Battalion
Number 105: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1956
Price 5 Cents
•COMHAT CUTIE—Mrs. Sarah Lonquist, wife of senior
Jack Lonquist of Caldwell, was chosen as the “Cutest of
the Combat Cuties” at Friday night’s Combat Ball in Sbisa
Hall. Five finalists were in the competition.
Kiwanis Club’s Feast
To Be Held Saturday
.. Batter will fly, syrup will
flow, and bacon will fry, as
the College Station and Bry
an . Kiwanis Clubs present
their third annual Pancake
festival at the Bryan Country Club
this Saturday from noon until 2
p.m. and 4 to 9 p.m.
Quaker Oats’ famous Aunt Je
mima will arrive in town Thursday
to be on hand at the flapjack func
tion. Her staff of cooks will insure
visitors pancakes in the finest
Southern tradition.
With increased griddle space
added this year, no one should have
to wait in the line more than 19
minutes, and after paying the 75
cent adniission, everybody can come
around for seconds as often as he
Ijkes, on everything but milk.
More than $800 was split be
tween the clubs for their under-
Thompson Granted
Leave Of Absence
Uel D. Thompson, animal hus-
bandryman for the Texas Agri
cultural Extension Service, has
been granted a leave-of-absence to
do special animal husbandry work
ip Brazil. He has been with the
Extension Service since 1948.
Thompson is to serve as live
stock adviser with the Internation
al Cooperation Administration with
headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. He
will work in developing an improv
ed agricultural program in Brazil
and give special emphasis to ani
mal nutrition, beef cattle, swine
pi-oduction, management and mar
keting of livestock and livestock
products and disease and parasite
control.
Thompson, with his wife, son
Wayne, and daughter Sherry,
left College Station March 10 for
Washington, D.C. whei’e he will
take a special two weeks orienta
tion course. They will fly to Bra
zil from New York.
privileged children and youth rec
reation work last year, and co-
chairman W. E. Briles says that
there should be more customers
than last year’s 1,500.
“Pancakes like the Kiwanis Club
make can be eaten and enjoyed
for any meal,” Briles said: “If you
don’t believe it, corqe out Saturday
and find out.”
Tickets can be bought from any
Khlvanis member in Bryan or Col
lege Station. They are also avail
able at McCarty’s jewelers at the
North Gate in College Station, Sol
Klien’s, W.S.D., and Wick Massey
in Bryan.
New Name Chosen If
By College Station
Promotion Group
Penney’s Manager
Will Speak Tonight
Wilbur J. Lee, manager of J. C.
Penney Company’s Bryan store,
will speak to the A&M Marketing
Society-tonight at 7:30 in the MSC.
He will speak on “opportunities
in retailing,” after which a question
and answer period will be held.
Lee has been with the Penney
Co. for 25 years. He came to Bry
an from Still Oaks in 1952. He
has managed stores in Still Oaks
and Baytown.
Installment Is Due
Installment fees are now pay
able to the Fiscal Department
totaling $60.70. Room and board,
$41.85; room rent, $15 and laun
dry fee $3.85.
Deadline for payment of the
fees is Wednesday. Late payers
will be fined $1 per day late.
By WEI.TON JONES
Battalion City Editor
The College Station Develop
ment Association and Chamber of
Commerce held its annual commun
ity meeting last night, and voted
to change its name to “The Col
lege Station Civic Association”.
The Association also approved
amendements to the constitution,
appointed committees and chair
men, drafted a budget for 1956,
and the annual membership cam
paign.
The newly amended constitution
provides changes in aims, mem
bership, dues, committee members,
and ex-officio members.
Article One of the new constitu
tion states that the Association
will try to “represent the people
of the College Station community
and others . . . interested in the
progress, welfare, and proper de
velopment of the City of College
Station and particularly to assist
in rtieeting the local needs of the
A&M College.”
Section “b” of the article says
that the Association will try to
“develop here a city of homes and
schools; to encourage and support
business enterprises . . .; to sup
port the City of College Station
and the A&M Consolidated Schools.
Active membership is now avail
able to “non-residents who derive
their principal means of livelihood
in College Station.” Formerly,
membership was limited to resi
dents of College Station.
Individual and business or pi’o-
sessional sustaining membership
will be provided for firms or in
dividuals not eligible for active
membership, but wishing to sup
port the community.
Dues for individual membership,
both active and sustaining, will be
$5 per calender year. Active bus
iness or professional member’s
dues will be a minimum of $5,
plus additional voluntary contribu
tions. Sustaining business or pro
fessional members will pay in
“grades of $25, $50, $100, or more.”
According to the revised consti
tution, “Not less than two-thirds
of the membership of the Board of
Directors shall be College Station
Residents.” President of the A&M
College, Chancellor of the A&M
System, Manager of the city of
College Station, and Superinten
dent of the A& MConsolidated will
be ex-officio members of the board.
