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LIBRARY FE 12 COPIES Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus ■ | ■■■l .iniaimiM.tiMaa.aMaf CHRISTMAS Number 68: Volume 57 l COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER, 20 1957 Price Five Cents US Exposed to r r.b real Of Red Soviet Missil es -t 1 Gaither iteport Portrays Danger By The Associated Press WASHINGTON—The Washington Post said last night in a copyrighted story the still top-secret Gaither report ‘‘portrays a United States in the gravest danger in its his tory.” The report “pictures the nation moving in frightening course to the status of a second-class power,” the Post story said. “It shows an America exposed to an almost immediate threat from the missile-bristling Soviet Union.” The Post said the report “finds America’s long-term prospect one of cataclysmic peril in the face of powerful, growing Soviet economy and technology which will bring new political propaganda and psychological assaults on free- , ♦ dom alt around the globe. —Battalion Staff Bnoto Merry Christmas Fifth year architects sponsored a party for Claus) Driver, Bill McKown, Peggy Law- needy children last night in Hinsel Park and rence and Hanna Lambert pass out gifts in this picture (left to right) Jessie (Santa among the children. Dean Urges Safety Dear Aggies: We of the staff wish for you a pleasant Holi day Season and a good year in 1958! As you travel to and from your homes, we wish for you safe journeys. We urge that you ex ercise every caution, in order that this Season may not be marred by tragedy. Finally, as we celebrate the birth of Jesus for the first time since man’s entry into the Space Age, may we experience with full understanding the im pact and significance of the Christmas Message for us. Sincerely, Robert B. Kamm, Dean • Basic Division and Student Personnel Services During Holidays Foreign Ags Will Travel, Stay Here 60 Will Travel To Florida For Gator Bowl About sixty Aggies plan to make the trek to Jacksonville, Fla. next week when A&M meets Tennessee in the Gator Bowl, Senior Yell Leader Jer ry McGown said yesterday. There will be no chartered buses or trains making the trip from here, McGown said. The students are all going in cars. Four of the yell leaders, Mc Gown, Ted Lowe, Tom Miller and Bob Williams, are making the trip. McGown said that he and the other yell leaders will lead the yells from the stands, as the small group will maintain the Twelfth Man tradition and stand during the game. Most of the group will probably be returning Sunday afternoon, December 29, he said. B&CU Erecting New Street Signs Prominent red and white street signs are being erected on all street corners and intersections on the campus to aid visitors in finding their way. According to W. Howard Bad- gett, Physical Plant manager, the signs were made by B&CU. New stop signs are also being erected. The height and color will conform to state specifications. Another,, improvement on the campus scheduled for the) near fu ture are name plates to be placed on buildings denoting their func tion. These - plates will join the plaques commemorating the man to whom the building was dedicated. Saturday a group of 17 Pakistan college professors will leave A&M for a two-week Christmas tour of Texas. The tour will last through Jan. 4 and will include conducted tours of important ranches, dairies, factories, banks and other places of interest. The pi'ofessors in the group all teach various courses in colleges affiliated with the University of Dacca, in Pakistan, with which A&M has an exchange agi’eement. Members of the group and the courses they teach include: S. M. Aslam, veterinary medicine; S. Alam, mechanical engineering; H. Banerjee, electrical engineering; A. Huq, veterinary medicine; M. H. Khan, mechanical engineering; M. Kabiruddin, civil engineering; M. A. Latif, poultry husbandry; A. S. Mia, veterinary pharmacology and M. A. Miah, dairy husbandry. Also, S. A. Siddiqui, accounting; H. Shaikh, veterinary pathology and bacteriology; A. H. Talukder, veterinary obstetrics; Miss Sofia lK. Khatun, home economics; Miss IN. J. Wali, home economics; Gha- ?oor Bhatti, plant breeding; S. G'. llahboob, chief superintendent, seed ihultiplication farm, secretary, Ag riculture Department, Government of East Pakistan, and Abu S.M.N. Islam, assistant director of agri culture, secretary Agriculture, sec retary Agriculture