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Battalion Number 62: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1955 Price 5 Cents SCONA Schedule The schedule of events for 9-12 a.m. — Second round-table SCONA are as follows: Wednesday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.—Arrival and registration of faculty and con ferees. 3-4:15 p.m. — Welcome by Dr. David H. Moi-gan, President of A&M. First keynote address by Lamar Fleming Jr. 6-7:30 p.m.—Smorgasbord, MSC ballroom. * 8-9:30 p.m.;—Second keynote ad dress by George C. McGhee, MSC ballroom. Reception for all parti cipants immediately following the address in the assembly and birch rooms of the MSC. Thursday 8:30-11:30 a.m.—First round-ta ble meeting. 12-1 p.m.—Luncheon, Sbisa Din ing Hall. 1:30-3 p.m.—Review. 3:30-5:30 p.m. — Thruston P. Morton speaks. 6:30-7:30 p.m. — Christmas din ner, Sbisa Dining Hall. 7:30-10 p.m. — Panel discussion. Reception follows in the assembly and bii'ch rooms of the MSC. 8-9 a.m.- discussion. Friday -Coffee time. informal Luncheon, Sbisa Din- -Third round-ta- meeting. 12-1 p.m. ing Hall. 1:30-4:30 p.m. ble meeting. 6:30-9 p.m.—Banquet in the Me morial Student Center ballroom. Third principal address, Gen. Wil liam J. Donovan. Sal urday 8:30-11:30 a.m. — Fourth round table meeting. 12 noon—Luncheon, reports of round-tables. Christmas Dinner Tickets Deadline The deadline for purchasing Christmas dinner guest tickets will be Wednesday afternoon at 5 p.m., announced J. G. Peniston dining hall supervisor yesterday. “The tickets will be $1 each,” he added. “Dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m.” Menu for the occasion will be roast turkey, cornbread dressing, giblet gravy, cranberry sauce, can died yams, green peas, relish tray, fresh fruit bowl, rolls and butter, fruit cake, coffee and milk. |i liP? m ' •-Jiff; : 1 • . • ■' ' - * ' I ' i :-V J -j • - -■ iii DR. CLANTON W. WILLIAMS will serve as a round table advisor for the Student Conference on National Af fairs which opens tomorrow. • He is the Academic Vice- President of the University of Houston, and holds the BA, MA and PhD degrees. During W.W. II he served as Army Air Force historian and received the Legion of Merit. In 1946, Dr. Williams was named special consultant to the Department of Defense, and was with the Air War College from 1951 to 1955. He has also written various books on history and international affairs. 27 Students Elected To 55-56 Who’s Who Student Life Committee Makes Final Selection Twenty-seven students were se lected for Who’s Who in Ameri can Colleges and Universities, 1955-56, at a meeting of the Stu dent Life Committee last night. Those selected were James W. Ard II of Dallas; Joseph L. Blair, Boerne; William L. Broaddus, Caldwell; Glenn D. Buell Jr., Am arillo; John E. Cofcad, Houston; Donald J. Dierschke, Rowena; Richard >C. Durbin, Dallas; Joe Bill Foster, Greenville; Bill Fuller ton, Houston; Richard E. Gentry, Dallas; W. Paul Holladay Jr., Bay- town; John Jenkins, Amarillo; John W. Jones; Wallace L. Kleb; Hugh D. Lanktree, Eagle Pass; Wallace R. Larson, Bossier City; Gus S. Mijalis, Shreveport; Wal ter F. Norwell, Falfurrias; Byron A. Parham, Houston; David C. Parnell, Shreveport; Robert H. Scott, Amarillo; Ger- SCONA Opens Tomorrow A&M’s first annual Student Conference on National Affah’S spens tomorrow afternoon at 3, K'ith a welcome to' delegates and quests by Di\ David H. Morgan, president of the College. Follow ing Dr. Morgan’s opening remarks .Lamar Fleming Jr., chairman of the Board, Anderson, Clayton & Co., Inc., Houston, will deliver the first keynote address. This session will be helft in the ballroom of the Memorial Student Center and is presented by the Great Issues Series and SCONA. Tomorrow night at 8 the second keynote address on the role of the United States in world affairs will be made by George C. McGhee, former Assistant - Secretary of State. A reception will be held following this address for all par ticipants in the assembly and birch rooms, honoring Fleming and Mc- 'Ghee. THE FIRST ROUND-TABLE meeting will begin Thursday morn ing at 8:30. The topic for this Scarf Regulation Scarfs are not regulation during the hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. unless the student is leaving the