The Battalion
Number 74: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1956
Price 5 Cents
Ag Quintet Entertains
Longhorns Tonight at 8
Downs Major Threat
To Upset-Minded Ags
By RONNIE GREATHOUSE
Battalion Sports Editor
Upset-minded A&M tries to bridle the skillful shooting'
of Raymond Downs and his tall Texas Longhorns tonight at
8 in White Coliseum in a crucial Southwest Conference
encounter.
A&M enters tonight’s fracas with a 1-2 slate in confer
ence games. The horns stand 0-3 in SWC warfare.
Texas, after dropping three straight conference games
must win tonight or lose hope of a share in the SWC crown.
A&M is also facing a “must” situation, having lost its last
two league outings.
Led by Downs, a sensational 6-5 forward who makes an
art out of scoring, the Steers have won six games and dropped
SEASON RECORDS
Miss Mathilda Tillie Hollas
Aft-gies Named Her ‘Tillie the Toiler’
6 A Good Place**
Visit Here in ’40
Convinced ‘Tillie
A&M
TEXAS
43
Tulsa
. . 48
85
West Texas .
.73
69
Vanderbilt
. . 79
59
Okla. A&M .
. 56
71
Memphis St.
. .84
66
Phillips 66 . .
.92
73
I ,SXJ
. . 59
58
Okla. A&M .
. 61
85
Tulane . . . .
. . 66
91
Phillips 66 . .
.108
44
Houston . . .
. .78
83
Auburn
. 76
81
Rice
.110
86
Mississippi . .
.72
59
TOTJ
. . 67
66
TCU . ...
. 60
49
Arkansas . .
. .80
72
Rice
.80
90
Baylor . . . .
. . 70
71
XJSC
. 63
77
Rice
. .89
67
'PC IT
.73
68
SMU
. . 97
63
SMU
. 66
67
Arkansas . . .
.70
By RALPH COLE
Battalion Managing Editor
A local business operator who
once visited College Station—and
liked it—now calls this her home
for good.
Mathilda Tillie Hollas, owner and
operator of the A&M Alteration
Shop at the North Gate, visited her
brother, who lives in Bryan, and at
the suggestion of her mother de
cided “this would he a good place
to live.”
Miss Hollas, an old maid who
‘‘isn’t afraid to admit it,” came here
from Weimar, Texas in 1940. She
first started working in a cafe for
$11 a week and by 1945 was earn
ing $15 a week with the same es
tablishment.
Sorted Pickles
Before coming here, Miss Hollas
had a job in a pickle factory sort
ing number three size pickles from
other sizes. After thi’ee years of
sorting, salting and packaging
pickles, she became a “general
flunky” at a hotel in Weimar.
“I did everything from cook to
woT-k in the office at nights,” the
55-year-old woman said. “I waited
tables and ‘slung hash’ for five
years,” she added.
She was nicknamed “Tillie the
Toiler” by Aggies and is quite
proud of the honor. Her greatest
loves are for football, cooking and
crocheting.
“I lose my thumb nail every
year,” she said. “In 1945, when a
lot of sailors and marines were
here, I ran a needle through my
thumb and ever since I’ve lost my
nail every year.”
The nail had to be lanced three
times in 1954. Miss Hollas says
she thinks it is caused by unbut
toning so many shirts every year.
Serious Operation
In 1950, she had a serious opera
tion which kept her out of work
for three months. A good friend
took over the shop until she was
able to return. She was in the
hospital twice, before the operation,
with pneumonia.
Tillie started in the alteration
business with only one sewing ma
chine. She now has a “Necehi
Machine” which is used to make
stripes and guidons. She has
made several flags for diffei’ent
outfits over the campus and has
(See TILLIE, Page 2)
Aggie Players
Present Play
Next Week
“The Importance of Being
Earnest” will be presented
Monday, Tuesday and Wed
nesday by The Aggie Players
in the Memorial Student Cen
ter ballroom, each performance
stai-ting at 8 p.m..
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 director.
Other, members of the cast are
Mai’y Tanguy, Judy Henry, Ken
neth George, Chris Pavelka, Don
Fishei’, Gene Logan, Hugh Lank-
tree and Pete Justice.
This Oscar Wilde comedy prom
ises to be the most expei’imental
theater in the history of the Aggie
Players. Rehearsals have been un
derway for almost four months.
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 season.
Admission is 50 cents for stu
dents and 75 cents for adults.
Two Performances
Symphony Set Monday
Town Hall will present a two-
performance engagement of the
San Antonio Symphony Orchesti'a
Monday, with an aftemoon show
for students of Consolidated School,
and the regular Town Hall presen
tation that night.
The matinee will start at 2 p.m.,
and will be held in Guion Hall.
School will be held for all students
who do not attend. All children in
grades second through fifth will be
taken to the program as a part of
their school-day activities. Stu
dents in grades above the fifth will
have to pay 50 cents each.
The night show will begin at 8
in White Coliseum. Admission is
by Town Hall season tickets or by
single admission tickets, now on
sale at the Office of Student Ac
tivities. Prices ai'e $1 for student
general admission and $1.50 for
non-students. Reserved seats ai’e
$1.50 for students and $2.50 for
non-students.
