The Battalion
Number 104: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1956
Price 5 Cents
Teague, Callisli
To Be Guests
Military Day
Olin E. Teague, Democrat
of College Station, and Col.
Norman L. Callish, Ellington
Air Force Base Commander,
will be among Military Day
distinguished guests here.
Teague, class ’32, commanded
; the first battalion, 314th Infantry
Regiment, 79th Division during
WW IT. He was in combat six
; months and wounded several times.
Before entering the army, he was
' | superintendent of the South Sta-
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tion Post Office here.
He was discharged
Olin E. Teague
Military Day Visitor
Three Trustees
Will Be Elected
Election of three new members
to the A&M Consolidated board of
trustees is set for April 7, accord
ing to L. S. Richardson, superin
tendent of schools.
Trustee election dates are set by
statute as the first Saturday in
April of each year. The terms of
C. A. Bonnen, Ernest J. Redman,
Jr., and Milton D. Williams expire.
Redman and Williams represent
the Wellborn area and Bonnen is
the temporary representative of
the College Station Southside area.
Absentee balloting begins in the
school office of Mrs. L. S. Paine at
8:00 a.m. on March 17 and ends
at 5:00 p.m. on April 3. Petitions
for placing names of candidates on
the ballots must be filed by 5:00
p.m., March 16, in Mrs. Paine’s of
fice. Petition forms are available
in her office.
Residents of the A&M Consolida
ted Independent School District
will also have an opportuunity to
vote on their representative to the
county school board at that time.
Physics Course
To Be Taught
This Summer
Both women anchmen teach
ers will be student!?during the
Summer Institute for Texas
High School Physics Teachers
June 4—July 13 at A&M, said
J. G. Potter, head of the Physics
Department.
He stressed that “salvation of
high school science teaching will
lie in interesting more prospective
women teachers in preparing to
teach the sciences”.
With $250 fellowships contribu
ted by industrial companies avail
able to the teachers, the Institute,
with an anticipated enrollment of
30 students, will double the number
of qualified Texas high school
physics teachers, Potter said. The
fellowships will easily cover all
necessary expenses, he added, since
special dormitory accommodations
have been arranged for both men
and women groups.
Application blanks and further
information on the Institute may
be obtained from H. L. Heaton, col
lege registrar.
Prerequisites for applicants in
clude college algebra, familiarity
with the trigonometric functions
and some acquaintance with psys-
ics comparable to that made
through a minimum introductory
college physics or general science
course.
Six hours of graduate work will
be granted for satisfactory com
pletion of the program, Potter said.
Weather Today
CLEAR
The forecast for College Station
is clear with occasional high scat
tered clouds. No drastic change
in temperatures. Yesterday’s high
of 58 degrees dropped to a low of
48 degrees early this morning.
was discharged at Walter
Reed Hospital in 1946 with the
rank of colonel. Among his
awards are the Silver Star with
two clusters, Bronze Star with two
clusters, Purple Heart with two
clusters, Combat Infantryman’s
Badge, Army Commendation Rib
bon, French Croix de Guerre with
Palm and was elected to the 79th
Congress in 1946 to fill the unex
pired term of Judge Luther A.
Johnson, resigned. He has been
reelected for five straight terms.
Col. Callish was born in San
Jose, California. He entered pilot
training at the age of 26 and was
commissioned a second lieutenant
in 1935. He then spent two years
at Luke Field, Hawaii and was
then assigned instructor at Kelly
Field.
He attended the Armed Forces
Staff College and the National War
College before being assigned as
commander at Ellington Air Force
Base in 1953. Col. Callish is mar
ried and has two daughters, Betty,
12, and Patricia, 4.
Spring Military Day Tomorrow
Will Feature Generals, Dances
News of the World
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSCOW—American impressa-
rio Sol Hurok prepared yesterday
to sign contracts for the first ap
pearance in the United States of
the famed Moiseyev dancers. He
has spent 10 days in negotiation
with the Soviet Ministry of Cul
ture.
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WASHINGTON—The nation’s
top defense leaders indicated yes
terday that President Eisenhow
er’s “open skies” plan for mutual
aerial inspection has been refined
to a point where it would prevent
any decisive surprise attack.
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LONDON—Former Soviet Pre
mier Georgi M. Malenkov arrived
in Britain yesterday on his first
visit beyond the Iron Curtain. Ap
parently he was delighted by the
experience. The pudgy Russian of
ficial, who lost his job as premier
a year ago because of self-confess
ed failures, spent the first after
noon of his three-week tour of
Britain in the Soviet Embassy on
“Millionaire’s Row.”
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UNITED NATIONS —U. N.
Undersecretary Dragoslav Pro-
titeh, a Yugoslav veteran of the
Security Council secretariat, will
attend the five-power Disarma
ment subcommittee talks opening
Monday in London. He will rep
resent Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold.
