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Number 89: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1958
Price Five Cents
Ike Urges Raise
Foreign Aid Grants
Judge James P. Hart
Austin Lawyer
To Speak At
AAUP Banquet
An Austin attorney, Judge
James P. Hart, will be the
main speaker at the annual
banquet of the A&M Chapter
of the American Association
of University Professors to be held
here Wednesday at 7 p.in.
Hart will be introduced by Vice
President Earl Rudder after the
latter is presented by President M.
T. Harrington.
After receiving his B.A. degree
from the University of Texas in
1925, Hart received his L.L.D. from
Harvard in 1928. He served as an
assistant Attorney General of Tex
as from 1939-41—and was an As-
gociate Justice of the Texas Su
preme Court from 1947-50.
An ex-chancellor of the Univer-
Bity of Texas, he has also been a
member of the President Eisen
hower’s Commission on Education
after High School.
Tickets to the banquet will be on
sale until 5 p.m. Monday at the
main desk of the Memorial Student
Center and by departmental repre
sentatives. The banquet, which
will be held in the MSC Assembly
Room, is for all faculty members
and their wives.
Forsees Trouble
If Bid Is Rejected
WASHINGTON, UP)—President Eisenhower said yester
day higher taxes, big draft calls and a “massive increase” in
defense spending would result if Congress sharply reduces
his request for $3,942,100,000 in new foreign aid funds.
He drew this grim picture in a special message formally
requesting “vigorous continuation” of the government’s
global aid program for an 11th straight year.
The money figure was not new, having been disclosed in
his budget message.
Clearly anticipating a hot congressional fight, Eisen
hower sought by unprecedented blunt language to jolt foes
into considering what he called the menacing alternatives.
Refunds Open For
Extra $25 Tuition
A limited number of refunds for
the $25.00 tuition increase per se
mester may now be made by the
college to students who show that
added tuition has created a serious
financial hardship for them, Dean
W. H. Delaplane, Faculty Schol
arships Committee Chairman, said
yesterday.
The committee is charged with
determining those refunds permit
ted in accordance with the law
which last fall raised tuition at all
state supported colleges and uni
versities.
Refunds are limited and apply
only to the added $25.00 increase.
Requirements for the refund are:
1. A student must have attend
ed A&M for at least one semester.
New students cannot be consid
ered until next fall.
2. A minimum gi’ade point ratio
of 1 00 on all work taken at A&M.
3. Applications for the Spring
Semester must be filed with the
committee secretary in the Regis
trar’s office before March 15.
Forms are now available in the
Registrar's office.
2nd Fee Payment
Due Tomorrow
Tomorrow is the last day stu
dents can pay the second install
ment fee of $52.45 without pen
alty. The fee, payable at the
Fiscal Office, covers room, board
and laundry for March.
Town Hall Production
Comedy Protrays
Plowboy 9 A irman
“No Time for Sergeants”, a
Town Hall production, will be pre
sented here March 3 at 8 p. m. in
G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Direct from Broadway where it
enjoyed a successful two-year run,
the play was produced from the
best-selling novel concerning the
peacetime Air Force and the havoc
wrought when a charmingly naive
Georgia plowboy is drafted into
it .
Charles Hohman plays the plow
boy who nearly wrecks the Air
Force, a role he acted for more
than a year in New York.
Rex Everhart, his beleaguered
sergeant, is a cai’eer man who has
the misfortune of having Hohman
and his scrawny buddy, played by
Tucker Ashworth, assigned to his
classification center.
Howard Freeman and Royal
Weather Today
College Station forecase calls for
mostly cloudy with occasional rain
and scattered thundershowers
through Friday, with a high of 53
degrees today and a low tonight of
46.
Beal are also featured as Air Force
and Infantry generals respectively,
and James Millhollin plays a be
wildered Air Force psychiatrist,
the roles they portrayed in New
York. Christian Flanders plays a
bullying inductee.
This production is the first play
to be sent from New York by the
recently formed Broadway Theater
Alliance, Inc., a subsidiary of
Columbia Artists Management,
which aims to bring top notch
living theater to all sections of
the land.
A real airplane will be featured
among other realistic sets and
equipment.
The aircraft, an Air Force bomb
er, has one side cut out to give the
audience the feeling of being inside
the plane.
The plane is used in the scene
where two Air Force rookies get
lost on a training flight and find
themselves in the target area of
an atomic bomb test.
Maurice Evans is producer of
the show. Among his Broadway
hits are “Teahouse of the August
Moon,” “Dial M for Murder” and
“Man and Superman.”
The message was released
at the White House and also
at Eisenhower’s Georgia vaca
tion headquarters.
