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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