THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wgdneday, March 16, 1960s
CADET SLOUCH
Integration Fight
Called ‘Practical’
By NAACP Leader
SAN ANTONIO (A 5 ) — Religious
leaders’ intervention to settle a
lunch-counter integration fight
here was called a “practical ap
proach to Christianity” today by
an NAACP leader.
The youth director of the local
National Assn, for the Advance
ment of Colored People, Harry V.
Burns, last Sunday delivered an
ultimatum to San Antonio retail
ers that demonstrations would
start unless their lunch counters
were integrated.
He scheduled a bommittee meet
ing for Thursday night to decide
the next steps against segrega
tion.
But local religious leaders, rep
resenting nearly every faith, an
nounced Tuesday night that busi
nessmen with whom they met had
agreed “to serve all customers
with their regular courtesy.” A
joint statement of the religious
leaders said it was hoped “that
within a month many other busi
ness firms would join in this pro
gram of integration.”
Burns said, “It’s a great ges
ture of the religious leaders and
it is an example of practical Chris
tianity. I am very grateful and I
feel that all San Antonio Negroes
are happy at the development.”
Represented at the meeting were
Catholic, Baptist and Methodist
groups, including a representative
of Archbishop Robert B. Lucy of
the predominant Catholic religion
in this city of more than a half
million persons.
Meanwhile, at Austin, University
of Texas President Logan Wilson
jmd Negro students who met with
him Tuesday had little comment
>n the 3-hour discussions.
Wilson said, “I thought we had
ft very sensible discussion.”
A Negro coed from Beaumont,
Doris Price, said a group of 45
white and Negro students drafted
a resolution after conferring with
Wilson which expressed the view
that “the meeting was unsatisfac
tory to the group.”
About 40 students at the 18,500-
student university have been peri
odically picketing the campus in
protest at alleged inadequate hous-
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Bill Hicklin Managing Editor
Joe Callicoatte Sports Editor
Fiobbic Godwin News Editor
Ben Trail, Bob Sloan, Alan Payne Assistant News Editors
Nelson Antosh, Ken Coppage, Tommy Holbein, Bob
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Russell Brown CHS Correspondent
ing for Negro students and a uni
versity policy that allows no Ne
groes on athletic teams or on stage
dramatic groups. .
In anothe development, Dallas
School Board President Edwin
Rippy said anticipated circulation
of petitions calling for a school
integration vote had been delayed.
Rippy said the board probably
would defer a decision on whether
to seek a vote on integration un
til it knows when the Dallas school
case comes up again in federal
court.
U. S. Dist. Judge T. Whitfield
Davidson said Tuesday a decision
on the next Dallas public school
integration hearing probably
would come later in the week.
He said he would confer with
Dallas school board counsel and
Negro lawyers to fix a hearing
date.
Negroes staged two more sit-
down protests against integrated
lunch counters in Galveston, but
there was no report of further
demonstrations in Houston.
Most of the 'Galveston demon
strators appeared to be of high
school age and some wore Negro
high school jackets. The lunch
counters were closed while they
were in the stores.
Houston’s Mayor Lewis Cutrer
warned Tuesday that persons tak
ing part in lunch counter sitdowns
may be arrested if the demonstra
tions continue.
The mayor said the protest dem
onstrations are in violation of un
lawful assembly statutes of Tex
as.
Cutrer said the owner of a store
has the legal right to determine
customers he will serve. Sitdown
demonstrations have been held at
six lunch counters and only one
has reopened.
by Jim Earle Intercollegiate Reports
Extra Activities Vo/ Reason
For Academic Difficulties
Academic difficulties in col
lege are not usually caused by
too great a participation in extra
curricular activities, according to
facts gathered in a survey by Dr.
Jeremiah S. Finch, dean of the
College, at Princeton University.
Finch said the study showed
more than one-half of students
withdrawing from the university
for academic reason had few or
no extracurricular interests.
Of the 52 men withdrawing
from the University during the
last year for academic reasons,
one was a member of the senior
class, 17 were members of the
junior class, 21 sophomores and
13 freshmen. Only four showed
an adverse effect from time spent
in extra-curricular activities.
