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18,440 READERS Number 116: Volume 57 w BATTALION Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1958 ELECTION FILINGS BEGIN Price Five Cents 18 Offices Filled In Tuesday Election Smiling Sea-faring Meteorologists Four members of the Oceanography and Meteorology Department take a break aboard the A&M Research Foundation ves sel, Hidalgo, during a 12-day cruise in the Gulf of Mexico. Members of the scientific party are, left to right, Edward H. Shenton, research scientist at the Galveston Marine Laboratory; Dr. Hugh McLellan, head of the ocean-going party; Walter Charm and Oscar Chancey, marine technicians. CampusChest Sends $200 To Sick Ag Two hundred Campus Chest dol lars were recently sent to Charles R. Hilland, senior mathematics ma jor from Bellaire, who contracted glandular fever over the Easter holidays. This is the third time the sen ate-sponsored chest has come to the aid of an Aggie in need. A total of $500 has been sent to Don Ed Connor, freshman from Hale ^Center, who was injured in a auto mobile accident in Fort Worth dur ing between semester recess. The Campus Chest committee has also sent checks for $187 to World University Service, College Station Community Chest and the Brazos County TB Assn. Sixty per cent of the $1,800 raised in the December drive was set aside for Aggies’ needs such as Connor’s and Hilland’s. 2nd Veto for Bill Ike Kicks Out Water Project WASHINGTON—CP)—President Eisenhower vetoed a 1%-billion- dollar water projects bill Tuesday. Indications appeared he will sign the 1%-billion highway construc tion bill. Both measures have been advo cated vigorously by Democrats as weapons with which to fight the recession. They have had some strong GOP support, too. The veto stopped possible appro priations for 41 million dollars worth of waterways and channels in Texas. “I regret very much that the President saw fit to veto the bill Policeman CS Traffic Melvin Luedke, College Station policeman recently completed the first report on local traffic prob lems ever sent in to the National Safety Council. The report was made in an ef fort to make College Station a safer city to live and drive in, the officer said. It covered all phases of traffic problems and what is being done in an effort to solve them. Luedke has been working on the report for several months and has made studies and brief reports of all traffic accidents happening in side the city limits since. 1954. It also included all traffic violations recorded in 1957 as well as safety programs in the city in an effort to cut down violations and acci dents. “Safety programs such as the Consolidated Schools’ driver train ing program and safe driving cam paigns sponsored by local civic clubs are all a vital part of our day to day safety campaign,” Luedke said. He said the College Station re port would be evaluated and com pared with other cities having sim ilar problems by the National Safety Council and the evaluated report returned. In this way we can learn what other cities are do ing to curb their problems and get new ideas to experiment with and Finishes Study possibly adopt permanently, he added. College Station is in the 5,000- 10,000 population bracket and its report will be compared with those from cities in this group. “It is through such reports and their effect that the nation’s traf fic death toll was cut by 3 per cent last year,” Luedke said. Through a more complete coop eration of public media, stepped up police activities, public accept ance of safety drives, activity of safety organizations, court activ ities and traffic engineering, the National Safety Council hopes to soon cut traffic accident to a minimum. Luedke believes better educa tion of the public is the answer to most traffic problems. “A good driver is the educated driver,” he said. “Most violations and accidents occur through ignor ance and heedlessness, not because the violator wants to break a law.” Weather Today Cloudy today and clearing to- 'night is the forecast for the Col lege Station area. The high ex pected today is 78 degrees, and the low tonight, 55. At 8 this morning the relative humidity was 66 per cent, and the temperature, 62 degrees. a second time,” said J. E. Stur- rock, general manager of the Tex as Water Conservation Assn. “Because of the so-called reces sion, I hoped he would sign it.” Sturrock said Eisenhower’s veto may be overturned by Congress. He said some of the projects did not have the approval of the U.S. Army Engineers or the Bureau of the Budget. Sens. Monroney (D-Okla.), Hum phrey (D-Minn) and Kefauver (D- Tenn) promptly called for a major drive to override Eisenhower’s turndown of the water projects