Number 70: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1956
Price 5 Cents
CAMPAGNE MUSIC—Alice Lon, the “Champagne Lady” with Lawrence Welk’s Orches
tra breaks forth into song at the Town Hall bonus attraction last night in White Colis
eum. An enthusiastic crowd of about 5,000 enjoyed the show, which was called by the
Student Activities office as probably one of the biggest attractions here in a long time.
The orchestra leader himself is giving a few directions, at the left.
Active Duly Status
Army Releases New Deal
All army graduates, completing
four years ROTC, will receive com
missions again this year, accord
ing to military authorities.
A new active duty status, which
goes into effect after May first
of this year, allows any student
graduating after this time to have
a “choice” of either staying in Hie
army for a six months training
period or for the regular two
years.
One Year Delay
A one year delay may be grant
ed before the student is called to
active duty. Graduating seniors
receive their orders before being
commissioned. This is the fii’st
time the officer-to-be learns his
date of active duty and the amount
of time he will have to spend in
the army.
The six months deal consists of
three months basic school and
three months active duty. Upon
completion of this six months
training, the officer will be placed
in the ready reserves for seven
AIME To Meet
Here Jan. 9-10
The American Institute of Min
ing and Metalurgieal Engineers
will hold a short course in the Me
morial Student Center, Jan. 9-10.
The meeting is Sponsored by the
Petroleum Engineering Depart-
ment.
Registration will be held in the
Serpentine Lounge on the second
floor of the MSC from 8 to 10:30
a.m. Monday, Jan. 9. Registration
fee will be $5 per person.
Meetings will be held in the MSC
Ballroom. A banquet will be held
Monday, Jan. 9, at 7 p.rii: in the
Assembly Room of the MSC. Tick
ets may be purchased at the reg
istration desk for $2.50 each.
and one-half years. While in the
reserves, an officer must attend a
minimum of two meetings a
month and summer camp with his
unit.
After serving two years active
duty, the young officer would re-
Exec. Course
To Open I lere
1 fas Top Men
Dillon Anderson, assistant
to President Eisenhower, and
William McChesney Martin
Jr., chairman of the Board of
Governors, Federal Reserve
System, will serve as members of
the “visiting faculty” for the 4th
annual Executive Development
Course sponsored by A&M Col
lege, Jan. 29 through Feb. 3 8.
More than 30 leaders of South
western business and industry will
serve as “visiting faculty” for
this year’s three-weeks training
course at College Station. They
will lecture on all phases of the
Southwest’s rapidly - expanding
economy and problems encountered
in this fast expansion. The visi
ting professors have been chosen
on the basis of their successful ca
reers in Southwestern business and
industry.
Students at the course will be ex
ecutives of Texas and Southwest
business and industry, nominated
by their companies and approved
by the course’s Steering Commit
tee. They will participate in three
weeks of case studies and lectures
on subjects ranging from adminis
trative practices to employee se
lection.
main in the ready reserve for three
years and then be placed on the
standby reserve list where he
would be only a name on a reserve
control group and would not have
to attend .meetings or summer
camp.
Upon completion of military du
ties, an officer must take an ac
tive interest to retain his commis
sion. This may be done in several
ways. One would be to remain in
a ready reserve unit and build up
longevity and rank until retire
ment.
Another method for an officer to
retain a commission is to take ex
tension courses from his branch
school. A minimum of 27 credit
hours a year must be attained from
this school. Extension course les
sons range from two to six credits
each.
An officer can be ordered to ac
tive duty if he fails to reach the
required number of credits or at
tend ready reserve meetings. There
is also a possibility that the com
mission can be revoked and he
would be ordered to active duty as
a private, much in the same man
ner as a draftee.
According to the Army Times,
more than half of the ROTC grad
uates coming to activei duty dur
ing the next six mohths will be re
leased to the ready reserve after
training. The other half will serve
two year tours of active duty.
WASHINGTON, —(A>)_- Presi
dent Eisenhower laid before Con
gress yesterday a massive “pro
gram for the Republic” that con
templates a balanced budget, a
token payment on the national
debt, but no tax cuts now.
In language paralleling that of
some leaders of both parties in
Congress, Eisenhower s p o k e
against lowering taxes at the ex
pense of “fiscal integrity” and a
balanced budget; against “going
further into debt to gave ourselves
a tax cut at the expense of our
children.”
He forecast that government in
come will match outgo by mid
year, and said he would propose a
continued balance for the year fol
lowing. Many Republicans and
some Democrats applauded that,
but the reaction to the message in
general was the usual melange of
plaudits and digs, keyed pretty
much to party allegiances in this
election-year Congress.
The presidental report encom-
nassed recommendations — some
new. some old. most of them ad
vertised in advance — for a step-
ned-up, “many-sided attack” on
fhe farm problem, for highway,
school, housing, health and disas
ter relief programs.
