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Number 108: Volume 58 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1959 Price Five Cents
Instructs OS Engineer
City Council
Orders Paving
Of City Streets
Directors OK Money
For Dorm Repairs
MSC Council President Speaks
Ronald Buford, MSC Council president, are Hiram French, Councilman, and Miss
speaks before the gathering at the MSC Nina Faver, guest of Rush McGinty.
Council and Directorate Banquet. Seated
MSC Council, Directorate
Present Awards at Banquet
The College Station City Coun
cil last night passed an ordinance
(No. 280) declaring that streets
he paved and instructing the city
engineer to prepare plans and
specifications for the improve
ments.
The ordinance orders the im
provement of certain portions of
Walton Drive, Kyle Ave., and sev-
Panama Officials
Observes Troops
On San Bias Beach
PANAMA (AP)—The govern
ment claimed Monday that it had
under observation an invasion
force of 79 Cubans and one Pan-
imanian who landed early Satur
day on the desolate San Bias
Peninsula.
Three of the four Panamanians
with the original force of 86 had
been drowned or captured.
The party, including one wom
an, was said to be moving slowly
along the eastern shoreline under
the observation of air and sea
forces. Joe D. Bazan, minister of
government, said the National
Guard is ready to demand that the
invaders surrender.
National Guardsmen exchanged
gunfire with an advance patrol of
the invasion force along the beach
and may have killed one man. Na
tional Guard headquarters report
ed later. The guardsmen suffered
no casualties.
Three of the invaders, two Cu
bans and a Panamanian, already
had been captured and brought to
the capital. They were several
miles in advance of the main par
ty spotted at Santa Isabel on the
coast, and were rounded up with
out resistance by a National
Guard corporal and a posse.
The Panamanian prisoner, Guil
lermo Gonzales, told newsmen
that “so far as I know,” the in
vasion was plotted by Roberto
Ai’ias, prominent lawyer and dip
lomat who broke with the govern
ment a year ago.
By DAVE STOKER
Battalion News Editor
The Civilian Student Body and
the Corps of Cadets can and must
work together to maintain A&M
as the best technical and scientific
college in the South and South
west, Dr. Dale F. Leipper, said
last night at the Civilian Student
Council Banquet.
The banquet was held in the
Assembly Room of the Memorial
Student Center.
Guest speaker Leipper, head of
the Department of Oceanography
and Meteorology, told those pres
ent at the banquet that “we must
build respect for tchnical things
in order to keep abreast of the
times.”
Leipper pointed out that “it is
not the lack of faults, but the
abundance of power that makes an
institution great.” He said that
A&M must select the areas that it
can do its best work in, and re
ward scholastic ability more.
“We must work on recruiting
and get the best students to come
to A&M and make them feel wel
come,” he said.
Leipper also pointed out the
good and bad aspects of A&M. As
eral other streets and places in
the city.
A petition for street improve
ments on Glade Street from Park
Place Street to Anna Street and
on Park Place Street from Timber
Street to Glade Street was receiv
ed by the Council. The streets con
cerned were declared as a street
section with construction to be
done at 75 cents cost per hard-
surface foot.
The Council authorized the final
payment in full of $9,444 to Spen
cer J. Buchanan and associates
for finished engineering services
on streets including grading,
drainage, establishing center lines,
street elevation and street width.
The Council also adopted to
complete the graveling, grading
and oiling of Lincoln Street down
to Kyle Avenue at University
Drive.
J. A. Orr, Councilmen of Ward
I, was appointed as the third rep
resentative of College Station to
serve on the Board of Directors
of the Brazos Area Planning
Corp. Mayor Ernest Langford and
City Manager Ran Boswell are ex-
officio members of the Board.
Dick Hervey and A. L. Ros-
prim were appointed to serve on
the Planning and Zoning Commis
sion. They will take their place
with seven other members of the
committee, all of whose terms ex
pire in April of next year.
