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Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 46: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1957
Price Five Cents
Tonight’s the Night!
Today is the last day for the freshmen to
jing-le-jangle-jingle for another year, as
they remove their spurs tonight before mid
night yell practice. Here, “Fish Jones”
sports a pair of the coke-cap-coat hanger
spurs designed for riding the SMU Mus
tangs.
Six Major Activities
Ready For Weekend
By FRED MEURER
Six different forms of entertain
ment are planned and ready to
give Aggies and 30,000 football
weekend and Fall Military Day
visitors a time they won’t forget
today and tomorrow.
Things get warmed up tonight
at 8 and 8:30 when two dances un
fold their wraps.
The first is scheduled for Sbisa
Hall where tiger roars and music
■^y the Air Force Orchestra of the
West mingle to provide background
sounds for dancing Air Force ca
dets and their dates. This is the
annual Air Foi'ce Ball, where one
of seven lovely finalists chosen
earlier this week will be named
sweetheart of the ball.
The second shindig tonight is
Rue Pinalle. It will be held in the
Memorial Student Center games
room, which will be dressed up to
the tone of a French nightclub.
Dancing to the music of Dave
Woodard’s Combo begins at 8:30
and a floor show tops off the af
fair at 9:45. Admission is $1.50
per couple.
Both dances end at 11:30, when
the crowd swings over to The
Grove for the third spectacle. Here
Aggie yell leaders will lead the
next ceremony, the midnight yell
practice.
After a short night’s sleep for
most Aggie followers, they will
Senate To Sponsor
Campus Chest Fund
Student Senate voted last night
to sponsor a unified campus chesi
in December with a goal of $7,000.
The chest is designed to take the
place of all funds taken up during
the year for unfortunate Aggies,
such as Vic Zuckero, as well as to
have a sum on hand to be spent
on other worthwhile projects, both
on and off the campus.
Allocation of the funds raised in
the December drive would be dis
tributed like this: 60 per cent of the
total to a special emegency fund
for Aggies; 10 per cent to the Col
lege Station Community Chest; 10
per cent to World University Sei’-
vice; and 20 per cent to other
worthwhile organizations.
Actual planning of the chest is
scheduled to begin next week, under
the direction of four Senate-ap
pointed chairmen, Bill Libby, Jim
Brady, Ronnie Buford and Charlie
Weather Today
College Station will have partly
cloudy and cool weather today and
Saturday, the college weather sta
tion reports.
Rainfall during the 24-hour
penod ending at 8 a. m. totaled .85
inch. The low temperature of 49
degrees was recorded at 7:30 this
morning, with yesterday’s high of
71 degrees coming at 2 p. m.
Relative humidity at 8 this morn
ing was 79 per cent, and the tem
perature, 53 degrees.
(Woody) Rice.
Several methods of soliciting
funds wei’e suggested at the meet
ing. Included were selling tickets
for a date with the Aggie sweet
heart, competition between Corps
outfits and civilian dorms and pai’-
ticipation by technical societies.
Senate also heard a report from
the Issues Committee on parking
problems on the campus. Spokes
man for the group was Don Cloud,
who reported that an estimated
$4,312 had been paid in traffic
fines on the campus since Sept. 1.
The Fiscal Department along with
the traffic committee of the plan
ning council has plans to use all
or part of this sum, plus the
$7,798 derived From car registra
tions this year, to improve existing
lots and build new ones, Cloud said.
Vet Pay Forms
Need Signatures
Veterans who have not picked up
their October pay forms should do
so at once, Bennie A. Zinn, director
of student affairs said yesterday.
Forms have been at the Veterans’
Advisor’s office since Monday, Zinn
said, but there are about 75 that
have not been signed.
He said the pay forms should
be signed every month prior to
4 p.m. on the fourth day of the
next month if the checks are to
be delivered on time.
awaken in an atmosphere of Fall
Military Day and football day.
Nothing is scheduled for the morn
ing, but visitors should be kept
busy dodging crowds.
At 1:30 in the afternoon, ranks
numbering 4,000 green-clad cadets
march onto the main drill field
for the fourth event, the Military
Day review. On hand to take the
salute from unit commanding of
ficers will be G’en. Maxwell D. Tay
lor, chief of staff of the U.S.
Army, and four accompanying
generals.
After this, everything except the
spirit quietens and visible excite
ment remains subdued until the
fifth activity—the big one—the
A&M-Southern Methodist Univer
sity football, clash on Kyle Field
at 8. A Corps march-in precedes
play, and then the curtain rises
on a cast of 22 Agg’ie-Mustang ac
tors for the drama.
