Volume 59 Number 46 The Battalion COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1959 Aggie Band To Perform In Bowl Came The Texas Aggie Band will per form in the Bluebonnet Bowl ir Houston Saturday. The band has accepted an invita tion to be the honor band and put on the pre-game ceremony when Clemson University meets Texas Christian University in the Greater Houston Bowl Assn.’s first post season football game. The pre-game performance am' the game will be nationally tele vised by CBS-TV, with ceremonies to commence at 2:08 p.m. in the Bice Stadium, when the governors of South Carolina and Texas will be presented by Elvin M. Smith, pres ident of the association. The Texas Aggie band will plav background music—a medley of Southern melodies as the govern ors tire introduced. Lt. Col. E. V Adams is director of the band. At 2:14 p.m. the band will take the field and present its drill which will be concluded with the forma tion of a large shield with the let ters “U S A” inside the shield. The band will remain in this formation during the invocation. Immediately following the in vocation, the band will play the National Anthem and then leave the field. All Corps colors will go along (five sets) and will be on the field during the Band’s performance. Two hundred twenty-eight mem bers of the usual 252 member band will participate, Col. Adams said today. Some of the members of the band live a great distance from College Station and have been ex cused from the formation, so they may go home for the holidays. The band members will be guests of the Greater Houston Bowl Assn, which pays all expenses and pro vides seats for the game not only for the band members but also for their dates without charge. The Aggie band will not play during the game. Game music and half time music will be fm-nished by the Clemson and TCU bands. 56 Accidents Dot Four County Area Fifty-^ix accidents consisting of no fatal, 13 personal injury and 43 property damage accidents were investigated by the Texas High way Patrol in the Brazos, Burleson, Lee, Milam and Robertson counties, stated Sgt. 0. L. Luther of the Bryan area. The accidents in the Nov., 1959 Rural Traffic Accident Summary, reported Luther, injured 18 persons and caused property damage of $17,519. Luther said this was a decrease of two deaths and an increase of 20 accidents for the same period of Nov., 1958. New City Council Room The annual Christmas open house for the College Station City Hall will feature a new council room for observation: Coffee and fruit cake will be served at the occasion Wed nesday from 2:30 to 5 p. m. when the hall will be open to local citizens, according to Ran Boswell, city manager. College Who’s Who Includes 36 A Eight Competing Freshman Run-offs Under Way in MSC With nine freshman positions filled Dec. 3, eight frosh are com- neting today at the polls in the Memorial Student Center in the final run-off for the top freshman class offices. Nine hundi’ed fifty-five student voters nudged 20 hopeful fish orex- ies and left Jack L. Gibbs, science major from Lampasas, and Robert A. Gay, electrical engineering ma- ior from Dallas, as presidential candidates in today’s 8 a.m. - 5:30 o.m. runoff. With all class offices calling for a 1.0 g.p.r. or better, Charles L. Blaschke, liberal arts major from ^kilmore. and Jack M. Threadgill, Brady industrial engineering ma- ior, will contend for the fish vice- oresidencv today over the previous 80 candidates. In the secretary-treasurer vote, William T. Barnhart, Temple elec trical engineering major, and Den nis McIntosh, Alief pre-veterinarv medicine major, received more "otes than the other nine fish can didates and will run today. Final fish run-off competition will feature Earl J. Henderson, Houston aeronautical engineering major, and Paul E. Bergstrom, electrical engineering major from Dallas, in a vote for social secre- tarv of the Class of ’G3. In the Dec. 3 elections, the Class of ‘03 placed James W. Carter, George A. Johnston, James Tavlor. and David N. Chapman on the Stu dent Senate over 25 other potential fish officers. The final fish election settled last week sent five freshmen of 20 to the election commission. Those elected were Jerry C. King. James L. Johnson, Billv C. Ward, Delfino Villarreal and Ben B. Boyd. Recording secretary for the Stu dent Senate was also selected Dae. 3, when sophomore Norris R. Gil breath won over Earl J. Went worth, Class of ’62, with all classes voting in the election. Classified juniors in the School nf Agriculture selected Leo C. Rigsbv over William MiHsaps.. by one vote for junior agriculture rep resentative to the Student Senate also Dec. 3. Practice for Nationals Stark Announces ’60 Selections Thirty-six A&M students have been selected for Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges for 1959-60, J. Wayne Stark, chairman of the Who’s Who Selection Committee, announced yesterday. These students were selected by a student-staff com mittee with the aid of two student screening committees. Those selected include: Robert Eugene Abies, 6th year veterinary medicine student from Fort Worth; Allan Roy Allbritton, 6th year veterinary medicine student from Good Pine, La.; Byron Curtis Blaschke, senior civil Engineering student from Houston; John Michael Brazzel, senior business administration major from Houston; Frank Blair Buchanan, III, senior librial arts majorf from Corpus Christi; William David Bunting, Jr., senior science major from Bryan. J. J. Burton, senior petrole um engineering major from Tyler; Donald Raye Clark 6th year vet erinary medicine major from Col lege Station; John Guinn Cull, 7th year education major from College Station; Frank Tver Dahlberg, Jr., senior industrial engineering major from Bi’yan; Wiley Wade Dover, senior petroleum engineering ma jor from San Angelo; Homer Jar- rel Gibbs, senior business adminis tration major from Dallas. Sammie Edward Glass, Gth year vetei’inary medicine major from Gonzales; Hudson Arlyn Glimp, senior animal science major from Burnet; Charles Wesley Graham, 5th year veterinai-y medicine major from Thorndale; William Bernard Heye, Jr., senior electrical engi neering major from San Antonio; Jimmy L. Howard, Gth year veter inary medicine major from College Station; Joseph Raymond Joyce, senior