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THE
BATTALION
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
CSC
Meets Tonight
Number 78: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1959
Price Five Cents
By Racketeering
Na tionTh reaten ed
Warns McClellan
WASHINGTON </P) — The Sen
ate Labor-Management Commit
tee’s investigation of gangland
penetration into the coin machine
industry highlights a situation
“that threatens the sovereignty of
this country,’’ Chairman John L.
McClellan (D-Ark) said Wednes
day.
“The evidence clearly shows how
far this racketeering has become
entrenched,” McClellan said in
ending a series of hearing on the
jukebox-coin machine industry in
New York and Chicago.
“Unless this is successfully gtop-
ped, there is great danger to this
country. We are threatened from
within.”
McClellan has contended the un
derworld has been busy working
its way into various industries,
with the help of some corrupt la
bor union officials. He took the
position that the coin machine sit
uation fits into that pattern.
The committe suspended its heal
ings until March 10 after fruitless
questioning of a series of wit
nesses who previously have been
named in testimony as playing
key roles in alleged shakedowns
of Chicago area coin machine op
erators.
Refusing to answer question on
Fifth Amendment grounds were:
Grad Lecture
By Purdue Prof
On Tap Monday
A lecture on “Modern Engineer
ing Curricula” will be presented
to the faculty, staff and students
of the Graduate School by K. B.
Woods, head of the School of Civil
Engineering at Purdue University.
The lecture will be given next
Monday night at 8 in the Lecture
Room in the Cheriiistry Building.
He will outline approaches to
the problem based on his own ex
tensive experience and on contacts
he has with faculties of the na
tion’s leading engineering schools.
Woods is well known for his
work in engineering research and
as a consultant to Canadian and
U. S. Government agencies and to
railroad and other industrial con
cerns dealing with the location, de
sign and construction of air fields,
railroads and highways in Alaska,
Canada and the United States.
A native of Sunnyside, Wash.,
he was educated at Ohio State Un
iversity where he received a bach
elor of civil engineering degree in
1982 and a professional degree of
civil engineering in 1937.
Ag Singing Group
Cuts First Record
The Silvertones, a singing group
of four Aggies, recently cut a mas
ter tape in Houston for their first
record.
The group, composed of Robert
Blakewood, J. Ramiro Perez, Di-
onicio Flores ^jhd James Hickey,
has also sigm— a six month re
cording contract with Surf Rec
ords. i
“Hill By Ae Wayside,” one side
of the re Mrd, was composed by
Hickey. lilTez and Hickey teamed
up to wJufe the song on the other
side ent'**ed “Lover’s Dream.”
The ^r;.-.:>up started singing to
gether (Jpi September, 1958, and
have jfcWpeared at many college
banqueM and shows. They placed
second win the Aggie Talent Show
and t|prd in the annual College
Caper jf held at Sam Houston State
Collect/.
Th)0 Silvertones are scheduled to
ap)’ <0, hr in the Baylor Intercollegi
ate*. Talent Show on Saturday,
Mjflpch 14.
r According to Hickey, their record
should be available to the public
by the end of March.
Guide Posts
“Live and let live is not enough;
live and help live is not too much.”
—Grin E. Madison
1. Edward Vogel, described by
a committee investigator as the
real power behind the Chicago In
dependent Amusement Assn., Inc.
This organization allegedly hired
strongarm men to terrorize amuse
ment machine operators into join
ing and paying off.
Committee council Robert E.
Kennedy said Vogel is “one of the
overloads of the underworld at the
present time.”
2. Hyman Earner, named as tit
ular head of the association. Ken
nedy accused him of operating a
“well-organized shakedown of all
the game machine operators in
the Chicago area.”
Earner refused, among other
things to say how he has been
able to afford a home in Florida,
a Chicago apartment, six autos
and two cabin cruisers—all on the
$8,700-a-year income the commit
tee said he has reported for tax
purposes.
The committee contefids Earner’s
income from Chicago coin machine
rackets came to $100,000 in 1957.
3. Fred Tom Smith, otherwise
known as “Jukebox Smitty.”
Smith heads the coin machine di
vision of Local 134, International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
His name has been linked in test
imony with alleged shakedowns in
the coin machine industry.
Kennedy said Smith’s tax re
turns listed average income of
about $7,000 a year since 1951.
But, Kennedy added, Smith has
been living lavishly.
MSC Arts Group
Sponsors Course
Night and day creative arts
courses, sponsored by the Memor
ial Student Center Creative Arts
Committee are now being offered
for the spring program, according
to Mrs. Emalita Terry, advisor for
the group.
Mrs. Terry will instruct paint
ing and drawing. The crafts in
structor will be Mrs. Edra David
son. Sculpture art will be taught
by Josep Tompa, and will include
wood, clay, and cast stone.
More Paint
The-bronze shrine of Law-
ence Sullivan Ross in front
of the old Academic Build
ing got another coat of
paint Tuesday night—this
time a wan shade of green
tracing the initials “BU”
on its base.
