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sa m m0 r I ^ m ?l'-<4 ■ ; ; - 5. w »■> ilffi i;04 ^mr ; ^ v }. >' - "' •* WlMF ...«■. 'S aridgre in ' span tween land, *&4®*0,'v3 m wm ' \ 1 1 i | y| x i ® 1 iii /^H mil -- § SlSi mi WINlk m af# f 'v- a ‘^ 1 ^ M w m wmm mmm L. '% m m. m . ..! i JL : . :>; V« ■ ; • ■ ' m &... . ;^. - - * »4«i6wwi^a^ ill Judy Lynn Radke . . . Edward Allen Carolyn Bedford . . . By Jimmy Gunn Rita Johnson ... By Roland C. de Waal Andrea Coulter . . . Bj^ Howard Ham r L ^ Carol Bartlett .. By John D. Burton w vr) The Battalion i Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1960 Number 69\ Four Counselors For R E Week Announced Today By TOMMY HOLBEIN Rev. Mr. H. E. Pickard, the Rev. Battalion Staff Writer Mr. Dean Addington, the Rev. Mr. Four more dormitory counselors L. B. Broach, and the Rev. Mr. tave been named for Religious Jack Shoultz. .Emphasis Week. They are the Rev. Pickard will live in Walton Hall, where he will lead the forum gHgpijfflgjp S rv. » •• -y? mm . m mmm. Rev. Dean Addington . . . Leggett and Milner rfS# Aast-y-'^ Rev. Jack W. Shoultz . . . Henderson Hall ;.i r,... 1 m ■ Rev. L. B. Broach . . Hart and Bizzell Halls and discussion groups for that dorm. Meetings will be held in the lounge of Walton Hall. Native, of Tennessee A native of Tennessee, Rev. Pickard received his B.A. degree from Davidson College, Davidson, N. C., where he was valedictorian and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He attended the Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va., where he received his B.D. and Th.D. de grees, and was honored by receiv ing the Walter W. Moore Fellow ship award and the John A. Mc Lean Fellowship. His Th.M. de gree was received from the Prince ton Theological Seminary, Prince ton, New Jersey. Rev. Pickard was pastor of the Sunset Hills Presbyterian, Church, Charlotte, N. C., for one year, and then served at the Orange Presby terian Church in Orange, Va., for five years. After this, he came to Texas in 1954 where he is now working with the St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Beaumont. Numerous responsibilities of Rev. Pickard during his various pastorates include past president of the Beaumont Ministers Assn., member of the American Cancer Society Board, member of the Remedial Center Board, member of the Council of the Synod of Texas, and is a member of the General Assembly’s Board of Christian Education, Presbyterian Church, U.S. Rev. Dean Addington The Rev. Mr. Dean Addingtor will be living in Leggett Hall, anc will conduct forum and discussior groups for Milner and LeggeP Halls. These forums will be con ducted in the lounge of Leggetl Hall. Rev. Addington, native of Soutl Dakota, received his B.A. degree from the University of Wyoming jn 1950, and was granted a gradu ate assistantship from the Depart ment of History at Wyoming Uni versity. During the fall of 1950, Addington did some work toward an M.A. degree. Public School Man Serving in the public schools of Texas until 1953, Rev. Addingtor entered full time Christian service as associate minister and youth director of the Worland, Wyoming Methodist Church. Duxdng this ministry he organized a youth choir which became one of the out standing musical groups in the state. In June, 1955, Addington be came associate minister and youth director of the Richfield Methodist Church of Minneapolis, Minn. (See FOUR on Page 3) Plans For Fish Ball Complete New Housing Area Hensel Apartment Area To Be Opened May 2 Hensel Terrace, the new college apartment ‘area under c-onatruction at the present time, will be open for occupancy May 2, the Housing Office announced Wednesday. The new area, which will consist of 21 brick buildings housing 252 separate furnished apartments, is located just north of College View. Construction will not be com pleted on the buildings until somo time after May, but students can begin moving into those apart ments already completed as soon as they are ready. Present occupants of college apartments will be given the op portunity to move into the first completed apartments. The apartments consist of two- story brick and concrete buildings Taxpayers Urged To File Returns Taxpayers of the Austin Dis trict are heeding the advice of District Director R. L. Phinney to file the Federal income tax re turns early so they may receive any refund due them as quickly as possible. Mr. Phinney said 320,000 indi vidual taxpayers already have filed the 1959 returns presumably be cause many of them may have a refund coming and they are eager to get it. “We have started to process the returns already filed,” Phinney said. “If they are in perfect or der and a refund is due, our early processing will speed up the re fund checks accoi'dingly. Those returns which requh-e a pre-refund audit will take longer to process, but in every such case, the tax payer will be notified by letter of the reason for delay. Even