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Battalion Number 91: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1955 Price Five Cents Election Postponed Due to Primaries Price Is High Aggie ‘Tradition 9 Getting Revival Miss Pat Callaway Cotton Ball Queen Pat Callaway By BILL FULLERTON Battalion City Editor It’s just possible that an old Ag gie “tradition,” — sending off for various products in someone else’s name for payment on delivery— may be starting again. This “practical joke” can have different persons as its victim. In past years not only students, but professors, have received a variety of goods they did not order. One can see the wide variety avialable just by leafing through any mag azine or book. According to Acting College Station Postmaster N. L. McCul lough, the number of such inci dents this year has been lower than usual. However, several packages have been refused be cause the receiver said they did not order them, he said. “We have no proof that someone else ordered the products, signing someone else’s name,” he said. Among the products which have been returned recently were ath letic supporters, trusses, and books on marriage and family relations, McCullough said. In past years, everything from magazine sub scriptions to “some weird thing” a professor received that no one knew what it was have been among the “jokes,” he said. “Usually the packages are just returned to the sender and that ends the matter,” he said, “but a written complaint is received from either the sender or the receiver, the matter is referred to the Pos tal Inspection service. Students mean it to be a joke, but it can be a “serious” matter if a complaint is registered, he said. “And the senders of these pro ducts can be tracked down by the postal service,” McCullough ad ded. The price of this kind of a joke is rather high, when you consider the maximum penalty under Pos tal Laws and Regulations that can be given for misuse of the mails is $1,000 fine, five years in prison, or both. TS€W Freshman Is Cotton Queen Miss Pat Callaway, TSCW fresh man speech major from Fort Worth, will reign as Queen of the 21st annual Cotton Ball and Page ant sponsored by the Agronomy society Friday, April 29. Miss Callaway was chosen from 29 candidates last weekend at Denton by a group of nine Ag ronomy society members. The queen and her Cotton King, H&M Senior Joe Bob Snodgrass,. ):in be pi’esented, along with their cpurt, at the Cotton Pageant, to be held in White coliseum from 7:30 to(J> p. m. Included in the program is a style show, directed by Beverly Braley of Bryan, and music by the Dorms To Be Open During Holidays Dormitories will not be locked during the Easter holidays, and all students are reminded to lock their doors and windows if they will be gone according to Harry Boyer, chief of housing. The dormitories will not be lock ed because there will be some stu dents staying here during the holi days, Boyer said. Aggieland orchestra. . Admission prices are $1.50 for reserved seats, $1 general admission and 50 cents for school children; The Aggieland orchestra will again play for the Cotton Ball, to follow the pageant in the Grove. Tickets for the ball ai’e $2. The nine committee members were entertained Saturday night in Denton with a formal dance at Stoddard hall. Following church services and breakfast Sunday, the group announced their choice of Miss Callaway. J. F. Mills of the agronomy department accompanied the students. The Cotton court, runners-up in the competition for queen, and their escorts, the selection com mittee, are Jacquelyn Sheeler, to be escorted by Eugene Bockholt; Margaret Dyer, Bob Butschek; Lou Bernhardi, A1 Keith; Ginger Tiemann, Jesse Russel; Dolores Quinones, Murray Milford; Grace Smith, Holman Griffin; Rosemary Lenert, Alton Taylor; and Beverly Pitts, escorted by Lyle Lovelace. ‘Early Bird’ Wins WFAA Parakeets Andy Adam got the bird in Dallas last week. Adam, who is with the Ag ricultural Extension service, won two parakeets on radio station WFAA’s “Early Birds” program. He will keep one of the birds and give the other to College Station Mkyor Ernest Langford. Adam was in Dallas on a tour with four officials of the Turkish government. He is still out of town. Pancake Fiesta Tickets Now Being Sold Tickets for the April 16 Ki- wanis fiesta, co-sponsored by the Kiwanis clubs of College Station and Bryan, went on sale today, and can be bought from any member of the two clubs. The price is 50 cents, and the money will be used for helping un derprivileged children, according to R. N. Cherry, president of the College Station Kiwanis club. The fiesta will be held at the Bryan Country club from noon un til 9 p.m. W. E. Briles is co-chair man for the local club with Dick Holmgreen of Bryan. Briles