the FtATT/l LIQ N
Number 81: Volume 57
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1958
Price Five Cents
-Battalion Staff Photo
Formal Opening
President M. T. Harrington cuts the ribbon on the new $68,-
000 automatic pinsetters in the Memorial Student Center
bowling alley at the grand opening last night. Don McGinty,
president of the MSC Council looks on in anticipation of
the games of the evening.
Wm&Hams
Battalion Staff Photo
First Ball
President M. T. Harrington rolls one of the first balls at
the grand opening of the Memorial Student Center bowling
alley’s new $68,000 automatic pinsetters.
Vanguard Satel lite Failure
Blamed on Irregularities
MSC Alleys Open
After Reps Bowl
No one broke into the “300 Club”,
but college celebrities put on quite
a show last night at the Grand
Opening of the Memorial Student
Center bowling alleys, featuring
its new $68,000 Brunswick auto
matic pinsetters.
In the first match of the even
ing, “The Pros”, composed of M. H.
Butler, Stan Workman and Joe
Blieden, blasted the “Alley Cats”,
made up of Dr. M. T. Harrington,
Dean Robert Kamm and Carl
Tishler, 551-383. Joe Blieden roll
ed the high game of the evening in
the contest, running up a 222 score.
The “Alley Rats”, composed of
Mrs. Harrington, Mrs. Kamm and
Mrs. Tishler, lost to “The Co-eds”,
Mrs. Lou Thomas, Mrs. Alberta
Gruber and Mrs. Lou McDonald,
414-230. Mrs. McDonald had the
high game with 157.
On Alleys 5 and 6, “The Aces”
squeeze past the “Gutter Bums”,
486-416. The former team was
made up of Earl Rudder, Charles
Roeber and Wayne Stark, while the
latter was made up 0f Floyd Hardi-
man, Bob Brown an<i Bobby Carter,
a student who won a slot with
The Aces for bowling the highest
game during the day (228). In the
Weather Today
Rain totaling .03 inch fell during
the night, with more showers fore
cast for today. A high of 70 degrees
and a low of 49 are expected.
Yesterdays high was 72 degrees
at 5 p. m., and this mornings low,
54 degrees at 8 o’clock.
Relative humidity at 8 a. m. was
55 per cent.
R.E. Week
Leaders
Religious
Conduct Discussions
Seventeen religious leaders will
conduct forums and discussion
groups and will be available for
personal conferences during the
16th annual Religious Emphasis
Week Feb. 16-21.
In addition, Dr. Ronald R. Mere
dith, pastor of the First Method
ist Church, Wichita Falls, will be
the main speaker, giving four
morning talks during RE Week
in Guion Hall.
Rev. Glen Norris, director of the
Baptist Student Work and chair
at Fort Worth and as Baptist Stu
dent Director at Texas Wesleyan
College.
Conducting the groups for
Dorms 1 and 3 and living in Dorm
1 will be Rev. John R. Gibbs, pas
tor of the First Methodist Church
in Bandera.
Norris
Gibbs
man of the Department of Bible
and Religion at Southwest Texas
State College at San Marcos will
live in Dorm 16 and conduct night
ly meetings.
A Baylor and Southwestern Bap
tist Theological Seminary Gradu
ate, Rev. Norris was engaged in
evangelistic work before becoming
associated with SWSTC. In addi
tion he served as youth director
of the Polytechnic Baptist Church
Rogers
Lutner
Rev. Gibbs received a B.A. de
gree from,the University of Texas
and a Bachelor of Divinity degree
from Southern Methodist Univers
ity.
A World War II Navy veteran,
Rev. Gibbs was director of the
Wesley Foundation and Wesley
Bible Chair at Texas A&I College
from 1951-56.
Rev. Gibbs took over his pastor
ate at Bandera in 1956. He has
been active in Boy Scout work
and other civic activities since.
Rev. William B. Rogers, Pres
byterian Chaplain for North Tex
as State College and Texas Wo
men’s University at Denton, will
live in Dorm 2 and conduct dis
cussions and forums for Dorms 2
and 4.
Rev. Rogers was a World War II
fighter pilot and currently is a
major in the Air Force Reserve.
