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Number 98: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1959
Price Five Cents
The Kingston Trio
. . . coming to White Coliseum Monday night
Starts Sunday
Pan American Week
Observance Scheduled
Special films, displays, a panel
discussion, Latin American foods
and music will be featured in the
Memorial Student Center in recog
nition of the annual Pan Ameri
can Week, which starts Sunday, ac
cording to David Plylar, ’60, Pan
American Week chairman.
Gov. Price Daniel has proclaim
ed April 12-18 as Pan American
week in Texas and April 14 as
Pan American Day.
Films of various Latin American
Civilians Slase
Council Meeting
A weekend report from A. M.
Hoffpauir, a treasurer’s report
and a report on the leadership
retreat will headline the topics
of discussion at the Civilian
Student Council meeting to-
nijght at 7:15 in the Memorial
Student Center.
A resolution of appreciation
is also scheduled on the agenda.
countries will be shown Sunday,
Monday, Tuesday and Friday in
the main lounge of the MSC, Ply
lar said.
A panel discussion will be held
in the Assembly Room of the Cen
ter at 7:30 Wednesday night, he
said.
The panel will be composed of
students from Latin American
countries who will discuss their
individual countries and answer
any questions asked them from the
floor.
Latin American displays will
be set up in the promenade during
the week, Plylar said.
The MSC public address system
will also play Latin American
Musical arrangements.
A special film, Viva Zapata,
starring Marlon Brando, will be
shown Thursday night at 7:45 in
the Ballroom of the MSC, Plylar
said.
During the week, foods from
various Latin American countries
will be served in the Center. These
foods will be made from authentic
Latin American Recipes, he said.
A Cafe Tropical will be held in
the MSC Saturday night to end
the week’s activities. A Latin
American combo will be the fea
ture attraction at the dance, Plylar
said.
He urged all Aggies to attend
the various activities during the
week, so that they can learn more
about the Latin American Coun
tries.
66 Entries
Received
In Contest
The $250 essay contest spon
sored by The Battalion closed last
night with 66 entries.
Judging of the entries will be
done by The Battalion staff and
the top 10 entries will be screened
by a committee yet to be named.
Winners of the contest will be an
nounced at the Mother’s Day pa
rade on May 10.
Prize money for the contest was
provided by a former Battalion
editor, C. L. Babock, ’20, of Beau
mont. He plans to use some of the
essays on “Texas A&M—What It
Means to Me” in connection with
a program to inform the state
about the college.
Marriage Forums
Start Tonight
“A Medical View of Sex and
Life” will be the subject of a
talk tonight by Dr. C. R. Lyons,
director of Student Health Serv
ices, at the first in a series of
four programs on dating and mar
riage sponsored by the YMCA.
The programs will be held each
Thursday night, according to Carl
Zietlow, assistant secretary of the
YMCA. He said the programs are
an attempt to share some vital
information that everyone who is
planning marriage or just dating
should know.
The topics for the other three
meetings will be “How Our Chang
ing Culture Affects Married Life,”
“Religion and Your Mate” and
“Dating and Mating”.
Zietlow said the YMCA is con
sidering inviting a panel of girls
from Sam Houston State College
to discuss “Dating and Mating”.
“We would like to know if the
Aggies would be interested in such
a program,” said Zietlow.
He said all students are invited
to the meetings, which will be
held in the YMCA Lounge.
News of the World
By The Associated Press
West German Policy Will Not Be Changed
BONN, Germany—Konrad Adenauer declared Wednes
day night West Germany’s unbending policy toward negotia
tions with the Soviet Union will not be changed “one iota”
after he retires as chancellor. He made it clear that Tie has
no intention of becoming aa figurehead president.
The 83 year old leader spoke to a nationwide audience
on his decision to drop out as chancellor and campaign for
the less powerful post of president. Then he left for a
month’s vacation in Italy.
★ ★ ★
Senators Begin Study of 1960-61 Expenses
AUSTIN—Senators began their study Wednesday of
two versions of how much should be spent in 1960-61 to
operate Texas government.
A Senate Finance Subcommittee laid out its biennial
recommendations totaling $2,385,035,751 from all sources
including $302,133,593 from the general revenue fund.
The House passed, 107-37, and sent to the Senate Tues
day its spending bill HB216 which totals $2,410,197,895
from all sources with $332,982,503 from general revenue.
★ ★ ★
ICBM Nose Cone Fired 5,000 Miles Down Atlantic
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—An ICBM nose cone of to
morrow was fired 5,000 miles down the Atlantic abroad a
powerful Thor-Able rocket Wednesday and plucked out the
depths in a completely successful mission.
' When the cone was hauled onto the deck of an Air Force
ship near Ascension Island two hours after launching, it
marked the first time that recovery was accomplished on
a flight close to the intercontinental range.
The spectacular shot in the early morning hours was
the seventh nose cone re-entry flight close to interconti
nental range in a year.
Two Offices Decided
As 1,236 Cast Votes
Kingston Trio
Coining Again;
Tickets on Sale
Tickets are on sale at three lo
cations in the area for the return
engagement of the Kingston Trio
to A&M’s Town Hall Monday night
at 7:30.
