The Battalion
Number 101: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1956
Price 5 Cents
Top Woman, Man
Named; Heritage,
Thompson Chosen
By DAVE McREYNOLDS
Hei'bert G. Thompson and Mrs.
W. H. Heritage Jr. were chosen as
“College Station’s Man and Woman
of the Year” by the College Station
Chamber of Commerce in their reg
ular monthly meeting yesterday
afternoon.
Thompson, a member of the
A&M Business Administration De
partment also sei’ved as president
of the College Station Lions Club
in 1954-55; treasurer of the city’s
Community Chest in 1955-56; Col
lege Station’s repi’esentative for
the Salvation Army; a member of
the recreation council for College
Station; a manager of the White
Sox Little League Baseball Team
and an active sponsor and is a
member of the Youtn Activities
Committee.
Mrs. Heritage is the wife of
Capt. Walter H. Heritage, 1209
Walton St. Besides being the
mother of thi’ee children she has
found time to work as chairman of
the Mothers’ March on Polio; Sun
day School Teacher; Girl Scout
Troop Leader; assists with the
Mother and Dad’s Club at A&M
Consolidated High School; work at
the USO in Bryan; chairman for
Residential Solicitation for the
Community Chest Drive; a member
of the local Chest Charity Fund
Committee; and has on several
occasions invited foreign students
attending A&M to be guests in her
home to learn more of the Ameri
can way of life.
The Man and Woman of the
Year were selected by a special
screening committee who investi
gated nomination^ sent in by inter
ested persons. These names were
then recommended to the Board of
Directors who voted yesterday.
Other business acted on by the
Board in their meeting yesterday
was to discuss the General Meeting
»f the College Station Development
Association and Chamber of Com-
ynerce that will be held in CHS
Auditorium next Monday night at
r:30.
The general public is invited to
attend this meeting. New amend
ments to the constitution of the
Association will be voted on. Also
at the meeting future plans of the
Association will be decided and
the various chairmen of the com
mittees will be named.
The group voted to ask Mrs. R.
Donald Lewis and Mrs. Thomas W.
Leland to select a Duchess to rep
resent the community at the Cotton
Ball, on the A&M campus in April.
It was decided by the members
present to write a letter to Con
gressman Olin Teague concerning
the Davis-Bacon feature now be
ing considered by Congress to be
added to the new Federal Highway
Bill. This feature, if passed, will
limit the ability of the various
states receiving federal aid to set
Wage rates of employees working
on projects effected by the bill.
Accoi'ding to a letter from the
Houston Chamber of Commerce
this will increase highway costs in
Texas appreciably and will allow
the Secretary of Labor to fix wage
rates,*(bstead of leaving this up to
the states as it is now done.
In other action the Board moved
to accept R. G. Perryman to fill
the vacancy of E. O. Siecke, who
recently resigned.
Wall Chosen President
For MS€ Next Year
Council Elects McGinty
For Vice-Presidency
Richard M. Wall, junior chemical engineering major from
Houston, was elected president for the 1956-57 Memorial Stu
dent Center Council and Directorate at last night’s meeting.
Assisting Wall, who has served this year as vice-presi
dent of the Council under Herbert (Bud) Whitney, president,
will be Donaldson D. McGinty, sophomore animal husbandry
major from Spur. Wall and McGinty and other new leaders
will take over at the annual banquet in April.
Richard L. McGown of Edcouch and Bryan W. Dedeker of
Boerne were elected to next year’s council.
Group chairmen for the organizations of the Memorial
Student Center and for committees of the groups also were
^elected.
DAVID B. MORRIS of Yoa
kum will be chairman of the
Art Gallery Group; Dudley M.
GO, MAN, GO—One of the most popular—and lively—
sports on the campus Saturday night was the “Night Club
’56” in the banquet room of Sbisa Hall. Couples at the
Civilian Day Dance flocked around Buster Satan with his
Rock-and-roll music and dancer-singer. In the large room
of Sbisa, another large group of couples were swinging to
the music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.
Scholarships, Cash, Texts
Graduate Lecture
Scheduled Tonight
Dr. Albert Garland Hogan, Pro
fessor Emeritus of animal nutri
tion, University of Missouri, Co
lumbia, Mo., will speak tonight at
8 on “A Long Look At Px-ogress In
Nuti’ition.” The public is invited to
attend the lecture.
