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    Three Dances, Two Banquets Highlight Weekend
THE
BATTALION
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 107: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1959
Price Five Cents
Plots Reportedly Underway
To Assassinate Fidel Castro
NEW YORK Two email
bands of hired killers were report
edly headed hei-e Thursday, bent
upon the assassination of Cuban
Prime Minister Fidel Castro.
The two groups—five brothers
in one car and two men in another
—were described in a tip to police
as non-Cubans, in the hire of sin
ister but unidentified foes of the
bearded revolutionary leader. The
tip came from Castro aides.
In Washington, government se
curity authorities said the newest
threat did not appear any more
alarming than several hundred
others that have been made since
Castro’s arrival in this country.
Nevertheless, New York Dep.
Chief Inspector Edward W. Byrnes
said: “We, along with the State
Department security division, are
definitely on the alert to prevent
any attempts being made to take
the life of Castro.”
Castro, himself, kept to his
schedule of public appearances.
He shrugged off the reported as
sassination plot.
But his police guard—heaviest
tver assigned a Manhattan visitor
•—definitely has been worried by
Castro’s disregard of security
measures. Time and again he has
made himself a sitting duck for
any would-be assassin.
The real nightmare from the
standpoint of his protectors comes
Friday night in a climax to Cas
tro’s visit here, which began Tues
day. He is to appear at a rally in
Central Park, where the wooded,
rolling terrain is ideal for an as
sassination attempt.
There have been demonstrations
against Castro by supporters of
former Cuban President Fulgencio
Senate Picks
Mrs. Cleland
1959 Mother
The Student Senate last night
chose Mrs. Dorothy Cleland as
the Aggie Mother of the Year in
a special meeting in the Me
morial Student Center.
Mrs. Cleland, widowed since
1954, has taught school for the
last 15 years to help send her
three sons, Robert, Franklin
and Wilfred, through school.
Robert Cleland graduated from
A&M with the Class of ’48 and
Franklin Cleland graduated with
the Class of ’54. Her younger
son, Wilfred, is currently a sen
ior physics major.
Her nomination as the Aggie
Mother of the Year was unani
mous by the Senate.
Meteorology Prof
To Be Decorated
By Argentine Navy
1 A Naval decoration from the
government of Argentina will be
pi’esented to a staff member of
A&M in a ceremony in Washing
ton, D. C., Wednesday.
The decoration, a medal and a
citation, will be awarded to Guy
Franceschini, assistant professor
of meteorology and a research
scientist in the Department of
Oceanography and Meteorology.
The ceremony will be held in the
Argentine Embassy and the pre
sentation will be made by Admi
ral Mario Robbio, Argentine Naval
attache in Washington.
Franceschini is being decorated
for exemplary services rendered
during an Antarctic expedition to
the Weddell Sea in January and
February, 1958. He accompanied
the expedition as an observer on
the invitation of the Argentine
navy.
While in Washington, Frances
chini will attend the joint meeting
of the American Meteorology So
ciety and the American Geophy
sical Union, May 4-7, to present a
scientific paper on radiation.
Basista, whom Castro ousted. One
of them, involving about 150 pick
ets, occurred in Times Square
Thursday.
Photo Salon
Set May 2-11
The first annual Southwestern
Inter-Collegiate Photo Salon will
be held on the A&M campus May
2-11.
The salon will be sponsored by
the Memorial Student Center Cam
era Committee.
It is the first such event to be
held where colleges compete
against each other as teams. Pho
tographs will be classified into five
general categories—nature, still
life, news, sports, and portraiture
—and judges wall select the out
standing photograph in each.
Judges will be members of the
Photographic Society of Amei-ica.
All colleges and universities of
Region IX of the Association of
College Unions are invited. This
includes about 30 schools from
Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico,
and Arkansas.
Trophies will be awarded to the
first, second, and third place teams
and to the best print in the salon.
Ribbons will be awarded to the
outstanding print in each category
and all prints will be on exhibit in
the MSC immediately after the
judging.
Astronomer Gives
Lectures Here;
Interviews Open
Dr. Helmut Abt, assistant pro
fessor of astronomy at the TJniver-
sity of Chicago, will be on the cam
pus next Thursday and Friday to
present a series. of lectui’es spon
sored by the National Science
Foundation.
Abt will deliver two lectures next
Thursday. At 10 a.m. he will talk
on “The Composition of Stars” in
Room 320 of the Physics Building.
At 8 Thursday night he will lec
ture on “Radio Astronomy” in the
Lecture Room of the Biological
Sciences Building.
