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The BattalionNumber 114: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1956 Price Five Cents
Three Classes Vote In Center ’Til 5:30
Members of the classes of 1957-58-59 are casting their primary ballots today in the election booth in the Post Office entrance of the MSQ to determine next year’s class officers.
Balloting will end at 5:30 p.m.Runoff elections will be held Wednesday, April 18, for
class officers.The general elections of senators and members of the
. student life committee will not be held at this time, as in the past, due to the re-writing of the constitutions of these organizations.
Filings for the positions of class agent for the class of - 1956 and for members of the Election Commission will open
May 1 and remain open until May 7 at the Office of Student Activities located on the second floor of Goodwin Hall.The Election Commission willbe composed of five men each from each of the classes of 1957-58-69.
Class of 1957President; Karl Springer, Dick
Howard, Brad Crockett, Thomas Ray Thedfor, Herman Veselka and Doug DeCluitt. Vice-president;
* Don W. Green, Bob N. Hancock,John Kirkpatrick, Dub Bailey,Hank Menefee and George R.
„ Crane.Secretary; Charles K. Orr, Ed
C. Hanson, Jack T. Steel and Dewey C. McMullan.
Social secretary; D u r ward Thompson, Bob McCleskey, Tom E.Norton, Jack M. Di'eyfus and John P. Aldridge.
Byron W. King, Tedd M. Lewis,Paul B. Beckman and Andy Johnson are candidates for treasurer.
Johnny Heard, Gilbert Steile and Bob Best are running for student entertainment manager.
Applicants for class historian are 4 Don Weber, Bobby Noack, “Red”
Wilson, Marcus Crow and Don Wilson.
For reporter, Warren Johnson,Howard Martin, John Selensky, A1 Chappell and Joe Joeris.
For sergeant - at - arms; Gene Smith, Myron Gantt, G. B. Rand,Dennis H. Goehring, Thomas Livingston and McFarland Osborn.
Tommy Newman, Dean Duncan,Leon Curtis, Ralph Stout, Jimmie Dellinger, Willie Alsup and Jack Lyle are candidates for parliamen
tarian.Candidates for yell leader from
the class of ’57 are Gary Anderson,. (See ELECTIONS, Page 2)
CS Rec Council Discusses Budget
The College Station Recreation Council met yesterday afternoon at the A&M Consolidated School. The budget for this summer was discussed, and chairmen for each sum mer program were announced.
New officers for the Council in* elude Dr. Luther Jones, president;
Charles Haas, vice-president; Mrs. E. C. Klipple, secretary; and Mrs. K. A. Manning, treasurer.
* New members include Mrs. John Quisenberry, Mrs. Walter Varvel, Flake Fisher, Bill Hensel and Mike Krenitsky.
FFA Banquet At 7:30 Tonight
Barbecue chicken will be served tonight at 7:30 at the A&M College annual student-prof banquet at Maggie Parker’s in Bryan.
Awards will be presented by E. V. Walton, head of the Agricultural Education Department to the outstanding senior and junior in the Agricultural Education Department. Nathan Boardman, chapter president, will present the outstanding professor award to C. B. Ryan of the Poultry Husbandry Department. He was selected by members of the chapter.
Will Slaten, senior, will act as master of ceremonies. Music will be provided by the Hi Five combo.
5 A&M Students Involved In Wreck
Five A&M students escaped serious injury early Monday morning as the car in which they were riding over-turned two and one-half times near Calvert.
Wynn Snoots, swimming team member, was the only injured student, having a broken arm. The other four students, John R. Nelms, driver of the car, Harless Benthul, Bill Bedford and Max Stone, received only minor cuts and bruises. They were taken to Hearne General Hospital following the accident.
Nelms said he was driving about 60' miles per hour when the car skidded on a wet place in the highway, causing them to leave the road. The vehicle was completely destroyed.
Leland Receives Freedom Award
T. W. Leland, head of the Business Administration Department here, has been »awarded a fellowship by the Third Institute on Freedom and Competitive Enterprise at Claremont Men’s College, Claremont, Calif. It will be held June 10-24.
Leland is one of 30 economists and other social scientists from various parts of the country to i-eceive the fellowships.
The institute consists of lectures
EYES RIGHT—Squadron 17, commanded by Marion L. Williams of Abilene, passes by the reviewing stand in preparation for the Corps Review Thursday afternoon for Federal Inspection. For the past few days, Aggies have been sharpening up clothes, rooms and military manners in anticipation of the annual spring event.
The Council is made up of mem- and seminars for intensive studybei’s from all civic and interested groups in the city. It conti’ols the summer I'ecreation program for College Station.
of the relationship of private competitive enterprise and the free market system to individual liberty.
