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7 18,440 READERS THE BATTALION COTTON BALL TONIGHT Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus Number 114: Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1958 Price Five Cents ( < —Battalion Staff Photo Fire Out! Head Coach Jim Myers looks on as Aggie linemen dig out on sprints as the fourth day of spring football training came to a close yesterday. Myers has been chiefly con cerned with converting the former T-forma- tion Aggies to the speedy single wing he teaches. Civilian Council Lists Honor Code Proposals A four-man committee made up jif Civilian Councilmen last night outlined an adaption of the Corps Honor Code that would apply to Civilian students. The plan, which is still incom plete, followed the basic Corps plan except in cases which would not apply to Civilians. Some of these clauses were modified to fit civilian needs. Tommy Beckett, Council vice president, presided over the meet ing- in the absence of President Bill McKown and outlined the plan. The four-man committee is made up of McKown, Beckett, Fred Hax’tman and Dempsey Burton. In outlining the code, Beckett said that the slogan “Aggies don’t lie, cheat or steal” is well known and the committee hopes to make it a living reality in submitting to the students for approval. The code has the same five basic points of the Corps code; briefly; (1) A student will not knowingly lie; (2) A student will not take another’s property without per mission; (3) A student will not get unauthorized assistance in aca demic woi’k; (4) A student will not shield himself from guilt through a technicality; and (5) A student will be obligated to re port a violation of the code if the By Tucker Sutherland Thixty-five “hams” hang out in a “shack” over the Memorial Student Center bowling alley. However, these “hams” are am ateur radio opex-ators - and the “shack” is the home of the MSC Amateur Kadio Committee Station W5AC. The committee is one of the earliest formed on the campus and today covers the entix-e woxdd via radio. It is not one bit unusual for a ham in College Station to be in conversation with one on the other side of the world, ixx Aus tralia, France, Africa or on a re mote island in the sea. Many times he built the equipment he is transmitting with. “Just what is a ham?” The answer is “. . . a duly authorized person interested in radio tech nique solely with a personal aim.” Here at A&M, the Radio Com mittee has 35 members, 90 per cent of which are hams, the re mainder being those interested ixx getting a license or learning the code and theory. In the United States there are some 150,000 hams but unless offender does not x*epoi’t himself within 24 houi’S. The council also voted approval that befox-e a case of violation be sent to the honor council, it should be first considered by a six-man board of review to decide whether it was a tnxe violation of honor. If it is found to be a true violation unanimously by the review board, it would be sent to the honor coun cil for their investigation and de cision. A unanimous vote would be requii'ed to find a student guilty of a violation of honor. Before a decision can be given by the honor council, it must hear the case fully and give the charged student an oppox-tunity to present his witnesses and evidence. Parts of the plan are yet to be completed, such as who will be eli gible to be on the board of review and honor council, what the pun ishment for an honor violation will be and other details. The council also amended their constitution to px-ovide for elec tion of officex-s in the spi’ing in stead of fall and a complete out line for qualifications of an office holder and councilman. Soixxe, of the requirements are a 1.25 grade point ratio, having been a civilian student from the beginning of the semester in which the election was they perform some public sex-vice in the instances of flood, hurri cane or some other disastex-, they go unnoticed. The local committee pex-formed just such a service in 1956, dur ing- the tox-nado and alert by con veying messages to and fx-om Bx-y- an and College Station. The committee has been relay ing messages from other points in the United States to Texas stations since June 10, 1924, when it was granted a charter from the Amateur Radio Relay League. The location of the committee station, W5AC, or “shack” is in a room above the candy counter in the MSC bowling alley. A large poster near the door indi cates the times at which a mem ber of the committee is available in the “shack” to send messages. Officei’s of the committee are John Deithloff, chaix-man; J. P. Gi-eenwalt, vice chairman; J. T. Maddux, secretary and Bill Heye, treasurer. Next year’s officers are Jerry Horn, chairman; Bill Heye, vice chairman; John Moore, secx-etary and Dick McGaughy, treasurer. held, and residing in the dorm or area he repi-esents for the entire school year he sexwes. Dorm pres idents and counselox-s will be noti fied of the revisions. Other action of the council last night included prepax’ation for the Mothers’ Day open house in dox-m- itories, plans for the council ban quet, study of football seating- plans for next fall and summer housing. In the summer housing plans, a plan submitted for consideration last night proposed opening two or