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Number 53: Volume 57 Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1957 Price Five Cents Work .Begins Soon On Jewish Chapel A&M’s Jewish B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation will begin construction of a new chapel on the corner of Jersey and Dexter streets follow ing ground-breaking ceremonies at 10 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day. A&M President M. T. Harring ton will deliver the principal ad dress at the ceremony, which will be attended by numerous alumni of the college. The building will consist of three main parts: administrative, recre ational and chapel areas. The ad ministrative area will consist of a Indonesia Says Dutch Quarrel f Strife UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. . —UP)—Indonesia warned yes terday that the security of all Asia is wrapped up in its claims to sovereignty over West Irian, known as West New Guinea. Indonesian Foreign Minister Subandrio indicated to the 82-na tion U. N. Political Committee that this might be the last time his country will iseek a U. N. settle ment of its bitter quarrel with the Dutch. He declared the Indonesians Vould prefer a U. N. settlement but Jidded that “the patience of a peo ple is not inexhaustible.” Netherlands Ambassador C.W.A. Schurmann, speaking in the com mittee after Subandrio, accused the Indonesians of deliberately creating a “threat tb peace” over the issue. Schui’mann quoted Preside Su karno of Indonesia as saying lapt Nov. 7 that “if the United Nations fail us, we will resort to methods which will startle the world.” The Dutch Ambassador said the situation in West New Guinea is “completely peaceful and undis turbed,” and “if there is any threat to the peace, that threat does not come from The Nether lands but fi'om Indonesia.” He declared that the people of the area muist decide their own future, as soon as they reach a stage in their political develop ment when this is possible. The Dutch and Indonesians can not even get together on what to call the disputed territory, roughly .equivalent in area to the state of California but with a population of only 35,000, mostly natives who live a primitive life. The Dutch refer to it as Netherlands New Guinea and the Indonesians as West Irian. The entire island of New Guinea is the second largest in the World. director’s office and secretarial space. The recreational part is to be taken up by a gaine room lounge, snack bar, dining room, kitchen facilities, library and mu sic-study rooms. The chapel will provide for per- manent seating for 60 people, with provisions made to permit expan sion into the lounge area on spe cial occasions. There will be a permanent Bima, Ark and pulpit provided in the sanctuary. The building will be of perman ent construction utilizing ledge- stone, wood paneling, accoustical ceilings, aluminum windows and terrazo floors. R. B. Butler Inc. of Bryan is general contractor of the project with the electrical work being done by Harris Electric Co. Mechani cal contractor is the Natkin Co. of Houston. Aggies working on the pinject are Lenart Gabert, Houston, pi*o- ject architect, and Jack J. Fore man, Houston, . general building chairman of the A&M B’nai B’rith building corporation. Diplomats Expect Russian Surprise MOSCOW, (A 3 )—Diplomatic ob servers here said yesterday there are indications that the Soviet Union will come up soon with a new and dramatic demonstration of Russian strength and influence to counter a propaganda setback in the United Nations. The U. N. Assembly has just voted to add 14 members to its Disarmament Commission, blung ing the total to 25. The 60-9 vote, over Soviet oppoisition, does not represent a serious political de feat for the Russians. But propa ganda-wise it has other implica tions. Even the Middle Eastern nations Russia is helping with arms and economic programs lined up with the West in the vote. The forthcoming Soviet gesture, therefore, may involve the Middle Ea,st. But Westerners here are ac customed to surprises, and the next one could be from any direction. “Khrushchev and his followers have sprung so many unexpected things on us recently,” said one diplomat, “that now we look for almost anything to happen-and it probably will.” Bonfire Injuries Climb To 6 Today Psychological aches and pains seem to be the largest of bonfire injuries so far this year. Dr. Charles Lyons, college hospital su