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Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 70: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1958
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Price Five Cents
Russia Denies
Shooting Man
To Outer Space
MOSCOW, OP)—Soviet of
ficials in a position to know
said last nig-ht they have no
information about a Russian
rocket carrying a man into
space.
A spokesman for the Soviet
Academy of Sciences and the Com
mittee for Cultural Relations with
Foi-eign Countries made this re
sponse to questions about Mon
day’s unofficial reports that a Sov
iet rocket shot 186 miles up short
ly after Jan. 1 and that the man
aboard parachuted successfully.
A spokesman, questioned along
similar lines by Western corres
pondents, said he was unable to
say anything - about the accounts
published abroad. Asked if the
Soviet government would have an
announcement on the subject, the
spokesman said so far as he knew
there was 110 communique in sight.
A Moscow radio broadcast heard
in London quoted the official Sov
iet news agency Tass as saying it
knew nothing of a manned rocket
flight. It quoted the agency’s dep
uty director as saying it was
“completely incomprehensible” to
him how Western news agencies
had obtained such a report. In
Washington, the White House said
it is not known there if the story
\s time or not.
Western correspondents in Mos
cow reported continuing difficul
ties with Soviet censors. Associa
ted Press Bureau Chief Harold K.
Milks advised one AP stoi’y had
been held up by censors and re
ferred to another which had not
been received in New York.
A Moscow T’adio broadcast mon
itored in the West Sunday said,
“There is no actual flight by a
man in a cosmic ship today.” The
home service broadcast was a fic
tional account of the launching of
a manned satellite into orbit and
a radio conversation between the
passenger and the ground station.
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571 Visit Campus
During December
Visitors on the campus during
December numbered 571.
The visitors attended short
courses, conferences, class re
unions and other scheduled meet
ings, according to P. L. Downs Jr.,
the college’s official greeter.
For June through December the
total number of visitors was 9,450.
In Appreciation
Battalion Staff Photo
Dr. John S. Rogers, second from right, head
of the Agronomy Department, accepts a new
automatic slide projector from Archie T.
Edwards, Manager of the Red Star Fertilizer
Division, Southern Farm Supply Associa
tion, for use by the department. Looking on
are Dr. J. F. Fudge, left, of the Agricultural
Experiment Station and Bill Bennett, of the
Extension Service. The equipment was given
in appreciation for work done in soil fertility
research, extension and teaching.
Students Opposed
Local Business Owners
For A&M Co-Education
Co-education should be started as
quickly as possible at A&M was the
opinion of a group of Bryan and
College Station merchants inter
viewed yesterday.
Three corps students and one
businessman, on the other hand,
said they thought it would be de
trimental to the school.
Waves of discussion and specula
tion have been touched off by a
recent editorial in the Bryan Daily
Eagle advocating co-education at
A&M.
The merchants argued that co
education would be good for the
community and for the college both.
The students, however, saw in the
beginning of co-education lowering
of the high military standards and
traditions established by the Corps
in the past.
12 Man Staff
Campus Security
Serves Aggieland
By RONALD EASLEY
In a small inconspicuous office
in the basement of the YMCA
building is one of the most im
portant organizations on the cam
pus, the Campus Security.
Heading a force of 10 patrolmen
and one secretary is Campus Se
curity Chief Fred- Hickman. Hick
man has held this position since
1945 when the Campus Security,
which until then was affiliated
with the Office of the Command
ant, became a separate organiza
tion.
The Campus Security, contrary
to popular belief, is not a punitive
agency, but a fact-gathering agen
cy, which furnishes information
for many other departments on
the campus.
The official lost and found post
for the campus is the Campus Se
curity office. When a lost item
is brought into the office a card
with a description of the article
and the date it was found is put
on file.
In addition, a number of files
are kept in this office. Campus
Security maintains files on student
behavior, burglary and crime, au
tomobile permits with cards show
ing the permit number, license
number and name for each car on
the campus, and a traffic violation
notices file.
