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ffTT arnuriv -ptftr .ran 1S.440 ilABUS sypp©sf CAMPUS CHiST Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus Number 66: Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1957 Price Five Cents All the Comforts of Home ,.',. A -v)».xuSifeia8fe —Battalion Staff Photo Legett Hall students view the new 21- inch television set installed in the dormitory lounge yesterday. The Legett Dormitory Council sponsored the purchase of the set for the Civilian dormitory. Party Friday Closes CHS For Holidays Christmas spirit will take over at Consolidated High School Fri day afternoon from 1 to 2, as stu dents end school days for 1957 with 1 a choral program and an all-school party. Students will meet in the audi torium immediately after lunch for a program of Christmaps music by the CHS choir, under the direction of Robert Boone. A Christmas party for the en tire SQhool will follow and gifts will be exchanged. Names were drawn by home rooms and classes this week to determine who gives whom a gift. Also, “Santa” let ters written by students will be read. Refreshments will be served at the party by home room sponsors and student council members. The program for the day ends at 2 p,p. when the student body will be liberated for 16 full days of freedom. Classes will resume Jan. 6, 1958. Wingren, Simmang Attend ME Meeting Professors R. M. Wingren and C. M. Simmang of the Mechanical Engineering Department recently attended the meeting of the Amer ican Society of Mechanical Engi neers in New York City. They attended technical sessions in which both academic and indus trial problems were discussed. System To Host Employees at Party Twelve 25-year employes of the A&M System will be honored at the annual System Christmas din ner Friday night at 7 in Sbisa Hall. Special guests for the dinner will be employes of the system who already have retired. System President M. T. Harring ton will present the honored guests and deliver the Christmas message. Master of ceremonies will be R. E. Leighton, professor of dah’y sciences. The Rev. James Argue, pastor of the A&M Methodist Church will bring the invocation. Famous Architect Slates Talk Here Richai’d J. Neutra, world famous architect, planner, writer and philosopher, will speak on “Archi tecture, a Very Human Is£ue,” tonight at 8 p. m. in the Biological Sciences Lecture room. The Austrian-born Neutra, who makes his home in Los Angeles, Calif., has been a professional and creative consultant to many foreign governments on various diversified projects. At the age of 65, he is known as one of the early and successful pioneers of contempoi’ary design. His latest book, “Suiwival Through Design,” was widely discussed as a literary event in more than 1,200 newspapers in the United States. —Battalion Stall Pnoio Explorer Squadron Charter J. G. Potter (1.) presents Kiwanis President John Longley ai charter for Explorer Scout Squadron 102. The squadron was begun last October, sponsored by the Kiwanis Club. Explorer Unit Leader is Maj. Joseph Brusse. The Singing Cadets under the di rection of Bill Turner will provide music during the dinner. A&M employes to be honored in clude Robert B. Barham and Ralph Howard Mitchell, both of the Ex change Store; Pedro Garcia and James C. Stewart, both of the dining hajl staff; v Pete L. Rod-, riguez, Department of Chemistry; Dr. S. R. Wright, civil engineering depai’tment; and Dr. I. B. Bough- ton, School of Veterinary Medicine. Others to be honored include C. H. Doerge, Miss Maurine Hearn, and R. B. Tate, all of the Agricul tural Extension Service; U. A. Randolph, Experiment Station; and Jesse N. Satterwhite, Forest Ser- Final Payment Due To avoid penalty, fourth and final installment fees must be paid in the Fiscal Office by Friday. The $45.60 fee covers cost of room rent, board and laundry until the end of the semester. State Needs 150 Hwy. Patrolmen Col. Homer Garrison Jr., director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, has announced that 150 vacancies for highway pati'olmen are now open for men between the ages of 21 and 35. The deadline for filing appli cations has been set for Jan. 10. Those qualifying will begin train ing April 1, after which classroom instruction will follow for 20 weeks plus a period of on-the job-training. Salaries during training are $300 per month, and are automatically increased during field training. Requirements include a high school education, applicant must have been a resident of Texas one year before making an application, must be between 68 and 76 inches tall and weigh not less than two nor more than three pounds per inch. More information may be ob tained by writing the Texas De partment of Public Safety in Austin. Seven Chemists Attend