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THE
BATTALION
12th Man Bowl
Tonight
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 83: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1959
Price Five Cents
Bills Shooting
To Halt Secrets
In Government
AUSTIN (AP) —The third in
a series of legislative measures
fighting secrecy in government
was sent to a House subcommittee
for further study early yesterday.
The action was taken by the
House State Affairs Committee in
a hearing that did not begin until
midnight and lasted until about
12:45 a.m.
The bill (HB79) by Rep. Truett
Latimer of Abilene would require
open meetings of all public agen
cies. Several members of the
House committee indicated agree
ment on principles but suggested
amendments.
Members of the subcommittee
are Reps. R. L. Strickland of San
Antonio, Max Smith of San Mar
cos, and Menton Murray of Har
lingen.
Two Senate committees sent two
other anti-sec*recy measures to
subcommittees Wednesday.
The companion bill on open
meetings (SB66) was sent to a
Senate State Affairs subcom
mittee that will be named later.
A bill (SB97) tightening prose
cution of public officials charged
with wilful destruction or remov
al of public records went to a Sen
ate Jurisprudence Subcommittee
consisting of Sens. George Park-
house of Dallas, Drosey Harde
man of San Angelo, and Charles
Herring of Austin.
Bike Hits Student
In Heavy Traffic
Patrick L. Sullivan, B Infantry
junior from Comanche, received
treatment for a deep 3-inch gash
on back of his head yesterday
morning after being hit by a bi
cycle.
Sullivan was hit by the bike as
he and his roommate were cros
sing the street in front of the
Basic Division on their way to
class shortly before B a.m. Identity
of the student riding the bicycle
could not be learned.
An ambulance took Sullivan to
College Hospital where he was
given treatment, Dr. C. R. Lyons,
director of Student Health Serv
ices, said Sullivan lost quite a bit
of blood but was expected to be
released from the hopsital today.
The accident occurred in al
most the , same place a 4-year-
old boy was struck by an automo
bile Feb. 7. The area is heavily
congested by traffic daily at 8
a.m., 12 noon and 5 p.m.
Law Hall Chooses
Dorm Sweetheart
Miss Mary Jo Saunders of
Gainesville has been chosen sweet
heart of Law Hall by the Law
Hall Dorm Council at a meeting
recently in the Puryear Lounge.
Miss Saunders, a junior majo
rette in the Gainesville High
School band, will represent Law
Hall during Civilian Weekend.
The 34-23-35 sweetheart was
chosen from her picture submitted
by Ralph Bullard, junior animal
husbandry major from Gaines
ville. Bullard will be her escort.
Miss Saunders will be at Sbisa
Hall on Saturday night, March 21.
She will receive a gift as recogni
tion for representing Law Hall,
said Lee Griggs, dormitory mas
ter.
Because of the deadline March
13, other civilian dorms and hous
ing units are urged to chose their
sweethearts. Entries should b e
turned into the Office of Student
Affairs, YMCA.
Army, Air Force Vie
In Grid Battle Tonite
STECJHER AND HOROWITZ
. . . duo pianist team at Town Hall Tuesday
Town Hall Bringing
Chorale Tuesday
The Roger Wagner Chorale, con
sidered by many critics as the fin
est singing group in America to
day, will bring their voices to G.
Rollie White Coliseum Tuesday
night at 8 to entertain Aggies at
Town Hall.
Co-starred on the concert will
be the duo pianist team, Stecher
and Horowitz, who have been
praised by experts for their “mu
sicianship, choice of repertoire,
impeccable teamwork and trans
cendent technique.” Other critics
have said, “Stecher and Horowitz
make piano magic “rank with the
best on the concert stage today.”
Lead by its dynamic French-
born director, Roger Wagner, the
chorus is embarking upon its third
cross-country tour. The chorus
plans to appear in 50 cities from
coast to coast.
Wagner, born in LePuy, France,
some 40 years ago, was exposed to
music at an early age when his
father was organist at the Cathed
ral at Dijon. When Wagner was
only seven years old, the family
came to the United States and set
tled in Los Angeles.
