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Military Weekend Highlights The Reviewing Party Ross Volunteers Inspected Lt. Gen. Thomas Harrold, commandant of the National War Lt. Gen, Thomas Harrold, commandant of hind Lt. Gen. Harrold is Cadet Lt. Col. Wade College in Washington, D. C., converses with President Earl the National War College in Washington, Dover, commander of the RVs and deputy Rudder and Chancellor M. T. Harrington at the reception Dignitaries review the Corps of Cadets in Harrold, commandant of the National War D. C., inspects the Ross Volunteers during Corps commander. in the Memorial Student Center Saturday. The reception the review at the annual Spring Military College in Washington D. C., took the salute Spring Military Day activities Saturday. Be- was held in Lt. Gen. Harrold’s honor. Day on campus Saturday. Lt. Gen. Thomas of the Corps in the afternoon review. The Battalion Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MARCH 15,1960 Number 83 For President MSC Council Hits Vote Snag By ROBBIE GODWIN ' Battalion News Editor The Memorial Student Center Council last night elected a vice president and eight committee chairmen, but dead locked on the selection of president. The president will be selected in a meeting later this week. Rush MeGinty and Weldon-t (Bo) Lee are candidates for the office. Schneider Vice President Mike Schneider, sophomore sci ence major from Dallas, was elected vice president at the meet ing. Kenneth Fadal was elected to head the Personnel Committee, Lloyd Stafford was elected to suc ceed Jack Hartsfield as Public Re lations Committee chairman. He will take office immediately. Library, Bridge, Camera, Dance. . . Pat Crouch was elected to head the Browsing Library Committee, John McMullen will head the Bridge Committee, Bill Sprayber- ry will chair the Camera Commit tee and Gates Whiteley will chair the MSC Dance Committee. Rod ney Kelley was elected to head the Music Committee. In other action, the Chess Com mittee was dissolved, as was the Table Tennis Committee. Both had reported inactivity in their work. Report Recommendation The Council Executive Commit tee included in its report a recom mendation the Constitution and By-Laws Committee prepare for inclusion in the By-Laws a cri teria to guide the officers of the Directorate in planning the meet ings of the Directorate. They added in the recommendation that only those items which. are com mon to most of the Directorate Committees should be allowed to appear on the agenda. Pan-Am Week Report The Executive Committee report also contained a recommendation to accept the Pan American Week Committees request for an addi tional $100. They provided that the funds should not be donated by interested persons for the pur pose of covering the expense of a trophy and/or a lunch for visit ing soccer teams. It was approved with the stipulation that the funds do not set a precedent for coming years. The Council and Directorate will hold their annual banquet April 22, and plans are now under way for the event. Publications Editor Filings Close Today Today at 5 p.m. is the deadline set for filing for editorships for the 1960-61 school year for the six publications of the Depart ment of Student Publications. Applications for the editor ships for next year of The Bat talion, The Aggieland, The Texas A&M Review, The Engineer, The Agriculturist and The South western Vet may be turned in to A. Duewall, director of Student Publications. Nominations for the 1960-61 editors will be approved by the Student Publications Board at the April 5 meeting and the board’s recommendations will be for warded to the Deans of the four degreegranting schools and to President Earl Rudder for ap proval, according to Duewall. Minimum requirements for be ing named to an editorship in clude: • Junior or senior academic classification. • Freedom from academic and disciplinary probation. • Must have clearly demon strated above average achieve ment and ability. • A minimum of one year’s ex perience on the staff of any pub lication and proven ability to carry on the work of publication in a manner creditable by the Student Publications Board. Filings For Class Officers Next Year Open Tomorrow Goal of 400 Pints Blood Donations Slated Thursday Donation of blood by students will be conducted Thurs day in G. Rollie White Coliseum under the auspices of the Student Senate and in coordination with the College Station Lion’s Club. Requested 600 Requests were made for 600 reg istrants to meet the goal of 400 pints this year, and an estimated 500 students have already regis- A&S Cancels Faculty Meet The spring meeting of the faculty of the School of Arts and Sciences scheduled for Wed nesday night in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom has been postponed due to the ill ness of the speaker, Dr. Harry Ransom, vice president of the University of Texas. The meeting will be resched uled at a later date. Moore Explains Street Plans By BOB SAILE Battalion Staff Writer William (Mike) Moore, instruc tor in the Department of Civil Engineering, explained the pro gram now in operation for im provement of College Station streets to members of the College Station Lions’ Club at their meet ing Monday. Moore was the main speaker at the luncheon meeting held at noon in Rooms 2-C and 2-D of the Me morial Student Center. Two Types of Streets Early in his talk, Moore ex plained that there are two types of possible streets which will be constructed, according to the de sires of the property owners along the streets. The two types of streets will be constructed by or der of petition submitted by the property owners to the City Coun cil, said Moore. “The first type,” he said, “is what is called a curb and gutter section, which will cost the prop erty owner $3 per linear foot. This is a 27-foot wide street, ‘ditch and pavement. . .’ “The other type is a ditch and -'avement section, which will not be graded,” said Moore. “This type will cost the property owner 75 cents or more per linear foot.” Moore said the city would pay lie remaining costs. He explained, however, any costs of tearing up driveways further than five feet back from the curb will have to be paid by the property owner. The speaker then outlined the legal procedures which were fol lowed in order to pave Walton and Kyle streets, and which will be followed in future paving of streets. The procedure, said Moore, involves the following: A petition is submitted to the city manager, who gives the peti tion to the city council. The city council then declares an ordinance to pave that section. The plans prepared by the engineer for that section are then submitted to the council, which approves the plan and subsequently takes a poll of property owners in regard to pay ment per linear foot. Before advertising for bids can begin, Moore explained, 70 per cent of the money from property owners must be in. A public hear ing' is then held and the contractor is notified. A contract is awarded, a work order is issued and work is then begun, Moore said. ‘other delays. . .’ “The weather has hurt the Kyle and Walton Street projects badly,” he said, “as well as other delays such as the public hearing.” Prior to Moore’s talk, Dave Fitch announced 500 blood donors have signed up to donate blood Thursday. Fitch, in behalf of the College Station Lions’ Club, con gratulated Aggies for their fine participation in the blood drive. tered to donate blood, according to Marvin Schneider, chairman of the drive. Some of the students will have to be turned away at the Thursday donation due to minor ills and other causes. Schneider said postcards would be sent to students registering to inform them of the time they are to donate blood. Each registrant was asked to fill out a card, denot ing the free hours blood can be taken. Donations will be scheduled as early in the off-periods as pos sible, said Schneider, to allow stu dents ample time to attend classes and other activities. To Wadley Foundation This year the blood will go to the Wadley Foundation in support of the Texas Children’s Research Foundation. Donated blood will be used in research against leukemia and hemophilia. Over the past years numerous lives have been saved with blood donated by Aggies, according to Schneider. In 1958, 14 lives were saved and last year 396 pints of blood were collected for research in leukemia and hemophilia. The 400 pints set as a goal this year are valued from $10,000 to $12,000, said Schneider. Fitch Coordinator Dr. David R. Fitch, professor in the Division of Business Adminis tration, is the College Station Lion’s Club coordinator. Last year the Lions sponsored the Blood- mobile’s trip Horn Dallas to A&M. Jake Sekerka, president of Stu dent Senate, emphasized all stu dents interested in donating blood may go to G. Rollie White Coli seum and donate blood without reg istering Thursday. Harold Henk . . . King Cotton Henk Named King Cotton Harold Henk of Seguin, 22-year- old senior agronomy major, has been named King Cotton of the 26th annual Cotton Pageant and Ball scheduled April 8. The pageant and ball is spon sored by the student Agronomy Society in honor of King Cotton and is one of the top annual events of its kind in the nation. King Cotton is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert P. Henk of Seguin and was chosen for the honor by the Agronomy Society in recog nition of his outstanding student activity record. Henk is a distinguished mili tary student, cadet captain, com manding officer of Company E-2, on the school’s Agriculture Coun cil, past president of the Agron omy Society and is a member of the Newman Club and Centex Hometown Club. The student attended Seguin high school and graduated in 1956. He was on the student council and received the DeKalb Award for his activities in the Seguin Future Farmers of America Chapter. Charles Blue of Clifton, senior agronomy major, Agronomy So ciety president and general chair- (See KING COTTON on Page 3) Primary Election Slated March 31 Filing for the spring elections will begin tomorrow in the Office of Student Affairs and continue through 5 p. m., Wednesday, March 23 for all students interested' in filing for class officer positions for the 1960-61 school year. The primary election will be held Thursday, March 31, with the run-off slated for the following Thursday, April 7. As is customary, the voting machines will be located in the Memorial Student Center between the Fountain Room and the Bowling Alley. Officers To Be Elected The Class of 61 will elect a president, vice president, secretary, social secretary," t “ historian, student entertain ment manager and two yell iGcidcrs The Class of ’62 will elect a president, vice president, secre tary-treasurer, social secretary and two yell leaders. The Class of ’63 will elect a president, vice president, secretary- treasurer and social secretary. A Civilian Yell Leader and dele gates to fill several vacant posi tions on the Student Senate and Election Commission will be elected in the General Election scheduled (See ELECTIONS on Page 3) Vanity Fair Pic Deadline April 25 Seniors have until April 25 to enter pictures for Vanity Fair in The Aggieland ’60. A 5x7 or larger picture must be turned in to the Office of Student Publications in the YMCA Basement by that date, according to Sam Barranco, Van ity Fair editor. Included with the picture must be the name, age, weight, height, color of eyes and hair and meas urements of the Vanity Fair entry. The Vanity Fair entry must also be able to attend the Stu dent Publications Award Ban quet Friday, May 13, the Senior Ring Dance and have a picture made at the Aggieland Studio, Barranco said. Inauguration To Be Attended By Dignitaries Educational, business, military and civic leaders throughout the United States are due to attend the inauguration luncheon for President Earl Rudder, March 26 at 12:30 p.m., as the 14th presi dent of A&M. The luncheon will follow the in augural ceremonies in G. Rollie White Coliseum, commencing at 10:15 a.m., at which Dr. Troy Mid dleton, president of Louisiana State University, will deliver the inaugural address. At the inaugural luncheon talks will be made by Hugh M. Milton II, under secretary of the Army; Allan Shivers, former governor; Dr. Tyrus R. Timm, head of the Department of Agricultural Eco nomics and Rural Sociology, who will extend greetings from the faculty of the college; Tom A. Murrah of San Antonio, president of the Association of Former Stu dents, who will extend greetings from the Association; Joseph J. Sekerka, student from Weimar and president of the Student Senate, will extend greetings from the stu dent body. James A. Manley, civilian stu dent chaplain from Baytown, will (See INAUGURATION on Page 3),