Number 110: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1956
Price Five Cents
AAUPBanquet Set
Thursday Night
The local chapter of the Ameri
can Association of University Pro
fessors will hold its annual ban
quet at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the as-
«, sembly room of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Speaker for the evening- will be
Dr. Henry W. Stilwell, president of
4 Texarkana College, who will dis
cuss “The Role of the Junior Col
lege in Texas.” Dr. Stilwell has
associated actively with the Texas
State Teachers Association for the
past 30 years, having been a peren
nial member of the legislative com
mittee of the TSTA and a past
president of the organization.
An invitation to non-members of
the AAUP to attend the banquet
as paying guests, has been extend
ed by the local chapter, according
* to Marvin H. Butler, vice-president.
Architecture
Award
Established
Establishment of the Ern
est Langford award, to be
presented annually to the out
standing member of the
graduating class in architec
ture, highlighted the evening ban
quet session which concluded the
50th anniversary of founding the
. Division of Architecture at A&M
last week.
The Langford award certificate
will go to the student, selected by
the Architecture faculty, who is
considered most outstanding in
character, scholarship, integrity
and civic enterprise. Established
by former architecture students
and close associates of Langford,
the award certificate will first be
presented at the end of the current
semester.
Langford, honor guest at the
•.banquet, and for 35 years a mem
ber of the Architecture staff and
head of the Division since 1929,
was also presented with an astron-
"omical telescope, and he and Mrs.
Langford 1’eceived a 21-inch tele
vision set for their home.
Tickets will be available at $2.15
each at the main desk of the MSC
and in the office of the Economics
Department until noon tomorrow.
Butler stressed the need of mem
bers to support the A&M chapter
of the AAUP, adding that “Dr.
Stilwell is a man who will have a
very worth while message for all
. . . who are genuinely interested
in the Texas school system.”
In addition to being president
of Texarkana College, Dr. Stilwell
also is superintendent of schools in
Texarkana.. In his spare time—
“between speaking engagements”—
he is active in civic organizations
and activities.
“We feel very fortunate in se
curing Dr. Stilwell as our speaker,”
Butler said, in asking members and
non-members of the local chapter
to support the banquet tomorrow
night.
Four College Station
CouncilmenRe-Elected
Nat ‘King’ Cole
Star of Special Show in White Coliseum
‘Record Star Parade'’
Show Tonight Has 6 Stars
EpiscopaleansHold
Conference Here
The annual Spring conference of
the Canterbury Association, Dio
cese of Te^ap, will be held at A&M
Friday through Sunday with ap
proximately | 5 0 representatives
- from Texas schools here.
Students from Baylor, Univer
sity of Houston, Rice, Lamar Tech,
Texas University, and Sam Hous-
* ton State are included in the
group. In addition there will be
schools from the Diocese of West
Texas.
The Rev. Robert C. Darwell of
the local Episcopalian Church and
the A&M Canterbury Club will be
host to the students.
“Record Star Parade of 1955”
will troop into White Coliseum to
night at 8 featuring Nat “King”
Cole, June Christy, The Four
Freshmen, Gary Morton, Patty
Thomas and Ted Heath and his
orchestra.
This top troupe of showmen and
w r omen is being presented as a
feature production sponsored by
Student Activities Office.
Doors open at 7:39, and the High
Five Combo will play from 8 until
8:30 p.m.
Ted Heath and his orchestra, one
of Great Britain’s leading bands,
are making their first American
tour on an exchange agreement
with Stan Kenton.
Cole is one of the singing “idols”
of America, having recorded such
hit records as “Mona Lisa,” “Too
Young,” “Pretend” and many oth
ers. He was born in Montgomei’y,
Ala., and learned to sing in the
church choir after his family moved
to Chicago. His famous trio was
bom after a drummer failed to
show for a quartet engagement
in California. They went on with
out the drummer and this is where
the Cole style was bom.
June Christy is a former singer
with the Kenton band. Her hit
records include “Tampico,” “How
High the Moon,” and “Willow Weep
for Me.”
The Four Freshmen need no in
troduction to A&M, having made a
Town Hall appearance here last
Patty Thomas
‘Favorite Dancer’
Swiss Sea Explorer
Presents Lecture
A dive of 20,000 feet into the
ocean depths is possible with the
“Trieste,” Jacques Piccard told an
audience last night in the Chem
istry Building lecture room, adding
that such a dive could be made in
either the Atlantic or Pacific
oceans.
The Swiss scientist, making a
brief visit in the area under spon
sorship of the Oceanography De
semester. Composing the famous
quai’tet are Ros and Don Barbour,
Ken Errair and Bob Flanigan.
Sparking “Record Star Parade”
with variety ftnd humor will be
Gary Morton, a young comic from
New York, star of night clubs and
television.