At the age of 12, Wagner was
organist and choral director at the
ClTurch of St. Ambrose. By the
time he was 14, he often substi
tuted for his father as organist at
St. Brendan’s Church, in addition
to being the boy soprano of St.
Brendan’s famed choir. When his
voice changed to baritone, Wagner
decided to return to Fx-ance, where
he spent five years studying oi’gan
with Marcel Dupx-e in Paris, com
pleting his undergraduate work in
music at the College of Montmo
rency and delving deeper into re
search on church music at Dijon
and Lyon.
Upon his return to Los Angeles
in 1937, Wagner’s fii'st job was as
a member of Metro-Goldwyn-May-
er’s choi’us and shoi'tly thereafter
he was engaged as musical direc
tor of St. Joseph’s Church in down
town Los Angeles, a post he has
held ever since. This was the be
ginning of a series of events that
led directly to the first profes
sional concert of the new interna
tionally acclaimed Roger Wagner
Chorale some 11 years ago.
The chorus made its first public
appearance duxung the 1945-46 sea
son as the Los Angeles Concert
Chorale, a unit sponsoi’ed by the
Los Angeles Bureau of Music. Its
present name was adopted in 1947.
Ranging in number from 16
voices to 255 depending upon the
music to be interpreted the chorale
reflects the “energy, musicianship
and impeccable taste of its direc
tor.”
Town Hall season tickets will be
honored at the door. Single ad-
mision tickets are $2 for adults and
$1 for high school and elementary
school children.
A&M Director
To Address Ag
Majors Monday
Sterling C. Evans, newly ap
pointed member of the A&M
Board of Directors, will be the
xxxain speaker at the Agricultural
Convocation at 7:30 p.m. Monday
in the Memorial Student Center
Ballroom.
Evans is a former student, Class
of ’21. After receiving a degree
in agriculture, he went to work for
the Agricultural Extension Serv
ice, starting as a 4-H Club agent
and eventually becoming director
of the county agent program in
the Lubbock area of the South
Plains.
In 1934, Evans became president
of the First Houston Bank for
Co-operatives. He remained at
his job until 1490, when he be
came president of the Federal
Land Bank in Houston. He re
cently resigned this position when
he found he could not devote
enough time to his various ranch
and plantation properties in Texas
and Louisiana.
“I was a week-end farmer,”
Evans comxxxented. “It was a hob
by, but now the hobby has become
too big to be left for weekends.”
During the program, held each
year by the Student Agricultural.
Council, the departmental clxxb
with the highest percentage of
its members present will be award
ed a gavel made in 1957 from wood
taken from Gathright Hall.
All agricultural students and
the agricultxxral teaching staff
have been invited to attend the
prograxxx.
STERLING C. EVANS
. . . ag convocation speaker
Fly hoys Favored
In 12th Man Bowl
By FRED MEURER
Battalion Managing Editor
Kyle Field once again takes on the splendor of a foot
ball battlefield tonight at 8 when Air Force and Army grid-
ders clash in the annual Student Senate-sponsored 12th Man
Bowl.
Nothing short of blood and tears might be shed as the
Army Maroons run headlong into the Air Force Whites in a
game which will decide unofficial rule of the campus for an
other year.
It’s hard to find a rivalry more bitter than one between
the two service branches and this one is no exception. If
anyone is playing favorites in the contest, the odds are lean
ing towards the heavier Flyboys.
Installment Fees
Due by March 20
The spring semester third in
stallment fee, $61.40, is now pay
able in the Fiscal Office.
Deadline for payment i s
March 20. The $61.40 covex’s
Board, $43.55, room, $14.20, and
laundxy, $3.65, until April 23.
Comedienne, UT Juggler
To Perform at Talent Show
Musical comedy with a feminine
touch and a juggling, Middle Eas
tern style, are the specialties of
Pat Long and Zahi Faranish, two
acts scheduled for staging in the
eighth aixnual Intercollegiate Tal
ent Show March 13 at 6:30 p.m. in
G. Rollie White Coliseum.
These two acts are among 10
selected for the show from the Me-
Physical Society
To Meet Saturday
Prof. James G. Potter, head of
the Depax-tment of Physics, and
several faculty members and stu
dents will attend a meeting of the
American Physical Society in Aus
tin Saturday.
