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-Battalion Staff Pnoto
Beauty and the BeardJudie Colpman, one of the dancers in last night’s Town Hall production of the National Canadian Ballet, takes a break during the performance to talk with Ron Collier, a trombonist in the orchestra accompanying the group.
At Town Hall
Canadian Ballet Captivates Ags
By WELTON JONES
Bringing: a ray of brightness in an otherwise drab day, the National Ballet of Canada paused in a grueling United States tour yesterday to completely captivate a Town Hall audience with the second program of ballet ever seen here.
Performing with precision and grace, the dancers of the young company (it was only formed seven years ago) seemed determined to affirm their troupe’s place among the major dance organizations of the world.
Much of the credit for the polish of the company should go to Celia Franca, the artistic director. Miss Franca, for years a leading dancer with England’s famous Sadler’s- Wells Ballet, was called by the Canadian government to head the group when it was founded and has worked wonders since.
Lois Smith, David Adams and Marcel Chojnacki danced the roles of Columbine, Harlequin and Pantalon in “Le Carnaval” with zest and humor. The audience was particularly impressed with Adams, the company’s leading male dancer.
Miss Franca proved herself still queen, however, with an inspired
12 CHS Musicians Play in Contest
Twelve Consolidated High School musicians will journey to Texas City Saturday to compete in the Interscholastic League Solo and Ensemble competition.
All 12 of the students will compete in the soloist division and for four of them, it will be their second year to enter the contest. Last year, Kathy Gould, french horn artist; Tommy Letbetter, alto saxophone player; and Mary Var- vel, flutist, won first division awards iii the competition. Junius Clark won a second division medal in the same contest for his talent on the trombone.
The 8 other musicians who will make the one-day trip and the instruments they play are; Clark Kimberling, french horn; Larry Rice and Furman Isbel, trombone; Patsy Vai’vel, alto saxophone; Bobby Medlin, bass clarinet; Leslie Bi’usse, baritone saxophone; Mary McNeely, flute; and Linda McGuire, clarinet.
performance acting, as well as dancing, “Winter Night”, which choreographer Walter Gore struggled to fit to Sergey Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto.
“Offenbach in the Underworld” a three-ring circus set to various compositions of the famous French composer, was enjoyed by all, the cast included. Outstanding were Donald Mahler, who also starred in “Winter Night”, and Robert Ito.
The orchestra, under the sensitive baton of George Crum, deserves credit as one of the best musical organizations and certainly the best stage group, heard here in recent years.
Rodeo Team Reps To Visit UT Show
Six members of the Aggie rodeo team were elected recently to represent A&M at the University of Texas annual NIRA Rodeo on March 27-29.
Team members are Rodney Butler, Phillip Cox, J. C. Dishman, Kenneth Beasly, Eddie Farris and Doyle McSpadden.
Plans for A&M’s annual NIRA are well underway. The Rodeo will be held May 173, with about 12 schools competing.
Anyone interested in working on the rodeo is urged to attend the next meeting Thursday night at 7:30 at the Rodeo Arena.
Monday Deadline To Buy Tickets
Monday is the deadline for buying tickets to the Junior Banquet to be held March 29, in Sbisa Hall, Gene Birdwell, Class of ’59 president, said yesterday.
Tickets for the Junior Ball will be on sale until the ball which will be held following the banquet.
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Ike, Aides Air Job Slump4 Engineers Picked To Study CS Streets
By GAYLE McNUTT
A committee of four local citizen-engineers was appointed by the College Station City Council last night to study the proposed city street improvement program and bring the results of their survey before the Council.
Officials View S. Carolina City Hit by ‘A’ Bomb
FLORENCE, S. C. (TP) — The first community ever known to survive an atomic bomb drop unscathed got the red carpet treatment today from the Air Force.
The bomb did not set off a nuclear explosion when it drilled into the earth in a sparsely inhabited section five miles east of here Tuesday in midafternoon. But the TNT charge which triggers the nuclear device damaged six homes and. a church and injured six persons, none seriously.
High-ranging officers sloshed through ankle-deep mud of the Mars Bluff community in surveying damage done hy the errant A-bomb that dropped accidentally from a B47 jet bomber.