Dr. Hogan has been one of the
outstanding leaders in the field of
nutrition for many yeai’S. He is
now a consultant on problems in
the field of nutx-ition for the Uni-
vei’sity of Texas, Medical Branch
at Galveston.
Engineering Awards Given
“Set as a goal for youi’self not
fame, nor fortune, nor power, but
‘the good life,’ ” Jeff Montgomei’y
told Texas A&M peti’oleum engi-
neexdng students Friday night at
the annual Petroleum Engineering
Depai'tment awai'ds cereixionies
held in the Memoi’ial Student Cen
tex’. “If you achieve it, you will
not be without these other mox'e
easily defined but narx’ower val
ues.”
Speaking oxx Oppox’txxnities for
Engineers, Montgomei’y, a petro
leum engineex’ing graduate of the
college, class of ’41, and now an
official of the Mui’manill Coi’pora-
tion, Dallas, declared the fact the
assembled students were to be en
gineers increased their opportuni
ties for achieving ‘the good life”
because “an engineex’’s training
goes beyond the acquii’ing of fac
tual information. * He is trained
Student Activities
Gives New Titles
W. D. (Pete) Hax’desty of the
Department of Student Activities
has been named organizational ad
visor of student activities, accord
ing to Walter L. Penberthy, head
of the department.
C. G. (Spike) White will con
tinue his duties as director of rec
reation and entertainment.
Penbex-thy explained that Har
desty had been carrying out the
duties of an organization advisor,
so “it was fitting that he have the
title.” Hax’desty was formerly call
ed business manager, but his new
title fits his duties bettei’, said
Penberthy.
how to leai’n and to think. No as
pect of your foi’mal education is
more important.”
Scholai’ships, cash awards and
engineering texts were presented to
students cux-rently completing sen
ior and junior coux'ses in petroleum
engineex’ing, selected by the de
partment faculty for displaying
outstanding academic proficiency
and overall achievement in college
activities.
Richax’d C. Durbin, Dallas, re
ceived a cash awai’d of $750 fx’onx
the Magnolia Peti’oleum Co. and
the George P. Mitchell Scholarship
Award of a gold watch to the out
standing petroleum engineering
senior. Phillip Davis represented
the Magpolia Co. in presenting the
cash award.
Charles Bremer, Palestine, i’e-
ceived the Lane-Wells Co. Scholar
ship award of $500 cash, presented
by R. M. Rutledge.
Two Standard Oil Company of
Texas $500 awards went to Chai’les
D. Williams, Philadelphia, Miss.,
and Leland C. White, La Fei’ia.
Thomas Riggs made the pr«jsenta-
tion in behalf of the company.
A second George P. Mitchell
Scholaxmhip Awaxd gold watch was
presented to Donovan W. Darsey,
San Angelo, as the petroleum engi
neex’ing senior who, dux’ing his # sen
dee ENGINEERING, Page*2)
Practice Reviews
The Corps of Cadets wHl hold
practice reviews this afternoon
at 4 and again during drill
Thursday, according to Lt. Col.
Taylor Wilkins, assistant com
mandant. The practice reviews
will be in px-eparation for the
Military Day review Saturday at
1:30 p.m. on the main drill field.
Censorship
Denounced
By Journalists
The Southwestern S t u -
dents’ Press Club denounced
censorship of the college press
Saturday in a meeting held
during the Southwestern
Joui’nalism Congress at Southern
Methodist Cniversity.
The following resolution was ap-
px’oved by a majority of the dele
gates of the univex’sities and col
leges repi’esented:
“Whei’eas, we as jouraalists have
a fii-m belief in the basic necessity
of freedom of the press to our
democracy, and whereas we believe
in freedom of the college press, and
whei’eas the college paper does
have public relations functions, but
it is not primarily a public rela
tions organ of the college ox* uni
versity or a mei’e administrative
bulletin boai’d:
“Be it hereby resolved that stu
dent newspapers should have the
right to comment editorially on
state and national issues and on the
administration of the university
and college; and that censorship of
the student press in any form is
undesirable because it renders it
impossible for the paper to seiwe
its basic purpose of fui’thei’ing stu
dent welfai’e and reflecting accur
ately student opinion.”
Members made it clear that the
resolution did not apply to any
college or university in particular
but applied to the college press in
general.
