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Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 93: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1958
Price Five Cents
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—Battalion Statf Piioto
Former Judge Speaks to AAUP
..James P. Hart, Austin attorney, (center) talks with Presi
dent M. T. Harrington (left) and R. H. Fletcher, president
of the local chapter of the American Association of Univer
sity Professors, following his speech last night.
Hart Urges AAUP
To Boost Education
Full use of the educated minds of
free men is the best answer to the
manifold problems of our modern
society, James P. Hart, former
Texas Supreme Court justice, said
last night.
Hart told the A&M chapter of
the American Association of Uni
versity Professors that “we must
keep our minds free and open to
try anything which will further our
goals of world peace and justice,
freedom and reasonable prosperity
for all.”
He told some 200 professors and
guests at the AAUP’s annual ban
quet that the needs of higher edu
cation today are threefold.
“We must (1) improve our scien
tific and technical ti’aining in or
der to survive, (2) stress that all
intelligent people need some knowl
edge of science in our modern so
ciety and (3) remember that while
military strength is important, it
should be used as a means to an
end we all desire.”
In working toward these ends,
Hart recommended that Americans
de-emphasize leisure and acquir
ing material gains and stress bene-
ficient attitudes which are our ba
sic reasons for living.
“We must discourage feelings of
cynicism and lack of public spirited
service still prevalent in America
today,” Hart emphasized. “If we
are to achieve our goals we must
have citizens interested in public
service.”
Financial restriction and sym-
Jr. Ball Ticket
Sales Underway
Tickets for the Junior Banquet,
which will be held in Sbisa Mess
Hall March 29, are now on sale,
Rod Stepp, class vice president,
said yesterday.
The tickets, which must be pur
chased by March 17, cost $1.50 per
person, and are available from the
following people: Rod Stepp, dorm
7, room 408; Ed Hill, 3-204; Bob
Lassiter, 17-231; Gary Pepper, 14-
303; and the Student Activities
Office.
pathy toward regulation of thought
and expression has hampered our
educational system, Hart said.
He cited McCarthyism, legisla
tive acts restricting academic free
dom and the Atomic Energy Com
mission censure of Dr. Robert Op-
penheimer, a brilliant scientist, as
major setbacks for educational and
technical advancement.
Hart said that since Sputnik has
changed the educational climate
these are some of the things that
are required for our educational
system:
1. More financial aid and more
teachers are needed.
2. Greater teacher prestige must
be granted.
3. Higher qualifications for stu
dents and more desire to learn must
be created.
President, Nixon Plan For
Leadership in Emergency
Town Hall Monday
Broadway Comedy
Slated For Guion
By FRED MEURER
When an airman fresh from a
Georgia farm mixes antics with his
bespectacled and crew-cut buddy in
a version of life in today’s Air
Force, the result is humor.
When their antics get out of
hand, even to the point of near
catastrophe, the result is a frustra
ted sergeant—'and more humor.
And rib-tickling humor in this
form is destined to hit Guion Hall
stage Monday night at 8 when
Maurice Evans’ “No Time for Ser
geants” makes its one-night Town
Hall stand.
The play is on a nationwide tour
after a two-year stay on Broad
way, where it delighted audiences
for 800 performances.
Heading the cast will be Charles
Hohman who enacts the role of
Will Stockdale, a disillusioned
Georgia plowboy who wreaks havoc
with an entire Air Foi’ce command
post. His buddy-in-humor, Ben
Whitledge, is played by Tuoker
Barron Says A&M
"Not Giving Enough’
Sweetheart Photo
Requirements Set
Pictures of candidates for the
Class of ’59 Sweetheart must be
turned in to the Student Activi
ties Office by March 8, Rod
Stepp, class vice president, said
yesterday.
A 5 x 7 picture of the candi
date is preferred, Stepp said.
Also included should be the girl’s
measurements and a picture of
the candidate in a bathing suit,
if possible.
CE Prof Attending
ChicagoConvention
Truman R. Jones Jr., associate
research engineer of the Texas
Transportation Institute and asso
ciate professor of civil engineer
ing, is attending a called meeting
of the American Concrete Institute
Committee 213 at the national con
vention of the ACI in Chicago, this
week.
Committee 213 is devoted to the
study of lightweight aggregates
and lightweight aggregate con
crete.
By JOE BUSER
A&M isn’t meeting its obligation
—the people of Texas aren’t get
ting their educational money’s
worth, John M. Barron, attorney
for two Bryan women seeking ad
mission to the college, said last
night.
“I understand that A&M costs
about % as much to operate as
the University of Texas, yet the
University educates about three
times as many people,” Ban'on
said. Of the 17,000 students enroll
ed about 27 per cent are girls, he
said.
Barron and his father, W. S-.
Barron, filed subpoenaes yester
day with several college and state
officials for the forthcoming hear
ing March 17. He did not release
the names of any of the men sub
poenaed.
