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Number 95: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, ,1958
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Ike Delegates Power
For Emergency Rule
Daniel Stresses
News Freedom
At Press Fete
AUSTIN,—UP)—Gov. Price
Daniel told a group of Texas
daily newspaper publishers
yesterday that “full reporting
is the foundation of freedom
and we cannot settle for less,
Whatever the price may be.”
The liberty and democracy of
America would never have existed
without freedom of the press and
fulfillment of newspapers’ respon
sibilities, he told the 37th annual
meeting of the Texas Daily News
papers Assn.
Daniel was the principal speak
er at the president’s dinner honor
ing S. B. Whittenburg of Amarillo,
outgoing TDNA president, and
Mrs. Whittenburg.
“We must end the present trend
toward secrecy and censorship in
governmental affairs,” he said.
“The public business must be
transacted in the light of day, not
under the censorship of official
seei’ecy. The people and their of
ficials must work from the same
set of books.”
Earlier in business sessions,
TDNA speakers stressed the im
portance today of newspapers ap
pealing to Texas boys and girls
to choose joui-nalism as a pro
fession.
“Can we afford for our youth to
reach college age until we try to
attract their interest in journal
ism?” outgoing president S. B.
Whittenburg of the Amarillo
Globe-Times said in keynoting the
37th annual meeting.
“If you think we are not facing
a downhill pull, ponder the fact
that there are not enough male
graduates annually, from Ameri
can schools of journalism to sup
ply one man to every daily news
paper in the United States,” Felix
R. McKnight, vice president and
executive editor of the Dallas'
Times Herald, said as luncheon
speaker.
Nixon Would Get
Presidental Reins
WASHINGTON, UP)—The White House yesterday an
nounced an agreement under which Vice President Nixon
would become acting president if President Eisenhower
should become unable to serve.
Press secretary James C. Hagerty described it as more
or less the copy of an understanding Eisenhower and Nixon
have had. Eisenhower mentioned an understanding at his
news conference last Wednesday; he refused then to say'
exactly what was in it.
Hagerty yesterday issued the following statement:
“The President and the vice president have agreed that
the following procedures are in accord with the purposes
♦and provisions of Article Two,
Town Hallers
Score With
‘Sergeant’ Play
By WE ETON JONES
Seven File For
Three Positions
On City Council
McKown Won’t
Discuss Meeting
With President
Billy McKown, Civilian Stu
dent Council president, would
not comment last night on
what went on at a Saturday
meeting with President M. T.
Harington.
Harrington had called McKown
to his office to discuss a story in
Friday’s Battalion in which Mc
Kown revealed Harrington had
asked that the Academic Coun
cil’s 49-1 vote be omitted from
civilian arguments to the Board
of Directors against compulsory
Corps.
McKown quoted Harrington as
saying, “it is college policy and
none of the students’ business.”
The Civilian leader told of the
president’s request after the coun
cil meeting Thursday night and
not in the meeting as previously
reported.
Also present at the meeting was
Robert Murray, Civilian counselor,
who also had no comment on the
meeting.
Weather Today
College Station area will have
cloudy skies and some rain today
and tonight, with a high of 65 de
grees today and a low of 50 to
night.
The 8 a. m. relative humidity was
69 per cent and the temperature,
53 degrees.
Seven College Station men filed
for three city council positions
which will be decided in the April
1 municipal election.
No candidate filed to compete
with Mayor Ernest Langford who
is running for re-election. Dead
line for filing was Saturday at mid
night.
Candidates filing for Ward 1 are
Frank Brown, owner of a Bryan
wrecking concern and Carl Landiss,
of the Health and Physical Edu
cation Department. Marion Pugh,
local lumber dealer and present
councilman from this ward did not
file for re-election. Ward 1 is the
area south of the campus between
Wellborn Road and Highway 6.
Filing for Ward 2, the part of
College Hills south of Lincoln Ave
nue and east of Highway 6, were
Joe Sorrels, present councilman
seeking re-election; David Fitch,
of the School of Business Admin
istration; and Troy McElroy, owner
of a local Venetian blind firm.
Councilman A. P. Boyett, Ward
3, filed for re-election. Contesting
him will be Billie J. Fluker, who
is with the Engineering Experi
ment Station. Ward 3 is the North
Gate area and the section north of
Lincoln Ave. and east of Highway
6.
Texas Art Exhibit
Featured By MSC
The third annual Regional VII
Arts and Crafts Exhibition, co
sponsored by the Creative Arts
Committee of the Memorial Stu
dent Center and the Texas Fine
Ai’ts Association of Austin, will
be on display in the main lobby
of the MSC through - March 15,
according to Mrs. Emalita Tei’ry,
general chairman of the art com
mittee.
