The Battalion
Number 112: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS,' FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1955
Price Five Cents
Most Class Offices Will Need Runoffs
Civilian Students
Water, Food, Dancing
T o Highlight W eekend
A&M’s first Civilian weekend
will begin at 5:30 this afternoon
with a tug-of-war between the
civilian dormitories and housing
areas.
The test of strength will be held
on the field north of The Grove
across West boulevard.
The losing teams in this pulling
melee will get doused from a fire
hose, which will form the center
line for the contest. The planning
committee for the weekend activi
ties has indicated that the winning
teams may get their share of the
water, too, depending upon the aim
of whoever is holding the fire hose.
After this, a barbecue will be
held in The Grove, and will be open
to all students, faculty and staff
members. Tickets are 70 cents
and a limited number will be avail
able at the door, according to John
Cozad, ticket chairman.
Arrangements have been made to
provide each person at the barbecue
with one full pound of baby beef,
plus the usual trimmings, said
Hugh Lanktree, general chairman
for the weekend.
.Entertainment at the barbecue
kill be furnished by the African
Corpbo and the Aggie Ramblers,
and the beard-growing contest will
also be judged. Judges are Jane
and Joan Ryba, Rice cheerleaders;
Judy Nunn, Aggie sweetheart; and
Shirley Woodell, Lamar Tech
cheerleader.
Two classes of beards will be
judged — scroungiest And fanciest
—and prizes will be awarded to
the top two candidates in each
class. The prizes were donated by
local merchants.
Summer Session
Begins June 6
The first term of the summer
iession will begin June 6 and the
second term will begin July 15.
Dormitories to be open are Law,
Puryear, Bizzell, and the second
and third floors of Leggett. Stu
dents already living in these dormi
tories may reserve their rooms for
the summer sessions if they wish,
according to Harry Boyer, chief of
housing.
Nightly entertainment to be pro
vided at The Grove includes movies,
square dances, round dances, and
skating parties. A local talent
show and intramural sports will
also be provided for students, said
Boyer.
The first annual Civilian ball
will cap off the weekend of fun for
civilian students. This is also open
to corps students, faculty and staff
members. Tickets are $1.50, stag
or date, and may be purchased
from any Civilian Student Councilr-
News
of the
World
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
WARSAW, Poland — Communist
China pledged yesterday to fight
alongside the Soviet Union and its
European allies if war erupts in
Eur-ope. At the same time a Pei
ping spokesman said his govern
ment is convinced world peace can
be preserved.
★ ★ ★
VIENNA, Austria — The Big
Four agreed yesterday on final
terms for an Austrian treaty of
independence. This country’s
foreign minister, mindful of an
impending top-level East-West
meeting, called it “a turning
point in world history.”
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HAIPHONG—Thousands of Com
munist Vietminh troops swept into
the Uorthwest section of this big
seaport yesterday and immediately
imposed an iron rule of fear. Oc
cupation of Haiphong will be com
pleted today, ending French colo
nialism in North Indochina.
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AUSTIN—A bill clamping rig
id controls on the state’s veterans
land program won unanimous
Senate approval today and was
sent back to the House with 20
amendments. The measure im
poses strict regulations over the
administration of the land pro
gram, target of sweeping inves
tigations since last November.
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WASHINGTON—The House last
night passed a $31,488,206,000 mili
tary appropriation bill for next
year, upholding President Eisen
hower’s plans to reduce armed
service strength. As the measure
went to the Senate it provided for
a cut of $107,300 for the army,
navy and marine corps, and an
increase of $5,000 for the air force.
man or at the office of student
activities.
Music will be furnished by the
Capers Combo, and the dance will
be from 9 p.m. to midnight.
At 10:30, during the intennission
of the dance, the finalists in the
Ugly Man contest will be judged
to see just who is A&M’s ugliest
civilian student. Among the
judges will be Bill Lawrence, con
stable of Snook, and Taylor Wil
kins, assistant commandant. The
“winning” student will be awarded
an elaborate certificate stating that
he is definitely “A&M’s ugliest stu
dent for 1954-55.”
Finalists in this contest are
Lanktree, Robert (Bob) McClary,
Everet T. Rickets, Don (Tex)
Boehnke, and Cecil R. Curry.
Also during the intermission, a
floor show will be presented by
the Business Administration Wives
club, featuring a can-can line.
Charles Parker will be master
of ceremonies for the activities.
T
GETTING READY—Two of A&M’s “bluebeards” are
readying- their growths for the beard judging contest at
the first annual Civilian Students dance in The Grove
tomorrow night. Russ Goodale, animal husbandry junior
from Kenedy, is shown trimming the beard of Gene Red,
accounting major from Georgetown.
Mendes-F ranee
Ex-Premier Thanks Club
The wine drinkers in France may
not have liked ex-premier Pierre
Mendes-France’s id^as about drink
ing milk instead of “alcoholic bev
erages”, but the Kream and Kow
Klub at A&M had different ideas.
