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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1955)
y Christmas Vacation Starts Tomorrow At Noon The Battalion Number 65: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1955 Price 5 Cents Ten To Attend SVM Meeting Ten A&M students will attend the 17th Quadrennial Conference of the Student Volunteer Movement in Athens, Ohio, Dec. 27 through Jan. 1. Buses are leaving from Dallas and Austin to carry representa tives from Texas colleges and uni versities to the affair held on the "University of Ohio campus. Attending from A&M are Kihlo Park from Pusan, Korea; Max Casalta, Venezuela and Konrad Lo- sen, Peru; Richard McGlaun, Stew art Coffman, Robert Coffman, Har ry Scott, Joe Blair, Steve Love and Bill Riveire. The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Monk, director of Wes ley Foundation, will accompany the students. Three main spoakei's scheduled for the conference are the Rev. M. Richard Shaull, Dr. John McKay and the Rev. Mr. M. A. Thomas. The Rev. Mr. Shaull is the au thor of “Encounter with Revolu tion,” one of three study books used in preparation for the confer ence. Dr. McKay is president of Princeton Presbyterian Theological Seminai*y and the Rev. Mr. Thomas is pastor of Mar Thoma branch in Travancore, India. There will be approximately 1,500 U.S. and 1,500 international stu dents at the convention which will have as it’s theme “Revolution and Reconciliation.” Lions Club Sells Trees for Charity The College Station Lions Club is selling Christmas trees and will use the pi*ofits for charity pur poses, according* to Dr. Leland C. Grumbles. Trees are being sold at the old Western Auto Stoi*e at the East Gate. Although there are a lim ited number of trees, all of them fli’e of a top grade. Table decorations, artificial snow, fireproofing compounds and other articles of this type will also be sold. The proceeds from the sale will be used for the Boy Scouts, buy ing glasses for underprivileged children, and other charitable pur poses. The stoi'e will be open from 3 to 7 p.m. on week days, and from 3 to 9 p.m. on Friday and Satur day. The trees will be sold until Christmas Eve. POWER IN THE LINE—White shifted blockers rush—and leap—to g-et in some blocking for an unidentified ball carrier (arrow) for the White team in yesterday’s 12th Man Bowl game. The White eleven beat the Maroon team before a sparse crowd in Kyle Field 13-0. Profits from the game are used to support the 12th Man Scholarship and the Student Aid Fund. Game story is on Page 3. Program Consultant UT Girl To Join MSC A 20-year-old brunette whose hobbies are dancing and drama will soon live in Aggieland. Coming from the University of Texas, Miss Shirley Cannon will replace Mrs. Betty Traganza as Student Center program consultant Jan. 3. Miss Cannon will not be new to Aggies, at least not to those who saw the Intercollegiate Talent Show last year. She is the girl who kept the crowd cheering with her performance of a Spanish dance routine. According to an article in the Daily Texan, Miss Cannon has “all” of the qualifications necessary for work. Last semester she took 21 academic hours and performed in Physical Education Gets Scrutinization Various phases of physical ed ucation were discussed at the re cent annual Southwest Conference Physical Education meeting on the campus. Speakers included Lloyd Russell, Baylor University; Berry Whit aker, University of Texas; and W. L. McGill, state coordinator of civil defense. Sixty physical educators repi*e- sented the seven conference schools. BABY, IT’S COLD OUTSIDE—It was cold weather yes terday for the 12th Man Bowl game, but it didn’t bother the Wharton Junior College Starlettes who performed dur ing halftime. And here is head majorette Shirley Horton, who headed the 54 girls. various campus musicals. She even was an assistant to the director of one musical while coach ing a separate part at the same time. Having been at UT only two years, she has been a finalist in two beauty contests, the “Blue Bonnet Belles” and “Miss Austin.” Some of her summer activities include modeling at Neiman-Marcus in Dallas and performing for char ity purposes at different hospitals. Her home is in Grapevine. But beauty and ability aren’t the only talents Miss Cannon has. A member of a group of girls on the UT campus called the Trigger- ettes, Miss Cannon holds medals for being the outstanding female rifle shot on the UT campus. A&M’s Firs I SCON A * * To Close Tomorrow 30 Honorees Christmas Dinner For Staff Tonight Leland S. Paine of the Engineer ing