Battalion Staff Photo
Here's the Air Force Way
Col. Charles E. Gregory, PAS, rears back to Frank L. Elder, PMS&T, a former diamond
fire the opening pitch of the Corps Base- standout. Elder took his turn on the mound
ball League last night in Travis Park. Set after Gregory toed the rubber,
to adjust an eagle eye to the pitch is Col.
Teacher Conference
Starts Here Friday
Problems concerning trade and
industrial education and teacher
training will be discussed Friday
and Saturday at the 11th annual
Industrial Teacher Conference at
A&M.
Between 500 and 600 industrial
arts teachers, supervisors and
teacher trainers are expected to
attend the conference which is be
ing held under the sponsorship of
the Department of Industrial Edu
cation, the Texas Engineering Ex
tension Service and the Texas In
dustrial Arts Assn.
The conference will, be preced
ed by a meeting of the executive
committee of the Texas Industrial
Arts Association Friday morning
at 8:30 with Terrell Newberry of
Beaumont, president of the asso
ciation, presiding.
Earl Rudder, vice president of
A&M, will welcome the delegates
at the conference general assembly
Friday night at 7:30.
Kermit A. Seefold, president of
the American ' Industrial Arts
Assn, and chairman of the Depart
ment of Industrial Arts, Santa
Barbara College, University of
California, will be the principal
conference speaker. He will speak
on the subjects “Industrial Arts
tor Tomorrow,” “What Do You
Know?” and “Industrial Arts,
Functional or Fictional?”
Other conference speakers will
include James S. Gupton, director
of vocational education, Houston
Public Schools, Houston; Joseph
Cafe Rue Pinalle
Slated Friday Night
Cafe Rue Pinalle will be held
Friday sight from 8 until mid
night in the Memorial Student
Center ping pong area.
Two girls from the University
of Texas—Paula Craig, a vocalist,
and her accompanist, Peggy New
berry—will headline the floor
show.
Others on the floor show will be.
impersonationist Jerry Hatfield;
and the Happy Knights, a vocal
trio composed of Ruben Hino
josa, Oscar Hinojosa and Joe
Fernandez.
J. Tapal, principal, Houston Coca-
tional-Technical School, Houston;
and Jesse Carrell, area supervisor,
Vocational Industrial Education,
Texas Education Agency, Waco.
Discussions on problems con
cerning trade and industrial edu
cation and teacher training will be
led by Terrell F. Gates, principal,
Burbank Vocational High School,
San Antonio; A. B. O’Connor, co
ordinator of instruction, Technical
High School, Fort Worth; and A.
H. Pieper, instructor, vocational
drafting, Burbank Vocational High
School, San Antonio.
Dr. C. H. Groneman, head of the
A&M Department of Industrial Ed
ucation, will lead a discussion on
College and Supervisors.
Two Directors
Okayed; Biggs
Action Tabled
AUSTIN (AP) — The Senate
confirmed today two Texas A&M
directors but took no action on a
third appointment.
The Senate confirmed the ap
pointments of Sterling C. Evans
of Cameron and John W. Newton
of Beaumont as A&M directors
but took no action on John Biggs
of Vernon.
Bigg’s name was on the same
sheet as the others.
The Senate action was in clos
ed session. Members are pro
hibited from discussing the re
sults of the session.
Reagan indicated Biggs would
be considered at a later session.
He would give no reason for the
delay.
News of the World
By The Associated Press
Second* Titan Flight Successful
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.-—A Titan ICBM, the power-
hpuse of U.S. missiles, logged its second highly successful
test flight in a row Wednesday, informed sources said.
The 100-ton missile rumbled off its pad at 2:45 p. m. It
blazed over the prescribed course in minutes, winding up in
the ocean some 250-300 miles from the launching site, it was
learned.
It was the second Titan success in three weeks.
★ ★ ★
Macmillan, Khruschchev Continue Talks
MOSCOW—British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan
had lunch and a long talk with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush
chev on cold war issues Wednesday in an atmosphere that a
British spokesman termed “fairly cool, calm and collected.”
With relations strained by the public attack by Khrush
chev on Western policies in his Kremlin speech Tuesday, they
met at a country house. Thursday they plan to fly to Kiev
together.
Macmillan, suffering from a cold and clearly tired, was
the host in the resumption of a series of conferences marked
earlier by a show of affibility and good humor.
★ ★ ★
Ike Blasts Defense Critics
WASHINGTON—President Eisenhower shoved “humili
ty and modesty” aside Wednesday to say he is better quali
fied than individual military chiefs to determine the nation’s
defense needs.
The former five-star general said that just spending
money doesn’t make the country stronger—“indeed, if you
spend too much money, you will make us weaker.”
Violence Flares
After UT Game
Tuesday Night
More than 1,000 People
Involved in Fighting
A disturbance involving an es
timated 1,000 students broke out
Tuesday night following the Uni
versity of Texas’ 71-61 .basket
ball loss to A&M.
