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Number 101: Volume 58
™ BATTALION
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1959
Vote by 5:30
In Class Races
Price Five Cents
By Corps Commander
Seniors Reminded
To Wear Uniforms:
Area Canvassing
To Be Conducted
For Cancer Drive
A house to house canvass will
be made April 28th between 6 and
Muster Day Plans Announced;
7,000 Due for Ceremonies
Corps commanders were warned
yesterday that “if seniors contin
ue to go out of uniform on the
campus the civilian clothes after
retreat pi’ivilege may be suspend
ed.”
The meeting, called by Corps
Commander Don Cloud at 5 p.m.
yesterday, lasted only a few min
utes. He outlined the provision in
the regulations governing a Mili
tary College which states . .all
students will habitually be in uni
form while on the campus.” He
also pointed out that seniors now
Physics Frat
Initiates 40
New Members
Approximtaely 40 new members
were initiated into the A&M
chapter of Sigma Pi Sigma, na
tional physics honor society, dur
ing ceremonies held at the Mem
orial Student Center on Monday.
The installation program was
headed by Dr. Vincent 'E. Parker,
head of the Department of Phy
sics, Louisiana State University
and Dr. Marsh White, professor
of physics, Pensylvania State Uni
versity.
Dr. Louis R. Maxwell, chief of
the Applied Physics Department,
U. S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory
fend visiting lecturer for* the
American Institute of Physics
gave lectures on “The Concept
and Experimental Basis of Ferri-
Magnetism” and “The Research
Physicist, His Interest and Re
sponsibilities to Society.”
The program brought many out
of town visitors which include
Dr. Eddie Ortiz who received his
Phd. in physics from A&M in
1950 and is now professor of phy
sics at Puerto Rico A&M in Col
lege Station, Puero Rico.
There were several visitors from
other schools and companies in
Texas.
Newly elected officers of the
A&M chapter of Sigma Pi Sigma
are Harley McAdams, president;
Tom Paine, vice president; Win-
ford Mauldin, secretary; Hollis
Boehme, treasurer and Eugene
Fabricius, faculty advisoi’.
Marcille Nerger
.. . Sam Houston State
could “legally” go off campus af
ter retreat out of uniform, a priv
ilege authorized this year for their
work during the first semester.
“When someone suggests chang
ing the Aggie uniform you’re all
against it,” Cloud said. “But no
one seems interested in wearing
the uniform they want so desper
ately.”
He suggested that several alter
natives were available if seniors
refused to abide by the Military
College regulation.
“There’re several ways we .can
go—two-day-a-week with uniforms
worn only to ‘bull text,’ police our
selves or let the Trigon police us.
We say we want to run ourselves
and here’s a chance to do it,” he
said.
Cloud went into great detail to
outline the campus proper and ad
jacent areas where uniforms would
be worn at all times including
Cushing Library, Noith Gate and
the local churches.
No Drill May 2
Meeting with more enthusiasm
from the CO’s than his remarks
on uniforms was the announce
ment of no drill or extra duty
tours May 2.
A&M Garden Club
Sets Flower Show
The A&M Garden Club will hold
its 21st annual flower show this
Saturday and Sunday in St. Mary’s
Catholic Student Center.
Program for the show is “Salute
to Texas A&M” with the exhibits
depicting the various departments.
Mothers and dates of A&M stu
dents here for the Cotton Pageant
and the Sophomore Ball are es
pecially invited to attend, accord
ing to Mrs. John Perry Jr., pub
licity chairman of the club.
Mrs. Perry said the show may
be seen free of charge and awards
and sweepstakes will be given to
the outstanding exhibits.
8 p.m. to give people of this area
.more information about cancer and
to collect any contributions for the
Brazos County Cancer Crusade.
Mrs. Richard Baldauf, chairman
of the canvass, announced that
anyone who wishes to help in the
crusade should contact her.
Most of the Crusade dollars will
be used in Texas in form of fel
lowship grants and research.
Fifty-five per cent of the Texas
Crusade dollars will go for re
search in Texas research institu
tions and professional education
which k'eeps the physician informed
on up-to-date developments in the
care and treatment of cancer.
The rest of the money will be
used for public education, profes
sional service, lay service, admin-
istration and program development
and to provide materials for the
Texas Cancer Crusade.
The Brazos County and Texas
Cancer Crusade is in co-operation
with the American Cancer Society.
The president of the United
States has declared the month of
April as Cancer Month.
Cancer is the No. 2 killer in the
United States today and reqently
great strides have been made in
the research program. The money
from the cancer crusade will fur
ther research, hoping to destroy
the disease.
“The need isn’t only urgent, it
is critical,” said Dudley Huffner,
assistant director of Texas for
American Cancer Society.
Huffner said that ^t least half
of all those who get cancer could
be cured through early detection
and prompt adequate treatment,
but this can only be done if enough
funds are available.
