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Weather Today Generally fair, some cooler tomorrow. Low tonight 32. High tomorrow 44. THE BATTALION Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus Number 66: Volume 58 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1959 Price Five Cents Valentine Affair for Capps Hall Tessies Invite Ags to Dance In Denton Friday Night at 8 By KEN COPPAGE Battalion Staff Writer Cupid’s arrow with a note at tached hit deep in the heart of Patricia McCall AF Atlas Missile Highly Successful In Stepped Up Plan CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) •—Atlas No. 20 logged a highly successful flight Wednesday in the Air Force’s stepped up cam paign to develop the mighty in tercontinental range ballistic mis- Bile. The 80-foot Atlas, present main- Btay of the U. S. missile arsenal, thundered aloft in the morning darkness. It hung in the sky as a white dot of light for more than three minutes before fading. The Air Force announced later that the missile had a successful flight at a distance less than in tercontinental range, but officials did not elaborate. Before the shoot, sources indi cated that the rocket would be another “hot rod” — the missile man’s term for a long-range shot at full throttle. However, reports from Washington had it returning from space some 3,400 miles from the launching site. One of the major objectives of the shoot reportedly was to check the performance of the blunt shaped nose cone as it separated from the main body of the missile high in space. The warhead, which would house a nuclear device in war, dives in on target at speeds as high as 16,500 miles an hour. The spectacular launching came on the heels of an announcement by Defense Secretary Neil McEl- roy that the United States should practically (dose the ICBM gap with Russia^ by the end of the year. Aggieland yesterday bearing good tidings for all Fighting Texas Aggies. The good news came in the form of a letter from Tinka Specht, sophomore dormitory counselor for Capps Hall at Texas Woman’s University, to John D. Sackett, social secretary of the Class of '’59, inviting the Corps to a Valentine’s Dance on Feb. 7, in the living room of Capps from 8-11 p.m. Donna Hall Bowling Alley Lowers Prices For Celebration A special first anniversary cele bration of the installment of the Brunswick Automatic Pinsetters in the Memorial Student Center Bowling Alley, is planned tomor row, according to John Geiger, MSC Bowling and Games Depart ment Manager. Bowling will be reduced in price during the entire day, Geiger said. From 5-7 a.m., bowling will be free to students; from 7-8 a.m., 5 cents a game; from 8-12 a.m., 10 cents a game; from 12-1 p.m., 15 cents a game; from 1-7 p.m., 20 cents per game; from 7-11 p.m., 25 cents per game and from 11-12 p.m., bowling free. The limit is three games per student as long as there is a waiting list, Geiger said. “This is something we want to give the Aggies in appreciation of them using our facilities,” he said. Gieiger welcomed all Aggies to take advantage of the special occasion and to bowl at reduced prices. During the calendar year 1958, there was a 50 per cent decrease in non-student lines bowled while there was a 50 per cent increase in the MSC ballroom. AMFAF Schedules Pianist Tonight Phillippe Entremont, 24-year-old French pianist, will be the fifth feature in the A&M Fine Arts Festival tonight at 8 p. m. in the Memorial Student Center Ball room. Despite his youth, Entremont is a veteran of the concert stage. His present transcontinental tour is his fifth. Running from Jan. through March, it includes a reap pearance with the Philadephia Or chestra, as well as appearances with the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, Atlanta, and Dallas symphonies. Entremont began receiving prize-wining recognition at the age of 12, when he won first prize in sight-reading at the National Con servatory in Paris. At 16, ten years after his first piano lesson, he became Laureat in the interna tional Long-Thibaud competition held annually in Paris. At 19, he became First Laureat and Grand Prize winner in the In ternational Marguerite Long-Jac- quest Thibaud competition. He al so made his first trip to the United States that year, sponsored by the artists’ exchange program between the National Music League here and the Jeunesses Musicales de France abroad. Entremont recently signed an ex clusive recording contract with Columbia Masterworks. The Hollywood String Quartet is scheduled for Friday night at 8 in the MSC ballroom, and two more Sackett said yesterday that this will be an excellent opportunity for the Aggies to meet some cute girls. He also added that Ags can get an idea of the beautiful girls attending the school by looking at the pictures below. (The three pictures at left and below are TWU students who will have dates with Aggies arranged through the date bureau.) The dance will be semi-formal for girls and formal for cadets. Dates will be on a first-come- first-served basis. However, Ags who want to make sure of a date can do so by rushing a date ap plication to the date bureau at Tessieland. These applications are available in Room 210 of the YMCA. Housing will be available around the campus for $1 a night. The University band will pro vide music for the dance. Jacqueline Waggoner Ross Volunteers To Leave Saturday For New Orleans Seventy-five members of the Ross Volunteers will leave Satur day for New Orleans, La., where they will serve as honor guard for King Rex