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The Battalion
Number 23: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1955 Price Five Cents
Big W eekend Progr an^Qpens T onight
RANKING OFFICERS—Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant, congratulates Ernest F. Bie-
hunko, newly named commander of the Ross Volunteers. Other cadet officers are Jack
Barbee, left, administrative officer and Frank Westmoreland, executive officer. Por
trait of Tactical Air Force Commander Gen. O. P. Weyland, former Ross Volunteer, looks
on in the background.
‘Welcome’ Dances
High l igh tA c ti vi ti es
By RALPH COLE
Battalion Managing Editor
The welcome mat will be spread this weekend for the
University of Houston Cougars, expected to start arriving on
the campus late this afternoon.
Byron (Scotty) Parham, Glen Buell, Gus Mijalis and
Jack Edwards will leave for Houston early tomorrow morn
ing to extend the Cougars a welcome from the A&M student
body. They will speak at the Cougar “pep rally” tomorrow
morning at 11.
Rue Pinalle will launch the celebration tonight with a
dance in the recreation area of the Memorial Student Center.
Music will be provided by the Capers Combo featuring Sylvia
Williams as vocalist.
The traditional French at-f
Biehunko Selected
RV Commander
Ernest F. Biehunko, senior in
dustrial technology major from
Moulton, has been selected 1955-56
commander of the Ross Volunteers,
Col. Joe E. Davis, has announced.
Traditionally the honor guard
for the governor of Texas, the Vol
unteers are selected from the Corps
of Cadets on the basis of excel
lence of character, military science
training and scholastic achieve
ment.
During recent years the white-
uniformed Ross Volunteers have
served as honor guard Tor visiting
dignitaries such as Pre.^ident Eis
enhower, Army Chief of^taff Mat
thew B. Ridgeway, Air Force Chief
of Staff Nathan F. Twining and
Tactical Air Force Commander O.
P. Weyland, who was a member of
the organization during his stu
dent days at A&M in 1924.
Company officers named in ad
dition to Biehunko are Frank West
moreland, executive officer; Jack
Barbee, administrative officer;
John Cunningham, first platoon
leader; Burton Young, second pla
toon leader; Ed Cruz, third platoon
leader.
Walter H. Parsons III, first
sergeant; Edward J. Bunn supply
sergeant; Don Emerson, public in
formation sergeant; David Parnell,
platoon sergeant of the first pla
toon; John Sheffield, second pla
toon sei’geant and Bob Fuller, pla
toon sergeant of the third platoon.
Board To Declare
Union Fee Results
The results of the union fee
election which was held Wed
nesday and Thursday in the
Memorial Student Center will
be canvassed and declared by
the A&M System Board of Di
rectors meeting here this week
end.
The Board will be feted with
a dinner sponsored by the Bry
an Chamber of Commerce at
7:30 tonight at The Oaks in
Bryan.
mosphere with French wait
ers and a floor show at 10:30,
followed by mid-night yell
practice, will round out the
night.
Carolyn Thurman will be the
vocalist for the floor show which
features a bop band composed of
Huber Cykukal, Richard Smith,
Larry Johnson, Dick Newland and
Darrell Williams.
The dance starts at 8:30 p.m.
and will last until 12 p.m. Admis
sion is 75 cents per person.
The big event of Saturday will
be the A&M-University of Hous
ton football game that night, with
kickoff slated for 8. The Corps of
Cadets will march into the game,
falling out at 6:30 p.m. and moving
onto the field at 6:55 p.m.
Order of march for the game
will be the band, Corps Staff, first
regiment, second regiment, first
wing and second wing. The newly
formed “civilian unit” will m a r ch
as the fourth company of the third
battalion of the second regiment.
Climax of the weekend will be
Saturday night when the entire
second floor of the Center will be
devoted to dancing. Three bands
will be featured, providing music
for every taste.
The Capers Combo will offer lat-
in rhythm and the Prairie View Col
legians will give out with the Dix
ieland Jazz. The Aggieland Combo
will furnish popular music and will
have Sylvia Williams as vocalist.
Theme for the Saturday night
affair will be “Midnight in New
Orleans.” The theme will be car
ried throughout the second floor
of the Union building.
No definite time has been set for
the closing of the dance, but it
will start immediately after the
football game ends. Admission is
$1.25, couple or single.
Ags i 1 1 ay Cougars
Saturday Night
By RONNIE GREATHOUSE
Battalion Sports Editor
After traveling over 3,000 miles to play its first two
games, A&M stays home tomorrow night to host the vicious
University of Houston Cougars at 8 p.m.
