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Number 34 : Volume 57 ATTAL Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1957 LIBRARY Price Five Cents Sevan Discloses 4 Soviet Moonwatcli Expects Sputnik Sighting One More Vote Ann Clolanrl and Pat Jackson (1. to r.) each deposit a penny “vote” in their own ballot box “just for luck”, as Consolidated High FFA President Kenneth Cooner holds a can for each contestant. The girls are finalists in a run-off election ending today to pick the CHS FFA sweetheart. CHS Names FFA Sweetheart Today As voting cans grow heavier, with “penny” votes, Ann Cleland and Pat Jackson, Consolidated High Seh^MFA Sweetheart candidates in a runoff election, grow steadily more eager for the winner to be announced at 3:30 p.m. today. Both Miss Cleland and Miss Jack- son went through the same period of “butterflies” last Friday as they waited the election results between fovir candidates. When the pennies were all stacked up side by side though, there were exactly the same number in two of the heaps, calling for a runoff. Voting is done by the entire stu dent body. Cans for each girl, bear ing her name, are placed at var ious places in CHS and students drop money in the cans to vote for Oceanography Will Have Open House The public is invited to an open house, by the Department of Oceanography and Meteorology Tuesday from 2 to 5 p. m. and 7 to 9 p. m. in Goodwin Hall. All sections of the department will be open to visitors during the open house. These areas include the biological, chemical and geological laboratories in the base ment, the oceanography offices and the Navy and Signal Corps research units on the first floor, and the Meteorology offices, weather sta tion and Air -Force Research units on the second floor. their choice. Each penny counts one vote. Miss Cleland is senior class can didate and Miss Jackson, junior. Freshman and sophomore selec tions were eliminated in last week’s race. Both finalists have campaign managers \yho have been busy ^ince the beginning of the contest, get ting votes[for their candidates. In past years only FFA chapter members selected the sweetheart, but this year the chapter decided to give the entire student body a chance to make the choice, since the sweetheart will represent the school as a whole. The CHS Chapter Sweetheart will vie in the District I contest at the Sweetheart Banquet next April in Lexington. Should the Consolidated sweet heart win district, she would com pete in Area Ill’s meeting at Blinn Junior College next May. Win ner of the area sweetheart contest will be entered in the state com petition at the State FFA Conven tion in San Antonio next July. Wea th er Today Partly cloudy and mild with increasing cloudiness Saturday is the local forecast This mornings low temperature reading, made at 7 o’clock was 57. degrees. Yesterdays high, at 2:30 p. in., was 81 At 8 this morning the mercury stood at 64 degrees, and the relative humidity was 70 per cent. Finishing Touches Added To SCON A Scona TIT committees are begin ning to put the finishing touches to the conference which will be gin ih two months on the A&M campus, Jack Nelson, chairman of the Student Conference on Nation al Affairs, said today. The conference’s offices are be ginning to receive names of dele gates to the educational confer ence. The first delegate to sub mit a registration foiun was a sen ior from Texas Christian Univer sity majoijng in government—Miss Bfv.y XTm Hanson. Aggie delegates are being se lected now by Dean W. H. Dela- plane’s office. They will be chosen from students who expressed de sires to attend SCONA. The seven delegates from hei’e will be joined at the conference by 150 other students from uni versities and colleges scattered a- cross the United States, Mexico and Canada. SCONA, which originated three years ago, is much farther ahead in its schedule than the past two conferences and should prove to be T better than the two previous ones, Nelson said. , ROTC members from the var ious colleges seem to be quite in terested in the conference-,since a number are being sent by their col leges, Nelson observed. Among ROTC registrants are James E. McWilliams, Cadet Col onel of the Corps of Cadets at East Texas State College and Ca det Lt. Col. Bruce Hibbitt fr-om the college’s Air Force branch. McWilliams represents the Army branch there. A&M students, faculty and staff members, and interested persons from the surrounding area will be invited to hear the panel discus sions and speakers speaking each night during the conference. Nel son said. Corps Trip Promises Ags Busy Weekend Texas Aggies’ first Corps trip of the year promises to be a busy one with a parade, a football game and crowning of the