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The Battalion Number 81: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1955 Price Five Cents our Contacted About Job COLD WAR—With all of the talk about the cold war be tween the East and the West, the annual conflict between the forces of nature and A&M military plans is almost for gotten. Each year when the weather gets nice and warm, orders are given and the corps of cadets goes into khaki uniform. Each year when they go into khaki, it turns cold, as Kelly Gonzalez, junior civil engineering major from Carrizo Springs, shows. H Aggies Will Help Charity Telethon A&M entertainers will do their part Saturday night—and well into Sunday—to help raise money for crippled children at the Gonzales Warm Springs Polio foundation. Five acts of A&M students will participate, along with acts from six other Texas colleges, in an all- night telethon in Tyler Saturday to raise money for the foundation’s activities. Charles Parker, WTAW announc er and Memorial Student Center president, will be master of cere monies for part of the show. Other Aggies participating will be the Aggie Ramblers, western band; Dean Duncan, magician; Da vid Goldstan, Irish tenor; Jim Har rison, ballad singer; and Charles Sides and Boyd Smith, comedy act. Margaret Long, MSC program consultant, was asked by the Gon- Tn the Pink’ List of Talent Still Grows The Bewley Mills Chuck Wagon gang and the all-girl chorus from Lamar high school of Houston are <the latest acts added to the grow ing list of top-notch entertainment expected to pack G. Rollie White coliseum March 24, Joe S. Mog- ford, general chairman for the show, said yesterday. Sponsored by the Brazos county &&M club and the A&M student body, the variety show, “In the Pink,” is being given in apprecia tion of P. L. (Pinky) Downs jr., who is ill in a Galveston hospital. The Bewley Mills Chuck Wagon gang will furnish entertainment de signed to please all age groups and the 130-girl Lamar chorus will pre sent several group numbers. Other acts already booked in clude Cayce Moore, Hearne barber and nationally known after-dinner speaker, who will deliver a humor ous skit; Mrs. Alice Jean Butler of Bryan, singer; Miss Sarah Belcia, Miss Wool of 1955; Marshall Bul lock and J. W. Hamilton of Bryan, minstrel men who will give black face skits; Caesar (Dutch) Hohn, former student who will give a stuttering skit on why he was call ed a fish; the Aggie band; the Singing Cadets, and the Aggieland orchestra. * A&M clubs throughout the state are participating in the prepara tions for the show and out-of-town ticket sales are moving nicely, said J. B. (Dick) Hervey, executive sec retary of the Former Students as sociation. Ring Dance i )rchestra Will Be Johnny Long The senior class will have Johnny Long instead of Sheps Fields as the orchestra for the Ring dance be cause Fields has already signed another contract. The choice of bands available had been narrowed to these two when the class voted Monday night to have Fields. In the meantime, Fields had sign- id a contract to appear elsewhere ?n that date, so Long’s orchestra Jvill play for the Ring dance. “There’s nothing we can do about it,” said W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, student activities business manag er. “The other bands, are unavail able.” Long, who is called “young America’s favorite,” specializes in playing college proms. Since his graduation from Duke university, where he led a college band, he has played 21 different colleges, many of them repeat dates. He offers within his 25-piece or chestra a dixieland jazz combo and a glee club, as well as- straight dance music. He also has a boy and a girl vocalist. Battalion Wins In Safety Contest The Battalion has won third place in the safe driving con test sponsored by the Lumber mens’ Mutual Casualty com pany. The Battalion won in the daily newspaper classification, entered by about 250 college newspapers. The Battalion submitted its annual safety edition, published just before the Christmas holidays. Details and a list of the win ners of individual awards will be announced later. The third place prize is $100. The Battalion won the $500 first prize in this contest last year. zales foundation to serve as colle giate representative for this tele thon, and to arrange for the colle giate talent. She made the arrangements with the other schools while she was on audition trips for the Intercolle giate Talent show. “We thought it would be too much traveling to ask the Intercol legiate Talent show performers to be in the telethon too,” she said, “so we picked other acts from the schools we visited.” The telethon will start at 10 p.m. Saturday and end at noon Sunday. MSC Series On Etiquette Begins Tonight The first of the Memorial Student Center’s free “Mind Your Manners’ etiquette se ries, a panel on social eti quette, will be presented at 7:30 tonight in the MSC ballroom. Chancellor M. T. Harrington will introduce the series, and speakers will be Mrs. Harrington, Mrs. Ide P. Trotter, wife of the dean of the Graduate School; Mrs. Jack Miller, wife of the head of the animal hus bandry department; and Mrs. Wal ter Delaplane, wife of the dean of arts and sciences. Mrs. Fred Smith will be chair man of the panel. Other subjects