Rounding out the troupe is Bob
Hope’s favorite tap dancer, Patty
Thomas. She has appeared on
many television shows, including
progi-ams with Dean Martin and
Jerry Lewis, Eddie Fisher and Bob
Hope.
Tickets are still available at Stu
dent Activities Office. Admission
is $2.50 and $2 for reserved seats
and $1.25 for general admission.
partment, presented a film showing
construction of the bathyscaphe
“Trieste,” sea level tests of the
craft and scenes taken during a
10,000 foot descent off the Italian
coast.
The 100-ton bathyscaphe, 16
yards long and with accommoda
tions for two passengers seated in
a chamber seven feet in diameter,
was built in 1952-53. During 1953,
Jacques and his father, Dr. August
Piccard, made a record dive of
10,335 feet in the “Trieste” but the
following year the French Navy,
using the Bathyscaphe “FNRS-3”
which was built by Dr. Piccard in
1940-48, descended 13,000 feet to
eclipse the Piccard record.
Commenting on the film as it
was being run off and describing
the mysteries of the ocean bottom
to the audience attending the pub
lic lecture, the Swiss scientist ex
plained that tw^ motor-driven pro
pellers are used to turn the craft
during the descent and that light
ing is concentrated in a small ocean
area to give maximum visibility
for thorough observation.
Accompanied by his wife, Pic
card visited the area to confer with
the Oceanography Department on
a possible descent in the Gulf of
Mexico, if plans to bring the bath
yscaphe to this country are carried
out.
Trustee Election
Set For Saturday
Election of school trustees for
the A&M Consolidated School Dis
trict will be held Saturday, accord
ing to Dr. L. S. Richardson, super
intendent of schools.
In the drawing for positions on
the ballot, Dr. Donald Weeks’ name
was drawn first and heads the list.
Ernest J. Redman Jr., Milton D.
Williams and C. A. Bonnen, the
other candidates, are listed in the
order in which their names appear
on the ballot.
Bonnen, incumbent from the
Southside area, will be opposed by
Dr. Weeks. Redman and Williams,
who represent the Wellborn area,
are incumbents without opposition.
The polls are located at A&M
Consolidated School and will be
open from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. Mrs.
C. B. Godbey is judge of the
election.
Brahman Cattle
To Be Shown
At May Show
Brahman cattle will be
shown this year for the first
time since the origin of the
Little Southwestern Livestock
Show and Ham Auction. Ani
mal husbandry students inquiries
have resulted in a class of Brah
man bulls and a class of Brahman
heifers to be shown in addition to
other beef breeds, according to Jer
ry Keith, beef cattle superintendent
for the May show.
“The addition of Brahmans has
created more interest in the Beef
Cattle Division of the show”, said
Harold Franke, herdsman at the
beef center.
Seventy-five AH students will be
judged on their beef cattle showing
ability as they show their animal
from either the Brahman, or Here
ford, or Angus breed. Last year,
Herefoi'ds and Angus were the
only beef breeds shown. Only 51
students entered in this division of
the “Little Southwestern” last
year.
“Sheep, horses, and swine will
also be exhibited,” said Keith.
Judges will base thoir decisions
on how the animals Were fitted and
handled in the show ring. No at
tention will be paid to the individ
ual animal’s merits.
Langford To Serve
8th Term as Mayor
Ernest Langford was re-elected for his eighth term as
mayor of College Station, in unofficial returns from city
elections held yesterday. He received 70 votes of the 71
cast.
Also elected were Marion Pugh, councilman for Ward
One, who received 34 votes; Joe Sorrels. Ward Two, 22 votes;
and A. P. Boyett, Ward Three, 16 votes. All three council-
men were unopposed.
“We appreciate the vote of confidence which the people
of College Station have given us,” said Mayor Langford. “We
will continue to serve to the best of our ability.”
Langford, who is also head of the A&M Architecture
“♦'Division, has be5n mayor
since 1942. His predecessor
Sophs Announce
Orchestra for Ball
Bobby Tinterow and his
orchestra, house-band for Hous
ton’s Shamrock Hotel for the past
three years, will be featured at
the Sophomore Ball April 14. The
dance, which will honor all sopho
more instructors this year, will
start at 9 p. m. and continue until
midnight.
April 9 is the last day sopho
mores may turn in sweetheart
pictures at the Office of Student
Activities. Class officers will pick
five finalists, from whom the
sweetheart will be selected and
presented at the dance.
Chairmen and committees for
the dance include: Arvill Newby
and Bob Surovik, Guest Commit
tee; Bill McLaughlin, Dance Com
mittee; Jerry Ellington, Program
Committee; Don Kirby, Sweetheart
Committee; and Robby* Martin,
Tickets Committee.
Admission is by class dues card
or by tickets purchased at the
door for $3.
