Wei come to A&M, Mom and Dad!
The Battalion
Number 108: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1955
Price Five Cents
A&M Observes Parents Day Sunday
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Aggie Follies Has
Opening Tonight
A year in a typical Aggie’s life will be portrayed tonight
in Guion hall at the first of two productions of the Aggie
Follies.
Titled “Hullabaloo” the showing begins at 7:30 both
tonight and tomorrow night, and admission to either per
formance is $1. Proceeds from the Follies are used by the
student councils of the four degree-granting schools of the
college—veterinary, arts and sciences, agriculture, and engi
neering.
Has Seven Scenes
The play consists of seven scenes from life at A&M
representing registration, yell practice, classroom, post of
fice, dormitory, Sbisa hall (be-
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LIFE AT A&M—“Hullabaloo,” this year’s Aggie Follies, will show scenes from a typical
Aggie’s life, such as this dormitory scene where the wise upperclassmen explain girls
and dating to a freshman. In the scene are, from left to right, Roger Alexander, Ken
George, Lamar Ashley, Bill Fink, and Roger Clark. The first show will be tonight at
7:30 in Guion hall, with another performance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
Seating Plan Dropped
Senate Approves Budget
The Student Senate last night
Approved a $760 budget for the
1955-56 school year, which will be
sent to the Student Life commit
tee for final action at its May 16
meeting. The budget was presented
by Senate Treasurer Wallace
Eversberg.
The budget would include $149.10
for senate participation in the Tex
as Intercollegiate Student associa
tion, $105,80 for Welcoming com
mittee funds, $270 for Social com
mittee use, $100 for purchase of
senate keys, $40 for visiting stu
dent leaders, $45 for trips to TISA
district meetings, and $50 for con-
iingency or incidental funds.
The seating arrangement for
Kyle field that the Seating com
mittee, headed by John Benefield,
had been studying was explained
by Benefied.
Straw Vote Taken
Although no official senate ac
tion was taken, a straw vote of
everyone at the meeting indicated
that the committee’s proposal—
that a drawing be held for reser
ved seats for each game with the
person getting the seat number of
the stub he drew — did not find
favor with those present.
Benefied said the proposal would
be dropped, and that any new rec
ommendations would be left to
next year’s senate.
The Jazz Festival, sponsored
April 26 by the senate, made a
$450 profit which will go to the
Twelfth Man Scholarship fund, ac
cording to Stewart Coffman, head
of the senate committee in charge
of raising money for the fund. This
money will be used for one scholar
ship next year, he said.
Senator Larence Laskoskie in
troduced a motion, subsequently
passed by the senate, that the sen
ate send a letter of recommenda
tion to President David H. Mor
gan that handball facilities at A&M
be improved “both as to quantity
and quality.”
The senate smorgasbord banquet
will be held in the assembly room
of the Memorial Student Center
at 6:30 Monday night. The ban
quet is informal, and is free to
this year’s senators.
A motion to grant one senator
from the Project Housing are was
defeated. The motion would have
allowed the representative to take
office next fall after being elected
in this spring’s election.
Unofficial Returns
Favor SS Benefits
fore the dance), Sbisa hall (at
the dance).
Under advisors C. K. Es-
ten and Vic Wiening - , both of
the English department, the show
was written and directed by Don
Powell. He also wrote a song for
the play.
Leading characters and the parts
they portray are Roger Alexander,
typical agriculture major; Rock
Arnold, business major who knows
all the angles; Lamar Ashley, the
level-headed Aggie; Connie Eckard,
poor, befuddled Fish Jones.
Bill Swann, portraying an Aggie
yell leader’s concept of a UT cheer
leader; Barbara Johnson, the agri
culture major’s date; Anne Has-
lam, the blind date; Chi’is Pavelka,
an all-American girl; Gene Logan,
the yell leader’s date; Ann Mae
Paholek, shy little freshman in
need of a date.
All this plus Reveille.
Du«d Is ‘High Point*
According to Powell, the high
point of the show is “No Mail To
day,” a duet by Bill Huettel and
Eckard.
Charles (Chuck) Newman, chair
man of the Intercouncil’s Follies
committee, emphasized the show
would be an all-Aggie production—
the exceptions being girls arid Rev
eille. He also described the show
as being the “best Follies ever to
be held at A&M.”
Schedule of Events
FRIDAY
Event
Time
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Place
Aggie Follies
7:30 p.m.
Guion Hall
SATURDAY
Poultry Show
10 a.m.