The sum requested was
about a billion dollars more than
an economy-minded Congress pro
vided last year but 500 million dol
lars less than the administration
sought in 1957. Nearly 50 billion
dollars in foreign aid money has
been sent overseas since 1948.
Eisenhower contended this new
program, for the year beginning
July 1, represents “the critical
margin of assistance” needed to
assure American and free world
security against Red threats.
“It is my duty to make clear
my profound conviction that the
vigorous advancement of this pro
gram is our only logical course,”
Eisenhower said. “Our mutual se
curity program is of transcend
ent importance to the security of
the United States.”
At the Capitol, House Speaker
Rayburn (D-Tex) called the mes
sage a strong one. Rayburn also
credited foreign aid with “saving
a lot of our friends from com
munism.”
Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas,
the Senate Democratic leader,
commented: “The mutual security
progi’am has become a major part
of the foreign policy of the United
States. With that thought in mind,
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Orchestra Chosen
For Junior Prom
The Russell Jackson Orchestra
has been selected to furnish dance
music for the Junior Ball on March
29, Gene Birdwell, president of the
Class of ’59, said yesterday.
Plans are being drawn up for
the banquet and prom by Birdwell
and other class officers. Cost of
the filet mignon banquet dinner
will be $3 per couple. Admission
to the dance will be class dues, $2.
The class voted unanimously at
their last meeting not to invite
seniors to the dance.
Juniors May Begin
Submitting Pics
Pictures of applicants for the
Junior Ball Sweetheart may be
turned in at the Student Activ
ities Office in the YMCA next
week.
Deadline for turning in pic
tures is March 1. All portraits
should be 5 x 7 or larger and
taken out of their frames.
Top Photographer
Speaks at Art Meet
Harry A. Goldstein, head photo
grapher for the International Gra
phic Arts Assn., will give some
professional comments at a meet
ing of the Graphic Arts Society of
Texas here Saturday.
A photography teacher at a Tuc
son, Ariz., high school, Goldstein
will be attending the Industrial
Teacher Conference here that day.
S. Wayne Taylor of the Univer
sity of Houston is president of the
Graphic Arts Society.
RE Week Text
Urges Use Of
Common Sense
One must use several tests
before making an important
decision to determine the
right choice, Dr. Ronald Mere
dith told the mid-week Relig
ious Emphasis Week service yes-
terday.
Following special music by Ed
Hereder, Dr. Meredith spoke on
“Only Half of Me Wants to Be
Good” yesterday.
Dr. Meredith listed several tests
to be applied before making deci
sions.
Among them are: would I be a
good sport if I made this choice;
does the choice show common
sense; would I be willing to have
my decision be made public; would
I want my most admired person
ality to know about this and would
I be doing what I honestly believe
Christ would want me to do?
“A man is a parasite upon socie
ty if he wants everyone else to be
decent and won’t be decent him
self,” Dr. Meredith said.
Further outlining parts of a
man’s fight with himself, he stat
ed “Conscience is that little tele
phone inside that rings—and when
it rings a person had better take
it off the hook and listen.”
The last RE Week talk will be
in the morning at 9.
“Love, Courtship, and Marriage”
was the subject for Dr. Meredith’s
talk this morning in the next to the
last service for the 16th Annual
RE Week.
“What I Want To Know
Battalion Staff Photo
Asks a baud member in one of the nightly
Religious Emphasis forums in the dorms.
His question was directed at Maj. John
Quick, extreme left, one of the 14 visiting
clergymen on the campu.^this week, who is
leading the Dorm 11 discussions.
Juniors Spark Bid
For Keeping PAS
By JOE BUSER
A group of Air Force juniors
has started a movement to ask the
college to retain Col. Henry P.
Dittman at A&M as Professor of
Air Science.
The group, which was chosen in
part last semester by each Air
Science class, met Monday to dis
cuss plans for the project. They
are an unofficial group, but were
supported unanimously by Air
Force juniors in a vote called at
a December class meeting.
Col. Dittman’s tour at A&M will
terminate at the end of this aca
demic year and as yet he has no
Billy McKown
Mystery Man
Civilian Students Present Views
On Required Corps to Directors
Billy McKown, president of the
Civilian Student Council, and
another still unknown student, will
get a chance to express Civilian
opinion on compulsory military
training at the A&M Board of Di
rectors meeting Saturday.
The “mystery man” is not be
ing disclosed because of pressure
that might be directed at him, Mc
Kown said. He would say how
ever that he is a well liked student,
and a very influential man on the
campus.
The audience with the board was
granted on the conditions that it
be held to a maximum of 30 min
utes and only two representatives
be sent.
The contentions that McKown and
the mystery man will present to
the board have not yet been re
leased.
