THE BATTALION
Tuesday, December 15, 1959
PAGE 5
Sigma Gamma Tam
Holds Initiation
For New Members
The A&M Chapter of Sigma
Gamma Tau held its fall initiation
ceremony last Thursday night at
7:0 in the Conference Room of thd
new Engineering Building.
New members initiated into the
society were: Marion C. Becker,
David R. Frank, Frank H. Frey,
James R. Garey, Joe K. Heil-
heckei - , William E. Houchin Jr.,
David K. Keeler, Larry K. Leigh
ton, Raymond R. Maestid, Louis
G. Marlow, Edwin L. M. Mauzy,.
Ned H. Sandlin and James H. War
ren.
Sigma Gamma Tau is the na
tional aeronautical engineering
society.
Secretaries Slate
Christmas Social
At Local Ag Club
The Bryan-College Station Chap
ter of the National Secretaries
Assn, will hold a Christmas Party
instead of a dinner meeting during
the month of December.
Mrs. Beth Burnes, charman of
the social committee, asks that
members notify her as soon as
possible how many guests .they will
be bringing.
Ferry Replaced
Mrs. A. C. Singletary of Kirbyville, the
former Miss Lillian Sheffield, great grand
daughter of Thomas Jefferson Sheffield,
stands on ferry he put. into operation on
the Neches River, 12 miles west of Kirby
ville, more than 100 years ago. Fred Jen
kins is shown operating the ferry. The ferry
has been replaced by a bridge. (AP Wire-
photo)
Snow Aiming at Texas
15 Atlantic Ministers Meet
To Repair Western Unity
By The Associated Press
The U. S. Weather Bureau re
newed heavy snow warnings for
large sections of West Texas and
local blizzard conditions for the
Panhandle and upper South Plains
Tuesday.
Snow, freezing rain and thunder-
Seal Sale Drive
EncourageReturns
A&M students' will soon be leaving the campus as the
Christmas Holidays begin. However, many Christmas Seal
letters sent out by the Brazos County Tuberculosis Assn,
have not been answered, according to Mrs. I. W. Rupel, Seal
Sale chairman.
“We have already collected $4,247.46, “Mrs. Rupel said,”
and I am pleased with the returns from the students thus far,
but I am hoping those who haven’t sent in their dollar will
do so before they leave for home.”
The following letter addressed to A&M students was
received by The-Battalion:
Dear Students of A&M College:
Before you leave for the Holidays I want to thank each
of you who has sent in a contribution to the Christmas Seal
Sale. Many of youi have sent in more than the $1.00 asked.
Members of the Board of Directors of the Brazos County
TB Association and I are pleased with your generous re
sponse.
To those of you who have not sent in a donation—you
will before you leave the campus, won’t you?
We believe that every serious thinking Aggie realizes
the importance of the work of the TB Association to the
health of the College Campus and will do his part in helping
protect himself and other Aggies from tuberculosis.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Mrs. I. W. Rupel, chairman Sea! Sale
Brazos County Tuberculosis Association
Fellowship Sets
Caroling Session
Members of the Citizens Fellow
ship, a local organization open to
people of all 1'aces who are inter
ested in furthering brotherhood in
this community, will go Christmas
Caroling Thursday night.
Rev. L. W. Flowers and Winton
Covey, co-chairmen of the group,
said the group will meet in the
Adult Bible Class room of the A&M
Presbyterian Church at 7 p.m. The
carolers will sing at hospitals and
homes and later return to the
church for refreshments and a
short business meeting. A nursery
will be provided for children too
young to go caroling.
International students are in
vited to attend this meeting.
Diamonds, aside from being a
decorative jewels, also cut steel,
shape bowling balls and polish din-
tal fillings
Be well groomed
for success
That “like new” look we give
your clothes is sure to make the
right impressions whether
you’re on the job or on the
town.
CAMPUS
CLEANERS
storms that started Monday night
continued into the pre-dawn hours
of Tuesday morning.
