The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 24, 1958, Image 1

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THE
BATTALION
Class Of 59
Meets Tonight
Puhliahnl Daily on th* Texat A&M College Camput
N’umlter 25: Volume ."»8
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 24, 1958
Prif« Five Cent*
Baylor Officials Issue
Apology for Painting
At Yell Practice
Civilians
Conduct
Discuss
of Group
Students Dropped
From School Rolls
Hattulioft Staff Chftu
City Continues Improvements
Maintenance men for the City of College provement proifram now underway. The
Station finish up installation of a 27-inch new storm sewer will handle drainage for
storm sewer on Church Street near the new the area around the new chapel.
Catholic chapel as part of the street im-
WWo Court Refuses \p/teul
Barron Loses
Files Another
By JOHNNY JOHNSON
Kat i a lion Newa Kditor
H> DAVE STOKER d.-nt*. for >ear men who weu> in | A formal telegram of apology was received yesterday by
Battalion \e*» Editor the Co.p lust year as aenioi*. President M. T. Harrington from Baylor’s President W. R.
Impolilt, drunkardly actions on “We (Corps) feel that *e should Hitt* in which the latter hi8 .^inCGTC ttpolojy for
the part of a .-e,-tain group of aAM b<Kfiiy remove these men from The the painting incident which occurred on the A&M campus on
students at the past midnight yell drove if their actions get out of i the night of Oct. 21.
practice* topped the discussion at ime again, hut first we wanted to J Four Baylor students caught on the campus early
the third meeting of the Civilian, get the Civilian Council's opinion,” Wednesday were indefinitely suspended from their school,
Student Council last mght m the he said according to White’s telegram. . . .
Senate Chamber of the Memorial Various suggestion* were brought In other developments concerning the incident, Har-
student Center. up One repiesentatn-e felt that rington sent White a return telegram accepting the apology
Cushing the business of the Civ- the Campus Security should han and expressing hopes that good relations between the two
Ilian Honor Osle from the lime- die the situation, while another j SChools would continue.
Again;
Appeal
The 10th Court of Ciril \ppenls
fn War* Thursday refused to re
consider its earlier verdict deny
ing two Bryan Women admission
to A AM
The court's decision clears the
way for appeal to the Texas Su
preme Court.
Bryan Atty. John Barron, re
presenting the two women, for
warded s motion for writ of error
ago. At that time he expressed | an, were denied admission to AAM
his opinion that the motion would, for the spring semester hug year
ISfC In th*
probably be denied by the judges
Refuses to Quit
•'W
and only when, the United States
Supreme Court says we are
wrong,” Barron said last night af
ter the ruling
The women won th«ir rai
district court in Brysa, but Atty
G«n. of Teias WU1 Wilson, repre
will «,u.t this fight I sent.ng the college filed an appeal
with the Waco court
Identical Rights
“An American woman has the
identical education rights a white
* We will not take a Waro| man a riegio might have in a
the Texas Supreme Court to- court's word as correct upon this I t M x-supported public school," Bai-
U:iv to counteract the court s fi-I matter, because we believe we are
nul tuling
Barron filed
motion for re-
nght."
Mrs. 1^-na Ann Bristol and Mrs
hearing the co-ed case two weeks ■ Barbara Alice yittle, both of Bry
Sunday at 3 p.m.
Greal Issues Has
Slate
the self as a Congreasman. as i
I de- newspaperman and a motion pic
the ture and television actor H
Ball received the Purple Heart
ron continued.
Headed:
’ Pure legal equality is the na
tional rule of the game.
“If the Texas Supreme Court
rules against or refuses to take
the case, 1 will appeal to the high
est court in the land- the l S.
Supreme Court.
"The concept of legal equality
hasn't reached Texas yet. except
by television. If the women are
entitled under the law to enter,
then we want them to have these
rights."
“Of course we are also at a dia
advantage because A&M has power
also and influence on its side,” he con-
dui - 1 eluded.
j light, the discussion of the unman- went along with Partridge and the
nered group was brought forth by <’oips’ suggestion of removing the
Corps Chaplain John Partridge, group bodily.
repiesentative from the Corps. One representative stood up and
Partridge Points Out * said, This is just an example of
Partridge pointed out that the the kind of men the Corps is turn
| group consisted of Civilian stu mg out."
Council Discusses*
As the*-council discussed the sit
uation. the bringing of intoxicat
ing beverages onto the campus and
into Kyle Field for football games
entered the discussion.
