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Number 37: Volume 57
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1957
Price Five Cents
Hungary Marks
Freedom Bid
Of Last Year
VIENNA, (AP)—The Hun
garian people marked the first
anniversary of their anti-So
viet revolt yesterday in sullen
silence under the guns of
police.
The Communist government of
Premier Janos Kadar warned
in advance any demonstrations
would be crushed. He had nine Rus
sian army divisions to back him up.
Reports from Budapest said the
day was drab and rainy as Hunga
rians trudged to work or to school.
One scene from the Budapest re
ports seemed symbolic of the day.
A little, gray-haired old lady,
dressed in black and hunched over
against the rain, weaved her way
through police guards and entered
Budapest’s vast cemetery.
She shuffled to a grave and knelt
down in prayer.
Flu Epidemic Hits
145 CHS Students
The flu “bug” hit Consolidated
Schools last week, sending absentee
figures up as new victims come
down with the virus.
“The epidemic seems to have
reached its peak now,” said CHS
Principal E. P. Ozment Tuesday.
“At least the number of absentees
is about uniform now.”
Junior High is the hardest hit of
the schools. Tuesday 105 were
reported absent due to flu. The
high school figure Tuesday was
40 victims. Only three teachers
have fallen from the virus, which
has been going on a little over a
week, Ozment said, and all three
are now back at their desks.
3 Car Collision
Damages Costly
Damages totaling $2,000 were
caused in a three-car collision in
the 400 block of Highway 6 at
about 4:45 yesterday afternoon.
No injuries were reported, al
though one car was almost com
pletely demolished and another se
verely damaged.
According to the investigating
officer no one was at fault and the
collision of the three automobiles
was unavoidable. Apparently one
auto, driven by S. Sgt. J. M. Mo
reno of College Station, was at
tempting to turn left across the
highway.
Willard W. Parker, of 1016 E.
23rd St. Bryan, was driving a pan
el truck behind Moreno and was
unable to stop. Following the col
lision between the two vehicles,
Moreno’s car was shoved into the
path of the oncoming car, driven
by Daniel Smoot of Houston.
The Moreno car was estimated
to be a total loss and the panel
truck driven by Parker had dam
ages totaling about $700. Smoot’s
car received a smashed fender.
CabinetPosition
South
Eisenhower Gives
Post To Rogers
—-Battalion Staff Photo by Kaoul Roth
Cleaning ‘Sully’ for Big Weekend
‘B’ Armored
cloths and br
of Lawrence
freshmen man the mop, blitz
asso to give the historic statue
Sullivan Ross a much needed
cleaning 1 . Left to right are Robbie Godwin,
Reagan Boone, Thomas Rainey, Hueland
Boultinghouse and Mickey McDonald.
Entertainment in Store
■■■■■■Ml V isitors
or
Numerous weekend activities are
in the making to provide Aggies
and their visitors with entertain
ment sure to add to the color of
the A&M-Baylor football game at
Kyle Field Saturday.
Highlight of the weekend will be
the All-College Dance Saturday
night featuring Jan Garber and his
Orchestra. The dance will be from
9 to 12 p. m. in Sbisa Hall and will
cost $2.50, stag or drag. The Of
fice of Student Activities, sponsors
of the dance, emphasizes that it is
a semi-formal dance.
Rue Pinglle, Aggie version of a
French night club, will offer Ag
gies and their dates dancing and
entertainment Friday night from
8:30 p. m. till midnight yell, prac
tice. Rue Pinalle will be held in the
Ping Pong Room of the Memorial
Student Center. Admission is $1.50
per couple.
A long, entertaining floor show
has been planned by Hiram Franch,
chairman of the dance committee.
CSC Meets Tonight
The Civilian Student Council
will meet tonight as scheduled
by the organization. They
will meet in the Senate
Chamber of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Headlining, the show will be Dave
Woodard’s Combo who will pro
vide music for dancing. The floor
show, starting at 10:30 p. m., will
feature a trio from Texas Woman’s
University, composed of Martha
Chikholm, Carmel Chisolm and
Mary Jo Baker. Included in the
floor show will be Beverly Roberts,
a tap and ballet dancer, arid
Cynthia Cohen, accordion player.
Former students from Classes of
’22 and ’42 will hold their reunions
on the campus. The “exes” will
begin registering in the MSC Fri
day.