Graduates HearPaleontologistThursdayNight
One of the nation’s outstanding paleontologists will deliver a graduate lecture here Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Biological Sciences Building. The lecture is open to the public.
The lecturer, Dr. Alfred S. Ro- mer, is director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., and his subject will be “Fossil Animals of the Texas Permian Basin.”
Currently, he is collecting specimens near Archer City, Texas where he has done outstanding work in the past. ^
Dr. Romer is a native of New York and holds the AB degree from Amherst College and Ph. D. from Columbia. He was awarded an honorary degree from Harvard University in 1949, instructor of anatomy, Bellevue Medical College, N.Y., 1921-23 and a member of the Department of Comparative Anatomy, American Museum of Natural History.
He taught Vei’tebrate Paleontology at the University of Chicago, 1923-34, and was professor of zoology and curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Harvard University, since 1934; director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology since 1946, and Alexander Agassiz professor of zoology since 1947.
Dr. Romer has received numerous honors and awards including the Mary Clark Thompson Medal of the National Academy of Sciences for 1954. Among his professional memberships are the following:
American Association of Anatomists; Paleontological Society (vice president 1939); American Society of Zoologists; Geological Society of America; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; National Academy of Sciences; Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (president 1941); Cosmos Club; Society for the Study of Evolution (vice president 1950).
Dr. A. S. RomerGraduate Lecture Thursday
Electricity To be Cut Off At 5 O’clock
Power will be turned off in the Memorial Student Center and the south side of College Station from 5 until about 5:30 this afternoon, according to T. R. Spence, manager of physical plants.
In order to avoid a ten hour power cut-off, the current will be transferred to another circuit while it is being connected to the new equipment at the power plant. The circuits are being re-arranged during the shut-off.
The MSC and the Coliseum were without electricity yesterday morning and afternoon for about three hours.
The project house apartments will also have their electricity turned off for about thirty minutes this afternoon.
Style Show SetThe Officers’ Wives’ Club will
hold a style show at their i-egular monthly luncheon, 12:30 p.m. Thursday, at Maggie Parker Dining Hall.
The latest spring and summer fashions will be shown through the courtesy of “Town and Country.”
Mrs. Robert Goforth is chairman of the style show and is assisted by Mesdames Taylor Wilkins, Charles Taylor and Billy Wright.
Weather Today
BAFB Aero Club Open To Aggies
A limited number of A&M students may now learn to fly through Bryan Air Force Base’s “Aero Club”, according to Wayne Wilson, member of A&M’s Flying Kadets.
“Maj. John P. Howard, a member of the club, contacted us,” said Wilson. “He invited all Aggies, either in the Corps or not, to take part in the program.”
Bryan Air Forte Base’s Aero Club is an independent club, sponsored by the Air Force. Its members, mainly base personnel and families, receive instruction at $6 an hour from licensed Civil Air Patrol instructors. Solo flying time costs $3 each hour.
Clubs similar to the Aero Club have been set up at all of the Air Force’s bases throughout the world.
“At present the club has about 30 members, two instructors, and one airplane,” Wilson said. “The government is helping . them buy two or more planes, and hire another instructor. They will take as many members as they have room.”
Anyone interested in joining the program may contact Wilson in room 123, dormitory eight, or attend the weekly meeting of the Flying Kadets, each Monday night at 7:30 p.m. in room 129 of the Academic Building.
Houston Aggies Set Barbecue
Members of the Houston Hometown Club will hold their annual spring barbecue Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the Brazos A&M Club House.
Program for the evening includes election of officers and a movie of the A&M-Rice football game. The club also will have its Aggieland pictm-e taken at 5:15 Thursday in front of the Administration Building.
Disease ReportMeasles is the leading disease
with 22 cases in College Station according to reports from the Bry- an-Brazos County Health Unit. Chickenpox was close behind with 21 cases reported for the week ending April 7. Mumps was listed next with three cases.
Federal Inspection Starts Tomorrow
A&M Cadets will end the “long wait” tomorrow as Federal Inspection officers take a look around. Dormitory inspections will be held from 8-10 a.m. and classes will be dismissed during this time.
An inspection of room orderliness, cleanliness and arrangement as well as personal questioning of individual cadets was held yesterday in the Army area and Friday in the Air Force units. Local cadre participated in the 6 a.m. inspections.
The full-scale inspection of A&M’s Corps of Cadets will also include a review tomorrow afternoon and classroom inspections- as to procedure and student knowledge. ------------------------------------------Following an orientation of
Acct. Conference To Be April 16 -17
The ninth annual Accounting Conference to be held here April 16-17, will have as speakers topflight men in the profession, featuring accounting in all its phases, present and future.
