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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1959)
BACK TO SCHOOL EDITION Weather Partly cloudy today, tonight and Friday with no important temperature changes. Number Volume 58 « BATTALION Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus SECTION I COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1959 Price Five Cents Tour of Building Frosh Open House Scheduled in MSC Friday Evening istration HP • 1 M ® 01 • 1 omgn t in bmsa Starts Hall —Battalion Staff Photo Petroleum Engineering Building Rising The new Petroleum Engineering- Building is expected to be ready for occupancy by the fall of 1960. R. B. Butler of Bryan is con tractor for the $742,000 building which is now beginning to take shape as shown by this picture. The new building is located east of the Geology Building. When com pleted, the building will house the Depart ment of Petroleum Engineering. The three- story building is of concrete frame and masonary walls. New Fee Hikes Effective At Weekend Registration |!2.75 to $3 will be used for MSC An opportunity to meet the president and dean of students of A&M and their wives will be pro vided new students in the annual Freshman Open House and Presi dent’s Reception, to be in the Me morial Student Center Ballroom, Friday from 6:3!) to 9 p.m. According to Hiram T. French, Open House chairman, staging of the open house will undergo a change this year with the addition FHA Approves Loans Here WASHINGTON, D. C.—(Special to The Battalion)—The Community Savings and Loan Assn, has been approved to make Federal Housing Administration property improve ment loans to homeowners. The approval was contained in a letter sent today to H. E. Burgess, president and manager of the as sociation, by Roy F. Cooke, assis tant commissioner of the Property Improvement Program of the F.H.A. Loans are available to all,home- owners for remodeling, moderniz ing, additions and rep&iring homes under this widely-used FHA in sured low cost plan. The moneys loaned for home im provements under this program are from funds of lenders approved by FHA. The Community Savings and Loan Assn, is the most re cently approved lender authorized to make these F.H.A insured loans. Any individual, contractor or material supply dealer who wishes to participate in this home im provement program is invited to make application at the office of t,he financial institution. The benefits of this program have been proven over the past 25 years. More than 23 million families have obtained F.H.A. loans to improve their properties. The total amount of money bor rowed by homeowners exceeds $12 billion. Homeowners can borrow up to $3,500 for periods ranging up to five years. All types of home im provements, such as additions and alterations, painting and decorat ing, insulating, plumbing and heat ing, wiring, cement work, grading and landscaping, and others which add life and value to the property are eligible for F.H.A. home im provement loans. With the exception of left half back, an all-lettermen lineup is ex pected to start the opening game of the season against Texas Tech Saturday for the Texas Aggies. Junior letterman Jon Few of Midlothian has missed 10 days of the first two weeks of pre-season practice with a sprained ankle and shoulder injury. Should he not be well by Saturday, a sophomore, Eddie Van Dyke of San Antonio Edison, will be the only non-letter winner in the starting lineup against Tech. A&M and Tech collide in the Dallas Cotton Bowl Saturday night for the last time. The Red Raid ers, admitted to the Southwest conference in 1956, play for the championship next season and the series then will be on a home-and- home basis at College Station and Lubbock. The two clubs have played 17 previous games since 1927 at five different locations of tours through the entire build ing to give the new student a com plete picture of all activities of the MSC. French will welcome the stu dents and their commanding offi cers before the tours, to be con ducted by members of the MSC Council and Directorate. Each tour will end at the door of the MSC Ballroom, where Presi dent and Mrs. Eai’l Rudder will head a receiving- line, with Dean of Students and Mrs. James Han- nigan. The officials will be intro duced to the new students by Ron ald E. Buford, president of the MSC Council and Directorate, and S. Rush McGinty, vice president of the same MSC governing group. The purposes of the Open House and Reception are to honor the new students, their parents and friends; to introduce them to offi cials of