DeWare Field H.
Federated Mothers Clubs
10:30 a.m.
MSC
Speech Contest
2 p.m.
MSC
MSC Open House
2-4 p.m.
MSC
Molten Iron Display
4 p.m.
ME Shops
Softball Game
7 p.m.
Softball Field
Aggie Follies
7:30 p.m.
Guion Hall
Livestock Judging Finals
7:30 p.m.
Rodeo Arena
All-College Dance
9:30 p.m.
The Grove
SUNDAY
Breakfast
7:30 a.m.
Dining Halls
Flower Pinning
8:15 a.m.
Dorm Areas
Unit Awards
8:25 a.m.
Dorm Areas
Corps Review
9:10 a.m.
Dfill Field
Corps Awards
During Review
Drill Field
Fish Drill Team
10:40 a.m.
Drill Field
Mothers Day Program
11 a.m.
Guion Hall
Lunch
12:30 p.m.
Dining Hall
Dorm Open House
11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Dorm Areas
RV Exhibition
2 p.m.
Drill Field
President’s Reception
3-4:30 p.m.
President’s Home
All day Saturday, the six schools of the college—Basic
Division, military science, engineering, arts and sciences, ag
riculture, and veterinary medicine—will have exhibits in their
departmental building and areas.
Weather Today
PARTLY CLOUDY
The weather outlook for today is
partly cloudy.
Yesterday’s high was 88, last
night’s low was 62. The temper
ature at 10:30 this morning was
78.
Unofficial returns in the Social
Security election here show A&M
employees overwhelmingly in fav
or of i*eceiving benefits from the
Old Age and Survivors Insurance
law.
Results taken yesterday from
the three voting boxes on the cam
pus showed 1,265 for the coverage
and 187 against.
These returns were taken at
4:30 p.m., with a half hour of vot
ing time left in the three-day elec
tion.
Election judges said a few more
voters might come in, but that al
most everyone eligible had voted.
Eligible voters were those who are
now under either teacher retire
ment or employee retirement plans.
Here are the returns by boxes:
A&M college, the Engineering
Extension service, the Engineering
Experiment station, and A&M
System offices on the campus:
Those now under teacher retire
ment voted 794 for, 92 against.
Those under employee retirement
voted 65 for, 5 against. Dr. F. C.
Bolton was election judge.
Agricultural Experiment sta
tion: Those under teacher retire
ment voted 314 for, 64 against.
Those under .employee retirement
voted 34 for, 5 against. L. P.
Gabbard was election judge.
Agricultural Extension service:
Those under teacher retii’ement
voted 58 for, 21 against. No one
under employee retirement voted
at this box. R. C. Nunn was elec
tion judge.
The returns will now go to the
state public welfare department
for official tabulation. The Legis
lature will have to pass enabling
legislature to make Social Secur
ity effective for state employees.
The original Social Security act
prohibited state employees from
being included under its provis
ions, but a recent act of Congress
allows coverage if the state will
provide part of the money.
Film Society Sets
Three Productions
The A&M Film scoiety will show
“A Run for Your Money” in the
Memorial Student Center ballroom
May 15 at 2 p.m.
According to Miss Margaret
Long, MSG program consultant,
there will also be two short films
shown—“The Tramp” with Charlie
Chaplin, and “Steps of the Ballet”.
“Fixed Bayonets” will be shown
May 29 at 7:30 p.m. This will also
be a short film, “What is Modern
Art?”
MSC Director
To Speak at Tech
J. Wayne Stark, director of the
Memorial Student Center, will be
the main speaker at the annual
Texas Tech Union council awards
banquet in Lubbock May 10, hon
oring the governing body of Tech’s
student union.
His talk will concern the po
tentialities of a student union and
the responsibility of a union toward
developing the skills and fine arts
of the students.
While there, Stark will counsel
and work with each of the incom
ing chairmen of the college’s stu-
Vanity Fair Date
Vanity Fair candidates must be
in birch room of the Memorial Stu
dent Center at 9 p.m. May 20 for
final selection of winners. Staff
members should go by the Aggie-
land office and sign the roster on
the bulletin board.
Filings Close
Filings closed yesterday for
class of ’56 and ’57 officers and
the election commission. One
hundred and eighteen students
filed.
The breakdown by classes in
the filings were class of ’56, 36;
class of ’57, 57; and election com
mission, 25.
The election will be held May
12 in the Memorial Student Cen
ter.
