The Battalion
Volume 69
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, ’960
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CO/?P^ 77?/P REVELRY
Enormous Dallas Party
Brewing: 4 A Real Blast’
The largest and perhaps finest
party in the annals of A&M Corps
Trips is brewing in Dallas.
Being planned by the Dallas
A&M Club as an aftermath of the
Cadet-Southern Methodist Univer
sity grid clash Nov. 5, the party
has taken on enormous aspects.
All students of A&M, in addi
tion to former students and stu
dents at Texas Women’s Univer
sity, have been invited to attend.
The “blast,” as it is called, will
be held in the Dallas Memorial
Auditorium with three orchestras
playing to the expected massive
audience on both floors of the
spacious structure.
Charlie Howard of the Class of
!48, who is head of the committee
planning, said that the closed par
ty vi^ill begin at 9 p.m. and contin
ue to the convenience of those in
attendance. Liquid refreshments
will be served.
continuous music by three top
bands—Ted Weems, Jimmy Pal
mer and the Dave Klein Trio. The
Weems and the Palmer groups will
appear on either the first and sec-
and floors with the Trio spelling
one during intermission.
The Dallas Club has already
committed themselves to $5,000 for
the festivities.
Overall planning for the party
calls for some 75,000 square feet
of space for dancing—something
like 15 square feet per person.
Also, the various units on campus
will be seated according to outfits
and dormitories, with an expected
1,700 couples occupying the first
floor and 750 occupying the second
floor.
That’s almost 5,000 people.
Tickets to the party will be sold
by outfits in the Corps of Cadets
and by dormitories in the civilians.
Price for the dance is $4, stag or
He also added that there will be ' drag.
The Dallas Club suggests that
those attendinng wear slacks and
sports shirts or better. The Club
also emphasized that there will be
no tipping, as the Dallas Club
plans to take care of that.
Howard said the Dallas Club
wanted the party to be “for the
students of Texas A&M.”
“It’s your party,” he said, “and
if it is successful, we plan to make
it an annual affair. It could be
held again next year following
the A&M-Texas Christian Univer
sity game in Fort Worth.”
Howard also disclosed that the
Former Students are being re
quired to pay more than A&M
students, $5.
Tickets for the party go qff sale
this Friday at 5 p.m. at the Cash
ier’s Cage in the Memorial Student
Center. Ducats may be purchased
at the door, but only with identifi
cation cards.
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Siege Of Flu, Minor Ills,
Colds Bring Hospital Rush
Civilians Discuss
School Government
The civilian side of student government here at A&M
was reportedly throughly discussed over the weekend by 17
Aggies at the Civilian Student Leadership Retreat held at the
Lakeview Methodist Assembly area south of Palestine.
Two special addresses, work-4
shops covering four major civilian
student government problems, a
banquet and specially - provided
recreation featured the informal
gathering, which began Friday
night and continued through 8 p.m.
Saturday.
William G. Breazeale, a civilian
student counselor and head of the
civilian student affairs office, of
fered the keynote address opening
the meeting Friday night.
First Assembly
Breazeale’s address followed the
group’s first assembly and regis
tration proceedings. Louis Piazza
offered the invocation at the initial
assembly.
The four workshops were con
ducted Saturday, two in the morn
ing and the others in the after
noon, stretching up until 6 p.m.
The morning sessions covered
the questions “how to motivate the
civilian student to take part in
campus and dormitory activities”
and “the scope and purpose of the
civilian dormitory council.”
In the first discussion Jimmy
Kent discussed the question in re
gard to the dormitory council, El
mo Hunter followed wdth a discus
sion of the problem in regard to
various civilian organizations and
Harry Goss concluded with a dis
cussion of the problem in regard
to student government.
Second Workshop
The second workshop, which be
gan at 1 a.m., featured two work
shop groups working on the prob
lem, “the scope and purpose of the
civilian dormitory council.” Bill
Flynt discussed the role of the
dormitory council assistant to the
housemaster and Paul Corder ex
plained what new areas of work
can be explored.
Following lunch at noon, the
third workshop began with a dis
cussion of student-administrative
relations. Here John Malahik
theorized how improvements in
communication between adminis
tration and civilian students can
Hannigan To Speak
To Student Senate
The Student Senate will hold its
second regular meeting of the year
Thursday night at 7:30 in the
Senate Chamber of the Memorial
Student Center.
Dean of Students James P. Han
nigan will be the guest speaker
at the meeting. One aspect of his
talk will be closer coordination be
tween student clubs on the campus
and how they can work closer with
the Student Senate.
President of this year’s Senate
is Roland Dommert. Vice Presi
dent is Norris Gilbreath, and Re
cording Secretary is Jack Spill-
Vet Checks Slated
To Arrive Oct. 31
Reports indicate GI Bill checks
from the Veterans Administration
will be received here on or around
Oct. 31.