the college; and to fa miliarize them with the MSC and its activities. All committees of the MSC will have demonstrations or exhibits of committee activities at the open house, with each committee sta tioned in an appropriate area some where in the center. Committee representatives will be present to welcome the new students and ex plain the activities of their or ganization. Special attractions of the open house will be approximately 130 girls from Bryan and College Sta tion, who will serve as hostesses for the occasion. Eight of these girls, Judy Rossmussen, Dorothy Berry, Sharon Patterson, Emily Crouch, Mary Francis Badgett, Myrna McGuire, Jean Lynch and Lynda Chalk, will act as senior hostesses. Adult hostesses serving on the Freshman Open House committee include Mrs. Frank Elder, Mrs. Charles Gregory, Mrs. Tom Chand ler, Mrs. W. D. Hardesty and Mrs. Fred Smith. Among the other special guests at the open house will be numer ous college officials, including the heads of college departments, and their wives. System Directors Meet Saturday The board of directors of the A&M College System will meet in regular session at College Station at 10 a.m., Saturday morning. with the Aggies out in front, 13 wins to four. Tech edged the Ag gies last year in Dallas, 15-14. Coach Jim Myers, in his second rebuilding year at Aggieland, has been plagued by injuries this fall but all have been minor with the exception of Few’s ailments. The veteran starting lineup is expected to have juniors Ralph Smith of Phillips and Jack Estes of Olton, at end, seniors Bill Dar win of Houston and Gale Oliver of Refugio at tackle, senior Allen Goehring of San Marcos and jun ior Carter Franklin of Kerens at guard and junior Roy Northrup of Amarillo at center. Capt. Charles Milstead, Tyler senior, will be the quarterback. Senior Gordon Le- Boeuf of Port Neches will be the fullback. The halfback starters will either Few and Van Dyke at left and either junior Randy Sims of Houston or senior Robert San ders of Seadrift at right half. Several new fees and additions to existing fees will be in effect at registration tonight, Friday and Saturday when students regis ter for the fall semester. A new compulsory $18 fee per semester will cover hospital, Me morial Student Center and intra murals. In addition the student activities fee has been increased to $23.80 Leading soph candidates in the line are end Russell Hill of Dallas, center Larry Broaddus of Caldwell, tackle Joe Eilers of Hallettsville and guard Wayne Freiling of San Antonio. Best bets for any of these newcomers to break into the starting lineup are Eilers, Hill and Broaddus. Four veterans are misisng from the 1958 club. All are three-year lettermen who played on the un beaten 1956 team. They are back Dick Gay, ends John Tracey and Don Smith and tackle Ken Beck. Tracey was Milstead’s chief target last year, snaring 37 passes for 466 yards and helping the club set 12 new school passing records. Randy Sims, junior letterman from Houston, returns at right halfback. He was Milstead’s sec ond best receiver last year and should have a good season. He is being pushed now, though, by a senior two-year letterman, Robert from the old $21.90. The new $18 fee was brought about when the Legislature de creed that no state-appropriated money could be used for medical, student center, student activities or intramural expenses. With the consolidation of the Department of Student Activities with the MSC, the MSC fee has been raised to $6. Of this amount Sanders of Seadrift. Joining Mil- stead and Sims in the backfield are two lettermen—Jon. Few, Mid lothian junior and Gordon LeBoeuf, Port Neches senior. The starting line has lettermen at all spots including Ralph Smith and Jack Estes at end, Gale Oliver and Bill Darwin of Houston at tackles, Allen Goehring of San Marcos and Carter Franklin of Kerens at guard and Roy North rup of Amarillo at center. If Goehring and Franklin falter two more lettermen will move in. They are Wayne Labar of Harlingen and Buddy Payne of Houston. The Aggies open with Texas Tech in Dallas Sept. 19, then play Michigan State at East Lansing and Mississippi Southern at Mo bile, Ala., before the home opener Oct. 10 with Houston. Then come six rugged SWC foes in this order —TCU, Baylor, Arkansas, SMU, Rice and Texas. student program and student fa cilities. The remainder will be used for groups covered by the old Department of Student Activi ties. The compulsory health fee has been raised $2 per semester to cover the deficit between the old $10 fee and what was formerly brought in by