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k ..4 1 he Jialtalion Number 69: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1956 Price 5 Cents Aggies Sel New Scoring Mark By Smashing Baylor, 90-70 Second Period Rally Produces 60 Points In Final Minute Cubs Down Fish In 65-63 Battle By BARRY HART Assistant Sports Editor Leading by five points with 1:24 left in the game, the Aggie Fish were unable to score as they watched the Bayloi’ Cubs push through seven points to take a thrilling 65-63 win in the opener of the freshmen Southwest Con- fei’ence basketball race last night in White Coliseum. A&M held a 63-58 lead when John Moore, 6-9 center and the game’s leading’ scorer with 19 Livestock 'ream Above To Enter Show A&M College enters its first livestock judging team in the Na tional Western Stock Show at Den ver, Colo., Jan. 18-21. Team members will be J. C. Gregory, Robert N. Hancock, Jim L. Renick, Pat Garner, W. R. Bai’nes, and Benny E. Fichte. Fichte, an agricultural journal ism major, is the only member of the group not following the animal husbandry curriculum. J. W. Gos sett of the Animal Husbandry De partment is team coach. About 30 teams ai - e expected to participate in the contest; which consists of judging a Carload Con test Jan. 13, and the regular Sen ior Collegiate Contest Jan. 14. ‘Lion in Streets’ Offered at MSC “A Lion in The Streets” will be presented by the Film Society Fri day at 7:30 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. The show parallels the life story W>f Huey Long, the “Kingfish” of Louisiana politics. It is a drama tization of the best-seller novel and recreates the rise and fall of a ^'political demagogue in a typical Southern cotton growing state. Stars of the show are James Cag ney, Barbara Hale, and Lon Cha ney. Admission is 25 cents per person or by season ticket. The next two atti’actions will be “A Song in My Heart” January 13 and “On The Riviei’a” Jan. 15. SHARP REBOUNDING is shown by A&M’s George Mehaffey (55), forward who scored 16 points in last night’s record-breaking . win over Baylor, 90-70. The Aggies took 47 rebounds to only 33 by the Bears. Vainly trying to get the ball is Baylor’s Louis Estes (24), center who looped 20 points. Frit- zie Connally, Aggie center, is be hind the play. At Right BILL BROPHY, Aggie forward, loops in another two-pointer against the Bears. Brophy scored 16 points last night in White Coli seum as the Farmers bombarded the Wacoans 90-70. Baylor’s Don- nis Raines looks .on, as Aggie cen ter Fritzie Connally, who scored 20 points, rushes up behing Raines. Student Recovering After Accident Dick Crews, business administra tion senior from Grapevine, is in the college hospital recovering from injuries received in an auto mobile accident Monday night at Elgin. The car was demolished after careening down an embankment. Crews received a slight brain con cussion aiid a broken knee cap and was in the Elgin Hospital until noon Tuesday. He was brought to the college hospital and will prob ably be released today. Crews was returning to A&M from Austin when the accident oc curred. WHERE’S THE BALL—A&M’s Bill Brophy goes up after a rebound, getting the jump on the surrounding Baylor players. Rebounding played a big hand in last night’s win. The Bears ar6 Donnis Raines (5), Louis Estes (24) and Jerry Mallett (19). points, dropped the first of his two free throws. The second was tipped in by Gene McCarley to bring the score to 63-61. Moore tied the score with 40 seconds left to play when he tip ped in McCailey’s free shot at tempt. McCarley meshed the win ning point after being fouled by A&M’s Erwin Turner with only 20 seconds remaining and Charlie Pack dropped the final point on a foul shot in the last second of the game. The lead changed hands 13 times and the score was tied eight times as the Fish met defeat for the sec ond time in their young season. Previously they had lost to Allen Academy, 75-72, and downed Hous ton, 73-68. Victoria’s Niel Swisher, leading scorer of the season for the Fish, paced A&M with 16 points, third behind Baylor’s Moore and Charlie Pack for the night’s honors, to push his total to 50. Swisher play ed a terrific game and led the Fish in