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THE
BATTALION
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 92: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1959
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Civilian Sweetheart
Tina Bratton expresses her thanks for being represented the Apartment Council and was
selected as the “Civilian Ball Sweetheart”
during the sixth annual Civilian Ball in
Sbisa Hall Saturday night. Mrs. Bratton
escorted by Bill Bratton. On her right is
Joyce Poston, Hart, and on her left, Jo Anna
Carlo, Leggett.
Banquet Honors
CHS Grid Team
Members of the 1958 A&M Con
solidated High School football
team, their guests and coaches
were honored with a banquet by
College Station Businessmen last
night in the Fellowship Hall of the
A&M Presbyterian Church.
The Consolidated Tigers were
Champions of Dist. 21-AA in 1958.
Master of ceremonies for the
occasion was M. L. (Red) Cashion,
College Station insurance man.
Special guests for the occasion
were college athletic officials and
four Aggie football players.
After a meal of barbecued
chicken, the group was entertain
ed by Bob Huffaker and Skip Con
ner who presented novelty acts.
Speakers for the occasion were
Jack Pardee, all-American full
back during the 1956 football sea
son and Charlie Milstead, all-SWC
back last season.
Milstead spoke on the similarit
ies between high school and college
football. He ' told the group that
both college and high school play
ers should have the characteristics
of desire, courage and discipline,
all being necessary not only on the
football playing field, but in life
as well.
Pardee told the audience that
college and professional football
wei’e more alike than different.
Certain traits such as desire, sac
rifice and competition are present
and necessary in each category.
The difference in college and
professional football, Pardee ex
plained, included length of foot
ball season played, pay, workouts,
specialization or concentration on
one position and more spare time.
Photographer Gets
Headliners Award
Gene Dennis of the Bryan Daily
Eagle recently won the National
Headliners Club Award for the
best feature picture of the year in
American Newspapers, a photo
graph of a Bryan Negro putting
pennies in a parking meter where
he had hitched his horse and wag-
The photograph, entitled “Para
dise Lost”, cited by the Associated
Press Managing Editors meeting
at Corpus Christi also won the
Sweepstakes Award of the Texas
Headliners Club in Austin earlier
this year.
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Aggie Captain Speaks
Charlie Milstead, All-SWC back on the ’58 Aggie football
team, makes a point during his speech to the A&M Con
solidated football team at a banquet honoring them last
night. The banquet was given by a group of College Station
businessmen.
Ike, Macmillan
End Conference
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Eisenhower and British Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan ended
their three-day strategy confer
ence Monday by agreeing it was
the best they ever had.
The two old friends reviewed
their decision to offer the Soviet
Union’s Premier Nikita Khrush
chev a summertime summit meet
ing during a farewell 30-minute
White House talk.
As he prepared to fly back to
London Tuesday, Macmillan was
reported advocating a sei-ies of
informal summit conferences with
Khrushchev as the surest way to
ease tensions inflaming East-West
relations.
The British leader was under
stood to be opposed to Geneva as
a site. He favored a more se
cluded spot to try to avoid the
glare of worldwide publicity.
Referring to his talks with Ei
senhower, Macmillan said as he
left the White House:
“It was the best conference we
ever had in the most enjoyable
surrounding.”
Presidential press secretary
James Hagerty said Eisenhower
sharded Macmillan’s view equally.
Hagerty said Eisenhower enjoyed
informal-intimate talks of the
kind he had with Macmillan, For
eign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and
half a dozen other top British
aides.
Messhalls to Become
Place to Eat Only
Annual Field Trip
Scheduled by Ags
Twelve students and faculty
members from A&M are expected
to attend the annual field trip of
the Texas Herpetological Society,
a group of amateurs and profes
sionals interested in the study of
reptiles and amphibians, this
weekend.
Site of the meet will be the
65,000-acre area of Devils River,
located 70 miles northwest of
Del Rio. Headquarters will be lo
cated on the Fawcett family ranch
where the group will live in tents.
Saturday at 5 p.m. the society
will have its annual dinner and
business meeting, after which
they will hunt specimens. The fol
lowing morning there will be an
exhibit and awards will be given
to the top two collectors.
