The Battalion
Number 92: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1955
Price Five Cents
News
of the
World
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON—Winston Churchill re
signed Tuesday as Britain’s prime
minister. His political heir, Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden, assumed
leadership of the g-overnment
Wednesday. Churchill’s wife, his
doctors and his friends had been
uy?ing the 80-year-old'prime mini
ster to take things easier for
months, and he finally gave in after
suffering the exhaustion of two
strokes. Churchill tendered his
resignation to Queen Elizabeth at
Buckingham palace. Leaders of all
parties were to pay honor to
“Winnie” in the House of Commons
Wednesday.
* * *
WASHINGTON — Secretary
of State Dulles told reporters
the U. S. wants to deal with
Red China in a civilized, peace
ful manner in order to avoid
war in the Formosa area. But
he stressed that the U. S. in
tends to defend Formosa and
the Pescadores Islands against
Red assult—if it comes.
* * *
PEIPING — The Peiping radio
says that Red China’s high com
mand has set up a powerful watch
dog committee over the Communist
party — thus threatening new
WASHINGTON — President
Eisenhower paid tribute Tues
day to Churchill, praising the
courage and wisdom of his
friend of World War Two
days.
* * *
NEW YORK—Maj. Gen. Court
ney Whitney insisted Tuesday night
that “no competent evidence what
soever exists that concessions
made at the Yalta Big Three con
ference were based on prior recom
mendations by general of the army,
Douglas MacArthur. Whitney is
MacArthur’s aide.
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DOING THEIR DUTY—Shown voting in the city election Tuesday at city hall are Mrs.
Raymond Jones, far left, and Miss Ann Scarmardo, both standing. The incumbents, J. A.
Orr, Ernest Seegar and G. W. Black, who were running unopposed, did so successfully.
Total vote was 35 with Orr getting 16; Seegar, 10; and Black, 9. Seated at the table
are Mrs. C. B. Godbey, left, and Mrs. Ernest Langford, center; and Mrs. W. B. Clements,
right, who was election judge.
Next Year’s
For Student
Editors Named
Publications
The Student Publications board
yesterday named next year’s
editors for four student publi
cations—The Battalion, the Aggie-
land, the Southwest Veterinarian,
and the Agriculturist.
Battalion editor will be Bill
Fullerton, Aggieland editor will be
Kurt Nauck, and Agriculturist
editor will be Frank Waddell.
The Southwest Veterinarian will
have co-editors, Bryan Beard fend
Wallace Larson.
Editors for the Commentator and
the Engineer will be named as soon
as the respective school councils
approve the candidates. Also to be
Friday Day of Prayer,
Proclaims CS Mayor
WHEREAS, on April 8, 1955, Christians everywhere
will observe that day, it being Good Friday; and,
WHEREAS, we are in the Lenten Season and we, as
Christians, should honor our Lord Jesus on this day, it be
ing the day that our Blessed Saviour died on the Cross for
us and the remission of sins of mankind; and,
, WHEREAS, the least that we can do on this day is to
go to church and bow our heads in prayer in humility for the
sacrifice that the Lord Jesus made for us, and by our acts
show that we have not forgotten His sacrifice:
‘ NOW, THEREFORE, I, Ernest Langford, Mayor of the
City of College Station, in the State of Texas, do hereby
proclaim the hours from 12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m. on Good
Friday, April 8, 1955, to be observed by the people of the
City of College Station as hours of prayer and meditation,
and urge every citizen in this City to attend the church of his
choice during this period of time; and I further urge that
all business houses in this City cease their operations and
close during this period.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my
name officially and caused the seal of the City of College
Station, in the State of Texas, to be affixed, this 6th day
of April, 1955.
(Signed) Ernest Langford, Mayor
(Seal) City of College Station,
College Station, Texas
named is an editor for the student
directory.
There was no opposition for any
of the men named as editors—
all were the only men approved by
the manager of student publi
cations.
The board also authorized one
editor instead of co-editors for
The Battalion and the Aggieland
in the future. The one editor can
be either military or civilian.
This changes the present system
of having co-editors, one a military
student and one a civilian student.
Announced at the board’s meet
ing was a transfer of the football
program publication from student
publications to the athletic depart
ment.
Karl E. Elmquist, chairman of
the board, said the publication had
been transferred by action of the
administration.
The board accepted the resig
nation of former Battalion co
editor Bob Boriskie, who left April
1 to take a job with the college in
formation office, and appointed
Harri Baker, the other co-editor, as
editor for the rest of the semester.
In other action, the board
authorized future expenses for a
micro-film back-issues library for
the publications’ files, funds for
darkroom and sound equipment in
publications new quarters, and a
change in The Battalion’s wire
service.
Chin Whiskers
Something
Coming to
New
A&M
Easter Dance
The Dallas home town club is
sponsoring an Easter dance in the
Adolphus hotel Cactus room Thurs
day at 8 p. m. Tickets are $1.50
with or without date.
