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18,440 READERS Number 111: Volume 57 « BATTALION Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1958 „ , iTnV, inn HAPPY EASTER Price Five Cents Strader Appeals Firing to Directors Chest X-rays To Be Given April 10-25 Russell Hillier has been named chairman for the TB chest April X-ray survey in Brazos county. A mobile X-ray unit from the state health department will he in College Station April 10-11 at the Sputhside Shopping Center, according to Hillier. It will be set up in Bryan at the McCulloch-Dansby Furniture Co. on the 14th of April and start chest X-rays at 1 p. m. It will con tinue through April 2.’), with the exception of Saturday, Sunday and Monday, April 21, which is a holi day. Chest X-rays will be given from 8:20 a. m. to !):20 p. m. each day. Any person HO years of age or older has been urged to get a chest X-ray while the un.it is in Brazos county, since two-thirds of the abnormal X-ray film reports concern persons in this age group. Over 00- per cent of the deaths from tubeculosis in Texas last year were also in this age group. In the 20 to 49 age group only those who have a good medical reason will be issued a card by the TB Association permitting an X-ray. In the 15 to 19 age gi’oup only those who have had a positive re action to a tuberculin test will be given an X-ray. Hillier, who served as county chairman for the last county X-ray survey, is doing everything pos sible to make it easy for those in the older age group to have X-rays this year. Kamm Tells Group Of Education Ills Dr. Robert B. Kamm, dean of the Basic Division and Student Personnel Services, outlined his ob servations on these critical times in American education Monday be fore the American College Person nel Association in St. Louis. Kamm, president of the associa tion, addressed some 1,800 college guidance and student personnel staff members. To meet the problems of the world today we must increase our education facilities and quality, Kamm said. Kamm also told the group that education should once again be co ordinated so as to provide stu dents with a unified and coordi nated educational experience. We must be especially careful to keep the individual in mind in all of our planning for the future, he said. - | mmmmar::: m ■—Battalion Staff Photo Fish Jethro? Larry Day, AAA freshman from San Saba, in “We Is The Aggies”, a Follies production gets “wrinkles” for three members of the coming here May 9 and 10. Ladies in the Aggie Follies’ casting staff. Day and 31 picture are, left to right, Dorothy Ashworth, other Aggies tried out last night for parts Mary Tripp and Jeanette Grover. HS Honors Day Set By Journalism Head Donald D. Burchard, head of the Department of Journalism, has an nounced that the third annual Tex as High School Journalism Honors Day will be held on the A&M cam pus April 25-2(5. The conference is honoring high school boys who do outstanding work on school publications, to help create an interest in these ac tivities and to acquaint the stu dents with opportunities offered in journalism at Texas A&M. Nominations from the schools across the state have been pouring into the department in Nagle Hall, with over 80 forms already receiv ed. The guests will register in Room 9 of Nagle Hall as soon as they arrive on campus in the Journal ism Department office. The Fri day program will include supper in the A&M dining halls followed by a welcome by Burchard and Jim Neighbors, President of the A&M Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi. Af ter the welcoming addresses, there will be an interesting talk by Har old Pyle, associate editor of The Houston Chronicle, titled “Jour nalism as a Career,” and another speech by Jack Bowen, city editor of the Bryan Daily Eagle, on news paper publication. Saturday morning, the group will be addressed by Harry Gillam, manager o f television station Aero Majors Await $1 Million Tunnel The largest and most modern low-speed wind tunnel to be op erated by any college or univer sity in the South is expected to be ready for use at A&M by Septem ber. The tunnel is the result of a long-range development program by the college, to which Temco Aircraft Corporation of Dallas has contributed more than $180,000. When completed the new tunnel will be worth more than one mil lion dollars, Temco officials esti mate. Temco has provided funds for the tunnel since 1955 after studies showed the need for such facilities in the Southwest. The tunnel will be used for re search by advanced aeronautical engineering students and many in dustries in the South. Alfred Cronk, head of the Department of Aeronautical .Engineering, called it the finest type of low speed wind tunnel that can be built. Cronk said many things besides aircraft can be tested with the tunnel, including models of build ings, bridges, roof ventilators, cars and chimneys. The tunnel is a huge steel rec tangle about 182 feet long and 70 feet wide with a 80-foot diameter steel mouth through which air is drawn in. A 1500 horsepower mo tor provides air speeds up to 200 miles an hour inside the tunnel. The system is precise enough to measure wind forces of as much as a ton and a half, but can detect variances of as little as l.G ounces. Weather Today College Station forecast calls for cloudy skies and a few showers to