It urged immigration legisla
tion, aid for chronically depressed
communities, labor law changes,
an atom-powered commercial ship.
Aggie Players
Have New Play
Jan. 16,17,18
The Aggie Players will pre
sent “The Importance of Be
ing Earnest” in the round in
the Memorial Student Center
ballroom Jan. 16, 17 and 18.
This Oscar Wilde comedy prom
ises to be the most experimental
theater in the histoi'y of the Ag
gie Players. Rehearsals have been
underway three and a half months.
Vic Wiening of the English De
partment is directing the play and
will take the part of Algernon Mon-
crief. C. K. Esten, faculty advisor
to the Players, is assistant direc
tor.
Other members of the cast are
Mary Tanguy, Judy Henry, Ken
neth George, Chris Pavelka, Don
Fisher, Gene Logan, Hugh Lank-
tree and Pete Justice. Entre’ act
cast will include Don Powell, Con
nie Eckard, Jerry Neighbors and
Clint White. Lester Cochran is
stage manager.
The Aggie Players, with a grow
ing membership corresponding to
an increasing public response to
its dramatic efforts, are in the
midst of their most ambitious sea
son.
A drama with deep religious sig
nificance, “The Family Portrait,”
is scheduled for pre-Easter presen
tation. It is the story of the fam
ily life of Christ, showing the re
actions of his mother and brothers
to his ministry.
Over the Mother’s Day weekend
in May the Players will again have
charge of the traditional Aggie
Follies.
The Players have also been invit
ed to whip up a one-act play for
the Texas Folklore Society which
will be having its convention here
in April.
Grapefruit Study
Planned in Future
Dr. H. B. Sorenson, fruit and
vegetable marketing specialist with
the Department of Agricultural
Economics and Sociology, and Dr.
A. H. Krezdorn of the Department
of Horticulture have planned a
study of a grapefruit’s life from
the time it leaves the tree until it
reaches the dining table.
A new state law requiring the
branding of grapefruit by state of
origin makes the first step of study
possible. Once each month the
team visits several retail outlets
and wholesalers, where they buy
representative samples of grape
fruit on display. These samples are
analyzed for quality by the Hortn-
culture Department.
The second step will be to select
a typical example of fruit in the
orchard, then follow it’s mai-keting
process, to see what causes changes
in quality and condition.
water and power projects, equal
pay for equal work for women,
and an investigation to determine
whether Negroes are being de
prived of their right to vote and
are being “subjected to unwar
ranted economic pressures.”
With Russia’s leaders following
“tactics of retreat and zigzag” and
still unwilling “to create the in
dispensable conditions for a se
cure and lasting- peace,” Eisenhow
er proposed “constant improve
ment” of America’s defenses and
those of the free world.
He backed this up with a bid
for limited authority to make long--
er-term foreign aid commitments,
a request for a substantial boost
in funds to spread understanding
of America through the U. S. In
formation Agency, and a promise
to keep up the pressure against
the “vast wrongs” of a divided
Germany, the “bondage of millions
elsewhere, and the exclusion of
Japan from United Nations mem
bership.”
The 8,500-word document was
plunked down in Senate and House
and read to the legislators while
the President continued recupera
ting from a September heart at
tack at Key West, Fla.
Nowhere in it was there a defi
nite clue as to how long Eisen
hower proposes to stay around to
give stewardship to his program—
the biggest political puzzle of a
politically-minded Congress.
ANNOUNCEMENTS READY—Taylor Gillam, senior civil
engineering major from Athens, Tex., is shown receiving
his graduation announcements from Doris Bahlmann, of
the Student Activities Department. Students who did not
order announcements can place their name on a list for any
extras. The office is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily ex
cept Saturday when it is closed at noon.
News of the World
Famed USD A Agronomist
With TAES
Dies at Home
Funeral Tomorrow at 10
In CS Presbyterian Church
Fish Election
For Officers
By JOE TINDEL
Battalion Staff Writer
The man who saved an estimated 25,000,000 people in
the world from death and starvation by the development of
rust-resistant Hope Wheat died in his sleep shortly after 8
a.m. yesterday at his home, 500 Ayrshire, College Station.
Edgar S. McFadden, 64, USDA agronomist for the Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station since 1935, suffered a heart
attack in October, remained in the hospital until November
and has been bedridden in his home since.
McFadden, called the “Burkank of the Wheat Field” be
cause of his work, was given international recognition on
Dec. 28, 1955, through receipt of the John Scott medal award
ed by the American Association of the Advancement of
Christmas Seal
Drive Closes
With $5,011
The 1 9 5 5 Tuberculosis
Christmas Seal Sale has been
closed with total receipts of
$5,011.07, according to Mrs.
A. V. Moore, chairman of the
sale.
