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Fish Filing Ends at 5 THE BATTAL ON UT Ticket Sale Ends Tomorrow Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus Number Volume 58 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1958 Price Five Cents '' Ns } ■ v-.; j ' ' 'ht'.* ■ ■ ■■ w vr - '?*.'■ ■ i \ ■’ >• . .4 ■ s s :i:j * . " • < i V u A-• w.iJ&i'f-*a ; A;.:‘ VAtiltl :i««S ■ ’ vV’-'S^ Am a 7 I Pioneer Pretty Lovely Lucille Stavinoha of Louise, freshman drum major for the Wharton County Junior College Pioneer Band, will be seen with the band during the A&M-Texas University freshman football game Saturday. Friday Last Day For Installments Friday is the last day for payment of third installment fees. This portion of the semes ter’s fees—$50.60—pays room rent, laundry and board up through Dec. 19, excluding Thanksgiving recess. A one-dollar-per-day penal ty will be charged for each day that the fee is paid late, according to the Fiscal De-r partment. The final installment for this semester will be payable Dec. 1-19. The fourth fee is $48.70. T.U. Date Tickets Off Sale Tomorrow Deadline for buying student and student date tickets for the A&M- University of Texas Thanksgiving Football game is Wednesday at 5 p.m. Athletic Department Business Manager Pat Dial extended a strong urge that all students get over to the booths early so they will not be left out or have to wait in long lines. Fish Filings End Today at 5 p. m. Today is the last day for fresh- ilnen to file for class officers to be elected Dec. 4. Candidates have until 5 p.m. to sign up in the Office of Student Activities in the YMCA. A president, vice president, sec- retaz’y-treasurer, social secretary and Student Senate members are to be elected. By Monday 48 Class of ’62 mem bers had filed for the posts. YMCA Publishes Paper for Members A newspaper—Y’s A g g i e—is now being published by the YMCA Cabinet. Editor David Spencer said the paper is not only for news but al so for entertainment. The publication, which may be picked up at the YMCA desk every Wednesday, is written chiefly for the “Y” members and other inter ested persons. It has five editions “under its belt” and the number of copies is increasing with every edition. Spencer is assisted by the fol lowing students: Junior Hickman, Don Fletcher, Don Hutto, Van Nie- uwenhuizer, reporters; Bill Pry, reporter-typist; Jim Gibson and Tony Moya, artists. A&M Debaters Sponsor Discussion Nov. 21-22 Debates on the question of pro hibiting further development of nu clear weapons by international agreement are planned on the cam pus Nov. 21-22. Representatives from 30 colleges and universities are expected to attend the 10th annual A&M In vitational Debate Tournament. The tournament is sponsored by the Aggie Discussion and Debate Club which is sponsored by the Department of English. Harry Hierth and Vic Wiening, English professors, are in charge of the tournament. There will be junior and senior debate divisions with a winner in each division. Subject of the debate will be '‘Resolved: That the Further De velopment of Nuclear Weapons Should be Pr-ohibited by Interna tional Agreement.” Schools to be represented include Baylor University, Southern Meth odist University, Texas Christian University, Rice Institute, Univers ity of Texas, University of Arkan sas, Texas Tech, Wharton Junibr College, North Texas State Col lege, Abilene Christian College, University of Houston, Stephen F. Austin College, Sam Houston State College. Del Mar College, Midwestern University, Blinn College, Howard Payne, St. Mary’s University, La- News of the World By The Associated Press U.S.S.R. Suggests Negotiation GENEVA—The Soviet Union suggested Monday the negotiation of two separate treaties on nuclear test suspen sion despite Western arguments that the banning of tests and the control of such a ban must go together in a single document. In a second international conference in Geneva, the So viet Union proposed still another treathy—this one to pro hibit planes carrying nuclear weapons from flying over the territory of other countries or the high seas. it ic ir U.S. Warns Soviet Russia WASHINGTON—The United States has warned the So viet Union to quit harrassing American planes in interna tional airspace or face the consequences. What might happen was not spelled out. A stern U. S. note, delivered to the Kremlin Nov. 13 and made public Monday, cited two incidents occurring on Nov 17. 1. A U. S. plane flying over the Baltic Sea, about 66 miles from the nearest Soviet territory, was fired on twice without warning by Soviet fighter planes. 