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Weather Today Partly cloudy to cloudy through Thursday — Scattered thunder showers tonight. Cooler Thurs day with a low of 42 tonight. THE BATTALION Sign Now To Give Blood Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus Number 81: Volume 58 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1959 Price Five Cents Ike Invites Macmillan To Visit Washington Leaders to Discuss \ Open House Set The Air Force, coached by Allen Goehring, has opened practice in preparation for their battle with the Army in the annual 12th Air Force Drills Man Bowl, scheduled for Kyle Field Friday evening at 7:30. Here the Air Force backs and ends are shown running pass plays. Air Force Opens for 12th Prep ares Practice, Man Tilt By BILL HICKLIN Battalion Sports Writer The Air Force has opened prac tice in a vengeful effort of prep aration for the clash with the Army in the 12th Man Bowl slated Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. on the turf of Kyle Field. Allen Goehring will be guiding the Air Force and the junior var sity guard announced the flyboys will utilize the “split T” in at tempting to avenge last year’s de feat inflicted by the Army on the Aggie Freshman Involved in Wreck A two-car collision involving Tom Nichols, A&M freshman, and Melvin R. Davidson, 805 College Ave., occurred Monday afternoon on Highway 6 between College Sta tion and Bryan. According to the Bryan City Po lice, Nichols was traveling south on Highway 6 and Davison failed to give him the right-of-way when making a left turn while traveling north. Both drivers escaped with minor scratches and bruises. Damages were $400 to the car that Nichols was driving and $200 to Davison’s pickup truck. Officer Eugene W. Randal, who investigated the accident, charged Davison with failing to give the right-of-way. hardwoods. Bob Singer, Vernon Yanta, Dick Goff and Harry Hamby were cited as standout performers by Goehring and his assistants, Carl Luna and Luther Hall. No start- Israelian to Speak Tonieht at 8 p.m. Gideon Tadmor, Second Secre tary of the Embassy of Israel, will lecture on “Israel’s Position in the Middle East” in the Biological Sci ence lecture room tonight at 8 o’clock. Tadmor was born in Haife, Is rael, in 1926 and was graduated from the Hebrew Reali High School at Haife in 1944. Following graduation Tadmor joined the Haganah and in 1944 enlisted in the Jewish Settlement Police. In 1952 Tadmore received his M.A. degree from the University of Jerusalem. Tadmor served with the Israel Defense Forces in Jerusalem dur ing the Israel war of liberation. After the war he joined the Minis try for Foreign Affairs and served in the Middle Eastern and United States Divisions. He was assign ed to his present position in March, 1956. Tadmor is the author of numer ous articles on the Middle East and is a contributor to the Hebrew Encyclopedia. News of the World By The Associated Press Discoverer I Believed To Be in Orbit ITHACA, N. Y.—Faint signals from the Air Force’s Dis coverer I were believed to have been picked up by a tracking station here Tuesday. They indicated the satellite was in orbit. ★ ★ ★ Roiting Flares in Nyasaland BLANTYRE, Nyasaland—Rioting spread across Nyasa land Tuesday on the heels of the arrest of an African Na tionalist leader and by nightfall 21 Agricans were reported slain by police gunfire. Dispatches said 17 were killed at Nkata Bay in the north and one at Fort Manning, in central Nyasaland. Three died in Blantyre. 'At 'At French Army Stalls off Attack ALGIERS—The French army reported Tuesday a two- day battle smashed a rebel command that tried to cross the electrified barrier from Tunis to Algeria. ★ ★ ★ Pioneer IV Reaches 118,000-Mile Mark WASHINGTON—Pioneer IV lunged past the 118,000- mile mark Tuesday on its dash toward a hoped-for orbit around the sun. It was America’s deepest penetration into space. The last tracking effort of the day placed the tiny cone 118,852 miles from earth and moving outward at 5,498 miles an hour. It thus had traveled more than half the 220,000-mile distance to the moon. And it had gone more than 47,500 miles beyond the farthest point reached by an Air Force space probe last Oct. 11. ers have yet been announced. Goehring said there were no special tactics being employed. “We’re just going to mix it up,” he said. “And in a game like this, the team that wants to win most will probably come out on top.” Aggie head coach Jim Myers and his staff showed high interest in the classic. “The athletic depart ment and myself are interested in bettering the relationship between the corps and the school,” com mented the mentor. (Editor’s note: tomorrow the Army side of the contest will be presented). Singing Cadets To Give Concert A&M’S Singing Cadets, directed by Bill Turner, will give their an nual Spring Concert in Guion Hall at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. On the program will be a vari