in the internationally famous Mardi Gras Parade. The Mardi Gras trip is an an nual affair for the RV’s and is financed entirely by individual members, with the exception of housing, which has been arranged for at Camp Leroy Johnson. Highlights of the trip include marching in the parade Tuesday, acting as an honor guard for King Rex; invitations to the Rex Ball Tuesday night; and a luncheon in a famous French Quarter resturant as the guest of the New Orleans A&M Club. The RV’s will return to Aggie land Wednesday. Revenue Man Here To Aid Foreign Ags A representative of the Intern al Revenue Service will be in the office of Robert L. Melcher, For eign Student Advisor, 105 Biz- zell, Wednesday, Feb. 11, and Tuesday Feb. 17. Foreign students who have questions about their income tax, or who need help in filling out their tax forms should see the advisor. Ike Requests Higher Taxes To Kill Deficit WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi dent Eisenhower challenged the Democratic-controlled Congress Wednesday to offset what he termed the reckless spending with higher taxes. Leaping roughshod on a three- billion-dollar Democratic-sponsor- ed housing bill now before the Senate for action, Eisenhower pro tested: “Now, this means that right off in the very first bill the budget is to be unbalanced.” A few hours after Eisenhower spoke, the Senate turned down a GOP substitute aimed at cutting the Democratic bill back to levels favored by the President, and the House approved a GI home loan bill over Republican protests that “budget buster’s are on the move.” Eisenhower also attacked a Senate bill that would authorize far more than he wants for air port aid. The Senate Commerce Committee promptly approved it anyway. Eisenhower spoke up at a news conference at which he hinted he has been having secret meetings with congressional Democratic leaders, scoffed a bit at the idea the Soviet Union can wipe out U. S. retaliatory power in one swipe, and said it “would be a wicked thing” to give people the impression the government in tends to set up a federal police force to enforce civil rights. On the business of spending and deficits, the chief executive said he was just talking sense. He said he is going to keep right on hammering away, because he is against “making everything more expensive—more expensive for the housewife and for you and me and for everybody else.” Dulles Okays British - Russian Moscow Parley Cloud Gets Number Ring Thieves’ Car Traced to Hubbard The get-away car used by a pair of thieves who stole a $260 diamond ring from Varner’s Jew elry at North Gate Tuesday after noon has been traced to Hubbard, Brazos County Sheriff J. W. Ham ilton said yesterday, but there had been no arrests at that time. The quick thinking of Corps Commander Don Cloud, who took down the car license number, was credited with making the lead available to police. An unidentified man and wo man came into the store shortly after 2 p.m. and while C. W. Var ner, owner of the store, was work ing behind the counter, the two picked up the ring and attempted to flee the store. But Varner no ticed the theft before the two had managed to get away. He stopped them before they reached the door, Death Toll High In Plane Crashes By The Associated Press The heavy pall of bereavement lay on many homes Wednesday af ter a day laden with air disasters. Seventy-two persons were be lieved to be dead in a series of three plane crashes within 24 hours — and a fourth plane with 12 others aboard was feared down in the Atlantic. Its radio went sil ent Wednesday morning. An Air Force plane, it was on a weather observation mission out of Bermuda. A Japanese ship re ported sighting a blazing plane as it plunged into the sea midway between New York and Bermuda. This latest word of trouble in the air came as the tragedy of the other plane casualties spread among the families of the dead and missing. Sixty-five persons were pre sumed dead Wednesday in the crash of a spanking new turbo-jet American airliner into the East River near LaGuardia Field. There were only eight known sur vivors. Radio ground equipment that might have averted the disaster was not available to the ultra modern airliner, although La Guardia is one of the busiest air ports in the world. Twenty-one bodies had been re- Milner Hall Residents Must Move to Dorm 16 Saturday Students living in Milner Hall will begin moving lock, stock and barrel to Dorm 16 Saturday and Sunday so that repair and paint crews can begin complete renova tion of their dorm. The Corps units currently housed in Dorm 16, Fourth Battalion Staff, A and B Ordnance and A Transportation, will be moved into vacant rooms in the other three Corps dorms in the Old Area. According to Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant, units will be housed together—and there will be room to spare in the three other dorms. Repairs to Milner are slated to begin Tuesday. In addition to com pletely repainting the interior, plans are being made to take down a partition on the main floor to en large the lounge and to raise win dow sills on the southwest corner of the basement to prevent flood ing along the west side of the dorm. W. H. Badgett, physical plants manager, estimated the cost of the repairs at about $6,500 for the in terior of the dorm and about $3,000 for exterior repairs. Badgett also said that the Civilian dorm would also be equipped with new fiber glass study tables and chairs sim ilar to the type used in Dorm 2, 14 and Mitchell Hall. Each set of study