“The mail receipts compared
favorably with last year’s mail re
ceipts,” said Mrs. Moore, “how
ever we will miss contributions
from the College Station Commun-'
ity Chest this year.”
The board of directors for the
College Station Chest voted not to
include the TB association this
year, as many residents did not
understand that they obtained the
Christmas seals mailed to them
free, through their donation to the
Community Chest.
A&M students contributed $542.-
80 to the drive. $146.25 of this
came from college apartments,
and the remaining $396.55 came
from dormitory students.
“Many students have mailed con
tributions since they i-etm-ned to
school,” Mrs. Moore said, “and we
want to stress that we will accept
contributions that were forgotten
in the rush before the holidays.”
Eighty-two per cent of the funds
raised in the drive will remain in
Brazos County to aid in the local
association’s work, and 18 per cent
will go to the state and national
associations to support their work.
Projects of the Brazos County
Tuberculosis Association include
the annual x-ray survey, year
’round case-finding, various edu
cational projects, free literature
and films on TB, work for better
hospitals and adequate care for
pgtients. The National TB As
sociation supervises research
grants.
Weather Today
CLEAR
Clear winds diminishing after
dark is the forecast for College
Station. Yesterday’s high was 76°,
low, 57°. . Tempei-ature at 10:30
a.m. was 65 degrees.
Science. The award, along
with a $1,000 cash award, was
presented on the basis of orig
ination and development of
the first rust-resistant wheat.
Tt was the first time the John
Scott award had been given to an
American Southwest scientist in
addition to being the first time that
it was given on purely biological
invention.
He first began his work on rust-
resistant wheat in 1915, while he
was a student at South Dakota
Agricultural College. He conduc
ted experiments in the back yard
of his boarding house. At this
time stem and leaf 1’ust were the
scoui’ge of the Dakota wheatland.
Bread wheat was particularly sus
ceptible. McFadden experimented
with cross-bi’eeding hard kernel
Edgar S. McFadden
pi-imitive wheat, which was im
mune to rust but used only for
livestock feed, and the bi'ead wheat
which fed the country. After long
work he finally obtained a stalk
of the new cross and from this
stalk he furnished the seed that
was to feed the world. The new
wheat was named Hope wheat, for
it raised the hopes of the world.
By developing this wheat, Mc
Fadden saved American farmers
$400,000,000 during the w r ar.
McFadden came to the Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station
in 1935. He had graduated from
South Dakota Agricultural College
with B.S. and D.S.C. degrees. He
has led the battle against grain
(See McFADDEN, Page 4)
Next Tuesday
The run-off for freshmen
class officers will be held
Tuesday fronj 8 a.m. until 5
p.m. in the MSC voting booth.
Twenty-five candidates will 1
vie for positions nine including two
candidates for the election com
mission.
Fred Hunter, Robert E. Arevalos
and John G. Thomas are the can
didates for class ’59 president.
Vice-presidential aspirants are
Len Layne, Thomas A. Adams and
Ted F. Lange.
Joseph E. Minor, Bill A. Myers
and George K. Garner will be in
the run-off for recording secre
tary.
Social secretary nominees are
Charles H. Robison, Robert Lassi
ter and Donnie R. Duplissey.
William R. Markillie, Gary W.
Hipps and Richard C. Vaughn are
candidates for treasurer.
Parliamentarian candidates in
clude James E. Fallin, Robert M.
Peevey and John R. Johnson.
Ronald Stallings, Charles Mes
ser and Harry C. Russell are can
didates for reporter.
Sergeant-at-arms position will
be decided between Ben Trotter
and Janies P. Smith.
As Samuey Martinez and Rob
ert P. Ratcliff tied for last place
on - the election commission they
must be voted on to decide that
position.
Pet E Department
Adds Professor
Robert B. Bossier has been
named a professor of petroleum
engineering here. He will devote
his principal attention to petroleum
engineeidng courses in valuation
and secondary recovery, said Rob-
ei't M. Whiting, head of tlie de
partment.
“We have been seeking a man
of Bossier’s calibre for several
years,” Whiting said, “and feel
that his influence will be felt in
both the classroom and research
laboratory.”
In 1954 he was named director
of the Pennsylvania Grade Crude
Oil Association, Bradford, Penn.,
which is a research organization
directed to pi’olonging the life of
oil fields by improving recovery
methods.
New Dog License
Dog license can now be pur
chased in the City Hall if the ani
mal has ben vaccinated for rabies,
according to Ran Boswell, city
manager.
Cost of the license is $1. Police
will begin enforcing the license
ordinance at the end of this month.
THE CHAIR STANDS—Byran A. Parham, Student Senate president is shown presiding
over the Senate session held last night in the Memorial Student Center. Committee re
ports were the main discussion of the meeting which lasted less than an hour. Jim
Rowland, far left and seated, is Senate recording secretary.