ety of songs, including songs ' of worship, spirituals, folk songs, songs of patriotism and Broadway favorites. Soloist for the Singing Cadets this year is Lane Lynch. Officers for the year are Ronald Doan, li brarian; Arthur Cameron, presi dent; Don Linenburger, vice presi dent; David Bunting, business man ager; and John Lenamon, reporter- historian. Admission to the program is free. The 56 member group has biven concerts in Edna, Weslaco and Baytown. Concerts scheduled for the remainder of the year are in Dallas, Denton, San Angelo and Weatherford. Army Examinations ScheduIedSaturday Qualifying examinations for students desiring a contract in the Advanced Army ROTC program will be administered in the base ment of Sbisa Dining Hall Satur day morning at 10:15. To be eligible for the examina tion a student must have complet ed or be enrolled in his fourth semester of basic Military or Ait Science. Veterans with 12 or more months of active duty are also eligible to take the examinations. Tech Sending Girl Dancer to ITS ’59 Joyce Tallman, modern jazz dancer from Texas Tech, is one of the 10 top acts to be featured in the eighth annual Intercolleg iate Talent Show March 13 at 6:30 p. m. in G. Rollie White Coli seum. With the Kilgore Junior College Rangerettes being- featured as specialty number, the show will have the top talent selected from f • •••••••• more than 130 acts auditioned at 15 colleges and universities in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mis sissippi and Louisiana. The show is sponsored by the Memorial Student Center Music Committee. Joel A. Spivak, disc jockey for Houston’s Radio Station KILT, will be master of ceremonies for the show. Advance sale general admission tickets will sell for 75 cents. Gen eral admission at the door will be $1. A sophomore speech therapy major, Miss Tallman won first in the 1959 Tech Talent Show. She graduated from Amon Carter-Riv erside High School in Fort Worth in 1957. She was choreographer for Tech’s ’59 Varsity Show and re cently danced in Lubbock’s Little Theater musical “Bach to Blues.” While in high school she placed ■ > • • first and second in numerous tele- , Electronics Talk Set for Tomorrow Electronics for space, devices that amplify light and an elec tronic highway system are among scientific developments that will be discussed and demonstrated by Dr. H. L. Donley, Technical Re lations Staff at the David Sarnoff .Research Center of RCA Labora tories, in the Assembly Room of the Memorial Student Center Thursday night at 7:30. vision talent shows in Fort Worth and also in one in Dallas spon sored by Radio Station WRR. A member of Sigma Kappa sorority, she received the out standing member award from her sorority in January. She also dances for fraternity rush parties during the fall and spring rushes. Way to Block Reds WASHINGTON C5>)—President Eisenhower has invited Britain’s Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to Washington to discuss moves to block the Soviet Union’s drive to force the Western Allies out of Berlin. Macmillan is expected to accept promptly, probably fly ing to Washington late next week after visits to Paris and Bonn. The White House said the British leader was asked Tues day to come at his convenience. It had been widely antici pated that Macmillan would come here to report- on his talks with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Officials said they expect Macmillan to give his appraisal of the limits to which Khrush chev will go in his process Directors Accept Funds to Aid A&M A total of $249,078.82 in funds from private sources, to aid re search, scholarships, fellowships and awards in the A&M College System, was accepted by members of the System’s Board of Directors,, meeting here Saturday. A&M received a total of $173,- 927.02. Of this amount, one re search grant-in-aid was for $30,000; ten other grants-in-aid amounted to $8,800. Funds for scholarships and fellowships came from 37 sources, and amounted to $19,205. The College received $14,368.62 in new and endowed funds and $101,553.40 in special gifts. The Texas Agricultural Experi ment Station received $64,319.05 of the total amount, of which $55,020 was for 23 grants-in-aid for agri cultural research, 16 gifts of ma terials and livestock, valued at $2,866.55. The Station received seven loans of livestock and equip- ment, valued at $6,432.50. For the Thomas H. MacDonald Chair Fund, a memorial to the late Thomas H. MacDonald, formerly a distinguished research engineer for the Texas Transportation Institute, Directors accepted $9,767.75 from 101 sources. This brings to $76,- 969.75 the amount of money con tributed to date to the MacDonald Chair Fund. - determination to end four- power rule in Berlin by May 27. About the same time the White House was disclosing the invita tion to Macmillan, Moscow reiter ated it intends to turn over to the Communist East Germans author ity over the West’s access routes