Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1959
Number 47
Yule Tree Sale
Tommy and DeDe Wolters, noting' the spread of Christmas
and the nearing day, examine Yule trees on sale at East
Gate by the College Station Lions’ Club. Proceeds from
the sale will be used in the various club service projects.
Dewey Speaks
To Kiwanians
Brownrigg Dewey, state repre
sentative from Brazos County, was
guest speaker at the regular Tues
day meeting of the College Station
Kiwanis Club.
Roy Wingren, club president,
presided at the meeting. Wingren
turned the program over to Lloyd
Keel, assistant professor in the
Department of English, who intro
duced Representative Dewey.
Dewey spoke to the group on the
accomplishments of the 56th leg
islative session, which lasted from
Jan. 13-Aug. 6. He explained the
extraordinary length of the ses
sion was caused by the appropria
tions bill and tax bill fights.
According to Dewey, Governor
Pi’ice Daniel signed 592 bills pass
ed during the session.
He pointed out $2% billion was
appropriated to the state govern
ment, and the inci’ease in appro
priations had to be offset by taxes,
such as the cigarette tax and the
natural gas tax.
Almost $500 million was appro
priated for use in public schools,
Dewey said. Higher education took
a step forward this year, he add
ed, because of the formula estab
lished by the Commission on High
er Education.
The legislature created three
new colleges, said Dewey, and he
added the University of Houston is
attempting to attain college status.
President Wingren announced
two holiday meetings of the club
would be held, one at the Saber
Motel Tuesday and the other in
the Fountain Room of the Memor
ial Student Center the following
week.
Wingren also announced that a
board meeting would be held on
Thursday night in the Mechanical
Engineering Shop.
Who’s Who Sketch
Listed on Page 3-4
Beginning on Page 3 of to
day’s issue of The Battalion is
a resume of the activities of
each of the 36 A&M students
selected for Who’s Who in
American Colleges and Univer
sities.
Proposed Cullen Center
The family of the late Hugh Roy Cullen, oilman-philanthro
pist, announced in Houston plans to build this $100,000,000
Cullen Center in downtown Houston. Included would be
(1) a 500-room hotel, (2), (3), and (4) office buildings of
25, 40-45, and 25 stories, and (5) parking garage. Be
hind (4) is a sketch of the 44-story building being planned
by Humble Oil & Refining Co., and behind the Humble
building the steelwork can be seen for the First City Na
tional Bank Building. (AP Wirephoto)
Freshman Class Completes
Officer Slate in Run-Off
Gibbs, Threadgill
Annex Top Posts
Four top offices in the freshman class were filled Tues
day as Jack Gibbs, Jack Threadgill, Dennis McIntosh and
Earl Henderson captured positions in run-off elections in
the Memorial Student Center.
Gibbs, science major from Lampasas, was elected presi
dent; Threadgill, industrial engineering major from Brady,
took the vice president slot; McIntosh, pre-veterinary major
from Alief, took the secretary-treasurer position; and Hen
derson, aeronautical engineering major from Houston, an
nexed the social secretary post.
Tabulations were released late yesterday evening by
Floyd Kaase, chairman of the
An unofficial 525 frosh*
cast ballots, according to a
total public counter. However,
the actual count of freshmen
voting is only approximate
since those casting ballota need
not vote for every position.
The vote was down somewhat
from the previous election when
955 frosh narrowed the more than
100-man field to 8 run-off candi
dates.
Opponents in the run-offs were
Robert Gay, electrical engineering
major from Dallas for president;
Charles Blaschke, liberal arts ma
jor from Skidmore, for vice presi
dent; William Barnhart, electrical
engineering major from Temple,
for secretary-treasurer; and Paul
Bergstrom, electrical engineering
major from Dallas, for social sec
retary.
All class offices required a 1.0
grade point ratio. 1
In the Dec. 3 elections, the
Class of ’63 placed James Carter,
George Johnston, James Taylor
and David Chapman on the Stu
dent Senate over 25 hopefuls.
Jerry King, James Johnson, Billy
Ward, Delfino Villereal and Ben
Boyd also gained places on the
Election Commission.
The Student Senate recording
secretary slot was still another
post Tilled at the crowded Dec. 3
election with Norris Gilbreath tak
ing the spot in an all-class vote.
Classified junior in the School
of Agriculture selected Leo Rigs
by for the junior agriculture rep
resentative to the Student Senate,
rounding out the elections.