Immediately after the battle, the
sixth and final event gears into
motion. With strains of the final
War Hymn from Kyle Field as a
cue, four bands unlimber .their in-
stniments in the MSC and begin
sending out dance sounds for “Mid
night in New Orleans.” Dances
will be held in the games area, the
Serpentine Lounge and two other
second-floor locations. Music of
all types will be available. There
will be dixieland beats from Dave
Woodard’s Combo, latin music by
Joe Mendes, rock and roll by Rich
ard Smith and jazz by Chet At
kins, respectively. Admission is
$2 per couple.
At midnight, when the dances
end, all events will be bygones, ex
cept for headaches and hangovers
come Sunday morning.
Corps Seniors Favor
School Honor Code
Russian Missile
May Be Coming
Apart at Seams
WASHINGTON—(H 5 )—Rus
sia’s newest satellite, viewed
by thousands in a predawn
sweep across American skies,
may have split in twoi
Scientists at the Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory in Cam
bridge, Mass., said it is quite pos
sible the elongated, 1,120-pound
space vehicle has started to come
apart.
They were studying reports from
observers in Chicago and Tokyo
that the main section of Sputnik
II appeared to be trailing a sec
ond object.- Radio signals on the
satellite’s 20-megacycle band in
dicated they might be coming from
two sepai’ate radio-equipped ob
jects.
U. S. sky observer’s redoubled
their vigilance on the chance that
the Russians might try for some
thing 1 spectacular today in honor
of the 40th anniversary of the
Bolshevik Revolution.
The two favorite pieces of spec
ulation wei’e:
1. That an attempt might be
made to eject from the satellite
the container carrying Laika, the
famous space dog. it would be a
great feat to bring the animal
back to earth alive for scientific
study.
2. That the Russians might take
a shot at the moon. Soviet scien
tists have said a rocket to the
moon is one of the projects they
have in the works.
Sputnik II was estimated to have
been only about 150 miles high on
its flights over the United States
today. Rising and falling in brill
iance, its color was variously de
scribed as blush-white, pinkish,
ruddy and even red.
CadetOfficersPlan
In doctrina lion
By JOE BUSER
Corps seniors voted yesterday 322 to 165 to support and
make operational a Corps-wide honor code, based on the pre
mise that “Aggies do not lie, cheat or steal.”
Plans are being made by the cadet officers to begin in
doctrination of the other three classes Pext week, in hopes
that the code will become effective around the first of the
year.
According to Corps leaders, the code is not designed to
be forced on underclassmen; they (Corps seniors) felt that
the easiest and most efficient way to activate such a code
would be to start from the top and work down.
“After a proper period of indoctrination, we might even
— 1 ♦call for a vote from all clas
ses, although I feel that the
Gulf Tornado
Injures 100
ORANGE, Tex. — OP) — An off
season tornado that arrived with
a sudden roar, slashed through
this Texas Gulf Coast area last
night, killing one pers'on, injuring
more than 100 persons and causing
heavy property damage. Four
towns were hit.
“There was just a single ex
plosion—whop, just like that and
then it was all over, just in a mat
ter of seconds,” said Orange Police
Chief Raymond Sanders, who was
visiting his daughter in the area
struck here.
“The lights went out and then
this explosion,” he said. “I went
outside and it was rough. I don’t
know whether you would call it
panic or not but it was pretty
bad, with from 4,000 to 5,000 peo
ple trying to get out of their
houses at the same time.”
The tornado swept through the
Riverside Housing Project, a con
gested World War II housing de
velopment. Earlier it had dipped
down at Nome, China and Groves.
One unidentified Negro was kill
ed when a house collapsed here.
Architect Division
Sets Guest Lecture
Robert B. Newman, nationally
known acoustical consultant, will
speak on architectural acoustics at
7:30 p. m. Tuesday in the lecture
room of the Biological Sciences
building.
Newman in being brought here
by the Guest Series Lecture of the
A&M Division of Architecture as
the first speaker of the year.
He has worked in acoustical re
search and development at th«
Radio Corporation of America, the
Electracoustic Laboratory at Har
vard and with the Navy in Phila
delphia during World War II.
underclassmen will be in fa
vor of the code after they are
familiar with it,” Jon Hagler,
Corps commander said last night.
However, it was pointed out by
Ray Bowen, deputy Corps com
mander, that if such a vote was
taken, after indoctrination of the
underclassmen, and the vote did
not carry in favor of the code,
more indoctrination would result.