to Berlin. The Soviets also repeated that if the Western powers use tanks and planes to keep their hold in West Berlin, it would mean world war. Eisenhower has said repeatedly the United States and it Allies have no intention of abandoning their responsibilities to West Ber lin. The Kremlin’s restatement of position was set forth in a note to the Polish and East German ambassadors to Moscow and re ported in dispatches from Warsaw and Berlin. The timing appeared to some observers to be a reliberate slap at Macmillan, who returned to London Tuesday from a 10-day visit to Russia. On his arrival in London, Mac millan said he and Russian lead ers did not agree on many import ant issues, but he added: “These talks were all the better for being frank. We did agree that these vital problems of Central Europe should be settled by negotiation and not by force.” A possible summit conference undoubtedly will be a major topic of the Eisenhower-Macmillan re view. Khrushchev urged such a top-level parley as the only way to settle the Berlin crisis and Ger many’s future. By CS Schools A&M Consolidated Schools are holding open houses throughout the system this week in conjunction with Texas Public Schools Week. College Station Mayor Ernest Langford has designated this week Public Schools Week in College Station also. The elementary schools started their open houses yesterday and will continue through tomorrow for grades 1-4. Thursday afternoon at 5:30 the Consolidated Moms and Dads Club will hold its annual Community Supper in the school cafeteria. After the community supper at 7 p.m. the junior high school stu dents will have an assembly. Fol lowing the assembly, the students will take their parents to short ened versions of three of their classes. Tickets for the supper are $1 for adults and 60 cents for children and will be on sale at the door. Students are selling tickets to the event and local merchants are are donating gifts for the students selling the most tickets as well as food for the event. Starting at 7 p.m. Thursday the high school students will take their parents to their first three classes in condensed form. Following the classes the high school students will have an assembly for their parents. In conjunction with the week, various displays are being placed in window’s at the North Gate and South Gate Shopping centers. A group from the schools will also appear on the Town Talk tele vision program Friday morning on KBTX-TV in Bryan. CS Kiwanians Hear High School Choir, Plan Pancake Sale College Station Kiwanians were entertained yesteiday by the 60- member A&M Consolidated High School Choir, under the direction of Frank Coulter, CHS music di rector. After singing four numbers, the choir, speaking through Consoli dated School Superintendent Tay lor Riedel, extended an invitation to Kiw'anians to repay the visit by participating in Public Schools Week being observed this w'eek by all local schools.- Kiwanians also got their ticket sales drive for their annual Pan cake supper underway. The pan cake supper will be held at the Reserve Center, 511 Carson St., Bryan, from 4 to 9 p.m. March 21. Price of tickets is 50 cent and they may be purchased from any Kiwanis member. Price of the ticket includes all the pancakes the diner can eas, plus free bacon, syrup and coffe or milk. Joyce Tallman Guide Posts “It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.”— Michael C. Cahill Just One Stink After A not her For Nosy Ags East Texas farm boys are quite familiar with the process of chop ping a ‘coon out of a hollow log, but three A&M day students had a new experience yesterday when they chopped a ‘possum out of the wall in their apartment house. It was quite an obnoxious ’pos sum too-—at least the odor he was emitting was extremely obnox ious. The hunt began yesterday morn ing when the three couples, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Noack, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Vincent and M r - a n 4 Mrs. Wayne Thompson, who live in an apartment house at 1026 Foster, were greeted in the early hours by an audacious odor. After a thorough search failed to turn up the source, a plumber was call ed to check the sewer pipes. Still the smell remained a mystery and was continually growing worse. However, by using their heads or at least part of their heads— their noses—the three “day ducks” found the approximate origina tion point of the odor in an out side wall of the apartment house. Then with the help of an axe and other appropriate tools, the three succeeded in dislodging the ’possum — very dead — from the wall. Probably the victim of rat poisoning, the animal had just “holed up and died.” Last night the ’possum was gone, smell and all. Only one thing remained—a gaping hole, approx imately 3 by 5 feet, in the side of the house. Now the three renting couples have a fear about another type of stink—“What is the landlord go ing to say when he sees this?”