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i Worth Mentioning By Johnny Johnson For a college that takes great pride in the beauty of its grounds, Texas A&M owns a piece of property that is a dis grace not only because of its run-down physical condition but also because it’s the Texas A&M Cemetery and certainly does not present a proper appearance for a cemetery. The cemetery is located approximately 1.3 miles from the West Gate Memorial. To reach the cemetery a person must turn South on Old Highway 6 and follow it for about a mile from the West Gate entrance of the college until reaching the old U. S. Army Reserve Center on the west side of the road. By taking a right turn there and crossing two sets of railroad tracks, a person reaches the vicinity of the Texas A&M Cemetery. After crossing the second set of railroad tracks, if a person looks closely on the right hand side of the road, he will be able to distinguish several headstones amid the trees, brush and tall grass. But he will have to look for there is no sign or other identification. As astounding as it might seem, one of the former presidents of Texas A&M — L. L. Foster — is buried in this cemetery. Foster was president of the college from July 1, 1898, until Dec. 2, 1901, the day of his death. This cemetery was not the first resting place for Foster and the nine other persons buried there. Originally, Texas A&M estab lished a college cemetery on what is now the southwest corner of the drill field behind Duncan Dining Hall. When work was begun in the early 1940’s on the 12 new dormi tories in what is now called the New Dorm Area, the cemetery was moved to its present loca tion and the remains of the 10 persons were moved. This was done because at the Senior Pics Deadline Set For April 25 Seniors were reminded today that Vanity Fair and Senior Fa vorites deadlines are Monday' April 25th according to Sam C. Barranco, assistant editor of The Aggieland ’00. The deadlines were changed to allow seniors to obtain pictures during Easter vacation, Barranco said. Seniors who wish to submit pictures to the Vanity Fair Selec tion Committee should obtain one large portrait and a full-length snapshot. There is no entry fee, but girls entered must be able to attend the Student Publications Awards Banquet, May 13, ^which is Friday before the Senior Ring Dance. Also, the six winners and six runners-up must have pic tures made at the Aggieland Stu dio for publication in The Aggie land ’60. Pictures of Senior Favorites must be small portraits or clear snapshots and the fee is $2 per shot, said Barranco. All pictures should be turned in at the Office of Student Publica tions in the YMCA basement. Every picture left at the office will be returned undamaged upon request, following publication, Barranco said. •f- time College Station did not have a cemetery. The tragic thing about the matter is that the cemetery is nothing more than a burial ground. Something needs to be done—either move the remains of the 10 persons to a proper ceme tery or the college should do some landscaping on the present site and make it a decent burial place, not for any more burials but just to take care of the present graves and make it a proper final resting place for the 10 people—all who were connected with Texas A&M in some way. As the picture on Page 1 illus trates, something has to be done before the cemetery becomes a. wilderness. * :!-■ A call Wednesday from one of the officials of the Hillel Founda tion asked us to pass on some information to the unknown van dals who painted swastikas on the Hillel Foundation sometime Saturday night. The Hillel Foundation official asked the persons who committed the vandalism to realize the seri ousness of their actions. Painting swastikas on a house of worship is not just common vandalism, it’s adding fuel to the fires of propaganda of the Communists and other enemies of the United States, pointed out the Hillel official. We heartily agree with what she said and would like to add something on our own—any kind of vandalism is bad but vandalism that includes unfounded attacks .on a. particular segment of our ' population,is not just bad, it’s about the lowest thing a person can do! * :!: The Ross Volunteer Permanent Firing Squad for the remainder of the year has been announced by Ross Volunteer Commander Wade Dover. The permanent firing squad is composed of the 21 outstanding juniors in the Ross Volunteers, according to Dover. .This group will perform their duties at Aggie Muster and at any Silver Taps held during the remainder of the year. Executive Officer Hubert Ox ford is in command of the firing squad. Members of the squad are Sydney N. Heaton, John V. Kitowski, Walter R. Frazier, Scott S. McKay, Daniel F. Bauer, Fred B. Hudspeth and David L. Voelter, all of the 1st Platoon; Shelton J. Champagne, John A. Winship,' Glenn A. Jones, Richard M. Powell, Charles H. Rollins, Guy W. Keeling and George R. Meadows, all of the 2nd Platoon; and Donald F. Boren, Ogden T. Baur, Malcolm F. Bolton, Walter R. Willms, Edward A. Todd, Win- burn N. Wynn and Kenneth J. Demel, all of the 3rd Platoon. Wisconsin Primary Fails To Come Up With Answers : . r f mrr-rrrrr—-— . I’m not so sure that Fish Squirt is planning on going to engineering drawing today!” What’s Cooking — The following clubs and organ izations will meet tonight: 