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« BATTALION
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 143; Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1958
Price Five Cents
Practice Rescue
Firemen practice a simulated rescue from a burning build
ing during last summer’s 28th annual Firemen’s Training
School. This year’s version of the school gets underway
Sunday as an expected 1,500 firemen and fire marshals
start registering for the school which will last through next
Friday.
Summer Recital Series
Vocalist, Reader
Set Sunday Show
The Memorial Student Center
Summer Music Series will present
Mrs. Jerry Greenwalt, vocalist, and
Warner Dahlberg, dramatic read
er on Sunday afternoon at 3 in
the Main Lounge of the MSC.
Miss Doi’othy Berry will accom
pany Mrs. Greenwalt.
Among other selections, Mrs.
Greenwalt will sing “Poi’gi, Amor,
Qualcha R i s t o r o , ” “Alleluja,”
“Pace, Pace, Mio Dio” and “We
Rise in a Shadow.”
Dahlberg will present dramatic
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Kiwanians Hear
About Convention
Highlights of the 43rd annual
Kiwanis International convention
in Chicago recently were given by
Murray Brown and Harrison
Hierth, both local members who
attended, at the regular College
Station Kiwanis meeting Tuesday.
The two men also witnessed the
laying of the permanent corner
stone for the new headquarters
building of Kiwanis International
on Chicago’s well-known Loop.
Hershel Burgess reported to the
club on progress made on the.for
mation of the Community Savings
and Loan Association.
At the time of the meeting 1,400
shares had been bought and paid
for and another 300 shares had
been committed, leaving only 300
shares still to be sold.
Two new members and several
guests were also recognized by
club president Johnny Longley.
Tempter,” “The Front of St.
Mark’s,” “To a Mouse” and others.
Mrs. Greenwalt is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Sloan of
Pampa. While attending high
school in Pampa, she won first
rating for soloists in her district
for two years. She has done a
great deal of dramatic work and
had the lead in many plays and
dramas.
Mrs. Greenwalt attended North
Texas State College, where she was
a member of Alpha Delta Pi and
a member of the North T'exas Choir
and Grand Chorus. She has sung
in many churches in Bryan and has
given a number of recitals for the
college.
Dahlberg is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. F. I. Dahlberg, Bryan, and
graduated from Stephen F. Austin
High School in 1954. He graduated
from Southwestern University in
June. While in high school he was
a member of the National Honor
Society, National Thespian Society,
Regional winner on the debate team
and assistant director in the re
gional winning one-act play. At
Southwestern he was a member of
the Mask & Wig Players, National
Collegiate Players and a student
member of ANTA.
During the summer he has work
ed with the Aggie Players, played
in “The Mikado” and was stage
manager for the production of “The
Skin of Our Teeth.” He is pres
ently in Temple with the American
Desk Company and has assisted in
organizing a Little Theater group
there. Dahlberg will attend Mi
chigan State University this fall
to work on his master’s degree with
a part time graduate assistantship
in theatre.
Warner Dahlberg
. . . dramatic readings
1,500 Firemen to Invade
Campus for School Sunday
Nine Courses To Be Taught
During Five-Day Training'
An expected 1,500 firemen and
fire marshals will start arriving
on the campus Sunday to register
for the five-day 29th annual Fire
men’s Training School to be held
here Monday through Friday under
the auspices of the State Firemen’s
and Fire Marshals’ Association and
the Engineering Extension Service.
During the week, classes will be
held in nine phases connected with
fire fighting for students from
some 425 Texas cities, industries,
other states and Army, Air Force
and Navy installations, according
to H. D. Smith, chief .of the school.
With classes being held in
various buildings over the campus,
fire fighting demonstrations will
be confined to a 26-acre tract
north of College View.
All equipment and fuels used in
the school have been donated by
cities, the United States govern-
Brief Filed
In Coed Suit
A&M should not be changed
from its present all-male status to
a co-educational institution by
courts, but only by the state legis
lature, Attorney Genei'al Will Wil
son said in a brief filed in the l()th
Court of Civil Appeals in Waco
Friday.
The brief was filed appealing the
ruling of Judge W. T. McDonald of
Bryan who ruled in his 85th Dis
trict Court that two women, Mrs.
Lena Bristol and Mrs. Barbara
Tittle, could attend A&M.
The two women filed suit against
the college after they were refused
the right to register for the 1958
spring semester.
Neither of the two women at
tended the first session of sum
mer school.
In his brief, Wilson contends the
United States Supreme Court has
held that classification by sexes is
a state power. Under this ruling,
Wilson wrote, the A&M Board of
Directors has legislative authority
to set admission standards and has
decided against allowing women to
enroll. He also said that A&M
was set up primarily as a school
for men as it does not offer courses
appealing to women.
“By concentrating upon areas of
instruction of primary interest to
only one of the sexes, an institu
tion is able to advance the quality
and effectiveness of instruction in
these areas, which is more difficult
to achieve when the institution
must seek to fill the varied aca
demic needs of both sexes,” the
brief said.
“Thus an institution is able to
focus its total energy on the edu
cation of one sex without being
distracted by any possible differ-
New Building
To Be Almost
Ready for Use
Two floors of the new wing-
on the Chemistry Building-
will be ready for use by the
time school starts, said Dr. A.
F. Isbell, chairman of the
building committee.
The first and second floor will
be finished first. The first floor
will have freshmen chemistry labs
and three medium-sized lecture
rooms holding about 125 students
each.
Remaining floors will be finished
about one month after school starts
and will have nine offices and pri
vate labs for professors, graduate
student labs for about 60 students,
and some special labs, he said.
