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Number 30: Volume 54 Battalion COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1954 Price 6 Cents GO MAN, GO—Cutting up in practice for tonight’s talent show are, left to right, Paul Wilkins, Rox Reed, and Dick Hunkier, all of Hart hall. The name of their act is “Old Army.” Varied Acts Talent Show Set Tonight By FRANK WADDELL Battalion Staff Writer With acts ranging’ from Afri can dancing to hillbilly “picking and singing”, the third annual Ag gie Talent show, will get underway at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Memor ial Student Center ballroom. This show promises to be the greatest all-student show ever held on the campus, said Mike Griffin, chair- The Battalion will publish its annual safety edition next Wed nesday, in an attempt to remind tire students to drive safely before they leave for the Christmas holi days. •'The four-page special section will have news articles on the ac cident estimate for the holiday weeks, the traffic accidents that have involved A&M students this year, and what college and city Bizzell Hall To Be Open For Holidays All dormitories except Biz- z^l will be closed and locked from 2 p.m. Dec. 18 until noon Jan. 2, Chief of Housing Harry Boyer announced yes terday. Students who no not live in Biz zell but who plan to stay on the campus during the holidays must get a note of permission from a student in Bizzell for the use of his room, Boyer said. The note must be taken to the housing of fice so the student may be located in case of emergency, he added. “Any student who needs to en ter a dormitory which is closed may come by the housing office for clearance,” Boyer said. “All stu dents are urged to close the win dows and lock the doors to their rooms, especially first floor win dows.” The college dining hall will be closed during this period also, but two eating establishments at the North Gate will be open except for Dec. 24-26, he said. Although the fountain room of the Memorial Student Center will be closed from Dec. 23 to Jan. 2, meals will be served to students during the time the North Gate cafes are closed, according to Boy er. “Tickets for nine meals will be sold from Dec. 13 to 17,” he said. “Price will be $9.” man of the talent show committee. Thirteen acts are scheduled this year with about 25 students par ticipating. These acts include the Aggie Ramblers, a western band composed of Billy Barefield, Wal ter Miers,- Cliff Hobs, Dick Beard, and Pat Resley; a comedy act by Lee Brawner jr.; a baritone singer, Joe Tindell; a magic and juggling exhibition by Dean Duncan and agencies are doing about traffic safety. In addition, the section will have feature. articles on a ride with a highway patrolman, mechanical safety features on automobiles, al cohol and di'iving and “teenicide.” Cartoons, pictures, and special safety advertisements from local businessmen will complete the is sue. “Each year we try to present the safe driving problem in an en tertaining readable form, and to translate some of the statistics into what they mean to our people here,” said Harri Baker and Bob Boriskie, co-editors of the news paper. The safety edition, which, will be published as a second section of the regular Wednesday paper, will be entered in a college newspaper contest sponsored by the Lumber man’s Mutual Casualty company. The contest is for special safety campaigns, and prizes are offered in several divisions. Last year The Battalion’s safety edition won the $500 first-prize award in the daily newspaper classification. In past years, the paper has won several prizes and honorable mentions for individual articles, cartoons, and pictures. Jerry Schnepp; Mirl Kimberling, another baritone; and a comedy act featuring Paul Wilkins, Rex Reed, and Dick Hunkier. Other acts are western songs by Fi-ed Gibbs and Sam Brown; a pantomine by Joe Tillery; uke- lele picking, western style, by Jerry Sides and Byron Smith; western songs by E. L. Pixley; ac cordion selections featuring Theo dore Stecki; songs by Irish tenor David Goldston; and an African dance exhibition by Michel Jaques. Master of ceremonies for the show will be Willard Jenkins. The Capers Combo will furnish back ground music for some of the acts and will play during the intermis sion. The name of the first place in dividual or group will be engraved on a large trophy that will be kept in the MSC. They will also receive individual ti’ophies. The winning act will also represent A&M in the Inter-collegiate Talent show to be held next spring. Judges for the show will be Col. Robert D. Offer, Mrs. Odet Smith, Bill Martin, and Dr. Bardin H. Nelson. Admission to the show, sponsor ed by the MSC music group, is free. Post Offices To Close Later College Station post offices will remain open until 6 p.m. during the weekdays between Dec. 13-23, N. L. McCullough, acting postmaster, announced yesterday. He also said that during the holiday season all first class mail will be sent by air to the next terminal. “Residents should leave their porch