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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
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(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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.