Students pay their traffic viola
tion notices or “tickets” at the Fis
cal Office and a record is kept at
the Campus Security Office on all
violation notices. Instead of pay
ing the two-dollar traffic violation
fine, the student may have their
car restricted from the campus for
30 days for each ticket.
Campus Security is operated on
a schedule of three, eight-hour
shifts. The shifts change at 7
a.m., 3 p.m. and 11 p.m. and there
are at least three men working
each shift. Each man works a
40-hour week. There are at least
two people on duty at all times.
One of the biggest problems
facing the Campus Security, ac
cording to Chief Hickman is inad
equate parking facilities.
Until two years ago the only
money available for increasing
parking facilities was that of a
small reserve fund. Now all money
taken in for traffic violations is
used to improve parking facilities.
Campus Security has a three
fold aim to give the college ade
quate parking areas: 1. Set up
adequate parking lots, 2. Put
lighting and all-weather topping in
all lots and 3. Put walkways from
the lots to the dorms.
The traffic violation fine was
raised from one dollar to two dol
lars this year, but there are just
as many traffic violations this
year as last, according to Chief
Hickman.
Ed Garner, owner of the Student
Co-op Store at the North Gate said,
“A&M doesn’t have the spirit it
used to have in the ‘old army’ days.
The boys attending A&M now are
just different type boys than those
who went there then. Boys today
just want the advantages of a Co
ed school.
“Then too A&M would be helped
academically by co-education. A&M
used to be the only school offering
Agricultural courses. Boys are now
going to other schools that are co
educational for their agriculture
instead of A&M.”
“Yes, A&M should go co-ed, said
Tommy Arhopulos, Twelfth Man
Inn Owner. “It would be for the
good of the school and the com
munity. The sooner A&M goes
co-ed, the better.”
One College Station merchant, J.
E. Loupot, disagreed:
“At A&M a boy is known for
what he is, not what he has. A
boy doesn’t need social prestige to
attend A&M. Many boys who
couldn’t afford to attend a co-ed
school come here. A boy just
naturally spends more money at a
co-ed school.”
“And as for the argument that
we need increased enrollment,”
Loupot went on, “I’m in favor of
improving the quality we have now
rather than increasing the
quantity.”
Two Bryan merchants expressed
their favor of co-education.
Tom Davis of Davis Auto Supply
in Bryan saw it as a need for the
school and the community both.
“I believe co-education would
double the enrollment of A&M in
ten years,” said Davis, “But it
doesn’t look as if co-education will
come in the near future.”
Three students in the Corps stood
firm in their opinion that A&M
doesn’t need co-eds.
“A&M was built on the Corps of
Cadets,” said Jack Westerfield,
Corps senior. “The Corps just
wouldn’t be the same with girls
here. It would be no different than
ROTC’s of any other co-ed school.”
Noel Kelley, sophomore from
Paris, had this to say: “With co
education we would be just another
ROTC. But I don’t think A&M
could go co-ed. There are too
many exes opposed to it.”
A Henrietta junior, Robert
Tinsley said, “A&M just wouldn’t
be the place for co-education. It
wouldn’t be possible to have any
discipline in the Corps with it.”
In the wake of the board’s de
cision to make ROTC compulsory
the arguments pro and con con
tinued, but only time will tell
whether A&M will leave the thin
ning ranks of all-male colleges.
Traffic Problems
Discussed by A&S
Campus traffic problems were
discussed at the Arts and Sciences
Council meeting Monday night in
the Memorial Student Center.
A committee headed by Don
Cloud, economics junior, was ap
pointed to collect grievances on the
problem. They will make a list
and present it to the council at its
next meeting, Feb. 2.
Scientific Head
Says US Leads
In Technology
WASHINGTON, UP)—Pres
ident Eisenhower’s top scien
tific adviser said last night
Russia has not passed the
United States yet in the gen
eral technological field “but she
has a strong will to do so.”
