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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
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—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.