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y TEXAS il The Battalion Number 68: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1956 Price 5 Cents Holidays Leave Three Aggi Dimes’ March, Square Dance Set Jan. 14 Dead The annual Bryan - College Station March of Dimes square dance will be held in DeWare Field House Jan. 14. Everyone interested in square dancing- and the March pf Dimes is invited. The dance is being sponsored by the Promenad- ers Club of College Station. All talent and refreshments are being- donated. The following committee has been appointed to make final ar rangements for the dance. Mrs. R. R. Lyle is Committee chairman and Joe Mogford, co-chairman. Mr. and Mrs. Manning Smith are in charge of the program; co-chair man, Sam Kennedy. Dr. Milton Nance and Lewis Haupt are in charge of finance. Dr. and Mrs. H. A. Luther, Dr. and Mrs. George Potter, Mrs. Lewis Haupt and members of the Pi-omenaders Club are in charge of hospitality. Mrs. L. R. Richardson, Mrs. Palmer Barker and Mrs. J. C. Gold smith Jr., refreshments; Mrs. Ran Boswell, R. R. Lyle and Bryan Rec reational Club, concessions; Mrs. Richard Downwai-d and Mrs. Don ald Burchard, publicity and Ewing Brown, arrangements, completes the committee. “In addition to helping others, all attending will have an evening of entertainment, dancing and re freshments,” said Mrs. Richard Downward, publicity chairman. The dance begins at 7:JO p.m. IAES Adds New 4-H €lub Leader Peggy Lou Wilsford, assistant county home demonstration agent in Tarrant County since July 1954, has joined the headquarters staff of the Agricultural Extension Serv ice as an assistant state 4-H Club leader. She will be located at Col lege Station. Miss Wilsford is a native of Grayson and a graduate of North Texas State College. She was a 4-H Club member for eight years, and in college was a member of Phi Epsilon Omicron, an honorary and professional home economics fraternity. Silver Taps Held Here Last Night: Richard Burlin Norman Scott Daigle Jan David Broderick Lawrence Welk Town Hall Gives Bonus Town Hall will present their first bonus attraction of 1956 Thursday night with their presen tation of Lawrence Welk and his Champagne Music. Welk comes to A&M boasting the highest Hooper rating of the cur rent popular television shows and Student Activities Office predicted that this will be the most popular program to be seen here in quite a while. Recently completing a tour Skrabanek Attends Di\ R. L. Skr-abanek of the De partment of Agricultural Econom ics & Sociology recently attended a meeting in Chicago of the Inter regional Land Tenure Research Committee. Purpose of the meet ing was to formulate plans for the 1956 Land Tenure Research Work shop and to consider possibilities of future research in the field of land tenure. Forestry Program Offered at A&M There’s good news for young Texans who want to follow a career in forestry, according to Dr. Ver non A. Young, head of the Range and Forestry Department. "You may now obtain the first “two yeai-s of training for an ac credited forestry course of profes sional calibre at A&M,” Dr. Young said. In addition, he added, “Each ac credited foresti-y school of the South has agreed to accept stu dents from this two-year course, permitting them to obtain degi-ees in forestry upon completion of a two-year program at the selected school.” through the midwest, Welk’s “Champagne Music” bi'oke box-of fice records in every city in which they played. They appear over ABC television network every Sat urday night in their own one hour show “Lawrence Welk and his Champagne Music.” Featured vocalist for Welk is his “Champagne Lady,” Alice Lon. A native Texan she attended high school and junior college in Kil gore where she was a member of the famous Kilgore College Ran- gei^ettes. She started her career at the age of six, singing for civic organizations and over the local radio station. By the time she was 10 years old she was appearing on her own sponsored radio show. Welk will bring to A&M what is, according to manufacturers, the most expensive accordian ever made in the United States. Re quiring a year to complete, the ac cordian cost $5,000 and has some 14 automatic switches and an elec tric volume control. Welks’ home is North Dakota whei’e he became interested in his fathers’ accordian and this led to his furnishing music for community dances and the forming of his first orchestra which was heard over station WNAX in Yankton, S.D. When Welk struck out for “big time” he rose quickly to the front and during the last seven years has enjoyed an immense following—be ing featured on all major radio networks, scores of hit recordings have carried his Label, Paramount movie shorts have enabled thou sands to enjoy “Champagne Mu sic,” and now he is firmly estab lished in TV. The program is scheduled to be gin at 8 p.m. and Town Hall sea son tickets are good for the show. Individual tickets can be purchased at the Office of Student Activities on the second floor of Goodwin Hall and will also be on sale at the dooi\ General admission tickets for students will be $1 and $1.50 for non-students. Reserved seat tickets are $1.50 and $2.50 for stu dents and non-students respective iy- News of the World By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — France’s hopes of es tablishing a stable government have been doomed by an election that nobody really won. Balloting Monday by a record number of Frenchmen only strengthened one extremist party, established a new one, and left no single party or group of parties .powerful enough to rule alone. Unofficial returns last night from all of France and Alice Lon, Champagne Enchanter Sings Here Thursday Night With Lawrence Welk some overseas precincts showed: 1. An impressive gain of 52 seats in the National Assembly for the Communists, the lai'gest single French party. 