The San Antonio Symphony Or
chestra, conducted by Victoi' Ales
sandro, has gained a reputation for
being one of the nation’s leading
symphony orchestras. It was 6r-
ganized 16 years ago by the late
Max Reiter, and since that time
has made many appearances.
Film Society To
Shotv Two Films
The MSC Film Society will pre
sent two films during the coming
weekend.
Both pictures will be shown in
the MSC ballroom.
This evening at 7:30 “With A
Song In My Heai't” stax*ring Susan
Hayworth will be shown and Sun
day afternoon at 2, “On The
Riviera” with Danny Kaye in the
starring i*ole will be shown.
Admission tickets can be pur
chased at the door for 25 cents
each or season tickets will be hon
ored.
Weather Today
CLEAR
Clear and little change in weath
er conditions is the forecast for
College Station. Yesterday’s high
was 60 degi'ees with a low early
this morning of 28 degrees. Tem
perature at 10:30 a.m. was 49
degrees.
The program for the evening
show will include Mozart’s “Ovei’-
ture to ‘The Marriage of Figaro,
“Dance of the Seven Veils from
‘Salome’ ” by Strauss; and Tachai-
kowsky’s “Romeo and Juliet, Over-
ture-Fantasie.”
seven over the season. Cur
rently, Downs is third among-
loop scorers in both season
and conference contests. He
has fashioned 317 points in 13
games for a 24 point average.
A&M’s George Mehaffey ranks
next to the Long-hom marksman
in SWC play with 58, good enough
for fourth place among the scor
ing leaders. Downs is only two
points above him with 60. George
has dunked 156 points in season
action.
Coach Ken Loeffler of the Ag
gies will use his “multiple defense”
system again tonight in an at
tempt to curb the high scoring
Austonians. A&M will switch
from its variety of zone defenses
to a man-for-man when the occa
sion demands it.
“If we’re going to be messed
up we might as well mess some
body else up too,” grinned Loef
fler.
Loeffler plans to start the same
five that opened against SMU last
Tuesday night. Bill Brophy, 6-3,
John Fortenberry, 6-2Fritzie
Connally, 6-2 ^ Ken Hutto, 6-0,
and 6-4 Mehaffey make up the
starting aggregation.
Besides Downs, the Steers boast
a huge 6-10 center in Ellis Olm-
stead and two 6-3 men in Norman
Hooten and Bill Groogan. Barry
Dowd, 6-0, or Kermit Decker, 6-0,
rounds out the Longhorn’s No. 1
unit.
Tonight’s game will be the 100th
meeting between basketball teams
representing the two schools. Tex
as has posted 66 wins against 33
for A&M since the series began in
1917.
Confessed Slayer
Faces Grand Jury
Edward Menter, confessed
slayer of Aggie Senior Jan
David Broderick, will go be
fore the Grand Jury in Waller
County next Wednesday, ac
cording to the Hempstead
Sheriff’s Office.
Menter, a former mental pa
tient, is being held in the fa
tal shooting which occurred on
Dec. 30, near Hempstead. Bro
derick was from the Panama
Canal Zone.
Square Dance,
Peanut Sale
Set Tomorrow
Doors will open at 7:30 to
morrow night for the March
of Dimes Dance in DeWare
Field House. There is no ad
mission price and everyone is
invited to either participate or
come and watch.
Two squares of dancers from San
Antonio, pupils from Manning-
Smith’s classes, some Aggies and
a group of pre-school children will
put on exhibitions at the dance
which starts at 8.
Several College Station and Bry
an mex-chants have donated refresh
ments and concessions, not to be
sold but on a voluntary contribu
tion basis. Money taken in fi-om
contributions at the dance and fox-
concessions will go to the local
Max-ch of Dimes campaign.
J. T. Kent, chairman of the 1956
drive, will expkxin how dimes and
dollars are put to use during inter
mission at the dance tomorrow
night. Those px-esent will have
an opportixnity to contribute at
.axis time.
The Max-ch of Dimes dance or
iginated in 1949 at Bryan Field.
Each yeax- the contx-ibutions have
steadily gx-own and last year, $620
was x-aised for the March of Dimes
campaign.
The Bryan Yoxxng- Max-ried Coup
les Club, Bryan Recx-eational Club,
BAFB Club and the Do-Si-Do’s are
coopex-ating in holding the dance.
Through the united efforts of
both Colleg’e Station and Bryan
volunteers, peanuts will be sold on
downtown Bryan street corners to-
morrow. Home-made cakes will be
sold at the Ridgecrest Shopping-
Centex- Jan. 21. The money will go
to the drive.
Exam Schedule
Final examination schedule for
this semester is as follows:
Classes meeting WMF8,
Monday, 8-11 a. m.
Classes meeting TThS8,
Monday, 1-4 p. m.
Classes nxeetixxg MWF9,
Tuesday, 8-11 a. m.
Classes meeting MWF1,
Txxesday, 1-4 p. m.
Classes meeting MWF10,
Wednesday, 8-11 a. m.
Classes meeting TThl,
Wednesday, 1-4 p. m.
