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■’.r The Battalion Number 91: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1956 Price 5 Cents Great Issues Has Carter As Speaker Hodding Carter, called by the Saturday Evening- Post “T h e South’s Fighting Editor,” will speak here Feb. 29 on “The New Southern Rebellion”. The lecture is presented by the Great Issues committee of the Memorial Stu dent Center. Born in Hammond, Louisiana, a graduate of Bowdoin College (Maine) and Columbia University, Carter’s entire career has been one of drama and danger. Editor of the Delta Democrat-Times and undoubtedly one of the nation’s most talented and effective young lenders, his personal courage has become a legend, even among those who disagree with his ideals. During his career as a teacher, reporter, editor, and, finally, a na- Army Exam To Be Given March 1 and 8 The Army Qualifying- Ex amination for enrollment as an advanced Army ROTC stu dent under contract will be held March 1 and 8, accord ing to Col. D. P. Anderson, Pro fessor of Military Science and Tac tics. Cadets desiring an advanced con tract must attain a minimum score of 115 on the examination. Stu dents who fail the test will not have a second chance, Col. An derson said. Army ROTC students currently enrolled in the fourth semester of basic military science will take the test March 1. Air Force stu dents interested in applying for an Army contract will take the test March 8, provided they are in the fourth semester, but not past the sixth semester of Air Foi’ce ROTC. Civilian students who have completed two years of basic military or air science, will also take the test March 8. Qualified armor, infantry, sig nal and engineer students will take the test March 1 in the Physics lecture room. Anti-aircraft and field artillery students will report to the Electrical Engineering lec- ture room while transportation, quartermaster, oi-dnance and chem ical students will i-eport to the An imal Husbandry lecture room. Air Force and civilian students taking the test will report to Maj. William J. Winder, Army Opera tions Officer, in the Physics lec ture room March 8. All of the ex aminations will be given at 4 p.m. tionally known crusader, Carter has received many honors. Among them are the Nieman Fellowship for Newspapermen (19:19-40), Guggenheim Fellowship in Crea tive Writing (1945), Southern Lit terary' Award (1945), Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing (1946), Honorary Master of Arts, Harvard (1947), and Honorary Doctor of Letters, Bowdoin (1947). The Boston Herald said of him, “. . . he has splintered his noblest lances in the fight against racial persecution ... he has championed the cause of the Negro so effective ly that he has truly become the voice of the New Dixie.” John Gunther, author of “Inside U.S.A.”, acclaims Carter as “One of the ablest progressives, not merely in the South but in the Nation.” The lecture will be held in the ballroom of the Memorial Student Center at 8 p.m. Admission will be by Great Issues Series membership card or by purchasing tickets at the dooi\ Ticket price is $1. Doubts Faced By All Says Sp eaker >A.? ¥ Mi ■ Hodding Carter Great Issues Speaker, Feb. 29 High School Day Planned Annual High School Day at A&M will be observed next week-end and is estimated to attract about 1,000 bigh school senioi’s from over Tex as and neighboring states. The purpose of the event is to give outstanding high school sen- iors a preview of the life on the A&M campus. The program officially begins Saturday morning March 3, but early arrivals can register at the Housing Office in Goodwin Hall Friday afternoon, March 2. At 8 a.m. Saturday morning the visitors will register in Guion Hall and see a color . movie-abouL liie.uj..t. A&M and be welcomed to the Col lege. Hometown Club presidents are urged to turn in lists of names of interested seniors to the Office of Student Activities as soon as possible. Students and former students of Degree Deadline Deadline for graduating sen iors to file for degrees is March 1, according to the Reg istrar’s Office. Seniors who think they are eligible should go by the Registrar’s Office in the Administration Build ing and fill out an application for a degree. This will be turn ed in to J. Y. Alexander, as sistant Registrar. . ; ' A&M will act as hosts to the guests while on the campus and will ar range for the housing, and other needs of the visitors while they are here. Transportation to and from College Station will be provided by the Former Students Club in the hometowns of the various high school seniors. A general breakdown of Satur day’s activities for the visitors will yiclude the color movie, to be shown in Guion Hall at 9 a.m., var ious groups will tour the campus f ' ■ iVV • • AF Seniors Will Travel To Air Base Thirty-three Air Force ROTC cadets and four college representatives will visit the USAF testing center at Ed wards Air Force Base in Muroc, Calif., March 1. The group will assemble at the Military Science Building at 6:45 a.m. March 1 and will leave from Bryan Air Force Base at 8 a.m. Class B winter uniform will be worn during the flight but class A winter uniform will be