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t 18440 READERS ™ BATTALION G© To Church Tonight Number 36: Volume 57 Lions Loom Big In Importance, Says Teggeman Next to the church, the Lions International is one of the world’s greatest organiza tions for serving mankind, Erwin Teggeman. district 2-S- 3 governor of the Texas Interna tional Lions Club, told College Station Lions Monday in the Me morial Student Center. Explaining the Lions’ organi zation and service, Teggeman pointed out the care given local blind and the locally supported Kerrville Crippled Children’s Camp as examples of College Station Lions Club work. Teggeman said there are three main classifications of people in the world: (1.) the small group who gets things done; (2) the large group who likes to watch things done, as long as others do it and (3) the even lai’ger group who sits around and wonders what has hap pened. “A man must have vision for the truly important things of life, faith in his work and the future and courage to carry it out,” he told the Lions in pointing out, three things a man must have to succeed jn anything he under takes. The Lions call a board of di rectors meeting for 5 p. m. Wednes- liay in the MSC. Publications Board Hears Batt Report The Battalion is exerting utmost effort to reach its goal of better seiwice to its readers and more prestige among other college dai lies of the nation, Joe Tindel, Bat talion editor, told the Student Pub lications Board yesterday. In an annual report asked of editors, Tindel said the whole staff is working to develop new ideas and improve the paper so it will be more enjoyable for its readers. He pointed out that more em phasis is being placed on special features and quality in photo graphs. “Art for Aggies’ Sake” and “Man to Man” were pointed out as two new special features. Tindel said three photographers had been employed to give Battal ion readers top picture coverage. The publications board heard the Battalion editor explain new or ganization on a departmental basis, designed to increase efficiency. In a breakdown of student repre sentation on the staff, Tindel ex plained that there are three Corps students in top editorial posts com pared to one Civilian. Among six reporters, three are Corps and three Civilian, he said. Distribu tion among the entire staff showed some 12 Civilians and eight Corps students. South Getting Axe, Says Georgia Chief HOUSTON, <A>> — Georgia Gov. Marvin Griffin charged last night that Democratic and Republican leaders “have been vieing with each other to see who could drive the knife deeper into the backs of the people of the South.” Departing from his prepared text before an estimated 2,700 persons, Griffin called for the creation of the “the biggest, most resolute organization in the South” to pre vent federal encroachment on states’ rights. The ci*owd was made up of well dressed men and women from all parts of East Texas. There were members of the Texas Legislature in the audience who earlier in the evening had dinner with Griffin. The crowd stood and cheered as a high school band played “Dixie” and “The Eyes of Texas.” There were no demonstrations. The governor said, “The Con stitution has been replaced by the new Republican’s concept of ‘rule by force’.” Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1957 Price Five Cents Dorothy Collins Heads Second Town Hall Act By FRED MEURER Combine a blonde, beautiful and bubbling female vocalist with one of America’s outstanding orchestras and you get top-notch entertain ment. Place them together in G. Rollie White Coliseum Thursday night and you have the second showing of A&M’s Town Hall program for 1957. And, as usual, this one promises to be tops. The songbird will be Dorothy Collins, former singing star of “Your Hit Parade.” The oi’chestra is that of Shep Fields-, a maestro for more than a decade. Both components of the program have founded claims of fame in the music world. Miss Collins, cur rently recording under the Coral label, began her climb to the top in Calendar Sale Deadline Set Tomorrow fNite Anyone who plans to get a 1958 College Station Com munity Birthday calendar must place his order with.Mrs. J. C. Brusse before tomorrow night. Yesterday was the official dead line for orders, but Mrs. Brusse said she would take orders at her home, 201 Fairview, phone VI 6- 5974, until torporrow afternoon. Mrs. Brusse is co-chairman for the calendar sales, in charge of list ings. Listings may also be entei’ed un til this date, Mrs. Brusse said. She reports approximately 225 calendars sold to date, with about 5G0 listings of birthday, club and organization dates. This is a “very successful” sales drive she said. Mrs. Brusse said that in past years extra calendars have been ordered for sale after their arri val, but will not be done this year. To get a calendar, the or der will have to be placed by to morrow afternoon. The calendar sale is a project of the A&M Consolidated Band and Band Booster Club. Funds from listings and advertising space will be used to purchase additional uni forms and instruments for the Ti ger Band. 1.942 when bandleader Raymond Scott chanced to hear her sing, signed her to