The cost of the new wing will be
approximately $1,303,000. This in
cludes building, $1,009,000; furni
ture, $219,000; and special equip
ment, $75,000.
ence between men and women in
the process of education.”
“The judgement of the trial court
finds support in neither the statutes
nor the constitution of this state
or of the United States Constitu
tion,” the brief continued.
Continuing the brief said, “The
action involves questions of the
policy affecting the government of
A&M and the place of the college
in the state’s system of higher edu
cation. Such questions are prop
erly addressed to the legislature
and not to the judiciary.”
Wilson said the state has made
sufficient provision for educating
both sexes in the 18 state-supported
colleges. Viewed as a whole, the
system does not discriminate.
Then added, “Each institution,
including Texas A&M and Texas
Woman’s University, is a mere
part of the whole system, the dis
tinctive contribution of each part
composing the accomplishments of
the whole.”
Wilson said the court also erred
in holding that exclusion of women
violated their constitutional rights.
Arguments on the case are ex
pected to be heard in the Waco
court in September.
The women cannot enroll in a
long semester pending the hearing.
ment and private finns and in
dividuals, said Smith.
During the school some $60,000
worth of supplies will be used as
well as 36,000 gallons of diesel,
gasoline, oil and jet fuel in demon
strations.
The nine courses include an ad
vanced and a primary general
course; an advanced and a pri
mary fire marshals’ course; a fire
men’s instructor course; a fire of
ficer’s course; an industrial fire
protection course; a fire pump
maintenance course; and an armed
services fire protection course;
A special course on the effects
and damage of radioactivity will
be conducted in conjunction with
the fire marshal’s course, said
Smith.
More than 200 instructors, the
top men in all phases of firefight
ing, will be here to teach the
courses, Smith added.
In conjunction with the school,
a short training film, the first of a
proposed series, on how to attack
fires in the average home has been
prepared for use in fire depart
ments throughout the state, said
Smith.
The film, in color, is for instruc
tional use with 20 copies being
available for use.
The school begins with registra
tion Sunday with actual work be
ginning Monday and lasting
through Friday.
'Shorthorn RalF Set
Monday Night
Monday night the Memorial Stu
dent Center Summer Dance Com
mittee will present the first Hide-
A-Way Dance of the second sum
mer session on the Starlight Ter
race of the MSC.
Theme for the dance will be
“Shorthorn Ball” — Aggie version
of what life is like on 40 Acres.
Dress is informal for the dance
from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Music will
be from the jukebox. Admission
will be 25 cents per person.
Col. Frank L. Elder
. . . takes over as PMS&T
Col. Elder Takes
Job as New PMS&T
Col. Frank L. Elder,' infantry,
has been named-professor of mili
tary science and tactics and has
assumed his new assignment.
A native of Kershaw, S. C.,
Col. Elder succeeds Col. Delmer
P. Anderson who has been
assigned to a post in Italy.
Col. Elder, a graduate of West
Point, 1933, come to A&M from
Washington, D. C., where since
1956 he has been, a member
of the staff and faculty of the
Industrial College of the Armed
Forces, Fort McNair.
He served in the 29th Infantry,
Ft. Benning, Ga., 1933-1936; 3()th
Infantry, Manila, P. L, 1938-1940;
16th Infantry, Ft. Jay, 1940-1942;
G-4 80th Division 1942-1943; as
sistant to the Chief of Plans SIS
ETC London 1943-1944; Chief of
Staff Normandy Base Section
—Bu-llaucju sia:r Buoto
John Perry, mechanical engineering gradu
ate student, left, signs up for a modern lan
guage course from E. C. Breitenkamp in
Monday’s registration for the second sum
mer session. With no official figures avail
able until tomorrow morning as registra
tion continues through 5 p. m. today, a drop
was expected from the record 2,520 enrolled
for the first summer session.
France 1944-1945; Logistics Plans,
Department of Army 1948; Deputy
Chief of Staff, Operations, U. S.
Army Pacific Honolulu, T. H. 1949-
1961; Commanding Officer Ha
waiian Infantry Training Center
1952; Commanding Officer Com
bat Training Command and 30th
Infantry Ft. Benning, 1952-54; and
assistant chief of staff, .1-4 Alas
kan Command 1954-1956. Since
1956 he has been a member
of the staff and faculty of the
Industrial College of the Armed
Forces, Fort McNair, Washington,
D. C.
Col. Elder attended the Infantry
School, Ft. Benning 1936-1937,
Command and General Staff Col
lege, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, in
1943, the Naval War College, New
port, Rhode Island, 1942-43, the
Industrial College, of the Armed
Forces in 1947-1948 and was an
instructor at the Army-Navy Staff
College,.. .Washington, D. C., in
1945- 1946 and at the Armed Forces
Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia,
1946- 1947.
His decorations include the
Legion of Merit, Bronze Star,
Order of the British Empire and
Croix do Guerre with Palme,
France.
Col. and Mrs. Elder are the
parents of three sons, Jack, 19,
cadet at the U.S.M.A., James, 16,
and William, 10.
Drop Expected
In GI Enrollment
Estimated veteran enrollment
for the fall semester of 1958 will
drop below that of 1957 by about
260 men, according to Bennie Zinn,
Veterans Advisor.
Zinn said the main reasons for
the decrease is that many veterans
are not familiar with the stipula
tions of the G. I. Bill and do not
know that they must enroll in
school within a period of three
years, alter their separation date
from the service.
A veteran must have completed
his college work within seven years
after separation date in order to
receive full benefit of the bill, he
said.
To/qualify for full benefit under
the Korean G. I. Bill, a person
must have been on active duty on
or befoi’e Jan. 31, 1955, he said.