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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1957
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Battalion Staff Photo
Athletic Dorm Going Up
“Junction Manor”, the new dormitory for
Aggie football players, looks like this as the
third and last floor are being constructed.
The skeleton structure was begun early this
summer. T. Reese Spence, manager of A&M
\ T. Reese Spence, manager ot A&M lie could n
physical plants, said work on the completed.
building has already been set back at least
six weeks due to various delays. However,
barring any additional major setbacks, ma
sonry work should begin in January, he said.
He could not say when the dormitory will be
Teamster Expulsion
Opposed by Builders
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. </P>-The
powerful building' and construction
trades unions yesterday opposed
the AFL-CTO expulsion threat
against the corruption - stained
Teamsters.
They called for “more charity”
by the AFL-CIO “in judgment of
their brother trade unionists” and
asked that judgment on suspen
sions or expulsions be withheld in
all cases except “upon proof of
guilt after due process of law.”
The AFL-CIO Building and Con
struction Trades Department
adopted without objection a reso
lution asking the parent organiza
tion to cancel the Teamsters’ pre
sent suspension status and with
draw the expulsion threat.
‘Bugs’, Wind
Spoil Firing
Of Vanguard
Mechanical “Bugs” and cold,
gusty winds spoiled the U.S.
effort to shoot the satellite
packing Vanguard rocket into
space last night.
Hours of tense waiting for the
blastoff came to a disappointing
end at 10:40 p. m. EST when word
came that the firing had been
“scrubbed.”
Zero hour for the shot originally
was set for 4 p. m. then came one
postponement after another and
finally the decision to put off until
another time the attempt to put an
American “moon” into the skies
with the Russian Sputnik.
John P. Hagen, director of the
.satellite project, said at Wash
ington it will be known today when
the test firing may be held. Hagen
said a series of minor technical ad
justments had forced postpone
ment.
He said it was necessary to un
load the liquid oxygen fuel and to
unload and load would require
several hours.
To unload and then reload the
fuel tanks would “push test crews
to a fatigue point considered dan
gerous to the success of the test,”
the Defense Department said.
The crew preparing the Van
guard for its journey into the
world’s thin, outer atmosphere was
plagued by mechanical difficulties
and by 25-mile-an-hour winds lash
ing the Florida beaches.
But it remained to be seen if the
building tradesmen will back up
the resolution at the AFL-CIO con
vention opening tomorrow.
Some building trade leaders said
the resolution would not bind them
to cast their votes against expul
sion.
Expulsion will require a two-
thirds vote of all convention dele
gates. The Teamsters will not take
part in the vote.
As the SV2 - million - member
Building Trades Department voted
against Teamsters expulsion, the
Teamsters themselves made a last
ditch appeal to the AFL-CIO Ap
peals Committee.
But Alex Rose, president of the
Hatters Union and Appeals Com
mittee chairman, said the Team
sters merely outlined prior pro
tests that the federation had no
right to vote expulsion.
Ouster of the million-and-a-half
member Teamsters, an affiliate of
the Building Trades Department,
was regarded as almost a certainty
Hand Not Going To
Gator Bowl Clash
Aggie Band will not make the
trip to the Gator Bowl in Jackson
ville, Fla., Lt. Col. E. V. Adams,
director, told bandsmen yesterday.
Principal reason for not making
the trip was not cost, but rather,
the fact that the 15-minute halftime
had been bought by the television
sponsor of the game for advertis
ing. This would make a perform
ance by either of the participating
school’s band unlikely, he said.
“About the only reason for us to
go is to back the team, and that
would be pretty expensive back
ing,” Col. Adams said. Transpor
tation to and from Jacksonville for
the entire band would cost $86.45
a man, about $19,000 in total.
Weather Today
College Station can expect most
ly cloudy skies today, with a maxi
mum temperature reading of 60
degrees and a low tonight of 45.
Yesterday’s high was 69 de
grees at 1:30 p. m., and this morn
ing’s minimum reading—at 7
o’clock—41 degrees.
Relative humidity at 8 this
morning was 61 per cent, and the
temperature, 46 degrees.
unless a sudden cleanup move de
veloped.
The Senate Rackets Investigat
ing Committee in Washington has
conducted a year-long probe of the
Teamsters in public hearings. Test
imony linked James R. Hoffa,
Teamster president-elect and Dave
Beck, outgoing president with mis
using large sums of union funds
and abusing their powers.
The AFL-CIO Executive Council
suspended the Teamsters Union on
Qct. 24 and directed expulsion ac
tion at this convention unless Hof
fa, Beck and others were removed
from office and the union promised
a cleanup.
