The Battalion
Number 85: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1956
Price 5 Cents
Alabama U. to Appeal
Court Segregation Rule
LEADING LADY—Miss Elaine Walker, leading- lady in
“Hell on Horseback”, will highlight the Civilian Student
Barbecue and Dance to be held March 10. Tickets went on
sale yesterday and are available from Civilian Councilmen,
row, ramp and floor representatives, Office of Student
Activities and in a special booth outside Sbisa Hall.
Religions Emphasis II
Speakers Listed
Chaplain Vei’non O. Rogei's, of
Headquarters, AFROTC, 81 Com
merce St., Montgomery, Ala., will
live in Dormitory 6 and lead the
forums and Discussion groups for
Dormitory 6 and 8 and will be
available for conferences during
Religious Emphasis week.
His present assignment is Staff
Chaplain at AFROTC Headquar
ters. In this capacity he is chief
advisor to the .OomowuwUog Oenoral
on matters pertaining to the relig
ious life, morals, morale, and chai’-
acter guidance within the AFROTC.
Homer Putnam Reeves, minister,
Fentral Church of Christ, Houston,
Texas, will live in Dormitory 14
and lead the discussion groups and
forums in Dormitory 14 and half
of Dormitory 17 and be available
for conferences during the week.
He has served churches in Hunts
ville, Ala.; New York City; Sher
man, Dallas, and Houston, Texas.
He has been preaching for 20
yeai-s, and has written many arti
cles for church publications.
Rev. Charles Lutrick, executive
secretary. Northwest Texas Confer
ence, Lubbock, will live in Dormi
tory 9 and lead the Forums and
Discussion groups and be available
for conferences during the week.
Lutrick is chairman of the Con
ference Commission on Christian
Vocations; a member of the Execu
tive Secretaries’ Commission of the
National Methodist Conference on
Christian Education; an ex-officio
member of the Boards of Directors
of Wesley Foundations at Texas
Tech, West Texas State, and Texas
University; and a member of the
Lubbock Ministerial Association.
The sketches on counselors will
continue in the next issue.
Civilian Dance
Ticket Sales
Begin Today
Tickets are now on sale for
the barbecue and dance dur
ing the civilian student week
end March 10.
The tickets may be pur
chased from civilian councilmen,
row, ramp, and floor representa
tives, Office of Student Activities
and at a special booth set up out
side Sbisa Hall. Jack Quinn is in
charge of ticket sales.
Prices for the tickets are $1 per
person foi’ the barbecue, $2 for
students and faculty admission to
the dance and $2 for visitors.
First and second prizes will be
given to the best entrees for the
three types of beards. The three
types are gambler (fancy), bad
man (general) and prospector
(scroungy). The beards will be
judged during the intermission of
the dance.
Elaine Walker and John Forbes,
starring in “Hell on Horseback”
which is now on location in Dallas
will appear for the festivities.
I.Ed. Teachers
To Meet At A&M
The eighth annual Industrial Ed
ucation Teacher Conference will be
held Feb. 24-25 in the MSC.
Dr. Kenneth Perry, chairman of
the Division of Arts at Colorado
State College of Education, Greely,
Colorado, will be the principal
speaker.
News of the World
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON—The government yesterday showed off
its latest weapon in the war of ideas against the Commun
ists. It’s called “People’s Capitalism in the U.S.A.” Presi
dent Eisenhower, making his first public appearance at such
an event since his heart attack last September, was the first
to inspect the exhibit. He spent 15 minutes examining the
display at the union station and said he was “delighted” with
it, that he “liked it very much.”
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LONDON—Avalanche disasters in Yugoslavia and
new storms boosted the death toll to 390 last night in the
third week of Europe’s coldest wave of the 20th century.
Belgrade radio said 58 Yugoslavs lost their lives and an
other 19 were gravely injured in slides that buried seven
villages in the mountains of southern Yugoslavia Mace
donia.
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NEW YORK—Vice President Richard M. Nixon said
last night he never called Harry S. Truman a traitor, as the
former Democratic President complained. “I did not call Mr.
Truman a traitor, absolutely not,” Nixon told reporters. Nor,
he added, did he call the Democratic party the “party of
treason” or question the loyalty of any of its leaders.
BAND SWEETHEART—Miss Mildred Taylor, Dallas Sun
set High School brunette, was chosen Band Sweetheart
from five finalists at the annual Band Dance held in the
Memorial Student Center ballroom Saturday night. Miss
Taylor was sponsored by A&M Junior Clint White. Tommy
Short, head drum major, draws the honor of congratula
ting the winner. Other finalists were Cynthia Plackard,
Madelyn Lee, Janice Graves and Lita St. Clair.