in the month-long series of weekly meetings will be table etiquette, business etiquette, and military etiquette. A men’s style show in Guion hall will end the series. The date for the style show has not been set yet. The other programs in the series will probably be held on Wednes days, said Dave Ashcroft, head of the special committee of the MSC council that arranged the series. Admission to all programs is free. Special Drill Set Authorization has been granted for special drill periods for the athletic units, according to the military department. The special periods will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. each Thursday to avoid con flicts with athletic practice. Delinquency Problem County Used For Experiment By BILL FULLERTON Battalion City Editor Brazos county has been chosen by the State Youth Development council and the State Health de partment for a unique experiment in the field of youth counseling. As a result of meetings held last year in Bryan to discuss the juvenile delinquency in Brazos county, Vick Ehlers was appointed juvenile probation officer and youth counselor for the county. The State Health department sug gested the offices be combined un der the supervision of a competent counselor, and the county agreed to try the plan for three years. Offices are at 206A East 2Gth street in Bryan. During this time the health de partment is to pay the officer's salary and the county will furnish office space and incidental expen ses. If the county is satisfied with the plant at the end of the period, it will pay all of the expenses. Started in February Until Ehlers took over early in Februai'y, the county had no juve nile officer. The county judge handled such cases of this type. Since then, Ehlers’ new depart ment has handled 14 probation cases and has had eight counseling cases. The program of the Brazos County Youth Development service is primarly preventative in nature. The object of the service is to com plement rather than replace ex isting services of agencies, so that the prevention of delinquency in Brazos county will be strengthen ed and coordinated. The service- consists of two methods. The first is direct coun seling to children and parents, and the second is consultation and planning- with agencies or indivi duals working with children and their families. The counseling service is a com munity resource that is available to aid the adjustment and develop ment of youth, regardless of age, sex, color or social status. Two Precedures Used Two procedmes may be used in requesting services. Specific agen cies and pi'ofessional workers may refer children to the counselor. These are the children that come to their attention in working with youth and families. The specific agencies and pro fessional workers are public schools, ministers, medical doctors, recreational directors, county agri cultural agent, county home dem onstration agent. State Depart ment of Public Welfare, Brazos County Health unit, Brazos County Red Cross, Brazos County Tuber culosis association, police and sher iff’s department, and juvenile judge. Where the child is referred by another agency the appointment should be made by the child or child’s parents rather than by the referring ag - ent. However, the agency or professional workers Student Senate Meets Ton igh t The Student Senate will discuss increased representation for Col lege View and representation for project housing at it’s meeting at 7:30 tonight in the Memorial Stu dent Center senate chamber. Other business to be discussed includes pi-e-registration for spring semester, Twelfth Man scholar ship, and representatives to TISA from the senate and the Civilian Student Council. will be expected to provide the counselor with some basic knowl edge of the situation and person alities involved in each case. The second procedure is two-fold in that parents can directly request the counseling services for their own children, or the children can voluntarily request the * services of the counselor. 4 Maximum Age Is 18 The maximum age of a child who will be accepted for the services is 3 8, and when . the counselor’s schedule becomes crowded, prefer ence will be given to younger chil dren. Both the child and his par ents must be interested in acquir ing the services. The service need ed should not be one which the agency referring the case is not able to provide or get from another community agency. Ehlers said most of the larger cities had separate counseling ser vices, but smaller communities can not afford the expense, although the need may be just as great. Several other counties have writ ten asking for information on the program. The health department hopes to set up more such offices in Texas in the near future, he said. ‘Hope’ to Name Coach by April 1 By JERRY WIZIG Battalion Sports Editor At least four coaches had been interviewed by yesterday afternoon about A&M’s head basketball coach job, and ath letic director Paul Bryant said “we hope to have someone by April 1,” in an effort to build a nationally prominent cage team here. One of the four was' Ralph Carlisle, coach of Lafayette high school, Lexington, Ky. He is now out of the picture, however, after coming here for an interview with Bryant. Leslie Robinson, coach of Allen academy in