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BATTALION
9 Days
Till Easter
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 110: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1958
Price Five Cent*
New Look In Drill
—Battalion Staff Photo
Members of “B” Armor exhibit the new juniors, summer camp prospects, needed
style begun in yesterday’s drill period— practice in forming for physical training,
physical training—which temporarily re- an everyday occurrence at the summer ses-
placed the close order drill characteristic sions. The idea spread,
of Thursday afternoons. The reason: Corps
Donald Cloud Chosen
Corps Sergeant Major
Donald Roy (Don) Cloud, junior
economics major from Kerens, to
day was named Corps sergeant
major.
Cloud was chosen from 13 candi
dates selected by the Corps staff
and various tactical officers. He
will take over hi§ new duties im
mediately.
The ranking non-commissioned
officer in the Corps was a member
of Squadron 11 before being named
to the Corps staff this year as
intelligence sergeant.
He is a member of the Ross
Volunteers, the Student Senate and
vice president of the Memorial
Student Council and Directorate.
Cloud is a Distinguished Student
and was outstanding freshman in
the Air Science section in 1956.
He was recorder for SCONA II,
candidate for outstanding sopho
more from the 1st Wing in 1957
and a wing color guard that same
year. Also in his list of accom-
Don Cloud
Most Civilian Halls
Shun Honor Code
A majority of the dormitory
councilmen voiced objections last
night to the including of the Civil
ian student body in an honor code
similar to the one proposed by
Corps seniors.
Principal reason given to the
Civilian Student Council president,
Billy McKown, who asked for the
opinion poll from the dorms, was
ignorance of the code.
Councilmen from two Civilian
dorms said that at least some of
the members of their respective
housing units changed their opin
ions against the code once it was
adequately explained. Several
other dorm representatives said
that their halls objected only to
“parts” of the code.
A four-man committee, compos
ed of McKown, Fi’ed Hartman,
Tommy Beckett and Demsey Bur
ton, was appointed by the council
to draw up tentative plans for a
code more agreeable to the Civil
ian students. They were also
charged with informing the indi
vidual dorms about the new Civil
ian code.
Also discussed at the meeting
was the proposed reserve-seating
plan for Civilians next year in
Kyle Field. Members were asked
to turn in any suggestions to the
committee working on the plan.
Bennie Zinn, head of Student
Affairs and advisor for the Coun
cil asked the Councilmen to “ask
around” and find out students’
opinion on housing during sum
mer school. Zinn said that four
parking lots, Law and Puryear,
Guion, Walton and Dorm 17, were
slated for hard-topping this sum
mer and no parking would be al
lowed there. Thus, students living
in these dorms would have to park
their cars in the south area. Al
ternate plan he suggested was for
students to live in dorms 2, 4, 6,
8, 10 and 12 in this area during
the summer, rather than in dorms
nearer the center of the campus.
He pointed out that one disad
vantage of this plan was the lack
of cafeteria facilities in Duncan
Dining Hall; Sbisa has served
three meals a day cafeteria style,
in past summers.
nlishments is membership in the
Debate Club, the Economics Club,
the AlChe, Great Issues Commit
tee , MSC Council and the United
Nations Club.
Announcement of Cloud’s new
position came two cfny 8 after it
was scheduled because of the
absence of one member of the six-
man screening board of officers
which interviewed the 13 candi
dates.
Members of the board included
Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant; Lt.
Col. Taylor Wilkins, assistant com
mandant; Maj. Charles M. Taylor,
assistant to the commandant; Col.
Delmar P. Anderson, PMS&T; Col.
Henry P. Dittman, PAS; and Jon
Hagler, Corps commander.
Battalion Vacation
Begins Wednesday
The Battalion will not be pub
lished next Wednesday, the last
day of classes before Easter hol
idays.
Members of The Battalion staff
will leave Wednesday morning
on a field trip to publish weekly
editions of the Cleveland Advo
cate and the Liberty Vindicator.
The Battalion will be published
Tuesday.
Weather Today
College Station forecast calls
for partly cloudy with a possibility
of light showers tonight. The mer
cury is expected to reach a high
of 75 today, with a low tonight of
50 degrees.
Juniors All Ready
For Banquet, Ball
Members of the Class of ’59 will
make Sbisa Hall their headquart
ers tomorrow night as they crown
the Junior Sweetheart from five
finalists at the annual Junior Ban
quet and Ball.
