Number 10: Volume 55
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1955
ON THE FLY — Taking advantage of the wide open spaces of the Memorial Student
Center ballroom are these professional square dancers, who have come from all parts of
the country to attend the Square and Round Dance Institute. The square at the right is
made up largely of Kansans, while the dancers in the square at the left are from the
Chicago area. The center square is mostly Texan.
Dance Saturday Night
Square Dance Taught
Phone Numbering
System Change
Set for December
The two-week criminal law
course for peace officers held at
A&M ended Friday with certifi
cates of completion presented to
those who took the course.
The course, 80 hours of practical
training in criminal law, was the
first of its kind in Texas and was
designed to give the peace officer
a better working knowledge of the
tools of his trade—criminal law.
Top-flight professional men were
instructors for the two-week
course. The program was under
the direction of the Texas Engi
neering Extension Service with
Wallace D. Beasley as director, as-
Schaffer Takes
New Position
At High School
Horace Schaffer was ap
proved last week as coach for
A&M Consolidated High
School, replacing Jim Bevans
who resigned to accept a posi
tion with an Austin insurance com
pany. Schaffer was elevated by
the School Board from his capa
city as junior high football coach,
and will continue in his teaching
duties as a mathematics instructor.
Larry Hayes, former Aggie bas
ketball coach, was hired as the
school’s basketball coach, and also
will assume Bevan’s job as physi
cal education teacher.
Schaffer is a 1946 graduate of
CHS and a 1950 graduate of A&M.
He will receive his Master’s de
gree from Sam Houston State Col
lege this month. He is 27 years
old, and is single.
Hayes, in addition to the A&M
coaching experience, spent two
pears as basketball coach of North
Little Rock, Ark., High School. He
is 30 years old, marriejS, and has
four sons. He received his bache
lor’s degree from Oklahoma A&M
in 1949 and is to receive his mas
ter’s from A&M next summer.
Bevan’s teams compiled an envi
able record during his stay at the
school. His football teams won 35
and lost 10 games. His basketball
record was 38 and 12. The 1953-54
teams brought home district cham
pionships in football and basket
ball and bi-district in baseball. His
1954 track team won second place
in the state meet.
July Visitors
Total 1,632
Visitors to the A&M campus dur
ing the month of July totaled
1,632, according to P. L. Downs Jr.,
official greeter. The visitors at
tended short courses and other con
ferences.
For the month of June and July
this year a total of 4,402 visitors
were here. The largest attendance
at any one meeting was the an
nual Fireman’s Training School
held July 10 to 15. Twelve-hun
dred and twenty-one fireman at
tended from all over the state.
sisted by Ira E. Scott, Extension
Service police instructor.
Peace officers taking part in
the course which ended this week
included W- A. Capehart and D.
E. Malone, detectives, Wichita
Falls; A. C. Harbin, captain, and
James Fulford, patrolman, both of
Brownfield; Thomas J. Rakowitz,
sergeant, and Robert R. Kemp, pa
trolman, both of Victoria;
Herman Craig, patrolman, Jacks-
boro; Robert R. Gladney, deputy
sheriff, Velasco; Edward McNair,
deputy sheriff, Beaumont; Lloyd
Rogers, chief of police, Sweetwa
ter; L. W. Walker, sheriff, Jeffer
son, and Ray Williamson, detective,
Bryan.
Some Want Band
To Return Home
The great dream of brother
hood among humans has drawn
one step, or one dollar, near
er to existence.
The band fund has received
$1 from two Texas Exes—for
the return trip from UCLA.
And the sentiments expressed
by the contributors, Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Christner of Sham
rock, Tex., were to the effect
that both A&M and Texas are
great schools.
The Christners, by the way,
are the parents of three Texas
Aggies: John, ’52; MacGregor
V, ’55; and Tom, ‘58. It seems
as if parental live is stronger
than the ties binding one to
the old alma mater.
The Texas Exes Band fund
now rests at $3.01. The Christ
ners’ gift was the first receiv
ed from former students of
the University for the trip
back from California.
The total band fund through
this morning was $17,677.50.
The acceptance of two grant-in-
aid and the renewal of two others
has been announced by Dr. R. D.
Lewis, director, Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station.
Charles Pfizer and Company of
Terre Haute, Ind., has renewed
two grants to the Texas station.
