I
wamammmm
ng
• forft
>-te Uni
Univei
The Battalion
ll
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1961
Number J&f
imDAYS TO ACCEPT
Univei
Id
Hotel i
lie eoi
Ploriil
S then
;ht.
New Underpass
Would Eliminate
Campus Eyesore
By BOB SLOAN
The Texas Highway Department wants to build a $720,-
i, four-lane railroad underpass in College Station, but local
government and A&M College officials will have to act fast,
irthe. offer will be withdrawn.
The Highway Department wants'^
c
19c
19c
1
i9c
Id build the grade crossing where
Farm to Market Road 60 (Sulphur
Springs Road) crosses the Texas
ltd New Orleans and Missouri
[Pacific railroad tracks—at the far
wst end of North Gate. The pres
et crossing at this point is a
narrow, out-dated “up-and-over”
ippe.
At present, the railroad tracks
are elevated several feet above the
level of the highway. To cross the
tracks, the highway simply goes
ipand over, giving motorists the
sisation of a short, unexpected
ride on a roller-coaster.
The proposed crossing would be
i four-lane roadway with ap-
Jroaclies leading to Farm to Mar-
let Road 2154 (old Highway 6),
vkich runs parallel to the railroad
neks.
In a Highway Commission Min-
Ae Order dated Jan. 31, 1961, the
iijhway Department offered to
lid the three-quarters of a mil
lion dollar structure provided
Hrazos County, the City of College
Station, A&M, and the two rail
age for the traffic problems of its
day. There are more cars on the
road now, and the narrow crossing
with its poor visibility just can’t
handle the situation.
The Highway Commission real
ized this in 1954 when it directed
the State Highway Engineer to
begin negotiations with local au
thorities to build the crossing. The
Highway Department then esti
mated the cost of the grade sepa
ration and the approaches would
be $375,000. Since then, however,
the estimate has been increased
to $720,000.
If the proposal is accepted be
fore the May 10 deadline, the High
way Department will defray all
engineering and construction ex
penses needed to build the four-
lane crossing, including the road
way approaches.
Before the work on the crossing
can begin, however, local officials
must agree to certain stipulations.
Brazos County must furnish, at
no cost to the state, all county
utility adjustments, such as the
Fem North Texas Singer
. ;. charms jazz concert audience
NTS Jazz Group
Swings In Guion
companies involved agreed to relocation of power lines . It must
take care of such preliminary mat
te as securing rights of way and
(
■king necessary adjustments in
telephone lines and other utilities.
But officials in this area must
»ept the proposal and agree to
its conditions before May 10 or the
ier will be withdrawn. This
nuld give county, city and college
ifficials 90 days from the date
tie proposal was made to study the
tffer and make a decision.
The Highway Commission, in its
proposal, said that “present and
anticipated highway and railroad
traffic indicates the need for . . .
! railroad grade separation.” The
present crossing was built years
also furnish all rights of way be
longing to the county.
The City of College Station, like
wise, must agree to take care of
all city utility adjustments and
rights of way within the city
limits. A&M' must take care of
any college owned utilities and
right of way property.
The two railroads involved, The
Texas and New Orleans Railroad
and the Missouri Pacific Railroad
companies, must agree to con
tribute to the cost of construction
and maintenance of the crossing
and agree to prepare the detail
By TOMMY HOLBEIN
Taking a back seat to no-one in the field of jazz, the
North Texas State Lab band filled Guion Hall with two hours
of solid, swinging sounds in the finest of professional style
and performance.
Long before the show started,
the theater was filled with the
sounds of accomplished musicians
warming up their instniments and
preparing to “move out” in the
field they are all specialists in w ith “They Can’t Take That Away
(See UNDERPASS On Page 3)
World Wrap-Up
By The Associated Press
Satellite Search Underway
WASHINGTON—American scientists searched Thurs-
jay night for a “lost satellite”—one with polka dots on it—
even as they claimed partial success for a major space mis
sion.
5!
★ ★ ★
Special-Session Bill Studied
AUSTIN—The House Taxation Committee considered a
controversial revenue bill Thursday that could cause a special
session.
jazz unlimited
The 16-piece group began
sharply at 8 p.m., opening with a
progressive arrangement of “I Re
member You,” followed by a slow,
suave rendition of “Laura.” By
this time, they had acquh*ed a
captured audience of well over 300,
which continually applauded the
various soloists featured during
the various numbers of the pro
gram.