Classes meeting TThSlO,
Thursday, 8-11 a. m.
Classes meeting MWF2,
Thux-sday, 1-4 p. m.
Classes meeting MWF11,
Fx-iday^ 8-11 a. m.
Classes meeting ThSll,
Friday, 1-4 p. m.
Classes meeting TThS9,
Satxu-day, 8-11 a.m.
Classes meeting TTh2,
Saturday, 1-4 p. m.
Thomas W. Taylor
Struck By Polio
What Would
Tour Mom
Or Gal Say?
Civilian students: If you
want a beard showing in the
Aggieland ’56, don’t read this.
All civilian students who
plan to be in the beard-grow
ing contest for the civilian
weekend, and who plan to have
their picture in the class sec
tion of the yeax* book, should
disregai'd the picture sche
dule as set up and have then 1
photograph taken immediate
ly at the Aggieland Studio-
before the chin whiskex-s get
too long.
To aid the studio, Aggie
land Editor Kurt Nauck said
that pictures should be made
between 8 a.m. and 12 noon,
if possible.
Look shag’gy for all gener
ations—we don’t care.
Poll Tax Payment
Due Before Jan. 31
Brazos County poll tax must be
paid by Jan. 31, according- to Max--
jorie E. Burkhalter, tax collector
of Brazos County.
The poll tax may be paid in Col-
leg-e Station at the Memoi'ial Stu
dent Center and, after Jan. 20, at
the College Station State Bank.
In the MSC the tax may be paid
in the Social and Educational De
partment from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, and 8
a.m. to noon on Saturday.
The tax is $1.75, of which, 50 cents
goes to the state, 25 cents to the
county and $1 to the county
schools.
A votex- must pay his poll tax in
the county in which he resides in
order to vote.
Student Struck
By Polio; in
Austin Hospital
A 21-year-old Aggie senior
is in critical condition in
Breckenridge Hospital at Aus
tin, having been struck down
with paralytic and bulbar po-
io.
Thomas William Taylor, building
products and marketing majoi-
from Rocksprings, was taken to the
Austin hospital Wednesday, after
Dr. J. E. Marsh, head of the Col
lege Hospital, had diagnosed his
case as polio, the first case this
.year in Braozs County.
Taylor, the son of Mx\ and Mrs.
Thomas L. Taylor, had gone to
Houston last weekend to see his
girl friend, and had become ill
while there. A doctor in that city
told him that he had the flu. His
girl friend bx-ought him back to
school Tuesday night. He entered
the hospital and Di\ Max-sh made
his diagnosis Wednesday.
Although he is not in a x-espira-
tox* at the present, one is being kept
close at hand in case it becomes
necessary. The x-ight side of his
body is pax tially pax-alyzed. Latest
word yestex-day on Taylor’s condi
tion was that he was doing as well
as could be expected, but still is
in critical condition.
Dr. Marsh said it was a policy
of the college hospital to send sex--
iously-ill patients to a specialist,
where the proper treatment is
available. The Austin hospital had
a room and a x-espirator available
at the time Taylor became sick, so
he was sent there. His parents
vyex-e waiting at the hospital when
he arrived.
A collection for the March of
Dimes will be taken up in Taylor’s
name dui*ing half-time at Fx-iday
night’s basketball game between
A&M and the Univei-sity of Texas.
CORRECTION
The Battalion would like to
cox-rect a story which appeared in
yesterday’s paper concerning the
introduction of gxiest at a Rotary
meeting Wednesday. There were
37 persons introduced at the
luncheon, 35 of which wex-e sen
ior air fox-ce ROTC graduates
applying for regular commission.
The story said 12 were intro -
duced.
San Antonio Symphony Orchestra
Finis E. Davis
Lion’s Chib Speaker
★
Lions Director
To Speak Here
An ixxternational director of
Lions Intei-national is the main
speaker of the Mid-Wixxter District
2-S3 confex-ence of the Lions Inter
national to be held hex*e Sxxnday.
Finis E. Davis, the international
dix-ectox-, is fx-onx Louisville, Ky.,
and has been a dix-ector since July,
1954. He had px-eviously been
chaix-man of the Board of Gover
nors.
Mox-e than 40 Lions Clubs in this
district will pax-ticipate in the con-
fex-ence which will be held in the
Memox-ial Studexxt Center. Charles
H. Young, distx-ict governor fx-om
Kyle, is in chax-ge of the confex--
ence.
Two Sin dents Win
Droodle Prizes
John S. Wiseman and S. A.
(Sandy) Schrieber xecently won
$25 cash prizes in the Lucky Strike
droodle contests.
The i’etailei-s whex-e the winners
bought their cigax-ettes wex-e awar
ded $10 each. The x-etail px-ize
money went to Lipscomb’s Phax--
macy and the Student Centex-.
Film Available
The filnx, “We Axe the Aggies”,
will be available fox- showing to
high schools during the between
semestex- x-ecess. There ax-e eight
prints available fox* booking at any
time befox-e the holidays at the
Student Activities office, second
floox- of Goodwin Hall. Thex-e is no
charge fox- this sex-vice.