-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