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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.