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Number 87: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1958
Price Five Cents
CS Chest Drive
Misses Goal By
Narrow Margin
Recent tallies of the 1957-58
College Station Community
Chest Drive showed it had at
tained 90 percent of its goal.
Final total collections were
$13,455. The goal was $14,950.
Accordingly, the amount budgeted
to each of .the 15 organizations
sharing the chest was 90 percent
of the pre-drive allocation.
After receiving complaints about
some organizations included under
the budget, the Community Chest
Committee mailed a questionnaire
to College Station citizens asking
which organizations on this year’s
budget they would prefer left off
future drives, and which new ones
they would like added to the list.
Bob Shrode, secretary of the
drive, said out of the 1900 ques-
tionnaired mailed, only 280 have
been returned. He blamed the
short return on the Christmas sea
son during which they were mailed.
“I think many of them probably
got mixed up in Christmas mail and
were forgotten, but we’d still like
to get them,” he said, urging all
who had not returned the ques
tionnaire to do so as soon as pos
sible.
‘‘Only through a complete return
of the survey can we be fairly sure
of what citizens want.”
He said there were plenty of the
questionnaires available at the city
office if anyone wishing to send
one in had not received one. The
deadline for returning the question
sheets is Feb. 25, when Shrode will
begin summarizing the results.
The community chest is set up
fe> provide funds for all worthwhile
groups needing donations from the
community and is designed to make
possible the donation of the entire
year’s charity contributions at one
time, thus eliminating numerous
solicitations throughout the year.
Organisations who received a
share of 1 the 1957-58 Community
Chest and the amount they receiv
ed are as follows:
College Station
Local Chest Charity Fund $ 900
Chest Charity Fund
College Station
Community House Inc..... $
College Station
Youth Facilities
HmHVH.ciiitues Committee.
College Station YMCA..: $
College Station Recreation Council..?
Brazes CountJ’ Crippled
ter....
und..
900
450
450
900
075
270
Development Counseling Service..? 540
Salvation Army 1 $ 900
United Service Organization ? 225
Bryan-College Station
Girl Scout Area Council ?2,700
Boy Scouts of America...... ...?2,025
Gonzales
Warm Springs Foundation ? 270
American Red Cross $1,800
Texas United Defense Fund $. 225
-Battalion Staff Photo
f Victory Kiss
Lyndell Walker, 18-year old freshman at Kilgore Junior
College, accepts a kiss from Gus Kunath, chairman of the
selection committee, after she was named sweetheart of the
Consolidated Band Saturday night. Miss Walker was es
corted by Caldwell (Butch) Ray.
Lyndell Wa Iker
Band Picks Coed
As Sweetheart
By JOE BUSER
The Consolidated Aggie Bands
held their annual dance in the
Memorial Student Center Satur
day night, and it wus a blast—into
outer space.
Highlight of the dance was the
selection of the band sweetheart
for 1958. Appropriate enough, she
was the date of a member of that
class, Caldwell (Butch) Ray. The
young lady selected from the five
finalists was Miss Lyndell Walker,
an 18 year old freshman business
major at Kilgore Junior College.
All of the finalists received a
stuffed dog, delivered in muttnik
fashion by a space ship lowered
from the ceiling.
Pro-Coed Petition
Destined for Study
A petition signed by 190 Bryan
residents may be presented to the
Texas Commission on Higher Edu
cation April 14, along with a recom
mendation that they study the
question of co-education at A&M.
Dr. Ralph Green, director of the
commission, will make the recom
mendation when he presents the
petition which has been sent to
him.
There has been no indication of
what Green’s suggestion will be.
Banquet to Honor
‘Engineer of Year’
Brazos County’s “Engineer of
the Year” will be honored at a
banquet sponsored by the county’s
chapter of the Texas Society of
Professional Engineers Thursday
night at 7:30.
The fete will be held at the
Briarcrest Country Club in Bryan.
A&M engineering students and
their wives are especially invited
to attend.
The Engineer of the Year will
be named during the festivities, ac
cording to Walter J. Ware, secre
tary-treasurer of the chapter.
Engineers attending the banquet
will have an opportunity of meet
ing active engineers in various
branches of their profession and
learn more about their future jobs.
Tickets are $2.50 each.
And whatever the commission’s
judgment is on the question, it
cannot be forced upon the A&M
Board of Directors, who hold the
power to govern admission. How
ever, they can by law send a report
to the governor and legislature on
means of improving effectiveness
and efficiency of the state’s insti
tutions.
According to a story in the Dal
las Morning News, the Texas Gar
den Clubs, Inc. have been urging
the commission to allow women to
attend A&M to take a degree simi
lar to landscape architecture.
Rue Pinalle Opens
Fish Ball Weekend
An added attraction for Fish
Ball weekend will be Cafe Rue Pi
nalle on Friday, Feb. 28, from 9-
12 p.m. in the Memorial Student
Center ping pong area.
