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Number 79: Volume 57
Bowling Alley
To Present
New Pinsetters
Tomorrow marks the grand
opening of the Memorial Stu
dent Center Bowling Alleys
since they were remodeled to
include the $68,000 Brunswick
Automatic Pinsetters.
As a special feature, teams of
local celebrities will bowl seven ex
hibition games starting at 7:30 p.
m. John Geigei’, manager of the
MSC Alleys, will be master of cere
monies.
The eight special teams are made
up of the following: Alley Cats—
Dean Robert B. Kamm, Carl E.
Tishler and Dr. M. T. Harrington;
The Pros—Marvin Butler, Stan
Workman and Joe Blieden; Alley
Rats—Mrs. Kamm, Mrs. Tishler
and Mrs. Harrington; The Co-ed’s
—Mrs. Lou Thomas, Mrs. Alberta
Gruber and Mrs. Lou McDonald;
Gutter Bums—Charles Roeber, Earl
Rudder and Wayne Stark; The Aces
—Bob Brown, Floyd Hardimon and
an un-named student; Rinky Dinks
—Mrs. Roeber, Mrs. Rudder and
Mrs. Stark; The Pin Ups — Mrs.
Mary Faulk, Mrs. Oleta Smith and
Mrs. Faye Wilson.
Three other special matches will
be held between Don McGinty, Bob
Surovik and Nancy Rudderow; Jon
Hagler and Bill McKown; Joe Tin-
del and Gary Rollins.
The new pinsetters, although^
they are very expensive in the ini
tial cost, will not make it any more
expensive to bowl, said Geiger. On
Ihe eontrai’y they are cheaper and
are much faster than pinboys.
Weather Today
Increasing cloudiness is expec
ted today, with rain during the
evening and night. The mercury
will probably rise to a high of 68,
dipping to a low of 55 tonight.
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1958
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New Students
Price Five Cents
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—Photo by Aggleland Studio
Look! No Pinboys
John Geiger, manager of the Memorial Stu- ney Welch, director of Intramurals, Charles
dent Center Bowling Alley, points out some Haas, business manager of the MSC and
of the features of the new Brunswick Auto- Charles Roeber, business manager of the
matic Pinsetters to President M. T. Harring- college,
ton, Wayne Stark, director of the MSC, Bar-
Campus Chest Sends Help
To Aggie Wreck Victim
The Student Senate Executive
Committee voted last night to send
250 Campus Chest dollars to Don
Connor, freshman frrom Hale Cen
ter, who was injured in an auto-
Aggie Players Set
For ‘Macbeth ^ Run
Shakespearan drama comes to
Aggieland Monday when the Ag
gie Players open their five-night
run of the famous tragedy “Mac
beth” on the Guion Hall stage.
In their second production of
the current school year, the Play
ers will combine Shakespear’s in
genuity with experimental, original
ideas of Dr. Sam Southwell and
producer, C. K. Esten, both of the
English Department. Some of the
changes include playing down the
action in favor of the dialogue,
omitting two scenes of great physi
cal violence, and using an absolute
minimum of sets and props for the
play.
Music for the production has
been composed by Allen Schrader,
also of the English Department,
lending an original and purely
local aspect to the play. The music,
played by members of the A&M
Band, will be divided into four
major themes throughout the play,
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in addition to background sounds.
While Aggie Playei’s fill the
men’s roles in the play, the women’s
roles will be taken by a dean’s
wife, married students’ wives, and
local women. Mrs. Sam Southwell,
wife of the director, has designed
the costumes with the assistance
of Mrs. Dewey L. Harris, another
faculty wife, in charge of makeup.
Because of the changes and de
partures from the traditional pre
sentation of a Shakespeare tragedy,
Southwell feels sure some contro
versies may be arroused, especially
with traditional Shakespeareans.
Southwell believes Macbeth is
Shakespeare’s way of saying to the
world that there is nobility in man
when he can fight to the bitter end
a battle he knows he must lose. He
and Esten are operating on the
theory that Shakespeare’s poetry
in the play can bring out these
themes if given the proper oppor
tunity.
mobile accident Jan. 27.
Connor, a passenger in a car
which overturned near Ft. Worth,
injuring two other Aggies, is be
ing treated at a Ft. Worth hospital
for a head injury and was still un
conscious last night.
Also injured in the accident were
W. O. Kelly, Squadron 15 junior
from Ft. Worth and Charles Mc
Kinley, 2nd Wing Staff junior from
New London.
Aceo7’ding to Kelly’s mother,
Mrs. W. O. Kelly, the 20-year old
Kelly suffei-ed a rectal injury;
McKinley received a crushed disc,
and has been moved to a Tyler
hospital. Kelly is still in St. Jo
seph’s hospital in Ft. Worth. His
1957 Pontiac was a total loss.
Portrait Schedules
Given for Civilians
Civilian students will have their
portraits made for the “Aggieland
58” according to the following
schedule:
Feb. 3-4 Surnames H-L
Feb. (5-7 Surnames M-O
Feb. 10-11 Surnames P-S
Feb. 13-14 Surnames T-Z
Any civilian student not included
in the above schedule who wishes
a portrait made for the Aggieland
may do so by reporting to the Ag
gieland Studio anytime before Feb.
14,
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Witches From Macbeth
Three local girls practice a scene from the left to right, Dorothy Ashworth, Sophia
forthcoming Aggie Players’ production of Boettcher, and Vada Puszewski.
Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The “witches” are,
The money the Senate wired to
the injured boy was part of the
$1,767.47 raised in the Campus
Chest drive- this year. Sixty per
cent of the money collected in De
cember was set aside as an emer--
gency fund for just such cases as
Connor.
At least two 'representatives
from the Senate are going to Ft.
Worth Saturday to see what other
help might be needed by the in
jured Aggies.
