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Number 71 : Volume 55
Dimes Drive
Getting Boost
By Teen-Agers
For the first time, teen-
. agers of Brazos County have
v oi*ganized to aid in the drive
for the March of Dimes.
The organization is under
the leadership of Jeanelle L/aMotte
of A&M Consolidated, who is the
county director for teen-agers, and
also co-director with Maurice
Olian for the College Station activ
ities. Karl Hoppess and Jo Ann
Nolen, students of Stephen F. Aus
tin High School, will lead the ae-
tivitiies in Bryan.
Through the united efforts of
ft both College Station and Bryan
volunteers, they plan to sell pea
nuts on downtown street comers in
Bryan two Saturdays, Jan. 14 and
v 28.'
The Girls Forum of Stephen F.
Austin High School plan to bake
cakes, which will be sold on street
corners in Bryan and also at the
Ridgecrest Shopping Center Sat
urday, Jan. 21.
The College Station and Bryan
volunteers are also planning a
dance at the Country Club Satur
day night, Jan. 28.
The group has already turned in
contributions of $18.25 to Mrs. Lu
cille Foster, county treasurer of the
* National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis. The contributions were
collected at a Bryan basketball
game last week.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1956
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NEW AND OLD—The College Station Development Association and Chamber of Com
merce met yesterday with both incoming and outgoing members present. Seated from
left to right, they include Edwin C. Garner, N. M. .McGinnis, Mrs. T. W. Leland, Mrs. R.
D. Lewis and Mrs. C. C. Doak. Standing in the same order are R. L. Hunt, E. O. Siecke,
J. B. Baty, J. G. Gay, Walter Delaplane, Carl Tishler and Allan Madeley.
Chamber of Commerce
Physical Education
Meeting Tonight
Cooper Robbins, dii’ector of ath
letics at Odessa High School, will
be gviest speaker at a meeting of
the Physical Education Club to
night. '
Robbins has produced state
thampion football teams at Breck
inridge and Odessa. He was
eoach of the Aggie fish team in
1952. Also appearing on the pro
gram will be Lynn Monical, A&M
baseballer, who will do an impei’-
sonation.
The club will discuss sending
representatives to the district meet
ing of the American Association of
Health, Physical Education and
Recreation in Nashville, Tenn.
1956 Officers Installed
New officei-s of the College Sta
tion Development Association and
Chamber of Commerce were in
stalled yesterday at the regular
monthly meeting.
New officers are Walter Dela
plane, president; Luther Jones,
vice-president; and Mrs. R. D.
Lewis, secretary. The officers they
replace are Carl Tishler, president;
Delaplane, vice-president; and Mrs.
C. C. Doak, secretary.
Grads Should Pay
An n ual Mai I -Cb argp
Graduating seniors should de
posit their Aggieland mailing fee
with the Student Publications Of
fice before leaving the campus.
The office, which is located on the
second floor of Goodwin Hall, is
open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every
day except Saturday when it is
closed all day. Amount of the fee
is based on the distance the book
has to travel.
New members of the board elec
ted for three-year terms include
J. B. Baty, J. H. Pruitt, J. G. Gay,
R. L. Hunt, V. E. Schember and
Allan Madeley. Certificates of ap
preciation were awarded to the
four retiring dii'ectors, Tishler,
Mrs. Doak, Wayne Stark and R. L.
McCarty.
Plans were discussed for x>ub-
lishing a brochure on the city of
College Station to distribute in
answer to many questions received
by the Chamber of Commerce. A
IG-page booklet, printed in 1949
had wide-spread use, but no copies
; now available, according to
Beard Contest Starts
For Civilian Students
A&M civilian students, at least
those with bristley hair on their
faces, may start today preparing
for the second annual beard grow
ing contest which will end with
civilian student day, March 10,
Hugh Lanktree, organization chair
man, said yesterday.
There will be three classifica
tions oi beards, Lanktree said,
which will cover any type. They
will include the Prospector or
scroungy beard, Gambler or fancy
beard and the Bad Man beard,
which will include any beard neith-
, er scroungy nor fancy.
