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Number 84: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1958
Price Five Cents
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Aggies Vote 4 No’ to Coed Question
Editorship Filing
To Close March 1
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Deadline for applying for the top
editorships of the six student pub
lications for 1958-59 is 5 p.m.,
March 1, according to Ross Strader,
' director of Student Publications.
Final appointments of the posi
tions will be made by the Student
Publications Board on March 4 and
April 1.
Battalion and Aggieland editors
are appointed after certification of
eligibility and recommendation by
the director of Student Publica
tions.
Editors of the four magazines—
Agriculturist, Commentator, Engi
neer, and Southwestern Veterina
rian—are appointed the same way,
but must have the concurrence of
the student council of the school
served by the publication.
Minimum requirements are:
• One year’s experience on the
staff of a student publication and
proved capable to carry on the
work.
• Junior or senior classifica
tion.
• Free of academic probation
or disciplinary action.
• Grade-point ratio of at least
1.5 through the semester preceding
time of appointment.
Interested students are asked to
Fish Golfer’s
Eligibility Not
Certain Yet
Eligibility of Billy Martin-
dale, A&M freshman golfer
who transferred at mid—term
from Southern Methodist Un
iversity was still being chal
lenged yesterday by SMU Athletic
Director Matty Bell.
Bell implied that A&M lured
Martindale away from SMU.
“It is not right for that kind of
stuff to go on and I’m not going
to have any part of it,” he stated.
“It is a situation that I know will
pot come up involving SMU en
ticing a boy from another campus.
We just don’t do that.”
Although he has refused to offi
cially release Martindale from his
commitment to SMU. Bell has not
indicated what he considered the
commitment to be since Martin
dale did not sign a letter of intent
or compete as a representative of
SMU.
The eligibility chart of the
Southwest Conference constitution
and by-laws shows that a senior
college transfer who has not par
ticipated in sports is allowed six
years to complete participation af
ter his first college registration
and is allowed three seasons of
varsity competition on the confer
ence.
The chart, however, does not in
dicate that a release is required
from one SWC school to another
and no provision is made for such
a release in the by-laws.
Dr. C. H. Groneman, chairman
of A&M’s athletic council, said
yesterday, “we are not in a posi
tion to make any statement con
cerning the case until we have all
the facts.”
Groneman said the only informa
tion he has received concerning
the protest has been from public
ity given the case in Dallas. He
added, “We, as yet, have not re
ceived any protest from SMU.”
Weather Today
College Station residents can
look for more cloudy, rainy and
snowy weather today with a low
of 25 degrees expected tonight.
A total of .08 inch of precipita
tion, in the form of snow, fell dur
ing the night. A low temperature
reading of 27 degrees was recorded
at 8 this morning. Yesterday’s high
was 42 degrees at 3 p. m.
file written applications which may
be picked up at the Office of Stu
dent Publications, Room 4, YMCA
building.
Applications should include qual
ifications, past ejfperience and an
indication of how the experience
as an editor is expected to benefit
the student in his chosen field.
Present editors of the publica
tions are on the lookout for fresh
men who will get their experience
and training early so that they can
qualify with a full year of experi
ence before their junior or senior
year.
Journalism courses are helpful
but they are not a prerequisite; a
good grounding in English plus na
tive ability can be sufficient quali
fication. An early start in student
publications work should make lat
er English and Journalism courses
more meaningful.
The A&M student publications
program offers many opportunities
for writers, editors, circulation men
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and advertising salesmen. Many
of the staff members who hold
such positions receive at least nom
inal pay.
$200 Hi-Fi Set
Stolen From Car
An estimated $200 worth of In
fidelity equipment was taken from
a car parked in the Navasota
parking lot sometime last week
end and no clues have turned up
to locate the stolen property as
yet, according to Fred Hickman,
Campus Security Chief.
Owner of the car is Raleigh Dew,
sophomore from Tyler. He said
in addition to the sound system,
about 15 or 20 LP albums and sev
eral items of clothing including a
tuxedo were taken.
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—Battalion Staff Photo
Macbeth Is Dead!
Macduff portrayed by Jim Best poses with Don Friedrich who plays Lennox in the
the bloody sword with which he killed Mac- Shakespearean drama which is being pre-
beth whose head is suspended from a pole sented in Guion Hall nightly,
held by soldiers. Standing at the right is
March
of Dimes Tally
Shows Over $8,000
Latest figures on the 1958 March
of Dimes, compiled last Saturday,
show $8,024.89 collected in Brazos
County, with some money still not
in, Mrs. Lucille Foster, chairman
of the county chapter of the Na
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, said yesterday.
Mrs. Foster estimated that about
$200 remained out in money con
tainers, which should be turned in
by the end of this week. About
$12,000 was collected by the drive
last year.
