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Weather Today Kotmbm (nr (olUgr Station fall* for partl> rtoody akiw *nh a maximum ttotporalaro of H drfrrma and a minimum of 7i. BATTALION Insurance Sale Closes Friday PubUth+ii Daily on the Texan A&JM Col.e/ye Cnmput Number 7: Volume 58 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 1958 Price Five CenU Top U.S. Pacific Boss, {ChiangTalk Problem Police School : In Final Week; Ends Friday ; Th** annual police traipittr school at A4M is in its fourth i nd finTl week. Topic of Talks Not Released TAIPEI, Formosa (^^-Generalissimo ChianK Kai-shek talked for more than three hours with the top U. S. military .commander in the Pacific Tuesday. What they discussed was not disclosed. It seemed likely Ithe Nationalist leader asked l'. S. Adm Harrv I). Felt for Six Days Left For Town Hall Reserve Seats Dance Clans Registration Shown are three of the more than 200 per- han. College Station sons who registered for fall semester MSC dance classes Tuesday evening. The regis tration got under way at 7:30 p. m in the MSC Ballroom. I^eft to right standing are: Miss Judy Oliver, Bryan; Miss Mary Ann McMurray, College Station., Patricia Calla* - IMUlUKrti Bt*ll Chou. Seated: Ed Hall and Ken Hensley of the MSC Dance Committee. Dance Committee Chairman Paul Kinnison has announced that a second registration will be held at next Tuesday * 7:30 p. m. session. Band to Play Saturday Despite ‘Raw Deal" B* JOE KL SF.R H«l I a Una Editor Members of the 240-piece Tetso Aggie Band will travel to Houoton Saturday to auppet their team on . An the field and in the atandv despite game the second npw deal in as many yenm at the hands of the I'nivora- ity of Houston. Initially, the Band elected to make the SKi-mile trip without marching since they were alloted no time during the half Jack Skaggs Consolidated Baods, said “The (the stands to play it before game Band wants to go and support the time. team even march.” if we don’t get to offer to march before the after pie-game warmups was considered, Skaggs said, and was accepted, not because it was a fitting time for the world-fam ous Aggie Band to perform but it wa* the only time available. Lt Qol. E. V’. Adams, director of the Band, said last night thf commander of the j drill would, of necessity, be short , ai< j t >, t bandamen would play The Spirit of Aggieland” from the marching “T” on the field to eliminate the rush of moving into CHS Dance Band Entertains kiwanis Col. Adams sa d the drill would begin after both teams had left the field and would be over be fore they returned for the kickoff to prevent a recurrence of thi “crowded” condition the Band ex perienced last year "hen they wet-e forced to march around and through the Cougar team to leave the field Halftime activities for the AAM L’ of H game will consist of a mass display of Texas high school bands celebrating the an nual I’niversity «f Houston Band Pav. The program !>«gan Sept 2, af^’t is due to close Friday. ,t is dt- signed to give the law enforce ment officer a better urwierstarti mg of the laws of our state * j The program is broken into four phases, each a vvRrk long The first week ir made Op j of basic courses. Follow! ig thebi, courses in criminal law. crimigal investigation and traffic law aid enforcement are taught ira Scott, one of the instructors said that during the course tie j men are taken on two /f*ld trigs The first i* to Austin, bdiere they j are shown through the I>epa*t | ment of Public Safety , "'he otH*r j is a tour of the state peuitenti^V at Huntsvilly. where the,- gain a better understanding of the stole | Six days remain for student* to obtain their reserve se|t ticket* for the coming Town Hall per formance*. Students who have paid the Stu- either a R<>-ahead to tromb Red coastal positions or more direct U. S. aid in iretting supplies to blockade Quemoy. This seemed to indicate there had Ireen no change in the ^ rnt Activity fee may receive a U. S. policy of not attempting to carry the fighting to the reserved seat season ticket for an China mainland. Various spokesmen on Formosa have been additional payment of |!2. threatening to retaliate against the mainland. But the For-1 Student wives and student* who mosa regime has pledged, in exchange for U. S. help, to take ~ ♦no such action without per mission from Washington. Red China’s continued bom bardment and blockade of the offshore Quemoy island* has cast a pail over prospects for suc cess in U.8.-China talks at War saw to ease the crisis. l\ S. Am- College Station Kiwamans got in the swing, so to speak, as they Were entertained by the AAM Con •olidated High School dance hand at their noon luncheon Tuesday. The 12-piece hand is under the direction of CHS Band Director Walton (Lefty) Hinds Hinds, who began his first year at Consolidated with the opening of school, will di rect all high school hand and chor al groups Hinds even lends a hand in the dance band, manning one of the two trombones Other instruments include four saxophones, a piano, tuba. drum*, and three trumpets. The band played six special ar rangements Tueaday Kiwamans also began plan* for aelling pre football game box lunches at all Aggie home games thts season “Last year our lunch sale was very succeaaful,” said Vice Presi dent K A (Cubby) Manning “But this year there are only three home game* and two of them are at night So if we come up to par, we re going to have to hustle.” He said the box lunch sale* had been one of the club's chief money making activities in previous years Public