The meeting is one of seven
which are held yearly to pi’ovide
an opportunity for persons in
advanced physics to compare theo
ries and technical data.
ZAHI FARANISH
. . . juggler
morial Student Center Music Com
mittee’s search for top college tal
ent in Louisiana, Mississippi, Ax - -
kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
Other features of the production
will be the Kilgore College Ranger-
ettes and Joel A. Spivak, disc jock
ey-emcee from Radio Station KILT
in Houston.
Miss Long, a freshman music
major at Millsaps College in Jack-
son, Miss., moves from piano ren
ditions to a song and dance routine
in her act, according to ITS dii'ec-
tor Johnny Johnson.
Second-place winner in the Mid-
South Talent Show in Memphis,
Tenn., the young Mississippian was
often a winner of local talent
shows in her home town, Tupelo.
This year she sang the lead role in
the Millsaps production of “Paint
Your Wagon” and was a winner
in the state piano contest.
In addition to her musical activi
ties, Miss Long is a member of
Kappa Delta sorority of the college
Wesley group.
A petroleum engineering student
at the University of Texas, Fara
nish has been juggling in public
presentations since he was seven
year old. Originally from Naza-
rth, Israel, he has won first place
in numerous talent shows, both in
Nazareth and at UT. He is a mem
ber of the UT Newman Club.
Tickets for ITS are on sale at
the MSC main desk and through
dorm representatives. Advance
sale general admission tickets will
sell for 75 cents. General admis
sion at the door will be $1, re
served seats are $1.25 aixd chil
dren’s tickets are 50 cents.
PAT LONG
... musical comedienne
Series of Sessions
President Plunges
Into Berlin Crisis
WASHINGTON (A*)—President
Eisenhower yesterday took extra
ordinary steps to cope with the
Berlin crisis.
First he reviewed the , situation
at a 1%-hour special session of
the National Security Council. Then
he asked Democratic and Repub
lican leaders of Congress to meet
with him at the White House this
morning.
The White House news secretary,
James C. Hagex’ty, was asked if
anything had developed in the last
24 hours to warrant calling Fri
day’s meeting an emergency ses-
sioxx.
“No, I wouldn’t say that,” he
x'eplied.
Hagerty said the meeting was
called simply' for a discussion of
the Berlin situation and German
px'oblems genex’ally. That was the
same topic discussed at yesterday’s
extraordinary session of the Na
tional Security Council.
Shortly before the meeting as
sembled, Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev said in Leipzig, East
Germany, that the May 27 dead
line on Berlin may be postponed
a month or two if fi’uitful East-
West negotiations are under way
by then.
Seci'etary of Defense Neil Mc-
Elroy, who attended the Secux’ity
Couixcil meetiixg, told newsmen
later that “we are doing a great
deal of planning.” Without going
into any details, he said the Joint
Chiefs of Staff are working on
various contingencies.
In reply to questions, McElroy
discounted the possibility of any
lixxiited war developing out of the
Beilin situation.
“It would be very difficult to
keep it a limited war,” he said,
meaning that if open conflict
should break out it would be likely
to xmxshroom.
McElroy and Acting Secretary
of State Christian A. Herter were
asked to return to the White House
Friday for the Pxesident’s 10:30
a.xxx. EST session with Congres
sional leaders. Those iixvited in
clude:
Vice President Richard M. Nix
on, Sexxate Democratic Leader
Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas,
Speaker of the House Sam Ray
burn of Texas, Senate Republican
Leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illi
nois, and House Republicaix Leader
Charles A. Halleck of Indiana.
New Test Designed
For Entering ‘Fish’
Freshmen entering A&M next
fall will take a new test to help
predict their futux-e academic
pexYormance, according to F. E.
McFarland, director of testing
and research for the Basic Divi
sion.
The old exaxxx will be replaced
by a new and better sexnes of tests,
said McFarland.
The new test series has been
chosen to replace the old exam
because it will be more reliable
to score and easier to administer
to a large group, McFaxdand said.
The new series will enable a com
parison of answers of the various
editions, an advantage which the
old exam did not have, he added.
