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I? * . ! r - Weather Today College Station can expect cloudy skies tomorrow with rain. Low tonight between 32-42. THE BATTALION RE Week End Friday Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus Number 74: Volume 58 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1959 Price Five Centa •J! Fish at Work —Battalion Staff Photo by Laney McMath The Fish Drill Team prepares for its appear- team, which will participate in a parade and ance at the annual Washington Birthday also enter competition against several south celebration in Laredo this weekend. Fish Texas colleges, through its paces. Ben Rice, commander of the unit, sends the Ten Acts from Five States Committee Submits Acts for 1959 ITS Final selectidfl^ for the 10 acts to be presented in the eighth an nual Intercollegiate Taleht Show March 13 were announced yester day by Johnny Johnson, ITS di rector. In addition to the 10 variety acts the show will feature the famed Kilgore Junior College Rangerettes as the specialty num ber with Joel Spivak, disc jockey for Houston’s Radio Station KILT, as master of ceremonies. Included in the acts are vocal ists, a Dixieland combo, a pianist, an organist, a dancer and a jugg ler. The talent was selected from more than 130 acts auditioned in 15 schools in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and .Okla homa. The show will be' presented in G. Rollie White Co|iseum begin ning at 6:30 p.m. The Aggieland Orchestra under th§ direction of Secretary Won’t Resign Cancer Can’t Hurt Dulles’ Head, Heart WASHINGTON <A>)_ President Eisenhower said Wednesday Sec retary of State John Foster Dul les’ cancer in no way impairs his basic ability to do his job better than anybody else could. “The doctors have assured me,” Eisenhower told a news confer ence, “there is nothing in his dis ease that is going to toubh his heart and his head, and that is what we want.” The President said he and Dul les decided in' a talk at Walter Reed Army Medical Center Tues day to go right ahead with pre- Consolidated School Board Election Set Candidates have until March 5 to file for the three positions to be filled on the A&M Consolidated Schools, school board in an elec tion April 4, Taylor Riedel, school superintendent, said this morning. Riedel said that petitions for nomination for candidacy must be picked up at his office in the A&M Consolidated Junior High School and returned before that date. An act of the Legislature pass ed last term requires that all nominees file their petition 30 days prior to the election, Riedel explained. Ernest Redmond, present vice president of the board, C. A. Bon ner, and Mitt Williams are the board members whose terms ex pire this year. viously arranged efforts to nego tiate a peaceful settlement of the German crisis with the Soviet Un ion. Eisenhower denied reports that Dulles had specifically offered to resign dui’ing his new illness or that the White House was sound ing- out Republican leaders on a possible successor to Dulles. “As long as Secretary Dulles believes that he is in shape to carry on,” Eisenhower said, “he is exactly the person I want.” The secretary’s doctors announ ced meanwhile they have unani mously agreed on a plan of treat ment, starting with radiation ther apy on Friday. A medical bulletin issued by Maj. Gen. Leonard D. Heaton, hos- .pital commandant in charge of the case, said: -i “The secretary is continuing to get up. He is walking more and more each day and sitting up long er each day.” The State Department said Dul les discussed official matters for about 12 minutes by telephone Wednesday with his special assist ant, Joseph N. Green Jr. No offi cial documents were sent to Dul les, the department said, but he is reading newspapers, books and magazines, and is receiving fam ily visitors. At the news conference, Eisen hower called Dulles “my closest associate . . . my principal assist ant . . . my closest friend and con fidant” in foreign affairs. “I know of no man ... in the world that has equalled his wis dom and his knowledge this whole complicated business,” the President said. Bill Turner will play. Sponsor of the show is the Me morial Student Center Music Com- mitte, of which Jim Fallin is chair man. Paul Phillips is stage director. Lighting is under the direction of Toby Mattox and Richard Nagy is in charge of sound. Rudy Schu bert is set design manager and Johnny Roberson is ticket chair man. Paul Rosenthal is in charge of programs. Tickets for the event will be 75 cents advance sale for general ad mission tickets and $1 at the door. Reserved seats will sell for $1.25 and $1.50 and children’s tickets ■Will cost 50 cents. The 10 acts: • The Troubadors-—musical trio fx-om A&M and winners of the 1958 Aggie Talent Show. • Bob Flowers — pianist from the University of Arkansas. • The Jokers—Dixieland combo from Louisiana State University. • Joyce Tollman — modern jazz and tap dancer