The new constitution of the As
sociation cuts the number of stand
ing committees from 15 to four.
These are membership, Nestor Mc
Ginnis; finance, Luther Jones;
civic, Gibb Gilchrist; and educa
tion, Les Richardson.
The following items were in
cluded in the 1956 Civic Associa
tion budget: Consolidated schools,
$250; sidewalk on Jersey St., $500;
youth recreation, $250; T.B. X-ray
and blood drive, $150; publicity for
College Station and A&M, $100;
welcoming committee, $100; Car
negie Library bookmobile, $100;
printing, $50; office supplies, $50;
manager’s salary, $300; and con-
tingincies, $200.
Class Filings
Open; Election
Set March 27
Filings for class offices for
the 1956-57 school term be
gan yesterday and will be op
en until March 27, said W. D.
(Pete) Hardesty, organization
advisor of the Department of Stu
dent Activities.
Members of the classes of ’57,
’58 and ’59 may file for positions
as president, vice-president, secre-
tary, social secretary, treasurer,
parliamentarian and sergeant-at-
arms.
The class of ’57 will elect two
yell leaders and a student enter
tainment manager. Qualifications
for yell leader are a 1.25 grade
point ratio and academic classifi
cation as a junior. The student en
tertainment manager must also
have the consent of the Director
of Recreation and Entertainment
of the Department of Student Ac
tivities, and one year of experience
on the student entertainment staff.
The class of ’58 will elect tw'o
yell leaders. A 1.25 gpr and aca
demic classification as a sophomore
are the qualifications for this pos
ition.
Qualifications for all class offi
ces are a 1.0 gpr and academic clas
sification in the class at time of
election.
The election will be held April
11, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Runoffs will be
held April 18. Filings close at
5 p.m., March 27.
The Election Commission states
that primaries of any form, with
out the consent of the commission,
are illegal. All persons found con
nected with such a primary are
subject to ineligibility to hold of
fice for two preceding years, Har
desty said.
Chib Pictures Due
Wednesday is the last day for
scheduling club pictures for the
’56 Aggieland. Payment must be
made when scheduling. Pictures
may be made later, but tomorrow
is the last day, the pictures will be
scheduled for the annual.
The Singing Sergeants
Appear Here With United States Air Force Band
Air Force Band
Town HalFs Here Again
By ROGER CLUXT
Battalion Staff Writer
Town Hall will present its last
attraction of the year Thursday
night when the United States Air
Force Band appears in White Coli
seum at 8.
Featm-ed with the band will be
the Singing Sergeants, who were
presented last year as a bonus
Town Hall attraction. This is the
first appearance for the USAFB in
this area.
Col. George S. Howard conducts
the band while Capt. Robert L.
Landers directs the Singing Sei'-
geants. The program also features
a harmonica soloist and several yo-
■calists.
The band does not feel that a
musical organization has to be
either “long haired” or “jazzy.”
Fred Cox Gets
Science Award
A National Science Foundation
predoctoral fellowship for the
1956-57 academic year has been
awarded to Fred B. Cox Jr., of
Bryan, an electrical engineering
major here. He will attend Mass
achusetts Institute of Technology
on the fellowship.
It performs any type of music with
professional standard and presents
programs that are designed to sat
isfy any music lover—from opera
to be-bop.
More than 1,400 professional mu
sicians have been auditioned for
membership in the band. These
men were selected from a wide
variety of musical organizations
ranging from the Philadelphia Or
chestra to the Honolulu Symphony
and from the Tommy Dorsey dance
band to the Arthur Pryor concert
band. There are 20 symphony or-
RV’s Sponsor
Money Drive
For 4 Mom’
The Ross Volunteer
pany is sponsoring a
CLOUDY
• The forecast for College Sta
tion is partly cloudy with possible
rain showers early tomorrow morn
ing. Yesterday’s high of 70 de
grees dropped to 42 degrees this
morning. Temperature at 10:30
a.m. today was 54 degrees.'
TRAVELING CHANCELLOR—Dr. M. T. Harrington, chancellor of the A&M College
System, and his wife, stopped at San Francisco on the first hop of their trip around
the world. They were boarding a Pan American Airways Clipper for the first over-seas
leg to Honolulu. The trip will include stops at most of the major countries. The Har
ringtons will return to College Station April 17.
General Pate
'Impressed'
With Aggies
Gen. R. M. Pate, honor guest
for Military Day activities
last Saturday, was “tremend
ously impressed” with the
Corps, according to Col. Joe
E. Davis, commandant.
All of the visiting dignitar
ies gave favorable and very
commendabe remarks, he ad
ded.
Col. Ormond R. Simpson,
’36 and former deputy Corps
commander, said the review
was “far superior to the old
days.”
