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THE
BATTALION
Plan Now
For RE Week
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 69: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1959
Price Five Cents
ITS Sets Final
Audition Trip
ThursdayNight
The last group of acts for the
eighth annual Intercollegiate Tal
ent Show will be auditioned at the
University of Texas tomorrow
night by seven students from the
Memorial Student Center Music
Committee, sponsor of the show.
The auditions at Austin will con
clude the auditioning of moi’e than
150 acts at 15 colleges and uni
versities in Texas, Oklahoma, Lou
isiana, Arkansas and Mississippi.
To be presented March 13 in G.
Ttollie White Coliseum, the show
will feature 10 to 12 acts of the
outstanding variety numbers seen
at these schools, said Miss Rosalie
Spencer. MSC Program Advisor.
The Kilgore Junior College Ran-
gerettes will he the featured at
traction for the show.
Joel A. Snivak, Houston’s Radio
Station KILT diy jockey, will be
master of ceremonies for the show.
During the course of the audi
tions, committee members have
traveled more than 3.000 miles to
audition acts, Miss Spencer said.
Music Committee members mak
ing the trip, accompanied by Miss
Spencer, includes James Fallin,
committee chairman: Johnny John
son. ITS director: Mike Bozardt;
Rudy Schubert; Johnny Roberson;
Paul Phillins and Jimmy Finlev.
Schools from which talent will be
selected include A&M, Texas,
Southern Methodist University,
Texas Christian University, Bavlor
University, Texas Tech, Rice, Sam
Houston State, Southwestern Lou
isiana Institute, Louisiana State
University, Southeastern Louisiana
College, Millsaps, the University of
Arkansas, Oklahoma State Uni
versity and the University of Okla
homa.
A&M’s act will be the winner
of the 1058 Aggie Talent Show,
The Trouhadors.
The Aggieland Orchestra will
play for the show which will begin
at 6:30 p.m.
Winter Fishing is Fun
Miss Charmain Bryant demonstrates winter fishing at Port
Isbel in deep South Texas. With bait like that, there’s no
telling what she might catch. (AP Wirephoto)
First in Nation
Journalists to Host
Agricultural Parley
An agricutural news communi
cations conference, sponsored by
the A&M Department of Journal
ism, the fii-st of its kind in the
nation, will be held Friday in the
Memorial Student Center.
Otis Miller, agricultural jour
nalism professor at A&M and di
rector of the conference, issued an
invitation to all students and fac
ulty members in the School of
Agriculture to attend the discus
sions.
“The man working in agricul
tural news communications today
News of the World
By The Associated Press
Blasts, Tremor Shakes Panhandle
AMARILLO, Tex—A tremor accompanied by two dis
tinct blasts shook a large section of the Texas Panhandle
and southwestern New Mexico Tuesday. Seismograph sta
tions discounted the possibility the shock was an earth tre
mor.
The shock at 2:06 p. m. was felt in an area from 100
miles northeast of Amarillo to Roswell, N. M., 200 miles to
the southwest.
The seismograph at the Texas Tech College in Lubbock,
Tex., registered a slight motion at 2:08 p. m. Seismologist
Deskin H. Shubert said “if it was an earthquake it was a
very, very slight one.”
"At 'At "At
U. S. Planes Ordered to ‘Play Safe’
WASHINGTON—President Eisenhower said Tuesday
that U.S. planes are under strict orders not to play games
designed to stir up Soviet interceptors along the Turkish
borders.
Eisenhower told a news conference, however, that “once
in a while we believe there are false radio signals that will
take a plane out of course.
That was injected into a discussion pegged to the crash
last September of an unarmed American transport plane just
inside Soviet Armenia. The State Department contends Rus
sian fighter planes shot the transport down with the loss
of 17 Americans—6 known dead and 11 unaccounted for.
★ ★ ★
Fourth Virginia School to Integrate
RICHMOND, Va.—A fourth Virginia community—rural
Warren County in the northwest—was ordered Tuesday by
a federal judge to open its white classrooms to 22 Negro
pupils next week.
is caught up in the fastest grow
ing phase of the whole news com
munications process, said Miller.
Nationally known speakers will
cover all phases of agricultural
news communications. The pro
gram will start at 9 a.m. with
Stanley Andrews, executive direc
tor of National Project in Agri
cultural Communications, discuss
ing the basic factors involved in
transferring ideas from one mind
to another. Andrews will use slid
es to illustrate his talk.
Sam Whitlow, associate editor
of The Farmer Stockman, will
present methods of agricultural
communications in farm maga
zines at 10 a.b.
Hale to Speak
Third on the agenda at 11 a.m.
will be Leon Hale, former farm
editor of the Houston Post and
now special feature writer for the
same publication, who will dis
cuss the problem of presenting
agricultural news in the daily
newspaper.