All civilian students interested
in enteiang the contest should reg
ister their name with their floor
or ramp representative. Entrance
fee will be 10 cents. Prizes will
be awarded the first t,wo places of
Weather Today
each division and will be presented
at the Western Barbeque and
dance to be held from 0-12 p.m.
The weekend festivities will start
with the barbeque, to be served
buffet style in Sbisa Hall and will
be followed by a dance, and other
types of entertainment.
Several named orchestras will
play for the dance—two hillbilly
and two popular. For those who
do not care for western music there
will be “Night Club ’50” in the
Sbisa annex.
Ray Carrol is general chairman
for the civilian weekend. Other
committeemen include Hugh Lank
tree, organization; Jack Quinn
tickets; Bill Fullerton, publicity
Jim Hancock, entertainment; Jas
Cooper, decoration: Douglas Down
ing, guests; and Billey Lilly, beard
growing.
“This promises to be the great
est and most spectacular show
ever put on by the students a +
A&M,” said Carrol. “All students
are invited to participate.”
Nestor McGinnis, Association man
ager. The new booklet would be a
revised version of the old.
Discussion was also held on the
proposed name change of the As
sociation but action was witheld
until the annual meeting to be held
sometime in February.
Some of the suggested name
changes include dropping “Cham
ber of Commerce,” dropping “De
velopment Association”, or chang
ing to something like “College
Station Civic Association”.
Real Robbery
Occurs From
Practical Joke
What was thought to be a
practical joke, turned out to
be a real robbery Saturday
night about 7:30 at Cooley’s
Conoco Service Station at the
North Gate.
More than $400 was taken from
Bill J. Cooley, owner of the station,
as he started to leave in his pickup
after checking out.
Cooley said as he was leaving a
man of medium build, about six
feet tall, and possibly in his late
twenties, came up behind him and
told him to hand ovei* all his money.
“At first I thought someone was
trying to play a trick on me,”
Cooley said. “Then I looked down
and saw a gun, and I knew that he
meant business. I was plenty scar
ed so I gave him the money.”
Cooley said that when the man
got the money, he ran behind St.
Mary’s Catholic Chapel. As soon
as he could reach the phone, Cooley
called the Bryan Police who radioed
the Campus Security here. The
officers answered the call promptly
and got the facts of the robbery
from Cooley. They turned the in
vestigation over to the College Sta
tion Police Department, in whose
jurisdiction the robbery occurred.
The station owner said the thief
was clean-shaven and wearing nice
clothes. He wasn’t sure of the
type of pistol he had—all he could
tell was that it was large.
Land Committee
Will Meet Here
The Department of Agricultural
Economics and Sociology will serve
as hosts to the Southwestern Land
Tenure Research Committee in
College Station today and' tomor
row. This will be the first time
since its beginning in 1940 that the
Committee is meeting at a land-
grant institution.
The Land Tenure Research Com
mittee is sponsored by the Farm
Foundation. Its membership is
comprised of agricultural econo
mists and rural sociologists. Each
of the land-grant colleges in the
Southwest — Arkansas, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas—
and the Agricultural Research
Service are represented. The ma
jor purpose of the Committee is to
sponsor research in problems of
land tenure and land utilization.
Representatives of the Agricul
tural Economics and Sociology De
partment of A&M on the Commit
tee are Dr. Tyrus R. Timm, head,
J. H. Southern, R. L. Skrabanek
and W. G. Adkins. Dr. L. S. Ellis,
Director of the Arkansas Agricul
tural Experiment Station, is ad
ministrative advisor.
Aggieland Studio Releases
Civilian Picture Schedule
The Aggieland Studio has an
nounced the following schedule for
civilian student class pictures for
the Aggieland:
Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors
Jan. 10, 11; A—G
Jan. 12, 13; H—N
Jan. 10, 17; O—S
Jan. 19, 20; T—Z
Seniors
Feb. 0, 7; A—G
Feb. 9, 10; H—N
Feb. 13, 14; O—S
Club Presidents
Meet Tomorrow
All Hometown Club presi
dents are requested to be pres
ent tomorrow afternoon at 5
p.m. in room 301, Goodwin
Hall, to meet, with C. G.
