THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 9, 1960
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‘You Wonder...’
Two significant changes have been made in the policy
of the Corps of, Cadets at Texas A&M, changes whose im
portance to the future of the Corps and to future students
can only be measured after the plans have been put into
effect and studied carefully.
Both the optional morning formation and the civilian
clothes off campus policies have been initiated only after
studies by college authorities of other military schools.
The changes may have the effect of a general incline in
grades from all classes, a better atmosphere for college life,
better study habits and a more pleasant life for all concerned.
But, if the plans are not followed to the letter, and if
the Corps does not take it upon themselves to enforce the
regulations controlling these privileges—in other words if
the. appearance of students in their morning classes, the clean
liness of their rooms at inspection time and the habits of good
personal dress, even in civilian clothes during off-duty hours
do not maintain the standards already set by the Corps, they
are not worth the effort it took to put out the orders.
As are many of the recent changes in Corps of Cadets,
the success or failure of these policies is being left up to the
Men of Aggieland. Can we face the responsibility? Can
these changes be made to be an asset to Texas A&M ?
You Wonder . . .
Scientist Files Damage Suit
dalgo, which was conducting a
research cruise under the direc
tion of the Department of Ocean
ography and Meteorology.
The ship was near Puerto Rico
when the injuries occurred, al
leges Goedicke.
Gbedicke said that at the time
of the alleged injuries he was
employed as a research scientist
and crew member of the vessel
at $800 per month.
The suit asks for $20,000 for
damages, $7,500 for maintenance
and $7,500 for costs of cure.
CADET SLOUCH
n~ Burke WantsSixPolarisSubs
Over Ike’s Budget Request
“I wasn’t too hot on changing majors, but it was the only
way I could register without a conflict!”
Cafes Closed
HOUSTON—A $35,000 damage
suit was filed against A&M Fri
day by a former Houston re
search scientist for injuries al
legedly received while on a re
search cruise aboard the vessel
Hidalgo, owned by the college.
Dr. T. R. E. Goedicke said in
his complaint that he was in
jured last May 25 aboard the Hi-
MSC Plans Booth
For Membership
Membership in all Memorial
Student Center Committees is
still open and to make it easy to
sign up, a recruiting booth will
be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Wednesday and Thursday in the
lobby area adjacent to the Post
Office, according to MSC Coun
cil-Directorate President Ronald
Buford.
Membership in MSC commit
tees is available to both students
and faculty. Information on the
various programs offered may
be secured at the booth.
SELLS HIMSELF
LOCKPORT, N. Y. (^—Irri
tated because his party line always
seemed to be busy, a customer
walked into the telephone company
office here with his phone under
his arm after tearing it off the
wall.
Company officials weren’t too
upset. The man asked for a new
private line, extension dial, night
lamp and two color phones.
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DURHAM, N. C. GP)_Two va
riety stores where Negroes pro
tested segregated seating policies
at lunch counters reopened here
today, but the luncheon sections
were closed “in the public in
terest.”
In the meantime, demonstra
tions spread Monday from
Greensboro to Winston-Salem
and Durham.
Forty Negroes from North
Carolina College occupied seats
at the F. W. Woolworth Co.
lunch counter here. They were
joined by four white students
from Duke University.
Officials closed the store af
ter police received a telephone
call that a bomb had been plant
ed in the building. The demon
strators moved to the S. H. Kress
and Co. store, which promptly
Social Whirl
The committee to select the
duchess to represent the A&M
Women’s Social Club will meet
Friday morning at the home of
the chairman of the group, Mrs.
O. D. Butler.
To be eligible to be selected a
girl must be unmarried, a senior
in high school or of college age
and must be a daughter of a
member of the A&M Women’s
Social Club who has paid her
dues for the current year.
Members whose daughters
meet these requirement are asked
to call Mrs. Butler by Thursday.
Aggie Wives Bridge Club will
meet Wednesday night at 7:30 in
the Assembly Room of the Me
morial Student Center.
PAINT-AND-CHEW
ALBEMARLE, N. C. CP>—Mrs.
John Napier, 65, has a hobby .that
consists largely of a-painting and
a-chewing.