“The senior class has the author
ity to pass down the order on the
honor code, in similar fashion as
the order on sophomore spurs last
year,” Bowen noted, “but honor
and integrity should come from
within.”
As to the code itself, the Corps
seniors accepted a code based on
five articles:
1. Cadets will not knowingly
make any false statements.
2. No one will unlawfully take
or receive property of
others.
In classrooms, cadets will
not receive nor impart un
authorized assistance.
Evasive statements or tech
nicalities will not be used
by cadets to shield guilt.
5. Any violations of honor,
either to a cadet’s personal
honor or to that of any
other person will be report
ed within a 24 hour period.
An important distinction was
made between breach of honor and
breach of regulations in the pro
posed code accepted yesterday. Un
der the code, cadets will not be re
quired to report violations of reg
ulations, such as not shining their
brass. If they profess to have
shined it, when they haven’t—an
example from the code—they will
have “violated their honor.”
Punishment for violation of the
honor code would be eventual dis
missal from the college, after in
vestigation by an honor council,
subject to final action by the com
mandant.
3.
4.
AMS To Hear
Speech On
Meteorology
Maj. Gen. Thomas S. Moorman
Jr., Commanding General of Air
Weather Service, Military Air
Transportation Service, USAF, will
address the A&M student chapter
of the American Meteorological
Society Tuesday night in the Chem
istry lecture room.
The subject of his speech will
be applied military meteorology.
A 1933 graduate of West Point,
Moorman received several decora
tions during World War II. He
won the Legion of Merit, the Air
Medal, Bronze Star, French, Bel
gian and Luxemborg Croix de
Guerre medals.
He assumed duties of Comman
der of Air Weather Service on
April 22, 1954. In this position he
is responsible for the provision of a
global weather service for the Air
Force and Army.
Following his speech, Moorman
will remain for a general discus
sion period and will answer any
questions concerning Air Force me
teorological programs.
President To Open
State School Meet
Pres. M. T. Harrington will give
the opening address at the 71st an
nual meeting of the American As
sociation of Land Grant Colleges
and State Universities, Tuesday,
in Denver, Colo.
Harrington, who was elected
president of the association last
November, will speak on “Mass
Education—Without Apology.”
He will preside over general ses
sions of the meeting, at the Shir-
ley-Savoy Hotel, Nov. 11-15. Some
900 delegates, representing 73 col
leges and universities of the Unit
ed States, Alaska and Puerto Rico,
are expected to attend this year’s
meeting.
During the session the delegates
will hear a talk on conservation of
natural resources in our expanding
economy by Fred Seaton, secretary
of the interior, and one on the
role of the federal reserve sys
tem in economic stability by
Charles N. Shepardson, former
dean of agriculture at A&M.
They also will hear a speech by
Ezra Taft Benson, secretary of ag
riculture, at the Nov. 14 session.
His speech will be followed by
a discussion of the role of the
press in education by Palmer Hoyt,
editor and publisher of the Denver
Post.
Space Problems
Solved, Says Ike
Rue Pinalle Gal
A good example of the type of eye-pleasing entertainment
Rue Pinalle offers is presented above. This winsome lass
was a featured singer in one of the past floor shows. The
doors open at 8:30 p.m. with the floor show set for 9:45.
by The Associated Press
WASHINGTON,—The President
said in a speech last night that
American scientists have solved
the problem of shooting a missle
into outer space and getting it
back without having it burn up
like a meteor.
He had in his office the nose
cone of an experimental missile
to show his television audience.
This object, he said, has been
“hundreds of miles to outer space
and back” and still is “completely
intact.”
‘It is my conviction,” Eisenhower
said, “supported by trusted scien
tific and military advisers, that,
although the Soviets are quite like
ly ahead in some missile and
special areas, and are obviously
ahead of us in satellite develop
ment, as of today, the overall mili
tary strength of the free world is
distinctly greater than that of the
Communist countries.
“We must see to it that what
ever advantages they have are tem
porary only.”
At almost the very start of his
speech, Eisenhower declared he was
going to “speak plainly” in this
and other speeches to follow.
The President said “it is en
tirely possible” that in the years
ahead this country could fall be
hind Russia in defense strength.
But this will not happen, he de
clared, if people in this country
“will close ranks as Americans
and get on with the job to be
done.”
Ht said his “scientific friends”
tell him that one of the nation’s
most glaring deficiencies “is the
failure of us in this country to
give high enough pi’iority to scien
tific education and to the place
of science in our national life.”