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.