The Council authorized the city
manager and city engineer to put
up “no parking” signs where they
seemed necessary on the north side
of Jersey Street from Pershing
Drive to Dexter Drive. Courtesy
tickets for 30 days will be given
for violation parking in this area.
The Council adopted to send
City Manager Boswell to Montreal,
Canada, to attend the Internation
al Finance Officers Assn, meeting
on June 7-11.
Two other matters settled by
the Council was the authorization
of the renewal of a $3,000 note at
the College Station State Bank,
and the reappointment of Nelson
Durst as city auditor.
for the good he pointed to A&M’s
outstanding endowment fund, its
offerings in the fields of science
and technology and its type of
men that are graduated each year.
“Fve noticed that men graduat
ed from A&M tend to have more
self-confidence and character than
men graduated from other insti
tutions.”
As for the school’s faults, Leip
per said that A&M does not turn
out enough teachers, ministers
and lawyers. “For the welfare
of A&M, we need more representa
tion in these fields, especially in
the public schools of our society.”
Leipper, who recently toured
Moscow, also told those present
of the educational aspects of Rus
sia. He said in Russia there is
a great incentive to do more and
better work in the schools and
that scholarship is emphasized. “A
good scientist there gets as much
attention as Elvis Presley does in
the United States,” he said.
He also explained, however,
that there are no independent
thinkers in Russia and not enough
individuality.
Leipper said that it does not
matter what you study nor how
E. D. Contest
Scheduled for
This Weekend
The annual A&M Engineering
Drawing Contest, sponsored by the
Department of Engineering Draw
ing will be held Saturday at 1
p.m., in Room 315 of the Engineer
ing Building, Ralph H. Davey,
assistant professor announced to
day.
The contest will consist of com
petition in four classes—working
drawing, descriptive geometry
problems, freehand lettering and
freehand drawing. Any student
recommended by a drawing in
structor is eligible to enter the
contest.
For the first time in a contest
the new equipment of the Depart
ment, including drafting machines
and low linoleum-topped drawing
tables, will be used by the contest
ants.
Prizes will be awarded to first,
second and third place winners in
each class.
Complete rules for the contest
are posted on the Department of
Engineering Drawing bulletin
boards and are available from any
member of the department staff.
S. M. Cleland is chairman of the
committee for the contest.
MSC Opens ’59-60
Room Reservations
To Students May 1
Requests for Memorial Student
Center guest room reservations for
the football weekends, or any of
the major event weekends, for the
1959-1960 school year will be ac
cepted from students and former
students during the month of May.
Only one room per family can
be reserved for each event.
Following the May 31 deadline,
the drawing will be held to deter
mine who will receive accommoda
tions. After the drawing, notices
will be mailed to each person sub
mitting requests for guest room
reservations indicating whether or
not their names were drawn. The
requests not drawn will be placed
on the “waiting list,” and those
persons making the requests will
be notified at least two weeks be
fore the event should a room be
come available due to cancellation.
A deposit will be required of
those persons receiving a reserva
tion. Unless this deposit is re
ceived no later than two weeks
prior to the event, an automatic
cancellation will occur.
long you stay in school that bene
fits a person. “In college,” he said,
“we must fine what it is to ob
tain success.” He said the student
must benefit from his losses.
Bennie A. Zinn, Director of
Student Personnel Services, pre
sented a short talk at the banquet.
He urged councilmen, especially
those graduating in the spring, to
talk about the finer aspects of
A&M to attract students to attend
the college.
Robert O. Murray Jr., Adviser to
the Civilian Student Council, pre
sented various awards and talked
on the outstanding work of the
Civilian Student Council.
A. M. Hoffpauir, Day Student
representative to the Council, was
presented the award for the out
standing Civilian Student Council
man of the year. The Apartment
Council won the award for the
best housing unit council of the
year. Those councilmen serving
a full year on the council were
presented with keys by Mlurray.