As Shakespeare might have expressed it, the Cougars
have a “lean and hungry look.” After devouring the ailing
Montana Grizzlies in its opening game at Houston, 54-12,
the Cougars are looking around for more victims.
A crowd of 30,000 or better is expected to watch Coach
Paul (Bear) Bryant’s superbly conditioned squad in its fam
iliar Kyle Field surroundings for the first time this season.
“We have more polish than last week, and we ran our
plays better today,” said Bryant after yesterday’s workout,
“but, we’ve still got to get
News of the World
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER—President Eisenhower’s recovery progressed
to an extent where doctors decided to let him put his initials
to a couple of government documents later in the week, pos
sibly Saturday. It will be the first business transacted by the
chief executive since he was stricken.
At the same time, it was announced that Sherman Ad
ams, Eisenhower’s top aide, will fly here from Washington
tomorrow to take over direction of operations at the Denver
White House.
James C. Hagerty, White House press secretary, said in
reply to questions that the two developments mean it is
likely—barring complications in Eisenhower’s condition—
that any need for possible delegation of presidential powers
to other federal officials has about disappeared from the
picture.
Minor as the step is on the hazardous recovery road,
it came considerably sooner than had been expected. Dr.
Paul Dudley White of Boston, a leading heart specialist who
examined Eisenhower Sunday and Monday, said afterward
there would be a two-week period of absolute rest.
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MEXICO CITY—Hurricane Janet, the season’s most
vicious tropical storm, is breaking up in the Mexican
mountains after faking a toll of 350 to 400 lives. There
were reports of 150 found dead in the ruins of Chetumal,
on the Yucatan peninsula.
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HONOLULU—A reliable source said an American re
leased Monday by the Chinese Reds suddenly refused to con
tinue his trip home yesterday when his plane stopped at
Wake Island. Meager information reaching Honolulu said
Dilmus T. Kanady, a prisoner of the Reds for nearly five
years, was traveling aboard a Pan American plane. When
it was ready to leave, the source said, Kanady refused to go,
claiming “diplomatic immunity.”
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DALLAS—Adlai Stevenson said today “Texas would
be better off today if the governor Allan/ Shivers had
spent more time on veterans land and less on tidelands.”
Annual Junior College
Course Opens Monday
Last Day To Drop
Saturday is the last day for stu
dents to drop courses without re
ceiving an “F”, announced H. L.
Heaton, registrar.
Weather Today
The twelfth annual Junior Col
lege conference will be held in the
Memorial Student Center Monday
and Tuesday.
Dr. W. W. Armistead, dean of
the School of Veterinary Medicine,
will deliver the opening address for
the first session at 9 a.m. Monday.
Robert B. Toulouse, dean of the
Graduate School at North Texas
State College, w r ill preside over the
meeting, which will include a panel
discussion on “How Cooperative
Planning Gets Better Junior Col
leges”, and Dr. John K. Folger’s
address on “A Look at the Signif
icance of Enrollment Increases in
Texas.”
C. C. Colvert, Texas University
Junior College Education Consult
ant, will preside over the second
session at 7 p.m. Three panel dis
cussions will be featured at this
meeting. They include “Building
and Plant Maintenance Programs”,
“Optimum Utilitization of Teach
ing Space and Equipment”, and
“Financing the Building Program.”
The third session at 7 p.m. Mon
day, with C. H. Ransdell, acting
dean of the Basic Division, pre
siding, will feature an address by
Dr. Clayton W. Williams, vice-pres
ident for Academic Affairs at the
University of Houston, on “Our
Responsibility in Training for the
Understanding of World Affairs”.
PARTLY CLOUDY
Temperature at 10:30 a.m. was
85 degrees. Yesterday’s high was
95 degrees with a low of 72 de
grees. Forecast is partly cloudy.
Aggieland Pictures
To Start Monday
Pictures for the ’56 Aggie
land will be taken starting
Monday with freshmen in field
artillery, ordnance, air-aircraft
artillery and signal corps un
its on the schedule.
Monday through Wednesday,
Oct. 3, 4 and 5, the field ar
tillery and ordnance pictures
are scheduled; signal corps and
AAA freshmen will have
Frids
taken
Oct. 5
Thurs.
and 6.
id
Film Society Has
1st Show Tonight
The MSC Film Society will pre
sent George (Foghorn) Winslow'
in “Mj^ Pal Gus” at 7:30 in the
ballroom. Other stars of the pic
ture are Richard Widmark and Jo
Ann Dru.
