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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1959)
FE Clear to partly cloudy through Friday. Turning colder tonight with lowest temperature about 38. High today about 60. THE BATTALION CSC Meets TONIGHT Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus Number 56: Volume 58 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1959 Price Five Cents * * Said He’d ‘Run Him Off Corps Junior Suspended For Harrassing Fish 9 A junior student was dropped from the Corps of Cadets and sus pended from A&M today for “un- ★ ★ ★ Missing ‘Fish ? Ends Mystery, Rides Home The A Field Artillery fresh man who disappeared from Dorm 6 Monday night is no longer missing. He arrived early yesterday at his home in Lubbock, his pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Rod- den, reported to college offic ials. The freshman, Douglas T. Rodden, said he spent Monday night in a Bryan hotel, leaving Tuesday by bus for Lubbock. Rodden had been the object of a search after his disappear ance—leaving behind only a note to his roommate saying he had decided to go somewhere and join the Navy to explain his absence. Rodden returned to A&M this morning. Senior Gets Grant For Medical School Moss Antony, senior pre-medical Btudent majoring in biology, and son of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Antony of College Station, has been award ed a $500 scholarship by tfre Bay lor University College of Medicine for the 1959-60 college year. The award was made by the Committee on Admissions and is based on high scholarship as mea sured by achievements in college, outstanding potential as measured in part by the Medical College Ad missions Test and an estimation of outstanding usefulness in the field of medicine as indicated by All other data available. Antony is currently correspond ing secretary for the Pre-medical- Pre-dental Society. authorized punishment and har- rassment” of a freshmen student and for telling the freshman that he intended to “run him off”. Action against the junior was announced this morning by Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant. He did not disclose the junior's name. Davis said the student will be allowed to remain at A&M as a civilian student for the remainder of this semester to complete final examinations, but will be required to move out of the Corps housing area. The student may apply for re-admission to A&M, as a civilian student only, in the coming spring semester he said, but his read mittance will depend on a review of his case by college authorities. Vice President Earl Rudder said this morning, the action is based on the principal that freshmen have the same right to remain at A&M as upperclassmen—this is a public institution, supported by taxpayers of Texas, and the fees and tax monies from payments of our freshmen entitle them to equal consideration with all other stu dents. No one is going to harass or force any boy to leave this school against his will. “Our first obligation in an edu cational institution is to provide an atmosphere where all students can get the most from the time they spend here, preparing for their futures. We will not tolerate any actions that interfere with the pursuit of an education.” To House 252 Couples Apartment Project Bids Due Feb. 17 Additional housing facilities for 252 married students will soon be provided by A&M, Howard Bad- gett, physical plant manager, said yesterday. Bids will be received Feb. 17 for the construction of 21 apart ment buildings. Thei’e will be 12 apartments in each of the build ings. • The two-story masonry struc tures will be erected near the campus, just north of the Col lege View married student apart ment area on a site now used for the Firemen’s Training School. In the future, the firemens school will be held in the vicinity of Easterwood Airport, west of the main campus. Each apartment will contain ap proximately 550 square feet of floor space and will include a combination living and dining room, a kitchenette, bedroom and bath. The buildings will have exter ior walls of concrete block and face block and interior walls of concrete block and plywood. They will be 121 feet in length and 37 feet wide. Year’s First Linda Ann Weatherby, 18, of Hillsboro, became the new year’s first beauty entry by turning in her Miss Universe entry blank at 12:01 a. m. Jan. 1. Her mother, Mrs. H. A. Weatherby Jr., is shown measuring Linda’s waist, which is a trim 23V2 inches. Miss Weatherby, a 5 foot 7 inch blonde, is a freshman at Texas Tech. (AP Wirephoto) The apartments will be furnish ed and each will have a separate sun porch. Badgett said that May, 1960, is seen as the possible completion date for the housing project. Plans and specifications for the new buildings were prepared in the office of the A&M system architect, Henry D. Mayfield Jr. The college now has 526 apart ments for married students—466 in the College View area and 60 others just south of Kyle Field. 