Sessions will be held in the Memorial Student Center on the campus of the college and a panel discussion, “What Management Expects From Its Accounting Functions” will be held in the afternoon, April 16. George W. Laf- ferty, Houston (partner, Cheatham, Brady and CJo.) will moderate the panel.
Speakers include John A. White, president, American Accounting Association of the University of Texas; Kenneth S. Axelson of Chicago, Arthur Stewart, Business Administration, A. and M.; Howard C. Greer, Decatur, Alabama; James I. Mahon, Philadelphia, Pa. and W. R. Gilchrist, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Roy E. Burke of Houston, conference chairman (Price Water- house & Co.) will preside at the opening session.
Edward S. Packenham of the Business Administration Department, A. and M., is general chairman for local arrangements.
Weldon Walker Wins $250 Prize
Weldon W. Walker, senior student from Waco, recently won $250 from Time Inc. as an outstanding subscription salesman.
Time Inc., publishers of Time, Life and Sports Illustrated, conducted the contest in colleges and universities over the United States. First prize was $3,000.
the visiting inspectors by Col. D. P. Anderson, PMS&T, Larry Kennedy, Corps commander, and members of his staff, the visitors will inspect military and air science instruction classrooms and facilities. Inspections this afternoon are being directed at the military and air science plans, records and files as well as visits to the property custodian, rifle range and motor pool.
At 8 tomorrow morning, cadets will be in their rooms for the inspection. First sergeants and company commanders will escort visiting inspectors through their respective units. Cadets so armed will be inspected with their rifles.
Classroom inspections will be continued tomorrow afternoon. Inspectors will have lunch with David H. Morgan, president of the college, and will meet with him later in the afternoon to discuss results of the inspection.
Then, at 4 p.m. tomorrow, a review will be held on the main drill field with the entile Corps of Cadets participating.
Members of the Army inspecting team are Col. Wendell H. Langdon, chief of the inspecting party; Col. Robert M. Bacher, ordnance; Lt. Col. Travis A. Gerrells, infantry; Lt. Col. John M. Aylor, armor; Lt. Col. George Stevens, engineers; Maj. Vincent Grzegorowicz, signal; Lt. Col. John L. Gates, transportation; Lt. Col. Comet Gibson, quartermaster; Lt. Col. Kenneth S. White, chemical; and Maj. Leslie B. Hardy, artillery.
Air Force inspectors are Maj. Herman L. Kirkpatrick, Maj. John P. Howard, Bryan AFB; Lt. Col. Robert L. Collie, Lt. Col. James A. McKinney, USAF-IG Inspectors, General Staff, Norton AFB, Calif.; Col. James F. Risher, Lt. Col. William G. Dolan, Maj. H. G. Gendrei- zig, Headquarters Air Force ROTC, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
Magazine Editors Approved by Board
Editors for the four school magazines were approved at a meeting yesterday * of the Student Publications Board. The students were chosen upon recommendation by Ross Strader, director of Student Publications, and concurrence by the school councils of the magazine involved.
Bennie Eugene Fichte, junior agricultural-journalism major from Megargel, was named editor for the Agriculturist.
Co-editors were named for the Southwestern Veterinarian. Heading the well-known journal next year will be Delmar R. Cassidy of College Station and Kenneth R. Pierce from Winters. Both are veterinary medicine majors.
Sitting in the editor’s desk for
the Engineer for the 1956-57 school year will be Joe Bill Foster, senior petroleum engineering-'general business major from Greenville.
John Elvin Smith, junior business administration major, was approved by the board as editor for the Commentator. His appointment will have to go before the Executive Committee of the college to have the one-year experience requirement waived. Smith’s approval as editpr was recommended by both the Arts & Sciences Council and Strader.
Last month Jim Bower was named editor for The Battalion next year, and David McReynolds summer editor. Don Charles Burt was appointed editor for the Aggieland ’57.
mFOR PROF’S BENEFIT—Robert A. Houze, college librarian, left, shows some of the library’s collection of books on teaching to Robert Sherrill‘of the English Department. The library is featuring a display this month of the collection, which was established in 1952 by the College Committee on the Development of Teaching Personnel.
FAIRFair and a little warmer is the
forecast for College Station. Yesterday’s high was 64 degrees; low, 39 degrees. Temperature at 10:30 this morning was 56 degrees.
MORE I.T.S. TALENT—A favorite up Oklahoma way are the songs of the Beta Four, barber shop quartet from Oklahoma A&M. The quartet will appear Friday night at the Intercollegiate Talent Show in White Coliseum. Tickets are on sale at the MSC for ?1 and $1.50.