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—Battalion StaVI Photo How About Those Shoes? Major R. K. Conoley, Air Science Department Adjutant, appears to be dissatisfied with the condition of this fresh man's shoes. The major was inspecting- Squadron 20 dur ing yesterday’s Federal Inspection. Behind Conoley is David Kingcaid, Commander of the unit, and on his left is First Sergeant Bob Carey. Big Day Outlined for High Schoolers Tty RONALD EASLEY president of the Student Senate, may meet i^ith A. E. Denton, Bask will lead a “pet acquainted” ses- Division counselor, and decide on About 800 high school seniors sion at this time _ A]so feaUired a tour. from all over Texas will have a j s a talk by Col. Joe E. Davis, R. 0. Perryman, assistant regis- chance to look at the A&M cam- commarK j ant) “Military Life and trar, will be in Guidti Hall to ans- pus and its .academic life at the j ts Advantages,” and a speech by wer any questions abqut A&M. A 10th Annual High School and Qjff Ransdell, associate dean of Range and Forestry Department Sports Day tomorrow. g as i c Division on “Academic tour will start in front of Guion. Early arrivals are pouring into am ] Guidance Advantages at Tex- Visitors interested in band work Aggieland today, but the weekend as a&M College.” are asked to meet at Dorm 11 at will begin officially tomorrow Following this session student noon. morning with a opening session in members of clubs and societies on The seniors will receive honorary Guion Ha)l. the campus will lead conducted Sports Day Tickets at 8 a. m. Sat- Vice-President Earl Rudder will tours of the various departments urday in Guion Hall. A&M will give a welcoming address to the at 10:15. Each student may tour take on Texas Christian Univer- students Saturday morning at the department of his choice. Those sity in baseball on Kyle Field at 9:15 in Guion Hall. Bob Surovik, undecided on a course of study 2 p.m. Saturday to kick off Sports BATTALION Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus Number 122: Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1958 Price Five Cents Day events. Later in the after noon there will be a golf tourna ment. Highlighting Sports Day events the Maroon clashes with the White in the annual spring training in tra-squad football game at 7:30 Saturday night on Kyle Field. Guests are being housed for the weekend through the Hometown clubs. M’ost of the students will be housed in single vacancies left in the dorms by students leaving for the weekend. If there is still not sufficient space the Housing Office should be contacted for the use of any other vacant rooms. The students may eat lunch Sat urday at 12:15 in Duncan and Sbisa Dining Halls for 80 cents. Supper will be served at 5:30 Sat urday evening in both dining halls for 80 cents. “We Are the Aggies,” a sound color film about life at A&M will be shown to the students at the Saturday morning session. Weekend activities will officially end after the football game Satur day night, but the students are in vited to stay on the campus Sat urday night and attend he church of their choice that morning. Nixon Favors Tax Slash As Best Recession Fighter Civilian Council Discusses Punishment for Honor Code Punishment for violating an adaptation of the Corps Honor Code applying to Civilian students was one of the major topics discussed last night at a meeting of the Ci vilian Student Council in the Me morial Student Center. A majority of the councilmen Wei’e against the final punishment set by the Corps Honor Code which states that “the only punishment is dismissal from A&M College.” Dick Steadman, representative from Law Hall, presented ex amples of different degrees of honor, some more severe than oth ers, and Tommy Beckett, vice president, suggested probation rather than dismissal fi’om college in cases of lesser degree of honor. Further discussion of the honor code, which is still new and in complete, was brought fourth by Bill McKown, president of the council. “If the honor council shows any favoritisms or if the administra tion doesn’t back the code, we might as well throw the code out the window,” McKown said. The- council also discussed the duties and requirements of mem bers of the 14-man honor council. One of the questions brought be fore the council was whether or not members be restricted to jun ior and senior classification only. McKown was against the re striction. “I don’t think we can* and if we do, I don’t believe we’ll get the code passed,” he said. As it stands the plan provides that members of the honor council-be of sophomore or above classifica tion when elected. Also they will have to live under the code for one year. A report on the Civilian football seating plan was brought before the council by secretary Sammy Ray. He brought “bad news” he said, reporting that the seating plan had been frowned upon by Barlow (Bones) Irvin of the Ath letic Department. Ray said that Irvin wanted a seating plan that would work for all students, and that Irvin felt the council’s plan did not do this. Following the seating plan re port, the election of Civilian rep resentatives May G and the senior barbeque May 8, were discussed. News of the World WASHINGTON, (/P)—President Eisenhower stood dum- founded Thursday as an hysterical red-haired woman scream ed “I’ve got to get to him” and struggled to reach Eisen hower’s side. The episode occurred on the sidewalk in front of the Smithsonian Institution where the President and his wife had just viewed a group of oil paintings by Britain’s Winston Churchill. Secret Service agents and Washington police seized the woman when she was within about six feet of the President, and whisked her off in a car. Secret Service Chief U. E. Baughman later told news- ment the distraught woman told a story of not being- able to collect her Army husband’s monthly allotment checks. ★ ★ ★ CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla, (AP)—Informed sources said Thursday night the second stage of the rocket which hurled a mystery nose cone into space Wednesday failed to ignite. The Air Force, which has abandoned its attempts to recover the cone, had no comment on the reports. it it + CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (H>)—The Navy postponed an attempted launching