Experiment Station will be master of ceremonies tonight at the annual Christmas dinner for em ployees of the A&M System. Thirty employees who have completed 25 years of seiwice in the system will be honored. The dinner will start at 7 in Sbisa Hall. The Rev. Robert Dar- wall of the Episcopal Church will give the invocation, and Chancellor M. T. Harrington will deliver the annual Christmas message. The Singing Cadets under the direction of Bill Turner will furnish musical entertainment. Honorees on the staff of A&M College this year are J. Wheeler Barger, Department of Agricul- tm*al Economics and Sociology; Arthur L. Cook, Department of Building and Campus Utilities; T. R. Hamilton, Department of Bus iness Administration; Claude Wal lace Free, Department of Dairy Husbandry; L. M. Haupt, Depart ment of Electrical Engineering; Frank Huback, Memorial Student Center; John H. Jones, Depart ment of Animal Husbandry; Shir ley A. Lynch, Department of Geology; Hai'ry Boyer, Housing; Albert Ward, Security and Eula Mae Riley, A&M Press. From the Texas Agricultural Extra Aggielands Given To Schools A total of 391 surplus Aggie lands weighing 2,937 pounds were given away in two days as Home town Club presidents staged a “gold rush” on the Student Publi cations Office. Most of the books taken were of the recent models but some of them dated back as far as 1932. The club presidents were re sponding to a letter sent out by Spike White, Student Activities Office, requesting them to carry the yearbooks to their hometown high school libraries. Had the 391 books been mailed, the postage would have cost more than $200. Extension Service, honorees are: R. G. Burwell, Stephenville; Ruth Causey, Kountze; Juanita Fowler, Vernon; B. F. Hudson, Texarkana; Pauline Lokey, Amarillo; Claude McAdams, College Station; W. S. Millington, Angleton; Guy Pow ell, Kerrville, Nena Roberson, Col- (See Dinner, Page 2) Five To Attend Sportsmanship Meeting Jan. 1 Five A&M students will at tend the Southwest Confer ence Sportsmanship Commit tee meeting* in Dallas Dec. 31. They will also be guest of the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association for the annual Cotton Bowl game Jan. 2. The students to attend from A&M are Byron A. Parham, Stu dent Senate president; Gus Mijalis, senior yell leader; Ronnie Great- house, sports editor of The Bat talion; Ralph Cole, managing edi tor of The Battalion; and Jim Bow er, executive secretary of the com mittee and Battalion news editor. Activities will kick off at 5:30 Dec. 30 when student representa tives from Southwest Conference schools will be feted with a din ner at the Dallas Club. At 8:30, the same night, the Broadway mu sical, “Plain and Fancy,” Mull be presented at the State Fair Audi torium. A fashion show at Neiman-Mar cus will take the spotlight for fem inine guests of the Committee members Saturday morning, Dec. 31. Following a luncheon in the Baker Hotel, a closed business meeting will be held. Sunday, delegates to the meet ing will see “Cinerama Holiday” at the Melba Theater, and on Mon day, the Cotton Bowl game be- tv^een Texas Chi’istian University and Mississippi. A dance will be held New Year’s Eve on the Southern Methodist University campus. All students in or around the Dallas area are invited. The Cell Block Seven will begin playing about 9 p.m. and the dance will end at 1 a.m. The University of Texas nov r holds presidency of the SWCSC. A&M will be host school for next year. TCU won the trophy last year and this year’s winner will not be announced until the half time ceremonies of the Cotton Bovd game. Letter Received Seal Drive At A&M Ends The 1955 Christmas Seal sale ends for A&M students today, as the Christmas vacation begins. However, many letters containing seals sent out to students have not been returned, according to Mrs. A. V. Moore, seal chairman for the National Tuberculosis Association in Brazos County. “We have already collected $4,095.GO,” said Mrs. Moore, “more than M T as collected at this time Weather Today CLEAR The forecast for College Station area is clear and cold. Yesterday’s high of 49 degrees dropped to 29 degrees last night and continued dropping to a low of 22 degrees early this morning. Temperature at 10:30 a.m. was 38 degrees. any year in the past with the ex ception of last year.” This is the first year that the TB Association has not been in cluded in the College Station Com munity Chest, and it depends en- tii-ely on the sale of seals to carry on their program for the prevention and curtng of tuberculosis in Braz os County. The following