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Number 77: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1955
Price Five Cents
Senate Approves Shepardson’s
Nomination To Reserve Board
This Weekend
Ecumenical Meet Planned
WATCH WHERE YOU’RE GOING—Dr. Franz Polgar, the man in the black mask behind
the wheel, drives around the campus by “reading” the mind of Student Entertainment
Manager Bill Johnson, sitting beside him. Hidden under the masks in the back are Bill
Utsman and Jerry Schwartz. Schwartz, the owner of the car, was too worried to be
thoroughly convinced.
The third annual student Ecu
menical Christian confei’ence will
be held here this weekend, with
student leaders from United States
and foreign countries meeting with
outstanding denomination leaders.
Guest leaders for the conference
will be Dr. Herluf Jensen, executive
secretary of the United Student
Christian council; Dr. Kyle Yates,
pastor of the Second Baptist church
in Houston and member of the
committee of scholars who prepar
ed the Revised Standard Version of
the Bible; Dr. Lee Phillip, dean
of the chapel at Prairie View A&M
Polgar Predicts
Hypnotic Future
Dr. Franz Polgar, the man who
played to a crowd of several hun-
ired last night in Guion hall, be
lieves that hypnosis has a defi-
/iit£ futm-e in medicine, denistry,
and almost anything else.
In his show last night, he dem
onstrated the powei' of hypnosis
with “tricks” like leaving the hali
while a fountain pen was concealed
in the white glove of one of the
lady spectators. On returning, he
located the pen, being mentally
guided to it by an audience mem
ber.
Although Polgar does not as a
rule take medical cases of curing
people by post-hypnotic suggestion,
he told in a Battalion interview
yesterday the story of one case he
cured.
He said he once received a call
from a man whom he called “the
superintendent of a large hospital.”
Polgar said the man asked his help
in curing a dope addict.
MSC Plans Four
Cafe Rue Pinalles
k'
Thei’e are four more Cafe Rue
Pinalles planned for this spring by
the Memorial Student Center dance
group.
Edmond Saad, manager of Rue
Pinalle, said the next show will be
March 18 after the Intercollegiate
Talent show.
The dance group will move this
Rue Pinalle to the MSC terrace if
weather permits, he said. The ter
race will be decorated with Jap
anese lanterns and candles. The
cast of talent show will be guests
of the Rue Pinalle staff.
When Polgar refused, the doctor
admitted that he was the addict;
morphine shots after an operation
had made him an addict, and he
was afraid to tell any of his fel
low doctors.
Polgar said he took the case and
cured the man in two weeks.
Polgar also said in the interview
that he could make athletes per
form better in individual sports,
like track events. “It’s just a
case of getting the mind to make
the body work,” he said.
When asked if this meant he
could develop a 3-minute miler or
a 17-foot pole vaulter, he said
calmly, “Possibly.”
Polgar, who will put on another
show tonight at 7:30 in Guion hall,
warned amateurs against using
hypnosis. “It’s a potentially
dangerous thing when used wrong
ly,” he said.
Ball Invitations
Given by Da vis
college; Dr. Charles T. Leber, ex
ecutive secretaiy of the foreign
missions and overseas interchurch
service of the Presbyterian church,
USA; and the Rev. Ed Kloppe,
Evangelical and Reformed minister
of Niedei-wald, Texas.
Colleges from Oklahoma, Korea,
Louisiana, Arkansas, China, Brazil,
Indonesia, and Texas will be rep
resented at the meeting, which will
have the theme of “we are one in
Christ, on the campus, in the na
tion, and the world.”
The conference will begin at 7
p.m. Friday with an opening wor
ship service led by Corps Chaplain
Conrad Cummings and a welcome
by President David H. Morgan, and
will end Sunday at the 10:45 a.m.
All former corps members and i
students, faculty and staff mem
bers who are in reserve units have j
been invited to the Military ball
March 26, according to Col. Joe
E. Davis, commandant.
These people must wear a uni
form to the dance and will have
to buy a ticket, Davis said.
Tickets for the dance, which will
feature Russ Morgan’s orchestra,
went on sale this week in the corps
units. Tickets are also available
in the student activities office and
will be sold at the door. They are
$2.50, stag or couple.
