The Battalion
Number 84:Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1056
Price 5 Cents
NEW OFFICES—A&M’s dean of Student Personnel Services, Dr. Robert M. Kamrn,
has relocated in his new office on the second floor of the YMCA Building. Several other
departments, including Student Publications, Student Affairs, Student Activities, and
more, are awaiting completion of the basement of the building, where more offices will
be located. The completion and moving will be finished, at the latest estimate, about the
middle of next month.
Houstonians To Play
Band Dance Tomorrow
TCFR Group
Op ens Meeting
I lere Sunday
The Texas Council of Fam
ily Relations will hold its
tenth annual conference in the
assembly room of the Memor
ial Student Center Sunday and
Monday.
T h e m o of the session is
“Strengths fior Effective Family
Living.”
Mrs. Eloise T. Johnson, presi
dent, Texas Council on Family Re
lations, will preside over the ses
sion to he held Sunday evening at
7:30. Rev. Douglas R. MaeLaury
of the University of Houston will
give the address: “Spiritual
Strengths for Family laving.”
Registration will start at 8 a.m.
Monday. At 9 the general session
will be held in the social room of
the MSC.
Keynote address of the general
1 session, “Sources of Strength for
Effective Family Living,” will he
given by Dr. Bernice M. Moore,
consultant, Texas Education Agen
cy, Hogg Foundation for Mental
Hygione, and Dr. Harry T. Moore,
Sociology Department, University
of Texas.
A luncheon will be held at 12:20
in the. ballroom of the Student
Court Action Asked
In Alabama "Troubles
The annual Consolidated Band
Dance will be held tomorrow night
from 8 to 11.
The Houstonians, a 14-piece or-
chesti’a from Sam Houston State
College, will provide music for the
iance. Highlight of the evening
Fill be presentation of the Band
5weetheart.
In addition to the presentation
of the Sweetheart, entertainment
Will be provided by the “High
Five,” a combo made up of five
band members. They are Tommy
Short, Morris Partain, Dwight Al
len, Charles Welter and Tommy
Adams.
The “High Five” recently won a
talent audition held here for the
Baylor Talent Show scheduled latei
in the semester. Instrumentation
of the combo includes three gui
tars, a bass fiddle and drums. The
combo won the talent audition play
ing such numbers as “Lovei%” “Ma-
iguena” and “September Song.”
Five finalists have been chosen
to compete for the honor of Band
Sweetheart. The Sweetheart will
be chosen at the dance. The final
ists are Mildred Taylor of Dallas,
sponsored by Clint White; Cynthia
Plakard of San Antonio, sponsored
by Gary December; Madeline Lee
of Victoria, sponsored by Tommy
Short; Janice Graves of Marshall,
sponsored by Kenneth George and
Lita St. Clair of Hochheim, spon-
sored by Firmin Le Pori.
Decoi'ations for the dance include
Qualification Tests
To Be Applied For
Applications for the April 19
Selective Service College Qualifi
cation Test may be picked up now
at the Housing Office in Goodwin
Hall. They must be postmarked
no later than March 5, 1956.
Anyone who is now a registrant
and intends to request occupation
al deferment as a student, is sat
isfactofily pursuing a full-time
college'course as undergraduate or
graduate, and has not previously
taken the test is qualified.
a false ceiling made of crepe paper
streamers with streamers hanging
down to the floor to separate the
tables. At one end of the dance
floor, there will be a life-size rep
lica of a fat bass horn player play
ing his horn with hearts coming
out instead of notes.
The committee for the dance is
composed of Tommy Short, co-or
dinator; Dwight Brown, finance;
Bill Swann, Sweetheart Selection;
Wendell M ounce. Orchestra and
Decorations; Cecil Steward, Guests
and Programs and Roger Alexan
der, Intermission Entertainment.
Job Interviews
Center. Evaluation of the confer
ence will be given by Mrs. Louella
Rote, supervision of policewomen,
Houston Police Department.
After a business meeting the
conference will adjourn. Visitors
are welcome to any of the program
sessions.
Soviet Union
To Be Topic
For Lecture
Dr. Albert C. Hall, general man
ager of the research laboratories
division, Bendix Aviation Corpor
ation, Detroit, Mich., will present
a graduate lecture on “Progress
of Automation in the Soviet Un
ion” at 8 p.m. Tuesday night in
the lecture room of the Biological
Sciences Building, Dr. Ide P. Trot
ter, dean of the Graduate School,
has announced.
One of three American engineers
who visited Russia last summer,
Dr. Hall, a native Texan who re
ceived his B.S. at A&M in 1936
with an Electrical Engineering
major, was one of the first Amer
ican engineers to see Soviet plants
and laboratories since the end of
World War II.
The public is invited to attend
the lecture, Dr. Trotter said.
Ousted Negro Coed Files
To Re-Enter University
BIRMINGHAM—UP) — The University of Alabama's
first Negro student, Aiftherine Lucy of Birmingham, yester
day asked a federal judge to compel school authorities'to al
low her to resume her studies there which ended in rioting on
the campus earlier this week.
