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RE Speaker
Praises Youth
In Convocation
Today’s youth is really a
religious group, Dr. Ronald
Meredith told his audience
yesterday morning in Guion
Hall during the second Relig
ious Emphasis Week service.
Today Dr. Meredith addressed the
assembly on “Only Half of Me
Wants to Be Good” in the third RE
Week convocation service.
In reference to youth he said
yesterday that today’s younger
generation feel there is a truth be
hind everything and is constantly
searching for it.
“Why don’t we catch that kind
of religion which makes life a
joy?” he asked the group.
He pointed out that people
shouldn’t think of religion as being
something that makes life solemn
and humorless. Religion should
make life a joy, he said.
Speaking on education, Dr. Mere
dith asserted that truth is based
on the unchallenged laws of the un
iverse—God’s laws.
“Education is only the knowl
edge of God’s laws,” the Wichita
Kan., minister pointed out.
“The only person who can be
educated is one who admits he is
uneducated,” he said.
Services tomorrow and Friday
will be at 9 a.m. in Guion Hall.
W. J. Wimpee
Speaks To CS
Kiwanis Club
The highest achievement a
man can reach is learning to
love himself for God’s sake,
Dr. W. J. Wimpee, director of
the Baptist Student Union at
Baylor University, told College
Station Kiwanians yesterday.
In his talk titled “The Relevance
of Our Faith”, the Rev. Wimpee
said today selfishness, egotism and
pride are probably the greatest
problems of man.
“We never escape these prob
lems completely,” he said. “Seeing
oneself is the answer, but it is
very hard for us to learn to know
our own limitations, be selective
in our work and do whatever work
we do to the very best of our
ability for God’s sake.”
A good way to begin thinking
about oneself is to ask the ques
tion, “What does our faith say to
ns in our everyday human prob
lems,” he stated.
“It is not the work we do; but
how we do it that determines what
we really are,” he added.
The Rev. Wimpee, who is a
guidance counselor for Hart and
Bizzell Halls during Religious
Emphasis Week, said that too
often people are considered
“things” instead of persons.
“People should have the rela
tion toward one another of shar
ing, not of using each other as
‘stepping stones’ for personal
gain,” he said. “Every person, no
matter what their race, color or
creed is a living soul, not an in-
amimate object.”
The Rev. Wimpee said that this
applies to all walks of life, whether
the person is a pastor, religion
teacher, chemistry professor or
any other profession.
“It does not matter what our
occupation, it must be done com
pletely for God to attain complete
satisfaction,” he stated.
“A chemistry prof may be doing
a greater work for God than the
pastor of a church if that is the
work God has chosen for him and
he is doing it to the best of his
ability.”
Along with the Rev. Wimpee,
several other RE Week leaders
were guests of the Kiwanis Club
yesterday at their luncheon meet
ing in the Memorial Student Cen
ter.
CS Police Report
College Station Police reports
for the month of January show 7
accidents investigated, 78 parking
tickets issued, 36 moving traffic
violations and 4 miscellaneous ar
rests.
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1958
Price Five Cents
Traffic Circle Woe
Gets State Study
Redstone Arsenal
Seeking Employees
Applications from qualified sci
entists and engineers for employ
ment at the Redstone Arsenal and
Army Ballistic Missile Agency at
Huntsville, Ala., are now open,
the U.S. Civil Service Commission
announced today.
There is an immediate and urg
ent demand for chemists, engin
eers, electronic scientists, mathe
maticians, metallurgists and phys
icists. Salaries range from $4,480
to $12,690 a year.
Redstone is the control center
of all activities in the Army’s
guided missile and pocket weap
ons fields. Employment in these
positions provides opportunity to
serve with top scientists, engin
eers, and military technicians in
vital and challenging work essen
tial to national defense.
Gene Sutphen
Sutphen To MC
Photo Convention
Gene Sutphen, well known owner
of Aggieland Studio, will be the
featured speaker and master of
ceremonies at the 31st annual con
vention of the Southwestern Pho
tographers Assn., March 1-4, at
the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth.
The SWPA is an organization
made up of professional photo
graphers frpm Oklahoma, Texas,
Arkansas, Louisiana and New
Mexico. Only the most outstand
ing craftsmen in the varied fields
of photography from all over the
nation are invited to appear on
the program platform.
Sutphen, 38, has been in pro
fessional photography since 1942.
He came to College Station in 1950
as a member of the Photography
and Visual Arts Laboratory.
In 1952 Sutphen began work
with the Aggieland Studio and he
took over ownership of the studio
in 1956.
Sutphen has won a number of
awards for his outstanding work.
One of his portraits was chosen
the best portrait of the year in
1955 by the Texas Photographers
Assn. In 1954, 1956 and 1957 he
received blue ribbons for having
one of the top 20 pictures in Tex
as. In addition, he has received
21 merits toward recognition as
a master photographer by the
Professional Photographers of Am-
ei’ica. A merit is awarded for
the outstanding photograph at a
convention.