Friday at 5 p.m. Abt will speak
on “Magnetic Stars” in Room 320
of the Physics Building.
The public is invited to each lec
ture.
Apt completed his work for the
bachelor’s and master’s degrees at
Northwestern University and in
1952 received his Ph. D. from the
California Institute of Technology.
He was at the Lick Observatory in
California for a year and has been
at Yerkes Observatory in Wiscon
sin since 1953, except for a year
during which he took part in a pre
liminary search for a site for the
National Astronomical Observa
tory.
Beginning Sept. 1, he will join
the permanent staff of the Kitt
Peak National Observatory as head
of the Stellar Division. He was the
first person to spot Kitt Peak as
a possible observatory site during
the site survey.
Apt is a member of the Ameri
can Astronomical Society, Interna
tional Astronomical Union, Royal
Astronomical Society of England,
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
and Sigma XL*
“Dr. Abt will be available
thi'ough Wendell Horsley at the
placement office for consultation
with students Thursday afternoon
and Friday morning and afternoon.
All students interested in a career
in space, technology and astronomy
should make appointments to talk
with Dr. Apt,” Dr. J. T. Kent, De
partment of Mathematics, said yes
terday.
“He will also be available by ap
pointment for discussion with fac
ulty or departments on curricu
lum or teaching problems. He can
likewise conduct seminars,” Kent
said.
According to the tip Thursday,
one band of assassins numbers
five brothers, originally from
Philadelphia and now of Chicago.
They were reported traveling in a
1957 black Chevrolet with a white
top and bearing Florida license
plates.
The second party, of two men,
is said to be from Detroit, travel
ing in a diity gray Cadillac with
Michigan plates.
Typical of Castro’s New York
schedule were appearances at
City Hall, and at an Overseas
Press Club luncheon at the Astor
Hotel in Times Square. At both
appearances, and traveling to and
from them, Castro was brought
close to thousands of persons.
News of the World
By The Associated Press
Air Force Launches Missile from Bomber
WASHINGTON—The Air Force launched its hound dog
missile on an initial flight from a B52 heavy bomber flying
over the Atlantic missile range Thursday.
The missile has a range of 500 miles and can carry a
nuclear war head.
The- announcement said the missile “successfully met
its test objectives,” but no report was made on the distance
covered.
The missile is intended to enable a strategic bomber to
deliver a "nuclear w r eapon to a target without flying into a
heavily defended area.
★ ★ ★
Dulles Takes Another Job
WASHINGTON—John Foster Dulles took on another
job Thursday in a touching little hospital ceremony that
seemed to please him.
President Eisenhower, a man who likes to mix senti
ment with the chores of office, drove out to Walter Reed
Army Hospital and handed his old friend a commission as
special consultant on foreign policy.
11-Man Team Inspecting
Corps Review Tomorrow
To Climax Annual Inspection
A review of the Corps of Cadets
tomorrow at 9 a.m. on the main
drill field in front of the Memorial
Student Center will close the an
nual two-day inspection of Army
ROTC units.
Federal inspection of Army
ROTC units began this morning.
An 11-man team has been cover
ing the campus, inspecting each
Corps dorm, military science class
room instructor, the use of govern
ment property and training sched
ules, according to Capt. John W.
Simmons, instructor in the Depart
ment of Military Science and Tac
tics.
The closing 15 minutes of each
military science class are being de
voted to team inspectors who will
ask questions, Simmons said. The
inspection team will inspect the
Army units in front of the dorms
today at 5:30 p.m.
Included in the 11-man inspec
tion group, headed by Col. Robert
J. Hill Jr., are Lt. Col. John C.
Allen, GS(Armor); Maj. George H.
Wurf, Artillery; Lt. Col. Walter C.
Henderson, Engineer Section; Maj.
'y -
‘Sully’ Gets Spring Cleaning
Squadron 10 freshmen gave the statue of Lawrence
Sullivan Ross its annual spring cleaning yesterday after
noon. The cleaning seemed to fit in with the general
clean-up campaign underway in preparation for Army
ROTC Federal Inspection.
Math Contest Set Tuesday
The annual mathematics contest
examinations, featuring two gold
wrist watches as top prizes, will
be held for freshmen and sopho
mores Tuesday from 7:30 p.m to
9:30 p.m. in Room 223 of the Ac
ademic Building.
Second prizes of $15 and third
of $10 will also be given in each
contest.
Any students student now en
rolled in either Mathematics 120
or 209 whose classification at the
beginning of the 1958-59 school
year was not above that of fresh
man or who has not repeated a col
lege math course is eligible to en
ter the freshman contest.