said of the event, “It is a good chance to get acquainted with your neighbors and should be a wholesome afternoon for young and old alike.” A feature of the pancake supper will be a figure from deep south Louisiana—Aunt Jemima, in per son direct from Col. Higbee’s Land ing on the Mississippi. Entertainment will be provided at the fiesta, and J. H. Southern from the College Station club and Jerry Massey from the Bryan club are co-chairmen for the entertain ment committee. Alpha Zeta Initiates 21 Into Chapter Twenty-one new members were initiated last night into A&M’s Texas Alpha chapter of Alpha Zeta, national agri cultural honor fraternity. The initiation, which was the se cond of the year for the chapter, was held in the Memorial Student Center. Present besides the initi ates, were the present members and members of the School of Agri culture faculty. Those initiated were as follows: Charlie Abbey, W. N. Dannen- burg, Carl Coppock, Troy B. Pat terson, F. R. Quazi, E. J. Goddard, Bennie J. Camp, Humberto V. Reyes, Stanley P. Holz, Emory Crump. Robert J. Butschek, David York Fawcett, Gibson Feagins, Vernon Fluitt, Ronald G. Gardner, H. D. Hoese, Y. C. Moseley, A. Kurnik, Ram Narain, S. E. Davidson, and Ed F. Smith. All are juniors, seniors, or graduate students. Dark-Root Lecture A lecture on “What Happens in the Dark-Root Studies” will be given at 8 p.m. tonight in the lec ture room of the Biological Sci ences building. Dr. Charles J. Willard, department of agronomy at Ohio State university, will speak. Weather Today Library Announces Holiday Schedule Cushing Memorial Library has announced the following schedule for the Easter holidays: Wednesday-Friday, 8 a.m. to p.m. Saturday, 8-12 a.m. Sunday, closed all day. Monday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, regular schedule. News of the World PARTLY CLOUDY The weather outlook for today is partly cloudy and clearing in the afternoon. There is little change in the weather forecast for Wed nesday. Yesterday’s high was 83, low 69. The temperature at 10:45 this morning was 79. Run-Offs May Decide Officers in Election Class of 9 S6, ’57 Voting Canceled Unauthorized primaries held by army sophomores and juniors caused postponement of today’s class of ’56 and ’57 class elections. The Election commission decided last night to postpone the two elections, scheduled for today, because it had evi dence that army students in both classes had held primaries to determine a slate of candidates for next year’s class officer positions. Still to be elected today are a class agent for the class of ’55 class of ’58 officers, and Memorial Student Center council members. Polls in the post office area of the MSC will remain open until 6 p.m. Election of the class of ’56 and ’57 officers will probably be held at the April 27 gen eral elections, said Dave Lane, chairman of the Election comis sion. The Student Senate, of which the Election commission is a commit tee, will decide definitely. Filings for the general elections open Wednesday and close April 20. The 20-man Election commission voted last night to postpone the two class elections because the primaries were held “without the knowledge or consent of the Election commission,” Lane said. “There was definitely a primary- type election among the army stu dents in both classes,” he said. Primaries are not mentioned in the college regulations, so they are not illegal by strict interpretation. They become illegal if students are prevented from filing because of them, said W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, business manager of student activ ities and Election commission ad visor. The Student Senate will decide what to do about primary-type elections in the future, Lane said, but the Election commission will recommend to the senate that they be outlawed. According to reports, each army regiment held a primary, then the two regiments got together to pick a slate of candidates for filing. SWEETHEART-Miss Bar bara Blaize, above, was chosen Sophomore Sweet heart at the Sophomore ball Saturday night. She was picked from five finalists by a committee of honor guests. J. W. Moore was her escort. By The ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON—Unofficial reports said yesterday that Great Britain expects Churchill to resign today and hand the office of prime minister to foreign minister Anthony Eden. Rea sons for the expectation are uncertain. ★ ★ ★ NEW YORK—Medical director for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Dr. Hart Van Riper, says that nearly twice as much salk polio vaccine is ex pected to be available this summer than was originally es timated. He said yesterday there will be enough to im munize 30 million persons. ★ ★ ★ PEIPING—Communist China has disclosed the purge of two top Red leaders. They were Kao Kang, who commit ted suicide after being tossed out of the party, and Jao Shu- Shih, a top party leader. Action against them came at a party conference called in late March. American officials in Washington see no signs of a split in Red China’s purge. