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Number 73: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1959
Price Five Cents
Heavy Vote Blasts Street Bond Issue
Remley Talks to Ags
On Life of Isaiah
The Rev. Ernest Remley said
in his address this morning that
we could vei'y well follow the chal
lenge of the life of Isaiah.
This was the third in a series
of sermons given daily in Guion
Freshman Ball
Set for Feb, 28
The annual Fish Ball is sched
uled for Feb. 28 in Sbisa Dining
Hall from 9-12 p.m. with honored
guests to include the president
and vice president of the college,
the deans of all the departments,
the military department and tacti
cal officers, and seniors of the
Corps of Cadets Staff.
Crowning of the Freshman
Sweetheart will highlight the
evening. A freshman judging com
mittee will choose the five final
ists with the winner to be pre
sented to the class by Eddie M.
Dyer, chairman of the Sweetheai’t
Committee.
Music will be furnished by the
Aggieland Orchestra.
Tickets, date or non-date, can
be purchased in room 210, YMCA,
Chuck Cloud, president of the
Class of ’62, said.
“The profits, if any,” said Cloud
“will stay in the class treasury
during our stay at A&M for all
social functions. Remaining funds
will probably be used for a gift
to the college if the class follows
the precedent of the past classes.”
Christian Church
To Produce Drama
“The Wife of Pontius Pilate,” a
powerful religious drama, will be
produced in nine Bryan-College
Station churches by members of
the First Christian Church of Bry-
jm during Lenten season.
Mrs. Gertrude Howard, former
drama professor, will direct the
production.
Leading roles are played by
Glenda Peery as Procla and Jimmy
Best at Pilate. Others in the cast
are Mary Myrle Anderson, Mary
Frances Coslett, Elizabeth Gibbs
and Rodney Kelly.
The play, about an hour long,
will serve as a worship service for
family participtation. The public
is invited to all performances. An
offering will be taken, but no ad
mission is to be charged.
Hall by Dr. Remley in connection
with the 17th annual Religious
Emphasis Week. Dr. Remley is
pastor of the Collegiate Presby
terian Church in Ames, Iowa.
He pointed out that when
Isaiah’s father, King Uzziah, diecl,
Isaiah went to God asking for
guidance for himself and for his
people. There he found three
things.
The first, said Dr. Remley, was
that Isaiah’s worship experience
was an intense and soul searching
confrontation with God. In this
meeting he was conquex - ed by the
absolute.
Second, he said, was that
Isaiah’s experience brought him
face to face with himself, and
made him aware of his many per
sonal limitations.
Third, this experience called
Isaiah to a commitment of obed
ience to God in His service. His
willingness to accept the chal
lenge of commitment involved
him in persecution, adversity and
suffering.
“What happened to Isaiah can
happen to you and me”, said Dr.
Remley. “But only if we have
the courage to honestly confront
God, to honestly examine our
selves and fearlessly obey God’s
will whatever the cost.”
Four RV’s Escape
Injury in Accident
Four members of the Ross Vol
unteers returning from New Or
leans were involved in an auto
mobile accident last Wednesday
afternoon on U. S. Highway 90,
east of Orange, Texas.
The occupants, all juniors, were
Tom Wisdom, New Braunfels;
Charles Benson, Sour Lake; Hu
bert Oxford, Beaumont; and Eu
gene Marshall, Dallas.
Benson, who was driving, lost
control of his car while taking
a flat sharp curve after crossing
the Sabine River bridge. Wisdom
reports the car spun one time on
the rain-slick road, went into a
side-skid and finally came to rest
in a water-filled drainage ditch.
Benson’s car, a 1956 Chevrolet,
narrowly missed a telephone pole
and a construction barricade in its
wild slide, Wisdom said.
No one was injured although
damage to the car is estimated at
$150, said Benson.
News of the World
By The Associated Press
Satellite Into Orbit
WASHINGTON—An American satellite carrying a
miniature, mechanical weather observer flashed into orbit
around the earth Tuesday.