2. A startling suc cess — 49 seats — for the' antitax, avowedly obstructionist followers of Pierre Poujade. 3. An Assem bly majority again split between the left and right wings of the center, moderate parties whose leaders have been alternating in short-lived, shaking coalition gov ernments for years. This unre solved sti’uggle of the center par ties appears certain to push the unwilling forcqs of Premiere Ed gar Faure and ex-Premier Pierre Mendes-France into each others arms if they are to survive. ★ ★ ★ COLUMBUS, Ohio — All was calm last night at the gates of the Westinghouse Electric Corp. plant here where strike violence flarecl yesterday morning, send ing eight persons to the hospital and 88—including 12 women—to jail. The mass demonstration which brought the violence had been called to protest the back- to-work movement in which the company said some 1,700 of the 4,000 hourly workers had return ed to work at Columbus. ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN—Some type of federal control over public schools is in evitable unless local and state school boards solve their own problems, the State School Board was told yesterday. Texas’ dele gation took a stand opposing any sort of federal aid and federal con trol in the public school system. A majority of the states’ delega tions approved federal aid but not federal control. Announcemerits In Activities Office January graduates who order ed announcements can pick them up in the Office of Student Ac tivities beginning at 1 this after noon. Students who did not order the announcements and who would like to have them should come to the office, located on the second floor of Goodwin Hall, and put their name on the list for any extras available. According to W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, business manager, they should come by as soon as possible, since only a limited number of the extra announce ments will be available. Consol idated Exes Form Association The newly-organized A&M Con solidated Alumni Association be came a reality at a meeting of more than 100 returned alumni Christmas night. A&M Consolidated School, orig inating as a “step child of Texas A&M College,” reached formal ma turity at the Christmas night ses sion, the second annual alumni re union, when ex-students approved plans for a formally organized ex students association drafted by Robert Lee Hunt, class of 1946. Allan Madeley of College Sta tion, class of 1939, is the first president of the Association. Plans for its first year of existence are now under way. Other officers who will serve with Madeley include Lou Burgess Cashior, ’49, vice-president; R. L. Hunt, Jr., ’46, secretary-treasurer. Fertilizer School Opens Tomorrow A Fertilizer Short Course will be held by the A&M Agronomy De- pai’tment tomorrow and Friday. Registration will be in the Ser pentine Lounge on the second floor of the Memorial Student Center from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow. -Meetings will be in the Assembly Room of the MSC. A banquet will be held tomorrow night at 6:30 in the MSC ballroom. Silver Taps was held last nig’lit for three A&M students killed during 1 the Christmas vacation. Two of the students, Norman S. Daigle and Richard H. Burlin, died in a fiery crash near Ellinger, about 12 miles east of La Grange on highway 77, l3ec. 18. The other student, Jan David Broderick, was killed by a shot fired from a .38 caliber pistol early Saturday morning. Ronald Edward Menter Sr., confessed slayer of the victim, em was to be returned to Houston early today. Menter is a former mental patient. He said he had spent four months in a New Hampshire institution after a nervous breakdown several years ago. The victim was shot in the forehead at close range.*— Broderick was a senior bus- A f-|f-|-g151 S § 1 a SYR1#* V* iness administration m a j or from the Panama Canal Zone. He was found early Saturday morning' about 50 feet from a blacktop road near Hempstead, and was still breathing when discover ed. A clothing bag, blood-stained pillow and a school book lay close by. Menter said, in a written state ment, that he had met Broderick in El Paso. They headed foi’ Hous ton where the victim planned to stay until school opened again. He said they drank from a whis key bottle and pulled off the main highway near Hempstead. An ar gument developed over buying beer before going to sleep. Menter quo ted Broderick as saying, “I ought to shoot you.” There were three loaded guns, all belonging to Broderick, in the car, Menter said. “I picked up the .38 and fired over my shoulder, shooting him in the head,” Menter said. Investigators said an autopsy showed that the gun was held against the victim’s hdad. Hocks Guns After the shooting, Menter said he drove to Shreveport and hocked the guns in a pawnshop there. He later purchased a .25 caliber pistol in Vicksburg, Miss. He then drove on to Noi'folk, Va., where he said he picked up two