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—The Tennessee Valley Authority yesterday urged legislation to provide funds in addition to federal appropriations for expansion of the vast TV A power system. The recommendations come in a report to the Budget bureau asking amendments to its basic laws that would authorize it to issue bonds to be secured by power revenue. Civilians Invited For Open House Civilians from the College Sta tion-Bryan area are invited to visit the new NCO Club during an “open house week-end” at Bryan air force base, April 8-10, according to M/Sgt. Dick Powell, club secretary. The club has engaged the Victory Shows, a full carnival of rides and shows to celebrate the occasion. The main gate of the base will be open to civilian guests during carnival hours. Site of the carnival will be across the street from the club. The carnival will be open from 6-11 p. m. Friday; 2-12 p. m. Satur day; and 1-6 p. m. Sunday. The Sunday performance will be kiddies matinee day and all rides will be 5 cents. If today’s election runs true-to-form, a good many of the positions will have to be decided by run-offs. To help the candidates and the voters, here are the rules the Election commission will use to determine who gets into the run-offs. The rules are in the Election commission”s official word ing, except for the one explanation in parenthesis. RUN-OFF RULES 1. For a man to be elected outright without a run-off, he must have a total of 20 per cent of the total votes cast for that office in excess of the next highest man’s number of votes. (This means that if 500 votes are cast for one position, say senior class president, a man must have 100 votes more than the next man to win outright.) 2. In the case of run-off, a. There will be three men in the run-off if more than five men are running for that office. » There will be two men in the run-off if five men or less are running for that office. If only two men are running for one office, the man with the highest number of votes will be elected. b. c. No Easter Holiday For Journalists There will be no rest during the spring recess for the students in Journalism 306 according to Wesley Calvert, instructor. These students will travel to Conroe and take complete charge of its weekly newspaper, The Courier, for one week. Mr. and Mrs. Rigby Owen, owners and publishers of the Courier, extended the invitation. This will be the first time such a venture has been tried, Calvert said. Wilcox Wins Post On School Board G. W. Wilcox was re-elected as county school board member-at- large, beating out D. D. Burchard 78 votes to 65. Burchard had a 60 to 21 majority in the Saturday election in College Station at Con solidated school. Voters also re-elected two Con solidated school board members, J. S. Rogers and J. R. Jackson, who were unopposed. Rogers got 81 votes and Jackson 79. Today until 7 p. m., a city election is being held in the city hall council room for three council- men who are unopposed. They are J. A. Orr, G. W. Black and Ernest Seegar. No Action Taken On Early Holidays No action has yet been taken on the Student Senate’s request to have college holidays begin at noon instead of 5 p.m., President David H. Morgan said yesterday. Morgan said that the request would “require considerable study.” It must first be approved by the Executive committee, and then by the Academic council, since it would mean a change in college regulations. The senate made the request as an effort to prevent highway acci dents, saying that many students leaving the college late in the af ternoon would have to drive too late at night. Their request covered the Thanks giving, Christmas, and Easter holidays. As the rule now stands, these holidays begin officially at 5 p.m. or after the student’s last class of the day. The Easter holidays will begin at 5 p.m. Wednesday. Lions Club Hears Speech On Arabia Maj. Kenneth J. Edwards jr. of the military science department spoke yesterday to the College Sta tion Lions club on Saudi Arabia He has spent the last seven years in Europe and the Middle East, two of which were spent in Arabia. CRY BEAVER!—Ronald G. Gardner of Humble inspects his beard, wondering how it will please the judges of the civilian student beard-growing contest, to be judged May 13, during Civilian weekend. Application blanks for the contest, which will have “fanciest beard” and “scroungiest beard” divisions, can be picked up from the office of stu dent affairs, Goodwin hall.