Weather Today
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PARTLY CLOUDY
The weather outlook for today
is continued cloudy with occasional
showers.
Yesterday’s high was 82.
Slide Rule Contest
Set For April 12
The annual Slide Rule contest,
sponsored by the mechanical engi
neering department, will be held at
4 p. m. April 12 in the Electrical
Engineering lecture room.
The contest will be a competitive
examination on slide rule problems,
of the same type as given on the
mechanical engineering quiz A.
The contest will be between stu
dents currently enrolled in me
chanical engineering 108 or 101.
The following rules may be used as
guides:
1. Contestants should be selected
on the basis of mid-term grades.
2. The contestants must be select
ed and notified of their selection by
their instructor, as being in the
best 10 per cent of his class.
3. If more than 10 per cent of the
students in any class have an
average of A at the time of pre
liminary grade reports, the in
structor may select all of his A
students as contestants.
Time and place of awards will be
announced at a later date.
By JON KINSLOW
Battalion Managing Editor
When the civilian students re
turn from the Easter holidays, they
will bring with them an added at
traction . for the A&M campus—
beards.
The official starting date for the
beard-growing contest was Tues
day, but many of the students will
probably not start the chin
whiskers until sometime after
Easter Sunday.
In organizing the contest, which
will be a part of the Civilian week
end activities, the planning com
mittee took this into consideration.
The group, composed of repre
sentatives from each civilian hous
ing area, decided to set the start
ing date on a day before the Easter
holidays began. They felt a few
days’ difference wouldn’t matter,
anyhow.
Also, since some of the students
wouldn’t have much chance to grow
exceptionally long beai'ds, the
committee decided to have two
awards for the contest—the fanci
est beard and the scroungiest
beard. This way, the committee felt
no one would be handicapped by a
lack of “growing season.”
Judged May 13
The finalists in the contest will
be judged May 13, the day before
the Civilian Student dance. Two of
the judges will be Jane and Joan
Ryba, Rice institute’s twin cheer
leaders.
In choosing a date for the judg
ing, the committee ran into an
other problem. If the contest was
judged during the dance, then some
erf the dates of the civilian stu
dents might object to dancing with
a face full of whiskers. So the com
mittee voted to have the judging
the night before, thus giving the
students a chance to compete with
out having to wear the beards to
the dance.
The beard-growing contest is
only a part of the activities planned
for the Civilian weekend. Also on
the agenda are a barbecue, the
dance, an intramural tug-of-war,
and an ugly man contest.
Prizes for the winners in the
various contests are being donated
by local merchants, and the com
plete list will be published in a
later issue of The Battalion.
A bbreviated Elec lions
Decide Three Positions
Alpha Zeta
Flans Portrait
Of Shepardson
A&M’s chapter of Alpha
Zeta, honorary agriculture
fraternity, is starting a move
to have a portrait of C. N.
Shepardson, former dean of
agriculture, painted.
Shepardson, who had been dean
for about 12 years, resigned re
cently to become a director of the
Federal Reserve system.
The fraternity, said F. E.
(Sonny) Tutt, chancellor, would
like to have the picture hung in
the new biochemistry and nutri
tion building, scheduled to be com
pleted by September of 1956.
Letters will be sent to all for
mer students of the School of Ag
riculture, asking them to donate
to the portrait fund.
Tutt said the fraternity also
planned to ask students who are
now in the School of Agriculture
to contribute.
Donations may be sent to Miss
Lillian Ferguson, secretary of the
School of Agriculture.
Don Dierschke is in charge of
Alpha Zeta’s portrait committee.
News Briefs
JOHN Q. HAYS, of the English
department, was elected president
of the Conference Teachers of Eng
lish of Texas at their 20th annual
meeting held in Denton. About
200 college teachers registered for
the two-day program.
ROBERT P. WOOD, of the bus
iness administration department,
will be chairman of the eighth an
nual Accounting conference, to be
held here April 18-19.
* * *
INFLUENZA WAS the leading
disease of the College Station-Bry-
an area last week according to the
weekly report of the Bryan-Brazos
county health unit.
* * *
DR. WILLIS TATE, president of
Southern Methodist university, will
deliver the commencement address
at the spring graduation here May
27 in White Coliseum.
* * *
GEN. O. P. WEYLAND, coiua
mander of the tactical air force,
will speak for the annual Aggie
Muster here April 21. He is a
graduate of the class of ’23.
Dorms To Be Open
Dormitories will not be locked
during the Easter holidays, said
Harry Boyer, chief of housing. All
students are reminded to lock their
rooms.
Vic Eliters
Counselor Speaks
Vic Ehlers, youth counselor for
the Brazos County Youth Develop
ment committee, spoke yesterday
to the College Station Kiwanis club
on why the county has a youth
counseling service.
Ehlers explained the counseling
service as a coordinating agent
with other youth agencies for the
county. The work was set up in
Brazos county as a three-year ex
periment by the State Health de
partment, and Ehlers took over
.early in February. The experiment
is being watched all over the state.