perintendent said last night. Six victims of the log stacking had imported to the hospital last night, all of them with minor ail ments. Injuries were all of the ache and pain variety, Dr, Lyons said, and probably mostly psycho logical. “So far there is no poison ivy,” Lyons said, “but it will probably come later. It has been just blis ters, sprains, bruises, scratches and aches.” Flu here seems to be well on the way out, Lyons reported. He said there was only a scattered case every now and then being brought in, normal for this time of year. Soviets Economic E g y plia n s —Battalion Staff Photok Three Days’ Progress The stack of logs grows and grows in the middle of the drill field behind Duncan Hall, and even as this picture was snapped, another log was hoisted into place by brute strength. The bonfire is scheduled to burn Nov. 27, and to prevent an “un-eventful lighting” before then, guards circle the stack during the night. Opinions Vary On Bonfire Progress Aeros Organize New Fraternity At Club Meeting A new honor fraternity was formed yesterday afternoon when members of the Aero nautical Engineering Depart ment met and instituted the A&M Chapter of Sigma Gamma Tau. At the organizational meeting C. S. (Sid) Wells was elected pres ident of the fraternity. Other of ficers named included Lawrence L. Patton, vice president; Gene E. Crubaugh, secretary; Royce A. English, treasurer and Jon H. Brown, social chairman. Their petition for membership in the national aero fraternity was entered last May and was approved on Nov. 1. Advisor for the group is Rudolph L. Leutzinger of the Aero Department. Membership requirements stipu late a senior student must be in the upper third of his class in aero nautical engineering or in the case of a junior, he must be in the up per quarter of the juniors in aero. Also, if an aero major has a 2.0 g.p.r. he is eligible for membership. Anyone who completes two years in the curriculum of the Engineer ing Council for Professional Devel opment, of which A&M is a mem ber, is also eligible for member ship. The fraternity was formed in 1953 at Purdue University when two honor fraternities banded to gether. Tau Omega and Gamma Alpha Rho combined to form Sigma Gamma Tau. Some of the leading engineering colleges in the United States who have chapters of the fraternity in clude California Institute of Tech nology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgia Tech, Purdue, Illinois and Stanford. Blisters and aching muscles at test to the fact that bonfire con struction is now being shifted into high gear with only 6 days of work left. Joe Fenton, B-AAA senior, said “Progress is going faster this year and we’re off to a good start. If we continue holding up this pace and don’t run into trouble, the bon fire should be lai’ger than last year’s.” Each year an attempt is made to build “this year’s” a little larger Cadet Court Tries Two Sophomores Two A Transportation Corps sophomores were tried last night by Group B, Cadet Court for vio lations of Articles of the Cadet Corps. Finding of the Court was turned over to Col. Joe E. Davis, for final action. The sophomores, Fred Belafield and Pete Scamardo, were accused of violation of Articles 8-c and 12-6-3 respectively. Article 8-c provides that no cadet will command another to perform personal service, or to suffer any harrassment, mental or physical, or deprive him of any legal right. Article 12-b-3 provides that no cadet will use, or submit to use of, or possess a “board” or any other instrument of physical hazing. Sherman Student Hurt in Initiation SHERMAN, Tex., (A 5 )—Herman E. Schiedlich, 19, Austin College student, was unconscious in a Deni- tson hospital yesterday after being injured in a college prank last night. Students said the freshman from Marlin, Tex. was driven 6 miles northeast of Sherman and left to walk back. Instead, he jumped on the back of the automobile and rode for several hundred feet be fore falling off, suffering a head injury. All “Hell Week” activities were suspended indefinitely at the Sher man college until the executive committee of student government can decide how to curtail any activity that could tesult in injury. than its forerunners. Aggies are now scouring the countryside for logs and the outhouse that serves as a replica of a “TU fraternity house.” More men seem to be needed in the cutting area. “Progress seems a little slower than this time last year, but par ticipation is