Bryan, is one of those now under consideration to replace John Floyd, who resigned Tuesday, The Battalion learned. Robinson, con tacted last night, didn’t want to comment. Bryant refused to name the* —• o-thers under consideration. “We want to move slowly and carefully,” he said. “We want the best man available for the job, because we very definitely plan to build a team that will rank high in the nation.” “We’re going to bend evei-y ef fort to have a top basketball team, just as we plan to have a winning football team. We want the best man available for the job, and that doesn’t necessarily mean a big- name coach—just the best man available.” * “I want one who will fill the basketball hoop and keep it filled,” Bryant said. “Somebody told me that if you throw enough shots at the basket, the law of average will work for you.” Referring to White coliseum, just opened last season, he said A&M has the “finest place to play ih the Southwest.” Last season, Robinson, extreme ly popular around Central Texas, guided Allen to the finals of the Texas Junior College tournament, played in the coliseum. He is getting much support for the job in some quarters. Carlisle, 40, played at the Uni versity of Kentucky from 1933-37, and has been a high school coach in Kentucky for 18 years, the last 10 at Lafayette, where he won 19 and lost 6 last year. His all-time record is 399-107. He has had eight teams ranked fourth or higher in the state. Lafayette, which has 1,100 stu dents, won the state title in 1953 and ’51, was runnerup in ’49, SLC To Discuss Civilian Elections The Student Life committee will meet Monday to discuss allowing civilian students to campaign for elections in the civilian areas. This agenda item is being con sidered at the request of the Civil ian Student Council. Other business to come up will, include the United States National Students association. Needs More Than Just Amending The College Development Association and Chamber of Commerce has since its begin ning back in 1948 been a pro gressive civic grbup. An amendment was very properly proposed recently and passed by the board of direc tors. The secretary was ready to add it to the constitution. Then they hit a snag. They couldn’t find the constitution —if it existed. The board members reached back iiito their memories, and remembered there was a con stitution. A special commit tee was to be set up to either find the missing link or create a new constitution. Weather Today PARTLY CLOUDY The weather outlook for today, is continued cloudy with possible rain showers late in the afternoon. There is an expected warm-up. Yesterday’s high was 70, low 51. The temperature at 11:15 this morning was 69. Twelve Named Vanity Fair Finalists Twelve finalists for Vanity Fair, the senior class sweet heart section of the Aggie land, were chosen last night by nine members of the year book staff. After two hours of judging, the co-editors and section editors of the Aggieland picked the 12 from 61 entries. Those chosen and their sponsors are as follows: Sandra Jean Sprin ger, Kenneth Scott; Netta Chad wick, Bryan Oldham jr.; Jo Ann Dupree, William T. Miller; Clau dette Bradshaw, Bob McCandless; Nancy Hale, J." M. Harrison. Carol Gregg, Donald D. Gregg; Sharon Kay Richio, Chuck Mor gan; Joan Stripling, Jerry K. John son; Mary Coutret, Charles F. Holberg-; Edythe Brotherman, Tom Toudouze; Vickie L. Davis, Frank A. Davis; Barbara Ann Watson, Dan Grissom. The six winners of the contest will be selected the night before the Senior Ring dance, and will be presented at the dance. The editors Requested that the sponsors of the finalists meet with them Monday night in the Aggie land office, Goodwin hall, after the senior class meeting. Sainger To Speak For Junior Prom A. O. Sainger, assistant south east division sales manager for Humble Oil and Refining company, will be the guest speaker for the annual Junior Prom Saturday night. The entire second floor of the Memorial Student Center will be dedicated to the affair, with danc ing on the terrace, weather permit ting. The dance will feature Ernie Martellino and his combo, the Ag gieland Orchestra, and the Mellow- stones from Sam Houston State Teachers college. The junior banquet will be held at 6:30 p.m. and the dance starts at 9 p.m. Tau Beta Pi Sets Initiation Plans Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineer ing fraternity, has announced ten tative plans for its spring initia tion arfd banquet. Initiation will be held at 4:30 p.m., April 26, in the chemistry lecture room, followed at 7:30 by a banquet at Maggie Parker’s din ing room in Bryan. A list oF initiates is being pre pared and will be published in The Battalion soon. DON’T SHOOT!—These people pointing guns at the cameraman are trying out for the pistol team of College Station’s headquarters and headquarters company, 358th in fantry regiment, 90th division army reserve. Members of the unit, which is composed of all local people and A&M students, practice regularly at the rifle range under Kyle field. Left to right are Lari White, Terrell; Rudy Hernandez, McAllen; Bobby Uzzell, Beeville; Jerry Mason, Crockett; Bob Bluke, San Antonio; Raj^ Anderson, Matagordo; and Sfc. Floyd Adams of the military department, range sergeant. All except Adams are A&M students.