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¥ The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 i ' Friday, November 8, 1957 [LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Babler ■HI Art for Aggies’ Sake By WELTON JONES Concerning the situation here last Tuesday night, when the Ted Heath variety show played across the street from the Aggie Players and both competed with rain, this column says “regettable but in evitable.” The Heath show, which also starred Carmen McRea and the Hi-Los, was not a flop, although the some 500 people attending looked more like a group of friends gathered for a dress re hearsal than an audience. The show was no flop, because the school made money, those at tending got more than their money’s worth and the perform ers, if anything - , were above par. But the whole thing was still ‘regrettable and “inevitable”. True, Spike White, the Student Activities man who books acts for Town Hall and the special shows such as this one, was able, through shrewd bargaining, to actually make money, but the management of the tour took a financial axe in the neck that they won’t forget soon. White was able to schedule this group, on a national tour limited to 21 days by the British musici an’s union for the Heath band, on the basis of reception of a similar unit headed by Nat (King) Cole here last year. They gambled and lost. When the time comes to set next year’s Town Hall shows and other promotional programs, these same financial people, and most of the others in the business, will remember Tuesday night. For words get around fast in show business. The small attendance may be explained two ways. The first, and logical one, is that local audiences, many of them students with limited time for entertain ment, have been thrown such a glut of good shows recently on the Town Hall program, that pay ing extra money for another one seems unnecessary. Then too, one of the peculiari ties of the local audience seems to be the affinity for “collecting” may name entertainment. This not be just locally, either. They want to see a famous band, a. hit play or a classical musician spoken well of, but one view is enough. One number, even, is almost enough. After wards it is possible to say for ever, “Oh, I’ve seen Ted Heath, the Hi-Los, Colonel Billy’s Talk ing Dogs,” etc. forever. Therefore, the booking persons should have been warned that most locals interested had “col lected” Heath last year, and didn’t think the other two parts of the program worth, the extra time, money and effort. But the small crowd was in evitable. Then, of course, it always sad dens this column to see conflicts of shows, even though it may be possible to see one or both at another time. The Aggie Players were in the midst of a three night run of “The Hasty Heart”, which tui-ned out to be highly enter taining, and, although the two shows appealed to slightly dif ferent groups and the play was visible two other nights, let us hope that the Student Activities Department is not setting a pre cedent. DRAMA—With a job well done behind them, in the form of “Hasty Heart,” the Aggie Play ers now turn to their meaty pro ject of the year, William Shake speare’s tragedy, “Macbeth”, men tioned by this column before. Once again the guiding fathers of the production, Dr. Sam South- well and C. K. Esten, have issued a call for assistance. About five major roles'have been tentatively cast for the play, which opens February 10, 1958, but many more remain, and no concrete work has been done on many parts of the show. There is room for talents and enthusiasm of all kinds, from lead roles to scenery painters to ushers at the performances. The second meeting of the year will be held Tuesday night at 7:30 in the Music Hall, and this is the big one, according to Esten. JOB INTERVIEWS The following interviews will be held in the Placement Office: Monday COMBUSTION ENGINEER ING, INC., New York, N. Y., in terviews chemical, civil, indus trial, mechanical and physics en gineering and mathematics ma jors. E. I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS & COMPANY, Wilmington, Del., interviews B.S.-M.S. level civil, electrical, industrial and mechani cal engineering and chemistry majors. TEXAS EASTMAN COMP ANY, Longview, (Division of Eastman Kodak Company) inter views B.S.