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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1958)
Weather Today for ( ollrr** Station and virinitj' ia pari Iv cloudy to day and tonight oith acatterod thandorahoonr* Friday. BATTALION Published Doily on the Texan A & M C'ollp^re (am pun Insurance Sale Closes Friday Number 8: Volume .">8 COLLEGE STATION. TEXAS, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 25. 1958 i i itr r i vr v (rifted Science, Math Students School Plan Met This wan only a part etood in line to jfet their tickets and date ticket* to the University of Houaton jrame before the sale ended at 5 yesterday after noon. Tommy Keith, extreme left, walk* . natt&.^L. niatf r'tMH Part of Ticket line \ of many Agr* who away while IVm Satrher buy* hi* ticket at the window. Other* in the picture are, Irft A rijrht, I>on Ellerbee, and unidentified Civilian. Clayte Minion, John T. Martin Jr and Malcolm Strole, lndustH.lM.j<^ pjgh Continue Eligible loraM Taki yjg Ba8ic Ma1h Appliratiom are now being ac cepted for the Alvin M Smith Industrial Distribution scholarship at Industrial Distribution office Thi* $. r ><K) scholarship, awarded each spring to students working toward a B S. degree in industrial j distribution, is given by the Soa- | them Industrial Distributors' Assn in memory of Alvin M Smith, formerly secretary-treasurer and president of the association. The purpose of the scholarship Is two-fold: to lessen financial handicaps for capable, ambitious men and to increase the attention of industrial distribution as a ca reer The scholarship is awarded on the basis of the need of the student, his scholastic record, his interest in industrial distribution and his seriousness of purpose The applicant must be either of junior or senior classification. Ap plications should be accompanied by a transcript and recent ^>hot© graph. Top freshman entering the field | credit for 102 and |03. of engineering last yeai were se i Of the students that made an lee ted as guinea pigs for an a<a , A in lo4, 57 per cant made A in densic experiment by the Hani ! J'rt'. «5 per cent of those making Division. | [) or F in 104 mad* an A Three hundred entering fresh men, who had excelled both in high school math and on the battery of aptitude and achievement tests administered to all entering fresh melt were picked to take special math tests and 100 were selected to take part in the experiment. The program was a pilot -tody to determine w hether or not enter ing freshmen were capable of tak Initial I. ainr-hron an A in 102 and 103. The result* of the test show that although the experiment was moderately successful, it would lie I letter to keep 102 and 103 as be ginning math for freshmen. SCOW IV Plans (iet Challenge A program now starting its see- ond year here provides a challenge for students gifted in science and mathematics From among the beginning fresh- , man students, 4ft were chosen on ' the basis of test scores to take part in the special program offered ! by the Basic Division in coopera- | turn with the Department of Math- 1 e mat ics. The student* are enrolled in an ■ analytics course and upon success ful completion of the couise they jwill receive college credit in alg*- bra, trigonometry and analytics. They were sele« ted on the basis of placement tests given during j New Student Week and special j tests offered later in mathematics achievement. Dr C H Ransdell, associate dean of the Haste Division, says j these students aie also placed in I a position where they may receive a special opportunity in Knglish j If they prove themselves in writ ing ability during the first semes- *er they may be given the oppor- ] tunity to take an advanced course jin Knglish in lieu of the legular j second semester Knglish courses Students selected for the special ■ ■nurse in analytics ate as follow- Marshall Dean Fox Jr., Law re nee E Davis, Frank H^ker Willi ford; Harvey H Toews. John Dale Yonkers, William Allen Williams. W dliam Reginald Carmichael Jr Mike B4< I>*rmott Jr, C V Me Swain. Jerry Woodrow Mills, James le-a Beaty, Thomas Charles Paul, Michael Matthew Schneider, Charles B Wallace. David Guyon King. Charles Ray Munnerlyn Everett Mur! Bailey Jr , Richard Holme* Berrymftn, Charles Larry Gordon, William Michael Hix. Ste when A Wakefield, James Norman Crouch. Don Earl Wilkes, James David Knox, Arthur Tompkins Moore Jack David Beck, Jerald Wayne Fletcher, Oliver Lee Mayes J Robert K W'right J r _ Ho,|ue Rodriquez Jr, Robert Richey, Jimmy Lee ( oomties William Alexander Westbrook, Paul Frederick Heye, Donald Lee Fletcher. Jack Frederick Pan«, Roy Wayne Thompson. Ramsey Kermit Melugm, J ames David Carnes William Dougherty Compton. Reed Strand Armstrong, Robert Franklin Ford, Terrence Doyle Gossett, Carl Edwin fsymm, Jerry Paul Easter, and Richard Brian Wadsworth By Opposition Little Rock Scene L S(1IBA rr Sfl,<M, i a w T9 w Starts Tuesday (homo r lOlPflCG LITTLE RCM'K. Ark (JPV—The National Assn for the Advancement of Colored People moved W ednesday to block Little Rock's private school plan as scattered violence be tween Negroes and whites broke out in this racially tense city. Wiley A Branton of Pine Bluff. Ark , Negro attorney for the NAACP, filed a petition in