The slogan of this year’s Cru
sade is “Guard Your Family—
Fight Cancer With a Check-up and
a Check.”
Accelerated
Beautification
Drive Planned
Members of the College Station
Chamber of Commerce decided at a
meeting Monday to continue active
acceleration of their city beautifi
cation work, Mrs. Chris Groneman,
secretary, said yesterday.
Plans were established to spon
sor a “Yard of the Month” award
and recognition of one pr°perty
owner each month who does the
most to improve and beautify his
home surroundings.
Mrs. Marion Pugh and Mrs. R.
A. Knapp, co-chairmen of the City
Beautification Committee, feel that
residents of College Station can be
proud of the improvements already
carried out by the planting of more
than 100 crepe myrtle bushes and
redbud trees along Highway 6
South inside city limits.
Joint action and cooperation
with the Bryan Chamber of Com
merce City Beautification Commit
tee to extend and intensify the
clean-up campaign was also sug
gested at the meeting. Mentioned
was the establishing of a $10 to
$200 fine under a state law for
being a litterbug. Active prosecu
tion is urged against persons now
dumping garbage and trash with
in city limits or along adjacent
roads.
Plans for the yearly membership
drive were formulated, with a goal
of five thousand active members
set.
“The Board of Directors of the
College Station Chamber of Com
merce wants to give every citizen
the opportunity to serve his com
munity in an active, constructive
manner, making College Station an
attractive showcase.
Westinghouse Traveller Tells
Of Experiences in Russia
The high cost of consumer
goods, such as clothes and food
and the indifference to the com
fort of the consumer, were cited
here Tuesday, by a representative
of the Westinghouse Electric
Corp., as one of the most interest
ing things he saw in Russia dur
ing a recent business trip to that
country.
Speaking at the 12th annual
Conference for Protective Relay
Engineers, being held through to
day. Ed Beck of Westinghouse of
Bloomington, Ind., said “when I
speak of consumer, I mean the
man in the street, not the bureau
crat or government official.”
“Other things that impressed
me,” Beck said, “were the highly
developed technical education sys
tem, the showplace, that is Mos
cow, with its wide boulevards,
great squares, its modem build
ings, its subway and in contrast to
this its still existing hovels, the
long line of patient people wait
ing to go through the Lenin-Stalin
tomb, the drab appearance of the
people in the street, the rarity of
a smile in the street, the complete
★
Pics of Cotton
Queen Nominees
In Today's Batt
Throughout today’s issue of
The Battalion are pictures of
some of the nominees for Queen
of Cotton to be selected Friday
night at the annual Cotton Pag
eant and Ball.
Underneath the picture ap
pears the sponsor of the nomi
nee.
More pictures will appear in
Thursday and Friday editions of
The Battalion.
lack of news from the West, the
friendliness and courtesy and
ability of the technical people
whom we met, the tremendous fa
cilities for research and develop
ment work.”
Beck illustrated his talk with
colored slides.
The speaker said that West Ber
lin is a thriving, active, building,
community. The people are pros
perous and happy, in general. East
Berlin, he said, is like a ghost
city, few people on the streets,
sabbily dressed, very little of the
bomb danger has been repaired
and there is much of it. Food and
clothing are rationed, he said.
The conference is sponsored by
the Department of Electrical En
gineering. L. M. Haupt is con
ference chairman.
Dr. Glen D. Hallmark, professor
and head of the department gave
the welcome address to approxi
mately 200 in attendance from all
parts of Texas and the nation.
Teague Principal Speaker Consolidated
At Tuesday Muster Here
Final plans were announced yesterday for the annual
Aggie Muster to be held Tuesday when Aggies throughout
the world will take time out to pay homage to deceased Ag
gies and honor heroes of the Battle of San Jacinto.
More than 7,000 persons are expected to attend parent
ceremonies to be held in front of the Memorial Student Cen
ter at 5:30 p. m.
Jake Sekerka, chairman of the program, said no special
arrangements in the regular college schedule have been made
in preparation for the event. Meals are set for the usual
~ttime with the Muster con
cluding before the evening
Use Common Sense
F orChildProblems,
Parent Group Told
Most problems in rearing chil
dren can be overcome by using
common sense, members of the
A&M Consolidated School’s Moth
ers and Dads Club were told last
night.
Austin Kerley, of the A&M Ba
sic Division, speaking on “Let’s
Talk Common Sense About Our
Children” gave the parents 10 ba
sic common sense rules in rearing
children—all things which can be
done without spending money.
Chiefly, success in dealing with
yougsters depends on being aware
°f their problems and then using
intelligence (common sense) in
dealing with them.
Meeting in the CHS Auditorium,
the club conducted a short busi
ness meeting following the talk.
