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Weather Today Partly cloudy through Thurs- day. Warmer today and Thurs- day. ^ BATTALION Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus AMFAF Talk Tonight Number 65: Volume 58 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1959 Price Five Cents Archie Goes High Archie Carroll (54) of the Ags unleashes a jump shot in the second half of the fracas between the Aggies and TCU last night in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The shot went wide as Neil Swisher (22) and Kelly Chap man (10) of the Cadets and Derrill Nippert (41) and Kenneth King (21)* of the Frogs move in to vie for the rebound. The Frogs won, 76-64. Land of Natural Wonders Kiwanians Hear Address on Alaska Alaska, Texas’ new “little” bro ther, is a land of many natural wonders with a vast storehouse of virtually untapped natural re sources, Col. Frank P. Elder, pro fessor of military science and tac tics, told College Station Kiwani ans Tuesday. Col. Elder, who was stationed in Alaska prior to cpming to A&M Illustrated his talk with color glides of Alaska’s natural beauty, wildlife, geographical layout and historic sights. He told of phe nomenal weather conditions in the 49th state, which bring brilliant “ice fog” cutting visibility to prac tically zero sometimes for a period of hours in a locality. Tempera tures there range from the 90’s in certain regions in summer to tem peratures too low to record in other areas during the dead of win- tei’. One of the most attractive things about Alaska is its almost unbe lievable abundance of fish and game, Col. Elder said. Moose and brown bears are so numerous that they often roam right into town, he said. And as proof that his fish tales Were not “tales” at all, he showed slides of Rainbow trout, pointing out the “baby” of the catch which was only slightly two feet long. Since Alaska has only one rail way, running from the coast near Anchorage inland to Fairbanks, and roads are few and sometimes impassable, Col. Elder said the best mode of travel is by air. He said it was nothing uncommon to see a couple alight from a light plane at one of the larger cities, remove their mukluks and parkas and drive off in evening clothes for a night of dancing, then come back later that night, don their parkas and Players Prepare For ‘The Tempest’ The Aggie Players will begin practice for their forthcoming presentation of William Shake speare’s “The Tempest” Monday night at 7:30 in the basement of Guion Hall. C. K. Esten, director of the production, urged all students, student wives and other persons interested in participating to be present. mukluks and fly back to their more remote region. There are only two seasons there, he said, roughly defined as summer and winter, and then the days vary from two hours of daylight to no darkness at all. “But it’s not so bad,” Col. Elder remorked. “Once you get used to it, you think nothing at all of driv ing around in the middle of ‘night’ without needing to turn your car lights on.” Faculty Meetings Put Off ‘til Feb. 11 A general meeting for all fa culty members, originally called for tomorrow afternoon, cannot be held at the scheduled time, according to Dr. J. B. Page, Dean of the College. The meeting has been resched uled for 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, in Guion Hall. At that time President M. T. Harrington and Vice President Earl Rudder will discuss fiscal matters and other topics of gen eral interest. ★ Seniors May Put Favorites In Aggieland All seniors who are interested in having an entree in the Sen ior Favorite section or Vanity Fair section of the Aggieland ’59 should turn in a picture be fore April 1, Rod Stepp, editor, said yesterday. If the picture is to be used only for the senior favorite sec tion, a bill-fold size, glossy print may be used but it must be a head-and-shoulder picture, Stepp said. To enter the Vanity Fair con test, a full-length picture must be included with the head-and- shoulder picture and the head- and-shoulder picture must be at least 5x7 and preferably 8x10. The entree in the Vanity Fair contest must be able to attend the Press Club banquet which will be the night before the Ring Dance. Twelve finalists will be selected from the entrees and the top six will be selected at the Press Club Banquet, he said. A charge of $2 will be made for entrees in the Senior Favor ite section. News of the World By The Associated Press Reds Ignore Protests In Berlin BERLIN—The Soviet army ignored three strong pro tests Tuesday and for the second day held up the passage of an American military truck convoy bound for isolated Berlin to West Germany. U. S. Army authorities here viewed the incident as the most serious pressure on Allied lifelines since Moscow launched its campaign last November to get the Western Powers out of West Berlin. ★ ★ ★ Civil Rights Legislation Shaping WASHINGTON—President Eisenhower was reported Tuesday to be shaping civil rights recommendations directed at increased protection of voting privileges and federal action to speed school integration. Republican leaders who conferred with Eisenhower at a 2 1 /2-hour White House conference reported some conflicting views over the program. ★ ★ ★ Virginia Schools Go Without Violence RICHMOND, VA.