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Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1960
Number 52
Chancellor Harrington Opens It...
Chancellor,M. T. Harrington officially opens national Business Machines Corp., witnesses
the huge new Data Processing Center at the cutting of the ribbon at the door of the
dedication ceremonies yesterday afternoon. Center.
T. V. Lear son, vice president of the Inter-
.. . Or. Rose Explains It . . .
Dr. Aaron Rose, left, director of the Texas IBM-704 sends out its typewritten message
Engineering Experiment Station and ‘the to the operator to a group of visitors at the
Data Processing Center, explains how the official opening yesterday at 1:80 p. m.
... Russell Demonstrates It
James Russell, head of the International
Business Machines Corp. Houston office,
explains operations of the brain of the
IBM-704 to Chancellor M. T. Harrington,
center, and T. V. Learson, vice president of
IBM. The demonstration took place at the
dedication of the Data Processing Center
on campus.
Senate To Consider
Seating in Coliseum
Open Discussion'
Tops Heavy Slate
By BILL HICKLIN
Battalion News Editor
The Student Senate last night proposed the possibility
of a seating arrangement for coming basketball clashes in
G. Rollie White Coliseum.
In an open discussion in the Senate Chamber of the Me
morial Student Center, the governing body also considered
a study for entrance of Aggies and their wives or guests
through the same entrance of the coliseum instead of dif
ferent gates.
Ben Cook, chairman of the Issues Committee which will
handle the seating arrangement and entrance possibility,
brought the problem before the Senate.
Cook said he had noticed numerous younger children
-♦'throwing paper cups and
other material on the hard
woods during cage contests
with the A&M student body
receiving the blame.
The possible seating system will
not contain class distinction since
it is already a standard for sen
iors to take the section near the
floor below the main seats of the
coliseum.
Authorities at White Coliseum
will be contacted in the near fu
ture to discuss the situation.
Former Senate President John
Thomas brought the entrance is
sue before the Senate, noting Ag
gies’ guests or wives had to enter
one gate and they another, forc
ing a “walk halfway around the
coliseum to meet them.”
The Issues Committee will also
discuss this problem with coliseum
authorities.
In other Senate business, reports
were given on the Campus Chest
and the 12th Man Bowl and atten
tion was given to the Blood Didve,
the Muster Program and the action
of the Southwest Conference
Sportsmanship Committee.
The Campus Chest this year
collected $1,531.70 according to
Marvin Schneider, chairman of the
drive. Schneider said the collection
was somewhat below the goal, but
he felt it would be adequate to
meet any future emergency. Com
bining this collection with funds
already in the Chest, Schneider
said it put the total right at $3,000.
Date for the 12 Man Bowl, sche
duled last month also had to be
cancelled since classes could not
be dismissed for the occasion.
A&M must meet a set amount of
hours of class per year to main
tain acci’editation. Missed classes
for Bonfire work ate up virtually
all dismissal possibilities. The
game will be reset for later this
spring with a night clash a possi
bility.
The Blood Drive, which will be
conducted late in the coming
spring, was assigned to the Wel
fare Committee under Schneider.
The annual drive is conducted in
‘Hate-Mongers’
O
Abuse Jews
In Night Raids
By The Associated Press
Hit and run hate-mongers oper’-
ating under the cover of darkness
continued their smear campaign
against Jews unabated Thursday
night. Attempts to track them
down were meeting with little suc
cess.
More swastikas and abusive slo
gans appeared in widely scattered
counti’ies—most of them crudely
splashed on synagogues, homes
and public buildings.
Sixteen days after the outbursts
began with the desecration of a
synagogue in Cologne, govern
ment officials, Jewish leaders and
social workers still disagreed in
trying to place the blame for the
continuing situation.
West Germany’s Minister of In-
tei-ior Gerhardt Schroeder told
British radio listeners Thursday
night that anti-Semitism “repre
sents no political power in Ger
many today.”
“In our opinion, the anti-Semitic
outrages primarily involve ques
tions of moral attitudes and hu
manity,” he said.
Many Jewish leaders and groups
from other churches blamed left
overs from Hitler’s fascism. There
have also been suggestions that
the Communists inspired the out
rages to discredit Chancellor Kon
rad Adenauer’s government.
Police in Milan, Italy,, seized
eight men, ranging in age from 17
to 28, and charged them with re
viving fascism by anti-Semitic
acts.
Police said the eight were mem
ber's of a group calling itself “the
new European order.” • Propagan
da documents wei-e found in the
organization’s headquarters sug-
S^esting it was in touch with simi
lar movements abroad.