The sophomore ’ contest is open
to any students now taking Math
ematics 210 whose classification at
the begining of this school year
was not above sophomore and has
not repeated a college math course.
All freshman - awards and the
second and third place sophomore
awards are provided by the Robert
F. Smith Memorial Fund.
The first prize for sophomores
is obtained through the Halperin
Award Fund. Both Smith and
Halperin were members of the
Department of Mathematics.
Winners in the freshman contest
last year were Buyron B. Laycock,
first place; Donald F. Boren, sec
ond place; and Donald A. Brenner
and Robert W. Hester, tied for
third place.
Sophomore winners last year
were Joe W. Woodard, first place;
Harley H. McAdams, second place;
and David C. Larson, third place.
Festus E. Harrison, Chemical Sec
tion; Col. Charles Askins, Ord
nance; Maj. Fred W. Dollar, Quar
termaster Section; Lt. Col. Gerald
M. Cravens, Signal Section; Lt. Col.
Gordon F. Tyrrell, Transportation
Section; Lt. Col. Harold M. Ken
nedy, GS(Infantry), Combat Arms;
and Capt, Arthur J. White, Army
Aviation Section. Each of the offi
cers, most of whom are from the
4th Army Headquarters, Fort Sam
Houston, will inspect his respective
branch here on campus.
Maj. Gen. L. S. Griffing, deputy
commanding general of the 4th
Army, will be here for the review
Saturday.
Hill, leading the inspection team,
is a member of the staff and facul
ty 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. Military Academy. Hill
completed the Command and Gen
eral Staff College in 1950, the
Armed Forces Staff College in
1954 and the Army War College in
1956.
During World War II, Hill serv
ed in the Eui'opearr Theater of Op
erations as commanding officer of
the 180th Field Artillery Battalion
of the 26th Infantry Division. He
was awarded the Silver Star, the
Brortze Star and the Legion of
Merit.
MSC Banquet Opens
Activities Tonight
By JOHNNY JOHNSON
Battalion News Editor
Three banquets and two dances highlight the weekend’s
social activities with the Memorial Student Center Council
and Directorate Awards Banquet and the annual Architec
ture Society Ball kicking off things tonight.
Tomorrow night the Ross Volunteers will hold their
banquet and the Baptist Student Union will have their an
nual banquet.
More than 160 persons are expected for the MSC ban
quet which begins at 7:15 p. m. in the MSC second floor
lounge where refreshments will be served. At 7:45 p. m.
the actual banquet will begin.
Featuring an Alaskan theme, the banquet’s highlight
will be the presentation of 23
MSC Appreciation Awards
and three MSC Distinguished
Service Awards.
New officers of the MSC
Council and Directorate will also
take office at the banquet which
will be final official function of
the old officers.
Special guests will include the
members of the A&M System
Board of Directors, President and
Mrs. M. T. Harrington, Vice Pres
ident and Mrs. Earl Rudder, Mr.
and Mrs. B. A. Zinn and Mr. and
Mrs. George Roeber. Zinn is di
rector of Student Personnel Ser
vice and Roeber is business man
ager of the college.
The Silvertones, a quartet; Dick
Gustafson, a ballad singer; and
Lynn Adcock, a pianist; will pro
vide entertainment.
MSC Council President Ronald
Buford will give the main address.
Architects Ball
The Architecture Society’s Beau
Arts Ball will feature a “beatnik”
theme and will be held beginning
at 8 p. m. in the Bryan American
Legion Hall.
Beards, turtle neck sweaters,
baggy trousers, toreadors pants
and. similar attire will be worn
by those attending in connection
with the theme of the dance. Pri
zes will be awarded to the couple
best dressed in “beatnik” fashion.
The decoration scheme, which
will feature large “beatnik” car
toons and figures, will carry out
the ball’s theme.
Music for the dance will be fur
nished by Richard Smith’s Aggie
combo.
All architecture majors and fac
ulty members are invited to^ at
tend the dance, according to Jim
Vickery, president of the student
chapter of the American Institute
of Architects.
BSU Banquet
The BSU Banquet will be held
at 6:30 Saturday night at Clay
ton’s Restaurant in Bryan.
Jack Hamm, a commercial art
instructor at Baylor University at
Waco, will be the featured speak
er.
Hamm is a preacher with a
unique method of reaching his
(See THREE DANCES on Page 4)
CS Resident Better
C. C. Rice, College Station resi-:
dent who was injured Wednesday
in a car-truck collision at East
Gate, has been reported by Bryan
Hospital authorities to be in “im
proved condition”.