Prior to becoming Chaplain for
NTSC and TWU, Rev. Rogers
served as pastor of a Brooklyn,
N.Y., church and as chaplain of
the Hampden-Sydney College and
pastor of the College Church in
Hampden-Sydney, Virginia.
A native of Little Rock and El
Dorado, Ark., he received a B.A.
(See R. E. Week page 3)
2nd Wing Move
Still Only Rumor
No definite plans one way or
the other have been made regarding
the rumored move of the 2nd Wing
to the new Corps area, Col. Joe E.
Davis, commandant, said last night.
Col. Davis commented that,
“triagon” officials had to wait for
final enrollment figures before a
switch would be considered.
The 2nd Wing is presently housed
in three dorms in the old area
located near North Gate. Unofficial
figures show that due to the severe
drop in enrollment this semester,
the entire Corps of Cadets could
live in the new area, with room for
about 100 to spare.
match, Brown was high man with
183.
The “Rinky Dinks”, made up of
Mrs. Rudder, Mrs. Roeber and Mrs.
Stark, downed the “Pin-Ups”, com
posed of Mrs. Mary Faulk, Mrs.
Oleta Smith and Mrs. Faye Wilson,
402-252. Mrs. Smith was high
bowler with 159 in this contest.
In the second go-round, Ray
Bowen, Bill McKown and Mrs. Ruth
Edwin downed Don McGinty, Bob
Surovik and Nancy Rudderrow,
328-280. McKown rolled 146 to take
high honors in the match.
In the final match, Joe Tindel,
editor of the Battalion, defeated
Gary Rollins, sports editor, 149-100.
After the matches, Dr. and Mrs.
Harrington, Mr. and Mrs. Rudder
and Dean Kamm bowled several
more games, indicating they con
sidered the improved alleys “top-
notch”.
Hearing Set
In Senate Effort
To Oust Tindel
A special meeting’ of the
Student Publications Board
has been called for Friday at
4 p. m. for Student Senators
to present their request that
Joe Tindel be removed as editor of
The Battalion.
The Senate voted 11-5 Jan. 16
to recommend that Tindel resign
his editorship. Prepai’ation of a
formal recommendation was turned
over to the Issues Committee,
headed by Pat Resley.
Their findings will be discussed
in the Senate meeting tonight at
7:30 in the Senate Chamber of the
Memorial Student Center.
The motion to recommend Tin-
del’s removal was made at the last
meeting by Chai’lie (Woodie) Rice,
who said that “The ‘Batt’ is hurting
our school and many of us feel
that our editor has acted in bad
faith ... so we must ask that he
be removed.”
S.A. Symphony
Plays Here Tonight
By WELTON JONES
When Victor Alessandro steps
to the podium in White Coliseum
tonight to direct his San Antonio
Symphony Orchestra in a return
Town Hall engagement, he will
do so carrying with him not only
the affection shown toward a na
tive (Texas) son, but also the in
spect due a formidable artist.
Alessandro, born in Waco and
educated, in part, in Houston, has
had his qualifications extolled in
previous articles, and now his
choice of a program shows, at
least, that he is a good judge of
audiences.
As the chief work of the even
ing, the organization will perform
Peter Tschaikowsky’s Symphony
No. 5. The program will open
with Berlioz’ Roman Carnival Ov
erture and will include some mu
sic from Bizet’s well-worn opera
“Carmen”, “Afternoon of a Faun”
by Claude Debussy and Enesco’s
First Roumanian Rhapsody.
Tschaikowsky, the immortal Rus
sian romantic, thought he had
played out his talent when he
completed his Fourth Symphony
(See Symphony page 6)
Excavation Begins
Under MSC Soon
Workmen will begin excavating
dirt beneath the Memorial Student
Center Post Office, Gift Shop, and
Fountain Room sometime this
week, according to J. Wayne Stark,
MSC Director.
Some 10,000 square feet will be
excavated in a joint project by the
MSC and the Texas Engineer Ex
periment Station.
A preliminary excavation was
carried out Saturday with success
ful results, according to Stark. The
complete work will take three years
and will cost about $50,000, said
Stark.
The work is being done as an ex
periment by the Engineer Station
using modern equipment and adult
students who are being taught at
the station through a program set
up through the American General
Contractors of Texas and the sta
tion. The men are taught operation
of modern machines and this
excavation will provide on-the-spot
training.
