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WALTER NORBALD
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JAMES VANZANDT
Pennsylvania
WILLIAM G. BRAY
Indiana
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Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 102: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1958
Price Five Cents
Aggie Judge For Co-ed Hearing-
Judge W. T. McDonald, ’38, is scheduled to hear two Bryan
women’s appeal for admission to A&M Monday in the 85th
District Court in Bryan. The women are seeking litigation
to grant them admission on grounds that their rights as
citizens are being denied.
Unemployment
Highest Since ’49
Unemployment in the Biyan-Col-
lege Station area increased by 100
persons during the past month and
soared to the highest figure since
1949, James H. Berry, area man
ager of the Texas Employment
Commission, said yesterday.
Non farm employment in the
two cities has been estimated at
12,900 as of March 1, a drop of
100 below the Feb. 1 estimate and
a drop of 552 below the compara
tive figure for the same period last
year. This decline in employment
is believed to have been caused by
the decline in government es
tablishments and seasonal indus
tries in the cities, Berry said.
However, the number of job
seekers registered in the Bryan
office decreased to 758 from last
month’s 905. An increase from 404
to 484 occurred in the number of
claimants for unemployment com
pensation.
During February the Bryan of
fice of TEC placed 328 persons in
nonfarm jobs, in addition to 27
farm workers placed with farmers
in this area.
Contest Opens For
Building Themes
Two awards of $500 each will
be given by The Lift Slab, Inc.,
of San Antonio for the two best
papers submitted on some phase
of building construction.
Students must have at least one
year of college remaining and be
enrolled in the School of Engin
eering or Building Products Mar
keting curriculum.
Papers should be typed, double
spaced and limited to 10 pages.
Deadline for submitting papers
is April 2G, and awards will be
available for the fall semester,
1958.
Council Makes
Final Plans
For Weekend
Final plans for the Civilian
Weekend were made at the
regular meeting of the Civil
ian Student Council last night
as the members reported on
the progress of their committees.
Tickets have been distributed to
all Civilian dorms and are on sale
at the Office of Student Activities
on the second floor of the YMCA.
The weekend activities planned are
a bai’becue and dance on March 22.
Col. Joe E. Davis has authorized
all members of the Corps to attend
the barbecue and dance in Civilian
clothes if they wish, according to
Billy McKown, president of the
Council.
Entertainment planned for the
barbecue on Saturday afternoon
includes six acts by members of
Aggie Wives’ clubs, James Hickey
and his guitar and Jim Martin
playing the piano.
In other discussion at the meet,
McKown announced dates for fil
ings for the Council and the date
of the election. Filing opens April
14 and closes April 38. The election
will be held Api’il 22.
McKown closed the meeting with
the announcement that pictures for
the Aggieland will be taken at the
next meeting of the Council.
Weather Today
Fair and some warmer is the
forecast for the College Station
area. The temperature is expected
to reach a high of 60 degrees and
a low of 40. Saturday should be
fair.
Yesterday’s high was 52 degrees
at 2 p. m., and this morning’s low,
38 degrees at 7 a. m.
Coed Admission Suit
Hearing Opens Monday
By JOE BUSER
Two Bryan women seeking ad
mission to A&M since February
will begin their legal battle in dis
trict court in Bryan at 10 a. m.
Monday in an attempt to force the
college to accept them as under
graduate students.
The women, Mrs. Lena Bristol et
al., (Mrs. Barbara Tittle) are seek
ing a court order instructing H. L.
Heaton, director of admissions and
registrar, et ah, to admit them as
students at A&M, an all-male
school except for short periods,
since its founding in 1876.
W. M. and John Barron, a father
and son combination of Bryan at
torneys, will represent the plantiffs
in the proceedings.
Young Barron said last night
they were “just waiting” until the
trial begins; their case was al
ready prepared.
The Barrens are basing their
case on the premise that refusal to
admit women to A&M is a violation
of the 14th Amendment to the
Constitution, which abridges the
right of the states to discriminate
against citizens, even though a
Explorer Seekers
Foiled by Weather
Because of the cloudy weather,
the Operation Moonwatch team
failed in its attempt to sight the
U. S. Explorer 1 early yesterday
morning, Jack Kent, director of
the team, said last night.