rebounding with nine. The fish jumped to a quick lead in the opening period with Stu Heller, Swisher and Jim McNichol hitting field goals, but the Cubs pulled up to 6-5 and the lead boun ced around the remainder of the half with the first-year Aggies holding their biggest lead at the intermission, 34-29. A&M appeared to be pulling away easily at the outset of the second half and held their largest game lead with 16:39 remaining to play at 41-33. But Pack, Moore, McCarley and Don O’Neal kept hitting, and Pack’s long one-hand- er gave them a 46-45 lead at the 12 minute mark. Harry Max tied it up on a free throw and for the next five min- (See FISH-CUBS, Page 4) Construction of Offices Work On 4 Y’ Goes On By DAVE McREYNOLDS Battalion News Editor Professors in the Academic Building and surrounding areas can breathe easier as work in the YMCA begins to draw to a close. “All the heavy work should be completed by Feb. 1,” said Howard Badgett, manager of College Phy sical Plants, “with the exception of some touching up and cleaning in the ground floor.” A formal ceremony will be held in the spring, tentatively scheduled for sometime in April, to open the new offices and honor the men that the six new meeting rooms will be named foi\ Plans call for a plaque or memorial to be placed in the rooms. These plans will be announced definitely at a later date. Most of the work is complete on the second floor where the office of Student Personnel Services are lo cated. Robert B, Kamm, dean of Student Personnel Services, said he hopes his department will be able to move to their new quarters during’ the mid-semester holidays. Graduating Cadets To Wear Uniforms Col. Joe Davis, A&M comman dant, has announced that all Air Force and Army ROTC students who will receive their degrees and commissions at the Jan. 20 services will wear the A&M cadet uniform to the baccalaureate, commissioning and commencement ceremonies. • Students not possessing a com plete class A winter uniform should make plans to borrow one, he said. This is the uniform with blouse. Also located on the second floor will be the Office of Student Ac tivities with offices for Walter L. Penberthy, head; and C. G. (Spike) White, director of Recreation and Enteitainment; W. D. (Pete) Har desty, business manager; and the president of the Student Senate, presently Byron A. Parham. The first floor is nearing com pletion and already located in their offices are the YMCA officers. Facing the lobby. North to South, the lounges have been designated as the Ex-Students Lounge, Inter national Lounge (complete with TV), the lobby, Mothers Club Lounge and the Aggie Wives WhaUs Cooking The following meetings have been scheduled tonight. 7:15 Guadalupe Valley Hometown Club; Civil Engineering Building. Davy Crockett Club, room 308 Academic Building. 7:30 Bell County Club; room 2C MSC. Red River Valley Hometown Club; 207 Academic Building. Austin Hometown Club; 106 Academic. Hunt County Hometown Club; YMCA. Denton-Wise Counties Home town Club; 226 Academic. Galveston County Hometown Club; 3D MSC; football movies will be shown. Beaumont A&M Club; 3B MSC; plans for mid-term party and elec tion of treasurer. Amarillo Hometown Club; 108 Academic; bring tickets and money from Christmas dance. Lounge. Moving on down the hall the YMCA offices are on the right with two meeting rooms, not yet named. On the left are two rooms that can be partitioned by means of folding drapes. Going up the stairs at the end of hall there are four more meeting rooms that also have not yet been named. These can also be converted into larger or smaller rooms by means of fold ing panels. On the ground floor, where the bowling alleys had been, will be the Offices of Student Publica tions, Student Affairs, Campus Se curity and the Housing Office. These offices are still under con- struction but should be ready for occupancy by the first of the spring semester. Student Publications, including The Battalion, Aggieland, Agricul turist, Southwestern Veterinarian and Commentator offices will be on the northeast side. Bennie A. Zinn, head of Student Affairs, will be on the south side of the build ing with Campus Security a^d Housing. WW II Veterans Can Get Refund World