At 3 p.m. in MSC
Fine Arts Festival
To Start Sunday
With Opera Singer
The first A&M Fine Arts Festi
val—a full week of entertainment
in all phases of the fine arts—
will open Sunday at 3 p. m. in the
Memorial Student Center Ballroom
as the Recital Series Committee
presents Leslie Chabay, tenor.
Hungarian by birth, Chabay first
became known to the -American
public as a member of the Metro
politan Opera Company. Resign
ing at the end of the 1950-51 sea
son, he has continued his career
as a recitalist and soloist. .
Chabay’s first appearance in
the United States was with the
Salzburg Opera Guild in 1936. Ten
years later, after the second
World War and a career in Switz
erland,- he returned to settle in
America permanently.
| Since 1951 he has sung with
companies in San Francisco, Mon
treal, San Antonio, New Orleans,
Pittsburgh, Mexico City, Philadel
phia and Chicago, as well as with
most of the nation’s major sym
phony orchestras,
v Known as a “singer’s singer”,
Chabay has been Tenor-in-Resi-
ence at Aspen, Colorado, for eight
consecutive summers. In addition
to his concert activities, he is a
teacher and has been Artist-in-
Residence at Washington Univer-
,, sity in St. Louis, Missouri, for the
past three years.
The versatile singer has record
ed on the RCA Victor, Concert
Hall, Bartok and Contemporary
labels. His recital tours take him
annually from coast to coast in
Leslie Chabay
. AMFAF’s opener
Mothers March
On Polio Tonight
When the whistles blow and
church bells ling tonight it will
be time for College Station resi
dents to turn on porch lights in
the annual Mothers’ March on Po
lio campaign.
“Light the way for the Mothers’
March by turning on your porch
light,” Mrs. Grace M. Mai’tin, Col
lege Station chairman, said. “To
night will climax the drive as more
than 200 mothers knock on your
door and extend white-gloved
hands of mercy.”
Polio remains our No. 1 target,
not counting the many new cases
that may come in the future. There
are thousands of victims that need
help and many more thousands de
pending on iron lungs to breathe.
“The 1959 March of Dimes will
hold out hope for literally millions
of people. Your help is needed to
meet this challenge. Can you af
ford not to be generous?” Mrs.
Martin pleaded.
Mrs. Charles Hohn will be chair
man of the Bryan Mothers’ March,
with Mrs. Donald Conlee acting co-
chairman. Chairmen of the Negro
Mothers’ March will be C. D. Yan-
cy, Otha Byrd and 0. W. Sadberry.
the United States and Canada in
programs drawn from a tenor rep
ertoire which includes, among oth
er types of music, 70 operatic roles.
A M F A F activities following
Chabay’s performance will feature
Town Hall’s Boston Pops Orches
tra, conducted by Arthur Fiedler,
at 8 p. m. Monday in G. Rollie
White Coliseum; a recital reading
of the Greek play “Antigone”
Tuesday and Saturday at 8 p. m.
and Sunday, Feb. 7, at 3 p. m. in
the Ballroom; and a Creative Arts
lecture by Amy Freeman Lee, ar
tist, Wednesday at 8 p. m. in the
Ballroom.
Also, Recital Series presenta
tions of Philippe Entremont,
pianist, Thursday, and the Holly
wood String Quartet Friday—each
at 8 p. m. in the Ballroom.
Town Hall and Recital Series
season tickets will admit holders
to all events sponsored by those
organizations. Single event tick
ets for Town Hall and The Aggie
Players, and Recital Series season
tickets are available at the Stu
dent Activities office or the MSC
main desk.
Local Employes
Should Receive
W-2’s by Monday
Bryan-College Station employes
should receive two copies of a
“Withholding Statement,” Form
W-2, on or before Monday, accord
ing to the Internal Revenue Serv
ice.
Clarence E. Carlson, administra
tive officer of Internal Revenue
Service in Bryan, said, “This
statement shows the total wages
paid and the income tax and so
cial security tax withheld, if any,
during the calendar year 1958.”
Total wages shown on an em
ploye’s W-2 must include amounts
received as sick pay from his em
ployer, even though no tax has
been withheld on such sick pay.
Sick pay is not required to be
shown separately.
If it becomes necessary to cor
rect a W-2 after it has been given
to an employe, a revised statement
must be issued and marked ’‘cor
rected by employer.”
» BATTALION
Number 63: Volume} 58
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1959
Price Five Cents
Faculty Meeting
Scheduled Feb. 5
A general meeting has been
called for all faculty members
in Guion Hall Thursday, Feb.
5, at 4 p. m.
President M. T. Harrington
and Vice President Earl Rudder
will discuss fiscal matters and
other topics of general interest.
CS Citizens to Vote
On $350,000 Bond
City Council Calls
Feb. 17 Election
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A Street That
City Manager Ran Boswell points to chug
holes in the pavement at the corner of Jer
sey Street and Dexter Drive. Streets such
as these have caused much turmoil in the
City of College Station. Jersey Street is
Be Repaired—Now
one of the first streets to be repaired under
the proposed $350,000 bond, which will be
discussed by property owners tonight at a
meeting in Consolidated High School Audi
torium.
