The Battalion
Number 94: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1956
Price 5 Cents
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Last Day For & 1 &
On ‘New Southern Rebellion’
JUST LIKE MOM’S—A good time was had by all, and good
food also, at the barbecue last night of the A&M Chapter
of the American Foundry Society. Getting a big chunk of
barbecue is David Leake, senior industrial technology ma
jor, while another student dips into the beans.
Ecumenical Conference
Student Conference
Set For March 9-11
Editor Filings
Tomorrow is- the last day
for applying for the top edit
orship positions of the five
student publications.
The Battalion, Aggieland,
Engineer, Southwestern Veterina
rian, Agriculturist and Commenta
tor editors for 1956-57.will be ap
pointed by the Student Publications
Board March 6.
Battalion and Aggieland editors
are appointed after certification of
eligibility and recommendation by
the director of student publications.
Editors of the four magazines
are appointed the same way but
must have concurrence of the stu
dent council of the school served
by the publication.
Minimum requirements are as
follows:
• One year’s experience on the
staff of a student publication and
proved capacity to carry on the
work.
• Junior or senior classifica
tion.
• Free of academic probation
or disciplinary action.
• Grade point average of at
least 1.5 through the fall semester.
Interested students can pick up
the applications in the student pub
lications office on the second floor
of Goodwin Hall. Deadline is 5
p.m. Thursday.
The fourth annual Ecumenical
Student Christian Conference will
be held at College Station March
9-11. About 400 students from
schools of the Southwest are ex
pected to attend.
Dr. Elton Trueblood, professor
of philosophy, and noted author-
lecturer from Earlham College, In
diana, will be the principal speak
er.
Sessions will be held at the A&M
Methodist church and Wesley Foun
dation. A&M College students are
in charg'e of the conference and in
clude Murraiy Milner of Brown-
wood, general chairman; John
Greenwalt, Bay City; Bill Ash-
burn, Denison; Konrad Losen, Ai’-
gentina; David Behlen, Gonzales.
Leniel H. Harbers, West Point;
Joe Blair, Boerne; Steve Love.
Houston; Bill Riviere, Fort Worth;
Charles Rice, Plano; Bill Libby.
Borger and Kenneth Mays, Edna.
The sponsors art the A&M
Methodist church, the A&M Christ
ian church, St. Thomas Episcopal
church, the A&M Presbyterian
church, Our Savior’s Lutheran
church, of College Station, and the
Evangelical and Reform church of
Bryan, in cooperation with the
YMCA of A&M College.
The theme of Dr. Trueblood’s
talks will be “Where To From
Here.” Topics include “The Pres
ent Status of the Christian Cause,”
“Movement in Depth,” “A Person
al Discipline,” “The Formation of
a Task Force,” and “The Meaning
of Commitment.”
College students, ministers, fac
ulty or other persons associated
with college student groups have
been invited to attend.
BULLETIN
President Dwight D. Eisen
hower announced this morning
he would be a candidate for re
nomination as president of the
United States.
Absence Leaves
Granted By Board
The Texas A&M College System
Board of Directors approved the
following leaves without pay at a
meeting held here Saturday:
Benjamin D. Cook, assistant to
dean of agriculture and professor
from Feb. 1, 1956 to Jan. 31, 1957
to take graduate work at Wiscon
sin University; Ernest C. York, as
sistant professor, English Depart
ment, from Jan. 31, 1956 to Sept
1, 1956 for graduate study at Uni
versity of Pennsylvania;
Michael Rekoff Jr., instructoi
Electrical Engineering Department,
from Feb. 1, 1956 to Feb. 1, 1957
to obtain advanced degree; and
Alan B. Alter, assistant professor,
Mechanical Engineering Depai’t-
ment, from Feb. 1, 1956 to Jan. 31,
1957 for graduate study at North
Carolina State College.
Hodding Carter
Great Issues Speaker for Tonight
Civilian Weekend
Texas Size’ Barbeque
Civilian Student Weekend prom
ises plenty of entertainment for
those attending the program Mar.
10-11.