from Texas Tech. • Kurt Swartz and Larry Bled soe—comedy team from the Uni versity of Oklahma. • Zahi Saranish — juggler from the University of Texas. • The Hi-Phis — quartet from Southern Methodist University. • John Bell—organist from Tex as Christian University. • Beverly Montgomery — female vocalist from Rice Institute. • Pat Long — female musical comedy vocalist from Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss. The Tempest’ Set By Aggie Players The Aggie Player’s have started rehearsal on William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” a play to be pre sented in Guion Hall May 4-9, C. K. Esten, director of the play, said. Principal characters are Pros- pero, played by Bill Routt and Jim Best; Miranda, Dorothy Ashworth and Marlene Rushing; Ferdinand, Frank Myers and Howard Hayes; Ariel, Sophia Boettcher and Mary Coslett; Caliban, Ray Simmons; Alonzo, Paul Curda; Sebastian, Alden Smith; Antonio, Ed Herider; Gonzalo, Don Reynolds; Trinculo, Toby Mattox; Stephano, A1 Risien; Ship Master, Bob Dunn; and Boats- swain, portrayed by Marcia Knapp. The costumes are being designed by Harry Gooding of the Division of Architecture. Y anguard Discharges W eather Information Can Absorb Data On Nuclear Blast WASHINGTON (IP)—The high-flying Vanguard II satel lite sent out batch after batch of weather information Wed nesday and one of its proud parents said it may prove cap able of spotting a nuclear explosion. Another scientist said the electronics pictures it has transmitted to ground stations have already proved good enough to distinguish between clouds and horizons. The satellite was launched Tuesday. Dr. John P. Hagen, director of the Vanguard division of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was asked about the possibility of nuclear explosion detection in an appearance before the House Space Committee. Rep. James Fulton (R-Pa.) - * - wanted to know wether Van guard II could spot a nuclear explosion and immediately send back information on it. Can Spot Explosion “I would think so, yes,” Hagen replied. He then added he wanted to wait for more data from the satellite before saying just how small a cloud it could detect. Hagen said, to another ques tion, that it is too soon to specu late on the possibility of a satel lite detecting missiles in flight. Meanwhile the first batches of cloud cover information gleaned by radio from the space sphere were being rushed to the Army’s Signal Corps Research Laboratory at Ft. Monmouth, N. J. for analy sis. Must Analyze Details Dr. William G. Stroud Jr., chief of the Ft. Monmouth unit which devised the cloud cover experi ment, told a reporter it will take several weeks to analyze any de tail concerning the cloud cover noted. Scientists at Monmouth hope to derive a crude picture—something like an aerial photograph—of the cloud cover in the sunlit parts of the satellite’s orbit during the two weeks life of the Vanguard’s scientific information batteries. Stroud remarked that the sig nals being received ax-e very com plex. Tickets Moving At Slow Pace Fof Fish Ball Only 128 tickets to the Fresh man Ball have been bought, Class of '62 President Chuck Cloud said yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the freshman class officers. Primary purpose of the meeting was to discuss pictures submitted for the Freshman Sweetheart con test. Cloud said that five finalists would be picked and the winner would be selected from these at the dance on Feb. 28. Music for the 3-hour dance, from 9 p.m. to 12 p.m. in Sbisa Hall, will be furnished by the Ag gieland Orchestra. Also attending the meeting this afternoon was Miss Ann Rudder of A&M Consolidated High School. Miss Rudder reported that she and some other girl classmates would assist with the decoration of Sbisa for the dance. A background of fish nets and small fish decora tions will be used. In charge of arrangements for the dance are Cloud; Dan W. Deu- pree, vice president; Chax-les W. Moore, secx’etary-treasurer; and Eddie M. Dyer, social secretary. Friday Deadline For Fee Payment Second installment fees for the spring semester are due at the Fiscal Office by Friday. The $56.70 fee includes room, board and laundry until March 20. The last two payments for the semester are $61.40 and $74.75. Rudder Moves To Nip Tension During Meals “Tensions in the messhall must be eliminated—all classes should be allowed to eat in peace and in a relaxed manner,” Vice President Earl Rudder told students and Txi- gon administrators in a meeting yestex'day to discuss the messhall situation. Rudder pointed out in the meet ing that ^tension” in the messhall was the number one problem listed by outgoing fx-eshmen as the rea son they were leaving the Corps. He repeated the request he made to unit commandex'S Friday that steps be taken immediately to “ex amine the conduct in the messhall and take steps to correct irregular behaviox\” Meeting with Rudder wex-e Col. Chax-les