The moonwatchers gathered at
3:45 a.m. at Kent’s home only to
see poor weather kill their chances
of spotting the satellite, which was
expected to pass over this area at
4:20 a.m.
Sunday morning at 5:15, team
members again will g-ather at
Kent’s home, this time attempting
to spot Russia’s second satellite,
“Muttnik”.
Kent said the Russian satellite
should pass over about 5:50 a.m.
traveling from northwest to south
east.
An alert has been planned by
the group, every day next week,
Kent said.
Irving Junior
New T.I.S.A. Veep
Ross Hutchison, junior business
major from Irving, was elected
vice president of the Texas Inter
collegiate Student Association at
its convention at Texas Christian
University recently.
Hutchison was one of 10 Aggies
attending the T. I. S. A. conven
tion in Fort Worth.
The purpose of the organization
is to maintain cooperation between
student givernments and to foster
intelligent interest in citizenship
on the campus.
Keynote address at the meeting
was given by Gov. Price Daniel.
state law would otherwise autho
rize it.
Barron said when he filed the
mandamus suit against college of
ficials, “it is a misconception that
the school is established only for
white males. The law implies it is
open for all.”
He has added since then that in
no way is he representing a plea
for integi'ation at A&M; “They
(integrationists) have already won
their case across the nation,” he
said.
Adameik Picked
Cotton King For
Pageant, Ball
Merrill Adameik, senior
agronomy major from El
Campo, will reign as King Cot
ton at the annual Cotton Pa
geant and Ball here April 11.
King Cotton’s queen will be se
lected from more than a hundred
Texas beauties who will be duches
ses at the event.
Master of ceremonies will be
Murray Cox, farm editor of radio
station WFAA, Dallas.
The Cotton Pageant and Ball is
sponsored each year by the Stu
dent Agronomy Society. This year |
it will be held in Guion Hall be
ginning at 7:30 p. m. The ball will
follow in Sbisa Dining Hall. Music
will be furnished by the Aggieland
Orchestra.
“King” Adamcik’s court will be
composed of members of the agro
nomy society. They are Konrad
Losen, Harold Byars, Harry Bur
leson, David Bagley, Kenneth Potts,
Walter Carleton, Lyle Lovelace and |
Hai'old Henk.
Proceeds from the pageant will
send crop judging teams to the na
tional judging contests in Chicago.
Barron has indicated that re-
gai’dless of the outcome of next
week’s trial, he thinks the case
will be appealed, probably to the
Court of Civil Appeals in Waco.
Both women that desire to be
Aggies are currently attending
college. Mrs. Tittle is attending
the new co-ed division of Allen
Academy but lacks some courses in
chemistry before she can get a de
gree in that field.
Mrs. Bristol completed studies at
Allen and is now commuting to Sam
Houston State College in Hunts
ville three times a week.
Sophs Will Meet
Office Candidates
The Class of ’60 will meet Mon
day night at 7:30 in the Physics
Lecture Room to get acquainted
with sophomores running for office
next year.
Candidates for a class office, yell
leader or some other position to
be selected in the forthcoming
general election April 9, should
contact Allen Burns, class presi
dent, in order to be introduced at
the meeting.
Burns said that yell leader can
didates should be prepared to tell
a “fable” at the meeting.
OLIN TEAGUE
Texas
Easter Seal Letters
Sent to Thousands
Thousands of letters containing
Easter Seals and a plea to help
crippled children were mailed to
residents of a five-county area by
the Brazos County Crippled Chil
dren’s Society, Mrs. Leslie V.
Hawkins, chairman of the mailing
committee said Tuesday.
Letters explaining the 1958 Eas
ter Seal campaign were sent to
citizens of Brazos, Burleson, Rob
ertson, Grimes, and Washington
counties.
Funds from the drive will be
used for braces, therapy treatment
and other medical care for crip-
plel children in the areas. Part
of the fund will also go to help
support the Brazos County Crip
pled Children’s Therapy Center,
located at 100 Highland, Bryan,
which serves crippled children
throughout the five-county area.
Mrs. George Foster, Bryan, is
general chairman and Brazos
County representative for the
drive.
Texas Talent
Ann Bartlett, torch singer, will represent Rice Institute in
tonight’s Intercollegiate Talent Show beginning at 7 o’clock
in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The top talent in colleges
and universities from four states will be represented in the
show.
