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THE
BATTALION
32 Days
'til Final Review
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 104: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1959
Price Five Cents
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768
56th Muster
Attract 7,000
Below 30 Miles
Ike Appeals
To Khrushchev
To Ban Testing
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Presi
dent Eisenhower, striving to
smash a deadlock, has appealed to
Soviet Premier Khrushchev for a
quick ban on nuclear weapons
tests below 30 miles in the atmo
sphere.
In an April 13 letter to the
Kremlin leader, Eisenhower said
negotiators at the stalemated Ge
neva talks then could turn to fur
ther discussion looking toward a
general ban on such tests. That
would include detonations in outer
space and underground.
“Meanwhile,” said the Presi
dent, “fears of unrestricted re
sumption of nuclear weapons test
ing with attendant additions to
levels of radio-activity would be
allayed...”
Eisenhower alluded to Soviet de
mands for veto power and to other
road-blocking Russian proposals,
and again rejected them. At this
time, he added, “No basis for gen
eral agreement is in sight.”
Then, in an effort to salvage
Ihe Geneva talks from collapse,
.Eisenhower proposed a first-stage
agreement—a ban on tests below
30 mifes in the atmosphere.
-If there could be such initial
1 agreement on what he termed the
most important phase of the ne
gotiations, the Geneva delegates
who first met last October then
1 could tackle the obstacles block
ing a general ban.
“In my view,” the President
told Khrushchev, “these negotia
tions must not be permitted com
pletely to fail.”
Eisenhower noted that the So
viet Union has been insisting on
an agreement with veto power
over the fact-finding activities of
a controls system regarding pos
sible underground nuclear explo
sions. That insistance had been
the heart of the deadlock.
If the Soviet Union intends to
continue to stand pat on that
point, Eisenhower went on, then:
“I believe there is a way in
which we can hold fast to the
progress already made in these
negotiations and no longer daly
in putting into effect the initial
agreements which are in our
grasp.”
Then the Presdent proposed a
restricted ban on tests in the
atmosphere. Specifically he said:
“A simlified control system for
atmosphere tests up to 50 kilo
meters (30 miles) could be really
derived from the Geneva experts
reports and would not require the
automatic on-site inspection which
has created the major stumbling
block in the negotiations so far.”
The U. S. pi’oposal was put forth
at the Geneva conference when
the test suspension talks resumed
there the day Eisenhower wrote
Khrushchev.
James C. Hagerty, White House
press secretary, said Eisenhower
so far had had no reply from
Khrushchecv.
The President’s call for a ban
on all tests below 30 miles would
leave the United States free to
conduct nuclear tests in outer
space—such as the Project Argus
series of last August and Septem
ber.
Since last October, however, the
world’s three nuclear ‘ powers—i
United States, Britain and Russia
have been under agreement to
hold no nuclear" weapons tests,
pending outcome of the Geneva
talks.
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Queen of Cotton
Miss Marie Watson, 19-year-old representa
tive of the Rio Grande Valley Hometown
Club, was chosen Queen of Cotton at the
annual Cotton Ball and Pageant last Friday
evening. Miss Watson, who comes from
Mercedes, Tex., and is a freshman at Tex
as A&I, was chosen from a field of more
than 170 contestants and was crowned by
Kent Potts, King Cotton.
Aggie Mother of Year Filings
Must Be Turned inTomorroid
Aggies who plan to enter their mothers in the A&M
Mother of the Year event must have their nominations
turned in to the Office of Student Activities by 5 p. m. to
morrow.
As soon as the clock strikes 5 p. m. a Senate committee
will begin screening the nominations and will probably return
a verdict after a special Student Senate meeting Thursday
night, John Thomas, Senate president, said yesterday.
Nominations must be made in letter form containing all
supporting information concerning qualifications for the Ag
gie Mother of the Year, who will be honored at the annual
Parents Day review and convocation in Guion Hall on May
i 10 -
A student may nominate his mother or the mother of an-
! other student. Nominations may also be made by non-stu
dents, Don Rummel, chairman of the Senate’s Welfare Com
mittee, said.
To qualify one must:
• Be the mother of a student currently enrolled at
A&M.
• Be able to attend the presentation ceremonies on
Parents Day.
® Must have made unusual sacrifices to make possible
an education for her son.
