The Battalion
Number 73: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1956
Price 5 Cents
News of the World
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—President Eis
enhower yesterday authorized a
statement that he is neither as
senting nor dissenting at this tim.e
to the entry of his name in the
April 10 Illinois Republican pres-;
idental preference primary.
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SAN ANTONIO—A Kelly Air
Force Base Pilot, 1st Lt. Barty
R. Brooks, 25,. was killed in
the crash of his sabrejet at
Edwards Air Force Base, Cal
ifornia, yesterday.
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AUSTIN —The Court of Crim
inal Appeals heard oral argument
yesterday in an appeal of the death
sentence given a Fort Hood soldier
convicted of killing an airman
parked with his finance near Waco
last spring.
Henry Poole, of James Connally
Air Force Base, was killed April
2, 1955 in a struggle with a Ne
gro after Poole and his finance,
Dorothy Papendorf, were ■ forced
from their car.
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QUITO, Ecuador — Five IT.
S. missionaries who penetrat
ed Amazon jungle territory
peopled by savage Auca In
dians all were feared dead to
day after a second unindenti-
fied body near their stripped
plane was seen from the air.
At least two Texas cities reported
that “white” and “colored” signs
have been taken down in waiting
rooms in rail and bus terminals.
An Interstate Commerce Com
mission ruling Tuesday did away
with waiting room segregation in
interstate travel. No incidents
were reported.
Poetry Study'
To Be Offered
Next Semester
The English Department will
offer a new poetry course for
the spring semester.
The course, open to all stu
dents, will be a study of poe
try designed to teach criticism
of poetry and encourage the
writing- of verse. It will be
conducted informally, as a
seminar.
Hours and credits will be
arranged according to the num
ber of students expressing a
desire to take the course. Stu
dents interested in registering
for credit should see B. D.
Targan or C. L. Hurley of the
English Department a t 104
Bagley Hall.
Funeral Services Held
Today For T. D. Brooks
HERE’S HOW—How to help fig'ht polio by contributing -
money to the 1956 March of Dimes is demonstrated by
Mrs. Janice Cocke, while her husband, Aggie track star
Rill Cocke, looks approvingly on. The March of Dimes
coin collectors, like the one shown in the picture, have been
distributed at various points on the campus and in the
community. The money is used to continue the fight
against the dread disease, which is not yet licked.
Will End Jan. 31
March Of Dimes Underway
Election Adds
New Members
To Ree Council
New members elected to the
College Station Recreation
council at their regular
monthly meeting this week in
clude Flake Fisher, member-
at-large; F. W. Hensel, Kiwanis
club representative; Mike Krenits-
ky, Boy Scouts and Mrs. John Qui-
senberry, assistant in the swim
ming program.
It was reported that the com
munity Christmas party held at
Consolidated high school before
Christmas was a great success, and
that another capacity crowd attend
ed the pai-ty held at the Lincoln
school. Expenses for the CHS
party were $48, while Lincoln ex
penses were $53. Some of the fruit
parcels left over from the party at
Lincoln school were given to the
Washington Chapel nursery.
Outgoing treasurer, K. A. Man
ning, requested that arrangements
be made to audit the committee’s
books before they were turned ove?-
to his successor. President E. E.
Ivy appointed Luther Jones to
make necessary arrangements.
The 195(1 March of Dimes, now
underway is scheduled to last un
til Jarr:' 31, according to Capt. Wal
ter M. Heritage, chairman of the
Brazos County drive.
“We have already sent out 10,-
000 letters with pockets fqr coins
and bills,” said Heritage. “If every
Rotary Club Meets
‘Future Leaders’
Twelve students were introduced
by Col. Henry Dittman, professor
of air science, at a Rotary Club
meeting yesterday as “the type of
men that A&M produces as future
leaders.”
Ten of the students, Stephen
G. Scott, Robert W. Sears, Wil
liam H. Sellers, Ray E. Stratton,
Donald D. Swofford, Franklin D.
Waddell, Weldon W. Walker, Rich
ard F. Weick, Marion L. Williams
and Robert W. Young are disting
uished air force ROTC graduates
and are applying for regular com
missions.
Larry Kennedy, cadet colonel of
the Corps, and Bill Fullerton, edi
tor of The Battalion, also guests
at the luncheon, were • introduced.
one of these is returned with $1
in it we will be near last year’s
total for the county which was
$11,800. Similar letters are being-
distributed in the schools with
space for six dimes.”
Other fund-raising events to be
sponsored by the local board and
other agencies include the square
dance to be held Saturday night
in DeWare field house, a peanut
sale at points around College Sta
tion by local teen-agers, a cake
sale on the same line to be held
later in the month and a Radio-
thon on station KORA-from 8 p.m.
Saturday night until 1:30 p.m. Sun
day afternoon.
The KORA radiothon will bo
Hilltoppers Arrive
In Early February
The Hilltoppers with Charlie
Spivach’s Orchestra will be pre
sented in Guion Hall Wed., Feb. 8
for the first promotional program
under the auspices of Town Hall.