Richard Bauldouf, assistant
professor in the Department of
Wildlife Management, is president
of the society which is composed
of 90 members.
Col. Robert J. Hill Jr. will head
an 11-man Army inspection team
for the annual formal and gerieral
inspection of the Corps of Cadets
April 23-25.
Hill is a member of the staff
and faculty of the U. S. Army
Artillery and Missile Center, Fort
Sill, Okla. He has been in the
Army since June, 1939, following
his graduation from the U. S. Mil
itary Academy. He completed the
Command and General Staff Col
lege in 1950, the Armed Forces
Staff College in 1954 and the
Army War College in 1956.
During World War II, Col. Hill
served in the European Theatre of
Operations as commanding officer
of the 180th Field Artillery Bat
talion of the 26th Infantry Divi
sion. He was awarded the Silver
Star, the Bronze Star and the
Legion of Merit.
The team is expected to arrive
at 3 p.m. April 22. Members to
comprise the inspection team will
cheefly be several officers from
Fourth Army Headquarters, Fort
Sam Houston.
Those expected to arrive with
the team are Col. Hill) Lt. Col.
John C. Allan, GS (Armor); Maj.
George H. Worf, Artillery, regu
lar team member; Lt. Col. Walter
C. Henderson, Engineer Section;
Maj. Festus E. Harrison, Chemical
Section; Col. Charles Askins, Ord
nance Section; Maj. Fred W. Dol
lar, Quartermaster Section; Lt.
Col. Gerald M. Cravens, Signal
Section; Lt. Col. Gordon F. Tyr
rell, Transportation Section; Lt.
Col. Harold M. Kennedy, GS (In
fantry), Combat Arms; and Capt.
Arthur J. White, Army Aviation
Section.
Not Training Area,
Davis Tells CO’s
By JOE BUSER
, Battalion Editor
Corps commanders were told Saturday by Col. Joe E.
Davis that “effective Tuesday the messhalls will be used for
what they were designed—eating.”
Putting the finishing touches to a month-long campaign
against “tension” in the Corps dining areas, the comman
dant outlined the practices which would be authorized in
the future. . .
“Freshmen will continue to give meal service—they do
it at home; they may wear napkins in their collar if the men
want it and they will continue to sit erect. No one will as
sume the exaggerated position on the front of the chair, how
ever,” Col. Davis said.
+ The commandant said that
in general the commanders
Consolidated Gives
Play Tonight at 8
“January Thought”, a three-act
comedy by William Ross, will be
presented tonight at 8 in the
school auditorium by the A&M
Consolidated junior class.
The play, set in a Connecticut
farmhouse, depicts the struggle of
two families living in the same
house. The Gage family has moved
in and redecorated the house when
the original owners, the Rock-
woods, decide to move back in.
Sarah Gage is played by Judy
Rasmussen and Herbert Gage is
played by Kelly Parker, Paula,
Barbara and MargA Ga£e are hall activities.
played by Yvonne Parker, Dorothy
Berry and Ann Elkins respectively.
Janis Card plays Freida.
Geoi’ge Husted is portrayed by
Dee Smith and Jonathan Rock-
wood by Ben Jackson. Rockwood’s
wife, Matilda, is played by Anne
Rudder. Uncle Walter is played by
Joel Mills and Matt Rockwood by
Larry Godfrey.
Carson is portrayed by Jimmy
Holland and Loomis is played by
Brennar Sayers.
Admission charge for the play
is 50 cents for students, 75 cents
for adults.
C S Woman Wins
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Award in Contest
Mrs. I. Walker Rupel, 305 Col
lege View Street, Bryan, is the re
cipient of a pair of boots from the
Madisonville Sidewalk Cattlemen’s
Assn, for suggesting a topic for
their letter writing contest.
Mrs. Rupel was presented the
boots at the College Station Lions
Club meeting Monday as the local
Lions played host to a delegation
from the cattlemen’s association.
The group made a special trip to
College Station to present the
award.
Mrs. Rupel’s entry in the con
test, which is limited to Alaskans
only, was a suggestion that Alas
kans write a letter on “Why I Am
Living In Alaska.”