Earnest K. Eindley
. . . Great Issues speaker
Famed News Analyst
Lindley Scheduled
For Great Issues
Earnest K. Lindley, director of and the Presidential campaigns of
the Washington Bureau of News- 1,940, 1944, 1948, 1952. During the
(See SENATE on Page 4)
Phi Eta Sigma Sets
Initiation Tonight
Fall initiation for the local chap
ter of Phi Eta Sigma, national
freshman scholastic honor society,
wil be held tonight at 6:45 p.m. in
the Assembly Room of the Memo
rial Student Center, with five
sophomores to become new mem
bers.
The five students to be initiated
by officers of the chapter are
Thomas J. Blankenship, engineer
ing major frorti Temple; Garold L.
Loyd, business administration ma
jor from St. Francis, Kan.; Robert
W. Timme, science major from Vic
toria; Thomas F. Webb, industrial
engineering major from Rusk; and
Ronald J. Wolny, engineering ma
jor from Rochester, N. Y.
These men met requirements for
eligibility after completion of
their freshman year.
A 2.5 grade point ratio at the
end of the first semester of the
freshman year, or a 2.5 overall
grade point ratio at the comple
tion of both semesters is required
for eligibility.
An informal coffee session will
be held at 7:15 p.m. for all fresh
men who now have a grade point
ratio of 2.0 or better. Officers
invite everyone in this category to
attend in order to talk over possi
bilities of becoming a member of
the society.
Officers of the society are Ram-
j-ey K. Melugin, chapter president;
fames R. Sullivan, vice president;
Tames W. Cardwell, secretary;
Ralph D. Loyd, treasurer; Robert
K Wright, historian; Donald L.
pay, junior advisor; and James B.
Barlow, senior adviser.
week Magazine and television
commentator, will he the principal
speaker for the second Great Is
sues presentation to be held in the
Memorial Student Center Ball
room, Jan. 14, at 8 p. m.
Lindley will speak on the topic
“Washington Tides.”
The famed news analyst was
educated at Indiana University,
University of Idaho, University of
Kansas, one term, and Oxford Uni
versity in England on a Rhodes
Scholarship. During the First
World War, he served as a second
lieutenant in the U. S. Army.
While in college, Lindley edited
a small-town newspaper for a time
and, on returning from England
in 1924, went to work as a repoi’ter
for the Wichita (Kansas) Beacon.
In December, 1924, he joined the
reportorial staff of the New York
World. He became a political writ
er, and in 1928 covered the pi’esi-
dential campaign, traveling with
A1 Smith and Herbert Hoover. He
has covered every national election
since then.
In 1931, he moved to the New
York Herald-Tribune as a political
writer, and in 1932 traveled with
Franklin D. Roosevelt during his
presidential campaign. He was
transferred to the Washington Bu
reau of the New York Herald Tri
bune in 1933, and in 193fi covered
the Republican candidate’s (Alf
Landon) presidential campaign for
that paper.
In 1937, Lindley was appointed
Chief of the Washington Bureau
of Newsweek Magazine. He was
made director of Newsweek’s
Washington Bureau in 1954. In
addition to supervising the cover
age of Washington for Newsweek,
he writes a weekly column, “Wash
ington Tides,” and also writes two
columns a week for a number of
newspapers. He covered the na
tional conventions of both parties
1952 campaign he_ traveled with
both major candidates. He pre
dicted the nomination as well as
the election of Eisenhower and
Ni?con.
Lindley has devoted attention
also to international affairs and
American foreign and military
policies. In this connection, he has
traveled extensively abroad. In
1955 he attended the Asian-Afri
can Conference at Bandung, In
donesia and visited 14 Asian na
tions and colonies. He wrote a
series of columns and articles on
the progress of the struggle be
tween freedom and communism in
(See LINDLEY on Page 4)
Cadet Officers
To Inspect
Dorms at Drill
Cadet officers on the various
staffs will make an inspection of
Corps dormitories tomorrow be
tween 7 and 8 a.m., according to
Col. Frank S. Vaden, assistant
commandant.
The inspection may become a
regular part of Saturday morn
ing drill, as it was last j’ear.
Col. Yaden said. He added,
however, that no decision has
yet been made on the matter.
“We want to see how it will
work,” Col. Vaden said. “Cadet
officers will soon become com
missioned officers, and the ex
perience in inspecting will aid
them.”
Cadets will be at their desks
studying during the hour-long
inspection, and will come to at
tention when the inspecting par
ty enters the room, he said.
Tactical officers will also
make spot inspections in the
various dorms, said Col. Vaden.