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By RONNIE BOOKMAN
A review will be held tomorrow 7
’ternoon in observance of the an-
ual Spring Military Day, with
000 expected for the event. The
less parade will be held on the
ain drill field at 1:30 p.m.
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5,000 Expected On Campus For Annual Military Weekend
and an open house by the Corps
of Cadets.
Things started rolling at 4:30
p.m. today when Gen. Clyde D.
Eddleman, vice chief of staff of
the Department of the Army ar
rived on campus.
He was met by the Ross Volun
teer honor guard. Accompanying
Eddleman is Congressman Olin
Teague.
It is expected that more than
5,000 persons will attend the week
end’s events. Tonight the Inter
collegiate Talent Show 7 , the Com
bat Ball and Cafe Rue Pinalle
claim the spotlight. Tomorrow
the review, open house by Corps
dorms and the Military Ball will
attract the attention.
Eddleman will receive the salute
at the review. Many other guests
will also be on the reviewing stand.
They include:
Congressman and Mrs. Teague;
Mrs. Eddleman; Maj. Gen. and
Mrs. R. A. Palladino, military ex
ecutive of the Reserve Forces Po
lice Board; Maj. Gen. and Mrs.
L. S. Griffing, 4th Army deputy
commanding general, and Maj.
Gen. and Mrs. K. L. Berry, adjut
ant general of the State of Texas;
Also on the list are Maj. and
Mrs. J. L. Thompson, Jr., com
manding general of the 49th Ar
mored Division; Brig. Gen. and
Mrs. Norman Callish, commander
of Mather AFB in Sacramento;
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. J. W. Sutton,
assistant division commander, 90th
Infantry Division, and Brig. Gen.
and Mrs. Graber Kidwell, division
artillery commander, 90th Infantry
Division;
Col. and Mrs. John A. Way,
chief of staff national headquar
ters, Civil Air Patrol; Col. and
Mrs. Delbert L. Bjork, senior ad
visor 90th Infantry Division; Mr.
and Mrs. Wiley Young, sponsor of
the Ross Volunteers at the New
Orleans Rex parade, and Mr. and
Mrs. C. R. Heaton, parents of the
Cadet Corps Commander.
Eddleman is a graduate of the
United States Military Academy.
His assignments include: chief,
Training Div., G-3, Third Army
Hq.; assistant chief of staff, G-3,
Hq. Third Army; assistant chief
of staff, G-3, Hq. Sixth Army;
joint operations review board; dep
uty commandant, Armed Forces
Staff College; deputy commander,
U.S. forces, Trieste and director
general, civil affairs, Allied Mili
tary Government; chief of Plans
Div., G-3, Department of the Ar
my; deputy G-3, Department of
the Army; assistant chief of staff,
G-3, Department of the Army;
commanding general, 4th Inf. Div.,
U.S. Army, Europe; commandant,
Army War College; deputy chief
of staff for plans, Department of
the Army; deputy chief of staff
for military operations, Depart
ment of the Army; commanding
general, 7th U.S. Army in Ger
many; commander-in-chief, U.S.
Army, Europe; vice chief of staff,
U.S. Army.
His list of citations and decora
tions include the Distinguished)
Service Medal, Silver Star, Legion
of Merit, Bronze Star Medal and
Philippine Distinguished Service
Star.
UCTURE OF CONTRASTS
Combat, Military
Highlight Social
Balls
Activities
Two events highlighting the ac-
(l, jity-filled Spring Military Week-
are the Combat Ball, starting
might immediately following the
tacollegiate Talent Show 7 , and
fe Military Ball tomorrow night.
Both dances wall be held in Sbisa
lining Hall, wdth abrupt changes
i decorations taking place fol
ding the Combat Ball tonight.
The Combat Ball, annual dunce
all cadets in Army ROTC units
jdstaffs, features decorations of
pine war materials including
Bchine guns, mortars, nets and
indbags for chairs. Theme for
lisyear is “Warfare in the Near
ast" and cadets’ dates will w r ear
dimes in accord with this
kerne; all cadets will attend the
knee in fatigues.
Special attraction for the Com-
it Ball will be “Cookie and the
jpeakes,” a rock-n-roll group
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Everybody wants in the act.