The satellite, Vanguard II, may whirl on through space
for years or even centuries. But the batteries for its weather
eyes—a pair of photoelectric cell—can operate continuously
for only two weeks.
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Boy Lives After Plunge
NEW YORK—An 11-year-old boy plunged 17 stories
from his East Side apartment Tuesday and lived through it.
A soggy lawn cushioned his fall.
The lad, James Bell, a Negro, broke both wrists and el
bows and was reported in critical condition. But a hospital
nurse said: “For a little boy who fell 17 stories, he’s in pretty
good shape.”
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Children Saved From Death
UPPER SANDUSKY, Ohio—A school bus driver saved
his load of 40 children from perhaps serious injury Tuesday
by gunning the motor as he felt a bridge giving away beneath
his vehicle.
The bus lurched onto a solid roadway just as the bridge
collapsed into swollen Sycamore Creek about 15 miles north
east of this north central Ohio community.
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Navy Blimp Explodes
WASHINGTON, N. C.—A Navy blimp plunged into a
swamp near here before dawn Tuesday and exploded. Four of
the seven men aboard died in the crash or subsequent fire.
The others suffered critical burns.
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Aggies in general felt energetic with the probably exclusive in spending their leisure
event of springtime weather yesterday and time. John Flynn of Big Spring look on as
Monday, but these two members of Squad- John Gary of Waco practices “spilling” his
ron 19, the Civil Air Patrol outfit, were parachute.behind Dorm 9.
European Work
Open to Students
Any Aggies who would like to
have jobs in Europe this summer
may contact Dr. E. C Breitenkamp
of the Department of Modern
Language.
The only requirement for a job
is that the applicant be an Amei’-
ican student and know the English
language, Breitenkamp said.
There are many different kinds
of jobs available for students.
These include construction, sum
mer hotel work, forestry work,
fishing industry help, factory work,
sales representatives, specialized
work and work camps.
“Countries such as Germany,
Sweden and Switzerland usually
pay the highest wages,” he said.
“It is impossible to give figures
of wages to the the different eco
nomic systems. The wages also
vary among the different jobs.”
The maximum duration of work
is three months and the minimum
is one month. Jobs are available
between June 1 and Sept. 30.
Work will be controlled by the
labor ministries of the chosen
country, he said. There' is usu
ally a 40-hour work week.
International Student Insurance
is available which covers accidents,
sickness, life, and stolen property.
Breitenkamp said the only ex
pense is a $9 fee for finding in
dividual jobs requested by the stu
dent. Travel tickets are available
at a 10 per cent reduction.
Fish Drill Team
To Visit Laredo
A&M’s Freshman Drill Team
will participate in the annual
Washington’s Birthday celebration
at Laredo this weekend, Gregory
A. Garcia, executive officer of
the team, said yesterday.
Thirty-five members of the team
will make the trip to Laredo by
private car Friday afternoon.
Saturday morning they will take
part in the parade and later that
afternoon they will march in com
petition with drill teams from sev
eral nearby colleges, he said.
While in Laredo the members
will be honored with a tea given
by the Laredo A&M Mother’s Club
Saturday afternoon, said Garcia.
The tea will be served by the
mothers and former students of
A&M.
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The freshmen are expected to
return to the campus sometime
Sunday afternoon, Garcia said.
$250 Award Offered
For Story of A&M
At long last Aggies have a
chance to get paid for telling the
story of Texas A&M.
A $250 award, made available
by a former editor of The Battal
ion, will be given in May to the
author of the best essay on “Texas
A&M—What It Means to Me.”
A&M Receives
$48,000 Grant
Grants totaling $48,000 have been
received by A&M College biolo
gists for continuation of radiation
studies. They were received from
the Office of the Surgeon Gen
eral, U. S. Army, through the Tex
as A&M Research Foundation.
The grant is for two years ad
ditional study of the effect of die
tary substances on the resistance
of animal to continuous chronic
radiation produced by cobalt 60. A
grant of $24,000 was received prev
iously for this specific study and
covered the past year’s work.