Alex Palmrose, 31, of Fort
Worth, received a broken jaw,
possible broken nose, and loss of
several teeth, attendants at the
University Health Center said.
Palmrose told police an unkown
person slugged him.
According to local reports, sev
eral Aggies stepped out of the
Gregory Gymnasium and wei’e met
by a crowd of students who, after
a few words, began grabbing brass
and other parts of their uniforms.
The game was marked by sever
al demonstrations by the crowd,
during which cups were thrown
on the playing court. The usual
cries of “Poor Aggies” and Poor
Teasips” marked the closing half
of the game, as the respective
teams took the lead.
Aggie Coach Bob Rogers once
stepped onto the floor and waved
the crowd to momentary silence,
but soon the din was again ( in full
volume. Several requests from
the UT cheer leaders had no ef
fect on the unusually unruly
crowd.
Four Aggies in uniform, sur-
runded by about 200 others, made
their way to the steps of the
gym, where the initial disturbance
began.
Officers reported several fights
spread to dormitories, but they
were only minor, and were quick
ly broken up.
“The boys involved got away
with the assistance of students
and ex-students,” said Allen R.
Hamilton, chief security officer at
the university. “I think several
on both sides got bloody noses.”
Numerous minor injuries were
reported after the unruly crowd
surged into the streets outside
the gym, said The Austin States
man.
Scene Is Set
As Fish Ball
Draws Near
Plans for the annual Freshman
Ball to be held Saturday night in
Sbisa Dining Hall are drawing to
a close, Chuck Cloud, class presi
dent, said last night.
Highlighting the event will be
the crowning of the. Freshman
Sweetheart. The winner will be
presented to the class by Eddie
M. Dyer, chairman of the Sweet
heart Committee. Pictures of the
five finalists will be in Friday’s
issue of The Battalion.
Cloud said yesterday that 305
tickets have been sold and “it
looks like a lot more will be sold
between now and Saturday night.”
Tickets are $3.00 stag or drag and
may be purchased in Room 210
of the YMCA. The ducats will also
be on sale at the door.
Finalists in the contest and
their escort*, are: Martha Kaye
Daniels, escorted by Joe C. Hill;
Ann Douglas, escorted by Robert
Joe Kepke; Juanita Wirch, es
corted by Jerry J. Cowley; Anita
Marchant, escorted by George
Eitt; and Dorothy Ann Phillips,
escorted by Jerald Fletcher.
Sputnik Loses Limelight
As Aggies Rush for Russian
The Aggies’ interest in Russia
here at A&M has turned from
Sputnik to language.
Dr. John M. Skrivanek, Depart
ment of Modern Languages, said
that there was at least a 500 per
cent increase in the number of
students enrolling for the Russian
languages coui’ses this semester.
Skrivanek added, “It is most dif
ficult to get the students to learn
their A-B-C’s in Russian because
as it turns out, it is A-B-V’s.” He
said, “The first word that most
Aggies learn to say, for some rea
son, is vodka.” But one way or
another, the students learn to
speak, write and read Russian in
two years.
“If one could get just two se-’
mesters of this language, it would
be invaluable to him in the com
ing age just ahead of us,” he added.
“The communications systems and
present day publications almost
make it necessary for one to have
Slide Rule Course
Now Being Taught
Tau Beta Pi, honorary freshman
engineering society, began a four-
week introductory slide rule course
Monday.
Open to all students, the course
is primarily designed to give fresh
men an opportunity to learn to op
erate the slide rule—replacing
M.E. 108, the old slide rule course
which was dropped this semester.
Classes are held each afternoon
Monday through! Friday from 5
to 6 in the M.E. and E.E. buildings.
No tuition is charged for the
course and no credit is given.
The same topics will be covered
each Monday and Tuesday and on
Wednesday and Thursday, accord
ing to Bobby Richardson, chair
man of the course. Friday’s are
devoted to review, he said.
a fair understanding of some for
eign language in order to really
appreciate the culture of other na
tions.”
Skrivanek said that if he were
20 years younger he surely would
concentrate his studies on Russian
and Chinese because these two
languages give a more complete
background in understanding any
foreign language.
New Help Sessions
To Be Conducted
To Assist Juniors
A new program for junior math
ematics students will be included
in the math and physics help ses
sions, according to R. V. McGee
of the Department of Mathematics
and Eddie Reyna, a graduate phy
sics major.
The new sessions will provide
assistance for students in Math
ematics 307 and 308, said McGee.
The meetings will be held each
Monday and Wednesday from 3 to
5 p.m. in Room 223 of the Aca
demic Building. Advanced math
majors will conduct the sessions
with the help Horn faculty mem
bers if necessary, McGee added.
These sessions will be a suppli-
ment to the present math help
session programs which offers help
to freshmen and sophomores Mon
day through Friday from 3 to 5
p.m. in Room 224 of the Academic
Building.
Announcements of meetings of
help sessions for students taking
sophomore physics courses will be
posted on the bulletin board in
the main entrance of the Physics
Building, Reyna said.