Exhibition Judge Robert Winn,
director of the San Antonio Art
Institute, selected 12 of the en
tries—including paintings, crafts
and sculptures—as the best exam
ples of composition and medium
techniques. The prize winning en
tries will be a part of a state
regional show in Austin, at the
Laguna Gloria Galleries, June 15
through August 15.
Of the 122 entries, 48 drawings
and paintings and 22 pieces of
craft and sculptures were selected
for display in the exhibition. At
least one entry from each partici
pant is on display. Prizes will be
cash and gift merchandise con
tributed by business firms, civic
organizations and individuals. All
donations will be pooled and then
divided among the 12 winners. Al
so, the 12 winners will receive
special citations from the Texas
Fine Arts Association.
Some of these winners will be
put up for sale.
Section One, of the Constitu
tion, dealing with presidential
inability. They believe these
procedures, which are intend
ed to apply to themselves only,
are in no sense outside or contrary
to the Constitution but are consist
ent with its present provisions and
implement its clear intent.
“(1) In the event of inability
the President would-if possible-
so inform the vice president, and
the vice president would serve as
acting president, exercising the
powers and duties of the office un
til the inability had ended.
“(2) In the event of an inability
which would prevent the Presi
dent from so communicating with
the vice president, the vice presi
dent after such consultation ns
seems to him appropriate under
the circumstances, would decide
upon the devolution of the powers
and duties of the office and would
serve as acting president until the
inability had ended.
“(3) The President, in either
event, would determine when the
inability had ended and at that
time would resume the full exer
cise of the powers and duties of
the office.”
The Constitution provides that
the vice president shall take over
the duties of the presidency in
the event of the pi’esident’s re
signation, ouster, death or dis
ability. It does not say in so
many words how a decision is to
be reached on when a president
is disabled, hor who should make
the decision.
After Eisenhower disclosed the
existence of an understanding last
week, various members of Con
gress called for details to be
made known. Rep. McCormack of
Massachusetts, the Democratic
leader of the House, said in a
typical comment that “this is a
matter of public concern.”
A show such as the touring
production of “No Time for
Sergeants”, which Town Hall
presented last night, taxes the
resources of a reviewer.
With so impi’obable a farce and
such broad comedy as the book by
Mac Hyman and the play from
his book by Ira Levin, it is hai’d to
tell about acting ability and, of
course, impossible to look for a
“message”.
But there was no doubt, last
night, that the troupe was present
ing entertainment, and entertain
ment of a sort that often was
particularly delectable to the local
audience.
One wonders how the military
personnel in attendance can main
tain a straight face, now, while
saluting.
The entire cast gave hilarious
performances. There were spots
when the writing of the play cai’-
ried the action, and toward the
end this writing began to sag, but
the effect was still present. The
aui’a had been created.
Notable among the cast were
Charles Hohman, who did yeoman
service as the coufused country lad,
getting all possible milage out of
the part, and the three veterans
of the original cast, James Mill-
hollin, a neurotic psychiatrist, and
Howard Freeman and Royal Beal,
two belabored generals.
Rex Everhart, who approaches
acting with the same gusto as Lou
Costello, shown in the role of Sgt.
King, portrayed one of the most
tormented non-commissioned of
ficers that any service has ever
known.
A word should be said about the
show’s crew, which transformed
the White Coliseum into a pro
scenium theater within the space
of one day. They showed that such
a task could be done. Instead of
merely complaining about the
facilities, they did something
about them.
The sets, executed by Gerald L.
Ritholz, were stylized but still
served to convince the audience
very adequately that they were
witnessing a barroom scene or an
airplane in flight.
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‘Sergeant’ Staff Goes Texan
—Battalion Staff Photo
Three members of the “No Time For Ser- dale, a Georgia plowboy turned airman; Rex
geant” cast, typically dressed for their Everhart, who filled the role of the bewilder-
Broadway-to-Texas visit, discuss plans for ed Sergeant King; and Christian Flanders,
last night’s Town Hall production previous who acted as Irvin Blanchard, a know-it-all
to curtain time. Left to right are Charles airman with former ROTC experience.
Hohman, who played the part of Will Stock- .
‘Underground Paper’
Airs Campus Affairs
By GAYLE McNUTT
Dawn yesterday saw Corps
dormitories filled with a 1-page
mimeographed publication of
doubtful origin which in a combi
nation of nonsense, fact and
philosophy commented upon Corps
life at A&M.
The one-page commentary was
labeled “The Mole” and under its
title bore the words “published in
Barrens Talk To
Witnesses in Austin
John M. Barron and W. S. Bar
ron, attorneys representing two
women seeking admittance t o
A&M, interviewed two witnesses
in Austin yesterday and worked
on certain legal principles involv
ed in the case.