day, and possible showers and thun derstorms tonight. A high of 67 de grees and a low of 48 are expected. At 8 this morning the relative humidity was 94 per cent, and the temperature, 58 degrees. KBTX-TV, followed by Joe Ken drick, national advertising mana ger of the Waco News-Tribune, speaking on advertising. A very interesting movie titled “Versatility Unlimited,” produced by the Bureau of Advertising of American Newspaper Public Asso ciation will also be shown. There will be a presentation of awards by Burchard and Neigh bors following the speeches, with the outstanding students receiving a certificate from the A&M Col lege Department of Journalism for themselves and an identical copy for their schools. The afternoon will furnish many sporting events to be seen, as the Sports Day-High School Day cere monies overlap, and in the evening, the students will get the first peek at the single wing—a la Jim My ers—to cap off their weekend. Math Contests Announced For Fish and Sophs Annual Mathematics Con tests examinations will be given to interested freshmen and sophomores Tuesday, April 22, Dr. E. C. Klipple, head of the Mathematics Depart ment, has announced. The freshman examinations will be held in Room 223 of the Acade mic Building and the sophomore exams in Room 225. The exams are to be given between 7:30 and 9:30 p. m. First prize in each of the con tests will be a gold wrist watch. Second and third prizes are $15 and $10 in cash, respectively. All freshman awards and the second and third place sophomore awards are provided by the Robert F. Smith Memorial Fund, establish ed in memory of the late Prof. Robert E. Smith. The first prize for the sopho mores has been obtained through the H a 1 p e r i n Award Fund, established by the estate of the late Prof. H. Halperin. Both pro fessors were members of the Mathematics Department. To qualify for the contests, freshmen must be enrolled in Math 104 and not repeating any freshman math course. Sophomores must currently be enrolled in Math 210 without repetition in any sophomore math course. Final Tryouts For Follies Set Tonight Final tryouts for a part in the 1958 Aggies Follies production of “We Is The Aggies”, riddled with Cadet Slouch characters, will be held tonight in 7 in the Music Hall, C. K. Esten, advisor, said last’ night. The play, written by Jim Earle and directed by John Gladwell, will be presented on May 9 and 10, Fri day and Saturday nights of Mother’s Day Weekend. Earle is the originator of the famed Cadet Slouch cartoons. Four main parts and a host of minor roles are open to anyone who can meet requirements. Slouch, Simp, Fish Jethro and non-reg Cedric are the big parts in the play, but actors are needed to fill the roles of officers, sergeants, butlei’S and others. About 32 aspirants were on hand for the first tryouts last night. Earle said anyone could still try for the parts tonight even if they were not on hand last night. Several x’oles in the production will be filled by gix-ls. About six were on hand last night for an audition and any othei’s ai'e in vited to show their talents tonight. HoustonGal Named Junior Sweetheart Brunette, 18 year-old Frances Andi’us was ci’owned Sweetheai't of the Class of ’59 at their ball Satur day night in Sbisa Hall. Miss Andrus, escorted by Thom as Bx-aevnec, was selected from a field of five finalists. She is pre sently employed by the Maryland Casualty Company of Houston. An Easter theme backdrop domi nated by “Harvey the Rabbit” formed the setting for the activi ties which began with a filet mignon banquet. Max Stansbux-y, assistant manager of Continental Oil Company’s Industrial Relations Depai'tment delivered the banquet speech, “The Man Most Likely.” Library Hours Cut For Spring Recess Due to spring holidays, the Cushing Memoi'ial Librai’y will be gin .a modified schedule tomorrow, Michael V. Krenitsky, assistant librarian, has announced. The library will be open from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Wednesday and Thux-sday. It will not be open Fri day, Saturday and Sunday, but will open from 8 a. in. to 5 p. m. Mon day. A&M Students To Take Over Weekly Papers Eighteen students from the A&M Journalism Department will leave early Wednesday morning on an annual field trip to publish two Texas weekly newspapei’s dur ing the Easter holidays, Prof. W. D. Calvert has announced. The students have been divided into two staffs of nine, one of which will take over the Cleve land Advocate and the other which will publish the Liberty Vindica tor. The Aggie issues will be dat ed April 10. STAFFS NAMED Joe Tindel, editor of the Bat talion, has been named editor of the Vindicator and Joe Buser* next year’s Battalion editor, will sexwe as junior editor. The advertising manager of the Vindicator will be Bill Reed, a junior. Other members of the Vindicator staff include Earl Doss, Dave Dan- iell and Tucker Sutherland on the editorial staff and Ervan Zouzalik Jim Moore and Bob Weekley on the advertising staff. John Warner will reign as sen ior editor at Cleveland, with the assistance of Fred Meurer, Bat talion news editor, as junior edi tor. Other members of the edi torial staff ai’e Bob Kerr, Joe Steen and Tommy Keith. Toby Mattox will be advertis ing manager for the Advocate. John DiBattista, Bob Carlisle, and Jim Costen are the other adver tising