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Lyndon B. Johnson Visits Aggieland The Battalion Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1959 Number 23 Breakfast Will Kick Off Chest ’59 Fund Drive The College Station United Chest Fund Drive for $13,150 will be kicked off with a breakfast on Nov. 2. The 7:00 a.m. meal in the Ball room of the Memorial Student Center will bring together about 100 people including all commit- ★ ★ ★ Chest Drive Aids Local, Funds County (Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of articles on the College Station United Chest. The articles deal with the 14 agencies participating in the drive Nov. 1-15) Today’s article deals with the following agencies: 1. Brazos County Hospital Fund $300, 2. Brazos County Youth Counseling Service $600 and 3. College Station Local Chest Chari ty Fund $750. The Brazos County Hospital Fund is used to pay the hospital costs for needy patients. The fund pays all expenses up to a maximum of $125. Doctors render their serv ices without fee, while the hospi tals absorb expenses in excess of payment. Thus, hospital, doctor and Chest unit is providing medical attention for those who otherwise fannot pay for it. The Brazos County Youth Coun seling Service, an agency which is participating in the amount of $600, provides a professional coun seling service for childi-en and young people 18 and under, trou bled by emotional, adjustment or personality problems. The service is equally for the child and for his parents, since children do not or dinarily recognize their own prob lems. Operating expenses and salaries for this program come from the Cities of College Station and Bryan and from the Bryan and College Station United Chests. It is estimated that $14,100 will he needed in 1960 to administer the program which has grown from 40 cases in 1958 to 77 cases in 1959. The local charity fund of College Station is administered by a sub committee of your United Chest Committee. This fund is used for contingent charity needs as well as others not specifically filled by some other agency. The College Station United Chest is headed by J. B. “Dick” Hervey. Drive Chairmen are E. L. Angell, A&M College System; H. E. Bur gess, City Drive Chairman; and Irvin Lloyd, federal agencies. Tomorrow’s article will conclude the series on the College Station United Chest. Agriculture Group Helps in Building New Onion Dryer In cooperation with the Depart ment of Plant Physiology and Pa thology, A&M, the Lockwood Con veyor Corp. at Hereford, Texas, has designed and built a 576,000 BTU gas-fired infrared onion drier. The drier has a capacity of 350 bags of onions per hour. Gas-fired infrared- drying ^sys tems are showing promise for sev eral agricultuarl commodities, rice being one of them, according to Dr. D. W. Rosberg, associate pro fessor in the A&M Department of Plant Physiology and Pathology, and Dr. H. W. Schroeder of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. tees, department chairmen and workers. The meeting will climax the planning, publicity and prepara tion for the Nov. 2-15 Chest Drive campaign. Brief talks will be made by Vice Chancellor E. L. Angell of the A&M College System, head of the campus drive; by H.' E. Burgess, chairman of the College Station solicitation; and by Irvin Lloyd, head of the drive among federal agencies. J. B. “Dick” Her vey, general chairman, will pi’e- side at the breakfast meeting. “One Day’s Pay — the United Way” has been established as the official 1959 Campaign slogan. The United Chest is a community endeavor combining 14 drives for funds into one. In keeping with past practices, the United Chest Committee suggests that persons make their contributions where they work. The 14 agencies which are rep resented in the 1959 Fund Drive and the amount apportioned to each is as follows: 1. College Station Local Chest Charity Fund — $750. 2. College Station Community House Incoi-- porated — $300. 3. College Station Youth Facilities Committee—$400, 4. College Station YMCA — $400. 