Decorations for the dance ai’e a
“secret,” said W. D. (Pete) Hard
esty, business manager of student
activities, but “they’ll be great—
the most elaborate I’ve ever seen,”
he said.
People Are
The Craziest
Monkeys . . .
The library. now has a real
pretty display in the lobby,
outlining graphically what
makes the A&M spirit.
The display includes draw
ings of Silver Taps and the
• bonfire, and a drawing of a
pair of Aggies shaking hands
to indicate the meeting tra
ditions.
But the library must know
some unusual people — the
drawing shows two left hands
shaking.
N. E. (Bubba) Keyser, who is in
charge of decorations for both the
Military ball and the Combat ball
the night before, said the decora
tions for the two would be com
pletely different.
The Combat ball decorations will
emphasize the combat aims, and
the Military ball decorations will
place more emphasis on the air
force, in honor of Gen. Nathan F.
Twining, air force chief of staff
and honor guest for Military day.
Fish drill team members will
form an honor guard at the door
of the Military ball, and Ross Vol
unteers will escort the guests to
their tables.
Other activities tentatively plan
ned for Military day include the
corps review, a luncheon for the
guests and cadet officers, and the
president’s reception.
ISetv Art Display
Shown by Center
A wide vai-iety of sizes and col
ors feature the art exhibit now be
ing displayed in the Memorial Stu
dent Center display cases.
The show, “For Americans With
a Future,” was assembled in New
York, and is composed of 29 paint
ings by four artists. The only
other place in Texas which so far
has had the show is the Witte
museum in San Antonio, said Mrs.
Ralph Terry, Art gallery director.
Robert Frambe, who uses a thick
oil paint with rich, bright colors,
^has seven paintings in the show.
Bill Bomar, a Texan whose paint
ings are well known in this part of
the country, also has seven paint
ings, as does Gardner Cox whose
paintings axe of abstract form.
Robert Vickrey, who has several
pox-ti-aits in the exhibit, has eight
paintings on display.
She said the paintings seemed
to have been vei’y well received by
the students and othei's who view
ed them.
The exhibit, which went up Tues
day, will be on display until Mai’ch
18.
Art Mart in April
The Texas Fine Arts association
is holding its 1955 Ai*t Max-t in
Austin at the city coliseum April
29-30 and May 1. The show is
open to all Texas artists, whether
membei'S of the association or not.
Both amateur and professional
artists are invited to exhibit in
competition for a number of pi'ices
including a $500 Jury purchase
px-ize. Included are paintings in
oil, watereolor, casein and other
mediums; sculptui-e in stone, wood
or metal; carvings, ceramics, silver
and other classes of arts and crafts.
Prizes total $1,500.
Last year Mrs. Terry took 35
paintings to the show, winning one
first place and several honox*able
mentions. She expects to have
some more entries this year, as
several students have expressed an
intei’est in exhibiting their woxk.
A fee of $2 will be chai'ged for
each classification except the Jury
show, which is $5. Anyone in this
ax*ea who would like to enter work
in the max-t should see Mrs. Terry.
Deadline for entries is April 1.
Sorrels Cited
For Services
To State Group
National recognition has
been given to Joe H. Sorrels
of the civil engineering de
partment by the sewage and
industrial wastes section of
the Texas Water and Sewage
Works association meeting here,
fox- his services to the state or
ganization
Sox-i’els was nominated for the
Texas recipient of the A. S. Be
dell awaxd, to be px-esented by
the National Federation of Sewage
and Industrial Wastes association.
He has been active in the ox-ganiza-
tion for 20 years.
He is an honorary life member
of the Texas Water and Sewage
Woxks association and has been
a vice-px*esident. He is a foi-mer
chairman of the Texas sewage and
industx-ial wastes section and a
former dix-ector of the organiza
tion.
W. S. Mahlie, city chemist for
Fort Woi-th, has been elected chaix*-
man of the section.
Other officers elected include J.
L. Ragan of the Celanese Cox-p.,
first vice-chaiiman; Glen A. Doty,
city manager of Bx-eckenx-idge, sec
ond vice-chairman^
Re-elected wex-e V. M. Ehlers,
Austin, seci-etary; Mx-s. Eai-1 H.