Bennie A. Zinn, veterans advis
or, said yesterday word has been
received from the Administration
indicating the checks will be dated
Oct. 31 and probably will be re
leased at the same time.
be made and Goss discussed what
is the responsibility of the student
government to college administra
tion.
The fourth workshop brought
Saturday to a close at 6 p.m., to
be followed by the banquet and
closing address.
Last Workshop
“The responsibilities of leader
ship” was the title of the last
workshop, with Kent and Hank
Farrow leading the two separate
study groups.
Kent’s group discussed how to
interest men in becoming civilian
student leaders and Farrow’s
group examined how to obtain bet
ter recognition for civilian student
leaders.
Following a free time period
from 6-6:30 p.m. the closing ad
dress, by Bennie A. Zinn, director
of the student personal service,
began. Zinn concluded at 7, at
which time the banquet that closed
the meeting began.
The group was dismissed at 8
p.m.
Aggies Attending
Aggies attending were Piazza,
Archie Mathews, Farrow and John
Weatherall, Millner; Kent and
Travis Johnson, Mitchell; Scott
Knapp, Frank Lovato and Paul
Corder, Law; Wayne and Royce
Bodkin and Fred Thornberry,
Hart; Bill Flynt and Hunter, Col
lege View; Harry Goss, Leggett;
Debs Gamblin, Puryear, and John
Mihalick, Walton.
In addition to Breazeale and
Zinn, Robert O. Murray, Jr., a di
rector in the Department of Stu
dent Affairs, was instrumental in
the camp proceedings.
Aggie Rodeo
Events to Run
Three Nights
The 39th Annual All-Aggie Ro
deo opens Thursday night at 8
p.m. in the rodeo arena with per
formances scheduled for Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday nights.
The rodeo is sponsored by the
Saddle and Sirloin Club. It will
feature events such as calf roping,
ribbon roping, bareback bronc
riding, saddle bronc riding, steer
dogging and bull riding.
In addition to these expected
events, this year the All-Aggie
Rodeo has added a girl’s barrel
race. Sanctioned by the Texas
Barrel Racer’s Assn., the event is
expected to attract many of Texas’
foremost cowgirls.
An intramural wild cow saddling
contest and a calf scramble will
also be featured. Any amateur
cowboy in the Corps may enter
these intramural events; the prize
being intramural points for his
outfit.
Judges for the rodeo will be
Ken Dorris and A. G. Ollre.
Outstanding contestants entered
in the rodeo include Kenneth
Beasley and Lynn Turner, All-
Around Cowboys in 1959 and Rod
ney Butler, bareback bronc riding
champ.
Others include Phillip Cox, out
standing bull and bareback bronc
rider and Joe Neff, president of
the Rodeo Club.
The Aggie Rodeo drew a record
crowd last year, with interest
shown by local and distant fans.
Observers of last year’s rodeo
rated it as one of the top collegiate
rodeos in the nation. The 1960
show is to be bigger and more ex
citing.
Tickets for the All-Aggie Rodeo
are available from any Saddle and
Sirloin Club member, or they may
be bought at the gate.
Oceanography Prof
In NY Discussion
“Oceanographic Requirements vs. Instrumentation Capa
bilities,” were discussed by Roy D. Gaul, research scientist
in the Department of Oceanography and Meteorology, and
J. J. Schule Jr., head of the Applied Oceanography Branch of
the U. S. Navy Hydrographic Of->
fice in Washington, D. C. at the
15th annual Instrumentation-Auto
mation Conference in New York.
“The main argument presented
in this paper,” Gaul and Schule
pointed out, “is that the physical
study of the ocean, especially from
the standpoint of short term dy
namic interaction of natural phe
nomena, is crippled by standard
measurement methods and cannot
meet research demands without
technological modernization.
“Manpower and money applied
to instrumentation and data tech
nique through the medium of mis
siles has blessed us with techniques
and hardware which can and
should find immediate application
in many oceanographic research
programs.
“If the recent industrial interest
in oceanography as a potential
market is to be kept alive oceanog
raphers must light the day by de
fining their needs and promoting
support for urgently needed am
bitious programs.
“Long range telemetry must be
considered as preferable to field
recording. An automatic data re
duction system must, at high
speed, convert raw data to com
puter ready format with a max
imum of control and flexibility.
“Digital or analog computer
systems are highly developed and
present the least problem for inte
gration into the system as ocean
ographers come to accept their
potential more fully.
“The need is cited in this paper
for modernizing used oceanograph
ic methods for observing and
measuring ocean characteristics.
This is especially true of physical
parameters (temperature, salinity,
wave heights, currents, etc.) if an
attempt is to be made towards
describing their inter-dependence.
“M ost ocean measurements
made today are from surface ships
using equipment very similar to
what was available 30 to 50 years
ago. Our oceanographic fleet is
limited in size and capability and
operating costs are high. The
amount of data taken is small com
pared to the effort required.
“Furthermore, the form the in
formation is in and the usually
tedious processing methods cause
a significaht drain on available
manpower and money.
