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('•lUfe Station am format rail* for moolU rloud> akio* with orraaiwnal rain* todar. to- Rickt and Mrdamdar. Not much rhanar in temporaturr. THE Number 26: Volume !>8 BATTALION F*ubli*h*d Daily on the 7e.ro• A&\f College Campun Chest Drive Saturday COL LEG K STATION. TEXAS, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1958 Price Five Cent* CS City Councilmen Discuss Street Repair BULLETIN VATICAN CITY V'- TS, Mont Kev Lord ( ardinal Angr lo Giuaeppr Konralli of Franc** »a» elect«-d nc« Koman ( alho lie Pope t«»da> by the t'ollea** of (ardmalk on their 12th bal lot. The belU of St. Peter'n Ka«ili- ra rang joyfully a* the choice of the nen popr »a* announced A throne in the aquare before the church cheered hoarkely and madly. navina handkerchief* wildly. College Station Lions Raise .x< At Rand Carni\al Paving Petition Lacks Signature Dorms Closed To Females HoUAiuwi Starr Photu “We (aigged Em” Senior End and Tri-Captain John Tracey Saturday, 33-27. Tracty, shoM-n here with flashes a ^mile and a biy "Cii>r ’Km” thumb his wife, cauyht seven passes for 102 yards after he and his teammates came from lie- and a touchdown, thus taking over the SWC hind to stomp the Baylor Bears in Waco pass-catching lead. L.A. Duewall SP Director’s Assumes Duties Vue President Karl Rudder for mally introduced «tud«*nt editors and members of the SPB to I. A. Pucwall, new director of Student Publications, at a meetinjr yestei day afternoon in the Press Club library. YMl A In his introduction of the formet editor publisher of the I a<iran»re Journal who took over his new duties at AAM Monday. Rudder said "the Kxecutive Committee ~- LKiririti the short period I have I “Freedom of the press isn't an worked with these men I have found them hijrhly interested tn doing the ii*rht thing and without a director have bent over backward | to do a good job I don't have any worries about these editor* — 1 don't think Mr er." kkid said Ouewall Speaks , The new director briefly out- j lined the thing* he expected from Carnival held Saturday night at the tennis courts on the school grounds. President Dave Kitt h told duo membeis yesterday. It was the most successful year we\e ever had.'' fitch said The funds will go to finance community welfare projects spun sored by the I.ions Huh. At the Tuesday luncheon, club membeis also laid final plans for Corps Dormitories will not b. un ^ -^dies Night" to la- opened to house female quests ; Monday at 7 p.m. at the Titan o\er the Aikan*as-AAM football Jy^staiirant Dr Th<>mas 1 Poe 1 game weekend. Don f loud. Corps lt f l^ybng, Lion lieutenant go\er I commander, said last night. n<)1 . W1 || the sp^ker at the j "The last time we opened up the ,, v ^nt. dormitory it was a rushed situa-1 The ladies night wi" take the jtion and opening another one up p] a< e of the noon meeting f or the this Siam would cause too much ( allege Station club ne\* week difficulty on students living in the' I.ions are now toaring down the dorm, (loud said. | stretch in ‘hiir current memla-r- He did however express the pos sibility of opening the dormitoiy for some eventidunng the spring semester. We hope to eventually have an arrangement similar to that of TWC where they have a dormitory College Station Lions raised si ghtly more than $:’0u fn m io Recommendations fur the City of College Station’* policy booths at the i»f># version of th. concerning street re|>«ir and construction highlighted la*t Consolidated High School Bamd m^ht’s City Council meeting. A committee which was appointed at the laat meeting by Mayor K K Langford pretsented their recommendation* which will be voted on by the council Wednesday afternoon at 5 in a continuation of last night’s meeting. Mayor l^ingford delayed action on the proposals becauae of the absence of one councilman. Carl l.andi*M ; "The matter is one which concerns the entire council and for that reason discussion and voting on of the recommenda tions should lie delayed until a full council can be present.” ♦said Mayor Ijingford. l-aok One Signature ship drive, whuh ends \i>v. 1 The contest began Oct. 1 and tho winner, to be announced Nov. I", will receive two tiikets to the Rice-AAM game. Winner m the contest will he decided on a point sj>t**m based absolute freedom it carries with A* 1 house guests, but in the mean-] on recruiting contact-, made by it an equal amount of reeponsibtl D»m« w«MI hav« fo open up a dorm- Le.ns memlwrs during their Octo- ify. On student publications we must rememlver our great respon sibility to AAM since we owe our very existneie to the college and Duewall will, eith- must never reflect unfavorably i upon it." Duewall said. itory fnwn tim« to time,” he said her "Membership Month. and I — want to give you traimng in your respective that will make you in demand when you graduate We think this man (Duewall) can help us build the kind of organisation that you and AAM can be proud of" Harry Kidd, representative to men , his associates during a 20-year ca- field reer in journalism and would sim daily expect from students con nected with Student Publications. "Loyality. willingness to work and know-how are all essential in a program such a* this," Duewall said. He assured the editors of ron- freedom from censorship the Sl’B from the School of Art and Sciences and acting chairman tinued of the Board before Duewall was appointed, told the new director connected with