An Easter theme backdrop dom
inated by “Harvey the Rabbit”
will form the setting for the ac
tivities which begin with a filet
mignon banquet at 6:30, followed
by the ball. Russell Jackson and
his Orchestra, a Houston ensem
ble, will provide music for danc
ing.
Max Stansbury, assistant man
ager of Continental Oil Company’s
Industrial Relations Department,
will deliver the banquet speech,
The title of his talk is, “The Man
Most Likely.”
Instructors of junior Military
and Air Science classes will be
special guests at the affair.
The five finalists for Junior
Sweetheart and their escorts are:
Frances Andrus, by Thomas Bra-
evnec; LaDonna Perryman, by
Hugh Norris; Patsy Murrell, by
Ted Ashby; Rita Jean Matus, by
Albert Ormsby; and Ginger Ga-
ede, by John Sackett.
Tickets to the ball are $2.50 if
purchased in advance at the Stu
dent Activities Office, YMCA, or
$3 if purchased at the door. Ban
quet tickets, have gone off sale.
Rue Pinalle Tonight
For early arriving dates, Cafe
Rue Pinalle will offer dancing and
floorshows tonight as a prelude to
the Junior Banquet and Ball.
The “Aggie version of a French
nightclub” opens its doors at 8:30
with dancing- to a jukebox contin
uing until midnight.
Harrington Confirms
Ousting Of Strader
Atomic Experts
Due for Talks
Approximately 20 of the nation’s
top authorities on atomic energy
will speak to delegates of the First
Texas Conference on Utilization of
Atomic Energy Monday through
Wednesday in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Gordon Dean, former chairman
of the Atomic Energy * Commis
sion, will be featured speaker at
the meeting. He will address the
conference, the first statewide
meeting of its kind, at a banquet
at 7 p.m. Monday.
The conference is being held to
discuss practical, peacetime appli
cations of atomic energy to fields
ranging from agriculture to pe
troleum production to medicine,
Richard E. Wainerdi, coordinator
of the A&M nuclear reactor pro
gram, said.
Five genei-al areas will be cov
ered in the three-day meeting, he
added. The five areas are: nuclear
reactors, isotopes and their uses,
nuclear waste disposal, petroleum
industry applications of atomic
energy and need in nuclear edu
cation.
Monday sessions will deal with
nuclear reactors and the uses of
isotopes. Diagnostic and thera
peutic uses of radioactive mater
ials in medicine and industrial and
agricultural uses of radioactive
isotopes will be discussed in sec
ond-day sessions.
Wednesday sessions will center
around needs in nuclear education
and will feature addresses' by Dr.
Kenneth S. Coleman, of the A-
tomic Enei-gy Commission and a
panel made up of representatives
from the AEC, the Oak Ridge In
stitute of Nuclear Studies, the
American Society for Engineering
Education, Battelle Memorial In
stitute, General Electric Company,
Convair, Southern Methodist Uni
versity and McMaster University.
Practical, peacetime applica
tions of atomic energy are, of
course, the immediate reason for
our conference on the utilization
of atomic energy,” Wainerdi said.
“There are virtually unlimited po
tentials for atomic energy in the
future of Texas, already an in
dustrial empire.
“We are already making tre
mendous uses of radioactive iso
topes in the field of petroleum
production and distribution alone.
“And there are innumei’able
fields such as medicine, agricul
ture, heavy industry, instrumenta
tion, space flight and many more
to which they can be applied.
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Fish Jethro
Rounds Out
Wanted List
Fish Jethro, another noted mem
ber of Cadet Slouch fame, is the
final name on the Aggie Players’
wanted list.
Jethro is being sought to play a
part in “We Is The Aggies,” an
Aggie Follies production slated for
May 9 and 10 in G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
Some of Fish Jethro’s character
istics include a very short haircut,
a blank expression, medium build,
and a love for water fighting and
flunking quizzes.
Other members of the famed Ag
gie crew are also objects of the in
tensive search, and after their cap
ture, will try out for parts on Mon
day night.
Anyone who wishes to try for
one of the roles should see E. K.
Esten, Jim Earle or any member
of the Aggie Players.
