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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, March 30, 1960
BATTALION EDITORIALS
. . . Journalism Which Succeeds Best —and Best
Deserves Success— Fears God and Honors Man; Is
Stoutly Independent, Unmoved by Pride of Opinion
or Creed of Power . . . Walter Williams
Election Support
★ ★ ★
Cooperation
“All we lack is finding out how wide the street is going
to be, and we can make our final plans.”
This statement by one of the A&M Consolidated Board
of trustees at their Monday night meeting is indicative of
the activity of, and cooperation between two leading groups
in College Station civic affairs, the A&M Consolidated School
Board and the College Station City Council.
Only 18 weeks have passed since the building bond was
passed by Consolidated School District voters and already
final plans are approved for the Lincoln School, the new East
Side Elementary School and the additional buildings at the
high school. And final plans have been completed by the
city council on a street in front of the new elementary school
to connect Francis Drive and Gilchrist Avenue.
This close coordination between the two civic groups
is indicative of a growing College Station. We would like
to commend the work done by both the College Station City
Council and the A&M Consolidated Board of Trustees toward
a better and more convenient school system.
LAST DAY
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Bill Hicklin Managing Editor
Joe Callicoatte - Sports Editor
Robbie Godwin News Editor
Ben Trail, Bob Sloan, Alan Payne Assistant News Editors
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CADET SLOUCH
The annual spring elections open tomorrow morning in
the Memorial Student Center with an array of offices in the
respective classes to be filled for the next school term.
Among the offices to be filled are the president, vice
president, secretary-treasurer, social secretary, student en
tertainment manager, two yell leaders and two Memorial
Student Center Council Delegates from the Class of ’61;
president, vice presidept, secretary, social secretary and two
yell leaders from the Class of ’62; and president, vice presi
dent, secretary-treasurer, social secretary and two MSC
Council delegates from the Class of ’63.
The offices to be taken by elected candidates will deter
mine to a significant extent the success and progress of the
College next year. It would behoove all students at Texas
A&M to make a sincere effort to vote.
Those who occupy these election posts at the start of
the year next fall should have the support of the majority
of the campus—not just a minute number of those who
cared to vote.
Twenty-one offices are open at the start of the elections
tomorrow—nine for the Class of ’61 and six each for the
Class of ’62 and the Class of ’63. Moreover, all the offices
are essential in student government and responsibility.
A strong turnout at the polls would insure capable
representation in class offices next fall.
by Jim Earle Senate Civil Rights War
Expected to Take Turns
WASHINGTON (A>)—The Sen
ate’s battle over civil rights leg
islation takes a new turn today
after major revisions of a House-
passed bill by its Judiciary Com
mittee.
The committee sent the re
vamped bill back to the Senate
late Tuesday night without rec
ommending its approval or dis
approval.
Majority Leader Lyndon B.
Johnson (D-Tex) was expected
to move to call up the measure
today.
The House passed the bill last
Thursday. The Senate immedi
ately referred it to its Judiciary
Committee for consideration,
putting aside a broader measure
it had been debating for six
weeks.
If the Senate passes the House
bill without changing it, it goes
directly to the President. But
of the Senate accepts any revi
sions of the Judiciary Committee
—and this seems inevitable—it
goes back to the House, where
Southern tacticians can delay it
more* weeks or months.
The committee was ordered to
bring the House bill back to the
Ags in Service
ever consider elevator shoes?”
Among the Faculty and Staff
Civil Engineering Professor
Occupys Two Different Jobs
STRANGE FLAG RACE
CINCINNATI 6P)—If you think
the 1959 National League pennant
race was on the odd side look
what happened in 1942. The Saint
Louis Cardinals that year' won 41
of their last 48 games to nip the
Dodgers at the wire.
Truman Ross Jones, Jr., a na
tive Texan and A&M graduate,
is one of those rarities in college
faculty members who hold down
two positions simultaneously.
Jones, who has been with the
faculty since 1947, is an associ
ate professor in the Department
of Civil Engineering and an as
sociate research engineering in
the Texas Transportation Insti
tute.
Jones received his B.S. degree
in 1943 in civil engineering fol
lowing graduation from high
school in his home town of
Gainesville, Tex., and tenures at
Gainesville Junior College, Fres
no State College and then A&M.
Jones went into the armed
services immediately following
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his graduation in 1943 and served
as an officer in the Army Corps
of Engineers and taught road and
runway design and construction
at the Engineers School, Fort
Belvoir, Va.
