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The Battalion Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1960 Number Almost Ninth Cadets Remain Tenth In Poll From The Associated Press The Texas Aggie cagers tightened their grasp on the No. 10 slot in America in the weekly Associated Press basketball poll. And in so doing, Bob Rogers’ smooth Cadets pulled within one point of ninth ranked Utah State, amassing 228 total points, while State grabbed 229. A&M felled the Rice Owls last week in their only game, (11.-43, to take undisputed possession of first place in the hectic Southwest Con ference flag case. Southern Meth odist and Arkansas held to a sec ond place tie and Texas dropped back to third in the SWC after its upset loss to the Baylor Bruins. Cincinnati continued to dominate the poll with an overwhelming ma jority in first-place votes, but the Bearcats’ only conqueror, Bradley, closed the gap in total points. Cin cinnati totaled 70 first place votes to 19 for Bradley and 21 for third ranked California. Bradley pulled down 1,339 total points to close the Cincinnati mai’- gin to 132 as the ’Cats grabbed 1,471 points. Georgia Tech, the only team among the first ten to lose a game last week, retained its sixth rank ing but its margin over seventh- • rated Utah was trimmed to a mere 26 points. Villanova, the only two-game winner in the group last Library Sets New Policies Cushing Memorial Library has announced two changes in its pol icy, the first of which will become effective Feb. 1. According to Robert A. Houze, library director, no periodicals will be charged out for home use from the libi’ary or any of its branches. He said this included periodicals in bound or unbound form, as well as proceedings, transactions and similar publications. The other change is the discon tinuing of supplying books, period icals and other material to depart ments for permanent use. The practice will be discontinued com pletely after Aug. 1, said Houze. All outstanding orders will be handled in the usual manner, he added. All requests not yet pro cessed, along with other requests before Aug. 1, will be screened by a special committee, Houze said. Houze announced the installa tion of 23 new air-conditioned study carrels, and said 46 more would be in service later this year. He also said photocopying serv ice is available in the main librai'y and branch libraries for the re production of articles at cost. week, strengthened its hold on eighth but couldn’t overtake Utah. The Farmers return to confer ence competition Feb. 6 when they do battle with the Red Raiders of Texas Tech in G. Rollie White Col iseum. However, prior to the Tech date, the Ags take a two-day jaunt for an invasion of the West Coast—meeting San Francisco in San Francisco and Santa Clara in Los Angeles. The ratings are based on games through. Saturday, Jan. 20. The top ten, based on 10 points for first, 9 for second, etc., with first place votes in parentheses: 1. Cincinnati (70) 2. Bradley { 3. California (21) New Student Program Set; 60-80 Expected To Enroll Or ten ta lion Opens Mo rn ing of Fe b. 3 2. Bradley (19) lia (21) 4. West Virginia (10) 5. Ohio State (4) Te Villano’ 9. Utah State (2) .te G. Georgia Tech (2) 7. Utah 8. Villanova 10. A&M Second Ten 11. Miami (Fla.) i 12. North Carolina 13. Toledo 14. Detroit 15 Kentucky 10 St. Louis 17. Virginia Tech 18. Southern California 1 9. Dayton 20. tie. Providence Wake Forest Grain Drying, Storage Course NowUnderWay The annual Grain Drying and Storage Short Course, emphasiz ing activities and outlooks for 1960 is being held today and Fri day in the Memorial Student Cen ter. Following a welcome address by Dr. R. E. Patterson, vice chancel lor for agriculture of the A&M College System, talks got under way at 9:30 a.m. this morning with a discussion by Ray Bowden of Fort Worth, secretary of the Texas Grain and Feed Assn. His sub ject was the grain trade outlook for 1960. Next on the program was C. H. Moseley of Dallas, director of the Commodity Stabilization Service, who talked on “Doing Business with CCC in I960.’’ Chairman of the morning session was Walter Blanton of Fort Worth president of the Texas Grain and Feed Assn. The afternoon meeting will fea ture three seminar sessions on grain aeration, insects and rice. New Officer’s First Recognition SLIP IN SPELLING OKLAHOMA CITY (A 5 )—A sign along a highway invites everyone to eni’oll at Oklahoma City Univer sity. The sign painter spelled it “unversity.” Newly commissioned 2nd Lt. Stan Cough- ran, mathematics graduate from Pleasanton, gives a dollar bill tip Laney Me Math, senior history major from Midland after McMath was the first to salute Coughran following his commission last Saturday in Guion Hall. In Commencement Address Slater Commends Aggies For Citizenship Practices “I’ve known no group whose principles and practices were more exemplary of excellent citizenship than the graduates of this school,” the Rev. Dr. Eugene Slater said today in his commencement address to the graduating class at A&M. Dr. Slater is minister of the Polk St. Methodist Church, Amarillo. “My concept of the A&M man comes out of first-hand exper ience,” Dr. Slater said. The title of his address was “The A&M Man.” Dr. Slater said that he had “also drawn upon the idealism of the Judeo-Christian tradition in my conception of the A&M man. For we have an obligation to think of the A&M man as he can be and ought to be, in terms of the Bib lical pattern. “First of all,” the Amarillo min ister declared, “the A&M man is a seeker after the truth. There should be nothing provincial or parochial about your minds. “I’m sure that you hold the search for truth to be a dynamic process. This quest begins with an appropriation of the heritage of the past. Library and labora tory and lecture room are indis pensable to this quest. We do not assume that the . last word has been spoken in any realm of hu man knowledge. We believe that the process of discovering new First for Development Course Exec. From Abroad Enrolls facts and new meanings will con tinue throughout life. The speaker said that the search for truth has been “most fruitful and the end of our pursuit is not yet in sight. In all of this en deavor, the A&M man has had and Will continue to have, a most sig nificant part. “The A&M man, in his search for truth, must not stop short of some satisfactory answer to the question, ‘what is life’s meaning?’ For any man who’s lived for even a few years, knows that poeti-y and sunsets, music and friendship, love and sacrifice are quite as im portant as food, shelter, clothing (See SLATER, Page 4) Ey ALAN PAYNE Battalion Staff Writer From 60 to 80 new students are expected to enroll early next week for New Student Week activities as preparations get under way for the spring semester. From 30 to 50 high school mid-term graduates are ex pected, while approximately 30 transfers from other schools have indicated they plan to enroll. New Student Week Wednesday The new students will arrive for New Student Week by .8 a. m. Wednesday, Feb. 3, and will register immediately after lunch Friday, Feb. 5. They will be given room assignments and will pay fees early Wednesday morning before being given the rest of the morning off to get settled in'*" their rooms. At 1 p. m. Wednesday they will attend a General Assemb ly in the lecture room of the Biological Sciences Building, pre sided over by Dr. C. H. Ransdell, associate director of the Basic Di vision. Dr. Frank • Hubert, dean of the School of Arts and Sci ences, will deliver the welcoming address. Entrance Exams Following the General Assembly Wednesday afternoon entrance examinations will be given befoi’e the students are dismissed from the lecture room. S. A. Kerley and Ulrich Crow will be in charge of administering the tests. Following a night off Wednes day to get acquainted with the numerous extracurricular activities around the campus, the students will report to meetings at 8:00 Thursday morning. All ROTC students Will report to the Biolog ical Sciences Lecture Room to se cure uniforms and laundry marks. All civilian students will report to the Brooks Room on the main floor of the YMCA Building for their orientation program, under the supervision of Bennie Zinn, di rector of Student Personnel Serv ice. Col Frank Vaden will be in charge of the ROTC orientation progi-am. Another General Assembly and individual conferences will be on the agenda for Thursday after noon. Thursday night will also be a free night. Following another General As sembly, in Room 206 of the Basic Division Building conceiming regis tration procedure, and identifica tion photographs Friday morning, the students will begin registering at 12:30. Regular students will begin reg istering immediately afterward and throughout the day Satm-day Feb. 6. The Executive Development Course at A&M this week assumed international proportions. The first executive from abroad en rolled in the course Sunday. He is Mohammad Hassan Mo- shiri, manager of the services di vision of the National Iranian Oil Co., Abadan, Iran. He, with his wife, Ghamar, has been in the United States since November, first landing in Los Angeles where they spent a few days sight seeing. “It is our first visit to the Unit ed States. We feel fortunate by being able to see so many things. We’re interested in everything — even recreational facilities for children,” Hassan, as he prefers to be called, said Sunday. Hassan was assigned to the En gineering Drawing course at A&M from the Transworld Management Corp. offices in Long Beach, Calif. Prior to landing in California, the