Range Majors Plan S’west Texas Tour
l
Sophomore Sweetheart
Miss Linda Ann Daugherty, Miss Texas and a finalist in
the Miss United States beauty pageant in Long Beach,
Calif, in 1958, was chosen Sophomore Sweetheart over four
other contestants at the Sophomore Ball Saturday evening.
Miss Daugherty, a freshman at McMurry College in Abi
lene, was escorted by Clint Murphy, class president.
Plans for a three-day trip to
study ranching practices in South
and Southwest Texas have been
completed, according to Dr. Don
Huss, assistant professor in the
Department of Range and Forest
ry.
Thirty-three students of range
management will leave from A&M
on May 4 to visit ranches in Hays,
Bexar, Frio and Victoria Count
ies.
The theme for the trip will be
“Range Management Practices for
the Practical Ranch.” Ranches
which are carrying out recom
mended range management prac
tices will be visited. Emphasis will
be placed on the economy of these
practices and their influence on
livestock production and soil and
water conservation.
Specific tanching problems in
three major grazing areas — the
Hill Country, Rio Grande Plains
and the Gulf Coastal Prairie will
be studied.
Alan H. Anderson of the Soil
Conservation Service, San Marcos,
has arranged tours to the Pfluger
and Ray ranches of Hays County
on May 4. The group will be the
guest of Holt Machinery Company
of San Antonio that night.
The group will tour the Holt
Machinery Farm and Plant and
see a grass nursery of introduced
and native grasses selected by the
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station personnel on May 5. The
students will then journey to the
L..F. Siriami Ranch in Frio Coun
ty to study root plowing and re
seeding practices.
Dallas Ad Group
To Give Program
Industrial advertising will make
its first public debut on the A&M
campus tonight through the first
A&M Industrial Advertising Con
ference.
Sponsored by the A&M Adver
tising Club and Marketing So
ciety, the meeting will be held at
7:30 p.m. in the Social Room of
the Memorial Student Center in
an effort to acquaint A&M stu
dents with the industrial advertis
ing field.
A panel discussion will be con
ducted by members of the North
Texas chapter of the National In
dustrial Advertisers Assn.
The conference is open to any
one interested in advertising.
Injured Ag Rider
Rushed to Houston
To Bone Specialist
Ceremonies Moved
To White Coliseum
By BILL REED
Battalion News Editor
One of A&M’s greatest traditions will make its 56th
turnover today as more than 7,000 Aggies, parents and
friends gather in G. Rollie White Coliseum for the annual
Aggie Muster.
Aggies bunch in small groups all over the world on April
21 each year, wherever they may be, to pay homage to those
Aggies who have died during the previous year, and when
their names are called from the Muster rolls, a living comrade
steps forward and answers, “here.”
The Muster, which is usually held on the green lawn in
front of the Memorial Student Center, has been moved into
G. Rollie White because of water soaked grounds and bad
weather forecasts, Jake Seker-
ka, chairman of this year’s
Muster, revealed yesterday.
Cong. Olin E. Teague, Col
lege Station’s representative
in Washington, is scheduled to
give the principal address for the
gathering. President M. T. Har
rington will introduce Cong. Tea
gue in the ceremony which be
gins at 5:30 p.m.
A&M’s annual Aggie Muster is
an outgrowth of the Battle of
San Jacinto, where Gen. Sam
Houston’s troops won Texas’ in
dependence at San Jacinto on
April 21, 1836.
Muster History
History books record that the
Muster tradition began on April
21, 1903, when 396 members of the
A&M student body decided that
some observance should be held to
commemorate San Jacinto.
It was agreed that upon that
day each year, Aggies woifld mus
ter wherever they might be to
pay homage to deceased Aggies
and honor hei’oes of the Battle of
San Jacinto.
Since 1903, Aggies have muster
ed all over the world, at Corregidor
and Bataan, in Germany, Italy,
and France during World War II,
in Korea, and all over the United
States and dozens of foreign
countries. ,
Through the years, the tradi
tion has become stronger and
Edwin L. Farris, 27-year-old bus- 1 more widely known as firing
iness major from Llano, was rush
ed to the Veteran’s Hospital in
Houston by ambulance yesterday
afternoon after Dr. Charles R.
Lyons, director of Student Health
Services, deemed it necessary to
get the Aggie senior to a bone
specialist.
Farris was injured last weekend
in a rodeo held in Commerce.
In the bulldogging contest, the
Aggie senior was thrown and
seemed to receive the worst for his
efforts. Attending physicians said
he had received a broken upper
jaw and the loss of several teeth.
