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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1957
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Mystery Object Worries West Texas
‘Thing’ Appears,
Lights Up, Leaves
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LEVELLAND,—The Air Force today began investiga
ting a mystery object that landed near this West Texas city
Monday, then took off again in a flash of light and with a
rush of wind.
Texas military and other authorities said yesterday they
knew nothing of the object and did not appear greatly in-1
terested. But this afternoon, the Air Force said a preliminary |
investigation has been ordered.
A spokesman, asked as to the significance of such an
order, would only say: “We don’t investigate all of them after
all.”
Such investigations are made by air force personnel in
♦in the area. General jurisidic-
fH • tion over reports of flying
Prime Minister
Says US Can’t
‘Stand Alone’
LONDON, —Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan said yesterday
that the United States now realizes
it can no longer stand alone at
this “real turning - point in history.’*
Macmillan ushered in a new
session of Parliament with a re
view of his recent talks with Pres
ident Eisenhower in Washington
and an appeal for a tighter U. S.-
British alliance to heat the forces
of communism “bent upon the
mastery of the world.”
“The American people,” Mac
millan told the House of Commons,
“are no longer confident that even
their great country can do every
thing itself, without allies, to se
cure its own survival-and still less
to secure the survival of the ideals
for which they stand.”
The theme of closer links be
tween the world’s free nations led
by the United States and Britain
dominated glittering ceremonies
surrounding the traditional royal
opening of Parliament.
Reading a speech written for
her by Macmillan’s Conservative
Cabinet, Queen Elizabeth II said
in a firm, clear voice:
“It will be the constant endeavor
of my government to foster this
unity of sentiment and purpose
among the free peoples, that they
may be confirmed in their resolve
to defend the right and to sustain
those values on which our civili
zation is founded.”
The Queen said Macmillan’s talks
with Eisenhower “will greatly
further the achievement of this
saucers and the like belongs
to the air technical intelli
gence center at Wright-Pat-
terson Base, Ohio.
Some who telephoned police ap
peared terrified, police patrolman
A. ,7. Fowler said.
“They seemed to agree that this
something was 200 feet long,
shaped like an egg and was lit up
like it was on fire-but looked
more like neon lights,” he said.
“They said it was about 200 feet
in the air, and when it got close
car motors and lights would go
off,” Fowler added.
Col. Barney Oldfield of the
Noidh American Air Defense
NORAD said today that “the ob
ject, whatever it was was not
picked up by radar. It did not
seem to be traceable.”
He said the provost marshal at
Reese AFB at Lubbock, Tex., made
an investigation but failed to find
anything.
“We have had reports in the
past about such things and the ob
jects geneixilly turn out to be
weather balloons,” Oldfield said.
“Intelligence units will check out
all they can about the object.
“Balloons sometimes come down
to earth in weather like we are
now having, and when they get
warm they rise again, but they
certainly don’t rush around with
noise like thunder and are not
lighted with neon lights.”
That was the story of Ronald
Martin ,18, a Levelland truck
driver. He said his engine died and
the lights went out “when a big
ball of fire dropped on the high
way” east of here early Monday.
Martin said the object changed to
a bluish green color when it settled
on the roadway, then changed to
fireball again, when it rose straight
up and disappeared.
Senate Ordered
To Probe Missle
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON, —A Senate investigation of the U. S.
satellite and missile program was ordered today as Sputnik
II, the Soviet’s second satellite, sailed on through space with
a furry dog aboard.
Sen. Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex) announced that the satel
lite and missile probe will be launched this month by his Pre
paredness subcommittee, to unit of the Senate Armed Ser
vices Committee. Johnson is the Senate’s Democratic leader.
He said the Russian achievement in hoisting two satel
lites into the skies has “handed us both a technological and
a propaganda defeat.” His subcommittee is not particularly
interested in blaming anyone in the Eisenhower administra
tion for the situation, he add-*
ed, but it is not going to ac-
Spur
Gives
Clatter
A elded
at Aggieland
Spirit to Fish
By ROBERT WEEKLY
Visitors Impressed,
Amused By A&M
A group of Yugoslavians here to
study administration and operation
of the A&M Agricultural Exten
sion Service were first amused
then impressed by the traditions
of A&M.
