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18,440 READERS THE BATTALION Cotton Pageant Tomorrow Nite Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus Number 118: Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1958 Price Five Cents And the Water Flew! '• £’ Battalion Silu.it Photo Law and Puryear Halls started a water fight last night that soon spread to other Civilian dorms and eventually reached the Corps dorms in the old area. The water-tossing started about 7:30 and lasted about one hour. Only casualties reported were several wet Aggies. 1 Exhibits, Talks on Tap For Pan America Week In an effort to promote Pan American unity and better under standing the Memorial Student Center Council and Directorate launches the third annual Pan American Week Saturday night with a Cafe Tropical dance. During the week of festivities special events will include a Great Issues talk by Dr. Hector Santaella, ambassador to the Unit ed States from Venezuela, next Friday night. Held in conjunction with nation al Pan American Week, April 14- 19, the event will also present ex hibits, displays, lectures, Latin American menus in the MSC and movies, including a special feature by the Film Society Saturday night in the MSC Ballroom. Under the guidance of the MSC Pan American Week committee, co chairmaned by Hugh Wharton and Floyd Christian, the special week is also centered around the Organi zation of American States, an or ganization of countries of North and South America initiated to pro mote mutual defense and foster in ternational goodwill. At present there are 83 students enrolled from 16 of the 17 Central and South American republics in Deficit Up Says Ike’s Budget Chief HOUSTON, Tex.—(A*)—President Eisenhower’s budget chief says it looks as though the federal deficit this year will be 3% times as big as anticipated. He advised against hasty antirecession measures. Budget Director Maurice Stans sailed into Congress Wednesday for spending programs which he said sidetrack any hope of balanced budgets for 1959 and possibly sev eral more years. “It’s been truthfully said that unbalanced national budgets are like pants without suspenders. You can’t keep them up forever,” he warned. In a blunt accounting of the gov ernment’s financial situation, Stans dealt out figures and arguments to bolster Eisenhower’s assertion Wednesday that emergency meas ures can wait awhile. His speech was prepared for the Houston chapter of the American Society of Chartered Life Underwriters. Architect Chosen To Do Research Bob H. Reed, associate research architect of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, has been ap pointed to the Research Executive Committee of. Illuminating Re search Institute, New York, N. Y. He joins five other men examin ing research proposals submitted for sponsorship to the Institute. A&M. These students ai’e the main aim of the program, said Wharton. Cafe Tropical, patterned after Cafe Rue Pinalle, will be held in the MSC ping pong area Saturday night from 8-12 with tickets selling for $1.50 per couple. The dance will be decorated with a Latin American twist and the intermis sion talent will present numbers along the theme of the program. Dave Woodard and his combo will furnish music for the dance. College Vice President Earl Rud der issued a proclamation recogniz ing April 12-19 as Pan American Week on the A&M campus. After issuing this proclamation, Rudder commended the MSC Council and Directorate for its efforts to build a better understanding and appre ciation of the culture, customs and traditions of our Latin American neighbors. Gov. Price Daniel issued a proc lamation making April 14-19 offi cial Pan American week in Texas. Cotton Friday Pageant in Guion King Cotton and Queen Cotton will be crowned tomorrow night in Guion Hall as the feature event of the 24th annual Cotton Page ant, which will be followed by the Cotton Ball in Sbisa Hall. Merril Adamcik, senior agron omy major from El Campo, will be crowned king. The queen will be chosen from among 100 nomi nees of beauties from all parts of the state. The nominees will rep resent various campus organiza tions. A. L. Ward, director of Educa tion Service, National Cottonseed Products Association, Dallas, will crown Adamcik. The queen will be selected by two Dallas fashion expei’ts and a professional photo grapher and will be presented flowers by Miss Nancy Norton, A&M Sweetheart. Ann Hite, dance major at Texas Christian University; Robert Boone, music and drama director at A&M Consolidated; Mrs. Ann Harrison; and Edward Burkhead, Singing Cadets soloist, will pro vide entertainment for the page ant which will have a deep south theme. Master of ceremonies will be Murray Cox, farm editor of WFAA, Dallas. Music will be furnished by Bill Turner and the Aggieland Orches tra. Tickets for the pageant are $1 per person, and ducats for the ball sell for $2 a couple. Special coup les tickets for both affairs are on sale at Student Activities in the YMCA or room 101, Agronomy Building, until 5 Friday afternoon. The singles tickets may be pur chased at these places or at the gate. (See Pictures, Page 3) 1200 Elect Finalists For Campus Offices Kiwanis Hear Stark Tell MSC Stories Anything can—and usually does —happen in the Memorial Student Center, J. Wayne Stark, director of the center told College Station Kiwanians Tuesday. Stark made the statement as he gave a talk on unusual happenings that he has encountered in the MSC. A typical example of incidents cited was the time, shortly after the building's opening, when Stark saw a former student, lugging a 50-pound block of ice on ice hooks through the MSC lobby. Asked what his intentions were, the for mer student informed him that he was merely going to have refresh ments in his room. Promptly dispatched from the premises with his chunk of ice, the former student was caught shortly afterward dragging the burden up the fire escape. The ice was then confiscated by MSC personnel to put an end to the party ideas. Another incident was the letter Stark received from a correspon dent obviously bent on saving time with abbreviations. The letter was addressed, to the “Memorial Stud Center.” Civilian Council Has Full Slate Members of the Civilian Student Council will discuss an amendment proposal to their constitution to night at their regular meeting in the Memorial Student Center. Under the heading of new busi ness, the council plans to notify the Civilian dorm councils of their reasons for changing elections from the fall semester to the spring semester. Also on the agenda are commit tee reports from the Mother’s Day Committee, the Council Banquet Committee, the Honor Code Com mittee and the Seating Plan Com mittee. The Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the MSC Senate Chamber. Weather Today College Station forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy today and tomorrow, with a high today of 75 degrees and a low tonight of 52. Two Candidates IS/a m ed On trigh t By JOHNNY JOHNSON J. T. (T) Hearne and Robert F. (Bob) Turner were the only two candidates winning their class officer spots without a run-off as almost 1200 Aggies went to the polls yesterday to select class officers. Eighteen class offices will still be up for grabs Tuesday in the run-off election. In order to win without a run-off, Hearne, new student entertainment manager, and Turner, new Memorial Student Center Council representative, had to have 20 per cent of the total vote more than the next highest candidate, except in Turner’s case where there were only two men running for the office. +■ In the other races run off spots were determined in races with more than five candidates with the top three men making the run-off while in offices with five or less candi dates, only two run-off candidates were picked. William McLaughlin was the on ly unopposed candidate. He was named Class of ’58 agent. In Class of ’59 elections, R. R. (Dick) Noack, Gary Pepper and William Ross Brienhoeter are run off candidates for president. Mar ion F. Stone, S. P. (Greer) Voinls and J. K. (Jack) Swann are in the run-off for ’59 vice president. R.T.G. (Bob) Lassiter and Leo (Len) Dorney are secretary-treas urer run-off candidates for the Class of ’59 and John David Sack- ett and T. J. Johnson are social secretary candidates. Historian candidates^ making the run-off are Steve A. Edminston, Joe L. Guinn and Calvin D. Campbell. Thomas (Killer) Miller, E. E. (Gene) Fudge and R. D. (Smoky) Hyde are candidates for the yell leader spots. The highest of the top two candidates will be head yell leader. Class of ’60 elections found Al len Burns, William B. Heye and Floyd H. Christian as presidential run-off candidates. Vice-presiden tial run-off nominees are Stanley Wied, Thomas R. Hamilton and Tommy W. Brown. John L. Lenamon, Wayne Schnei der and Jerry Don Smith are Class of ’60 secretary-treasurer run-off candidates. F. (Buck) Buchanan, J. (Danny) Chapman and Max W. Woodard gained spots in the run off race for social secr-etary. Dave Blue and F. Rush McGinty (See ELECTION Page 3) College Station Chest X-Rays Now Underway Brazos County’s TB X-ray survey began today at South- side Shopping Center, with special emphasis on persons over 50 years of age. Tomorrow the mobile X-ray unit from the State Health Department will also be in operation for the benefit of College Station citizens. Bryan chest X-rays will begin Mon day and continue through April 25, with the exception of Monday, April 21, a holiday. This year the State Health De partment has asked the local TB association to emphasize quality of effort, rather than numbers, as the plan for the survey. The survey will be. centered on the 50 years and over age group, since this group is the major source of TB cases in