18 Aggies Added To ’59 DMS List Eighteen Army and Air Force Cadets were added to an already lengthy list of Distinguished Mili tary Students for the school year 1958-59, it was announced yes terday. To become a Distinguished Mili tary Student, a cadet must pos sess outstanding qualities of lead ership, high moral character and definite aptitude for military serv ice. He must have attained an academic standing in the upper half of his class with a grade point ratio of 1.50 or must be in the upper 10 per cent of his mili tary class, a 2.60 grade point ratio. Army students include William M. Huskinson Jr., Walter F. Kappel, Arthur M. Emery, Travis L. Englebrecht, William V. Hill Jr., Robert D. Maxwell, Grady W. Barr, Earl A. Nye, Ralph D. Cahill, Glen A. Estes, Ervan E. Zouzalik, Robert F. Hunter, Le- land A. Chvatal. Air Force students are Joseph L. Bergeron, Donald B. Brown ing, Joe E. Ward, Ray W. Laird and Donald B. Kirby. m ;A'‘" rr. p. f: t p . ■ t ■ | : ■ ■ IB :: k':r Climatic Tower fl ■ m m Winton Covey, graduate student, is shown above do ing master science work on this micro - meteorological tower, located east of the traffic circle. This tower measures wind temperature and humidity from one me ter below the ground to 32 meters above the ground. This is Project 193 of the A&M Research Foundation, headed by Dr. William Clay ton. National Scientists Plan A&M Visit A group of officials from the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., will visit A&M in January to study and confer with A&M officials about re search in the nuclear sciences be ing conducted here. The group, headed by Dr. Ar thur H. Waynick, program direc tor of engineering sciences at the foundation, will arrive Jan. 19. Other NSF personnel to make the visit will be Dr. J. Howard Mc- Millen, physicist, Dr. Walter Kir- ner, chemist, and Dr. William Benson, earth scientist. News of the World By The Associated Press Mechta Goes Into Orbit MOSCOW—Soviet authorities reckoned Wednesday night that the cosmic rocket Mechta has swung into orbit around the sun and started edging up toward its top speed of about 72,000 miles an hour. They said the peak will come next Wednesday when the U/o-ton rocket reaches its nearest point to the sun—about 91V2 million miles from it—on an egg-shaped course as the solar system’s first artificial planet, the news agency Tass reported. ★ ★ ★ DeGualle Takes Prexy’s Office PARIS—Charles de Gaulle takes over the presidency of France Thursday from grandfatherly Rene Coty, the man who summoned him last May to save the nation from civil war. ★ ★ ★ Reds-Nats Exchange Fire TAIPEI, Formosa—Red China’s gunners shelled civilian centers of the Quemoys Wednesday in what Peiping called a retaliatory action. This led to the offshore war’s biggest artillery duel in two months. Nationalist batteries hit back vigorously. Fiscal Cure-All Offered Daniel Department Heads A&M Scientist To Lecture At Miami School Research Scientist Stuart G. Bigler of the Department of Oceanography and Meteorology, will be a guest lecturer for a series of training courses at the University of Miami this spring. Beginning in March, he will lec ture once a month for five months before U.S. Weather Bureau per sonnel attending special classes on the operation of a new radar sys tem being installed for tracking hurricanes and other severe storms. Bigler’s lectures will be on the use of radar and synoptic meteor ology. A 1952 graduate of Pennsyl vania State University, Bigler has been on the A&M staff for the past four years, coming here in February, 1955, from Urbana, 111., where he was research as sociate with the Illinois State Water Survey. Prior to that he spent three years in the Navy as a weather observer. He had a part in the atomic bomb tests at Eniwetok Atoll in the spring and summer of 1948. Bigler received his M.S. degree in meteorology in February, 1957. Grads Get Refund On Activity Fees Graduating seniors who will not be in school the spring semester may make application for refund on the spring poi’tion of the Stu dent Activities fee by presenting their Town Hall, Great Issues and athletic tickets at the Housing Office. Graduating seniors living in dormitories may also receive a refund of fees for the last week of school. Both refunds may be secured by calling at the cashier’s window at the Fiscal Department after 8 a'm. Jan. 12. Students other than graduating seniors who will not be in school in the. spring may make arrange ments for their activity refund when they turn in clearance at the Housing Office at the end of the semester. U. S. Skier Wins European Ski Meet GRINDELWALD, Switzerland (A*)—American Olympian Betsy Snite Wednesday outclassed some of Eui’ope’s outstanding skiers in winning the giant slalom, opening day feature of the 21st Interna tional Grindelwald Ski Meet. The 20-year-old model from Nor wich, Vt., beat out feminine favor ites from Italy, France, Norway, Switzerland and Austria, in the race against the clock over a 1,050- meter course which drops 215 me ters. Her time for the difficult course was 1 minute 44.4 seconds. Penny Pitou of Guilford, N.H., the other American starter, lost a chance to win when she hit the last gate and somersaulted on the home stretch. She finished far back in 1:53.3. Miss Snite was a member of the 1956 