Battali
Number 6: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1955
Price Five Cents
Seed Course
Opens Here
Jiify 17
The Texas Seedmen’s Asso
ciation and the A&M College
System have pooled their per
sonnel to present a short
course July 17-19 at A&M for
commercial seed distributors.
Around 50 commercial seedsmen
are expected to participate in the
short course. Tom Harpool, Har-
pool Seed House, Denton, is gen
eral chairman. R. C. Potts, A&M
professor of agronomy, is handling
local arrangements.
Commercial operators scheduled
to appear on the program include
Harpool; Erv Fry, Asgrow Texas
Co., San Antonio; Allenby L.
White," Northrup, King & Co., Ber
keley, Calif.; Walter Baxter Jr.,
Walter Baxter Seed Co., Weslaco;
and Cliff Davenport, William H.
Banks Warehouses, Inc., San An
tonio.
A&M System and other state and
federal personnel on the program
include: J. E. Adams, dean, School
of Agriculture; R. D. Lewis, di
rector, Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station; Lester Young, ASC
administrative officer; Cliff Dea
ton, chief, Seeds Division, Texas
Department of Agriculture; L. C.
Coffey, head, A&M Foundation
Seeds Section; E. M. Trew, exten
sion agronomist; M. K. Thornton,
extension agricultural chemist; J.
C. Gaines, head, Department of
Entomology; J. W. Sorenson Jr.,
tesearch agricultural engineer; and
Potts.
Registration will be 4 to G p.m.
July 17.
At The Grove
The musical comedy “Hit The
Deck’’ will be presented at 8 to
night at The Grove.
Rain last night forced post
ponement of the production. Ad
mission is by season ticket or by
single admission tickets at 50 and
25 cents.
The musical stars Coralyn Thur
man and Don Smith.
Fireman’s School Ends
tomorrow Afternoon
SMOKE EATERS—Firemen here for the 26th annual Fireman’s Training School, con
ducted by the Engineering Extension Service, are getting actual practice in putting out
every conceivable type of fire. The men shown, just a few of the more than 1,250 here
for the program, are putting out a tank fire. Col. H. R. Brayton of the Extension Service
is director of the school which started Monday and ends tomorrow.
[ale Quartet
Bostonians Here July 25
Safety Com * *se
Here July 18-22
The sixth 40-hour course for
safety supervisors under the direc
tion of the Texas Engineering Ex
tension Service, will be held at
A&M July 18-22.
Purpose of the course is to train
job supervisors and newly appoint
ed safety supervisors in organiz
ing and conducting effective pro
grams of -accident prevention and
to give the experienced safety en
gineer an opportunity to review
aew techniques.
Any person who has or will be
fiven the responsibility for setting
up and or conducting all or any
part of an accident prevention pro
gram for his company or unit, is
eligible to attend.
Classes will meet five days, eight
hours each day in the Memorial
Student Center, with L, K. Jonas,
chief, supervisor training, T.E.E.S.
in charge.
A program of songs to satisfy
every musical taste will be pre
sented in the ballroom of tbe Me
morial Student Center at 7:80 p.m.,
July 25, when The Bostonians, a
male quartet, appear as a part of
the MSC’s summer series program.
'Each member of The Boston
ians is a talented artist, trained
for solo as well as ensemble'work.
All four have attended the New
England Conservatory of Music;
three of them—Ray Smith, Narst
tenor; Bernard Barbeau, baritone,
and Paolo D’Alessandro, bass —
hold a Master of Music degree
from the Conservatory. The fourth
member of the quartet, Joe Kling,
second tenor, is now completing
work toward a degree at the Bos
ton Conservatory of Music.
Banbeau not only was graduated
from >.the New England Conserva
tory of Music, but returned there
as a member of the voice faculty,
lie also taught at the Perkins In
stitute for the blind in Watertown,
Mass., for several years.
Three members of the quartet
studied opera under Boris Goldov
sky, and all four have had consid
erable experience in church solo
work.
The quartet’s accompanist, Al
fred Lee, pianist, also holds the
Master of Music degree, wdiich he
received in June of this year from
the Yale University School of
Music-
Born in Boston of Chinese par
entage, Lee • began his study of
the piano at the age of 12, when
his older sister enrolled the two
of them, without their parents’
knowledge, at the New England
Conservatory of Music for piano
lessons. Lee obtained bis Bachelor
of Music degree at the Conserva
tory.