an audition and then billed her along with his “Quintet.” Later, Scott became musical di rector of “Your Hit Parade” and fited Miss Collins into his show—- first by having her sing the com mercials and then making her a featured vocalist. She worked with the show until June of this year and has been busy making recordings and personal appearances since. Miss Collins—who was born in Ontario, Canada and Scott were FFA Sweetheart Ann Cleland was named Sweetheart of the Consoli dated High School FFA Chapter Friday in a stu dent body election. Miss Cle land is a CHS senior and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Cleland, 200 Fidelity. Veteran Patients Guests For Game Some 30 patients at the-Veterans Administration Center at Temple will be special guests of the college and the Athletic Department for the Baylor game Saturday. This is in line with a prog-ram set up 13 years ago for having patients from the center as guests for a football game. It has been carried out each year since. The group will sit in special seats on the cinder path on the west side of Kyle Field. P. L. Downs Jr., official greeter for the college, will meet the group. married in 1952. She has one daughter, Deborah, who was bom on October 24, 1954. Since Thursday will be Oct. 24, Miss Collins will, as a coincidence, celebrate her daughter’s birthday anniversary by singing to the Town Hall audience. Swinging over to the Shep Fields Orchestra, the Town Hall audience will see an orchestra with startling ly different instrumentation. Some years ago Fields combined nine saxophones and five rhythm instru ments with his group to create “Rippling Rhythm”, a distinctive musical style. The orchestra is noted as a radio band and has cut some big records. Fields and his group have had three radio shows of their own and are recording for the MGM label. Reserved seats at the show bear price tags of $2.50; regular admis sion is $2. Public school students will be admitted for $1. A&M Town Hall tickets will be honored for the presentation. 4 Yankee 'Club To Organize With Meeting For three years a subversive campus organization has been flourishing and now they are again attempting to recruit new members and re-organize old ones. The Yankee Hometown Club was begun in 1955 when a small group of our neighbors to the east banded together for the purpose of defend ing the fair name of “Yankeeland”. The first meeting of the year is planned for tomorrow night at 7 in the Memorial Student Center So cial Room. Purpose of the get to gether, according to Nick Settanni, is to elect new officers and make travel plans for the holidays. For the convenience of the men wishing to go to Town Hall, the meeting will end before 8 p. m. Settanni has asked that all men living in the area bounded on the west by the Mississippi River and the south by the Mason-Dixon Line attend the meeting and meet their fellow yankees. This affords a good opportunity for the yankees to gather and call each other “youse guys” and other familiar yankee terms. Ike Plans Talks For Confidence In US Defense Prepares Speech For Radio Talk NEW YORK, (AP)—President Eisenhower told the na tion last night he plans a series of speeches to demonstrate “the strength of our domestic economy, the character and power of our defense programs,” and 1 fie right of Americans “to confidence in these strengths.” The President disclosed his plans to go before the people in a nationwide radio address in which he said “we must cast aside any morbid pessimism” about the capacity of America’s free enterprise system to win out in the struggle against communism. Eisenhower, in a speech prepared for delivery at a Hotel Waldorf-Astoria dinner, made no direct mention of Russia’s launching of an earth satellite^ - and the Soviet claim it has successfully fired an intercon tinental missile. His theme at the dinner sponsored by the National Fund for Medical Education was this coun try’s urgent need for more doctors, additional medical personnel, and expanded health facilities. An hour after the President’s prepared text was distributed, the White House put out a brief pre face to his remarks. It disclosed his plans to speak in the near future regarding the country’s pro gress in the science fields. Eisenhower, after noting the theme of the speech, said “there are many other serious causes in the minds of our fellow citizens to night. “They include the continuing endeavor of our people in the fields of scientific achievement and me thods for attaining even greater achievements, the strength of our domestic economy, the character and power of our defense programs, the right of our people to con fidence in these strengths. TV Barred For Ag-Bear Till Saturday DALLAS, </P> — Rules forbid telecasting of the Baylor-Texas A&.M football game at College Sta tion Saturday, even though it is a sellout, because of a conflicting game at Huntsville. Southwest Conference secretary Howard Grubbs said yesterday that under NCAA regulations, no game can be telecast, if not on the na tional or regional schedule, if there is another game in the ai-ea that would be damaged by it. In this case, East Texas State and Sam Houston State play at