Brown will head the Music
Gx’oup. Under Brown, as chaii’-
man of the Recital Series will be
Thomas A. Adams of Foi’t Woi’th.
Heading the Dance Gi’oup will be
David L. Brothers of Gonzales, and
Roy Davis of Lubbock will be Pub
lic Relations chairman.
Profs Invited
Combat Ball Friday Night
A&M’s military weekend gets
off to a head start Friday night at
8 with the annual Combat Ball.
The dance, promoted by mem
bers of the combat arms compan
ies, has extended an invitation to
all instructors on the campus teach
ing senior courses. Approximately
300 invitations wei’e sent to in-
sti’uctors and their wives who will
be admitted free of charge.
Special arrangements have been
made for the instructors. Since
the theme of the dance is combat
conditions, the professors arc ask
ed to come di’essed as closely as
possible to the dress of a displaced
person.
Ed Stimnett, general dance chah’-
man, said that “gardening clothes
would be fine. Infox-mality is the
main idea”, he said. “We hope
that all of the 300 instructor's and
their wives will attend. This is
the first time that all of the sen
ior professors have been asked to
a Corps 4ance.”
THE WINNAHS—Proudly showing both beard and prizes are the winners of the Civil
ian Student Day beard-growing contest. Left to the right are Mike Duncan, first, and
Ken Savage, second, gambler class; Lloyd Selves, first, Eugene Pellech, second, pros
pector class; Hugh Lanktree, first, Ken Jones, second, badman class. Very good crowds
turned out for the barbecue and dance in Sbisa Hall Saturday evening.
Kennedy, Lunsford
Go To Washington
Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant;
Larry Kennedy, Coi'ps commander;
and Jack Lunsford, newly appoint
ed Corps sergeant major, left for
Washington, D. C. yesterday to at
tend a meeting of the Association
of Military Colleges and Schools
of the United States.
A&M has just joined that asso
ciation, according to Di\ David H.
Morgan, px-esident of the College.
The three will meet with the
National Capital A&M Club, which
is re-organizing under Jack As-
kins, px-esident. The group has
been in existance for a long time
but has not been too active i’e-
cently. A new constitution has
been written for the club.
Col. Davis and Lunsfoi’d will i’e-
tuxm Thursday and Kennedy will
stay until Friday to escort Mili-
tai’y Day dignitaries back to the
campus.
The guests (displaced persons) -
will be seated in a special deten
tion area and will be guarded by
members of the fish drill team.
With all of the cadets in combat
clothes, detention ai’eas for guests
and realistic settings of machine
gun emplaatements, members of
the planning committee of the
dance expect it to be one of the
best yet.
The Aggieland Orchestra will
play for the dance which last fi’om
8 to 12 Friday night in the main
section of Sbisa Hall. Admission
is $1 for non-combat seniors.
Each combat arms battalion is
picking a “combat cutie” to rep
resent them at the dance. During
intei’mission of the dance, the five
“cuties” will compete for the title
of “the cutest of them all”. The
winner will be chosen by a faculty
or staff judging team.
Planning members for the dance
are Stinnett, General Dance chair
man; Guests, Roy Woodle; Pi’o-
gi’am, James Cook and Dan Ryan;
Finance, David Siemens and Bruce
McCarty; Sweetheai’t, Truman
Blum; Orchesti’a, Bill Ruez; Dec
orations, C. M. Ci’awford, Clarence
Markey and Ed Reeder.
The dean’s office of each depart
ment made up the list of instruc
tors who teach senior courses.
CORRECTION
Town Hall season tickets will
not be honored for the Nat
King Cole show. Tickets are
$1.25 general admission, and
$2 and $2.50 reserve seat. They
may be purchased at Student
Activities Office.
Richard Wall
Robei’t R. Stansberry of San An
tonio will be chairman for the Hob
by Group. Under this group are
the Crafts Committee, to be chair
ed by Richard Dilts, and the Cam
era Committee, under the guidance
of John E. West.
WILLIE ALSUP Til of College
Station will be the new chairman
for the Forum Group, which in
cludes the Student Conference on
National Affairs Committee, the
Film Society Committee, the
Browsing Library Committee,
Great Issues Committee and Junto
Committee. Chairman for these
committees ai’e Stanley B. Crock-
Phi Eta Sigma
Will Initiate
In Center
The seventh annual spring
initiation for members of the
Phi Eta Sigma National Hon
or Society will be held today
at 4:30 p.m. in the birch and
assembly rooms of the Memorial
Student Centex’. Group pictux-es
will be made following the initia
tion if weather permits.
