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Weather Today Mostly cloudy with showers. Turning cooler tonight. Low tonight near 44. THE BATTALION Support Campus Chest Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus Number 31: Volume 58 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1958 Price Five Cents m£§|l| V;; , HKli ‘Rainmakers’ Players Perform Finale Tonight A1 Risien (Deputy File) and Don Demming of “The Rainmakers” which has its last (the local sheriff) are shown in one of their performance tonight at 8 in the Memorial scenes from the Aggie Player’s production Student Center Ballroom. ‘Old Yeller’ Author Speaks Tomorrow Fred Gipson, “witty” author of “Old Yeller,” will speak Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center Assembly Room. The MSC Browsing Libray Com mittee, sponsor of Gipson’s visit, has planned a full day for the vis iting celebrity and his wife. At 11 a.m., the writer will appear on “Town Talk,” a local television program. A coffee at 3 p.m. in the MSC Social Room will be open to stu dents who may visit with Gipson at this time. Members of the com mittee and invited guests will at tend a formal dinner in honor of the author at 6 p.m. Highlight of the evening will be Gipson’s talk at 8 p.m. in the As sembly Room. No admission fee will be charged. His talk, follow ed by an informal reception, will be on the methods he uses for gathering materials for his stories. Gipson was born in Mason, Tex., growing up on a small “dryland” farm. His favorite hobbies were hunting and fishing, and he said he’d still rather hunt and fish to- News of the World By The Associated Press Nuclear Armed Plane Crashes Near Abilene ABILENE, Tex.—A B47 jet bomber carrying a nuclear Weapon crashed in flames near here Tuesday but there was nb atomic explosion. One airman died in the crash. It occurred 150 yards from a house and within one-half mile of a rural school. Three airmen parachuted to safety. The plane was taking off from Dyess Air Force Base when it caught fire from the explosion of JATO jet assisted takeoff bottles. The Air Force said there was no atomic explosion nor danger of one and no radioactive contamination occurred. ★ ★ ★ Catholics Crown Pope John XXIII VATICAN CITY—The Roman Catholic Church trium phantly crowned Pope John XXIII Tuesday as supreme pon tiff and spiritual ruler. Two hundred thousand people under the gray, threaten ing skies let out a mighty roar as the share-cropper’s son who is Catholicism’s 261st successor to St. Peter received the pon derous, three-tier tiara. Nicola Cardinal Canali, 84-year-old cardinal deacon of the Sacred College, placed the jeweled symbol of papal authority on the new Pope’s head. The crowning climaxed a 4 1 / 4-hour ceremony that com bined medieval splendor with equipment of the electronic age. It was held on the outdoor balcony of St. Peter’s church, high over the heads of the cheering thousands. ★ ★ ★ Rocket Sled Sets Speed Record WASHINGTON—The Air Force disclosed Tuesday it has Bent a rocket-powered test vehicle along a New Mexico re search track at a peak speed of 2,853 miles an hour. That is about 4.8 times the speed of sound. A spokesman for the Air Research and Development Command said this was believed to be the fastest a man made device ever traveled on the earth’s surface. ★ ★ ★ Formosans Use Poison Gas, Reds Charge TAIPEI—Red China charged Tuesday that troops on Quemoy were firing poison gas shells. The charge brought sharp denials from both the Nationalists and Americans. A Nationalist government spokesman said the Reds ap peared to be laying the propaganda groundwork for using poison gas themselves. A Peiping broadcast charged that the United States supplied the Nationalists with poison gas shells—a charge the American command on Formosa labeled untrue. day than waste time at hard work. He has worked as a cowboy, tractor operator and has run coon- hounds for sport and profit. In 1933, he entered the Univer sity of Texas. Gipson stressed the fact that he went to Texas “main ly because the university provided jobs for students who wanted to work.” He quickly added, “I did n’t want to work, but I needed the job.” After three-and-one-half years he left to work for the San Angelo Standard Times and the Paris (Texas) News. He later became a feature writer for The Denver Post. Gipson married in 1940 and went back to the farm to become a free lance winter. Soon he was selling short stories