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Ike Urges RaiseForeign Aid Grants

Judge James P. Hart

Austin Lawyer To Speak At AAUP Banquet

An Austin attorney, Judge James P. Hart, will be the main speaker at the annual banquet of the A&M Chapter of the American Association of University Professors to be held here Wednesday at 7 p.in.

Hart will be introduced by Vice President Earl Rudder after the latter is presented by President M. T. Harrington.

After receiving his B.A. degree from the University of Texas in 1925, Hart received his L.L.D. from Harvard in 1928. He served as an assistant Attorney General of Tex­as from 1939-41—and was an As- gociate Justice of the Texas Su­preme Court from 1947-50.

An ex-chancellor of the Univer- Bity of Texas, he has also been a member of the President Eisen­hower’s Commission on Education after High School.

Tickets to the banquet will be on sale until 5 p.m. Monday at the main desk of the Memorial Student Center and by departmental repre­sentatives. The banquet, which will be held in the MSC Assembly Room, is for all faculty members and their wives.

Forsees Trouble If Bid Is Rejected

WASHINGTON, UP)—President Eisenhower said yester­day higher taxes, big draft calls and a “massive increase” in defense spending would result if Congress sharply reduces his request for $3,942,100,000 in new foreign aid funds.

He drew this grim picture in a special message formally requesting “vigorous continuation” of the government’s global aid program for an 11th straight year.

The money figure was not new, having been disclosed in his budget message.

Clearly anticipating a hot congressional fight, Eisen­hower sought by unprecedented blunt language to jolt foes into considering what he called the menacing alternatives.

Refunds Open For Extra $25 Tuition

A limited number of refunds for the $25.00 tuition increase per se­mester may now be made by the college to students who show that added tuition has created a serious financial hardship for them, Dean W. H. Delaplane, Faculty Schol­arships Committee Chairman, said yesterday.

The committee is charged with determining those refunds permit­ted in accordance with the law which last fall raised tuition at all state supported colleges and uni­versities.

Refunds are limited and apply only to the added $25.00 increase.

Requirements for the refund are:1. A student must have attend­

ed A&M for at least one semester. New students cannot be consid­ered until next fall.

2. A minimum gi’ade point ratio of 1 00 on all work taken at A&M.

3. Applications for the Spring Semester must be filed with the committee secretary in the Regis­trar’s office before March 15. Forms are now available in the Registrar's office.

2nd Fee Payment Due Tomorrow

Tomorrow is the last day stu­dents can pay the second install­ment fee of $52.45 without pen­alty. The fee, payable at the Fiscal Office, covers room, board and laundry for March.

Town Hall Production

Comedy Protrays Plowboy9 A irman“No Time for Sergeants”, a

Town Hall production, will be pre­sented here March 3 at 8 p. m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum.

Direct from Broadway where it enjoyed a successful two-year run, the play was produced from the best-selling novel concerning the peacetime Air Force and the havoc wrought when a charmingly naive Georgia plowboy is drafted into it .

Charles Hohman plays the plow­boy who nearly wrecks the Air Force, a role he acted for more than a year in New York.

Rex Everhart, his beleaguered sergeant, is a cai’eer man who has the misfortune of having Hohman and his scrawny buddy, played by Tucker Ashworth, assigned to his classification center.

Howard Freeman and Royal

Weather TodayCollege Station forecase calls for

mostly cloudy with occasional rain and scattered thundershowers through Friday, with a high of 53 degrees today and a low tonight of 46.

Beal are also featured as Air Force and Infantry generals respectively, and James Millhollin plays a be­wildered Air Force psychiatrist, the roles they portrayed in New York. Christian Flanders plays a bullying inductee.

This production is the first play to be sent from New York by the recently formed Broadway Theater Alliance, Inc., a subsidiary of Columbia Artists Management, which aims to bring top notch living theater to all sections of the land.

A real airplane will be featured among other realistic sets and equipment.

The aircraft, an Air Force bomb­er, has one side cut out to give the audience the feeling of being inside the plane.

The plane is used in the scene where two Air Force rookies get lost on a training flight and find themselves in the target area of an atomic bomb test.

Maurice Evans is producer of the show. Among his Broadway hits are “Teahouse of the August Moon,” “Dial M for Murder” and “Man and Superman.”

The message was released at the White House and also at Eisenhower’s Georgia vaca­tion headquarters.

