly to local causes, he added. Budget hearing allocations are as follows: Agency or Service Allocation Texas United Defense Fund .....$ 250 United Service Organization 500 Salvation Army 1,000 Brazos County Crippled Children’s Therapy Center 750 Gonzales Warm Springs Foundation 300 College Station Youth Facilities Council 500 College Station YMCA... 500 College Station Recreation Council 1,000 College Station Com munity House, Inc. ..i... 1,000 Brazos County Youth Development Counseling Service 600 Brazos County Hospital. Fund .- 300 Girl Scouts 3,000 Boy Scouts 2,250 American Red Cross 2,000 College Station Local Chest Charity Fund 1,000 Total $14,950 Local Moonwatchers Observe Red Satellite Here Friday Morning Little Rock Bill Used Against Segregationists LITTLE ROCK, Ark.,(/P)— A new city law aimed at the National Assn, for the Ad vancement of Colored People was invoked by Mayor Wood- row Wilson Mann against three prosegregationist groups yester day. Mann has been one of the most outspoken critics of Goa\ Orval Faubus in the latter’s feud with the federal government over the Little Rock school integration sit uation. Monday the City Council passed an ordinance to require that certain organizations submit detailed in formation on contributions and expenditures, m e m b e r ship and other matters. The organizations were not named, but it was generally ac cepted that the ordinance was di- I’ected at the NAACP. Yesterday Mann ordered! the NAACP, the Capital Citizens Coun cil and the Freedom Fund and the League of Central High Mothers— the latter three segregationists groups—to submit the data re quired by the ordinance. The law specifies that the information must be filed within 15 days after notice. Mrs. L. C. Bates, president of the Arkansas chapter of the NAACP, said the organization’s legal research committee would study the. ordinance and recom mend “what we should do.” Atty. Amis Guthridge said the Citizens Council “has nothing to hide” and added that if the group comes’ under the ordinance its terms would be complied with. He said the same view would hold for the Freedom Fund, for which he also is attorney. Sputnik Visible Only At Sunrise By JIM NEIGHBORS Operation Moon Watch swings into action Friday morn ing in College Station to observe the passage of Sputnik as it wings its way over Texas at a height of 560 miles. Jack Kent, director of the local unit of moon watch, plans to have his teams out in full force to scan the skies and track the path of the Russian-built satellite. According to the Naval Research Lab in Washington, D. C., Sputnik should pass over A&M early Friday morning. However, the moonwatch team will be on duty from 4 a. m. until sunrise as the satellite is only visible during sunrises and sunsets. In charge of the overall♦ program is the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory of Harvard University in Cam bridge, Mass. They are coor dinating all the data gathered by the 100 moonwatch units in the United States. The teams are having difficulty tracking the satellite because the stations were originally set up to observe Vanguard. This is the code name for the U. S. satellite, which will be launched in December. Vanguard will travel in an area between plus 40° and minus 40° latitude and will follow the path of the equator. Sputnik, however, travels in an orbit of 65° latitude, thus making it a complex problem for the teams to spot the satellite. Traveling around the Earth 15 times in 24 hours, the Russian miniature! moon advances 27.2° iin every 24 hour period. This is due to the earth’s rotation and as a re sult, the satellite travels from northwest to southeast as it passes over College Station the first time and goes just the opposite direction on its next trip overhead. According to Kent, the U. S. is most interested in tracking the satellite. To aid in the tracking, A&M’s contribution includes more than three teams of moonwatchers. Each team consists of 16 teles- (See SPUTNIK, Page 2) Houston Public Schools Ordered To Integrate Next Soviet Step May Be Telescope LONDON, </P) — Moscow indi cated last night the next Soviet step in the conquest of space may be a telescope planted among the stars. Professor Yury Pohedonostsev told Soviet listeners on Moscow radio: “It has become clear that an artificial satellite must above all be regarded as a point from which very valuable scientific observa tions of the cosmos and of many planets can be taken. “For instance, the placing of a telescope in interstellar space will make it possible to make most interesting observations and to see what previously has been hidden from us.” The professor claimed a space telescope would answer the age- old riddle of whether canals exist on Mars. He pointed out that astronomi cal observations made through telescopes on the earth were at present impeded by obstacles dust rising through the atmosphere, which cause the stars to twinkle and blur the images. Russia Gives ‘Blessing’ To Egypt’s Troops LONDON UP)—Soviet Rus sia g’ave its blessing last night to the landing of Egyptian troops in Syria. And it sought to capitalize politically on world concern over the middle East crisis. Communist party boss Nikita Khrushchev made a bid to enlist West European socialist partiea into a popular front with the Com munists, warning that they are in serious danger of being dragged into war. But the non-Communist Socialist reaction was cold. Dep. Premier A. I. Mikoyan put the stamp of approval on Presi