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Number 27: Volume S8
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 19S8
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Open House Set
\ll Day Friday
Friday Count-down Nears ify Journalists
Of ^ Th»* Hepartment «f Joumali^
For Annual Air Force Ball
MARY ANN SAMPLES
. . . by John Schmidt
By FRED MEI RER
Battalion Manartnx Editor
Fndoy, 31 October 19f*8, the
time nearing 8 30 p m. . .
The Hock chime* eiyht time*,
th«»n 20 more minute* pa*s, every
one i* waiting . .
Five. . four. . .three. . two. . .
one. . .
Buddy Brock move* hi* baton,
turnmjt hi* 1? piece orchestra into
a ma*s of music-makers. . .
And Ah KOTO cadet* swirl their
date* on the Sbi.<i Hall dance
floor, beginning the aibual Air
Force Ball.
Friday is two day* off, but Jay
Roland, commanding officer of the
1st Wmg and chairman of the Air
Force Hall committee, and hi* as
sistant* have everything ready for
the blast-off thi* Halloween night.
“Tbj* is the firat big dance of
the year and rather than hire *ome
low caliber orcheetra, we decided
to Hart the year off light by sign
ing Buddy Brock to play for us,”
said Roland.
Steen Named Austin Prew
Dr. Nance Succeeds Dr. Steen
As Head of History Department
Dr Joseph Milton Nance wa* i
named yesterday to succeed Dr I
Ralph Steen, who has been nami-d
pi-esident of Stephen F Austin Col- ■
lege at Nacogdoches, as head of
the Department of History and
C'.overnment hy Dr J B Fage,
dean of the college
He will assume his new duties
Saturday, aaid Fage
“I am very honored to take
this position but I feel that every-
ane in the department shares mv
deepest regrets to see Dr. Steen
leave. We do feel he has a very
good position and all wish him
well." Nance said
“I think it is very gratifying
recognition both to Dr Steen and
the AA.W faculty that Dr Steen
was picked for such a high posi ‘
tion," said Page
Continuing, Page said, "We feel
we have a very fine replacement
for Dr Steen, whom we are very ■
Borry to see leave ”
Native of Kyle
Nance, a native of Kyle. Tex ,
Joined the department in Septem
ber 1941. He holds a H A. degree,
193f*. from the I’niveraity of Tex
a* Hi* major was history (f S. I
and latin American), his minor j
waa American government, na
tional. state and local and ad j
ministration He a'so holds an
M A. degree from Texas,
with a major in U. S. history, min
or in government (governments
of Latin America. Inter-American
relation*. American diplomacy)
and a Ph D. degree from Texas,
1941. He majored in American
)|iatory; first minor. European his
tory; and second minor, govern
ment.
Student Assistant
In I§34-37 he was student as-
aistant and part-time instructor
in history at Texas; in 1941-42
and in 194d-47, he was instructor
in hiatory at A4M. in 1942 43 he
was an instructor in typing and
code typing. Naval Training
School here
In 1946 Nance returned to AAM
and rose successively through the
ranks to a full professor in 19M.
Naval Reserve
Nance entered the U. S. Naval
Receive service in August, 1943, as
a teaman and rose to the rank of
Ueatenant (jf), USSR by Febru
ary, 1944, when released to Inac
tive duty lie served a year (1945)
on Admiral Cheater Nimiti’a com
munications staff at Pearl Har
bor; in September and December
of 1944 he was at the Naval Of !
ficers Communications School.
Cambridge, Mass
In 1938-40 he was state super-
Asan.
He is a past secretary of file
faculty of the School of Arts and
Sciences, current president of the
local chapter of Phi Kappa Phi
visor of the American Imprints, and has for the past several year*
Manuscripts and Newspaper Sur
vey in Texas for the Historical
Records Survey Program and has
presented paper* before annual
meeting* of the Southwestern So
cial Sciences Assn, and the Texas
State H'stmical Assn
Member of Societies
Nance is a member of several
professional and learned associa
tions including the Texas State
Hiatorical Assn, the Mississippi
Valley Historical Assn , the South
ern Historical Assn., and the
Southwestern Social Science*
been a member of the Pre-Medical
and Pre-Dental Advisory commit
tee and several other committee*
of the college
Nance has puhHabed, besides a
number of book reviews, a “Check
list of Texas Newspaper*. 1H13-
1939’’ (San Jacinto Museum of
Hiatory); ‘‘Bnfadier General
Adrian Wdll’s Report of hia Fx-
pedition into Texua in 1842” and
many other*.
In !*>« he wa. named «F.th#r | T|i ^ ^ ^ Mnt
of the Year” in the Bryan-( ollege
Station area
News of the World
"We (tnnk this will be n fine
affair and that everyone will en-|
joy it,” he added.