tables and chairs wil cost and additional $56.50, he said. Civilians will begin moving to their new quarters Saturday after noon. Two trucks will be avail able to move personal effects at 1 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday. Deadline for clearance of Milner has been set at 5 p.m. Monday. Corps units housed presently in Dorm 16 will move Friday night and Saturday morning, according to Corps Commander Don Cloud. covered from the icy tidal waters of the river after the shattering Tuesday midnight crash in rain and fog. ,The plane was loaded to capac ity with 68 passengers and a crew of five. Among those believed kill ed in the crash was Beulah Zach ary, producer of the Kukla, Fran and Ollie television show. Relatives and friends of the vic tims, their hopes gradually- shat tered as the fruitless hunt went on, wandered stunned through a Queens hospital morgue, seeking signs of their loved ones. . Near Little Rock, Ark., Air Force Base, searchers tramped through swampy woods to hunt the bodies of three airmen killed in the crash of a B47 bomber. Architects Plan Modern Exhibit An architectural attraction is planned at A&M Feb. 12 through March 11, with an exhibit of mod ern and frequently daring Vene zuelan architecture. Examples of buildings described as some of the most exciting in the world can be seen in the exhibit which will be on display on the fourth floor of the Academic Building. The exhibit, the first of its kind in this part of the United States, is sponsored by the Division of Architecture and is being brought to College Station by the Vene zuelan Society of Architects and the Creole Petroleum Corp. of the U. S. and Venezuela. Included in the exhibit are large photographic panels along with a series of enlarged color transpar encies showing housing projects, homes, hotels, government build ings, commercial structures, churches and schools. The exhibit will be of special in terest to those interested in con temporary architecture, particular ly in the use of color, and in city and regional planning and in the exploitation of new building ma terials. but they broke away and fled the scene in a 1958 light green or blue Chevrolet. Cloud noticed the two run from the store and jump into their car. He said they barely missed run ning down a cadet as they roared away from the scene. Not realiz ing that a theft had taken place, Cloud took down the license num ber in anticipation of turning them in for reckless driving near the campus. He realized that a theft had taken place only when Varner rushed out and said to call the po lice. Varner described the man as ap proximately 30 years old, with dark complexion, and ai’ound 5 feet 10. The woman was described as blonde, 120-125 pounds, and ap proximately 5 feet 2. Sheriff Hamilton also disclosed that the couple is known to have sold a typewriter in Lyons on Farm Road 60, three miles northwest of Summerville, about 5:30 yesterday afternoon. The sheriff’s department and College Station police are working- together investigating the theft. House Passes Big GI Home Loan Bill WASHINGTON (A>)_The House Wednesday pass a 300-million-dol- lar GI home loan bill despite Re publican protests that it would knife Px-esident Eisenhower’s “safe fiscal policy.” The vote was 310-89. The 300 million dollars would be an addition to 150 million avail able under present statutes for di rect government loans to veterans in the 12 months starting July 1. The legislation also would allow a step-up from 4% to 514 per cent in the interest rate on private- money home loans that the Veter ans Administration guarantees. Prime Minister Plans to Visit Russian Capital LONDON UP) — Secretary of State John Foster Dulles gave U.S. Approval Wednes day to a plan of Prime Minis ter Harold Macmillan for a visit to Moscow to talk with So viet Premier Nikita Krushchev. Dulles told Macmillan, in a two- hour conference, that the projected trip had the approval of both Dulles and President Eisenhower. It was indicated that Macmillan had made clear to Dulles that he does not intend to engage in any private negotiations with the So viet leader. Dulles flew here to open a round of urgent talks with America’s European allies on Western policy for Germany. Macmillan is to tell the House of Commons Thursday that he plans to fly to Moscow—perhaps as early as Feb. 20—for talks with Khrushchev on easing of East- West tensions. There was no official confirma tion but it was considered virtu ally certain the Kremlin two days ago renewed a long-standing invi tation for the British head of gov ernment to visit the Soviet capital. Macmillan was believed to have deferred his final decision until he discussed it with Dulles. It was assumed that Dulles already was sold on the idea of direct British- Soviet talks. A Macmillan visit to Moscow al ready is being pictured here as a reconnaissance for possible sum mit talks between Soviet and Western leaders. The Moscow radio meanwhile mentioned for the first time a pos sible visit by Macmillan. “In the past few days,” a broad cast said, “there have been rather important signs that public opinion in the West wants negotiations with the Soviet Union. Practically all British papers are pleased, with the idea of Mr. Macmillan visiting Moscow.” Phillippe Entremont Phillippe Entremont, French pianist, is scheduled to pre sent a concert in the Ballroom of the Memorial Student Center tonight. Tonight’s show will be the fifth feature of the A&M Fine Arts Festival, which will continue through Sunday.