the pre-refund audit may be completed sooner because of early filing.” Phinney again repeated his tips for early filers who want to re ceive any refund due them as quickly as possible. One is not to omit any essential information on your return, such as your signature (and that of your spouse if it is a joint re turn), and the W-2 tax withhold ing form. Another is to print your address as legibly as you can print it. And the third is not to write for a few weeks asking where your j refund is because replies to such letters only slow down the whole refunding process. j housing six apartments per floor. All apartments have the same floor plan and furnishings. Each apartment has one bedroom; a 17’xl2’ living room with a tele phone outlet and a 220 electrical outlet for an air conditioner; and a 6’x8’ bathroom with a shower, tub, and washing machine connec tion. The apartments will rent for $65 per month, including normal utili ties. Married students living in col lege apartments can apply for a new apartment at the Housing Office. Harry Boyer, housing man ager, urges interested students to apply early in order to help speed up planning procedures. Southerners Reluctantly Agree Today To House Consideration of Civil Rights By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (A 5 )—Bowing to the inevitable, diehard Southern ers reluctantly agreed today to let the House consider civil rights legislation. Chairman Howard W. Smith (D-Va.), leading foe of northern- backed civil rights proposals, called a meeting of the House Committee to take formal action clearing the legislation for House action in mid-March. An informal agreement to act was reached Wednesday. A civil rights bill approved by the House Judiciary Committee has been pigeonholed in Smith’s committee since last August be cause a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats wouldn’t turn it loose. Hearings were started last week, but took a lei sure pace. The coalition broke apart Wed nesday, under apparent political pressure. At least three of the four GOP rules committee members were ready to join four Northern Dem ocrats to break the deadlock and send the bill to the House. Although the Senate already is debating civil rights and the House may not act for another month, Senate Democratic leaders let it be known they hope the Sen ate eventully will accept without change the bill the House passes. The decision of House Rules Committee Republicans to act fol lowed a meeting of the GDP Pol icy Committee. While Republican leaders in sisted politics was not a major consideration, several factors pointed to politics'as having been at least a minor consideration in the decision to act. Pending in the House is a peti tion to force consideration of civil rights legislation despite the past refusal of the rules committee to act. To be effective, the petition requires 219 signatures. At last reports it had 209, an estimated 40 of which were Republican. Names of signers are not a part of official records until 219 have signed. Some Republicans feared that if the Rules committee did not move quickly, the 219 signatures would be obtained in a hurry and their publication could be embarrassing to the GOP nonsigners. The rules committee decision to act had the practical effect of ending the pe tition. Republicans also feax'ed that un less the rules committee pre scribed the procedure under which the bill may be considered, a technicality might prevent con sideration of an administration- backed proposal for court-ap pointed referees to curb voting discrimination. Batt Is 8 Colums If the paper you are holding today seems wider than usual, well it is. The Battalion has gone to eight columns instead of the seven column used before. This increases both the amount of news that can be put in, and helps the business department in handling advertising. This is the first change in the format of The Battalion since the early 1950’s, when the change was from eight to seven columns. Before that The Battalion was the College Journal, a two-column pamphlet that usually ran 36 pages once a week. Aggie Players To Hold Meet Tonight at 7:30 The Aggie Players will hold an important meeting at 7:30 tonig;ht in the Lower Level of the Memo rial Student Center, according to C. K. , Esten, producer for the group. The Players will begin casting for two productions to be present ed this spring, Esten said. Plans are for “An Evening with George Bernard Shaw,” presenting two of Shaw’s one-act plays; and the Broadway comedy, “The Tender Trap.” “How He Lied to Her Husband,” and “The Man of Destiny,” by Shaw will be presented April 4 in the MSC. Vick Wiening will di rect the show which will be cast tonight. Casting will be completed to night and rehearsals begin Mon day for “The Tender Trap,” to be presented April 20. Harry Gooding has been named director. Anyone interested in working with the Aggie Players is invited to attend