Students to be initiated include
William Albritton, Gerald Avery,
Charles Baker, Clifton Bates, Paul
Baugh, Julian Beckman, David Bel-
ote, Curtis Boyd, Roger Burton,
Earl Billingslea, Arthur Cameron,
Calvin Campbell, James Chlapek,
Wilfred Cleland, Fi'eddie Collins,
James Cox, William Culberth,
Eugene Davis, John Dennis, Em
il Eichblatt, Carlton Gipson, Mel-
bei’n Glasscock, Lowman Gober,
Heni’y Heatheily, John Irvin,
James Jones, Ronald Kirkpatrick,
William Little, Douglas Lomax,
John McAlpine, Donald McCune,
William McDaniel, Aaron Mcllher-
an, Rhea McWilliams, Rodolfo
Margo, William Mai’killie, Robei’t
Marshall,
Alton Meyei’, Thomas Miller, Jo
seph Minor, Emmett Mitchell, John
Mossberg, Sam Nave, John Pai’-
tridge, Bobby Phillips, Tannie Piz-
zitola, James Popejoy, Delma Po
sey, Gax-y Proffer’,
Thomas Reddin, Kenneth Redlei’,
Charles Robison, Jay Roland, Man
uel Salinas, Dick Simmons, Carroll
Sinclair’, Robert Smith, Roderick
Stepp, John Stoll, Robert Strobel,
Lawrence Sullivan, Jon Swail, John
Thomas, Floyd Thompson, Danny
Tidwell, Gai’eth Tolman, Jose Vai’-
gas, M. C. Von Minden Ji\, Ralph
Vosdingh, Hubei’t Vykukal, Richai'd
Wade, Herbei't Whalen, Robert
Wilkins, Paul Wilson, Martin Wolf
and Lester Wood.
The students will be excused
from- the practice review to attend
initiation.
Don McGinty
ett Ji\ of Harlingen, Allison Flem
ing Smith of Pasadena, Eddie
Thoi’pe of Hawkins (temporai’y
chairman for the library commit
tee), Jon L. Hagler of LaGrange,
and William K. Meals of Fort
Woiih, respectively.
Hugh E. Whai’ton Jr. of San
Antonio will chair the Games
Gx’oup next year. John Redden
will lead the Bowling Committee,
Donald E. Hicks of Coi’pus Chi’isti
will load the Table Tennis Commit
tee and Charles S. Skillman Jr*, of
Ft. Belvoii’, Va., will chair the
Bx-idge Committee.
CARL FRANK JAGGERS of
Houston was appointed by Whitney
as chairman of the recently organ
ized Speechmasters Committee as
a temporary organization until a
study could be made of its appi’o-
pi’iate place within the MSC ac
tivities.
Latin Week
In MSC Opens
Tomorrow
The second annual “South
of the Border Week,” a way of
bettering the relationship be
tween Latin American resi
dents and the people of this
ai’ea, Avill begin tomori’ow at the
Memox’ial Student Center.
The activities will begin tomoi’-
row afternoon with the Hi - Five
Combo, led by Tommy Short, play
ing in the main lounge of the MSC,
and will end with a special organ
px’ogx’am of Latin American music
Satux-day evening following the
Militai’y Day Review. Charles
Burleson of Huntsville will play.
Other events planned ai’e a Re
cital Sei’ies px-esentation of the
Alai’d Sti’ing Quartet Thui’sday
night, and a Film Society showing
of “Ti’easui’e of Siei’i’a Madre” the
same night.
A special dance will be held Fri
day night for all students who do
not attend the Combat Ball. Ad
mission is $1 per person, and the
Capers Combo will provide music.
1956 Car License
All students and College Sta
tion residents may now purchase
their 1956 license plates in the
Memorial Student Center. A li
cense bureau has been set up in
the Post Office area of the Center
and is open daily from 8:15 a.m.
to 4:45 p.m. It will remain thex-e
until March 26.
Weather Today
RAIN
Occasional rain with possible
thunder storms today, tonight and
tomoiTow is the foi’ecast for East
Central Texas, and slightly wai’mer
tomorrow. Low tonight forecasted
for northern poi'tion of Central
Texas is 34-36 degrees.