The class of ’42 has slated cock
tails, dinner and a dance Friday
night in the American Legion Hall.
The •class of ’22 begins its week
end activities with an informal
gathering at the home of President
and Mrs. Harrington Friday. Har
rington is a member of the class of
’22. A lunch will, be held Saturday
at 11:30 a. m. and a dinner that
night in the'MSC.
The House Committee will set up
a booth Saturday morning at 9 a.m.
in the lobby of the MSC to sell
tickets to the game. These tickets
are furnished by Aggies and other
persons holding tickets that are
unable to attend the game. They
are sold at cost..
The MSC will operate a check
room service for the game from 8
a. m. to 8 p. m. Saturday.
Air Force Cuts
Two Contracts
For Research
Archie M. Kahan, executive
director of the A&M Research
Foundation, confirmed yester
day a report that the Air
Force had canceled two of the
Foundation’s research contracts.
Said Kahan: “Cancellation of the
contracts is causing repercussions
over almost all the U. S. camp
uses.”
Those repercussions are a dis
arrangement of the research pro
grams and the possible firing of
some of the employees Working on
the projects.
Kahan -said the cancellations ef
fect on employees at A&M could
not yet be determined, but it is ex
pected that personnel involved will
be shuffled to work on other prob
lems, with only a bare minimum be
ing laid off.
According to Kahan the cancella
tion was rather .sudden.
“First they asked us for* a five
per cent reduction in the program,
then asked if we could wait several
months before submitting a re
quest for money, all of which we
accepted. The next word that we
heard was this cancellation.”
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON,—Herbert Brownell Jr. resigned yester
day as U. S. attorney general. He said the settling of federal
policy in the Little Rock school integration dispute freed him
to return to private faw practice.
The White House said President Eisenhower accepted
the resignation and will appoint Dep. Atty. Gen. William P.
Rogers Jr. to the Cabinet post. Rogers is a close friend of
Vice President Nixon.
Brownell is the sixth member of Eisenhower’s original
Cabinet to resign.
Just when he will relinquish his office was not announc
ed. However, Brownell suggested in a letter to Eisenhower
♦■that he would be ready to step
out in two weeks.
TCU Leaders
Discuss Brawls
With
A gg
ics
Second Town Hail
Entertains Tonight
Dorothy Collins, former singing
star of “Your Hit Parade,” along
with the Shep Fields orchestra, will
hold the spotlight in the second
showing of A&M’s Town Hall to
night at 8 in G. Rollie White Coli
seum.
Miss Collins, a pretty blonde who
has been singing- since she was a
little girl in school, i-ecords for
the Coral label and is one of the
top female attractions in the Unit
ed States.
Canadian born, she began her
climb to fame in 1942 when band
leader Raymond Scott happened to
hear hei- sing while in Chicago.
Scott liked what he heard, signed
her to an audition and then billed
her along with his “Quintet.”
Miss Collins and Scott eventually
were married in 1952. They have
one daughter, Deborah, who was
born on October 24, 1954. Miss
Collins will be celebrating her
daughter’s birthday as she sings
to the Town Hall audience tonight.
As for the Shep Fields Orchestra,
the Town Hall audience can ex
pect an orchestra with amazingly
different instrumentation. Fields,
a renowned musician for many
years, features “Rippling Rhythm,”
a famed musical style. It is charac
terized by nine saxophones and five
rhythm instruments.
Another feature of the orchestra
is Miss Jackie Austin, a vocalist
with the group, who will help Miss
Collins entertain with song.
Reserved seats at the show sell
for $2.50. Regular admission is $2
and public school students will be
admitted for $1. A&M Town Hall
tickets will be honored.
The White House said
Brownell will rejoin the New
York City law firm of Lord,
Day & Lord, which he left to enter
the Cabinet. It said he would act
as an advisor to the firm for two
years, instead of as a partner, be
cause of the conflict of interest
law barring former federal offi
cials from handling government
cases. Brownell will deal only with
nongovernmental matters, the
White House said.
Brownell held an informal news
conference shortly after his resig
nation was announced and disclaim
ed any ambition for further pub
lic office.
Eisenhower named Brownell to
his Cabinet after the New Yorker
managed his 1952 presidential
campaign. Brownell also managed
the 1948 and 1944 presidential bids
of former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
of New York.
