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CAMPUS 14 COPIES Easter Break Starts 5 p. m. Wednesday; Drive Carefully!! Che Battalion Weather •jij WEDNESDAY — Cloudy to partly i? •ij: cloudy, few thunder showers. Winds g: southeast 10 to 15. Higfi 78. Low 62. g: g OUTLOOK FOR EASTER BREAK— g: Generally fair with chance of rain g: Friday night. High 78 to 85. Low 60. g: Yolume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1957 Number 420 » Ure harrar. | >etrai = ) ac Chrisl 1 pitcli! 2 Da\iil er will ey Mc(i ind a I le rcm ay’s p ied III d will oe Sti| ter ii re to tmes team, t Bay! ,875 b is. SU: ind Ri .500. e Art 1 yeai 333, 1 seems 3WCt as m leapis keyH II. he lis' unes! KOIO ni Sox 6-1, Engineering Session Under Way In MSC pillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll|||||||||||||||!HI^ the outside world VIETNAM Communists increased the fury of their attacks in Vietnam, U. S. officials reported, but Americans resisted South Vietnam pressure to step up the fighting in retalia tion. Untried and outnumbered, U. S. infantrymen shattered two veteran Viet Cong battalions by drawing tanks into a circle in the old West style. A new bombing strategy in South Vietnam may in volve the shuttle of B52’s between Guam and Thailand, with the Communist getting hit on both legs of the flights. WASHINGTON The Supreme Court upheld the right of police to make an arrest without a warrant on the basis of a tipster’s information and to withhold the identity of the informant. Attorney General Clark asked for strict curbs on wire tapping, arguing that it would help law enforcement as well as protect privacy. Federal aid to improve education of the poor fell short of what many districts were counting on. Senator Philip Hart of Michigan told the Senate that he is disturbed by the inability of Strayboume Betts, “a qualified laboratory technician,” to land a job — and then disclosed that Betts is a mongrel with a mail order license. INTERNATIONAL Street fighting raged in the wake of French Somali land’s vote to keep its ties with France. The French governor ordered curfew violators to be shot on sight. Richard M. Nixon returned to the site of his famed “kitchen debate” with Nikita Krushchev and a Russian told him: “We remember how you taught our Krushchev all about mineral fertilizer.” Opposition parties in India’s Parliament charged that the CIA sought to sway last month’s elections and aided in the defection of Stalin’s daughter. NATIONAL Another poisoning threat, barn burning, and dynamit ing were reported in some of the 25 states where the Na tional Farmers Organization ordered members to boycott milk markets in an attempt to boost prices. The hottest item in the banking business, coast to coast, is the bank credit card, good for $2,000 in mer chandise charges, $100 instant cash loans, and no-ques- tions-asked check cashing identification. TEXAS Isolated tornadoes followed thunderstorms in parts of Texas which received its first good rain in months. Neil Addington, prize-winning Capital correspondent for the Houston Post, died. The State Senate approved women’s rights measure and the House Speaker said that an increase in sales tax is not necessary. Cockcroft Cites Nuclear Economy hoW' -thy, 1 Tofl : 3rm on, tnd ^ heir 1 tlinl 1 le «y s .ck, 1 ted 5* tsb® not 1 ke* inni« ran®* CiiK' jred 0<* w rov* tb* cm* : 8 Aggie Band, Local Dignitaries Scissor FM Road 60 Underpass State Highway Engineer D. C. Greer delivered the main address at ceremonies officially opening the highway underpass at Old College Highway and FM Road 60 today. Speeches were also given by several other dignitaries, includ ing Texas A&M President Earl Rudder, College Station Mayor D. A. Anderson, Brazos County Judge W. C. Davis and represent atives of the Southem Pacific Nixon Returns To Famed Site Of ’59 Debate MOSCOW UP) — Richard M. Nixon returned Monday to Sok- olniki Park where he had his famous “kitchen debate” with Nikita Khrushchev in 1959 and Was besieged, by Russians want ing his autograph. The former vice president signed some on the program of the U.S. industrial design exhib it, the latest in the series of exchange exhibits Nixon and Khrushchev, when premier, first opened in 1959. It was a little different this time. Then he and Khrushchev niet in an American model kit chen and began a lively debate that ran from kitchens to the whole gamut of U.S.