“It was Mother’s idea!”
Among the Faculty and Staff
Atkinson Does Research
On Nutrition, Production
“Immaturity”
Finch said the withdrawals
were due to “immaturity and a
failure to respond to the chal
lenges of academic works.” He
said this academic attrition is
“almost always the result of lack
of interest and lack of motiva
tion.”
The feature also showed 29
of the withdrawals were candi
dates for the B.A. degree; the
remainder students were in engi
neering. Of the total 52 men,
81 per cent were ranked in the
upper one quarter of their class
in secondary school, 8 per cent
in the second quarter, 8 per cent
in the third and 3 per cent in
the fourth.
substantiated Skelton’s findings.
Miss Miller reported, “It has
been shown that the study of
foreign languages in high school
apparently improves the academic
standards of the college freshmen
at LSU. There is sufficient justi
fication for recommending the in
clusion of foreign languages in
a college preparatory curriculum
not only for the sake of learning
the language itself but also for
its general academic values.”
Skelton admitted he welcomed
the LSU study because it elim
inated the danger of the Auburn
study being underestimated be
cause of its author’s profession.
Extendibles
A Union College faculty com
mittee has met with Extendibles
from the freshman, sophomore
and junior classes to formulate
decisions as to how the Exten
dible Program, a three year old
system to eliminate the possibi).
ity of boredom to the brighter
students on the campus, should
be carried out.
The program currently pi' 0 .
vides an opportunity for above
average students to take extra
courses, gain special library pri v .
ileges and engage in special proj.
ects. The committee, composed
of President Carter Davidson,
Dean Charles W. Huntley and
professors from several differ
ent campus divisions,, has found
that the selections of Student
Extendibles is far from infallible
since the high school record of
such a person shows he has been
extended to full capacity.
The committee feels that the
present selection system often
ignores the average students and
the bright student whose bright
ness often does not develop un
til later in college.
Job Interviews
Robert Leon Atkinson, an as
sistant professor in the Depart
ment of Poultry Science, is one
professor who isn’t sitting back
on his laurels, as six different
research projects will attest.
sor before assuming his present
position.
Atkinson is probably best
known for the many article's he
has published or co-published.
These include 29 technical ar-
LAZY FROSTING
Distribute thin pieces of milk
i^tkinson has completed two
projects, on antibiotic and un
identified growth factors in tur
key and poultry nutrition and
protein and energy requirements
of young turkeys, and is cur
rently working on four others.
These projects include factors
related to reproduction of tur
keys, effects of tranquilizing
drugs and estragenic compounds,
restricted feeding of turkeys and
the use of fat in turkey breeder
diets.
Native Texan
Atkinson, a native Texan from
Iowa Park, attended college at
both A&M and California, before
coming to A&M 10 years ago as
a research assistant. Since then,
he served as a research associate,
instructor and assistant profes-
Vunity Fair Pic
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“STARS IN MY CROWN”
With Joel McCrea
Show Opens At 6 p. m.
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 Stu
dent Publications in the YMCA
Basement by that date, according
to Sam Barranco, Vanity 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 Banquet
Friday, May 13, the Senior Ring-
Dance and have a picture made
at the Aggieland Studio, Bar
ranco said.
Social Whirl
Civil Engineering Wives Club
will meet tonight at 8 in the
YMCA South Solarium. The
Real Hat Shop will show some of
their new spring hats.
Band Wives Club will have a
special meeting tonight at 7:30
p.m. in the Nu-Life Figure Stu
dio at 2010 Texas Ave. in Ridge
crest Shopping Center.
IN STORING ICE CREAM
Store ice cream in its original
container if you are putting it in
your freezer or the freezing com
partment of your refrigerator. If
the ice cream is to be stored in
the ice-cube compartment of the
refrigerator, turn it into an ice
cube tray, cover and set refriger
ator control to low.
CORPS SOPHOMORES
Yearbook
Portrait
Schedule
All .sophomores in the corps
should have their portrait made
for the yearbook according to
the following schedule. Portraits
will be made in class “A” win
ter uniform, at the Aggieland
Studio, between the hours of
8:00.a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on the
days scheduled.
