Battalion
Number 31: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1954
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Harry Belafonte, Marge Champion, Gower Champion
Tonight’s Town Hall Performers
Town Hall Show
Twenty-Five Students Named
To Who’s Who at Texas A&M
Local
Short
Chest Dri ve Ends;
of Goal by $3,000'
Champions Dance Tonight
Town Hall presents the Paul
Gi'egory-Charles Laughton produc
tion “Thi’ee for Tonight” at 8 to
night in the G. Rollie White coli
seum.
Starring in the show are Marge
and Gower Champion, Harry Bela
fonte and the Voices of Walter
Schumann. It is staged by Gower
Champion, with a company of 40
and special material by Robert
Wells, assisted by Blake Edwards.
Schumann, of “Dragnet” fame,
composed and wrote the music,
with arangements by Nathan Scott.
The Champions have been a hus
band and wife dancing team since
1947. In 1953, Ed Sullivan called
them America’s number one danc-
Hatcher’s Case
Now ‘Improving’
The condition of Clarence Hatch
er, A&M senior who received a
fcead injui-y in an automobile acci
dent here Dec. 2, is described as
“improving” by Houston doctors.
Paralyzed from the neck down
as a result of the injury, Hatcher
has recovered the use of muscles
above the waist. Friends who vis
ited him over the weekend said
he was “in good spirits.”
Doctors operated immediately
after the accident to remove a
blood clot on Hatcher’s spine.
They still do not know whether
the paralysis is permanent- or tem
porary, but Hatcher’s friends said
the doctors were encouraged by
the improvement he has shown dui--
i|ig the last week.
Four Professors
*
To Attend Session
Four members of the agricul
tural economics and sociology de
partment will attend the South
west Land Tenure Research com
mittee meeting Dec. 15-17 in Tex
arkana.
W. G. Adkins, secretary of the
committee and chairman of the
land values sub-committee; Dr.
Tyrus R. Timm, chairman cf the
future research sub-committee; R.
L. Skrabanek, member of the me
chanization sub-committee and J.
H. Southern, United States Depart
ment of Agriculture representa
tive for the southwest, will attend.
Turf grass Group
Will Meet Here
* The Texas Turfgrass conference
will meet here Dec. 13-15, sponsor
ed by the agronomy department
and the Texas Turfgrass associa
tion.
Ethan C. Holt will be chairman
of the conference, which will be
held in the Memorial Student Cen
ter.
ing team. Since 1950 they have
been in Hollywood. Among the
pictures in which they have appear
ed are “Show'Boat,” “Lovely To
Look At” and their own show,
“Everything I Have Is Yours.”
Belafonte is one of America’s
top recording ai’tists today. He
has appeared in the motion picture
“Bright Road,” as well as making
many successful night club appear
ances around the country. Bela-
Postmaster
Suggests Plan
For Holidays
A three-point program to
insure delivery of all Christ
mas cards and gift packages
by Dec. 25 was suggested
yesterday by Acting Post
master N. L. McCullough.
First, he urged business firms
to mail their regular correspon
dence before 4 p.m. during the
Christmas season. He said an ev
en greater help would be the with
holding of circular and catalogue
mail between Dec. 15-25.
McCullough’s second suggestion
was to the senders of Christmas
cards.
“Begin checking your list this
week,” he advised. “Each address
should include the full name, street
and number, city, zone and state.”
His final suggestion was that
all gift packages should already
be mailed, and all Christmas cards
should be sent by at least a week
before Christmas.
“I’m quite sure we .will have
more mail this year, and we will
probably exceed the 424,979 can
cellations of last year,” McCul
lough said.
Local Seal Drive
Now Has $3,437
The total at noon yesterday for
the Christmas seal drive of the
Brazos County Tuberculosis asso
ciation was $3,437.33, according to
Mrs. A. A. Blumberg, executive
secretary of the association.
Miss Malcolm Mclnnis, seal sale
chairman for Brazos county, re
ported that the response to the
drive has been very good. She
expected the sale to continue suc
cessfully until Christmas.
The total collected so far does
not include money budgeted to the
association by the College Station
Community Chest, nor the collec
tions being made at Bryan air
force base, said Mrs. Blumberg.
Contributions can be mailed to
the Masonic building, Bi-yan, in
care of the BCTA.
fonte is a graduate of the Ameri
can Negro Theater.
Schumann is well known in the
field of music. Besides the radio
and television “Dragnet” shows,
he has worked oh the Eddie Cantor
show, Eddie Peabody show, Andre
Kostalanetz and the Forest Lawn
Memorial Chapel show. He pub
lished his first hit song, the “Hut
Sut Song,” in 1940. Schumann’s
music has an estimated audience
of 30 million.