—Negro and white children paraded to school Tuesday without major incident on the second day of racial integration in Norfolk and Arlington County. Enrollment at Norfolk’s'integrated schools jumped near ly 500 over Monday. The worries of parents apparently were diminishing. U. S. Soon to Catch Russia in ICRM Race +— McElroy Predicts Decern her Success WASHINGTON UP)—By December the United States will have roughly as many intercontinental ballistic missiles as the Russians, Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy said Tuesday. McElroy made the statement to the House Armed Serv ices Committee, some of whose members have voiced concern that Russia may be pulling away from the United States in the missiles race. The Pentagon chief said this country will have a few ICBMs by July “and a few more by December 1959, which will be within a few missiles one way or the other of what he would expect of the Russians at the same time.” McElroy later told news men he was speaking of mis siles ready to be used as combat weapons, not test rockets. Not long after McElroy spoke, missilemen .at Cape Canaveral, Fla., failed in a second try at launching the Titan ICBM. The defense Department said a mal function caused a cutoff of the Titan’s engines before the mighty rocket could leave its pad. Just last week, McElroy told the Senate Preparedness subcommit tee the United States will have fewer ICBMs than Russia in the next two years. He said then “it is not our intention” to match the Russians missile for missile in ICBMs over that period. But he expressed confidence that over-all U. S. military strength will be enough to deter attack. Before Mclroy testified in open session Tuesday, he and Gen. Na than F. Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told news- on they don’t believe Russia’s new claim to having the West outgunned with hydrogen missiles of pinpoint accuracy. This claim was dismissed by McElroy as “a normal kind of statement in a war of nerves.’’ He said he wasn’t perturbed by it. Twining said flatly he didn’t be lieve the Soviet boast. Dairy Judgers Capture Fourth At Fort Worth A&M’s Junior Dairy Judging Team swept to fourth place in their division at the Southwest Ex position and Fat Stock Show at Fort Worth Tuesday morning as they gathered 1,644 of a possible 1,700 points. Troy Tatum, junior agricultural education major from Dublin, cap tured first place in the Jersey judging division to lead the team. He was fifth in overall judging. Pacing him was Paul Payne, jun ior dairy science major from Mount Pleasant, who took fifth in the Jersey judging contest. Other team members are Wil liam Lee, junior dairy science ma jor from Weatherford, and Fred Thornberry, junior agricultural ed ucation major from Conroe. Dr. Murray A. Brown, of the Depart ment of Dairy Science, is team coach. Members of the junior team will make up the Senior Dairy Judging team which will compete in the national contest at Waterloo, Iowa, in September. Recital Series Presents Amy Freeman Tonight The first A&M Fine Arts Fes tival will present Amy Freeman Lee tonight at 8 p.m. in the Me morial Student Center Ballroom. Mrs. Lee will discuss the fine arts under the topic, “From the Horse’s Mouth.” Her abilities as a lecturer are Red Defense Chief Says U. S. Missiles Inferior to Theirs MOSCOW OP)—Marshal Rodion Malinovsky declared Tuesday the West’s nuclear weapons are out dated by long-range sharpshooting Soviet ballistics missiles that no antiaircraft defense can stop. “Your arms are too short, gen tlemen,” the Soviet defense min ister warned the Western Powers in the speech before the 21st Con gress of the Soviet Communist party. The West wants to unleash war with nuclear weapons, he asserted “but this is an outdated means.” “We have more perfected weap ons, ballistics rockets—long, middle and close range—that can carry their hydrogen charges to any point on earth, to the very point, for they are very accurate.” In Washington, Secretary of De fense Neil H. McElroy and Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said they did not believe the claim to pin point accuracy. McElroy said he was not perturbed by Malinovsky’s speech, adding: “It seems to me like a normal kind of statement in a war of nerves.” indicated through the 500 times she has spoken on fine arts, on platforms, radio and TV during the past ten years. The Recital Series will present Phillipe Entremont at 8 p. m. Thursday in the Ballroom. Entre mont, 24-year-old, is a veteran of the concert stage and is one of the most promising pianists in the world. He will play selections from Beethoven, Schubert and Mous- sergsky. Friday the Recital Series will present the Hollywood String Quartet at 8 p.m. in the Ballroom. This group will play selections from Hayden, Kodaly and Brahms. Last