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Court Denies Coed Entrance; Loophole Left
The BattalionVolume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1960 Number 118
Armed Forces Day Tops .Brazos Weekend ActivityDisplays, Parade Included In Event
A parade, TV program and special display will feature the, Bryan-College Station area’s observance of Armed Forces Day tomorrow.
This morning at 11 a special TV program was presented featuring the eight commanders of the various reserve units which will take part in the observance.
Featured on the program were Brig. Gen. Spencer J. Buchanan, commander of the 420th Engineer Brigade; Col. Joe E. Davis, commander of the 358th Battle Group; Col. Kay Halsell, commander of the 49th Armored Division Trains.
Com. Norman F. Rode, commander of the 8-3 NavalReserve Research Co.; Col.
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The eleventh annual Armed Forces Day will be the first for Secretary of Defense Thomas S. Gates, Jr., since he became Secretary of Defense.
Pipeline Head SummonedBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESSWASHINGTON—The president
of a big gas pipeline company was summoned today to give his version of what he told a Federal Power commissioner at a fashionable swimming pool party.
The House Legislative Oversight subcommittee turned to N. W. Freeman, president of Midwestern Gas Transmission Co. after two days of often angry questioning of the firm’s Washington attorney, Thomas G. (Tommy the Cork) Corcoran.
Through frequent partisan exchanges, Corcoran stuck to his contention there was nothing improper or illegal about his off-the- record chats with three FPC members last October. He sought only to expedite, not to influence, their action, he said.
Boot Ducats Being Sold
Tickets are now on sale and will remain on sale right up until time to start the annual Boot Dance, Saturday, May 28, in the MSC Ballroom, according to W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, student organizations advisor.
They may be purchased for $2 per couple at the cashier’s window in the lower level of the MSC.
The dance, which will last from 9-12 p.m., is a semiformal affair and all girls are urged to wear cocktail or dinner dresses and not formals.
The Aggieland Combo will play for the dance.
Taylor Wilkins, commander of the 1st Battle Group, 143rd Infantrv. 36th Division; Lt. Col. 0. D. Butler, commander of the 1st Field Artillery, 19th Artillery; and Lt. Col. William 0. Davis, commander of the 9807th Air Reserve Squadron.
Special ParadeTomorrow morning at 11 a spec
ial parade through the streets ,of Bryan will take the spotlight. The units will form on 27th and Bryan Streets, then to 28th Street, to Main Street, to 23rd Street, to Bryan Street, to 27th Street and back to the starting point at 27th and Bryan.
Units in the order of their appearance will include a group of local dignitaries not yet announced; the Allenian Drill Team, Color Guai’d, Band and Battle Group; 420th Engineer Brigade; A&M Fish Drill Team; 386th Engineers; recruiting vehicles from the Army Navy and Air Force and the 358th Battle Group.
Lt. Col. Wilkins will serve as parade marshal.
In connection with the parade, four different groups of airplanes will fly over the city on special display. There will be groups of three C-119’s four F-86’s, four F-lOO’s and eight T-33’s.
They will all fly in a north to south direction and will appear at 10:45, 11:15, 11:30 and 12 respectively.
The special display will be open (See ARMED FORCES on Page 5)
Tower Toward SkyThree US Army Nike-Hercules missiles, the first to be raised in the Far East, tower toward the sky, The Nike- Hercules, designed to intercept and destroy enemy planes regardless of evasive action, can engage and, destroy either single planes or formations of aircrafts.
TWO CITIES—A&M
Development Group Promotes Relations
By TOMMY HOLBEIN Battalion Staff Writer
Since last November, the A&M Development Committee has been organized for the purpose of assisting A&M and the communities of College Station and Bryan and fostering better relations between the two cities and A&M in any way it can, according to Marion-*----------------------------------------------Pugh, member of the committee and owner of the Marion C. Pugh Lumber Co.
“The Committee is a branch of the Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce, and it works through the Chamber,” said Pugh. “We want to help publicize the advantages of coming to A&M as well as foster better understanding between the college and the two communities.”
Composed of 16 members representing a cross-section of the different business in Bryan and College Station, under the direction of Dr. Bill Carmichael, Superintendent of Bryan Schools, the Committee has made available funds to the college that A&M as a State-
supported school cannot be alloted from the state, said Pugh.
Continuing, Pugh said, “The Committee alloted funds to send various members of the faculty and staff of A&M to over 50 high school career days across the state, to show the students what A&M had to offer. In the past, an ex-student usually represented the college, since the school could not get funds to send these men from the college, being a state school.”
“The professors and staff members were sent to locales across the state where the major interest would probably be in their own departments, and more students were able to become interested in A&M this way,” added Pugh.
