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Number 83: Vokime 52
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1956
Price 5 Cents
Recital Series Has
Program Sunday
The Recital Series will present
a cellist and a pianist at 2 Sun
day afternoon in the Assembly
room of the Memorial Student Cen
ter.
Miss Mary Spaulding will be at
the piano and Mrs. Phyllis Young
is the cellist. Miss Spaulding is
an instructor of piano at the Uni
versity of Texas and Mrs. Young
is guest lecturer of music at the
University.
Program for the afternoon will
be “Sonata in C Minor, Op. 32” by
Saint-Saens, cello a n d piano;
“Etude pour les Degres chromat-
iques” by Debussy, “Nocturne in D
Flat, Op. 63” by Faure, “Alborada
del gracioso” by Ravel, piano;
“Elegie” by Faure, cello and piano;
and “Sonata in D Minor” by De
bussy, cello and piano.
Miss Spaulding began her musi
cal studies in California. As a
scholarship student she studied
piano at the Music Academy of the
West with Rosalyn Tureck and
Jan Chiapusso. After receiving a
Bachelor’s Degree with high hon
ors from Pomona College, she con
tinued her musical training on a
Fulbright grant in France, where
for two years she was a students
of Marcel Ciampi at the National
Conservatoire de Musique in Paris.
She holds a diploma from the Con-
sei-vatoire and a Master’s of Music
Degree from the University of
Michigan. While at Michigan she
appeared as a winner of the Con-
»erto Contest with the Univei’sity
jrchestra. She has also studied
fcdth Rosinna Lhevinne and Uillian
Steuber.
Mrs. Young received her early
musical education in Kansas. Her
undergraduate study was at Okla
homa A&M College, where she won
the Freshman Music Scholarship,
and at the University of Texas
which granted her a teaching fel
lowship. After receiving the de
gree of Bachelor of Music with
high honors and Master of Music
in cello from the University of
Texas, where her maior work was
done under Horace Britt, she con
tinued her study as a pupil of
Britt’s. Her chamber music train
ing - was under William Kroll of
the Kroll Quartet, James Levy of
the former London String Quar
tet, Homor Ulrich, author of the
book, “Chamber Music,” and Britt,
with whom she has performed in
Texas, New York, Vermont and
Mexico. She is now the director
of the Cello Division of the Uni
versity’s Junior String Project and
has been the principal cellist of
the Austin Symphony Orchestra
for four years.
Both Miss Spaulding and Mrs.
Young are members of the Pi Kap
pa Lambda and Sigma Alpha Iota
honorary musical fraternities.
These two young artists have made
many solo and chamber music ap
pearances. This season their tour
will include San Antonio, Houston,
Austin and Corpus Christi.
Death INotice
C. O. Spriggs, 59, of College
Station, who had been connected
with the English Department here
since 1926 until he retired in 1952,
died late Wednesday in the Veter
ans Hospital at Marlin. He had
been in ill health since his retire
ment.
A native of Demotte, Ind., he
attended Lafayette University in
1924, received his BA degree from
Indiana University, and his Mas
ter’s degree from Northwestern
University in 1930. He also did
graduate work at the University
of Wisconsin.
Coming to A&M in 1926, Spriggs
taught public speaking and speech,
coached debate teams and speech
courses, produced plays and was
the author of many bulletins on
speech courses.
He is survived by his mother of
Demotte, Ind., his wife, a daughter,
Dorothy, both of College Station
and a son, Dillard Spriggs of New
York.
Funeral services will be held at
2 p.m. Friday in the Hillier Funer
al Home chapel at Bryan with in
terment in the College Station
Cemetery.
CORRECTION
In yesterday’s story on Nor
man Thomas’ speech an error
slipped in concerning an ex
ample of our times Thomas
mentioned. This was attribu
ting the violence occuring at
Alabama University to Au
burn College. Messy notes, a
sleepy mind and carelessness
are to be blamed. Apologies
to readers and to Auburn.
