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f r m im ■ M m g g # # Ihe Hattahon Number 78: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1955 Price Five Cents 500 Expected Two Church Meets Set More than 500 students and guests will be here this weekend for two church conventions—the student Ecumenical Christian con ference and the fifth annual con vention of the South Texas Prov ince of the National Newman club federation. Theme for the province meeting Vill be “The Catholic Student on the Secular Campus,” and the pro gram will include three guest speakers, an informal dance and talent show Friday night; five panel discussions Saturday after noon concerning problems suggest ed by the convention theme; a se mi-formal dance Saturday night, and a banquet at noon Sunday. Speakers for the weekend meet ing are Father Joseph C. Crosth- wait of Port Arthur as the key noter; Di\ John L. McMahon, presi dent of Our Lady of the Lake col lege, who will speak at the Sunday banquet; and Father Joel Schevers of Houston, who will deliver an address at the Saturday afternoon session. Fee for the convention will be $5, which will cover registration, folder, dance, Sunday breakfast, and banquet. Officers for the convention are Rudy Gomez, University of Texas, province chairman; Tom Toudouze, A&M, first vice-president; Bob Mueller, Sam Houston State col lege, second vice-prdsident; Kurt Nauck, A&M, convention co-chair man; Chai'lie Hlavinka, UT, cor responding secretary; Miss Pat Butler, University of Houston, re cording secretary; Fabian Yanta, Texas A&I, treasurer; and Miss Frances Dicorte, Baylor, historian. * * * Corps Chaplain Conrad Cum mings opens the third annual stu dent Ecumenical Chidstian confer’- Dedication Set Sunday for CHS X Official dedication of the new A&M Consolidated high school buildings will culminate the ob servance of Public Schools week at the schools. The dedication will be held at 6:30 Sunday afternoon, and C. A. Bonnen, president of the A&M Consolidated board of trustees, will officially present the build ings. CS Lions Club To Sponsor Circus Here Hagen Brothers three-ring cir cus will be in College Station March 26 under the sponsorship of the College Station Lions club. The circus will be held at the traffic circle on Sulphur Springs ltd. on property donated by J. C. Culpepper, Bryan real estate man, said Capt. Albert Sparks, club publicity chairman. .. Admission will be 50 cents for school children and $1.50 for a- dults. Tickets can be obtained from any local Lions club mem ber. Profits from the show will go into the club fund for crippled children, boy scout work, school awards, and other Lions club pro jects. Clowns featured with the Hagen Brothers include Speed Hart, pro ducing clown, John Maseno, Shorty Blair, and Franky King. Through out the fast moving program these clowns will have ample op portunity to bring out their new bags of tricks to amuse and en tertain spectators. Also included under the big top will be the usual circus performers in their colorful am-ay, and a Noah’s ark of animals. The circus will be here for one day only, with both a matinee and evening show. Main speaker for the cei’emony will be Dr. Pearl Wanamaker, sup erintendent of public instruction for the state of Washington. Mrs. Wanamaker is a graduate of the University of Washing-ton, and started her career in educa tion as an 18-year-old school teach er in a one-room i-ural school. She later was a member of the Wash ington house of. representatives, and the state senate. She was on the eduaction committee which passed a basic state support bill for pupils of public schools in Washing-ton. She was co-author of the Yan- tis-Wanamaker Equalization law, which has beea considered the greatest single step toward pro viding equal educational oppor tunity for evei’y child regardless of where he lives. Tonight at 6, the Mothers and Dads club will hold a community supper, featuring fried chicken, in the school gymnasium. Tickets are 85 cents for adults and 60 cents for children. After the supper, ten- minute classes will be held for the sixth through twelfth grades, and parents are urged to attend the classes with their children. Tomm-row night at 7:30, the Band Boosters’ club will stage a fashion show in the school audi torium. Tickets for this show are 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children. Attendance at the Monday night meetings were good, said L. S. Richardson, superintendent of the Consolidated schools. Not quite as many attended the Tuesday meet ings, but we are expecting almost 100 per cent of the pai’ents for the supper tonight, he said. Magnon Elected Alberto Magnon was elected president of the Spanish Club re cently. Other officers are Luis Lopez, vice-president; William T. Hayes, secretary; and Michael Kuich, treasurer. ence at 7 tonight with a worship service, and President David H. Morgan will give a welcoming ad dress. The conference is being held in the YMCA, and will have student leaders from the United States and foreign counti’ies meeting with out standing denomination leaders. (See Picture on Page 4) Colleges from Oklahoma, Korea, Louisiana, Arkansas, China, Bra zil, Indonesia and Texas are rep resented at the meeting, which will have the theme of “we are one in Christ, on the campus, in the na tion and in the world.” Guest leaders for the conference are Di\ Herluf Jensen, executive secretary of the United Student Christian council; Dr. Kyle Yates, pastor of the Second Baptist church, Houston, and member of the committee which prepared the Revised