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18,440 READERS mi BATTALI ON Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus Number 92: Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, February 26,1958 Price Five Cents Aggie Newsmen To Give Dinner For UT Editors Student Publications Board members and staff editors of the various A&M publications will host about 12 representa tives of the University of Tex as Student Publications, Inc., with a luncheon and a tour of A&M publication facilities Friday. Representatives expected from Texas include Loyd Edmunds, gen eral manager of Texas publications organization, and top editors from the Daily Texan, the Ranger and the Cactus. Following the luncheon at noon in Rooms 2-C and 2-D of the Me morial Student Center, the visitors will browse through the various publications offices in the YMCA basement. Staff members from either school will have the oppor tunity to exchange ideas with staff members from the other school fill ing similiar capacities. In addition to the editors and staff editors of the A&M publica tions, local delegates expected at the informal dinner include Dr. Carroll Laverty, chairman of the Student Publications Board, and board members Dr. Robert Steven son, Donald D. Burchard, Charles A. Roeber, William T. Williams, Bennie Zinn, Ross Strader and John Avant. Tentative special guests include Earl Rudder, vice president of the college, and Dean Robert B. Kamm, director of Student Personnel Ser vices. Last year, the Texas group en tertained A&M publications visi tors with a luncheon and tour of their quarters in Austin. UT Co-eds Protest Bearded ‘Sips’ Strong protests from Texas Uni versity’s Women’s Anti-Beard So ciety failed to halt registration of 150 men in the Round-Up beard growing contest. Attired in black dresses and bonnets society members appear ed at the registration yesterday carrying signs which said: “Beards are subversive . . . Beards hide cowardly smirks . . . Beards are freudian . . . Beai’ds are sinful.” Each entrant was hit over the head by an umbrella carried by a society member, then cleanly shaved by Gamma Phi Beta coeds. Umm—Looks Good —Battalion Staff Photo J. Gordon Gay, secretary of the YMCA, (second from right) prepares to take a peek at one of the many steaks prepared for the annual Y Cabinet steak fry in Hensel Park last night. Judging from the looks of an ticipation from the cabinet members, the steak fry was a success. Attorneys‘Determined’ To Win A&M Co-ed Suit By FRED MEURER Attorney John M. Barron last night termed himself “most de termined” to win the upcoming suit in which he and his father, M. S. Barron, will attempt to force the Board of Directors to open A&M’s doors to women. The Bryan lawyer said if the verdict of the district court is un favorable in the hearing beginning March 17, he will immediately ap peal the case to the Court of Civil Appeals in Waco. < If it is met unfavorably there, Barron said he would carry the suit to the Supreme Court of the Parents Discuss School Systems A series of public meetings are now underway in Brazos County to give parents a chance to voice their opinions and ask questions on Tex as public schools. A few meetings have been held and several more are scheduled for the future, Taylor Riedel, Consoli dated High School superintendent, said yesterday. The meetings are being held at all schools throughout the county in an attempt by the Hale-Aikin Committee to see what the taxpayers think about Texas schools. In 1957, the state legislature passed House Committee Resolu tion 105, setting up a committee of 24 members to coordinate and complete a comprehensive “grass root” study of the citizenship of each county in the state. The committee is to survey the needs of the public school systems as to curriculum, teacher supply, classroom facilities and other re lated areas, including adequate fi nancing of the public school pro gram. From Brazos County, 48 men and women were appointed to the Hale-Aikin Committee by local school districts and by a county committee of representatives from Weather Today Forecast for the College Station area calls for scattered showers to day and early tonight, turning colder tonight, with clearing and colder tomorrow. the 5 school boards in the county. Ed J. Burkhard is chairman of the committee; Carl Landiss, vice chairman; and W. D. Bunting, sec retary. The local committee believes the money problem to be the chief issue of the school program. “The question of how to supply the need ed financing of our public schools, and the need is increasing, seems to be one of the biggest questions in the minds of the people,” Riedel said. The last figures available on Texas school financing are those of 1955-56, when the schools re ceived 42.9 per cent of their sup port from local funds, 53.6 from state funds and 3.5 from federal sources. A list of at least 50 questions asked by local committees and an swers from a majority of parents will be turned in to the state com mittee for use in the future plans of Texas public schools. Typical questions asked are: “How should our public schools be financed? Who should support them ? How much state support should be given to the schools ? How much local ? Do you favor any federal support in the schools?” Questions will also be asked con cerning which classes are the most important, what new classes should be added to the curriculum, should college scholarships be provided through the school, should special recognition be given to poorly sup ported schools and on all phases of teaching and education. United