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BATTALION Go To Church Tonight Number 48: Volume 57 Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, November 13, 1957 Price Five Cents SAC Warns Russians Of US r i k i AH I Need Is One Ticket Battalion Staff Photo But it seems that’s one more than is avali- just turn up is, left to right, Herbert Ange- able for the sell-out game in Houston this le and Homer Eldwards. Saturday. Standing by in hopes one might Cecilia Lost; Aunt Seeking Aid in Search Thousands of letters—many of them incorrectly addressed—arrive on this campus daily. With the help of the Housing Of fice, the Registrar’s office, and the IBM machine, most of them are quickly dispatched and claimed. However, the letter which fol lows just couldn’t be digested by the machinery of normal communi cation channels and finally landed on the editor’s desk: Nov. 5, 1957 To College Superintendent Bryan College Station Bryan, Texas Would you please page the col lege students there and see if Cecil Smith’s daughter’s husband is go ing to college there. His wife is my niece. Her name was Cecilia Smith before her mar riage and I was told her husband was going to Bryan College and was unable to learn her name since marriage. She was bom in 1936. In June, I think. And now she and her husband have a young daughter. Tell her to get in touch with me at once. It is important. Yours Truly, Mrs. H. Trenton Route 4 Gilmore, Texas Editor’s note: Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Cecil Smith’s daughter is urged to contact Mrs. Trenton at once. Last Tickets Sold To Swarming Fans HOUSTTON ^P> — Over 1,000 temporary bleacher seats were sold in 45 minutes today for Saturday’s important Southwest Conference football game between Rice and Texas A&M. Over 200 persons still were in line when the last ticket was sold. Rice earlier had disposed of the last of its share of tickets for the 70,000 seat stadium. Texas A&M officials at College Station said at noon they may re turn less than 500 tickets to Rice later in the day but that heavy sales there may make this un necessary. The game will be played before a crowd of about 72,000, largest ever to see a football game in Houston. Arrangements were under way late today to televise the game at least in the Houston area. Fish Face Bonfire. With Eagerness Despite unpleasant prospects of hard toil and little studying time. Corps freshmen seem to be looking forward to bonfire week which be gins Monday. Members of the Class of ’61 will meet another milestone in their A&M career when they step into the cutting area and smell the mixed aroma of freshly-cut trees, perspiration and fresh air. Here they are to experience their first battles with monstrous trees, either in the cutting, dragging, loading or stacking phase of the production line that makes the world’s largest bonfire. Freshmen interviewed yester day, however, shared the opinion that the bonfire is a great thing for building school spirit. “From what I’ve heard about bonfire week, it involves a lot of hard work and getting behind in your studies, but it’ll be worth it all to watch it burn,” said Dickie Fox, freshman chemical engineer ing major from Lockhart. Eagar C. Barlow, civil engineer ing major from Odessa, comment ed: “I’ve heard that it’s a week when you work hard and the profs flunk you.” N. G. Smart, geology major from Rock Spring, seemed optimistic Amarillo Senior Given Scholarship Donald Wayne Carver, geophy sics senior from Amarillo has been awaixled the Magnolia 'Petroleum Company Scholarship for the 1957- 58 school year. The scholarship provides $400 for the school and $400 plus tuition and fees for the student. Carver’s excellent record, evidence of leadership, character, and sincerity of purpose were pri mary considerations in awarding this scholai’ship, they said. Schools to Hear Texas Wildlife Rep Harley Byrd, of the Texas Wild life Commission, will give pro grams on wildlife conservation at all three Consolidated schools to morrow. Byrd, who appears on a tele vision show about Texas wildlife each Sunday, will spend the day at the schools. when he remarked: “I believe bonfire week will be a lot of fun, but there will be a few hard moments.” Feelings of the lower class seem ed to be summed up by James Elton Roberts, pre-med major from and lifelong resident of Bryan. He said: “I’ve lived in Bi'yan all my life and have seen many bonfires. I think it truly exemplifies the Spirit of Aggieland.” It will be hard, It may be cold, and more than likely it will rain, but the job lasts only a little more than a week. And