Gi-egoxy, PAS; Col. Frank Elder, PMS&T; Col. Joe E. Davis, comxnandant; Cadet Colonel of the Coi’ps Don Cloud; Cadet Col. Bob Tux-nex 1 , Fix’st Wing commander; and Cadet Lt. Col. Joe Buser, Cox-ps supply officex-. The group discussed present conditions of tx-aining and eating during xneal- time and possible changes to im prove atmosphere in the messhall. Cloud was asked to x-eport sug gestions and coixxments gleaned from the wing and regimental commanders’ meeting today at 5 p.m. since all the commanders were not present because of class con flicts. ii It’s Almost Here Ags Wayne Culberth, left, and Ken Davis are avoiding the rush by purchasing their graduation announcements early. Making the transaction with the seniors is Student Activi ties secretary Joan Culberth. , RE Week Speaker Ways to Marriage Given by Remley By ROBBIE GODWIN Battalion Staff Writer “There is no magic responsible for the successful marriage,” said the Rev. Dr. Ernest Remley in his fourth talk of the Religious Em phasis Week series. Dr. Remley picked “Courtship and Marriage” for the topic of his talk today ixx Guion Hall. He said marriage can provide the oppor tunity for wonderful comradeship and affection, or for degxading contention. He added that the de velopment of a fine marriage takes hard work, much understanding, a 4 AF Juniors Take Air Academy Tour Four outstanding Air Force ROTC junioi’s visited the United States Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs, Colo., last week end. They made the trip with the Ag gie pistol team which competed with the academy, University of Wisconsin and University of Cali fornia. Making the trip were Bill Heye, J. C. Bux-ton, Ken Dyson and Allen Dudley. The gx-oup left College Station Friday afternoon by Air Force C47 and after a short layover at Waco’s Connally Air P’orce Base, arrived at the academy early Fri day night. Satui'day the four cadets toured the academy, visiting the classes in session. “We were particularly ixxxpressed with the judo classes that we saw,” Heye said. An interesting sidelight was that the prince of Greece was visiting the academy Saturday, Heye said. The Prince granted amnesty to all cadets for all punishment amassed through the year to that date, said Heye. The amnesty-granting was in line with a tradition at sexvice academies that visiting heads-of- state can make the move, Heye ex plained. Heye said the group was olso impressed by the modern arclti- tectux-e of the academy and the landscape surrounding it. “Although the cadet wing is only 1,100 men strong, the school has ti-emendous spii’it to be as young as it is and as lacking in old traditions,” Heye said. The school expects to reach its authoxazed strength of 2,500 next year. The group returned to the cam pus Sunday afternoon. Seniors Picture Deadline Set Apx-il 1 is the deadline for turn ing in pictures for the Senior Favorite and Vanity Fair sections of the Aggieland ’59, Rod Stepp, editoi', reminded yesterday. Senior Favorite entries must be at least 2 x 3 in size and prefer ably glossy prints. Entry fee is $2. Seniors xxxay enter pictures in the Vaxxity Fair section free of charge, but nxust turn in both a 5x7 minimum head-and-shoulder shot plus a full length picture of some sox’t. Pictures should be turr#sd in to the Office of Student Publications, Roonx 4, YMCA. stubborn loyalty to common re- spoxxsibilities arid a common de votion to high spixntual values. Di\ Remley said a fine marriage must have three things: total com- xxxitment; community x-esponsibil- ity; and spiritual loyalty. The speaker quoted a part of the marriage ceremony to stress his first point. He said marriage calls for “love and faithfulness in plenty and in want, in joy and in sox’row, in sickness and in health . . . so long as we both shall live.” He added that marriage properly understood is an unconditional al legiance; thex-e is no escape clause. About community responsibility, Dr. Remley said most marriages produce children who ax-e either a blessing or a burden to the com munity. He said since this is so, the community has a x-ight to de mand certain maturity and whole someness of marriage partners. About spiritual loyalty he had this to say: “Marriage must have a value center of faith in God and obedience to God if it is to be as fine as marriage can be.” He said people who accept mar riage as a relationship on these tex-ms are ready for marriage. He added that they will readily undei'stand the gx’eat definition of love written to the church in Co- idnth by Paul: “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clang ing cymbal. And if I have proph etic powex-s, and understand all mystexies and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.” Dr. Remley then gave some def initions of love. He said, “Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boast ful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or x’esent- ful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”