Numerous Attractions
In addition to the orchestra from
Houston which will feature a fe
male vocalist, many other luster-
addmg attractions hac* been out-
lirtW on planning board for thi*
year’s ball.
A* m year’s past, the highlight
of the night will be selection and
presentatiigi of the Air F>>ice
Sweetheart, who will be chosen
from fhe finalist*.
The finalist^ who were selected
from 38 entrie* submitted by Air
Force cadets, are Pat Doran, es
corted by Marshall Seavey; Kay
Sutton, escorted by Tony konrak;
Barbara Westerman, %irurted hg
Harold Stevens, Carol Coaart, es
corted by Vie Lucas, and Marv Ann
Sample*, escorted by John Schmidt.
Honor Guard
Cadets and dates arriving at the
ball bill pas* between an honor
guard formed by the Fi*h Drill |
Team. Standing outside the en
trance, the squad w ill snap to at- |
tontion as guests pass and present '
arm* as officeia puss. Team mem- j
bets will also act as ushers.
All Army ROTC »en(r>is have
been invited to the ball. They may 1
purchase tickets selling for 50 ;
cent* per couple at the Student I
Activities Office in the YMCA. j
Photographers w ill be on hand i
at the affair to take pictures of
cadets and their dates. The pic- I
tures may be purchased later
All military personnel in the |
invitations
to the ball, said Roland. Dean*
and othei member* of the faculty '
and staff have akb> been invited
About 1.000 Expected
Depa
hold an
Bv The Amociated Prem
house m com
memoration of it* 10th anni'ers-
ary Friday on the ground floor of ,
Nagle Hall, according to D Ft
Hurchard, head of the department
The opon house will last from *
a m. to 5 p m.
I he department ha* <ent some
1.200 invitation* to staff and fac
ulty members at A A M and to daily
and weekly newspaper* throughout
the state.
The department was •*tabli«hod
in 1948 amf since that time it has
achieved major stature in the state
anil nation. In 1956 it became one
of the 46 colleges in the nation ac
credited by the American Council
on Education and Journalism. In
Texas, besides AAM, only the I ni
1 veraity of Texas and Texas Wo
man’s University are accredited bv
ahe ACKJ.
1 Journalism was instituted at
AAM primarily to prepare students
for careers on non-metropolitan
i newspapers in Texas.
The department offers two de-
| greet*—a bachelor of arts in
•straight journalism and the bach
elor of science in agricultural jour- ;
nalism.
"The men are in positions of ie
( sponsibiiity on weekly and daily i
i newspapers, magazines, radio, tele
vision and public relations work
I Of the inf) who started in journal
ism only two have failed to achieve
| a high degree of success.”
The journalism department main-
tains an active program of sum- ■
mer internship* w hereby students '
spend their summers working for
various Texas daily newspapers.
This progtam was instituted with
the cooperation of the Texas Daily
Newspaper Assn , the Texas Press
Assn., and the Texas Chemical
Council.
"The high degree of interest and
support of the professional field is
<bie to several reasons,” Bun hard
said.. "The editors and publishers
A A M
Englishman Wins
(diem istry Prize
0/
STOCKHOLM, Sweden LP)—Three Soviet nuclear scien
tists won the Nol>eI Prize in Physics Tuesday. i*>sinjf a prob
lem for the Kremlin. The Prize for ( hemistry went to an
E nglishman.
The Russian# are P. A. Cherenkov, I. M Frank and Igor
H. Tamm, all Moscow professors. They were cited jointly
for their work with high sjieed, suli-atomic particle#. One
product of their research was a cosmic ray counter. One such
counter now is circling the earth in the Russians’ Sputnik III,
Now the Kremlin must decide what to do about it. It ha#
already brought down its wrath on the Nobel committeemen
for chosing author Boris Pasternak as the wunner of the
♦Literature Prize.
Monday last Day , '"‘ ,e "’ ak wro,e '' r "'" ,r
For ho’s \l ho ’
America;! Col-i the W>*t.
Nominations for Who’s Win
Among Students in
leges and Universities will close;
Monday at 5 p. m.
Nomination forms are to he
'urned in at the mam desk of the
Memorial Student Center, the
Commandant'* Office, the Housing
office or the Office of Student
Activities.
To be eligible fur Who’s Who a
student must he classified as a
senior (have 95 hours), have at
least a CM I grade point ratio, be
active in campus activities, show
qualities of leadership and b* popu
lar with fellow students.
After a student has been nom
inated and his grade point ratio
verified, he will be mailed an in
formation form which must be
filb-d out and turned in at the
• iffice of Student Activities by 5
p. m. Friday, Nov. 7.