campus, according to the Commandant’s Of fice. The only time the scarf will be worn without a tie is when the' khaki shirt is the outer gar ment. meeting is “How did the United States Attain Its Position of Lead ership.” The 7nore than 100 dele gates from 47 colleges and univer sities will assemble in six groups for these round-tables. Round-table chairmen and ad visors are: Dr. Walter P. Webb, distinguished professor, History Department, University of Texas; Di\ Lewis Hanke, dh’ector, Insti tute of Latin Amei’ican Studies, University of Texas; Col. Edwin S. Leland, Air War College; Col. John Frisbee, professor of history, U. S. Air Force Academy; Edwin M. Wright, assistant dean, School of International Studies, Foreign Service Institute, Department of State; Henry Tanner, foreign news analyst, Houston Post, Washington, D.C.; Dr. Hardin Craig, libi-arian and professor of history, Rice Insti tute; Dr. W. H. Delaplane, dean of School of Arts and Sciences, A&M College; Col. Richard Stilwell, Army War College; Dr. John Claunch, Department of Govern ment; SMU; Dr. F. G. A. Kraemer, foreign affairs officer. Department of Army; and Di\ Clanton W. Wil liams, vice-president for Academic Affairs, University of Houston. A CORPS REVIEW in honor of the visiting delegates and dignita ries will be held at 1:30 Thursday. The second plenary session will be PRINCIPAL SPEAKER at tomorrow night’s Great Issues and SCONA presentation in the ballroom will be George G. McGhee. McGhee has served as special assistant to Under secretary for Economic Affairs, Department of State, 1946-47; coordinator for aid to Greece and Turkey and special assistant to Under-Secretary, 1947-49; special as sistant to Secretary of State, 1949; Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs, 1949-51; senior advisor, North Atlantic Treaty Council, 1951; U. S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Turkey, U. S. Educational Commission in Turkey, 1951-53. held at 5:30 with Thruston B. Mor ton on “Mechanics of Formulating United States Foreign Policy.” Christmas Dinner will be held for the visitors in Sbisa Hall from 6:30-7:30, along with the Corps and civilians. Thursday night at 7:30 in the ballroom of the Student Center the Great Issues series and SCONA will present a five-man panel dis cussion of “Is Our Present Foi'eign Policy Making Progress TowlSrd Peace?” Panel members are Ohiar Burleson, Texas Congress man; Thruston B. Morton, Assist ant Secretary of State for Com gressional Relations; Col. G. A. Lincoln, head of the Department of Social Sciences, U. S. Military Academy; George C. McGhee; and Col. Thomas L. Crystal. A recep tion honoring the panel will be held following the program in the assembly and birch rooms. The conference will have three men serving as roving observers. These men will write a critique of the first SCONA at A&M. Serving as observers will be Col. Thomas L. Crystal, professor of philosophy, U. S. Air Force Academy; Dr. Clanton Williams; and Col. G. A. Lincoln. THE 47 SCHOOLS which are Baylor Debaters Take Top Honors The Baylor University debate team composed of Don Howell and Ky Ewing, took first place honors in the senior division at the annual Debate Tournament held here Fri day and Saturday. The Abilene Chi-istian College team of Don Beck and Allan Isbell took first place honors in the jun ior division. Second place honors in the sen ior division went to Rice Institute, composed of Rex Martin and Roy Hofheinz; third place was won by the University of Houston team of C. E. Ledbetter and Donald Al ford. In the junior division St. Mary’s Urtiversity of San Antonio, won second place. Members are Ed ward Bristow and Phil Rickett. The University of Houston team of Da vid DuBose and Patricia Stallings took third place. The subject debated was “Re solved: That Non-Agricultural In dustries Should Guarantee Their Employees an Annual Wage.” A&M’s debate team was host for the tourney and did not participate. Election Scheduled Fx-eshman class officers and one senior class student Senator will be elected tomorrow. Polls, which will be located at the Post Office entrance to the Memorial Student Center, will open at 8 a.m. and close at 5 p.m. sending delegates to the conference ai’e as follows: Abilene Christian College, Alabama Polytechnic