He was treated in Commerce and
allowed to come back to school.
When Farris and several com
panions returned to A&M Sunday
night, he was complaning of feel
ing faint. His companions took
him to the college hospital.
Dr. Lyons examined Farris yes
terday morning and discovered
that the Aggie besides a broken
jaw and the loss of several teeth,
had also suffered possible skull
fracture. He had been unable to
eat and had to be fed intravenously
while in the hospital.
Farris, who lives at 411 Boyett
St., College Station, is expected
to be out of school for several
weeks until the danger of mening
itis has passed, according to Dr.
Lyons.
squads sound three volleys, the
buglar plays Tafts and Musters
end for another year.
The significance of the Aggie
Muster is symbolic of the great
loyalty which binds Aggies to
A&M and to each other and is
unique among colleges of the
world.
Muster Program
Muster Day ceremonies begin
with the “Star Spangled Banner”
by the Consolidated Band, followed
by a greeting from Sekerka. Ran
dy Curtis, Senate Chaplain, will
give the invocation, and John
Thomas, Student Senate president,
is scheduled to tell the history of
the Muster tradition.
On behalf of the Association
of Former Students, Dick Connal-
ly of Corpus Christi, president of
the alumni association, will bring
greetings and welcoming com
ments. Connally will be followed
by the Singing Cadets with “The
Twelfth Man.”
Following Teague’s address, the
band and audience will join in
“The Spirit of Aggieland” and
Charles Graham, vice president of
the Civilian Student Council, will
call roll for the absent.
The program will be concluded
with “Auld Lang Syne” by the
Singing Cadets, followed by Silver
Taps.
I News of the World
By The Associated Press
Stock Market Hits Peak
NEW YORK—The stock market swept to an historic
high Monday for the third straight session.
Blue chips shares powered the run to record heights by
racking up gains of a few cents to a dollar or so. Chemicals
and selected issues posted the widest gains.
★ ★ ★
Reds Call Dalai Lama a Liar
TOKYO—Red China Monday branded as lies the Dalai
Lama’s statement denouncing Communist rule in Tibet.
Radio Peiping broadcast a charge that reactionaries dic
tated the statement and questioned whether the 23-year-old
god-king, a refugee in India, had in fact written it.
Olin Teague
. . muster speaker
Texas Celebrates
123rd Anniversary
Since San Jacinto
SAN JACINTO MONUMENT,
(A 5 ) — Texas is celebrating today
the 123rd anniversary of its in
dependence gained in a rout of
Mexican forces of the self-styled
“Napoleon of the West” at the
Battle of San Jacinto.
Its reactivated Navy—which has
no rank less than admiral—will
steam up the Houston Ship Chan
nel and past the battleground in
salute.
Plans call for the • flotilla of
several hundred volunteer pleas
ure craft to parade the line past
the stern of the Battleship Texas,
permanently moored here near the
towering monument marking the
battle site nea^ Houston.
The Texas, which hurled shells
into Normandy in D Day in World
War II, will be decked out with
all her flags and bunting. Gov.
Price Daniel will review the flo
tilla from her decks.
Daniel restored the Navy, which
dates back to pre-revolutionary
days, last year.
“In time of emergency, the
Navy would be an important arm
of our civil defense,” he added in
a proclamation.
A 570-foot monument marks the
site where Gen. Sam Houston’s
tiny army jumped the forces of
Gen. Lopez De Santa Anna on
April 21, 1836.
The Mexican force was annihi
lated. Among the captured was
Santa Anna. The Mexicans suD
fered 630 killed and 280 wounded.
Houston suffered a loss of two
dead and 23 wounded.
Six months later grateful colon
ists elected him the first presi
dent of the Republic of Texas.
Calendar Session
Slated Tomorrow
A meeting will be held for all
interested departments, classes
and organization officers Wednes
day at 5 p.m. in preparation for
printing of the All-College Calen
dar for 1959-60. The meeting will
be held in Room 101 of the YMCA.
Reservations for all student
functions will be made at this
time, according to C. G. White,
manager of recreation and enter
tainment.
Those wishing to schedule events
which fall on week nights need not
attend the meeting. They may
place their events on the calendar
by mail.
White said it will be wise if
each department, class, organiza
tion or club will start now dis
cussing desirable dates to be plac
ed on the calendar.