“Everyone seemed to be telling
us to hurry, hurry, hurry,” said
their interpreter, Dr. Julius Do-
hany. “So we began to say ‘hurry’
back to them. Then we stopped a
student and he explained that they
wei-e saying ‘howdy’ to us.”
“We like the friendliness of the
Aggies and are very impressed by
their customs,” Dohany said.
The seven members of the tour
ing group, which includes two
Brazilians, were also puzzled at
first by. the spurs freshmen are
wearing this week. However,
when they were told that it was
in 'connection with the football
game this weekend with Southern
Methodist University, they were
amused.
The group which is here through
the technical assistance program
of the United States government,
is a part of a progi’am to bring
groups from 57 countries to the
United States to study develop
ments in various fields. The pro
gram is directed by the Interna
tional Cooperation Administration.
“There are about 2,000 people
here under this program,” Dohany
said. “The purpose of the program
is to help people help themselves.
This will raise the standard of liv
ing in these countries; a man that
is strong will be free.”
The gi'oup came to A&M after
visiting Kentucky and North Caro
lina. They plan to visit Prairie
View A&M College, Houston and
the Rio Grande Valley before con-
tinuing their tour. They are go
ing to Illinois next.
The group was very impressed
by the Memorial Student Center.
“I got spurs, that jingle, jangle
jingle” is A&M’s theme song this
week as those fighting Texas Ag
gie fish are decked out with spurs
to ride those Southern Methodist
Ponies.
And those fish like it.
“I get a great kick out of seeing
all those fish walking down the
sidewalk rattling like h . . .” said
Reagan Clark, freshman from Rich
mond. “It’s a privilege to wear
them and help boost the team.”
A touch of sentiment was felt
by one long time resident of Bryan,
now an Aggie fish.
“It wouldn’t seem like the week
before the SMU game without the
sound of spines,” commented Rich
ard Reiser.
Wearing spurs might get old
before the fish get to take them off
at mid-night yell practice Friday,
but most freshmen look at it with
a touch of optimism.
“Hasn’t gotten old yet. Have to
wait till the end of the week and
see,” was voiced unanimously and
enthusiastically by most of the
spurred crowd.
Tommy Smith, freshman from
No Ags Injured
During Weekend
No accidents were reported to
the commandant’s office t^his week
end, according to Col. Taylor Wil
kins, assistant commandant.
“The Aggies were well behaved
in Arkansas,” he said. “They were
treated very fine by the Arkansas
people both before and after the
game.”
Weather Today
College Station residents can look
for more rain and thundershowers
today ani tomorrow, the college
weather station reports.
The local weather is associated
with a front lying over northern
Gulf of Mexico and southern Texas.
Precipitation during the 24-hour
period ending at 8 this morning
totaled .89 inch. Relative humidity
at 8 was 100 per cent, and the
temperature, 57 degrees.
A low of 56 degx*ees was recorded
at 7 this morning. Yesterday’s high
reading was 74 degrees at 2:15
p. m.
Jefferson, thinks that the whole
thing helps strengthen A&M and
the class of ’61 in particular.
“The work and ti-ouble put into
making the spurs and then all the
freshmen wearing them without ex-
MSC Alleys Uo
Modern Soon
By Automation
Construction of the auto
matic pinsetters for the Mem
orial Student Center bowling
alleys will begin next week,
John Geiger, MSC bowling and
Games manager said Monday.
College administrators author
ized the MSC to purchase eight
automatic pinsetters from the
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. of
Chicago. Total expenses for the
equipment plus construction work
will be between 60 and 70 thou
sand dollars.
Installation of the automatic
pinsetters will be a major improve
ment in the facilities offered to
students and staff, Geiger said.
