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CHRISTMAS
Number 68: Volume 57
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER, 20 1957
Price Five Cents
US Exposed to r r.b real
Of Red Soviet Missil es
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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