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sr— The Battalion Number 75: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY:, MARCH 8, 1955 Price Five Cents Honored Guests Will Visit Here For Military Day General Nathan P. Twining 1 , air force chief of staff, is going to have some high-ranking company when he visits A&M for military day March 26. Besides Twining, the air force’s top general, the guest list will in clude assorted congressmen, gen- ei-als, colonels, and foreign at taches, with a liberal sprinkling of A&M former students included. Here is the guest list, as it is now: Representative Olin Teague of College Station; Lt. Gon. Isaac White, commander of the fourth army; Brig. Gen. Robert Ives, as sistant fouith army commander; Brig. Gen. J. Earl Rudder, state land commissioner and commander Auto Accident Fatal to Two, Others Injured Two A&M former students were killed early Sunday morning and two others were injured when the car they » were riding in hit a bridge while they were returning to Hous ton after attending A&M Spm-t’s . day. The dead are Gerald W. King and Thomas M. Forrest. Injured are Paul Glenn Ekels and James Troy Anderson. All four are in the class of ’52 and are from Hous ton. Ekels is in Bryan’s St. Joseph hospital with head injuries and cuts, and Anderson is in a Houston hospital with a fractured skull. Ekels, who was driving the car, told State Highway Patrolman O. L. Luther that the other three men Were asleep in the car when the accident occurred. He said he had apparently dozed off and the car hit a bridge about eight miles south of College Station on High way 6. Ekels said they were heading to ward Houston, but Luther said the car was heading toward College Station at the time of the accident. Ekels said he possibly could have turhed around to return to College Station to spend the night. Luth er said his head injunes and shock „;could account for his loss of mem ory. Miss Reidland Is Fish Swee th ea rt The freshman sweetheart of the class of ’58 is Miss Barbara Reid land of Daytona, who was pre sented a gold compact during an intermission at the freshman ball Saturday night. The compact was inscribed, “Freshman Sweetheart, Texas A&M, Class of 1958.” Miss Reid- land’s escort was Don Schilling, freshman chemical engineering major from Dayton. of the 90th national guard divi sion ; Col. Royal N. Baker of McKin ney, Korean jet ace; Wing Com mander T. G. Kelly, air attache, Indian embassy; Col. Hussein Khai- ri, air attache, Egyptian embassy; Col. E. J. Berryhill, air science de partment, Lehigh university; Col. Berthold Nowotny, air foi'ce, Wash ington; Col. Harvey Lee Case, state adjutant general’s office; Col. Nor man Callish, commander, Ellington air force base; Col. James Gunn, commander, Bryan air force base; Col. Thomas C. Green, deputy for ROTC'affairs, Texas military district; Col. George Smith, Mili- tai-y Affairs committee, Houston chamber of commerce; Col. James Burleson, Texas state guard re serve coi-ps; Lt. Col. Roger Zeller, president, state department, ROA; Capt. Albert R. Timm, foreign liaison office, air force; Capt. Ar turo Garcia Zamora, assistant air attache, Mexican embassy; Oscar T. Hotchkiss, president. Former Students association; and Mrs. J. F. Van Wert, president, Federation of A&M Mothers clubs. Four of the military men ai'e A&M former students; Berryhill is a former yell leader, Nowotny is a former band commander, and Callish and Rudder are also A&M graduates. Most of the guests will arrive Friday. They will be invited to the Cojnbat ball that night, and will attend the Military day review Sat urday morning and the Military ball Saturday night. Gottlieb Named MC For Show Here March 18 Dick Gottlieb, ’45, a Hous ton television personality, has been named master of cere monies for the Intercollegiate Talent show here. The show, sponsored by the Me morial Student Center music com mittee, will have 16 acts from 14 colleges and universities, including the winner of the Aggie Talent show, Ted Stecki. The show will also feature the Aggieland orchestra and the Melo dy Maids of Beaumont. It will be held at 8 p.m. March 18 in the G. Rollie White coliseum. Gottlieb, who was president of the Houston A&M club in 1953, is master of ceremonies for KPRC- TV’s “Matinee,” an afternoon va riety show featuring interviews with local people. He is also master of ceremonies of a television quiz program and other shows. Tickets for the talent show went on sale yesterday at the MSC main desk. They are $1 for general admis sion and 1.50 for reserved seats. Public School Week Begins At Consolidated HONORED—Allen D. Nelson, left, freshman animal hus bandry major from China Spring, receives from Fred W. Jensen, head of the chemistry department, the handbook award presented to the freshman student who showed the greatest adhievement in chemistry during the fall semes ter. Polgar Appears Here For Two Shows The man who claims he can meet a hundi’ed persons in rapid suc cession and then remember all of them will be here Wednesday and Thursday nights to pi-esent his two-hour show. The