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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.