The Battalion
Number 89: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS. THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1955
Price Five Cents
Great Issues
Smith Will Speuk
On Asian Policy
Robert A. Smith, one of the na
tion’s foremost foreign policy ex
perts, will speak here Sunday as a
part of the Great Issues lecture
series.
Smith, who is a political scien-
tiM, lecturer, educator, will speak
at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Memorial
Student Center ballroom. His topic
■will be “A New Policy for Asia.”
Great Issues seines tickets will
be good for admission, and $1 tick
ets can be purchased at the door.
Smith has a distinguished list of
accomplishments. He is now the
New York Times’ foreign policy
editorial writer, and is also a pro
fessor at Drake University and
Bernard college.
He has written articles for the
Saturday Evening Post, Colliers,
X-Ray Unit
Gives 14,625
Free Checkups
In nine days at Bryan and
six at the Memorial Student
Center, 14,625 free x-rays
were given, according to Joe
l4'. Sorrels, president of the
I?<fazos County Tuberculosis asso
ciation.
Bryan had 8,774 and College Sta
tion had 5,851 persons getting the
free x-rays given by the Texas De
partment of Health. Although the
x-ray unit had to close during the
noon hour at the MSC because only
one technician was available, the
number x-rayed was only 48 below
fast spring’s total.
The total last year was 14,935
lor the whole county.
Following the pattern of the
results of the past five years, the
great majority of persons will re
ceive a cai'd saying their x-ray film
was .satisfactory. Only about 10
to 15 per cent will receive the let
ter advk.ng them to visit their
physician. Any abnormality ob
served in reading the films at the
health department in Austin will
be reported to +he local doctors,
whether it indicates a suspicion of
tuberculosis or some other trouble
like tumors or heart disorders.
Sorrels and J. M. Lawrence III,
general chairman for the survey
•jvpressed their thanks to all who
iLntributed to the success of the
survey.
World
News
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — President
Eisenhower yesterday indicated his
displeasure over Adm. Carney’s
prediction of war with Red China
by April 15, saying that too much
speculation about war does not
serve the cause of world peace.
* * *
VIET NAM •— In Indochina,
non-communist South Viet
Nam was quiet yesterday af
ter clashes between govern
ment forces and a private
army. The outbreak left 26
dead and 112 wounded.
■ * * *
AL^STIN—District Attorney Les
Proctor yesterday filed four char
ges of felony theft against resign
ed land commissioner Bascom Giles
and two other men, B. R. Sheffield
a^d L. V. Ruffin. They are charg
ed with illegally taking $688,344
in four veterans land ti-ansactions
l^st year.
♦ * *
WASHINGTON — A bill
postponing a cut in corpor
ation and excise taxes for one
more j ear was signed by Pres
ident Eisenhower last night
The rates put into effect dur
ing the Korean war were to
drop at midnight tonight.
* * *
LONDON—Britain established a |
new defense linkup with Turkey j
and Iraq yesterday, to extend the j
defensive area of the North At
lantic pact to the Indian ocean in j
the middle East. Iraq is the first
Arab state to line up with the
West against communism.
and the American Mercury, and has
appeared on the American Town
Meeting of the Air. He is a writ
er and broadcaster for the Colum
bia Broadcasting system.
Tentative plans for Sunday also
include a dinner and a reception
for Smith after his talk.
Herman Hassell is chairman of
the Great Issues committee, which
is sponsored by the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
About two more Great Issues
talks are planned for the rest of
the year.
Local Girls
Included
In Duchesses
Seventeen duchesses have
been selected from the College
Station - Bryan area for the
24th annual Cotton Pageant
and Style show in the White
coliseum April 29.
The duchesses, and their escorts,
and arganizations they represent
are as folows:
Miss Caroline Rayburn, J.ohn C.
Standard, American Institute of
Industrial Engineers; Miss Fannie
Lou Mainer, Pat Wheat, senior
class of Stephen F. Austin high
school; Miss Sarita Colson, Gary
Bourgeois, Bryan Reading club;
Miss Diane Harris, David Wycoft,
College Station A&M Mothers club.