measure. As for the highway bill, Sen. Knowland (R-Calif.) indicated he expects Eisenhower to go along de spite some objections. Vanity Fair, Senior Favorites Due Now Friday is the deadline for sen iors wishing to place entries for Vanity Fair and Senior Favor ites, Roy Davis, 1958 editor of the Aggieland, said yesterday. Entries should be turned in at the Student Publications Of fice in the basement of the YMCA. April 30 Election Filings Open Today Filings for the April 30 general election begafci this morning in the Student Activities Office with deadline for filing set next Wednesday. Student Senate offices, Student Senate Committee heads, a Civilian yell leader and two members of the Student Publications Board will be picked in the election. The presidenj, vice president, parliamentarian and the recording secretary for the Student Senate will bo chosen. Student Senate committee heads to be named are the issues committee, the student life committee, the student welfare committee and the public relations committee chairmen. Kids To Show Pets Saturday At Tiger Field Everything from goldfish to elephants are eligible to enter the 18th annual A&M Consolidated Mother and Dads Club Pet and Dog Show to be held Saturday at 4:30 p. m., Tony Sorenson, show chairman, said yes terday. The pet show, which will be held at the A&M Consolidated Tiger Football Field, will have 30 classes which will allow the entry of any type of pet, Sorenson said. Dogs, however, must be at least six months of age and have a rabies vaccination tag. Posters designed by school-age childi’en for the Saturday show are to be judged today and prizes given the winner. In addition all entries will be displayed in Colleg’e Sta tion store windows tomorrow. In the show, there will be no restrictions on breed or quality of ancestors on any pet and all types, from pedigree-registered to Heinz (57 varieties) may be entered, Sorenson said. He added that if tradition holds true, Tiger Field will resemble a combination zoo and Barnum and Bailey’s menagerie come Saturday afternoon. : A&M Vessel Given Test Cruise in Gulf Hidalgo, the A&M Research Foundation vessel, recently com pleted a 12-4ay test cruise in the Gulf of Mexico to check the effi ciency of the vessel and its equip ment. The Hidalgo, built in 1944 by the Navy as a sub-chaser, was given to the foundation by the Pan American Petroleum Corp. of Houston. The 136-foot vessel is valued at $90,000. One Coi’ps senior and one Civilian senior will be chosen as members of the Student Publica tions Board. Student Senate officer candi dates must have at least a 1.5 grade point ratio. ’Hie president must be a 1958-59 academic sen ior; the vice president has to be a 1958-59 academic junior; the parliamentarian must be an acade mic senior in 1958-59 and the re cording secretary has to be an academic sophomore in 1958-59. Student Senate committee heads must be at least academic juniors or seniors in 1958-59 and have at least a 1.25 g.p.r. Candidates for Civilian yell lead er must have a 1.25 g.p.r., and be a Civilian junior or senior in 1958- 59. The two Student Publications Board members must have at least a 1.5 g.p.r., one must be a Corps senior and one a Civilian senior and must not have participated in the Student Publications program except as a contributor to the “Letters to the Editor” column. UT Professor To Speak On Dating Topic Dr. Robert E. Ledbetter, director of the Methodist Stu dent Center at the University of Texas, will speak on “Dat ing and Mating, at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow on the second floor of the YMCA. “Dating and Mating” will cover such questions as “How Can I Tell It’s Love?”, “Can I Be Sue It’s the Right Person?” and “How Has Sexual Desire Influenced M y Choice?” Dr. Ledbetter will also discuss personality differences and how dating should be used for an effective courtship. Dr. Ledbetter received his B.A. and M.A. degrees fi-om the Univer sity of Texas and in 1950 received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He teaches several Bible classes and a class, “Mai’riage and Family Life,” at the University of Texas. This is the first of four marriage forums that will be presented by the YMCA. The next three forums will be presented on the following three Thursdays. The speakers and their topics will be Dr. Sidney Hamilton, professor in the depart ment of Education and Psychology at North Texas State College speaking on “Sex and Marriage”; Dr. W. C. Bonney, clinical psychol ogist here at A&M speaking on “Tensions and Marriage” and Rev. James Ai'gue, pastor of the A&M Methodist Church on “Faith and Marriage.” ‘Smokey ’HydeNew Head Yell Leader Aggies went to the polls yesterday