Insti tute, Baylor University, Coloi*ado A&M College, East Texas State Teachei’s College, Southwestern University, Hai’din-Simmons Uni versity, Lamar State College of Technology, Louisiana State Uni versity and A&M College, Mac- Mumay College, Mexico City Col lege, Mississippi Southern Col lege, Monterey Institute of Tech nology, Mississippi State College. New Mexico A&M College, North Texas State College, Oklahoma A&M College, Rice Institute, Southwestern! Louisiana Institute, Southwest Texas State Teachers College, Southern Methodist Uni versity, St. Louis Univei’sity, Texas (See SCONA, Page 2) News of the World By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS—The U.N. Political Committee endorsed over whelmingly yesterday a proposal to give President Eisenhower’s “open sky” inspection progi*am first consideration in new attempts to break the disarm’ament deadlock. Only the Soviet Union and its four satellites were in the opposition as the committee—the main poli tical body of the U.N.—voted 53 to 5 in favor of a disarmament x’esolution advanced by the United States, Britain, France and Canada. ★ ★ ★ PARI S—French Communists yesterday seemed likely to gain a score of seats in the Jan. 2 election for the National As sembly though they may actu ally poll fewer votes than in the last election. The prospect emerged as non-Communists con tinued to pile up rival candidacies before the midnight deadline for filing. The situation arises from Practice Review A practice review will be held today at 4 p.m. in prepaxation for the review Thursday before the 12th Man Bowl football game. The x-eview for Thursday is scheduled at 1:30 p.m. and the game starts at 3 p.m. Weather Today COLDER A cold front from the West is expected to hit College Station area tomorrow morning. Yester day’s high of 54 degrees dropped to 32 degrees eax-ly this morning. Temperature at 10:30 a.m. was 50 degrees. the French election law, passed five years ago partly to cut down Communist parliamentary representation. The law suc ceeded then, but rivalry among anti-Communists promises to re duce its efficiency this time. 'k k ~k JERUSALEM—U. N. truce ob servers hastened to the Syrian border yesterday to investigate the latest crisis in the wavering peace between Israel and her Arab neigh bors. Israeli forces attacked four Syrian fortified posts overlooking the northeastern shore of the Sea of Galilee Sunday night and by Israeli account blew up the posi tions before retiring to their base after an all-night battle. Panel Formulates Young Farm er PI an The State Executive Committee of the Texas Association of Young Fanners met recently to formu late plans for the organization dur ing 1956. They discussed plans for evalu ating local Young Farmer organ izations and methods of establish ing Young Farmer chapters in high school agricultural depart ments. State officers are Dwain Smith of Hale Center, president; Hei’bert Anderson of Sulphur Springs, vice- president; Denton Parsons of Vic toria, secretary; A. G. Loclite of Fredericksburg, treasurer; John nie Stefka of Caldwell, reporter, and Fi'anklin Brandt of La Grange, past president. Employees Dinner Tickets for the annual Christ mas dinner for employees of the Texas A&M College System, are on sale at the main office of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Dean Walter Delaplane’s office, Dean John Calhoun’s office, the Memorial Student Center, Dean W. W. Armistead’s office, H. D. Beai’d- en, Engineering Extension Service and,the A&M Pi-ess. Tickets will be on sale until 5 p.m., tomorrow, W. R. Horsley, general chairman, announced to day. Tickets are $1.25 per person. The dinner will honor 30 per sons who have been with the Sys tem for 25 years and will be held in Sbisa hall Friday at 7:30 p.m. aid L. Van Hoosier, Weatherfoxxl; Franklin D. Waddel, Roby; Weldon W. Walker, Waco; Herbert W. Whitney, Big Springs; William .D Willis Jr., Dallas; and Robert W. Young, Dallas. The “Why,” of the “Who,” on each student is as follows: James W. Ard—Civilian Stu dent Council; president Junior AVMA; Phi Eta Sigma; assistant editor. Southwestern Veterinarian; Dallas Club; Band, Wesley Founda tion; chairman, AVMA Council Spring semester;outstanding fresh man, C Company Summer, 1951. Joseph L. Blair—Student Sen