Starting the program off will be
a “Texas size” barbecue held in
Sbisa Hall from 6 p.m. until 7:30
Local Legion Post
To Receive Visitor
The department commander of
the American Legion and the state
land commissioner will visit jocal
legion posts tomorrow.
Charles L. Downey, Commander
and Land Commissioner Earl Rud
der will address the regular meet
ing of the Earl Graham Post No.
159, in Bryan tomorrow at 7:30
p.m., Post Commander Travis B.
Bryan Jr. has announced.
All Legionnaires and veterans in
the College Station-Bryan area are
invited to attend, Bryan said.
Bryan stated that this will be
the official visit of the department
commander to, the local posts. He
will address the membership, in
cluding a report on the activities
of the American Legion in Texas
and a discussion of pending Con
gressional legislation for veterans.
Rudder will report on activities
of the veterans land board since
he has assumed leadership of that
project.
p.m. Mai’ch 10. Tickets to the
event will be $1 each. Following
the barbeque will be two dances
and judging of civilian beards.
Manning Smith, president of the
Square Dance Association of Tex
as will act as master of ceremon
ies for the occasion.
The “Daddy of Western Swing,”
Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
will play in Sbisa along with Bus
ter Satan’s Rhythm and Blues
band which currently is featured
at the Three by Twelve Club in
Dallas. Student admission to the
dances is $2 stag or drag while
visitors will pay $3 stag or drag.
Bob Wills’ part of the dance will
be known as the Western Shindig-
while Satan’s will be called Night
Club ’56. The dances start at 8:30
p.m. and ends at midnight.
Cowboy Lloyd Weaver, radio
station KCUL, Fort Worth, singer,
will appear at the barbecue. Frank
and Jeanette Amarello, profession
al dance team will dance during the
barbeque and later at the Night
Club ’56 floor show.
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PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE—Three of the persons attending the Agricultural Aviation
Conference, which ended here yesterday, watch a light plane go through the intracies of
crop-dusting, without dust, at an afternoon “practical lab” yesterday. The conference was
sponsored by the Texas Engineering Experiment Station and the A&M College System.
Freshman Ball
Scheduled For
Saturday Night
The Freshman Ball will be
held in Sbisa Hall Saturday
night from 9 to 12. Music will
be provided by Bill Turner’s
Aggieland Orchestra.
Tickets may be obtained by mak
ing contributions of $1 to the
Freshman Class fund before 5 p.m.
Thursday, at the office of Student
Activities. Non-military and day
students are reminded of this dead
line.
The Fi’eshman Class Sweetheart
will be chosen at the dance from
five finalists. They are Barbai’a
Moody, from Dallas escorted by
Bob Williams; Camille Pratt, Dal
las, escorted by Fred Hunter; Lana
Moore, Wichita Falls, escorted by
Marvin Mabeimy; Robin McQuar-
ter, Dallas, escorted by Freddy
Schuster; and Barbara Anne Allen,
student at Mary Hai’din Baylor
College, Belton, escorted by Albert
Klopfenstein.
Committees for the Ball are Pro
gram and Guest, Charles Robison
and Bill Myers; Dance, Ronald
Stallings; Ticket and Finance, Ben
Trotter and Gai-y Hipps; Sweet
heart, John Thomas; and Decm-a-
tions, James Fallin and Tommy
Adams.
John Forbes and Elaine Walker,
stars in the movie “Hell on Horse
back,” will also be present to help
judge civilian beards.
Local talent featured at the bar
becue will include comedy acts,
guitar players, and combos. Civil
ian student members say tickets
are scarce and will go off sale
March 6. Dance tickets may be
purchased at the door.
Corps students may attend any
or all of the Civilian Weekend ac
tivities. These students may wear
civilian clothes to the festivities,
according -to Lt. Col. Taylor Wil
kins, assistant commandant begin
ning at 5 p.m. March 10.
Dances are informal, according
to Ray Carroll, Civilian Day chair
man. “Anything from a bathing-
suit to blue jeans is acceptable,”
said Hugh Lanktree, entertain
ment chairman.
Tickets for the affair may be
purchased from members of the
Civilian Student Council, dormitory
floor representatives and at the
Student Activities Office, second
floor, Goodwin Hall.