The Bostonians feature songs
ranging in mood from the classics
of grand opera to the popular com
positions of the best of our mod
em composers, including in their
program such favorites as . “Lift
Thine Eyes,” “In a Monastery
Garden,” Youman’s “Great Day,”
“Serenade” from “The Student
Prince,” “One Alone” and a Vic
tor Herbert medley.
Admission to The Bostonians is
75 cents for those who do not have
season tickets. The season tickets
are on sale now at the main desk
of 'the MSC. They are $1.25 for
students and student wives and
$1.50 for non-students. Also in
cluded in the tickets are eight
films.
Square Dance
Scheduled
Saturday Night
Saturday night will be the
night for “squares.” The Band
Boosters Club is sponsoring a
square dance in the Grove
from 8:30 to 11 p.m., and all
square dancers who have 50 cents
in their pockets are invited.
Sam Kennedy of Bryan will be
master of ceremonies, and the
many guest callers will include
Carl Lyman, Miss Lucille Moore,
and Manning Smith, said W. N.
Williamson, chairman of plans for
the dance.
Robert L.'Boone, director of mu
sic at A&M Consolidated, and Miss
Sylvia Williams will be featured
vocalists for the floor show. Both
will be accompanied by Miss Claire
Rogers. George Reynolds, chair
man of entertainment, is making
arrangements to secure additional
talent.
The proceeds from this dance,
and from others sponsored this
summer by the club, will go to pay
off the $1,300 still owed for the
A&M Consolidated band’s new uni
forms.
1,250 Attending
Annual Session
The “hottest” training school held annually at A&M will
draw to a close tomorrow afternoon, as 1,250 firemen, fire
marshals and others close out the five-day Firemen’s Training
School.
Many of the participants in this year’s program, the
26th, will take home memories of fire and smoke under a
bright sun which scorched the training area; others, who
received lectures in the Memorial Student Center, will take
home memories of a modern air-conditioned building.
The general opinion prevailing, however, is that almost
all of the participants will take home added knowledge of
the newest methods of fire fighting, for the school included
- 1 '♦'instruction in combatting ev-
Regis Ira lion
Monday for
Yew Term
Registration for the second
term of the summer session
will be held between 8 a.m.
and noon Monday at the east
wing of Duncan Hall. Students
will be registered on a first
come, first served basis.
The first day of class will
be Tuesday. The first sum
mer term ends tomorrow, when
final examinations will be giv
en. The last term will end
August 26.
The Bostonians
Appear at MSC July 25
A&M President
In Temple Hospital
David H. Morgan, president
of A&M, is a patient in (he
Scott and White Memorial"
Hospital in Temple, where he
is undergoing a complete
checkup of a general run-down
condition resulting from over
work and strain.
Morgan entered the hospital
last week, undergoing very
minor surgery last Friday.
According to his secretary, he
is doing fine and hopes to be
back home next week.
CS Postmaster
Exams Planned
The Civil Service Commission
has announced that examinations
for the position of postmaster at
College Station will be given up to
Aug- 2, 1955. .
Interested persons may obtain
forms for application at the post
office from N. L. McCullough, act
ing postmasteiv
Fall of 1956
UT To Take Negroes
The University of Texas’ Board
of Regents unanimously adopted h
three-point plan for the elimination
of color lines last Friday.
This plan, which represents the
first step toward complete deseg
regation in the school, is as fol
lows:
• Immediate admission of qual
ified students, without reference to
racial origin, to all divisions of the
graduate school.
• Admission this fall of all
qualified students, regardless of ra
cial origin, to all levels of instruc
tion at Texas Western College, a
branch of the University, at El
Paso.
SUMMER ENTERTAINMENT — Students and other residents of College Station have
been taking advantage of the hideaway dances sponsored on Monday nights by the Me
morial Student Center. Last Monday’s dance was on the terrace. While stags enclose the
dancing area, the couples glide to the music of the Caper’s Combo. Another dance will
be held Monday night, from 8 to 11 p.m. Mrs. P’rances Shackleford, summer program con
sultant, is in charge of the dances, which are 25 cents per person.
® Delay of admission of Neg-
T'oes to undergraduate work at the
main university in Austin until the
fall of 1956, when a selective sys
tem for limiting enrollment is ex
pected to be put into effect.
The decision to limit enrollment
was forced by inadequate legisla
tive appropriations and a rapidly
mounting student enrollment, ac
cording to the Regents.