The Texas Highway Patrol and
safety authorities repeated warn
ings to motorists to stay off ice-
coated, snowed-in highways.
Four inches of snow Were ex
pected for great areas of the Pan
handle, upper South Plains and the
upper Pecos Valley Monday. Snow
plows worked through the night.
Heavy drifts with high winds
buffeted the Panhandle-Plains
country. Many roads were closed,
including four major artei’ies. The
weather bureau said there was n
possibility of the heavy snow and
blizzard conditions spreading into
North Central Texas.
Shortly before dawn, the Pacific
cold front that caused the turbu
lence and cold was along a line
from about 50 miles west of Wich
ita Falls, just east of Sah Antonio,
to about 50 miles east of Laredo
and southward into Mexico.
Thunderstorms crackled over
Central Texas for a hundred miles
east of the front and 50 miles west
of the front. Precipitation was
general over the remainder of the
state with light rain or drizzle and
a few scattered thunderstorms over
East Texas and Southwest Texas.
Light snow, sleet and freezing rain
continued over the Panhandle.
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We gcatcfciHy
acknowledge your patron
age in H»e post and hope
that ail joy possible be
yours on this great
occasion.
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Service Station
.North Gate
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The front apparently dropped
temperatures about 20 degrees.
El Paso, far to the rear, had 30
degrees at 4:30 a.m. Dallas, in
front of the movement, had 50 de
grees at the same time. It was 32
in Amarillo where freezing rain
was falling and 31 at Dalhart
where it was sleeting.
Light to heavy thunderstorms
drenched the Dallas-Fort Worth
ai’ea soon after midnight and con
tinued through the wee hours of
Tuesday morning.
By early Monday night, two
inches of snow had covered the
northern sections of the Texas
Panhandle. Snowplows were in
operation and biting, cold winds
drifted the snow with 45-mile-per-
hour gusts.
Westward, just across the New
Mexico line, Portales had 6 inches
of snow and a section of trans
continental U. S. 66—the old
“Grapes of Wrath” route to Cali
fornia—was reported blocked. ,
PARIS (AP)—Foreign ministers
of the 15 Atlantic Allies met to
day in a bright new headquarters
to seek ways of repairing the fray
ing fabric of Western unity.
It was plain this time the prob
lems, both diplomatic and' military,
were many and couldn’t be ducked.
Chief among them was the openly
expressed feeling of the United
States and other members of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion that France is not doing its
share.
After 10 years the alliance
seemed to be in for heavy re
thinking. Secretary-General Paul-
Henri Spaak told newsmen he was
“convinced the alliance cannot live
unless it adapts itself.”
The conference comes at a time
when the tide of world diplomacy
is flowing fast.
On Saturday French President
Charles de Gaulle will be host to
President Eisenhower, British
Prime Minster Harold Macmillan
and West German chancellor Con
rad Adenauer.
These top Western leaders will
sit down to prepare for the ex
pected Eisenhower - Macmillan -
De Gaulle meeting next spring
with Soviet Premier Nikita Krush
chev.
The date, place and agenda of
the East-West summit will be dis
cussed by all the NATO powers.
The date to be proposed to Krush
chev is expected to fall sometime
between April 15 and May 31.
Geneva is regax-ded as the likely
place, although the French would
prefer Paris.
The agenda is something else
again. The big Western leaders
will have to sort that out, with
Eisenhower possibly serving as
the man to bridge the conflicting-
views.
Of even more immediate impor
tance, the lone hand de Gaulle
is playing to revive the glory of
France is causing strains in the
Western defense system.
This was- pinpointed last week
v/hen Gen. Nathan Twining, chair
man of the U. S. Joint Chiefs of
Staff, charged America’s partners
with not assuming their fair share
of the defense effort. He pointed
a finger particularly at France.
France was stung. At a private
meeting Monday French Foreign
Minister Maurice Couve de Mur-
ville told U. S. Secretary of State
Christian A. Herter that Twining’s
remarks were of “an excessive and
dramatic character.”
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