It was suggested that the prob
lem be brought before the Associa
tion of Former Students It was | duct this
finally moved and passed that the
A variety of food for young and situation be studied by the coun
cil's executive committee
The Civilian Honor Code Com
mittee, appointed by president
Tommy Be< kett at the council's
last meeting, brought befoie the
council representatives one majoi
proposal to the Civilian Honor
(’•>de.
CommitSee Reports
The committee, made up of Dick
Steadman, Jack Little, Charles
Variety of Fowl
^ ill Be Served
At Band Show
Cloud Writes
Baylor Prexy
J J
AIhiuI ^ eekend
Cadet Colonel of the Corps Don
Cloud promised Thursday that ‘ ne
cessary precautions would be ta
old will be provided at the A&M
Consolidated Band Carnival to
morrow night, said Peter Dehling
er, food chairman
A concession booth will provide
hot dogs, snow cones* pop corn
and homemade candy
Proceeds from the carnival will
be used to buy band uniforms, in
struments and music for the band
and to defray other expenses, such
as travel to state wi<i*» music com
petitions and to finance the an
/inn Talk*
Bennie A Zinn, director of
Student Personnel Services,
talked to the four students
from Baylor—three freshmen
and one sophomore—again Thurs
day He said the boys still main
tained that they did not do the
painting on the main entnkice of
the west wing of the Memorial
Student Center.
The students, three from Texas
and one from a southeastern
ken to lemind Aggies of their con- t'dd Zinn thise c*ra left
ekend" in a letter to W * co <»* College Station with
W K White, piesident of Baylor j m * en * painting Jht* campus.
University. They said the cart became sep-
In his communique to the Baylor
arated an route and when their
group got here, they saw that
president. Cloud noted that several;^ Msc h , d ,| read> . p*^,.
incidents, including the act* °f 1 e d
vandalism on the campus Wednes
day, pointed to a touchy situation
at Waco Saturday.
The
Returns
students
to Mac#
told Zinn
when
"I pray that further incident be ; th ^ " tur "“ d to W,iro “ ft ^ htv *
avoided, since it could possibly be ing d.een stopped here by the
as serious as the H»26 incident in j Campus Security, tHed found out
w hich an Aggie was killed by a t h*t one of the (ar« V*d
become
Europe in World
Journalism Interns
From A&M Attend
Ft ^orth Banquet
Rogers on
Will Rogers Jr, son of
late American humorist, wil
liver » speech at 3 pm ir
Memorial Student (enter
room Sunday in the first of a mg action
series sponsored by the Great 1 War II.
|(h*ues Committee, according to He will arrive Sunday mom-
George Stansell, < hairman of the mg at 11:15 at Kasterwood Air-
committe*' j port.
His speech, entitled. “Our| Th<,re ^ • question and
( hanging America." will be f<,|. an * w vr period following his
lowed by a reception at 4 p.m., •P*fh, Stansell said
in the Assembly Room of the R«g*rs is also to he the guest
MSC, according to John Vaughn, i °f honor at a dianer at ♦> P m.
Others 1 m ^ Assembly Room of the m *J urs * °
^ j MSC. He will he greeted by Newspaper Assn intern-
President M T Harrington. Vice | » h H>» this Aummer will be guests
Pres,dent Karl Rudder. Col Joe 11 k>»"quet Fort Worth to-
E , Davis and other college of- "'* ht •PO«l**red by the Fort
ft l i. [.Worth profesatonal chaptei, Sig
w-w r F' ,# Mm I "Bec^uae of his experience as
M lit | congressman from California he
^ I ia quite an authority on his suh-
Graham and Ted Shaver, made I i ° n head by a Bayloi •tu- | ogt (ind turned back. Ttyty ja'd
their proposal at a meeting Wed-! * nt * (,oud • they didn’t knew what bbp|9l»ed
nesday night They proposed that ; Cloud talked with W C. Perry, t0 the caf ^ ^ was 'tn it.'fSnn
nual l>anquet next May in honor ,. ar h housing unit elect one repie-jdean of men at Baylor, Thusedey j l u d? , vr
of <h, ..„d >nUtiv , Honor C.* o. • Uf.rn,....n .bon, >h, P .,n„n, nn «h,, ^ h01, • L*?“
~ « s.udrnt Ontrr .nd ,Kr ,h ' ^ ^
Features of the show will in- student on the functions and
elude a community supper at 5 purposes of the honor code,
p m m the cafeteria and a puppet | ( “unci members were in favor
of the proposal, and it was moved policemen were being employed for
and passe*! that the orientation their homecoming weekend and
committee be formed. Every mem-
repercussions it might cause this
weekend Perry told him eitia
which did the paint smtarinjr
Baylor Dean df
show by Miss Doris Goodrich Jones
of W aco, as well as the usual
booths of the carnival, said Mrs
Robert A Darrow, president of
the Band Boosters Club.
