Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 64: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1957
Price Five Cents
Spirit oi' the Season
—Battalion Staff Photo
Christmas is only 12 days away, and Aggies
have only one more week in Aggieland. To
get into the spirit of the Yule season, this
week freshman and sophomore Cadets be
gan falling out and singing carols for upper
classmen before retiring for the night.
CSC Charges Senate
With Neglect of Duty
BY JOE BUSER
Civilian Student Council mem
bers voted last night to write a
letter to the Student Senate charg
ing that body with neglect of their
responsibility to represent the en
tire student body in their resolution
commending the Board of Direc
tors’ action making military train
ing compulsory.
The Council also moved to re
quest audience before the boai’d of
' Directors at their next meeting to
voice Civilian opinion on the com
pulsory military question. Both mo
tions were passed unanimously.
The Senate’s commendation was
passed Dec. 5 with only two of the
three Civilian representatives on
the Senate opposing the motion. At
the Civilian body’s meeting Dec. 5,
they showed disapproval of the
board’s action.
Council President Bill McKown
told the Civilians that by no ma
thematics can it be said that the
Senate represented 50 per cent of
the students when the feeling of
the majority (Civilians) was so ap
parent.
“Representatives, such as the
student Senators, were chosen and
must represent the majority of the
students, regardless of personal
feelings,” McKown, said.
He said that Corps Commander
John Hagler, in a private conversa
tion, said “you have every right to
call for', a referendum on the Sen
ate’s actions.”
Hagler said last night that “so
far as I know, the Civilian Student
Council has every right to request
a referendum, as much as any other
group has. But I actually don’t
know whether it would be good
for the Corps, the Civilians or the
student body as a whole.”
Corps Committee
Discusses Code
At the Civilian council’s invita
tion, four members of the Corps
Honor Corp Orientation Committee
last night explained the code and
the progress it had made since its
conception last year.
The Corps representatives, Ray
Deck the Halls . .
-Battalion Staff Photo
Only it’s with crepe paper—not boughts of holly. These two
freshmen, left to right, Wayne Dunlap and Giles Dodson,
seem to have the real Christmas spirit, as far as decorations
go. Just looking at the red and green maze they are creat
ing in their room, one wonders if their motive might be
camouflage.
Bowen, V. E. Hawes, Bob Burkhead
and Taylor. Bcott, discussed at
length the code accepted by Corps
seniors Nov. 6, pointing out the
breadth of it and the reservations
made for future changes.
They also explained the general
plans for orientation of the Corps
but could not state “when and
where” the code would become
operational.
Scott said,” The nature of our
committee is purely one of orien
tation. But we are expected to re
port to the class when we feel
everyone has been orientated.”
The Corpsi seniors also were un
able to answer a councilman’s ques
tion whether all the Corps would
have a chance to express desires
(See COUNCIL, Page 3)
B riefs
Missile Chief
111
Bulganin Sees
N ATO Meet As
Urge To Arm
PARIS, —I/P)—Soviet Pre
mier Nikolai Bulganin has
charged in a letter to French
Premier Felix Gaillard that
next week’s summit meeting
was called to “accelerate war prep
arations” of the Western Alliance.
Bulganin said such preparations
will not be enough to enable some
nations to catch up with recent
Soviet scientific advances. He also
declared they “will not change the
fact the intercontinental ballistic
missiles have made the United
States as vulnerable as Europe.”
The letter one of a series ad
dressed by Bulganin to several
heads of government was deliver
ed to Gaillard Wednesday. Its
contents were made public last
night.
The letter contained Soviet pro
posals for easing world tension
and committed Poland and Czecho
slovakia to renounce atomic wea
pons if West and East Germany
agree to do so.
First French reaction to the let
ter was that it was “inspired by
pure propaganda conceptions,” but
official circles indicated the So
viet suggestions concerning world
peace will at least be studied. A
French government spokesman
said no reply will be made with
out consultation with France’s
NATO partners.
The Soviet Premier asked the
French government to try to in
fluence France’s NATO partners
to consider Soviet proposals.
Bulganin again called for renun
ciation of the use of atomic and
hydrogen weapons and a halt to all
tests.
Bulganin also proposed the sigm
ing of a nonaggression agreement
by the NATO powers with the
members of the Soviet bloc’s War
saw Pact.
Reds Warn of War
InLetterCampaign
LONDON, —UP)— The Soviet
Union — stepping up its letter
writing campaign—said last night
it is sending notes to all U. N.
members warning that “the danger
of nuclear war has greatly in
creased.”
The announcement by Radio
Moscow coincided with a U.N. de
bate in New York on a Soviet call
for peaceful coexistence and came
four days before a NATO summit
meeting in Paris.
The broadcast was beamed to the
West on Moscow’s English-lang
uage service.
It said the new notes declared,
“Action must be taken at once to
prevent a war and improve rela
tions between countries.”
Word of the mass distribution
of new notes came hard on the
heels of a flurry of letters from
Weather Today
Fair today and tonight, with
some cloudiness this afternoon and
evening is the College Station fore
cast. The high expected today is
65 degrees, and tonight’s low will
be 45 degrees.
The high temperature reading
yesterday was 58 degrees at 3 p. m.
The low this morning—at 5:30—
was 46 degrees.
Relative humidity of 91 per cent
was recorded at 8 this mohning,
and the temperature was 48 de
grees-.
Soviet Premier Bulganin to West
ern government heads. Recipients
of the letters included President
Eisenhower, Prime Minister Mac
millan, French Premier Felix Gail
lard and West German Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer.
The messages generally have cov
ered the same Soviet proposals for
renouncing nuclear weapons and
tests and other actions as steps
toward peace.