Nixon Quiet
As President
On World Tour
WASHINGTON, —OP)— Vice
President Richard M. Nix&n is
testing out the theory that politi
cal silence may be golden.
Election Commission.
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Full Docket
Heads Fine
Arts Festival
The A&M Fine Arts Festival
will.be held Feb. 8-Feb. 19 with a
ful slate of programs and exhibits
filling up the two week schedule.
The Festival, which is being held
for the second year, will use the
call letters AMFAF. The Festival
charman is Gordon Reynolds.
The Town Hall Committee of
the Memorial Student Center will
present “Vienna on Parade” in G.
Rollie White Coliseum on the night
of Feb. 11, under the leadership of
Bill Phillips, committee chairman.
The Recital Series Committee,
headed by Don Reynolds, will pre
sent two concerts in connection
with the Festival. The first, Feb.
9, will be the Grishman-Ryse Duo,
a duo consisting of a singer and a
violinist. The second, Feb. 12, will
feature David Bar-Illan, a pianist.
During the second week of the
festival, the Aggie Players will
present sevei’al performances. The
feature performance will be Shake
speare’s “Twelfth Night.” The
student president of the Aggie
Players is Reynolds.
The MSC Creative Arts Commit
tee will sponsor an art exhibit and
a speaker, Dr. Peter W. Guenther,
who will speak on the exhibit. Nick
Settanni is chairman of the Crea
tive Arts Committee.
The Singing Cadets, under the
leadership of Student President
David Bunting, will also present
a concert, but a definite date for
this concert has not been decided
upon.
The last main attraction of the
Festival will be a presentation by
the MSC Film Society.
Reynolds concluded by adding
there may be several more attrac
tions for the festival before it ac
tually begins.
Pickets at Texas Education Agency Building
This group from Del Rio picketed the Tex
as Education Agency Building in Austin
protesting that the agency had discrimi
nated against a south Texas school district.
The pickets, left to right, are: Robert Galan,
John Dissler and behind the huge sign are
Floyd Payne, who helped finance the protest
campaign and Mrs. John Dissler. The group
claimed TEA was “unfair” and “against
Latin American children”. (AP Wirephoto)
Allies Watch with Anticipation
U. S., France Hold Steadfast
To Views in NATO Fight
PARTS, (A*) — The United States
and France showed no sign today
of giving ground in their deep di
vision over the military structure
of the Western alliance.
As this quarrel within the North
Atlantic alliance moved toward a
showdown, the rest of the NATO
allies watched uneasily from the
sidelines.
With the NATO ministerial coun
cil planning a full day of debate
oji defense matters, the French-
American disagreement seemed
bound to be thrown into a bold
light deary visible to Moscow.
Secretary of State Christian A.
Herter, at the opening council ses
sion Tuesday, insisted once more
on integration of NATO military
forces under a unified command to
counter the growing striking power
of improved Soviet arms.
With equal firmness, Franc’e has
been holding out for a system to
preserve what President Charles
Correction
William G. Shenkir, senior
business administration major
from San Antonio, was inad
vertently left off the list of
A&M students selected f o r
Who’s Who in American Col
leges and Universities in yester
day’s issue of The Battalion.
de Gaulle refers to as the “national
entity” of the participating forces,
that is each nation retaining full
control of its forces.
French Foreign Minister Mau
rice Couve de Murville appeared to
be conducting a diplomatic delay
ing action until President Eisen
hower arrives Friday and can meet
with de Gaulle. The French hope
the two old wartime associates can
iron out the dispute.
As his allies understand it, de
Gaulle wants American forces to
remain in Western Europe. But
he also wants France to have a
bigger role in NATO and a strong
er voice in world affairs. And he
is looking toward a future, per
haps a distant one, when Western
Europe will be able to negotiate
with the Soviet Union on equal
terms and will no longer need to
take shelter under American arm
ed might.
There may be some effort to find
a face-saving partial solution to
the dispute.
One suggestion is a step-by-
step arrangement to unify Western
defense, at least in the air. In re
turn, the alliance for the time be
ing would officially overlook de
Gaulle’s refusal to accept stocks
of U. S. nuclear weapons in France
provided as has sole control of
them. The United States insists
on joint control, a system accept
ed by Britain and Italy.
Such an arrangement would pre
sent a fdcade of-unity to the Rus
sians. But America’s top military
men, and probably those of other
NATO nations, wil probably tell
their political chiefs privately that
it would not do nearly enough to
increase the military effectiveness
of the alliance.