agriculture major from. San Marcos. Lovell Wilford Kuykendall, sen ior agriculture major from Chero kee; Joe Marvin Leeper, senior business administration major from Dickenson; Jack Edward Little, senior petroleum engineering ma jor from Dallas; Allen Clarence Ludwig, senior chemical engineer ing major from San Antonio; Michael Linden McGuire, senior chemical engineering major from College Station. Charles Milstead, senior indus trial engineering major from Tyler; Percy Duncan Mims, senior me chanical engineering major from Houston; Russell Warren Neisig, senior liberal arts major from Pasadena; George Werner Ohlen- dorf, senior rural sociology major from Lockhart; Gale 01ivei% III, senior mechanical engineering ma jor from Refugio; Carrol Evans Osbourn, senior agriculture major from Valley Spring. Frederick Arthur Pendleton, sen- (See COLLEGE, on Page 3) Production By Ag Players In Final Stages Progress is coming along smooth ly as the Aggie Players go into the final stages of preparation on “Twelfth Night” by William Shakespeare, the play that has been performed through the cen turies more than any one of his plays. Last night, a rehearsal was held in the Music Hall and scenes 1-11 of the 17-scene play were prac ticed. The players have memorized most of their lines, and the re hearsals run much smoother. C. K. Esten and Harry Gooding are doing the directing for the show, which will open on Tuesday, Feb. 1G and carry through Feb. 20 in conjunction with Fine Arts Week. The Lower Level of the Memorial Student Center will be converted into a theater, and the play will be performed in the round. Plans have been made to utilize what would normally be the impediments, such as pillars, and convert them into trees and other scenery. Several changes in cast have in cluded the part of Viola, which is now played by Laura Lynch, and the Sea Captain, now played by Ray Simmons. “We’ve been very lucky not to have any more trouble with chang ing the cast than we have,” said Esten. He said the part of Sir Toby is presently being rehearsed by Harry Gooding until the normal actor returns after the holidays. Costumes are being made and should be ready by the end of the holidays, as members of the cast and costume committee work on the designs and assemble the prop er materials to use in making the different suits. William II. Lawrence .. . summarizes SCONA V SCONA Wrapup Lawrence Problem Urges Solution William H. Lawrence, president of the National Press Club and New York Times correspondent in the Washington Bui'eau, empha sized the importance of continued efforts by the Free World to solve the world problems all nations face today at the final plenary wrap-up session of the Fifth Student Con ference on National Affairs which closed Saturday afternoon on the A&M campus. “The problem is the same around the world,” said Lawrence. “And so it goes at home too. . .problems, problems, problems everywhere. Problems that are crying out for solutions.” Pointing out the need for more such conferences as the world-rec ognized SCONA programs held at Texas A&M each year by students of the college, Lawrence said, “You are the leaders of tomorrow and you have shown in the five round table discussions here that you are not satisfied with the world of to day or the multitude of unsolved problems that the present genera tion will will to you. You are de- r. Kadets Conduct Meet -By TOMMY HOLBEIN Battalion Staff Writer The Flying Kadets held their first practice air meet for Decem ber, Sunday, at the crop duster weighing station located approxi mately five miles west of Easter- wood Airport. Beginning at 11 a.m., members of the club were flown to the site of the meet from Easterwood in three planes obtained for all day use. The planes included an Aer- onca Champ, an Aeronca L-3 and an L-16. All are light, single-en gine, two passenger aircraft. Upon arrival at the weighing station, which is used each year to test the amount of spray a crop dusting airplane puts out, a picnic lunch awaited the members of the club. After eating, preparing the field by use of markers and flags, and preparing the planes, the club members began the contests for the afternoon. The first event in the practice meet was spot landing, where a pilot is required to land his craft within a certain specified distance marked off on the runway, his wheels touching the ground at a certain marker. This event was conducted in heats of two planes, and each plane had three tries at spot landing on the field. The winning distance was determined by thq average of the two best distances obtained by the pilot. Winners for the spot landing contest featured Lee Threadgill in tst place, flying an Aeronca L-3. whose average was a distance of 17 feet fi’om the marker. In 2nd olace, Jhn Willess averaged 105 feet from the marker in his Aer onca Champ and Dennis Ryan and James Werner tied for 3rd place, each landing over 300 feet from the designated markei’. The second event featured bomb ing runs fi-om an approach at an altitude of 250 feet over a desig nated target located in the center of the field. The winning plane was determined by averaging the two closest distances to the target in three tries. Two-pound bombs were used, and the event required two people, a pilot and a bombard ier. 1 1st place in this event went to Tim Willess, pilot, and Van Santos, bombardier, flying an Aeronca Champ, with an average distance of 129 feet off target. Dennis Ryan, pilot, and Vic Lucas, bom bardier, flying a Tairlercraft, placed 2nd, with an average dis tance of 150 feet. In 3rd place were Jim Werner, pilot, and Ken Coppage, bombard ier, in the same Tairlercraft, with an average distance of 154 feet off target. 4th place went to Lee Threadgill, pilot, and Tommy Hol bein, bombardier, flying an Aer onca L-3 and obtaining an average distance of 1G2 feet. The Flying Kadets are training for the National contest at the Uni versity of Ohio the first weekend of this coming May. In past years, they have won the United Airlines Award for being the team traveling the greatest distance to the meet, which was held at the University of Illinois last year. The club fs a non-profit organi zation, and is now raising money to buy their own ah’plane for use in club activities in the future. . - §M * ; %£i