Number 104: Volume 54
The Battalion
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1955
Price Five Cents
Sbisa Hall Annex
K ing, Q ueesi Of Cotton to Reign
More Than 100 Expected
For Annual Clinic Monday Tonight At Annua! Cotton Rail
Pageant To Include
Cotton Style Show
More than 100 children from
Brazos and six other surrounding
counties are expected here for the
tenth annual Crippled Children’s
clinic Monday in Sbisa hall annex.
The clinic, sponsored by the Col
lege Station Kiwanis club in coop
eration with the Brazos County
Chapter for Crippled Children and
the Brazos Valley Shriners club,
will start at 8 a.m. Serrices of
Sbme noted orthopedic surgeons and
physical therapists will be avail
able for free diagnosis and recom
mendations for treatment.
Specialists Here
Some of the specialists who are
donating their time and effort for
A&M Cowboys
To Have Ball
Saturday Night
A&M’s cowhands and their
friends will throw a stomp
Saturday night, when the Ag
gie Ramblers will play for the
Cattleman’s ball.
. The dance will begin at 8 p.m.
in The Grove. Tickets are $2, stag
or couple.
Highpoint of the dance will be
fhe naming of a sweetheart dur
ing the intermission. An as-yet
unnamed committee will select her
during the dance from the dates of
the animal husbandry majors or
members of the Saddle and Sirloin
club present.
The committee will be composed
of professors, secretaries, or pro
fessors’ wives, said Ken Killion,
president of the Saddle and Sirloin
club, which sponsors the annual
dance.
A&M students at the dance
should wear western clothes, Kil
lion said, but western clothes will
be optional with the dates.
Members of the cadet corps will
be allowed to attend the dance in
western clothes.
this clinic are Dr. W. H. Eggers,
University Medical school, Galves
ton; Dr. T. C. Blocker, John Sealy
hospital, Galveston; and Dr. W. H.
Ainsworth, University Medical
school, Galveston. Two indepen
dent surgeons from Waco, Drs. P.
W. Bailey jr. and Arthur P. Heps,
also have offered their services.
At the clinic will be representa
tives from the Rehabilitation and
Welfare service to investigate cas
es that might deserve treatment.
The registration is to end at 12
noon, but will continue into the af
ternoon if all the children have not
been seen.
Jones Chairman
Luther G. Jones is chairman for
the clinic. Others active in the
planning for this year’s clinic in
clude Taylor Riedel, president of
the Brazos County Society for Crip
pled Children, and Mrs. D. W. An
dres, chairman of the Easter Seal
society, which provides funds for
treatment of crippled children.
“This clinic is open to everyone
needing the services offered, re
gardless of race, creed or color,”
Riedel said.
Members of the Children’s com
mittee of the Kiwanis club include
Jones, chair-man, J. F. Fudge, Is
aac Peters, W. W. Potts, E. B.
Reynolds, J. J. Sperry and Riedel.
Pet Show Starts
At 4:30 Saturday
The gates open at 4:30 to
morrow afternoon on the A&M
Consolidated Pet Show, to be
held at the high school football
field.
A class is open for any kind
of a pet, and plenty of ribbons
will be available. Cbnsession
stands will have food and
drink, and prizes will be given
away by drawings.
Tickets are 25 cents for
adults and 10 cents for chil
dren, They are available from
second through fifth grade
students at Consolidated high
school.
Ice cream for the clinic is being
donated by Lilly Ice Cream com
pany of Bryan; the Coca Cola com
pany is donating Cokes; and San
itary Farm Dairies is giving milk.
Two Exes To Get
Honorary Degrees
One of the nation’s most dis
tinguished aviation engineers and
R leader in agricultural extension
services will be recipients of hon
orary degrees from A&M, at the
college’s commencement exercises
May 27. Both men are former
A&M students.
Leonard Sinclair Hobbs, 1916
graduate of A&M and 1954 winner
of the Collier trophy in aviation,
and John Hayne McLeod, 1908
graduate of the college, now dean
of the College of Agriculture and
Home Economics and director of
the Agricultural Experiment sta
tion and Agricultural Extension
service of the University of Ten
nessee, will be recipients of de
grees of Doctor of Laws. Action
to award the degrees was approved
by the board of directors at their
recent meeting.
Hobbs was awarded the Collier
fl-ophy in aviation on Dec. 17, 1954,
by President Eisenhower, for his
leadership in development of the
J57 dual-compressor gas turbifte
for aircraft engines. Development
of this turbine is considered one
of the most outstanding develop
ments in modern high-speed flight.
A former engineering manager
of Pratt and Whitney Aircraft div
ision of the United Aircraft cor-
portation, he has been a director
of the corporation since 1942, and
vice-president since 1944.
