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The Battalion
Number 32: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1955
Price Five Cents
Negroes Picket State Fair
On Negro Achievement Day
DALLAS—</P>—The State Fair
held its annual Negro Achievement
Day yesterday while pickets from
the youth council of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People picketed gates
to the grounds.
Fair officials estimated the day’s
attendance at between 150,000 and
175,000, about the same as for the
1954 observance.
The attendance figure included
many Negro school children from
over the state who were transport-
TRADITION?—Some traditions really have a great end
ing. And, this 15-second kiss handed Aggie Sweetheart
Charlene Seth by Corps Commander Larry Kennedy is no
exception. The only disappointment came when B. A.
(Scotty) Parham, official timer (not shown), announced
the kiss as 15-seconds long. Miss Seth was presented dur
ing half-time ceremonies in Fort Worth Saturday.
Town Hall Has Robert Shaw
Chorale Tomorrow Night
The second Town Hall program
of the current season kicks off at
8. tomorrow night in White Coli
seum.
Featured in the program is the
Robert Shaw Chorale and Orches
tra, nationally known for concert
tours and a long list of recordings
made for RCA Victor.
Director of the Chorale and Oi*-
chestra is a familiar figure in the
art of choi'al singing, Robert Shaw,
38-year-old Californian. Shaw,
who holds two honorary doctorates
in music, has become a well-known
artist in his field.
The engagement for this appear
ance is one of 90 which marks the
Chorale’s tenth American tour,
during which Shaw and his singers
have appeared in every state in the
Rodeo Tickets
Now On Sale
Tickets for the All-Aggie Rodeo,
with performances at 8 p.m. Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, may be
purchased from members of the
Saddle and Sirloin Club or at the
Student Activities Office in Good
win Hall.
Pre-rodeo tickets are 50 cents
for students and $1 for adults
Tickets at the gate will cost stu
dents 60 cents.
More than 75 students from all
frarts of the state, plus a few fac
ulty members, will take part in the
rodeo. Several members of the
Animal Husbandry Department at
A&M are expected to enter compe
tition.
union, except South Dakota and
Nevada.
Doors for the show will open at
7 p.m. Tickets for the perform
ance are on sale at the Office of
Student Activities, located on the
second floor of Goodwin Hall and
open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., except
during the noon hour. Cost . for
individual tickets for students is
$1, general admission; and for non
student general admission, $2. For
reserve seats, students will have to
pay $1.50 and non-students, $2.50.
Persons holding Town Hall sea
son tickets, pai - t of the student ac
tivities fee, ai’e of course admitted
on these.
Langford to Attend
Municipal Meeting
Ernest Langford, mayor of Col
lege Station, will attend the annual
meeting of the League of Texas
Municipalities to be held in
Brownsville Get. 23-25.
Langford is serving his seventh
successive term as mayor of Col
lege Station. He is head of the
Architecture Department.
Ag Ed Majors
Start Teaching
For Two Weeks
Two week practice training
sessions began yesterday for
41 agricultural education ma
jors in various parts of the
state. The “trial run” for the
student teachers will end Oct.
28.
The students and the places at
which they are teaching are as
follows:
Don Lacy and James Denard,
Bellville; H. R. Anderson and J.
R. Sewell, Bowie; Robert Moody
and John Johnson, Bryan; K. L.
Steelhammer and Robert Yates,
Burnett; O. S. Grote and S. D.
Hervey Jr., Caldwell; Roy Clark
and James Sullivan, Cleburne; W.
B. Pence and R. A. Miller, Cole
man; W. M. Slaten and Ray Mur
phy, Columbus;
Nolan Parker and Harry Cox,
Cross Plains; C. C. Smitherman
and Stanley Renfroe, Danbury; N.
R. Boardman and Curtis Wilkinson,
Itasca; Kenneth Schroeder and
Doyle Smith, Marshall; E. H.
Hough, Sherman; Billy Percival
and Kenneth Mays, Tbrrell; Lea-
mon Bullock and Edward Klinkov-
sky, Tyler; F. L. Stogner and J. M.
Hailey, Van; John Stockton and
Lester Byrd, Weatherford.
Leonard Berger and D. L. Steak-
ley, Weimer; Joe Garza and Frank
Fichte, Whitesboro; Kenneth Lew
is and Frank Metzer, Wills Point;
Woodrow Free and Robert Good,
Rosenberg.
Staff members from the Agri
cultural Education Department who
will supervise and assist the prac
tice teachers include E. V. Walton,
head of the department, and O.
M. Holt, J. R. Jackson, Henry Ross
and Dr. Jarrell Gray.
ed in school buses. Picketing began
at 8 a.m.
A total of 22 pickets marched in
front of six of the fair’s 11 gates.
