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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.