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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.