Number 111: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1956
Price Five Cents
WELL-DESERVED REST—Nat ‘King’ Cole, popular sing
ing star who was featured performer at last night’s special
show in White Coliseum, takes time out to breathe again,
following his long-singing stint which closed “Record Star
Parade of 1956.” Audience reception last night was termed
“extremely satisfied.”
150 Word Essay
Contest Starts
For ‘Mrs. A&M’
The annual contest for “Mrs.
Texas A&M,” the typical As^ie
Wife, is open for all qualified ap
plicants, according- to Dave Broth
ers, chairman.
The contest, sponsored annually
by The Battalion and the Dance
Group of the MSC directorate’s of
fice, will end at midnight, April
17.
Mrs. Texas A&M is selected on
the qualities of an outstanding
wife. Applicants should write an
essay of 150 words or less, saying',
“I think my wife should be Mrs.
Texas A&M because
Applications may be sent to The
Battalion or to the main desk of
the MSC with an entry blank and
n small picture.
Stilwell To Speak
At AAUP Banquet
Dr. Henry W. Stilwell will be
featured speaker tonight at the
annual banquet of the A&M Chap
ter of the American Association of
University Professors. The ban
quet will be held at 7 in the as
sembly room of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Dr. Stilwell is president of Tex
arkana College and a long-time
member of the Texas State Teach
ers Association, having previously
been a presidenj; of that organiza
tion. He will speak on “The Role
of the Junior College in Texas”
at tonight’s program.
Non^members as well as mem
bers of the local chapter were in
vited to the affair. Tickets, how
ever, went off sale today at noon.
All married Aggies are eligible
to enter their wives. Entry blanks
may be picked up at The Battalion
office or the MSC directorate of
fice.
The winner will be honored at
the formal ball in the ballroom of
the MSC, April 21 from 9 to 12
p.m. The winner will be announ
ced at the dance. Music will be
furnished by the Aggieland Orches
tra.
This year Mrs. Texas A&M will
be fealmred in a full page of the
1956 Aggieland, and also will get
many gifts donated by local mer
chants.
Partial list of the donors includes
a loving cup, Sankey Park; pre
sentation bouquet, Aggieland Flow
er Shop; $5 gift certificate, WSD
Clothiers; shampoo and wave set,
House of Beauty; gift certificate,
Eugene Edge Clothiei-s.
Ladies bracelet, Varner Jewelers,
(See MRS. TEXAS A&M, Page 6).
Debate Meeting
To Draw Aggies
A&M’s two senior debate teams
will participate in the Southwest
Conference debate tournament Fri
day and Saturday at Rice Institute.
Members of the teams are John
Wilson and David Bowers, and
E. M. Huitt and Bill Beard.
Debate topic for the tournament
is: “Resolve that the non-agricul-
tural industries of the United
States should guarantee their em
ployees an annual wage.”
The teams will* be accompanied
by the coach, Lee Martin, and his
assistant, Vic Weining.
News of the World
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — President Eisenhower declared in
forceful tones yesterday that he never will send America off
to war “until Congress directs it.” This was a restatement
of an old position for the President, as was his word that in
some instances American troops might have to act in self-
defense without advance congressional approval. But it
stood out at his news conference because of the emphasis he
put into it and his obvious exasperation that anyone would
even ask about it.
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—In a rare unanimous
vote, the U.N. Security Council yesterday directed Sec
retary General Dag Hammarskjold to undertake a spe
cial peace mission to the troubled Middle East. The Sov
iet Union joined the Council majority in supporting the
United States plan after trying unsuccessfully to modify
the wording by a series of proposed amendments. Israel
and her four Arab neighbors — Syria, Lebanon, Egypt
and Jordan—pledged their full cooperation.
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Cleanup operations were pushed Wednesday in many
communities left torn and battered by the season’s worst rash
of death-dealing tornadoes and destructive winds. The two-
day storm toll in the 13 midcontinent states affected reached
44 dead, more than 325 injured and property damage near
15 million dollars. The American Red Cross said in Wash
ington that 320 homes were destroyed, 969 damaged and
1,496 families affected in the eight states hardest hit Mon
day and Tuesday. The Red Cross reports came from Mich
igan, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Kansas, Mississippi, Arkansas,
Tennessee and Missouri.
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PARIS—Official French sources said yesterday the
government is considering Israeli requests for French
arms and would like to see the balance of power restored
in the Middle East. This balance, in the French view,
was disturbed when the Soviet bloc started shipping 200
fighter planes and an estimated 60 jet bombers to Egypt.
Prof Hospitality Week
Planned April 16-21
Third annual Prof Hospitality
Week was slated for April 16-21
yesterday by a sub-committee of
the Student Life Committee.
“Professors are usually very in
terested in student life and campus
activities,” said Dr. C. W. Landiss,
chairman of the sub-committee.
“But the avei-age professor has
very little association with students
outside classroom work, and stu
dents seldom take the opportunity
for an informal session with in
structors. So the Student Life
Committee each year sponsors a
program whereby students and
staff members can meet infor
mally.”