U. S. District Court asking that the Little Rock School Board be enjoined from leasing school properties to a private corporation. The petition asked further that such private schools, if they are opened, be required to admit Negro students under the integration plan previously in effect at Central High 4 School. ★ MSC \eeds llel/t In Rood Dept. Interview* for part time cash ier* and winters to work in the Memorial Student Center Foun tain Room and Dining Room are now being held, according to Mis G M Black, food dneitor for the MSC. Mrs. Black said that experi ence was not required hut it would be helpful. Work ng hours will be arranged as class schedules will permit. Interested personnel should contact Mrs Black from 8 a.m. to 5 p,m, at the Mam Desk in the MSC 1 The school hoard has i asked the court whether it may lease its facilities to pri- j vale corporation without! heirig held in contempt. I*. S. Dist Judge John K. Mil let will head plea* on both the si hool board and the NAACp pe titions Thursday at Fort Smith. Ark. There were three reported tnci dents of Negro-White violence Wednesday in the city and its en vir A SCUBA diving short course will begin Tuesday at 7 p m. The course will lie superviaed by the Department of Oceano graphy and Meteorology. The ini tial meeting will be held in Room 30.*), Goodwin Hall and pupils may register then. The applicant may be male or female, most in in good health and able to swim The program is set up in 10 two-hour weekly ses sions, four class, five pool, and one testing The prices are $10 for students and staff and $20 for non-college personnel. All equipment will be furnished except a face mask. i mg Math 104, analytical geometry ; the first semester instead of alge ' bra or trigonometry Memlwrs of the group who made a C oi better in the 104 cla«* were allowed to advance to Math j 200, calculus, and given a full SCON A IV will hold its first general meeting of the school year Monday at noon in the Memorial Student Center As*omh!y Room The meeting will be a luncheon and all SCON A IV members must Industrial Kd Club Picks Proxy Wayne Doyle, '60, of College Sta torn, was elected president of the Industrial Education Club Tuesday night, as nearly f>0 student* turned k&F ( lull In Hear '"I’l Segregationist John Temple Graves II, one of today's most forceful advocates of segregation and states right*, will he guest speaker for the Monday night meeting of tbe Mryan-Col- lege Station Knife and Fork Club Graves, a Birmingham, Ala., newspaperman, columnist, writer and public speaker, will address the club at its meeting in the mortal Student Center. A syndicated columnist in almost 100 newspapers throughout the country. Graves is the great great grandson of John C. Calhoun. BSl Initiates Devotion Meets A group of 15 Negro youths and six white bo\s battled near a white junitor h gh school. Three of the whfe* suffered Injuries. Witnesses »at|L the Negroes hit the white boys repeatedly with cleated athle tic shoes and kicked one when he fel^ .Sheriff's deputies organized a 1 manhunt for an armed Negro j youth accused of beating and chnk- i ''igLa white woman in her resi derflfr The youth fled to a wood ed grea :iad shortly thereafter the ■ deputies vjtlled off their hunt be- ! caupe they said they knew him and ! winti.i arrest him later The inn i dent apparently was not related to ! i the school integration tension. A 14 year old white boy, Don Weir, reported he was beaten Tuesday night by a Ift-year-old N4gio who also threatened him [with a knife Juvenile authorities took custody of the Negro. A flurry of excitement developed in adjoining North Little Rock wh>n an unidentified Negro girl , accused a white boy of throwing a firecracker at her near the all white high school. Officers investi gated bu’ took no action. Dorm Constitution Drafted bv Walton Walton Hall, with the aid of Al ton Linne, civilian student counsel or, is in Die process of drafting its constitution. As soon as the constitution ia completed elections are to be held for dorm president, student council representative, and ramp repreaen- ' atives. Special projects under considera tion for the year include the organ* nation of a dormitory newspaper, purchase of a television w»t for the lounge, organization of an intra mural program and a dorm barbe cue. Sam Ridgeway, Walton dorm master, indicated the constitution should be completed early this week The elections will be held a* soon as it has been approved by the dorm. io News of the World B> The AsMoeiated I'resh Tanks Stop I^banesF Fighting BEIRUT, Lebanon—I>*banon> new President Gen. Fuad Chehab ntopped a deadly outburst of civil warfare here yes terday with heavy tank* and troop*. Wednesday mjfht he named a former rebel leader as his premier Nineteen were killed in the day’* comnninal fighting between Christian* and Moslems. ★ fr ★ State’** Finance** to (»o Into Red AUSTIN—State Comptroller Robert S. Calvert said Wednes4ay the state’s finances will go into the red in October “and stay there ’’ Calvert said he did not know what the deficit would be when the fiscal year ends next Aug 31. At the end of this year, the General Revenue Fund he'd only 13 million dollars, after the big revenue payments of June, July and August had come