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.
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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.
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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.
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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.