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The Battalion
Number 81: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1956
Price 5 Cents
News of the World
Norman Thomas
Famed Socialist Speaks Tonight at Great Issues
Great Issues Tonight
Uy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON—Sen. Malone R-
Nev., urged last night that the
United States withdraw its armed
forces from overseas and set up a
mighty defense system based en
tirely in North America. This, Ma
lone said, should be coupled with a
“Monroe Doctrine” type of declara
tion that the United States “will
destroy .the war - making capacity
at home” of any nation that at
tacked the United States or its
allies.
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. —The
AFL-CIO executive committee
yesterday opened a seashore win
ter meeting with union leaders
intent on building their combined
labor movement into a more po
tent political force. They ap
parently are undaunted by crit
icism from some Republicans
that the new 15-million member
labor organization will try to
dominate national politics,
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BONN, Germany—West Germa
ny declared yesterday it is going
Thomas To Talk At 8
* One of the nation’s great Amer
icans, Norman Thomas, long an ac
tive fighter for a peace based on
the cooperation of free peoples
and rejection both of venegeance
and imperialism, will speak tonight
at 8 in the Memorial Student Cen
ter ball room.
Speaking under the auspices of
ihe Great Issues Series, Thomas
will talk on “A Faith for Our
Times.” Admission is by season
ticket or by individual ticket at
$1.
Thomas, whose present stature
as a gi'eat American is such that
he has transcended all party lines,
was valedictorian of his gradua
ting class at Princeton University.
He was ordained at Union The-
English Group
Offers Tutoring
A tutoring course for Spanish-
ipeaking students is being offered
by the English Department this se
mester, which is designed to give
practice in pronounciation, read
ing-and writing English.
The course is English 100, sec
tion 500 and meets Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday at 11. J. N.
Shepperd will teach the course,
which is of special benefit to those
Latin American students who had
trouble with English 103 and 104,
and also would prove very helpful
to Spanish-speaking graduate stu
dents.
Students wanting to register for
it can do so at the Department of
fice on the third floor of the Aca
demic Building until the end of
classes this week.
ological Seminary and started his
career in the ministry.
After the first World War, Tho-
mas became active in the Socialist
Party. He was and is an eloquent
defender of civil liberties and has
won several important victories in
the courts. He has run for many
offices on the Socialist Party of
the City of New York and govern
or of New York State. He also
campaigned for the Presidency of
this country six times on the So
cialist ticket.
Thomas is national chairman of
the Post-War World Council, and
also is active in the League for
Industrial Democracy, the Workers
Defense League, the American
Civil Liberties Union and is a trus
tee of Town Hall, Inc. He is a
member of the Socialist Party and
is president of The Call, Amer
ica’s Socialist journal.
Thomas also has been a radio
commentator for the Socialist Call
over scores of radio stations, and
is a frequent speaker on Peoples’
Platform, America’s Town Meeting
of the Air and similar radio for
ums. He writes a column twice a
week for the Mirror Enterprises
Syndicate of Los Angeles, which
is taken by papers in this country,
Japan, Cuba and France. He is a
member of the Newspaper Guild.
Besides being well equipped as
a speaker on social and economic
questions, Thomas is author of
numerous books arid pamphlets, in
cluding Appeal to the Nations,
What is Our Destiny, America’s
Way Out, As I See It, Human Ex
ploitation and A Socialist’s Faith.
To a large number of Americans,
his tolerance and personality, more
than his professed socialism, has
attracted wide support.
Two decades ago many of Tho
mas’ views concerning the philoso-
pry that our government should
follow were thought by many to
be too liberal and too far to the
left. Since that time, many parts
of his liberal platform for Presi
dent have been adopted by the fed
eral government.
to halt its multimillion dollar cash
support of Western troops in Ger
many next May. Finance Minister
Fritz Schaeffer said through a
spokesman at a news corifei*enee
that his answer will be “no” to
Allied demands for continued cash
support of their troops hrii’e after
the present agreement expires
May 5.
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CHICAGO—The Hilton hotel
chain yesterday settled a gov
ernment antitrust suit with
promises to sell two hotels in
New York and Washington and
not to buy more large convention
hotels in four cities* The agree
ment, in a consent decree filed
in U. S. District Court, ends a
civil antitrust suit filed in April
1955 against Hilton Hotels Corp.
and the Statler Hotels Delaware
Corp., a Hilton subsidiary.
Sweetheart
Pictures Due
Thursday
Pictures of candidates for
Sweetheart of the First Regi
mental Ball must be turned in
by 4 p.m. Thursday to Nathan
Boardman, Dorm 7, room 117.
The picture must also have
the girl’s name, age, address,
measurements and the person’s
name that is submitting the
entry. Pictures measuring 5x7
inches ai’e preferred.