Relations Tra in ing Studied Members of the public relations committee of the AAM Journalism Advisory Council met with I) D Burchard, Journalism Department head Monday to investigate the possibility of including more pub lic relations course* in the A4M journalism curriculum The journalism advisory council was formed last spring when Pres ident M T Harrington appointed 47 men representing leadership in the mass communication field to work with and assist AAM'x de partment in doing the most effi cient job possible in training young men for work in journalism The Extension Officials Test Skylights Ben H Evans, coordinator of ar chitectural research and Matthew Nowak, research assistant, Texas Engine«nn( Experiment Station, were recently in Atlanta. Ga H test ing various types of skylights in an effort to determine their per formance charactenatics The pair did th* reeearch to d*- termme the suitability of the *ky- light for use in Goorfia public schools by Naturalitc Inc. Civilian Student Council Meets Tomorrow INij'ht council will also assist the depart ment in training student* to work effectively with persons in the professional journalism field Members of the public relations committee include Jas. A Knight, chairman, public relations manager for Alcoa Aluminum's Rockdale plant; John L Mortimer, district director of pubhc relations. U. S Steel Oorp; and Pat Daniels, pub lie relations director of the Alvin Trxas, State Honk Gene Rob bins. agricultural department, Houston Chamber of Commerce chairman of the advisory council was also present at the meeting Mortimer said the committee is developing recommendations for a public relations major at A4-M that would be equal to or better than offered by any school in the I’nited States prison system. Scutt said that there w pre about 2a men in eai h class, and the oyly requirement for taking tie eoufse is to be a police officer. A I Tuition Grants Open to Oct 15 A limited number of tuition st'ho. laiehips will be availabU this [all according to an «nnoun< emenr by the Faculty Scholarships ComClit tee. These scholarships lake .the form of refunds for the additional $25 which was added U the hia- triculation fee under terms *1 a bill which was passed by the Tvxas legislature in 1967. To qualify for the re*unds*»tu dents must show that the aided tuition created a serioui. financial hardship for them. Other ie<(Uire- ments are: (1) applicint.s mu*t ha'* completed at least one se mester or more at AAM with *n over all grade point average of 1.00 on work taken at this col lege, (2) applicants mud be legal residents of T*xas and (3) appli cations must be filed with the Secretary, Faculty S tholar ships Committee, Office of h** Regis trar, on or before Oct. 15. Appl ication forms are now available in the Kegistnr's Office. .lud^e Advocate, Kinancc Corps Commissions Open Reserve commissions in the Army Finance Corps and the Judge Advocate General's Corps are now being offered to qualified individ uals in either of the two fields Applicants for a commission in j the Army Finance Corps must be in good physical condition and possess an VI A degree or be cur rently enrolled in a course of study leading toward an M A de gree in accounting, business ad ministration, commercial science or ec onomics. Possession of an M A degree- may Ire waived where the applicant holds a BA degree and suffi rient practical experience in his field i Appointments are available in I the grades of second lieutenant, j first lieutenant and captain, de- I pendent upon the applicants age and experience. Commissions in the Judge Advo cate General's Corps are open to I’nited States citizens between the ages of 21 and 32 in good physical condition who are engaged in the private practice of law, teaching of law or hold judicial office Prac tire requirements are waived for senior law students who may ap ply prior to graduation and ad mittance to the bar Further information may V>e ob tained from Headquarters VIII, U S. Army Corps (Reserve). 2W) W kth St., Austin 14, Tex , or Army Reserve Area Commanders Junction Wellborn Rd and Jersey- College Station, Texas bassador Jacob Beam and Red Chi nese Ambassador Wang Ping nan have held three long meetings without apparent success. Despite this lack of progress, authoritative sources said the I’nited States is sending instme- have not paid th* activity f*e may purchase general admission season tickets for $4 or reserved seat season tickets for $(>. i Non-student season tickets wilt go on sale at the Department of Student Activities at H a m., Oct. 1, and mail orders wilj be filled beginning noon the same day. Price of the non-students season tickets is $b. Non studqnt reserve seat seaaon tickets cost $8. Single admission tickets, sold at each performance, are $2 for gen eral admission and for re served seats High school students and chikiren younger Will be ad- to general admission for lions to Beam to continue press I milled mg for a cease -fire in the Formosa $1. Strait. The two are sc heduled to | First of the Town Hall- att|-ac- meet again on Thursday. tions will be the celebrated d^nce team of Hambi Lynn aad Rod Al exander and their dancing trofcpe. They will appear on Nw. 12. The National Orchestra of Mex ico, Latin America’s finest sym phony orchestra, will Appear on Dec. 4 On Feb. 2, the popular Boston Pops Orchestra will pdk-form in a return engagement. Maestro Ar thur Fiedler will agaia preaent a guest soloist for the frla—re of The contest, which will be judged j his audience, on trac tor driving, maintenance, j