and articles to numer ous magazines and news papers. He wrote his first book, “The Fabulous Empire” in 1946. Other Texas outdoor epics followed, such as “Hound Dog Man”, “Old Yel ler”, “Recollection Creek” and “Home Place”. “Home Place” was made into a movie called “The Return of a Texan” by 20th Century Fox in 1953. Two years later Walt Dis ney produced the movie “Old Yel ler”. Gipson has recently com pleted the script for the film ver sion of his book “Hound Dog Man” for 20th Century Fox. Junior Beats Odds; Gets Ring Back Despite the mathematical prob ability against it, Frank B. (Buck) Buchanan got his high school senior ring back. Buchanan a junior on 2nd Reg iment staff received a letter from the Porterfield Construction Co., in Bryan. It seems that a em ploye of the construction com pany found the ring at the bot tom of the Brazos River where Buchanan lost it two years ago at a battery party. The company traced the ring to the high school in Maryland and through the initials inside the band found out it belonged to Buchanan. Guide Posts If there be any good in thee, be lieve that there is much more in others, that so thou mayest con- serve humility within thee.— a Kempis. Texas Election Draws Large Voter Interest Kiwanis Club Urged to Back United Chest Gibb Gilchrist, general chairman of the College Station United Chest Drive, yesterday urged Col lege Station Kiwanians to get be hind the drive and make it the most successful fund raising drive ever held for the benefit of every citizen in the city. He said he did not believe the “one day’s pay” asked of each citizen was too great a sum to ask. “Most of us will readily give 10 per cent of our earnings to the Lord,” said Gilchrist. “And this represents approximately 36 ‘days’ pay’ each year. Surely we can give a single day’s pay for the better ment of our fellow citizens.” He said many complaints had come to his attention because some of the funds went to what some people term “civic” groups lather than to true “charity” or ganization. “This may or may not be true,” said the drive chairman, “but a citizen’s Chest Committee of 18 logal men and women held a public hearing on Oct. 20, covering each of the 14 items on the bud get, and after full consideration, the committee, with all members present, on Oct. 23, approved it unanimously.” Theme for this year’s United Chest Drive is “One Day’s Pay is Par” as they strive to meet a goal of $13,727. Gilchrist praised the Kiwanians for their support of the chbst in past years and told them he was proud of their participation and interest this year. Campus Culie Pretty Jeanette Reynolds, a Trinity University Tiger- ette, is one of the reasons for the many spectators at the Trinity University foot ball games in San Antonio. Picked by Hyde FourAgs to Lead Bonfire Group Bill Blackwood, Gary Hipps, John Wooten and Stanley Hausman have been appointed to head work com mittees for the 1958 bonfire wdiieh is set to burn Nov. 25. The four, who were appointed by Smokey Hyde, head yell leader, will make up the executive bonfire committee along with Carlos Hick man and Len Dorney. Three other committee heads are still to be named, including safety, supply and food. Blackwood will head the cutting committfee while Wooten will be in charge of loading. Hausman is in charge of the cutting area; Hipps will oversee stacking operations. Jay Bisbey will be in charge of erecting the center pole. Accord ing to Hyde, the committee hopes Ag Safety Society Discusses Bonfire The Student Safety Society is planning a safety program for the bonfire. “The accident rate during the building of the bonfire has been reduced 40 per cent since the safety program was started two years ago,” said Frank Nixson, safety society sponsog and safety instruc- ton in the Department of Indus trial Education. Members of the society will speak to the men in each dorm and show slides and safety films of last year’s bonfire. Instructions on first aid, proper ax handling, proper clothing and correct lifting procedures will be given. The main object of the program is to reduce accidents by making the students safety conscious. to have a 90-foot pole, which would be 18 feet taller than the 1954 center pole, tallest to date. Work on the bonfire will begin Monday, Nov. 17, when juniors and seniors will cut hoisting poles, brush for guard fires and mark trees to be cut. This will continue until Thursday afternoon when hauling will begin by