Conference Seven members of the chemistry department recently attended the Southwest regional conference of the American Chemical Society in Tulsa, Okla. and gave talks. The men attending were Dr. P. K. Calaway, Dr. C. K. Hancock, Dr. A. W. Jache, Dr. H. K. Zim merman and graduate students Louis A. Jones and A. R. Hilton. NATO Plans Inquest On Talks With Reds Girl Asks To March With Aggie Band A nineteen year old lass from Tennessee has requested permis sion to march with the Texas Ag gie Band at the Gator Bowl. Miss Shirley Grafton, a sopho more at Middle Tennessee State College, wrote Band Director Lt. Col. E. V. Adams in regard “to this unusual request.” She expressed admiration for the 240 piece band, saying that she was, to say the least impressed by the size and tone quality of the organization’s performance Thanks giving on television. She pointed out that several things might stand in the way of letting her march with the Ags. “Probably the band never had any majorettes (since it’s a boy’s school) and maybe you might think a majorette might clutter up the band’s formations. But since there’ll be only one, my work will be out of the way of the band’s direct formations, yet in harmony with it,” she said. She said that she thought the un usual combination would be a “plug” for both states, and schools, and “would certainly be a unique showing for the A&M Band.” But Gator Bowl fans will never get- to- see the Aggie Bund with majorettes. At least not this year. The Band isn’t goint to make the trip, because of costs and limited halftime. East-West Conflict Object of Inquiry By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS, — The NATO summit conference yesterday ap proved a guarded Western examination of the pitfalls and possibilities of direct talks with the Kremlin to reduce East- West tension. Sentiment among some members for fresh negotiations with the Soviet Union was a factor. The move apparently was part of a compromise solution that would allow military men to continue plans to beef up West Europe’s strength with ballistic missiles. Britain, France, West Germany and Norway were among the advocates of serious consideration of the latest flurry of proposals from Soviet Premier Bulganin to all members of •♦•United Nations. President Eisenhower and the leaders of 14 other mem bers of the North Atlantic Yule Program Open To Public The second annual all col lege Christmas program, feat uring the Christmas story in song, will be held immediately following the Christmas din ner Thursday night at 7:30 in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The Aggie Band and the Singing Cadets will furnish music for the Senate sponsored program; narra tion of the Christmas story wall be done by the Aggie Players. There will also be audience participation in singing Christmas carols and organ music by Mrs. A. B. Medlin. Bill Libby, Senate Public Rela tions Committee chairman, has in vited the general public to join the students and faculty in this Christ mas observance. Tau Beta Pi Takes 50 New Members The A&M Texas Delta Chapter of Tau Beta Pi Assn., an honorary fraternity for outstanding engi neers, initiated 46 seniors and four juniors at a banquet held last night in the Memorial Student Center. Mason Lockwood, consulting engineer for Lockwood, Andrews and Newman of Houston, spoke to the group. Don Lummus acted as toastmaster, and Marvin L. Trice, gave the invocation. Othei’s on the program were Ray Bowen and James B. Burr. To be eligible for the fraternity, seniors must have a 2.00 or better grade point ratio. Juniors must possess at least a 2.75. Seniors initiated were David Carlyle Bounds, Ray Morris Bowen, James Benard Brown, Jon Horton Brown, William Walter Bi'yan, Harold John Conrad, James Alvin Crews, Gene Edison Crubaugh, John Rodney D o s h e r, Robert Douglass, Gma Lewis Ellington, Royce Allen English, Ray Dee Gaidington, Lee H. Gilby. Raymond H e r s c h e 1 Greene, Thwmas Raymond Harris, Delbert Floyd Hightower, Bill Owen Holli day, Gerald Lane Jordan, Carroll Frank Lam, Delvin John Lefner, Robert Walter McClesky Jr., James Douglas McElroy, DeWitt Liggett McLallen. James Allen Meitzen, George Ernest Mills, William Fredrick Mundkowsky, Ewell Allen Nelson, Jack Ewald Nelson, Donald Frank Weather Today Partly cloudy skies with widely scattered showers in the late afternoon are forecast for the Col lege Station area. The high yesterday was 72 de grees at 1:45 p. m. This morning’s low of 65 degrees was recorded at 2 a. m. Today the mercury is ex pected to reach a high of 79 de grees, dropping to 60 degree* to night. Powers, Leland Hobbs Pratt, X. B. Reed, Raymond Roy Robertson, Price Duane Rose, Charles Ray Smith. Bobby Mac Stringer, Joe Thomas Simmons, Robert Paul