The Bryan attorneys are con
tending that the college’s refusal
to admit Mrs. Barbara Tittle and
Mi-s. Lena Bristol as students is
“denial of their rights as citizens.”
“Considering the monies that the
college receives from state and
federal sources, the people of Tex
as are entitled to more results than
A&M is presently giving,” he said.
Bari’on said in rebuttal to the
argument that co-eds at A&M
would raise the cost to attend, that
“increased expenditure is a full
grown contention.”
“In 10 years,” he said, “the
number of students seeking collage
educations in Texas will double,
naturally increasing the cost.”
“The only way for A&M to keep
the cost down is to shirk its duty
by restricting the enrollment and
keeping it on an all male, military
academy basis,” Barron said.
“This seems to be the overall
motive of the Board of Directors,”
he said.
The 1935 graduate of A&M said
his case on co-education would not
affect integration at A&M one way
or the other.
“The Negroes have already won
their case all over the nation. The
courts allow them the right to
attend schools indiscriminately.
“I think it’s foolish to eliminate
white females from the college,
since Negroes already have the
right to enroll,” he said.
He pointed out that he was not
advocating integration at A&M,
bvrt there was no litigation pre
venting it.
“The Corps could progress with
out hindrance if girls were ad
mitted,” Barron said. “It wouldn’t
make ‘tea sippers’ out of them—in
fact, in about a year, I think they’d
recognize the girls as a part of
the school.”
Ashworth. The sergeant who be
comes entangled in the pair’s an
tics will be played by Rex Ever
hart. Included in the 21-player
cast is a cigarette girl, who adds
an appeal other than humor to the
play.
The production is built around
scenes such as the one which finds
the two inductees in the target
area of an atomic bomb test after
they get lost on a training flight.
Vivid scene designs will combine
with stunning lighting effects to
add every touch of reality to the
play. One of the sets to be used
in a scene is a cutaway section of
a real bomber.
But aside from the outstanding
mechanics, humor is still destined
to take the spotlight. “No Time
for Sergeants” is supposed to do
for the Air Force what “Mr. Rob
erts” did for the Navy.
Town Hall tickets will be honor
ed for the performance.
Oceanographer
Named Chief Of
Galveston Lab
Albert W. Collier Jr. was re
cently appointed chief scien
tist of the Galveston Marine
Laboratory, a branch of the
Oceanography and Meteorolo
gy Dept., according to K. M. Rae,
director of the college Marine Lab
oratory programs.
A 1933 graduate of Rice Insti
tute, Collier has served as a sup
ervisory fishery research biologist
since 1950, and was chief of Gulf
Fisheries Investigations, U. S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, at Gal
veston until October, 1956.
Two other men have also joined
the department as graduate for
eign students, it was announced.
Yoshio Sugiura, of Tojo, Japan,
will work on the International
Geophysical Year program con
cerning radio chemistry and car
bon dioxide analysis of sea water.
Mu-Tsu Wu, of Taipei, Formosa,
will work as an assistant in the
desalination research project on
sea water.
642 Attend
Highway Work
Short Course
Registration for the 32nd
annual Highway Engineering
Short Course totaled 642, Fred
W. Hensel, associate director
of the Placement Office, said
yesterday.
Several persons in highway con
struction and maintenance led
panels on phases of highway work
Tuesday and yesterday in the Me
morial Student Center.
Fred J. Benson, dean of engi
neering, delivered the Welcome ad
dress to the group. State Highway
Engineer D. C. Greer presided at
the general session.
Principal address of the meet
was delivered by Ed Bluestein, dis
trict engineer for the highway de
partment, who spoke on the re
sponsibility of the Texas Highway
Department for handling of traffic
on construction jobs.
Highlight of the general session
of the meeting was the presenta
tion of certificates to the State
Highway Department from the
American Institute of Steel con
struction in recognition of bridge
engineering and building achieve
ment.
The two-day course included
panels dealing with geometric de
sign and traffic control, manage
ment, pavements and construction
operations, structures and hy
draulics, right-of-way and main
tenance operation programs.
The Civil Engineering Dept, and
the Texas Transportation Institute
are sponsors of the course, held in
cooperation with the Texas High
way Department.
Experiment Station
To Hear Speaker
Paul E. Chaney of the Texas
Electric Service Company, Fort
Worth, will speak on heat pump
research at the monthly staff meet
ing of the Texas Engineering Ex
periment Station Thursday, at 3:50
p.m. in the Petroleum Engineering
lecture room.
He was a co-ordinator of re
search involving the earth as a
heat source and sink for home con
ditioning, conducted over a period
of years at the station on a project
sponsored by the Texas Electric
Service Company through the A&M
Research Foundation.
Ike Also Deems
Tax Cut Possible
WASHINGTON, LP)—President Eisenhower disclosed
yesterday he and Vice President Nixon have a definite under
standing of what Nixon will do in an emergency if the chief
executive becomes unable to carry on his duties.