three dox-ixis in the new Corps ax'ea, for the benefit of those stu dents who will need parking facil ities and opening two or three dox-ms in the central campus ax-ea for the benefit of those without cars. Fliers Watch Possible Fall Of Sputnik II DALLAS, (JP)—Three fliers and three of their passengers said they thought they saw Russian’s dogcarrying Sput nik descend in a burst of flame Thursday. Capt. Gene Price of Arlington, Tex., skipper of Delta-American Air Lines Flight 791, said they witnessed the spectacle near Baton Rouge, La. “Of course we aren’t sure what it was we s'aw . . . But we think it is very probable that what we saw was Sputnik II coming into the earth’s atmosphere,” Price said. First Officer F. O. Heffley, Grapevine, Tex., and Second Offi cer R. L. Bonial gave similar ac counts. They said three of their 38 pas sengers also spotted the blazing object on the flight from New Oi’- leans to Los Angeles. “We were just leveling off at 18,000 feet over Baton Rouge,” Price said, “When we first saw it, it appeared to be a jet plane with the sun shining on it. “It was traveling from north west to southeast, just about op posite our dix-ection. Then, as we watched it, we could see it Was going much too fast to be any known type of aircraft. “Then suddenly, it burst into brilliant gi'een and white flames, and began to look like a comet. It looked like a globe-shaped ball of fire trailing a long streamer. But then we realized it was going far too slow to be a comet. Aggieland ‘Hams’ Hang Out in MSC Cotton Pageant, Bali Curtain Rises Tonite 4-— Selection of Queen To High Ugh t Even t By BILL REED Girls, girls and more girls. Girls are the most attractive subjects on the agenda for the 24th annual Cotton Pageant in Guion Hall tonight at 7:30. More than 100 beauties representing various campus organizations will visit the campus from all parts of Texas. The Queen of the Cotton Pageant will be selected from the list of duchesses. Merrill Adamcik, recently named King of the pageant, will be crowned at the affair by A. L. Ward, director of Education service, National Cottonseed Products Association, Dallas. Miss Nancy Norton, 1958 Aggie Sweetheart from Texas ♦Woman's University, will pre- Aggie Wives Revue On Tab Monday Night Aggie wives kick-off an eve ning of fun and frolics Mon day night at 8 in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom when they stage their Aggie Wife Revue Night. The show is sponsoxed by the Aggie Wives Council and is a fund-raising project for the Brazos County Council for Retarded Chil dren, organized last fall to assist the public schools in px-oviding special facilities for the tx-aining- of x-etax-ded children. Toby Hughes will be the mas ter of cex-emonies for the enter tainment which features some 17 acts. “Dark Town Struttex-s Ball,” featuring a song and dance by Max-garet Fallin, will be px-esented by Chemical Engineering Wives, and the Oceanogi^aphy Wives will dx-amatize the question, “This Is Your Wife?” Other skits included in the Re vue are “Six Little Soldiex-s,” a musical skit by Mechanical En gineering Wives; “Mock Herping Trip,” Wildlife Management Wives, and “Chemiserie (Chem- Misex-y),” with Aex-onautical En- gineering Wives giving the pi’os and cons of the chemise. Ruxal Sociology Wives will pre sent the “Ink Spots,” Architecture Wives, “Soi-ority Life Comes to A&M” and Petx-oleum Engineering- Wives will “melodramatize” with “Little Nell.” “A Night Out with the Gang” wil be offex-ed by the Business Administx-ation Wives; the Elec- tx-ical Engineering Wives will pre sent “The Electrifying Four,” and Industx-ial Engineering Wives will give everyone an idea of what the “well-dx-essed Aggie” should wear with an “Aggie Style Show.” “Goldielocks and the Three Ag gies,” wil be the Dames Club’s presentation, and Agi-icultux-al Ed ucation Wives will touch on the topic of co-education with “Here Come the Girls.” The tx-ue picture of the pro ceedings at an Aggie Wives club meeting will be the subject of the Civil Engineering Wives Club act, “Little Red Riding Hood.” Agx-onomy Wives will stage a “Futuramic Cotton Pageant of 2058” and Band Wives have been reheax-sing an all-girl minstrel, “Daxkest America.” Tickets can be obtained at the MSC or Student Activities Office and from any member of an Ag gie wives club for 50 cents. Weather Today The weather fox-ecast for Col lege Station is continued fair to day and tomorrow with scattered clouds. A maximum temperature of 75 degrees is expected, with a minimum of 48. The low this morning was 44 de grees, recorded at 7 a. m. Yestex-- day’s higl^ was 75 at 2 p. m. sent flowers to the queen and her court. Queen Cotton will be select ed by three Dallas fashion ex- pexts and one pxofessional photo- grapher. Mux-x-y Cox, farm editor of Radio Station WFAA, Dallas, will be master of cex-emonies as Miss Mary Jo Baker, TWU student, leads the pax-ade of duchesses on to the stage. King Cotton’s Court King Cotton’s Court will be com posed of Konrad Losen of Lima, Peru; Harold Byars, Anton; Hax-x-y Bux-leson, Max-t; David Bagley, Martindale; Kenneth Potts, Bryan; Walter Cai-lton, Lockhart; Lyle Lovelace, Evant; and Harold Henk, San Marcos. All of these students are members of the Agx-onomy So ciety, sponsor of the pageant and ball. Theme for the