Mrs. Fred Ablon, Fred Ablon,
the B’nai B’rith Hillel foundation
of College Station; Miss Nancy
Hale, Jim Harrison, Enginering so
ciety of A&M; Miss Carol McCul
lough, John Hardy, Brazos County
A&M club; Miss Anne Price, Ran
dolph Kanz, ASC auxilliary of Bry
an; Miss Florene Huff, James E.
Sadler, A&M Consolidated high
school.
Mrs. George Risien, George Ris-
ien, Geology Wives club; Mrs. Ar
thur Crixwell, Arthur Crixwell,
Mechanical Engineering Wives
club; Mrs. Fred Olps, Fred Olps,
Associated General Contractors;
Miss Madelyn Gaines, Bill White,
Extension club; Miss Eugenia
Rush, John F. Hickman, Campus
Study club.
Mrs. J. T. Reyman, J. T. Rey
man, Amarillo A&M Mothers club;
Mrs. Aly Rasheen, Aly Rasheen,
United Nations club; Mrs. Hardy
Purvis, Hardy Purvis, Industrial
Education club.
Wide D evelopment
In Highways Cited
Highway department engineers
furnish information on their work
now under w r ay and what is being
planned and how and the teachers
in turn funnel this information
i*to the classrooms.
DEBATE PRACTICE—Members of the A&M debate teams practice for the meet this
weekend. They are, from left to right, Bill Heard and Ray Finch, the negative team;
Lee J. Martin of the English department, sponsor; and John Wilson and David Bowers,
the affirmative team.
Debate Meet
To Be Held
Here April 2
The Southwest Conference
debate tourney will be held
April 2 in the Memorial Stu
dent Center, announced Lee J.
Martin, of the English depart
ment.
Each school will enter one affir
mative and one negative team, ex
plained Martin. David A. Bowers,
business major from Alice, and
John C. Wilson, economics major
from Dallas, will make up the af
firmative team for A&M. The neg
ative team will consist of Ray N.
Finch and Bill Heard.
The affirmative team placed
third in the University of Texas
tournament at Austin last week.
Both teams were rated excellent
at their last debate at East Cen
tral college in Ada, Okla.
The negative team was judged
among the top four teams at the
Louisiana speech tournament last
weekend.
A national topic is debated each
year. This years’ topic is “Re
solved that the United States
should extend diplomatic recogni
tion to the Communist government
of China.”
“This is the first year that all
schools have been represented since
the tourney was reorganized in
1950,” said Martin.
The champions will receive an
engraved trophy.
The tournament is sponsored by
the A&M discussion and debate
club, under the direction of the
English department.
The Texas Highway department
has been challenged to meet “the
greatest development of highways
in the history of our country,” Der
witt C. Greer, state highway engi
neer, said here this week.
“We are now moving into an
era in the development of high
ways that will provide the great
est challenge to highway engineers
in the history of our country,”
Greer said. He spoke at the 29th
annual short course in highway
engineering being held at the col
lege.
Greer said within the next 10
years Texas will have at least 10
million people and five millior mo
tor vehicles.
“The continued expansion of the
use of motor vehicles in Texas
must be anticipated,” he said, “and
it will be the responsibility of the
highway engineers of our state to
plan, design and build, looking
ahead at least to 1975.”
Controlled access to express
highways, whereby entrance is
made at designated points of safety
is under study. Where enough
right-of-way is obtained this en
trance would be made from paved
outer highways adjacent to the ex
pressway, he said.
At the meeting, which ends
today, attended by 40 engineers,
teachers, students and others, the
Monday Last Day
To Get Invitations
Deadline for ordering graduation
invitations is 5 p.m. Monday, ac
cording to Pete Hardesty, student
activities business manager.
Three different types of invita
tions are available, and any num
ber of any or all three types may
be ordered on a cash basis, payable
when order is made. Payment con
be made by check.