Receiving keys were Tommy
Beckett, president; Charles Gra
ham, vice president; Fred Pendle
ton, secretary; Jack Little, parlia-
(See LEIPPER Page 4)
The Memorial Student Center
Council and Directorate presented
24 Appreciation Awards and 3
Distinguished Service Awards at
the ninth annual MSC Council and
Directorate Awards Banquet Fri
day night.
The meeting was the final meet
ing of the 1958-59 MSC Council
and Directorate as new officers for
the 1959-60 school year officially
assumed their jobs at the banquet.
MSC Council President Ronald
E. Buford outlined the future of
the MSC program at the meeting.
Receiving Distinguished Service
Awards were Buford; W. A.
(Bill) Myers, SCONA IV Secre-
IVflT Dean To Give
Speech Tonight
Dean John E. Burchard of the
School of Humanities and Social
Studies, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, will deliver an address
tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the lecture
room of the Biological Science
Building.
“The State of Architecture in
America,” will be discussed by the
dean. He is being brought here by
the Division of Architecture in the
guest lecture series.
Burchard is administratively re
sponsible for the undergraduate
and graduate work in economics,
psychology, political science, inter
national relations, labor relations,
history, literature, philosophy, mu
sic and modern languages.
Slide Rule Contest
Winners Named
Winners of the Tau Beta Pi
slide rule contest were awarded
prizes totaling $50 by Dean of
Engineering Fred J. Benson Fri
day.
The contest was held March 20
to end a slide rule course taught
by Tau Beta Pi.
The winners included William
Davis, first place, $25; James C.
Garner second place, $15, and
William Osborne, third place, $10.
tariat chairman; and Hiram T.
French, Council member and vice
president of Region IX of the As
sociation of College Unions.
Those receiving Appreciation
Awards and the office they held
in 1958-59 include:'
Jerry Horn, Radio Committee
Chairman; Wayne Schmidt, Cam
era Committee chairman; Thomas
O. Lake Jr., Bowling Committee
member; David Plylar, Film Com
mittee chairman and ' Council
member; George Stansell, Great
Issues Committee chairman; John
T. Vaughn Jr., Great Issues Com
mittee arrangements head; Len J.
Dorney, Great Issues Committee
publicity director.
Dennis Ryan, Flying Kadets
committee chairman; Archie M.
Kahan, advisor to the Flying Ka
dets Committee; Gordon Reynolds,
Recital Series Committee chair
man; James R. Jones, Recital Ser-
Twenty-six local secretaries
were guests of the College Sta
tion Lions Club yesterday to hear
cne of their number give a sec-
litary’s eye-view report on boss
secretary relations.
Mrs. Lloyd (Beverly) Shelley,
secretary to Dr. L. V. Patterson,
vice president for agriculture,
spoke to the club on “You and
Your Secretary.” The secretaries
were honored in conjunction with
National Secretaries Week, held
last week. Mrs. Shelley is a mem
ber of the Bryan-College Station
chapter of the National Secretar
ies Assn.
Also at the luncheon, Lions
elected Archie I Flowers president
for the coming year. A full slate
of officers was elected and they
will take their new positions July 1.
Other officers elected are Don
ald W. Hood, first vice president;
Charles V. Wooten, second vice
president; M. L. (Red) Cashion,
third vice president; Charles Cos
ier, secretary-treasurer; Lloyd
ies Committee; Robert T. Pfeuf-
fer, SCONA IV chairman; John H.
Lindsey, SCONA IV Advisor;
Charles H. Robison, SCONA IV
Transpoi'tation Committee chair
man; Frank Buchanan, SCONA IV
vice chairman.
Hugh E. Wharton, president of
the MSC Council and Directorate
for the fall semester; H. C. Dil
lingham, retiring former student
representative on the Council; W.
R. Horsley, retiring faculty mem
ber on the Council; W. I. Truett-
her, retiring faculty member on
the Council.
