Class of ’62 Preps for Fish Ball Tomorrow Night
me BATTALION
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 79: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1959
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Making It a Family Project
Mrs. Lambert Wilkes and her two children, Julia Ann, cen
ter, and Bobby, got into the act last Saturday in the beauti
fication program at A&M Consolidated School by the Inter-
Club Coordinating Committee. The group and interested
parents will work again tomorrow.
Starting March 21
Civilians Planning
For Big Weekend
By DAVE STOKER
Battalion News Editor
The Civilian Student Council’s
main annual project, Civilian
Week-end, is rapidly approaching
and Council members are making -
plans for the big event.
The' “Weekend,” March 21, was
the main topic of discussion at the
Council meeting last night in the
Senate Chamber of the Memorial
Student Center.
Already engaged to be the top
attraction at the event is the dance
band from Prairie View A&M, the
Prairie View Collegians. The band
Was chosen from a list of others
after various members of the
Council and college officials visi
ted Prairie View to hear the
group’s music. They will play for
civilians and their dates in the
Grove the night of March 21 from
9-12 p.m.
Along with the band will be a
quartet, The Dreamers, also from
Prairie View. According to A. M.
Hoffpauir, chairman of the Week
end Committee, “The quartet can
sing any kind of music.”
The dance will be semi-formal
and in case of bad weather will be
held in Sbisa Dining Hall. There
will be no theme for this year’s
dance.
A barbeque with entertainment,
also in the Grove, will kick-off
the affair. Festivities will begin
at 4 p. m. Six members of the
Prairie View dance band will be
on hand to provide music for the
dinner.
Jack Little, chairman of the En
tertainment Committee, said he
would also like to have various
student acts to provide entertain
ment. Anyone who is talented and
would like to take part in the pre
dinner entertainment should con
tact Little.
One-half of a barbequed chicken
will be served along with potato
salad, beans, pickles and onions.
A cold drink will be served in six-
ounce cups.
The Sweetheart contest will con
sist of one entry from each hous
ing unit. Each entry must be ac
companied by a photograph and
a $5 entry fee. The sweetheart
will be selected by March 13 and
the finalist will be introduced at
the dinner, after which she will be
introduced at the dance. Gifts
for the finalists and sweetheart
are being selected by the Coun
cil.
Tickets for both the barbeque
and the dance will go on sale Mon
day. Dormitory president will
handle ticket sales.
Tickets are $1 for adults to the
dinner and $1.50 per couple for the
dance. Students will be able to
purchase the tickets at various
places on the campus.
Special baby sitting service is
being arranged by the Council.
News of the World
By The Associated Press
Macmillan and> Khrushchev Bitter
KIEV, Ugraine—British Prime Minister Harold Macmil
lan and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ended talks yes
terday in an atmosphere of bitter chill. The British visitor
warned Khrushchev of grave danger if anyone interferes
with the Western powers’ rights in Berlin.
“But Khrushchev is not budging an inch,” a British
spokesman said, “and Macmillan is not budging an inch,
either. Make of that what you will.”
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Explosion Threatens H-Bomb Factory
ALDERMASTON, England—A violent explosion rocked
Britian’s big H-bomb factory here yesterday, killing two men
and injuring another.
Airplanes were warned to avoid the region 45 miles west
of London. But they resumed flights when officials said the
blast was caused by conventional explosives and there was no
radioactive danger. Traffic was permitted on nearby roads.
It was the sixth incident at the base in the past four
years. Britain’s Atomic Energy Authority set up a board of
inquiry.
Senate Needs 700 Aggies
To Give Blood for Drive
Donations To Be Used for Research
To Find A Cure for Leukemia
By BILL REED
Battalion News Editor
Six hundred and fifty Aggies and local residents who are
willing to donate a pint of blood are needed to replenish the
depleted blood bank of the Texas Leukemia Research Founda
tion.
The Student Senate and the College Station Lions Club
are sponsoring a blood drive to help in research aimed at
■ ♦finding a cure for the dread
childhood disease, leukemia.
Wednesday a booth will be
set up,in the Memorial Stu
dent Center for Aggies to sign
up to give blood, Don Rummel,
chairman of the Senate’s Welfare
Committee, said.
The Senate-manned booth will
be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. to
receive the names of students and
local residents who want to help
find a cure for the disease which
has no known cure, he said.
The actual day for giving the
blood will be Wednesday, March
11. A bloodmobile from the Wad-
ley Research Institute and Blood
Bank in Dallas is scheduled to be
at G. Rollie White Coliseum to re
ceive the blood donations.
