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The Battalion Number 114: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1955 Price Five Cents AgsTripSteers7-4m Austin In Austin Spectators See More Than Game OUCH—Somebody around the campus didn’t think much of the penalty the faculty committee of the Southwest con ference imposed upon A&M. Sully carried this sign of protest on his back all day Monday. Sophomores John D. Janak, left, of Dallas and Charles E. Seaberg of Beau mont look wonderingly on at Sully’s sign. By JON KINSLOW Battalion Staff Writer The A&M student body converg ed on Austin yesterday to see a baseball game, but some of them also got to see a fight or two, or three, or four or more. One Aggie was booked but no charges were filed against him as a result of fights after the A&M- University of Texas baseball game. The Aggie was released in the custody of Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assistant commandant, according to Austin police. More than half of the 6,000 per sons attending the game were Ag gies, since classes were dismissed at 11 a.m. in order that students could attend. Three fights broke out in the stands during the game, and one street brawl started short ly after the game’s end. Senior To Be Ring Dance, Banquet Largest in History The largest Senior Ring banquet and dance in the history of A&M is slated for this weekend in The Grove. More than 846 banquet tickets have been sold, plus 32 compli mentary tickets to honored guests. Tabulation of dance tickets is not complete since tickets will be sold at the gate. Approximately 375 seniors have bought advanced tick ets for Ring pictures. The banquet will start at 6 p.m. Saturday in Duncan mess hall. Coke R. Stevenson, former gov ernor of Texas, will be the prin cipal speaker. Other features of the program will include Quintet Allegro musical group, which will play dinner music during the ban quet and do a short performance at the dance intermission; pre sentation of Vanity Fair winners by Harry Tilley; Who’s Who pre sentation by Joe Sorrels; and the class history by Harri Baker. Conrad Cummings, senior class president, will be master of cere monies for the banquet. The menu will consist of filet migon, chilled relish tray, peach and cheese salad, demi French po tatoes, Lima beans, rolls and but ter, and baked alaska. The dance will start to the mu sic of Johnny Long’s orchestra in the Grove at 8 p.m. Pictures will News of the World By The ASSOCIATED PRESS ^ WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Dulles declared last night that recent events on the world stage “may really mark a turning point in the tide of world history.” In an un precedented broadcast from President Eisenhower’s office, the secretary told the President, the nation and the 'world of historic negotiations and events in Europe, from which he has just returned. ★ ★ ★ TOKYO—Premier Chou En-lai of Red China has ruled out a Formosan cease-fire negotiations With the Unitted States and has implied he will talk only about withdrawing U.S. forces guarding Formosa. ★ ★ ★ SAN ANTONIO—A prosecutor said yesterday, two key witnesses under indictment for offering a $30,000 bribe to former Land Commissioner Bascom Giles, will turn state’s evidence at Gile’s bribery trial. Asst. Dist. Atty. James On ion said C. V. Wynn and Arthur McKenzie, Bexar County land dealers, would appear Monday as state’s witnesses in the case. , ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN—Sen Kilmer Corbin of Lubbock yesterday threatened another Senate filibuster to block a proposed constitutional amendment to finance a 100 million dollar ’‘water program for drought-harrassed Texas. be made from 8:30 p.m. until 12. The two big rings for the ring turning ceremony are already in the Grove, and Hawiian-style dec orations will complete the theme for the dance. Long-range weather forecasts for the weekend are not available now, but W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, business manager of student activ ities said yesterday at a meeting of class officers that the dance “would definitely be held,” even if rain forced it to move someplace besides the Grove. Austin police said there were no injuries except for a few bruises. They said there was “not enough trouble to worry about” and the Aggies were behaving themselves “pretty good.” The Aggies at the game watched their Southwest conference champs wallop the Longhorns 7-4. All of the fist-fighting was confined to spectators. From the start of the game the Aggie fans were jubilant, but some of their enthusiasm was wetted down when UT knotted the score in the fourth. Later, in the sixth, the fights in the stands broke out almost simultaneously, but the Ag gies turned their attention to the field in the seventh when A&M scored five runs. During this time the Aggies were chanting “Poor Teasips.” Also at the game besides the major part of the A&M student body and a few UT students, was Paul (Bear) Bryant, A&M head coach and athletic director. Bryant wore a big grin in the eighth when John Stockton made a beautiful running catch in deep center. Another person from College Station who went to