Eisenhower kept terms of the agreement a secret, but
■obviously it would embrace some arrangement for the vice
president to shoulder at least part of the presidential respon
sibilities.
On other major points, Eisenhower told a news con
ference :
1. A tax cut is “a possibility if there is any deepening
of the depression that requires it.”
But more jobs may open up
Water Fighters
Get Saturday
Roomlnspection
All military units involved
in the water fight Tuesday
night in the new Corps area
will have a standby inspection
Saturday at 1:30 p. m., Col.
Joe E. Davis, commandant, said
last night.
The inspection will be a federal
type, according to the Articles (of
the Cadet Corps, and will be con
ducted by staff members from the
School of Military Sciences, he
said.
Only units excluded from the
inspection will be those housed in
dorm 8, squadron 3 and squadron
1, Jon Hagler, Corps commander,
said last night.
Col. Davis said as yet no individ
ual disciplinary action had beien
taken, but in the past, commanders
of units involved had received de
merits.
“I can’t think of any reason for
anyone to be reduced in rank how
ever,” he added.
He said he had no reports of
personal injury or property dam
age in the midnight splash.
Civilian Weekend
Heads Council Talk
Plans for Civilian Student Week
end will head the agenda of the
Civilian Student Council at a meet
ing at 7:30 tonight in the Senate
Chamber of the Memorial Student
Center.
The council will also discuss or
ganization for civilian student
leaders, Mother’s Day reports and
dorm council — Civilian Student
Council relations.
in March and “mark the be
ginning of the end of this
recession.” And with the gov
ernment asking record- sums
for such things as public works,
agriculture and peacetime defense,
“you have got to try to get some
money in your purse to pay for
the bills. So, certainly you don’t
want to go into a tax cut until that
is necessary to br ing about the up
turn.”
It was the first time Eisenhower
had referred to the economic set
back as a depression. White House
press secretary James C. Hagerty
said afterward that “I think he
ment ‘recession.’ ”
2. Secretary of Agriculture Ben
son, target of resignation demands
from some Republican House mem
bers from the farm belt, is a man
of dedication, courage and intel
lectual and personal honesty. Those
who are advising he be fired,
Eisenhower said, “are badly mis
taken.”
Eisenhower has had three ma
jor illnesses in a little more than
two years. Right now he still is
trying to shake off vestiges of a
cold. Congress hasn’t gotten very
far on either legislation or a con
stitutional amendment for handl
ing a disability crisis.
Some -top Democrats prefer leg
islation. Eisenhower said he per
sonally favors an amendment.
“Now, in my own case,” he
added, “because I think in be
tween Mr. Nixon and myself there
is a rather unique state of mutual
confidence and even liking and
respect, that there ... is no prob
lem; because I think Mr. Nixon
knows exactly what he should do
in the event of a presidential dis
ability of the kind that we are
talking about.
“And so, I have got my own
conscience clear at the moment,
but I still think it should be han
dled as something for all future
cases.”
‘Fish’ Sweetheart Finalists Selected
Rue Pinalle Friday
For All Classes
The frollicking Aggie version of
a French nightclub, Rue Pinalle,
will open its doors to all classes
tomorrow night at 8:30.
The dance will continue until
midnight in the ping pong area of
the Memorial Student Center. Mu
sic will be furnished by a jukebox.
Admission for the dance and
floor show will be 75 cents per
couple.
By DATE STOKER
Girls, music and dancing are fill
ing the close-cropped heads of the
Aggie fish as they prepare to click
their heels at the annual Fish Ball,
Friday night from 9-12 p.m. in
Sbisa Dining Hall.
Especially girls, since tradition
ally, the A&M freshmen possess
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the loveliest girls in Texas.
Selection, of the “Fish” Sweet
heart will hold the spotlight at the
dance. The list of nominees has
been narrowed to five charming la
dies.
Finalists and their escorts are:
Susie Seidel escorted by Donald H.
Jones; Susanne Neal, by William
T. White; Linda Ann Daugherty,
by Charles C. Murphy; Kathleen
Peabody, by Don Eastwood; and
Michaele Carlisle, by James W.
Willis.
Vice President and Mrs. Earl
Rudder head the list of prominent
guests attending the ball. Other
college officials to attend the dance
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include academic school deans, mil
itary department heads, tactical of
ficers and Civilian counselors.
Music will be furnished by the
Aggieland Orchestra.
Tickets are $2, stag or drag and
can be purchased from freshman
officers or from the Student Ac
tivities Office,
It is preferred that all Corps
members wear white shirts and
black bow ties with class “A” uni
forms.
Officers in charge of the ball
are Charles C. Murphy, president;
Paul Martin, vice president; Rob
ert Bower, secretary-treasurer; and
Tilmon Reaves, social chairman.
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Susie Seidel
Linda Ann Daugherty
Kathleen Peabody
Michaele Carlisle
Susanne Neal