• McLeod, a native of Athens,
served as head of the livestock de
partment of the University of Ar
kansas, from 1914 to 1919, and
joined the extension service of the
University of Tennessee as a swine
specialist. From 1934 to 1936 he
served as farm management spe
cialist and head of the extension
farm management department.
He became vice-director in 1945,
and was chosen “Man of the Year
in Agriculture” by Progressive
Farmer magazine in 1945.
McLeod was appointed acting di
rector of the extension service in
1946 and in 1948 was made dean of
the College of Agriculture and
Home Economics, director of the
Agricultural Experiment station,
and director of the Agricultural
Extension service, of the Univer
sity of Tennessee.
Whitney Says
Center Should
Aid Education
Every activity of the Me
morial Student Center should
contribute to the educational
process of the college, said the
new president of the Memor
ial Student Center last night, in
outlining his concept of a student
union.
The new president, Bud Whitney,
took over from out-going president
Charles Parker at the MSC coun
cil and directorate banquet last
night.
The Center’s Distinguished Serv
ice awards and Appreciation
awards were also given out at the
banquet, which was attended by
about 200 persons.
“The MSC is more than just an
extracurricular activity,” Whitney
said, “It is a classroom that does
n’t check the roll, a laboratory in
human relations, and a freshman
to graduate seminar.”
He said the MSC is a part of
“continuing education,” or educa
tion by discussion, and was con
cerned with producing a well-
rounded student.
Parker, who was given a watch
by the council and directorate at
the banquet, reviewed the activi
ties of the Center this year, then
issued a “challenge to all students
who are iritei’ested in improving
themselves in any way to become
active in the MSC activities.
Distinguished Service awards,
the MSC’s highest award, was pre
sented to Whitney and Art Hen
derson, freshman member of the
music group.
Henderson was the first fresh
man + o receive a MSC Distinguish
ed Sf rvice Award.
Twenty-two Appreciation awards
were given to members of the
council and directorate.
Council members who received
appreciation awards are Doug
Krueger, Dave Ashcroft, Harri Ba
ker, Bob Boriskie, Sam B. South-
well and C. A. Roeber.
Directorate members who re
ceived awards and their committees
were as follows:
Thomas Williams, art; Dick
Wall, dance; Michael Kuich, dance;
(See MSC COUNCIL, Page 2)
Miss Pat Calloway
Cotton Queen
Social Security No. 4
Benefits Related
To Person’s Wage
This is the last in a series of
four articles explaining the plan
to allow state employees to re
ceive Social Security insurance.
The articles were prepared by
John Hill, A&M System director
of workman’s compensation.
After state supported colleges
and universities of Texas come un
der the provisions of Social Securi
ty (OASI), staff members will be
entitled to the following benefits:
All benefits are related to the
individual staff members’ average
monthly wage. This is computed
by taking the earnings while cover
ed by OASI up to $3,600 a year
from 1951 through 1955, and up to
$4,200 per year thereafter, and di
viding by the number of months
A CLEAN SWEEP—Part of getting ready for federal inspection is moving everything
out of your room, cleaning the bare floor and walls, then moving everything back in.
Here in the crowded hall of one of the military dormitories Wednesday night are, left
to right, P. D. O’Brien, A1 Greene, Lamar James, and Frank Bryan, all sophomores,
ine room inspection was yesterday morning. The review yesterday afternoon ended the
two-day inspection visit.
King and Queen Cotton will reign over A&M tonight, as
the annual Cotton ball and pageant take over the campus.
r l he full night of activity will include the Cotton pageant
in-the White coliseum at 7:30 p.m., and the Cotton ball in
The Grove at 9 p.m.
The crowning of the king and queen, A&M Senior Joe
Bob Snodgrass and TSCW Freshman Pat Calloway, will high
light the pageant, which will also include entertainment and
a style show.
W. T. Doherty, president of the A&M System board of
directors, will crown the king and queen, and Morris Frank,
Houston Chronicle columnist, will be master of ceremonies
“♦for the show.
With King Joe and Queen
Pat will be the members of
their court, composed of mem
bers of A&M’s Agronomy so
ciety and TSCW students who were
runners-up for the queen title.
The grand march of 160 cotton
iTftdl. y ft ®_r f.® clad duchesses and their A&M es-
•' corts will follow the crowning. The
A&M System faculty and duchesses represent campus clubs,
staff members will vote next College Station and Bryan organi-
week on whether or not they zations, and mothers clubs and for-
want to be covered by Social mer students clubs from all over
Security insurance.
SS Coverage
Election To Be
2 to 5
elapsing between January 1, 1951
and the date of death or age 65.
For those whose covered employ
ment begins January 1, 1955, the
months elapsing between January
1, 1951 and January 1, 1955 may
be dropped fi’om the calculation to
avoid including months in which
there were no covered earnings as
devisor months.
This “drop out” period enables
the average monthly wage of the
newly covered person to be based
entirely on covered earnings after
1954.