Moshiris spent four months in London attending seminars and visiting facilities related to the oil industry. From Los Angeles, the Moshiris journeyed to San Francisco, to New York, to Venezuela, to Mi ami, back to New York, and from there to Washington, D. C. Magazine Carries Pics of ED The current issue of the Jour nal of Engineering Gx-aphics, a national publication, carries sev eral pictures of the Department of Engineering Drawing at A&M. Four pictur-es depict the new facilities of the new building for the department, showing the building, the classrooms and equipment and machinery. William E. Street is professor and head of the Department of Engineering Drawing. They were particularly impress ed with the beauty of Washing ton. “The capitol reminds me of Paris,” Mrs. Moshiri mused. “The terrain, the river and the pattern of the streets are very much French.” She added she regretted that they would not be in Wash ington to see the cherry blossoms. “Washington is pretty,” Hassan said, “But we’re impressed with Texas. It’s so big!” Following the completion of the Executive Development Course here Feb. 12, Hassan and his wife will spend a short time in Dallas. From there they will go to Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Cleveland and then to' Detroit. By Mar'ch 5 they plan to be in New York from which they will depart for London to pick up their 11-month-old daughter, Nargis — a name derived from the flower, Narcissus. Only two days ago they received a letter saying that Nargis has learned to walk. “We’re anxious to see her again,” they said. Shortly afterward the couple will leave England for their native Iran. “When I get back home,” Hassan explained, “I’ll probably do temporary duty at Teheran before going back to a permanent posi tion.” Hassan first became associated with the oil industry 20 years ago when he was hired by the Anglo- Iranian Oil Co. to teach physics, chemistry and mechanics at the company’s technical college. In 1949 he was named principal of the college. “My first love is teaching,” he emphasized. “After I became principal, I still taught a few courses because I.liked it.” Hassan was schooled in chemistry and physics at the University of Teheran. “Pm amazed at the variety of backgrounds of these men in the EDC. Because they represent so many different phases of Ameri can business and industry, I know that my time in the executive course will be beneficial to me,” Hassan said. Executive from Abroad ^ live from abroad to attend the tn her Course, now in its eighth year at A&M. Pom g native land is Hassan’s wife, Ghamar. Players Set ‘Twelfth Night’ In February After more than three months of rehearsing, the Aggie Players have set Feb. 16-20 as showing dates for their current production of William Shakespeai'e’s “Twelfth Night,” perhaps the most popular of Shakespeare’s comedies. “Twelfth Night” will be played in the Lower Level of the Memor ial Student Center at A&M be ginning at 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday night. It will be played “in the round,” with many normal obstacles like pillars on the set converted into scenery for the production. C. K. Esten is producer and Harry Gooding is director of the show. Esten has been with the Aggie Players for 10 years. The cast for “Twelfth Night” include the following: Orsino-Joe Candler’, Sebastian - Bill Stough, Viola-Laura Lynch, Olivia-Barbara Metzer, Mai’ia-Dorothy Ashworth, Antonio-Pei’ry Pope, Sir Toby Belch-John Pace, Sir Andrew Aguecheek-Paul Curda, Fabian- Travis Madole, Malvolio-Ed Heri- der, Feste-Richard Riser, Sea Cap tain-Ray Siminons, Valentine-Ro- ger Darley, Priest-Ray Simmons, Officers-Grady Light and A1 Dom- bart. Don Renolds is light man, Ed Solymosy is in charge of sets, and Gerold Schultze is sound man. Mai’tha Beard is in charge of cos tumes and Jarreld Benson and Tommy Holbein are publicity men for the production. Holiday Schedule Set by Cushing Cushing Memorial Library has announced the following schedule for next week, according to Michael V. Krenitsky, assistant librarian. Sunday, Jan. 31, the library will be closed all day. Monday through Friday the library will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sat urday from 8 a.m. ’til noon. It will be closed again Sunday, Feb. 7, and will assume the reg ular schedule again on Monday, Feb. 8. Yule Greeting Locates Book LOS ANGELES GP>—Henry R. Davis has a habit of loaning ’ books to friends. Inadvertently, he loaned a vol ume which contained a treasured personal postscript from the au thor. So he wrote a note on each of his Christmas cards asking the borrower to speak up. Davis said he’d have a messenger from his blueprint firm pick up the book. Wray Williams, a fellow blue printer now living in Memphis, Tenn., wrote back he had the hnok.