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THE
BATTALION
Plan Now
For RE Week
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 70: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1959
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Rev. Jack H. Prichard
Rev. John C. Donovan
Rev. Charles T. Jones Jr.
Rev. David K. Switzer
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Rev. Richard Norton
Six More RE Week
Dorm Counselors
Added to Roster
Religious Emphasis Week dorm and lead the forums for that dorm,
counselors will hold forums and Mr. Harold O. Paden from the
discussions groups Monday through
Thursday nights at 7:15 in var
ious lounges over the campus.
They come fi’om highly varied
backgrounds, and will be avail
able for personal consultation dur
ing the week.
Rev. Jack H. Prichard, pastor
of the Hemphill Presbyterian
Church of Fort Worth, will lead
discussion groups in Dorm 6
lounge for Dorm 6 and 8. He will
live in Dorm 6.
Rev. Prichard was born in Breck-
em-idge, and graduated from the
“School of the Ozarks”, a Presby
terian vocational high school in
Missouri. He attended Oklahoma
City University and graduated
from the Presbyterian Theological
Seminary at Princeton.
He has been pastor in churches
in Oklahoma and New Mexico and
minister of students at the Uni
versity of Arizona.
Rev. John C. Donovan, vicar of
the Christ Episcopal Church of
Mexia, was born in Indiana and
later moved to Wichita Falls. He
graduated from law school and en
tered the Episcopal Theological
Seminary of the Southwest in Aus
tin.
Rev. Donovan is presently chap
lain to Episcopalians at Baylor
University. He will live in Leggett
Hall and will lead discussion
groups for Legget and Mitchell.
Rev. Charles T. Jones Jr., is
pastor of the First Christian
Church of San Marcos. He was
born near Kansas City, Mo., and
attended the University of Kansas
and Texas Christian University.
He graduated from Brite College
with a B. D. degree.
At present Rev. Jones is work
ing on his M. A. in history at the
University of Texas. He will live
in Walton Hall and lead the dis
cussion groups for Walton and
Dorm 16. The meetings will be
held in the lounge of Walton Hall.
Rev. David K. Switzer, chap
lain at Southwestern University,
graduated from the school he now
serves. He has had clinical train
ing in the federal penitentiary in
Atlanta, Ga., and also gt the State
Mental Hospital in Little Rock.
Rev. Switzer is a letterman in
baseball and track and pitched
semi-pro baseball. He worked as
training advisor in the employe
relations department of Humble
Oil Company.
He will live in Henderson Hall
Church of Christ in Munday, Tex
as, will lead the discussion g-roups
in Dorm 9 and will live there.
Mr. Paden is a native Texan,
graduating from Abilene Christian
College and George Pepperdine
College in Los Angeles, Calif. He
served in the United States Army
ski troops during the World War
II on Italian fronts. He is pres
ently working on his masters de
gree in education at ACC. Mr.
Paden is chaplain of the Munday
Fire Department and cub scout di
rector.
Rev. Richard Norton is from
East Texas State College where
he is with the Baptist Student Un
ion. He will live in Puryear Hall
and lead the forums for Law and
Puryear, meeting in the lounge of
Puryear Hall.
He is a native Texan, educated
in Hillsboro and graduated from
Rice Institute with a B.A. degree
in 1953. He has completed work
on a Doctor of Theology degree
from Southwestern Baptist The
ological Seminary. He is a Bible
instructor at East Texas.
Classes will be dismissed Mon
day at 11 a.m., Tuesday and Wed
nesday at 10 a.m., and Thursday
and Friday at 9 a.m. during Re
ligious Emphasis Week in order
for students and instructors to
hear Dr. E. W. Remley, convoca
tion speaker for the week.
A&M Enrollment Set
At 6,131 by Officials
Band Dance
Set Saturday
In Ballroom
The Texas Aggie Band Dance
will be held Saturday evening from
9 until 12 in the Ballroom of the
Memorial Student Center.