5. College Station Recreation Cou- cil — $1,500, 6. Brazos County Crippled Children’s Therapy Cen ter — $1,500, 7. Brazos County Hospital Fund — $300, Brozas Hospital Fund — $300, Brazos County Youth Counseling Service — $600, 9. Salvation Army — $750, 10. Bryan-College Station Girl Scouts Area Council—$2,450, 11. Boy Scouts of America—$2,000, 12. Gonzales Warm Springs — $300, 13. American Red Cross — $1,600, 14. Texas United Fund — $250. The budget was studied by pub lic hearing Sept. 29, and was a- dopted Oct. 1 by the. College Sta tion United Chest Committee. The Committee is composed of the following persons: Angell, H. E. Burgess, Don Dale, R. H. Davis, John S. Denison, Lee Duewall, David Fitch, Gibb Gilchrist, F. W. Hensel, Jr., Mrs. Raymond Hite, R. L. Hunt, Mrs. John Hays, Dale Leipper, Mrs. R. E. Patterson, Ir vin Lloyd, K. A. Manning, Taylor Reidel and Hervey, general chair man. United Chest Officials J. B. ‘Dick Hervey, standing, points out a United Chest item to his three campaign chairmen. Seated left to right are E. L. Angell, who heads the A&M College System drive; Irvin Lloyd in charge of federal agencies; and H. E. Burgess, chairman of the College Station drive. Hervey is General Chairman of the College Station United Chest. The Campaign will be launched with a breakfast Nov. 2, seeking to raise a budget of $13,150. Officials hope to conclude the drive by Nov. 15. SC ON A Committee Names Delegates Jimmy C. Smith, Squadron 10 junior, and Walter R. Willms, Con solidated Band Sgt. Maj., have been named by a selection committee of the Fifth Student Conference on National Affairs to represent A&M at the Tenth Student Conference on United States Affairs to be held at West Point, N. Y., Dec. 2-5. In addition to participating in the conference, the two representa tives from A&M will evaluate the We\st Point’s SCUSA and formu late ideas to improve next year’s SCONA. Jarrel Gibbs, SCONA V chair man, explained that delegates to the conference at the U. S. Mili tary Academy are chosen from the junior class each year so their ideas can be used for future SCONA meetings. Smith and Willms will leave by Novelist Speaks Tonight The Browsing Library Committee of the Memorial Student Center will host guest speaker Elmer Kelton, winner of the 1958 Western Writers Assn, of America Spur Award for the best Western novel of the year, at an open meeting of the group tonight. The meeting will be held in the MSC Assembly Room at 7:45 p. m. There will be no admission charge. plane Nov. 30, returning to the campus in time for the opening ses sion of SCONA V on Dec. 9. A portion of their expenses will be paid by the college. SCONA representatives will also be sent to the Air Force Academy Assembly and Principia College’s Public Affairs Conference later in the year. Vegetable Growers Slate Conference At Exposition One of the features of San An tonio’s eighth annual South Texas Vegetable Day Exposition, Nov. 12-14, will be a conference of vari ous state vegetable growers associ ations. Purpose of the session, which will start at 1 p.m. the first day and continue through Nov. 14, will be to discuss mutual problems, ideas and opportunities in the veg etable production industry. J. D. Prewit, association direc tor of the Texas Agricultural Ex tension Service at College Station, called special attention to a meet ing Nov. 13, when a discussion will be held to consider forming one statewide vegetable growers asso ciation. The conference will be held at the Hilton Hotel. Prewit said Gov. Price Daniel has issued a proclamation declar ing Nov. 9-14 Vegetable Week in Texas. Auditions for Aggie Talent Show Slated Early Next Month All Aggies interested in partici pating in the 8th annual Aggie Talent Show to be held Dec. 8 in Guion Hall must register in the MSC Directorate office for an au dition before Nov. 9. Auditions will be held Nov. 10- 11,’with sevexal acts to be selected for the show. The winning act will represent A&M in the 9th annual Intercollegiate Talent Show to he held Mar. 11 in G. Rollie White Coliseum. All types of comedy routines, dancers, combos and other enter tainers are invited to audition, ac cording to Jhnmy Roberts, chair man of the show. The annual show is under the sponsorship of the MSC Music Committee. SenatorCommends A&M for Leaders By JACK HARTSFIELD Battalion Stuff Writer A&M was honored Wednesday afternoon with a whirl wind visit from a distinguished Texan, Sen. Lyndon B. John son, Senate majority leader and a likely 1960 presidential candidate. Sen. Johnson was received in the lobby of the Memorial Student Center by Chancellor M. T. Harrington, President Earl Rudder, other college officials and representatives of both the Corps and civilian student body. Personal invitations were extended by the well-known visitor to student representatives of the college to the na tionally-televised Citizenship Seminar next Sunday at 9 a. m. in the Austin Municipal Auditorium. This conference, spon sored by the Texas Junior* Chamber of Commerce, will bring together national lead ers in various fields to dis cuss and answer questions on major issues directed to them by attending students. included