lights on from dark until after 6 p.m. to aid the late- working carriers,” he added. News of the World By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW—The Soviet Union warned the Western pow ers last night that Russia and its East European Communist allies would increase their armed forces if West Germany is rearmed. In notes specifically aimed to prevent Western ratification of the Paris agreement to rearm West Germany, Russia told the United States, Britain and France the step ping up of Red armaments was “to counteroppose the grow ing armed forces of the aggressive states threatening the maintenance of peace.” it + + WASHINGTON — Foreign aid Chief Harold Stassen said yesterday the United States is looking to West Europe for direct government appropria tions to make an aid-Tor-Asia program a success. ★ ★ ★ FOLSOM, Calif.—Editors of the Folsom Prison Ob server conducted a survey on how to make Folsom a better place to live. One inmate suggested weekend passes to a destination of the prisoner’s choice. If an inmated failed to return he’d get a black mark—and no more passes. Batt To Publish Safety Edition Community Christmas Pageant e Presented Sunday Night Annual Dinner Will Honor 23 Employees The annual Christmas din ner for employees of the A&M system will be held at 7 p.m. Dec. 17 in Duncan dining hall. At the dinner, 23 persons who have completed 25 years of service with the system will be honored. Tickets for the dinner may be pui’chased at the main desk of the Memorial Student Cen ter. The honorees will be Dr. C. C. Doak, biology department; Robert G. Reeves, genetic department; Jo seph A. Orr, eviil engineering de partment; A. E. Finlay, mathe matics department. H. R. Covington and Charlie Smith, Buildings and College Util ities department; Dr. Joseph F. Fudge, Byron C. Langley, Otto P. Seeman and Nolan V. Thurmond, agricultural experiment station. David Andrew Adam, Miss Thel ma Casey, Elmo V. Cook, Mrs. Irene Duncan, Jack P. Forgason, Miss Vida Holt, Miss Doris Leg- gitt, Miss Gladys Martin, Charles Wade Simmons, agricultural ex tension service; Anton Blazek, farm service department; Frank Nedbalek, Texas Forest service; Paul L. Rodxlguez, subsistence de partment; and Henry Turner, ani mal husbandry department. He Put Up A Good Fight Anyway. . . A Brahman steer broke out of its confines at the animal husbandry meats laboratory about 8 yestei-day morning, and went on an extended tour of the campus and surround ing areas. Campus security officers Olan Armsti'ong and A. M. Ward, with the help of Dr. O. D. Butler and Dr. Roy W. Snyder, finally subdued the animal and returned him to his pen. Butler was the only casual ty of the chase—he was kicked in the stomach. ‘Gift to Community" Says Mrs. Morgan “A Star Shines Through” will be presented Sunday, af ter more than a month of preparation by the 170 persons connected with the Christmas pageant. The pageant, called “a gift to the community,” will be at 8 p.m. in Guion hall. A&M students are especially invited, said Mrs. David H. Morgan, general chairman of the pag eant. The two-hour pageant is a combination of three one-act plays, each from a different historical period. A narrator and a 30-voice hidden chorus give continuity. “The whole community is in line with the national move ment to re-emphasize the real significance of Christmas and ‘put Christ back into Christ-^ mas’.” In charge of the general ar rangements are Theo Lindig, Interfaith council; Garrett Maxwell, YMCA cabinet; Tom Davenport, Aggie Players; and Mrs. Morgan, College Station Council of Church Women. The final dress rehersal of all members of the cast will be from 1 to 6 p.m. Saturday in Guion hall. A&M students aided in stuffing 2,000 mail-out notices of the pag eant, and in other parts of the pro duction. Students will handle the sets and lighting, with Joe Danen- baum as stage manager. The Town Hall staff will usher at the show, and James Hender son will be in charge. C. K. Esten, director of the Ag gie Players, is the dh’ector for the pageant. Music is under a com mittee composed of Bill Turner, Mrs. J. M. Baty, and Mrs. Grace Krug. J. H. Sorrels, Mrs. Ax-a Haswell, and the Rev. Clarence Ketch will narrate the pei'foi’mance. Leading x'oles will be taken by Victor Wiening, Mx:s. J. Ward Tishlex’, Haia-y Gooding, and Mrs. Walter Delaplane. Soloists will be Mrs. Robert L. Smith, Herbert Shaffer, D. T. Kil- lough, Larry Hayes, and the Rev. Nolan Vance. The date and time were axmanged so as not to conflict with sched uled church seiwices. Some churh- es which did have seiwices sched uled ax-e letting out eaxdy to allow the congi’egation to attend the pageant. “The show is definitely adult fai'e,” Mrs. Moi’gan said. “Child ren under the fifth grade level probably would not enjoy it.” (See PAGEANT on Page 2) DECORATIONS—^Sam Harris, left, and Ronnie Newell, both freshmen in Squadron 19, help put up their dormi tory’s decorations for Christmas. All the dormitories and many individual rooms are being decorated for the season. School Group Hear Lectures On