General admission ducats are
selling for $1.25 and reserved
seats are going for $1.75 at the
Office of Student Activities in the
YMCA, Schaffer’s Book Store and
the Fidelity House.
The Trio was signed for Mon
day’s show by C. G. (Spike)
White, recreation and entertain
ment manager, and Joseph (T)
Hearne, student entertainment
manager, after their Nov. 1 per
formance here was a smash hit.
Since that time, the Trio has
made numerous other songs fam
ous, including “Tijuana Jail” and
those found in their second album,
“The Kingston Trio at the Hun
gry I.”
A&M was the first stop for the
Trio on its first swing to various
colleges and universities. At that
time the three were featuring
songs from their first album,
“Tom Dooley.”
In recent months the three lads
from California have appeared on
several top television shows, in
cluding the Ed Sullivan Show,
Perry Como Show, Playhouse 90
and the Dinah Shore Show.
“We feel very fortunate in pre
senting the Kingston Trio again
because we have found that high
school and college students are
very interested in seeing them
since they are the hottest attrac
tion in the United States today,”
White said.
Last week White took an unof
ficial count among students to see
if the performance would receive
the needed backing. Town Hall
tickets will not be honored.
27-Shot Barrage
Kills Waterman
COLONIAL BEACH, Va. <A>>—
A Virginia waterman was killed
and another was wounded Wednes
day when Maryland officers fired
a 27-shot barrage at their speed
ing motorboat.
The shooting rekindled flames in
an age-old oyster war which erupts
periodically on the Potomac River
separating the two states.
Sharply conflicting reports came
from the Virginians involved and
officers of Maryland’s Tidewater
Fisheries Commission.
John F. Griffith, 39, lone Vir
ginian on the three-man crew to
escape injury, claimed the Mary
land boat intercepted them for no
legitirpate reason shortly before
daybreak.
“They never tried to halt up or
anything. It sounded like gangs
of shots,” Griffith said.
The three Maryland inspectors
who fired the shots said they were
trying to stop the boat from get
ting back to Virginia water after
it had been observed pirating oy
sters by dredge off the Maryland
shore.
Dredging is permitted in Vir
ginia water but prohibited in the
Maryland-owned Potomac. Grif
fith denied the Virginians were
dredging—gouging watez-s from
the river bottom by trailing a
scoop.
The Marylanders said they fired
six warning shots at the speeding
boat, then opened fire at its mo
tors when it appeared the boat
would ram them.
Guide Posts
“Learning without thought is
labor lost; thought without learn
ing is perilous.”—Confucius
Murphy, Burns
Grab Prexy Posts
By JOHNNY JOHNSON
Battalion News Editor
Freshmen, sophomores and juniors turned out to cast
1,236 votes in class elections and decided only two out of the
eighteen races without throwing the race into a run-off.
Charles C. (Clint) Murphy was elected president of the
Class of ’61 over seven other candidates and Allan N. Burns
won the Class of ’60 presidential spot over three other hope
fuls.
The Class of ’60 polled the post votes with 433 votes,
the Class of ’61 had 402 and the Class of ’62 turned out 401
voters.
The run-off election will be next Wednesday from 8 a. m.
to 5:30 p. m. in the Memorial Student Center.
Larry Winkle, Stan F. Wied
and Ed C. Lux will be try
ing for the Class of ’60 vice
president’s spot in the run-off.
There were 11 candidates in
the race.
In other Class of ’60 races:
Thomas R. Hamilton and Samuel
H. Langley made the run-off in
the secretary-treasurer race in a
field of five candidates.
Wayne P. Schneider and William
R. Savage are the two juniors in
the social secretary race. There
were five applicants for the posi
tion.
Three men out of a field of sev
en candidates made the run-off for
historian. Charles Ridgeway, Way-
land Quisenberry and Ray Murski
HS Seniors
Sent Letters
By Rudder
Letters have been sent by Vice
President Earl Rudder to inter
ested high school seniors concern
ing the 11th annual High School
Day Program to be held on the
campus Saturday, April 18.
The letter invites the student to
come to the activities on behalf
of the A&M students and former are the run-off nominees,
students from the senior’s home- i David H. Plylar and Tom
town area and to be their guest.
“Purpose of High School Day
is to give high school seniors a
preview of life on our campus,”
Rudder said in the letter.
A full schedule of events have
been planned for the students in
cluding a review of the Corps of
Cadets, an exhibiton by the Fresh
man Drill Team, group tours of
the campus, a baseball game, track
meet, tennis match, golf match
and the annual intra-squad game
that will climax spring training
for the Ags.
Only cost to the high school stu
dents will be meals. Former stu
dent groups will provide transpor
tation and the high school students
will stay in college dormitories.
There have been 380 names
turned in by hometown club pres
idents to C. G. (Spike) White,
recreation and entertainment man
ager.
Withey will seek the Memorial
Student Center Council spot af
ter gaining the run-offs over two
; other candidates.
Richard Biondi, Joe M. Deeper
and Norman M. Dowdy made the
run-off for yell leader in a field
of five candidates.
William F. Phillips and John W.
