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X [L ! 12 COPIES Weather Today Partly^ cloudy and cool today and tomorrow. Rainfall during last 48 hours was .8 inches. THE BATTALION •v-'f Chest Drive Saturday Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus Number 28: Volume 58 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1958 Price Five Cents 12 Entombed Miners Alive But Trapped Senate to Collect For Chest Friday Members of the Student Sen ate will wear special badges to morrow to aid in collecting do nations to the Campus Chest Fund from day students, Don Rummel, Campus Chest Chair man, said yesterday. The Senate members will cir culate throughout the campus during class hours to give each and every day student an op portunity to give to the fund, designed to help Aggie buddies in need of finanaial assistance. Rummel urged each student to please donate to the “dollar per Aggie” drive. The Kingston Trio appearing at Town Hall Production Saturday afternoon First Time in Texas Kingston Trio Signs For Saturday Show One of the hottest added attrac tions for a football weekend ever to hit the A&M campus will be here Saturday in the person of the Kingston Trio. The trio of “Tom Dooley” and “Coplas” fame is coming directly from San Francisco for its 3 p.m. pre-Arkansas game performance in G. Rollie White Coliseum here. The group just completed a stay in Hawaii. A&M’s Town Hall “scooped” the trio from the rest of Texas, as this is the group’s initial appeai'- ance in the state. The trio will re turn to the coast after Saturday’s show. Trying Since September Joseph “T” Hearne, student en tertainment manager, has been trying to sign the trio since the beginning of the semester. Three weeks ago he began correspond ence concerning Saturday’s stand, and the trio said “yes” this week. “The telegraph wires between here and San Francisco have really been kept hot during the past week,” laughed Hearne. Composed of Dave Guard, Bob Shane and Nick Reynolds, the trio is one of the newest and most col orful groups in the business. They graduated from a university on K&F Club to Dine, Hear Talk Tonight The Knife and Fork Club will hold its second meeting of the season after a dinner in the Mem orial Student Center Ballroom to night at 7:30. The club will have as its guest speaker Mrs. Bethia Jane Whitney, noted author and authority on geriatrics. The latest theories of geriatrics —that branch of medicine devoted to old iige and its diseases—will be the subject of her talk. Joe Faulk, president of the club, will preside and introduce the speaker. the Pacific coast only a year ago. The three youngsters got toge ther just 10 months ago and werg soon signed exclusively by Capitol Records. Since that time their re cording of “Tom Dooley” sky rocketed to the No. 1 selling tune in the nation, and their album by the same name is out-selling every thing in the San Francisco Bay area. The album has already sold out three times. Songs Represent World The songs they have put to gether during their short career evolve from America, England, Tahiti, Mexico, Hawaii, Spain, Af rica and the West Indies. Guard, who is the acknowledged leader of the group, puts their tune selection this way: , “We don’t really consider our- Tickets on Sale For ‘Rainmaker’ Tickets for the Aggie Players’ production of “The Rainmaker” are now on sale for 75 cents each at the main desk of the Memorial Student Center. The production will be staged Nov. 3-5 at 8 p.m. in the MSC Ballroom, said C. K. Esten, di rector of the group. Pre-Law Meet Set For Tuesday Night The Pre-Law Society will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Me morial Student Center. A film will be shown and guest speaker will be John Sandstedt, instructor in the Department of Business Ad ministration. Anyone interested may 'attend. Guide Posts > “Fellowship in joy, not sympa thy in sorrow, is what makes friends.”