on the evening of Nov. 27, every “fish” will be proud of every minute’s work he did on the blazing symbol. (iciest Speaker Urges Kiwarais To \ lelp Youth Any organization which helps youth, helps the Brazos County Youth Development Center, Victor M. (Vic) Fil lers, representative of the cen ter, said yesterday while speaking at the Kiwanis club luncheon. Ehlers told club members they were doing an excellent job in woi’king with the youth of College Station, and ui'ged them to con tinue to support all youth move ments. “Our services are not meant only for delinquent children,” Ehlers said of the development center, “We work with any child who has an emotional or behavior problem. We combine studies of the parents, child and counselor, trying to find out why there is a problem. After we find the cause, we try to cor rect it.” He said not all cases were cor rected, although the greatest ma jority were. In the near future the probation and counseling services will be come entirely separate, Ehlers told the gi’oup. He said the center planned to hire a man especially trained in guidance. Ehlers said Brazos County was selected for the center because it offered more opportunities than any other county in the state. With the addition of the new man, the county would certainly be in the eyes of the entire state as far as probation work is concerned. He pointed out that youth devel opment was supported by Brazos County and therefore belonged to the people. “It can only be as good as we make it,” he said. Kiwanis also reported that 250 box lunches were sold Saturday to football fans. The club has an other lunch sale planned for the Thanksgiving game. A&M Journalists Co-host SDX Meet A&M’s chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, the national journalistic fra ternity, is co-host with the Univer sity of Houston and the Gulf Coast Press Assn, this year for the 48th annual national convention of SDX which opens in Houston tonight. Joe Buser, pai'liamentarian of the local chapter, will represent the group as voting delegate. Oth er SDX members from here will attend the elaborate convention which lasts through Saturday this weekend. Theme for the meet is seeking and nurturing talent for journal ism. After executive council sessions tomorrow, delegates to the conven tion on Thursday will discuss a need to attract more talented young people into the field of journalism. Three national vice presidents of the group will lead a forum dis cussion. They are Edward Lind say, Decatur, Ill., Robert Cavag- naro, San Francisco, and James Byron, Fort Worth. At the opening business session Thursday morning, the- 350 dele gates will receive a progress re port on the fraternity’s continuing fight to win recognition at all levels of government of the peo ple’s right to know. The report will be given by Vernon Miller Newton Jr., editor of the Tampa, Fla., Trib une, and chairman of the frater nity’s Freedom of Information com mittee. Sol Taishoff, national president of Sigma Delta Chi and editor and publisher of Broadcasting Maga zine, Washington, D.C., Victor E. Bluedorn, Chicago, national execu tive secretary, and Cavagnaro, gen eral executive for The Associated Press at San Francisco, met today with the local convention commit tee to make final plans for the meeting. Mason R. Smith, Gouverneur, N.Y., national president last year, will preside at tomorrow’s sessions of the executive council. Principal speakers for the con vention will include Charles E. Wilson, former president of Gen eral Electric Co. and former di rector of defense mobilization; Harry L. Waddell, publisher of Petroleum Week, and ,1. Q. Ma- haffey, editor of the Texarkana Gazette and Daily News. Weather Today Rain and drizzle will continue most of the day, with general im provement in the local weather ex pected during the afternoon. Rain totaling .01 in^h fell during the 24-hour period ending at 8 this morning. Yesterday’s maximum temperature of 70 degrees came at 5 p. m. The low reading of 58 de grees was taken at 6 this morning. Relative humidity at 8 a. m. was 94 per cent, and the tempeiature, 60 degrees. Planes Important Despite Missiles PARIS, (AP)—The boss of the U. S. Strategic Air Com mand warned the Soviet Union today his bombers around the world are loaded with nuclear weapons and ready to strike swiftly in case of attack. Gen. Thomas Power told a news conference SAC mounted an alert Oct. 1, that there always are some of the great bombers in the air and they are “not carrying swords or bows and arrows.” The general struck at the recent claim of Soviet Com munist