AF Assigns Aggies
To School Here
Two graduating seniors have
chosen by the United States Air
Force Institute of Technology to
return to A&M after commission
ing for graduate work in meteorol
ogy next year.
William C. Huckabe and Jeffie
J. Horn will go on active duty with
the air force as weather forecast
ers upon completion of the extra
year, and will receive a first lieu
tenant’s commission.
The September class for the Air
Weather service has not been fill
ed, and anyone interested in apply
ing should contact Capt. Robert
Bailey in the department of ocean
ography.
Weekend Filled
With Activities
A&M shines its shoes and puts its best foot forward this
weekend to honor the mothers and fathers of the Aggies in
the college’s big, activity-crammed Mother’s Day weekend.
Included in the two full days of activities will be every
thing from the all-student Aggie Follies and the Sunday
morning service, to a livestock judging contest and a poultry
show. Adding atmosphere will be the pouring of molten iron
in the mechanical engineering shops and a calliope in front
of the Memorial Student Center.
Each department of the six schools of the college will
have exhibits and displays in their departmental areas all
day Saturday, and the MSC will have an open house Saturday
afternoon in a carnival theme
—hence the calliope, borrowed
from the Gainsville Commun
ity circus.
“Hullabaloo,” this year’s
Aggie Follies, will give two per
formances, one Friday night and
one Saturday night. The Follies
this year is an all-student produc
tion, including writing, direction,
and music.
Saturday, which is called Open
House day, will start with the
presentation of awards for the an
nual Chick, Poult, and Egg show
at 10 a.m. in DeWare field house.
The show, sponsored by the Poul
try Science club, is to raise money
for the club’s projects.
The Federated A&M Mothers
club will meet from 10:30 a.m. to
3 p.m. in the MSC, and the Moth
ers Day Speech contest will be at
2 p.m. in the MSC.
The Center organization will
have its open house from 2 to 4
p.m., with exhibits by the 21 com
mittees and groups of the MSC’s
activities program in the ballroom.
Free Dancing
Cafe Rue Pinalle will also be
open for free dancing in the after
noon.
Saturday night the Aggie soft-
ballers play Lackland air force
base in a double-header at 7:30,
and the final judging of the cham-
pica cattle, sheep, swine, and horse
showmen is at 7:30 in the Rodeo
arena.
Student activities will sponsor a
free All-College dance from 9:30
p.m. to midnight in The Grove,
with the Aggieland orchestra play
ing.
Sunday, called Parents day,
starts early with breakfast in the
dining halls, after which will be
the unit flower pinning ceremo
nies, presentation of keys to out
standing freshmen and sophomores,
and presentation of gifts to unit
commanders.
Marines Plan
Pilot Program
The U. S. marine corps now has
a plan by which college graduates
can become Marine pilots, whether
they have taken ROTC in college
or not.
The plan, called the aviation offi
cer candidate course, is open to all
who can pass the physical require
ments and who agree to take flight
training.
After graduation, those who are
accepted take a 10-weeks course at
the marine school at Quantico, Va.,
then are commissioned as second
lieutenants and go to 15 or 18
weeks of flight training.
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THE ARMY’S AIR FORCE—A&M’s army ROTC students spent drill period yesterday
seeing - how the other half lives—a display of laison airplanes and helicopters was set up
near the golf coure for inspection. The planes, which are from the army’s laison
pilot training base at San Marcos, were landed on the road by the gulf course, which
should have proved to the boys that the army trains some pretty good pilots.
Corps Review
The 0011)5 of cadets steps out in
a dress review at 9:10 a.m., with
the announcement and presentation
of the year’s awards for the corps
during the review.
The Freshman drill team will
give an exhibition after the re
view.
At 11 a.m., the Student Senate
will sponsor'a program in Guion
hall to honor the moms and dads,
(See PARENTS DAY, Page 2)
A&M Garden Club
Will Give Flowers
Flowers for the annual Mothers
day ceremonies Sunday will be fur
nished by the A&M Garden club
this year, according to J. Gordon
Gay, YMCA secretary.
The YMCA, as in the past, will
distribute the flowers to the var
ious outfits after breakfast Sunday
morning. Central distribution
points are as follows: Dormitories
1-12 will pick up flowers in lounge
of dorm 10; Hart hall and compo
site outfits, in lounge of the
YMCA; and dormitories 14-17 and
Walton hall cadets, in the lounge
of dorm 14.
“Sweetpeas will be used as far
as they go, and then some other
type flower will be selected,” Gay
said. The total number of flow
ers used will be around 5,000, he
added.