News of the World
By The Associated Press
U. S. Officer Killed in Algeria
ALGIERS—An American Air Force reserve officer and
his young German interpreter were slain from ambush Wed
nesday night in an Algerian rebel area while making movies.
The American was Homer Flint Kellems, 65, of Siloam
Springs, Ark., a brother of the fiery Connecticut woman in
dustrialist-tax rebel Vivien Kellems.
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Iran, Turkey, Pakistan Sign Pacts
ANKARA, Turkey—Iran, Turkey and Pakistan, scorning
Soviet threats and denunciations, yesterday signed separate
defense pacts with the. United States.
The pacts provide that the United States “will take such
appropriate action, including the use of armed forces, as
may be mutually agreed upon” in event of aggression against
the three powers.
The Kremlin has warned all three nations that by sign
ing defense agreements with the United States they lay
their territory open to attack in event of war. The Soviet
pressure on Iran has been severe.
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Surprise Attack Impossible
WASHINGTON—Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy
said yesterday it would be virtually impossible for the Soviet
Union to make a Pearl Harbor-type surprise attack on the
United States with bombers or missiles..
Typical of many gridiron
matches, tonight’s game will
feature light speedsters try
ing to run around heavy
bruisers. The Air Force has
10 of its 33 men tipping the scales
at 200 pounds or better while the
Army posts only three of its 32
men in that bracket.
Heavy contact scrimmages have
been raging in both camps this
week under the watchful eyes of
the student coaches and their
staffs. A&M Guard Allen Goehxing
is head mentor for the Air Force
while Center Stan Roper is guid
ing the Army. Assisting Goehx’-
ing are Rodger McFarland, Carl
Luna, Luther Hall aixd Dick Gay.
Roper’s aides are Tonmiy Flood
and Ray Doucet.
The Air Force, still smarting
fx’om a basketball defeat at the
hands of the Army last, year in the
12th Man Contest, will be aiming
a revenge bomb at the Army’s ar
tillery. Two years ago, however,
the Flyboys outdid the Ground-
Pounders on the gridiron to set the
stage.
In military terms, tonight’s stra
tegy could be revex'sed. The heavy
Air Force may depend on a ground
attack while the lighter Army is
perhaps destined for the air. Nei
ther coach has named a starting
lineup.
At any rate, the show unveils
tonight at 8. Tickets selling at 50
cents will be on sale at the gate.
As an added attraction, the
Wharton Junior College Stars will
perform at halftime.
Complete rosters are:
ARMY
Backs—Joe Flood, Sonny Todd,
Perry Pope, Gene Beyer, Jerry
Morgan, Johnny Winder, Donald
Hoffman, Calvin Bx’ummett, Cole
Williams, Foy Roydex-, Red Knight
and Jimmy Chapman.
Centers—Bobby Botard, Chester
Collingsworth and Corky Cobern.
Guard s—H e r b i e Campbell,
George Dunn, Robert Richey, Jim
my Garrett, H. D. Vincent and
Leonard Baker.
Tackles—Bob Coffey, Johnnie
Cooper, Ray Whitmire, Gary Hipps,
Ronnie Steger and John Eagle.
Ends—Paul Rushing, Tom Aus
tin, Thomas Bailey, Barney Seely
and Grady Barr.
AIR FORCE
Backs—Bob Dunn, Bill Moore,
Fred Billings, Vernon Yanta,
Geox-ge Stansell, Don Moskal, Don
Cantrell, Larry White, Bob Singer,
James Spikes, Cliff Hamby and
Merle Lock.
Centers—Harold Hildebrand, W.
Lee Murray and Dick Goff.
Guards—Ronney Burnett, Clar
ence Pennywell, Bud Gentle, Bob
Barr, Lynn Laird and Marvin Aar-
dal.
Tackles—Ben Williams, Paul
Bax'sotti, Dick Steadman, John
(Bannwox-th, Lawrence Milner and
Neil Selby.
Ends — Bob Simms, Leonard
Clark, Lynn Scott, Mike Medley,
Lynn Woolley and John Beakley.
Guide Posts
Genius finds its own x’oad, and
carxies its own lamp—Robert A.
Willmott