The Battalion
Number 111: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1955
Price Five Cents
RECITAL SERIES—Miss Louise Rose Toth will be featured Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the
Memorial Student Center ballroom by the MSC Recital Series. Among her appearances
have been those with the Cincinnati, Chautauqua, and Houston symphonies, and also the
Houston summer symphony.
FFA Contest Here Saturday
Will Draw 1,500 Students
At Banquet Tonight
Aggie Players Get Awards
The Aggie Players will wind up
its season’s activities with its an
nual award banquet at 7:30 tonight
in the Memorial Student Center
assembly room, according to C. K.
Esten, director of the club.
Gold keys, silver keys, and certi
ficates will be awarded to players
according to various parts played
and jobs held, such as leading role,
supporting role, stage manager,
etc., of each play presented during
the year.
Ted Castle and Vic Weining, of
the English department, will be
awarded gold keys. Castle is the
only student player receiving a
gold key.
Silver keys will be presented to
Tom Collins, Joe Dannenbaum,
Florence Delaplane, Dave Denny,
Tom Davenport, Bill Gilbeid;, Er
nest Kennedy, John Kessinger, Jim
-Leissner, Joe Marek, Fay Neale,
Don Powell, Bill Swann, Ann Tish-
ler, Charles Ware, and Jay Wein-
, stien.
Certificates will be presented to
Roger Alexander, Bill Campbell,
Lester Cockran, Frank Coulter, A1
Cusick, Connie Eckard, Ann Has-
lam, Ara Haswell, Bill Holloway,
Ty Hungerford, Robin James, Pete
Justice, Susan Moss, Sara Pate,
Terry Shelton, and Fred Zerbe.
W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, student
activities business manager, will
present the awards.
Also on the progi'am for the ban
quet is the election of next year’s
officers and a one-act play pre
sented by some of the members.
A presentation of “The Caine
K. V. Andrews
Named Dean
By Lamar Tech
Dr. Robert Vincent An
drews of the chemical engi
neering department has been
appointed dean of the school
of engineering and head of
the department of chemical engi
neering at Lamar State College of
Technology, effective June 1.
Andrews replaces Dr. Frank M.
Tiller, who will become dean of
the engineering department at the
University of Houston. The new
dean has been a member of the
A&M faculty since 1940.
He has had articles published
extensively in technical journals
Three of his papers and his doc
toral dissertation are Atomic En
ergy commission classified docu
ments.
His teaching specialties are
chemical engineering thermody
namics, nuclear engineering unit
operations, plant design, stoichio
metry, heat transfer, and chemical
engineering economics.
Boot Dance Plans
Being Completed
Final plans are now being
made for a Boot Dance for the
class of ’56, said Allen S.
Greer, president of the junior
class.
The dance will be held May
28 from 9 p.m. to midnight in
The Grove. “Most of the men
want the dance and from all
indications it will be a big af
fair,” Greer said.
Music will be furnished by
the Aggieland Combo and the
admisison will be $1 for stu
dents and faculty.
Mutiny Court Martial” is scheduled
to open next fall’s Aggie Players
season, Esten said.
Vet Awards
Presented
14 Students
Awards were presented
Tuesday night to 14 veterin
ary students at the annual
veterinary awards presenta
tion.
Awards and their winners are as
follows:
The faculty award of merit in
the junior class, to W. E. Roe;
sophomore class award, W. L. Kleb;
and freshman class award, J. B.
Henson. The senior class award
will npt be announced until grad
uation.
The Southwest Veterinarian Ef
ficiency awards were given to E.
L. Tieken, A. J. Holt, Bobby Joe
Payne and W. H. Bullei’.
The magazine also recognized E.
R. Willmann and R. W. Moore for
their work on the staff, and award
ed its annual faculty award to Dr.
R. J. Beamer of the School of Vet
erinary Medicine.
W. A. Trocquet was awarded $25
and a certificate of merit from the
Louisiana Women’s Auxiliary of
the Louisiana Veterinary Medical
association.
The outstanding Veterinary stu
dent of the year E. L. Tieken, was
named by the Junior American
Veterinary Medical association,
and E. R. Willmann won the
award presented by the Women’s
Auxiliary to the American Veter
inary Medical association.
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Top Area Winners
Will Participate
By JOHN WARNER
Battalion Staff Writer
The Texas Future Farmers of America judging contest
will be held here Saturday with between 1,300 and 1,500 boys
representing about 300 high schools participating, according
to J. R. Jackaon of the agricultural education department.
These boys represent the top 10 per cent of each of the
10 areas in Texas, Jackson said.
The contest consists of five divisions—the livestock,
meats, dairy cattle, dairy products, and poultry and egg
judging contests.