One for $1,500 is to support stud
ies on the utilization of vitamin A
and other antibiotics in the rations
of cattle. The other for $2,500 is
to be used for supporting studies
on the evaluation of unidentified
growth factor and antibiotics in
the ration of poultry.
The national Plant Food Insti
tute of Washington, D. C., has
made available a giant of $2,500
to support studies on the evalua
tion of experimental responses to
fertilizers. This is a cooperative
project between the departments
of Agricultural Economics and So
ciology and Agronomy.
The cries of “Swing your part
ner,” the sound of dancing feet
and the gaily dressed people who
have been seen recently in the Me
morial Student Center are all a
part of the Square and Round
Dance Institute, which is being
conducted in the MSC this week by
Manning and Nita Smith.
The purpose of the institute,
which began sessions Tuesday of
this week, is to provide training
for dancing teachers and square-
dance callers and also for those
people who just like.*to dance. The
program includes basic as well as
Eli Lilly and Company of Indi
anapolis, Ind., has given a grant
$2,500 in support of studies on
cattle feeding.
The student who was “tops at
A&M” last year, six-foot-ten inch
Hugh Lanktree, combined with a
Miss from Virginia Saturday night
in New York to walk away with
$2,310 on the CBS television pro
gram “Two for the Money.”
Lanktree, who received a degree
in English last May and is due to
get a second degree in animal hus
bandry next Spring, has been work-
advanced work and covers square,
folk, round and ballroom dancing.
A special feature of the institute
is that it pi-ovides help for those
interested in organizing and co-or
dinating children’s dancing pro
grams.
About 50 people have attended
the sessions during the week, which
are held three times a day. Over
200 are expected over the weekend.
Dancers from Wisconsin, Illinois,
Kansas, Arkansas and all parts of
Texas have come to College Station
for the classes.
The Smiths have conducted the
institute every summer for the past
five years. This year they have
added to their teaching staff Roi
and Ben Highburger of Dallas and
Mr. and Mrs. Leland Lawson of
Houston.
Friday night will be a Jamboree,
at which callers from all over will
present new routines and dances.
Saturday night the Rhythm Out
laws will play for an open dance,
ing this summer with the kids at
Camp Grady Spruce, a YMCA camp
near Mineral Wells. On July 17,
the Dallas Morning News ran a
story about him, along with a pic
ture emphasizing his height.
The story told about his horse
trading and his building up the
horse department of the camp. It
mentioned in the last paragraph
that his ambition after college was
to go to Hollywood and become a
movie cowboy.
Several days after the story ap
peared, Lanktree received a tele
gram, care of the News, which in
dicated that the TV show was inter
ested in his appearing on it. He
accepted, and Saturday night show
ed the folks in New York and else-
Industrial Meeting
Chairmen Named
Chairmen have been named for
the several sessions of the fifth an
nual Industrial Development Con
ference to be held at A&M Sept.
1-2.
Jack Springer, manager, Bryan
Chamber of Commerce, will head
the opening session on the morn
ing of Sept. 1. Dr. Arthur W.
Melloh, vice-director, Texas Engi
neering Experiment Station, will
be in charge of the afternoon ses
sion. At the evening session, Gor
don H. Turrentine, assistant gen
eral manager of the Houston
Chamber of Commerce, will be
the chairman.
The morning session the next
day wall be presided over by Her- I
schel E. Nix, executive vice-presi
dent of the South Texas Chamber
of Commerce, San Antonio.
to which all square dancers in the
area are invited. The dance will
be in the MSC, and admission will
be $1.
Weekday nights are busy ones
for members of Army Reserve
units stationed in the College Sta-
tion-Bryan reserve ar.ea. The Army
Reserve Training Center is located
two blocks south of Kyle Field in
College Station.
Different units there for College
Station area men are Headquarters
and Headquarters Company, 420th
Engineer Brigade, commanded by
Brig. Gen. Spencer J. Buchanan;
343rd Field Artillery Battalion of
the 90th “Texas’ Own” Division,
commanded by Maj. O. D. Butler;
the 90th Division Artillery Medical
where along the national television
circuit what a real Texas cowboy
can do.
For the program Lanktree wore
a western outfit of boots, fancy
shirt and cowboy hat. An(f to prove
that Texans are light on their feet,
the lanky “defeated candidate for
A&M’s ugliest man in 195,5” pulled
off his boots and did a jittei'bug.
No word was available as to what
Lanktree planned tq do with his
share of the television loot.