-Soviet rela tions. Now Soviet officials are snub bing Nixon’s visit. But Nixon had a good time mingling with Russians and carrying on a dia logue with a Soviet construction engineer. First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings cer tificates. —Adv. Railroad and the Missouri Pacific Railroad. After an opening invocation, the Texas Aggie Band played the National Anthem and W. C. Dav is, the master of ceremonies, in troduced the special guests at tending the opening. The band then played the A g g i e War Hymn. Joe G. Hanover, District High way Engineer, introduced Greer. The ribbon cutting ceremony was titled “In Keeping With the Twentieth Century.” The $1 million project is located on the north side of the Texas A&M Campus. The completion will greatly ease the traffic con gestion around the campus, espe cially on football weekends. The abandoned right-of-way for the Old College Highway, FM Road 2154, has been designated as a parking lot. Nuclear energy is on the thres hold of becoming the world's most economical fuel source, a Nobel Prize winning physicist declared here this morning. Sir John Douglas Cockcroft of Cambridge University discussed the economics and future of nu clear energy in the opening ad dress at Texas A&M University’s “Engineering for the 1970’s” con vocation. “The last two years have seen the take-off of nuclear energy as a competitive third fuel in the world,” Sir John noted. He said the economic forecast for British nuclear power stations _ of the 1970’s indicate generating costs will be about 13 per cent below the costs of comparable coal-fired stations. The knighted scientist said the factors which have brought about the bright prospects for nuclear Aggie Junior Dies In Head-on Crash, Two Others Hurt Fredie J. Crabtree of Houston, a 20-year old junior accounting major at Texas A&M was killed $unday in a two-car collision near Navasota. A Silver Taps ceremony for Crabtree was observed Monday night. The funeral service is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at Woodsdale Baptist Church. Pat H. Foley Funeral Home in Hous ton has charge of arrangements. Crabtree was the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. K. Crabtree, 2529 Pinetree Dr., Houston. A Texas Department of Public Safety report indicated Crabtree died at 3:35 p.m. when his sports car hit a rain-slick spot on the Conroe highway and smashed head-on into another car four miles from Navasota. Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Mathews of 2822 Rosemary, Houston, occupants of the other car in the crash, were hospitalized at Grimes Memorial Hospital in Navasota. Mathews was listed in critical condition with broken bones and skull injuries and his wife Mary was in fair condition. power are primarily advance ments in materials technology. Sir John and a colleague were awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize in physics for their work in building the world’s first high-energy particle accelerator which was used to confirm Einstein’s theory of relativity, the basis of the Atomic Age. In addition to discussing nu clear advances anticipated during the next decade, Sir John pre dicted increased emphasis in such areas as magneto hydrodynamic generators for energy conver sion, fuel cells for providing household electricity and new high-strength materials for a va riety of uses. He also called for a new aware ness in the area of environmental and urban engineering. “One of our most important long-range problems is to main tain the quality of the environ ment in which we live,” Sir John observed. “If technological de velopment is allowed to proceed without regard to the amenities of life, we can foresee only a progressive decline in our way of living.” He cited a recent National Academy of Sciences report which indicated that by 1980, sewage and industria! waste could con sume the entire oxygen content of a volume of water equal to the dry weather flow of all the 22 major river systems of the United States. “This could have a disastrous effect on the fish population, to say nothing of the effects on hu man beings,” he quipped. Sir John said the same NAS report pointed out that 125 mil lion tons of pollutants are poured into the atmosphere in this coun try every year. Automobiles ac count for 60 per cent of the pol lutant, and this type of contami nation may double by the year 2,000. Noting one of the chief pur poses of the Texas A&M convo cation is to determine how engi neering colleges can meet the challenges of the 1970’s, Sir John said it is essential that such in stitutions be more concerned with teaching fundamental principles (See Engineering, Page 3) JUNIOR CLASS SWEETHEART Melinda Malone of Ingram was named Jun- chandising-clothing major at Texas Tech, ior Class Sweetheart Saturday night. The Melinda was the escort of Robert R. Merrit. brown-haired Miss Malone is a junior mer- Fish Drill Team To Compete In D. C. National Drill Meet The Texas A&M Freshman Drill Team has accepted an in vitation to compete in the Na tional Drill Team Championships during the annual Cherry Blos som Festival in Washington, D.C., announced President Earl Rudder. The Fish Drill Team, com manded by Justo Gonzales of San Antonio, will compete with 30 teams from across the U. S. The team will fly to Washington and be gone April 6-9, according to