“Everyone was very pleas
ed with the showing of the
Corps on the drill field Satur
day,” said Larry Kennedy,
Corps commander. “Every
student is to be congratulated /"i •
on the fine performance.” GOFlTCtlOH
In Friday’s Student Senate story,
two quotations were printed which
have been misinterpreted. The
quotes were from Doug De Cluitt
and should have read as follows:
Dr. Harold G. Cassidy, of the de- “When I came to A&M, tradi-
partment of chemistry, Yale Uni- tions of freshmen wearing lip stick
versity, will address the A&M Sec- ■ and walking in gutters before the
t '° n ^ rner ' can Chemical So- j University of Texas football game
MjijUjlciety at Morrison Hall, Baylor were going out because it was de-
j University, tonight. The subject j grading. To me, when I was a
killli ^' S ^dress is “Nature and Use | freshman, it would have been more
i °f Chromatography.” degrading to have a Negro boy
lUl! 1 Cassid y received his B.A. and j chew me out than to wear lipstick
1 *** M.A. degrees from Oberlin College HI year round and walk in steam
in 1930 and 1932 and later taught j tunnels.
there. He received his Ph.D. de- “There is a time and place for
gree in 1939 at Yale University, : it,” he continued. “It should be
where he is now an associate pro- : started in grade school—not col-
fessor of chemistry. j lege.”
Aggie Chemists
Meet At Baylor
Corn-
cam
paign to raise as much money
as possible for Mrs. Irene
(Mom) Claghorn.
“Mom” is a long-time friend of
all Aggies and has been the Super
intendent of the College Hospital
for some 38 years.
She was seriously injui’ed in an
automobile accident on March 4
near Dallas. She is suffering from
a shattei'ed left leg, a crushed chest
and multiple cuts and bruises.
At the present time the hospital
hills run close to $70 a day, plus
the amount needed to engage spe
cialists, to keep “Mom” in Baylor
Hospital.
It has been estimated that she
may be hospitalized for as long as
4 months.
The campaign has begun and in
last week’s meeting of the Student
Senate the matter was referred to
the Student Welfare Committee.
Collection points have been placed
over the campus and door-to-door
campaigns will be made.
Any local friends of “Mom” can
contribute to the fund by sending
a check made out as follows:
“Mom” Claghorn Fund — Box
4538, College Station, Texas.
“Mom’s” present address is Bay
lor Hospital, Room 611, Dallas,
Texas.
chestras and 16 dance bands rep
resented.
The USAFB has made five con
cert tours of Eui'ope and has toured
in the United States, Canada, Eng
land, Scotland, Ireland, Wales,
France, Germany, Austria, The
Netherlands, Belgium, Luxem-
boui’g, Denmark, Trieste, Iceland,
Newfoundland, The Azores, Libya
and French Morocco. It has also
appeared in 14 world capitals.
The group played to 100,000 peo
ple nightly for 17 consecutive
nights at Chicago’s Soldier Field
and at the Toronto Exhibition
Grounds in Canada, it played to
50,000 people daily for 34 consecu
tive days.
These attendances occurred in
pi-actically everyone of the 26 coun
tries in which the band has appear
ed and include performances in
which the audience was larger than
the population of the city in which
the concert was given.
Town Hall season tickets will be
honored for the performance. Tick
ets may be purchased for $1 and
$1.50 for students and $2 and $2.50
for non-students at the Office of
Student Activities, second floor,
Goodwin Hall.
A&M College
Now Has
Official Prayer
A&M’s chaplains have re
ceived help in their dream of
an Aggie prayer.
The Student Senate, at their
meeting Thursday night, ap
proved the following prayer as of
ficial prayer of the A&M student
body:
“God of all men everywhere, we
are thankful for your love which
penetrates all barriers. Help us to
be the men we ought to be. Make
us deeply aware of the shortness
and uncertainty of human life. For
give us when we seek anything but
doing your will. As we realize our
positions of leadership, may our
devotion to you be beyond the call
of duty.
Teach us to be unashamed of
your presence in us as we stand
upright before our fellowmen, our
leaders, and our loved ones. Instill
in mankind a sense of brotherhood
and a desire for peace. Amen.”
Harry Scott, Corps chaplain;
Phil Weinert, first regimental
chaplain; Sam Laden, second regi
mental chaplain; Bob Bacher, first
"ing chaplain; Bill Gilbert, second
ving chaplain; Joe Blair, civilian
chaplain; and Howard Childers,
acting assistant civilian chaplain;
put in many hours toward the for
mation of the Aggie Prayer.
Other workers include J. Gordon
Ga y> general secretary of the
''t MCA; Marvin Noble, Interfaith
Council president; and Stewart
Coffman, YMCA Cabinet.
The prayer will be repeated by
the entire student body on special
occasions.