Strobel, Kenneth Ray Sturdivant, Ernest Edward Taylor, William August Volz, Arthur Newton Waggoner, Donald Carol Watson, Curtis Sin clair Wells, Charles Dan Wicker and Howard Weller Zuch. Juniors accepted into the chapter were John Stuart Gladwell, Randall Wayne Jones, Allen Eugene Kelly and Lawi’ence Brozak Sullivan. Treaty Organization agreed to proceed with a study along these lines, outside the U. N., but only so long as such talks should show some prospect of success. Western action, as discussed in today’s session of the NATO chiefs of government, would take two forms: One would be establishment of a four-nation NATO foreign miri^ isters’ committee made up of Brit ain, France, Canada and the United States to try to restart stalled dis armament discussions with the Russians. The group would re present only NATO, although made up of the same Western members of the U. N. Disarmament sub committee which Russia recently quit. The second move was to ask the NATO permanent council, at its weekly sessions in Paris, to examine the letters from Bulganin and see whether their content made a new general topics con ference desirable. If held, diplo matic informants said, the parley would be on the foreign ministers’ level and not that of chiefs of gov ernment. Eisenhower came to the after noon session 42 minutes late to give his approval to a proposal on East - West contact raised by French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau. Secretary of State Dulles had said earlier the President would not attend the meeting un less there were “substantive de cisions” to be made. The U. S. delegation has been bombarded since it arrived with European demands not to let the Russians dominate world propa ganda with the initiative for East- West talks. Civilians Donating Money for Needy Civilian students are currently taking donations among themselves which will be given to needy fami lies in the area as a Christmas gift. In addition, the Civilians in two dorms will escort needy children to the Aggie Christmas dinner in Sbisa Hall Thursday evening. Aft er this, the children will be guests at the Christmas party in G. Rollie White Coliseum. All money collected in the drive will be turned over to Bennie A. Zinn, director of Student Affairs, who will then distribute it. Zinn also asked anyone who would like to donate food, clothing or money to contact him or the Texas Wel fare Agency. Ag Building Being Remodeled Classrooms and offices in the Agricultural Building are being re modeled and accoustical tile is be ing installed in parts of the build ing as part of a $75,000 construc tion project centered around the structure. Tish’ Officers Being Elected In Runoff Aggie freshmen, visiting the polls in huge numbers to day, are casting their votes for class officers in runoff elec tions being held at two voting booths on the campus. The elections began this morn ing at, 8 and continued until noon for the morning session. This after noon, voting time is from 1 to 5 p. m. Four automatic voting machines are in operation in the booth next to the post office in the Memorial Student Center, and three are being used in the brick building next to Milner Hall. Vieing for president in the run offs are Donald F. Boren, Charles C. Murphy and Billy Thompson. Richai’d A. Box, Roger S. Terry and Milton P. Martin are bidding for the vice president slot. Running for the secretary-treas urer post are Edgar D. Hosier, Ro bert Bower and Malcolm E. Hick man, while James T. Reeves, Tho mas C. Johnson and Glenn A. Jones are battling for social secretary honors. The runoff candidates were chosen in preliminary elections Nov. 21, when 1,021 freshmen — staging one of the best turnouts in A&M history — cast their bal lots for 106 candidates listed on the ballot. Representatives to the election commission and the Stu dent Senate were also picked at that time. Freshmen who have not yet voted are urged to rush to the poll near est their dorm and cast their bal lot. Tickets Cost Ags $6,400 This Year Aggies have been issued 3,145 tickets for traffic violations on the campus since the beginning of the semester, Campus Security Chief Fred Hickman said yesterday. These tickets average around two dollars apiece which means that approximately $6,400 dollars in fines are being paid. “There are entirely too many violations being comitted, and a great majority of them could be avoided entirely,” Hickman com mented. —Battalion Statt Pnoio Receives Dairy Scholarship Ragen Lippke, ’59, receives the $200 Herman F. Keep junior scholarship from Dr. I. W. Rupel, head of the dairy science department, during the annual Dairyman’s Short Course held here recently. Heep, a members of the A&M System Board of Directors, was unable to personally pre sent the award.