Safety A&M Consolidated elemen tary school students heard talks this week on bicycle and pedestrian safety by Curtis Bullock, College Station po liceman. Bullock has sponsored a safety progi’am for College Station school children for the past four yeai’s. During this time, thei'e have been no serious accidents. The year previous to the stai’t of the pi'o- gram there were two bicycle acci dents, one of which was sei’ious. Students from College Hills were commended for using the new walkway on Jersey street in going to and fi’om the school. Bullock warned students who live In the Southside ax’ea of possible acci dents unless they adhei'e more closely to traffic safety regula tions. He has also advised pai’ents that pei'mitting fii’st and second grade students to ride bicycles to school is a dangerous pi’actice. “Childi’en of this age are not physically and mentally mature enough to cope with automobile ti’affic,” he said. Parents were also warned to reduce speed on Jersey sti’eet be tween the school and highway 6 because of the hill that makes it impossible for drivers to see school children soon enough to avoid an accident. Influenza Leads Influenza was the leading dis ease in the College Station-Bi*yan area last week with 40 cases re- pox-ted. Diarrhea was second with 28 cases x’epoi’ted. Debate Session Begins Today For 16 Colleg es The sixth annual A&M de bate tournament began at 1 p.m. with four rounds sched uled today and two rounds Saturday morning, Lee J. Martin, coach of the A&M debate team said today. Sixteen colleges and junior colleges have entered about 70 debate teams in the two-day meet which has headquarters in the lob by of the Memorial Student Cen ter. They are Rice, Baylor, Uni versity of Texas, Southern Metho dist university, University of Houston, Abilene Christian college, Delmar college, Hardin Simmons, St. Mary’s university, Stephen F. Austin State Teachers college, Axis- tin college, Southwest Texas State Teachers college, North Texas State Teachers college, North Tex as State college, A&M, Whai’ton County junior college and Blinn junior college. Following completion of the de bate tournament Satui’day morn ing, Austin Wheatley will speak at the tournament luncheon at noon, in the MSC ballroom. Sponsored by the Great Issues committee, Wheatley, British Con- sulate-Genei’al for the southern re gion located at Houston, will speak on “Bx-itain’s Position on Recog nition of Red China.” After the luncheon is served, ad ditional chairs will be brought into the balli'oom and students and fac ulty members interested in Whea- ley’s topic are invited to attend, Herman Hassell, chairman of the Great Issues committee, said yes terday. Community Chest Short Of Goal The Community Chest drive to taled $10,625.43 at 3 p.m. yester day, accoi’ding to C. W. Place, drive chaimian. With the dinve ending today, it is still over $4000 short of its $14,707 goal. “Agencies participating in the Community Chest will have their requests cut in propoxtion to the amount the drive fails to reach its goal,” he said. Anyone wishing to contribute should give their donation to a drive committee member, or mail it to R. E. Patterson in the Sys tem Administration building. For Town Hall Belafonte Sings In Tuesday Show “Thx-ee for Tonight,” the Tues day Town Hall attraction to be px-esented at G. Rollie White coli seum at 8 p.m. is desci’ibed as a valuation in the presentation of music, dance and di’ama. The show, a Paul Gregoi'y- Charles Laughton production staged by Gower Champion, will star Marge and Gower Champion, Harry Belafonte and the Voices of Walter Schumann. One of Amei-ica’s top recoi'd salesmen today, Harry Belafonte has thi’illed listeners in his pei’son- al pei’foi’mances. Once called “The Cinderella Gentleman,” Belafonte was changed fx-om an obscui’e wox-k- er in the garment distinct of New Yoi-k to a singing stai', recoi’ding artist, and motion picture actor. After gi'aduation fi’om the Amer ican Negro Theatxe, he made the rounds of vainous booking agencies but them was at that time no de mand for a young Negro actor. The demands of his family being what it was Belafonte was forced to give up his search for an audi tion and found work in a garment factory. The bi-eak came one night. Bela fonte appeared between two acts in the Royal Roost, a popular jazz spot in the ai’ea. At the conclusion of his second number he I’eceived an ovation, the likes of which had not been heal'd on Broadway for many years. Following appearances in night clubs throughout the countx-y and a successful sale of records, he appeai-ed in the motion pictui’e “Bi’ight Road.” Music by Schumann The background music of “Three for Tonight” is fuimished by Wal ter Schumanns’ “Voices.” The man responsible for the musical score of “Dx-agnet,” Schumann’s music (See TOWN HALL, Page 2) Weather Today Forecast for today is continued cloudiness with possible light rains or drizzle this afternoon. There is an expected waxunup for the week end. Yesterday’s high was 65, low 34. The temperature at 10:80 this morning was 57.