Singing Cadets To Give
First Program Of Year
Official Says Alabama
Mob ‘Trying To Kill’
RECITAL SERIES—Miss Mary Spaulding 1 at the piano
and Mrs. Phyllis Young with the cello will appear at 2
p.m. Sunday, for the Recital Series program. Miss Spauld
ing is piano instructor at the University of Texas and Mrs.
Young is a guest lecturer of music at the University.
News of the World
A&M’s famous Singing Cadets,
will present a program in Gonzales
at 8 Saturday night. Members of
the organization will leave the
campus at noon Saturday and re
turn Sunday afternoon, after sing
ing for the morning service at a
church in Cuero.
Numbers to be presented on the
prog-ram include “It’s a Grand
Night for Sing-ing,” “Never Walk
Alone,” “Set Down Servant,” and
“Norah.”
The Singing Cadets are under
the direction of Bill Turner and
Corps Chaplain Harry Scott is
president. Other members making
the trip will be Charles Jenkins,
Bill Rivere, Charles Griffin, George
French, A1 Swink, Don Linenber-
ger, Donnie Duplissey,
Jimmy Oberndorfer, Bert Thomp
son, Paul Greenberg, Jimmy Bond,
Ed Walton, Ed Burkhead, Milburn
Atkins, Jimmy Gatlin, Alex Lord,
John Alterman, Derane Heller, Don
Moore, Frank Young, Dick Cooper,.
Ralph Clement, Jerry Leighton,
Tom Liston, Charles Arnold, Glenn
Estes, Clem Shesek, Bill Meyers,
Bill Tipton, Bob Arevalus,
Pat Resby, Sam Gassaway, Pete
Hickman, Bob Surovik, Charles
Johnson, David Leake, Joe Blair,
John Brannen, Gary Malone, Em
mett Flanagan, Charles Robinson,
Arthur Cameron, Bob Moody, Nor
man York, Sam Taybe, Carol Cato,
Ken Nerrettig, Don Bosman, Bill
Huskins and Jack Weather fold.
This is the first trip the Singing-
Cadets have made this year.
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The Truman-MacArthur controversy
exploded with new fury .yesterday. Former President Tru
man asserted he fired Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur as Far East
ern commander because Mac Arthur was guilty of “insub
ordination” that threatened—in Truman’s view—to embroil
the nation in an atomic World War III. MacArthur, in tones
of white hot anger, charged the former President with spite
ful distortion of the truth. The general linked his ouster
with a spy ring reaching into the British Foreign Office and
said his “savage and brutal” dismissal disastrously undercut
this country’s struggle against world communism.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—A long-range U.S. Navy
patrol bomber, downed while heading for rescue opera
tions in Antarctica, was found yesterday in a North
Venezuelan jungle marshland. The seven men aboard
were reported unhurt. The two-engine Neptune P2V
was sighted in a clearing on the ground in the Orinoco
River delta 25 miles northeast of Boca de Uracoa.
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WASHINGTON—Trevor Gardner announced yesterday
he is quitting as chief of Air Force research because he dis
agrees with the way the Pentagon is handling high-priority
research and guided missiles programs. Gardner told a
news conference “a crash program is badly needed” to de
velop an intercontinental balistics missile-—the new atomic
weapon that Soviet Russia is also striving to perfect.
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WASHINGTON—President Eisenhower told a news
conference yesterday he ought to have by March 1 the
information needed for reaching the big decision about a
second term. While he offered no definite promises,
many reporters got a distinct impression his announce
ment will come by the end of the month or soon after
ward.
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WASHINGTON—The Agriculture Department an
nounced yesterday it will support grower prices of 1956-
crop corn in a designated commercial producing area at an
average of $1.40 a bushel, or 81 per cent of parity. Set under
the flexible price support program, this rate compares with
$1.58 a bushel or 87 per cent of parity for last year’s crop.
Under the flexible system, supports for designated basic
crops—cotton, wheat, corn, rice and peanuts—may range
from 75 to 90 per cent of parity, depending upon the size
of supplies.