Salk vaccine shots were probably
Chaplains, Jesuit
Named to RE List
Two chaplains and a Jesuit
Father are included among the
18 religious leaders who will take
part in the 16th annual Religious
Emphasis Week on the campus Feb.
16-21.
Lt. Col. Vernon O. Rogers, Staff
Chaplain, Headquarters Air Force
ROTC, Montgomery, Ala., will lead
the discussions for Dorm 15 and
half of Dorm 17.
Chaplain Rogers entered the
Chaplaincy in 1942 and became a
regular Air Force officer in 1947.
During the war he served overseas.
He has held various staff chaplain
assignments both in this country
and in Germany.
Before entering the service,
Chaplain Rogers was pastor of the
Evangelical United Brethren
Church in Shenandoah, Va.
Rogers
Quick
He received his Bachelor of Arts
degree from Lebanon Valley Col
lege, Annville, Pa., and his Bachelor
of Divinity degree from United
Technological, Seminary, Dayton, O.
Chaplain Rogers will live in
Dorm 15.
Living in Dorm 11 and conduct
ing the forums and discussion
groups for that dorm will be Maj.
John O. Quick, chaplain, Brooke
Army Hospital, San Antonio.
A graduate of East Texas State
College, Chaplain Quick has been
an ordained minister since 1928.
He held pastorates in Texas and
Oklahoma prior to entering the ser
vice in 1942. He served in the
Central Pacific with the Army Air
Force during the war and was dis
charged in 1945. After being re
called in 1950, he has seen duty in
Korea, Germany and the United
States.
Rev. John L. Hein, S. J., of the
Jesuit Fathers, Albuquerque, N. M.,
will hold mass in the St. Mary’s
Chapel each morning during RE
week at 6:15 and services and in
struction each evening at 7:15. He
will also hold an open forum for
married students Tuesday after
services and a forum for unmarried
students after Wednesday services.
Father Hein
did undergrad
uate work at St.
Charles College
in Grand Coteau,
La., and did grad
uate work at
Spring Hill col
lege, Spi'ing Hill,
Ala., St. Mary’s
College, St.
Mary’s Kan.; and
Pass Christian, Miss.
a contributing factor to the lower
contribution, Mrs. Foster stated.
“Most people think that with the
coming of the vaccine, the polio
threat is over,” she said, “But it
isn’t. It came too late for many.”
No cases of polio were reported
goal for the drive was $1,800. They
went well over this figure, however,
collecting $2,234.37.
Another important factor toward
the drive’s success cited by Mrs.
Foster was “coffee day”, when all
Bryan and College Station cafes
in Brazos county in 1957, but Mrs. turned their total coffee sales re-
Foster said there were still many
bills for past cases, surgery,
dutches, braces, therapy and other
rehabilitation needed for victims of
the paralysis.
The Brazos County March of
Dimes had no specific goal this
year, Mrs. Foster explained, stat
ing that she was very happy with
the drive’s results.
She praised especially the “Teens
for Polio”, an organization of Bry
an and College Station teenagers
to collect money for the fund. Their
English Tests Set
For Foreign Ags
Hein
He taught high school at St.
John’s in Shreveport, La., and
served as secretary-treasurer of
Jesuit High School in Dallas. .
At present Father Hein, a mem
ber of the Jesuit order, is in charge
of the Christian Family Movement
in Albuquerque. During the past
five years he has been actively
engaged in retreat work throughout
the South.
He will have accommodations in
the Memorial Student Center.
Foreign and Puerto Rican stu
dents are required to fill out ques
tionnaires and take English pro
ficiency tests Thursday and Satur
day in order to allow the Foreign
Student Committee to determine
where it is lacking in its English
program.
The FSC recently set up a sub-
committtee to study the problem
of lack of English proficiency
among foreign .students. The sub
committee is composed of Richard
H. Ballinger of the English de
partment, S. O. Navarro of the
Electrical Engineering department,
and I. I. Peters of the Dairy Science
department.
“The program may serve to aid
students and will give us informa
tion to see whether the college
needs to do more to help than they
are doing at the present time,” said
Ballinger. “It is mainly for the
purpose of gathering information.”
Questionaires will be filled out by
all foreign and Puerto Rican stu
dents from 4 to 5 p. m. Thursday.
From 5 to 6 p. m. Thursday read
ing tests wil be administered to
these students who have entered
the college since June 1, 1957.
Saturday from 10 to 11 a. m.,
aural comprehensive test will be
given to students who first entered
the college after June 1, 1957.
From 11 to 12 a. m. Saturday,
writing tests will be given to all
foreign students and Puerto Rican
students who have entered since
June 1 4 1957.
The Basic Division is assisting in
the program. All meetings will be
in Room 328, Physics Bldg.
ceipts for the day over to the
March of Dimes.
“Many of the envelopes we
mailed out for contributions have
not been returned, and we are still
hoping for more of them to come
in,” she said.