Standard Version of the Bible; Dr. Lee Phillip, dean of the chapel at Prairie View A&M col lege; Dr\ Charles T. Leber, execu tive secretary of the foreign mis sions and overseas interchurch service of the Presbyterian church, USA; and the Rev. Ed Kloppe, Evangelical and Reformed minister of Niederwald. The conference will end Sunday at the 10:45 a.m. service at Our Saviour’s Lutheran church. Local students who plan to attend the conference are asked to pay the $2.50 registr-ation fee. Total Of $8,223 In Scholarships To Be Awarded Awards Open Mainly to Juniors A total of $8,223 in scholarships and awards will be made to A&M students in the next few weeks, ranging in value from $100 to $600 each. The awards are good for the 1955-56 school year, and are open mainly to students who are now classified juniors and plan to graduate next year. Students who wish to try AGGIE PLAYERS—The three day stand of “Ah, Wilder ness,” in the Memorial Student Center ballroom beginning at 8 p.m. Monday will have leading roles filled by Ted Cas tle, upper left, who plays Richard Miller; Belle, played by Anne Haslam, upper right. Lower left is Ara Haswell, who plays Essie, and Nat Miller, played by John Kessinger, lower right. ^ev’ and All PUT YOUR LITTLE FOOT—The Memorial Student Center Dance classes will have a formal dance, Tuesday, March 29. The classes are held each Monday and Tuesday nights from 7 until 10 p.m. in the MSC ballroom. Manning Smith, right center, is the dance class instructor. Coed Reviews Drill By SHIRLEY YANCEY (Editor’s Note: Miss Yancey is from Kilgore college and came to A&M yesterday to attend the Junior College Press conference. She is editor of the Kilgore pa per, The Flare.) You never can tell what to to expect from Aggies. Since I ar rived Thursday some senior talked me into going up to The Battalion office to see how a real college daily is i'un. He introduced me as a sophomore from Kilgore college whose name is . . . That’s as far as he ever got. “Are you a Rangerette?” Those hungry-looking Aggies stopped fighting typewriters for a minute and stared at me. “No, I’m a non-reg. I’m editor of The Flare. . .” I began. It was no use. I had already lost my audience, for to them the Range re ttes were the only topic of interest from Kilgore college. “Look—we’ve got oil wells, a football team that won confei-ence, a basketball team that won confer ence, a fine band. . “Forget it,” yelled someone in the back room. “Can you write ? Okay, go get a story—about the Thanks Sent By Hospital At Temple The Temple veterans ad ministration hospital has sent the college thanks for the last batch of 300 magazines sent to them, and the college has issued a call for more maga zines. A&M has been sending mag azines collected from the stu dents to the hospital for sev eral years. “We would like to ask every one to keep the magazines in good condition and to turn them in to the designated places in order that they may be made available to these men in Temple,” said Bennie A Zinn, head of the student affairs department. Rangerettes. The deadline is 6 o’clock.” “But I like the Aggies, and I wanted to watch B infantry drill this aftemoon,” I protested. At 5 o’clock, I was back at the Batt office, trying to wi’ite. The Rangerettes—of course I’m proud of them and like to write about them. Any precision-drill team that is good'enough to merit performances in the Cotton Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Chicago All-Star game, Junior Rose Bowl, Eisen hower Inaugm’al festival, eighth annual Philadelphia Music festi val—oh well, you know the rest— is bound to be good. Then there are their color spi'eads in national magazine—their national television shows. The Batt editor says for me to cut this story down. And I haven’t even mentioned the Aggies’ drill this afternoon. I saw it—Reveille and all. The 0011)8 had precision, but Miss Gussie Nell Davis, Ran gerette director, would have had the girls practicing more than two hours every day if she had seen part of it. Those Ags just don’t smile. They don’t have an audience to smile to, in fact. And they just march left, right, left, right — nothing original like the Rangerettes. Kilgore college’s “corps” wears a different type uniform, too—red, white and blue ones with short skii’ts and very well-proportioned college girls wearing them. At the KC’s yell practice, the Rangerettes do have one thing in common with A&M’s corps. They yell every second, and they have adopted the “wildcat” as their own. Still, KC doesn’t have a Reveille or a Cadet Slouch or some of the traditions that A&M has. So I like Aggies, too. Now, Mister Editor, go ahead and cut my aidicle. I’ll write a ‘Letter to the Editor’ protesting censorship. On the other hand, that would be better than the pro test you would get from Aggies if you let this go through. Junior College Journalists To Meet Today Paul Grume, who writes the “Big D” column for the Dallas Morning News, will be the main speaker for the Texas Junior College Press confer ence here today and tomorrow. Seven junior colleges will be rep resented by about 50 delegates said Don Shepard, chairman of the con ference, which is sponsoi’ed by the A&M chapter of Sigma Delta Chi. Schools are Arlington State col lege, Kilgore Junior college, Am arillo Junior college, Navarro Ju nior college. Southwestern Bible institute, Tarleton State college and Le Teourneau institute. Registration will stai't at 2 p.m. today, followed by a teacher’s con ference at 5. A banquet at 7 to night will be followed by a dance in the MSC. Panel discussions start at 8 a.m. tomorrow. Topics will be “What Constitutes Good Readership,” “Problems of Makeup,” “Problems of Editing,” “Problems of Report ing,” and “Problems of Adveitis- ing-.” Separate panels will be held for the yearbook divisions under the supei’vision of Warren Thomp son of Taylor Publishing company. The conference will end at 3 p.m. tomorrow with a combined session and business meeting. 