The French fold invitation is
priced at two for 25 cents. The
cardboard bound invitation, which
contains the invitation and a ros
ter of all graduating students, is
45 cents, and the all-leather bound
invitation with the roster and invi
tation is 95 cents.
Engraved personal cards are
$2.95 per hundred and may be or
dered in lots of 100 only. Printed
personal cards are $1.25 per hun
dred and also must be ordered in
lots of 100.
Orders may be placed this week
from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and from
1 to 5 p.m., Hardesty said. Stu
dents are urged to order before the
deadline date to avoid possible mis
takes in placing the order.
53 Juniors Named
As Distinguished
Military Students
Army ROTC Gives
Tentative Appointment
Fifty-three junior army ROTC students have been ten
tatively named distinguished military students, according to
Col. Henry L. Phillips, acting PMS&T.
The cadets were chosen on a basis of overall grades and
military grades, plus leadership and character requirements.
To be a distinguished military student, a cadet must be
"’in the upper half of his aca
demic class and the upper 10
A&M Freshman
Suspended
For Theft
Kenneth Ray Thomas,
freshman from Weatherford,
has been indefinitely suspend
ed after appearing before a
military panel yesterday for
the theft of a $75 wrist watch.
The watch was taken from a
hook in the shower of dormitory
14, where it was left by its owner,
Robert L. Jennings, freshman from
Sherman.
Jennings had left the w r atch
there while taking a shower and
forgot it when he went back to his
room. He noticed the watch was
missing and returned to the show
er to find it had been stolen.
A shakedown of the dormitory
produced the watch, which was hid
den in a dresser drawer. Eight
seniors conducted the search.
According to the company com
mander, it was the first time
Thomas had shown signs of being
untrustworthy.
Thomas said he had an impulse
to return the watch after being
asked if he had seen it, but “ft was
so easy to keep.”
“To anyone reading this,” Thom
as said, “and you have been mixed
up in something like this or are
faced with it, think twice before
doing it.”
Appreciation Show
Nets About $2,000
The variety show, “In the Pink,”
held March 24 in the White coli
seum netted approximately $2,000,
J. E. (Jocke) Roberts, ticket sales
chairman, said yesterday.
Gross income from ticket sales
was'*about $2,400, and only a few
tickets haven’t been checked in yet,
he said.
The show was given in apprecia
tion of P. L. (Pinky) Downs jr.,
A&M’s official greeter, who is at
home recovering from a long ill
ness in a Galveston hospital.
per cent of his class in mili
tary science.
If the juniors are still qual
ified for the designation next year,
they will be named permanently as
distinguished military students.
They are as follows:
Infantry: Roy Bertrand, Cecil
Crawford, Robert Good, Larry Ken
nedy, John Lorms, and Michael
Mooney.
Armor: Lloyd Billingsley, Mead
Bramlett, Don Burton, Ed Fries,
Ray Latham, and Stuart Watson.
Engineers: Steve Bryant, Rich
ard Guthrie, Curtis Lancaster, Wil
liam Ledbetter, Walter Parsons,
George Pitri, and Phillip Weinert.
Field artillery: Jack Edwards,
Sam Laden, Homer Martin, Bill
Ruez, John Sheffield, Ed Stinnett,
and Frank Westmoreland.
Anti-aircraft artillery: Howard
Mounce, Wesley Shackelford, Jer
ry Sides, David Slemmons, L e n
Steakly, and Don Williams.
Signal corps: John Harris, Jpe
Tucker, Frank Vaden, and Leland
White.
Transportation corps: Ed Biehf,
David Bowers, Leo Namkin, and
James Stansel.
Ordnance: Joseph Broosche,
Paul Hanison, Weldon Morris, and
Rex Laveral.
Quartermaster corps: R o b g r t
Fuller, Norman Jacobson, B. A.
(Scotty) Parham, and George
Thomas.
Chemical corps: Robert Good
man, James Kocian, Avery McKin
ney, Marvin Noble.
Tw t o senior army ROTC students,
Philip McNemer and James Mof-
fitt, were named as permanent dis
tinguished military students.