Dr. James R. Killian Jr., said
this country, to stay in front, must
invigorate scientific education and
put more sustained effort into ad
vanced research.
“Too much of our research has
been subject to stops and starts
and changing levels of support or
short-term financing,” he said.
In a speech prepared for a Wo
men’s National Press Club dinner,
Killian said:
“Let me make my conviction im
mediately clear that the United
States today is technologically
strong and growing stronger. I
do not believe that we have lost
our technological leadership, nor
that we are predestined to lose it
in the future—provided we increase
our technological zest and audac
ity and do not fail to remedy our
weaknesses.”
Killian is on leave as president
of Massachusetts Insitute of Tech
nology to serve as Eisenhower’s
adviser in government efforts to
meet the Soviet challenge.
He told the newswomen that
what Russia’s Sputniks have shown
is not that leadership has passed
from the United States to the Sov
iet Union, “but that we must ex
pect in the future more instances
of Russian challenge to our scien
tific leadership.”
Congress Gives
Defense Matters
Top Prior i I y
Grave Concern
Fills First Session
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Congress embarked on its first
space age session yesterday in an atmosphere of grave con
cern over Russia’s scientific strides.
That defense matters would get top billing was pointed
up a few hours after the session opened. President Eisen-
howevr forwarded to the Senate and House an emergency
request for $1,260,000,000 in new funds to speed missile de
velopment and expand air defenses.
The supplemental money request, for the current fiscal
year that ends June 30, also called for transfer to the missile
program and related projects of an additional 110 million dol
lars already appropriated.
* Pulsing through actions,
predictions and prayers at the
opening of the new session
was a grim realization of a
need to meet a massive mili
tary threat posed by Russian ad
vances with missiles and space
satellites.
Famous Artist
Speaker Here
Next Tuesday
One of the finest contem
porary artists in the United
States will speak here Tues
day on the topic, “Let the Ar
tist Speak for Himself.”
Xavier Gonzalez has been called
the “best living artist” by many
art authorities and has exhibited
throughout the country as well as
abroad.
His talk, which is scheduled for
8 p. m. in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom, is sponsored by
the Architecture Division and the
MSC Creative Arts group.
Gonzalez has won many awards,
such as a Guggenheim Fellowship
and medals and prizes from the
Carnegie International, the Acad
emy of Arts and Letters and the
Pennsylvania Academy. He is the
author of “Notes About Painting”
on his painting philosophy.
The famous painter has exhibi
ted his works at A&M in past
years and in 1953 he gave a series
of lectures for a short course in
painting for amateur artists.
He was commissioned to do a
series of paintings by Life Maga
zine last year and was sent to
Egypt to gather the material.
When reproduced in the magazine,
the series received wide acclaim
from critics.
Gonzalez came to the United
States in 1922 from his native
country Spain. He worked at var
ious jobs in Chicago while study
ing at night at the Chicago Art
Institute. His orjy other study of
art was with his uncle, Jose Arpa.
The well-known artist now makes
his home in New York.
Speed King Slates
Talk Here Friday
Col. John P. Stapp, who has been
called the “fastest man on earth”,
will speak on “The Physiological
Effects of Space Travel on the
Human Body” Friday at 8 p. m.
in the Chemistry Lecture Room.
Stapp earned his nickname fol
lowing the recordbreaking speed he
obtained while performing decele
ration tests on a rocket sled at the
Holloman Air Development Center
in New Mexico.
He has conducted numerous
tests on body effects due to various
conditions encountered in super
sonic speed.
At present Stapp is chief of the
Aero-Medical Field Laboratory,
Air Force Misile Development Cen
ter, New Mexico.
Against that threat, Senate Re
publican Leader Knowland of
California predicted that Presi
dent Eisenhower will offer to Con
gress and the people a constrac-
tive series of suggestions strong
enough to answer the Soviet chal-
enge.