man, Dr. Franz Polgar, is so confident he can remember all the 100 names that he offers $5 to anyone whose name he forgets. This, however’, is just the first part of the show, which will begin at 8 p.m. both nights. In the second part of the per formance, Polgar will demonstrate mind reading. He asks for men tal flashes from the audience and hidden objects are uncovered. The last part of the show is de voted to mind reading. During this part, Polgar will make people perform many stunts at his bid ding. He emphasizes, however, that a person cannot , be made to follow a hypnotic suggestion Gallopulos Heads French Club Nicolas Gallopulos was elected president of the French club at a recent meeting. Other officers are Clyde Adams, vice-president; Art Calderon, secretary; and John Hol- lan, treasurer. The club will meet March 15 in room 104 of the Academic building. The program will feature two film strips, and admission will be 25 cents. The public is invited. Sperry Named Dr. John Sperry of the biology department has been named judge of the trustee election to be held April 2, according to L. S. Rich ardson, A&M Consolidated schools superintendent. against his basic code of right and wrong. Only volunteers are used in these stunts and at all times the enter tainment is conducted with abso lutely no embarrassment to any of the participants. The show is sponsored by student activities office, and all seats are 75 cents. Tickets may be purchas ed in the student activities office, second floor, Goodwin hall, or at the door.. The observation of Public School week began last night at A&M Consolidated schools with orienta tion meetings with the teachers and the parents of first, second and third grade pupils. Tonight at 7, teachers and par ents of four th grade pupils will get together in the cafeteria. Tomor row night school administrators from four surrounding areas will meet in the cafeteria. The Mothers and Dads club com munity supper scheduled for 6 Fri day in the school gymnasium will have fried chicken on the menu. The pried of tickets is 85 cents for adults and 60 cents for children. Everyone is invited. Fi’om 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. after the supper, ten minute classes will be held for the sixth through twelfth grades. Par ents are urged to attend the classes with their children. Saturday, at 7:30 p.m., the Band Booster’s club will present a fash ion show in the auditox’ium. Tick ets ai’e 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children. Dedication of the new high school bxrildings will be held at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. C. A. Bonnen, pi-esident of the A&M Consolidated board of directors, will officially pi’esent the buildings. The main speaker for the dedica tion will be Di\ Pearl Wanamaker, superintendent of public instruction of Washington state. Dr. Franz Polgar ‘Mind Miracles’ Mrs. Wanamaker was educated in Seattle public schools in Wash ington, the Western Washington College of Education, and the Uni- vex*sity of Washington from which she was gi’aduated in 1922. She mai’iied L. A. Wanamaker in 1926, and they have thi’ee childi’en. She stax-ted her career in educa tion as an 18-year-old school teach- ei’ in a one-i*oom x-ural school. Aft er this, she taught in an elemen tary school and then high school in Montana. She later was elected Dr. Pearl Wanamaker School Speaker News of the World By The ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN—The State Board of Education met here Mon day but avoided all discussion of the Irving troubles brought about by the walkout of a number of principals and teachers following the firing of the school superintendent there. The board spent its time considering finances. ★ ★ ★ MOSCOW—The United States and British ambas sadors here have applied for private interviews with Russia’s new premier, Nikolai Bulganin. Personal con tact between the Russian government chief and the for eign diplomatic corps was rare in the days of premiers Stalin and Malenkov but the new policy started Saturday when Bulganin received the ambassador from Sweden. ★ ★ ★ ALBANIA — President Eisenhower’s offer of surplus food has been rejected, according to a radio broadcast from this Soviet satilite. The broadcast said the Albanian people view the offer with “contempt and disgust.” A A A HONOLULU—Relative calm has returned to the eastern end of the island of Hawaii after a week of vol canic eruptions. The rivers of molten lava have nearly stopped flowing. county supexintendent of schools in Island county, Wash. She was the youngest county supei’intendent in the state. She was an outstanding member of the Washington House of Rep- 1‘esentatives in 1929, 1933 aVid 1935. She was in the state senate in 1937 and 1939, and was on the edu cation committee which passed a bill providing basic state sxrpport of 25 cents a day per pupil for public schools in Washington. Mr-s. Wanamaker was co-author of the Yantis-Wanamakei 1 Equali zation law, which has been consid ered the greatest single step to- ward providing equal educational opportunity for every