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Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 114: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1958
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—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.