The sum requested was about a billion dollars more than an economy-minded Congress pro­vided last year but 500 million dol­lars less than the administration sought in 1957. Nearly 50 billion dollars in foreign aid money has been sent overseas since 1948.

Eisenhower contended this new program, for the year beginning July 1, represents “the critical margin of assistance” needed to assure American and free world security against Red threats.

“It is my duty to make clear my profound conviction that the vigorous advancement of this pro­gram is our only logical course,” Eisenhower said. “Our mutual se­curity program is of transcend­ent importance to the security of the United States.”

At the Capitol, House Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex) called the mes­sage a strong one. Rayburn also credited foreign aid with “saving a lot of our friends from com­munism.”

Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas, the Senate Democratic leader, commented: “The mutual security progi’am has become a major part of the foreign policy of the United States. With that thought in mind,

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Orchestra Chosen For Junior Prom

The Russell Jackson Orchestra has been selected to furnish dance music for the Junior Ball on March 29, Gene Birdwell, president of the Class of ’59, said yesterday.

Plans are being drawn up for the banquet and prom by Birdwell and other class officers. Cost of the filet mignon banquet dinner will be $3 per couple. Admission to the dance will be class dues, $2.

The class voted unanimously at their last meeting not to invite seniors to the dance.

Juniors May Begin Submitting Pics

Pictures of applicants for the Junior Ball Sweetheart may be turned in at the Student Activ­ities Office in the YMCA next week.

Deadline for turning in pic­tures is March 1. All portraits should be 5 x 7 or larger and taken out of their frames.

Top Photographer Speaks at Art Meet

Harry A. Goldstein, head photo­grapher for the International Gra­phic Arts Assn., will give some professional comments at a meet­ing of the Graphic Arts Society of Texas here Saturday.

A photography teacher at a Tuc­son, Ariz., high school, Goldstein will be attending the Industrial Teacher Conference here that day.

S. Wayne Taylor of the Univer­sity of Houston is president of the Graphic Arts Society.

RE Week Text Urges Use Of Common Sense

One must use several tests before making an important decision to determine the right choice, Dr. Ronald Mere­dith told the mid-week Relig­ious Emphasis Week service yes- terday.

Following special music by Ed Hereder, Dr. Meredith spoke on “Only Half of Me Wants to Be Good” yesterday.

Dr. Meredith listed several tests to be applied before making deci­sions.

Among them are: would I be a good sport if I made this choice; does the choice show common sense; would I be willing to have my decision be made public; would I want my most admired person­ality to know about this and would I be doing what I honestly believe Christ would want me to do?

“A man is a parasite upon socie­ty if he wants everyone else to be decent and won’t be decent him­self,” Dr. Meredith said.

Further outlining parts of a man’s fight with himself, he stat­ed “Conscience is that little tele­phone inside that rings—and when it rings a person had better take it off the hook and listen.”

The last RE Week talk will be in the morning at 9.

“Love, Courtship, and Marriage” was the subject for Dr. Meredith’s talk this morning in the next to the last service for the 16th Annual RE Week.

“What I Want To KnowBattalion Staff Photo

Asks a baud member in one of the nightly Religious Emphasis forums in the dorms. His question was directed at Maj. John

Quick, extreme left, one of the 14 visiting clergymen on the campu.^this week, who is leading the Dorm 11 discussions.

Juniors Spark Bid For Keeping PAS

By JOE BUSER

A group of Air Force juniors has started a movement to ask the college to retain Col. Henry P. Dittman at A&M as Professor of Air Science.

The group, which was chosen in part last semester by each Air Science class, met Monday to dis­cuss plans for the project. They are an unofficial group, but were supported unanimously by Air Force juniors in a vote called at a December class meeting.

Col. Dittman’s tour at A&M will terminate at the end of this aca­demic year and as yet he has no

Billy McKown Mystery Man

Civilian Students Present Views On Required Corps to Directors

Billy McKown, president of the Civilian Student Council, and another still unknown student, will get a chance to express Civilian opinion on compulsory military training at the A&M Board of Di­rectors meeting Saturday.

The “mystery man” is not be­ing disclosed because of pressure that might be directed at him, Mc­Kown said. He would say how­

ever that he is a well liked student, and a very influential man on the campus.

The audience with the board was granted on the conditions that it be held to a maximum of 30 min­utes and only two representatives be sent.

The contentions that McKown and the mystery man will present to the board have not yet been re­leased.

