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Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 65: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1957
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Santa’s Early This Year
Battalion Staff Photo
A couple of Ags look on as a group of chil
dren clutch the presents they received at one
of the outfit parties for local needy children.
At SC, ON A III
Humphrey Strikes At
US Foreign Policies
; By JOE TIND£L
Yi < hi
—-foreign policy has
loo long been based on fear rather
than hope, and reaction rather than
action, Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey
(D-Minn) told SCON A III dele
gates and guests Friday.
“It is time that we walked con-
(fidently with the full stature and
Jtrength of our history and our
present capacities as a people,”
Humphrey said.
Striking out at the Eisenhower
administration, the Minnesota sen
ator charged “soft thinking.”
Rather than the “so-called Soft
living of the American people”
leading to the present crisis in our
world position, Humphrey charged
All to Registration
Begins In January
Students wishing to register
their automobiles on the campus
for the spring semester may do so
anytime after the Christmas Holi
days, Campus Security Chief Fred
Hickman said yesterday.
If the student knows in which
area he will live during the sec
ond semester, he may register fol
lowing the holidays and avoid the
great rush on registration, he said.
it has been “the soft thinking of
our leadership,”
Humphrey accused the adminis
tration of guiding its foreign and
domestic policy by supedstitions.
“Perhaps the greatest supersti
tion they have today is that our
military or our scientists can win
this great 20th century battle for
humanity by sole concentration on
missiles and anti-missile-missiles
and anti-anti-missile-missile-mis-
siles,” he said.
Humphrey charged another ad
ministration myth to be “that the
American people are currently so
preoccupied with enjoying their
material wealth that they cannot
be galvanized into action for the
long pull ahead.”
The Minnesota Democrat refuted
this myth saying:
“We are ready to buckle down,
once we know the task before us.”
He pointed out another super
stition deluding the Administration
which assumes “that the American
people want to be fooled, like to be
reassured that all is well, wish to
be told that minimum effort
achieves maximum results.”
Humphrey said another super
stition is “that the political risks
required by effective leadership
are too great.”
“The assumption is that the op
position to foreign a,id is so strong
that it is better not to ask for what
is really needed, for, say, a size
able loan to India right now,”
Humphrey said.
He said that the assumption is
that the pro-tariff forces are so
strong that we cannot get, and
therefore will not go all-out to en
list support foi’, the long-term
trade policies that our leadership
role requires.
“The assumption is that the
strength of ultra-isolationist
groups in this country is still so
strong that nothing bold should be
proposed to consolidate NATO po
litically and culturally,” the sen
ator said. •
“I question the validity of these
assumptions,” Sen. Humphrey said.
“I think they are superstitions
chiefly useful as excuses • for in
action and timidity by our govern
ment.”
Unof f icial V ote Shows
Street Repair Wanted
School Lock-up
Schedules Set
For Holidays
All dormitories with the ex
ception of Bizzell Hall and
Ramp C of Hart Hall will be
locked for the Christmas holi
days at 2 p.m. Saturday and
will remain closed until noon, Jan.
4.
Students living in other dorms
who need accommodations over the
holidays must arrange to borrow
a room from residents of Bizzell or
Ramp C in Hart .
To secure these rooms, students
are required to bring a signed note
of permission to the Housing Of
fice in the YMCA before 5 p. m.
Friday.
College dining halls will close
after the evening meal Saturday
and won’t open until the evening
meal on Sunday, Jan. 5.
The Memorial Student Center
locks its doors after the noon meal
Saturday and will be closed until
8:30 a. m. Dec. 30. It will also be
closed on New Years Day.
All students are urged to close
the windows and lock the doors of
their rooms before leaving the cam
pus. Anyone living on the ground
floor should also lock his windows.
If anyone has to get into a
dorm for a good reason during the
holidays, he will have to check with
the Housing Office.
Anyone unable to meet the above
schedules should see his tactical
officer or dorm counselor.
The library will be closed Dec.
22-25, Dec. 29, Jan. 1 and Jan 4-5.
On other days, it will be open from
8 a. m. to 5 p. m. except for Dec.
28, when it stays open from 8 a. m.
till noon.
The Western Union Office in the
MSC will close only on Dec. 22,
25, 29 and Jan. 1. It will observe
a regular schedule during the other
days, except Dec. 21 and 28, when
it is open from 8 a. m. till noon
only.
Surovik Rebukes
Charge of Neglect
Student Senators were justified
Dec. 5 in commending the Board of
The Big Four
—Battalion Staff Photo
Charles Smith, commander of the Ross Vol
unteers, and Jay Bisbey, vice chairman of
SCONA III, stand in line with represents^
tives of the three other US military
academies at the Corps review Friday. Ca
dets from West Point, midshipmen from An
napolis and cadets from the Air University
were among the 150 delegates to SCONA III
held on the campus last week.
Directors’ action making military
training compulsory, Student Sen
ate President Bobby Surovik said
last night.
“The Senate was justified be
cause they were elected at large
from the student body and obvious
ly represent the students most in
terested in campus affairs,”
Surovik said.
Surovik pointed out that Sen
ators are elected at large by classes
from the four academic schools, yet
only five of the 30 members are
civilian. Three of these are the
representatives from the School of
Veterinary Medicine, one is the vice
president of the Civilian Student
Council (an ex-officio position) and
one from the Graduate School.