the Aggies’ final SWC game was Judson Lou- pot, owner of Loupot’s trading post. Besides buying dozens of cold drinks for the Aggies, Loupot also helped stop some of the fights. All in all, the Aggies seemed to take full advantage of their un official corps trip, and few stu dents were left on the campus yes terday afternoon. The highway was packed with cars, and the Highway patrol had a field day giving tickets. No accidents had been reported by last night. Win Is Ninth In Row for Cadets By JERRY WIZIG Battalion Sports Staff Slugging Tommy Jungman for five runs in the seventh inning, A&M’s Southwest conference baseball champs yester day won their third game in 12 years at Austin’s Clark field, beating Texas 7-4. It was the ninth straight win for the Aggies and gives them a 19-5 season record, best since the 19-3 posted by the 1942 SWC titlists. The Cadets had won the 1955 crown with Monday’s 4-3 win over SMU, but for about 3,500 Aggies who made the Austin game an unofficial corps trip, it was the sweetest victory of the year. A&M now meets Arizona, holder of a 37-5 record, for the district 6 berth in the* NCAA tourney at Omaha, Being Held Vow in MSC The classes of ’56 and ’57 are holding their runoff election today in the Memorial Student Center. Voting will be open until 5:15 p.m. The voting booth is at the post office entrance in the MSC. The class of ’56 will elect a president, vice-president, recording secretary, treasurer, parliamentarian, ser geant-at-arms and one yell leader. The class of ’57 will elect a president, vice-president, secretary, social secretary, treasurer, ser- geant-at-arms and two yell leaders News Briefs DR. M. G. H. LIGDA of the oceanography department, and su pervisor of the research and teach ing program in radar meteorology, has been appointed to the commit tee on Radar Meteorology of the American Meteorological society. * * * INFLUENZA was the leading disease in the College Station Bryan area last week with 11 cases reported. Second was strept throat with eight cases, and chicken pox with six was third. * * * DR. LEWIS E. DAVIDS SR. of the business administration depart- Rodeo Team High In NIRA District The A&M rodeo team is still in the running for NIRA champion ship rating, with second place in this district. Team members earned the right to compete in the national meet by wihning second at the East Texas Teachers collie meet last week end at Commerce. ^Members include Lowie Rice, Bil ly Steele, Don Turner, Rodney But ler, Curtis Burlin, Henry Presnal, Clyde Martin. Competition between the two top teams from each National In tercollegiate Rodeo Association dis trict for the national championship will be held at Lake Charles, La. in June. Weather Today The weather outlook for today is partly cloudy, with thunder*- showers this afternoon, and hail likely after 6 p.m. Temperature at 12:20 p.m. was 80 degrees. Yes terday’s high was 91, and low was 70. Sport sm an ship Voting Discussed Voting procedure and Sports manship week were the main top ics of discussion at the Southwest Conference Sportsmanship com mittee meeting Saturday in Hous ton. The committee set Oct. 3-10 as Sportsmanship week, a week of promoting good sportsmanship at each of the Southwest Conference school campuses. The committee has adopted a new voting system which gives a better all - around rating of each school. Scotty Parham and David Bail ey represented A&M at the meet ing. Room Reservations Needed By Sept. 1 Room reservations for Mitchell, Milner, ramps A, C, D, and E of Hart and ramps F, G, H, I, J, and K of Walton must be sent in be fore Sept. 1 with a deposit of $6 if civilian students wish to re serve any certain rooms, said Har ry Boyer, chief of housing. These dormitories will be closed for the summer months, but will be reopened in the fall, Boyer said. ment has been invited to take part in the eighth annual symposium on commodity marketing, sponsored by the Chicago Board of Trade from Sept. 7 to 9. * * * DR. R. C. POTTS of the agrono my department will conduct a pas tures short course at Marshall May 30 through June 3. This off-cam pus short course, conducted by regular teaching personnel from the college, is part of A&M’a adult education program as the state’s land-grant college. Musical Comedy To Be In Grove This Summer A musical comedy with a student and student wife cast will highlight the summers’ activities at The Grove, ac cording to W. M. (Bill) Tur ner, A&M music director. This will be the eighth year Tur ner has directed a comedy of this type at The Grove. In past semes ters such comedies as “H.M.S. Pin afore,” “The Chocolate Soldier,” and “The Mikado” have been pre sented. The musical this year will be on July 12 and 13. Other activities scheduled for students during the summer will be softball, volleyball, tennis and golf. Softball and volleyball will be played between dormitory teams and tennis and golf matches will be in open tournaments. Night movies will start in The Grove June 6. These movies begin at 8 p.m. and are shown Monday through Friday and are free for students that have paid their stu dent activities fee. Season passes for the movies will be sold at The