Aggie sweetheart head ing the list of Cowtown activities. First activity ot the trip is a dance tonight in hdnor of the Ags onj the Texas Wompn’s University campus, at D.epton] beginning at 8:30. f Saturday’s events begin Avith a Corps parade through downtown Fort Worth, beginning at 10 from East Weatherford Street. Game time for the football clash between the Texas Christian Horn ed -Frogs and the Texas Aggies is 2 p. m. in Amon Carter Stadium. At halftime, the A&M sweetheart, Miss Nancy Norton, will be pre sented to the public in traditional fashion. And in traditional fashion, Corps Commander Jon Tlagler will plant the congratulatory kiss on Miss Norton. Second In stall men t Tuesday is the last day for paying the second installment fees at the Fiscal Office in the Richard Coke Building. Fees for this month are $56.26. By JIM NEIGHBORS Jack Kent, director of the local Operation Moonwatch team, last night was confident at least one of the observers would spot Sputnik this morning as it passed over Col lege. Station. According to the latest reports from Kent, the satellite was due to come over at about 5:47 this morn ing. Sputnik followed about 23 BULLETIN At 5:24 this morning. Sput nik’s fiery rocket carcass rolled across the heavens above Col lege Station, but the satellite it self did not put in its scheduled appearance. Plainly visible to the naked eye, the third stage of the rocket moved through the clear, star-scattered skies at an even pace. Within about three min utes after the first sighting, the rocket had passed from view. minutes behind the rocket carcass. Scientists at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Har vard estimated the location of the third stage of the rocket at 100° longitude north and 40“ latitude west. Since the angle of flight (65 degrees) is already known, the scientists estimated the rocket hull would be directly over Cambridge, Neb. By relaying the information to the local moonwatch team, the directors of the observation posts should be able to have a definite fix on the orbit of the satellite. Up until now, no positive fix has been taken, although hundreds of people claimed to have seen Sput nik. However, using the equipment of moonwatch, the local astrono mers will be able to accurately give the orbit of the satellite if it was visible this morning. One of the members of the crew was going to try to photograph either the rocket or the satellite, whichever was visible. Results of this attempt will be published in Tuesday’s Battalion. If Sputnik did not show up this morning, according to Kent, there Hungarian Artist Teaches In MS(] By LEWIS REDDELL Hungarian sculptor Josepf Tom- pa’s life for the past 13 year’s has been a vicious cycle of imprison ment and freedom. Tompa, who is instructor for the Memorial Student Center sculptur ing classes, was a well known sculptor in Hungary prior to the outbreak of World War II. He won several awards and prizes for his work at various European art shows and exhibits. Drafted into the Hungarian Army as a reserve officer in 1ST41, Tompa was captured by the Rus sian Army late in 1944 and sent to a prison camp a few miles from Moscow. During his imprisonment, he was allowed to sculpture various pieces of art for the Russians. He made an exceptionally fine statue of Stalin which gained him the ac claim of even the Russian news paper’, Pravda. The statue so pleas ed the Russians that they allowed him to return to Hungary. Freedom was short-lived for Tompa, for in 1953 he was arrested by the secret police on charges of plotting to overthrow the Com munist government and spying. For his “crimes,” he was sentenced to a Hungarian prison, Mariauoltra, which was a converted Catholic convent. When the ill-fated freedom revolt broke out in Hungary in October of 1956, a gixmp of university stu dents broke into the prison and Tompa gained his freedom once more. Upon his escape from prison, Tompa decided to try an escape from Hungary and come to America. He, along with a Catholic priest and two university students made the trip to freedom together. Only once, during their journey was the group accosted by the Russians. A soldier approached them with a machine gun. They managed to disable him, however, by knocking him out. The group ci’ossed the famed Andau bridge into freedom on Dec. 21, 1956. Tompa was sent to a refugee camp in Eiseustadt, Austria and later was sent to America where he joined his daughter and son-in- law, S.F.C. J. R. Brown in College Station. He plans to continue his sculpturing in America and will enter an exhibit at the Texas Fine Arts Show in Austin next week. are several reasons for its shyness. First, there could have been too much daylight; second, there might not have