Master of Ceremonies for the
performance was Leon Breeden,
leader of the group which has per
formed on the Steve Allen Show,
played at the Newport Jazz Fes
tival, and claimed ^ high honors in
natiorial intercollegiate jazz com
petition.
Breeden set the pace \yith rhyth
mic snaps, movements and motions,
and also helped maintain the cas
ualness of the band on stage; there
was no formality, just a perfect
impression of a group of jazz
masters in a jam session.
Special feature of the group was
Miss Lotti Krener, freshman ad
vertising art major from Wichita
Falls who is vocalist for the Lab
Band.
Miss Krener, met with loud ap
plause and anticipation, opened
From Me,” followed by a slow and
sultry, “I Want a Sunday Kind of
Love.” She later returned follow
ing the intermission to, sing three
other numbers, with an encore of
“Route 66.”
Another feature of the perform
ance was the “Jazzete,” composed
of trumpets, saxophones, drums,
guitar, bass and piano. Backed
with a strong bass and drums, the
instrumentalists played true pro
gressive jazz to meet everyone’s
tastes, with two swjnging numbers
and an original version of the
ballad, “Angel Eyes.”
Two examples of the band’s
style of “impact music” were
“Waltz of the Prophets,” a number
recently made famous by the jazz
stylist, Woody Herman, and their
final number, “The Three-Cornered
Cat,” after which the entire audi
ence rendered a standing ovation.
For those who had little knowl
edge of jazz, the session proved
a worthwhile, enlightening experi
ence; and those who really “dig”
the sounds found it was well worth
the two hours in Guion.
VEIL TRAINED MEN TO SERVE
8.
RE Leaders Assigned Dorms
i
Four outstanding religious lead-
#s will be conducting forum and
'•iscussion groups during Religious
-Mphasis Week for Puryear, Law,
fttchell and Walton Halls, ' and
Dormitories 6, 15, and 16.
Leading the groups for Puryear,
Daw and the first two floors of
ftchell will , be Rev. Marion F.
’tynolds, pastor of the St. Paul
Dtesbyterian Church, Dallas,
W
Kev. Reynolds attended Lamar
^lege, Beaumont, and received
:i A.B. degree from Austin Col-
^e, Sherman, Texas, in 1936 and
■’'s B.D. degree from the Union
‘"sological Seminary, Richmond,
) a 'i in 1939. Previous Pastorites
111 Texas have included Anson,
Galveston, Eagle Lake, Houston,
and Bellaire.,
Rev. Reynolds will live in Pur-
Jear Hall and meetings for his
dormitories will be held in the
l°Mge of this dorm.
It. Col. John A. Lindvall, Chap
lain of the 85th Evacuation Hos
pital, Ft. Hood, Texas, will live in
Dorm 15 and lead forums and dis
cussion groups for Dormitories 15
and 16, conducted in the lounge of
Dormitory 15.
Chaplain Lindvall is a graduate
of Southern California College,
Costa Mesa, Cal., and Central Bible
Institute and Seminary in Spring-
field,, Mo., with additional studies
at Shelton College and New York
University in New York, the Uni
versity of Basel in Switzerland,
the University of Connecticut and
the University # of Georgia.
During World War II, Chaplain
Lindvall served with the Texas
Division, 143rd Regt. of the 36th
Infantry Division in Europe; he
also served in the Korean conflict,
and as Artillery Chaplain in the
82nd Airborne Division. He is a
senior parachutist with 30 jumps-
to his credit.
The Chaplain’s travels have
taken him into 35 countries in
Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin
America. During and after World
War II, he worked with Pente-
constals in Italy, France, Germany,
Spain, Scandinavia and Eastern
Europe.
Lt. Col. Voigt M. Sink, 3565th
Navigation Training Wing, James
Connally Air Force Base, Texas,
will live in Dormitory 6 and lead
the forum and discussion groups
in Dorms 6 and 8.
The Chaplain is a graduate of
Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory,
N. C., with a B.A. degree and from
Southern Lutheran Seminary, Co
lumbia, S. C., with a B.D. degree.
He has been in continuous service
as an Armed Forces Chaplain since
1943.