They carried signs reading “Don’t
Sell Your Pride—Stay Out” and
“This is Appeasement Day at the
Fair—Stay Out.”
Fair police said they had a squad
assigned to prevent any outbreak
of violence, but no disorders were
reported.
The only confusion occurred
when the Negro Achievement Day
parade prepared to enter the
grounds.
A group of six boys and girls of
about high school age, bearing
signs, urged parade units to bear
right and not enter the grounds.
Others inside the gate shouted
“come on in.”
By prearrangement or through
confusion, the Dallas News said,
some of the marching units, includ
ing several high school bands and
the Wylie College band, turned
away from the picketed fair
grounds. At least some of the
bands later entered the grounds.
Tommy Neal, head of the
MSC Recital Series
To Feature Trio
A trio from the Houston Sym
phony Orchestra will present the
first program of the Memorial Stu
dent Center Recital series, tonight
at 8 p.m. in the Assembly Room
of the Center.
Fredell Lack Eichborn, a leading
violinist; Marion Davies Bottler,
first cellist of the Houston Sym
phony; and Albert Hirsh, head of
the piano department of the Uni
versity of Houston make up the
trio.
Eichborn has appeared with
many of the leading symphony or
chestras in this country and on
concert tours from coast to coast.
Miss Bottler is starting her eighth
season with the Houston Symphony
and was formerly first cellist of
the Kansas City Philharmonic.
Albert Hirsh has played to MSC
Recital Series audiences before and
will appear on many of the major
concert series in this area.
News of the World
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
RABAT, FRENCH MOROCCO-
Morocco’s newly formed regency
council, appointed to take over du
ties of the Sultan after his banish
ment, held its first meeting yester
day and asked for broad Support
NCAAP’s youth council, said his
group was picketing the fair be
cause Negroes had been segregat
ed and discriminated against on
five sepai-ate days at the fair.
James Steward, executive secre
tary and general manager of the
fair, called the picketing of the
fair’s Negro Achievement Day “re
grettable.”
He said “it is particularly ironic
and difficult to understand in view
of the fact that the State Fair has
been a pioneer in making available
to Negroes through its sixteen day
run, facilities that are not open to
them anywhere else in the state.”
Aggies Escape
Serious Injury
In Car Wreck
Two Aggies escaped serious
injury in the only accident re
ported for the Corps Trip
weekend.
Victor Hlavinka and Rob-
ei't Castor were on their way to
Dallas after attending a dance at
TSCW when the accident occurred.
Hlavinka, driver of the automo
bile, missed a curve about a mile
outside of Denton and- lost control
of the car. Leaving the road, the
car rolled over five times during*
which time, the two occupants
were thrown from the car.
Castor was cut about the face
and eyes. Hlavinka received mul
tiple bruises and scratches plus a
torn muscle on the calf of his leg.
They were taken to Floy Me
morial Hospital in Denton and
treated for their injuries. Castor
was released Saturday afternoon
and was in school yesterday.
Hlavinka was allowed to go home
Sunday but was supposed to re
turn to school today.
The automobile, a 1953 Chevro
let, was completely demolished and
sold for $50.
Hlavinka is a sophomore pre-
med major from East Bernard.
Castor is a sophomore pre-vet ma
jor from Mesquite. Both boys are
members of Squadron 20.
FRIENDLY RIVALRY
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A. (Scotty) Parham, center,
reveals the engraving of a plaque presented to A&M by
TCU Saturday in Fort Worth to Dr. David H. Morgan,
right, and Glenn Buell, left. The plaque read, presented to
Texas A&M, Oct. 15, 1955 by TCU for 35 years of friendly
rivalry. The plaque was being presented at the same time
freshmen were tearing up a sign reading “Stomp the
Aggies.”
City Council Sets Policy
On Re-Directing Sewers
According to action taken by the
City Council last night, all sewer
connections that have to be re-di
rected to by-pass an alley or sep
tic tank will be done with a fee of
$25 to be paid by the property
owner.
However, if the connection is on
private property, the owner will
pay for the connection only and
not the fee of $25.
Also at the meeting a report was
made by City Manager Ran Bos
well about the repairs that would
have to be made in the future.
Dr. F. C. Bolton gave a report
on the electricity need of College
Station. He stated that he could
not give a full report because of
the revamping of power that is
being done at the present time and
the building of the new electric
sub-station, in the parking lot be
hind dorm 14 near the USD A
building.
Upon approval by the. city at
torney, Mayor Ernefet Langford
signed a contract with the Mid
west Video Corp. which will give
the city a central television re
ceiving antenna for $1.50 rental
per year.
A three man committee was ap
pointed to investigate the possi
bility of getting the college to
build a sidewalk on college prop
erty between Timber and East
Dexter Sts. The necessity for this
was listed because there was not
enough room to build the sidewalks
on the other side of the streets.
