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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1955)
The Battal ion Number 7: Volume 55 Band Boosters Get 65 Dollars For Uniforms The Baud Boosters Club ad ded $65 to its treasury as a result of the square dance which it sponsored Saturday night. About 150 people, many from out of town, attended the af fair’, which was held in The Grove from 8:30 to 11 p.m. “Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves,” said W. N. William son, chairman of the dance, “and we really did have some outstand ing callers. They worked aw fully hai’d and didn’t charge us a thing for their services; we surely appreciate the help they gave us.” Sam Kennedy of Bryan was mas ter of ceremonies, and local callers were Manning Smith, Carl Lyman and Miss Lucille Moore. Several of the out-of-town guests also call ed for the dancers. George Reynolds was chairman of the committee for entertain ment, and Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Dar- row had charge of the refreshment stand. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Varvel and Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Hallmark took care of the gate. Also contributing their energy and talent were Bob Boone and Misses Sylvia Williams and Claire Rogers, who provided the floor show. Boone and Miss Williams each sang several members. Miss Rogers accompanied both the sing ers and also played a piano solo. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1955 Price Five Cents Two Visiting Fort Sill, Okla. W. H. Delaplane, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, and Col. D. P. Anderson, professor of military science and tactics, will be official representatives of A&M during Official Visitors Day at Fort Sill, Okla., today and tomor- I'UiV- ,U Pin-pose of the visitors day is to give college officials an oppox-- tunity to personally observe the training being given their students at Reseiwe Officer Training Camps. Fifty three A&M students are x-e- ceiving summer camp training at Fort Sill. At The Grove Thursday, July 21 — “Athena,” with Jane Powell and Edmund Pui'- dom. Monday, July 25 — “Room for One Mox-e,” starring Cai'y Grant and Betsy Dx-ake. Tuesday, July 26 — “All Ameri can,” with Tony Curtis and Lori Nelson. Wednesday, July 27 — “This Wo" man Is Dangei'ous,” starling Joan Crawford. Thursday, July 28 — “Personal Affair,” featuring Gene Tierney and Leo Genn. illSM 111* MOUNTAIN MUSIC—Doing what The Battalion thinks is the promenade are the square dancers who enjoyed the old fashioned hoedown at the Grove Saturday night. The dance was sponsored by the A&M Consolidated Band Boosters Club to raise money to help pay the $1,300 still owed for the school’s new band uniforms. Local and out-of- town callers did the honors. A profit of $65 was made which will go to the band uni form fund. MSC Summer Series Quartet Here Monday The usual Monday night “swing ing and swaying” of the Capers Combo and the Hideaway dance in the Memoxlal Student Center gives way this Monday to the music of the Bostonians, a male quai'tet whose repei'toii'e includes songs x’anging fx-om the classics of gi’and opex-a to the popular compositions of our modem composers. Each of the four members of the quartet — Ray Smith, tenor; Joe Kling, second tenor; Bernard Bai-- beau, baritone and Paola D’Alles- sandro, bass—studied at the New England Conservatox-y of Music. Three of them hold their Master of Music degree fx-om the Conser vatory, and the fourth, Joe Kling, is now completing work towaixl a degx-ee at the Boston Conseiwatory of Music. When not singing as a member of the quax-tet, Smith teaches music in the public schools of Fall Rivei’, Mass. He is also tenor soloist for St. Paul’s Cathedral in Boston. Baibeau, who also teaches, holds positions on the voice faculty at the New England Conservatory of Mu sic and at the Perkins Institution for the Blind at Watertown, Mass. He spent a season in summer stock and has directed a number of mu sical shows for the Pei’kins Insti tution. Kling’s career was interrupted for four and a half yeax-s while he sex-ved as a member of the spe cial service branch of the Army and appeax-ed with USO shows in Europe. Last year he won a schol arship to the Boston Conservatox-y of Music, whei’e he is completing woi’k toward his degree. He has sung leading x-oles with the Mobile Opex-a Company. D’Alessandx-o began his musical career by singing as a church so loist when he was 11 years old. Hanging History On Plastic Strips By BILL FULLERTON Battalion Editor Quite a lax-go hunk of A&M’s history will get a little moderniza tion befox-e the summer is over. No one can change histox-y, but The Battalion is having its re- coi’ded history put on a modern basis. The files are being micro filmed. Recently, Kex-stin Ekfelt, Batta lion Woman’s Editor, set out on the job of acquii'ing as complete a file as possible of The Battalion and all of the vaxious publications that have either led into or come out of the newspaper. The Battalion is an offspring of The Collegian (of which no copies wex’e available to be micro filmed) and