child X’egard- less of where he lives. She has been in her pi’esent job as state supei’intendent for 14 years. L. S. Richai’dson, supei’intendent of the Consolidated schools, said he expected almost 100 per cent of the students’ parents to attend the meetings. Last year, approxi mately 60 per cent attended, ho said. Short Selected Drum Major For Next Year Tommy Short,a junior arch itecture student from B i g Lake, will be head drum major of next year’s band, accord ing to Paul Gentry, band com mander. Buddy Patterson and Dwight Brown, both juniors from Dallas, will be drum majors of the white band and the maroon band. They were chosen last week by a committee of five seniors, three juniors, two sophomores, two fresh men and Col. E. V. Adams, band counselor. Appearance, marching ability, handling of the band, mili tary manner, command voice and leadership ability were the main characteristics taken into consid eration, said Gentry. They wall w r ork under the present drum majors John Dombush, head drum major, Earl Pike, maroon band, and David Ashcroft, white band, Gentry stated; but they will not take over until next year. Center Survey Made Parts of MSC Well Known The Memorial Student Center has discovered that the average A&M student is not too well informed about all the activities that go on in the Center, although he is liable to know r all about one particular thing that interests him the most. The source of this information is a poll taken as a part of an eval uation of the MSC Directorate and its activities. The Directorate is composed of the chairmen of all the activity groups in the MSC. The survey was run on only 204 students, but Dick Wall, who w r as in charge of the evaluation, said his committee considered it a rep resentative sample. Cadets in squadrons 13 and 14 and civilian students in Milner hall were given questionnaires. There were 97 freshmen, 47 sophomores, 31 juniors and 29 seniors, roughly the proportions of these classes to total enrollment. The survey was divided into “do you know” questions and “have you ever” questions, 31 questions in all. Piano Popular Lairgest number of affirmative answers w-as 80 per cent for the question “do you know’ where the piano room is?” Low’est number of yesses w’as 10 per cent to the question “did you know that the MSC is the 1955 National sponsor for the Intercol legiate Bridge tournament?” EXPLAINING THE WORKS—A group of High School day visitors look on while Ed ward Burkhead, left, and Joe Cooper explain an example of “space modulation” in the architecture department. The tours of the classroom facilities were a part of the full day of activity for more than 1,000 high school seniors Saturday. News Briefs J. W. YOUNG, class of ’36, has been elected secretary of the refining committee in the Petroleum division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. * * • THE MSC CAMERA CLUB will have a special workshop meeting at 7:30 tonight in the Birch room, with S. D. Cham bers, Texas representative to the Photographic Society of America, as speaker. * * * THE TEXAS RICE IMPROVEMENT association has given the Texas agricultural experiment station a grant-in- aid of $608.07 for general expenses incurred in relation to the forage and pasture studies being conducted at the Rice Pas ture station in Beaumont. * # * \V. ARMSTRONG PRICE of the oceanography depart ment has been elected a corresponding member of the Italian Institute of Human Paleontology. • * • THE RESEARCH DIVISION of the Upjohn company, Kalamazoo, Mich., has given the Texas Agricultural experi ment station a $350 grant-in-aid for help in studies on the control of seedling diseases of cotton by chemical means. Weather Today The weather outlook for today is continued cloudiness and little change in temperature. No rain is expected. Yesterday’s high w’as 57, low’ 40. The temperature at 10:45 this morning was 57. The question “have you ever at tended a free student-prof coffee?” ran this a close second, with only 11 per cent affirmative answers. Class Distinction More than half knew that there is no class distinction on the MSC committees, that the craft shop of fers free instruction, that the MSC council govems the MSC, and that the MSC has a ham radio station. Under 20 per cent didn’t know about the Junto discussions or the public relations group, and had never been to a MSC special dance, a recor-d listening party, a Great Issues lecture, a Film society show, or a Recital series performance. The rest of the evaluation was devoted to the functions of the Di rectorate itself. • The student chairmen w’ho make up the directorate were on the whole satisfied with the w’ork of the Directorate and the Center, but they did say they w-ould like to have more power to make decisions. ‘Rubber Stamp’ Some felt that the Directorate w’as just a “rubber stamp group” for the MSC council. The committee chairmen also want a system of interviewing prospective committee members, because it is too easy to “fall in or out of MSG work.” And the stamp committee -has a small problem: they want a safe place to keep their stamps.