Injured Aggie
Has Returned
To College
Clarence Hatcher, senior
mechanical engineering major
from Houston, has re-entered
school for the first time since
he was injured in a auto ac
cident Dec. 2, 1954.
Hatche?-, who travels to all bis
classes in a wheelchair, was with
Don Schneider when their car ovei--
tumed year before last. He was
paralyzed from the waist down due
to a head injury. Schneider was
injured only slightly in the acci
dent.
Hatcher was midway through his
senior year at the time of the
accident and will graduate in Jan
uary of 1957. Since hb has fin
ished all his courses except those
in the mechanical and electrical
engineering buildings, his problem
of attending class is made easier.
He has arranged to use the elevator
in the Electrical Engineering Build
ing and C. W. Crawford, head of
the mechanical engineering depart
ment has arranged for all of
Hatcher’s courses to be taught on
the first floor of the building.
“I appreciate, all the help and
assistance that has been given me
since coming back to school,”
Hatcher said.
“Most of my trouble is just get
ting back into the swing of going
to classes,” he said. “I hope to
get rid of my wheelchair before 1
graduate.”
Film Society Sets
Baseball Picture
The MSC Film Society presents
“It Happens Every Spring,” star
ring Ray Milland, Paul Douglas
and Jean Peters Friday at 7:30
p.m. in the MSC ballroom. Sea
son tickets will be honored and
single admission is 25 cents.
This is a regularly scheduled
film and is the story of a ehemis
try px-ofessor who discovers a fluid
which makes everything, including
a baseball, allergic to wood—bats
too. The shy professor not only
becomes a great baseball player,
but also finds out what love is all
about. The combination has quite
an effect on America’s national
pastime.
Season tickets for Film Society
movies for this semester will be
on sale at the door, and are also
on sale at the main desk of the
Center at $1.25 for students and
student wives, and $1.50 for nop-
students.
Negro Coed Still Barred
From Ala. University
TUSCALOOSA, Ala.—LT*)—A University of Alabama
official formally reported yesterday that a riotous mob was
“trying’ to kill” a Negro co-ed when she was surrounded
while meeting classes there Monday.
Jeff Bennett, assistant to President O. C. Carmichael,
said he made the report to Gov. James E. Folsom, who is
ex-officio chairman of the university board of trustees.
Folsom was not in his office to receive the report, and
Bennett conferred at Montgomery with Legal Advisor Frank
Long, Executive Secretary O. H. Finney and Press Secre
tary Ralph Hammond.
Bennett said no decisions were reached because such
'♦matters are left to the gov
ernor and school president.
“They were screaming ‘let’s
kill her,’ and were trying tQ
open the car doors,” said Ben
nett. The school official narrowly
escaped serious injury when a large
stone shattered the real- window pf
the car he was driving after Auth-
erine Lucy and Dean of Wom^n
Sarah Healy had left it.
“In my opinion those who were
there to kill her weren’t students,”
although students were in the
crowd, said Bennett. He wouldn’t
try to identify the outsiders.
Miss Lucy, th^ Negro co-ed, was
barred from the campus for safety
reasons by the board of trustees
following eight hours of uncon
trolled disturbances.
She threatened the board with
legal action unless she was read
mitted by this morning, but the
board has announced no change in
its stand.
M iss Lucy’s attorney was to be
in federal court at Birmingham to
day on another case involving a
Negro barped from enrollment, and
she was not expected to try to
enter classes. " •---
President Eisenhower said &t a
press conference in Washington
that the Justice Department al
ready is investigating the incident
as it does in all cases where fed
eral civil rights statutes may be
involved.
’ He added, however, that the U.S.
Supreme Court has turned back to
the fejeral district courts the : en-
forcemeht of its antisegregation
deijisiohs. , .
The National Asgn. fof the Ad-
vaneehieht of Colored People has
asked federal criminal proceed
ings against “any and all persohS
acting in any maimer” to prevent
Miss Lucy from attending classes.