very good,” said Ward Boyce, 6th Group. “It could be speeded up by getting more men to the cutting area.” David Bailey, Squadron 4 fresh man, put a second to the motion when he said: “Participation seems to be very good at this time, but more upper classmen need to come out.” J. D. Adams, Squadron 6 sopho more, remarked, “In view of the late start, participation is very good. Progress is slow now, but I expect it (the bonfire) will be as high or higher than last years.” R. S, Martin, B-AAA senior, was not in complete agreement with Adams when he said: “The bonfire seems to have a lot better start than last year’s.” Jim Vrba, C-Infantry junior, thinks progress is slower, and pin points the trouble. “Much of the blame of slow progress could be placed on the muddy condition of the cutting area.” Organization of the bonfire’s construction was praised by Leland Gill, Squadron 2 sophomore. “Or ganization is a whole lot better this year,” he stated. Despite the gripes, blisters and muscular aches and pains, work still progresses at the cutting area. Mike Eubanks, Squadron 7 fresh man, had this to say. “Everyone seems to be working pretty hard at this time.” Ail “fish” seem to believe that the bonfire is a great spirit build er, and firmly believe that the ’57 bonfire will be the biggest yet. MSF Paintings Displayed By Local Artists Emalita Newton Terry and Josepd Donaldson are now presenting - a dual show of their paintings in the Memor ial Student Center. Their show, the fourth of the season, has 50 paintings in oils, tempera, casein, water color, mixed media and drawings of mixed me dia. 1 Both artists are well known throughout the state. Mrs. Terry, MSC art director, recently won a $75 purchase prize at the Texas Fine Art Association’s fall mem- bership show in Austin. Another award was presented to her last night at the Houston Artists Show at which both she and Donaldson had pictures hung. Donaldson, an artist-instructor with the A&M Division of Archi tecture, won a $75 award at the San Antonio River Arts Show sev eral weeks ago. He has had nu merous one man exhibitions in this country and the Virgin Islands. Some of his awards include best of show in the New Orleans Arts and Crafts Club show, South Cen tral Texas Regional Art Exhibit award and several New Orleans Art Association first awards. Donaldson has done murals in the Virgin Islands and New Or leans and has done work in many other parts of the world. Nassar, Russian 1 leup Prediicled CAIRO,—(TP)—Egypt’s war minister, Maj. Gen. Abdel Hakim Amer, winged into Cairo in a shiny Soviet jet arliner yesterday with a promise of Russian economic aid which may link President Nasser more closely to Moscow. Amer got the Soviet pledge from Premier Nikolai Bul ganin at a Kremlin banquet Tuesday in the windup of his three-week visit to the Soviet Union. After alighting from the Soviet TU104 jetliner, Amer told his airport greeters—among them Soviet Ambassador E. D. Kisselev — that he hoped “the relationship between Egypt and the Soviet Union increases and strengthens day by day.” ^ Egypt already is receiving Soviet military weapons in re- Signing Begins For Korean Vet Pay Students attending college under the Korean G.I. Bill may start signing pay forms for their No vember checks Monday, Bennie A. Zinn, veterans advisor, said yester day. Payforms must be completed by noon, Dec. 4, in order to be deliv ered Dec. 20, he said. Appeals Court Lifts Ruling On Duval Boss AUSTIN,—(TP)—The Court of Criminal Appeals yester day threw out a conviction and five-year prison sentence given Duval County political leader George Parr. It revised and ordered dismiss ed prosecution of Parr on charges he conspired to steal $1,000 from the Benavides Independent School District. Parr’s indictment was faulty, the three-man court said in a unanimous opinion. Last June 19 the court split 2-1 in overturning the conviction of B. F. Tom Donald Jr. of Alice on the Same charges. Justice K. K. Woodley wrote a dissenting opin ion in the Donald reversal but joined with the others today in widting the majority opinion. In appeal arguments before the court last month defense lawyers contended that the offense alleged against Donald and Parr happen ed Sept. 1, 1951, while the indict ment was not returned until Nov. 4, 1955-a period longer than the three-year statute of limitations. A&M Given Grant For Asphalt Study A grant from The Asphalt Institute has granted A&M $20,000 for