Department, East Pakistan. The group will leave in two buses driven by A&M students, Robert Merka and Louis Zemanek. They will be shown points of interest in Beeville, Corpus Christi, San Be nito, San Antonio, Edinburg, Fal- furrias, Alice, New Braunfels, Au- Campus Chest Falls Short Of $7,000 Goal Unofficial tabulation of to tal Campus Chest donations last night showed $1,767.47 received in the unified drive for funds sponsored by the Student Senate. A final plea for contributions was made last night at the all col lege Christmas party. The Chest’s goal was set at $7,000—a dollar an Aggie. Funds raised are to be allocated to various worthwhile charities and organi zations on and off the campus. Although last night was the final day of solicitation, students desiring to contribute to the Chest will get an opportunity after the holidays, Charlie Rice, Senate solicitation chairman, said. Rice singled out three dormi tories which had all been near to reaching the dollar per man goal. The dorms he mentioned were 3, 6 and 12. stin, Temple and Fort Worth. After the trip Miss Khatum and Miss Wali will return to Denton, where they are visiting, and the men will return to A&M. “In short, the report strips away the complacency and lays bare the highly unpleasant reality in what is the first across-the- board survey of the relative pos tures of the United States and the free world and of the Soviet Un ion and th Communist orbit. “To revent what otherwise ap pears to be inevitable catastrophe, the Gaither report urgently calls for an enormous increase in mili tary spending-from now through 1970-and for many other costly, radical measures of first and sec ond priority. Only through such an all-out ef fort, the report say<t, can the Unit ed States hope to close the cur rent gap and to counter the world wide Communist offensive in many fields and in many lands. “Established as the first, over riding priority is the revitalizing of the American retaliatory offen sive force, as principal deterrent to an all-out Russian attack.” The study on which the Gaither report is based was made for the Office of Defense Mobilization and the National Security Council. H. Rowan Gaither Jr., former presi dent of the Ford Foundation, was head of the board which made the study. Weather Today Fair and cooler weather is pre dicted for the College Station area. Yesterday’s high of 78 degree’s was recorded at 3 p. m. This morn ings low of 43 degrees was reached at 8. Today the mercury is expected to reach a high of 62 degrees, drop ping to 40 tonight. Employes To Be Guests At Annual Dinner Twelve quarter-century em ployes of the A&M College System are special honor guests at the annual System Christmas dinner tonight at 7 in Sbis^ Hall. The 12 special guests, all now retired, will be introduced by Presi dent M. T. Harrington. He will also deliver the Christmas message. R. E. Leighton, professor of dairy sciences, is master of cere monies for the dinner. The invoca tion will be given by the Rev. James Argue, pastor of the A&M Methodist Church. Music for the program will be furnished by the Aggie Singing Cadets. The 12 honorees of the dinner are: Robert B. Barham and Ralph Howard Mitchell, both of the Ex change Store; Pedro Garcia and James C. Stewart of the dining hall staff; Pete L. Rodriguez, Che mistry Department; Dr. S. R. Wright, Civil Engineering Depart ment; Dr. I. B. Boughton, School of Veterinary Medicine; C. H. Doer- ge, Miss Maui'ine Hearne, and R. B. Tate, all of tli4 Agricultural Extension Serive; TJ. A. Randolph, Experiment Station^, and Jesse N. Satterwhite, Forestry Service. Students Eligible For Scholarships Students who are eligible and interested in being nominated for Danforth Graduate Fellowships should contact thier department not later than Jan. 13, 1958, W.H. Delaplane, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, announced this week. Those men who have not yet be gun graduate study and who are entering graduate school in prep aration for college teaching are eligible. Applicants may be pre paring to teach in any academic discipline common to the under graduate college. Selection is made on the basis of outstanding academic ability, per sonality congenial to the classroom, and integrity and character, includ ing serious inquiry within the Christian tradition. By HOLIM KIM Foreign students at A&M will have diverse experiences all over the country during the coming