Rue Pinalle will feature a floor
show in addition to dancing.
Weather Today
College Station forecast calls for
cloudy skies and some light rain
today and colder tonight. The high
is expected to be 50 degrees, with a
low of 33 degrees tonight.
Yesterday’s high was 46 degrees
at 1 p. m. This morning at 5, it
dropped to a low of 41 degrees.
Developing a theme from the
space age, the band decorated the
Ballroom of the MSC with paper
stars, hung from a sky of crepe
paper. Several rockets and alumi
num foil-covered space ships were
used to give an extra touch of the
space age.
Music for the dance was furnish
ed by the intercontinental segment
of the Aggieland Orchestra, under
the direction of Charlie Voelter.
Classical Jazz Duo
Play Here Monday
A new concept in modern music,
“classical jazz,” will be rendei’ed
by an increasingly popular string
instrument duet, the Mitchell-Ruff
Duo in the Memorial Student Cen
ter Ballroom Monday at 8 p. m.
Dwike Mitchell and Willie Ruff,
who first gained notice in 1955
when they appeared together for
the first time in engagements in
Las Vegas night spots and at the
Embers in New York City, will
give the third MSC Recital Series
of the year.
Since 1955 they have made con
cert tours, recordings, and appear
ances in such New York jazz cen
ters as Birdland and the Composer.
The pair have appeared several
times on the Today television show
and other programs. They have
made a number of recordings and
now have a five-year contract with
Columbia Records.
AndrewGiven High
Engineering Post
Dr. Edward H. Andrew Jr., as
sociate professor of electrical engi
neering has been named assistant
to the director of the Texas Engi
neering Experiment Station.
The announcement was made by
Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr., vice-
president for engineering and di
rector of the station.
Dr. Andrew received his bachelor
of science degree from A&M in
1947 and has served on the college
faculty since that time. He re
ceived an S.M. degree from Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology
in 1950 and the Ph.D. degree from
A&M in 1954. He is a registered
professional engineer in Texas.
Little Rock School
Expels Negro Girl
Unemployment
Highest Since
1949 in Area
Unemployment in Bryan
and College Station is the
highest it has been since 1949
and no improvements are in
sight for the next 69 to 90
days, according to James H. Berry,
area manager of the Bryan-CS La
bor Market of the Texas Employ
ment Commission.
Claimants for unemployment
compensation jumped from 386 last
month to 464 in February, which
also shows an increase of 288 from
the same period a year ago.
Figures released by Berry show
13,000 holding nonfarm jobs in the
area, a drop of some 570 during
January. Compared to last year
this figure is 477 below the Feb. 1,
1957, estimate.
Jobseekers registered with the
Bryan office increased to 905 in
February from last month’s 649.
Dui’ing January the office placed
201 persons in nonfarm jobs and
29 into farm work.
Berry said continued adverse
weather conditions have been detri
mental to both farm and nonfai’m
employment. Declines in govern
ment establishments, retail trade
and construction industries account
ed for a large percentage of the de
crease in unemployment.
SPB Turns Down
Bid to Oust Tindel
The Student Publications Board
Friday voted unanimously not to
accept a recommendation from the
Student Senate asking for the
resignation of Battalion Editor Joe
Tindel.
They turned down the Senate’s
request, which was presented to
them Feb. 7, because of insufficient
grounds.
In the IMs hour open meeting,
the board passed this motion:
“The Board . . . has considered
the criticisms and complaints in
the communications from the Stu
dent Senate . . . and does not find
that Mr. Tindel is guilty of violat
ing the trust bestowed upon him
and further finds that there are
not sufficient grounds for censur
ing him or requesting his resigna
tion. . . ”
Senators had charged Tindel
with acting “in bad faith,” and
violating articles of the Code of
Newspaper Ethics of the Ameri
can Society of Newspaper Editoi’s
on sincerity, truthfulness, accuracy
and impartiality.
Deadline Extended
On Fish Ball Needs
Deadline for turning in pictures
for fish Sweetheart nominees and
purchasing tickets for the fish
Ball has been extended until 5 p.
m. tomorrow, according to class
president Charles C. Murphy.
The pictures must be tui’ned into
the Student Activities office, sec
ond floor of the YMCA. Tickets
may be purchased either at Stu
dent Activities or from Class of
’61 officers.
Tickets for the dance to be held
March 1 in Sbisa Dining Hall are
$2, stag or drag.
The Aggieland Orchestra will
provide music for the event, the l
annual social highlight for the
freshman class.
Murphy added that seniors at
tending the dance must have a
ticket and a date in order to be
admitted.
Action Follows
Student Outbursts
LITTLE ROCK, LB)—The Little Rock School Board de
cided last night to expel Minniejean Brown from integrated
Central High School for the remainder of this term.
The move was recommended by school Supt. Virgil T.
Blossom.
W. B. Brown, father of the 16-year-old Negro girl,
labelled the decision as “very unfair.”