Kennedy•/
Favored In Oregon
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPORTLAND, Ore.—Oregon bal
lots today in a presidential primary fired up by at battle between a favorite son and a hard-campaigning candidate for the Democratic presidential bid.
The election pitted Sen. Wayne Morse, who has served Oregon in Washington since 1944, against Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, victor in all six othe primaries he entered this year.
Most people who did any predicting at all picked Kennedy to sweep up 17 more national' convention votes in the last major primary contest of 1960.
Kennedy, out hustling at supermarkets, factories and street corners all day Thursday, allowed himself finally to concede he was “very much encouraged.” Whether for buildup purposes or not, he previously had taken the line that Morse ought to win in his own state.
Todd, Barber Take New Corps Posts
A transfer in the cadet noncommissioned officers in the Corps of Cadets has been announced, according to Col. Frank Vaden, assistant commandant of the college.
Edward Todd has been transferred from sergeant major of the 2nd Brigade to the position of operations sergeant on Corps Staff. And Harvey Barber will assume the sergeant major position of the 2nd Brigade after serving as the Corps operations sergeant.
HE YE TO PRESENT GIFT
Shirley Fund Totals $1,275
Storage Open For Summer In Walton
Students may begin placing articles for storage during the summer in the basement of Dorm 3 and Ramp K of Walton Hall starting Monday afternoon and lasting through Saturday.
Schedules for storing personal property run as follows: Monday, 4-5 p.m., and Tuesdaythrough Saturday, 11-12 a.m. and 4-5 p.m.
Students attending only the first summer term may begin storing property in Ramp K of Walton Hall Friday, July 15 from 4-5 p.m., and all students who will attend the second term of summer school hut not the first should follow the same above- mentioned schedule for storing articles all summer long, starting Monday.
Lamps will he stored at 40 cents each and all other baggage will be stored at 40 cents for containers not exceeding three cubic volume feet. Other pieces will be stored at proportionate rates with a minimum of 20 cents per separate article.
All large equipment such as bicycles, typewriters, radios, TV sets, etc. not stored in boxes will be stored at $1 each.
All items stored must be removed by 5 p.m. September 23, and all items not picked up will be disposed of.
Opinion Implies Way To Enter
Special to The BattalionWACO UP) —The 10th Court of Civil Appeals again re
pelled a woman’s effort to enter A&M but left the door ajar Thursday for action in the future. The opinion even hinted how the girl could gain admission.
Ruling on an appeal from Bryan denying the entrance to the all male citadel to Miss Margaret Allred of Bryan, Justice Jake Tirey wrote in his decision:
“We think the trial court in Bryan correctly denied entry to this woman. We feel it is our duty to say that in the event Miss Allred makes application for admission to A&M to pursue a course of study leading to a degree in floriculture that she should be permitted to do so, and not be excluded solely on the grounds that she-*- is a member of the female
Nikky Warns Commie RulersBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESSBERLIN—Nikita Khrushchev’s
missions in East Berlin appears to be to warn its Communist rulers to be careful. The Soviet Premier seems far from anxious for an explosion over West Berlin in the near future.
When Khrushchev blew up the four-power summit meeting in Paris before it could get started, his thunder made the storm seem elose at hand. In East Berlin Thursday, it sounded more like an ominous rumble well beyond the horizon.
Khrushchev in a subdued mood —as he surely was Thursday— can be just as baffling as Khrushchev roaring insults and threatening mayhem. But there were a few hints dropped.
Little by little the world outside the Communist leadership may get an idea of the factors behind the fantastic performance of the Communist boss in Paris, where he showered insults on the President of the United States and shook a pudgy fist under the nose of Washington.
sex.The appeals court ruled last
year that two Bryan married women could not attend A&M because equal facilities were provided elsewhere by Texas for women.
Only School OfferingMiss Allred said she wanted to
study floriculture and that A&M is the only state-supported school in Texas that offered courses leading to a degree. She also wanted to study law, available at A&M and other schools. She brought suit after making informal inquiries at which she wa§ told she would be rejected.
“We feel that in view of past developments and legal judgments that should she so apply for floriculture courses, and is qualified, authorities of A&M will grant her admission,” Judge Tirey wrote.
Lawyers for the college argued that the school is all-male and operated under military rules. They denied that Miss Allred is being denied her constitutional right.
By THE BATTALION NEWS STAFF
‘not legal directive ... ’Leonard Passmore, lawyer in the
Attorney General’s office, said the opinion affirmed the judgment of the trial court in denying entrance to women. In only indicated that she could qualify for entrance.
“Justice Tirey’s statement is not a legal directive. It just indicates what the court might say if the case were presented in that manner,” said Passmore.
