Battalion
Number 286: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1954
Price 5 Centa
READING IS FUN—Mrs. J. T. Duncan, A&M consolidated high school librarian, right,
explains a display on reading enjoyment during the parent-teacher reception at the school
Monday night. Looking at the display are J. J. Skrivanek, principal, left, and Mr. and
Mrs. C. H. Bates, parents of Student Body President Clifton Bates.
For 27 Years
Puddy Knows Good Shows
By JON KINSLOW
Battalion Managing Editor
I f there is one man on the A&M
campus who should know a good
movie when he sees one it’s Tom
Pjfciddy, because in 27 years he has
seen thousands of shows.
As manager of Guion hall since
1943, Puddy has changed the the-
nter from what he once called a
“barny old place” to a fairly mod-
trn showhouse, complete with Cin
ema Scope. And he doesn’t regret
e day he has spent at A&M.
“You couldn’t run me away from
here,” he says with his ever-pres
ent smile.
King President
Singing Cadets
For This Year
Holman King, senior from
Abilene, is president of the
Singing Cadets for this year.
Ray Smith, senior from
College Station, is vice-presi
dent, and Richard A. Platt, sopho
more from San Antonio, is accom-
jianist for the organization.
-•Members of the organization
are: Charles H. Johnson, Irvin
Atkins, Lee Wayne Pohl, J. D. Se-
hprn; James B. Bond, Pat Resley,
Dayton R. Wodrich, B. J. Surovik,
Donald Wood, Robert Smith, James
P. Gatlin, Don R. Smith, Sam
William Hipp, David Edward Mills,
Mike W. Smith, James L. Quinn,
Walter S. Fields, and Charles T.
Smith, D. R. House, Dan Thurman.
Ralph W. Clement, R. Dale
Boucher, Charles W. Jenkins, John
G. McGraw, William Don Tabor,
John F. Heard, Edward Burkhead,
Oran W. Lively jr., Ronald Bretz,
William R. Shea, Charles Willis.
Harry Scott, Gerald Lee Creigh
ton, James E. Obendorfer, Charles
R* Arnold, Jim M. Harrison, Lolan
M. Pullen, John Paul Sutton, E.
Lamar Ashley, Richard Reynolds,
1£. W. Riviere, J. L. Blair, John
Cooke Brannen, Martin S. Burk
head, Gary R. Malone, John L.
Shelton, Charles E. White.
Puddy began his career in the
theater business while in high
school, and it wasn’t long after
graduation until he was installing
equipment and building theaters.
After he built a show in Gonzales,
the owner persuaded him to stay
and manage it, and ever since that
time, except for a year and a half,
he has been actively engaged with
some form of movie entertain
ment.
One of his jobs was with a Dal
las company making screen adver
tisements. In using miniature sets
to produce the films, Puddy’s in
genuity probably showed up more
than it ever has. His ideas on
trick photography baffled even
the professional men from Holly
wood.
The only time Puddy has done
work outside the theater business
was in 1941-42 when he worked
for the Hughes Tool company. His
change in jobs was due mainly to
the “durn long hours” required for
theater managing, he said.
“Before long, though, I had that
old urge to get back,” Puddy said.
UN Club Elects
New President
Nahbub Ali, A&M student from
Pakistan, was elected, president of
the United Nations club recently.
Other officers elected were Juan
E. Letts, vice-president, from
Peru; James Caffey, secretary;
Charles Wang, treasure!’, from
Qhina; and I. M. Ferreira, pro
gram chairman, from Brazil.
The purpose of the club is to
bring foreign students in contact
Vvith Americans.
Weather Today
Continued cloudy with mid-
northerly winds. Visibility low
because of blowing dust. Possible
afternoon thunder showers. Yes-
tei'day’s high 95, low 7.0, temper
ature at 10:30 this morning 87.
TCU Tickets
Go Off Sale
At 5 Friday
Tickets for the TCU game
will go off sale at 5 p.m. Fri
day.
About 18 to 20 thousand
tickets have been sold for the
game, according to Pat Dial
of the athletic department.
Tickets for the Baylor game
went on sale today and will
remain on sale through Wed
nesday, Oct. 20.
Prior to WW II, Guion hall was
operated by the YMCA "and was
housed in the old Assembly halt
across from the president’s home.
Because the building was a fire
hazard, the theater was set up in
Guion, which at that time was a
chapel.
Puddy said he wanted to really
make Guion hall into a show, and
since he has been here carpets,
new seats and CinemaScope have
been a few of the more noticeable
additions. He hopes to add stere
ophonic sound in the near future.
“I always tell my projectionists
that people who buy a ticket to
Guion want to see a show,” Puddy
said, “and if the man operating
the projector has to stand on his
head to keep the show going, then
that’s what I want him to do.”
Being a theater manager re
quires that a man must know how
to do anything, Puddy says. Gen
erally, you have to know a lot
about mechanical and electric work,
but you have to know other things
since you can’t call a plumber at
2 a.m. if a pipe breaks, he said.