staffers. HUGE GOAL The goal of each of the two teams is to double the average size of the newspapers axtd maintain 70 per cexxt advertising. Themes of the special editions are devoted to progress in the two cities. This is the fourth year Calvert has taken such teams out during the Easter holidays. All previous trips have been very successful, according to Calvert. Hits Harrington’s ^Inefficient ’Motive Ross Straders, director of Student Publications, yester day appealed to the A&M Board of Directors to reconsider President M. T. Harrington’s request that he not be employed in the fiscal year beginning Sept. 1. Strader told the board in a letter through President Harrington that “this action by the president . . . has been a great shock to me and may have severely damaged my reputation as a person and as a newspaperman.” He pointed out to the board that he had not yet received specific reasons in writing for his removal. He said he had written a letter to the president asking for specific reasons but had not been informed of any since writing the letter. Strader said the only reason he had heard was the one No Batt Tomorrow The Battalion will not be pub lished tomorrow due to the spring recess, which begins officially at 5 p. m. Wednesday. given in a Thursday release by the president saying his “services were not satisfac tory.” The publications director’s ap peal pointed out he had no prior warning of the president’s action and that he had, at no time, “know ingly violated any of the regula tions or directives” which apply to his office and which ultimately stem fx’om the president’s office. Strader told the board that the publications which he advises have won more awards this year than in any previous year. He also report ed the publications program in sound financial condition, pointing out his salary is taken from Stu dent Publications funds rather than tax moneys. The publications dix’ectdr said in the appeal he had expected regular employment and a raise in pay since the Student Publications Board had commended his work, and the board and the dean of Stu dent Personnel Sexwices had rec ommended a raise for the coming year. Dr. Harrington could not be x’eached last night for comment. Strader’s appeal is being made in accoi'dance with the “Objectives and Rules and Regulations for the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College System adopted in 1954 with amendments to June 1, 1954,” Section 15, page 14 which raads as follows: “Any employee, feeling- himself aggrieved, shall have the right of appeal. Appeals shall be in writ ing and shall be fox-warded through the chief executive officer of the college or division concerned and the Chancellor (now the president) to the Board of Directors for con- sidex-ation.” CHS Trustees Up For Election On Saturday The electorate of the A&M Consolidated school district will vote Saturday to fill two positions on the Board of Trustees from six candidates. The two positions are for east of the campus now held by J. R. Jackson and for trustee-at-large now held by J. R. Rodgers. They will be filled by the two candidates receiving the largest number of votes regardless of the section of the district in which they reside. Under a gentleman’s agreement adhex-ed to since the district was organized in 1926, ftie board has been made up of three tmstees from rural areas, three from urban areas and one trustee elected at large. The tx-ustee-at-large has usually been from the urban part of the district. Both Jackson and Rodgers are candidates for x-e-election. Other candidates include James B. Baty, Allen E. Denton Jr., James H. Do zier and Ti-uman R. Jones Jr. One of Five Autos Still Not Inspected Roughly one out of five Texas autos hav» not been inspected as x-equired by state law and only 14 more working days x-emain px-ior to the inspection deadline on April 15, Col Homer Garrison Jr., di- x-ector of the Texas Department of Public Safety, reported. Get Off My Back! With the soccer ball on his shoulder and an unidentified Aggie on his back, a Casa Blanca player tries desperately to overcome a 3-1 deficit in Sunday’s contest in Dallas. The Agg-ies kept their lead and captured the trophy for chtmip- ionship soccer team in Texas. SPORTS Soccer Team Takes Texas Championship The A&M soccer team downed Casa Blanca of Dallas Sunday, 3-1, to capture the Texas soccer championship. The Dallas contest was the final game of the Texas Amateur Athletic Federation’s statewide elimination. The Aggies qualified for the semi-finals by winning five of six preliminary tilts with the Houston Soccer Association and then downing Galan Construction of San Antonio. In Sunday’s game, neither teani scored in the first 45-minute half. Early in the second period, Orlando Cossani' the Aggies’ light inside from Argentina, pushed the first scox-e into the net. Carlos Salinas, A&M’s center forward, tallied twice mox-e, and the Aggies settled down to play defensive ball. Late in the game, Roy Martinez, the Dallas captain, finally pene trated the Aggie defense to score for the hosts. Alfonso Aldajie and Ernesto Alvares, the Aggie goalkeeper, played outstanding ball in pieserving the A&M lead. After the game, the Aggie eleven was awarded the winning txophy given by George Alan Jewelers of Houston. The Aggies face the Houston Blue Stars here on April 13.