All tickets will be $1 per per
son. There will be no reserve seats,
and Town Hall season tickets will
not be accepted.
hefd at the same time as the
KPRC-TV Telethon in Houston. All
contributions pledged to the Hous
ton Telethon from Brazos County
will be counted toward this coun
ty’s total.
“Theme of this year’s March of
Dimes is ‘Polio is not Licked
Yet,’ ” said Heritage. “The present
vaccine is from only 60 to 90 per
cent effective. The present situa
tion may be compared to the in
vention of the first car. Develop
ment did not. stop with it any
more than research should stop
with Dr. Jonas Salk’s vaccine.”
Heritage pointed out four rea
sons why the March of Dimes
should continue. First of all there
are the patients who still have the
disease and need to be cared for
while they get well, and another
is- the need for continued research
for ways to prevent and cure the
disease.
LEAP YEAR—Getting - in a little practice for the Leap
Year spirit is Linda Gayle Norris, 2Vo-year-old daugfiter
of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Norris of D-4-B, College View. Linda’s
choice is a three-foot clown doll that Battalion photographer
Guy Fernandez bought for his own daughter’s birthday.
Norris is a senior math major from Jacksonville. Fernan
dez’s daughter is in Peru, South America, with his parents.
Leaving Students
Can Get Refund
Graduating seniors who pa-id the
Student Activities Fee and will
not be in school for the spring se
mester may obtain a refund on the
spring portion of the fee by mak
ing application at the Housing Of
fice. Students must present their
Town Hall, Great Issues and Ath
letic Tickets in order to be eligible
for the refund.
Students other than graduating
seniors, who paid the Student Ac
tivities Fee and' who will not re
turn for the spring semester, may
also make application for refund
by tmning in activity cai’ds. This
should be done as the student
clears the campus and turns in his
key at the Housing Office, first
floor of Goodwin Hall.
Weather Today
CLEAR
Temperature at 10:30 a.m. was
45 degrees. Yesterday’s high of
60 degrees dropped to 30 degrees
last night. Forecast for College
Station is clear with winds from
north-northwest.
More specialists must be trained
to meet the needs of the vast re
search program. Finally, research
dnto polio has resulted in a vast
store of knowledge about other dis-
ease-carrying virus.
“Half of every dollar contribu
ted to the Match of Dimes will stay
in the county for patient care in
this .county,” Heritage said, “the
other half goes to the national
foundation. Of this, 48.6 per cent
goes for patient care, 28.1 per cent
for polio prevention, 14.1 per cent
for research and education, and
the remaining 12.2 per cent for
administration, pufelic information,
state and local offices, medical ex
penses, and administration.”
Last year, each person in Texas
contributed 36 cents according to
the state average. In Brazos
county the contributions were 31
cents per person.
“To quit now would be like get
ting the enemy against the wall
and then turning away and leav
ing,” Heritage said.
“Polio is not licked yet,” he ad
ded.
Air Force Seniors
Want Commission
Thirty-five Air Force gradua
ting seniors have applied for regu
lar commissions.
The Cadets are James W. Arn
old, Robert C. Barlow, Richard A.
Barras, Ernest F. Biehunko, John
C. Brannen, Glenn D. Buell Jr.,
John C. Burchard, Kerry E. Bur
leson, Lawrence R. Dausin, Donald
J. Dierschke, David Y. Fawcett,
Dale J. Fisher, Richard E. Gentry.
Robert A. Hanson, Dennis M.
Heitkamp, Joseph C. Hlavinka Jr.,
Harold G. Jacobson, John W. Jenk
ins, Harold L. Jones, Jack H. Lipp-
man, Victor A. Moseley, Dayton
Moses,
William P. Nourie, Howard L.
Robinson, Robert H. Scott, Step
hen G. Scott, Robert W. Sears,
William H. Sellers, Ray E. Strat
ton, Donald D. Swofford,
Franklin D. Waddell, Weldon W.
Walker, Richard F. Weick, Marion
L. Williams and Robert W. Young
Air Scince Distinguished students.
Retired Dean Dies
After Long Illness
Funeral services were held this morning - at 10 a.m. for
Dr. T. D. Brooks, 73, who had been connected with A&M from
1932 until his retirement in 1953. He died in a Bryan hos
pital after a long illness.
He first came to A&M as dean of the summer school,
then was named dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and
dean of the Graduate School until 1947. That year he was
named dean emeritus and professor of education and served
until his retirement.
Dr. Brooks received his B.A. degree from Baylor Uni
versity in 1903 and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the
University of Chicago.
He was a teacher and prin
cipal in the public schools of
Texas until 1906 and that year
was named superintendent of
public schools in Hillsboro,
where he was located until 1916.
In 1916 he was named president of
the Southeastern State Noi*mal
School in Oklahoma.