C of C Speaker Says
Future Looks Good
For Bryan Area
By DICK PERES
Battalion Staff Writer
The future of Bryan rests with
its vast potential in agriculture
and A&M because it is strategical
ly located between large metro
politan centers.
This prediction was made by
Horace Busby, president of Busi
ness Research Corp., of Austin,
Tuesday night at the annual Bryan
Chamber of Commerce Banquet at
Anson Jones Junior High School.
Much of Bryan’s outlook is at
stake in A&M and its future as a
great educational and research
center as well as in its economic
bearing on the growth of Bryan
and Brazos County.
“Texas has not cultivated its
educational centers which will at
tract the great minds needed in
the coming space age. The ap
proaching space age will be known
Schedule of Registration)
Following is the schedule of registration for the spring
semester:
FRIDAY, JANUARY 30
1:30 P. M.—Registration of New Basic Division students
who have done no college work.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 31
7:30 to 8:00 a.m.—Surnames beginning with T, U, V, W,
X, Y, Z.
8:00 to 9:00 a.m.—Surnames beginning with L, M, N, 0.
9:00 to 10:00 a.m.—Surnames beginning with P, Q, R, S.
10:00 to 11:00 a.m.—Surnames beginning with G, D, E, F.
1:00 to 2:00 p.m.—Surnames beginning with G, H, I, J, K.
2:00 to 3:00 p.m.—Surnames beginning with A, B.
as the Second Industrial Revolu
tion, and Bryan is fortunate in that
it will be able to furnish skilled
graduates to meet the challenge of
the competition involved in such a
revolution,” he said.
John R. Naylor, newly elected
president of the Chamber of Com
merce, announced the appointment
of chairmen to head the recently
approved organization.
Travis B. Bryan Jr., who was
presented a plaque for his work
as head of three successful United
Fund drives, was named head of
the organizational division.
Dr. R. E. Patterson, vice presi
dent in charge of agriculture at
A&M, will be the agriculture di
vision head. Claud Edge was ap
pointed head of the industrial di
vision, B. F. Swindler is new chair
man of the commercial division
and Col. D. R. Alfonte was named
head of the civic division.
Naylor, who replaces J. D. Con
lee, pledged every effort to make
Bryan a better community in
which to live and said, “any prob
lem arising that we feel will bet
ter our community when solved, we
will exert every effort to solve
it.”
Approximately 330 persons ob
served the presenting of a plaque
to the retiring president who has
17 months service, as a token of
appreciation of the Chamber of
Commerce. Naylor made the pre
sentation.
Conlee served retiring chamber
directors with certificates express
ing appreciation. Receiving certifi
cates were Manuel Akin, E. F.
Bond, Raymond Buchanan, Olen S.
Cole, I. N. Kelley, Allan T. Kraft
and J. R. Wheelan.
Residents May Pay
Poll Taxes in MSC
9 til Saturday Noon
Saturday is the last day for
paying poll taxes.
As a public service the Mem
orial Student Center will make
it possible for residents of this
community to pay poll taxes
without having to go J into Bry
an.
The MSC Social and Educa
tional Office will be open from
8 a m. to 5 p. m. Friday and
until noon Saturday to accept
this fee, according to Ann Keel,
MSC social director.
Rep. Dewey Serves
Five Committees
State Representative B. H.
Dewey of Bryan, has been ap
pointed to five committees in the
State House of Representatives by
Speaker Waggoner Carr.
Dewey, representing the 44th
State Legislative district, will
serve on the following committees:
Appropriations; Military and Vet
erans’ Affairs; Privileges, Suf
frage and Elections; Rules; and
State Hospital and Special Schools.
He will be serving his fourth
term on the Appropriations and
Privileges, Suffrage and Election
Committees; and his second term
on the Rules Committee.
New Students Register
Friday in Sbisa Hall
New Student Week got under
way yesterday for the spring sem
ester as students entered the
campus from all parts of the
United States.
The short week will be climaxed
Friday afternoon at 1:30, as new
students move into Sbisa Dining
Hall for registration. No figures
were available yesterday as to the
number of new students and trans
fers entering A&M, according to
H. L. Heaton, director of admis
sions and registrar.
New students were welcomed by
Vice President Earl Rudder yes
terday afternoon at 1 at a general
assembly in the lecture room of
the Biological Sciences Building.
A testing program was held
yesterday afternoon and this
morning in the biological sciences
lecture room for all entering
freshmen, with Frank E. McFar
land of the Basic Division in
charge.
A general assembly for all stu
dents was scheduled this afternoon
at 1, with S. A. Kerley of the
Basic Division presiding.
Orientation of all entering ca
dets was to be held in Room 113,
Biological Sciences Building, from
2 to 5 this afternoon. Lt. Col.
Frank Vaden was scheduled to
conduct orientation of new cadets.
Orientation for Civilians and
Veterans will be held in the
Brooks Room of the YMCA at 5
p. m. today, with Robert O. Mur
ray, Jr., director, Student Affairs
Office, iri charge.
Tonight at 7, W. L. Penberthy,
head of the Department of Stu
dent Activities, will address a gen
eral assembly in the Social Room
of the Memorial Student Center.
