The Battalion
Number 114: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1955
Price Five Cents
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.