The streets were cited as being
needed for the protection of school
children going to and from Con
solidated school.
The committee members are J.
A. Orr, Norman Anderson and
Howard Badgett.
Peace Reigns
Aggies Surprise Fort Worth
HERE THEY COME—Aggie yell leaders, left to right, Bill
Dorsey, Randolph Newcomer, Gus Mijalis and Paul Holla-
day lead the Fightin’ Aggies of Texas A&M out of the
runway for the second half. Civilian yell leader John Coad
ran completely out of the picture. A&M toppled the pre
viously unbeaten Froggies 19-16. (See page 3 for game
story.)
from the local population. The
first duty of the four-man throne
council, whose members were
agreed on only Saturday, will be to
appoint a premier to form a gov
ernment representative of all
shades of political opinion.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON—Caryl Chess-
mann, death cell author, won
another reprieve yesterday from
California’s gas chamber. The
Supreme Court, splitting 5-3
ordered a new hearing for Chess
man, who has written two books
during the more than seven
years he has spent under a death
sentence.
★ ★ ★
L O N D O N—Princess Margaret
came home to face the music last
night as leaders of the govern
ment, church and royal family
converged in the capital for the
crisis week in her romance with
Peter Townsend.
A A A
OKLAHOMA CITY—An esti
mated 55 to 60 union printers
employed by the Oklahoma Pub
lishing Co. walked out of the
plant yesterday. The company,
publisher of the Daily Oklaho
man and Oklahoma City Times,
said in a statement that the
newspapers would continue to be
published.
Arts & Science
Faculty To Meet
The fall meeting of the faculty
of the School of Arts and Sciences
will be held at 4 p.m. today in
the Lecture Room of the Biology
Building. All staff members of
this School are urged to attend.
By RALPH COLE
Battalion Managing Editor
Many people were surprised to
hear of A&M’s win over the purple
of TCU Saturday, but they were
even more surprised to hear that
the student body caused no trouble
while in town.
According to the Fort Worth
Star Telegram, 4,500 “peaceful”
Aggies roared into their city Fri
day night with but one thought—
getting through town and heading
for Denton and Texas State Col
lege for Women.
TCU Vigilantes patrolled their
campus, expecting some eager Ag
gie to “paint” or destroy some of
their property. So far, no such
incidents have been reported to
college officials, who are very
pleased with the weekend.
Charlene Seth, 1955-56 Aggie
Sweetheart was presented during
half-time ceremonies and given the
traditional bouquet and kiss by
Larry Kennedy, Corps commander.
Again quoting the Star Telegram,
“Kennedy was a little worried
about the assignment Friday. He
didn’t think his steady girl friend
would understand the difference
between a line and line of duty.”
Aubrey Owen, president of the
Student Association Congress at
TCU, presented a plaque , to B. A.
(Scotty) Parham, Student Senate
president, during the half-time cer
emonies. The plaque read present
ed to Texas A&M by TCU on Oct.
15, 1955 “For 35 years of friendly
rivalry.”
While the plaque was being pre
sented, freshmen poured onto the
field to capture a Froggie sign
saying “Stomp the Aggies.”
Fort Worth was quiet Saturday
evening during the game but turn
ed into a frenzy of excitement that
night when Aggies and their dates
starting celebrating their victory.
The Star Telegram said Aggies
were not quitg as spruce that night
as they were earlier in the morn
ing. Nearly everyone came away
from the game with a good sun
tan. The 83-degree weather didn’t
knock too many people out of the
game though; there were an esti
mated 38,000 on hand to see the
Aggies come through for their first
conference victory in as many at
tempts.
Rumors were flying around TCU
Saturday night that A&M would
have a holiday because of the win.
A&M College officials said they
had heard nothing about it and
that, usually, the only holiday giv
en for winning a football game is
with the University of Texas.
Sully received sevei’al coats of
paint during the weekend. Friday,
he was purple and now freshmen
are clearing away the remains of
orange paint.
One more Corps Trip is left for
this year—to Houston when A&M
takes on the Rice Owls Nov. 12.
Weather Today
Reading on the thermometer at
9:30 this morning was 66 degrees.
Yesterday’s high was a cool 76 de
grees and the temperature dropped
to 45 degrees in the early hours
this morning. Foi’ecast is contin
ued clear and cool.
TALLEY HO—Marching in a parade is one thing, but marching in an A&M Corps Trip
parade is a horse of a different color. More than 4,500 Aggies poured into Fort Worth
over the weekend for the first Corps Trip of the year and the annual clash between the
Froggies and the Aggies. Winner of the graded parade was A Anti-Aircraft Artillery,
while B Anti-Aircraft Artillery was second.