These special provisions were
written in the 1954 amendment to
allow persons coming under OASI
after 1954 the same privileges as
if they had been covered since the
beginning of OASI.
Benefits are payable to a worker
1 who is fully insured and reaches
age 65, or to his survivors if he
dies prior to age 65 leaving depen
dent children under age 18.
If an individual keeps on work
ing after age 65 and before 72, or
if his widow should have to work
before age 72, OASI benefits will
be affected if earnings are in ex
cess of $1,200 in any calendar year.
OASI benefits will not be affect
ed by earned income after age 72,
and benefits from Teachers Retire
ment and Employees Retirement
will not be considered in this
$1,200 “work test.”
Guion Hall Ground
To Be Beautified
Grounds in front of and around
Guion hall will be reworked this
summer after the spring semester
has ended, according to J. W. Mac-
Queen, head of the department of
care and maintenance of grounds.
Part of this beautification pro
ject is already in progress. Mac-
Queen said that the traffic tri
angle at the northeast corner of
the Memorial Student Center will
be planted into ground cover and
annual flowers.
The plot originally held a tree,
which was taken out when the old
journalism building was removed
several months ago.
“The tree was a traffice haz
ard,” MacQueen said.
The voting will be conducted May
2, 3, 4, and 5, with only those per
sons who are already participating
in employee or teacher retirement
eligible to vote.
Because of an act of Congress in
1954, state employees are now eli
gible for the insurance. If the state
employees vote to be included, the
Legislature will have to pass an en
abling law, and then put up part
of the money.
Voting will be in three places, as
follows:
Employees of A&M college, the
Engineering Extension service, the
Engineering Experiment station,
and all A&M System offices located
here will vote in the Engineers li
brary.
Employees of the Agricultural
Experiment station will vote at the
station’s fiscal office in the system
building.
Employees of the Agricultural
Extension service will vote at the
service’s fiscal office in the system
building.
Employees of the Forest Service
are voting by mail.
The polls will be open from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. Dr. F. C.
Bolton, election judge for the bal
loting place in the Engineers li
brary, said that he would keep his
poll open a little after noon and
a little after 5 p.m. each day for
those who touldn’t come during
regular hours.
The election judges asked every
one to try to vote early, Monday
and Tuesday if possible.
Each voting place will have a
roster of the eligible voters, so vot
ers need not bring proof of cover
age by one of the two retirement
plans.
Those participating in teacher
retirement will vote on a white
ballot; those participating in em
ployee retirement will vote on a
colored ballot.
Weather Today
the state.
“Ooobie Doobie” Boys
The program will include Wade
Moore and Dick Penner, the
“Gobie-Doobie” bop singers; Ann
Harrison, singer from Houston’s
KPRC-TV; the Coltzer dance team
from the University of Texas, with
ballroom dancing.
A four-girl dance number from
Bryan’s Jane Lee school of danc
ing; songs by Dean and Dan Pink-
ham, 14-year-old Horace Heidt
winners from Houston; and Virgi
nia McBride, Bryan, and Jimmy
Harrison, A&M student, semi-clas
sical singers.
Beverley Braley will present the
style show, which will feature
springtime cottons for Texas.
After the pageant, which the
Agronomy society promises will
not last over an hour and a half,
the Aggieland orchestra will play
for dancing at the Cotton ball in
The Grove.
Ticket Prices
Tickets for the pageant are $1.50
for reserved seats, $1 for general
admission, and 50 cents for public
school children. Dance tickets are
$2, stag or couple.
The Agronomy society sponsors
the Cotton pageant and ball each
year to raise money to send junior
and senior agronomy students on a
field ti'ip to Texas agricultural cen
ters.
May Agriculturist
To Go To FFA
More than 1,200 copies of the
May edition of the Agriculturist
will be sent to Future Farmers of
American chapters in the state,
said F. E. (Sonny) Tutt, editor of
the magazine.
The Agriculturist will be sent
out before the FFA State Live
stock Judging contest convenes
here May 21. This issue will have
articles describing every depart
ment in the School of Agriculture,
as well as articles written by for
mer officers of the State FFA or
ganization, who are now attending
A&M.
The purpose of this progi'am is
to inform Texas high school stu
dents interested in agriculture of
the value of coming to A&M for
their specialized agricultural edu
cation, and of the opportunities
offefed A&M graduates, Tutt said.
PARTLY CLOUDY
The weather outlook for today
is continued cloudy with little
change in temperature.
Yesterday’s high was 90, low 69.
The temperature at 10:15 this
morning was 77.
Students May File
For Class Offices
Filings are open for class offi
ces for the classes of ’56 and ’57,
a student entertainment manager
(’56), two yell leaders each for
’56 and ’57, and five election com
mission members for the classes
of ’56, ’57 and ’58. Student may
file in the student activities offi
ces, second floor of Goodwin hall,
until May 5. Election is to be
May 12.