night the Aggie Players presented a recital reading of Sophocles’ “Antigone.” In “Anti gone” Sophocles’ presents the tragic conflict of moral law and pride of family with the binding ordinances of civil law reflected in the unbending stuborness, end ing in death. The next performances of “An tigone” will be Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. Saturday Last Day To Add Courses Saturday is the last day for stu dents to add courses, according to H. L. Heaton, director of admis sions and registrar. Any course dropped after Sat urday, Feb. 14, shall normally car ry a grade of “F,” he added. A student who desires to change any course he is currently reg istered in must obtain the written recommendation of the head of each department concerned and the approval of the dean of his school. ‘‘Remember the time .. John Crow, former All-American football player and Heis- man Trophy winner while on the Aggie squad in 1957, talks over old times with Jim Stanley and an unidentified foot ball player between halves of the Cadet-TCU basketball game last night. The Chicago Cardinal rookie halfback sen sation this past season paid an informal visit to the campus this week. National Loan Fund Established at A&M A&M has been allocated $15,730 for establishing a National De fense Student Loan Fund. Sixty-two other colleges and universities in Texas also were allocated funds for the same pro gram, by the Office of Education’s Division of Higher Education. Provisions of the program cite that each institution receiving such funds must contribute one dollar for every nine dollars of federal money. A&M will thus have available $17,477. The fund will be administered by a committee appointed b y Vice President Earl Rudder, with E. E. McQuillen, director of the A&M Development Fund, as chair man. Applications will be handled by Col. E. F. Sauer, head of the Student Employment Office. Loans Now Available Applications for loans for the current spring semester' and 1959 summer school will be considered by the Loan Committee on March Plane Crash Kills Three Rock V Roll Recording Stars MASON CITY, Iowa (A 5 )—Three rock ’n’ roll singing idols, whose records and appearances stirred millions of teen-agers, were killed yesterday in the crash of their plane in a cold, snow-swept Iowa field. The four-seat plane crashed within minutes after taking off in light snow from the Mason City airport. The pilot also whs killed. The three singers were Buddy Holly, 22, of Lubbock, Tex.; Ritchie Valens, 17, of Los Angeles; and J. P. (Big Bopper) Richardson, 28, of Beaumont, Tex. Roger Peter son, 21, of Clear Lake, Iowa, was the pilot. The troupe with which the trio had appeared had entertained an estimated 1,100 teen-agers and their parents at a ballroom in near by Clear Lake Monday night. The chartered plane was to take the three singers to Fargo, N. D., in advance of the troupe’s engage ment there. The others went by chartered bus. Holly, Richardson and Vilens, who soared to popularity among the teen-age rock ’n’ roll set in the past several years, chartered the plane in order to take care of advance arrangements. 1. The chairman points .put that the relatively small funds avail able will severely limit the num ber of loans that can be made under this plan. Eligibility requirements include a grade point average of at least 1.00 on all work taken at A&M and on the preceding semester of work. Terms of the Loan Fund Act specify that special considera tion be given (1) students with superior academic records who plan to teach in elementary or secondary schools, and (2) stu dents whose academic record in dicates superior capacity in science, mathematics, engineering or a modern foreign language. ■ A student may borrow a sum not exceeding $1,000 in one year, and during his entire course of study a sum not exceeding $5,000. Borrower’s Terms The borrower must sign a note for his loan, evidencing his obli gation and agreeing to interest and repayment terms established by the college. The law itself establishes cer tain basic conditions covering stu dent loans, including a require ment that repayment of the loan begin one year after the borrow er ceases to be a full-time stu dent and be completed within 10 years thereafter. The borrower’s obligation to repay his loan is to be canceled in the event of his death or per manent and total disability. Up to 50 per cent of a loan will be canceled for teaching in sec ondary or elementary schools. College Station Residents Take Real Estate Posts Two College Station residents were named to high positions in the Texas Real Estate Association, Inc., in ceremonies at the Hilton Hotel Grand Ballroom in San An tonio last week. Mrs. Fred Hale of 504 Brook- side was installed as an associate regional vice president during the association’s installation luncheon session, part of the three-day pro gram for Texas Realtors, Jan. 23- 25. J. C. Culpepper, 904 East Fran cis, was installed as a member of the Texas Realtors Committee and a director of the Texas Real Estate Association.