Experiment, under the supervis
ion of two members of the Depart
ment of Biology, Dr. S. O. Brown
with Dr. G. M. Krise serving as
co-investigator, are being conduc
ted at the Texas Engineer Experi
ment Station’s low-level radiation
laboratory on the campus. They
will continue to June 1, 1961.
Lenten Fast Lifted
For Catholic Ags
Catholic Aggies are not requir
ed to observe fasting during Lent,
which lasts until Easter, Father
Charles Elmer, chaplain at St.
Mary’s Catholic Church, said
yesterday.
The Catholic Church usually re
quires that its members between
the ages of 21 and 59 eat meat
only once a day during this per
iod and only one full meal daily,
he sajd.
Bishop Louis Reicher, in a let
ter to Father Elmer, said the stu
dents would not have to observe
this law because they will need the
extra “sustenance” for late study
ing. Eating in the dining halls
also was given as a reason.
Bishop Reicher did suggest that
the students make other sacri
fices such as attending a few ex
tra church services during Lent.
Making the award is C. L. Bab
cock ’20, now. an insurance agent
in Beaumont. Screening of the es
says submitted will be done by The
Battalin staff—final judging vrfll
be done by a committee to be ap
pointed by Vice President Earl
Rudder.
In announcing the award which
bears his name, Babcock said, “I
believe the papers prepared by
students will contain constructive
and useful information for publi
cation, especially in pamphlet form.
“A collection of the better pa
pers may be used to tell the story
of A&M—from the student stand
point — to prospective Aggies in
high schools of the Southwest.”
In addition to the single $250
cash prize, certificates will be
awarded to the top 10 entries in
the Babcock award contest.
April 1 Deadline
April 1 is the deadline for en
tries in the contest. Entries should
be prepared in regular manuscript
form, double spaced, with an orig
inal and two carbon copies, and
turned in to The Battalion office,
ground floor, YMCA. Manuscripts
should be no less than 250 nor
more than 1,000 words in length.
Criteria used in judging the en
tries, as set up by the donor are:
is it the whole truth?, it is fair?,
will it build good will?, and will
it be beneficial ?
Any full time student currently
enrolled in A&M except members
of The Battalion staff is eligible
to submit a paper.
Tessies to Host
Sophs for Dance
Aggie sophomores will be
guests of the .sophomore class
at Texas Woman’s University
for a semi-formal dance March
7 in the TWU Student Union
Building.
The dance will be held in the
recreation room of the union
building and the TWU Band
will play for the dance, Charles
Murphy, president of the Class
of ’61, said yesterday.
Murphy urged all sophomores
to make plans to attend the af
fair, adding that those desiring
dates could check with the Ag-
gie-TWU Date Bureau in the
Student Activities Office in the
YMCA.
Citizens WillAgain
‘Pay-As - You - Go 9
, By JOHNNY JOHNSON
Battalion News Editor
College Station voters turned out in record numbers yes
terday to defeat the proposed $350,000 street bond issue by
a more than a 4-1 margin.
The plan was beaten 775-162 for a total number of 937
votes. The previous record-high voting was in the 1958 regu
lar general election in which 516 votes were cast, City Man
ager Ran Boswell said.
With the defeat of the proposed bond issue, the city’s
pay-as-you-go plan will proceed under full steam, said Bos
well.
Some 1,500 feet of Lee Street are ready to be paved
with curb and gutters and petitions are being circulated for
* the paving of Kyle Street and
Walton Drive, he said.
Students Make
Plea to Lower
Voting Age
AUSTIN (AP)—Students from
the universities of Texas and
Houston Tuesday put in a plea for
the voting age in Texas to be low
ered from 21 to 18.
The collegians appeared before
the House Constitutional Amend
ments Committee. They endorsed
the proposal by Reps. Roger Daily
of Houston, W. H. Pieratt of Gid-
dings and Vernon Stewart of
Wichita Falls.
The proposed amendment went
to a subcommittee, along with
plans to ask voter approval for
a ban on state income taxes and
a change in financing the public
schools.