Following his discharge in
1945, he served as Chief of Con
struction at the Honolulu Dis
trict Engineering Office, super
vising $60 million in permanent
construction.
He then returned to A&M in
1947 as an instructor in the De
partment of Civil Engineering.
Following a short period in which
he was self employed as a con
sultant engineer and general con
tractor, he was named assistant
professor of architecture in 1955.
In this same year he. received his
M.S. in civil engineering.
Jones was named to his pres
ent positions shortly afterward,
in 1956 and 57, and has also
been named Engineering Consult
ant on Concrete Materials and
Special Structural Problems.
During his career Jones has
become a registered professional
engineer and has been named to
the Texas Society of Professional
Engineers, National Society of
Professional Engineers, American
Concrete Institute, American So
ciety of Civil Engineers, High
way Research Board Committee
and Sigma Xi.
Army Maj. Willie Pundt, ’48,
recently arrived in Viet Nam and
is now a member of the Military
Assistance Advisory Group in
Saigon.
Pundt, an ordnance-corps offi
cer, was last stationed at Aber
deen Proving Ground, Md.
★ ★ ★
Army 2nd Lt. James P. Trip-
litt, Jr., ’59 has completed the 12-
week basic course at the Artillery
and Missile School, Ft. Sill, Okla.
The course is designed to train
newly-commissioned officers in
communications, artillery trans
port, tactics and target acquisi
tion.
★ ★ ★
Air Force 2nd Lt. Edward W.
Wyatt, ’57, and Air Force 2nd
Lt. Marvin L. Trice, ’58, have
been graduated from the basic
(jet) pilot training school at
Webb Air Force Base, Tex.
Jones married the former Mil
dred Virginia Fuller and they
are the parents of six children,
William Truman, James Robert,
Nancy Ruth, Carol Bruce, Bar
bara Ann and Larry Richard.
Job Calls
The Jones’ reside at 1212 Mun
son in College Station and are
members of the A&M Methodist
Church. Jones is also a member
of the Masonic Lodge.
The following company will in
terview graduating seniors
Thursday in the Placement Of
fice on the third floor of the
YMCA Building:
Rowan Drilling Co. will inter
view graduates in electrical, me
chanical and petroleum engineer
ing, industrial technology and
business administration for jobs
in drilling operations.
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TH(f iSAumuCiW
TESTIMONIAL.
P.5. WJAlEfe TJAT is.
Senate by midnight Tuesday
night—a deadline it met after
spending 6 1 4> straight hours vot
ing on amendments.
Every section of the House bill
was amended by the committee,
but ony two changes were major.
All are subject to action by the
Senate.
One of these amendments, of
fered by Sen. Everett M. Dirk-
sen (R-Ill), broadened a section
of the House bill for interfering
by force or threats with court
orders for desegregation of pub-
LETTERS
Editor,
The Battalion:
I would like to thank all of
those who had any part in the
inauguration Saturday for mak
ing that the most monumental
day ,jn my life.
Words cannot express my ap
preciation for the work done by
so many people in making my in
auguration as fourteenth presi
dent of Texas A&M a memorable
occasion.
I only wish that I could thank
each of you connected with the
inauguration personally for your
help.
Sincerely,
Earl Rudder
President
Texas A&M
lie schools.
Under Dirksen’s amendment,
adopted by a 9-6 vote, it would
be a crime to obstruct any fed-
eral court order, including injunc
tions issued in labor disputes,
The Senate adopted such an
amendment to its own bill by a
65-19 vote on March 11, then
voted 49-35 to kill the whole sec
tion.
The other major amendment
approved by the committee re
vised the voting referee section
of the House measure to permit
state officials to sit in on Negro
registration hearings before
court-appointed referees.
Sponsored by Sen. Estes Ke-
fauver (D-Tenn), it was adopted
by a 7-6 vote. Sen. Kenneth B,
Keating (R-NY) called this a
“devestating blow” to the voting
rights part of the bill, but Ke-
fauver disputed this interpreta
tion.
Wee Aggies
We Aggies like
hen
gles.
6-4910
read about Wee Ag-
When a wee one arrives, call VI
and ask for the Wee Aggie Edl-
A 7 lb., 14% oz. boy, Robert Jud-
son Gougler, was born March 18
in Methodist Hospital, Houston,
to Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Gougler
of 707 Lee St., College Station.
Gougler is employed with the
Office of College Information.
On Campus
with
teQhukan
(Author of “I Was a Teen-age Dwarf”/‘The Many
Loves of Dohie Gillis”, etc.)