Music for the Valentine’s Day
affair will be furnished by Bill
Turner’s combo, according to Jack
Skaggs, co-ordinator for the dance.
.Five finalists have been chosen
for Band Sweetheart and the win
ner will be announced at the dance
following the judging at intermis
sion time.
Those chosen as finalists include
Margaret Hugg of Bryan, who
will be escorted by William C. Day;
Linda Winterrowd of Pecos, es
corted by Chester Collinsworth Jr.;
Sharon Jane Bailey of Gilmer,,
whose escort will be Joe Larry
Guinn; Ann Buser of Arp, escorted
by Jimmy Crook; and Louise Sev
ier of Kilgore, escorted by James
E. Fallin.
Corps Loses 807,
Grades Are Higher
1 By JOHNNY JOHNSON
, Battalion News Editor
Spring semester enrollment is below last year’s figure
as was the fall enrollment, but percentagewise A&M gained
in enrollment, Vice President Earl Rudder told faculty mem
bers in a general faculty meeting yesterday afternoon in
Guion Hall.
Also during the meeting President M. T. Harrington
outlined work being done to secure a larger appropriation for
the next fiscal biennium.
The spring’s official enrollment is 6,131 as compared
with last spring’s 6,355. Enrollment this fall was 7,077 while
in 1957 thg figure was 7,474.
Rudder told the faculty members that the Corps is
♦larger this semester than it
Installment Fees
Due February 20
Second installment fees for
the spring semester are now
payable in the Fiscal Office.
Students have until, Feb. 20 to
pay this fee.
This installment, $56.70, covers
room, board and laundry until
March 20. The last two pay
ments for the semester will be
$61.40 and $74.75.
For School of Agriculture
Writers’ Conference
To Start Tomorrow
A&M will set a first tomorrow
when it will host the first agricul
tural news communications confer
ence in the nation.
The conference will be held in
the Memorial Student Center As
sembly Room.
The conference, sponsored by the
Department of Journalism, will
host guest speakers from every
phase of the agricultural news
communications field in Texas.
The program will begin at 9
a.m. and will continue through 4
p.m. The nationally-renowhed
speakers will be given 30 minutes
in which to develop the theme of
their talks and 20 minutes will be
given for answering questions
from the floor.
“The man working in agricul
tural news communications today
'is caught up in the fastest growing
phase of the whole news communi
cations process,” said Otis Miller,
agricultural journalism professor
and director of the conference.
The purpose of the conference
is to familiarize students and fac
ulty members in the School of Ag-
Harold O. Paden
News of the World
By The Associated Press
Turk, Greeks Seek Freedom for Cyprus
ZURICH, Switzerland—Greece and Turkey agreed Wed
nesday on a constitution designed to give independence and
peace to the British-ruled island of Cyprus.
By nightfall their plan for a republic of Cyprus won the
eagerly awaited blessing of the British-exiled Greek Orotho-
dox primate of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios.
'At tAt
New Parley Plan Includes Germans
WASHINGTON—A new Western formula for a Big Four
foreign ministers conference about Germany provides for
including German representatives as advisers.
This opens the way for possible compromise with the
Soviet Union on German participation.
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Lobby Control Act Introduced
AUSTIN—A tougher, loophole-plugging lobby control
act to reveal more fully what legislative pressure gropps are
spending was introduced in the House Wednesday.
That plus mounting demands for more money with still
no definitive answer on where it’s coming from were top
developments as the session neared the end of its fifth week.
Prison boss O. B. Ellis bluntly warned the House Ap
propriations Committee that overcrowded prison conditions
threaten to blast off a major riot.
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Troops Went to Little Hock on Request
WASHINGTON—The mayor of Little Rock, Ark., was
disclosed Wednesday to have pleaded for the federal troops
that President Eisenhower sent there in 1957.