Besides Sen. W. T. (Bill)
(lore’s bill (SB 302) to change
hame of A&M to Texas State
fiversity and Agricultural and
Mianieal College, introduced
st Monday, two other “nume-
tage” bills have been submitted
the Legislature.
Reps, Joe Ratcliff, Alonzo Jami-
®and H. G. Wells introduced a
I Mar. 2,to change the name of
fth Texas State College at Den-
® to the University of North
ms.
Sen, Grady Hazelwood of Am-
also introduced a bill to
huge the name of West Texas
Me College at Canyon, making
a university.
Last year, what was then Rice
Ititute made the change to “uni-
ftity” status. And in the last
ssion of the Legislature, Texas
0( Me College for Women became
vHxas Woman’s University.
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from Lake Charles, La. The combo
recently recorded “Matildc, which
sold over 1 million copies, aria have
recorded several other records in
the past few months.
Combat Cutie finalists for the
Ball include Misses Sandra Mason,
Joan Banic, Sandra Dietz, Mari
anne Ruffin and Barbara Horn.
During the course of the dance,
the five w 7 ill be called on stage
and the Combat Cutie of 1961 will
be selected by judges from the re
spective two brigades.
The Combat Ball will get under-
wayway tonight immediately fol
lowing ITS.
The Military Ball will also be
held in Sbisa Dining Hall, tomor
row night starting at 8 p.m. This
is the annual formal military so
cial event of the year, with lavish
formals, striking uniforms and ex
travagant decorations sparkling
the event.
Orchestra for the Military Ball
is Buddy Brock, who has playedf
for several dances on the A&M
campus in past years. The orches
tra comes from Houston, where
it is decidedly one of the best in
the area.
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SANDRA DIETZ
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MARIANNE RUFFIN
... 1st Brigade
The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1961
Number 81
Kicks-Off Weekend
Rue Pinalle
Follows Tonight
By TOMMY HOLBEIN
The Kilgore Rangerettes’ grand entree in G. Rollie White
Coliseum tonight starting the Intercollegiate Talent Show at
7 p.m. will kick off the most activity-filled weekend of the
year.
Boasting the ultimate in collegiate talent from five
states, ITS will feature selections made by the Talent Com
mittee of the Memorial Student Center after auditioning at
20 colleges and universities throughout the South.
Accompanying the Kilgore Rangerettes, famous half
time performers for the Cotton Bowl and other games, will
be the Aggieland Orchestra under the direction of Bob Boone,
introducing their new sound in stero.
Rangerettes Open, Close ITS
(from left) Ramona Kirkpatrick, Jane Murphy, Pat
Surrell, Jan Seibert, Linda Browder
leligious Issue Emerges
n Aid-To-Schools Bill
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Rep. Adam
byton Powell, D-N.Y., long as-
(kted with racial fights over
tool bills, emerged Thursday in
e thick of the religious fight
; er federal aid to education. He
id he may back federal loans,
parochial schools.
President Kennedy has said he,
gards such loans as unconstitu-
)nal. Powell, chairman of the
rase Labor and Education Com-
ittee, disagreed.
Despite their disagreement,
Powell’s plans in the long run,
could help the administration bill,
which would provide $3.2 billion
of grants only to public elemen
tary and secondary schools.
Pow T ell said he plans to deal
with parochial schools in an am
endment to another bill. This
would remove the controversy
from the President’s bill.
Kennedy, in his news conference
Wednesday, made a plea that ad
vocates of loans to parochial
schools not kill the w 7 hole federal
aid-to-education program.
ngineering Grant
{^warded College
A $2,500 fellowship to promote graduate research in the
dmology of asphalt application, has been received by the
ege.
It is good for one year and will become effective some-
ie this summer, Ered Benson,
(S
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Sn of the School of Engineering,
id today.
PLe fellowship is to be known as
Western Petroleum Refiners
ssociation Fellowship. The re-
Pient will be chosen by the School
1 Engineering.
Tliis program,” Benson said,
e ci$ i;i o supports our already exist-
^ i program in research in as
phaltic materials and asphaltic
concrete pavements conducted by
the Texas Transportation Insti
tute.