7:30 Angelina County Hometown Club will meet in the Memorial Student Center Coffee Shop. Plans for a party will be.discuss ed. Brush Country Hometown Club meets in Room 3-C, MSC. Sam Houston Hometown Club meets in the YMCA Cabinet Room. Galveston County Hometown Club meets in the YMCA Brooks Room. California Hometown Club will meet in the MSC. Amarillo Hometown Club will meet in Room 3-B, MSC. Eagle Pass Hometown Club meets in Room 202, Academic Building. Waco Hometown Club will meet in the YMCA. Baytown Hometown Club will meet in Room 228, Academic Building. South Louisiana Hometown Club meets in Room 2-C, MSC. Pasadena Hometown Club will meet in Room 203, • Academic Building. Bell County Hometown Club Ladies To Present UN Club Program ‘‘The Changing Status of Wo men in the World Today” will be the topic of a program to be pre sented by the United Nations Club at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the YMCA. Eight ladies, representing dif ferent regions of the world, will present the program. They are Mrs. F. E. Smith, United States; Mrs. Z. J. Kapadia, India; Mrs. B. Parker, Philippines; Mrs. R. H. Estrada, Venezuela; Mrs. H. H. Williamson, Yugoslavia; Mrs. Carlos Feltz, Germany; and Mrs. J. R. Dumbly, England. Mrs. E. Wallace will be the' coordinator. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu- ient writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, 7ion- profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and op erated by students as a community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&M College. Members Student K. J. €. D. of the Student Publicatr ons L. Board are L. A. Duewall, director of aett. School of Arts and Sciences; Dr. funze. School of Agriculture; and Dr. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M. Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monda, ember through May, and Bet) ten ay, and once a week during summer is published in College sy, and holiday periods, school. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office in College Station, Texas, ufider the Act of CoH- sfess of March 8, 1870. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Ass’n. 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JOHNNY JOHNSON EDITOR Bill Hicklin Managing Editor ■Toe Callicoatte Sports Editor Bobbie Godwin News Editor Ben Trail, Bob Sloan, Alan Payne Assistant News Editors Nelson Antosh, Ken Coppage, Tommy Holbein, Bob Saile and A1 Vela - Staff Writers Joe Jackson Photographer Russell Brown CHS Correspondent Land constitutes slightly more than 29 per cent of the total sur face of the earth and. water com poses the other 71 per cent, says a Twentieth Century Fund report. will see a football film in the MSC Social Room. Grayson County Hometown Club will meet in the YMCA. Odessa Hometown Club meets in Room 207, Academic Building. Tyler-Smith County Hometown Club will meet in the MSC. Lavaca County Hometown Club will meet in Room 106, Acadamic Building. Rio Grande Valley Hometown Club will meet in the Lounge of Walton Hall. 8:00 Red River Valley Hometown Club will meet in the MSC Ser pentine Lounge. The picture for the Aggieland will be made. Ca dets wear class “A” summer uni form and civilians wear coats and ties. By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON (A 5 )—The Wis consin primary was a mish-mash. It proved nothing. Yet all three entries, no matter how they finished, said they felt encour aged. That ought to set some kind of record for American pol itics. Take Sen. John F. Kennedy ID- Mass.), who ran first in the state’s Democratic presidential primary with more than 478,000 votes. He was described as ela ted although he had been favored to win and could have done bet ter. Sen. Hubert H. Hum'phrey (D- Minn.), his rival in the. Demo cratic contest, got about 372,000 votes, or more than 106,000 less than Kennedy. But he was encouraged because he hadn’t done worse. ,, Vice President Richard M. Nix on, unopposed in the Republican presidential primary part of the election, got only 341,000 votes. Nixon interpreted his third-place vote as “surprisingly! iarge.” He went even further and .'told Re publicans around the country to look for a Republican victory in the presidential' election in Wis consin in November. Then guess what Paul M. But ler, chairman of the Democratic National Committee said. He said Wisconsin would go Democratic in November. And his opposite number, Sen. Thurston B. Morton, chairman of the GOP National Committee, said the vote for Nixon was the .«■,*&*-CA.*'' d v v IT’S A GREAT FEELING To Wear An Arrow Sport Shirt Adding a bit of dash to the campus scene are these traditional sport shirts that boast easy good looks, lasting comfort. Fine “Sanforized” fabrics enhanced with Arrow’s authentic buttondown collar. Carefully tailored in pullover style, $4.25, and regular models, $4.00. I -ARROW- - Wherever you go . . . you look belter in on Arrow j/iirl Neat, masculine, comfortable See our new Arrow sport shirt collection designed especially for the college man. Many traditional prints with wash and wear convenience . . . tailored for trim good looks in quality fabrics. Drop in while we still have a wide selection. $4.00 up. MENS WEAR SINCB 1933 BRYAN —TEXAS ‘B. C. GOES TO COLLEGE!” PEANUTS Bv Charles M Schuli PEANUTS WELL, NJit) THAT N YOU have your LIBRARYCARR ARENT YOU