“Each department of the college sponsors the contest
for its division, and the final results will be tabulated by the
agricultural education department,” Jackson said.
* The winners will be pre
sented Saturday afternoon in
Guion hall, with each of the
top five teams receiving ban
ners. Individual awards will
be given the top 10 individuals, and
the winners of each division will
represent the state in the national
contest.
The A&M Collegiate FFA chap
ter will be in charge of entertain
ment to be given in Guion after
the results are announced.
Election
Underway
In MSC
Voting is now underway for
officers for the classes of ’56,
’57, and ’58. Two yell lead
ers from the class of ’56 and
class of ’57 and a student en
tertainment manager for the
class of ’56 will also be elec
ted.
Fifteen election commission
members are also to be voted
upon, five from each of the
three classes.
Voting is taking place in a
booth by the post office in the
Memorial Student Center. Vot
ing will continue until, 5:15
p.m.
Morgan Will Speak
President David H. Morgan will
speak, and the film “We Are the
Aggies” will be shown.
After this a variety show fea
turing acts from five high schools
and three acts from A&M will be
given.
The contest is held here each
year in cooperation with the state
FFA program.
For Next Year
Clubs Elect New Officers
This is the time of year for all
A&M’s campus clubs and other or
ganizations to elect their officers
for next year. The following groups
have had their elections recently:
Accounting Society
Albert Magnon was elected pres
ident of the Accounting society
along with Bob Hanning, vice-
president; Dub Bailey, secretary-
treasurer; John Jones and Mike
August, program chairmen; and
Robei't Wood of the business ad
ministration department, sponsor.
News of the World
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
GALVESTON—Mayor-elect George Roy Clough said
yesterday he plans to put Galveston’s gamblers and prosti
tutes on an honor system but the town should remain wide-
open in order to attract tourists. “It’s wide open now and
has been that way all along,” said the 64-year-old radio sta
tion operator who Tuesday upset Mayor Herbert Y. Cart
wright jr., who was seeking a fifth two-year term. Clough
won by a vote of 6,406 to 4,649.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON—The United States protested that
an attack by Red Chinese jet planes on eight U.S. air
force fighters off Korea was “unwarranted and illegal.”
The State department said Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor,
United Nations commander in Korea, was instructed to
lodge this strong protest with the military armistice
commission in Korea.
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AUSTIN—A massive court investigation of the billion-
dollar operation of the Texas Land Office by former Com
missioner Bascom Giles opened here at 11 a.m. today. It
will be a court of inquiry, conducted by Justice of the Peace
Travis Blakeslee. Testimony may cover a span of six to
eight weeks, and the court proceedings will be public.
★ ★ ★
HAIPHONG, North Viet Nam — French, military
authorities yesterday decreed a rigid curfew for this
big port city to prevent any disorder as the time neared
for its delivery into Communist Vietminh hands. The
French posted proclamations on all main streets order
ing the city’s 236,000 inhabitants to remain indoors for
24 hours beginning at 8 p.m. today.
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WASHINGTON—President Eisenhower reaffirmed his
faith in the Salk polio vaccine yesterday and predicted that
in time it will wipe out infantile paralysis in the United
States. But he also said at his news conference that per
haps the scientists “tried to shortcut a little bit” in rushing
the vaccine into use. He had no criticism of such actions,
however.
Agronomy Society
The Agronomy society next fall
will be headed by Holman Griffin
as president. Other officers will
be Alan Taylor, vice-president;
Billy Lyles, secretary; Ronnie
Bradley, treasurer; John Beaty,
reporter; and Bob Butschek, Agri
culture council representative. J.
F. Mills was chosen faculty advi-
ir.
Tau Beta Pi
Joseph G. Broesche was elected
president of the Texas Delta chap
ter of Tau Beta Pi, along with
Kurt Nauck, vice-president; Char
lie Jack, recording secretary; Sam
Laden, corresponding secretary;
Charles Ford, treasurer; Richard
Durbin, cataloger. Also chosen
were two new faculty advisors, Dr.
T. J. Parker and Fred J. Benson.
Pre-Law Society
The Pre-Law society has chosen
Jewel Mclntire as its president
for next year. Other officers of
the club will be Bo Bass, vice-pres
ident; Joe F. Sandlin, secretary;
George Kelt, treasurer; F. D. Far
ias, reporter; and Rip Woodward,
junior representative to the Arts
and Sciences council.
Business Professor
Goes To Kansas
Samuel Thomas Keim jr. has
been named head of the recently-
created business administration de
partment at Kansas State college.
He will take up his new duties
July 1.
He is now an associate professor
in the business administration de
partment here. He joined the de
partment in 1938 after his gradua
tion from A&M with a BA degree
in economics. He received his MS
degree in economics in 1940.