The letters to Gaillard and Mac
millan were made public last night.
Bulganin told Gaillard the NATO
meeting was called “to accelerate
war preparations” of the Western
Alliance and urged France to try
to influence other NATO members
to consider Soviet proposals.
The letter to Macmillan said it
is “either irresponsible or down
right provocative” for U. S. planes
to carry hydrogen bombs on pa
trols from British bases. It de
clared that countries where Amer
ican planes are based were put in
a “very dangerous situation.”
Bulganin’s letters have been
viewed in the West as Soviet ef
forts to influence the NATO meet
ing opening in Paris Monday.
First British reaction to the an
nouncement of the Soviet message
to U.N. members was a diplomatic
shrug of the shoulders.
“It says nothing new,” one
British official said. “Perhaps this
is the Soviet substitute for sending
out Christmas cards.”
National Security,
Space Challenged
BY JIM NEIGHBORS
The Army’s guided missile program can have only one
rule for action—the national interest, the Army director of
special weapons told a SCON A III audience last night.
Maj. Gen. John P. Daley is chief of research and develop
ment for the Department of Army and is the Army’s top mis
sile satellite expert.
He told an overflow crowd in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom there are two challenges posed by guided
missiles. One is the challenge to national security and the
other the challenge of space.
The Army, Daley said, has an “active missile program
to provide highly effective air defense weapons and to pro
vide missiles needed by the'*"
hard-hitting mobile, future-
minded army.”
Mating of the guided mis
sile to man’s imagination has
given the United States the means
to push back the frontiers of
space, Daley revealed. On the other
hand, “the mating of the guided
missile and the nuclear warhead
is changing the nature of warfare.”
The mating has brought on ma
jor changes in air defense and fire
support. The first is. demonstrated
in the vastly increased level of air
defense which is possible, the mis
sileman said.
During World War II “all we ex
pected to do was kill a percentage
of the planes attacking a target,
but now our objective is to kill
(See MISSILES, Page 3)
Student Ideas
Again Needed
For RE Week
Religious Emphasis Week
“interest locaters” will be dis
tributed to the students again
this year, J. Gordan Gay, sec
retary of the YMCA, said yes
terday.
Interest locaters are forms list
ing major topics for discussion
during RE Week. Students are
asked to check their preferences of
discussion topics listed under the
major headings.
Noted clergymen from all over
the country will lead discussion
groups each night over such timely
subjects as “Religion and World
Affairs,” “God in My Life,” “Man’s
Relation to Man,” and “Religion-
Sex and Marriage.”
Forms will be distributed to
Corps, Civilian and married stu
dents and also faculty members,
said Gay. Students are asked to
fill out the forms and bring them
by the YMCA not later than Wed
nesday.
8 Freshmen Taken
Into Phi Eta Sigma
Eight freshmen were recently
initiated into the A&M chapter of
Phi Eta Sigma, a national schol
astic honor society for freshmen.
Gus Alexander, San Angelo;
Jackie Clifton Davis, Waco; Thom
as E. Downs, Brookeland; Charles
R. Moore, Houston; James Frank
PiercO Jr., Blackwell, Okla.; Wil
liam G. Shenkir, San Antonio;
Julian Torres, Galveston; and Mac
Tripp, Odessa, were the students
chosen.
Phi Eta Sigma was founded at
the University of Illinois in 1923
to encourage scholarship among
freshmen and to honor those mak
ing outstanding records.
Membership is an earned honor.
Members must have an average of
2.5 grade points per semester hour
or better.
“It is the greatest scholastic
distinction a freshman can attain,”
C. H. Ransdell, associate dean of
the Basic Division and faculty ad
visor, said.
Chest Drive
Nets $400
In Four Days
Charlie (Woody) Rice, solicita
tion chairman for the Campus
Chest Drive, reported last night
that $400 had been tui’ned in to
him after the first four days of
the drive.
Rice expressed some disappoint
ment at the slow-up of collections
after the drive got off to a rous
ing start Monday. He said, how
ever, he expected a large collection
this weekend.
Several dorm representatives
have some money on hand which
has not yet been turned in, Rice
said, so the picture is not quite so
bleak.
The Campus Chest was set up
this year as an opportunity for
students to help any Aggie who
may need money for an emergency
during the year. A goal of $7000
— or one dollar per Aggie — was
set by the chest.
Special Meeting
Of City Council
Called Tonight
Street repair and ways of
financing the work will be
studied by the College Station
City Council tonight at a spe
cial meeting called by Mayor
Ernest Langford in an effort to
begin the project as soon as pos
sible.
For the past few weeks, council-
men have been studying reports on
the needed improvements and their
approximate costs.
Chief concern of the group is
ways of financing such work.
Tonight members of the council
will compare notes and try to de
cide on a definite plan. The meas
ure will have to be subjected to
the public and receive its approval
before any action can be taken,
however.
Raising an adequate bond to fi
nance costs of the repair would
call for doubling present property
valuations based on 25% of actual
value, well below average for the
state.
A rise to 50% valuation would
mean only about a 1% rise in taxes.
With the 50% valuation, the city
could raise a bond of $500,000,
which would be adequate to pay the
city’s share in modernizing city
streets.
All citizens of College Station
who are interested in the project
are invited to attend the meeting
and express their views, Ran Bos
well, city manager, said.
The meeting wil be held at the
City Hall, beginning at 7 pan.
Honorable Mention at ATS
Mrs. Rene Olds was awarded a special honorable mention
at the sixth annual Aggie Talent Show Tuesday night in
Guion Hall. She also drew more applause from the crowd
than any other performer.