500 Expected For Teacher Meeting

Over 500 art teachers, teacher trainers and art supervisors from throughout the state are expected for the 10th annual Industrial Teacher Conference in Memorial Student Center tomorrow and Sat­urday.

Leslie V. Hawkins of the Indus­trial Education Dept, is director of the program which is to include lectures and demonstrations by specialists in various fields. Ex­hibits set up by industries and sup­pliers of school materials will be on display.

Pistol Stolen From Metzger Collection

Campus Security and Brazos County officers are investigating the theft of a two-shot, .22 caliber Frank Wesson pistol from the Metzger Gun Collection in the Me­morial Student Center Tuesday af­ternoon.

The theft occurred between 5 and 6 p.m. and was discovered about 6.

Entrance to the gun case was gained by breaking a glass plate covering the display.

MSC officials did not believe the gun to be one of the more valuable firearms in the collection.

new assignment. However, he said last night that D. W. Williams, then president of the college, told him last July he could not return because he was not in accord with college policy.

He said he asked Vice President Earl Rudder to reconsider his i'e- quest for extension of his tour here, but had since withdrawn the request “in order to cause no more difficulties in the institution.”

“I take my orders from the U.S Air Force in Washington,” he said, “and I would readily accept any assignment given me.”

“But if the college desires my retention, I’ll be here,” he added.

The gToup of juniors has acquir­ed a staff study, conducted by an Air Science class last semester, suggesting possible ways to retain Col. Dittman. They have partially re-written the study and have given a copy to Vice President Rudder and are mailing copies to each of the A&M Board of Directors.

They are also drawing up a let­ter to be sent to Maj. Gen. T. C. Rogers, Commander, AFROTC.

The names of all Air Force stu­dents in favor of asking that Col. Dittman be retained are being col­lected by the group through indi­vidual outfits.

Nelson to Work For BA Degree At Harvard U-

Jack Nelson, Corps public information officer, received word yesterday that he had been accepted to attend the Harvard University graduate business school for two years after graduation from A&M.

Nelson, an electrical engineering major from El Paso, said the addi­tional two years in business train­ing would qualify him for a mas­ter’s degree in Business Adminis­tration. He will enter Harvard in September.

Boasting a 2.02 overall grade point ratio, Nelson submitted his application and took the entrance exam some months ago. Students are accepted according to results of these 6xams.

“It is a wonderful opportunity,” Nelson said last night. “More guys should take advantage of it.”

According to Nelson, John Hag- lex1, Cadet Colonel of the Corps, and George Ragsdale, editor of The Engineex1, submitted applications two months after he did, and there­fore won’t learn the outcome of their exams until a later date.

Nelson plans to fulfill his mili­tary duty after graduation from Harvard.

Fish To Bring Texas Beauties To Class Ball

By JOHNNY JOHNSON Lovers of feminine beauty

will have a field day March 1, the day of the Fish Ball. Tra­dition holds that A&M fresh­men boast the loveliest girls in Texas.

The dance will be held from 9-12 p.m. in Sbisa Dining Hall.

Highlight of the dance will be the selection of the “Fish” Sweet­heart. The list of nominees has been nari’owed to five. Finalists and their escorts ai’e: Susie Seidel, escorted by Donald H. Jones; Su- sanne Neal, by William T. White; Linda Ann Daugherty, by Charles C. Murphy; Kathleen Peabody, by Don Eastwood; and Michaele Carl­isle, by James W. Willis.

Vice President and Mrs. Earl Rudder will head the list of col­lege dignitaries attending the ball. Other prominent officials to attend the dance include academic school deans, militai’y department heads, tactical officers and Civilian coun­selors.

Music will be furnished by the Aggieland Oi'chesti’a.

Tickets are $2, stag or drag and can be purchased from freshman officers or from the Student Activ­ities Office, second floor of the YMCA.

Officers in charge of the ball are Charles C. Mui’phy, pr-esident; Paul Mai’tin, vice president; Robert Bower, secretary-ti'easurer; and Tilmon Reaves, social chairman.

Jack Nelson

’Murals Wrestler Breaks Collarbone

Rodney Spencex1, “A” Tran­sportation Corps fi’eshman fi’om DeLeon, suffei’ed a broken collar­bone in an intramural wrestling match last night.

College hospital attendants term­ed his condition as “good” after he was given treatment there.

The intramural wrestling season, which matches men from various outfits accoi'ding to weight, be­gan Monday. The injury is an oddity since no punishing holds are permitted in the competition.