“Lack of active support and at
tention to the ocean sciences has
been largely responsible for our
apparent lack of progress. How
ever, technological development in
other scientific fields has given us
the opportunity to progress dra
matically now that national atten
tion has turned to the sea.
Flu Vaccine
Now Available
“Right now, we are experiencing the worst onslaught of
flu, colds, sore throats and other ailments of a similar nature
than we have had in three years,” said Dr. C. R. Lyons, direc
tor of student health services, yesterday.
Lyons said the siege of flu and colds started after the
A&M-Texas Tech game a week ago, caused by the drenching
received by the entire student body at the game.
During the first of the week, the hospital had a marked
increase in patients, and a total count of cold and flu cases
since Sept. 29 totals 532 Aggies treated at the hospital, in
five days.
Averaging 150-300
“We are averaging from ISC’*
to 300 patients a day, with
about half of them colds and
other resniratory congestion
ailments. The number of colds
has begun decreasing in the past
day though,” said Dr. Lyons.
Last night, there were 28 pa
tients in the hospital, most being
flu cases, with one case of pneu
monia reported.
“We are not dealing with Asian
flu this time; it is more of a virus
variety,” said Dr. Lyons. “The
patients are usually in bed two or
three days, until their fever comes
down to normal temperature, and
then we release them, making room
for someone else,” he added.
The doctor advised the best re
sistance builder is enough sleep,
and said this explains why the
majority of flu cases are freshmen.
Not yet being totally adjusted to
the active lives they have been
leading these past two weeks is
a determining factor, said Dr.
Lyons.
“We have been able to handle
the students with colds much bet
ter now that we have opened our
cold clinic. We have hired another
nurse, and have been treating a
larger number of students as a
result,” said Dr. Lyons.
Vaccine Available
Flu vaccine is available at the
hospital, and Dr. Lyons has urged
that all students get a flu shot as
soon as possible since the disease
has become a major problem. The
one shot costs $1, and will be fol
lowed by another in the spring.
“The situation is not a real
emergency yet, but it is the worst
we have had since three years ago
when we had 2,000 students strick
en with the Asian flu,” said Dr.
Lyons. “We are getting less cases,
now, and with good weather and
more sleep, the students should be
able to resist catching flu or cold,”
he added.
The hospital staff urges that
students desiring treatment come
to the hospital between 8 a.m. and
5 p.m. during the day. With the
(See SIEGE On Rage 3)
Forecast Due
At Industrial
Meet Monday
A ten-year forecast of business
and industrial conditions for Tex
as and the Southwest will be given
Monday and Tuesday at A&M’s
10th Annual Industrial Develop
ment Conference at the Memorial
Student Center.
The forecast will be made bf
Philip E. Coldwell, Director of
Research, Federal Reserve Bank,
Dallas.
Along with the forecast, the
delegates will learn of the laws
that will affect business and in
dustry during this period. These
will be described by Ed Gossett,
General Attorney in Texas for the
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.,
Dallas.
The conference is open to all
persons interested in industrial
development, according to James
R. Bradley of the Industrial Eco
nomics Research Division of the
Texas Engineering Experiment
Station who has charge of the
sessions. More than 150 persons
have registered to date and a total
of 300 is expected when the con
ference convenes.
Persons attending will hear also
speeches on the role of railroads,
utility companies, city govern
ments, and chambers of commerce
in industrial development in the
1960’s. They will also be given a
glimpse of the exepected economy
of the entire United States for
the forthcoming decade.
At the end of the first day’s
sessions the conferees and speak
ers will be guests of the Bryan In
dustrial Foundation, Inc., for a
social hour.
Speeches of the conference will
be published by the college in the
interest of industrial development.
World Wrap-Up
By The Associated Press
Chances for Ike-Khrushchev Meet Collapse
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—Chances for a new meeting of Presi
dent Eisenhower and Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev collapsed Tuesday.
The Soviet leader, shaken by a series of setbacks, was reported plan
ning a new round of U.N. fireworks.
Khrushchev is considered by Western circles to have overplayed his
hand badly and to have maneuvered himself into an awkward position.
He is expected now to turn the major share of his attention to making
things as hot as possible for U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammer-
skjold in an attempt to force him out of office.
The Soviet leader’s new fireworks, some sources said, would indi
cate Khrushchev’s anxiety to salvage something from this session
which could be presented as a victory to Soviet and Communist popu
lations when he returns to Moscow.
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36 Killed in Boston Plane Crash
BOSTON—An Eastern Airlines plane carrying 67 passengers and
a crew of five flopped into Boston Harbor late Tuesday only moments
after leaving the runway for a southbound flight.
Two hours later there were 13 known survivors and about 36
bodies recovered.
The turbo-prop Electra had just taken off from Logan Interna
tional Airport for Philadelphia, the Carolinas and Georgia. It came
down in muddy water about 200 yards offshore.