Goal Set at 450 Pints
David R. Fitch, president of the
Lions Club, told Senate members
last night that over $11,000 worth
of blood would be donated if the
450-pint goal is reached.
At least 14 children are alive to
day as a result of the donation of
several hundred pints of blood to
the Texas Hemophilia Assn, by
Aggies last year, Rummel an
nounced.
“Each pint that donors give will
keep a child alive until, it is hoped,
research finds a permanent cure.”
“Every year a few more children
live a little longer with the pints
of blood that are donated by people
who are willing’ to help,” Fitch
said. “Someday they will find a
cure.”
May Find Cure
“Maybe with the blood that is
donated this year they will find
that cure,” John Thomas, president
of the Student Senate, said last
night at a called meeting of the
Senators.
Rummel said the Senate would
like to have at least 650 sign up
Wednesday. The Senate hopes to
get 450 pints or more from this
year’s drive.
“It makes no difference what
kind of blood a person has, all
kinds will be accepted by the blood-
mobile,” Rummel said.
Group to Continue
Improvement Work
On School Grounds
More work will be done at A&M
Consolidated Schools tomorrow by
the Inter-Club Coordinating Com
mittee as the second of a three
Saturday program to improve the
school grounds.
Beginning tomorrow morning at
8:30 and continuing until 11:30
members of the committee and in
terested parents will lay out flow-
or beds, and tomorrow afternoon
between 1 and 4 p.m. the group will
plant shrubs.
Co-chairmen for the event, Mrs.
Ellis H. Smith and Mrs. Don Dale,
urge all parents to be there to
work.
Mrs. Smith said persons coming
to woi-k should bring a rake, prun
ing shears, hoe, shovel, wheelbar
row, fork, sharp shooter shovel and
garden hose, if available. If any
one planning to work doesn’t have
these tools, Mrs. Smith asked that
they should still come.
The committee is composed of
the Lions, Gai’den and Mothers and
Dads clubs as well as the Chamber
of Commerce.
The group will also work next
Saturday.
U. S. Unprepared
For A Berlin War
WASHINGTON <A>) _ Sen. Tho
mas J. Dodd (D-Conn), warning
that the Soviets may trigger a
war over Berlin, urged yesterday
an intensive 90-day program to
alert the nation for any eventu
ality.
“I do not believe the country is
prepared—that the people are pre
pared—that they know we are on
the threshold possibly of grave
disaster,” Dodd told the Senate.
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Need a Base?
Try a Bait!
Everyone has heard the saying
“A newspaper is black and white
and read all over.”
As it happened yesterday, The
Battalion is black and white and
run all over.
Several copies of The Battalion
were used for bases on a softball
diamond late yesterday afternoon
by Squadron 6 softballers. After
an hour of taking a beating from
the running and sliding players
The Batts were scattered all over
the diamond.
It all stai'ted when Bob Lee,
Squadron 6 first sergeant, started
looking for some objects to use for
bases. Finally he decided the news
papers would serve the pui - pose.
Two or three players hit three-
BATT-ers during the game.
Like baling wire, The Battalion
can be used for almost anything.
Mayor Proclaims
Engineer’s Week
College Station Mayor Ernest
Langford declared this week as
“Engineers’ Week” in an official
proclamation.
In the proclamation, Langford
stressed the part played by en
gineers in the economic advance
ment of this country so that “our
country today enjoys a position
of leadership among nations of
the earth in every field of econom
ic endeavor.”
The Mayor also says, “I call
upon the residents of this com
munity to acknowledge and give
proper recognition and honor to
the engineers of College Station
and America who have earned the
plaudits and everlasting thanks
of a grateful people.”
Sweetheart
Nominees
Announced
By LEWIS REDDELL
Battalion News Editor
Members of the class of ’62
are making plans today for a
weekend of campus activities
planned especially for them,
which will be highlighted to
morrow night with the annual
Freshman Ball in Sbisa Hall.
The first round of activities will
take place tonight with a Cafe Rue
Pinalle in the ping pong area of
the Memorial Student Center from
8:30 until midnight.
Two coeds from the University
of Texas, Paula Craig, from Gam
ma Phi Beta and Dede Drison, fz’om
Alpha Delta Phi, both juniors, will
be featured in the floor show at
10 p.m. Dick Gustafson, fresh
man in B-AAA will also sing pop
ular ballads. Master of Ceremon
ies for the show will be Jim Jones,
senior electrical engineering major
from Amarillo. Music for the
dance will be furnished by jukebox.