Features Talent,
Dances, Review
By BILL REED
Spring Military Weekend, one of the largest annual af
fairs on the Campus, opens tonight in G. Rollie White Coli
seum with the 10-act 7th annual Intercollegiate Talent Show.
The Combat Ball will get underway tonight at 8 in Sbisa
Hall allowing combat army cadets and their dates time to
see at least part of ITS.
Immediately after the talent show, Cafe Rue Pinalle, the
Aggie version of a French night club, will spotlight the ping
pong area of the MSC.
Saturday’s highlight, the Spring Military Day review,
will be at 1:50 in the afternoon with Lt. Gen. John H. Collier,
Commander of the U. S. Fourth Army, receiving the Corps’
salute. Four other prominent
dignitaries and Congressman
Olin Teague will be on hand
for the afternoon affair.
Topping the weekend off,
the Military Ball will be staged
in Sbisa Hall at 9 a.m. Saturday
lasting until midnight.
ITS Begins at 7
The Music Committee will bring
some of the top collegiate acts from
four states to the campus tonight
in a show that offers a variety of
performances.
On the agenda for tonight are
the Kilgore Junior College Ranger-
ettes; “The Downbeats,” a quartet
from Oklahoma State University;
“The Jazz Sentinels,” who will play
dixieland music; and “The Bunch,”
the rhythm and blues combo from
the University of Arkansas.
Other performers are Janelle
Ducote, semi-classical vocalist;
Mary Martha Gibson and Tom
Fisher, duet; Ray McCullough,
dancer from Louisiana State Uni
versity; James Wallis, a ventri
loquist-impersonator, from the Uni
versity of Oklahoma; Jerry Scar
brough, singer-guitarist from the
University of Texas; Ann Bartlett,
Rice Institute singer; and John
Warner, pianist from A&M who
won second place last year in the
show.
Master of ceremonies for the
event will be Ken Collins, disc jock
ey from Radio Station KXYZ in
Houston.
Name Combat Cutie Tonight
The Combat Cutie will be named
at the Combat Ball and crowned
♦with a bullet-battered helmet in
Sbisa as the six combat units stage
their annual ball.
Tanks and field artillery pieces
will be provided for the ball as a
combat atmosphere background.
Ed Sullivan and Orchestra, of
Houston, will provide the music.
Rue Pinalle after ITS
For all students who have dates
on the campus but do not wish to
go to the Combat Ball, Cafe Rue
Pinalle will be held in the MSC.
The dance will feature five acts
from ITS—James Wallis, ventri
loquist; Ann Bartlett, vocalist; The
Downbeats, a male quartet; Ray
McCullough, dancer; and Mary
Martha Gibson and Tom Fisher, a
duet. The Jazz Sentinels will fur
nish music for the dance.
Corps Review
The first spring semester review
will get under way at 1:50 on the
main drill field in front of the
MSC with several dignitaries on
the campus for the occasion.
Gen. Collier will review the
troops as the Corps passes in re
view. Congressman and Mrs. Olin
Teague and four members of the
Armed Services Committee of the
House of Representatives and their
wives are among the special guests.
The other congressmen are Mel
Price of Illinois, Walter Norbald
of Oregon, James VanZandt of
Pennsylvania and William Bray of
Indiana.
Following the review the Fish
Drill Team will perform some pre
cision drill movements.
Military Ball at 9
Buddy Brock and his Orchestra,
of Houston, will be at the Military
Ball at 9 p.m. Saturday to supply
the dance music for the final af
fair of the weekend.
The sweetheart of the ball is
Miss Nancy Norton, Aggie Sweet
heart from Texas Woman’s Uni-
She will be escorted by
John Ligon, commander of the sec
ond regiment.
All guests on the campus for the
review will be guests of honor at
the ball. Also the commanders of
Cadet Corps from other schools in
Texas and Louisiana will be invit
ed for the day.
HIM
MAJ. GEN.
RALPH PALLADINO
Rudder To Speak
At Ag Convocation
Earl Rudder, vice president of
the college, will deliver the princi
pal address to the Agriculture Con
vocation in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom Monday at 7:30
p.m.
Topic of Rudder’s speech will be
“The Future of the Agriculture
Graduate.”
Gov. Price Daniel will be an hon
ored guest at the ceremony.
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