Each year the group presents
two honorary memberships to out
standing leaders in the Texas
dairy industry at its spring bar
becue. This year, the club decided
to go a step, or rather a country,
further. They presented a special
Steak Fry Honors
YMCA Officers
The A&M YMCA installed offi
cers for the 1955-56 school year at
a steak fry at Hensel Park re
cently.
Speaker for the occasion was
the Rev. Lee Phillip, dean of the
chapel at Prairie View A&M col
lege.
Officers installed were Stew
Coffman, president; Dan Winship,
vice-president; Dick McGlaun, pro
gram chairman; Curtis Shulze, sec
retary; Rollins Bilby, treasurer;
Harold Byars, reporter.
Commission chairmen for the
new year are David Bagley, fresh
man guidance; Campbell Wood,
world relatedness; Newton Harris,
personal life and campus affairs;
and Jon Hagler, Christian faith
.and action.
certificate • to Mendes - France,
which read as follows:
“In recognition of his outstand
ing contributions to the health and
welfare of the people of his na
tion through the encouragement of
the consumption of dairy products,
the Kream and Kow Klub of the
Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege of Texas hereby confers Hon
orary Membership with all the
privileges and appurtenances there
to.”
The certificate was made up and
was translated into French by T.
E. Comfort of the modern lan
guages department. It was mail
ed with a covering letter to the
French Embassy in Washington,
D. C., to be forwarded to Mendes-
France, at that time still premier.
The club received word March 22
that the letter had been forwarded
to the French premier, and then
settled back to wait for any answer
that the busy Frenchman might
send.
Monday, the club received an an
swering letter for Mendes-France,
Cox Elected Head
Of A&M DeMolay
L. O. Cox was elected president
of the A&M DeMolay association
recently.
Other officers elected were
Charles Schiwzer, vice-president;
Jim Neighbors, secretary; and Jim
Bates, treasurer.
stating that he appreciated the cer
tificate and that it was an excel
lent souvenier. The letter, which
Comfort translated into English
for the club, also carried Mendes-
France’s belief that this action en
hanced diplomatic relationship be
tween the two countries, and he
thanked the organization for the
encouragement it gave him in his
effort to increase the quality, pro
duction and consumption of dairy
products in his country.
Invitations
Now Ready
For Pick Up
Graduation announcements
may be picked up in the office
of student activities beginning
today.
Seniors must bring their re
ceipt, and each person may
pick up only his announce
ments, according to W. D.
(Pete) Hardesty, business
manager of student activities.
The office is open until noon
Saturday, and is open from 8
a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m.
during the week.
A few extra announcements
were oi'dered, and they will be
sold beginning Wednesday,
Hai’desty said.
Holladay Elected
Head Yell Leader
Only two class offices, other than for the class of ’58,
were decided in yesterday’s combined class and Election com
mission election. The freshman class had its election earlier
and yesterday’s voting was the final runoff election.
Paul Holladay was elected head yell leader for the class
of ’56. A runoff will be held to decide between David N.
Bailey and Gus S. Mijalis. Les Robinson was the winner for
student entertainment manager.
The only two class offices, both class of ’56, decided
were for social secretary, won by Joe Bill Foster, and his
torian, won by Thomas R. Olsen.
The runoff election for class officers will be held Wed-
’ ♦nesday in the Memorial Stu-
FFA Dele gates
To Invade A&M
This Weekend
More than 1,400 Texas Fu
ture Farmers, representing
300 Texas high schools will
be there this weekend for the
annual FFA judging contest.
The judging starts today, and
will be broken down into five divi
sions—livestock, meats, dairy, cat
tle, dairy products, and poultry and
egg.
Tomorrow the boys will be
guests of the A&M Collegiate FFA
chapter for an announcement cer
emony and variety show in Guion
hall.
The delegates to this contest,
which is held here annually, are
the top 10 per cent from each of
the 10 FFA areas in Texas.
Each division of the contest is
sponsored by the corresponding de
partment of the college, and the
results will be tabulated by the
agricultural education department.
At the awards ceremony tomor
row, the top five teams will re
ceive banners and the top 10 in
dividuals will receive individual
awards.
The winners of each division will
represent Texas in the national
judging contest.
President David H. Morgan will
speak at the announcement cere
mony, and the A&M film “We Ai-e
the Aggies” will be shown.
The variety show will feature
acts from five high schools and
three acts from A&M.
FSA Will Elect
New officers for the Former Stu
dents association will be elected
Saturday night at a business meet
ing in the Memorial Student Cen
ter.
Naming the new officers will be
a part of the annual spring council
meeting of the association, which
begins here at 8 Saturday morning
for an expected 120 persons.
Retiring officers are O. T.
Hotchkiss jr., ’24, president, and
W. L. Ballard, ’22, vice-president.
Rufus R. Peeples, ’28, is chairman
of the Officer Nominating commit
tee.
For Great Issues
Sen. Smathers To Speak
Sen. George Smathers
Great Issues Speaker
Sen. George Smathers, Democrat
from Florida, will be at A&M Mon
day night for the Great Issues
Series.
