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the
Biggest Talent
Show on any
College Campus
Cafe Rue Pinalle
Features ITS Acts
Cafe Rue Pinalle will feature
three acts from the ninth annual
Intercollegiate Talent Show and
the Jerry Brown Band Friday
night in their special dance last
ing from 10 p.m. until 4 a.m. in
the Memorial Student Center Low
er Level.
Breakfast will be served to
those at the dance at approxi
mately 1 a.m., according to Frank
Callahan, chairman of the MSC
Dance Committee which sponsors
the event.
Linda Woods, 18-year old piano
major and miramba player at
North Texas State College; Karol
Coin, 18-year old popular music
vocalist from Oklahoma State Uni
versity; and Tappy and Hamp
Dickens, a brother and sister dance
team from the University of Ar
kansas and Southern State Col
lege in Arkansas, respectively, will
provide floor show entertainment.
The three floor show acts will
be part of the 10 acts to be pre
sented at 7 Friday night in G.
Rollie White Coliseum on the
ninth annual Intercollegiate Tal
ent Show.
The floor show will begin at
11:30 p.m.
Advance tickets for the dance
at $2 per couple are now on sale
at the Cashier’s Window on the
ground floor of the MSC. Tickets
will also be on sale at the door.
Decoration for the dance will
be a French night club setting and
will feature the theme of Cafe
Rue Pinalle, the Aggie version of
a French night club, Callahan
said.
Three Professors
Attend Fourteenth
Cancer Symposium
Three members of the staff of
the Department of Biology at
tended the Fourteenth Annual
Symposium on Fundamental Can
cer Research in Houston Febru
ary 25-27.
The three were Dr. S. O. Brown,
professor in the Department of
Biology; DL Fred Kasten, assist
ant professor in the Department
of Biology and Dr. George Krise,
associate professor in the Depart
ment of Biology. Several grad
uate students in the Department
of Biology also attended the meet
ings.
The title of the symposium was
“Cell Physiology of Neoplasia.”
It was sponsored by the Univer
sity of Texas M. D. Anderson Hos
pital and Tumor Institute.
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Ice Storm Hits Hard
A giant pine tree rests on a power line in worked around the clock in sub-freezing
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More Than a Cocktail
Airborne Martinis Create
High Level Controversies
NEW YORK (A 5 )—A martini at
35,000 feet is more than a cock
tail. It‘s a controversy.
Although a drink or two before
dinner has become an accepted
part of air travel, many people
responsible for air safety don’t
like it.
Many pilots and stewardesses
insist liquor threatens the safety
of an airliner. Their bosses and
Highway Course
Registration Open
Registration for the 34th An
nual Short Course in Highway En
gineering, to be held through
Thursday, got under way Monday
morning.
District engineers and division
heads of the Texas Highway De
partment held a meeting Monday.
President Earl Rudder gave the
welcome address this morning in
the Memorial Student Center at
the opening session.
The short course is being held
under the direction of the School
of Engineering, Department of
Civil. Engineering and the Texas
Transportation Institute of the col
lege and in cooperation with the
State Highway Department of
Texas.
Chas. J. Keese, research engi
neer in the Texas Transportation
Institute, is general chairman. Dr.
S. R. Wright, head of the Depart
ment of Civil Engineering, chaired
the general session this morning.
About 800 are due to attend the
sessions.
the Federal Aviation Agency de
fend the airborne cocktail on the
ground that there is no evidence
to condemn it.
For more than five years the
Airline Pilots Assn, and the Air
Line Stewards and Stewardesses
Assn, have urged Congress to ban
drinking on airplanes. Bills have
passed the House but never got by
the Senate.
Last July James T. Pyle, deputy
administrator of FAA, told the
House Commerce subcommittee
that a survey had revealed no
specific drinking incidents which
directly threatened an airliner’s
safety.
There were some incidents
which were potentially hazardous,
he conceded. But in almost every
case, said Pyle, these were caused
by passengers who had been
drinking before boarding the plane
or had brought their liquor with
them.
But the FAA feels it has reg
ulated the “bottle-sucker” into
sobriety with new rules—the first
governing drinking aloft—which
take effect Thursday.
The rules:
1. Require airlines to refuse to
serve liquor to anyone who ap
pears intoxicated.
2. Require a passenger bringing
his own bottle aboard, to turn it
over to the stewardess who will
pour his drinks and decide when
he has had enough.
If a passenger is caught tippling
and refuses to surrender his sup
ply, the stewardess need only warn
him of the FAA regulation and
take his name. The ‘ FAA will
prosecute and fine the offender up
to $1,000.
The regulations have been re
ceived without enthusiasm.
“A passenger could sue me for
slander if I told him he couldn’t
have any more to drink because
he appeared intoxicated,” says a
TWA purser.
“We don’t have time to serve
someone from his own bottle,”
says an American Airlines ste
wardess.
“The only real solution to the,
liquor problem aboard planes,”
says a spokesman for the .pilots’
union, “is to abolish liquor in
flight, as we have long advocated.
THE BATTALION
Tuesday, March 8, 1960 College Station, Texas
Page 3
Smith Explains IBM
Computer to Lions
IN A GROWING COMPANY
Capable young men and women have extra opportunity
in a growing company serving a growing area. During
the past twelve years, Texas Electric Service Company
has increased its power generating capability to more
than nine times that of 1947, has constructed more than
1100 miles of high voltage transmission lines and 2800
miles of distribution lines, along with related substation
and other facilities, more than doubled the number
of employees, and serves more than twice as many
customers.