2. A few hours later, another U. S. plane was intercepted three times by Soviet fighters in the sea of Japan 64 miles from the Siberian coast and about 300 miles north of Vladi vostok. No shots were fired but the Soviets “made simulated attacks” as close as 100 feet. ★ ★ ★ Sudan Government Falls CAIRO. Egypt—Sudan’s pro-Western government fell Monday under a coup by army officers of varying political beliefs. The sprawling East African nation seemed quiet. The coup, apparently bloodless, may have been set off over internal matters rather than foreign affairs. Reports from Khartoum, the capital, indicated a trium virate of army officers was in charge. mar Tech, San Antonio College, Texas Lutheran College, West Texas State College, Texas Wes leyan College, McMurry College, Pan American College, Southeast State College of Durant, Oklahoma, T u 1 a n e, Hardin-Simmons and Southwest Texas State Teachers College. Professor Reed Dies In Sunday Collision Three Aggies Hurt In 2-Car Mishap Violent Weather Hits Texas; Tornado Wind Damage High •A 5 )—Violent winds and cavort ing tornadoes knifed through Tex as Monday in a massive line. They left an oil field worker dead; at least 20 persons injured and prop erty losses that skyrocketed pos sibly into the millions. First warning that Texas was in for a day of terror and destruc tion came Sunday night near Odessa. Matthew Roberts, 36, was high on an oil drilling rig when the wind struck. It topped the tall tower, killing Roberts. Ralph Din- ius, 24, suffered a broken leg when hit by flying metal. The violent winds, often strong er than hurricane rating, headed for Snyder and San Angelo and then on to Abilene. They hit a dozen or so small cities en route to Wichita Falls on the extreme north and the Dallas-Fort Worth complex of cities and towns on the extreme south of their route. Finally bursting out of the state about noon above Sulphur Springs, the winds delivered a final wallop to that Northeast Texas city by badly damaging a dairy barn and residence. Damage appeared heaviest at Gainesville, straight north of Fort Worth. Texas Rangers estimated loss at one-half million dollars there from a tornado that wander ed through the city. However, other sources in Gain esville put the damage at a much smaller figure. The powerful winds and torna does upset airplanes, unroofed at least two schools without scratch ing a student, damaged homes and stores, destroyed outbuildings, left television antennas in crazy tang les, tore down power lines and up rooted trees. The turbulent weather also struck Oklahoma. Hardest hit was the Bowlegs community in the east central part of the state. Build ings and houses in an area two blocks wide and eight blocks long were damaged. Six persons suf fered injuries. Lawton also suf fered damage. The cold caused widespi-ead suf fering over the nation’s midsection. Fei’ocious blizzards were predicted for the Oklahoma Panhandle and parts of South Dakota and Kansas. The Weather Bureau called it a “storm which will make weather history for its large extent and unusually severe conditions for so early in the season.” Discusses Career Roy Harris Talks With Re-Visits A&M, Vice President By BILL REED Battalion News Editor “I never intended to do any professional fighting, or for that matter, box at all.” Those were the words of the soft-spoken lad from Cut ’n Shoot, Roy Harris, holder of the Texas State Heavyweight title, in an interview in Vice Presi dent Earl Rudder’s office yester day afternoon. Harris made his first attempt at the big time game when he fought Floyd Patterson in com petition for the World’s Heavy weight championship in Septem ber. But Harris’ trainer, Bill Gore, saw fit to stop the fight before the rounds ran out be cause Harris had five cuts about the face. Attended A&M The 25-year-old puncher at tended A&M during the spring semester, 1952, but didn’t finish his Golden Glove expedition until it was too late to enroll for the following semester. “I won the regional Golden Gloves title in Brownwood and went on to win state,” he said. “But when I came back from Chicago, school had been going on for over a month.” Before enrolling at A&M, Plar- ris attended John Tarfeton Col lege in Stephenville for one semester. “I would have stayed at Tar- leton longer, but it was so far from home, and I was just about to run out of money.” At A&M he studied petroleum engineering, but when he trans ferred to Sam Houston State he changed to vocational agricul ture, graduating with a B.S. de gree. Presently Harris is training for a big fight with Donny Fleeman of Fort Worth. “This will be a bad fight for me because I have all to loose and nothing to gain. I am putting my title up against a small amount of money and the exper ience,” he said. “Fleeman is a hard puncher, and is two or three years older than me.” Harris defeated Fleeman once in the 1953 State Golden Gloves quarterfinals. The definite time for the fight has not been set but Harris sus pected that it would be either Dec. 1 or Dec. 30 in Dallas or Houston. A definite date will be set within the next day or so. Hopes to Fight Pastrano Harris is doing a little dream ing and is in hopes of getting another fight with Willie Pas trano in Houston. No plans have been set yet but the fight will probably be next year. Even though he never had a desire to become a professional boxer, Harris built up quite a record as an amateur in the Golden Gloves contests. After winning the State title in 1952, he maintained this high honor through 1955. In 1952 he lost his first fight in Chicago, but in 1953 he managed to reach quar terfinals. The peak of his Gold