holi days, with the exception of . a few who are going back home. Foreign Student Affairs on the CS To Have Free Christmas Party A free community Christmas, complete with Santa Claus, is of fered to local citizens on Christmas Eve by the College- Station Re creation Council. The Christmas party will be held on Dec. 24 in the Consolidated Junior High School Music Room. Girl Scout Troop 45 is acting as a crew of Santa’s helpers by wrap ping candy which the jolly old gentleman will distribute to the kiddies. Girl Scouts from Troop 5 are in charge of decorating the large tree. The program will feature several presentations by local children from various age groups com munity carol singing and Santa’s presents for the kiddies. Larry Hayes will lead the com munity singing, and Patricia Jack- son, a Consolidated High School junior, will give a Christmas read ing. Other features on the program include a short play, “The Toy Shop”, by a group from Wee Ag- gieland Kindergarten. The play was presented by the kindergarten students on Station KBTX-TV, in Bryan, yesterday. campus said yesterday that seven students had reported definitely to stay on the campus with others going on trips to various parts of the country. However, the number staying here is expected to in crease by today, the last day to report. Some Aggies from foreign coun tries will visit historical sites and big cities in the east. Some are going to view the beautiful land scape in Colorado. For those unable to travel dur ing the holidays, the Foreign Stu dent Affairs Section is planning to provide a homey environment. Most of the foreign students stay ing here will be invited to a Texas home. Methodist Youth Fellowship in Miles, Texas has invited a group of the students, and so far three Aggies have shown their intent to attend to the Foreign Student Ad visor’s office. “We are expecting more inqui ries from homes in Texas by Fri day,” Bennie Zinn, foreign stu dents advisor, said. “Right now, I am writing to various groups of people to find more homes.” The college encourages interna tional students to speak before lo cal clubs and church organizations to introduce their cultures and cus toms. One of the annual affairs for foreign students on the campus at this time of the year is the president’s Christmas party. Pres ident Harrington invited all inter national students to his home last Sunday. All College Program Has Small Crowd The Aggie Band, Singing Ca dets and Aggie Players combined their talents last night in G. Rollie White Coliseum for the second an nual all college Christmas program. Spoiisored by the Student Senate, the program offered the story of Christmas in song to the sparse crowd attending. John Gladwell narrated the story to a background of music furnished by the Singing Cadets and the band, as the Aggie Players por trayed the nativity. After the formal part of the program, Lt. Col. E. V. Adams, band director, asked the audience to join the band in singing some favorite carols. Organ music for the program was furnished by Mrs. A. B. Med- lin. 56 Students Get Refund on Tuition Tuition scholarships have been awarded to 56 students who showed that increased tuition costs this semester caused them a financial hardship. These scholarships, actually a refund of $25.00 on tuition already paid, were provided for in a law passed last spring by the Texas legislature, which doubled tuition in state supported schools. Relatively few students applied for the refund, said Mrs. LaUna Dean of the Registrar’s office. A total of 162 applications were re ceived and screened by the Schol arship Committee. In order to qualify for the re fund, students must be legal resi dents of Texas and have at least a 1.00 grade point ratio. Architects Give Party For Needy A party was held last night in Hensel Park for 18 underprivilegel Bryan children sponsored by fifth year architects. The architects Were aided by the Landscape Architecture So ciety and the Flouriculture So ciety in providing the children with Christmas stockings and toys along with a large box of groceries for each of the five families they represented. Games and refreshments were provided by wives of the students. —Battalion Staff Photo “The Toy Shop” Pictured is the cast of “The Toy Shop”, a gieland Kindergarten students yesterday on Christmas play presented by the Wee Ag- the Town Talk show, over KBTX-TV, Bryan. Pakistan Profs To Take Texas Tour