on the Sunday agenda will he Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn; Secretary of the Air Force James Douglas; Allen Doug las, head of the Central Intelli gence Agency; Justice of the Su preme Court William O. Douglas; RCA’s John Burns; Cy Anderson, labor; Keith Glennan of the Space Agency; and the farribus radio-tele vision personality, Arthur Godfrey. Miller Leads Singing Mitch Miller will lead group singing at the conference with Howard Bud Jr., outstanding Tex as evangelist, giving the invoca tion. All student representatives at the conference were also invited to attend a barbecue at Senator Johnson’s ranch at the close of the informative session. Following introduction and wel come by the group, Johnson chat ted informally with the officials and students over coffee in the MSC fountain 1’oom. Covering many topics in the group discussion, the Senator spoke most enthusiastically of the edu cation bill which he will push for passage when Congress convenes in January. In commenting on the bill, Sen. Johnson predicted college enroll ment would triple if the bill passed. The measure would pro vide loans of $1,000 a year for four years to qualified high school graduates who would be unable to attend college without this provi sion. These loans will be undei’- written by the government. No re payment will be due until the sixth year after the first loan is made. Education Need Johnson pointed out that only 30 per cent of the nation’s youth goes to college, thus emphasizing the need for extending higher edu cation opportunities to a larger segment of the population. He could not foresee any major oppo sition to the bill. A question was directed to Sen ator Johnson about the up-and- coming Space Age. He rebounded by asking the student to keep in mind that it took Russia four years to catch up with the United States (See SENATOR, Page 3) Specialist Here To Attend Meet In Washington Mrs. Eloise T. Johnson, special ist on family life education for the A&M Extension Service, has been selected as a delegate to the 1960 White House Conference on Children and Youth, State Chaii’- man Guy D. Newman has an nounced. Mrs. Johnson is one of 116 dele gates to attend the conference in Washington March 27 through Api’il 2 of next year. Delegates were chosen by the Executive Board of the Governor’s Commit tee on the basis of outstanding interest and work in the counties and states’ preparations for the conference. Preparations for the conference include forming county commit tees and completing questionaires and reports for the Governor’s Committee. These reports will be taken to Washington for the con- fei'ence to be studied as a means of improving the welfare and sta tus of the childi’en and youth in the nation. Some of the question aires prepared and filled out on a county level were compiled by the young people on the Governer’s Committee themselves. The conference will mark the Golden Anniversary of the White House Conferences which began in 1909 with President Theodore Roosevelt. The conferences have dealt with problems concerning the dependent child, standards of child welfare, status of health and well-being of children, development of mental, emotional and spiritual qualities essential to children’s in dividual happiness and the condi tions necessary to this develop ment. Like its forerunners, the ap proaching conference will be a meeting of representative citizens who share a humanitarian and pro fessional concern for the youth of the nation, Chairman Newton said. More than 1,750,000 Texans have been involved in preparations for this conference, Newman said. Scout Registration Meet Set Tonight Parents of 8, 9 and 10-year-old boys who are interested in regis tering their son or sons in Cub Scout Packs are invited to meet at St. Thomas Parish Hall at 8 to night, according to John Sperry, pack committee chairman. Boys living south of Sulphur Springs Road and west of High way 6 are eligible to register in Pack 102, Sperry said. Those parents who are unable to attend this meeting may call the cubmaster, James R. Bi-own, at VI 6-7145 or John Sperry at VI 6-4144. Good on Cars The A&M parking problem leads to a simi- empties lar problem in traffic and street condition. This picture was taken during the 5 p. m. rush of traffic leaving the campus on the street that runs in front of the A&M Press Building and the Military “Shacks’' and its traffic onto Farm-to-Market Road 60. This is one of the streets on the campus that carry a large load of traffic during rush hours and needs improvement. (See Page 2 for related article.)