been enough light; third, it passed too far east to be visible and fourth, it passed to far west. Whether it was visible or not, the loyal members of Operation Moonwatch were on the job this morning attempting to make scien tific history. Senate Returns Rev To Former Keepers K rusch e v L is is Four Stage Plan LONDON, (/P)—Aneiirin Levan disclosed last night Niki ta Khrushchev had outlined to him an alleged four stage plot by the United States for the Turkish occupation of Syria. The left wing Laborite’s account appeared to be the first detailed indication of what lies behind the Soviet Com munist party chief’s repeated charges that Turkey, under American prodding, is about to attack leftist Syria. On the basis of these vehement charges the Soviet Union has launched an all out propaganda campaign clearly designed to blast American influence out of the Middle East. The main objective may be to drive the United States from air bases which at present serve to neutralize the threat of ♦Russia’s intercontinental mis sile. By JOE BUSER Student Senators last night voted to return the custody of Reveille II to A Quartermaster and discussed her conduct during football game halftimes. The Senate’s action on the school mascot was a reversal of a decision made at.the year’s first meeting to turn the dog over to newly formed A Vets. Action on the question of the school mascot came after hearing the feelings of the two outfits in volved from their respective com manders. Both John Foster, Com manding Officer of A Vets and Bill McLaughlin of A Quarter master indicated that their outfits were interested in caring for “Rev” and both claimed facilities for her care were available in their outfits. Senate vote to rescind the former action, tabled at the last meeting until a complete investigation of each company’s feelings could be obtained, carried by a reluctant “Aye” with several members not voting. Also discussed at the meeting was the “questionable” conduct of Reveille during halftime and her possible interference with the band Bill Libby moved that Rev remain leashed during halftime, or at least until the band’s performance was over. In his motion, Libby said, “The band finds it disturbing to spend 720 man-hours preparing a drill only to be in competition with the dog”. After some rather heated debate, Senate President Bob Surovik turn ed the question over to the Issues Committee headed by Pat Pesley, for consideration. Other business discussed at the meeting was the sponsoring of a drive to collect blood for Wadley Research Foundation of Dallas. The Senate approved a motion made by Jim Brady, head of the Student Welfare Committee, to bring a blood-mobile on the campus Nov. 12 to collect 300 pints of blood to be used for persons suffering from hemophilia, free bleeding. Senate also heard from two leaders of the College Station Com munity Chest, who urged that the students join with the people of College Station in their fund-rais ing campaign. The question was turned over to the Public Relations Committee, as well as the question of a Campus Chest, which would work in conjunction with or in the place of the Community Chest at the college. Be van who is the British Labor party spokesman on foreign affairs, made his dis closure in a copyrighted article published in the left wing Labor Weekly Tribune. Khrushchev, who received Revan at Yalta on* Sept. 17, gave this version of what he called “Ameri can intentions” towards Syria: 1. Turkey and Israel, at first, will “be kept in the background because any moves-by them—would unite the Arab states.” 2. But certain “gentlemen from Syria are in Istanbul” and are maneuvering under Turkish gov ernmental protection to take over power in Syria. These favor the United States, Khrushchev added. In a letter to West European So- cialists this week Khrushchev said Syrian emigrants in Turkey plan ned to form a government in exile. 3. After they topple Syria’s pres ent rulers “something will happen —-and if it doesn’t happen it Will be made to happen-of which the Soviet Union or elements favor able to the Soviet Union will be accused.” Khrushchev did not de fine what that “something” might be. 4. On the ground that Syrian independence is in peril, Turkish troops now concentrated along the Syrian frontier, will be “invited” to enter the country for its protec tion against “Communist domina tion,” Khrushchev said. Sculptor Class Begins — Battalion staff photo Hungarian Sculptor JoSepf Tompa, demon strates techniques used in sculpture to (1. to r.) E. L. Denham and Nicholas Settanni at the opening class session of the Memorial Student Center Sculpture Class last night. Denham and Settanni are two of the many students taking the instruction.