As boss of the Justice Depart
ment and Eisenhower’s chief legal
adviser, Brownell has been attack
ed by Southern members of Con
gress because of his role in the
Little Rock crisis and in develop
ing the new civil rights law. On
civil rights questions, Rogers and
BrowneU see eye to eye. Sen. Mc
Namara (D-Mich), one of the first
to comment on the impending
Brownell-Rogers shift, said this
“would not mean any change in
current policies.”
By his resignation, Brownell
avoids a prospective series of trips
to Capitol Hill in the next session
where he would have come face to
face with angry Southern critics.
George Depee, Texas Chris
tian University student body
president, and a committee of
TCU students will meet here
tonight with the A&M Stu
dent Senate to discuss the conflicts
between students of the two schools
last weekend.
A. special senate meeting was
called for tonight at 7 in the Sen
ate Chamber after Corps Comman
der Jon Hagler received a phone
call from Depee last night telling
him the delegation’s plans to come
here tonight for a meeting with
A&M student leaders.
TCU has released a formal state
ment for publication concerning
the incidents occurring on the TCU
campus during the corps trip last
weekend, Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins
said yesterday.
Contents of the statement are
not yet known, but several re
leases have been made to newspa
pers and radio stations.
Most of TCU is ashamed of the
bad conduct of some of its students
last Saturday, according to War
ren K. Agee, Chairman of the
TCU Department of Journalism.
In a letter to A&M Journalism
head, D. D. Burchard, Agee said,
“We at TCU deeply deplore the
hoodlum - like tactics employed
against many of the visiting Ag- MOON WATCH
gies last Saturday. By we, I mean All members of Operation Moon-
not only the faculty and admini- watch are requested to meet at the
stration, but virtually all the stu- rear of the Physics Building to-
dent body.” [night at 6:15 for an alert.
SCONA Picks Nation’s ‘Tops’ For Third Conference
Top speakers from all phases of
national and international life will
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Col. Guy H. Kissinger
share their knowledge with the na
tion’s top college students at the
third annual Student Conference
on National Affairs, SCONA III,
Dec. 11-14.
Heading the group will be Gen.
Carlos P. Romulo, Philippine U.N.
representative, and former aide to
Gen. Douglas MacAi-thur.
U.S. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey,
(D-Minn.) will be the top national
figure while others are: Eugene
M. Zuckert, former Atomic Energy
Commission member; John Scott,
special assistant to the publisher
of Time magazine, and Col. Guy H.
Kissinger, Jr., ’38, U.S. Marine
Corps.
Houston attorney Lee M. Sharrar
will complete the group.
Romulo, Pulitzer prize-winning
author, holds 30 honorary doctor
ate degrees from 30 colleges and
universities, only one of which is
outside of the territory of the
United States.
He captured the coveted Pulitzer
award in 1942 for a series of ar
ticles on the Far East.
Romulo has written eight books.
One, “The Magsaysay Story” is
now on sale at bookstands.
During World War II he was
given the highest militai’y and ci
vilian awards in the Philippines
and the highest military award in
Mexico.
Sen. Humphrey, Democratic
| prospect for either the presidency
i or vice presidency, is one of the
nation’s outstanding liberals. He
is a former university professor |
and is considered an expert in eco
nomics.
Scott in his travels for Time has
picked up first-hand information
in such current trouble-spots as
Syria, Egypt and other Middle
East countries.
He has recently returned from a
4-month visit in these areas.
Col. Kissinger, a former student j ||
graduating in 1938 with an archi
tectural engineering degree, is con
sidered an expert on economic fac
tors of national strength. He has
Lee M. Sharrar
been active in NATO work in re
cent years but is currently station
ed at Norfolk, Va.
Sharrar, former intelligence man
during World War I and II, has
served as instructor in economics
and jurisprudence at Rice Insti
tute in Houston. He received an
LL.B. degree from South Texas
College of Law in 1931.
Sharrar is reportedly civic-mind
ed, belonging to several Houston
civic organizations including the
Kiwanis Club and the Houston Phil
osophical Society.
Jack Nelson, SCONA III head,
indicates planning for the Decem
ber conference is well ahead of
last year.
The conference is open to dele
gates from selected schools in the
nation and is designed to better
acquaint college students with
problems facing the nation.
SCONA leaders anticipate this
year’s conference will suipass pre
vious years in interest, attendance
and quality of training.
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Gen. Carlos P. Romulo