Says Jnefficency
Reason for Firing
President M. T. Harrington yesterday confirmed the
report that Ross Strader, director of Student Publications,
is not being recommended for employment in the fiscal year
beginning Sept. 1, 1958.
He said “the final responsibility for this recommendation
is mine and is based on the f~ct that this individual’s services
have not been satisfactory.”
Harrington said Strader had been notified of reasons
for the action “through proper channels.”
Last night Strader said that Dr. Robert B. Kamm, Dean
of Student Personnel Services, told him “the only reason Dr.
Harrington gave for his action was that my services had
♦■been unsatisfactory.’ 1
“He gave me no
Tuesday Ballot
To Fill Three
City Positions
Three city council positions will
be filled Tuesday when the polls
open for the College Station mu
nicipal election.
Seven men are in the race for
the three slots. No candidate filed
to oppose Mayor Ernest Langford,
who is running for re-election.
Running for the Ward 1 post
are Frank Brown, owner of a Bry
an wrecking concern and Carl
Landiss of the A&M Health and
Physical Education 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,
Throe men filed for the Ward 2
position. Joe Sorrels is seeking
re-election to his seat. Opposing
him are David Fitch, of the A&M
School of Business Administration
and Troy McElroy, owner of a
local Venetian blind firm. Ward 2
takes in the territory in College
Hills south of Lincoln Avenue and
east of Highway 6.
In Ward 3, A. P. Boyett seeks
re-election with Billie J. Fluker,
of the Engineering Experiment
Station, opposing him. Ward 3 is
the North Gate area and the sec
tion north of Lincoln Ave. and
east of Highway 6.
Voting will take place at the
city hall, with the polls open from
8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Coeds Selling Greenbacks
-Battalion Sta/f Photo
Pat Briggs, center, and Linda Vaughn, right,
representatives of Sam Houston State Col
lege, were in the Memorial Student Center
yesterday selling “Round-Up Currency”,
legal tender for the Sam Houston Round-Up
April 17, 18, and 19. The coeds are giving
their sales pitch here to Marion Brooks, “C”
AAA freshman from Alpine, but the girls
didn’t meet with too mu*h success during
the day. Said one: ‘‘We could have sold
plenty if we had accepted dates with each
sale.”
specific
reasons,” Strader said.
Student Publications is ad
ministered through Kamm.
Student Publications has recent
ly captured five highest honors
(medalist ratings) in a national
competition sponsored by Columbia
University.
The Battalion also won third
place and $100 for promoting traf
fic safety in a national safety con
test. It has been in the top three
places in this contest every year
since Strader has been director.
Harrington’s statement went on
to read:
“This sort of information is
normally kept confidential until
the recommendation has been made
to the Board of Directors and
action has been taken by the board.
“The college has no desire to em
barrass the individual concerned in
a matter of this type or to hamper
him in seeking a new position,”
President Harrington said.
“This information, however, has
been published in our student
newspaper and I therefore believe
it to be in the best interests of the
college to make a clear and final
disposition of the matter,” the
president said.
The Battalion, under the adviser-
ship of Strader, has been question
ed for its editorial policy by Dr.
Harrington on two occasions this
school year.
Strader, howevei', under the Stu
dent Publications Board by-laws is
given no authority to dictate edi
torial policy to the student editor.
The student editor makes all final
decisions.
Joe Tindel, Battalion editor, said
last night he felt Harrington is re
moving Strader because he “failed
to keep certain stories offensive to
the administration from being
published.”
“If this is the reason Mr. Strader
is being fired, then Dr. Harrington
has got the wrong man,” Tindel
said.
“The responsibility rests firmly
on my shoulders. If the president
wants to fire someone for printing
the news, let him fire me.”
Cancer Crusade
President Named
Tom Mahoney, president of the
Central Texas Life Underwriters
Assn., will lead the 1958 Cancer
Crusade in Brazos County, local
headquarters of the American
Cancer Society located in Bryan
reported today.
The educational and fund rais
ing drive begins Monday.
As chairman of the local cam
paign, Mahoney will dmect the
Brazos County drive toward its
quota of $55,000. The nationwide
goal is 30 million dollars. The
money will be used to fight can
cer through research, education
and service.
Cancer is classified the No. 2
killer in America.
In cooperation with the Cancer
Crusade, President Eisenhower
and Governor Daniel have pro
claimed April as Cancer Control
Month.