Hospital authorities did not stip
ulate when Rice would be released.
Student Filings
Close Today
For 10 Posts
Filings for student offices close
today at 5 p.m., with 10 positions
to be filled at the general elec
tion Thursday of next week.
Of the 10 positions, eight are on
the Student Senate. The other two
positions ai’e class agent for the
Class of ’59 and civilian yell leader.
The eight Student Senate offices
consist of president, who must be
academically classified as a senior
next fall; vice president, required
to be a junior next fall; parlia
mentarian, required to be a senior;
and recording secretary, who must
be classified as a sophomore at the
beginning of the fall semester.
The remaining four positions on
the senate are chairmen for the
Issues Committee, Student Life
Committee, Student Welfare Com
mittee, and the Public Relations
Committee. These positions require
that candidates be classified as a
junior or senior for the 1959-60
term and have an overall grade
point ratio of 1.25.
Only qualification for the class
agent post is that candidates
be members of the Class of ’59.
Candidates for civilian yell leader
must have a 1.25 overall grade
point ratio.
Scholarship Tests
Scheduled May 2
Examinations for the Opportuni
ty Awards Program will be given
Saturday and May 2 to all Texas
high school boys who have sub
mitted applications.
Approximately 100 scholarships
will be granted this spring through
a statewide competition, based up
on each candidate’s character,
scholarship, evidence of leadership
and need of financial aid.
Five Jesse H. Jones Agricultural
Awards are available, and two
Jesse H. Jones Military Awards
will be given to men desiring to
follow military careers. Other
awards have been provided by the
Association of Former Students
and other citizens and organiza
tions of the state. Most of these
are unrestricted as to the course
of study.
‘Silvertones’ to Entertain
Leipper
At CSC
to Speak Monday
Banquet in MSC
By DAVE STOKER
Battalion News Editor
Dr. Dale F. Leipper, head of the
Department of Oceanography and
Meteorology, will be the guest-
speaker at the Civilian Student
Council Banquet Monday evening,
it was reported at the Civilian Stu
dent Council meeting last night.
The banquet will be held at 6
p.m. in the Assembly Room of the
Memorial Student Center.
The Silvertones, Aggie singing
group, will be at the banquet to
provide entertainment. The group
consists of James Hickey, Robert
Blakewood, Sonny Flores and Ra-
mior Perez.
Highlighting the banquet will be
the naming of the outstanding Ci
vilian Student Councilman of 1959.
Various other awards will be giv
en.
In other business at the meeting
last night, the members voted in
favor of supporting a $2. compul
sory fee to be paid at registration
by all members of the Civilian stu
dent body to finanoe Civilian stu
dent government.
A report on the purpose of the
fee will soon be presented to col
lege executives. The report points
out mainly the problems of Civilian
government finance, and how such
a fee would help finance Civilian
government.
The councilmen agreed that it
would take the support of all mem
bers of the Civilian student body
as well as the support of Council
members. It was reported that all
dormitory councils seemed to be
in favor of such a fee.
New members to the Civilian Stu-
dertt Council were elected this
week and they will take over their
positions at the Council’s next reg
ular meeting. New members intro
duced at the meeting last night
were James Lively, Mitchell; Mike
Carlo, Leggett; John Garner, Law;
Thomas Butler, Dorm 16; Larry
Clark, Bizzell; Jim Hall, Day Stu
dent; Dusty Thames, Senior Class;
and Kenneth Dorris, College View.
Other new members not present at
the meeting are Guy Pittman, Col
lege View; Wayne Allen, Project
House; and Thomas M. Butler, Mil
ner.
The Civilian Student Leadership
Retreat at Bastrop Park May 2,
was also discussed at the meeting.
An outline of the event was pre
sented to Councilmen by Dennis
Ryan, chairman of the retreat.
The retreat is expected to be at
tended by all Civilian government
leaders. Registration is $5. per stu
dent and covers room and board at
the park during the retreat. Dead
line to register is today at 5 p.m.
Interested Civilian students should
register in the office of Robert O.
Murray, Jr., in the basement of
the YMCA.
During the one day retreat. Ci
vilian leaders will discuss ways to
improve Civilian government at
A&M.
In other business Tommy Beck
ett, president, appointed a Civilian
Chaplain Selection Committee. On
the committee are Sammy Fergu
son, Don Houston, Jack Little and
Roland Dommert. The committee is
expected to have a new chaplain
chosen at the Council’s next meet
ing. Ferguson has been the chap
lain the past year.