Beginning in 1956-57, some type
of entrance examination, based on
merit, will be given to all persons
wanting to enter the school, regard
less of racial origin. The Regents,
already faced with a large enroll
ment increase in 1955-56, said they
must “avoid a changed policy con
cerning admission of undergradu
ates which would intensify the
problem of sheer numbers.”
Terming the action a “historic”
decision, chan-man of the Regents
Tom Sealy said, “I think this indi
cates a good faith effort to put the
Supreme Court’s edict into effect,
which does in effect overrule our
own Constitution.”
Negroes have been attending
classes in certain fields of study
at the University since the Supreme
Court decision in the Heman Sweatt
case in 1950. Sweatt took his case
to the U. S. Supreme Court in 1946
because he was denied admission
to the University School of Law.
Sweatt had asked “equal training
to that available to other students,”
and in 1946 no provision was made
for study in law for Negroes.
He finally got what he wanted in
Weather Today
Weather outlook for today is
cloudy with possible thundershow
ers and heavy rains up to 6:30
p.m. and light rain after that time.
Temperature at 10:45 a.m. was 85,
with expected high to be in 90’s.
Low this morning was 71 degrees.
1950 when he and two other Neg
roes were admitted into the Univer
sity by order of the Supreme Court.
Under that decision, the University
has accepted Negro students only
for graduate and professional pro
grams of study not offered in state-
supported institutions for Negroes,
Complete desegregation at TWC
this fall was ordered because El
Paso officials have already an
nounced an end to segregation in
public schools in that city. Also,
the Regents said that the college
does not have the enrollment prob
lem that the main university faces,
and that the Legislature had made
(See NEGROES, Page 6)
EE 505 Requires
Sign eel Reef nests
Students desiring' to take elec
trical engineering 305 in the sec
ond summer session if it is offer
ed should go by the EE Depart
ment office before 5 p.m. tomor
row and sign the letter of request
in care of the secretary.
The course will not be offered
unless a sufficient number of stu
dents sign the request.
Library Schedule
The following schedule for
the Cushing Memorial Library
during the between-terms per
iod has been announced by
Robert A. Houze, librarian.
Friday, July 15 — 8 a.ip-
to 5 p.m.
Saturday, July 16 — 8 a.m.
to 12 noon.
Sunday, July 17 — Closed.
Monday, July 18 — 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
Tuesday, July 19 — Regu
lar schedule.
ery conceivable type of fire.
Col. H. R. Brayton of the
Texas Engineering Extension
Service, the sponsoring organ
ization, originated the idea of such
a school in 1929. He is still in
sliarge of the program, which has
grown to be the biggest—and at
one time, the only—school of its
kind in the nation.
‘About 40 other states have fire-
men • courses,” Brayton said, “but
the school here offers practical
training under actual fire condi
tions.”
Courses held this year included
a general basic course, an advanced
course, fire marshal’s course, in
dustrial fire protection course, and
firemen insti-uctor’s course. At 3
p.m. tomorrow, examinations will
be held for men from Texas cities
earning key rate credit for their
cities. An immediate benefit of the
school is a saving of more than two
million dollars in fire insurance rat
ing by receiving credit from the
state Fire Insurance Commission
for sending fire department mem
bers to the school.
The firemen this year received
supplementary instruction in dis
aster rescue operations to prepare
them to assist their community m
time of natural disaster or enemy
air attack. Another new course
offered was driving emergency ve
hicles safely.
Lectures were held in the MSC,
field training for basic course were
held on the grounds surrounding
dormitories 1 through 12-—the dor
mitory area in which the firemen
are staying; and the fire-condition
programs were conducted on a 26-
acre area adjoining the campus.
This area was set aside by the
Board of Directors of the A&M
System, specifically for firemen
training. It is the area behind the
veteran’s housing on the northeast
side of the campus.
Equipment and expandable ma
terials and fuels for the school
were provided by various industries
of the state. The school also has
several pumpers and ladder trucks
as a part of its permanent appara
tus.
The Fireman's Training School is
conducted by the T.E.E.S. under the
auspices of the State Firemen and
Fire Marshals Association, in coop
eration with the Trade and Indus
trial Department of the Texas Edu
cation Agency.
‘HIT THE DECK’—The musical comedy, the Deck,” sponsored by the Student Activi
ties Department, played to a large and enthusiastic audience Tuesday night at The
Grove. Another performance was scheduled last night, but rain prevented the show from
going on. The musical starred Miss Coralyn Thurman and Don Smith, backed by the
chorus shown. Bill Turner and Mrs. Joe Barron directed the production.