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OTTAWA—Iran plans to open
its first legation in Canada next
month with Ali Motamedi, Cabinet
member and former ambassador to
Rome and New Delhi, as minister.
Preliminaries are being handled by
Acting Charge d’Affaires M. A.
Massoud Ansari.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus—Cypriot la
bor leaders called last night for
an end to the four-day-old gen
eral strike protesting the de
portation of Archbishop Maka-
rios. The back-to-work plea was
issued by the Communist-domi
nated Cyprus Federation of La
bor even as a fresh wave of vio
lence spread through this rebel
lious British colony.
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WASHINGTON—The Senate ap
proved a “dual parity” system of
price supports for basic crops yes
terday, promising farmers about
400 million dollars more in bene
fits this year.
23-7 Vote Taken
S. S. Opposes Segregation
By RALPH COLE
Battalion Managing Editor
The Student Senate, by a mar
gin of 23-7, went on record last
night as “opposing segregation”.
The decision, which took more
than two hours to decide, came af
ter much debate. A roll-call vote
was taken to determine the issue.
Sixteen members of the Senate
were absent, leaving 32 voting
members present. B. A. (Scotty)
Parham, Senate President, did not
vote. A minute of silent prayer
was offered by each member pres
ent before the voting took place.
Frank Patterson, senior senator,
presented a poll taken by several
students in the East Corps area
only. The poll was supposedly
taken from a representative group
of A&M students. The Senate did
not use the poll which supported
segregation, due to inadequate
proof that it was representative
of the student body.
During the arguments, Doug De
Cluitt, junior senator, said, “It
would be more degrading to me to
have a Negro boy chew me out
than to wear lip stick all year
round and walk in steam tunnels.
“There is a time and place for
it,” he continued, “in grade school
but not in college.”
Closing argument was given by
Joe Ross, civilian senator. “Let’s
do what God wants, and not base
our votes on public opinion,” he
said.
A motion to postpone the vote
until a later meeting did not pass.
Every senator present had a chance
to have his say on the matter, and
most of them did.
The issue was presented by
Frank Webber, delegate to the
Texas Intercollegiate Students As
sociation Conference at Abilene I'e-
cently. A&M’s delegates voted for
desegi’egation at the convention.
Local Croups
To Hold Meeting
The College Station Development
Association and Chamber of Com
merce will hold its annual commu
nity meeting Monday, at 7:30 p.m.,
in the A&M Consolidated High
School auditorium, according to W.
H. Delaplane, president of the As
sociation.
“The purpose of the meeting is
to consider pi-oposed amendments
to the constitution and to hear re
ports on proposed activities for
1956,” Delaplane said.
The Development Association
board of directors meets on the sec
ond Monday of each month in the
College Station State Bank at 4
p.m., Delaplane added.
“This is not a meeting of the
directors, but a meeting for the
members,” he said. “The members,
of course, are the citizens of Col
lege Station.”
SINGmG OFFICERS—Shmvii above are the officers of the Singing Cadets. They are
left to right Charles Jenkins, reporter; Bob Surovik, librarian; Harry Scott, president;
Reck Arnold, vice-president; and Ed Burkhead, business manager The Simrino- Cadets
will present a concert at 2:30 Sunday afternoon in Guion Hall.
Former Advisor
Dies In Illinois
Charles Firth, 81, former stu
dent advisor here during World
War I, died last week in a Grand
Island, 111. hospital.
Funeral services were conducted
Tuesday in the First Baptist
Church of Grand Island. Burial
was in the Grand Island Cemetery.
Firth was born Nov. 5, 1874, at
Boston, Mass. He' was gradua
ted from Bucknell University,
Lewisburg, Pa., and from the The
ological University at Chicago.
Surviving are his wife and a
daughter. Miss Margaret E. Firth,
of Arlington Heights, 111.
In other business, the Student
Senate went on tecord as favoring
“no censorship of the college
press.” Every senator favored the
resolution with the exception of
two—Dave Parnell, senior sena
tor, and Dan Davis, civilian sena
tor.
Parnell pointed out that “even
our paper prints hearsay as facts.”
The question of freedom of press
for college papers arose from the
recent resolution passed at the
TISA convention. The University
of Texas was used as an example
during discussion, before the final
vote was take.
The Student Senators decided to
let A Quartermaster Corps keep
Reveille for the remainder of the
year. Pax-nell presented a plan
for date tickets to the Senate,
which is now being studied by the
Athletic Council.
The Student Welfare Committee
will start a collection for Mrs.
Irene (Mom) Claghorn, who was
injured in an 1 automobile accident
recently. The Houston A&M Club
is also taking up a collection to
help pay the $75 a day expenses.