Goodwin, Austin, seci'etaxy-tx-eas-
ux*er.
sex-vice at Our Saviour’s Lutheran
church.
All meetings will be held in the
YMCA. Local students who plan
to attend the conference ax-e asked
to pay the $2.50 x-egistration fee.
Miss Susan Johnson, Danfoi’th
foundation wirxner of the Univer
sity of Texas, and Miss Jean Whit-
tet, YWCA traveling regional sec
retary, will be two of the special
guests at the coxxference.
Membei-s of the conference plan
ning committee are J. P. Green-
wait, John Chapman, Harry Espey,
George Klett, Mux-ry Milnex-, Mike
Gill, W. A. Tei*iy, Gai-rett Maxwell,
James Cooper, Randy Kanz, Muny
Milford, Leonai-d Magx-uder, Glen
Specht, Tlfcodore Lindig, and How-
ai’d Tillex*.
Counselors for the committee
are the Rev. Chax-les Workman,
Presbyterian; The Rev. Bob Monk,
Methodist; the Rev. Thomas Swy-
gert, Luthex-an; and J. Gox-don Gay
YMCA secretaiy.
ART CRITICS—Looking at one of the 29 paintings in the
art exhibit in the Memorial Student Center are Mrs. Ralph
Terry, Art Gallery director, and Paul Ross, a member of the
group. The show “For Americans With a Future,” is a
collection of the paintings of four artists, and will be on
display until March 18.
Data Incorrect
On Prom Story
The junior banquet and pronx
will be next weekend, March
19, and not this weekend, as
announced in yesterday’s Bat
talion.
The banquet and three-band
dance will be held in the Me
morial Student Center, and
tickets are on sale now.
Weather Today
Phi Eta Sigma
Initiation
Set Tuesday
About 70 new members of
Phi Eta Sigma, freshman hon
or society, will be initiated
Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. accord
ing to Acting Dean C. H.
Ransdell, of the basic division, co
sponsor of the society.
Initiates ax-e to meet in the
Birch room of the Memorial Stu
dent Center and will proceed to
the Assembly room for the initia
tion. Those who have classes until
5 will x-eport after their class.
Ransdell said he was anxious
“for all people who are eligible
to be initiated to be present be
cause pictures for the Aggieland
will be taken.”
Honorary members will be in
troduced at the annual banquet
to be held May 5, said Ransdell.
Present officers of the society
axe Lax-ry D. Piper, president;
Aubx-ey G. Owen, vice-px-esident;
James Duke Willbom, secretary;
Robert L. Glazener, treasnx-er; and
Robert L. Patton, historian.
Jerry D. Ramsey and Weldon
W. Walker ax - e the senior and
junior advisoi's.
Two Acts Signed
For ‘‘Pinky’ Show
Two local men and a former
A&M yell leader have been signed
as acts for the Pinky Downs Ap
preciation variety show March 24,
and negotiations are being made
for several out-of-town acts.
Marshall Bullock and J. W. Ham
ilton, both of Bxyan, axxd Dutch
Holmes, a foimer yell leader who
lives in Independence, will be in
the show.
Bullock and Hamilton will do a
blackface act, and Holmes, will
give a monolouge.
The A&M band, the Singing Ca-
Student Suffers
‘Heart Attack*
A. C. Flanagan, senior bacteri-
ology major from Nogales, Ariz.,
was taken to Bryan hospital last
night after he apparently suffered
a heart attack.
A witness told campus security
The weather outlook for today j officers that Flanagan “looked like
is continued cloudy to pai-tly cloudy | he had treuble with his heart.”
with little change in tempei-ature. j However, he was treated and re
wind gusts are expected thraugh- leased and hospital authorities said
out the day with no rain forecast- it was “definitely not serious.”
ed. I He was taken to the hospital
The temperature, at 10:15 this about 11:30 p.m. in a Callaway-
morning was 72.
Jones ambulance.
dets, and the Aggieland ox-chestra
will also be in the show.
Manning Smith, master of cere
monies for the* show, said he did
not want to announce the out-of-
town acts until they are definite,
which will px-obably be the first of
next week.