letter, addressed to the A&M student body, M f as re ceived by The Battalion: Dear A&M Students: Before the campus empties for the holidays, I wish to express my appreciation to each one of you who have answered the Christmas Seal Letter. We have felt quite proud of your generous and prompt response. I hope you all have a very fine and satisfying holiday season. Be fore you leave, won’t each of you please check on whether you have taken care of your Christmas Seals? It’s so easy to forget. I believe every serious thinking student realizes the importance to the health of the community of the work of the Brazos County Tuber culosis Association and wishes to help support the organization. The Guion Will Close Guion Hall will close Sunday for the Christmas holidays, ac cording to Tom Buddy, manager. Opening date will be Jan. 3. Banquet Tonight in MSC; Gen. Donovan Will Speak A&M’s first annual Student Conference on National Affairs will close tomorrow, but delegates report no flagging- interest in the vital issues which are being discussed. “The Role of the United States in National Affairs,” the continuing theme of the conference, is being explored from all angles by a combination of 110 delegates and top-flight men connected with the vital world affairs of our nation. Speech es have been given, round-tables and panels held, and reports will be given tomorrow at 12 noon on the observations and conclusions reached by the delegates. This will be the final session of the four-day conference. This afternoon is being taken up with the third round- ♦table meetings, and the topic of interest is: “Does Ameri ca Need Friends?” The fourth and final round-table meet ings tomorrow morning will be on the pei'tinent question: “Is Peace Possible?” , A banquet for the delegates and honored speakers and advisors will be held at 6:30 tonight in the Me morial Student Center ballroom. Gen. William J. Donovan, former Ambassador to Thailand, now re tired, will deliver the third prin cipal addi'ess at this banquet. He will talk on “The Communist Challenge in Asia.” Yesterday afternoon following the Corps Review, Thruston B. Moi'ton, Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, spoke on “The Mechanics of Form ulating United States Foreign Pol icy.” Excerpts from his speech follow: “In this modem world material means ai’e also required if fight ing* begins — and to discourage those Mdio M r ould fight. We have those means. But in an age vdien violence once begun could have almost no limit, our survival as a free nation, as a civilization, also depends upon programs and poli cies that can protect our interest by means short of violence. “One of the strongest M r eapons we have for protecting ourselves is the health and success of our re public. It is difficult for those who oppose our economic and political system to promote their’s if our system is flourishing and their’s is not; if we are actually giving to people the benefits they claim they will give someday. “The first principle of our for eign policy is the first principle of our life as a nation. It is the fact that we are a government of the peqple, by the people and for the people.” He also emphasized that the United States must work with oth er nations in shaping our policies, and that by adhering to the United Nations Charter, our country has expressed its Mali to cooperate M T ith other nations of the world.” If You Come Here, You 've Got To Work A visiting delegate to the Stude7it Conference o n Na tional Affairs was put to work yesterday—if you call what the U. S. Military Academy’s Lewis S. Soreley III did was work. For perhaps the first time in the history of A&M Col lege a visiting cadet served as acting adjutant at a review of the Corps. And Soreley, who is from San Antonio and a Bi'igade Supply Officer at West Point, served in that ca pacity. He is* a senior at the Academy and one of its two delegates to the conference. Now what would Emily Post say about having guests M 7 ork ? Merry Xmas and A Happy New Year Christmas Seal Sale is its sole means of fund. So, how about it? “Merry Christmas” Mrs. A. V. Moore Christmas Seal Chairman RELAXING—Delegates to the Student Conference on Na tional Affairs have been very busy, so it’s a break for them to take time to relax. Enjoying the comfort of the MSC are, seated, left to right, A&M’s Walter Raynaud; Agnes Sullivan of St. Louis University; and Roy Heenan, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. In back is Dick Holden of the University of Montreal. We don’t know who the curly-headed fellow holding up the lamp is.