“Dr. R. N. Traxler, research pro
fessor in the Institute, will be re
sponsible for the administration
of the fellowship. Traxler is a
widely known authority in the
field of asphaltic materials.”
The President, who earlier had
labeled grants to parochial schools
unconstitutional, said he also be
lieved “across-the-board loans to
all nonpublic schools . . . would be
unconstitutional,” although he
conceded “there’s obviously room
for debate about loans.”
Kennedy asked Congress, if it
considers a loan program, not to
link it with the administration
bill. He feared the tie-up would
defeat the bill, which is now being
considered by a Senate education
subcommittee.
Soon ofter the news conference,
an aide to Sen. Joseph S. Clark,
D-Pa., a member of the subcom
mittee, said Clark intended to of
fer a parochial schools amendment
to the administration bill.
Clark, however, hesitated. He
said he might bow to the wishes
of Kennedy and consider other al
ternatives of pushing his three-
year program of $350 million in
long-term, low-interest loans to
private and church schools.
He listed the other two methods
of offering his program as:
1. Presenting it as a separate
bill.
2. Attaching it to a higher edu
cation bill which is part of Ken
nedy’s program and will reach
Congress later.
Powell, if he offers the pro
gram, said he would use the first
alternative listed by Clark.
The ITS stage will be ar
ranged for all music from the
10 acts to be ampif led through
a five-speaker stero system
similar to that used by Ray
Conniff in his “Concert in Stero”
last November.
For the first time, this year’s
show will be emceed by the com
edy team of Schwartz and Bledsoe
from the University of Oklahoma,
who appeared on the ITS in 1959.
Ten acts for the show include
“The Trio Columbia” from the
University of Texas, vocal and in
strumental Spanish group, which
has become extremely popular in
eight months of performing.
Miss Dorothy Nelson, popular
singer from the University ■ of
Arkansas, holds the title of “Miss
City Beautiful Princess” among
many other honors won in high
school and college. She is one of
many outstanding college beauties
featured on the annual talent
show.
Miss New Jersey
Miss Sandra Chuddy, vocal soloist
from Louisiana State University,
holds the present title of “Miss
New Jersey,” “Miss Centennial—
LSU,” homecoming queen of LSU
and various other titles; another
beauty for the show.
The Calvert quartet, also from
Louisiana State University, fea
tures Larry Heaton, who is first
place winner in the 1960 LSU
songfest, along with Barney Dean
McDade, Lynn Singleton and Clif
ford L. Forrester. Their main
type of music is folk singing, and
they have been a full-time calling
card on the LSU campus.
From Southern Methodist Uni
versity hails a dance trio which
recently performed in the SMU
Fine Arts Festival, “Pigskin Re
view” and “Centuries Ahead Tal
ent Show.” Members include
Betty Rae Withers from Beaumont
and Judy Hole and Bob Crest of
Dallas.
Texas A&M’s own Charles Mar-
(See ACTIVITIES On Page 3)
UN Club
Meet Tonight
“An Evening South of the Bor
der” will be presented by the Pan
American club of the Stephen F.
Austin High School of Bryan, at
the meeting of the United Nations
Club tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the
YMCA Building.
The program will consist of
dances, poems, talks, a piano duet
and a vocal solo. At the social
hours typical Latin American re
freshments will be served, Chandra
Parekh, president of the UN club,
has announced.
TB Association
Schedules
Meet Monday
The annual meeting 7 of the
Brazos Coun ( ty Tuberculosis Asso
ciation will be held Monday at
7:30 p.m. at the Lone Star Gas
Building in Bryan, according to
Dr. Raymond Reiser, president.
The winners in the TB Associa
tion’s speech contest recently con
ducted in the four high schools of
the community will present the
program for the meeting.
Mrs. R. E. Patterson, chairman
of the public relations committee
of the association, will he in charge
of the program and will introduce
the speakers.
Some high-lights of the year’s
work will be given in brief com
mittee reports by the chairmen.
Six new directors will be elected
to membership on the board and
five members will be up for re-
election during the business
session.
A final report of the Christmas
Seal Campaign will be given by
the chairman, Mrs. Charles Smith.