She paints oil pictures, chewing
gum at the same time. The fin
ished product is framed in old
moulding, the gum fastened to the
frame and shellack added.
The finished picture has an an
tique-appearing frame. Mrs. Nap
ier says her largest picture con
sumed 275 sticks of well-chewed
gum to frame.
UNDER 12 YEARS-
TUESDAY
‘HOUND DOG MAN’
With Fabian
Plus
“ISLAND OF LOST
WOMAN”
With Jeff Richards
JOHNNY JOHNSON EDITOR
Bill Hicklin Managing Editor
Joe Callicoatte Sports Editor
Robbie Godwin News Editor
Ben Trail, Bob Sloan Assistant News Editors
Jack Hartsfield, Ken Coppage, Tommy Holbein,
Bob Saile, A1 Vela and Alan Payne Staff Writers
Joe Jackson— photographer
Russell Brown CHS Correspondent I
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY
TAYLOR-CLIFT
—WINTERS
GEORGE
STEVENS’
Production of
aPIACE
EV THE SUV
was closed.
Officials of the Kress and
Woolworth stores said the lunch
eon counters would be closed “in
the interest of public safety.”
The group also went to Wal-
green’s drug store in Durham,
but its dining area was roped off
and the lunch counter closed.
In Winston-Salem, a one-man
demonstration by Carl Matthews,
a Negro, mushroomed Monday
when several other Negroes sat
down at a lunch couhter in a
Kress store.
Matthews was served two cups
of water, but nothing else. He
said he was not part of any group
and called the movement an ef
fort “to get decent treatment for
Negro customers.”
WASHINGTON (A>>—The Na
vy’s top admiral, though he sup
ports the administration’s de
fense budget, wants six more
Polaris missile submarines. He
will ask for nearly a billion dol
lars extra to build them.
Adm. Arleigh A. Burke, chief
of naval operations, told a Sen
ate hearing Monday is is not
sure the Defense Department will
back his request. Even so, he
said, he’ll continue to support
President Eisenhower’s defense
budget for the coming fiscal
year.
“If I didn’t accept it. I would
n’t remain in my present posi
tion,” he said.
Fifteen of the nuclear-powered
missile submarines now are in
the works in one stage or an
other, including proposals in Ei
senhower’s new budget. The
first operations undersea missile
launchers are expected to be
ready late this year. Each one
costs 110 million dollars.
Burke told a House committee
earlier that a fleet of 45 Polaris
subs would give the United
States a tremendous retaliatory
force, but at the present building-
rate it would take 10 years to
produce a fleet that size.
Burke’s request for more mon
ey for submarines followed a
similar complaint last week from
Air Force Gen. Thomas S. Power,
Room Applications
OpenFridaylnMS C
Applications for meeting
rooms for student organizations
and clubs will be accepted in the
Social and Educational Office
of the Memorial Student Center
beginning at 8 a.m. Friday, ac
cording to Mrs. Ann Keel, social
director of the MSC.
Judging Contest
Set for CS Lawns
Beginning in March a certifi
cate and plaque are to be award
ed each month to the best kept
WhaVs Cooking
The Aggie Newman Club will
have it first social of the spring
term, a sausage dinner, Wednes
day at 6 p.m.
GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
COLUMBUS, Ohio CP)—The
yard in College Station by judges morn ^ n ^ a -^ er maf ^ e final
from different organizations of P a y men t on his television set, El-
the city mer Boggs sat watching it at
Mrs. R. L. Brown, chairman home - Th ^ P hone ran S-
of the Civic Beautification Com- A man told him that a friend
mittee of the A&M Garden Club, had been in an accident some dis-
announced the project. Mrs. tance away. Boggs jumped in his
Brown’s committee works in close car and sped to the scene. No
association with City of College friend, no accident.
Station officials. No TV set, either, he found when
All yards are eligible and will he got back. Neighbors saw three
be observed in the contest which men drive up to the rear of Boggs’
will be judged from the street as house while he was gone and load
seen by passer-bys, said Mrs% the TV and his new hi-fi set into
Brown. their car.
