The Battalion
Number 82: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1955
Price Five Cents
SOCIAL ETIQUETTE—Mrs. Walter Delaplane takes the rostrum for her part of the
Memorial Student Center’s social etiquette course last night, the first of the “Mind Your
Manners” series. Other speakers, from left to right, were Mrs. M. T. Harrington, Mrs.
Ide Trotter, Mrs. Jack Miller, Mrs. Marion Pugh, Chancellor M. T. Harrington, Series
Chairman Dave Ashcroft, and Social Etiquette Chairman Tom Yates.
Prom, Banquet Tomorrow
Juniors Dance in Center
The big night of the year for
the junior class is Saturday, with
the banquet scheduled for 6:30 and
the prom at 9 p.m.
'I'he entii’e second floor of the
Memorial Student Center will be
devoted to the dance, with couples
Activity Fee
Sidetracked
In Legislature
The bill that would allow
state colleges to charge a re
quired activity fee of up to
£20 a semester has been side
tracked in the Texas senate,
after a threatened filibuster by
Sen. Jimmy Phillips of Angleton.
The bill was scheduled to come
Up for discussion on the senate
floor Wednesday, but it didn’t. E.
L. Angell, system vice-chancellor,
said yesterday that he “guessed”
it would come up the first of next
Week.
The bill was discussed on the
seifate floor Tuesday, but Phillips
took the floor with an amendment
to make the fee optional, as it is
now, and kept it for 40 minutes,
until the end of the session.
The bill is sponsored by Sen.
Otis E. Lock of Lufkin, and would
go into effect next year if passed.
A&M now has an optional activity
fee of $21.90 a year.
The A&M activity fee includes
The Battalion, one other student
publication magazine, Town Hall,
Great Issues and Recital series, and
athletic tickets.
The bill would allow the fee to
include all this, plus a student
health fee and a student union fee.
Chancellor ' M. T. Harrington
said eax-lier that the A&M Sys
tem Boai’d of Directors would de
cide whether or not the fee would
go into effect here if the bill
passes.
having a choice of dancing in the
main ballroom, the assembly room,
or weather permitting the terrace.
Tables will be set up on the ter
race if the weather is good.
The dance will feature Ernie
Martellino and his combo, the Ag-
gieland combo, and the Mellow-
stones from Sam Houston Teachers
college. One group will be in each
of the dancing areas.
The class sweetheart will be
chosen during - intermission at the
dance. Five finalists have been
picked.
(See pictures at bottom of page)
Guest speaker for the banquet
will be A. O. Sainger, assistant
southeast division sales manager
for Humble Oil and Refining com
pany. Filet migon will highlight
the meal.
Tickets to the prom are $2.50,
couple or stag - , and may be pur
chased from Glen Rice, Richard
Gentry, Bill Swann, Cy Johnson,
Gus Mijalis, Wade Ingram, Wel
don Walker and Jim Bower. No
more banquet tickets are being
sold.
Weather Today
PARTLY CLOUDY
The weather outlook for today
is continued cloudy and cooler.
There is no expected rain for today
but thei - e is a possibility of show
ers for Saturday.
The temperature at 11 this
morning was 72.
RUE PINALLE — Charley
Stark, with his one-string
guitar, will be master of
ceremonies at the Memorial
Student Center’s Cafe Rue
Pinalle tonight in the games
area of the MSC. The show
will start at midnight, be
cause of the Intercollegiate
show, and will last until
about 3 a.m.
SP Will Make
Train Changes
The Southern Pacific Railroad,
which runs trains between Hous
ton and Dallas, will start a new
policy Friday.
The railroad will run one com
partment coach on the line Mon
day through Thursday and one
compartment coach and one chair
car Friday through Sunday.
The reason for this move is the
light passenger loads between the
two cities, company officials said.
This policy will remain in effect
until passenger travel increases,
they said.
Livestock Judgers
Win Four Places
A&M’s junior livestock judging
team took a second, a third, and
two fourth places in the recent
Oklahoma City livestock judging
contest.
The team won second in hogs
judging, third in cattle judging,
and fourth in sheep judging and
all classes. Len Steakley of Cole
man was eighth high individual.
Team members were Steakley;
Charlie Cypert of Hillsboro; C. O.