Freshman, Sophomores, Jun
iors and Seniors eligible to
submit pictures for the con
test.
Dr. Morris Wee
A&M’s RE Week
Speaker Named
Dr. Morris Wee
Main Speaker for Religious Emphasis Week
By JIM NEIGHBORS
Battalion Staff Writer
Dr. Morris Wee, pastor of the
Bethel Lutheran Church, LTniver-
sity of Wisconsin, will be the main
convocation speaker for Religious
Emphasis Week.
The 14th R.E. Week at A&M is
scheduled for Feb. 19 through the
24. Dr. Wee will speak in Guion
Hall each morning of R.E. Week.
During the hours he speaks, classes
will be dismissed.
Dr. Wee was born in Jackson,
Minn., in 1906. He received his
Bachelor of Arts degree from St.
Olaf College, Northfield, Minn.,
and his Bachelor of Theology from
Luther Theological Seminary, St.
Paul, Minn. Wee’s Ph.D. is from
the University of Wisconsin.
He was pastor of the Bethel
Lutheran Church, Madison, Wis.,
from 1931 to 1945; executive sec-
retaiy, Division of Student Service,
National Lutheran Council, 1945
to 1949; president, Carthage Col
lege, Carthage, Ill., 1950-1952;
A Pastor of the First Lutheran
Church, Duluth, Minn.; chairman,
Board of Education, Evangelical
Lutheran Church; member of the
Planning Committee for the World
Christian Youth Conference, Oslo,
Norway, 1947; delegate to the
Lutheran World Federation Con
vention, Sweden, 1947;
Chairman of the Commission on
Students and Youth, Lutheran
World Fellowship, 1948-1952; mem
ber of the International Seminar
on the church-related college, To
ronto, Canada, 1950; member of
the Asian Christ Professors Con
ference, Indonesia, 1951; and chair
man of the United Student Chris
tian Council, 1949.
He has been speaker at numerous
Religious Emphasis Weeks includ
ing Kansas State College, Univer
sity of Sasketchewan, Montana
State College, Winthrop College,
Heidelburg University, Gettysburg
College, St. Olaf College, Univer
sity of Wisconsin, and Black Hills
State Teachers College.
Dr. Wee delivered the Baccalau
reate sermon at the University of
Texas in 1949, lectured at the Sec
ond Annual Minnesota Christian
Professors Conference in 1953, and
has lectured at many student and
youth conferences in the United
States, Europe, and Asia. He re
turned to the Bethel Lutheran
Church in Madison, Wis. last year
-Semester Crashes
Cause Death, Injury
! nternal Hemorrhage
Hospitalizes Another
Group Seeking
Talent For
Annual Show
Five A&M students, mem
bers of a special committee of
the Memorial Student Center
Music Group have started
looking for talent to appear in
the Fifth Annual Intercollegiate
Talent Show to be held in White
Coliseum, April 15.
The committee, Dick McGowan,
Joe Harris, Frank Jaggers, Jim
Hanncock and Dudley Brown, will
make audition trips to Sam Hous
ton State Teachers College, Rice
Institute, Louisiana State Univer
sity, Tulane, Sophie Newcomb,
Texas Christian Ufiiversity, Bay
lor, Southern Methodist University,
North Texas State, TSCW, Okla
homa, Oklahoma A&M, Arkansas,
University of Texas and Lon Mor
ris.
A&M’s representatives to the
show are winners of the All-Aggie
Talent Show held earlier in the
year. The winners were C. J. San-
filippo, Alfred H. Cordes and Rodg
er F. Alexander, a saxaphone trio.
Lost Articles Kept
At 2 Lost-Fonnds
Anyone who has lost or found ar
ticles on the campus should contact
the Campus Security Office to find
the rightful owner.
All articles found on the campus
should be turned in to the Campus
Security Office in Goodwin Hall
where they are tagged to show
date and location found and the
name of the person who found it.
Items on deposit at the office
may be claimed and reoords made
of items that are not recovered.
When, the item is recovered, the
owner can then be notified.
Lost articles are also turned in
at the main desk of the Student
Center.
By DAVE McREYNOLDS
Battalion News Editor
Auto wrecks claimed the life of one A&M student and
left one seriously injured during the mid-semester holidays.
Another student was admitted to the Veterans’ Hospital at
Temple due to internal hemorrhages after a two-day fight
for his life at the College Hospital during exam week.
Silver Taps was held last night for Gene Thadeous Kin-
ard, 21-year-old senior electrical engineering major from
Beaumont who was killed in a two-car collision which claimed
the life of a Jasper High School student, Bob Hilton.
The accident happened between Woodville and Livings
ton Jan. 26.