of a Vanguard rocket with a 20-inch satellite in its nose early this morning. The Navy scrubbed its launching attempt about 1:02 a.m. after long hours of trying. Delmar Deterling Wins $500 Scholarship Delmar Deterling of Schulenburg, center, receives congratulations from Dr. J. C. Mil ler, dean of the School of Agriculture, and Dr. R. C. Potts, assistant dean. Deterling won the annual $500 Ralston Purina Scholar ship, which is based on scholarship, leader ship, character and integrity. His name will be engraved on the plaque along with the three previous winners of the scholarship. Gen. Jerry Lee Urges Seniors Accept Task Brig. Gen William L. (Jer ry) Lee yesterday urged Air Force seniors to accept the challenge of the difficult and seek better leadership quali ties. The Air Force general headed the inspection team which surveyed Air Force ROTC units during the annual federal inspection. Gen. Lee, ’27, said leadership qualities have been sadly lacking in officers who have graduated from A&M since the end of World War II. “A&M has had more men in the service in World Wars I and II than any other school. I have been proud of the school and the men it has produced,” he said. However, Gen. Lee expressed displeasure with many officers graduating from A&M since the end of World War II. He said he felt the cause of their inability to perform many tasks as officers was that many A&M men in recent years have been selecting the easiest possible courses in school instead of the ones which will bring out the best in them. “One thing I’ve learned in the service is that if you are asked to do a certain job you know nothing about, it’s a challenge to get the job done,” the general said. He said officers today need to be instilled with a sense of leadership and that A&M must do its part in making the leaders for the fu ture. Chemistry Society To Hear Iowa Prof Dr. Frederick R. Duke, Profes sor of Chemistry at Iowa State College, will speak to the local sec tion of the American Chemical So ciety Thursday, May 1 at 7:45 p. m. in the lecture room of the Chemis try Building. Duke, who will speak on “Oxida tion-Reduction Mechanisms”, was born in Unityville, S. Dak., in 1917. After three years at Dakota Wesleyan in Mitchell, S. Dak., he entered the University of South Dakota at Vermillion and grad uated in 1937. He received the Ph.D. in chemistry from the Uni versity of Illinois in 1940. His early research works were in the field of organic-analytical chemistry and oxidation-reduction mechanisms. At present, his piu- mary field of interest is the phy sical chemistry of fused salts. At the conclusion of the lecture, Dr. and Mrs. E. B. Middleton will host an informal social hour at their home, 414 Brookside Drive, North Oakwood in Bryan. All members of ACS and their w-ives are invited. * ^ ^ Points Out Tax Cut Army Nurse M ust he Righ t Kind NEW YORK, GP)—Vice President Nixon said last night that if further government action is needed to stimulate recovery, he still believes a tax cut “is the fastest, the best, and surest method to accomplish this result.” He did not advocate tax reduction at this time or say how President Eisenhower felt on this issue. But he did say Eisenhower told him “very bluntly” last week the recession “should not be used for adopting massive new spending pro grams” of types that would “give little stimulation to the economy at this time.” Nixon discussed the question in an address prepared for delivery at the annual dinner of the American Newspaper ♦Publishers Assn.’s Bureau of Teague’s Estimate ,AdveitlMn8 - Knocked by Doctor DALLAS OR)—Dr. W. H. Buck- holts, manager of the Veterans Administration Hospital at Mc- kinney, Tex., Thursday said a Tex as congressman’s claim about uni- used beds at the hospital was in accurate. Rep. Olin E. Teague, College Station, chairman of the Veterans Affairs Committee, had asked President Eisenhower if he knew the Budget Bureau has forced the VA to withhold 4,974 beds from use. Teague said that of that number 557 were not being used at the Mc Kinney hospital. Buckholts said that 447 beds are available at the hospital. Of that number, he said, about 400 are in actual use. in saying ne preferred tax cutting to “a spending binge” that coiild only lead “to a hangover of debt and inflation,” he declared: “However, a tax cut will not do the job unless it is the right kind. It must be designed to put money in the hands of investors and job creators, as well as con sumers.” “If the economy can come through “the present downturn without additional massive govern mental intervention on either the tax front or the spending front,” he said, “that would be desirable because of the ' inevitable deficit that either of such actions would bring.” Whatever steps are necessary, Nixon said, the administration will take. “We can state this one conclu sion categorically,” he said. “There will be no depression in the United States. Involved In Colonel’s Death EL PASO, Tex. (TP)—An Army nurse was confined to quarters Thursday in connec tion with the fatal shooting of her superior officer. Lt. Col Olena M. Cole, 48, Fre mont, Calif., head of the physio therapy section at William Beau- month Army Hospital, died of a gunshot wound April 1G. The shooting took place in the quarters of 1st Lt. Ruby L. Cryer, 28, a physiotherapist at the hos pital. An inforjnation officer at the hospital said investigation indicat ed that Lt. Cryer handed a loaded and cocked pistol to Col. Cole, who was intoxicated at the time, and told her to shoot herself. The hospital spokesman said the investigation showed the colonel fired one bullet from the .22 pistol into her head. He said Lt. Cryer told authori ties she had “a couple of beei’s” before the shooting but was not intoxicated. Guinness Starring In Society’s Film “Kind Hearts and Coronets”, starring Alec Guinness will he pre sented by the Memorial Student Center Film Society at 7:30 to night in the Assembly Room of the MSC, James West, Film So ciety Chairman, has announced. Leaders Review The Corps Of Cadets Reviewing the Corps of Cadets at the Federal Inspection Review yesterday were from left to right, Maj. Gen. Guy S. Meloy, President M. T. Harrington, Brig. Gen. Wil liam L. Lee, Dean John B. Page, Col. Norman D. Aboosh and Col. D. P. Anderson.