A special booth will be set up
Monday morning outside the main
entrance of Sbisa Mess Hall and
tickets will be sold until Saturday
morning.
Great Issues Series
Sponsor of Program
Students and residents of this locality have a chance
tonight to hear a man well-versed in the problems of the
Southland.
Great Issues will present Hodding Carter, called by the
Saturday Evening Post “The South’s Fighting Editor,” at
8 in the ballroom of the Memorial Student Center. Admission
to the program will be by Great Issues ticket or by individual
tickets of $1 which can be bought at the door.
Carter, editor of the Delta Democrat-Times, Greenville,
Miss., will speak on “The New Southern Rebellion,” a subject
he should be well qualified for as he has won every major
Prize offered in the newspaper field, from a Nieman Fellow-
*’ship to the Pulitzer Prize for
his editorials on racial and re
ligious tolerance.
The talk will concern the
contemporary Southern scene,
from the States’ Rights movement
and an Analysis of the impact of
Southern political leaders and be
havior upon the nation, to the
changing pattern in race relations,
industrial-agricultural balance and
cultural achievement.
BORN IN HAMMOND, LA., a
graduate of Bowdoin College,
Maine, and Columbia University,
he taught for a year at Tulane
University in New Oi-leans, then
worked successively as reporter for .
the New Orleans Item, the United
Press and the Associated Press.
His first newspaper, the Hammond,
La., Courier, met with the disap
proval of Louisiana’s “Kingfish,”
Huey Long, who all but put him
out of business.
In Greenville, Miss., he was, with
the help of local capital, able to
establish the Democrat-Times. The
big success of this daily has led
him into wider fields of publishing
until today he is also editor of two
other southern newspapers as well.
CARTER SERVED nearly five
years in the army, emei-ging as a
major after editing Stars and
Stripes and Yank in the Middle
East and duty in army intelligence
for which he received a war De
partment citation.
From North Texas State College,
Denton, came the following about
Carter after he spoke there:
“Mr. Garter is one of the best
experiences that this campus has
had in the three years since I have
been here. Although he is not
a professional speakei-, his infor
mality, vitality and sincerity cap
tured his audience. Many people
(See CARTER, Page 5)
Five Students
Are Disciplined
For Violations
Five A&M students have
had disciplinary action taken
against them following.a per
sonal service investigation of
two units last week. The two
units wei-e the Band and B Infan
try.
Three seniors and one sophomore
have been moved from Corps dor
mitories, required to attend school
as day students, restricted to this
area, placed on conduct probation
and Corps dorms placed off-limits
to them for violation ‘ of article 8c
of the Articles of the Cadet Corps.
One sophomore, a member of B
Engineers, was suspended for the
remainder of the year for violation
of the same article.
The students were charged with
“unauthorized assumption of com
mand in that they did require un
authorized details.”
Investigation of the two units
revealed numerous offenses. Only
the more serious offenders faced
Military Panel while others will be
handled through regimental and
wing commanders. The command
ers will investigate offenses and
recommend disciplinary action.
They have the power to recommend
Group or Wing" Court, Battalion
Court or Senior Court. They may
also recommend punishment in less
serious cases.
Personal service includes i-oom
cleaning, shoe shining, rifle clean
ing, typing and carrying laundry
for one person in the unit. Any
detail which benefits the unit as a
whole is considered authorized.
Abdullah Wins
Albert (Al) Abdullah is the
new student senator for Mil
ner Hall. Abdullah, a junior
veterinary medicine major, was
elected last night by Milner
residents. No other candidate
was entered in the election.
Weather Today
PARTLY CLOUDY
Partly cloudy with little change
in temperature is the forecast for
College Station. Yesterday’s. high
of 69 degrees dropped to 41 de
grees last night. Temperature at
10:30 this morning was 60 de
grees.
DAILY BULLETIN — The bulletin board, or rather display case, by the post of
fice in the Memorial Student Center is being put to good »use by campus organiza
tions. Jerry Neighbors, history senior from Belvidere, Ill., looks over the Sports Day
display, while Tom W. Moore, senior geo-physics major from LaMarque, takes a close
look at the Aggieland announcements.