the meeting tonight, ac cording to Esten. LSU Professor Featured Speaker At Houston Meet Dr. Stewart H. Fowler, Associ ate Professor of Animal Industry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, will be the featured speak er at the 36th annual membership meeting of the American Brahman Breeders Assn, in the Rice Hotel in Houston, Feb. 26. Fowler, a renowned authority on animal husbandry, received his Ph.D. degree in Animal Husbandry from A&M in 1954. “Animal Agriculture’s Challenge of Tomorrow” will be the topic of Fowler’s talk. He will briefly re view some of the beef industry’s past progress, current trends, and forecasts for the futuie (includ ing such things as ova transfer and sex determination or control). One of the main points of’his pre sentation will be “The Steer of Tomorrow” as it is seen today. Noted for his outstanding con i' tributions to the production of better livestock, Fowler is the au thor of the book “Marketing Live- ! stock and Meat.” He has also written.80 different articles for technical and popular agricultural J journals. Five Sweetheart^ Finalists Chosen By ALAN PAYNE H Battalion Staff Writer Sweetheart finalists have been chosen and final pla. have been made for Saturday night’s Fish Ball in Sbisat*^ from 9-12. Five finalists were chosen by a comijii£f#®B the class officers, with the eventual winner to be chosen a popular vote of all class members present Saturday nigh Finalists Selected l Sweetheart finalists and their respective escorts are:* Carol Bartlett, a brown-haired girl from Waco, who w be escorted by John D. Borton. Andrea Coulter, a brunette from Texas City, who will I escorted by Howard Ham, Jr. Rita Johnson, a blonde from"♦ ** IB Houston, who will be escorted by Roland C. de Waal. Judy Lynnj Radke, a bru nette from Seguin, who will be escorted by Edward Allen. Carolyn Bedford, another brown haired girl from Abilene, who will be escorted by Jimmy Gunn. Selection Committee The class officers who composed the selection committee were Jack Gibbs, president; Jack Threadgill, vice president; Dennis McIntosh, secretary-treasurer; and Earl Hen derson, social secretary. Work on decorating Sbisa Hall for the formal Ball will begin to morrow and continue through Sat urday morning, with work also slated for Friday night. The Ball is formal and all cadets are re minder} by President Gibbs that they should wear white shirts and black bow-ties. Girls will also be expected to wear formals. Tickets on Sale Tickets will remain on sale right up until the ball starts, but all freshmen are urged to buy their tickets early in order to avoid a last-minute rush at the door or a possible chance of having to stand outside in inclement weather. They may be purchased for $3 stag or drag, at the cashier’s window in the Memorial Student Center. Pictures to Be Returned All freshmen who entered pic tures in the sweetheart contest, with the exceptions of those whose girl reached the finals, may pick up these pictures at the cashier’s window of the MSC and are urged to do so as soon as possible, said Gibbs. Music for the Ball will be pro vided by the Aggieland Orchestra. One-hundred-twenty-five invita tions have been sent to company commanders, cadet staff members, tactical officers and faculty spon sors, in addition to the special in vitations personally delivered by the class officers to the honor guests. V Parr Refuses F Trouble Talks SAN FRANCISCO (TP) _ A tight-lipped Jack Paar refused to discuss his recent difficulties ■ with his boss, the National Broad casting Company, as he stopped off here Wednesday night on his way to Honolulu and the start of a vacation. When Paar arrived from Los Angeles, he wouldn’t talk at all, but compressed his lips and shook his lowei-ed head from side to side as he paced by newsmen. But when the television per sonality reappeai’ed to board a flight to Hawaii, he smiled for photographers and talked on se lected subjects with newsmen. Before he boarded the plane, he was asked if he planned to make any more jokes about water closets, the joke he was telling when cut off the air by NBC. Paar didn’t answer, but con tinued smiling. NAACP Will Ask Dallas Integration NEW ORLEANS <A>)—Top at torneys of the National Assn, for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple will ask the U. S. 5th Circuit Com-t of Appeals today to order integration of Dallas schools this fall. The attorneys will be Thurgood Marshall of New York, the asso ciation’s general counsel; W. J. Durham, regional attorney, Dal las, and C. B. Bunkley Jr., Dallas. The Texas Supreme Court re fused Wednesday to rule on whe ther the Dallas School Board should follow federal court orders to integrate or state laws which provide serious penalties if/ a school district integrates without an election approving desegrega tion. NAACP attorneys will argue to day that nothing stands in the way of integrating Dallas schools ( " September. . g