4 Ah, Wilderness’ To Open Monday By BOB BORISKIE Battalion Co-Editor The Aggie Player production, “Ah, Wilderness,” will be presented “in the round” Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center ballroom. Produced by C. K. Esten and di rected by Victor Wiening, both of the English department, the Eu gene O’Neill comedy is a story of an average family at the turn of the century and how a boy and his family handle the situation when he becomes involved with a girl of “questionable reputation.” The play action takes place on the MSC ballroom floor with the audience on three sides of the stage area, Esten said. This intimate at mosphere places the audience so close to the action that first row spectators can reach out and touch the performers or the stage fumi- ture, he said. Ted Castle plays the part of Richard Miller, the 17-year-old boy who meets the shady lady. Nat Miller, his father and owner of the local newspaper, is played by John Kessinger. Effie, Nat’s wife, is played by Ara Haswell, and Lillie Miller, Nat’s old maid sister, is played by Sara Pate. The part of Belle, the shady lady, is handled by Anne Haslam, and Frank Coulter plays Sid Davis, Ef- fie’s brother, an almost soluble drunk. Others in the cast are Ty Hun- gerford, Suzanne Moss, Tom Col lins, Bill Huettel, Fay Neal, Charles Ware, Robin James, Dave Denny and James Leissner. Written in 1935, “Ah, Wilder ness” is probably the best play O’Neill ever wrote, Esten said, and is a good, nostalgic family story which is a comedy only because the ending is not tragic. 'Diere is little in the situation for the char acter’s to joke about, he said. Weather Today The weather outlook for today is fair to partly cloudy this after noon with wind gusts up to 25 miles-per-hour. The high for yesterday was 85,! low 65. Temperature at 10:15 I this morning was 72. SPRING AGAIN — Warm weather makes Aggies want to get out in the sunshine, and the putting green is a good place to soak up sun and still not be too energetic. Here a group of students practice putting. for these awards can submit their applications to R. G. Perryman, secretary of the Faculty Scholarship commit tee, in care of the registrar’s of fice. The deadline for applying for the awards is March 20. Here are the scholarships and awards available: The Atlantic Refining company science and engineering scholar ship, $500, to a junior or senior majoring in physical science or engineering directly related to the petroleum industry operations. The (California company schol arships, two of $450 each plus tu ition, fees and required books tip to a maximum of $500 for each award, to juniors majoring in civil engi- neei’ing or petroleum engineering. Carbide Caibon Chemicals com pany scholarship of $200 plus tu ition to a junior student majoring in chemical engineering or me chanical engineering. The schol arship this year will go to a stu dent majoring in chemical engi neering. Douglas Aircraft Company Inc. award of $600 to a junior majoring in aeronautical, mechanical or electrical enginering. Hughes Tool company award of $500 to a junior majoring in me chanical engineering. Dow Corring electrical insulation scholarship of $400 to a junior ma joring in electrical engineering. The Lulie Hughey Lane scholar ship award of the Texas Society, United States Daughters of 1812, $200, to a sophomore majoring in liberal arts and taking one of the military sciences. The W. S. Mosher Memorial scholai’ships, two of $600 each, to sophomores majoring in structural civil engineering or architectural construction. Procon Inc., scholarship, one scholarship of $500 for a junior student in civil engineering or two scholarships of $250 each; one for a junior majoring in civil engineer ing and the other for a mechanical engineering student. Schlumberger, collegiate award, $500, to a junior or senior major ing in electrical engineering^me- chanical engineering, petroleum en gineering, physics or geology. The applicant must plan to complete at least 12 semester hours in elec tricity prior to receiving his de gree. Square D scholarship, $500, to a sophomore majoring in either elec trical, mechanical or industrial en gineering. Monsanto Chemical company scholarship, $500 ($250 per year for two years), to a sophomore majoring in chemistry, chemical engineering or mechanical engi neering. The general awards are: The Albert Banta award of $300 to a student who will graduate in June of 1956 and who has achieved an outstanding record in scholar ship and leadership with special consideration given to the student who has overcome serious finan cial handicaps in his education ca reer. The Brazos County A&M Moth ers club award of $100, to an out standing junior for use during his senior year. The Fort Worth A&M Mothers club award of $200, to an out standing sophomore, junior or sen ior, whose home is in Tarrant county. The Krueger award of $500 to an outstanding junior, who will graduate next year and who has earned a substantial portion of his college expenses to date. The Jesse H. Jones’ Reward for Achievement,’ $333, for a student who will graduate next year and who has earned all or a large part of his school expenses to date.