—Friedrich Nietzsche selves folksingers in the accepted sense of the word, but it was our basic interest in this kind of sing ing that brought us together. “As we progress musically, in search of new material, we put only one restriction on the type of songs we will do—they must have a basic intelligent thought and be founded in good taste.” Reynolds does the lead vocaliz ing for the group and plays Congo drums. Both Guard and Shane play the guitar and banjo. Tickets on Sale Tickets for the Town Hall pro motion may be purchased at tKe Office of Student Activities, Shaf fer’s Book Store and the Fidelity House. Reserved seats sell for $1.50 while general admission is $1. Town Hall tickets will not be honored. Pooch Stars Make Film Unrehearsed Although he may not win an Academy Award Oscar like Walt Disney, Darwin MaeAllister, ’50, is an amateur photographer wjio takes very realistic home movies. Recently his dog, a golden re triever named Lulu, gave birth to twelve puppies. During the birth, Darwin and his wife, Norma, were on the spot to record the happy event on 50 feet of colored movie film. , Lulu and her puppies seem ob livious to their new i‘oles as movie stai - s and are now leading a happy “dog’s life.” The MacAllister’s are now anxiously waiting for the film to be developed to see if their photo graphy effort turned out well. The 12 puppies will soon be wanting to find new homes, Dar win said. Anyone interested in a new dog may contact the MacAl- listers at VI 6-8267. U. S. Explodes 2 More Shots In Atomic Tests ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev. DPI —Two atomic blasts flashed over the desert Wednesday but brisk winds pushed back the hurry-up timetable on three others sched uled during the day. The Atomic Energy Commission, faced with a Thursday midnight deadline, had scheduled five full- scale weapons tests for Wednes day. This would have been the greatest number ever fired here within 24 hours. Unsatisfactory weather condi tions delayed the shot named San ta Fe. This is a device equal to lea* than 20,000 tons of TNT, to be fired from a balloon at 1,500 feet. Adams, a test identical in power, yield and height to Santa Fe, was reset for midnight. Blanca, a weapon packing the force of 20,000 tons of TNT, was rescheduled for 6 a.m. Thursday. It will be the most powerful ever set off underground by this coun try if it goes. Three tests is the most ever conducted in one day here. Survivors Plea ‘Come Get Us’ SPRINGHILL, N. S. (AP)—The faint cry came from men trapped 2*4 miles inside a wrecked coal mine—“There are 12 of us hero. Come and get us.” Mine rescue workers inched Wednesday night through 60 feet of debris trying to reach the 12 found entombed alive after all hope for them had been abandoned. Miner Gorley Kempt, in a group of 12 among 174 miners trapped last Thursday night, whispered the dra matic words through a 6-inch broken air line to the rescue crews . . . “Come and get us.” Percy Weatherbee, one of the rescue team, recognized the voice as his uncle’s. Hyde Needs Trucks For Bonfire Work The bonfire is just around the corner and the bonfire committee has issued a warrant for several trucks to help haul the logs to the drill field fi’om .the cutting area. R. D. (Smokey) Hyde, head yell leadfer, issued the statement last night. “Anyone having access to or who knows the whereabouts of trucks to haul logs, please contact me,” Hyde said. He lives on the first floor, Dorm 2. Four Bands at Once Who’s Who Forms Due 5 p.m. Monday Nominations for Who’s Who Among Students in American Col leges and Universities close Mon day at 5 p.m. Forms may be turned in to the main desk of the Memorial Stu dent Center, Commandant’s Office, Housing Office and Office of Stu dent Activities. Students classified as seniors (95 hours) with a 1.50 grade point ratio, who are active in campus activities, show leadership quali ties and are popular with fellow students are eligible for nomina tion. Nows of the World By Thifc Associated Press Soviet Author Refuses Nobel Prize STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Russian author Boris Paster nak turned down the $41,420 NobeS Literature Prize Wed nesday. The writer who dared criticize life under Com munist rule has been und^r almost ceaseless Soviet press attack since the prize was announced Saturday. “Because of the meaning attributed to this award in the society I live in I ought to say no thanks to the unde served prize awarded me,” he cabled. “Do not take my voluntary refusal with any ill will.” This cable to the Swedish Royal Academy was a switch for the 68-year-old author of the novel, “Doctor Zhivago.” Last Saturday he had cabled