Welch are run-off candidates in
the student entertainment mana
ger race. There wex-e five candi
dates.
In the Class of ’61 races:
M'axwin Girouard, Glenn H.
Jones and James C. Noack made
the vice presidential run-off in
field that had 13 candidates.
In the secretary-treasurer race
Ray G. (Skipper) Post and Mike
Ogg bounded into the run-off over
two other candidates.
Douglas B. Vauger and Chai’lie
(See TWO OFFICES on Page 8)
G. W. Pfeiffenberger
. . . crowner of King Cotton
Lubbock Man
Will Crown
Cotton King
George W. Pfeiffenberger, exe
cutive vice-president of the Plains
Cotton Growex-s, Inc., Lubbock, has
accepted an invitation to crown
the king at the 25th annual Cotton
Pageant, April 17.
Kent Potts, senior plant and soil
science major from Bryan, is King
Cotton. The cotton queen will be
selected during the pageant from
among more than 100 duchesses
who will be here fi’om all over
the state.
Pfeiffenberger received a chem
ical engineering degree from the
University of Dayton and studied
textile engineering at A&M. He
spent 14 years as a cotton fiber
and spinning technologist for the
U. S. Department of Agi-iculture
at the Washington Fiber Labora
tory, the Stoneville Ginning Lab
oratory and the College Station
Spinning Laboratoi’y.
Dui’ing the next eight years,
he seiwed as spinning research di-
x-ector for the Chicopee Manu-
factui'ing Coi’p. at Chicopee Falls,
Mass., and at Lubbock.
In his present position, Pheif-
fenbei’ger directs the activities of
a cotton industry organization that
is involved in a broad program
of i-esearch, promotion and service.
He ti’avels extensively and is fam
iliar with most all phases of the
cotton industry.
CS Kiwanis Reveal Plans
For First CHS Career Day
The first “Career Day” will be
held Friday morning at A&M Con
solidated High School under the
sponsorship of the Vocational
Guidance Committee of the Col
lege Station Kiwanis Club.
The program will open with an
assembly in the auditorium at
8:30 a.m. when Wendell R. Hors
ley, dix-ector of the Placement Of
fice here, will discuss the pux-poses
of a “Career Day” and the im
portance of choosing the right vo
cation.
Students will attend thx*ee one-
hour vocational discussion groups
of their choice dux-ing the morn
ing.
John B. Longley will head the
group discussion on selling; Toby
Hughes will talk on the radio and
television announcer; Bi’ooks Gof
er will discuss the law px-ofes-
sion; Nelson B. Dui’st and Walter
S. Manning will talk on account
ing, cashiering and office man
aging as a career.
Mrs. H. H. Hall will discuss the
life of the stenographer, secre-
tai’y and office and clerical work;
Wallace D. Beasley will talk on
police work; the life of the social
case worker, welfare worker, and
counselor will be discussed by
Dan Russell and Mrs. Otis Miller.
Dr. Paul Hensai’ling will speak
on teaching; and a health team
consisting of Dr. Chaides R.
Lyons, Mrs. Doi’is Black, Dr. H.
W. Hooper, Di\ Henry C. Mc-
Quaide, and Mrs. Gladys M. Black
will discuss vai’ious phases of
health promotion.
Mi’s. Eloise Johnson will speak
on home economics; Jack T. Kent
will discuss astronomy; Dr. James
Potter will talk on physics; Mrs.
Edna Pruitt will speak on the beau
ty operator; Mrs. Darnell White
Soph Pictures
Due Friday
All sophomores were urged by
Class of ’61 president Charles C.
(Clint) Murphy to turn in their
pictures for sophomore sweetheart
nominees before Friday.
The pictures must be turned in
to the Department of Student Ac
tivities on the second floor of the
YMCA, Murphy said.
The Sophomore Ball will be held
Saturday, April 18, in the Grove
with the Hi-Fis, a nine-piece com
bo from the University of Texas,
providing the music.
will discuss modeling; W. M. Turn
er will discuss the music profession;
C. K. Esten will speak on acting;
Gene Stuphen will talk on photo
graphy; and Dr. Alvin A. Price
will discuss the veterinary field.
An engineering team consisting
of Charles W. Crawford, H. C.
Dillingham, Dr. J. D. Lindsay, J.
H. Caddess, D. M. Vestal and Eai’l
Logan will speak on the different
engineei'ing opportunities.
Also an architecture designing
team comprised of Richard Vroo-
man, Mrs. Edna Davidson, Mrs.
Shirley St. John and Mrs. L. L.
Foui'aker will discuss the archi
tecture and designing aspects.
A. L. Kramer will speak on the
operation of heavy equipment; S.
A. Wykes will talk on the ma
chinist vocation; H. O. Miller will
discuss the journalism profession;
William A. Smith will speak on the
forestry field; Edwin H. Cooper
will discuss naturalist and game
warden occupations; Dr. A. M.
Sorenson Jr. will talk on farming
and ranching; J. E. Wellman will
discuss the air line hostess field
and Dr. John Sperry will discuss
Christian service.
Information concerning the
various branches of the armed
services and college scholarships
will also be available.