of The College Jour nal. The Battalion became known as The Battalion in the fall of ’93. In collecting the files, several other publications were run across by Miss Ekfelt. One of these was a vicious little sheet called The Coui’t Mai’tial. It apparently was wi*itten as a joke, but a joke ap parently not appreciated by Col lege officials, for no record of it past the first issue could be lo cated. Another amazing little publi cation turned up was The Slob- bovian Times—the px*edecessor of The Litle Batt, which was a mim eographed newspaper for the An nex when the freshmen were lo cated there during the late 1940’s. In all, four crates of old Bat talions and “Battalion Relations” (See BATTALION, Page 4) WELL STACKED—All of the old Battalion files are stack ed and now have been shipped off to the Recordak Corpora tion of Dallas to be micro-filmed. The young lady is Miss Kerstin Ekfelt, Battalion Woman’s Editor, who collected and compiled the back files of The Battalion (including the paper’s ancestors and its offspring). The micro-film ing is to be finished sometime this summer. Weather Today Weather forecast is for continued warm temperatures, with scattered to broken clouds at a height of about 3500 feet. There is a possi bility for widely scattered thunder showers until 7 p.m. today. Yes terday’s high temperature was 94 degrees; low this morning, 71 de grees. During World War II he served as a member of OSS in North Afri ca and Italy. He is now connected with the Boston Lyx-ic Theatx-e, wheer he performs, pi-oduces and directs. Also with the Boston Lyx-ic The atre is Alfx-ed Lee, the quax-tet’s accompanist, who has been the Theatre’s musical director. Besides wox-king with the quai’tet, Lee tx-av- els with his sister, a concert singer, as her accompanist. A harpsichox-d- ist as well as pianist, he obtained his masters degi’ee in June fxom the Yale Univex-sity School of Mu sic. Season tickets to the MSC sum mer series pi’ogi’am entitle holdex-s to admission to the Bostonians, as well as to the seven movies sched uled for this semester. Tickets ax-e on sale now at the main desk and ax-e $1.25 for students and student wives and $1.50 for non-students. Single admission to the Bostonians is 75 cents. Adams To Visit Fort Knox, Ky. Dr. J. E. Adams, dean of the School of Agriculture at A&M, will be a guest of the Department of the Army July 27-28 at Fort Knox, Ky. By invitation of the Fourth Army’s Commanding Gen. S. T. Williams, expressed through Col. Delmer P. Anderson, professor of military science and tactics at A&M, Dean Adams will fly to Fort Knox for Visitor’s Day at the base, where a number of A&M students now are taking summer training- This will be Adams’ first such visit since becoming dean of th college’s School of Agriculture. Hill Heads Disaster Program John W. Hi., Z£r lege Station-A ' nr ogram as di- Relief-Civil Defens wukins rector, and L • op erations of- has been selected as o P ficer* .u e program Headquarters o Workman ’s will be in Hill s ® ice ’ System Compensation headquarters Building. Ajternat ^ Bog _ will be in City ^ co mman- well’s office and m tn dant’s office. leade rB has Selection of 0 ^ rther study, ac- been delayed z - nn> ch air- ^^f^he avU Defense Com- , man ox me I mittee. , a con _ Civil 6 Defense ..end d ‘ had been gained a, to how to de j velop the local program. City Council Approves Sewer System Plans Gives Old Hwy 6 Second Term Registration Gains Over ’54 Second semester registra tion at A&M through Tues day showed a gain over the comparable day last summer. Through that day, 1,421 stu dents had registered this summer compared to a 1,117 figure last year. The total figure last sum mer for the second term, not count ing Junction, was 1,363. Registrar H. L. Heaton estimated that this semester’s total, counting Junction, would be close to 1,700 students. Tuesday’s figux-e has changed already, he said, as some students have registex-ed late. Around 50 mox-e are expected to register Monday by special permis sion—these are students w-ho were at summer ROTC camps and were permitted to cut the camp a week short in order to attend the second semester hex-e. Unless the total has changed very x-ecently, the number of. gix-ls here for the second semester stands at 42*. Last summer there were 34 girls x-egistered for the second sum mer session. More than 100 were registex-ed for this summers’ fix-st semester. Thursday is the last day for eh- x-olling for the second summer tei-m, and Friday is the last day for adding or dropping courses. MSC Series Plans Matinee Movies Something new has been added to the Memorial Student Center’s summer series program: the Film Society plans to sponsor matinees of the seven movies scheduled for this semester, in addition to the regular evening showings. “We’re going to try this because so many students don’t go to clas ses in the afternoon and would rather study at night when it’s cool,” said Mrs. Frances Shackel ford, program consultant at the MSC. “We thought we’d give them something to do in the after noons.” The first picture to be shown twice will be “White Tower,” with Glenn