Until now, for all the general public could tell, the bit
terly controversial decision was the Eisenhower administra
tion’s own idea. It has hurt his party in the South.
Wednesday, the Justice Department released a document
covering advice which Herbert Brownell, then the, attorney
general, gave Eisenhower on what to do in the crisis result
ing from opposition in Little Rock to school integration
orders.
Scuba Sessions
Begin Wednesday
A short course in Safety Meth
ods ia Scub^l Diving will begin next
Wednesday, at 7:30 p.m., in Room
306, Goodwin Hall.
The course is sponsored by the
Department of Oceanography and
Meteorology and is for students,
staff members and other interest
ed persons.
Registration for the Scuba (Self
Contained Underwater Breathing
Apparatus) course is scheduled
for the first session. The course
will include four two-hour class
room sessions and six two-hour
pool sessions.
Requirements include a medical
examination, moderate swimming
ability and a swim suit and face
mask for the pool sessions. Addi
tional equipment will be furnished
by the sponsor.
Cost of the course will be $10
for A&M staff members and stu
dents and $20 for all others.
Instructors will be John Jones,
Neill Hitchcock, Bill Green, Bob
Tate, Jimmy Goodwin and Jack
Hill.
Deadline Saturday
To Drop Courses
Saturday is the last day for
students to drop courses, accord
ing to H. L. Heaton, director of
admissions and registrar.
Any course dropped after Sat
urday, Feb. 14, will carry a grade
of “F,” he added.
riculture with the problems of ga
thering, organizing and dissem
inating agriculture news, Miller
said.
Miller issued an invitation to all
students and faculty members in
the School of Agriculture to attend
the discussions. Anyone else in
terested in attending the confer
ence is also invited as class
schedules will permit.
The opening lecture will be given
at 9 a.m. by Stanley Andrews, ex
ecutive director of National Pro
ject irt Agricultural Communica
tions, discussing the basic factors
involved in transferring ideas from
one mind to another. Andrews will
use slides to illustrate his talk.
At 10 a.m. Sam Whitlow, associ
ate editor of The Farmer Stock-
man, wall present methods of ag
ricultural communications in farm
magazines.
Following Whitlow at 11 a.m.
will be Leon Hale, former farm
editor of the Houston Post and now
special featui'e writer for that pa
per, who will discuss the problem
of presenting agricultural news in
the daily newspaper.
Fourth on the agenda will be
F. E. Charles, editor of The Fur
row, publication of the John Deere
Co., who will talk at 1 p.m. on
advertising and public relations
processes employed by the large
agricultural industrial concerns.
At 2 p.m. Jack Timmons, former
president of the National Radio
and Television Broadcasters Assoc
iation of America and radio farm
director of Radio-TV Station
KWKH in Houston, will discuss
the agricultural communications
process employed by the radio and
television media.
The last talk will be given at
3 p.m. by Jack T. Sloan, visual
aids specialist for the A&M Ex
tension Service, who will explain
how farm and ranch people and
those engaged in other fields of
agriculture accept new ideas rela
tive to agriculture.
Charles G. Scruggs, associate
editor of Progressive Farmer, will
be in charge of running the day’s
program.
was this time last year—3,-
044 against 3,001.
But, even more important,
grades of Basic Division
freshmen students are higher for
the fall semester for this year,
percentagewise, than last year,
Rudder said. Only 46.7 per cent
have grades under 1.0, while last
year 52.16 per cent were below 1.0.
More students are in the higher-
grade ranges too, he said.
Corps Loses 807
In 1957-58 the Corps lost 1,287
the first semester as compared
with an 807 loss this year.
President Harrington next told of
the work being done by the newly-
formed Committee of Governing
Boards — composed of members
of the 9 governing bodies of the
18 state-supported schools.
This group is working to co-
lect data on the need for more and
larger appropriations for state-
supported higher education and to
inform the people of this need, he
said.
