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.
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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