The County polio organization’s
chief goal during the next year,
will be getting all Brazos County
school children vaccinated 100 per
cent. There are approximately 865
school children in the county who
have not yet been vaccinated, the
county chairman reported.
The board will meet in the Bry
an City Hall at 7:30 p. m., Feb. 18,
to discuss the drive. Officers for
next year will also be elected at
the meeting, Mrs. Foster said.
Snow Falls
In Spasms
At Aggieland
Light snow fell spasmodically
late last evening, then turned into
a steady downpour of the white
stuff around midnight.
The first flurries at Aggieland
were saturated with moisture, but
later ones turned into soft snow.
However, the weather was not cold
enough to allow the snow to re
main on the ground.
In surrounding areas, the snow
fall was hard enough to make driv
ing hazardous. One report said
bridges at Cameron were frozen
over.
Here at Aggieland, the students
welcomed the snow and the new
appearance it gave to the campus.
Parked cars and objects lying
around were covered with snow.
Saturday Last Day
To Drop Courses
Saturday will be the last day
for dropping courses for the
spring semester without a fail
ing grade.
A grade of WP will be re
corded for a course dropped
between now and Saturday,
but courses dropped after
Saturday will receive a grade
of WF.
Heavy Ballot Sees
2,478 Opposed
While turning out in record numbers yesterday, the
majority of the 3,716 students who answered the two
questions on the coeducation referendum said “no”.
In answer to the question, “Are you in favor of co-edu
cation at Texas A&M?” 1,051 were for and 2,478—or about
66 per cent of those voting—against.
Results on the query, “Would you be in favor of allowing"
wives of students and the wives and daughters of faculty and.
staff members to attend classes at A&M for course work—-
on a day student basis?”, showed 1,354 for and 2,061 against.
W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, of student activities, said he
thought the vote was the largest taken at A&M in recent
♦■years and probably in its his-
Lawy
er Getting
Evidence l or
Coed Hearing
Evidence is still being pre
pared for the coming court
hearing which will seek to ad
mit two married women to
A&M, but the trial will prob
ably not be held for another 30 or
40 days, John M. Barron, attorney
for the two plaintiffs, said yester
day.
The women in the case are Mrs.
Barbara Gilkey Tuttle, 20, and Mrs.
Lena Ann Bristol, 34. They were
refused admittance to the college
when they tried to enroll in Jan
uary.
Barron said two board of direc
tors members have been contacted
to appear as defendants in the
case. Defendants named when the
mandamus suit was filed Jan. 30
were Registrar H. L. Heaton, Pres
ident M. T. Harrington and the
A&M System Board of Directors.
Barron said the suit will be based
mainly on evidence that denial of
the women’s admittance is a vio
lation of Article 1, Section 9 of
the Texas Constitution. If neces
sary, he plans to present evidence
showing that refusal to admit the
women to A&M is a violation of
the equal protection and due pro
cess clauses of the 14th Amend
ment.
“My main plea,” said Barron,
“will be that it is a misconception
that the school is established only
for white males. The law implies
it is open to all.”
Witnesses are being contacted
and subpoenaed for the trial. Bar
ron said some evidence had been
obtained from the Commission of
Education in Austin.
The attorney predicted that while
preliminary preparation is taking
a long time, the trial itself will
last only a day or two.
tory.
Three voting machines set
up at the news stand near
Sbisa Dining Hall showed ma
jorities in favor of the second ques
tion. On the first question only
slight majorities were registered
against.
However, in the main voting in.
the Memorial Student Center, all
four machines showed strong ma
jorities against both questions.
The referendum wa,s called for in
a January tneeting of the Student
Senate by a vote of 17-1. They call
ed the referendum to test the ac-
cui’acy of a straw poll taken by a
journalism class which showed a
slight majority of those interviewed
favoring co-education.
John M. Barron, counsel for the
two Bryan women who are filing
suit for admittance to A&M, told
KBTX-TV last night, “I have re
spect for the feelings of both stu
dents and ex-students on co-educa
tion. However, my only interest at
this time is how the courts will
vote and not the will of those al
ready privileged to be .students.
“Personal legal rights are always
popular or unpopular, depending
on whether one is in or out.”
College to Observe
World Prayer Day
The College and System offices
will join with the College Station
Council of Church Women in
recognizing Friday, Feb. 21, as
“The World Day of Prayer,” Vice
President Earl Rudder has an
nounced.
“It is requested that we halt our
activities for a minute of silent
prayer as we unite with the people
throughout this country and over
10 countries around the world in
observation of this World Day of
Prayer,” Rudder said.
To signal this occasion, the col
lege whistle will blow at 10 a. m.
and again at one minute past 10
a. m. as a reminder.
—Battalion Staff Photo
Snow in Aggieland!
Taking advantage of the seldom-seen-in-Aggieland stuff
called snow, even the Battalion staff took off enough time
for a snowball fight. Preparing to launch an icy missile is
News Editor Fred Menrer.