state monies. The $1 intramural fee will cover the cost of intramurals. The student activities fee, which covers the cost of athletics to all home events, The Aggieland, The Battalion, Great Issues, Recital Series and the student’s school magazine was increased $1.90. In addition laboratory fees Were authorized for all laboratory courses. The fees will be a minimum of $2 for each lab and a maximum of $8 for each lab. Because of the lab fees, no stu dents may pay their fees until they complete registration. When registration for courses is com pleted, the student will pay his regular fees in addition to the lab fees. The lab fees were also necessi tated because of a bill passed by the Legislature. A maximum of $30 per semester was authorized by the Legislature for the services covered by the $18 fee at A&M. Student parking permits are also covered in the $30-maximum fee. The new fee for students this year is $3 per semester, an increase of $2 over last year’s fee. All-Letterman Lineup Cadets Meet Tech Saturday Three Day Period To End Saturday Registration for the 1959-60 fall semester begins tonight at 6 p. m. when the first elements of the more than 1.700 members of the Class of ’63 begin to fill their registration cards in Sbisa Hall. The remainder of the freshmen class will complete regis tration Friday morning to be followed Friday at 1 p. m. for returning students whose surnames begin with L, M, N and O until 3 p. m. when all those whose surnames begin with P, Q, R or S. Saturday morning at 8 those surnames beginning with C, D. E and P' 1 will register. At 10 a. m. those with surnames be ginning with G, H, I, J and K will register. At 1 p. m. A and B surnames with register and"* at 3 p. m. all those whose sur names begin with T, U, V, W, X, Y and Z will register. The Class of ’63 will con clude their Freshman Orientation Week activities Friday afternoon and Saturday. Friday at 2 p.m. a general as sembly will be held in G. Rollie White Coliseum under the direction of Director of Student Affairs Bennie A. Zinn. Included on the program will be a talk on “Train ing Outside the Classroom” by Dean of Students James B. Hanni- gan. “An Apple a Day,” a medi cal talk, will be given by Director of Student Heaji|t "Services Dr. C. Roger Lyons, .^calk on “Student Activities Programs at the Col lege” will conclude the program. At 4 p.m. Friday, meetings will be held for both Corps and civilian students. Corps students will meet in the coliseum to hear Commandant of the School of Military Sciences Col. Joe E. Davis talk on “Value of Leadership Training offered in the Corps of Cadets.” Professor of Military Science and Tactics Col. Frank L. Elder will discuss the Army ROTC and the Air Force ROTC will be discussed by Pro fessor of Air Science Col. Charles E. Gregory. Civilian students will meet in the MSC Assembly Room with Zinn presiding. Saturday from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. will be devoted to cadet and civilian orientation. C of C Member Drive Halted Temporarily The College Station Chamber of Commerce membership drive has been deferred temporarily, accord ing to President L. S.. Paine. He reminded that the United Chest drive is scheduled for November. “The United Chest is a wmrthy community effort and the Chamber of Commerce wants to cooperate in every way toward making it a success. We felt that to conduct our drive now would be to compete with the Chest,” Paine stated. Plans for the Chamber’s 1960 program of work and plans for the 1960 membership drive are being prepared by the Board of Direc tors of the College Station Cham ber of Commerce and its subcom mittees, Paine reported. “As these plans and programs become final ized,” Paine continued, “we will make announcement of them.” The chamber was only recently given a vote of confidence by the citizens of College Station, and a $14,000 budget was approved. A program of objectives was also adopted calling for civic improve ments, greater cooperation with A&M, and the promotion of Col lege Station as a desirable place to live and work, among many others. —Battalion Staff Photo Aggieland ’59 Arrives Ed Rigsby, junior accounting major from Andrews, re- cieves his volume of The Aggieland ’59 from Mrs. Dana Bateman, receptionist in the Office of Student Publications. The Aggielands arrived early this year for the first time in recent years, according to Mrs. Cecilia Prihoda, Student Publications business manager. The books may be picked up in the Office of Student Publications in the basement of the YMCA by students who bought them last year.