500 Expected For
Teacher Meeting
Over 500 art teachers, teacher
trainers and art supervisors from
throughout the state are expected
for the 10th annual Industrial
Teacher Conference in Memorial
Student Center tomorrow and Sat
urday.
Leslie V. Hawkins of the Indus
trial Education Dept, is director
of the program which is to include
lectures and demonstrations by
specialists in various fields. Ex
hibits set up by industries and sup
pliers of school materials will be
on display.
Pistol Stolen From
Metzger Collection
Campus Security and Brazos
County officers are investigating
the theft of a two-shot, .22 caliber
Frank Wesson pistol from the
Metzger Gun Collection in the Me
morial Student Center Tuesday af
ternoon.
The theft occurred between 5
and 6 p.m. and was discovered
about 6.
Entrance to the gun case was
gained by breaking a glass plate
covering the display.
MSC officials did not believe the
gun to be one of the more valuable
firearms in the collection.
new assignment. However, he said
last night that D. W. Williams,
then president of the college, told
him last July he could not return
because he was not in accord with
college policy.
He said he asked Vice President
Earl Rudder to reconsider his i'e-
quest for extension of his tour
here, but had since withdrawn the
request “in order to cause no more
difficulties in the institution.”
“I take my orders from the U.S
Air Force in Washington,” he said,
“and I would readily accept any
assignment given me.”
“But if the college desires my
retention, I’ll be here,” he added.
The gToup of juniors has acquir
ed a staff study, conducted by an
Air Science class last semester,
suggesting possible ways to retain
Col. Dittman. They have partially
re-written the study and have given
a copy to Vice President Rudder
and are mailing copies to each of
the A&M Board of Directors.
They are also drawing up a let
ter to be sent to Maj. Gen. T. C.
Rogers, Commander, AFROTC.
The names of all Air Force stu
dents in favor of asking that Col.
Dittman be retained are being col
lected by the group through indi
vidual outfits.
Nelson to Work
For BA Degree
At Harvard U-
Jack Nelson, Corps public
information officer, received
word yesterday that he had
been accepted to attend the
Harvard University graduate
business school for two years after
graduation from A&M.
Nelson, an electrical engineering
major from El Paso, said the addi
tional two years in business train
ing would qualify him for a mas
ter’s degree in Business Adminis
tration. He will enter Harvard in
September.
Boasting a 2.02 overall grade
point ratio, Nelson submitted his
application and took the entrance
exam some months ago. Students
are accepted according to results
of these 6xams.
“It is a wonderful opportunity,”
Nelson said last night. “More guys
should take advantage of it.”
According to Nelson, John Hag-
lex 1 , Cadet Colonel of the Corps,
and George Ragsdale, editor of The
Engineex 1 , submitted applications
two months after he did, and there
fore won’t learn the outcome of
their exams until a later date.
Nelson plans to fulfill his mili
tary duty after graduation from
Harvard.
Fish To Bring
Texas Beauties
To Class Ball
By JOHNNY JOHNSON
Lovers of feminine beauty
will have a field day March 1,
the day of the Fish Ball. Tra
dition holds that A&M fresh
men boast the loveliest girls in
Texas.
The dance will be held from 9-12
p.m. in Sbisa Dining Hall.
Highlight of the dance will be
the selection of the “Fish” Sweet
heart. The list of nominees has
been nari’owed to five. Finalists
and their escorts ai’e: Susie Seidel,
escorted by Donald H. Jones; Su-
sanne Neal, by William T. White;
Linda Ann Daugherty, by Charles
C. Murphy; Kathleen Peabody, by
Don Eastwood; and Michaele Carl
isle, by James W. Willis.
Vice President and Mrs. Earl
Rudder will head the list of col
lege dignitaries attending the ball.
Other prominent officials to attend
the dance include academic school
deans, militai’y department heads,
tactical officers and Civilian coun
selors.
Music will be furnished by the
Aggieland Oi'chesti’a.
Tickets are $2, stag or drag and
can be purchased from freshman
officers or from the Student Activ
ities Office, second floor of the
YMCA.
Officers in charge of the ball are
Charles C. Mui’phy, pr-esident; Paul
Mai’tin, vice president; Robert
Bower, secretary-ti'easurer; and
Tilmon Reaves, social chairman.
Jack Nelson
’Murals Wrestler
Breaks Collarbone
Rodney Spencex 1 , “A” Tran
sportation Corps fi’eshman fi’om
DeLeon, suffei’ed a broken collar
bone in an intramural wrestling
match last night.
College hospital attendants term
ed his condition as “good” after he
was given treatment there.
The intramural wrestling season,
which matches men from various
outfits accoi'ding to weight, be
gan Monday. The injury is an
oddity since no punishing holds are
permitted in the competition.