Calvin Reese, advisor. EACH TEAM’S eight-minute fancy drill will be performed on the “Ellipse” south of the White House. Ten girls teams will participate in separate competi tion, Reese noted. A&M has won 13 trophies in 1966-67 competition and has a string of seven first places in in spection going into the Cherry Blossom meet. Seven first place trophies came from the A&M In vitational, University of Houston meet, Scabbard and Blade In vitational at West Texas State and Bryan-College Station Christ mas Parade. THE FISH team was runner- up for the A&M meet champion ship, capturing three trophies in cluding inspection. The A&M In vitational winner, the Loman Rifles of Sam Houston State Col lege, will also participate in the national championships, Reese said. Richard G. Gonzales of San Antonio is executive officer and right guide of the unit, which will take 45 freshmen to the Chery Blossom competition. The team will be accompanied by Reese and Maj. Gerald J. Har- ber, associate professor of mili tary science. Tuesday Fish, Not Fishy, Says Dollar; Students Ask Change A&M-SMU Game On National TV A national news network re ported today that a move is underway to change the Texas A&M-SMU football game from Nov. 11 to a Sept. 16 season- opener. The game would be broadcast nationally by the American Broadcasting Company with each school receiving about $60,000. Texas A&M has given tenta tive approval pending final action by President Earl Rudder and the Board of Directors, said Barlow (Bones) Irvin, Texas A&M ath letic director. Southern Methodist’s Athletic director Hayden Fry at first re jected the proposal, but has since also approved the College Sta tion game. SQUADRON 11 HELPS EASTER SEALS Mickey Batsell, left) and Steve Brower pre- Squadron 11 whose members helped conduct sents $375.00 to Mrs. Frank Hughes, chair- a dorm-to-dorm drive to collect the funds, man of the Brozos County Easter Seal Soci- (Batt Staff Photo) ety. Batsell is the executive officer of By BILL DINGER Battalion Special Writer What? Fish on Tuesday and cold cuts on Friday? Somebody’s got to be kidding. Don’t blame the Food Services Department, though. These two changes came about as a result of student requests. Col. F^ed Dollar, food services director, shed some light on the reasons for the change in policy. “The student menu committee recently asked that we try serv ing fish sometime other than Fri day,” he said. The student menu committee of which Col. Dollar spoke is com posed of an equal number of corps, civilian and graduate stu dents. Food Service officials lis ten to the recommendations of this student group, and often find ways to improve their services. “We broke tradition by having fish when we did,” Dollar ex plained. “This wasn’t decided be- Prairie View Prof Speaks At Ed&Psy Faculty Meeting Dr. Earl Lewis, political science department head at Prairie View A&M College, will speak at an Education and Psychology De partment faculty meeting today. An active speaker on educa tionally and culturally deprived students, Dr. Lewis will discuss programs in which he is involved and his ideas about present day education, announced Dr. Paul Hensarling, education and psy chology head. A discussion ses sion will follow Dr. Lewis’ pres entation. A&M history and government department faculty members have been invited to the meeting, Hen sarling added. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. cause we had started having cold cuts on Friday, either. Fish could be on the menu any day.” Cops Have Right To Shield Tips, Says High Court WASHINGTON <A>> _ The Supreme Court upheld Monday the power of police to shield the identity of informants who tip them to crimes. The 5-4 decision gives police a freer hand to make arrests on the basis of information suppli ed by informers and without ob taining warrants. However, Justice Potter Stew art said for the majority, the police officers must be ready to testify in open court that the informant is reliable. IF THE trial judge is con vinced that he is, Stewart said, the police officers “need not in variably be required to disclose an informant’s identity.” Thus the court made it easier for the states to meet the test of “probable cause” for arrest. The four dissenters charged the majority with effectively re writing the Fourth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution which guarantees against “unreasona ble searches and seizures.” This was held by the high court in 1961 to apply to state proceed ings. WITH MONDAY’S ruling, the court upheld the Illinois narcot ics conviction of George Mc Cray, arrested in Chicago in 1964 on an infomer’s tip to police of ficers. Justices Hugo L. Blank, Tom C. Clark, John M. Harlan and Byron R. White formed the ma jority with Stewart. Chief Jus tice Earl Warren and Justices William O. Douglas, William J. Brennan Jr. and Abe Fortas dis sented.