Wheeler jr. of Odessa;; Richard
Thallman of Bandera; and Thomas
Newman of Santa Anna.
Others who made the trip were
Richard Tachibana of San Benito;
David Cooper of Pampa; Iceland
Cook of Abilene and Wesley Smith
of Marshall.
Team coach is W. T. Berry jr.
of the animal husbandry depart
ment.
Exemptions Asked
Senate Goes Forward
In Return Movement
The Student Senate moved forward last night in its
fight to return the exemption system, with the approval of
a letter requesting the return.
The letter, which is eventually to go to the Executive
committee, will be sent to all the school councils for their
endorsement or disapproval.
One council, the Agriculture council, has already de
cided not to ask for the return, according to F. E. (Sonny)
Tutt, senate vice-president and a member of the Agriculture
council.
That leaves the Arts and Sciences council, Engineering
council and Veterinary Medicine council.
The letter, prepared by*
Glenn Buell, head of the sen
ate’s exemption committee,
gives four reasons for the re
turn of exemptions. They are
bx-iefly as follows:
• Students “will just coast
along” in a course, satisfied with
a B instead of trying for an A and
an exemption.
® A student could get sick dur
ing final examination \y ee k, be un
able to study for the final, and lose
credit in the course because of a
poor grade on the final.
® Taking finals in all courses
causes a strain on the students;
exempting a few courses would al
low him to study more for the oth
ers.
• A student hasn’t a very good
chance of raising his grade a letter
on the final, so he might be temp
ted to study just enough to make
the minimum grade.
The senate authorized the coun
cils to make minor changes in the
letter if they desired.
In other action, the senate voted
to endorse the “Book for Democ
racy” drive sponsored by Kansas
state college. The Exchange Store
committee was authorized to look
into possible collection methods for
the drive, which is to send Ameri
can textbooks to Russian domina
ted countries.
The senate also named 10 dele
gates to the Texas Intercollegiate
Students association convention to
be held at San Antonio’s Trinity
university April 2.
Delegates will be Senate Presi
dent Jerry Ramsey, Bill Bass, Paul
Holliday, Bill Utsman, Glenn Buell,
Tony Specia, Bob Alcock, Gus Mij
alis, Bob Putnam, and John Bene
field.
The proposed constitutional
amendment that would give the
Project Houses area a member on
the senate was tabled for lack of
the three-fourths quorum neces
sary to vote on the constitutional
change.
News of the World
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON—President Eisenhower is staying out of
the controversy brought oh by making public the Yalta pa
pers. The White House said the decision to release the long-
secret documents was made “entirely within the State de
partment.”
★ ★ ★
LONDON—The British conservative govern
ment is considering publishing its own edition of
what went on at the Yalta meeting. Prime Minister
Churchill contends there are what he called “serious
mistakes” in the American account of the 1945 »
meeting.
Sounds Like
‘Can You
Top This’
George Litton, of the pur
chasing office, has a fish stoi'y
that needs every one of his
four witness to make it believ
able.
He was fishing at Camp
Creek lake last Sunday, with
a spinning outfit, when a small
perch struck on his line.
As he was reeling the perch
in, a 10” bass swallowed the
perch, and then a five-and-a-
half pound bass swallowed the
smaller bass.
After the line had gotten
untangled, Litton reeled in all
three fish.
If anyone can top this one,
and provide witnesses, we’d
like to know about it.
Talent Show
To Be Biggest
In A&M History
About 4 - 5,000 persons are expected to fill G. Rollie
White coliseum tonight for the biggest Intercollegiate Talent
show in A&M’s history.
The show, which starts at 8 p.m., will have a cast of 100
performers—16 acts representing 14 colleges, including Ted
Stecki, winner of the Aggie Talent show last fall.
at 4
Civilian Dorms
Start Pictures
Civilian dormitory group
pictures will appear in the Ag-
gieland for the first time next
year, Harry Tilley, Aggieland
co-editor, said yesterday.
Pictures will be taken on the
steps of the new administration
building at 5:15 p.m. each day ac
cording to the following dorm
schedule, and students are expected
to wear either a suit or sport coat
with tie, Tilley said.