Puddy has had several offers to
manage theaters in other places,
but he says he just likes Texas
and A&M. His children, three
girls aged 16, 17 and 19, don’t want
to leave either'. His oldest daugh
ter, a junior at TSCW, was recent
ly awarded a $100-a-year scholar
ship.
Always alert to the students’
needs, Puddy begins his show with
the feature instead of the short
subjects. He says students who
want to see a show before their 3
p.m. classes can see the entire fea
ture this way.
“They will be able to see all the
show and won’t worry all day
about how it turned out,” he said.
Defense Secretary Apologizes
For Dog, People Comparison
One Election Needed
To Complete Counci 1
Only the election of a civilian
student councilman from Leggett
hall is needed to complete the Ci
vilian Student Council, Bennie
Zinn, head of the' department of
student affairs, said Wednesday.
The council, which will hold an
organizational meeting at 7 p.m.
today in Zinn’s office, is comprised
of councilmen from each civilian
dormitory, two from College View,
one from the project houses and
three civilian Student Life Com
mittee members who are automati
cally members of the council.
Also eligible as councilman is a
representative of the day students,
but they had no one to run in the
elections which were held recent
ly, Zinn said. However, the posi
tion on the council is still open to
them and they can elect a council
man in an accredited election when
ever they have candidates inter
ested in serving on the council.
Tommy Mixon was elected coun
cilman from Bizzell hall Tuesday
night to leave Leggett hall as the
only unrepresented civilian dormi
tory.
Councilmen who will attend to
night’s meeting include John Co-
zad, Mitchell hall; Pete Goodwin,
Law hall; Billy J. Johnson, Puryear
hall; Ray H. Lammert, Hart hall;
William Barnes, Milner hall; Wil
liam Rains, Walton hall; Bennie
J. Camp, Project houses, and John
•
Hart, Leggett
Elect Senators
John T. Purcell was elected
student senator from Hart
Hall in the first election held
yesterday.
Purcell received 11 votes to
eight for Rip McCandless and
one for Don Roth.
W. A. Hill won the runoff
election for senator from Leg
gett hall yesterday. His op
ponent, E. L. Hansen, had 36
votes to Hill’s 47.
H. Jones and Burl Purvis, College
View.
The three Student Life commit
tee members of the council are
Charles Cocanougher, Hugh Lank-
tree and Joe E. West.
Purpose of tonight’s meeting,
Zinn said, is to establish a meet
ing schedule and to discuss the
new seating arrangements at foot
ball games.
Business Club
Will Sponsor
Sales Congress
A&M’s Business society and
the Central Texas Associa
tion of Life Underwriters will
sponsor a sales congress here
Friday.
Attending the one-day meeting
will be members of the Austin Cen
tral Texas, Heart of Texas, and
Waco underwriters associations.
Also invited are all A&M busi
ness students. The meeting will
be in the Memorial Student Cen
ter from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Four speakers have been selected
to cover the underwriting profes
sion.
They are as follows:
Brice F. McEuen, director of
schools for the Life Insurance
Agency Management association,
will speak on “The career selects
the man.”
Frank Whitbeck, vice president
and director of agencies for the
Union Life Insurance company of
Little Rock, will speak on “Let’s
sell ’em a package.”
Hart Nance, trust officer for the
Citizens National bank of Waco,
will make a talk entitled “The
trust officer speaks.”
The final talk will be B. N.
Woodson, president of the Ameri
can General Life Insurance com
pany, speaking on “The fire in
side.”
News Briefs
DR. IDE P. TROTTER, dean of
the Graduate school, presided at
one of the sessions of the work
shop on Extension Regional sum
mer schools, held recently at Pur
due university. Ben D. Cook, as
sistant to the dean of agriculture,
and Dr. E. B. Evans, president of
Prairie View A&M college, also
attended the meeting.
* * *
DISTINGUISHED students for
A&M’s air ROTC will be announc
ed next week, said Maj. Luther
Westbrook, chairman of the selec
tion committee. Two other air
force officers and a professor are
on the committee.
WINNER of the football sign
contest this week is A ordinance.
Second is A quartermaster, and
squadron 5 is third.
* * *
AIR ROTC contract checks will
probably be in about Nov. 1, said
Maj. Luther Westbrook, air force
operations officer. The pay per
iod the checks are for ended Sept.
1.
* * *
DR. W. C. BANKS, of the school
of Veterinary Medicine, will attend
the fourth annual veterinary sym
posium on “The Newer Knowledge
About Dogs” at Kankakee, Ill.,
Oct. 20.
News of the World
By the ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON—Republican leaders throughout Texas are
expected here tomorrow night to hear Vice President Rich
ard M. Nixon speak at a $100-a-plate fund raising dinner.
Nixon also will speak at a late afternoon session of the 56th
annual convention of the National Assn, of Retail Druggists.