Grove. Neb., which starts June 10. Details of the playoff are still to be arranged. For much of the game, more in terest centered in the activity in the stands than that on the dia mond, as an overflow crowd of 6,000, over half Aggies, jammed the ball park. They saw catcher Jimmy Wil liams slash a single to the cliff in right field in the seventh to score Captain Les Byrd with what prov ed to be the winning run. The blow also put the skids on Jungman, who earlier in the season pitched a no-hitter against Rice, and spoiled Uncle Billy Disch day for the Longhorns. The Steers drove out starter Jer ry Nelson in the bottom of the seventh, when they scored twice. Dick Munday, who relieved Nel son in the SMU game, came in again and preserved the win. Nelson’s conference record is 5-1. Texas threatened in the ninth when Munday walked two, but first baseman Tommy Snow slapped a hard grounder to Charlie Puls, who turned it into a game-ending double play. Snow’s two-run homer in the fourth had tied the game, 2-2. In the eighth, Texas had a man on with two outs when pinch hitter Pat Tolar blasted a pitch to deep center. John Stockton raced back, leaped, caught the ball in his glove, juggled it, then held it as he came to the base of the cliff. It was probably the most sensa tional catch of the year. The Aggies scored once in the second on Nelson’s sizzling single to left that brought in Williams. In the third, Williams singled past shortstop to score Joe Schero, who had walked and stolen second. Nelson also started the A&M blasting in the seventh, when he led off with a double. Fred Ablon doubled him home. After Stock ton’s pop-up, Byrd, Schero and Wil liams singled to drive in two more tallies and send Jungman out. Relief hurler Oren Buckallew got Joe Boring on a grounder. Then Puls, who went hitless Monday for the first time in his eight games, (See AGGIES WIN, Page 3) Consolidated Plans Sports Banquet A&M Consolidated school will have its annual Sports banquet for school athletes at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the school cafeteria. Tickets for the affair are $1.50 per person, and can be bought at the main desk of the Memorial Student Center or at Consolidated school. The banquet is sponsored by the Boys and Girls committee of the College Station Kiwanis club. Rev. Norman Anderson, pastor of the A&M Presbyterian church, is chairman of the committee. Student Senate To Organize Thursday This year’s Student Senate will end its year’s activities Thursday night, and the sen ate for next year will elect of ficers and organize. The meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center assembly room. Invited are all the new senators elected in the general elections, plus the vice-presidents of the four classes elected today. The class vice-presidents are auto matically members of the senate. Officers to be elected by the new senators are president, vice-presi dent, recording secretary, corres ponding secretary, treasurer, parli amentarian, and chaplain. Committee chairman will be ap pointed by the president. Nominations will be made from the floor, and the election will be completed at this meeting. The outgoing senate will hear committee reports from all its standing committees, compiling their activities for the past year. This will be the last senate meet ing of the year for both the new and old senates. MSS II Edition Goes On Sale Soon The MSS II book, a collection of short stories written by A&M stu dents, will go on sale Monday in the dormitories and newsstands. The price is 50 cents. Anyone who wishes to place his order may do so now at the office of R. W. Feragen of the English depart ment. Bill Willis is editor of this year’s edition. An editor has not been named for next year. A&M Promotion Contest Opens Loupot’s trading post at North Gate is sponsoring a contest for a letter judged the best as telling why a student came or should come to A&M for his education. Prize for the contest will be five silver dollars. The essay which is to be 200 to 250 words long must be brought or mailed to Loupot’s by noon Saturday. The winning paper will be published in an ad vertisement in The Battalion next week. Another contest will start with publication of the first winning paper, said Loupot. The purpose of the contest is to stimulate interest among students in selling A&M to high school stu dents looking around for a college to attend, he said. A copy of a good letter telling about the advantages of A&M will give A&M students something def inite to show or tell these high school students, he added. WhaVs Cooking THURSDAY 5:00—Circle K, room 3C MSC, short meeting before leaving for picnic. 7:15 — Houston hometown club, alumni party at the Brazos A&M club house, free barbecue, election of officers, movies, leads for sum mer jobs, rides leaving from Good win Hall. VICTORY MARCH—A&M students really took to the idea of having- a Southwest con ference baseball championship. After the word came Monday afternoon that A&M had defeated Southern Methodist university for the title, students cut loose in celebration. The Aggies shown above were marching toward The Grove for an impromptu yell prac tice.