Barkley Sends
Thanks For Help
The Aggie Spirit met a crisis
last week when at least 25 stu
dents offered to give blood for
one of their Aggie buddies who
had suffered a collapsed lung
and internal hemorrhages.
John Lynn Barkley’s sister has
written a letter to President Da
vid H. Morgan telling of the
impression which the Aggie help
made on her.
The following is a letter from
Barkley expressing his apprecia
tion for this friendship:
“We wish to express our heart
felt appreciation for the many
who responded with kind words,
flowers, food, time and blood.
And for those who offered these
and other forms of help during
my recent illness.”
John L. Barkley and Family
Phipps To Form
State Pipe Contest
D. Bart Phipps, coordinator of
plumbing apprentice training for
the Engineering Extension Ser
vice, Texas A&M College System,
has been assigned the job of oi*-
ganizing this year’s annual state
contest for apprentice plumbers
and pipe fitters.
(joed Readmittal Answer
To Be Given This Week
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The Uni
versity of Alabama announced yes
terday that the order opening the
school to Negroes will be appealed
to the U. S. Supreme Court.
The appeal will be from a Dec.
80 decision by the U. S. Circuit
Court of Appeals at New Orleans
which upheld the mling of U. S.
Dist. Judge Hobart Grooms at Bir
mingham.
Grooms held that the university
Annual Clinic
For Newspaper
Starts Friday
The seventh annual A&M
Mechanical Conference a n d
Texas Newspaper Clinic will
be held Friday and Saturday
in the Memorial Student Cen
ter. Approximately 200 represen
tatives from more than 600 Texas
newspapers are expected to at
tend.
President David H. Morgan will
welcome conference delegates to
the campus at an informal lunch
eon Saturday.
The conference will begin Fri
day at 1 p.m. with discussions on
different phases of the uses of
photography in journalism, follow
ed by a tour of the new darkroom
in the YMCA.
The ultra modern A&M Press
will hold an open house Friday af
ternoon.
Saturday’s sessions will begin
with talks on printing- equipment
and reports on more profits from
the better use of advertising.
Edmond C. Arnold, nationally
known expert on newspaper typ
ography, will conduct the Saturday
afternoon session by using scissors
and paste in showing the best ways
to organize a newspaper.
The conference will be under the
direction of Wesley D. Calvert of
the Journalism Department.
cannot exclude Negroes as students
because of their race.
The university admitted Auther-
ine Lucy as a student in obedience
to the federal court order 1 . She was
excluded from the campus recently
after increasingly violent demon
strations on the three days she ap-
peai-ed for classes.
University officials said she was
threatened with death by an. un
controllable mob Feb. 6, the last
day on which she was on the
campus at Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Miss Lucy has asked the federal
court in Birmingham to order the
university to Readmit her to the
campus, with all privileges of a
student.
A hearing was set on the motions
by Grooms for Feb. 29.
President Eisenhower has said
that the U. S. Department of Jus
tice is looking into the case.
Miss Lucy and another Negro
woman, Mrs. Pollie Ann Hudson,
began their court fight for admit
tance to the university 314 years
ago.
Mrs. Hudson was denied enroll
ment on the grounds of her “con
duct and marital record.” She is
seeking a divorce.
She at first asked Judge Grooms
to cite university Dean of Admis
sions William Adams for contempt
when she was barred as a student
Feb. 1, but dropped the action
when it was called for hearing by
Grooms Thursday.
A university attorney, who re
quested that his name not be used,
also said that the school will an
swer Miss Lucy’s demand for re
admittal to classes “sometime this
week.”
He declined to say what the na
ture of the response will be.
If You Want Out,
You Have To File
Deadline for graduating seniors
to file for degTees is March 1, ac
cording to the Registrar’s Office.
Seniors who think they are eli
gible should go by the Registrar’s
Office in the Administration Build
ing and fill out an application for
a degree. This will be turned in
to J. Y. Alexander, assistant Reg
istrar.
“Kum Dubl” Elects
Schildknechts
Harold and Glenda Schildkneeht
were elected president of the “Kum
Dubl” class at A&M Methodist
church for the Spring semester.
Assisting them are Fred and
Joyce Hander, vice-president; Mar
vin and June Rees, secretary; Gor
don and Bernice Thompson, treas
urer; Warden and Jean Mayes,
worship and study; Kenneth and
Polly Morgan, church loyalty and
evangelism; and Norman and Mar
ge Flados, social secretary.
Recreation group consisted of
Ralph and Jane Miller, Morris and
Joy Brown, L. D. and Helen Miller
and Bud and Lura Griffin.