His talk is on “Student Life at
A&M.”
All returning students and trans
fers will register for the spring
semester in Sbisa Hall beginning
at 7:30 a. m. Saturday. Students
who are scheduled to register from
7:30 to 8 a. m., may pick up their
registration cards tomorrow be
fore 5 p. m.
By GAYLE McNUTT
Executive News Editor
College Station voters will go to the polls Feb. 17, to vote
“yes” or “no” to a $350,000 bond issue for city street im
provement.
The City Council passed an ordinance Monday night set
ting the election in response to a petition signed by 265 Col
lege Station citizens requesting the vote. (The Council had
previously made a stand for a pay-as-you-go street improve
ment program in order to free the city from making bond
obligations.)
The ordinance limits the amount of interest to be paid
on such a bond to a 5 per cent maximum. It would be payable
over a 20-year period.
Since the bond will be paid
by property owners, only
those who have rendered
property for taxation and
have a poll tax receipt may
vote in this election.
Councilman J. A. Orr, in moving
the adoption of the ordinance, said
he was making the motion “not
because I think the election should
be held or that it is genei’ally de
sired, but because anytime 265 of
our citizens petition us to call an
election, I think we should grant
them the privilege.”
Orr said he was still of the opin
ion that the Council was unani
mously for the pay-as-you-go plan
previously outlined. He said the
state and federal governments, as
well as several neighboring cities,
are in financial difficulty and “if
we can stay out of financial trou
ble I think we should—-we have
many bond issues facing us in the
near future as if is.”
Voting will take place Tuesday,
Feb. 17, from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.,
at the three following locations:
Music Room, Consolidated High
School (Ward I); 111 Walton in
the College Hills Shopping Center
(Ward II); and City Hall (Ward
III).
Speed Limits Set
Councilmen also set traffic speed
limits on Highway 6, which has
been without an official speed lim
it for the past several months.
After hearing District Highway
Engineer C. B. Thames summarize
a traffic study made on the high
way by the State Highway Depart
ment and their recommendations
for speed limits, the council after
some discussion agreed unani
mously to install the recommended
speed limits.
The speed limit was set at 45
m.p.h. from the north city limit
to just south of Francis Street,
45-50 m.p.h. from that point to a
point a short distance south of
Jersey SLreet with a 50-60 m.p.h.
limit to the south city limits.
Parking Time Limited
Another ordinance passed by the
Council set a 1-hour limit on park
ing on both sides of Tauber and
Lodge Streets between FM 60 and
Church Street. Previously there
has been no time limit on parking
in that area.
In other action, the Council:
1. Authorized Woodson Lumber
(See STREETS, Page 8)
Property Owners
To Air Bond Issue
Tonight at 7:30
Local property owners will have
a chance to air their opinions on
the forthcoming $350,000 city
street improvement bond election
tonight at a public hearing in the
Consolidated High School Auditor
ium.
Sponsored by the College Sta
tion Kiwanis Club Civic Affairs
Committee, the informational
meeting, beginning at 7:30, was
called as a means for citizens to
talk over the “pros” and “cons”
of the proposed bonds.
The bond election was called for
Feb. 17, by the College Station
City Council Monday night. How
ever, in doing so, the council in
dicated that the election was in
answer to citizens’ request and not
necessarily the plan they favored.
They had previously chosen a pay-
as-you-go plan.
City officials said they would
attend the discussion meeting to
answer questions and explain the
complications involved in the pro
posed plans.
Kiwanis committeemen said they
were neither for nor against the
bond election, but would merely
set up the forum.
Foreign Students
Must File Address
All foreign students must report
their addresses to the Immigration
and Naturalization Service on or
before Saturday, Robert L. Melch-
er, foreign student advisor, said
yesterday.
Address report cards, used for
this purpose, may be secured from
the Post Office. The card must be
turned in to an employe of the
Post Office.
Melcher concluded that this card
must not be mailed by the stu
dent.
Guide Posts
Most things have two sides; it
is very difficult to slice something
so. thin that it has only one side—
Anon.
Audition Committee Leaves
Sunday to Select ITS Acts
Four students and a staff ad
visor will leave Sunday on a week-
long tour through five states in
search of talent for the 8th an
nual Intercollegiate Talent Show,
which will be presented on the
campus March 13.
The show, sponsored by the
Memorial Student Center Music
Committee, will feature 10 acts
selected from auditions at 15 col
leges and universities in Texas,
Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklkhdina
and Mississippi. This is Mississip
pi’s first year.
Rosalie Spencer, MSC staff ad
viser, will head the audition team
composed of Johnny Johnson,
James Fallin, Paul Phillips and
John Roberson.
The team will conduct auditions
on the following campuses: South
west Louisiana Institute, Louisiana
State University, Southeast Louis
iana College, Mississippi Southern,
Millsaps College, University of
Arkansas, Oklahoma State College,
University of Oklahoma, Texas
Christian University, Texas Tech,
Southern Methodist University
and Baylor. After returning the
team will go to the University of
Texas. They previously auditioned
at Sam Houston State College and
Rice Institute.