George Price, a member of the
MSC building superintendent’s
staff is now in Chicago studying
operation of the pinsetters so that
the staff will be acquainted with
their operation and maintenance.
ception helps unite the class into a
strong unit.”
“Adds to the spirit! Fun to think
up ways to make them,” was about
all one stimulated freshman could
say.
But some spurs get lost, as seen
last night at yell practice. Dozens
of pairs of spurs littered the
ground proclaiming the sad fact
that today some unhappy fish are
pounding hottle caps to make a
new set.
Inventive members of the fresh
man class have designed some pret
ty sharp numbers—sharp in ap
pearance that is. Sets range from
bottle cap rowels to some of the
more elaborate ones decked out
with beer cans, halloween rattles
and flags with unit numbers
proudly painted in large numerals.
cept an attitude “that papa
knows best and everything is
all right.”
Moscow reported that Laika, the
flying dog, is still alive-which was
followed by a demand from the
Tail Waggers Foundation of
America that the animal be “res
cued.” The foundation did not sug
gest how.
Soviet spokesmen contend Laika
is making a valuable contribution
to science. Any protests, Moscow
radio said today, should be worded
like this: ‘To all humanitarians
who are bombing Yemeni villages,
shooting nationalists in algeria,
persecuting Negroes in Little, Rod
and exterminating the indigenous
people in South Africa, we. dog-
lovers, call for a condemnation of
the Russian barbarians.
ft u! let in
LONDON, UP)—A Soviet scient
ist said last night Russian tech
nologists “already have created
conditions” for round-trip space
flights to Mars. It’s pretty techni
cal.
Moscow radio quoted Dr. Vitaly
Romadin as saying the speed neces
sary for an object to break loose
from the grip of Martian gravity
is 3% miles per second.
The speed needed to break the
grip of the earth’s gravity is about
7 miles per second. Western sci
entists believe Soviet rocket tech
nique now is equal to achieving
such speeds.
The speed of the two Soviet
Sputniks now circling the globe is
about 5 miles per second.
Radio Network
Says US Ready
To Fire Missile
NEW YORK, 5 UP) — The
Mutual Broadcasting System said
today it had been reliably informed
that the United States would launch
its first satellite next iveek.
The network, in a coast-to-coast
radio broadcast, Said its Philadel
phia news bureau had been in
formed of the launching by a
“leading scientist,” described as an
expert on insects.
The scientist was not further
identified.
The mutual broadcast said: “The
tip came into the mutual newsroom
at WIP, Philadelphia. The news
bureau in Washington then checked
a high Pentagon official for con
firmation or denial and was told:
‘We cannot substantiate the story.’
If the Defense Department has
any plans for some dramatic move
before Nov. 7, the 40th anniversary
of the Russian Revolution, it ap
parently is not in the field of
satellites.
A Defense Department spokes
man, in answer to a question by
an Associated Press reporter, said
tonight that no satellite equipment
in place for launching from
Cape Canaveral, the Florida Missile
Test Center. He said it required
weeks of preparation for the test
firing of just the first rocket engine
stage of the Vanguard vehicle.
Graduation Orders
Now Being Taken
The Office of Student Activities
has begun taking orders for grad
uation announcements, and Dec. 4
has been set as the deadline for
turning in orders.
Three different types of an
nouncements may be ordered, in
cluding leather bound announce
ments for 75 cents each, cardboard
type for 40 cents each and paper
announcements of the folding va
riety for 10 cents each.
Namecards for the inside of the
announcements are also available.
Engraved cards bear a price tag
of $2.50 per hundred and printed
cards sell for $1.50 per hundred.
Tempers Flare In The Hasty Heart
Battalion Staff Photo
Sister Margaret, center, restrains Yank,
left, from lashing out at Lachie, right, a
fellow patient in the World War II British
field hospital which is the scene of the Ag
gie Players surrent production “The Hasty
Heart.” Yank is David Dannenbaum, Sis
ter Margaret is Alice Gene Butler and Don
R. Reynolds plays Lachie. The play ends
tonight with a performance in the MSC
Ballroom at 8.