In the afternoon, F. E. Charles,
editor of The Furrow, house organ
of John Deere Co., will explain the
advertising and public relations
process employed by the large
agricultural industrial concerns
of America.
At 2 p.m., Jack Timmons, form
er president of the National Radio
and Television Broadcasters As
sociation of America, and radio
farm director of Radio-TV Station
KWKH in Houston, will present
the agricultural communications
process employed by the radio
and television media.
Last Talk at 3
Jack T. Sloan, visual aids spec
ialist, Texas A&M Extension Ser
vice, will tell how farm and
ranch people and those engaged
in other fields of agriculture ac
cept new ideas relative to agri
culture in the last talk at 3 p.m.
In charge of running the day’s
program will be Charles G.
Scruggs, associate editor of Pro
gressive Farmer.
Nineteen Are Dead
In St. Louis Tornado
Educator Says
Schools Need
Federal Funds
AUSTIN (AP) — The State
Commissioner of education, told
the House Appropriations Com-
mitee Tuesday that “federal aid
to education is very much a real
ity” in Texas.
Dr. J. W. Edgar said one of the
major needs of the Central Edu
cation Agency is for more funds
to education is very much a real-
items such as vocational education
and rehabilitation programs.
Major needs of the agency,
which oversees the public schools
and junior colleges, include higher
salaries to keep its employes from
switching to jobs with other school
systems or industry, Edgar said.
“We’d like to be placed in the
market and at least try to hold
on to our employes,” he told the
committee.
Dr. W. W. Jackson, San An
tonio, chairman of the' State
Board of education, said its ope
rating budget had been “trimmed
to a minimum,” and that the
board had cut its working staff
in spite of the fact that it had
been given new responsibilities
since its creation in 1950.
“When we ask you for modest
salary increases, it is a matter
of necessity,” Jackson said.
City’s Worst Since
Lethal 1927 Storm
ST. LOUIS (IP)—A killer tornado caught most of the
citizens of St. Louis asleep Tuesday and left a patchwork of
death and destruction in the predawn.
Nineteen were known dead in the city’s worst tornado
in 32 years. Almost 300 others were injured. The tornado
took the same path as a 1927 twister which killed 78.
Searchers picked through the rubble of smashed homes
and apartments throughout the day for more bodies and
others who might still have been trapped.
Seven persons were reported missing.
B. G. Gregory, executive secretary of the Insurance
Board of St. Louis, estimated property damage at 12 million
Lions Hear Story
Of Heart Function
The best defense against a
heart attack is individual con
cern, College Station Lions were
told Monday by Dr. J. E. Marsh
Jr., president of the local chapter
of the American Heart Assn.
Marsh said diseases of the heart
and circulatory system are the
leading causes of death and dis
ability in the nation.
“But periodical medical check
ups can safeguard the individual
against attacks and greatly re
duce the devastating annual fig
ures,” Dr. Marsh said. “This is
especially essential for men past
40 years of age.”
Dr. Charles LaMotte of the
Department of Biology, program
chairman for the local heart as
sociation chapter, showed a 10-
minute film on heart disease pre
ceding Dr. Marsh’s talk.
Outstanding Mason
To Address Lodge
Dr. James D. Carter, considered
one of the outstanding Masonic
Scholars in the Southwest, will
speak at the stated meeting of
Sul Ross Lodge No. 1300, A.F.&-
A.M., in College Station tomor
row night at 7.
Carter, author of the book,
“Masonry in Texas” and editor
of the Grand Lodge Magazine in
Waco, will speak on the subject,
“Masonry—a Philosophy of Edu
cation.”
dollars.
The tornado came without
warning and with tremendous
speed. Just as suddenly it was
gone, leaving behind ominous
silence.
It crumbled a radio tower, then
a television tower built to stand
winds over 100 miles an hour, cut
ting a diagonal path northeast
from Brentwood and Crestwood
southeast of St. Louis across the
heart of the city.
Most of the victims had been in
bed for hours when the tornado
hit at 2:12 a. m. It was preceded
by hours or torrential rains which
flooded scores of basements.
Hardest hit were a section of
tenement houses occupied mostly
by Negroes. But a block of brick
apartments in the fashionable West
End also was ripped open.
Tragedy stalked through the
wreckage. A father was pulled
from the ruins, his dead son still
hanging to his back.
Crowds gathered in the darkness
behind floodlights and silently
watched rescue work amid debris
and deadly broken electrical lines.
President Eisenhower Tuesday
night designated the tornado-lash
ed city and St. Louis County as
a major disaster area eligible for
federal relief aid.
MSC Adding Space
For Facilities
Construction being completed in
the basement of the Memorial Stu
dent Center will provide new areas
for club and student activities and
more storage space Charles G.