-M.S. electrical and WhaVs Cooking The following club will meet Tuesday night: PHYSICS CLUB meets in Room 320, Physics Building, to hear R. E. Collins, Humble Oil, speak on Humble Research. mechanical engineering- and chem istry (also Ph.D.) majors. VITRO LABORATORIES, Sil ver Spring Laboratory, . Silver Spring, Md., interviews electrical and mechanical engineering, phy sics, mathematics and chemistry majors. Monday and Tuesday AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTS LABORATORY, INC., Mineola, N. Y., interviews electrical and mechanical engineering-, physics, mathematics majors. NATIONAL ADVISORY COM MITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS, Edwards, Calif, interviews aero nautical, chemical, civil, electrical and mechanical engineering, mathematics and physics majors. HUGH TOOL COMPANY, Houston, interviews electrical, in dustrial and mechanical engineer ing majors. BUFFALO FORGE COMP ANY, Buffalo, N. Y., interviews electrical, industrial and mechani cal engineering majors. STANDARD - VACUUM OIL ‘ COMPANY, White Plains, N. Y., COMPANY, White Plains, N. Y., interviews chemical, civil, geolo gical, mechanical and petroleum engineering majors. TRANSCONTINENTAL GAS PIPE LINE CORPORATION, Houston, interviews civil, electri cal, industrial, mechanical and petroleum engineering and indus trial technology majors. Tuesday and Wednesday WESTING HOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION interviews elec trical, mechanical, industrial and chemical engineering, chemistry, mathematics and physics majors. "THIS IS NUTHIN'-YA SHOULPA SEEN OUK'HOMECOA/MNd FLOAT LAST YEAR* An Editorial Compu Isory Hon or Corps seniors voted yesterday to activate an honor code in the Cadet Corps. And the question on the campus today, especially among- underclassmen, is “Can honor be passed down through the chain of command?” The seniors, professed purpose, and no doubt a sound one in their opinion, was to start the code at the top and work down. Such a method might be more efficient. But since a code as the one they have proposed will affect not only the seniors, but every class, efficiency could well be tempered with consideration for the men who will live longest under the code. The honor code may prove to be an asset to the Corps in spite of its regimented beginning. But an honor code for the A&M Corps of cadets in volves more than the 322 men who voted in favor of it. Without the support of every member of the Corps, such a code as has been proposed can do nothing but fail—(JB) S vggfcfa 'li: £i iC-W:.'' 1 iji f ♦ ' ( HiifjU N UNPte 17 VI AWV TRff FRIDAY “The D. J.” With Jack Webb plus “The Secret of Treasure Mountain” With Valerie French SATURDAY Walt Disney’s “Stormy’ : “Target Zero” and “Revolt at Fort Laramie’ Also 4 Cartoons Bri/an 2’8 $79 TODAY & SATURDAY RICHARD EVER PHILIP ABBOTT - DIANE BREWSTER and ROBB Y, THE ROBOT THE BATTALION The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors The Battalion, daily newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, is published by students in the Office of Student Publications as a non-profit educational service. The Director of Student Publications is Ross Strader. The governing body of all student publications of the A.&M. College of Texas is the Student Publications Board. Faculty members are Dr. Carroll D. Laverty, Chairman; Prof. Donald D. Burchard, Prof. Robert M. Stevenson a.nd Mr. Bennie Zinn. Student members are W. T. Williams, John Avant and Billy W. Ubby. Ex - officio members are Mr. Charles Roeber, and Ross Strader, Secretary. Tne Battalion is published four times a week during the regular school year and once a week during the summer and vacation and examination periods. Days of publi cation are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year and on Thursday during the summer terms and during examination and vacation periods. Subscription rates are $3.50 per semester, $6.00 per school year, $6.50 per full year or $1.00 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Sat. Nile Preview 11 p.m. Also Sunday - Tuesday SPORT COATS IN THE NEWEST AND SMARTEST IVY LEAGUE STYLE See These Handsome, New, Popularly Priced Ivy League Sport Coats Today! A&M MEN'S SHOP YOUR IVY LEAGUE CENTER Dick Rubin, ’59 103 North Main North Gate IHP Bill EL1I01H0M DRAKE AN ALLIED ARTISTS PICTURE Preview Sat. Nile 10:30 p.m, Also Sunday and Monday m TECHNICOLOR* A COLUMBIA PICTURE JOB FACTS FROM DU PONT OPPORTUNITIES AT DU PONT CONTINUE TO GROW FOR ALL KINDS OF ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS Entered as second-class master at Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Con- grress of March 8, 1870. Member of: The Associated Press Texas Press Association Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., a