The story depicts a boy’s evolu
tion from an ill-tempered brat to
a “pal,” upsetting a shakedown
plot.
Admission is by season ticket,
I now on sale at the main desk of
the Center, or by single ticket.
Cost for students for a season tic
ket is $1.25; for a non-student,
[ $1.50. Single admission is 25 cents.
Aggielands Here Oct. 6
Joe N. Gerber, dean of Stephen
F. Austin State College, w r ill pre
side over the final session at 9
a.m. Tuesday. Robei't B. Kamm,
A&M dean of Student Personal
Affairs, wdll speak on “Rehabili
tation in Discipline,” followed by
a panel discussion on this subject.
Following a short recess, the Eval
uation Committee will present an
evaluation of the conference, and
the Resolutions and Nominations
Committee will present its report.
Included in the displays for the
conference will be an exhibit of
school-plant models, draw-ings and
pictures.
The 1955 Aggieland will be here
and ready for distribution Oct. 6,
according to Kurt Nauck, editor.
The annual, which consists of 512
pages, belongs to everyone who
paid their student activities fee
last year. They may be picked up
on the first floor of Goodwin Hall.
Each student should bring his iden
tification card or his fee slip in
case his name was left off of the
roster.
The 1956 Aggieland staff is now
in the process of . organizing for
the current year. This year’s class
co-editors are Donald Burt and
Bill Morton. Other members of
the staff include Bill Meals, activ
ities editor; Jim Bower, business
manager; and Meade Bailey, civil
ian editor.
Photographers for the yearbook
are Guy • Fernandez, James Schu
bert and Mike King.
in there and take charge Sat
urday night to win.”
KORA will broadcast the
play-by-play beginning at 8 -
p.m. The pre-game warm-up
comes on the air at 7:50.
The Aggie’s awesome display of
power against LSU’s tough Tigers
last Satui’day put several wrinkles
in the youthful brow of Cougar
Coach Bill Meek, in his first year
at the 14,000 student University.
“I wish I had stayed at home.
After seeing that game I’ll be
awake all week long worrying
about how to stop those Aggies,”
groaned Meek, after returning
from Dallas last weekend.
A&M spent Thursday’s practice
session polishing its offense and
setting-up defenses against Hous
ton’s potent split-T attack.
Coach Bryant plans to start
the same eleven players that began
the LSU fracas last week. Gene
Stallings and Bobby Drake Keith
will man the end positions, with
Charles Krueger and Jack Powell
at tackles* Jim Stanley and Dee
Powell, guards, and Lloyd Hale,
rounding out the forward wall, at
center.
Jimmy Wright, the sharp-shoot
ing quarterback from Edinburg,
directs the starting backfield. John
Crow and Loyd Tayloi* hold down
the halfback jobs/ and Jack Pardee
throws 202-pounds at the Cougars
from a fullback post.
Donald Robbins, Bob Clendennen,
Murry Trimble, Bobby Lockett,
John Gilbert, Herb Wolf, Dennis
Goerhing, George Johnson and
Bobby Marks form the second
team’s solid front line.
Quarterback Donnie Grant teams
with halfbacks Bill Dendy, Ed Dud
ley, Gene Henderson, and fullbacks
Kenneth Hall and George Gillar in
the No. 2 backfield.
Houston will be counting on its
depth, and the experience of 22
returning lettermen to counteract
the speed and agressiveness of the
sophomore-loaded Aggies. Meek
plans to stick with his unit substi
tution system that pounded Mon
tana into submission.
The Cougars’ first quarter team
is made up mostly of seniors, and
is directed by Jimmy Dickey, a
(See FOOTBALL, Page 3)
Day Student Filing
Closes Tomorrow
Civilian day students desir
ing to file for the Civilian Stu
dent Council should file before
noon tomorrow at 102 Good
win, 105 Bizzell or 1 H Pur-
year.
Requirements for the post in
clude a 1.0 grade point ratio,
status of civilian student for
at least one previous semester,
and not on scholastic or dis
ciplinary probation.
The day student election will
be held from 8 a.m. to 12 noon
and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednes
day.
NOT DODGER FANS—These baseball fans perusing the fate of the Brooklyn Dodgers
seem to be taking the telecast quite calmly; calmer, undoubtedly, than the Dodger front
office is taking the outcome of the World Series so far. The MSC has its television sets
tuned in to the game each day, so that anyone in the Center can yell with the Yankees
and moan with the Bums.