Besides state-side assignments,
Chaplain Sink was stationed for
two and one-half years in the
Northeast Air Command, and for
three years in the Caribbean.
Rev. James W. Kilpatrick of St.
Mark’s Episcopal Church, Glade-
water, Texas, will live in Walton
Hall and lead the forums and dis
cussion groups in rfhis dormitory,
to be held in the dorm lounge.
Born in Houston,T exas, Rev.
Kilpatrick graduated from Lamar
High School, Houston, in 1950. He
attended Baylor University and the
University of the South, Sewanee,
Tenn., and holds a B.S. degree in
English from the University of
Houston and a B.D. degree from
the Seminary of the Southwest.
Ordained in the Episcopal
Church as Deacon in 1958, Rev.
Kilpatrick became priest in 1959.
He aided in forming the Episcopal
Church of St. Michael and All
Angels’ in Longview, Texas, in
September of 1958, of which con
gregation he also serves as vicar.
Senate Begins Work
On 1961 Blood Drive
Wad ley Institute
To Handle Drive
The J. K. and Susie L. Wadley Research Institute and
Blood Bank of Dallas has been selected by the Student Senate
to handle next month’s annual campus blood drive.
The Dallas institute has handled the drive in three pre
vious years, 1957, 1959 and 1960.
The Senate vote to allow the Wadley Institute to con
duct the drive came after nearly an hour of discussion among
Senate members and two representatives of the Institute.
In the past three years, the Bryan Lions Club had joined
the Student Senate in sponsoring the appearance of the In
stitute but this year it was decided the group would handle
its own operating, traveling and living expenses.
It was pointed out all thet
Student Senate would be
asked to provide will be
operating space and necessary
publicity.
'WE’VE NEVER BEEN LICKED’
Film About A&M
Opens Saturday
The complete schedule of showing for the three-day
stand of the movie “We’ve Never Been Licked” at Guion Hall
has been released by Film Society Chairman Joe Easley.
The first showing is scheduled tonight at 7, with three
showings scheduled both Satur-"*
The Lions' Club has not indi
cated whether it will be a partici
pant in this spring’s drive but the
Senate agreed to invite it'to joint
ly participate in the effort.
Final arrangements for this
spring’s donation are being hand
led by the Senate Student Welfare
Committee and most likely will be
announced at the next Senate
meeting, Mar. 2.
The Dallas institute specializes
in leukemia, hemophilia, and vari
ous anemias, with all blood do
nated by Aggies used for research
purposes in all three phases.
Last year’s collection on the
A&M campus totaled 275 pints of
blood. The biggest percentage
was frozen and preserved for
hemophilia research, with the re
mainder used within three weeks
for leukemia research and patients.
Also Bob Bower of the Public
Relations Committee said his
group will begin work in earnest
within the next three weeks on
the selection of the Aggie Mother
of the Year.
The Issues Committee reported
a 12th Man Bowl football game is
still being planned but all nego
tiations are stalled waiting for
the announcement of a playing
date.
HeatonReminds
Degree Filing
Deadline Near
All students who expect to
graduate at the end of the cur
rent semester should call by the
Registrar's Office immediately
and make formal application, ac
cording to an announcement from
Registrar H. L. Heaton.
Heaton said Mar. 1 is the dead
line for filing the applications for
any degree to be conferred at the
end of the semester. This dead
line applies to both graduate and
undergraduate students.
The Registrar said the announce-
should be particularly noted by
graduate students because of the
annual difficulty in getting them
to formally file for their degree.
He reminded that the filing is
required as much as any other
portion of a curriculum.
Words Of Thanks
From Ashburns
The office of the President at A&M has received a note
from Mrs. Isaac Ashburn addressed to: “President Earl Rud
der, Faculty and Staff of the A. & M. College.”
The note reads:
“Dear Friends,
“My family and I deeply appreciate the beautiful flowers
that came to honor the memory of my husband.
“A. & M. College was dear to his heart; and each evi
dence of its advancement made him proud and happy. His
was a loving heart; and he held so many cadets in deep af
fection and followed their careers with delight.
“Our lasting appreciation of your expression of
sympathy.”
“Sincerely,
“Mrs. Ike Ashburn.”