such freedom ^ ill Rogers Uses Humor to Imitate His Popular Dad Will Rogers Jr., boasting his l one-sixteenth Cherokee heritage, Hold about 'Our Changing World*’| Bt g 1() : in comparison with how his dad based bis humor on the changing times Sunday afternoon at 3 in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. Throughout his talk before more than 300 people he continuously gave excerpts from hia dad's hu- * his Head-on Collision Hospitalizes Aggie 59 Artists Display Master Paintings In Center Lounge A collection of contemporary pointings of .'H Texits artists is being presented through Nov. 3 at t"he Memorial Student Center by the MSC Creative Arts Committee The paintings are from a com petitive award exhibit collected by D D. Leldman of Dallas The or iginal exhibit contained KH paint ings and was first shown in Dallas last May and at the McNey Mu seum m San Antonio in June. AAM has the distinction of being the only college in the country to have presented this exhibit and other paintings included in the Feldman Permanent Collection. The Competitive Award Kxhibit The council also delayed ac tion on a petition by Lee Street property-owners for paving of their eWiget pending the adoption by the council of a pol icy for the work. The owners lacked only one signature on their petition having Vkl per cent and lamgford said if that signature can he obtained, some of the legal for malities in the proposed policy may b«- foregone. City Kngineer Fred J. Benson recommended to the council that the minimum paring requirements in new subdivisions he changed from double surface treatment to ! one inch of plant mix surfacing. Benson said the move wap nec essary because of the high amaunt- | of maintenance work now Wing needed on streets paved in the old 1 manner. i On motion by Councilman D. A. was judged by Harris h Prior,J ,, . A i director of the American Federa- inderson, City Attorney C. E. Dil lon was authorized te draw up the ne -essary ordinance. morous statements based on torical events of that day. . "It has been said that my father * *** * tatlon could get by with thingH that other people could never get by with," he said “This is very true." He explained that his dad always attacked people when they were News of the H or Id B> The AsHoriated Press Ike C ontinues ( ampaign Fight PITTSBURGH—Pennsylvania Republicans wh<x>ped it up for President Eisenhower Monday nitfht as he sailed into the Democrats, calling them a divided party with a radical wing of spendthrifts, visionaries and boondoggle™. On a night of cold, driving rain, the crowd in the Syria Mosque foiled to reach the overflow proportion, (jOP leader, ,, lh , roll... had hoped to attract. But thow who braved the weather,, w dltio „ cheered him lustily when he said his administration had ' achieved economic resurgence without flogging the economy into inflation, and kept the peace despite international ten sion. ★ ★ ★ Qurmoy Hit by Periodical Shelling A head-on collision on Highway 6 South early Funday night ho* pitahsed an Aggie and a Mont gomery couple and caused heavy property damages to the two auto mobiles involved Injured in the collision p. m , 4 south of College Station, was Gil bert Nichlas Jacobson, freshman civil engineering major from Houston, and Mz and Mrs Albert Pete Kowis, Route 1, Montgomery According to a report by Bryan State Highway Patrolman. Jacob son was heading north, toward passing a car when he met the car driven by Kowis. In an attempt to get hack on the right tide of the road he ! hit the shoulder and spun back into the path of Kowis’ car. To ( onatract Kogda Monday night Two other Aggies were riding in the automobile with Jacobson but were not hospitalized Both cars involved in the acci dent were total losses, highway which patrolmen said mile* tion of Arts Tom Douglas, an in ternationally known designer as sisted Mr Feldman in collecting the Texas pa stings Mayor Langford was authonied Purpose of the 19.1S Competitive t o anoint one Colltfi Statiwi r*a- Awa.d Kxhibit was to assemble a ,d*nfto a 3-man Board tf (W representative showing of current demnation for condemnation pr paintings by Texas’ mo* gifted reeding, on parts of th* Dortl^ll by Texas’ mo* artists in the hope of commending and further encouraging them. Senate Helps Rice Get 'Samm v* Back at their peaks of popularity, and T'he injured were taken to St when they were not so popular he Joseph Hospital in Bryan Jarob- always came to then defense He *‘ ,n later transferred to the Hospital where his con By JOE BCSEK * Battalion Editor Rice Institute has “Sammy" hack. Thanks to the Student Senate, six days after thiee students from the Houston university appeared before it asking for help locating their four and one half foot pla* ter ow l, they had it bac k -and iron ically enough, it wasn’t Aggies Estates for the construction of I new farm-to-market road fro* Highway ft just south of F ran rig Drive to the eastern part of tM | county. The mayor was also authoriidi I to check with the Texas Hifhtrtf Depaitmant to see if a 4f>-mlle per hour speed limit could be authar- ! ized for Highway (5 throughout th* ! city limits. The highway department had re in the mascot theft, hut that “we'd (heck around.” Check around he did with the 'l^ted speeds from 45 to 65 along help of Bob I'feuffer and W. L. I’enberthy, director of Student Ac tivities and advisor for the Sen ate. Last .week Thomas located a former student