Both witnesses are state offi
cials whose testimonies will be
used in connection with court pre
sentation of co-educational statis
tics and trends, said John Barron,
the son of the father-son team.
The legal points looked up in
Austin will also be used in the suit,
he said.
The pair is representing Mrs.
Lena Bristol and Mrs. Barbara
Tittle who ai'e seeking to break a
co-ed barrier which has existed
since the school opened in 1876.
Indians Donate Books to Library
Students and faculty members from India and A&M President M
yesterday presented several books on the
life of Mohandas Gandhi, Hindu nationalist,
to the college library. In the picture, left to
right, Bennie Zinn, head of Student Affairs,
—Battalion Staff Photo
T. Harrington look
over a book handed them by Ram Narain
of the bio-chemistry department, and Ambuj
Mukerji of the physics department.
the steam tunnels of Texas A&M.”
Practically every room in all Corps
dormitories received a copy of the
paper sometime eai’ly Monday
morning.
The paper was chiefly concerned
with seemingly good-natured kid
ding of the Military Science De
partment, Corps operation and col
lege administration.
One statement obviously referr
ing to Col. Henry Dittman, PAS,
whose tour of duty here ends this
years, read as follows:
“We checked, Pelly; Highway 6
does run both ways. Which way
are you going Col.?”
Dittman has made a statement
several times in the past to those
wishing to leave A&M, to the ef
fect that, “Highway 6 runs both
ways”.
Chuckling over the statement
Dittman said, “As for the Mole,
I’m going to Germany.”
He said that although he had
received no official orders as yet,
he had received unofficial word
that his next assignment would be
in Europe and probably Germany.
Several of the statements made
by the “Mole” referred also to Col.
Joe E. Davis, commandant. Davis
was visiting Louisiana State Uni
versity yesterday and did not learn
of the publication until last night.
Faculty, Students
Argue Conformity
A student-faculty panel discus
sion on “Conformity vs. Individu
ality at A&M” is scheduled Wed
nesday night at 7:45 in the Wesley
Foundation.
Dr. John Calhoun, vice president
for engineering, will moderate the
panel. Members are Dr. J. Q. Hays
of the English department, Dr. Dan
Russell of the agricultural econom
ics department, and students Bill
Libby and George Ragsdale.
The program is jointly sponsored
by the YMCA and four local chui’ch
groups. The public is invited to at
tend and questions may be pro
posed from the floor, according to
planners of the panel.
CHS Junior Class
To Present Play
“Meet Me in St. Louis”, a three-
act comedy, will be presented by
the junior class of A&M Consoli
dated High School, March 7-8, at
8 p.m. in the high school auditor
ium.
This comedy, dramatized from
the book by Sally Benson by the
same name, is a story about a St.
Louis family and their experiences
during the World’s Fair of 1904.
He said that since he knew nothing
about the matter, he would have
no comment to make.
Other butts of the paper’s com
ments were other military officials
and tac-officers, none called by
name, but rather by nicknames
such as “goose” and “porky.” It
also sounded out a feeling that
thinking w a s discouraged by
“Trigon” officials.
Ray Bowen, deputy corps com
mander, said last night he did
not believe the paper was written
with a serious intent, although
some parts could be taken that
way.
“It seemed to be written more
with a feeling of ‘good bull’ in
mind,” he said, “although I couldn’t
get much sense from most of it.”
Houston Beauty Is
‘Fish’ Sweetheart
Miss Michaele Carlisle of Hous
ton, escorted by James W. Wills
was chosen “Fish” Sweetheart by
the Class of ’61, Saturday night
at the annual “Fish” Ball.
Other finalists and escorts were:
Susie Seidel escorted by Donald
T. Jones; Susanne Neal, by Wil
liam T. White; Linda Ann Daugh
erty, by Charles C. Murphy; and
Kathleen Peabody, by Don V. East-
wood.
President and Mrs. M. T. Har
rington, Vice President and Mrs.
Earl Rudder, and Commandant and
Mrs. Joe E. Davis were among the
honored guests.
Other college officials that at
tended the dance included acad
emic schools deans, military de-
partment heads, tactical officers
and civilian counselors.
Parents to Hear
Reports on Schools
The College Station Mothers and
Dads Club will meet tonight at
7:30 in the Consolidated High
School auditorium, with the chief
topic of discussion to be the Hale-
Aikin Committee’s report on Con
solidated Schools.
The meeting is being held in con
nection with the current Texas
Public School week.
Four main topics are provided
in the committee’s studies. They
are under the heading of school
program, school finance, teacher
supply and school construction. One
purpose of the study is to deter
mine what steps must be made to
meet the rapid rise in school pop
ulation expected in the next few
years.