(Spike) White, director of
recreation and entertainment.
“If the president of the club
is unable to attend,” said
White, “he is asked to send a
replacement.”
Purpose of the meeting is
to discuss the program for
High School Day and Sports
Day which will be observed
March 3.
Feb. 16, 17; T—Z
All freshmen and juniors (Corps
or civilian) must have their pic
tures made by Jan 20, to get in
the yearbook. Seniors graduating
in January may have then* pic
tures made any time before grad
uation. Senior full length shots
will be made by appointment only.
All clubs are reminded that they
may schedule their pictures in the
Office of Student Publications.
They are urged to do so at the ear
liest possible date to include grad
uating senior’s and to avoid the
last minute rush at the deadline
date, April 1.
Each club or organization, n.vt
including military units, (paying
or non-paying) must submit a
short write-up (100-200 words for
half page or 200 to 350 words for*
full page clubs) concerning the
club’s history, activities and pur
poses. There is no deadline on
this requirement, but no club will
be in the yearbook without it,
whether it has paid for Space or
not.
Pictures for* Vanity Fair will not
be accepted until next semester
and only seniors who classify
themselves as “Class of ’56” are
eligible to submit entrees.
Approve Plans To Set Up
Block Against Integration
RICHMOND, Va.,—(TP)—Virginia voters gave lopsided
approval yesterday to a plan to change the state constitution
to permit the use of public money for private education as a
block to enforce integration in the public schools.
Returns from well over half the state’s 1,862 voting pre
cincts gave the backers of the constitutional convention a
margin of victory that neared the 2-1 point as returns mount
ed in near record strength.
Two hours after the polls closed at 6 p.m. returns from
1,134 precincts gave 202,167 for the convention call to 101,909
against it.
Only one of the state’s 10 congressional districts—the
■♦■northern Virginia 10th across
from Washington — was re
corded against the plan and
the strength of the lOth’s op
position was about spent with,
most of its retui’ns already in.
The issue was hardly in doubt
from the moment the precincts be
gan to report. Southside Virginia,
where the Negro population is
greatest and opposition to school
integration in any form the most
.vehement, rolled up margins for
the convention call by as much as
six and seven to one. In one south
ern county -—"Patrick — the margin
was 37-1 for.the convention, the
voters going 2,488 for and just 67
against.
In the populous 10th District—
regarded by both sides as a strong
hold of the anticonvention forces—
the vote against the call was not
as heavy as expected. The 10th
went 24,061 against to 19,018 for
on the basis of near complete re
turns—far short of the mai*gin
needed to stem the tide from the
downstate areas.
The result of the vote—the first
positive step by Virginia’s elector
ate to dilute the impact of the
Supr-eme Court decision outlawing
racial segregation—means the Gen
eral Assembly, meeting Wednes
day, has a point of departure for
a school program.
The assembly is expected to pro
vide fox* the calling of a convention
in the near future and set up the
machinery for the election of its
delegates.
Free Phone
Privilege
Taken Away
At the request of College
authorities, non-pay phones in
- dormitories have been remov
ed because of the misuse of
phone privileges by students.
According to the Military
Department, some $800 i n
long-distance calls have, been
charged to these phones by
students who either used “fic
titious names or who have
left college this year.”
As the bills come to the
school about six weeks after
the call has been placed, au
thorities have no check on the
person who placed the call.
The phones will be replaced
as soon as possible by pay
phones and local calls will cost
10 cents.
14,291 Visitors
In June-Decemher
A total of 14,291 visitors were
on the campus for- the months of
June through December, 1955, P. L
Downs Jr., official gieetei* for* the
college, has announced.
Included were 997 visitors during
December.