Informed diplomats reported
meanwhile that West Germany has
won approval from her allies to
build warships up to 5,000 tons
and submarines up to 1,000 tons.
These sources said the tonnage
ceiling on West Germany’s grow
ing navy was raised at a secret
session last summer of the West
ern European Union, a seven-na
tion group set up in 1953 to “con
tain” a rearmed Germany.
The soui’ces said, however, that
Britain vetoed a West German bid
to make acoustic mines because
they were regarded as offensive
weapons, which the Germans' are
not supposed to manufacture.
West Germany’s present ton
nage limits are 3,000 for surface
warships and 350 for submarines.
The bigger ships are needed to
mount naval rockets and to fill the
larger role assigned to Germans
in the defense of the Baltic.
While President Eisenhower is
away on his good will tour, Nixon
has put a self-imposed silencer on
all statements about controversial
political matters.
In recent days the vice presi
dent has declined comment on New
York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller’s
invitation for Nixon to get busy
and settle the steel dispute.
Nixon has refused to say wheth
er he supports the proposal of Sec
retary of Labor James P. Mitchell,
one of his close Cabinet friends,
that managment and the steel
workers submit their disagreement
to a third party for settlement.
As a potential candidate for the
1960 Republican presidential nom
ination, Nixon apparently is con
tent to let Rockefeller take the
center of the political stage tem-
porarily.
Nixon is holding to a schedule
calling for a public declaration of
his candidacy early in February.
Nixon’s associates are convinced
Rockefeller already is running.
They are reported to have found
nothing as yet they regard as
threatening to Nixon’s prospects.
Dorms To Close Friday at 6
In order to conserve utilities and
protect student property, all dorm
itories except Ramps A and C of
Hart Hall and Ramps B, C, E, F,
G, H and J of Walton Hall will
be closed and locked at 6 p.m. Fri-
Air Force Reserve
Information Ready
All Prior Military service person
nel in the Bryan-Colle^e Station
area interested in a future in the
Air Force Reserve may call TA
2-1963 for information on mem
bership in the local Air Force Re
serve unit located at 3600 S. Col
lege or go by the 9807th Air Re
serve Squadron Headquarters and
discuss with T.Sgt. John P. Chumb-
ley the Air Force Reserve.
Lt. Col. William O. Davis, com
mander of the 9807th said, “The
Air Force Reserve offers many
advantages to the reservists. Some
of these advantages are pay, train-
day.
Any student who will have diffi
culty clearing his dormitory by
the time indicated for it to be lock
ed, because of transportation or
other problems, should contact his
Tactical Officer or Dormitory
Counselor for arrangements, Hous
ing Office officials said yesterday.
Students other than those living
in Ramps B, C, E, F, G, H and
J of Walton Hall and Ramps at
any time during the Christmas
holidays should contact students
in the above mentioned ramps who
will not remain during the holi
days, concerning the use of their
rooms.
In order to secure a room a stu
dent must bring a note of permis
sion from the occupant of the room
he expects to occupy in one of the
ramps to be left open, to the Hous
ing Office in the YMCA, where
each student will sign a roster
showing his location for the holi
days. In this way a student can
be reached in case of an emer
gency. This must be done by 5
p.m. Friday.
Any student finding it necessary
to gain entrance to a dormitory
which is closed for the holidays
must check at the Housing Office
for clearance.
All students are urged to close
the windows and lock the doors to
their rooms. First floor windows
particularly should be locked for
security purposes.
The dormitories will be opened
again at noon, Saturday, Jan. 2,
1960.
The College Dining Halls will
close after supper Saturday and
will remain closed until the even
ing meal, Sunday, Jan 3, 1960.
Revised Holiday Schedule
Of Hours for MSC Given
A revised schedule of Memorial
Student Center hours has been
released for the Christmas holi
days.
The MSC will close at 5 p.m.,
Dec. 21 and remain closed until
Monday morning, Dec. 28. The
only exception will be the West
ern Union Office, which will re
main open all week with the ex
ception of Christmas Day and
Saturday afternoon, Dec. 26.
The main desk and all offices
will be open after Dec. 28 to
accomodate a square dance school
which will hold sessions in the
MSC Dec. 21-Jan. 1. The main
desk will even remain open on
New Year’s Day, however all of
fices will be closed. The fountain
room will be open from 8 a.m.-
11 a.m. on New Year’s Day.