the rest of the Corps. No work will be done on Thursday and Friday mornings. Saturday, Sunday and Monday will be spent cutting, hauling and stack ing. Logs will be stacked and the bonfire oiled Tuesday afternoon. Hyde issued a plea for trucks, axes and lighting equipment. Any one that can furnish any of these items is urged to contact Hyde in Dorm 2. ATS Needs More Talent Dancers, singers, tumblers, jug glers, pantomimists, pianists and any Aggie with any kind of talent are needed for auditions for the Aggie Talent Show to be held in Guion Hall Dec. 8. Next auditions will be held Nov. 10 and 12 in the Memorial Stu dent Center Social Room, accord ing to Art Oswald, director of the show which is under the sponsor ship of the MSC Committee. Top four acts on the show will be presented over KTBC-TV in Austin on Thanksgiving Day, said Oswald. Winner of the show will repre sent A&M in the Intercollegiate Talent Show to be held March 13 in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Last day for signing up in the Directorate Office is Nov. 11. Nine Amendments Appear on Ballot By The Associated Press Texas voters plowed through a long ballot in Tuesday’s general election, normally devoted simply to rubber-stamp ing the Democratic nominees. It attracted more than casual interest this time because Republicans filed for half a dozen major offices, seeking to make this a two-party state. The Consititution Party, not expected to be a factor in the balloting, also sought many offices. Early reports indicated turnouts varied from light to normal in most areas. Light rains slowed voting across the southern third of the state. Clubs Working On Clean-Up Three local civic clubs are spon soring a “Don’t Be a Litterbug” campaign designed to help keep' College Station clean around the year, not just during the annual Clean-Up Week, according to Mrs James W. Amyx. Mrs. Amyx, representing the A&M Garden Culb, said the group is presently trying to secure gar bage containers for the business areas in the city. Also “litter-bags” are being handed by local drive-in restau rants, she said. The groups is also planning sev eral other campaigns and aids to help keep the city clean, Mrs. Amyx said. “Our aim is to make College Station as clean as our living rooms throughout the year,” she said. Other representatives to the campaign include Mrs. Marion Pugh, representing the College Civic Association, and Dr. A. F. (Tex) Isbell, Kiwanis Club. * The election featured strong Republican campaigns by Roy Whittenburg against Senator Ralph Yarbrough, the Demo cratic nominee, and Rep. Bruce Alger, only Republican in the Texas congressional delegation, against Barefoot Sanders, a state legislator and a Democrat who is seeking Alger’s seat. T. E. Kennerly also campaigned vigorously against Robert Casey, the Democratic nominee in the state’s new congressional district, which includes a part of Houston. Edwin S. Mayer, the Republican nominee for governor, hardly put up a fight against Price Daniel, the Democratic candidate. Also on the ballot were nine pro posed amendments to Texas’ much- patched Constitution. The statewide contested races involved those for governor, U. S. senator and nine other lesser state wide offices. WELL-ARMED STILLWATER, Okla. (^—Rich ard Marquardt of Oklahoma State University hunts geese with a can non. A graduate students, Marquardt uses the cannon to fire nets over the bird’s so he can capture and tag them. He’s working on a project to learn more of the birds’ migrat ing habits. In all, four U. S. representatives out of the 22 allotted Texas were to be determined. The remainder of Texas’ con gressmen faced no opposition. The roughest fight was between Alger and Sanders in the 5th Con gressional District, made up of Dallas County. Alger sought his third tenrv He pegged his campaign to ultra-con servatism—less taxes, less federal spending and refusal of federal aid by local governments. Sanders, with six years in the Legislature, was making his bid to step up at the age of 33. His platform had a more moderate (See ELECTION, Page 4) illw §%3 Spurs Ring Out Fish Clifton Monk, left, Squadron 5 aeronautical engineer ing- major from Pensacola, Fla., and Thomas Etheredge, ‘B’ Engineers freshman petroleum engineering major from Childress, don their spurs as they leave the Academic Build ing. The “fish” will wear the spurs until they leave the campus Friday for the A&M-SMU game at Dallas Satur day-.