Ford, Valli, Claude Rains and Oscar Ilomolka. This story of six people joined in a common determination to climb a hitherto unsealed peak will be presented today at 2 and 7:30 p.m. To be shown Thursday, July 28, is “Rocket Ship XM,” a film about space travel. Starx-ing in it are Lloyd Bridges and Osa Massen. Improvements ^ H\ The College Station City Council. Monday night accepted the plans for the sewer system and sewage disposal plant drawn up by Homer Hunter and Associates, Consulting Engi neers, of Dallas. The Council then took steps to advertise for bids. Bids on the sewer system and sewage disposal plant will be sep arate, and must be in City Manager Ran Boswell’s office by 7 p.m. Aug. 12. The awarding of the contracts for the work will take place at the regular Council meeting Aug. 15 to allow time for tabulating all of the bids.. In other action, the Council voted to let the State High way Department know that the city will participate in im provements in the city limits*"^ v of the proposed farm to mar- | ** 5 y | | ^ | f 1*SU Held Here Ends Friday The sixth 40-hour course for safety supervisors being held at A&M ends tomorrow for 19 registrants from four states. The coux-se is undei’ the direction of the Texas Engineei’ing Exten sion Service, and has supeiwisory personnel registered from Texas, Ai'izona, Arkansas arid Kansas. It began Monday, with classes being held in the Memorial Student Cen tex’. R. F. Matthews, field instructor with the T.E.E.S., is the confex*ence leadeiv Pui-pose of the coui*se is to train job supex-visoi's and newly ap pointed safety supei'visors in or ganizing and conducting effective programs of accident pxevention and to give experienced safety pei’- sonnel an oppoi’tunity to x-eview new techniques. ' Industrial concerns represented at the coui’se include Giffoi'd-Hill Western Inc., Univei*sal Coxp., Wales Trucking Co., Wesco Mate rial Corp. and the Texas Automatic Sprinkler Corp., all of Dallas; Service Pipe Line Co., Fort Wox-th; The Borden Co., Houston; Ti’i- County Lumber Co., Libei’ty; Chem- Boswell said that most of the |i ca l Process Co., Breckenridge; Gulf property owners who will be af- | States Utilities Co., Beaumont; An- fected have indicated they will be , c hor Metals, Inc., Hurst; Spencer willing to go along with the move. Chemical Co., Orange; Lubrizol ket highway No. 2154—old highway 6. The improve ments to be made and the city’s pai’t in them are as follows: The Highway Department will build, take over and maintain old highway 6 within the city Ihvdts. The new road is to be four lane from Jersey St. south to the limits, although it was not known how wide the x’oad would be within the ax*ea of the college campus. Curbs, Guttex’s What is asked of the city is that it build curbing and gutter along this stretch—appi’oximately 3,700 feet—on one foot of pi’opei’ty own ed by residents along the road. The Highway Department also asks an easement of not more than seven feet behind the cuxb (the property would still belong to the owners of the homes), so that the depart ment would be sux-e of enough x’oom to make any repairs needed. Because property lines and the x’oad do not x'un exactly parallel, only about half of the owners, the ones toward the southern half of the city limits, would be involved in the one foot to be given fox- curbing and guttei’. Fred J. Benson, city engineer, es timated that the cost pex- foot of the cuxb and gutter would be about $2. It would probably be a yeax-, he said, befoi’e the program got started and the need for the money arose. Beer Cans in Park Kiwanis Paik, which is located east of College Hills, and is be yond the present city limits, came under discussion at the meeting. The Council had received a letter fronx the College Station Kiwanis Club requesting that the pai'k be annexed to the city. Normaix Andei’son, chaii-man of the Boys and Girlp Committee of the club, spoke at the Council meet ing, explaining the purpose of the paxk and why it should be annexed by the city. “The park was given for the (See COUNCIL, Page 6) Corp., Pasadena; Texas Mining and Smeltering Division of the National Lead Co., Lai’edo; St. Louis South- westem Railway Co., Pine Bluff, Ark.; and the Maricopa Division of the Borden Co., Phoenix, Ariz. Bookmobile Here The bookmobile fi’om the Car negie Libi’ary in Bryan will be at the crosswalk at C row of College View apartments tomorrow moxn- ing from 10:30 to 12. Books for all ages, from pi’e-school childi’en to adults, can be checked out for a pei'iod of tWo weeks. NO WATER WINGS—This group of swimm They are the College Station swimming te Adamson. The team took fourth place in a for story.) In front is the girls’ medley re are, left to right, Mary Frances Badgett, Gail are, in the same order, Martha Shawn. Ann John Harrington, Mary Varvel, and Patsy went along too. ers does not need water wings to stay afloat, am coached by A&M swimming coach Art meet at Tyler last weekend. (See page 4 ’ay team, which won first at the meet. They Schlesselman, and Judy Litton. In back Schlesselman, Richard Badgett, Don Draper, Wilkins. Tom Ivy is not shown, but he