George Wayne Lybecker, at last report, is still in a
condition, following*
Meats Team
Places Sixth
At Fort Worth
The A&M Junior Meats
Judging Team placed sixth
over-all in the Intercollegiate
Meats Judging Contest held
in conjunction with the South
western Livestock Exposition and
Fat Stock Show at Fort Worth last
week. The team won fmst place
in beef and pork judging.
Team members and Coach G. T.
King, left A&M Jan. 29 for a prac
tice session at Armour and Com
pany the next day. The contest
was held at Swift and Company
Jan. 31.
J. M. Lebo placed high individual
in pork judging and David Terry
w T on third high individual in pork,
fifth in beef arid fourth in lamb
grading. Other team members are
Tom Humphreys Ji 1 ., Donald John
son, Stanley Keese, James Row
land, Kermit Wahrmund Jr., Larry
Waldrip, and John Whitwell. (Pic
ture is on page 5.)
Team placings in the over-all
contest were Oklahoma, Wisconsin,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Iowa, A&M,
Texas Tech, South Dakota and Abi
lene Christian College.
serious
another headon crash two
miles from Kyle Feb. 1 with
a car driven by A-2c James
Hart of Kansas. Harts’ wife,
Josephine, 23, was killed in the
wreck and Hart is on the critical
list at Lackland AFB at San An
tonio.
Lybecker, a member of D Field
Artillery, is a sophomore student
from San Antonio. His injuries in
clude a broken jaw, broken shoul
ders, and crushed chest.
John Lynn Barkley, a veteran
student majoring in Pre-Veterinary
Medicine from Midlothian was ad
mitted to the College Hospital Jan.
27 in a critical condition, suffering
from internal hemorrhages and a
collapsed lung. After numerous
blood transfusions from students
he began to regain his. strength
Sunday and was transferred to
McClosky Hospital in Temple
Tuesday.
Barkleys’ case was another when
the call for help was answered
by his fellow students.
The following letter was received
from Barkleys’ sister by President
David If. Morgan Feb. 1.
“In behalf of (he entire fam
ily of John Lynn Barkley, I
would like to thank you, the
A&M Mothers Club, the staff of
the College Hospital, College
Security Officers, and the chap
lains for the many kindnesses
shown us while there over the
week end.
“When we needed blood don
ors, within minutes there were
(See LETTER, Page 5)
Toivn Hall
Hilltoppers, Spivak
Here Tonight at 8
The Hilltoppers
Appear Here Tonight With Charlie Spivak
Town Hall presents Charlies Spi
vak and his orchestra, featuring
the Hilltoppers and Miss Shirley
Jones, vocalist, tonight at 8 in
White Coliseum as the second bonus
attraction of the school year.
Spivak, who has been titled as
“The Man Who Plays the Sweetest
Trumpet in the World”, got his
first trumpet while still in grade
school.
His family was planning for
him to become interested in a med
ical career but this was cut short
when one of the country’s leading
bandleaders offered him a job. He
joined the band and stayed with
them five years.
From there he went on to play
with name bands such as the Dor
sey Brothers, Ray Noble and Ben
Pollack.
Shortly after starting on his
|lg own, Spivak became the highest
§».? paid free lance trumpet player on
radio, playing on the Ford Sym
phony Hour, Kate Smith arid Fred
Allen broadcasts.
He then organized his own band
and played his first big engage-
ppljlgfe ment at the Glen Island Casino
where he was such a success that
Weather Today
CLOUDY
High scattered clouds but no pre
cipitation is the forecast for Col
lege Station. Yesterday’s high of
61 degrees dropped to 39 degrees
last night. Temperature at 11 a.m.
today was 56 degrees.
the Casino, usually a summer re
sort, stayed open all winter.
From there he took his band to
Cafe Rouge where he broke Glen
Miller and Tommy Dorsey’s re
cords for attendance. He is now
a regular fall attraction at the
Statler every year.
Spivak places emphasis on soft
danceable melodies and leans to-
ward ballads. His most noted talent
with the trumpet is his ability for
control. He can control his tone
so well that he doesn’t use a mute
even when playing just two inches
from the microphone.
The Hilltoppers started a fabu
lous career in 1951 on the campus
of Western Kentucky State Col
lege with their recording of “Try
ing.”
Recorded orignally on a tape re
corder, “Trying” sold over 7,000
records the first week. Since then,
they have recorded 15 different
“hit” songs foi’ Dot Records out
of Gallatin, Tenn.
The remarkable part of the suc
cess of the Hilltoppers is that they
have risen to fame through the
new trend of hillbilly hit acts al
though their records have been of
the popular variety.
They made their TV debut on Ed
Sullivan’s “Toast of the Town”.
They have appeared on all three
of the major TV networks. Jimmy
Sacca, leader of the Hilltoppei-s, is
the featured singer of the group.
Tickets are $1.00 and $1.50 for
students; $2.00 and $2.50 for non
students, and Town Hall season
tickets may be used.