Keim also holds a degree of in
dustrial administrator from the
Harvard Business school and a
PhD from the University of Cali
fornia.
S A E
James Cowan has been chosen
new chairman of the A&M branch
of the Society of Automotive En
gineers, and the others elected
were Harry Sweet, vice-chairman;
Clifford Chudleigh, secretary; Tom
Olsen, treasurer; and W. I. Truett-
ner of the mechanical engineering
department, sponsor.
Building Products Marketing
Heading the Building Products
Marketing club next year will be
Bob Evans, president; Bill Burns,
vice-president; Jerome Lednicke,
recording secretary; Jack Steel,
social secretary; Bob Wilkinson,
membership chairman; Tom Gor-
Weather Today
The weather outlook for today
is mostly cloudy with occasional
thunder showers this afternoon.
Yesterday’s high was 82, low 63.
The temperature at 10:15 this
morning was 72.
don, senior representative to the
Arts and Sciences council, and
John Aldridge, junior representa
tive.
Monday Deadline
On Senior Tickets
Tickets for the senior banquet
go off sale May 16, according to
Sam Ackard, chairman of ticket
sales. Price of the banquet tickets
are $1.50.
About 30 or 40 banquet tickets
have been sold. Tickets should be
bought as soon as possible be
cause the dining hall must know
how many people will attend by
May 16, said Ackard.
A booth for the sale of tickets
for ring pictures will be set up in
the office of student activities May
16.
Ring dance tickets are $5 and
will be on sale until the night of
the dance.
Two Reunions,
FSA Council
To Meet Here
Former students of A&M
will be here this weekend for
two reunions and the annual
spring council meeting of the
Former Students association.
The Sul Ross group, which in
cludes the classes of 1892 through
1904, will meet here tomorrow Avith
activities starting at a luncheon
in the Memorial Student Center
that noon. They will have a party
that night, and will close the re
union with a breakfast Saturday
morning. About 90 are expected,
including wives and children.
The class of ’05 opens their fif
tieth anniversary reunion with a
luncheon tomorrow in the MSC,
where they will have a party the
same night and a breakfast Satur
day morning. About 18 members
of the class are expected to attend.
Registration for an expected 120
members of the association council
and their guests opens at 8 a.m.
Saturday. The morning will be
taken up with committee meetings,
with an executive board meeting
from 1 to 4 p.m. in the MSC sen
ate chamber.
A smorgasbord will be held that
night in the ball room, and tickets
are $2 per plate. Ladies are in
vited, and the tickets can be pur
chased at the Jtegistration desk
which will be in the MSC prome
nade.
A business meeting in the assem
bly room will follow the smorgas
bord. After hearing a report from
this year’s officers, financial re
ports, progress report of the 1955
development fund, and regular
committee reports, the council will
hear the report of the Officer Nom
inating committee. Rufus R. Pee
ples, class of ’28, is chairman of
this group.
The new officers will be intro
duced and the business meeting
will adjourn shortly afterwards.
Sunday morning, the council will
be guests of the FSA for a stag
breakfast in the assembly room.
This will be followed by a contin
uation of the association meeting
at 8:45, Avith a special meeting of
the newly elected executive board
members at 10 a.m.
The Aggie Circle Management
committee meets at 11, and the
meeting will adjourn at 12:30 p.m.
Battalion Staffers
Handle New Jobs
Next year’s Battalion staff,
headed by Editor Bill Fullerton,
has taken over publication of the
newspaper.
Other top members of the new
staff are Ralph Cole, managing
editor; Don Shepard, news editor;
Ronnie Greathouse, sports editor;
and Welton Jones, city editor.
The Battalion’s three graduating
seniors—Hai-ri Baker, Jon Kinslow,
and Jerry Wizig—are still Avith the
staff, handling the jobs formerly
done by the new editors.
The Battalion will continue daily
publication until the week of May
30, examination week. That week
one issue will be published, Thurs
day, and after that week the paper
will begin its summer schedule of
one issue a week, on Thursday.
NEW EDITORS—Roy (Connie) Eckard, left, and Charles
Williams will be editors next year of two student publica
tions. Eckard will edit The Commentator, magazine of the
School of Arts and. Sciences, and Williams will be head of
the School of Engineering’s magazine. The Engineer. Both
were approved recently by the Student Publications board.
Boone To Give
Vocal Concert
R. L. Boone, music director at
A&M Consolidated schools, will
present a A r ocal concert in the
school auditorium at 8 p.m. Mon
day to raise funds for a new piano
for the music department.
Tickets may be purchased from
any member of the Consolidated
choir at $1 for adults and 50 cents
for children.
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