The inhabitants of the biggest
state in the Union who writes the
best letter on this topic will be
flown to Texas as a honor guest
of the Sidewalk Cattlemen at their
barbecue and rodeo the first Fri
day and Saturday in June, accord
ing to Bill Andrews, president of
the Madisonville Sidewalk Cattle
men’s Assn.
“We’re just going to let big
Alaska have her say—then, when
the winner gets to Texas, we’ll be
set to show why we like living
in the second largest state,” And
rews said. “And this isn’t to say
that Alaska isn’t top-shelf, it
self. We just want to show an
Alaskan Texas.”
Mrs. Rupel, who has been to
Alaska, said, “Now that I have
lived in Texas since August, 1957,
experiencing the wonderfud friend
liness here, I should love to have
the opportunity to greet the Alas
kan who wins'and tell him (or her)
about Texas.”
Mrs. Rupel will have that op
portunity as she, too, will be an
honor guest at the Madisonville
celebration June 5 and 6. She mov
ed to Texas from Illinois.
were to cease to use Duncan
and Sbisa as training areas.
“We have time set aside
for underclassmen to study and to
sleep. As it is now, they don’t have
any time for eating,” the com
mandant said.
He pointed out that the entire
philosophy about the messhall was
wi’ong.
“We’re getting a different kind
of man that we used to—he comes
from a changing world,” Col. Dav
is said.
Before outlining the changes,
the colonel agreed that some units
had “cleaned their own houses’'’
and were not concerned with the
new regulation concerning mess-
He acknowledged that “many
cadets will be unhappy but said
he wasn’t “worried about any of
you (commanders).”
“You men may not agree com
pletely but you will do now as
you will do when you get into
service as A&M men have done in
the. past—when you receive a di
rective you will carry it out,” Col.
Davis promised.
In answer to questions from the
floor, Davis, later said the “cush”
questions were to be abolished. He
noted that necessary corrections
in meal procedure could be made
during the meal but dessert would
be given each man without' quiz
zing.
Formations Optional >
Outlining other changes, the
commandant told the Go’s that “in
the future any man may be ex
cused from Reveille if he is up
late studying or for any other
good excuse.”
He also made a suggestion that
the cottimanders think about mak
ing call to quarters on a voluntary
basis so long as the men kept their
grades high.
City Council
Plans to Start
Street Work
Plans for the first ordinance,
which authorizes the city engineer
to prepare plans and specifications
on assessment of city street con
struction, were formulated in the
City Council meeting last night.
City Attorney C. E. Dillion told
Council members the ordinance
would be completed shortly and
could be officially issued in the
next council meeting. Dillion also
said from 60 to 90 days will be
required to complete all. legal work
before actual construction can be
gin. This construction will, begin
at the intersection of Foster and
Walton, continue to Kyle street
and then down to Highway 6.
Also the Council voted to refer
the second installment of Woodson
Village to the city planning group
through City Engineeer Fred Ben
son.
The Council then adopted Ordi
nance No. 279 to limit parking to
six hours on both sides of Boyett
St. between Church Ave. ?md Farm
to Market Highway 60.
Mayor Ernest Langford present
ed a sketch plan for additional of
fice space in City Hall for Council
meetings. The plan is for an office
to seat 60 people.
Also on the agenda, the Council
authorized the expenditure of $2,-
950 for the purchase of a ditching
machine.
Argue Talks Tonite
In All-Faith Chapel
Rev. James Argue, pastor of the
College Station First Methodist
Church, will present a talk in the
All-Faith Chapel at the Holy Week
Vesper Service tonight from 7:15-
7:45 p.m.
^ Rev. Agrue will speak on the
subject “Is It Nothing to You . . .
All You That Pass.” 1
J. Gordon Gay, co-ordinator of
religious life, urged all istudents
to spend a half-hour in worship
and self examination so that they
may be spiritually prepared for the
coming Easter.
Guide Posts
The biggest reward for a thing
well done is to have done it—Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Receives
Mrs. I. Walker Rupel of Bryan happily re
ceives a pair of boots from Bill Andrews,
president of the Madisonville Sidewalk Cat-
Boots
tlemen’s Assn. Mrs. Rupel became the re
cipient of the boots for suggesting a topic
for the association’s letter writing contest.