pageant has a “deep South” pitch with music and entertainment furnished by Ann Hite, dance major from Texas Christian Univex-sity; Robex-t Boone, music and drama director at A&M Consolidated; Mx-s. Ann Hax-x-ison; and Edward Bulkhead, Singing Cadets Soloist. Immediately following the crowning- of the king- and queen, the Cotton Ball will get underway in Sbisa Dining Hall. Music for the night of dancing- will .be fux-nished by the Aggieland Ox-chestra under the direction of Bill Turner. Px-oceeds fx-om the weekend’s fes tivities will be used to send crop judging teams to the national judg ing contests held in Chicago each year. Tickets for the pageant and ball have been oix sale for over a month. The tickets sold for $1 per person to the pageant, $3 per couple to the pageant and ball and $2 per couple to the ball. Tickets will go off sale at 5 p.m. today. B47 Stratojet Takes Four Lives NORTH COLLINS, N. Y. bT)— A B47 Stx-atojet bomber was i‘ip- ped in two by an explosion high over western New York Thursday and fell to the eax-th, carrying its four crew members to their deaths. A B47 can can-y a nuclear wea pon but the Stx-ategic Air Com mand at Omaha, Neb., repox-ted none was aboaxd. The tanker was about a mile ahead of the B47 when the bomber exploded about 20,000 feet over the rural countryside 20 miles south of Buffalo. Man Parachutes Over 10 Miles LONDON, (A>>—The Air Minis try has x-epox-ted two British air men made the highest emex-gency parachute jump of all time—IOV2 miles—when they bailed out of a crippled jet bomber. The two airman, Flight Lt. J. E. De-Salis, an Australian, and his navigator, Flying Officer P. H. Lowe, went back to duty. Thurs day, none the worse for Wednes day’s record-breaking jump. Tropic Dance Opens Fan American Week A Cafe Tx-opical dance will op en the third annual Pan Amer ican week tomorrow in the Mem orial Student Center as the MSC Council and Dix-ectox-ate combine their efforts to promote Pan Am erican unity and better under standing. Cafe Tropical, Latin Amex-ican version of Cafe Rue Pinalle, be gins at 8 p.m. in the MSC ping Cuban Rebel Sympathizers Given Release BROWNSVILLE, Tex. UP) —Jubilant Cuban rebel sym pathizers left the county jail here Thursday after bonds were posted for them on chax-ges of conspix-ing to violate the U. S. Neutrality Act. The 32 Cuban sympathizex-s and the four crewmen of the boat on which they were arrested near here March 27, danced gleefully and embraced each other as they wex-e given their fx-eedom. Bonds ranging from $500 to $1,- 500 were posted for the 36 men by the United Bonding Insurance Co. of Indianapolis, Ind. Three other Cuban rebel sympathizers were re leased last week. The leader of the 35 mostly Cu ban-born New Yorkers, Arnaldo Baron, and 10 others of the group had resex-vations on an Eastex-n Air Lines flight which was sched uled to arrive in New York Fx-iday morning. Mqst of the rest of the sympa thizers and the four crewmen were setting up residence a the Bella Vista Christian Church. The chap lain of the gx-oup, the Rev. Ignacio Mosqueda Avila, released on re cognizance last week, was collect ing fopd and cots. Bax-x-on said the ax-med expedi tion was attempting to join x-ebel fox-ces in Cuba when it was cap tured by U. S. authorities in the Gulf. pong ax-ea and lasts until 12. The Dave Woodax'd Combo will play popular music for the dance. Tick ets Will be $1.50 per couple. Ronald Ruth will be the master of ceremonies for the floor show which will feature Maria Krutt- schnitt of Southern Methodist U,n- ivei - sity, singing ballads of old Mexico; Beverly Roberts and Joy Guthrie of Texas Woman’s Uiii- versity, dancing to the music of “Tequilla”; and an Aggie quartet, James Hickey, Bob Blakewood, Kinney Solis and Sonny Flox’es playing popular and Latin mu sic. At the same time, movies will be shown in the Main Lounge starting at 7:30 p.m. These sound and color movies are “Fab ulous Fishing”, Costa Rica” and “Land of Eternal Spring.” Headlining the big week will be a Gx-eat Issues talk Friday night by Dr. Hector Santaella, ambas sador to the United States from Venezuela. Exhibits, displays, other lec tures, Latin American food and movies will be included in the week. The special week, co-chahnnan- ed by Hugh Wharton and Floyd Christian of the MSC Pan Amer ican Week Committee, is centered ax’ound the Organization of Am- ei'ican States, an oi'ganization of countries of Nox-th and South Am erica initiated to promote mutual defense and foster intexmational goodwill. Currently thei’e are 83 students enrolled at A&M from 16 of the 17 Centx'al and South American i - epublics. College Vice President Eaxd Rudder issued a pi’oclamation x’ec- ognizing Apxil 12-19 as Pxxn Am erican Week on the A&M campus. Following his proclamation, Rud der commended the MSC Council and Directorate for their efforts to build a better understanding and appx-eciation of the culture, customs and traditions of our 'La tin American neighbors. Api'il 14-19 has been proclaimed official Pan American week in Tex as by Gov. Price Daniel. Cotton Queen Candidate Glenda Sue Scott, one of more than 100 duchesses, is a competitor for Queen Cotton to be named at the 24th annual Cotton Pageant in Guion Hall tonight. She is repre senting Lamar Tech and will be escorted by Charles Dahl.
