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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.