A professor of school administra
tion at Baylor University 1921-32,
Dr. Brooks was a member of the
city commission and was also elect
ed mayor of Waco 1928-30 and i
member of the commission and
staff of the Texas Educational Sur
vey in 1923. In 1937-38 he was
president of the Association of Tex
as Colleges and governor of Ro
tary International, 41st district in
1931-32.
AsMe from his wife, Dr. Bi’ooks
is survived by a sister, Mrs. Bellie
B. West of Austin. He was a na
tive of Percy, Miss.
Services were held at the Hil-
lier Funeral Home in Bryan with
the Rev. W. H. Andrews of the
First Baptist Church, Bryan, con
ducting the service.. Burial will be
in the Lakewood Memorial ceme
tery at Henderson this afternoon
rt 4.
T. D. Brooks
Dies After Illness
Advanced Study
Cook Wins Kellogg Award
Ben D. Cook, assistant to the
Dean of Agriculture, has received
a KeKllog Fellowship for study at
the University of Wisconsin and
will leave A&M Feb. 1. R. C. Potts
of the Agronomy Department will
become Assistant Dean of Agri
culture.
Cook will enter the National Ag
ricultural Extension Center, a pro
gram of advanced study in the ad-
ministration and supervision of
agricultural and home economics
extension work.
When he returns, Cook will en
ter joint service with the college
and the Texas Agricultural Exten
sion Service to train extension
personnel, both on the campus and
in the field.
Dr. Potts grew up on a farm
near Headrick, Okla. and received
his B.S. degree from Oklahoma
A&M in 1934, where he was a staff
member before joining the experi
ment station staff in Georgia.
He came to A&M from Georgia
Safety Supervisors
A short com’se for safety super
visors will be conducted by the En
gineering Extension Service Jan.
30-Feb. 3. L. K. Jonas is chief of
supervisor training. Purpose of
the course will be to train job sup
ervisors and newly appointed saf
ety supervisors in organizing and
conducting effective programs of
accident prevention.
in 1936. He received his masters
degree in 1945 here and his Ph.D.
in 1950 from the University of
Nebraska.
He is faculty sponsor of Alpha
Zeta, honorary agriculture society,
and of the student section of the
American Society of Agronomy.
Cook, ’34, holds a masters de
gree in education, has taught vo
cational agriculture for seven
years, has been an assistant county
agent and a county ag’ent. He came
here in 1950 from Sherman, where
he was county agent. He also
served as an air force ground
school instructor for 38 months
during WW II.
The National Agricultural Ex
tension Center for Advanced Study
was begun at the annual meeting
of the Association of land-grant
colleges and universities in No
vember, 1952. It was conceived as
an important means of directing
study and research toward the
broad problem areas in which ad-
Cocanougher Heads
Bonnie G. Cocanougher has been
elected president of the Agricul
tural Economics Club for next se
mester. Other officers elected at
a meeting of the club this week
were Leland Cook, vice-president;
Beb Bell, secretary; Gil Weaver,
treasurer; and F. W. Young, re
porter.
ministrators and supervisors op
erate.
There are about 25 fellowships
awarded annually on a competitive
basis to both degree candidates and
special students.
Morgan, Davis
To Attend Talk
In Washington
A conference which may
prove beneficial to A&M Col
lege, and to other military col
leges in the nation, will be
held Tuesday, Jan. 17, in
Washington, D.C.
At the request of Milton G.
Baker, new chairman of the Re
serve Forces Policy Board, A&M
President David H. Morgan will
attend the meeting for heads of the
“essentially military colleges” in
the country. Col. Joe E. Davis,
A&M commandant, will accompany
Dr. Morgan to the conference,
which will be held at the Pentagon.
Baker is head of the Valley Forge
Military Junior College, Penn.
Dr. Morgan and Col. Davis will
leave for the capital early Monday
morning, spend Tuesday at the con
ference, and return here Wednes
day.
This is the first time heads of the
military colleges have been asked
to come to a meeting at the request
of the Department of Defense.
The military schools, besides
A&M, are North Georgia College,
Pennsylvania Military College, The
Citadel, Norwich University, Vir
ginia Polytechnic Institute and Vir
ginia Military Institute.
Dr. Morgan also has three
speeches scheduled this month, two
in Houston and one in Bryan. On
Jan. 19 he. will speak at a meeting
of the Rotary Club in Houston, and
again thei'e Jan. 24 at the Torch
Club. He will present a talk to
the .Chamber of Commerce of Bry
an Jan. 31.
Too Many Absences
Brings New Policy
Any student receiving three or
more cuts in his air science classes
must go before a contract retention
board to determine if the student
should remain under advanced
ROTC contract, according to a new
policy at A&M.
This policy has been handed down
from Detachment 805, Air Force
ROTC, effective Jan. 6.
This decision was made due to
students getting too many cut's in
class attendance.
NEW LOOK—The Academic Building - is receiving a new
look as painters brush on new coats of paint this week.
Shown here are two painters between the second and
third floors. Most of the building was painted last sum
mer but some of the paint has cracked off and is now be
ing replaced.