and completed their selection of class officers for the 1958-59 school year in elections that produced several close races in the 18 disputed contests. Robert (Smokey) Hyde was named head yell leader with 298 votes to E. E. (Gene) Fudge’s 255 and T. H. (Killer) Miller’s 238. Fudge will be next year’s senior yell leader. Class of ’60 yell leaders will be R. M. Biondi and Joe M. Deeper. Biondi polled 252 votes and Deeper received 237. Hubert Oxford had 230 voltes. In th» primary election last Wednesday, Class of ’58 elected William McLaughlin, who was unopposed. Class of — ♦•’59 named J. T. (T) Hearne t- w-* new student entertainment ID i Program Slated Friday By ME Society Outstanding Texas engi neers will give talks at the South Texas Section’s Inter national Geophysical Year Symposium to be held Friday in the Memorial Student Center. Dr. Clifford M. Simmang, head of the Mechanical Engineering De partment, will preside at the sym posium, and Fred J. Benson, dean of the school of Engineering, will present the opening speech. B. M. Robinson, deputy director of Feed Materials Division of the Atomic Energy Commission at Oak Ridge, Tenn., will also take part in the symposium. The subjects will include “The Earth’s Crust and Core,” “Rockets and Satellites,” “Oceanography,” “Minitrack Mark II Houston,” “The Upper Atmosphere” and “Uranium Ore Processing and Nuclear Fuels.” Other joint sponsors of the pro gram include the' American Insti tute of Electrical Engineers, the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers. Registration for the symposium will be conducted by the ASME Student Chapter at the Memorial Student Center at 1 p.m., Friday. $850 Collected In Cancer Drive Local workers for the American Cancer Society started toward their $5,000 goal as they collected about $850 in a doorbell ringing- drive in College Station last night. The money was turned in last night and more is expected to be turned in today, Tom Mahoney, looal chairman of tho society, said. “About 350 workers joined in the door-to-door campaign, receiv ing a very receptive greeting,” Mahoney said. “Ninety per cent of the homes visited donated to the campaign.” The money collected by the local workers will go to the American Cancer Society, a national volun tary health agency, to fight can cer through research in finding- new cures, professional and public education and service to patients. manager and Robert F. (Bob) Turner, Memorial Student Center representative. Wth 1345 votes cast in the elec tion, the Class of ’61 turned out the most with 483. Class of ’59 was next with 441, while the Class of ’60 had 421. Gary Pepper was elected Class of ’59 president with a total of 181 votes to 144 for William Ross Brinkoeter, the next highest candi date. R. R. (Dick) Noack polled 121 votes. Class of ’59 vice president will be S. P. (Greek) Voinis with a six- vote margin, 157-151, over J. K. (Jack) Swann, followed by Marion F. Stone with 133. Leo (Len) Dorney won out over R. T. G. (Bob) Lassiter, 220-208, for ’59 secretary-treasurer. John D. Sackett polled 246 votes to T. J. Johnson’s 185 for social secretary. Class of ’59 historian is Steve A. Edmiston with 160 votes to 153 for Joe L. Guinn and 112 for Calvin D. Campbell. In Class of ’60 elections Allen Burns retained his job as president with 203 votes to 165 for Floyd H. Christian and 92 for William B. Heye. In the day’s closest election Thomas R. Hamilton was picked ’60 vice president by three votes, 179-176, over Stanley Wied. Tom my W. Brown garnered 95. Wayne Schneider polled 175 votes to 169 for John L. Lenamon and Jerry Don Smith’s 104 to win the secretary-treasurer race. F. (Buck) Buchanan beat J. (Danny) Chapman and Max W. Woodard for the social secretary post. Buchanan garnered 175 votes to Chapman’s 146 and 132 for Woodard. S. R. (Rush) McGinty, ’61, beat D. (Dave) Blue, ’61, 329-154, for the Classes of ’60 and ’61 Memorial Student Center Council post. In the Class of ’61 elections in cumbent Charles (Clint) Murphy held onto the president’s office with a 265-133 margin over T. J. (Jim) Reeves. Don. F. Boren poll ed 91. G. A. (Tiger) Jones won the ’61 vice president’s spot with 221 votes to 143 for Donald Lee Ocker and J. H. (Hamp) Carter’s 118. A. C. (Chris) Elkins won the secretary-treasurer spot with a nine-vote margin. 171-162, over John H. (Johmiy) Johnson. Ken neth W. Moore polled 149. Walter R. Frazier won the social secretary spot with a 250-224 win over E. P. (Ed) Winston. t _____ Five Sophomore Sweetheart Finalists Named Linda Dyess Escort, James Sellers Martha Jo Flynn Escort, Tony Koncak Barbara Russell Escort, Leroy Machemehl Linda Plemons Escort, Joe Brooks Jan Doole Escort, Charles Dollard