March 14-15 Company I-M,
Maroon & White Bands
March 16-17 Squadrons 1-8
March 21-22 Squadrons 9-17
tides he has published, both
singularly and with other poultry
science experts. He has also pub
lished 18 abstracts on various
technical poultry science subjects
and 12 popular articles.
Technical Writings
These articles include technical
information on such topics as
vitamins, crystalline antibiotics,
proteins, lactose, X-rays and acids
and their use in the breeding,
raising and production of poultry.
Served in WW II '
During World War II Atkinson
served with the Southern Defense
Command Headquarters as. a
technician, 4th grade.
Atkinson, who lives with his
wife, the former Cecil Elda Mit
chell, at 3007 Nagle in Bryan,
has no children. Since leaving
Iowa Park at the age of 17, he
has resided in Corrizo Springs,
San Antonio and now Bryan.
His mother, Mrs. Ada Atkin
son, resides in San Antonio,
while a brother and sister, M. A.
Atkinson and Mrs. C. F. Hay-
good, live in Modesto, Calif, and
Duncan, Okla., respectively.
The Atkinson’s are members of
the First Methodist Church in
Bryan.
Foreign Language
Students with high school for
eign language backgrounds are
more likely to succeed in college
than those without language
background, according to statist
ics compiled by Dr. Robert B.
Skelton, head of the Department
of Foreign Languages at Ala
bama Polytechnic Institute.
Skelton studied the records and
achievements of 1,647 entering
freshmen and found in the upper
intelligence bracket 20.8 per cent
of the non-foreign language stu
dents dropped out of college; but
cnly 11.6 per cent of the students
having language background and
in the same intelligence bracket
had to leave college.
In the middle intelligence
range, Skelton found 32.8 per
cent without foreign language
credit dropped out of college,
while only 20.7 per cent of those
in the same intelligence range
and with language credits left
the college.
The following companies will
interview graduating seniors
Thursday in the Placement Of
fice on the third floor of the
YMCA:
Houston Lighting and Power
Co. will interview candidates for
degrees in electrical and mechan
ical engineering.
New England Mutual Life In
surance Co. will interview degree
candidates, at all levels, in ac
counting, business administra
tion, economics, education and
International Paper Co. has
scheduled interviews with degree
candidates in chemical, electrical
and mechanical engineering.
Monsanto Chemical Co. will in
terview candidates for degrees in
chemical and mechanical engi
neering and chemistry.
Wee Aggies
We Aggies like to read about Wee Ag-
psychology, English, history and S5i„ "S" A "m S ^
physical education. 101
vggle Edl-
Lower Level Greatest
Skelton found the greatest con
trast in the lower intelligence
level where 53.4 per cent with
out foreign language credits left
while only 26.7 per cent of those
with credits had to leave.
At Louisiana State University,
observations compiled by Miss
Annie L. Miller, a member of the
University’s junior division staff,
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.
will interview coming graduates
with degrees in agricultural eco
nomics, business administration
(marketing, general business)
and industrial education.
Cabot Carbon Co. and Cabot
Shops, Inc. will interview candi
dates for degrees in chemical, in
dustrial and mechanical engi
neering.
Aluminum Co. of America will
interview degree candidates in
aeronautical, architectural, chem
ical, civil, electrical,
and mechanical engineering,
Union Carbide Chemicals Co.
will interview candidates for de
grees in chemical, electrical, in
dustrial and mechanical engi- -^ a ->
neering and chemistry.
A future Aggie sweetheart
was born Sunday at St. Joseph’s
Hospital, Bryan, to Mr. and Mrs,
Ernesto Uribe, ’60, of A-12-Y,
College View. Anne Bernadette
Uribe arrived at 2:55 p.m,
weighing 7 lb. 15 M: oz.
BREEDER IS HONORED
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. (hi
jack E. McAuliffe, golf tourna
ment sponsor and owner and breed
er of thoroughbreds, has named
industrial his yearling colt by Needles-Lode-
stone in honor of the late breeder
Elmer Shropshire. The colt, foaled
at Bonnie Heath Farm in Ocala,
is March, will be named
Shropshire.
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