News Briefs
VERNON G. HENRY, from
Houston, received first place award
of $25 as winner of a contest for
residential design open to third
year architectural design students.
David B. Morris won $15 at second
place, and William P. Kelley Jr.,
Weather Today
LIGHT RAIN
Occasional light rain until 4 this
afternoon, gradually improving is
the forecast for College Station.
Yesterday’s high of 75 degrees
dropped to 64 early this morning.
Temperature at 10:30 a.m. was 72
degrees.
Port Arthur, won the $10 third
prize. Raleigh E. Lawrence, San
Antonio, won honorable mention.
PROF. H. C. DILLINGHAM of
the Electr*ical Engineering Depart
ment is in Oklahoma City attend
ing a district conference on student
activities of the Radio Engineers
of America.
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JOHN F. VALLENTINE and
Charles A. Davis Jr. have been ap
pointed graduate assistants in the
Range and Forestry department.
Davis is a grraduate of A&M with
a BS in wildlife management. Val-
lentine has a BS from Kansas State
College and received his MS degree
at Utah State Agricultui-al College.
* * *
LESLIE V. HAWKINS will chair
the Industrial Education Confer
ence sponsored by the Industrial
Education Department, to be held
here February 24-25. More than
235 are expected to attend.
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TWENTY - TWO INDUSTRIAL
employees took part in the third
Industrial Plant Protection School
held February 6-11 here. The six-
day school was designed to provide
down to earth training in all prac
tices related to plant security.
Sir Thomas Reecham
To Conduct Houston Symphony Here Tomorrow
Houston Symphony
Here Tomorrow
Sir Thomas Beecham and the
Houston Symphony Orchestra will
display their musical talents for
another of Town Hall’s 1966 per
formances in White Coliseum to
morrow night at 8.
Sir Thomas, whose personality
is only matched by his musician-
ship, will conduct the Symphony
tonight in Houston and later in the
year, will conduct the Dallas Sym
phony Orchestra in Dallas. These
are the only Texas appearances
the famed conductor will make.
Sir Thomas was born between
St. Helens and Liverpool in Eng
land and attended Lancashire Pub
lic School. He then Studied class
ics and history at Wadham College,
Oxford.
His musical talents revealed
themselves when Sir Thomas was
oidy six years of age—after he had
attended his first concert. His
first lessons came on the piano,
from which he won many prizes
while in school.
Beecham gave his first London
season in 1905-06. He enlarged
his orchestra the next year and
devoted his series almost entirely
to unfamiliar modern music. In
1932, he founded the London Phil
harmonic—the first British Sym
phony Orchestra.
History of the Orchestra goes
back to 1913, when an ensemble
of 35 players was formed under
the direction of Julian P. Blitz for
a trial c/ncert. The venture was
so successful that concerts were
scheduled regularly and the Hous
ton Symphony Association was
formed.
In 1930, reorganization of the
Symphony got underway and by
1931 was ready to give a full sea
son with Uriel Nespoli as its con
ductor.
Early last year, the Symphony
Association named Leopold Stok
owski music director. He first
came to the United States from
London at the age. of 18, later be
came a citizen of this country and
developed an interest in music for
children.
Stokowski W'as the first in the
U. S. to conduct many contempor
ary compositions including works
of Mahler, Stravinsky and Proko
fiev. He was also first to conduct
the orchestral music of Skostako-
vich in the Americas and has giv
en many American scores their
first hearings.
A typical season for the Sym
phony includes 16 student concerts,
5 pop concerts, 20 subscription con
certs, 24 broadcasts, 21 summer
park concerts and 20-24 out-of-
town concerts.
Regimental Ball
Ticket Sale Ends
Tickets for the First Regimental
Ball, Feb. 18, the first since 1951,
will go off sale tomorrow, accord
ing to George Petri, head of the
Ticket Committee. Admission is
$2 per couple.
The dance, which starts at 9 in
Sbisa Hall a:id ends at 12 midnight,
will feature the Aggieland Orehes-
ti-a. A First Regimental Sweet
heart will be selected from enti'ies
submitted by students in that reg
iment only.
Committees and their heads are
Chairman of the Ball, Don Burton;
Decorations, C. M. Crawfoi-d;
Dance, Jimmy Weeks; Program,
Vince Giardina; and Sweetheart,
Nathan Boardman.
The Ball will be for the First
Regiment and anyone else wanting
to buy a ticket, said Burton.
A&M’s JOHN FORTENBERRY leaps off the floor to take
a shot at the basket in last night’s 52-61 loss to Arkansas
in White Coliseum. Going up to block Fortenberry’s shot
is Freddy Grim, 6-0, Arkansas guard.