A nominations committee to sub
mit recommendations for 1959-60
club officers was appointed. Mem
bers of the committee are Herb
Thompson, Mrs. Stewart Brown,
Mrs. Raymond Rogers and Sam
Cleveland.
A treasurer’s report showed the
gross income of the club thus far
in the year has been over $2,800.
According to President ■ W. W.
Mills, this has been the club’s most
successful year to date financially.
The club also laid final plans for
the organization’s annual Pet Show
to be held April 25.
meal.
Congressman Olin Teague
of College Station will head
the program as principal speakeiv
Muster Day ceremonies open
with the “Star Spangled Banner”
by the Texas Aggie Band fol
lowed by a greeting from Se
kerka.
Randy Curtis, Senate Chaplain,
will give the invocation and John
Thomas, president of the Student
Senate, will speak on the Muster
tradition.
Dick Connally of Corpus Christi,
president of the Assn, of Former
Students, will bring greetings
from the former students and the
Singing Cadets will follow with
“The Twelfth Man.”
President M. T. Harrington will
then introduce Teague.
After Teague’s address, the
band and audience will sing “The
Spirit of Aggieland” and Charles
Graham, vice president of the Ci
vilian Student Council, will have
roll call for the absent.
A rifle volley by 21 members of
the Ross Volunteers will honor de
ceased Aggies and the San Jacinto
heroes.
The Muster Day program will be
concluded by “Auld Lang Syne” by
the Singing Cadets and Silver
Taps.
Doctors Consider
Cancer Outbreak
Dog and Pet
Show Planned
The 19th annual Dog and Pet
Show of the A&M Consolidated
Schools will be held Saturday,
April 25, beginning at 4:30 p.m. in
the high school stadium.
The event is sponsored by the
A&M Consolidated Mothers and
Dad’s Club, said general chair
man Ralph E. Miller. Proceeds will
be used to finance worthy projects
for betterment of the school, he
said.
The show will have 30 classes
of pets including purebred and
“Heinz Variety” dogs, cats, rab
bits, ducks, fowls and birds, fish,
turtles and other wildlife, large
pets and projects of the school’s
chapter of Future Farmers of
America.
Registration of pets will com
mence at 4:30 p.m. on the football
field, the parade will be at 6 p.m.
and the judging Begins at 6 p.m.,
Miller continued. Ribbons will be
awarded all pets entered in the
show. There will be concessions
to serve supper, and admission will
be 10 cents for children and 25
cents for adults.
Committee chairmen for the
show include H. G. Thompson, bus
iness manager; George Caldwell,
concessions; Nicky Poniteux, en
tertainment; Homer Adams, equip
ment; Janette Baldauf, home made
candy and cookies; Dr. Archie I.
Flowers, judges and classification;
Jane Miller, posters; Bill Bennett,
programs; Phil Goode, public ad
dress and music; Mink Vance, pub
licity; Barney Welch, registration;
Bill Mixon, ribbons; Mrs. Joe
Fagan, signs and placards; and E.
P. Ozment, tickets.
Don Dale will be master of
ceremonies, and Freddie A. Wel
ters, ringmaster.
W. W. Mills is president of the
Premier Castro
Begins Tour Today
HAVANA (AP) — Premier Fi
del Castro leaves today on a
speaking tour to Washington, New
York, Houston, Tex. and Canada
with hopes of improving relations
to the north.
The bearded leader’s trip is pri
vate and unofficial but is expected
to have a critical bearing on the
traditional friendship of the
United States and Cuba. That af
finity has cooled at times since
Castro’s forces knocked over the
Fulgencio Batista dictatorship
Jan. 1.
Castro has been critical of past
U. S. political and commercial
policies and frequently has ex
pressed the opinion in speeches
that his program has been distort
ed in a segment of the American
press.
In Dulles Sickness
WASHINGTON (AP) — Doc
tors reported yesterday that re
cent neck pains developed by
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles may be due to a new out
break of cancer.
Some medical authorities said
this virtually ruled out the chance
that he would ever return to full
time direction of the nation’s for
eign policy.
Acting Secretary of State Chris
tian Herter has already been
named as a substitute for Dulles
at diplomatic talks with the Brit
ish, French and German foreign
ministers opening in Paris April
29.
Dulles has been clinging to hope
that he might fight back from the
cancer which was found in Feb
ruary in his abdominal region. He
hoped to attend the follow-up Big
Four meeting in Geneva May 11.
A&M Consolidated Mother’s and
Dad’s Club.
Sara Lou Hubbard
. . . Tyler-Smith County Club
Janell Rives Camella Durre Carolyn Tew Cam Lee Martha Louise Edwards Jean Newland
. . . A&M Collegiate F.F.A. . . . Brazos County Club ... 5th Battalion wives ; ... Bryan Lions Club . . . Galveston County Club ... Cooke County Club
Diana Taham
.. . Shreveport Alumni Club