U. S. I list. Judge Hubert Grooms set the new case for
hearing here Feb. 29.
Miss Lucy, 26-year-old secretary, was excluded from
classes by the university’s board of trustees after rioting
crowds had rocked and egged school officials and the Negro
student Monday. The school contends the board action was
a safety measure.
In a companion petition, she - *
The following inteiwiews will
be held next week in the Place
ment Office:
Monday
KOPPERS COMPANY, INC. of
Port Arthur will interview majors
in chemistry and ChE.
The TEXAS COMPANY will in
terview geology, geol. eng., and
EE majors for openings in geo
physical exploration.
TEXAS-U.S. CHEMICAL COM
PANY of Port Neches desire to
talk to men interested in locating
in the Beaumont-Port Arthur area,
chemical engineering majors.
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
MACHINES—Applied Science Di
vision will interview chemistry and
EE majors for work with custom
ers and prospects in .electronic
computing.
r
Monday and Tuesday
SHELL OIL COMPANY will in
terview for Shell Oil, Shell Chem
ical, Shell Development and Shell
Pipe Line Corp. Majors ift chem
istry, ChE, CE, EE, M-E and Eng.
Physics. Also accounting, BA arid
IE majors for personnel woidc.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
OF CALIFORNIA — all levels in
ChE, BS and MS in EE and ME,
also MS and PhD in mathematics.
Openings in Research, Develop
ment, Technical Service, Opera
tions, Design, Maintenance, Con
structions.
Tuesday
UNITED STATES GYPSUM
COMPANY of Sweetwater, Te-xas,
will interview ME, ChE, IE, chem-
stry and IT majors fon- employ
ment opportunities in production
management, supervision and e*i-
gineering.
Wilkins Reported
To Be Recovering
Bobby Wilkins, freshman in D
Infantry, is reported to be rapidly
recovering from an attack of spinal
meningitis earlier last week.
Lt. Col. Tayloi’ Wilkins, assist
ant commandant and father of the
boy, said yesterday doctors have
said if his improvement continues,
he can go home in a few days.
Wilkins was in a coma from 2
p. m. Friday until early Monday
morning.
MSS III Asks
For Manuscripts
MSS III, the A&M anthology of
student writings, is still accepting
manuscripts.
All students interested in seeing
their work in print are urged to
submit their creative writing to
R. W. Feragen in the English De
partment or get in touch with
John Kirkpatrick, editor of this
year’s book.
The book will be made up of sec
tions of poetry, fiction and exposi
tory writing. A $5 prize is offered
for the best poem and the best
short story.
Judging Team Wins
Honors In Contest
The A&M Junior Livestock
Judging Team, coached by J. W.
Gossett, copped fourth place in a
recent contest held in conjunction
with the Southwestern Exposition
and Fat Stock Show in Fort Worth.
There wei'e 15 teams entered in
the contest.
The team placed second in sheep
and fifth in beef cattle judging.
Bud Fichte was high individual in
the quarter horse contest while
Bobby Wakefield took fifth high
in sheep judging.
Joe Ross was ninth high indiv
idual in the over-all contest and
placed fourth in sheep judging.
Gossett also judged and helped to
conduct the Junior College Live
stock Judging Contest while at the
show.
The
State,
State,
Texas
first six teams were Iowa
Oklahoma A & M, Kansas
Texas A&M, Arizona and
Tech.
Military Ball
Teddy Phillips and Monica Lew
is wil Ibe featured at the annual
Military Ball to be held in Sbisa
Hall March 17. Committees have
been appointed and are now work
ing out plans for the dance. Chair
men of the committees are Dance
Committee, Glen Rice; Decora
tions Committee, Don Burton; and
Program Committee, Ralph Cole.
Meetings and Forums
asked the court to order Dean
of Women Sarah Healy to as
sign her to a dormitory room
and to allow her to eat in uni
versity dining halls. She was not
given dormitory space when she
was admitted Feb. 1.
Hearing on the dormitory and
dining hall petition, which asks
$1,000 damages, was set for Feb.
29 also.
In yesterday’s petition Miss
Lucy charged that she was ex
cluded solely because of her race
or color, in defiance of an order
from Judge Grooms last July, un
der which the student was admit
ted to the university last week.
She termed her suspension from
classes “a cunning strategem” to
deny her the right to attend her
I state university.
She asked $2,000 damages, and
that Dr. O. C. Carmichael, univer
sity president; William F. Adams,
dean of admissions, and the 10
trustees to be held in contempt
and remain “in prison for a pei
iod to be determined by this court,
or by permitting” her to resume
classes.
Filed by Arthur D. Shores, at
torney for Miss Lucy, the petition
also asserted her suspension was
not necessary for her safety or
the safety of others.
It added that no one was injured
during the. mass demonstrations at
the school, and that police protec
tion “is available and adequate:”
The Birmingham secretary
charged further that her suspen
sion was “to appease persons hav
ing no connection with the Uni
versity of Alabama, who wish to
defy and prevent the enforcement
of the order of this court.”