Seeking to find a way to im
prove the flow of traffic around
the oft-congested traffic circle,
north of the college near College
View, the State Highway Depart
ment made a special survey of
traffic using the circle daily.
A count was taken of the num
ber of cars entering the intersec
tion each hour, and which made
right and left turns into and off
the circle, according to C. B.
Thames, District 17 engineer for
the Highway Department.
In addition, the count revealed
the peak periods of traffic flow
during the day, said Thames.
Statistics obtained from the
count, which ended yesterday, will
be sent to the State Highway De
partment in Austin for evaluation
and determination of a solution to
the problem, Thames explained.
It will be another week before
tabulation of the count will be
completed and suggestions for im
provement, said Thames.
Math Class
At CHS Makes
College Easier
A new voluntary mathema
tics class designed to provide
a transition from high school
to college math was recently
opened at Consolidated High
School by A. R. Orr, CHS math
teacher.
Orr said the course is designed
to serve three purposes: (1) Cre
ate more interest in mathematics,
(2) Fill the gap from high school
to college math and (3) Serve the
better math students by giving
them more advanced math.
“Today many high school stu
dents are not prepared to meet the
demands of a college mathematics
course,” Orr stated. “I believe
that classes such as this will serve
to prepare them.”
The course is completely volun
tary, meeting once a week and
most of the work is done outside
class. It is being taught this se
mester for the first time at CHS.
Ten students are enrolled in the
course. Orr said as far as he knew,
it was the first class of its kind to
be taught in this area.
The course covers the subjects
of binominal theorems, determin
ants, proportion, ratio and varia
tion, progressions, limits and in
finity, permutations and combina
tions, series, statistics — mode,
mean and median logs and loga
rithms and introduction to calcu
lus.
Weather Today
Cloudy skies and light rain, with
a high of 48 degrees and a low of
35, are forecast for the local area
today.
Yesterday’s high was 49 degrees
at 1 p. m. The low of 39 degrees
came at 1 a. m.
Traffic flow around the circle
has been congested primarily at
four times each day—at 8 a.m.,
12 noon, 1 p.m., and 5 p.na.—but
has been normal at all other times,
said Campus Security Chief Fred
Hickman.
Only two minor accidents at the
circle have been reported to Col
lege Station police in the past two
months, according to College Sta
tion City Manager Ran Boswell.
“There is no specific state law
on right-of-way at traffic circles,”
Hickman pointed out, “but there
would be little congestion around
the circle if all motorists would
stay right next to the circle while
driving around it.”
“Congestion is caused,” Hickman
went on, “when drivers drive on
the outside of the circle instead
of next to it. This keeps other
drivers from turning off the circle
and entering it.”
Planning Begun
For ’58 Y Camp
Planning for the 1958 YMCA
Freshman Camp began yesterday
afternoon as members of the carap
committees met to begin pooling
ideas for a written purpose of the
camp.
The camp will be held the three
days preceding freshman registra
tion for the .1958 fall semester. It
will be the fifth annual camp held
by the YMCA to give enrolling
freshmen a chance to acquaint
themselves with their life at A&M.
When the written purpose is
drafted, the committees will break
down into working groups to ar
range details of the camp.
Two separate camps will be held
this year due to growth and
popularity of the program. Bill
Shenkir is program chairman for
the camp at Ft. Parker, north of
Mexia, and Dick McGlaun is chair
man of the program committee
for the camp at Bastrop.
Chairmen of the other commit
tees are Joe Spurlock, finance, and
Joe Middleton, publicity.
Counselors for the 1958 camps
are David Bagley, Don Chase, Joe
Gooden, Bill Libby, Rush McGinty
and David Wallace.
Governor Declares
Public School Week
March 3-7 has been proclaimed
Public Schools Week in Texas by
Gov. Price Daniel.
The week is a special time set
aside each year to place increased
emphasis on our public schools.
In making the proclamation Dan
iel encourages parent visitation
and urges citizens to take an ac
tive interest in the school system
and to cooperate with their school
boards, superintendents, principals
and teachers in an effort to make
Texas public schools the finest in
the nation.
United Nations
T osses T unisian
Dispute To U.S.
Britain Helping
ITS Gathers
Talent From
Nine Colleges
Nine colleges and four states
will be represented in the seventh
annual Intercollegiate Talent Show
March 14 in G. Rollie White Col
iseum.
The ten acts for the show were
picked by the Music Committee of
the Memorial Student Center this
week after auditioning some 150
acts at 15 colleges and universities
in Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma
and Louisiana during the last four
months.
Rice, Southern Methodist Uni
versity, Louisiana State University,
Southwestern Louisiana Institute,
fhe University of Texas, Oklaho
ma State University, the Univers
ity of Oklahoma, and A&M will
each have representatives among
the 10 acts of the show. LSU
will have two acts.
The Kilgore College Rangerettes
will be featured in addition to the
I’egular acts. A top area disc
jockey will be master of ceremon
ies for the show which will be
held the weekend of the Combat
and Military Balls.