By The Associated Press
MOSCOW,—Premier Bulganin, in his latest letter to
President Eisenhower, offers to discuss the control of outer
space, the Soviet government disclosed yesterday.
But the offer is wrapped up in a package, including
abolition of nuclear weapons and reduction of armed forces—
in a form that previously proved unacceptable to the United
States.
Bulganin also seeks to meet United States objections to
an East-West summit conference by proposing an agenda
and by accepting the idea of preparatory talks through nor
mal diplomatic channels.
Eisenhower already had ruled out nearly every one of
Bulganin’s nine agenda^
points, and Bulganin’s accep
tance of the idea of prepara
tory talks seemed based on
the West’s agreeing first of
all to call the summit conference.
Bulganin’s 17-page letter to the
President was delivered at the
White House Sunday. It was his
third letter to the President since
Dec. 10, and was a reply to one
from the President on Jan. 12 in
which the President suggested the
need at this “decisive moment in
history” is for control of outer
space.
Its publication apparently caught
the U.S. Embassy here by surprise.
Embassy officials earlier had said
they expected it would be made
public simultaneously in Washing
ton and Moscow. Eisenhower was
just beginning a study of a trans
lation of the note in Washington
when the letter was released here.
Street Plan
Mayor Tells
Near,
Lions
A plan of some kind for the im
provement of College Station city
streets will be submitted to the
public by the City Council after its
next meeting Feb. 24, Mayor Er
nest Langford told College Station
Lions yesterday.
After discussing the proposed
plans and the merits of streets with
curbs and gutters, the Lions in
dicated they favored improvements
of city streets with curbs and gut
ters as soon as possible.
Lions club members voted in un
animous agreement for immediate
street improvement and only one
member cast a vote against curbs
and gutters being included in the
plan.
Preceding the vote, Langfoi-d ex
plained two plans of improvement.
One plan would call for a bond is
sue for the amount of the total cost
of paving all the moi’e than 29
miles of city streets that Langford
described as being for the most
part in “deplorable condition.” The
other plan would call for a “pay
as you go” operation, with citizens
paying for the streets as the work
was done on them. In either case,
propei’ty valuations would have to
be doubled, Langford said.
Lions indicated their favor for
the bond plan to allocate funds for
the entire program at one time.
They approved the curb and gutter
plan because it would both increase
street life and add materially to
property value.
Enrollment
For New Term
Dips By 1,400
Spring enrollment dipped
some 1,400 Saturday to 6,019
compared to the fall enroll
ment of 7,474, H. L. Heaton,
registrar, reported yesterday.
However, Heaton said he expect
ed the figure to rise to abdut 6,400
before registration ends Saturday.
Last year’s spring enrollment at
the same time was 6,105, the regis
trar reported. Fall semester en
rollment in 1956 was some 7,200.
Other sources indicated they ex
pected the spring semester enroll
ment to rise to only 6,200 by Sat
urday. Their estimated figures
showed the enrollment this spring
indicates a 500-student abnormal
drop.
They estimated that last year
some 700 fewer students register
ed in the spring while this year
they predict about 1,200 fewer stu
dents will have registered by Sat
urday.
On Coed Issue
Next Tuesday
Plans will be completed to
morrow for a referendum elec
tion to determine the percent
age of Aggies favoring co
education.
The election commission will
meet at 5 p.m. in Room 101 of the
YMCA to assign positions for hold
ing the election. The voting will
take place next Tuesday.
The college voting machines will
be put into operation by the com
mission to get a “yes” or “no”
vote on the question, “Do you
favor co-education at A&M?”
Voting machines will be in oper
ation in the Memorial Student Cen
ter and at the news stand, south
of Sbisa Hall, from 8 a.m. until
5:30 p.m., with the exception of
the noon hour, Dick Noack, chair
man of the election commission,
said yesterday.
To be eligible to vote, each stu
dent will be required to present his
fee slip showing that he is regis
tered for the spring semester,
Noack added.
“We would like to encourage
everyone to vote in this election”,
Noack said, “But we want a true
opinion. We don’t want anyone
to try to influence the vote of any
one else.”
Results of the election will be
turned over to the Student Senate.
BULLETIN
Two freshmen whose names
were withheld were suspend
ed from the college late yes
terday after voluntarily ad
mitting painting signs on the
new Southern Methodist Uni
versity Coliseum, Saturday,
Jan. 25, Col. Joe E. Davis,
commandant, said today.
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Rudder Assumes
New Assignment
Earl Rudder, former Commis
sioner of the General Land Office
of Texas, began his new duties as
vice president of the A&M college
Feb. 1.
Rudder, 47, is the first man to
fill the position created by the
board of directors in Sept. 27,
1957. He will be in charge of col
lege operations, responsible to
President M. T. Harrington.
“We are most fortunate to secure
a man of Mr. Rudder’s capabilities
for this key position in our organ
ization,” Dr. Harrington said, in
announcing his appointment.
“He has rendered most valuable
service in every position in which
he has served in the past, in war
or peace, and I am confident that
he will contribute much to the fu
ture progress of our institution,” he
said.
A graduate of A&M in 1932,
Rudder is now Commanding Gen
eral of the 90th Infantry Division,
Reserve, 4th Army, with the rank
of Major General.
He was born at Eden, Concho
county, May 6, 1910, and attended
Eden public schools. In 1927 he en
rolled in John Tarleton Agricultural
College (now Tarleton State Col
lege) and after two years trans-
fei'red to A&M.
Rudder is married and has five
children—James Earl Jr., 17; Mar
garet Anne, 15; Linda, 10; Jane, 9;
and Robert, 3.
New Vice President
Earl Rudder, new vice president of the A&M college, talks
over his duties with President M. T. Harrington, standing
on his right.