James E. Fallin, Music Commit
tee chairman; Johnny Johnson,
director of the Intercollegiate Ta
lent Show and directorate assist
ant; Paul Kinnison Jr., Dance
Committee chairman; Cylde Whit-
well, directorate assistant and
Dance Class co-chairman; and Don
Zirkle, Browsing Library Commit
tee chairman.
Shelley, assistant secretary-treas
urer; Jim Killebrew, Lion tamer;
James Gregory, assistant Lion
tamer; Freddie’ Wolters, tail twist
er; Jim Denton, assistant tail
twister; Phil Weihs, board of di
rectors (one-year term); and Bill
Adkins and Lacy McCall, board
of directors (two-year terms).
Mrs. Shelley gave the Lions a
capsule formula* for getting
the most efficient and reliable
work from their secretaries.
“It is just as important that the
employer be a good boss as it is for
the employee to be a good secre
tary,” she said. “If each knows
what to expect from the other
and that the other can be depend
ed on, the work from that office
will be much more efficient and
pleasing to all concerned.”
In closing she urged all “bosses”
present to give aid and encourage
ment to furthering the profession
al education and improvement of
their secretaries.
Rent Increase
Designed to Aid
Room Fix-Ups
Allocation of $100,000 for
repair of college dormitories
and acceptance of $117,067 to
support scholarships, fellow
ships and research within
various parts of the A&M System
highlighted business at the Sys
tem’s Boai’d of Directors meeting
Saturday.
The $100,000 will be used to re
pair and improve dorms. The
$100,000 is expected to come from
the added revenue derived from the
raise in dorm room, rents author
ized by the board at its February
meeting. The board raised the
rent from $12.50 to $15 per month.
Because this money will not be
available until after the comple
tion of the 1959-60 school year,
Vice President Earl Rudder asked
the board to authorize the loaning
of $50,000 from the Dormitory Re
serve account and $50,000 from the
Department of Athletics funds.
The athletic funds will be repaid
after the 1959-60 school ytar.
Money Allocation
The money will be used to re
pair Milner, Leggett, Mitchell,
Puryear, Bizzell and Walton Halls.
New study tables and chairs will
be placed in Dorm 1. New beds
and bed spi’ings will also be pur
chased, and 2,000 mattresses will
be rebuilt.
Venetian blinds will be installed
in Dorms 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
15 and 17.
The funds accepted by the board
included 14 scholarships amount
ing to $6,450; 5 grants-in-aid to
talling $22,710; and 5 special gifts
amounting to $750.
TTI Gets $3,552
The Texas Transportation Insti
tute received 75 gifts totalling
$3,552 in support of establishment
of the MacDonald Chair of Trans
portation, a memorial to the late
Thomas H. MacDonald, formerly
chief of the U. S. Bureau of Pub
lic Roads, and a distinguished re
search figure of the TTI from
1954 to 1957.
Dr. C. H. Groneman was re-ap
pointed chairman of the Athletic
Council for 1959-60 school year.
Vice President for Agriculture
R. E. Patterson outlined the work
being done in the School of Agri
culture to the board.
Vice President for Engineering
John C. Calhoun Jr. also presented
a report on the School of Engi
neering.
Both men stressed the need to
secure and keep higher quality pro
fessors and researchers. They
also pointed out the need to attain
an academic atmosphere on the
campus.
Dulles Taken Off
X-ray Treatment
WASHINGTON (AP) — John
Foster Dulles, ill with cancer, is
no longer getting X-ray treat
ments. He is receiving pain killers.
The State Department made this
report Monday on its former sec
retary of state, saying that the
“X-ray treatment to Mr. Dulles’
neck is now completed without
significant improvement in the dis
comfort as yet.”
Radiation treatments of the ab
dominal area, where Dulles suf
fered cancer in 1956 and again
this year, were ended March 18.
Dulles began receiving a series
of low voltage X-rays in the low
er part of the neck on April 14
after suffering pain which doc
tors said may have come from can
cer in that area.
At CSC Banquet
Leipper Tells Councilmen
Of Importance of Science
Lions Pick Officers
At Secretary Fete