The Champions will choose a
beauty queen for the Baylor year
book, The Roqnd-Up, from 16 girls
from Baylor at a special reception
tonight after the show.
Town Hall tickets are good for
the show, said Bill Johnson, stu
dent entertainment manager. Seats
are on a first come, first serve
basis, and the doors will be open
at 7 p.m. Individual tickets may
be bought at the door for $2 each
or may be pui’chased in the stu
dent activities office in Goodwin
hall.
Morgan To Host
Glee Club, Band
The Singing Cadets and all jun
iors and seniors in the band will
be the guests of President and
Mi’s. David H. Morgan for a recep
tion at the president’s home be
tween 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Thurs
day.
Assisting the Morgans at the
reception will be Col. and Mrs. Joe
E. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Pen-
berthy, Lt. Col. and Mrs. Taylor
Wilkins and Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Turner.
By BILL FULLERTON
Battalion City Editor
Xhe 1954 College Station Com
munity Chest drive officially end
ed Friday with a total of $11,092.68
— more than $3000 short of its
$14,707 goal, reported C. W. Price,
chairman of this year’s drive.
The total includes $40 pledged
for January, said Price. Contribu
tions will still be accepted by drive
committee members or at the of
fice of R. E. Patterson in the Sys
tem Administration building.
“The 12 agencies which partici
pate in the local Community Chest
will have their requests for funds
cut on a proportion with the
amount the drive fell short,” said
Price. “Since only 75.42 per cent
of the goal was raised, each agency
will receive this same percentage
of the money taken,” he said.
The agencies are the American
Red Cross, College Station Youth
committee, Brazos County Charity
Hospital fund, Boy Scouts, College
Station Recreation council. College
Station YMCA, Girl Scouts, Local
Chest Charity fund, Salvation
Army, United Service Organiza
tion and Community Center Inc.
The drive originally was set for
Nov. 8-22, but it was extended
through Dec. 10 when it became
apparent that the drive would not
reach its goal. Last year about
95 per cent of the $13,070 goal
was collected.
Potential contributors who’ were
not reached may be solicited later
by individual agencies, said Price,
but no one who has contributed
will be approached a second time.
The committee also adopted a
motion to send a letter to Mayor
Ernest Langford recommending
that he appoint a committee to
News of the World
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON—The Peiping radio said last night the United
States would be showing “utter contempt for international
law” if it insists on holding 35 Chinese students who want to
go home in retaliation for the jailing of 13 Americans as
spies.
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PARIS—The West’s military leaders yesterday set
the stage for a sharp debate within the North Atlantic
Treaty council when they met on a controversial plan
far the defense of Western Europe with the aid of atomic
weapons. Some nations are expected to demand a veto
power over use of atomic weapons by NATO forces.
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—James P. Nash, a U.S. dele
gate to the United Nations, is going back home to Austin,
convinced that the UN “is a great instituion for the promo
tion of peace and understanding among nations.”
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WASHINGTON—Postmaster General Summerfield
said yesterday the administration will renew its request
for a postal rate increase to the next Congress, including
a hike to 4 cents on letter mail.
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WASHINGTON—A Republican congressional leader re
ported yesterday the Eisenhower administration wants to
postpone a cut of about three billion dollars a year in corpor-
at income and excise taxes scheduled to go into effect April 1.
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HOUSTON—Gov. Dan Thornton of Colorado said
here yesterday the current oil industry dispute over for
eign oil imports should be settled within the industry.
Thornton said he wants no part of any kind of federal
control on any level.
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WASHINGTON—James C. Hagerty, White House press
secretary, said last night “it would be foolhardy” for the
Republicans to approach the 1956 election with any other
idea than to draft President Eisenhower for re-election.
Hagerty made the comment in answer to a question on the
Mutial Broadcasting System radio program “Reporter’s
Roundup.”
study the possibilities of having
either a county-wide or College
Station-Bryan combined chest drive
next year.
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THE WINNER—Ted Stecki, accordionist, gets congratulations from Aggie Talent Show
Emcee Willard Jenkins after Stecki won with three songs Friday night. He will rep
resent A&M in the Intercollegiate Talent show in March.
Fire Causes
$250 Damage
In Mitchell
A fire in Mitchell hall early
Sunday morning caused an es
timated $250 damage to a
door in the dormitory.
Several trash cans were put
against the door to one of the
rooms and set on fire about 5
a. m., according to Bob Murray,
civilian dormitory counseloi\
He said the fire got so hot that
it caused plaster to fall from the
ceiling, as well as burning the door
and the plastic trash cans.