FRESHMAN
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PEANUTS
TO KN0U) THAT EVEN THOUGH
THERE'S SNOGO ON THE GROUND
AND IT'S A LITTLE CHILLY OUTSIDE,
BASICALLY LIFE IS GOOD, AND
THAT YOU PERSONALLY ARE...
A Ptramount (fe-RHeaie
head of the Strategic Air Com-
rpand. Power wants enough mon
ey to keep part of his big fleet
of B52 bombers in the air at all
times.
The cry for more money for
defense got new backing from
Democrats in Congress Monday.
Rep. Clarence Cannon (D-Mo.),
usually one of Congress’ most
vocal critics of high spending,
called in a House speech for in
creasing the President’s 41-bil-
lion-dollar defense budget. His
main concern was the airborne
bomber alert advocated by Pow-
“Every city in the United
States is subject to direct attack
and our enemy has the weapons
to launch such an attack now,”
Cannon said.
“By 1963 he will be able to
destroy every major city on the
face of the earth.”
Cannon’s outburst brought re
torts from Republicans that he
was trying to “scare the Amer
ican people to death.” Rep.
John J. Rhodes (R-Ariz.) said
statements like Cannon’s increase
the danger that the Soviet Union
could misjudge «U. S. strength
and start a war.
Show Opens At 6 p. m.
On Campus
with
MaxQhubnan
{Author of “I Was a Teen-age Dwarf”The Many
Loves of Dobie Gillis”, etc.)
COMMITTEES: AN AGONIZING REAPPRAISAL
To those of you who stay out of your student government
because you believe the committee system is just an excuse for
inaction, let me cite an example to prove that a committee,
properly led and directed, can be a great force for good.
Last week the Student Council met at the Duluth College of
Veterinary Medicine and Belles-Lettres to discuss purchasing a
new doormat for the students union. It was, I assure you, a
desperate problem because Sherwin K. Sigafoos, janitor of the
students union, threatened flatly to quit unless a new doormat
was installed immediately. “I’m sick and tired of mopping
that dirty old floor,” said Mr. Sigafoos, sobbing convulsively.
(Mr. Sigafoos, once a jolly outgoing sort, has been crying almost
steadily since the recent death of his pet wart hog who had been
his constant companion for 22 years. Actually, Mr. Sigafoos is
much better off without the wart hog, who tusked him viciously
at least once a day, but a companionship of 22 years is, I sup
pose, not lightly relinquished. The college tried to give Mr.
Sigafoos a new wart hog—a frisky little fellow with floppy ears
and a waggly tail^but Mr. Sigafoos only turned his back and
cried the harder.)
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But I digress. The Student Council met, discussed the door
mat for eight or ten hours, and then referred it to a committee.
T here were some who scoffed then and said nothing would ever
be heard of the doormat again, but they reckoned without
Invictus Millstone.
Invictus Millstone, chairman of the doormat committee, was
a man of action lithe and lean and keen and, naturally, a
smoker of Marlboro Cigarettes. Why do I say “naturally”?
Because, dear friends, active men and active women don’t have
time to fuss and fumble and experiment with cigarettes. They
need to be sure their cigarettes will never fail them—that the
flavor will always be mild and mellow—that the filter will
always filter—that the pack will always be soft or flip-top. In
short, they need to be sure it’s Marlboro—dependable, con
stant, tried and true Marlboro. Smoke one. You’ll see.
Well sir, Invictus Millstone chaired his doormat committee
with such vigor and dispatch that, when the Student Council
met only one week later, he was able to rise and deliver the
following recommendations:
1. That the college build new schools of botany, hydraulic
engineering, tropical medicine, Indo-Germanic languages, and
millinery.
2. That the college drop football, put a roof on the stadium,
and turn it into a low-cost housing project for married students.
3. That the college raise faculty salaries by $5000 per year
across the board.
4. That the college secede from the United States.
5. That the question of a doormat for the students union be
reierreci to a subcommittee.
So let us hear no more defeatist talk about the committee
system. It cci?i be made to work!
© I960 Max Shulman
You don’t need a committee to tell you how good Marlboros
0 ] U . JUst .fy d yourself, a Marlboro, and a match ...Or
“ ke m,ers - ,ry Mar,boro ’ s
By Charles M. Schula
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