Admission to Cafe Rue Pinalle
will be 75 cents per couple and.
tickets will be on sale at the door.
Regular Saturday drill will be
held as usual, but freshman cadets
will be excused from bull ring Sat
urday afternoon.
The crowing event of the week
end, the Freshman Ball, will begin
at 9 tomorrow night in Sbisa Hall
as cadets and their dates dance to
the music of Bill Turner’s Aggie-
land Orchestra. Ticket sales to
the ball totaled 336 yesterday af
ternoon.
College and military officials
have been invited as 'honor guests
of the class of ’62 for the event.
High point of the Ball will be
the selection and announcement of
the class of ’62’s Freshinan Sweet
heart. She will be picked from
five finalists at the first intermis
sion of the ball. College officials
will do the judging. Announce
ment of their selection will be
made at the second intermission of
the event.
The five finalists and their es
corts are: Martha Kaye Daniels,
36-22-36, from Amarillo, escorted
by Joe C. Hill; Ann Douglas, 35-22-
36, from Dallas, escorted by Rob
ert Joe Kepke; Juanita Wirch, 35-
21-35, from Marshall, escorted by
Jerry J. Cowley; Anita Marchant,
36-23-36, from Dallas, escorted by
George Eitt; and Dorothy Ann
Phillips, 35-24-36, from Waco, es
corted by Jerald Fletcher.
The dance will come to a halt
at midnight.
Dorothy Arm Phillips
. . . escorted by Jerald Fletcher
Martha Kaye Daniels
. . . Joe.C. Hill’s nominee
Senate Maps Plans
For Three Events
Plans for a coming blood drive,
the Texas Intercollegiate Student
Assn, convention at Baylor next
weekend and the nomination of
one faculty member for the $1,000
Association of Former Students
faculty award were the main items
discussed by the Student Senate
in a called meeting last night.
Dave Fitch, president of the
College Station Lions Club, ap
peared before the group to enlist
its aid in making preparation for
the visit of the Wadley Research
Institute and Blood Bank Blood-
mobile to the campus March 11.
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Paula Craig
singer for Rue Pinalle tonight
Fish Weekend
Begins Tonight
At Rue Pinalle
Freshmen will get a chance to
start their big weekend tonight
from 8:30 until midnight at the
Cafe Rue Pinale in the Memorial
Student Center ping pong area.
Two University of Texas coeds
will highlight the floor show at 10
p.m. Paula Craig and Dede Dri
son are the coeds. Miss Craig is
a vocalist and Miss Drison is her
accompanist.
Also on the floor show is B-
AAA freshman Dick Gustafson,
ballad singer. Jerry Harfield will
do impersonations and the Happy
Knights—Ruben Hinojosa, Oscar
Hinojosa and Joe Fernandez—will
sing.
Jim Jones will -serve as master
of ceremonies. Music will be fur
nished by a juke box.
Tickets are 75 cents per couple
and will be on sale at the door.
Student Senate members volun
teered to either give blood or to
serve Wednesday in signing up
the Aggies to give blood when the
bloodmobile visits the campus.
Lions Club and Senate members
will man a booth Wednesday in
the Memorial Student Center to
record donors.
Eleven representatives of A&M
will attend the TISA convention
at Baylor next Thursday, Friday
and Saturday. Ross Hutchison,
vice president of the association,
will head the Senate’s delegation.
Keynote speaker for the conven
tion will be noted radio commenta
tor Paul Harvey.
A committee was named by
President John Thomas to select
one professor as the Senate’s
nomination as the faculty member
doing mo’st to improve faculty-
student relations. The committee
will present the name at the reg
ular meeting Thursday for action
by the Senate.
The Senate put off action on a
report of expenditures on stu
dent parking lots until the next
meeting when more information
should be available, said Thomas.
Bill Myers told the group that
plans are almost complete for the
12th Man Bowl next Friday night.
The Wharton Junior College Stars
will perform at halftime for the
show.
Executive to Speak
George M. Abbot, director of in
dustrial relations for International
Shoe Co. of St. Louis, will be
guest speaker at labor relations
classes of the Department of In
dustrial Engineering Tuesday and
Wednesday.
The Division of Business Ad
ministration is co-sponsoring Ab
bot’s visit to the campus.
Ann Douglas
♦ . . escorted by Robert Kepke
Juanita,Wirch
Jerry Cowley"s nominee
Anita Marchant
. date for George Eitt (