who knew of the whereabouts of the four and one- half foot mascot of plaster. Highway *>, but council members voted against the proposal because of the school children crossing at Jersey and Highway g laingfoid was also instructed to ask the highway department to erect school crossing signs near It seems that the Prince was al I ways falling off his horse while on fox hunts. Will Rogers re marked, “Yea, I see he's falling Also I see that his horse is falling What do you expec t him to do stay ’■*■ *> "•titfmcCory „. ho t<x> |, „ mlU „| ly ‘Old A filer’ Author To Speak in MSC Fred Gipson, author of “Old Yel TAIPEI. Formosa—The Chinese Reds scattered light | up there in the air.” shellfire around the Quemoy Inland* Monday, then moved in- | Rogers explained that his father 1 ler" and "Hound Dog Man,” will to another no-shooting phase of their halfway cease-fire in al*«»* urote hi. own works of speak in the A.aembly Room of the Formosa strait. ' humor One day a wrfter offeted Memorial Student Center on Nov. The Nationalists announced that in the six-day period ' to write his humor for , him for *t 8 p m. before the start Of the new- Red cease-fire Sunday, Commu- fljHhi per week. The eider Rogers "How I gather materials for my nist shells had killed 19 off-shor* island civilian*, wounded I rxclaimed, "For ll.ooa tt week, I’ll tales and hammer them into book 11 other, and destroyed 233 home*. write for you!" , form” will be the basis of his talk Under the rules of their ceasefire, the Reds shoot any- I The well-known speaker and I Gipson's visit, sponsored by the Pete Huff, president of the Rice Student Assn., came to AAM withjmaacot at the Senate's request, two other Rice students Oct. 16 and warned of possible demonstra tions by the Houston students at the AAM Rice game Nov. L r > if Sammy” wasn't returned. Senate President John Thomas told the Rice delegation then that he felt no Aggies were involved The Aggie-ex, who was not the crossing, identifier! by Huff, arranged for In other action the council 04- the return of the plaster owl-type , epted the annual auditor's!rtport. renewed a 13,000 note at th« Col- According U. the Aggies who lege Station State Bank and ac- contacted the former student, he cepted tentatively pending signing was not directly connected with „f the report by all af the rom- where on odd-numitred davs. But on even-numbered days they do not fire at Quemoy areas where supplies are landed. ★ ★ ★ Starkweather’* Girl Friend <>n Trial LINCOLN. Neb—Pale and unsmiling. 15-year-old Caril Ann Fugate, once the steady date of killer Charles Stark weather. went on trial Monday for murder. Selection of a jury, which could take two days or more. »et the trial in motion. The high-ceilinged old courtroom and many of the princi pals were the same as those involved in Starkweather’s trial last May. Starkweather, 19. under death sentence, marks time at the Nebraska penitentiary awaiting the outcoma of a state Supreme Court revi(*w which could delay his execution set originally for Dec. 17. speaker and telcviaiun-motion picture person Browsing Library Committee, in- ality was due to arrive at Easter-' eludes a luncheon at 1 p m. tn the wood Airport at 11:15 Sunday MSC, followed by an autograph re- mornmg, but he sneaked in on the ception. A formal dinner at 6 Great Issues Committee late Sat- p m. will precede Gipnon's speech urday night. Georpe Stansell, Don Zirkle, vice chan man of the chairman of the committee, said Browsing Library Committee, said that no one knew he was here un- j the public is invited to hear Gip til he went down for breakfast : son. “These tentative plans are Roger* told of his ox a ting en exported to amuse much enthuo- trance to AAM Whea he got off imam en the AAM campus,’ he con- the plane in Dallas the score of tinued the Baylor-A AM game was 7-A | Gipaon w as unable to ae< ept an When he arrived at EaoUrwoed he in vitotK>n from AAM last year due heard the ocore was *7-7 in favor t* th# fj| ming ft ( Hound Dog Man" (See ROGERS, Page «) ^ith Walt Disney. the group which took the plaster owl from the library at Rice be fore the fall term began. In a phone conversation with I’enber- *hy. the foimer student said that "no Ags or former students had anything to do with the theft.” Apparently, th* students at Rice weren't U matoon-covered plaster owl. Huff said last night tha stu dents in Houston didn't know who took their mascot and weren't too comerned who did ’ All we can think about is the game Saturday with Texas,” he said “And the score.” mittee members g repart an traf fic hazards at itreet interaartiona. A loo accepted was i report by Councilman Anderson regarding replacement of city vahirlao. Replace Car* The report calls for the raplaca- worried about their ment of police and city manager’s cars at 7(1,000 mi Ins or four years, which ever occurs first. Truck, tractors and other ma chinery are to be replaced no soon er than six years after purchase Mrs. Marion I’ugh presented a petition to the council for an ord- , inance regulating the door ta-door selling hy salesmen The petition was referred to City AttorMy Dil lon for hio study aa to legality. City Attorney Dillon wo* also authorised to chock into tho al leged failure of Midwest Video Corp. to fulfill contract and mH- [ ice obligations. Guide Posts "Seek not the favor of the multi- tude Seek the testimony of the few and number not voice, but weigh them.”- Immanuel Kant