Several people had suggested
that the setting up of the service
only in this county might be con
sidered a “disgrace,” he said. To
them, Ehlers explained that such an
agency was “like getting a good
doctor in town— certainly not a
disgrace.”
Ehlers explained his mission as
being two part; the first to work
directly with parents and children
who have problems, and the second
to serve as a consultant for other
community youth workers to help
them think through their problems.
Cooperation, both with the per
sons directly concerned in a pro
blem and with other agencies in
this type of service, is the key to
our success in combatting de
linquency and helping to solve
problems, he said.
“The most important require
ment is that parents and children
recognize their problems and want
to get help,” he said.
Other requirements are that per
sons desiring counseling service
must be a resident of Brazos county
and youths must not be older than
18.
Cases that come to his office
arise either from parents coming
on their own, schools or other
youth agencies sending children,
or juvenile court referring them
to him.
Some need more than we can
offer here, he said. This service is
not a cure all, but it is a step to
ward working out a child’s small
problems so they will not become
big later on, he added.
Ehlers concluded his speech with
this thought for everyone in the
county: “This is your problem, your
youth, your community—and mine.
We must cooperate with each other
to make a success of the venture.”
Class of '58 To Have
Runoffs; Date Delayed
Approximately 1,000 students voted in the abbreviated
class elections held Tuesday in the Memorial Student Center.
The elections were for class .agent for the class of ’55,
won by F..E. (Sonny) Tutt; two MSG Council members, won
by Ernest Kennedy for those having completed more than
four semesters at A&M and Don D. McGinty for those having
completed less than four semesters; and complete class offi
cers for the class of ’58, all of which will have a runoff elec
tion.
The elections for the classes of ’56 and ’57 were not held
due to the primaries held by the army. Elections for these
classes probably will be held at the April 27 general election.
according to Dave Lane, chair-
Election
Filings
Now Oduii
Filings for the general elec
tion April 27 opened Wednes
day and will remain open for
two weeks.
Positions to be elected in
clude those not chosen in the class
elections Tuesday. Also, the class
of ’56 and ’57 class elections may
be held during the general elec
tions. These two elections were
postponed by the Election commis
sion Monday night, and the date
for the election will be set by the
Student Senate, of which the Elec
tion commission is a committee.
Positions in the general election
and the qualifications for each are
as follows:
Student Senate — 15 from the
class of ’56; 10 from the class of
’57; 6 from the class of ’58; one
from each civilian dormitory; one
from College View; 2 from the day
students.
Qualifications for senator are a
1.0 grade point ratio and attend
ance at A&M for the two previous
semesters. The senators, includ
ing those from the civilian dormi
tories, may be either corps or civ
ilian students.
Student Publications board —
one student from the class of ’56
from the corps, and one civilian
student from the class of ’56. Qual
ifications are a 1.5 grade point ra
tio.
Civilian Student Life committee
members — three civilian students
who are at least sophomores and
have attended A&M for the two
previous semesters. They must
have a 1,0 grade ratio.
Civilian yell leader — any civ
ilian student who is either a junior
or senior at the time of election
and who has a 1.25 grade ratio.
man of the Election commis
sion. The Student Senate, of
which the Election commis
sion is a committee, will de
cide definitely.
The runoff election for class of
’58 officers will not be held April
13 as scheduled on the college cal
ender, said W. D. (Pete) Hardesty,
business manager of student ac
tivities. The runoff will be held
Complete results of Tues
day’s class elections are on
page 3 of this issue of The
Battalion. Included is the
number of votes each man re
ceived.
at a date to be announced later,
pending action by the S t u -
dent Senate on the class of ’56
and ’57 elections, he said.
The senate will decide what to
do about primary-type elections in
the future, Lane said. The 20-
man Election commission will rec-
commend to the senate that they
be outlawed, he said.
Runoff election date and date
for the two cancelled class elec
tions will be announced later.
Holiday Schedule
Planned for MSC
The Memorial Student Center
will be closed for the Easter holi
days, April 7-10, with the excep
tion of the western union office,
according to Wayne Stark, direc
tor.
The dining room will be open
from 11:30 a. m. until 2 p. m. Sun
day and will be closed all day
Monday. Guest rooms will be clos
ed at 6 p.m. Wednesday and will
be opened at 11 a.m. Sunday.
The fountain room, gift shop,
bowling alley and game room will
be open Monday, but will not re
sume their regular schedule until
Tuesday. The barber shop and
the administrative offices will re
sume their regular schedules Mon
day.
KEGLER KING AND QUEEN—Mrs. Pat Crockett, left,
and George Knippel, right, were named King and Queen
Bowler at the Memorial Student Center bowling lanes Fri
day night. John Geiger, center, manager of the MSC bowl
ing and games department, presented trophies to the win
ners. Each bowling league and club nominated a candi
date, and every person who bowled three lines in non-league
play got to vote.