SOINOTO USE IT? IcAn't! i'm afraid to 60 INTO THE LIBRARY... I JUST CAN'T MAKE MYSELF GO THROUGH THOSE DOORS- greatest vote ever given an un- oposed candidate in the Wiscon sin primary. The White House said: “No comment.” What does it all add up to? Nixon might have done much bet ter if he had gone into Wiscon sin to campaign for himself. But he didn’t and it was the Demo cratic contest which got the at tention. Under other conditions in the same state—with just one Demo cratic entry who, like Nixon, didn’t campaign — Nixon might . have done far better. Yet, there’s a chance the big Democratic vote and the low- man-on-the-totem-pole spot Nix on landed in may indicate broad Wisconsin discontent with the Re publicans and be the forerunner of a nationwide discontent which can’t be expressed till November. On the other hand Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, no doubt ownes a big part of his vote to Cath olics, both Democrats and Repub licans/since Wisconsin is 30 per cent Catholic. But when he runs in West Vir ginia May 10 against Humphrey, in the presidential primary there, there’ll be very little Catholic vote to help him since the Cath olics in West Virginia total about only 5 per cent of the population. Perhaps Kennedy would have won the way he did in Wisconsin even if he had been a Protestant and maybe the anti-Catholic sen timent that showed itself against A1 Smith in 1928 has died out in this country. And a heavy vote against Ken nedy in Protestant West Virginia might not prove any anti-Cath olic sentiment at all but some- : thing unrelated. ' Advertisement — ROBBIE GDW N LOOKS AT __ i-A; -A; lice LIT £ Week Khru- to his ./ UffHi Any of you who heard Dr. T. Keith Glennan’s address this week have a nice surprise in store in this week’s LIFE. The Tiros sat ellite of which Dr. Glennan spoke, the space photographer of weather conditions around the world, is shown both in form and in action. If you remember the talk, the pur pose of the satellite is to estab lish a pattern for forecasting the weather on a world-wide scale. LIFE shows some of the first ac tual photos relayed back to earth by Tiros. Sharpeville LIEE’s writers travel to Africa this week for a story on the Sharpeville slaying and its after- math. They also did a little dig ging and come up with the history of the white domination of the country which has been prevalent until the recent riots by native people to gain their rights. The story begins with the Dutch and French Huguenot settlers moving in 300 years ago, and runs through the gradual building up of resent ment until the present-day strife torn country that is South Africa. Project Mercury Climbing out of the cockpits of their trainer planes where they try to make a golf ball float in mid air, the Mercury Astronauts now go into a whirling cylinder guar anteed to make them very sick to their stomachs unles they can ma nipulate a couple of levers to stop the end-over-end, round-and-round and sideways spining. Just another phase in the life of the first Amer icans who will man outer space rockets. (This, too, is Dr. Glen nan’s NASA project.) Folklore of America In. another series, LIFE again reaches into the past for their Folklore of America stories, deal ing this week with the legendary feats of the pioneers. The paint ings by James Lewicki display the fantasy that surrounds the legends in full color. The boyhood of Dan- i iel Boone, The Mission of Johnny J Appleseed, Lovers o f Dismal Swamp and other favorites are told in a style to recall stories you might have read in your earlier years. Fashions for the women this week pictures a drastic change in the style of attire for sleep. The article is entitled “Bikinis Move to Bedrooms.” ’Nuff said. . . . A Look at the World’s shows a unique portrait of shchev, taken as he listens speech being translated for a Marseilles crowd on his trip to France. Other features in this picture section—fire in a whisky warehouse, flood in Wsconsin, prayer in the South, and a car that also is a boat. Five beautiful actresses cul their long tresses to becom-t marked women for the latest Para mount film, “Five Branded Women.” It is the story of cour ageous women accused of love- making with enemy soldiers in war-time Yugoslavia. The actresses come from three countries—the U. S., Italy and France. All but one really cut their hair for the filming of this picture. Honeymooners and Engineers Any of you young men who plan a trip to Niagara Falls on youl honeymoon, but can still remembet your duty to engineering, take a look at the man-made gorges which will divert 38 per cent of the Niagara River’s water to the new hydroelectric plants being installed below the dam. These are pictured in LIFE. If your fancies are still turned lightly to romance, don’t worry about the fog and the falls. Enough water is still going over Interna tional Falls to set the traditional scene of the honeymooners getting their faces wet in the little boats under the falls. The personal story of a profes sional contraband flier in connec tion with the Cuban situation will thrill any adventure lover. And a feature about a man who spent 50 years in prison becoming an au thority on bird diseases and other matters of interest to him is inter esting both in setting and in the persona] history of a man battling his environment. It’s all a part of LIFE.