Eisenhower will lay down the
defense part of his program in a
State of the Union message to be
delivered to a joint Senate-House
session Thursday. Details of his
domestic program will be held
back for a message next Monday
proposing a balanced budget of
around 74 billion dollars for the
fiscal year starting next July 1,
and a boost in defense spending
of around two billions.
On the surface, members of
Senate and House were as jovial
and jaunty as usual for start of a
new sesion. They whacked backs,
grabbed hands, and chattered in
noisy staccato. Underneath, they
were pretty somberminded.
House Speaker Rayburn of Tex
as told reporters it will be a long,
“very heavy session and one of
considerable controversy.” Almost
at the same moment, Democratic
Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas
was solemnly advising a conference
of all Senate Democrats that the
“peril of the hour is obvious.”
‘Dead’ Week Out,
Says College Dean
Observance of A&M’s custo
mary “dead” week, the week
before final exams usually used
for review, will be left up to the
discretion of the individual pro
fessors this semester. Dean John
Page, dean of the college, an
nounced yesterday.
Professors will be allowed to
give quizzes if they feel the class
is behind, or they may go along
with the traditional “dead” week,
said Page.
Page commented that due to
the flu epidemic which hit the
campus early this semester,
many of the classes were now be
hind schedule and needed the
week to make up for lost time.
Weather Today
Continued fair weather is ex
pected in the College Station area
today, with a high of 50 degrees
and a low of 30 tonight.
This morning the mercury dip
ped to a low of 27 degrees at 7:45.
Yesterday’s high of 48 degrees
came at 2:30 p. m.
Good Engineers
Lacking Today,
Says Ransdell
We now have enough engi
neers, but not enough good en
gineers, C. H. Ransdell, as
sociate dean of the Basic Divi
sion told the Engineering
Council Monday night.
Ransdell said one of the reasons
for this lack of properly trained
engineers could be found in the
inadequate preparation in mathe
matics offered by most high
schools.
He indicated that this might well
be the reason that 54 percent of
A&M freshmen had less than a 1.0
grade point ratio at mid-season.
He also said that data showed
beginning students who attended
Junction summer school before
coming to A&M had more reliable
study habits than those coming
fresh out of high school. Statis
tics show the Junction students
have less absences, better than
average grades and present fewer
problems to the Basic Division.
“However, too many good high
school students are not going to
college,” Ransdell stated.
A&M has had a liberal admission
policy for the past few years Rans
dell said, but pointed out that
grades have improved generally,
especially with the “veteran”
classes following World War II.
He said that changes in teach
ing methods and faculty changes
made it impossible to make an ac
curate grade comparison over the
past few years.
Reds Force Down
American Trainer
ROME, (A*)—Red Albania, the
Soviet satellite on the Mediter
ranean, reported last night its jet
fighters have forced down an
American jet trainer and the pilot
is being held captive.
The plane presumably is a T33
that has been missing since Maj.
Howard J. B. Curran took it off
at Chateauroux, France, Dec. 23
for a flight to Naples. He was last
reported over north Italy that day
and then vanished.
Authorities at U. S. air head
quarters in Wiesbaden, Germany,
and Washington said they had no
confirmation of Albania seizing
any American plane.
A British cargo plane was forced
down by Albania’s Soviet-style
jets last week and released with
its crew on Saturday.
An Albanian - language broad
cast from Tirana, the Red capital,
told of the T33 seizure.
Taxpayers Urged
To Include Forms
Taxpayers who worked for more
than one employer during 1957
must be sure to attach all their
withholding tax certificates to their
Federal income tax returns for the
year, according to Clarence E. Carl,
son, local Internal Revenue Ser
vice representative.
Carlson pointed out that mam
persons neglect to attach these i
forms when sending in their income
tax forms, causing inconvenience t<
both the Internal Revenue Servi
and the taxpayer.