★ ★ ★
DENVER—President Eisenhower was pictured today as ap
parently in favor of appointing a career federal judge to the Su
preme Court to succeed the late Justice Robert H. Jackson. “I got
that impression,” Sen. Watkins (R-Utah) told newsmen at the
Denver White House after urging the President to name such a
career jurist—Federal Judge Orie L. Phillips of Denver.
★ ★ ★
LUBBOCK—U. S. Sen. Price Daniel said here today that
a special Senate session next month on a motion to censure
Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy will be a “waste of the
taxpayers’ money”. Daniel also commented on the much-
discussed “dog” statement by Defense Secretary Charles Wil
son. “It was a very unfortunate remark.” he told a news
man.
★ ★ ★
VAN NUYS, Calif.—Vice President Richard M. Nixon brand
ed Democratic party leaders “doom-o-crats” tonight and asserted
they offer little to the voters beyond “a thin diet of quips and
criticism, fear and smear'.” Nixon carried his campaign for a Re
publican Congress to Salinas, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara
earlier in the day.
★ ★ ★
LOS ANGELES—On condition that she get complete
physical and psychiatric tests, Mrs. Janet Sarver, 25-year-old
mother of three who robbed a liquor store to buy food for
her family, was granted probation today. She had pleaded
guilty.
MASTER SHOWMAN—Tom Puddy, manager of Guion
hall, peers into one of the two complicated projectors used
by the theater. Puddy, who has been in the theater bus
iness for 27 years, has been at A&M since 1943.
Committee Meets
The Student Life committee will
meet next Monday, in the senate
chamber of the Memorial Student
Center at 4:30 p.m. Members of
the committee can submit agenda
items in the office of student ac
tivities until Thursday afternoon.
Wilson Says Remarks
Distorted by Leftists
CHICAGO, Ill. UP).—Secretary of Defense Charles E.
Wilson said Wednesday night “I am sorry I made inept re
marks” about dogs while talking about unemployed workers.
Those remarks, he declared in a speech at a Republican
fund-raising dinner, “were distorted by our left-wing op
ponents.”
Saying he wanted to “set the record straight,” Wilson
told his audience that even Republican Gov. William Stratton
of Illinois was “disturbed by some incomplete press reports
of some recent remarks I made in Detroit.”
Stratton earlier Wednesday issued a statement urging
•that the Secretary’s speech in Chicago be canceled because of
^Wilson’s reference in a De
troit news conference to bird
dogs which hunt for their
food and kennel dogs which
“sit on their fanny and yell.”
An aide said at the time that
Stratton would boycott the dinner.
However, the governor announced
later in the day that he not only
would attend but would introduce
Wilson.
“In the first place,” Wilson said,
“I admit that I made a mistake—
an unfortunate mistake—bringing
up those bird dogs at the same
time I was talking about people.
There are times when my remarks
get me into trouble—especially in
political matters—and I seem to be
in trouble now.
“The way my remarks were dis
torted by our left wing opponents
certainly looks terrible in print. I
admit that.
“So right here, right now, I want
to say to the American people that
I am sorry I made inept remarks
which were subject to misinterpre
tation.
“But there is one thing that I
will not do, one thing that I know
you would not want me to do. It
is this: I will not let our political
assailants get away with the
charge that I am unsympathetic
with the problems of workmen or
that the vicious interpretation they
have made out of my statements
represent in any manner my feel
ings for or philosophy toward the
working men and women of this
country.”
The secretary said that the Dem
ocrats have “very little to talk
about” in the campaign for control
of Congress in the November elec
tions.
So, he added, “they pick up and
exaggerate all out of proportion in
advertent remarks that unfortu
nately have been made.
“They have done this to me.
Even some Republicans, including
your illustrious Governor, were
disturbed by some incomplete
press reports of some recent re
marks I made in Detroit.”
He said “in fairness to them and
to the world” he felt he should
“set the record straight.”
Wilson said statements by poli
tical opponents that he doesn’t
sympathize with labor “could
not be further from the truth,”
adding?
“Their phony political charges
are completely the insinuations
that come from desparate political
enemies. Actually, I’ll match my
labor records with anybody in this
nation, and that goes for partisan
politicians, labor leaders or any
one else.”
LOOK PRETTY—Reveille, A&M mascot, gets a routine
checkup at the Small Animal clinic by veterinary medicine
major Ray LaCour. The clinic also primped her up for
the TCU game here Saturday.
A&M Cadet Corps
Praised By Visitor
A visitor to the campus recently
was so impressed by A&M’s corps
of cadets that he wrote a letter to
the cadet officers here, saying he
had never seen “a military organ
ization which showed a greater de
gree of high morale and esprit de
corps.”
The man was John H. Fritz of
Austin, who says he has been a
cavalry officer and is now in the
armor reserve. Fritz also said he
had been on the staff of “one of
the best military schools in the
country.”
Fritz complimented the speaking
on the campus. “It was a greet
ing which had feeling behind it and
did not leave one thinking this was
just something traditional to do.”