Huntsville, which falls within the area since it is within a 100-mile radius of College Station. Not even East Texas State and Sam Houston State could give permission to tele vise on the basis that it would not damage their game. 4 Plans Started For December Ag Talent Show The stage is being set for the 1957 All-Aggie Talent Show to be held Dec. 10 in Guion Hall. The show is sponsored by the Music Committee of the Me morial Student Center and is free to all Aggies. Joe Harris, chairman of the Mu sic Committee, commented: “All Aggies with talent are urged to register in the Directorate Office in the MSC as soon as possible.” Registration ends in November with auditions to be held for se lecting the best acts. The show will last approximately two hours and will be composed of 10 acts. Prior to the actual show in De cember, the various acts will hold two rehearsals to smooth out actual mechanics. Winner of the talent show will be A&M’s representative to the Intercollegiate Talent Show slated for March 10. Band Places First in Corps Trip Hike Tallies of grading sheets at the Fort Worth Corps pass-by Satur day showed that Consolidated Band grabbed first place with .7800 cu mulative marching points. Tied, for second place with .7429 points were Squadron 11 and B Infantry. In overall ranking, the two stand G and 13 respec tively. Goal $14,950 Community Chest Begins Tuesday “These,” he said, “are some of the subjects about which, during the ensuing weeks, I shall seek opportunities to talk with the American people, telling them of my beliefs and my determinations in these matters.” The President added that he has “unshakeable faiths in the capacity of informed, free citizens to solve every program involved.” Eisenhower disclosed no details of his plans to go to the people. The indications were that in addi tion to speeches he will take every opportunity-such as at news con ferences to put across his views. Eisenhower spoke in general terms regarding the essentiality of competent scientific and profes sional personnel. He did not make specific reference to the need for scientists and progress in military fields, such as the ballistic missile and satellite programs. A&M College-College Station Community Chest for 1957-58 be gins next Tuesday with a goal of $14,950. The drive will end Nov. 12, giv ing the Chest 15 days to reach its goal. The amount was set at the budget meeting Oct. 14, with the money to be divided among 15 organizations and charities. The objective of the Community Chest is to allow local citizens to make all contributions to charity in one sum and at one time instead of being solicited on numerous oc casions. tion Recreation Council and the College Station Community House, Inc. Also receiving a part of the funds raised will be the Brazos County Youth Development Counseling Service, Brazos County Hospital Fund, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, American Red Cross and the College Station Local Chest Charity Fund. ( Education Director To Speak At CHS Check Room Planned In MSC for Weekend The Memorial Student Center will operate a check room serv ice for the Baylor-A&M game from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday. Information pertaining to the check room service may be re ceived by inquiring at the Social and Educational Department. Weather Today A cool, dry air mass has moved over Texas from the west, bringing partly clearing skies and mild temperatures. However, the fore cast for East Texas still calls for scattered showers. The 24-hour precipitation reading taken at 8 this moming was .46 inch. Yesterday’s high tempera ture was 80 degrees at 5 p. m., and this morning’s minimum, G6 de grees at 7:45. In a message to deans and heads of departments, President M. T. Harrington said, “Whether or not we are successful will depend on your active support of this cam paign. I hope you will personally support this drive and call it to the attention of the members of your department or division.” Co-chairmen for the 1957-58 drive are Richard Vrooman and L. E. McCall. Bob Shrode is secretary for the organization; Ray Hite, treasurer; Reed McDonald, assist ant treasurer; Jack Tippit, publicity chairman; and Loyd Keel, assist ant publicity chairman. This year the fund will be pro portioned among the Texas United Defense Fund, United Service Organization, Salvation Army, Brazos County Crippled Children’s Thei’apy Center, Gonzales Warm Springs Foundation, College Sta tion Youth Facilities Council, Col lege Station YMCA, College Sta The director of research of the Texas Education Commission will speak at a Brazos County Teacher’s meeting tomorrow night at 8 in the Consolidated High School Audi torium. “Teacher Retirement Benefits” is the topic of the director’s Speech. Questions from the floor about re tirements will also be answered by the speaker. Moonwatch Group Asked to Sign List Members of Operation Moon- watch are urged to sign the alert roster in the office of J. T. Kent, Room 22-B of the Academic Build ing, as soon as possible. Kent, director of the operation, also asked all members to check the bulletin board in the Math de partment on the second floor of the Academic Building.