ate; Civilian Council; Wesley Foundation president; Civilian Chaplain; Student representative on State Board of Directors of A&M; YMCA; Interfaith Coun cil; Official Board of A&M Meth odist Church; YMCA Regional In tegration Strategy Committee; Singing Cadets; Ecumenical Con ference Committee; Housemaster; AVMA. William L. Broaddus—Cadet Lt. Colonel, commanding officer Fourth Battalion, Second Regi ment; Houston Military Award; DMS; Best cadet at the 1955 Ar tillery ROTC summer camp; win ner of T. W. Moble Award, pre sented annually to the outstand ing student in the School of Bus iness Administration; best drilled sophomore award, Squadron 16, 1952-53; guidon bearer, squadron 16, 1952-53; fourth battalion staff, 1954-55; Phi Eta Sigma. Glenn D. Buell—Student Senate, two years, vice-president of Sen ate second year; Student Life Coiu- mittee; chairman of the 12th Man Bowl Committee; Student Engi- neei's’ Council; commanding offi cer squadron 12; vice-president junior class; delegate to TISA con vention last spring; delegate to the annual AFROTC leadership con vention; DMS; secretary Handball Club; junior I’epresenative from the Institute of' Aeronautical Sci ences to the Engineers’ Council. John E. Cozad—C Field Artill- ex-y, 1952-53; Aggieland staff 1953; Sweetheart Selection Committee, Class of ‘55; temporary chairman of initial meetings of CSC; vice- president, CSC; civilian yell lead er, 1955-56. Donald J. Dierschke—Saddle and Sirloin Club; cadet major; DMS, freshman class president; Grand Knight-Knights of Columbus; vice- president of San Angelo-West Tex as Hometown Club; Ross Volun teers; Junior Livestock Judging Team, Wool Judging Team; Scribe, Alpha Zeta; Phi Eta Sig ma; Phi Kapjxa Phi; Ralston Pur ina Scholarship; Twelfth Man Scholarship; Danforth Summer Fellowship for juniors; outstand- (See WHO’s WHO, Page 2) CHS Presents Senior Play Thursday Night By WELTON JONES Who killed Clarissa Blakley? That is the question that a group of mental cases, writers, housekeepers, lawyers, TV comics and assorted family members will attempt to solve when the Consoli dated High School senior class pre sents its annual senior play in the high school axiditorium Thursday at 8 p.m. The play, “Terror at Black Oaks”, a mystery in three acts, is “by far the most ambitious pro duction that a senior class has at tempted,” according to R. L. Boone, director of the play. When wealthy old Alginon Blakeley dies, he leaves a will which he stipulates will be read in the house on the third anniver- sary of his death. A few days later, his turbulent sister, played by Shirley Brown, is mysteriously murdered and suspicion falls on everyone in the house. Principal suspects include a con victed murderer played by Jack McNeely, a mute escapee from a mental asylum played by Dick Hickerson, Mildred Dew as an old family housekeeper, Radford, the McGuh’e and Alginon’s favorite niece, Bonnie, played by Sally Pud- dy. Other members of the cast in clude Texann Esten, Ann Fleming, Margaret Anderson, J. B. Carroll, Bobby Witcher, Faye Simms and J. D. Milling. Mrs. A. R. Orr will serve as assistant director with Barbara Arlt as stage manager. The, pro duction staff includes Mardell Schaeffer, Betty Jean Williams, Charles Arnold, Bobby Johnson, Grant Lindsey, Norman Floeck, Carlos Delgado, Jon Perryman, Manuel Garcia, David Smyth, Dick McCannon, George McKay, Marcia Smith, Carol Butler and Claire Roger’s. Tickets for the performance are 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for students. Employment Stays At October High The non-farm employment in Bryan and College Station stayed at the high level reached in Oc tober but failed to increase during November. Layoffs in seasonal industries were being offset by the hiring of seasonal workers in industries that employ extra workers during the Christmas holidays, the Bryan of fice of the Texas Employment Commission repoi'ted. AGGIE BASKET—A&M guard John Fortenberry goes high to drop in another two-pointer as the Farmers rolled over the Tulane Green Wave by a 85-66 count. Forten berry racked up 19 points to lead all scorers last night in White Coliseum. Watching anxiously is the Aggies’ Bill Brophy (44), center, who took second-high scoring honors with 15 points. Game story is on page 3. —Photo by Mike Keen.