the academy: “Immensely thankful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.” ★ ★ ★ Pope Sets Tuesday Coronation VATICAN CITY—Pope John XXIII Wednesday desig nated next Tuesday as his coronation day and called upo» the world’s leaders to channel man’s genius into paths of peace. The new spiritual sovereign the Roman Catholic Church quickly demonstrated his intention of being a vigor ous leader. In the first full days of his reign the 76-year-old pontiff took a series of decisions indicating his reign will be a dynamic one. Variety of Dances On Weekend Slate their number, f*. g rrii Gras-Hero- ’ , * Four bands imported from Ar kansas and unique decorations will spark this weekend’s activities in the Memorial Student Center, as the MSC Dance Committee pre sents Cafe Rue Pinalle Friday night and the “Midnight in New Orleans” after-game dance Satur day night. Two University of Arkansas stu dents, Judy Edwards, vocalist; and Bob Flowers, pianist, will be the star performers for the Cafe Rue Pinalle floor show. For Arkansas visitors, the show will also feature genuine “hoedown” numbers play ed by John A1 Holveck on the fid dle, jvith guitar accompaniment by Bob Erisman and Malcolm Strole. Harry Candler will emcee. The Prairie View Collegians, an 18-piece group from Prairie View A&M, tops the list of bands on L the “Midnight in New Orleans” 1 agenda. The Collegians, who in- |Q|^||| elude a quartet in will play in the Mardi Gras-deco rated Ballroom. « Other bands to provide varied music for the affair will be the Richard Smith Combo, a rock-and- P‘ roll group which will play in the FV- ’7 table tennis area; the Andy An- ' derson Sextet from the Sam Hous- ton State College, a regular dance band to be in the Assembly Room; and the Bob Arevalos Combo, a jazz group set for the Serpentine Lounge area. Dance music for Friday night’s Cafe Rue Pinalle will be played by the Dave Woodard Combo. Admis sion will be $1.50 per couple. Ad mission for “Midnight in New Or leans” will be $2 per couple. Cafe Rue Pinalle will begin at 8 p.m., and Saturday night’s event will be gin immediately following the Ar kansas game. According to Rue Pinalle Chair man Tom Withey, this week’s Cafe Rue Pinalle entertainers from Ar kansas were “discovered” as A&M talent prospects last spring by the 1958 Intercollegiate Talent Show audition team. A petite, bru nette junior from Bald Knob, Ark- Miss Edwards sings popular bal lads. Flowers, winner of the Student Union Week Talent Show at the University of Arkansas last spring, plays the piano in a manner sim ilar to that made famous by Rog er Williams, Withey said. Scenes reminiscent of well-known night spots in New Orleans will form the decorational theme for the “Midnight in New Orleans” dance, reports special dance chair man Arlis Adickes. “We’re also giving away surprise favors to add to the atmosphere of the dance,” he added. * “I asked him how many were in there and Gorley said there were 12 of them.” Weatherbee recounted. “I asked, ‘How are you ?’ and Gorley answered, ‘We’re good, but we need water badly.’ Then he called out the names of the 12 men j in there.” Arrangements were made to send hot liquids through the tube to the trapped men. Recuers said they hoped some time Wednesday night to be through the rock debris to the pocket where the 12 huddled. One mine official said it was possible others may be alive. As the news spread through’ this tragedy-ridden town and hope was revived among families gathering at the pithead, two more bodies were brought puL They raised the known death toll to s 26. The miners were trapped by a tremendous underground upheaval that miners call a bump. Of the 174 in the mine, 81 reached safety. Then rescuers began finding bodies by ones and twos. Last Sunday night one rescue chief said it appeared the men still trapped had no hope of being found alive. If not crushed by rockfalls that reduced the 10-foot high passage* to 10 inches, then mine gas spelled their doom, res cuers figured. The score at dusk Wednesday was 26 known dead, 81 rescued, 12 still alive in the mine debris, 55 fate unknown. The 12 were at a level that slants down 13,000 from the mine’s entrance. The depth underground is about 4,000 feet. ARKANSAS’ JUDY EDWARDS . to sing for /Cafe Rue Pinalle Friday night