Haas, business manager of the
MSC, said yesterday.
Haas said that the main purpose
of the work is to take care of an
acute storage problem caused by
the expansion of facilities in the
MSC. After construction is com
pleted there will be approximately
10,000 square feet of new space
available.
Plans at the present time are
for moving the maintenance shops
from their present location across
from the business offices into the
new area. New craft shops for
students will be located in the area
that the maintenance shops now
occupy, he said.
Hhas said, “The ultimate goal is
to consolidate some of the student
interest areas into an area separ
ate from other parts of the build
ing.”
Pistol Team Faces
U.S. Air Academy,
Wisconsin Friday
The A&M pistol team will leave
Friday afternoon by plane for
Colorado Springs to participate in
a triangular meet with the Air
Force Academy and the Univer
sity of Wisconsin.
The meet at Colorado Springs
is the sixth of the year for the
team. It has won matches with the
Air Force Academy, University of
Oklahoma, the U. S. Naval Acad
emy, Colorado School of Mines
and Purdue University.
Attending the match in Color
ado this weekend will be A&M
team members Charles Bollfi'ass,
Charles Benson, James Wilson,
Tom Wilson, David Herring, Henry
Gill and Cyril Adams. Bollfrass is
team captain.
Accompanying the team will be
Maj. K. D. Reel, team coach, and
M. Sgt. William H. Card, assist
ant coach.
According to Maj. Reel, all five
of the previous matches have been
postal matches. Two postal match
es will be fired this week before
the team leaves for Colorado, he
said.
The two matches to be fired
this week are with Michigan
State and the U. S. Revolver Assn.
League. The match with the Re
volver league is the third of eight
matches to be fired in as many
weeks.
Maj. Reel said the team has
several more postal matches
scheduled for the year. He said
they hope to take at least two
more trips which will be to civ
ilian matches in this part of the
state.
The team will return Sunday.
Dorm Counsellors to Hold
Forums During RE Week
By ROBBIE GODWIN
Battalion Staff Writer
Fourteen dorm counsellors will
be conducting forums and discus
sion groups in various dormitor
ies over the campus during Relig
ious Emphasis week, Feb. 15-20.
They will live in the dorms and
will be available for conferences
in their rooms during the week.
Chaplain Lt. Col. Samuel M.
Bays will be living in Dorm 5 and
lead the forums for Dorms 5 and
7. His meetings will be held in
the lounge of Dorm 5.
Before entering the service,
Chaplain Bays served as pastor
of the First Baptist Church in
Sanderson. Upon being commis
sioned, he served with the Eighth
Air Force, Air Service Command,
was appointed Deputy Staff Chap
lain to Ninth Air Force, and in
1957 was assigned to the Office,
Chief of Air Force Chaplains,
Washington, D. C.
Rabbi Bernard H. Laine of the
Congregation Beth Israel in Hous
ton will live in Dorm 10 and lead
the discussion groups for Dorms
10 and 12 in the lounge of Dorm
10.
He has served congregations in
Chicago, and Des Moines. While
in Des Moines he was a lecturer
in the Bible College of Drake Uni
versity. He is a member of Ro
tary International, Committee on
Contemporaneous History of the
Central Conference of American
Rabbis, and an active participant
in the National Conference of
Christians and Jews.
Rev. B. Allen Chaffee, pastor of
Galena Park Presbyterian Church,
is Presbyterian Chaplain to In
dustry in the Houston Channel
District. He has had pastorates in
Harper, Texas; Manor, Penn.; and
is now at Galena Park. He is a
member of the Presbyterian In
stitute of Industrial .Relations,
Lions Club and Masons.
Rev. Chaffee will live in Dorm 2
and lead the forums in Dorms 2
and 4, meeting in the music hall.
Chaplain Lt. Col. Gerald C.
Dean, Headquarters III Corps, at
Fort Hood, was born in Kansas,
educated in Arkansas and Texas
and has had pastorates in both
Arkansas and Texas. He has serv
ed over 12 years of active duty
as a chaplain and has received
numerous military awards which
include the Purple Heart and the
Bronze Star.
Chaplain Dean will live in Dorm
15 and lead the forums for Dorm
15 and the top two floors of Dorm
17, meeting in Dorm 15.
The Rev. Paul Frank, a native
of Ohio, who began his ministry at
Trinity Lutheran Church in
Orange, will lead the groups in
Dorms 1 and 3, held in the lounge
of Dorm 1.
The Rev. Frank is now serving
the Christ Lutheran Church in
Dallas. He is also serving on the
(See Dorm Counsellors Page 4)
P. B. Frank
B. H. Lavine
B. A. Chaffee
Lt. Col. G. C. Dean
Roy Ray
Lt. Col. S. M. Bays
Robert Browne