The students said 18-year-olds
of today are frequently better in
formed than their elders were at
21, due to advances in communi
cation and education. They said
the three-year lage between com
pletion of high school civic courses
and a youth’s 21st birthday killed
interest among young people in
governmental affairs.
Blair Cherry Jr., University of
Texas student from Lubbock, said
he was forced to pay substantial
federal and state taxes even
though he was not allowed to vote.
“I think I ought to have a say
in who levies those taxes,” he said.
In other debate, Rep. John
Blaine of El Paso said his pro
posal to ban income taxes through
constitutional amendment was an
attempt to make Texas al(tractive
for new business and capital.
CS Kiwanis Lauded
For Scouting Work
“You cannot make a man out of
anything but a boy.”
This statement exemplifies the
reason that scouting plays such
an important role in America to
day, Dr. Carlton Lee of Bryan,
chairman of Boy Scouts of Ameri
ca’s Arrowmoon District, told
College Station Kiwanians yester
day.
“Scouting, through proper lead
ership and healthy activity, helps
make our nation stronger by mak
ing its future leaders beter men,”
Lee said.
He told the Kiwanians they
could be proud of the part they
play in the scouting program. The
club sponsors Cub Scout Pack 102,
Boy Scout Troop 102 and Air
Scout Squadron 102, making it the
only organization in the district
to sponsor three scouts units. Lee
also lauded members of the Ki
wanis club who are active in
Scouting.
As chairman of the Arrowmoon
District, which is in the Sam
Houston Area Council, Lee heads
the 300 volunteer woi’kers in the
district.
Guide Posts
“Democracy is a cause that is
never won, but I believe it jvill
never be lost.”—Charles A. Beard
The bond election was
brought about when a petition
signed by 265 College Station
property-owners was presented to
the Jan. 26 City Council meeting.
Marion Pugh, one of the sup
porters of the bond issue, said
last night: “I was real pleased with
the turnout of voters. It indi
cated a great amount of interest
in better streets. I believe the
Council will give us streets as soon
as possible. The vote, also showed
the real interest of the citizens that
we have to have a good and pro
gressive city.”
Heaviest voting was at Ward I
where 471 votes were cast — 397
against and 74 for. In Ward II,
294 voted against the bond plan
while 75 were in favor. Ward III
results showed 84 citizens against
the move and only 13 for it.
Boswell said mox-e plans for
street construction would be dis
cussed at the regular Council
meeting Monday night.
Engineering Group
To Take Field Trip
The Society of American Mili
tary Engineers will make a four-
day field tn'p to Vicksburg, Miss.,
tomorrow by charter bus.
Appx’oximately 30 men making
the trip will visit the Water Ways
Experiment Station in order to
view the various engineering pl’o-
jects sent into the station from
all over the country.
The society is composed of those
students enrolled in ROTC and
those interested in military engi-
neex'ing. The trip will be spon-
sox’ed by the District Society of
Kfilitax’y Engineers of Galveston.
Maj. Gilbext F. Moore and Capt.
Joseph D. Bennett of the Depart
ment of Military Science and Tac
tics will make the trip with the
Aggies.
Poltical Meeting
Attended by Aggies
Student representatives of the
Southwest Region of the YMCA-
YWCA met in Austin for a con-
ference on politics last Friday.
Aggies who attended were: Bob
Coffman, Bill Shenkin, Sandy
Westbxook, David Halm, Don
Cloud, Jimmy Wolfe, Carl Ziet-
low, David Wallace, Bobby Ben
nett, Paul Van Nieuwenhuize, Bill
Pey, Roger Ratliff, Malcolm Max
well, Ned Keshey, Henry Haswell
and Dan Bxenner.
Fish Have Until 5
iTo Enter Pictures
Freshmen have until 5 p.m. to
day to submit pictures for the
Freshman Sweetheart contest, Ed
die M. Dyer, chairman of the
Sweetheart Committee, said yes
terday.
The winner will be announced
at the Freshman Ball on Feb. 28,
after selection from a list of fin
alists, he said.
Pictures should be 8x10 in size
and accomparxied by a snapshot.
They may be turned in at the
Department of Student Activities
on the second floor of the YMCA.