a special program of ad vanced study in asphalt paving technology at graduate level that will be offered in the first term of the 1958 summer school. Enrollment is open to engineer ing instructors from all parts of the country, each of which will be allocated grants-in-aid of $750. Instruction will be conducted by the Department of Civil Engineer ing and the Texas Transportation Institute. Lectures by nationally prominent paving technologists will supplement regular instruc tion. BatF Sponsors Cartoon Contest Aspirant artists now have a chance to appear in print and to be considered for cash prizes in the annual Safety Edition Car toon Contest sponsored by The Battalion. Cartoons should stress safety, pi-eferably safety on the high ways. The annual safety edition comes out prior to the Christmas recess and entries must be sub mitted before Dec. 7. They should be inked on white cardboard, and left in Room 4, YMCA. turn for cotton, this nation’s chief product. Although details of the eco nomic offer were not disclosed, it is believed here they will be simi lar to those the Soviets made with Syria. Syria and Russia signed what they both called a no-strings attached economic pact that put Syria in the Kremlin’s debt for the next 12 years. It also brought Soviet technicians to Syria. Syria said it signed with Russia because it could not make as good a bar gain with the West. Amer and his delegation went to Moscow ostensibly for the 40th an niversary celebration of the Bol shevik Revolution. But they took the occasion to talk with numerous Kremlin lead ers. The tone of Bulganin’s remarks in announcing the Soviet pledge bore a marked resemblance to the phrases that preceded the signing of the Soviet-Syrian economic agreement. There was specula tion that aid for Egypt would be patterned after that for Syria. Bulganin said the Soviet contrib utions are “selfless, based on the mutual interests of our two coun tries and on pi-eserving peace and stability in the Middle East.” The Syrian economic deal with the Russians was considered by Western circles a wedge through which the Soviets could foster envy and perhaps discontent among oth er Arab countries. The Soviets gave Syria a 2.5 per cent interest rate—something the West could not match. US, France End Tunisia Discussion WASHINGTON, (IP)— I differences istill remain between French Foreign Minister! his country and the United States Film Society Slates Movie Friday Night “All the Kings Men” will be pi-e- sented by the Memorial Student Center Film Society Friday night at 7:30 in the MSC ballroom. The film stars Broderick Craw ford and Mercedes McCambridge and is the story of a backwoods politician who rose from the bottom of the political ladder to the heights of isuccess, only to be cut down by an assassin’s bullet. Admission to the film will be 25 cents or a regular season ticket. Christian Pineau ended his mission to Washington yester day, voicing some optimism both over the Tunisian arms sit uation and the Dec. 16 NATO Council meeting in Paris. Before leaving for New York where he expects to stay during the debate on Algeria in the Unit ed Nations, Pineau pronounced himself “very satisfied” with three days of talks here. He told newsmen at the airport Weather Today College Station forecast calls for partly cloudy and cool weather to day. Yesterday’s rain brought a total of .05 inch of precipitation to the area. The high temperature read ing—75 degrees—was taken at 1:30 p. m. The low this morning was 50 degrees at 7. Relative humidity at 8 a. m. was 54 percent and the temperature, 52 degrees. and Great Britain over the U. S.- British shipment of arms to Tuni sia last week. The foreign minister added, “The main problem now is to avoid pas sage of the arms to Algeria.” The French have feared that the arms might find their way to Algeria and be used by the rebels there against French soldiers. At the State Department, preiss chief Lincoln White said that an agreement had been reached dur ing Pineau’s stay here to send the arms to Tunisia in such a way as to “allay French fears.” Pineau said also he believed the NATO sessions in Paris next month, to be attended by Presi dent Eisenhower, would be “held under good conditions.” Pineau had a two-hour meeting with Secretary of Defence McEl- roy during the day and said after wards “a high degree of unity of views” had been reached on mili tary and scientific problems to be raised at the Paris meeting.