States— if necessary. In the hearing the two attorneys will attempt to obtain mandamus action against officials of the col lege ordering them to admit two women into A&M. The women are Mrs. Barbai’a Tittle and Mrs. Lena Bristol. They were refused admittance when they tried to enroll in January. Last week the college filed a plea in abatement with the dis trict court, attempting to nullify the hearing on the grounds that the plaintiffs in the case failed to go through proper channels before filing the suit. The plea, in essence, indicated that the plaintiffs arranged for the trial without appealing to the Board of Directors. The Barrens yesterday filed an answer to the college’s plea, saying there is no requirement of admini strative procedure set forth show ing the necessity of authority to make an appeal directly to the Board of Directors upon an order and resolution already passed ex- CHS Students Hold Science Fair Saturday Young College Station scien tists will display their wares publicly Saturday at the An nual Science Fair sponsored by the A&M Consolidated High School Science Club. Projects in the fields of science will be exhibited in the Science Wing of CHS Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Students from both the junior and senior high schools will prepare projects for the show ing. The exhibits will be divided into three groups; biological, physical and miscellaneous projects, with a separate division for junior and senior high students. Exhibits are scheduled from the fields of radio, rockets, botany, zoology, geology, astronomy, models, engines and others. The projects will be judged at 10 a.m. Winners from both divi sions will compete in the District I Texas State Teachers Association Science Fair in Houston March 14-15. District I takes in 33 coun ties and includes some of the larg est high schools in the state. eluding women students from the college. In their answer the attorneys also denied an earlier, charge that the suit is against the State of Texas and that any additional remedy is necessary. M. T. Harrington, A&M presi dent, and H. L. Heaton, registrar, had charged that no suit could be brought against them without legislative permission because they are state employees. But the Bar rens struck back by saying the two were not lawfully authorized to deny the women entrance. “It is my opinion that the plea of abatement is ridiculous,” re marked the younger Barron last night. “It is absurd, strictly ab surd.” A hearing on the plea will pre cede the tidal March 17. Should the court uphold the college’s plea in abatement, however, the trial will not be necessary and the first in perhaps a series of trials will be over. In this event, Barron said he would appeal to the higher court. As for the trial itself, should the plea in abatement fall through, Barron commented he didn’t think it would last more than a few days. “I don’t think it will be too compliceted. The facts aren’t in dispute,” he said. “I don’t think there is a dispute about keeping women out. The question is if laws and the Con stitution permit the board to do what it did,” he added. Pentomic Army Program March 4 A program entitled “Pentomic Reorganization Within the Army” will be presented Tuesday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m., in the Chemistry lecture room, for the local United States Army Reserve personnel. The presentation will cover tl^e reorganization of the current com bat division in order to cope with modern combat opnditions using the newest weapons available. The program will be presented by Captains Cornie B. Curry Jr. and Herbert J. Meredith of the Mobile Instruction and Bemonstra- tion Team No. 4, now stationed at Fort Polk, La. Both officers are members of the Artillery Corps and saw action in both the World War II and the Korean conflict. Ike Asks Nation To Support His Foreign Aid Bill Common Sense, Not Dictatorship WASHINGTON, GP)—President Eisenhower, appealing for nationwide support of his foreign aid program, described it last night as “not a maneuver carried out by a dictator” but an expression of goodwill and common sense. Eisenhower climaxed a day-long conference organized by the administration in behalf of the $3,900,000,000 aid pro- grsm. The President said that under present conditions the urgency of both mutual security and reciprocal trade agree ments legislation “leaves no margin for error.” In an address prepared for coast-to-coast broadcast on radio, Eisenhower added: “They are iron imperatives of security and the building of true peace.” The President spoke at a dinner meeting at--* tended by national leaders CHS Jazzers To Compete In Band Festival College Station High School’s 16-man Stage Band will journey to Huntsville Fri day to compare “notes” with other jazz bands of the state in the High School Band Festival at Sam Houston State College. Shorty Rogers, a nationally recognized jazz trumpet artist will be an adviser and critic for the clinic- festival. Bands attending the event Fri day and Satui’day will be criticized by recognized leaders in music from the state and individual help in jazz arrangement and improvis- ion will be given, Robert Boone, director of the CHS band and high school music teacher, said. “This is the first year we’ve at tended the event,” Boone said. “I think we have a pretty good sound, but since we haven’t been in com petition before I couldn’t make a prediction on our outcome in the judging.” A dance Friday night featuring the Houstonians, professional dance band from Houston, will see Rogers lend the jazz notes of his trumpet