Th«- Robert Wagner Ohoral# with Stecher and Horowitz, duo pian- Prof Members of the Civilian S tu< i cn t Council will hold their first meet * ng Thursday night in the Senate At AICE Meeting Chamber of the Memorial Student Canter, R. 0. Murray, advisor, said yesterday. Th* council will settle old bust- neas, including discussion of an honor code, seating plans, faculty achievement awards, magazine collections for veteran’* hospitaU and hear a treasurer's report. Officers for th# 1958-59 council include Thomas Beckett, president. Cfcarlie Graham, viro president. Fred Pendleton, secretary; Roland Dommert, treasurer. and Jack Little, parliamentarian. Dr. C D Holland, associate pro fessor in th* Department of Chem ical Engineering attended the na tional meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers at Salt Lake. City, Utah, Monday and Tuesday He was co-guthor of a paper “High Speed Computing by U of the Thiele aad Godde* Approach to Multicomponent Distillations which was baaed on neoearrh h# conducted for th# Humble Oil and Refining Co. ia 1956. IBM Corporation \iciin^ Stud(;iit§ The International Business Ma chines Corporation will foifeit over nine thousand dollars in profits this year for the bene' it of busi ness students According to Dr John Roche, as sociate professor of business ad ministration, the I. B. M Corpora tion is providing the college with four of their machine* at no cost. In addition to this, they service the quipment free of charge, he said These machines, a p inting card punch, a sorter, a tabulating and ^rioting machine, and an account ng machine, have a monthly rent al value of eight hundred dollars Roche pointed out that the only expense borne by the pohool ia for punch cards and paper for the ma chines, plua the teachers’ Salary I licll to Ml Tractor Meet Dr Willie L. Ulich, Agricultural Extension Service engineer, will J serve as a judge at the Central States Regional 4 H Tractor Op erator's Contest to be held at Sprfngfield, HI., Sept 29 and 30 and safety, will feature outstand- ng 4 H ers from 19 central states Ulrich will also act as chaperon of Clarence Beck of Victoria, who will represent Texas in the con test. iBts, will appear on Mgr. 10. The presentation o| “LIT Ab ner” by the broadwdy company will wind up the T«>w|i Hall sea son on April 6. Town Hall Staff Holds Steak Fry The Town Hall Staff held their annual fall steak fry last night Spike White’s house, 702 Thomas St., College Station Each member of the group ^>f .3. r > students was told bis responsi bilities for the year A brief re view of the forth coming programs was also given. Truman Hearne, Town Hall stu dent director, announced a special offer for those students who have paid their student activities fee For only $2 00 additional, students can obtain a reserve seat ticket for the year Students who did not pay their fee can obtain the year's | reserve saat ticket for $H 00 This offer is exclusively for the j student* until Oct 1 Tickets will I then go on sale to the general public on a first-come first-serve basis. Guide Posts “Tru# education dots not mak* all man alike No kumaa being worthy of the name ia a common man; there ia no mafic and no virtue in commonncaa Truth and virtu* do not laaue from undiffer entiated ntnba.’’—Hart Id W Dodds McKennev Given Scholarship Samuel S. McKenney, senior in dustrial distribution major from Dallas, was awarded the Briggs Weaver scholarship for th* second year in a row. News of I lie World By The AsHociattd I’rtna Bomb Found in Top of Kiffel Toiver PARIS—French police, troubled by Algerian rebel ter rorism, raced to the top of the Kiffel Tower Tuesday to re move a dynamite time bomb planted in a washroom there. It was defective, officials said, otherwise it could have blown the top off the famous landmark. The bomb with an eerie arrangement of wires was spotted by a French woman tourist. The tower is visited by thousands of tourists every year. The planting of the bomb came at a time when Alferian reliels both in France and Algeria were stepping up a cam- l>aign to discredit the new constitution proposed by Premier Gharles de Gaulle. A referendum on the constitution will be held Sunday. ★ ★ ★ ' F.N. Refuses R*h1 (Hina UNITED NATIONS, N Y.—The U N General Assembly Tuesday approved a U. S. projiosal to postpone for another year any action on the seating of Red China. The American victory, however, was not so decisive as in previous years. The vote was 44 to 28 with 9 ihstentions. The vote on the same question a year ago was 48 to 27 with 6 abstentions. ★ ★ ★ Little Rock Schools Ask Federal Advice The Little Rock Board of Education asked Tuesday for a quick test in federal court of an Arkansas plan to lease four closed high school buildings to a corporation for use as private segregated schools. The hoard petitioned U. S District Court to say whether it can legally lease the buildings. It said it is willing to do so if the court will absolve the Iniard from contempt action. ★ ★ ★ Gov. Daniel Demands Oil Import Cut LEXINGTON, Ky.—Gov Price Daniel, reinforced by Oklahoma Gov Raymond Gary, called on the Southern Gov ernors Conference today to demand mandatory restrictions on oil imports. Daniel was opposed by Republican Gov. Theodore Mc- Keldm of Maryland, who made a plea for free trade. Onva. Luther Hodges of North Carolina. A B Chandler of Kentucky and John Coleman of Mississippi came to Dan- I iel’s defense and pledged support of his request It appeared that the joint Texas-Oklahoma resolution would pass in Wednesday's closing session.