T Cabinet
Reaffirms
Resolution
The Y M C A Cabinet h as
passed the following resolu
tion :
“We, the Cabinet of the
Young Men’s Christian Association
of the Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Texas reaffirm the fol
lowing position expressed by the
Fourth National Student Assemb
ly meeting in 1950-51: “Because all
men havf dignity and worth in
their common sonship under God,
we believe that the basic founda
tions for freedom, justice and
peace in the world lie in the rec
ognition of full opportunities for
all men. Thus there are rights
which should be available to all
without discrimination as to race,
color, sex,' birth, social or economic
status, or creed . . .
“We are uncompromisingly op
posed both to racial discrimination
and segregation, and shall work
through the means of peaceful,
non-violent efforts for a social ol
der which provides every individual
regardless of race, opportunity to
participate and shai’e alike in all
relationships of life.
‘We seek to free ourselves from
prejudices and discriminatory prac
tices and shall assure to all indi
viduals the respect due them as
children of God’
“We further resolve to work for
racial equality Which gives every
person regardless of race or color,
the opportunity to share alike in
all relationships of life here at the
Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege of Texas.”
in office was Frank G. Ander
son, Aggie track coach.
One write-in vote was cast
in the election. J. Wayne Stark,
director of the Memorial Student
Center, received a vote for the pos
ition of councilman-at-large, (ma
yor).
Two councilmen are elected from
each ward, one each year, to serve
two terms. The mayor is elected
each year, at large.
Councilmen beginning the sec
ond year of a two-year term in
clude Ernest Seegar, ward three;
G. W. Black, second ward; and J.
A. Orr, third ward. Orr also is
mayor pro-temp.
Soph Deadline
Sophomores may have make-up
picture for the Aggieland made
through Thursday, April 5. This
will be the final deadline.
Architect Senior
Wins $200 Prize
Cecil Steward, senior architect
major from Pampa, recently won
$200 as first prize in the annual
J. Rodney Tabor design competi
tion for fourth year architect stu
dents. Project for the competition
was a suburban home.
In addition to winning the award,
Steward has been given the oppor
tunity to attend a summer school
for American architectural stu
dents in Fontaine Bleau, France.
The school is sponsored by the
French government.
Thirty students from the United
States are’chosen, four of whom
are frpm A&M, Of the top four
students in fourth-year design
here, three have decided to attend
the French school. They are sec
ond place winner Kirby Keahey of
Stephenville, Bill Bedford of Dallas
and Steward.
Weather Today
s
FAIR
Continued fair with little change
in temperature is forecasted for
College Station. Yesterday’s high
was 83 degrees; low, 52 degrees.
Temperature at 10:30 this morn
ing was 79 degrees.
Army Seniors
Missing Children
Found by Party
Four children from Houston,
missing since Monday afternoon
and hunted by a search party of
more than 400 men, were found un
hurt early yesterday morning af
ter spending 15 hours in a wooded
area about nine miles south of Col
lege Station.
The children were Jd Ellen, 8,
and Charles Dawson, 3, children
of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Dawson; E.
B. Bowen, Jr., 5, and Larry Bowen,
3, sons of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Bow
en of Pearland. The two families
had been visiting at the home of
Mrs. Ellen Jordan.
Sheriff J. W. Hamilton led the
search, joined by Bryan, College
Station and Campus Security po
lice, National Guard members,
Bryan Air Force Base personnel
and neighbors. Mrs. Dawson was
bitten by a copperhead snake dur
ing the search and had to be rush
ed to the hospital, where she was
reported doing fine.
All students scheduled to receive
an army commission at the end of
the current school year, at sum
mer camp or at the end of either
SWISS SEA SCIENTISTS—Jacques Piccard and his fath- summer school session, will meet
er, Dr. August Piccard, are shown standing on their bathy- * n the Chemistry Lecture room at
scape. The younger of the famed Swiss family lectured last 7 p- m. Thursday, to apply for
night on the construction of the vessel. The program was length of service and active duty
sponsored by the Oceanography Department. I entry date they desire.
Game Rained Out
Rain caused postponment of
the A&M-Rice Institute baseball
game yesterday at Houston. The
game will be made up May 4-5,
when the Owls come to College
Station for a two-day series. One
of the games will he a double-
header; the other a single.
SHARP SHOOTING AGGIES—A&M’s pistol team walked off with 11 medals in competi
tion with 10 other teams at a recent pistol match sponsored by the Austin Rifle Club.
One medal went to each man for his work in helping the team to win the .22 caliber
team match; the rest of the medals are individual awards. Team members are, left to
right, Donald R. Hawley, Kenneth M. Snipes, Neal C. Cameron and Thomas T. Soutter.
Standing at left rear is Col. Henry L. Phillips, officer-in-charge; Sfc. Floyd R. Adams,
right rear, is team coach.