Maj. Gen. Charles B. Dougher, commander of the 38th Air Division at Hunter Air Foi'ce Base^ Ga., where the jet bomber was stationed, apologized at a news conference to the more than 30, 000 Florence area residents. The apology, issued in behalf of the Air Force, was accepted by Mayor David McLeod at City Hall.
After five houi’s of uncertainty, the Air Force soothed this community’s nerves with the announcement that there was no radiation danger. An earlier announcement had said there was no danger of an atomic explosion but there was a slight chance of a small amount of radioactive contamination.
CSC To Discuss Civilian Weekend
Further plans for the Civilian Student Weekend will head the agenda for discussion at tonight’s meeting of the Civilian Student Council in the Senate Chamber of the Memorial Student Center at 7:30.
The Council will also discuss committee reports on Mother’s Day and Council elections. During the meeting the group will select the outstanding member of the Council, who will be awarded a plaque by the group.
Codie Wells was appointed chairman of the committee which will make their chief study on the question of which streets shall be designated primary streets and what type street improvements are needed. They will also give such study to secondary streets as may be required to integrate the street program as a whole.
Other members of the committee are City Engineer Fred Benson, C. K. Leighton, and Gibb Gilchrist. All four men have experience in highway engineering work.
The committee will work with Spencer J. Buchanan and Associates, who have drawn up plans and suggestions for the Council’s use in formulating a street program.
Buchanan and the four local engineers were hsked to attend the special called City Council meeting last night to look over and discuss the plans proposed by the council. The engineers agreed that the proposed plan seemed quite feasible and in accordance with needed improvements.
The four-man committee agreed to do everything possible in working with the council toward choosing the best possible plan for street work.
The Council, whose next meeting is scheduled for March 24, was adjourned subject to call of the mayor in case the committee’s report is submitted before the regular monthly meeting.
Candidate Filings Begin on April 9
Filings for April 9 class officer election will open March 17, Dick Noack, Election Commission chairman, said Tuesday.
The class of ’58 will elect an agent; the class of ’59 will elect a president, vice-president, secretary- treasurer, social seci’etary, historian, two yell leaders and a student entertainment manager.
The class of ’60 will elect a president, vice-president, secretary- treasurer, social secretary and two yell leaders. The class of ’61 will complete the ballot by electing a president, vice president, secretary-treasurer and a social secretary.
Class officer candidates must have an overall grade point ratio of 1.00, not counting mid-semester grades and be academically classified with their class at election time and at the time of taking office.
Yell leader candidates must have
ITS Will Feature 4 States’ Talent
The 7th annual Intercollegiate Talent Show, coming to G. Rollie White Coliseum Friday night at 7 o’clock with 10 variety acts, will display talent from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
The talent show will kick off this weekend’s activities. This afternoon, the Jazz Sentinels from Southwestern Louisiana Institute, Lafayette, La., will give a preview of their part in the program with a jazz session in the Fountain Room of the Memorial Student Center, Joe Lowe, ITS chairman, said yesterday.
an overall gi’ade point ratio of 1.25. Class of ’59 candidates must be academically classified as juniors at the time of election and ’60 candidates must be academically classified as sophomores.
Candidates seeking student entertainment manager should have a 1.25 overall grade point ratio and be classified as a junior.
One year’s experience on student entertainment staffs and the recommendation of the manager of recreation and entertainment, C. G. (Spike) White, is also requh’ed.
Filings for the offices may be turned in to the office of Student Activities, room 210 of the YMCA between March 17 and 24, which is the last day to file.
Student Senate officers, committee heads, Student Senate school representatives, Civilian yell leader, member's of the Student Publications Board and student representatives to the Memorial Student Center will be elected at a later date.
Cafe Rue Pinalle Scheduled Friday
An Aggie production of Rue Pinalle will be held Friday night after the Intercollegiate Talent Show in the ping pong area of the Memorial Student Center, Don Graves, chairman of Rue Pinalle, said Monday.