WINDY
Continued clear and windy with
winds diminishing after dark is the
forecast for College Station. Yes-
terday’s high of 60 degrees dropped
to a freezing 32 degrees last night.
Temperature at 10:30 a.m. was 48
degrees.
7 PM Installation
Set By Kiwanians
The 11th annual College Station
Kiwanis Club installation banquet
will be held tonight at 7 p.m. in
the MSC ballroom.
Jim Bowmen of Temple, former
lieutenant governor of Division IX
will be the main speaker and the
installing officer will be Earl Huf-
fer, of Huntsville, present lieu
tenant governor of the division.
“Some tickets are still avail
able,” said Joe Soi’rels, chairman
of the Education and Fellowship
Committee, “and we would like to
say again that all wives and guests
will be welcome. The tickets cost
$1.75 each.”
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CAMPUS CLOTHES—Clothes are always of interest to
college students and Aggies, Corps or civilian, are not ex
ceptions. A couple of students are shown looking at the
clothes now being offered on sale by the Exchange Store.
The College store and other stores around the community
are familiar haunts for A&M students looking for wearing
apparel.
New Fraternity
Initiates Members
The Chi Chapter of Iota Lambda
Sigma, professional industrial ed
ucation fraternity, initiated 14 new
members last night in the Memor
ial Student Center.
New initiates are Vernon Chris
tie Jr., Gordon DeMarrais, Louis
Grochoske, Deon Haven, John Hill,
Vardeman Johnson, Warren John
son, Byron King, Bob McCarn,
James Newman, E. G. Pittman,
James Schubert, Nelson Sprague
and Bill Swan.
News of the World
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
SANTIAGO, Chile—Iron-fisted military control and
group arrests headed off a general strike in Chile yesterday.
The economic crisis underlying the trouble is to be considered
in a special session of Congress today. An official announce
ment by President Carlos Ibanez’ government said the strike
called by the Central Labor Union was total failure. It added
that key activities which were supposed to be halted by the
walkout were operating normally throughout the country.
★ ★ ★
AUSTIN—The Higher Education Commission yes
terday led the complex problem of giving Texans the
most for their money in state-supported colleges and uni
versities. It named former sec. of state A1 Muldrow of
Brownfield as chairman and set up a screening com
mittee to seek a $15,000 a year full-time executive direc
tor and other staff workers.
★ ★ ★
AUSTIN—Salk polio vaccine was made available yes
terday to Texans up to the age of 20. It had been available
only for children up to 15, and pregnant women, who are still
included.
★ ★ ★
ALGIERS, Algeria—Nationalist rebels made more
trouble for France yesterday throughout North Africa.
Main center of rebellion remained the eastern Constan
tine section of Algeria, where 38 Frenchmen or Alger
ians friendly to them were reported killed or kidnaped
during the weekend.
Abbott To Attend
J. P. Abbott, Dean of the Col
lege, will attend the eleventh an
nual executive session of the Na
tional Commission on Safety Edu
cation in Washington, D. C. Thurs
day throug*h Saturday.
Purpose of the three-day session
will be to lay the groundwork for
expanding and improving safety
education programs in the nation’s
schools during 1956.
WhaPs Cooking
The following is the schedule of
events for tonight:
7:15
Junior Collegiate FFA; YMCA;
election of officers.
7:30
Texas Aggie Rodeo Club; A&T
Building; new and old members of
the N.I.R.A. should be present to
pay dues and fill out the needed
forms.
Agriculture Economics; room
312, Agriculture Bldg.; election of
officers.
Accounting Society; YMCA; W.
R. Horsley will speak; coffee will
be served.
Time Not Given
Institute of the Aeronautical
Sciences; room 220, new Engineer
ing Bldg.; Pratt & Whitney film.
ANYTHING GROWS HERE.
ANYTIME—Serving as a cham
ber of commerce for A&M Col
lege is this lovely, little product
of nature—a pansy. Just what
it is doing growing in winter in
front of Guion Hall, we do not
know. We think the flower is
supposed to bloom in April or
May.