The group picture schedule by
dorms will be:
Monday, Mai’ch 21—Mitchell
Tuesday, March 22—Puryear
Wednesday, March 23—Law
Thursday, March 24—Leggett
Monday, March 28—Milner
Tuesday, March 29—Halt
Wednesday, March 30—Wal
ton and 17
Thursday, March 31—Bizzell
and YMCA
Club pictures for the Aggieland
scheduled to be taken in front of
the New Administration building
March 21-31 will be taken in back
of the new Administration building
at times previously scheduled, Til
ley said.
Students with snapshots suitable
for the Aggieland should turn them
in to their dorm or ramp repre
sentative, he said.
Tickets will be on sale
the door for $1 general ad
mission and $1.50 reserved
seats.
Dick Gottlieb, Houston tel
evision personality and an A&M
former student, will be master of
ceremonies for the two-hour show.
Featuring three winners of the
Horace Heidt national collegiate
talent contest, the show is the re
sult of audition trips to all major
colleges in Texas and neighboring
states.
Among the acts are the Oklaho
ma A&M male quartet, called one
of the outstanding male quartets in
the country, a dance act from Ok
lahoma university featuring 23
girls in scanty penguin costumes;
and the Knights of Dixieland band
from Southwestern Louisiana in
stitute.
Horace Heidt winners on the bill
are Miss Virg-inia Holum, vocalist
from Texas Christian university,
and Evie Cooper and Mike McGehe,
a dance duo from Louisiana State
university.
Neighboring University of Texas
and Southern Methodist university
will be represented with a jug
gling act and a pantomine.
“We tried to select as wide a
variety of talent as possible,” said
Margaret Long, Memorial Student
Center program consultant.
The Aggieland orchestra will ac
company all the acts.
The Intercollegiate Talent show
is sponsored by the MSC music
committee. Frank daggers is
chairman of the committee, and
Jim Pie is director for the show.
Other members of the commit
tee are Art Henderson, Dudley
Brown, Joe Harris, Dick McGown,
Lee Brauner, Eric Hannawacker,
Rusty Wells, Bill McLaughlin,
Gary Anderson, Mike Griffin, and
James Powell.
Installment Dvie
At Fiscal Office
Tuesday is the deadline for third
installment payments at the fiscal
office. The payment is $52.30 and
covers the period through April
22. A $1 penalty will be assessed
for each day the payment is late.
Seniors To Meet
The senior class will meet at
7:30 Monday in the Memorial Stu
dent Center ballroom. Further
plans for the Ring dance May 21
will be discussed.
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Filing Starts
Tuesday
For Offices
Tuesday is beg-inning day
for filing applications for all
class offices in student activ
ities office, Goodwin hall.
Deadline for filing is March
29.
Students running for yell-leader
and student entertainment manager
must have a grade point ratio of at
least 1.25. The latter also must
be a junior with one or more years
experience on the entertainment
staff.
For all other offices the student
must have a grade point ratio of
1.0 or better, and be academically
classified in the class he is repre
senting. The general run of of
fices will be a president, vice-presi
dent, secretary, social secretary,
treasurer and parliamentarian.
The class of ’56 also will elect a
historian, an entertainment man
ager, a representative to the Me
morial Student Center council and
two yell-leaders.
The class of ’57 will elect the
usual officers, two yell-leaders and
one representative to the Memorial
Student Center council.
A class agent will be the only
officer elected by the graduating
class of ’55.
Final elections will be held April
5. Runoffs will be held April 13.
Quest To Fill
Coach ing Slot
Continues
Paul Bryant, A&M athletic
director, had nothing to re
port yesterday on the search
for a basketball coach to re
place John Floyd, who resign
ed Tuesday.
“We will announce some
thing as soon as anything hap
pens,” he said.
Bryant had stated it is hop
ed the vacanacy will be filled
by April 1, stating “we want
to move slowly and carefully
—we want the best man avail
able for the job.”
ONE OF THESE GIRLS WILL BE JUNIOR SWEETHEART
Becky Broyles
Dick Crews, Sponsor
Jo Ann Gilliland
Lloyd Billingsley, Sponsor
Mary Katherine Purl
Wilson Hardy, Sponsor
Sarah Barber
Jack Lonquist, Sponsor
Peggy Prock
Shannon Griggs, Sponsor