Smathers will speak on “Our
Political System is Yours To Pro
tect,” in the Memorial Student Cen
ter at 7:30 p.m.
Smathers comes from a long line
of political men. His great-great
grandfather was a member of the
Colonial Assembly, his grandfather
was a Methodist minister, and his
father was a judge.
Smathers moved to Miami at the
age of four. He was educated in
Miami public schools and received
a bachelor degree from the Uni
versity of Florida in 1932. He re
reived his law degree in 1938.
While at the university, he was
captain of the basketball and de
bating teams, and was president of
Man Who Gave
Reveille II Dies
Arthur Weinert, class of ’00,
known on the campus as the
former student who gave Rev
eille II to A&M, died Thursday
morning at Seguin.
Weinert, an Aggie football
player at A&M during the turn
of the century, has been active
many years as president of the
Guadalupe County A&M club.
Funeral services will be held
Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. in
Seguin.
the Student Body association.
In July, 1942, he volunteered for
duty with the marine corps and
served until the end of the war.
His service included 18 months in
the South Pacific, and he is now
a lieutenant colonel in the marine
reserve.
Smathers entered the race for
Congress in 1945 and was re-elect
ed in 1947. He was selected as the
outstanding young man in the
United States in the field of gov
ernment in 1948 by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
Smathers was the first World
War II veteran to gain a seat in
the House. He was one of the first
to support the Marshall Plan of
sending aid to war devastated coun-
ti'ies as a means of preventing the
spread of Communism. His major
fight was to oppose the withdrawal
of American troops from Korea.
In 1953, he fought the Alaska
statehood bill, and in 1954 he op
posed the Hawaiian statehood bill.
Smathers was awarded the “Or
der of Manuel de Cespides,” the
highest honor ever given a non-
Cuban by the president of Cuba.
He was chosen last fall to make a
tour of South America to study
taxation and aviation problems for
the Senate Interstate and Foreign
Commerce committee.
This is a regular Great Issues
series and will be the last one this
year, according to Bud Whitney,
chairman of the MSC’s Great Is
sues group.
dent Center from 8 a.m. to
noon, and from 1; to 5:15 p.m.
The booth will be by the post
office entrance.
The Election commission elec
tion does not have a runoff, as it
is a “sudden death” election.
Complete results follow, with the
runoff candidates in boldface. Win
ners are also in boldface, and also
are so noted in the tabulation.
Class of ’56
President—John D. Cunningham,
128; Bob Yates, 30; Allen Greer,
143; Lloyd E. Billingsley, 179; Ho
mer Martin 1, (write-in).
Vice-president — R. (Wayne)
Young, 118; Gene Stubblefield, 68;
Bill Swann, 184; Homer Martin,
120, (write-in). Martin will be
in the runoff with Swann, as he
was okayed by the Election com
mission.
Recording secretary — William
Nourie, 84; Richard Tachibana,
104; Charles Willis, 47; R. E. Good,
179; Carl Hill, 51. *
Social secretary — Joe Foster,
290, (winner); Clay McFarland,
163.
Treasurer—Herman Keller, 33;
John Donvie Cain, 41; Jack Ed
wards, 195; Wade Ingram, 64;
Frank Patterson, 143.
Parliamentarian—James Denard,
58; Steve Scott, 80; John Liddy,
89;Kenneth George, 138; Don Bur
ton, 90, (write-in). Burton will be
in runoff with George as he was
okayed by the Election commission.
Historian — Edward Dusebout,
124; Thomas Olsen, 224, (winner);
Gerald Hord, 3, (write-in); Walter
Parsons, 107, (write-in).
Sergeant-at-arms—Dexter Lack-
land, 90; Roy Miller, 46; Jerry
Sides, 168; Albert Magnon, 29;
Kerry Burleson, 83; Ben Allen, 44.
Student Entertainment manager
—Les Robinson, 248, (winner);
William Huskey, 181.
Yell leader—(one elected; two
Officers Tomorrow men in runoff for other ye " lead ~
er)—Dudley Swofford, 58; Paul
Holladay, 347, (winner, head yell
leader); Don R. Burrow, 41; Da
vid Bailey, 240; Gus Mijalis, 219;
Lynn Monical, 5, (write-in). Run
off for other senior yell leader be
tween Bailey and Mijalis.
Election commission — (no run
off, five elected)—Jennings Bunn,
270; Glenn Buell, 331; Robert Lee,
346; Edward Dusebout, 2 3 6;
Hughes McCrary, 246; Albert Rial,
249; Rex Rowell, 241; Sidney Pil
low, 242.
Class of ’57
President—John Cobb, 40; Gay
Cloud, 36; Bill Davis, 12; Bill Setz-
ler, 26; Durward Thompson, 58;
(See COMPLETED LIST, Page 2)
Weather Today
PARTLY CLOUDY
The weather outlook for today
is clearing in the afternoon with
no rain predicted.
Yesterday’s high was 86, low 62.
The temperature at 10:15 this
morning was 76.