WHO WENT TO THE PROM-AND WHY
“Hello,” said the voice on the telephone. “This is Werther
Sigafoos. I sit next to you in psych. I’m kind of dumpy and
I always wear a sweat shirt.”
“I’m afraid I don’t remember you,” said Anna Livia Plura-
belle.
“I’m the one whose lecture notes you’ve been borrowing for
two years,” said Werther.
“Oh, yes!” said Anna Livia. “What do you wish, Walter?”
“Werther,” said Werther. “What I wish is to take you to the
Junior Prom next April.”
“But this is November 27, Westnor,” said Anna Livia.
“Werther,” said Werther. “Yes, I know, but you are so round
and beautiful that I was afraid you might have a date already.”
“As a matter of fact I do, Wingate,” said Anna Livia.
“Werther,” said Werther. “Oh, drat!”
Anna Livia did not really have a date, but she was expecting
to be asked by Stewart Stalwart, athletic and BMOC, handsome
as Apollo, smooth as ivory, wearer of faultless tweeds, smoker
of Marlboro cigarettes which even without his other achieve
ments would stamp him as a man with know-how, with a
pleasure-oriented palate. If you think flavor went out when
filters came in, try a Marlboro. This one brims with zest and
zip and the good, mild taste so dear to those who smoke for the
pure joy of it. Get yourself a pack of Marlboros and listen to
your friends say, “There, by George, goes a smoker who knows
a hawk from a handsaw.”
But I digress. Anna Livia waited and waited for Stewart
Stalwart to ask her, but two days before the Prom, to every
body s amazement, he asked Rose-of-Sharon Kinsolving, a non
descript girl with pavement-colored hair and a briefcase.
Anna Livia immediately phoned Werther Sigafoos. “My
Prom date has come down with a dread virus,” she said, “and
I have decided to accept your invitation, Waldrop.”
“Werther,” said Werther. “Oh, goody ganders!”
The next day Anna Livia received a phone call from Stewart
Stalwart ‘My Prom date has come down with a dread virus,’!
he said. “Will you go with me?”
.‘‘Certainly,” she said and promptly phoned Werther and said,
I have come down with a dread virus and cannot go to the
Prom with you, Whipstitch.”
“Werther,” said Werther. “Oh, mice and rats!”
So Anna Livia went to the Prom with Stewart and who do you
think they ran into? Rose-of-Sharon with Werther, that’s who!
Stewart had felt obliged to ask Rose-of-Sharon because she
always did his homework, but she had weaseled out because she
realh wanted to go with Werther with whom she felt a great
oneness because they were both so dumpy. He fell wildly in
love with her at the Prom, and today they are married and run
a \ ery successful five-minute auto wash in New Bern N C
Anna Livia and Stewart are happy, too. They are still juniors
and have not mi*d a prom in sixteen years. , J
We hope be smokin, MaHboroe at yom pr „ m _ or it
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April 9.
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Agricultural
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lamb judgin
Judging :
results will 1
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contests eac
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championshi
Lester Bui
” supervisor o
21 counties
CAJND1
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gene Stubbi
Donald A. 1
Todd, Jamei
Ray, Renati
Murray, An
nest E. Fij
well and Ke
Class of
ident are L
var, Maleoh
Deupree II
Schlotzhane
O. Marring'
Willmann, <
Ronald V.
Candidate
president ai
Frank D. 1
William B.
James W.
Shiveley, J'
Thomas
Randolph, J
C. Rodrigue
»nd Juan I
Frank I
Moore, W.
breath, Johi
> R. Munnerl
the Class ol
position. *
Patrick K.
’ cil candidt
Brooks, Ra
Lively, Cec
for social s
Class of
dates are .
dith H. Cai
G. Halm,
Shephen W
ghall, Done
H. Ralph,
James L
Carl H. Aii
terson, Jan
S. Ternus
Thomas W.
lace and Ji
Class of
dates are
Donnell, <
Richard D
Sassin, Kei
aid Bower,
M. John, 1
Tomy M. r
Vice pre
* the Class
Willman,
Ruckman,
W. Miller,
Herb Ge
Eugene N.
Donald L.
and Gary
Secretar;
for the Cl
Burton, Al
W. Wells,
ert E. Bry;
lor.
Social s<
Robert A.
George Gi
Townsend,
Charles E
i Holmes.
Clifford
Forster, B<
rell, Jame:
Logan, Pi
Tony Mad
the Class c
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