A “beauty bar" for the young
stars attending will be operated
by Miss Janet Darrow and Mis*
Ann Holdredge Dr Charles l.a
Motte and Eugene Rush will be
in charge of the “spook walk "
ber agreed that every Aggie
should be well informed on the
content of the code before the code
is put to a vote
"We surely don’t want to
force it on the students," Beck
ett said "We should take ample
opportunity to inform them on
! the code to get a wise vote."
that he had called a mass meeting
with the male students to discuss
their conduct.
Cloud and Randy Curtis, deputy
Corps commander, accepted an in
vitation late last night to speak
to the pep rally on the Baylor
campus Friday eight.
Men W. l f C.
Perry retux#4 Vo ret ease the
names of the studenta involved.
He said h# (fid not knew ^ho
the other youth (not a- Bkylor
stoMnt) we*. •
Bore Suspended
Perry explained that the boy*
were suspended because they ad
mitted being at A&M with the
. (See BAYLOR, I’age 3)
Su
AAM
subcommittee chairman
in the receiving line will
Stansell, Vaughn and I.en Dor-i
ney, who will introduce Rogers.
Rogers has distinguished him- J
senior journalism
lerved their Texas
[(-Bear Till
On Statewide
Radio Loop
ma Delta Chi.
The Aggies and 21 other jour
nalism students from colleges
ject. so is should he's good talk." I ^ universities throughout Tex-
The Baylor - A&M football
game will t>e broadcast over radio
from Waco, 7 45 p.m. Eddie Bar
ker and Dave Smith will cover
the action.
Other games to l>e covered this W ,
'" k ” d , “* ^ ^"“’ Seniors to Wee/
game from Houston. \e* Box,
and John Smith will cover the!
action ovei radio at 1 45 pm j
The SMU-Goeorfia Tech game j
will be televised from the Cotton J
Bowl. Dallas, at 1 4o pm Kern
Tips and Alec Chesser will de
scribe the action [
The broaiicasts will he carried
over radio by WRAP, Fort
Worth 120, WFAA, D»lle*-*20
KPRf . Houston 950: WOAI, Kan
Antonie 1200; KORA. Bryan
1240
as will be feted in the Worth
Hotel at 7:30. Each of the in
terns will give a brief summary
of hia summer’s work
„ .. .„ . _. . . „ , A&M news interns attending
day for $150 cash. Student Great .. k » i o »
, ... , . the banquet are Joe Buser of
Stansell said
Tickets are now on sale at the!
main desk of the MSC and may:
be purchased at the door Sun-
Issues season tickets purchased
at registration are also good fur
this presentation.
After Yell Practice
The Claaa of '5* will meet
in the Chemistry Lecture Room
immediately after ypR B r **-
tsre tonight, according to G^ry
Pepper, claaa president
Pepper said aeniore would
diacuse the claea finance* and
the honfore at the organisa
tional meeting, and set ep cer
tain necessary project com
mitteea.
Arp, who worked for the Wichita
Falls Record News; Gayle Mc
Nutt of Comanche, who was em
ployed by the Abilene Jieporter-
N'ews, and Fred Meorer of Cor
pus Christi, who fulfilled his
internship with the Port Arthur
News
Advertising interns are Bill
Reed of Bonham, who sold ads for
the Kilgore News Herald, Boh
Weekley of Brownwood, who
worked for the l-amesa Daily
Reporter; and Hoyt (Toby! Mat
tox of Houston, who was em
ployed hy the Houston Post
Donald D. lur hard, head of A&M Con&olid&ted High School's Tigers will be led by
the Department of Journalism, then* five yell leader* a* they go for the championship in
is a or om pa rung tha group to Fort District 21 A A. The Tiger* won their conference opener
Worth | against Navaaota la»t Friday night, 20-6, and have an open
A
Congolidated Yell leader* Guide Tiger*
date this weekend The yell leaders, from left to right, ara
Marilyn McElroy; Pat Jackson. Judy Litton, head yell
leader; Dolores Marquart; and Ann# Rudder.