“It sounded to me like Mr. Blossom was expelling Min-
niejean for her own safety,” Brown said. “He didn’t say it in
those words, but that’s the way we took it.”
Mrs. Brown said: “I am shocked at the action of the
board. I shall consult my attorneys immediately and be
'♦'governed by their advice.”
The Negro girl claims she
has been a main target of
segregationist students dur
ing her five months at the
school. She had been suspended in
incidents involving Minniejean.
Blossom said the girl cannot at
tend any school, white or Negro,
in the Little Rock district for the
rest of this year.
Mrs. L. C. Bates, Arkansas
president of the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People, had no immediate
comment.
But another NAACP official,
who declined to be identified, in
dicated Minniejean’s case would
be carried to the courts.
The Negro girl had contended
that the real reason for her sus
pension was because she called a
white girl who was harrassing her
“white trash.”
School authorities have not dis
closed official reason for Minnie
jean’s recent two-week suspension
which followed the incident with
the white gill.
Hours before the board met in
closed session, Blossom disclosed
three white students had been sus
pended. He identified them as
Howard Cooper, Billy Ferguson
and Sammie Dean Parker.
The Ferguson boy reportedly
was suspended for pushing a Ne
gro girl, Gloria Ray, down a flight
of stairs.
Cooper was suspended for wear
ing a printed card with the words:
“One down, eight to go.”
The reference obviously was to
Minniejean Brown. There are eight
Negroes remaining at Central.
Sammie Dean Parker was sus
pended for passing out the bill
fold-type cards. She is one of the
segregationist students who re
cently told newsmen she had a
change of heart and would not ac
tively try to stop integration.
All the whites drew automatic
three-day suspensions. Ther cases
normally are decided after Blos
som confers with parents during
the automatic suspension period.
Pfeuffer To Head
SCONA Next Year
Robert T. Pfeuffer, junior his-
toi’y major from New Braunfels,
was named chairman of the fourth
annual Student Conference on Na
tional Affairs, SCONA IV, by the
Memorial Student Center Council
last night.
Pfeuffer will replace Jack Nel
son, SCONA III chairman.
Nelson will continue as chair
man until the last of April as an
adviser and aid to Pfeuffer.
The MSC Council also considered
Jay Bisbey, junior mechanical
engineering major from Houston
and Ronald D. Stewart, junior
engineering major from New Lon
don for the post.
Four charges were presented to
the board. Three were rejected on
insufficient grounds and the fourth
because of previous action on it.
Civilians May File
For Council Posts
Students wishing to run for
Civilian Student Council positions
may begin filing tomorrow in the
office of their doi’m counselor.
Freshman and junior class rep
resentatives and Project House
Representatives will be elected
Feb. 25.
Filing blanks can be obtained in
dorm counselor offices. Applica
tions must be filled out in full and
returned to that office. To be elegi-
ble for one of the positions, an
overall grade point ratio of 1.25 is
required.
Capacity Crowd
Hears Meredith
Open RE Week
Dr. Ronald R. Meredith
opened the 16th Annual Re
ligious Emphasis Week yes
terday by telling a near-capa
city Guion Hall crowd: “A
man’s life is determined by the
way in which he feeds his God-
given hunger.”
This morning he spoke on “Go
ing His Way,” telling his audience,
“Truth is the way in which God
operates His world and when we
live in harmony with it life is
good.”
President M. T. Harrington in
troduced Dr. Meredith and 17
other religious leaders here for
RE Week after a short song ser
vice and prayer.
Dr. Meredith, convocation speak
er, is pastor of the First Metho
dist Church in Wichita, Kansas.
“Man has three hungers—per
sonal understanding, fellowship,
and God; man is crucifying himself
regretting yesterday and fearing
tomorrow,” Dr. Meredith told his
audience.
He added, “We have eyes and
light with which to see, lungs
and air to breathe, stomachs and
a world where food can be raised.
Qod has made us to hunger for
Himself and offers His love in
answer to our need for Him.”
Forums and discussion groups
started in college dormitories last
night and will continue all during
RE Week.
Stained Glass Art
Featured By MSC
In keeping with the focus on re
ligion during Religious Emphasis
Week, the Memorial Student Cen
ter is now featuring a colorful dis
play of stained glass.
The display, portraying great
events in the Jewish and Christian
religions, is set up in big wooden
frames and lighted from inside the
frames to give a window effect.
Manufactured by the Blenko Co.
of San Antonio and distributed by
the Johnson Sales Co. of San An
tonio, the display has been shown
in major cities throughout the
country. Some of the windows were
designed by Arco Studios.
The windows are made up of
pieces of glass of various sizes
and shapes fused together by lead.
They will be displayed here un
til next Monday, when they will
be sent to Chicago for display.
—Editorial Cartoon
Stained Glass Exhibit
David L. Darmenbaum admires the morial Student Center. The exhibit is corn-
stained glass exhibit currently in the Me- mensurate with Religious Emphasis Week.