Olympic team. Potter to Present Paper at Capitol Dr. J. G. Potter, head of the Physics Department, will attend meetings of the American Associa tion of Physics Teachers and the American Physical Society, Jan. 28-31, in Washington, D. C. He will present a paper on sum mer institutes for high school teachers at the meeting. Prepare Report AUSTIN UP)—A 74 million dollar patch on the state’s weakened fiscal structure was suggested to Gov. Price Dan iel Wednesday by a committee of executive department heads. The economy panel named recently by the governor of fered six methods which they said would result in a $74,599,- 957 short and long range boost for the faltering general revenue fund, without new or increased taxes. Some of the suggestions would require controversial legislation. Others could be achieved through simple ap propriations. Others would require no legislative action, said Sec. of * State Zollie Steakley, chair- Honor Code Questionnaires To Be Screened The Corps Honor Code Council will discuss the contents of 3,500 code questionnaires at its meeting in the Corps Conference Room Friday a 5, Harvey Haas, chair man, said last night. Questionnaires were distributed before the Christmas holidays by junior and senior council members. Haas urged council members to bring these questionnaires to the meeting if they have not al ready turned them in. Questions on the questionnaire concerned the attitude of the stu dents toward having a code at A&M. They were also asked to tell what changes should be made in the present revised honor code to make it effective. U.S. Scientists Draw High Praise From Red Experts LONDON tP)—A Soviet scien tist said Wednesday a feverish pace of research had caused U.S. failures in rocket probes aimed at the moon. “American scientists are being- pushed and given tasks which have little in common with science,” said Academician Anatoly Blagon ravov, one of the leading scientists behind the Soviet space rocket. Blagonravov applauded the work of some U.S. scientists saying “it would be wrong to minimize the importance of their research in astronautics.” Ags Can Purchase New Car Permits Students who own automo biles and know where they will live next semester may pur chase their spring semester parking permits now, Fred L. Hickman, chief of Campus Se curity, said this morning. Hickman urged all students who can to buy their permits now in order to avoid the rush at the first of next semester. man of the committee. The committee squelched the idea that there could be a quick transfer of surpluses in numerous state funds—restricted now by constitutional provisions or statutes—to cure the general fund’s ills. That fund, Comptroller Robert S. Calvert estimated Tues day, will be 65 million dollars in the red by Aug. 31. Calvert also estimated that the Legislature will need to raise 167 million dollars in new money to carry on services now provided, for the next two fiscal years. The 74 million dollars suggested—if approved by the Legislature— would not wipe out the deficit but would furnish some of the new money indicated. Gov. Daniel is expected to in clude at least some of the com mittee's proposals in various mes sages to the Legislature, which opens its 56th regular session at noon Tuesday. Daniel, commenting on the com mittee’s work, noted that it had “pointed out the possibility of rasing more than the anticipated deficit from governmental econo mies and increased revenues under present tax laws.” From, the standpoint of practical operation, however, much of the money could not be raised in time to more than help the deficit situ ation, assuming that the Legisla ture would follow the committee’s recommendations in full. This would include amendment of the franchise tax law. Daniel said that his purpose in appointing the committee was to make sure every means of econ omy be explored before “we be gin to discuss new taxes.” Rose to Represent A&M at Conference Dr. Aai-on Rose^ director of Tex as Engineering Experiment Sta tion, will attend the 11th annual College-Industry Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education at the University of Houston Jan. 26-27. Twenty colleges and universities of the Southwest including A&M will be hosts for the confei-ence. A number of prominent speakers re presenting industry are on the three-day program of the meeting. Theme of the meeting is “In dustry Speaks Its Mind in Engi neering Education.” Exam Schedule Following is the examination schedule beginning Satur day, Jan. 17. Saturday—Jan. 17 1-4 p.m. Monday—Jan. 19 8-11 a.m. 1-4 p.m. Tuesday—Jan. 20 8-11 a.m. 1-4 p.m. Wednesday—Jan. 21 8-11 a.m. 1-4 p.m. Thursday—Jan. 22 8-11 a.m. 1-4 p.m. Friday—Jan. 23 8-11 a.m. 1-4 p.m. Saturday—Jan. 24 8-11 a.m. 1-4 p.m. Classes Meeting TWF 3 Classes Meeting TThF 3 Classes Meeting TF 3 Classes Meeting MWF 8 Classes Meeting TTh 8F 1 Classes Meeting MWF 9 Classes Meeting MWTh 1 Classes Meeting MWF 10 Classes Meeting TF 1 Classes Meeting TF 1-2:15 Classes Meeting M 3 TTh 10 Classes Meeting MWTh 2 Classes Meeting MWF 11 Classes Meeting M 4 TTh 11 Classes Meeting TTh 9 F 2 Classes Meeting TF 2 Classes Meeting TF 2-3:15 r