Stark said there was no danger
of harming the present building as
the tiers supporting the building go
far below the planned excavation.
The work is experimental and
may not be completed, said Stark.
If completed, the new room will
be devoted to storage space for
chairs and tables and rooms for
painting and other' maintenance'
work, he said. .
If completed, the present walls
in that area of the MSC will have
to be changed, as they do not ex
tend down to the proposed depth of
the excavation. In addition concrete
floor and walls will be constructed
in the new space.
A. L. Kramer is in charge of the
project for the Engineer Extension
Service.
Navy Plans Study
In Second Failure
By The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA.,—The Air Force said yester
day that irregularities in the control system caused the Van
guard satellite-bearing test vehicle to break apart shortly
after its launching early yesterday.
The irregularities occurred in the engine control system
of the first stage of the three-stage Navy vehicle.
It came 57 seconds after the launching of the rocket.
Within three seconds the irregularities had deflected the
missile so far to the right that it broke in two.
The Navy-disappointed in its second failure to get a
satellite aloft—plans to delve deeper into just what went
wrong before trying a third shot.
The Air Force said in a pre-
AAUP Passes
Bid to Form
Faculty Council
A proposal for the organi
zation of a Faculty Advisory
Council was passed by the
A&M Chapter of the Ameri
can Association of University
Professors Wednesday night, and
the proposal will be forwarded to
President M. T. Harrington for his
action.
If approved. by Harrington, the
advisory council would provide for
direct two-way communication on
questions of college policy be
tween the faculty and administra
tion. It would also consider mat
ters brought to its attention by
the college president, members of
the council, or other faculty mem
bers.
If approved, the plan would have
the faculty of the various schools
in the college elect representattives
to form the council.
Members of the local AAUP
which drew up the plan for the
council were Chairman E. E. Lieb-
hafsky, W. F. Adams, J. Q. Hayes,
L. S. O’Bannon, J. H. Quisenberry,
and F. O. Sargent.
Ag Graduate New
Veterinary Prof
Dr. Richard W. Moore, a 1955
graduate of A&M, recently was ap
pointed assistant professor of vet
erinary microbiology here.
He will be in charge of the Virus
Research Laboratory and will con,-
tinue research on the problem of
ornithosis in turkeys.
Dr. Moore was awarded his doc
tor of veterinary medicine degree
in 1955 and did advanced work un
der a post-doctoral grant to com
plete a M.S. degree in 1956
pared announcement trans
mitted to it here by the Naval
Research Laboratory that
parts of the wreckage also
have been recovered offshore.
The loss of the Vanguard wag
a sharp setback to Navy hopes to
put a series of small satellites into
an orbit during the International
Geophysical Year now under way.
That program already is consider
ably behind schedule.
The Naval Research Laboratory
preliminary report on the Van
guard launching said:
“The Vanguai’d rocket test ve
hicle launched this morning at
Cape Canaveral was the second
of the four three-stage rocket test
vehicles in the Vanguard program.
“The first 57 Seconds of the
flight were smooth, with all com
ponents of the rocket functioning
normally.
“Our telemetry records show
that between 57th and 60th sec
onds after takeoff, small irregu
larities occurred in the first stage
engine control system.
“After the 60th second a failure
in the control system caused the
engine to deflect far to the right
and the resultant abnormally high
forces caused the rocket to break
in the middle.
“At this time, the rocket was
destroyed for safety reasons and
'fell into the Atlantic.
“Parts are being recovered for
further study and to obtain addi
tional details of the accident.
Project Vanguard has two more
test vehicles before the satellite
launching vehicles are scheduled.”
Saturday Last Day
For Registering
Saturday is the last day for
registering or adding new
courses for the spring se
mester. The last day for drop
ping courses has been set for
the following Saturday, Feb.
15.
—Battalion Staff Photo
Excavation Begins Under MSC
About 10,000 square feet will be excavated ject will take about 3 years to complete at
from under the Gift Shop, Post Office and a cost of $50,000. The new space will be
Fountain Room of the Memorial Center by used for storage rooms and for maintenance,
the Engineer Extension Service. The pro-