en Gloves career came in 1954 as he got to semifinals, then in 1955 he got to quarterfinals again. Boxing is not all the young title holder talked about in the interview. He was asked how he met his wife. “I met her in Cut ’n Shoot in a homemaking class.” “I liked the course because we got to cook and eat and I didn’t like study hall. It was a good excuse to get out of it.” Married Three Years He and his wife, Jean, have been married for three years and are living happily in the small community down near Conroe, where Roy Harris was reared on a small farm. “There is an oil well right on the spot where I was born.” He was born in an old log cabin on the bank of the Crystal Creek. When asked what he thought about the trend to move the box ing capitol from New York City he said: “I believe Houston will be the boxing capitol within the next few years.” Dist. Judge J. Robert Liles of Conroe, who accompanied Harris to A&M, said he thought that New York City wouldn’t be the strongest boxing city because in dictments have already been brought against some of the man agers. During the tenure of the in terview Harris spoke of the five cuts which he received in the Patterson battle. “The bad cut over my left eye was caused by the blow when Floyd and I butted heads. After that it just got worse as he kept poking at it.” “I think I will be in the best of physical shape for the next fight,” he concluded. By FRED MEURER Battalion Managing Editor Funeral services were held this afternoon in Groves, Tex., for Calvin Reed, 32, instructor in the Department of English, who was killed in a two-car collision Sunday at 4:20 p. m. in Plantersville, 15 miles south of Navasota. Three A&M students were among six other persons in jured in the crackup. The Aggies are Bruce Dement and Oscar Lamar Reed of Groves and Charles Graf of Vernon. Neither of the three is in critical danger. ~ The car in which the four were riding—a 1958 Chevro let coach owned by Reed and driven by Dement—collided with an auto driven by Ernest Brewer of Snyder. Three other occupants of Brewer’s car were injured, two of them seriously. + According to Grimes Coun ty Sheriff Dick Johnson, the car driven by Dement was headed north on State High way 105. Johnson said Brewer, who was driving west on Farm Road 1774 which intersects 105, passed a stop sign and “slammed” into Reed’s auto. -4- Grimes County Sheriff Dick Johnson of Jtndersoh, Tex., told The Battaliop by telephone last night that cnarges of negligent homicide havl been filed against Ernest Brewlr, 57„ of Snyder. Snyder wa^» driver of the car which collided with another Sun day in Plantersville, killing Cal vin Reed, an A&M English pro fessor who was an occupant of the second car. Sheriff Johnson said Brewer was releasedU’rom Grimes Coun ty Jail after posting $1,000 bond. A hearing d<tte has not been set, Johnson said. All of the injured were taken to Navasota’s Brazos Valley Hospi tal. Reports Sunday said Mr. and Mi-s. T. R. Young of Corsicana, passengers in Brewer’s car, were injured seriously and that Brewer’s wife was also hurt. Brewer es caped injury. The Aggies’ attending physician said Dement was the most serious ly injured of the three with a punctured lung, four broken ribs and lacerations. Graf was reported as resting comfortably with torn cartilages in the chest and lacera tions. Oscar Reed was treated for lacerations and sent home yester day. Dement and Graf are both jun iors on the 5th Group Staff. Reed, who is no relation to the deceased (See WRECK Page 4) Ross Volunteers Initiate Tonight The Ross Volunteer Initiation Banquet will be held tonight in the Ballroom of the Memorial Student Center. Col. Raymond L. Murray, ’35, United States Marine Corps, who was scheduled to speak at the ban quet, is ill and will not be able to speak. Highlight of the evening will be the initiation of juniors who have been elected to become members of the company. Uniform for the occasion will be Class A winter without boots, with citation cords and ribbons for sen iors, while juniors will wear Class A winters with low quarter shoes. Tractor Schools To Be Held Here Thirty sub-district tractor main tenance schools, sponsored by the Humble Oil and Refining Co., will be held for 4-H leaders over the state beginning Dec. 9, according to Dr. W. L. Ulich, Extension Ag ricultural Engineer. Ulich said that these schools will last for two days each. The district agricultural agent of the respective district will be in charge of the school. The purpose of the schools is to acquaint 4-H members with the proper and safe methods of driv ing and caring for tractors. Ulich and Harold Freeman, Farm and Ranch Representative of Humble, will assist the district agent in the planning and opera tion of each school. ,#U ■ fcv * - o'"; n ...v v - - ■'{( , i . *.1. • " . ^. — m 1 1 4 . - Is ■ :cy AM I Cut ’N Shoot Slugger Heavyweight boxing champion of Texas, Cut ’n Shoot’s Roy Harris, center, chats with Vice President Earl Rudder, right, and Dist. Judge J. Robert Liles of Conroe. Har ris, one of the top-ranked fighters in the country, was visiting on the A&M campus yesterday.