worn during one stop and a change of summer khaki should be taken for the visit to Edwards. Col. Henry Dittman, PAS, and Maj. Henry Sommerville, assistant PAS, will make the trip along with Ide P. Trotter, dean of the Grad uate School and John C. Calhoun, dean of engineering. Students making the trip are James Arnold, Robert C. Barlow, Richard Barras, Ernest Biehunko, Glenn Buell, Larry Burleson, Law rence Dausin, Donald Dierschke, David Fawcett, Richard Gentry, Robert Henson, Dennis Heitkamp, Joseph Hlavinka, Harold Jacobson, Jack Lippman, Victor Moseley, Dayton Moses, William Nourie, Howard Robinson, Robert Scott, Stephen Scott, Robert Sears, Wil liam Sellers, Donald Swofford, Weldon Walker, Herbert Whitney, Marion Williams, Richard Weick, John Brannen, John Bm*chard, Sam Lackland, Douglas Von Gonten and Kirby Keahey. The group will return to Bryan March 2. • Fees Due Today Installment fees must be paid before 5 p.m. today to avoid penalty. Total payable is $50.60, which includes boai'd, $36.45; room rent, $11.25; and laundry, $2.90. JUNIOR BANQUET SPEAKER—Chester H. Lauck, ex ecutive assistant, Continental Oil Company, will be the guest speaker at the Junior Banquet Saturday night. Lauck is better known as the beloved “Lum” of the'fam ous radio and motion picture team of “Lum and Abner.” Known primarily as a radio and movie personality, he was first successful as a banker and businessman. He joined with a boyhood friend, Norris Goff, in 1931 to form the radio team for which he became famous. Weather Today SHOWERS Occasional light rain is fore casted for .College Station. Yes terday’s high of 73 degrees dropped to 61 degrees last night. Temper ature at 10:30 this morning was 68 degrees. and visit the schools the visitors are intei'ested in seeing. Dinner will be served in Sbisa Hall at 12 noon. The afternoon will be filled with “Sports Day,” with the “T” Asso ciation acting as hosts. The vis itors will be feted at a baseball game, tennis and golf matches. These games will begin at 1 p.m. and end around 5:30 p.m. for sup per. This meal will be seived in either Sbisa or Duncan Mess Hall. After supper the days activities will end with an intra-squad foot ball game under the lights on Kyle Field. If any student has any questions concerning visitors to the campus on High School Day they should contact the Office of Student Ac tivities on the second floor of Good win Hall. Date Should Wear Formal to Banquet The Dance Committee for the Junior Banquet and Ball has ad vised all juniors bringing their dates to the banquet at 6:30 Saturday night that it probably would be advisable for their dates to wear their formals to the banquet. The banquet ends at 8:30 and the dance starts only 30 minutes later, at 9. Nuclear Expert To Speak Here At 8:15 Tonight Dr. Ralph T. Overman, chairman of the Special Training Section of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, will speak on “Chemical Problems and Nuclear Reactors” at a meeting of the local section of the Amei-ican Chemical Society at 8:15 tonight in the lecture room of the Chemistry Building. He will include in his talk a short description of the reactors and their properties which make them useful in chemical problems. An informal dinner for section members and their wives and Dr. Overman will be held at 6:15 p.m. in the Memoilal Student Center. The social hour after the talk will be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Jensen, 200 Suffolk, South Oakwood, College Station. Dr. Overman has been at the Oak Ridge Institute for more than 10 years, and took over as chair man of the Special Training Divi sion in 1948. More than 2,000 re search workers have been trained in the techniques of using radio isotopes in i-esearch under the di rection of Dr. Overman during the past seven years. MSC Plans Rue Pinalle Friday Night Cafe Rue Pinalle will fea ture a floor show from the Un iversity of Texas Friday night in the game room of the me morial Student Center. Tickets are 75 cents per per son for the night of dancing which will begin at 8:30 and last ’till 12. Stags will be admitted only during intermis sion to watch the floor show. Tickets are on sale now at the bowling alley desk and also will be sold at the door. The floor show will have songs by Marilyn Weiss, with Bill Flint at the piano, John White and Bobby Lee on the steel guitars. Another act will be an all-girl calypso rou tine. News of the World NEWS OF THE WORLD By The Associated Press Montgomery, Ala.—Negro religious and political leaders, including 16 ministers, were arrested on boycotting charges yesterday in a wholesale round up of defendants indicted by a grand jury for their mass protest against bus segre gation. The grand jury returned indictments late Tuesday against 115 defendants accused of taking an active part in the 11-week-old racial boycott against Montgomery City Lines buses. ★ ★ ★ Bonn, Germany—West Germany has agreed to bar gain with the Big Three Western Powers on their claim for continued financial support for Allied forces in Ger many. Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano handed notes to the ambassadors of the United States, Britain and France to advise them of his government’s decision. Informed sources said the notes gave no indication of this government’s readiness to continue paying. Experts of the four powers probably will meet here next week to discuss the dispute. ★ ★ ★ Austin—Political tempers flared to mid-July heat marks yesterday as two possible candidates for governor exchanged angry charges. Gov. Allan Shivers and Ralph Yarborough battled over the “corruption in government” issue just as they did in their 1954 race—and neither has announced yet as a candidate. In Washington Sen. Price Daniel repeated what he had said before: That the possibility of his getting into the governor’s race this year is not dependent on the plans of Shivers or anyone else. Shivers said Tuesday he is thifiking seriously about trying for a fourth term. ★ ★ ★ New York—A phantom bomber struck again yester day, planting a timed explosive in a lavatory of Pennsyl vania Station’s lower level. An attendant was injured. It was the 26th time the phantom has hidden a bomb in crowd centers around the city. The latest blast occurred about an hour before the start of the evening rush hour, when all facilities of the big terminal are crowded. Last Program Scheduled: Friday at 9 a.m. in Guion By JIM NEIGHBORS Battalion Staff Writer “Christian people have all sorts of doubts about God,, life, entei'nity and the Christian faith even when they do not admit it,” said Dr. Morris Wee, main convocation speaker, yesterday at the morning sexvice in Guion Hall. To doubt God, life and Christi anity is a common occurrence of Christians he said. People haven’t forsaken God when they have doubts; if a person can’t under- WhaPs Cooking The following clubs will meet to night: 7:15 p.m. The El Paso Hometown Club meets in the Academic Building. The Wichita Falls Hometown Club meets in room 323 Academic. High school day and party will be discussed. The Davy Crockett A&M Club meets in mom 2D, MSC. 7:30 p.m. The Guadalupe Valley Club meets in the Civil Engineering Building. The Marshall Hometown Club meets in 227 Academic. San Antonio HometoAvn Club meets in 125 Academic. All who have invited boys for high school day be sure to attend. The Gi'ayson County Club meets in 3B of the MSC. The Milam County Club meets in the YMCA. The Pasadena Hometown Club meets in. 306 Academic. The Bbytown Hometown Club meets in 127 Academic. Plans for Easter party and date for home town picture to be discussed. The Beaumont A&M Club meets in 204 Academic. Plans will be made for annual pictui'e, high school day and election of ti’eas- urer. The Lubbock-South Plains Club meets in the MSC. The Matagoxda County Club will not meet in coopei’ation with Re ligious Emphasis Week. The Houston Hometown Club meets in loom 107, Biology Build ing. Thexe will be a movie and x’e- freshments. The Panhandle Club meets in the (See WHAT’S COOKING, Page 2) stand this, he probably can’t even understand the Bible. “Faith in God is a basic con cept and it is impossible to build a life entirely on doubt,” continued Dr. Wee. We all have doubts and doubts aren’t bad if they can be eventual soux-ce of strength.” In speaking about the young people of today, Dr. Wee said, “They are led to skepticism by the weakness of Christianity, preach- ei-s like myself, and other Christ ian people. We should be stronger in our teachings of Christianity.” Religious doubts are caused by lack of information, pain, prejudi ces, . and thoughtlessness. More college agnosticism is caused by lack of informiation than for any other reason. And too many peo ple believe prejudices to be the truth. “Most doubts can be included in four questions, “concluded Dr. Wee, “These questions are: Is the uni verse friendly?, Is God’s way wox-thwhile ?, Why should it hap pen to me?, and Can I see it through ? ” David Rose sang a solo at the morning sex-vice and Murray Mil ner presided. The prayer was of- fex-ed by the chaplain of the Sec- ind Wing, and Dr. Wee gave the benediction. Tomorrow’s sex-vice, the last of this 13th annual renewal of Re ligious Emphasis Week at A&M, will be held at 9 a.m. in Guion Hall. Dr. Wee also spoke this morning at 9. Radio Station WTAW re- bx-oadcast the talks each evening from 5:30 to 6:15. Morgner To Speak At Eco. Meeting Dr. A. Morgner will address the first session of the Economics Seminal- for the cuix-ent semester Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Room 127 of the Academic Building. His topic will be “The General The- ox-y: Twenty Years After.” Thex-e will be a dinner for those wishing to attend in the Dining Room of MSC at 6:15 p.m. Those planning to attend the dinner should notify the Secretary of the Department of Ecqnoxnics not lat er than 12:00 noon Monday so x-es- ervations can be made. * JL? wm. HAPPENS EVERY SPRING—It’s not spring - , but the weather around here last week and the first part of this w r eek, so far, has broug-ht about a “spring: look” in Col lege Station. And it brought out three students’ wives, who are, left to right, Mrs. T. K. Tomilson, Mrs. James A. Brown and Mrs. Richard C. Durbin. Mrs. Tomilson’s husband is a petroleum Engineering major from Houston; the other two husbands are both Pet.E.’s from Dallas.