Dave Woodard, winner of the
Aggie Talent Show, will be unable
to represent A&M in the ITS.
Woodard will be participating in
the Southwestern Conference
Swimming Meet at Dallas during
the ITS.
John Warner, ’58, second place
winner in the ATS, will represent
A&M. Warner is a pianist.
Russell Gildeo and his Dixieland
Combo will be SLI’s representa
tives. The Combo is a six-piece
jazz combo.
One of LSU’s two representa
tives will be Janelle Ducate, a solo
vocalist who was selected “Most
Talented Freshman Girl” earlier
this year. Ray McCullough, mod
ern jazz dancer, will be the other
act from LSU.
SMU will send a duet, Tom
Fisher and Mary Martha Gibson.
Jerry Scarbrough, Texas Uni
versity freshman, is a guitarist
and ballad singer.
A ventriloquist, James Wallis,
and his assistant, Wally, repre
sent Oklahoma.
OSU will send a quartet, The
Downbeats.
Rounding out the acts will be
John Tolleson and The Bunch, a
rock ’n’ roll combo, from Arkan
sas.
Smoke Rope
A void Cancer,
Seaman Says
CARDIFF, Wales—bP)—Twice a
week Hassan Abdullah Burro walk
ed into a dockside shop here and
bought a brand new 54-foot length
of closeline.
The proprietor, finally over
whelmed by duriosity, called in the
constabulary. One policeman de
cided the direct approach was best
and asked Burro what he did with
all the rope.
“That’s easy,” said Burro, a lit
tle surprised, “I smoke it.”
And the 64-year-old seaman from
Aden, now working at a landlub
ber’s job, took the cop home and
displayed his bubble pipe, one of
those things that draw smoke
through water.
“I smoke about 15 feet a day,”
Burro said, “and don’t get cancer.”
Mediate Problem
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., GT>)—The U. N. Security
Council yesterday tossed the explosive Tunisian-French dis
pute into the hands of mediators. The action came after the
United States and Britain declared they had affirmative
proposals for a peaceful solution.
Representatives of the two Western powers, whose good
offices have been accepted by France and Tunisia, did not
spell out what they had in mind. But there was speculation
their efforts would be extended to setting up machinery
which could be used in an attempt to resolve the broad issue
of the French-Algerian conflict, now in its fourth year.
U. S. Ambassador James J. Wadsworth told the council
•♦■his country is gratified by
French-Tunisian acceptance of
the U. S.-British offer to aid
the two countries in settling
outstanding problems between
them.
He added that the United
States hopes to be able to of
fer affirmative suggestions to ad
vance the objective of a peaceful
and equitable solution of these
problems.
In Paris the French government
proposed a “no man’s land” be
set up on the Algerian side of the
frontier with Tunisia to prevent
border incidents. The French sug
gested also that the United States
and Britain consider formation of
a French-Tunisian border watch-
Army ROTC
Cuts Number Of
2-Year Tours
Col. Delmar P. Anderson,
Professor of Military Science
and Tactics, yesterday veri
fied a release from the Ameri
can Council of Education say
ing two-year Army ROTC com
missions had been reduced in num
ber from 8,525 to 6,825 for the sec
ond half of 1958.
The 1700 ROTC graduates af
fected will be given six months
active duty training instead.
Col. Anderson was unable to say
definitely how the ruling would af
fect A&M cadets graduating in
May because he had not received
any orders or schedules. He felt
sure, however, that more than half
of them will get the six month
tour in place of the two year ex
tended active duty.
Recent Department of the Army
personnel reduction action, based
on Department of Defence man
power reduction directives, are re
sponsible for the cut in two-year
terms of duty.
In meeting the new quotas for
each branch, maximum possible
consideration will be given to lihe
preference of each individual. How
ever, officers who completed Army
ROTC flight training and indiv
iduals with critical academic back
grounds who were selected for ac
tive duty will not be considered
for the six months program.
dog commission.
System Sponsors
Safety Meeting
Problems in safety on college
and university campuses and safe
ty responsibilities of administra
tors will be stressed during the
College and University Safety Con
ference Feb. 19-20.
Purpose of the conference, co
sponsored by the A&M System
Accident Prevention Committee
and the Texas Safety Association,
Inc., is to encourage safety activi
ties that will meet the needs of stu
dents and staff members in traffic
safety and safety in places of
work, study and living.
About 35 educational leaders
from throughout the state are at
tending the conference being held
in the Memorial Student Center.
Setting Up A Problem
Mrs. Carolyn Boswell, a technician at the Computer Center,
receives instructions from Dr. Silvio O. Navarro on setting
up a problem in the IBM-650 digital computer. Dr. Navarro
has invented a “shorthand” for computing machines that
cuts time in setting up procedures by as much as 100 per
cent in some cases, and his new method of programming,
called “F. A. S. T.” is now in nation-wide use.