Although total appropriations
to state schools have increased by
75 per cent since 1951, this has
been only a 12 per cent increase
per student.
Officials Request More Funds
Administration officials have
requested $6,323,000 for the first
year of the coming fiscal bien
nium, an increase of $1,600,000
over the present appropriation, he
said.
The Commission on Higher Edu
cation has recommended a $601,-
000 increase over this year’s ap
propriation while the Legislative
Budget Board recommended only
a $426,000 increase, Harrington
said.
Hearings were held by Senate
and House committees last week
and the first part of this week in
Austin ©n the proposed appro
priations, Harring-ton said. No in
dication was given as to how much
would finally be appropiated, he
said.
“I think the money needed for
higher education will have to come
from new tax money. Personally,
1 think that this will have to be
in the form of a sales tax,” Har
rington said.
Fish Get Best Profs
In referring to progress made
in keeping freshmen here, Har
rington said, “Last September it
was suggested that we use our
best teachers to work with fresh
men. It is encouraging to know
that our losses from fall to spring
this year were much lower than
the year before.”
On this same subject, Rudder-
said, “These figures don’t mean
We’re lowering our standards or
begging people to stay here. We’ve
made some progress this year.
We’ve cut out some carttpusology,
which some people tried to con
fuse with military or Corps life,
and added stress on academic
achievement. This campusology
has still got parts of it which
have to go. It’s all of our respon
sibilities.”
CS Residents
Vote Tuesday
On Bond Issue
College Station property owners
will go to the polls Tuesday to
decide whether they want to vote
for a $350,000 bond issue for street
improvement or continue with the
city’s present pay-as-you-go plan.
The bond election was authorized
by the City Council in its January
meeting after a petition, signed by
265 citizens, calling for the elec
tion was presented to the Council.
Only property owners with poll
tax receipts will be eligible to vote
in the election, except owners who
are over 60 years old, whether they
have a poll tax exemption or not.
City Manager Ran Boswell said.
Voting will take place Tuesday
from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. in, the
three following locations: Music
Room, A&M Consolidated High
School (Ward I); 111 Walton in
the 'College Hills Shopping Center
(Ward II); and City Hall (Ward
III).
MSC Dance Draws
70 at First Meet
Seventy persons enjoyed an in
formal dance at the first meeting
of the semester of the Memorial
Student Center Dance Committee
Tuesday night.
Manning Smith, insurance agent
from Bryan, is the instructor for
the class.
There will not be a meeting of
the committee next week because
of the Religious Emphasis Pro
gram. The next meeting will be on
Feb. 25.
This will be the last chance for
persons to register for the class.
The registration fee is $5 for men
and $4 for women.
Silent Prayer
Set Tomorrow
Friday at 10 a.m. the College
whistle will blow to signal a
minute of prayer in observance of
“World Day of Prayer,” Vice Pres
ident Earl Rudder has announced.
“It is requested that we halt
our activities for a minute of sil
ent prayer as we unite with the
people throughout this country
and around the world in observa
tion of this occasion,” Rudder
said. “The College and System of
fices will join the College Sta
tion Council of Church Women
Friday for the occasion.”
The whistle will blow at 10 and
again one minute past the hour.
Revenue Advisor
To Help Foreign
Students Tuesday
A representative of the Internal
Revenue Service will be in the of
fice of Robert L. Melcher, foreign
student advisor, 105 Bizzell, from
2-2:30 p.m., Tuesday.
“Foreign students who have
questions about their income tax,
or who need help in filling out
their income tax forms, should ar-
i-ange to see this man,” Melcher
said.
Melcher urged that Foreign stu
dents who have an income tax ob
ligation should pick up forms at
his office.
Melcher also said the Foreign
students and exchange visitors
who are interested in attending
the Houston Fat Stock Show and
Rodeo on Feb. 28 through March 1
are reminded to see the Foreign
Student Advisor and pay their
transportation fee.