The Civilian Council wrote a
letter to Surovik, “requesting that
he remind senators that they are
elected to represent the entire stu
dent body, regardless of personal
feelings.”
He rebuked the Civilian Student
Council’s charge that the Senate
had neglected their duty to repre
sent the entire student body.
“As Dean Kamm charged us in
our first meeting this year, we are
more than parrots of changing
majority opinion; rather we are
the student body’s elected repre
sentatives.”
Improvement Plan
Favored by 11-2
BY GAYLE McNUTT
Voting unofficially, 17 citizens attending a special called
College Station City Council meeting Friday night favored
a city wide street improvement plan by a vote of 11 to 2, with
4 abstaining.
What was termed “a good cross section opinion” was
obtained by the Council Friday night as the citizens met with
them to discuss repair and costs for improving city streets.
The meeting was called by Mayor Ernest Langford to
discuss the proposed plans of street improvement and ways
of financing the work. Citizens were asked to come to the
meeting and express their views on the matter.
“This council is concerned only with what the people
+want done,” Langford said.
¥• /'ll 1 ¥ ¥ “We are assuming the respon-
Lions Club Hears
Professor Wilson
Kruger National Park, the
world’s lai’gest wildlife sanctuary,
was the subject of Dr. Basil W.
Wilson’s talk to the College Station
Lions yesterday.
Wilson lived in the Union of
South Africa, the park’s location,
before coming to the United States
in 1952. He is a professor in the
A&M’s Department of Oceano
graphy and Meteorology.
Showing films of wildlife he had
taken in the sanctuary, he told the
Lions about the characteristics and
geography of the park.
Located northeast of the Trans
vaal province, bordering Mozam
bique, it is 200 miles long and 40
miles wide, the area being 8400
square miles.
Thousands of animals, chiefly
lions, giraffe, elephants, hippos,
buffalos, zebras and antelopes, live
in the park. Hunting is prohibi
ted, but visitors may enter the
park each year between June 16
and Oct. 15, Wilson said.
M. L. (Red) Cushion reported
the Lion Christmas tree sale was
going “exceedingly well”. He said
there were plenty of trees and dec
orations left for late buyers.
Final Paym ent Due
Fourth and final installment
fees must be paid in the Fiscal
Office by Friday to avoid pen
alty.
The $45.60 fee covers cost of
room rent, board and laundry
until the end of the semestefr.
sibility for gathering informa
tion and data on what we
think they will want.”
“We will mail each citizen a
complete plan of all the informa
tion we have and let him know
exactly what we propose and how
much it will cost him before it is
voted on,” he said. “Then it will
be up to the people to decide
whether they want the plan or
not.”
At the end of the meeting, Coun
cilman Joe Orr asked for the vote
among the citizens present, asking
whether they were in favor of such
a citywide street improvement as
proposed after discussing the plan
with the council.
During the meeting, the council
discussed three primary questions:
1) What kind of streets are to
be built.
2) How will they be paid for.
3) Which streets will be desig
nated primary thoroughfares.
The council unanimously agreed
that any street improvement plan
should coincide with the plan being
constructed by the Area Planning
Commission. They also agreed that
curbs and gutters would be a de
finite advantage.
The entire building project would
cost an estimated $1,129,000. Of
this amount, the city would pay
about $500,000, or 40 percent, and
property owners would pay the re
maining 60 percent. Streets would
be paved on a one-third system,
property owners on each side of the
street paying for the third nearest
them and the city paying for the
center third. The city would also
pay for paving intersections. Pro
perty owners would have to pay for
curbs and gutters, if installed.
Students Form
Original Club
For Advertising
The A&M Chapter of the
Students Advertising Associa
tion of Texas, one of the first
such chapters in the State,
held its official inaugural
meetings recently.
Toby Mattox was elected presi
dent and Gary Brooks was chosen
vice president. Jim Sparks was
voted secretary and Rober Week-
ley promotional manager.
Composed primarily of business
administration and journalism
majors, the chapter was organized
to further the interest of advertis
ing and to strive to have an ad
vertising major put into the cur
riculum.
The chapter will have its next
meeting Wednesday night at 7:30
in Nagle Hall where a 16mm color
movie on national advertising will
be shown. This movie, costing $20,-
00, was made in’Hollywood by the
Bureau of Advertising. It has had
formal premiers over the entire
nation.
At the meeting Wednesday night
plans will be completed for the
coming state meeting and seminar
of the association to be held at
A&M.
The chapter urges all persons
interested in advertising, those
thinking of changing their majors,
and those who do not yet have a
major, to come to the meeting.
Chest Drive Figure
Standing at $750
Total collections to date for the
Senate sponsored Campus Chest is
$750, with only three days of
solicitation left.
Solicitation Chairman Charlie
(Woody) Rice said last night that
he had received no contributions
from the Second Wing or from the
Civilian students' as of yet.
In an effort to reach day stud-
dents and others not personally
contacted, Rice said buckets will be
placed in the Memorial Student
Center for those who wish to con
tribute.
Chest goal was set at $7,000—a
dollar per Ag.
Crow’s Trophy on Display
— Battalion Staff Photo
The trophy that made Aggie halfback John dent Center. Jarrin’ John received the “na-
Crow famous and brought recognition to tion’s best collegiate football player” award
A&M is now on display in the Memorial Stu- in New York last week.