into the State Treasury. “The deficit will take us hack to the days of 1933 to 1943 R.S.V.P to the MSC Director’s Of fire liefore noon Friday. F.arlier this week at a meeting of the Executive Committee. Chair man Bob F'feuffer told his commit tee chairman that after a summer of devoted work by members of ut for the club's first meeting of the new school year. Other officers elected were, Ce cil Labhart, vice president; Ben Edmondson, secretary, Bob Peters, treasurer; Jim Riggs, reporter; Bob Holifield, program chairman; Ed Mikulenka, social chairman; the fmame committee and other Tony Puatejovsky, assistant social j Thursday, and Friday with *«rep members, the finances were in good /'ban-man, Clem Sherek. assistant J tion of the nights when yell prac shape ( social chairman, and Stanley Wil- | ar ^ t o be held. Evening devotional meetings be gin this week in the Baptist Stu dent ( enter. The services consist of songs, prayers and talks by selected speakers on topics of interest to young men Tbe meetings will be held from to 7;25 p m on Monday, Tuesday Milner Hall Plans Saturday Outing Milner Hail student* will hold a hamburger fry Saturday in Hen- sel Hark, Dennis Ryan, president of Milner's dormitory council, said yesterday A softball game at 4 pm will be gin the activities, followed by the meal at 5, Ryan said Any Aggie who desires to par ticipate in this and other Milner activitie* must buy a $2 activity card from a Milner dorm round! representative. Chinese Sabres Search Strait for More Migs Preliminary plans for the annual conference to l«e held early in De j eember will be made according to Pfeuffer liams, junior representative to en gineers council. The programs will tie under the direction of Rufus Spraybertv TAIPEI, Formosa 'A* — Nmt ion ali<t Chinese Satire Jets swept buck over the Formosa Strait to day in search of more Red Chinese MIGs to add to the 10 reported shot down yesterday in a giant jet air battle Students Needed To Direct Traffic About .15 students are needed to and after the A A.M Missouri feot- work traffic and park car* before ball game Oct. 4." bred Hickran, Campus Security, said yesteeday Temple Girls lo Recite Here Mary Sue Hook* and Kaki Dow ling from Temple High School will give dramatic readings for the Those, student* who are inter when state warrants were discounted for people to tfet their ested in working $hould apply for this work at the Campus Security 1 M Office the first of the week prior j , to the game Work assignment* will be usued Monday money, he said. fr ★ ★ IT Newspaper Hits Dallas Price Hiking AUSTIN—The Daily Texan, student newspaper at the University of Texas, asked editorially today that the Okla- homa-Texa* fame not be played in Dallas again if "price hik ing” is practiced this year The editorial was headlined “Cease The Soaking ” “It said • “We’re glad to hear that Mayor R L. Thornton "Hr who governed the world of Dallas thinks the Big D hotels and motels are doing an before I was bom shall uke care 'excellent job'. But from what we hear from irate students, ‘of it likewise when I am dead. M> parent* and alumni, they are doing an excellent job of soak- part is to improv* th# prasent ing the fans for tha OU weekend." . mument. ’ John Weoiey Guide Posts M 4R1 SUE HOOKS Social Club at .1 p m Friday in the Memorial'Student Center Ball room. Mi** Dowling, daughter of Mr and Mrs C J Dowling Sr., is a senior at Temple High School and is a National Thespian, student council representative and winner of several dramatic* awards. Mis* Hook*, daughter of Mr and Mrs. C. R Hooks, is also a senior, a National Thespian, presi dent of the Temple High Future Teat hers of Ament a and winner of several state speech awards Mr*. S. R Wright will be hos tes* chairman for the meeting Special interest groups of the club to be introduced are Mrs J F Fudge, art; Mr* T W Iceland choral; Mr* J R Pedigo, fashion; Mr* Don Young food*, Mr*. Ja* Aleandur. golf; Mr*. Chester O' Donnell, handicraft; Mrs I W Rupel, president of the Newcom ers’ Club, and Mr* Spencer Buch anan, swimming K AM DOW LINT, Two more of the Rumuan-made fighter* were possibly destroyed anti three possrbly damaged in the swirling conflict* that raged over more than 4(H) miles of the Strait. More than 100 MIGs and 12 Na tionalist planes were involved, the air foree reported, but nine Na- tionaliat planes did tbe damage • apt. Chien Yee Chiang was credited with sending two MIG* screaming down into the sea and the blazing gun* of eight other pi lot* brought down one each, the | air force said in a communique that revised earlier Defense'Mm- ! istry statements. i The toll was the greatest air j triumph in Nationalist China's his- j tory and one of the world's great- I e*t jet air victories On another front. Nationalist air force transport* scored again with a successful air drop Wednesday j night on little Quemoy, six miles I off the Red China mainland and I two miles west of Quemoy. There ; the improving supply picture is threatening effectiveness of the [ Communist artillery blockade. Adm. Liu Hoh-tu, Nationalist military spokesman, said a Red plan to lure the Nattonaliata over the mainland backfired. All of the Sabres and their American-trained and equipped pi lots returned safely.