to the band’s sounds. Saturday night, those attending the festival will be entertained by the “All-Star Octet” and “All Star Band” selected from the best musicians at the clinic. Saturday night all bands in the festival will combine to present a concert. The CHS Stage Band will do three numbers, “Stormy Weather”, Benny Goiodman’s “9:20 Special” and Harry James’ “Two O’clock Jump.” City Election Filings End Saturday Night Deadline for filing for the mayor and three city councilmen positions which will be decided in the April 1 city election is Saturday mid night, 30 days before the election date, according to election require- inients. Mayor Ernest Langford and Councilmen A. P. Boyett and Joe Sorrels announced their intentions to run for re-election at the city counoil meeting Monday night. Boyett is the councilman from Ward 3, which takes in the North Gate area, the A&M campus and the area north of idncoln Avenue east ti£ Highway 6. Sorrels^ represents Ward 2, the section of College Hills south of Lincoln Avenue and east of High- way 6. The other council position open is in Ward 1, the area south of the campus between Highway 6 and Wellborn Road. Marion Pugh, the present councilman from this ward has not filed for re-election as yet. Picture Scheduled For CV Students A group picture of all students living in College View has been scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, between C-ll and B-12. This picture will be placed in the Aggieland 58 at no cost to the students. from all walks of life rep resenting Democratic, Repub lican and independent think ing. Eisenhower said opposition to the aid program “is based on slogans, prejudices, penny-wise economy and above all, an outright refusal to look at the world of 1958 as it really is.” “What the ostrich-like opponents of mutual security seem to be say ing,” he added, “is ‘billions for ar mament, but not one cent for peace!’ ” The foreign aid rally began yes terday morning. At a luncheon meeting, former President Truman called on the Eisenhower admin istration to come forward with some new ideas to combat Rus sia’s massive economic offensive. And Adlai E. Stevenson, who bid for the presidency on the Democratic ticket in 1952 and 1956 challenged Russia to join the Unit ed States in a pooled effort to pro vide economic aid to underdevel oped nations. Attorney To Speak To AAUP Tonight Judge James P. Hart, Austin at torney, will be the principal speak er at the annual banquet of the A&M Chapter of the American As sociation of University Professors tonight at 7 in the Memorial Stu dent Center Assembly Room. Hart will l)e introduced by Vice President Earl Rudder who will be presented by President M. T. Har rington. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Texas in 1925, and his L.L.D. from Harvard in 1928. He served as Assistant At torney General of Texas from 1939- 41 and was an Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court from 1947-50. The attorney is an ex-chancellor of the University of Texas and also has been a member of Presi dent Eisenhower’s Commission on Education after High School. Corps Baseball Set To Start March 10 By FRED MEURER Corps baseball players begin tak ing winter cobwebs from the base- paths on Bryan diamonds Monday, March 10, when the Corps baseball program gets underway for the second year. Highly successful in its initial attempt last spring, the program is studded with hopes and ideas promising’ to make it much more entertaining for cadets this year. In an organizational meeting Monday night, representatives Kiwanis Discuss 1958 Projects The Oollege Station Kiwanis Club yesterday devoted chief at tention to committee meetings fol lowing their luncheon meeting in the Memorial Student Center. The committees’ aim was to de termine worthy projects for them to undertake in 1958. Each member of the Kiwanis is on one of the twelve standing committees of the club. The 12 committees are: Boys and Girls; Business and Public Af fairs; Agriculture and Conserva tion; Underprivileged Children; Kiwanis Education and Fellowship; Attendance and Membership; Church Support; Vocational Guidance; Inter-club Relations; Circle K and Key Club; Community Physical Improvement; and Pro gram and Music. from six Air Force groups, five Army battalions and the Band out lined tentative plans for the year. Two leagues, one composed of the groups and the other made up of the battalions and the Band, were set up much the same as last year. Instead of playing only one complete round, as was the case last spring, representatives plan ned t» get two complete rounds this year, or 10 games per team. A tentative play-off game or series between the winner of each league was set up for post-season play. Each game will have an hour and 15 minute time limit. Tommy Kolterman, 5th Group Staff senior, was chosen by accla mation to head the program with the cooperation of captains of each team, who were also named at the meeting. Kolterman said a sche dule would be drawn up this week and distributed among the groups and battalions. Travis Park in Bryan was turned over almost exclusively to the Corps except for four other games previously scheduled for the dia mond. In addition, plans call for the use of the American Legion park near Highway 6, but author ities have not yet been contacted. According to a rough sketch, games will be slated almost daily for 5, 7:30 and 9 p.m. With a lit tle cooperation from the weather, all games should be played with out too much difficulty, Kolter man said. Air Force officers on the cam- (See CORPS BASEBALL, Page 3)