Chief Nikita Khrushchev that the intercontinental ballistic missile had made warplanes obsolete. Power declared Russian missiles could not knock out +U. S. SAC bases all over the Teacher Boosts Bonfire Safety At Fish Meeting Making everyone safety conscious for the bonfire this year began last night when Frank Nixon, of the Industrial Education department, con ducted a safety meeting with fresh men in Dorm 4. This was the first of a series of these meetings. Working in conjunction with Armon Hewitt, Corps supply offi cer and head of a five-man Bonfire S,,afety committee, Nixon expressed his ideas on safety during bonfire consti’uction. He backed up his speech by showing his own slides of unsafe practices which he no ticed during bonfire week last year. In his delivery, Nixon pointed out things which evei’y man should look for and look out for. Nixon and Mewitt will stage sim ilar meetings tonight and Thursday night. Tonight’s discussion will probably be held in Dorm 5, but no meeting place has been set for Thursday night’s presentation. Hewitt announced a meeting of all safety sergeants (unit supply sergeants) Thursday night in the Biological Science lecture room at 7:30. Final safety plans will be made at this time. “Watch out for yourself,” warned Hewitt, saying this was the only logical means of holding accidents down to a minimum. “If every man tries to look out for himself, we won’t have any accidents.” world simultaneously “and nobody knows it better than Khrushchev.” Power flew here from his U. S. headquarters for the Par liamentary Assembly this morn ing, heard Sen. Henry Jackson D-Wash propose that NATO set up a missile training center. The plan won prompt endorse ment from Gen. Cortlandt Van R. Schuyler, chief of Staff of Su preme Headquarters Allied Pow ers in Europe, who said “we have been trying to get this for six months.” A high NATO source disclosed that this year the United States embai’ked on a program of sup plying its NATO allies with mis siles such as the Nike, the Honest John, and the Corporal. He said all NATO members soon would have them. It was learned that Germany and Italy now have personnel trailing in the United States in the use of these weapons. Jackson also called for a com plete reappraisal of U. S. policy concerning exchanging atomic secrets with Western allies. In talks with fellow delegates, he said the West would gain greater security by sharing more infor mation. Meanwhile, two members of the U. S. delegation expressed approv al of President Eisenhower’s in vitation to Adlai Stevenson to ac company him to the Paris NATQ summit talks next month. They are Jackson and Sen. Estes Ke- fauver of Tennessee, Stevenson’s Democratic running mate in the last presidential campaign. ower 66 Universities Expected For Third SCON A The third annual Student Conference on National Af fairs will be held Dec. 11-14 with “The United States and World Affairs” its theme. Sixty-six colleges and universi ties from 20 diffei-ent states, Mex ico and Canada have been invited to send delegates to the conference featuring national and internation al speakers. The conference, commonly known as SCONA, was begun three years ago with the idea of producing a program on interna tional affairs for student leaders in the South and Southwest. Almost all of the expenses in curred by the student conferees as a result of the conference, travel, meals and housing, are paid by the SCONA committee. The expenses are paid for buy a budget of $16,000, raised by stu dents through contacts with firms and individuals who believe that college students should have an opportunity to further their edu cation and interests through con tact with world leaders and to hear their discussions. Top Scientists Visit For AMS Meeting Top flight scientists from throughout the nation will be guest speakers at the American Mete orology Society conference today through Friday in the Memorial Student Center. The meetings mark the 40th an niversary of the society. The first large-scale meteoi'ology training program was held at A&M in 1917, the beginning of AMS. Dr. M.G.H. Ligda of the Depart ment of Oceanography and Mete orology is president of the College Station AMS branch. Topics to be discussed include “Funnel Clouds and Tornadoes”, “Meteorological Observations and Measurements”, “Cloud Physics” and a host of others. Read ’em And Weep -Battalion Staff Photo A couple of hopeful students check their grades for mid-semester. They are, left to right, Armand Fougerat Sr., accounting mapor from Gonzales and Don Graham, business administration major from Hous ton.