The show is in appreciation of
P. L. (Pinky) Dowxxs jx\, A&M’s
official greeter, who is ill in a
Galveston hospital. Tickets are on
sale in the college dox-mitories and
in Bryan and College Station bus
iness establishments.
Downs is “feeling better” now,
according; to a cax-d his family re
ceived fx-om him this week.
“It sounds encouraging,” his
daughter, Gx-ey, said. Miss Downs
said that he was still not able to
see visitors, but that she and her
mother were going to try to see
him this weekend.
“He’s been getting a gx-eat many
cards and letters from students
and people,” Miss Downs said.
“That’s the one thing that’s doing
moi-e than anything else to help
him get well.”
“I hope they keep it up,” she
said.
Downs’ addx-ess is Room 323, St.
Mary’s infirmary, Galveston.
To Take
Position
In April
The U. S. Senate yesterday
approved the appointment of
C. N. Shepardson, dean of ag
riculture, to the board of gov
ernors of the Federal Reserve
Bank.
He will leave for Washington
about Easter, where he will take
over his new $16,000-a-year posi
tion. He was appointed by Presi
dent Eisenhower to rill the 13-
year unexpix-ed term of Paul Mftlor
of Minnesota.
Shepardson has been a director
of the Houston branch of the FRB
of Dallas since 1950 and is now
chaix-man of that boax-d, fx*om which
he will have to resign for the new
position.
“It is an extremely hard thing
to think about—pulling up roots
and leaving a place like A&M,”
Shepai’dson said. “Only the honor
and challenge of this new appoint
ment could pei’suade me to leave.”
Shepardson, sometimes called
“Mr. Agi’icultui’e,” came to A&M
in 1928 as head of the daii-y hus-
bandx-y depai-tment. He was a
member of the animal husbandry
department and assistant football
coach at Colorado A&M before
coming hei'e.
As head of the dairy department,
he served as chairman of the
Southern section, American Dairy
Science association; as a member
of the board for the ADS A; as
director of the Texas Jersey Cattle .
club for six years; and as a direc
tor of the American Jei'sey Cattle
club.
He served as pi'esident of the
Texas Dairy Products institute and
was one of the American delegates
to the 1937 Wox-ld Dairy congress
in Beilin, Geimany, and also the
Inter-Ameincan Agi’icultural con-
gx-ess at Mexico City in 1940.
In 1934, he was made super
visor of the Faxm Service depax-t-
ment and the College faims. He
was assigned responsibility of the
college plantation in 1944.
Shepax-dson was appointed Dean
of Agi’icultui’e in 1944, upon the
x’etii’ement of Dean E. J. Kyle.
He helped to organize the col
lege’s Farm and Ranch Credit
school held on the campus each
yeai\
As dean, he has served as presi
dent of the Association of Southern
Agi’icultural Workers, chairman of
the Resident Instruction section,
Agi-icultui’al division. Association
of Land Gi’ant Colleges and Uni-
vei’sities; a member of the na
tional defense committee and the
committee on ti'aining teachers of
vocational agi’icultui’e.
He is a member of the Texas
State Boai’d of Examiners for
Teacher Education and a member
of the Board of Directors of the
Texas Council for Economic Edu
cation.
Shepardson received the final »p-
pi’oval by telegi’am from the sec-
retaxy of the boai’d of governors.
The telegram read, “Senate con-
fixmed your nomination yesterday
without debate.” The telegram
fuxther stated for Shepardson to
come to Washington as soon as
possible.
I have enjoyed my work and
associations while here, more than
I know how to express. If I have
made any contribution to A&M
or to the agi’icultui’e of Texas, it
has been due to the fine support
of those with whom I have work
ed—both at A&M and throughout
the state.”
No appointment as yet has been
made to fill Shepardson’s positioru
Dogs Need License
Twenty-six dogs in College Sta
tion were picked up last month
for not having licenses, according
to the city hall. So far, 249 licen
ses have been issued this year.
When a dog is picked up the own
er has 48 hours in which to claim
him, and must pay the $1 license
fee plus a $3.50 impounding
charge.