Texas. Those 20-49 years of age must have a card from a doctor, the health unit or the tuberculosis as sociation to get at X-ray. Young people 15-19 years of age must have had a positive reaction to a tuberculin test before an X-ray may be given. Ran Boswell, chairman for Col lege Station, has asked Mrs. H. B. Sorenson, president of the Council of Church Women, to secure vol unteer workers for College Station. Costs of the survey are paid out of funds provided from last year’s Christmas Seal sales. Troops Halt Cuban Revolt In Havana HAVANA, (JP) — A bold rebel uprising fizzled out under police gunfire in Ha vana Wednesday and set off a Batista government counter offensive that raged through the night. Blood flowed in widespread gun fights. Twenty-three rebels have been counted dead since the abortive revolt was launched. Late Wednesday night the esti mated toll of I'ebel dead was more than 30 and the figure was expect ed to go even higher. Two policemen were killed and several wounded. The rebels’ vaunted genei’al strike call was a failure. President Fulgencio Batista’s tough, heavily armed national po lice ranged about the capital and its suburbs with orders to break up , rebel nests and shoot to kill any motorist sighted with ai’me or sabotage devices. Motorized and foot patrols were reinforced. The heat was on in the govern ment’s challenge to the followers of i’ebel leader Fidel Castro. He declared total war last Saturday by the Cuban people against “the tyranny of Batista.” The main army and navy forces in Havana stood by in their garri sons, awaiting a call to crush any armed opposition that might be too tough for the police. Rebel sabotage left some marks. The heart of Havslna was blacked out by gas and electric power fail ures due to bomb explosions. News paper and other offices worked by the light of lanterns and candles. Passion Play Helps Religious Groups A&M religious student groups benefited from selling general ad mission tickets to the Obei’am- mergau Passion Play now playing at Guion Hall. The student groups sold tickets on a commission basis for the play for Student Activities, sponsors of the Passion Play. Horticulture Talk Set Tuesday Night John McQueen, head of the Grounds Maintenance Department, will speak on “Plants of Landscape Significance in Texas” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 22. Public and staff are invited to attend the color-slide-illustrated discussion, which will be given be fore the Horticulture Club. Dr. E. E. Burns of the Horticul ture Department, faculty advisor, extends the invitation, and said, “We’ll be glad to have anyone at tend who is interested in the sub ject.” Wives Revue Night Features Variety BMil jrwiu Song, dance and melodrama will be served up by Aggie wives clubs Monday night when they pre sent Aggie Wives Revue Night at 8 in the Memorial Student Center ballroom. “Dark Town Strutters Ball,” featuring a song and dance by Margaret Fallin, will be presented by Chemical Engineering Wives, while Oceanography Wives will dramatize the question, “This Is Well Dressed “Aggies’ -Battalion Staff Photo Displaying costumes they will wear Monday night in the Aggie Wives Revue are these five Industrial Education Wives. Left to right are Elaine Goolsby, vice president; Annmarie Hillman; Alberta Oehler; Carol Beard; and Mickie Standard, president. Theirs will be a skit on what the well- dressed “Aggie” should wear with an “Ag gie Style Show.” Other acts will include “Six Lit tle Soldiers,” a musical skit by Mechanical Engineering Wives; “Mock Herping Trip,” Wildlife Management Wives, and “Chemi- serie (Chem-Misery)”, with Aero nautical Engineering Wives giving the pros and cons of the chemise. Architecture Wives will show what will happen if “Sorority Life Comes to A&M”; Agricultural Eco nomics and Rural Sociology Wives will present the “Ink Spots,” and Petroleum Engineering Wives will “melodramatize” with “Little Nell.” “A Night Out with the Gang” will be the offering of Business Administration Wives; the Elec trical Engineering Wives will pre sent “The Electrifying Four,” and Industrial Education Wives will give everyone an idea of what the “well-dressed Aggie” should wear with an “Aggie Style Show.” Dames Club has titled its act “Goldielocks and the Three Ag gies,” and Agricultural Education Wives will touch on the subject of co-education with “Here Come the Girls.” What really goes oh at a wives club meeting will be the subject of the Civil Engineering Wives Club skit, “Little Red Riding Hood.” Agronomy Wives will present a “Futuramic Cotton Pageant of 2058,” and Sand Wives hare been rehearsing an all-g’irl minstrel, “Darkest America.” Proceeds from the show will be donated to the Brazos County Council for Retarded Children. Tickets at 50 cents each are on sale at the MSC or Student Activ ities Office and may also be ob tained from any member of a wives club.