t New New City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fran cisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. - , : Kadiu PrCfurcs ??csetitK Y PUBL/C P/GEOW-^J News contributions may be made by telephone (VI 6-6618 or VI- 6-4910) or at the editorial office room, on the ground floor of the YMCA. Classified ads may be placed by telephont (VI 6-6415) or at the Student Publications Office, ground floor of the YMCA- JOE TINDEL Editor Jim Neighbors Managing Editor Gary Rollins Sports Editor Joy Roper ...1 1 Society Editor Gayle McNutt, Val Polk City Editors Joe Baser, Fred Meurer News Editors —RED" C& STARRING nmm TODAY & SATURDAY ‘‘Buckskin Lady” WHERE DO YOU WANT TO WORK? by E. H. Cox Du Pont Representative / wouldn’t he entirely realis tic if I said that you can choose your job location from Du Font’s 75 plants and "V8 laboratories scattered over 26 states. But Du Pont does have jobs open in many of these locations, so there is a good chance that we may be able to match your pref erences and qualifications with available openings. Right now, most of the Du Pont units are east of the Mississippi, but we have plants in Texas and on the Pacific Coast, too. In the past year plants were completed in Michigan, California, Ohio and Georgia. New plants are also under con struction in Kansas, Tennes see, Virginia and North Carolina. Perhaps one of these locations has just what you’re looking for in a job. For a complete list of our plant locations, please write to me at E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (Inc.), 2494-B Nemours Building, Wilmington 98, Del. I Career opportunities at Du Pont are greater today than ever before be cause of the Company’s continued growth. In 1957, Du Font’s sales were at the $2 billion level. Four new plants were being built. New research programs were being launched, and new products were moving into the production and marketing stages. All of these developments tend to broaden opportunities at Du Pont for the young scientist and engineer. ALL KINDS OF ENGINEERS Students with chemical engineering and chemistry degrees are needed, of course. But the opportunities are equally great for students majoring in many other fields. And the type of work for these men varies greatly. Among other things: Mechanical engineers work in re search and development as well as in plant engineering and production supervision. Metallurgical engineers conduct studies in metal fatigue and corrosion and engage in fundamental research into the nature and properties of elements. Civil engineers have many assign ments, including design and super vision of the cgfristruclion of Du Pont plants and laboratories. Men studying for degrees in electri cal, mining, petroleum, industrial and many other specialized fields of engi neering will find equally challenging outlets for their talents at Du Pont. If you’re interested in finding full scope for your ability, Du Pont offers you plenty of opportunity. Du Pont Training Tailored to Individual i Each of Du Pout’s operating depart ments has its own training program because each has special require ments. But both formal and informal programs are tailored to the interests and needs of the individual. Generally, you go to work on an assignment at once and start learning right away. This headstart on respon sibility is an important factor in your progress. Based on your qualifica tions, you're given one segment of a project to tackle almost immediately. You learn quickly and informally in consultation with your supervisor and other engineers on the same project. This training is supplemented by fre quent meetings, seminars, studies of plant operations and procedures. And since Du Pont is interested in the progress of the individual, your performance is evaluated at regular intervals by your supervisor. These discussions bring out your strong and weak points and together you work out a program for improvement. This training and evaluation continues year after year as you advance in the Company. SEND FOR INFORMATION BOOKLET Booklets on jobs at Du Pont are yours for the asking. Subjects includes mechanical, civil, metal lurgical, chemical, electrical, in strumentation and industrial engineers at DuPont; atomic energy, technical sales, research and development. Name the sub ject that interests you in a letter to DuPont, 2494-B Nemours Building, Wilmington 98, Del. THE DU PONT REPRESENTATIVE WILL VISIT THE CAMPUS NOVEMBER 11 SIGN UP TODAY AT YOUR PLACEMENT OFFICE FOR AN INTERVIEW