SJm also charged the school of
ficials and trustees “failed and re
fused to take action within their
power to prevent persons having
no connection” with the school
from interfering.
In a press conference after the
petitions were filed, Shores said
Miss Lucy would not return to the
university until after the Feb. 29
hearing here “unless the trustees
rescind their suspension before
that date.”
“And if she goes back,” he added,
she will not attempt to eat or
sleep there until the case involving
dormitory and dining hall privi
leges is settled.”
Smith To Play
For Junior Ball
Here Feb. 25
Bob Smith and his Orches
tra will be featured at the
annual Junior Class Banquet
and Ball to be held Feb. 25.
The banquet will be held
from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Chester
Lauck, Continental Oil Corp. pub
ic relations representative, will be
guest speaker.
Tickets will remain on sale until
Feb. 16, and can be obtained from
battalion sergeant-majors or dorm
itory representatives. Admission
will be $2 for the dance, if class
dues have been paid and $8 if not.
The banquet will be $1.50 per
plate.
All juniors should turn in pic
tures of girls for Junior Sweet
heart candidates before 5 p.m. Feb.
20 at Student Activities Office in
Goodwin Hall.
Cellist, Pianist
To Give Recital
The MSC Recital Series will pre
sent a cellist and a pianist at 2
Sunday afternoon in the assembly
room of the Memoi'ial Student
Center.
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 lectm-er of music at the
University.
Both Miss Spaulding and Mrs.
Young are members of the Pi Kap
pa Lambda and Sigma Alpha Iota
h o n o r ary musical fratemities.
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.
Recital Series season tickets wall
be accepted for the performance.
Regular admission tickets are 75
cents and may be purchased at the
door.
RE Leaders Arrive Soon
NO MISTAKE—There will be no mistake as to where the
third group lives after this sign is erected on the dormitory
walls. Several other signs on dormitories throughout both
Corps areas designate battalions, groups or regiments.
Pictured left to right are Dennis Heitkamp, Robert Barlow,
John Sandhop, Jack Cook, Tom Connor, Frank Waddell and
Wayne Young.
By JIM NEIGHBORS
Battalion Staff Writer
Religious Emphasis Week lead
ers will begin arriving on the cam
pus Feb. 18 in preparation for dis
cussion meetings and forums be- 1 *
ginning the following day.
Dr. Morris Wee, pastor of the
Bethel Lutheran Church, Univer
sity of Wisconsin, will be the main
convocation speaker for the morn
ing services in Guion Hall.
Rev. John Paul Carter, of the
Canterbury Association, Austin,
will take charge of discussion and
forum groups in Walton Hall. He
will be available for conferences
during the week and will live in
Walton.
Carter, a native of Clarksburg,
W. Va., received his B.A. degree
in philosophy from William and
Mary. He received his B.D. de
gree from Virginia Theological
Seminary and was granted his
Masters from the University of
the South.
While in colleg’e, Carter was se
lected to Who’s Who in American
Colleges and Universities, and
was president of the Canterbury
Association. He was also a mem
ber of Eta Sigma Phi, Clayton
Grimes Biological Society and Stu
dent Religious Union.
He came to Texas in 1952 as
Episcopal Chaplain to students at
the University of Texas. He has
taught two courses as Canterbui'y
Bible Professor and now serves pn
the Board of Trustees for Grace
Hall.
Rev. Luke Bolin, associate min
ister of the East Dallas Christian
Church, Dallas, will live in Leggett
Hall and lead forums and discus
sion groups for Milner and Leg
gett Halls and be available for con
ferences during the week. These
meetings will be held in the Leg
gett Hall lounge.
Bolin received his B.D. degree
from Butler University, Indianap
olis, Ind., and served as an Army
Chaplain for four years during
World War II. He became pastor
of the First Christian Church, Bay
City, Tex., and later went to the
East Dallas church.
He is a thirty-second degree ma
son, a member of the Dallas Hear-
(See RELIGIOUS, Page 2)
Faculty Meeting
The regular A&M spring faculty
meeting will be held in Guion Hall,
Tuesday, Feb. 14 at 4 p.m. accord
ing to David H. Morgan, president.
Weather Today
CLEAR
Clear cool weather is forecasted
for College Station today. No cold
fxonts predicted but the clear skies
will lower the temperature. Yes
terday high of 48 degrees dropped
to a low of 41 degrees. Temper-
ature at 10:30 this morning was
45 degjjpes.
Deadline Saturday
Saturday will be the last
day for students to enroll for
the spring semester. Students
who^-are planning to add cour
ses are also reminded to take
care of this before Saturday.
No new courses may be added
after that time. Courses may
be dropped with no grade un
til Saturday week.
PROSPECTOR?—Mike Keen. Battalion photographer,.'
es in his prospecting disguise, really his beard for
Civilian Day program, before he shaved it off. Many
er beards are being sported around the campus as cr
students prepare for the big day, March 10. __
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