General Isaac Ashburn died Wednesday, Feb. 1, 1961,
in Temple. He had been a long-time friend of A. & M. and
served it as Publicity Director, Secretary of the Board of
Directors, Commandant, and Vice President.
He leaves many friends on the campus and in the Bryan-
College Station area, as well as throughout Texas.
day and Sunday.
The doors open tonight at 6:30,
while openings ,are set for 12:30
p.m. both Saturday and Sunday.
The Saturday showings are at
1, 5 and 8:45, while the showings
Sunday will be at 3:10, 6:35 and
9:55.
The film was made in 1943 by
Universial-International, and is a
full-length movie about an Aggie
who is drawn into the throes of
war while studying agriculture at
the school.
The film stars Noah Berry, Jr.,
Robert Mitchum, and other noted
celebrities, narrated by Bill Stern,
and was produced by Walter Wan-
ger, whose recent successes have
included “The Glenn Miller Story.”
This is the only copy of the film
in existence, all others having been
destroyed or worn out after years
of use. It was found by Easley
about three weeks ago while re
modeling the Guion projection
booth.
^Remarkably enough,” Easley
relates, “the film is in excellent
condition and all the scenes are
very clear.”
He attributed this to the fact
that it has seldom been in use,
and this weekend will be one of
the first times this particular copy
of the picture will have been
shown.
In the latter part of the show,
the scene shifts from A&M to war
in the Pacific, with the last group
New English
Course Offered
of aerial battle scenes being ac
tual war films shot off Okinawa
and other South Pacific islands.
The film was made in the days
of campaign hats, mounted cav
alry, artillery ranges and Army
Air Corps fighter pilot training
at A&M.
Included in the show are excel*
lent scenes of meals in Sbisa Din*
ing Hall, dorm life, reviews, in
spections and yell practices woven
around a plot of suspense and
drama.
In viewing the film, today’s Ag
gies can see the differences and
similarities of life at A&M 20
years ago; it will be noticed, from
the opening scene in Kyle Field,
that miiny of the traditions still
maintained today were observed
loyally then.
Tonight the film will be shown
with “Elmer Gantry,” Saturday
with “The Fugitive Kind” and
Sunday with “High Time.”
Standard admission prices wiK
prevail.
Band To Pick
Sweetheart At
Saturday Dance
A non-credit course devoted to
both music and literature will be
offered every Friday morning at
11 in Room 101 of the Music Hall.
The instructor for the course,
Allen Schrader from the Depart
ment of English, says that he has
designed the course for anyone
who’s interested in observing par
allels—some obvious, some obscure
—between music and literature.
In reporting about last semes
ter’s activities in the course, the
mid-winter edition of the A&M
Review says that “. . .Schrader
included under the label of music
and literature works written dur
ing any number of centuries (the
works of Tschaikowsky and James
Jones were examined during one
sitting).
“He does not hesitate to compare
a sonnet by Shakespeare to a rec-
oi’d by Errol Garner, that is, if
doing so will point up some truth
about the arts.”
When the Aggie Band makes
the scene in the MSC Ballroom
this Saturday night one person
will be chosen to reign supreme.
The Band Sweetheart will be
named at the annual Band Dance.
Swinging to the music of the
Aggieland Combo, the bandsmen
will hold forth from 9 p.m. until
midnight.
Finalists in the Sweetheart con
test are:
Ann Spelce from Marlin, to be
escorted by David Voelter.
Pat Peterson from Beaumont,
and escorted by Dave Elenburg.
Anne Garrett from Dallas; es
corted by David Creech.
Doris Shafer from San Antonio;
escorted by Scottie Harris.
Loretta Young from Mansfield,
La., and escorted by Scott Brown.
The theme for the dance will
be, oddly enough: band. Cutouts
of instruments and musical notes
will be used as decorations.
Attendance at the dance is re
stricted to band members only.
The committee chairmen are:
Decoration, David Voelter; Fi
nance, Anton Coy; Sweetheart,
Chris Elkins and Rodney Griffith,
and Program, Don Boren. Gen
eral coordinator for the affair is
Walter Willms.
Miss Loretta Young
... Mansfield, La.
Miss Pat Peterson
... Beaumont
Miss Anne Garrett
. . . Dallas
Miss Doris Shafer
. . . San Antonio
3!iss Ann Spelce
. . . Marlin