The Bakery Workers and Laun
dry Workers Union also ai’e expect
ed to be expelled on corruption
charges. A foui’th union, the Dis
tillery Workers, also may be oust
ed.
The Teamsters said in a state
ment their suspension was “highly
discriminatory, arbitrai-y” and
based largely on charges in the
Senate hearings and public press
which were never substantiated by
the AFL-CIO.
SP Board Asked
To Consider
Editor’s Action
Student Publications Board mem
bers today considered whether Joe
Tindel, Battalion editor, used good
judgement concerning the publish
ing of the compulsory Corps to-
ing of the compulsory Corps story
in Wednesday’s issue.
President M. T. Harrington asked
Board chairman, Dr. Carroll D.
Laverty, and Dr. Robert B. Kamm,
dean of student Personnel Services,
to study the appropriateness of
Tindell’s actions.
Laverty called a special meeting
of the S.P.B. for today.
Laverty said Harrington wanted
the Board to particularly consider
the editor’s judgment in publish
ing the story after the president
had asked that it be held up until
after the Academic Council meet
ing today.
Harrington had asked Tindel by
telephone not to publish the story.
According to Student Publi
cations regulations, an editor is not
compelled to take advice or di
rectives but may if he chooses
UN Secretary Settles
sraei, Jordan
AF to Construct
Launching Sites
For Missiles
WASHINGTON, (TP)— The
Air Force announced yester
day it has ordered construc
tion of four launching sites
for its Bomarc long-range in
terceptor missile at a cost of 46
million dollars.
The Bomarc is designed to in
tercept and destroy enemy air
craft.
The sites and their cost are:
Dow Air Foi’ce Base, Maine, 10%
million dollars.
McGuire Air Force Base, N. J.
12% million.
Otis Air Force Base, Mass. 10%
million.
Suffock County Air Force Base
Long Island, N. Y.—12% million.
The sites will include launching
and stoi'age facilities, missile op
erating and maintenance facilities
and conti’ol and protection equip
ment.
The four locations announced
yestei’day are understood to be the
fh’st of about 15 contemplated
sites on both coasts and along the
northern border.
The Bomarc missile is produced
by Boeing Airplane Co.
The missile has a range of about
300 miles at supersonic speed. It
is equipped with “homing” devices
to head it in on an enemy plane
once it has been guided by radar
and radio to the general area.
President Eisenhower, in a re
cent address on defense, said that a
Bomarc used in a test against a
target plane destroyed the plane
at a distance of 45 miles by col-
iding with it head on.
Freak Train Crash
Kills 62 in London
LONDON, (A 3 )—Two trains load
ed with homebound commuters and
early Christmas shoppers and an
overpass bridge were wrecked by
a freakish crash in thick London
fog at the rush hour peak last
night. At least 62 persons were
reported killed.
A third train about to cross the
bridge was derailed and stopped
just short of toppling into the
wreckage.
The biidge smashed down on
two carloads of passengers on one
already wrecked train.
Rescue workers toiled far into
the night, the screams of surviv
ors pinned in the wreckage spur
ring their efforts.
A railway official said 105 per
sons were removed with serious in
juries from the tangled wreckage
by late tonight.
Firemen, doctors, nurses, police
and hundreds of civilian workers
ripped desperately at the wreckage
with one fear uppermost in their
minds: Moi’e steel fi’om the bridge
might fall on them.
The main part of the viaduct
was supported at only one end by
girders on a steel pillar. It was
carrying the weight of the de
railed third train. It escaped vir
tually undamaged.
Dead and injured were pulled
from the wrecked cars and laid
out in rows alongside the track
before medical teams removed
them to hospitals and mortxiaries.
Freshman Civilians
To Take Pictures
All civilian freshmen students
will have their portrait made for
the 1958 Aggieland, Thursday and
Friday.
The pictures will be made at Ag
gieland Studio between the hours
of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Coats and
ties should be worn.
Sh ipment Ready
For Isolated. Mill
JERUSALEM, (TP) — Dag- Hammarskjold settled the Is-
raeli-Jordan dispute over convoys to Mt. Scopus yesterday,
and Israel will resume the dispatch of supplies to the isolated
ridge today.
An Israeli government spokesman said the next convoy
includes nine drums of gasoline, the ingredient which had
threatened to blow up the peace and brought the U.N. Secre
tary General here on his trouble-shooting mission.
In Amman, the Jordan capital, a government spokesman
said the next convoy would pass through Mandelbaum gate
into Jordan territory tomorrow and would be searched by
Jordan military authorities.
“The convoy will carry sup- - *
plies approved by the Jordan
authorities only,” he said. He
would not say whether such
supplies would include gaso
line.