dent Nasser’s movement of some Egyptian troops-descrihed by a Cairo military spokesman as ar mor-equipped infantry and artillery units-to leftist-ruled, Soviet-sup plied Syria. “It’s a good thing,” Mikoyan told newsmen at an Afghanistan Em bassy reception in Moscow. “They are brother nations and it’s a case of one brother coming to the assist ance of another brother who feels himself in difficulties.” Some confusion was evident in the Arab sphere. While Syria’s acting Foreign Minister Khalil Kallas was telling 70 foreign diplomats in Damascus that Turkey intends to “launch a premeditated action against Syr ia,” an Egyptian Embassy spokes man in Ankara, Tvirkey, said “Is rael is the only country which might attack Syria.” HOUSTON, Tex., (A 5 ) — Federal Dist. Court Judge Ben C. Connally yesterday ordered the Houston public schools to integrate “after —Battalion Staff Photo Rain Floods Campus Rain drenched the Aggie campus Monday and Tuesday for the second time this fall. The patio between Law and Puryear Halls was about a foot under water yesterday at 6 p. m. as an example of just how much it had rained. such time as arrangements can be made with all deliberate speed.” Although he set no deadline Judge Connally said he would keep the case on his docket and watch the board’s progress in carrying out his order. “Any delay will be warranted if the board immediately comes to grips with its problem,” he said. “A court of equity will not con- tenance inordinate delay or evas ion where the enjoyment of a con stitutional right is involved al though its recognition and enforce ment be difficult and unpopular.” Judge Connally also declared un constitutional provisions of the state constitution and three civil statutes which have been the basis of separate school facilities for whites and Negroes in Texas. Parents of two young Negroes had asked the court to order an immediate end of segregation poli cies in the 142,000-student-system. Schools board attorneys had ask ed the court for additional time for further studies and for completion of a 30 millon school construction program now under way. “The ruling shows an under standing of our problem,” said Mrs. Frank Dyer, school board president adding that his ruling was fair. She said the board will meet with attorneys as soon as possible to discuss the ruling. Joe Reynolds, attorney for the school board, predicted the ruling would not be appealed “because the court entered the order we request ed.” Henry Doyle, attorney for the Negroes bringing the suit, de clined comment on whether his clients will appeal. “What is of more concern to us is what the school board will do,” he said. “The Judge’s de cision sustains the plaintiffs’ posi tion that the segregation laws are unconstitutional and we are con fident that the school boai’d will now see its way clear to comply with the judge’s oi'der.” Folklore Society Plans Friday Meet The Brazos Valley Folklore So ciety will hold an open meeting Friday at 7:30 p.m., in the South Solarium of the YMCA to present a program of papers on folklore and folk songs. Anyone interested in the history and lore of the state and south west is urged to attend. Students are especially invited to this meet ing which is open to the public generally. Ann Elliott, Billie Blasek Talk On Trip Miss Ann Elliott and Miss Billie Jean Blazek, both of Bryan, told College Station Kiwanians about their trip to the World’s Centenary Girl Scouts Camp at Doe Lake, Ontario at the club’s weekly luncheon yesterday. The two girls told of their visit to Chicago and to Niagara Falls enroute to the camp. Observing the customs of the other girl scouts from 41 different countries during the 11 day en campment was of great interest to the girls. ' Assoc. Editorship Given To Reiser Raymond Reiser of the Bio chemistry and Nutrition Depart ment, recently was named associate editor of the Journal of the Amer ican Oil Chemists’ Society. The Journal has its headquar ters in Minneapolis, Minn. “I appreciate very much your willingness to become an assoc iate editor,” A. B. Baldwin, editor of the Journal, said in a letter to Reiser. “I think that you will find the activities of this group both in teresting and enjoyable. You will certainly be rendering a very worthwhile service to the publica tion of scientific information,” Baldwin stated. Church Circle For Ag Wives In 16th Year Aggie Wives Circle of the A&M Methodist Church opened its 16th year of activity Monday night with a meeting at the church. The Rev. James B. Argue ad dressed the group on “The Wo men’s Society of Christian Service or Never Underestimate the Power of a Woman.” He was introduced by Mrs. Ben Milam, circle chair man. Mrs. Don Royal gave the devo tions. Following the program, plans were made for the studies to be made by the circle this year. A committee was appointed to plan the annual Christmas paify for in ternational students unable to go home. . Weather Today East and south Texas can expect more cloudy skies with showers and local thunderstorms today and to night, the college weather station reported today. The weather here results from a broad, persistent southerly cur rent of moist, unstable dir as sociated with a low pressure area to the west. During the 24-hour period ending at 8 a. m., 2:15 inches of rainfall were recorded here. The relative humidity at 8 o’clock was 95 per cent and the temperature, 66 de grees. Yesterday’s high was 72 de grees at 9 a. m., and the low, 61 degrees at 4:15 a. m.