And the company is continuing to build its organization
as it plans and constructs new electric transmission and
distribution facilities to serve our rapidly developing
area. New career opportunities are opening for quali
fied men and women.
J. W. Godfrey, Texas AbM ’37, is superin
tendent of transmission of Texas Electric
Service Company, supervising the operation
of the company’s high voltage electric trans
mission lines and substations.
Mr. J. W. Godfrey and other representatives of Texas Electric
Service Company will interview seniors.
V
Wednesday and Thursday
MARCH 9-10
Electrical, Mechanical and Civil Engineers
An appointment can be arranged through your Placement Office.
TEXAS ELECTRIC SERVICE COMPANY
CAREER DAY
(Continued from Page 1)
the ability and a real interest in
this field the horizons are un
limited.”
20-minute Movie
Dean of the School of Agricul
ture G. M. Watkins presented a 20-
minute movie entitled, ‘Dynamic
Careers through Agriculture.”
The School of Veterinary Medi
cine of A&M College is one of 18
accredited veterinary colleges in
the United States,” Dr. A. A.
Price, dean of the School of Vet
erinary Medicine, told the stu
dents. “There are three phases
to the program of the A&M School
of Veterinary Medicine—the three
phases are teaching, research and
extension.
“The training is to qualify grad
uates to deal effectively with prob
lems of disease and disease pre
vention in domestic farm animals,
poultry, pet animals, zoo animals,
fur-bearing animals and wild life.
Graduates are qualified to admin
ister and advise in the public
health problems arising from in
tertransmission of diseases be
tween man and lower animal.”
Robert L. Smith Jr., head of the
Data Processing Center, told mem
bers of the College Station Lions
Club Monday noon that the new
IBM 704 computer now installed
in the center could be compared to
a “centipede with his shoes off.”
Explaining his statement, Smith
said the machine is much like a
little boy counting on his finger^,
except that the 704 has thousands
of fingers compared to those of
the little boy.
“In some respects, the 704 is
stupid. Where man normally uses
figures from one to nine in count
ing, the 704 can use only zero and
one,” commented Smith.
“However, when you stop to
think that the machine can make
thousands of computations in a
single second,” Smith added, “it
makes us look pretty stupid our
selves.”
Smith also pointed out that of
five such computers located on col
lege campuses through the nation,
the A&M computer is the only one
open to use by students them
selves.
The center, according to Smith,
will be used for the support of
teaching, project support, meth
odology, arid for fiscal support for
the A&M College System.
Speaking of the flexibility of the
704, Smith said the most striking
example of this is the B-52.
“The B-52 never went through
a prototype flight test. The en
tire test was done by the 704. The
plane had theoretically been in the
air for several thousand hours, be
fore the first flight was actually
made by man,” Smith clarified.
Smith closed by adding that the
capabilities of the center have not
been fully realized and that the
future is the only answer to this
question.
E.J. Kyle Boasts
Distinction No
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Aggie Gan Claim
E. J. Kyle, the first dean of
the School of Agriculture at
A&M, holds a distinction which
no other Aggie graduate can
boast.
When he was a senior in 1899,
there were about 250 members in
the Corps of Cadets consisting of
four companies—A, B, C and D.
Kyle was the top ranking cadet
with a title known as “Senior
Captain.”
It was at this time that the
Corps commandant was called to
service in the Spanish-American
War. Another military officer
came to take his place but no
sooner arrived on campus than
he suffered a lengthy illness.
College officials looked around
for another replacement but no
one was available. Finally, they
were obliged to fall back on Ca
det Kyle and he was made com
mandant for a month.
As such, he was qualified to
vote in faculty affairs.
This was the only time in
A&M’s history that the school
had a cadet commandant with
voting powers in the faculty.
Today, Dean Kyle lives in
Bryan and is nearing 84. He
served as dean from 1911 to 1944.
Ecumenical
Conference
Set Friday
The eighth annual Ecumenical
Student Christian Conference,
sponsored by several student
Christian movements at A&M, will
begin at the A&M Wesley Founda
tion Friday and will run through
Sunday.
The conference was started in
1952 as a needed addition to the
growth opportunities available to
college people of any and all de
nominations and races. It has
been well attended, bringing to
gether as many as 400 students
and leaders of all denominations
and from 29 campuses at one con
ference.
This year, The Rev. Gray Blan-
dy, dean of the Episcopal Theolog
ical Seminary of the Southwest in
Austin, will be the platform speak
er. The Bible lecturer for the con
ference will be The Rev. Roger
Gilley who is rector of Holy Com
forter Episcopal Churdi in Angle-
ton, Tex. ?,»*?.>
The program outline calls for
programs to begin Friday at 7:30
p.m. and last until 10:15.
Saturday, an early breakfast
will be served at 7:30 a.m. and the
program, consisting of speakers
and discussion groups, will last
until noon. More services and dis
cussion groups are scheduled
for the afternoon session, ending
with recreation at 11 p.m. Sunday
morning the breakfast will be at
8 and the program will last until
noon, at which time the group will
be dismissed.
Registration fee for the confer
ence is $3 and should be sent to
Mike Carlo, chairman, Ecumenical
Student Christian Conference,
YMCA, College Station, Texas, as
soon as possible, since the regis
tration will close as soon as 400
people have registered, according
to the conference bulletin.
Morgan Calhoun, plant superin
tendent at Yonkers Raceway, says
the racing strip at the harness
track was worn down seven inches
following 115 nights of racing.
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