A joint U.N.-Israeli com
munique announced the settlement
after Hammarskjold had spent
four days shuttling between here
and Amman.
“Arrangements have been made
for a resumption of convoys to
Mt. Scopus,” it said.
Israeli Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion, who first told news
men of the .settlement, appeared
pleased.
Still unclear was whether U. S.
Marine Col. Byron Leary, acting
chief of U. N. truce observers in
Palestine, would keep his job. Joi’-
dan had accused him of bias in
the two-week crisis over Mt. Scop
us convoys and in other matters,
and had asked his removal. Ham
marskjold had affirmed his confi
dence in the colonel.
Mt. Scopus, a small hill adjoin
ing old Jerusalem, dominates the
x’oad north to Nablus in the center
of a part of Palestine annexed by
Jordan. Israel was left in posses
sion of the hill by the 1949 armi
stice though it lies a mile beyond
Jordan’s lines.
A • caretaker force of 85 police
men and 30 civilians guard Had-
assah Hospital, Hebrew University
and a library there, all inoper
ative. For ^ears Israel has been
sending a supply convoy every two
weeks under Jordan escort.
Two weeks ago Jordan turned
back the regular convoy on the
grounds that 490 gallons of gaso
line aboard was intended for mili
tary purposes-the building of
fortifications on Mt. Scopus in a
demilitarized zone.
Conference
To Declare
Best Sports
Representatives from all South
west Conference schools will meet
before the Rice-Navy Cotton Bowl
clash in Dallas on New Year’s Day
to choose one of the schools as
Winner of the SWC Sportsmanship
Award.for the 1957 season.
Student body presidents, campus
newspaper editors, head yell lead
ers and representative athletes
will go over the year’s events be
fore declaring the winner.
The award is to be presented dur
ing halftime ceremonies at the Cot
ton Bowl game.
1956 Winner
01 Talent Show
To Act Again
Jerry Hatfield, winner of
last year’s Aggie Talent Show,
will be guest performer at this
year’s show Tuesday night at
8 in Guion Hall.
Hatfield, sophomore from Cle
burne will present a series of im
itations of various sounds and peo
ple.
Don Frederick and Toby Hughes,
WTAW announcers, will act as co
masters of ceremonies for the show.
Hiram French, chairman of the
Memorial Student Center Dance
committee, has been named di
rector of the sixth annual ATS.
On the 10-act show will be Rich
ard Smith, rock ‘n’ roll singer;
bai’itone; Dave Woodard, magician
Ed Moerbe, juggler; Lane Lynch,
drummer; John Warner, pian
ist; James Hickey, ballad singer;
John Gear, ventriloquist; J. D.
Nunnelee, dancer; Richard Hoff,
pantomimist; and the Armondo
Quiros Latin Band.
The Dave Woodard Combo will
play intermission music.
Admission to the show is free.
Faculty Flans Tour
Of Air University
Some 27 A&M faculty members
will leave Sunday for the Air Uni
versity, Maxwell Air Force Base,
Montgomery, Ala., to observe the
various methods and techniques
used in the Instructor Training
Pi’Ogram there.
The gi’oup will leave Easterwood
Airpoi’t at 1:30 Sunday afternoon
in an air force plane. They will
visit the instructors school Mon
day and Tuesday and leave the
base Tuesday afternoon at 2 for
the return flight.
Dr. Bardin H. Nelson, agricul
tural economics and sociology pi’o-
fessor, is in charge of arrange
ments for the trip. Transportation
was provided through the coopera
tion of Col. Henry Dittman and
Capt. Clendon Jones of the Air
Science Department.
Pin” Foil” Tourney
Deadline Nearing
Deadline for entering the third
annual Memorial Student Center
table tennis tournament is 8 p.m.
Friday.
The contests will be held in the
MSC games room Saturday and
Sunday.
Any student is eligible for the
touimament, and anyone interested
should check details and register
at the game room desk before Fri
day.
Preliminary games, both single
and doubles, will be held Saturday,
and finals will be played Sunday.
Trophies and medals will be
awarded winners and nmnerups.
FHA Girls Give Dance
Future Homemakers of America
of Consolidated High School will
give a Twerp dance tomorrow night
at 7:30 at the high school. The en
tire student body is invited to at
tend.
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Agronomy Society Gets Award
Officers of the A&M Chapter of the Ameri
can Society of Agronomy hold cups for being
the best student agronomy club in the
United States, named by the National Plant
Food Institute. The cups were won in 1952
and 1957. Left to right in the picture are
Harold Byars, Winfred Kainer, J. F. Mills
(faculty sponsor), Wayne Allen (president;
holding the 1957 cup), Cloyde Marshall and
Carleton Gipson.