The nightclub will feature five acts from the ITS: James Wallis, ventriloquist; Ann Bartlett, vocalist; The Downbeats, a male quartet; Ray McCullough, dancer; and a duet, Mary Martha Gibson and Tom Fisher. Music will be furnished by The Jazz Sentinels.
Pending Tax Cut Put Off Until Later
WASHINGTON, (H5) —President Eisenhower and his economic advisors talked about remedies for the recession yesterday but decided to wait awhile before proposing- any tax cut.
“No decision regarding taxes has been made,” Secretary of the Treasury Anderson reported after this latest top-level conference on what to do about the slump in business and jobs.
Anderson added: “Whatever decision regarding taxes is taken will be reached only when the impact of current developments on the future course of the economy has been clari-------------------------------------------- ♦fied and after consultation
with congressional leaders.’Collegie Heads Criticized By Second ‘Mole’
College administration and military officials were veibally blasted this morning for the second time in two weeks by “The Mole”, an underground news-sheet.
The current issue of The Mole was distributed in Corps dormitories about 3 a. m. today. One of the papers was also slipped under The Battalion office door about that time. The sheet claimed to be “published in the steam tunnels of Texas A&M,” as did the previous paper which came out March 3.
Today’s mole claimed no part of the gi’oup participating in the mob violence demonstrated by students calling themselves “mole-men”, referring to this group as “evidently working for the same end, but with different methods”.
The paper proclaimed as its purpose:
“To offer a protest against the creeping militarism in the Coi-ps of Cadets” and hinted that college administration was responsible for the big “turnover” in professors here.
Walter Reuther, addressing an AFL - CIO economic conference here, said if other anti-recession moves fail, the government should halt tax withholding from workers’ pay for 90 days. The president of the United Auto Workers said this would boast the nation’s purchasing power by 500 million dollars a week.
Reuther also wants immediate lie works spending and bi’oadened unemployment compensation benefits.
Meanwhile, the House Armed Services Committee voted 24-2 for a Democi-atic-sponsored anti-recession resolution saying it was the opinion of Congress that military construction projects already planned and appropriated for should be “accelerated to the greatest practical extent.”
Without waiting for the actual committee vote, Dep. Secretary of Defense Quarles announced a speed-up on approximately two billion dollars worth of construction for the next five months.
In other developments:1. The Senate pressed toward
action on a $1,850,000,000 housing bill designed to open up 600,000 new jobs around the country.
2. Eisenhower sent Congress a request for $85,603,000 in additional appropriations for reclamation and watershed and flood protection.
For Combat Cutie
Tanks, Field Guns Form Backdrop
Tanks and field artillery equipment will provide a background for the crowning of the “Combat Cutie” Friday night from 8 to 12 in Sbisa Hall as a part of the Spring Military weekend.
Crown for the cutie will be a steel helmet—complete with shell holes.
All Air Force seniors wearing- flight suits will be admitted to the Combat Ball. All other Corps seniors and five-year men who spent four years in the Corps will be admitted for $1.
Miss Nancy Norton, Aggie Sweetheart and Military Ball Sweetheart from Texas Woman’s
University, will be escorted by John Ligon, 2nd Regiment commander.
The sweetheart for the Combat Ball will be selected from six contestants submitted by combat arms units.
The nominees, their escorts and branch of Army units represented are: Mary Elizabeth Shaw, escorted by Dick Noack, Field Artillery; Bobbie Ellen Wood, by Jerry Roberts, Engineers; Retta Atkins, by Don Ellerbee, Infantry; Darlene Dalton, by Hubert Isaacks, AAA; Carolyn Rylander, by L. D. Cloud, Signal Corps; and Jo Ann Koth- mann, by Clyde Hale, Armor.
6 Finalists Chosen For Combat Ball Cutiellil 11111
Weather TodayCollege Station forecast calls for
mostly cloudy and cool today, tonight and Friday, with occasional light rain likely tonight. The expected low is 38 degrees and the high, about 46.
At 8 a. m. today the relative humidity was 71 per cent, and the temperature, 41 degrees.
V. y.,*
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Jo Ann Kothmann Retta Atkins Mary Elizabeth Shaw Carolyn Rylander Darlene Dalton