> The university trustees said Mias
Lucy was barred “until further no
tice” for her safety arid that of
other students and the fdchlty.
It appeared likely that if the ac
tion Is challenged the board would
contend it acted under' its police
powers and not on the grounds pf
race.
Ag E&S Dept.
Announces
Staff Changes
Five staff changes and ad
ditions have been announced
recently by Dr. Tyrus R.
Timm, head of the Depart
ment of Agricultural Econom
ics & Sociology.
Robert G. Cherry became exten
sion economist, where be will give
leadership throughout the state in
the extension program in farm
credit, taxes and agricultural pol
icy. For the past 12 years he has
been devoting full time in the de
partment to research on problems
local government, agricultural
policy and agricultural finance.
Harley Bebout has rejoined the
staff to take up the work formerly
done by Robert G. Cherry. He has
more than 11 yeai-s experience as
a teacher and research worker in
the field of agricultural finance and
marketing.
Calvin C. Boykin Jr. joined the
department to work in the field of
farm management research. He
was formerly a research assistant
in the department, and recently
completed course work for a mas
ter’s degree in agricultural econom
ics. He has had six years’ expe
rience with the Soil Conservatior
Service in West Texas.
Deadline Today
To Enter Girl
Today is the deadline for pic
tures of candidates for Sweetheart
of the First Regimental Ball. They
must be turned in by 4 p.m. to Na
than Boardman, Dormitory 7, room
117.
The picture should have the
girl’s name, age, address, meas
urements and the persons submit
ting the entry. All classes are eli
gible to submit entries.
Robert W. Cooper became asso
ciate county agent at large,'to as
sist M. C. Jaynes* extension coop
erative marketing specialist. H
has two and a half year experience
in farm management at Rio Farms,
and six years’ experience as a
teacher of vocational agriculture.
He came to A&M from Nueces
county where he Was associate
county agent.
Donald Ray Hammons joined the
department to study slaughter
plant operations in Texas. He is
employed by the Transportation
and Facilities Branch, Agricultural
Marketing Service, and will work
with Dr. Jarvis E. Miller. He came
here from the Redstone Arsenal in
Huntsville. Ala.
Losl Gloves Seek
Hand That Fit ’em
The Battalion has received a
letter from F. M, Adair of Tyler,
Texas, asking that an article be
published to help him find the
owner of a pair of gloves left in
his car Jan. 24.
Adair said he picked up two
freshmen in Oakwood and car
ried them to Tyler. One of the
boys, he said, was from Shreve
port and the other from Kildaire.
If the two students will get in
contact with Adair at 513 Citi
zens National Bank Building in
Tyler, the gloves will be re
turned.
A&M’s Famed Singing Cadets; Gonzales Bound This Weekend
Weather Today
CLOUDY
Continued cloudy with possible
fog and light drizzle early to
morrow is forecasted for College
Station. Yesterday’s high was
67 degrees with a low early this
morning of 43 degrees. Tempera
ture at 10:30 a.m. today was 46
degrees.
Begins Feb. 19;
Last Five Days
The 14th Religious Empha
sis Week to be held at A&M
is scheduled for Feb. 19
through the 24th.
During R.E. week 17 relig
ious leaders from all over the state
will give talks in the dorms, lead
discussions and counsel students on
any problems that they have. Each
morning convocation services will
be held in Guion Hall with Dr.
Morris Wee giving the main talk.
Classes are dismissed during the
hour that convocation services are
being held. The services are at
11 a.m. on Monday, at 10 a.m. on
Tuesday and Wednesday, and at
9 a.m. on Thursday and Friday.
One of the counselors that was
at A&M last year, Robert E. Good
rich Jr., has written a book in
which he mentions his experiences
on the campus during R.E. w^ek.
Goodrich says, “It was one of the
greatest weeks that I have ever
seen. I came away with knowledge
instead of ignorance and an alto
gether different impression about
the campus at College Station.”
In later issues of The Battalion,
thumbnail sketches of the 16 relig
ious counselors will be given.