War II veterans under the GI bill can report to the fiscal office now and get a refund on the Memorial Student Center fee which they paid last fall. The Veterans Administration has agreed to pay the fee for those students who are veterans under Public Law 16346 or who served in World W’ar II. This does not include veterans of the Korean W r ar. By RONNIE GREATHOUSE Battalion Sports Editor After trailing- by six points at halftime the Aggies stormed back in the final period to post a new all-time A&M scoring record and overwhelm Baylor 90-70 last night in White Coliseum. A crowd of 4,000 partisan fans thundered their approval as Coach Ken Loeffler’s aggressive quintet dunked 60 points in the final period of play to beat the Bears for the first time since 1952. ’ THE PREVIOUS A&M high for one game was set last season when the Ags edged Pepperdine 86-84. The game marked Baylor’s highest scoring output of the season, after averaging only 58 points in its first 11 games. : All five Aggie starters got into the double-figures column in scoring with a pair of soph omores, Ken Hutto and Frit zie Connally, leading the as sault on the record book. Both sunk 20 points. Hutto, a sensational set shot ar tist, connected on nine of his first 10 shots from the field and* hit both his free throw tries. Connally, currently leading' the team in scor ing, meshed 14 in the second half and was second in rebounds during the night with 11. GEORGE MEHAFFEY scored 14 points in the second half to bring his total for the night to 16 and tie Bill Brophy for second place among- A&M scorers. Mehaffey was equally effective under the Welk Plays Tonight at 8 A t Town Hall Lawrence Welk presents Iris Champagne Music at Town Hall tonight in White Coliseum at 8 p.m. Alice Lon, Welk’s “Cham pagne Lady,” is featured vo calist. She. attended high school and junior college in Kilgore where she was a mem ber of the famous Kilgoi-e College Rangerettes. She stai’t- ed her career at the age of six, singing for civic organi zations and over the local radio station. By the time she was 10 years old she was appearing on her own sponsored radio show. They appear over ABC tele vision network every Saturday night in their own one hour show “Lawrence Welk and his Champagne Music.” Town Hall season tickets are good for the show. Individual tickets can be purchased at the door, and will be $1 for students and $1.50 for non students. Reserved seat tick ets are $1.50 and $2.50 foi' students and non-students re spectively. Weather Today CLEAR The forecast for the College Sta tion area is clear with winds from south-southwest. Yesterday’s high of 69 degrees dropped to 41 de grees early this morning. Temper ature at 10:30 a.m. was 63 degrees. basket getting 14 rebounds, high for the contest. Guard Roger Har vey bucketed 10 points for the Ca dets. The Aggies hit 35 of 70 field goal attempts for an amazing 50 per cent average. Baylor was also deadly from the field, sinking 27 of 56 tries for 48 per cent. In losing the Beai’S still boasted the high point man for the game in Albert White who had 21 points. Center Louis Estes dropped in 20 points for the losers. Jerry Mal lett, 6-5, an all-Southwest Confer ence selection last season, was held to only three points by the alert Cadet defenders. A&M GOT THE opening tip-off and jumped to an early 8-2 lead that stood up for 10 minutes until White’s set shot put the Bruins out in front 15-14. The Aggies wrest led the lead away at 4:17, but Bay lor quickly got it back and left the court at halftime leading 36-30. Sparked by Hutto, the Aggies tied it up 42-42 with 16:57 i-emain- ing in the game and went ahead on Connally’s set shot seconds later. Using its fast-breaking offense to good advantage, A&M roared to leads of 13, 14 and 15 points. (Box Score on Page 3) JUST A TYFHCAL AGGIE WIFE—Mrs. Frances Shackle ford models what would appear at a quick glance around to be the most popular fashion for the typical A&M student wife. Mrs. Shackleford, the wife of chemical engineering senior Gene Shackleford, is a stenographer in the Direct orate Office of the Memorial Student Center. Her main worry right now, she said, is that she may not get to see her husband graduate in June.