In Caine Mutiny
Bendix To Play Queeg
Big man William Bendix will
play the center-of-the-stage role
of Capt. Queeg of the U.S.S. Caine
when Town Hall presents the Caine
Mutiny Court Martial here April
13.
Bendix, known for his rough
movie characterizations, will play
the part of the deposed skipper of
the minesweeper Queeg, on trial
for his sanity.
This tour is Bendix’s first ap
pearance with the legitimate the
ater since 1941, when he appeared
on Broadway in Saroyan’s “The
Time of Your Life.”
Since that time he has been in
Hollywood, and has appeared in
more than 20 movies.
Throughout his youth Bendix had
only one ambition — to become a
professional baseball player. He
William
The Caine’s
Bendix
Capt. Queeg
Weather Today
The weather outlook for today
is cloudy with fresh southerly
winds throughout the day. There
is a cold front moving in from
west Texas that will hit College
Station at approrimately 7 to
night.
thought this dream might come
true when he got his first job, as
a bat boy with the New York
Giants. However, his career was
squelched w r hen his parents would
not let him go with the team to
spring training camp.
After his schooling, Bendix join
ed a wholesale grocery firm, and
w r as soon made manager of a
branch store in Orange, N.J. The
grocery career collapsed in 1936
Cox Wins Award
For Scholarship
Fred B. Cox, junior electrical
engineering major from Temple,
has been named the winner of a
$500 General Electric engineer
ing scholarship.
He was selected as the outstand
ing student in electrical, mechan
ical, chemical, aeronautical and
industrial engineering
He competed with students from
A&M, Oklahoma A&M, Oklahoma
university, SMU, Rice institute.
University of Texas, University
of New Mexico, Texas Tech, New
Mexico A&M, and was named one
of the winners of the five awards.
and he went to work as a singing
waiter.
This job had the short life of
one performance. He moved on
to the New Jersey Federal The
atre project and remained there
for three years.
Louis Simon, w r ho wms the head
of that project, introduced him
to Cheryl Crawford, a Broadw*ay
producer, for whom Bendix did
six plays. In between, Bendix did
summer stock in Ivorytowm, Conn.;
Newport, R.L; Maplewrood, NJ.
and Bucks County, Pa.
He married his childhood sweet
heart, Therese Stefanotty. They
have two daughters, Lorraine, born
November 17, 1929 and Stephanie,
bom December 17, 1944.
Student Senators
To Attend Meeting
Ten student senators will go to
San Antonio’s Trinity university
this weekend for the annual Texas
Intercollegiate Students associa
tion convention.
Delegates will be Senate Presi
dent Jerry Ramsey, Paul Holliday,
Bill Utsman, Glenn Buell, Tony
Specia, Bob Alcock, Gus Mijalis,
Bob Putman and John Benefield,
with Bill Bass as chairman of the
A&M delegation.
The TISA has representatives
from about 35 Texas colleges. The
planning session for this meeting
was held here last month.
There will be no Student Senate
meeting Thursday, as scheduled,
because of the absence of these 10
delegates.
Egypt Program
A talk and showing of color
slides on Egypt, will be given at
7:30 p.m. Friday in the assembly
room of the YMCA. Dr. Ali Las-
heen of Egypt, graduate of A&M,
will be the speaker and show the
color slides at the meeting of the
United Nations dub.
Seniors Barbecue
Planned for May 3
The second annual barbecue for
the senior class will be May 3
this year.
The barbecue, sponsored by the
Former Students association, is de
signed to help the graduating sen
iors get acquainted with the work
of the association, said J. B. (Dick)
Hervey, former students executive
secretary.
Plans for the barbecue are in
complete, but Hervey says he is
going to try to make it more of a
“spectacle” this year.
He wants to try to have an open
air barbecue, instead of having
the dining halls do the cooking,
as was done last year.
“I already have one steer,” he
said, “but I need tfro or three
more.”
Working with Hervey on the
plans for the barbecue is the class
of ’55 committee, composed of one
representative from each dormi
tory.