CHS Plans
Hat Dance
Saturday
The Student Council of A&M
Consolidated High School is
sponsoring a hat dance at 7:30
Saturday night at the high
school terrace.
Aggies as well as high
school students from College
Station and Bryan are invited
to attend, but everyone must
wear something that falls un
der the general classification
of “hat”—be it bonnet, derby,
sombrero or space helmet. A
prize will be given for the
most original head covering.
Admission to the dance will
be 50 cents for couples or
stags. All proceeds will go to
finance next year’s student
council projects.
Miss Eugenia Rush is chair
man of the affair. Chaperones
will be Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
C. Hite, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Rush and Mr. and Mrs. J. J.
Skrivanek.
Detachment; Headquarters and
Headquarters Company, 358th In
fantry Regiment, commanded by
Col. Joe Davis; 400th Research and
Development Unit, commanded by
Col. Couch; and Command and
General Staff. All units except
the 400th R&D are presently seek
ing recruits for their outfits.
Since the procedures followed
by each unit are similar, with re
spect to the channels set up by the
reserve plan, a look at one particu
lar outfit will suffice to give a
view of Army Reserve ti-aining in
College Station. '
The 343rd Field Artillery Battal
ion meets for drill each Tuesday
night. This unit, and all others,
is authorized 48 paid training as
semblies annually in addition to
the 15-day tour of active duty for
the entire division held at Fort
Hood, Tex.
Training assemblies begin at
7:30 p.m. and last two hours. The
training includes up-to-date infor
mation on the armed forces in gen-
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Weather Today
Increased cloudiness and scatter
ed thundershowers.
Cumulous clouds building up in
west. Low this morning was 74
degrees.
Seven Pulls
Required By
New System
College Station’s telephone
numbering system will go to
the “Metropolitan Numbering
Plan’’ in December of this
year, according to G. M. Bren
nan, division manager.
The new system will provide for
two letters and five numerals in all
city telephone numbers. An exam
ple of the numbering plan would
be PRospect 1-9800. The customer
would dial PR, then the five numer
als.
The City of Houston recently
went on this same system.
The Southwestern States Tele
phone Company is looking to the
time when customers here will be
able to dial their long distance
numbers. This direct dialing is
still in the future, but its operation
depends upon this type of number
ing. Operator long distance dial
ing is simplified by it.
Eventually, every city on tele
phone companies’ long distance
dialing network will have numbers
that require seven pulls on the dial,
Brennan reported. The purpose of
this is to give each telephone a
number not duplicated elsewhere in
that particular long distance zone.
Long distance operators in other
parts of the country dial a three
digit code number to reach College
Station. Next they will simply
dial the customer’s number—two
letters and five numerals—to ring
any telephone in College Station
and in other surrounding towns.
Operator long distance dialing is
accomplished through installation
of company long distance switching
equipment which “memorizes” the
number being dialed, selects the
route, then rings the correct tele
phone in the distant city.
Brennan expressed the company’s
regi’et at having to change anyone’s
telephone number, but said that the
need to keep up with the city’s
growth and to provide the new long
distance dialing service left no al
ternative.
Hideaway to Turn
Hillbilly Monday
The Memorial Student Center’s
second special dance of the summer
will be held Monday night in the
ballroom from 8 to 11. This time
the Hideaway is going western, and
everyone is to come all decked out
in denim.
Two floor shows will be present
ed. At 9 o’clock Bill Messick and
his aggregation will “pick and
sing,” and at 10 a group led by
Hubert Vykukal and Richard Smith
will present another hillbilly pro
gram.
The Capers Combo will play for
the dance, and admission will be 25
cents per person.
HOP, HOP, HOP! — Yes, the Bunny Hop is still with us, and this group of dancers
at the MSC Hideaway seems to be enjoying it. The picture was snapped shortly after
they started hopping, before these human rabbits had a chance to wear themselves out.
JUST PRACTICING — All tied up in a bundle of bandages is Sgt. l.C. E. L. Kosarek
of the 343rd Field Artillery Battalion, Army Reserves. Looking on are the scouts ffom
Pack 802, College Station, Webelos Den, w T ho visited the unit’s training assembly last
week. The other interested spectators are members of the organization.
TAES Receives New
Grants, Renewals
A&M’s Hugh Lanktree Wins
On National TV Program
Army Reserve Units
Asking for Recruits