He added that the A&M College System Board of Directors must admit women to the college, and that at present they were under no legal compulsion to do so.‘have it open ... ’
“Yes,-the door is ajar, and I think we will have it open by next year.”
This was the view expressed by Bryan attorney John M. Barron, lawyer for the women who are seeking admission to A&M.
Barron made the statement after receiving the 23-page opinion issued in Waco yesterday by Tirey. He said he was a little “surprised” that the Waco court expressed even part of the opinion in his favor, but was pleased at its fairness.
“There are, however, a number of ‘stumbling blocks’ in the opinion which I will try to. have removed,” Barron said.
The “stumbling blocks” Barron referred to include having to physically try to enroll the women at A&M next fall, when “I have a
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Red Minister Seeks Halt To Spy Flights
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSUNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko flies to New York today in pursuit of a U. N. prohibition against American spy flights that will be binding after President Eisenhower leaves the White House.
In a telegram to the U. N. Security Council Thursday night, Gromyko brushed aside Eisenhower’s statement in Paris that U. S. flights over Soviet territory had been halted and would not be resumed.
Gromyko said Eisenhower could not promise the aerial spying would not be resumed after he leaves office in January and therefore the president’s statement was only “a tactical step” taken “with the object of deluding world public opinion.”
The Security Council meets Monday afternoon to take up the Soviet charge of U. S. aggression based on the U2 reconnaissance plane which the Soviets brought down on Soviet territory on May Day. Gromyko was due in New York tonight from Paris to represent the Soviets in the council debate.
SCC Conducts Visitors Tour
Four members of the Student Chamber of Commerce took 57 students from St. Joseph’s Parochial School in Bryan on a tour of the campus yesterday afternoon.
The group was taken to the Memorial Student Center, the Data Processing Center and the campus museum in the morning. Staff members and students at the center showed them how the processing machines operate. From there they went to Kyle Field for a picnic lunch.
In the afternoon the group visited the chapel and then returned to school.
Conducting the tour were Bob Roberts, executive secretary of the SCC; Clifford Lane, chamber member; Robbie Godwin, representative from the School of Arts and Sciences and Sam Spence.
The tour was handled by the Visitors and Information Committee of the chamber.
Aggies dug deep into their pockets for about right at $1,275 to be presented to the family of Carole Jeanne Shirley.
Cadet Col. of the Corps William Heye said he would go to San Antonio this weekend to present the money to N Mrs. Lee A. Shirley, mother of the girl.
Miss Shirley was killed last Friday night when the car in which she was riding went out of control and overturned 1.4 miles west of Bryan.
The final count includes some $1,240 collected from the Corps of Cadets and $35 donated by civilian students.
Heye spoke to the Corps of Cadets Monday afternoon before lunch at Duncan Dining Hall. Heye asked the cadets to contribute what they could to help the family out financially.
Collections were made in Duncan and Sbisa Dining Halls and civilian students made donations through their dorm presidents Thursday night.
“We never expect the money to make up for that girl’s life,” Heye told the Corps Monday, “but we want her family to know that the A&M Corps ’of Cadets wants to help.”
Heye said said a spray of flowers was sent to Boonville, Mo., for the funeral Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Shirley worked for the United Service Automobile Assn, in San Antonio. Heye said he believed she was the only member of the family working at the time of the accident.
Her father suffered a stroke some time ago, Heye said, and is confined to bed. Her mother has been staying home to cai-e for him.
Prior to the time he suffered the stroke, Shirley worked for the Red Cross.
The Shirley’s moved to San Antonio recently from Missouri, Heye
said. Miss Shirley attended Sam Houston State College for a year.
Besides her mother and father, Miss Shirley is survived by a younger brother, 12.
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McClelland, Lux In Good Condition, To Be Released From Hospital Soon
Mike McClelland, senior in Squadron 10 and Ed Lux, senior in Squadron 8 who were injured in an accident last Friday which proved fatal to Miss Carole Jeanne Shirley are reported in good condition by Dr. C. R. Lyons, Director of StudentHealth Services.
The two seniors were released from St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan Wednesday. They are in Room 4 of the College Hospital and will probably remain there for the rest of the week, according to Lyons.
Lyons said they are showing
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steady improvement and will be able to graduate. He said they would be able to go to class today if they felt like it.
The accident occurred Friday night about 12:51 a m. on Highway 21 west of Bryan where the roadway changes from a divided highway to a single right-of-way.
The accident was investigated by Highway Patrolman Don Sybert.
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Campus VisitorsThis group of St. Joseph’s Parochial School grade school students visited the campus yesterday and were shown interest points
by members of the Student Chamber of
Commerce. They visited the Memorial Student Center, the museum, the Data Processing Center and the Chapel.