Selection of Who's Who will be
made sometime after Thanksgiv
ing, W L Penberthy, director of
Student Activities ^aid.
Zhivago”, a novel optical of
communism and the Bolshe
vik Revolution. The book has
not been published in the Soviet
Union hut is being widely read in
Guide Pouts
Roland said a rough “guessti-1 are interested in
maU” was that about 1,000 peisons
would be present. Fach female
guest will be given a prografn up
I on arrival.
Roland said no plan had been
( worked out by which cadets could
struct ion of Diablo Dam near Del Rio, forwarding the project purchase corsages at * special
to federal agencies for further action. I pnee. He said all flower* would
‘‘This is a particularly urgent project due to the deva- have » be bought individually
stating floods which have occurred on thi# river, one of the .through local florists.
Worst of w hich i# causing great lo#se# and suffering on both Uniform f<* the dance win be
sides of the Rio Grande at thi# time,” Daniel*said in hi# let- W)nt#r a,.,.,,, w j th bioaae. white
ahirt and black bow tie Dates
^ ^ W | will wear feimals.
Whittfnburg Return* Money
FORT WORTH —Roy Whittenburg laid Tuesday he has
returned all contributions to his campaign for the Senate be- |\<|lllin<iKcrS I l3V
cause he is afraid the federal government will try to punish J
his supporters. , Ppapfipp I nflpi'YA M V
The Republican candidate has campaigned on a states 1 1 aviiAk v imi i ™ay
rights and self-government platform and has urged curtail
ment of the power and influence of the Internal Revenue
Service.
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Eisenhower ( ampaignN in New York
NEW YORK —President Eisenhower joined with Nelson
A. Rockefeller and Rep Kenneth B Keating Tuesday in a
demonstration of unity between the White House and the
Republican ticket in New York.
; “I am scared of this climate in
• which people don’t dare think, and
dare not say what they think. You
, don’t get thought, and you don’t
and they jjpj controversy: you have a dead
recognix# the quality of the grad- that’s juet’waiting fur th*
(Nee JOURNALISM, Pg. 4) man on horseback.”— Fred Cook
The Soviet pres* ha# called
Pasternak a tool of those who
would fan the cold war. * It de
manded that he reject tl^e 141,440
Nol>el cash prize
On the other hand, Cherenkov,
F’rank and Tamm are among the
scientific elite in the Soviet Un
ion and are the first Soviet mi-
i clear sciential* ever to receive a
Nobel citation. The Kremlin,
proud of Soviet scientific achieve
ment*. would like to have them
recognized.
What the three scientist* were
(cited for is. an laymen’s teimg,
s highly effective trap for elusive
subatomic particles. , ,,
Without it, the Royal Swedish
Academy said, the dtaMVery of
the antiproton at Bei kelap, C#lif.,
in 1955 scarcely would have been
possible. The antiproton exists
only a fraction of a second 4nd is
dissolved into light when it meets
a proton.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
went to Dr Frederick Sanger,
10, for pioneer work on the
structure of insulin, furthering the
search into the secret* of life.
Three Americans were reported
as possible winners in Medicine
and Physiology They are Dr* Rd-
watd I. Tatum. George W Hadle.
and Joshua l^derberg. all gene
tic ists doing research into the fun
damentals of heredity.
The Aggie Players last night
began putting the finishing touch
es on their presentation of “The
Rainmaker ”
Curtain rises Monday at 8 p m.
in the Memorial Student Center
Ballroom for the production
C. K Eaton, director of the
play , said tickets may be obtained
He told two party rallies, to which he rode in the rain.^gt the mam desk in th# msc, ©r
that by sending Rockefeller to Albany they will elect a gov
ernor just as great as the fine new senator he #aid they will
send to Washington. Keating is running for the Senate.
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Michigan Gambling Ring Broken
ANN ARBOR, Mich. —Twe Univartlty <*f Michigan ath
letic stars were arrested with fire ether itudent* Tuesday in
a police crackdown on gambling on the campus.
Detective Lt. Osorge Stauoh said the athlete# were first-
string football fullback Tony Rio and basketball captain Jack
Lewis.
frera any of the Aggie Players
for 75 cents aqrh
“The Rainmaker," a romantic
coinedv by N Jtighard Na*h, re
veals a aaotherlea* family of a
father and two ton* trying to find
a man for the only daughter of
the houaeheld A drought persists
throughout the drama, and the en
trance of Tho Ramiaaker pro
duces a refreshing comedy
First Log for Bonfire
Squadron 13 sophomores brought in the
first log for the 1958 bonfire last night.
They cut the 40-foot tree last Friday after
noon and unloaded it on the drill field at
Raltslw* Staff Pfertw
7 :‘i0 yesterday. A local wrecker service and
a log hauler furnished the truck for the
move.