Churches and other organiza
tions are invited to send represen
tatives to the meeting.
SHOULD BE 1.2428
Battalion Mistake
A
In Grade Report
The Corps of Cadets grades published in many editions
of yesterday’s Battalion were in error concerning the over
all grade point ratio posted by ROTC members.
An error by staff members saw the figure 1.116 quoted
as the overall g.p.r., instead of the +
correct 1.2428 figure.
The mistake was corrected in
final editions before they went to
press, but was released in many
earlier editions.
The 1.116 was the figure posted
by the Corps at mid-semester last
fall. Therefore a substantial rise
was indicated in the overall mark.
Also only one unit finished with
an overall of less than 1.0, where
as four outfits were below this
mark at the mid-semester break.
The figures indicated Co. 1-2
posted the highest mark, a 1.4272.
They were followed in the top ten
by Cos. H-2, B-2, L-2, D-2, K-2,
C-2 and F-l and Sqds. 10 and 8.
Co. C-2 led at the mid-semester
break during November but slipped
to eighth in the final semester list.
Team Slates
Demonstration
The skilled team of weapons
demonstrators from Aberdeen
Proving Grounds, Md., “The Home
of Army Ordnance,” will be on
campus Tuesday.
The team is a part of the Army
Ordnance Corps Exhibit Unit and
will show off the Ar-my’s latest
weapons to ROTC cadets, other
students, faculty members and
their friends.
One of the interesting new
weapons to be demonstrated is
anti-tank weapon.
I World Wrap-Up
By The Associated Press
JFK Proposes New Housing Bill
WASHINGTON—President Kennedy Thursday propos
ed a $3.25-billion offensive to revive the lagging housing in
dustry, put better homes within the reach of millions, and
help the nation’s cities root out decay.
Underscoring the importance he attaches to these prob
lems, Kennedy told Congress he wants the housing agency
raised to Cabinet level.
Houses Attempts Clearing Revenue Fund
AUSTIN—The House massed Thursday behind a reso
lution to try to clear up the General Revenue Fund deficit
before going after broad, long-range taxes.
Several members said, however, the solid front was only
a false Armistice in the opposition that has flared against
Gov. Price Daniel’s deficit-first proposed tax program.
★ ★ ★
Nikky Impresses U. S. Ambassador
MOSCOW—U. S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson re
turned optimistic Thursday from a four-hour talk with Pre
mier Khrushchev in Siberia.
Thompson told reporters he delivered a message from
President Kennedy to Khrushchev at the Siberian city of
Novosibirsk. The premier, now on a farm tour, had invited
Thompson. Apparently he was eager to get the President’s
message, for never before had Khrushchev permitted a dip
lomat to make such a journey.
★ ★ ★
House Passes Feed Grain Bill
WASHINGTON — The House passed President Ken
nedy’s emergency feed grain bill Thursday after beating
Republican efforts to kill a key provision.
A 209-202 roll-call vote sent the measure to the Senate
after three days of debate. Quick Senate action was sche
duled to make the measude effective for the 1961 feed grain
crop about to be planted.
★ ★ ★
Reuther Accused of “Beefing Up” Figures
WASHINGTON—Sen. Carl T. Curtis, R-Neb. stirred up
a lively row Thursday by asking if union leader Walter P.
Reuther induced the auto industry to lay off workers last
month to “beef up” the Labor Department’s un-employment
figures.
Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg, former special
counsel to Reuther’s United Auto Workers Union heatedly
called the suggestion “inconceivable.”
★ ★ ★
Presidential Preference Vote Studied
AUSTIN—A move is on in the Texas Legislature to re
quire a presidential preference vote which would be binding
on national convention delegates for three roll call ballots.
Sen. Martin Dies Jr. of Lufkin set out conditions for the
presidential primary to give Texans a chance to vote on the
leading candidates for the Democratic and Republican nom
inations.
Congo Air-Control Agreement Made
LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo — Congolese sources re
ported an agreement with U. N. authorities Thursday night
on a form of joint control over U. N. air traffic in the Congo.
U. N. officials declined immediate comment, and the
Congolese gave no details.