women and two sailors. The two women were with him when he was arrested in Newark, N.J. He was ai’rested when a Newark motor vehicle inspection officer no ticed a radio transaction between Menter and a junk dealer. When asked for his license, Menter gave the officer that of Broderick’s but was unable to give the correct birth date listed on the license. The slug recoveied from the vic tim, will be used for ballistics com parison. A 17-yeai’-old girl identified the slain student as her boyfriend. She said she had met Broderick last summer and had been going with him ever since. Funeral services were held yes terday in St. Thomas Episcopal Chapel for the 20-yeai’-old student. He was buried in full dress uniform with military honors. Seniors in Company infantry, the slain ca det’s unit, acted as pall bearers. (See STUDENTS, Page 2) For Kiwanians Set for Monday The 11th annual College Station Kiwanis Club installa tion banquet will be held at 7 p.m. Jan. 10, in the Memor ial Student Center ballroom, according to Joe Sorrels, chair man of the Education and Fellow ship Committee. Main speaker for the event will be Jim Bowmer of Temple, former lieutenant governor of Division IX of Kiwanis International. He will be introduced by Sid Loveless of College Station, also a former lieu tenant governor. “Tickets for the banquet are $1.75 each,” said Sorrels, “and we urge all members to bring their wives and any guests.” Officers to be installed include Charles LaMotte, president; Woody Briles, first vice-president; J. B. Longley', second vice-president; K. A. Manning - , sceretary; and Charles Richardson, treasurer. Installing officer will be Earl Huffer of Huntsville, present lieutenant gov ernor of Division IX. Outgoing officers are Bob Cher ry, president; LaMotte, vice-pres ident; Briles, second vice-president; Bob Shrode, secretary; and Ed Ivy, treasurer. Phone Numbers Changed During Aggie Holidays The New Year in our area finds everyone searching dil igently through the phone book to be sure to call the right number. Numbers in the area served by the Southwest- States Telephone Company Were changed to the new seven digit metropolitan numbering plan at 10 p.m. Dec. 28 of last year. The new equipment in College Station was formally cut into the new system, with about 100 civil leaders including city officials of College Station and Bryan gather ed for t;he ceremony at the recently opened building on Sulphur Springs road. A&M Chancellor M. T. Harring ton threw a switch; College Sta tion Mayor Ernest Langford pulled some fiber cards from the number relays; woi kmen of the company pulled out thousands more; and the new Victor 6 exchange was in op eration. At the same hour Bryan phones were put on the new system through existing equipment, some of which was installed 1’ecently. Fbav number changes were made, most of them having’ been taken cai’e of when the equipment was put in. The switching for the seven-digit system is in preparation for join ing the inter-toll network which goes into effect Feb. 5. This sys tem is only one step removed from eventual customer-toll dialing, ac cording' to company officials. Op erators will still put through long distance calls, but with greater speed and efficiency. Weather Today CLEAR Continued clear and cool is the general forecast for the College Station area. Yesterday’s high of 72 degrees dropped to 34 degrees last night. The temperature at 10:30 this morning was 55 degrees. UT Graduate Talented Shirley Lands A&M Job By BILL FULLERTON Battalion Editor A&M’s been called a lot of names, but it has a new one now: “A Place To Get Away From It All.” The pretty girl with the pony tail haircut didn’t know she was talking about A&M at the time she made the above statement. She merely meant that she wanted to take a long vacation from school, after getting her Baccalaureate De- Miss Shirley Cannon University of Texas Graduate Joins MSL gree in speech at the University of Texas. Another prediction, or intention, Miss Shirley Cannon told The Daily Texan, UT’s student newspaper, was “I’ll probably come back and work on my Master’s Degree.” Well, she did go back to the University, but she didn’t stay— and no one at A&M will have any complaints. For Miss Cannon, who turned 21 only six days ago, is the new program consultant for the Memorial Student Center. She is just now beginning to get acquainted with the job, and de clined to make any observations about Aggieland and future plans in her work until a little more time has elapsed. But A&M is not new to her, since she appeared here last year on the Intercollegiate Talent Show. Her performance there, a Spanish dance routine, endeared her to the heart of the entire au dience. Miss Cannon’s talent is not con fined to taking paid in shows; she has been on the organizing and di recting end of stage productions also. She was an assistant to the director for the annual Round-Up Review at UT, and had charge of organizing the Blue Bonnet Belles. But she has said that she loves show business, either being in the shows or just watching them. Her record at Texas would indicate that probably the only watching she was able to do was from the wings —waiting to go on with her num ber. * Some of the activities she has participated in include, besides last year’s Talent Show here, Texas Stars twirling team, Texanne tap- dancing team. Union Charm Com- (See SHIRLEY, Page 2)