A student was in the' room at
the time, but he was unhurt. He
was awakened by the fire, and was
unable to get out of the second-
floor room because the door was
on fire.
While he poui’ed water on the
door from the inside, the occu
pants of the room next door and
several other students awoke and
managed to get the fire under
control.
Murray said he had no informa
tion as to who set the fire, but he
said his office was working on it
and expected to know soon.
SLC* Makes
Selection
Last Night
Twenty-five students last
night were selected to Who’s
Who Among Students in
American . Universities and
Colleges in the meeting of the
Student Life committee held in the
Memorial Student center.
They are Harri Baker, John Ben
efield, Bob Boriskie, James Caffey,
Charles Cocanougher, Fair Colvin
jr, Dick Crawford jr, Conrad Cum
mings, Jim Earle, Wallace Evers-
berg, Frank Ford, Chai’les Fox-
worth, James Henderson, Buck Is
bell, Ray LaCour, Garrett Max
well, Dick McCasland, Wayne
Moore, Charles (Chuck) Newman,
Jerry Ramsey, Charlie Seely, Ben
nie Sinclair, F. E. (Sonny) Tutt,
Bill Utsman and Pat Wheat.
The nominees were selected from
a list of 63 candidates submitted to
the committee. Process of selection
began at 4:30 and ended at 10 p.m.,
with the committee adjourning for
one hour at supper.
After the opening discussion,
which included questions concer-n-
ing individual names on the list,
voting began by secret ballot and
continued until the final name was
selected late in the evening.
According to national rules for
selection, one per cent of all un
dergraduate students of junior
classification and above enrolled
can be named to Who’s Who.
The names of those selected will
be pi’inted later in the year in the
national Who’s Who Among Stu
dents in American Universities and
Colleges yearbook. They will also
appear in a special section of the
Aggieland.
Later in the week The Battalion
will publish the activities which
qualified the nominees for consid
eration.
Accordionist Wins
Aggie Talent Show
By JIM BOWER
Battalion Staff Writer
Playing accordion solo versions
of “Whispering,” “Glow Worm,”
and “You Came Along Out of
Nowhere,” Ted Stecki walked away
with winner’s honor’s at the annual
Aggie Talent show last Friday.
Even 1 though he plays “just for
enjoyment” and has “no ambition
of becoming a professional musi
cian,” Stecki has a busy profes
sional schedule lined up for the
Christmas holidays. He is the
Army Test
To Be Given
At 4 Today
The qualifying examination
for army ROTC advanced con
tracts will be given at 4 p.m.
today in room 107 of the bio
logical sciences building.
Eligible to take the test are
those students who are now
enrolled in the fourth semes
ter of military science, or those
who have completed four se
mesters and have not taken
the test. ,
The written, objective-type
test is one of the detei’mining
factors in getting the advanced
contract.
Five Graduates
Receive AF Wings
Five A&M graduates received the
silver wings of the air force jet
pilot recently in ceremonies at
Laredo air force base, Laredo.
The presentation culminated 14
{ months of intensive pilot training
| in both propeller driven and jet
type aircraft.
The five men are 2nd Lt. Char
les E. McCullough of Fort Worth;
2nd Lt. Franklin J. Pagel of Tiv
oli; 2nd Lt. Kirk F. Schwarz of
Mercedes; 2nd Lt. Douglas L.
Shankles of Sherman; and 2nd Lt.
Ignacio J. Flores jr. of Laredo.
leader of a five man combo of
which four are stationed at Ft.
Dix, N.J., near Camden.
Besides playing for three teen
age dances, his band will also play
for two USO shows at the service
club at Ft. Dix. The combo is com
posed of a trumpet, drums, bass,
and saxophone with Stecki playing
his accordion.
His only comment on winning
the talent show was, “I sui'e didn’t
expect to win.”
As a result of his winning, Stecki
will represent A&M at the Inter
collegiate Talent show March 18.
Miss Margaret Long, MSC pro
gram committee chairman, said
that audition tours will begin in
early February. The University of
Texas, Texas Tech and SMU have
already been visited, Miss Long
said.
Mike Griffin, talent show chair
man, said the judges said they
would not want to judge the show
again because competition was so
close that it was hard to pick a
winner. Only first place was chos-
Weather Today
PARTLY CLOUDY
The forecast for today is parti
ally cloudy and slightly warmer
with southerly winds.
Yesterday’s high w r as 52, low
36. The temperature at 10:30 this
morning was 46.