A&M Scholarships
Given To Seniors
Two high school seniors were
presented scholarships to A&M, to
taling $4,500, at a presentation
ceremony at the Houston Fat Stock
Show last Saturday night.
Buddy Teague of Hico won a
$2,000 scholarship and Tommy L.
McDougald of lola won a $2,500
award, according to E. E. McQuil-
len, Director of the College Devel
opment Fund.
The awards were donated by Ed
Odom of Orange and L. E. Cowl
ing of Houston.
Dean J. E. Adams, of the School
of Agriculture, presented Teague
and McDougald their awards. Both
winners, who will enter A&M in
the fall, were chosen on the basis
of their high school records as
well as on the showing of their
stock at the show.
Also present at the ceremony
was the A&M Corps Color Guard
composed of Dale Offield, John
Dillard, Jack Brown and Ellis
Mooring.
Other A&M students present at
the ceremony were Jimmy Butler,
Don McGinty and Leonard Ber
ger.
Breakfast Opens Activities;
Review Begins At 1:30
Texas A&M College, known for
its flexibility, will change from,
“western” to “military” this week
end as the annual Spring Military
Day gets underway.
Starting events will be held in
Maggie Parker Dining Hall tomor
row as the Bryan Chamber of Com
merce plays host to visiting digni
taries at a breakfast at 7:30. The
breakfast will be followed by a
tour of the campus. Larry Ken
nedy, Corps commander, will serve
as host to the distinguished guests
at a luncheon in Sbisa Hall. The
Singing Cadets
To Give Concert
In Guion Hall
The Singing Cadets, under
the direction of Bill Turner,
will present a musical pro
gram at 2:30 Sunday after
noon in Guion Hall. The con
cert is open to the public free of
charge.
Charley Jenkins, tenor; Rocky
Arlond, baritone; James Bond, ten
or; Edward Burkhead, tenor; and
John Brannen, bass, will be fea
tured as soloists.
This year, the Cadets will include
an entire section of popular songs
from Broadway productions. In
cluded in the numbers will be “Be-
guine the Beguine,” “You’ll Never
Walk Alone,” “The Surrey With
the Fringe on Top,” “There’s Noth
ing Like a Dame” and “Unchained
Melody.”
The program will also include
sacred selections such as “Gloria
in Excelsis” (Mozart), “Adoi’amus
te Christe” (Palestrina), “A
Mighty oFrtress Is Our God” (Lu
ther) and “This Is My Father’s
World.” Spirituals to be sung will
be “Set Down Servant” and “Nor-
ah.”
The Singing Cadets, having just
completed a tour to Dallas, Mt.
Pleasant and Tyler, will appear
Sunday in the recently approved
uniform of white shirts, black bow-
ties and white citation cords.
Corps Of Cadets
Go Into Khakis
The Corps of Cadets will go
into summer uniform at Rev
eille Monday, March 19, ac
cording to Lt. Col. Taylor Wil
kins, assistant Commandant.
Khaki uniforms without ties
will be worn from Reveille to
Retreat. From Retreat until
Taps, cadets will wear ties.
group will then retire to the main
drill field where the Corps of Ca
dets will participate in a review.
Units will fall out at 1:30 and
move out of the dormitory area at
1:35. Uniform for the review is
class A winter with helmet liners.
Reception
President and Mrs. David H.
Morgan will be hosts at a reception
at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Student
Center. It will be in honor of
visiting guests, faculty and student
body leaders. Col. Joe E. Davis,
commandant, will hold a buffet
supper in the MSC later tomorrow
evening.
Distinguished guests will attend
the Military Ball tomorrow night,
beginning at 9 and ending at 12.
The dance is formal and features
Teddy Phillips and the voice of
Monica Lewis.
Miss Lewis was born in Chicago,
111., but later moved to New York.
She made her first audition in New
York and was signed for a 15-min-
ute-a-week show of her own. Later,
Martin Block chose her to co-star
with Johnny Johnston on the Ches
terfield Supper Club for a 39-week
run. The ash blonde, brown-eyed
chirper has recently appeared with
Col. Norman Callish
Military Day Guest
Eddie Fisher, Red Buttons, George
Jessel and on her own television
show, the “Monica Lewis Show.”
Lot of Experience
Although Phillips is only 32, he
has had a lot of experience in the
music business. He started his ca
reer while attending high school
in Chicago, and upon graduation,
was given a job with the late Ben
Bernie. Later, Phillips moved to
the Ted Weems Orchestra and was
also with Lawrence Welk before
deciding to organize his own band.
(See MILITARY DAY, Page 4)
EL SALVADOR—Shown above is one of the many dis
plays in the Student Center representing countries south
of the border. The Center has devoted this week as
“South of the Border Week.” Entertainment and MSC
employee’s costumes have been designed to help celebiate
the affair.