Last year 120 professm-s and
1,300 students pai-ticipated in the
program, Landiss said. “We are
hoping for even better participation
this year.”
“This year Prof Hospitality
Week will be handled a little dif
ferently than in the past,” he said.
“Professors and other staff mem-
bei-s will be in charge of their own
invitations. Last year faculty
members who wanted to invite stu
dents to their homes and students
who wished to visit professors,
signed up with the Student Life
Committee.”
The manner in which the invita
tions are handled will be up to
the instructor. Participation will
be strictly voluntary on part of the
faculty and students, Landiss said.
Some of the suggested ways of
handling the invitations are as fol
lows:
• Post the invitation with the
number of spaces (students to be
invited) outside classroom or office
and notify the class. This way
invitations would be handled on a
first-come, first-served basis.
• If an instructor wants stu
dents from other classes or de
partments than his own, he can
make the arrangements with an
other professor to invite students
for him.
• The professor can ask a stu
dent he knows to invite others from
his dormitory.
• Faculty members may use
their own ingenuity, both in ex
tending the invitations and in plan
ning the program.
“Last year several of the pro
fessors invited married students to
bring their wives one night and
single students another night,”
Landiss pointed out.
What’s Cooking
The following clubs will meet to
night:
7:15 p.m.
Trans-Pecos Hometown Club
will meet in the C.E. lecture room
to select their Cotton Ball repre
sentative.
Guadalupe Valley Hometown
Club will meet in room 207 of the
C.E. Builing.
Wichita Falls Hometown Club
will meet in room 323 of the Aca
demic Building.
7:30 p.m.
San Antonio Hometown Club will
meet in room 301 of the Academic
Building.
Williamson County Hometown
Club meets in room 328 of the
Academic Building.
Beaumont A&M Club will meet
in room 103 of the Academic Build
ing.
Red River Valley Hometown Club
will meet in room 3B of the MSC.
Waco-McClennan County Home
town Club will meet in the cabinet
room of the YMCA.
San Angelo-West Texas Home
town Club will meet in room 203 of
the Agriculture Building.
El Paso Hometown Club will
meet in the Academic Building.
Houston Hometown Club will
meet in room 107 of the Biology
Building.
Austin Hometown Club will meet
in room 106 of the Academic Build
ing.
Panhandle Club meets in the
Academic Building.
Tyler-Smith County A&M Club
meets in room 224 of the Academic
Building.
TIGER TAPPERS, from Louisiana Slate University
Friday, the 13th
ITS Faces ‘Jinx’ Date
Friday the thirteenth apparently
holds no fears for planners and
participants in the fifth annual
production of the Intercollegiate
Talent Show, which will be held
in White Coliseum April 13.
“In spite of the jinx that goes
along with the date,” said Joe Har
ris, chairman for the show, “we
believe that this year’s show will
be even better than last year’s.”
“We think this is possible be
cause we have a greater array of
talent and started planning sooner
this year,” Hands said.
Master of ceremonies for the 8
p. m. production will be Paul Ber
lin, staff announcer for radio sta
tion KNUZ in Houston. Last year,
RE-ELECTED CITY COUNCIL—The College Station City Council held its first meeting
yesterday since the recent city elections. Left to right around the table are A. P. Boy
ette, Ernest Seegar, city attorney C. E. Dillon, J. A. Orr, Mayor Ernest Langford, city
secretary Nestor McGinnis, Marion Pugh, and Joe Sorrels. Not shown is councilman
C. W. Black. Pugh, Sorrels, Boyett and Mayor Langford were all re-elected last Tues
day.
Phi Eta Sigma
Friday at 5 p.m. is the deadline
for current members of Phi Eta
Sigma to submit pictures of can
didates for the Cotton Ball Duch
ess. The selection committee asks
that all freshmen wishing to sub
mit pictures leave them with the
Basic Division Office.
Sosolik Sells
Studio After
Long C
another Houston announcer, Dick
Gottlieb, television personality
around the Gulf Coast city, was
emcee for ITS.
The annual show is sponsored
by the Memorial Student Center
Music Group. Fourteen acts, win
ners of competitive auditions held
at each of the college’s represented
in this year’s show, will come from
schools in Texas, Louisiana, Ar
kansas and Oklahoma.
Tickets for the program are on
sale at the MSC, and are $1 for
general admission and $1.50 for
reserved seats.
areer
After 38 years in the pho
tography business, Joe Soso
lik has sold the Aggieland
Studio to Gene Sutphen, who
has been his studio manager
for the past four years.
Sosolik came to America in 1911
from his native Czechoslovakia.
For six years he was a barber on
the A&M campus.
After a physical disability dis
charge fi-om the Ai-my in 1917, he
attended the Illinois College of
Photography and in 1918 came
back to Bryan, where he opened
his first photographic studio.
In 1921 he moved his studio to
College Station, where he has op
erated since. During the interven
ing years, he has twice seen his
studio destroyed by fire, first in
1923 and again in 1936.
Sosolik will continue to work
part-time as a retoucher, and will
devote more time to golf, his fa
vorite pastime.
Gene Sutphen, the new owner,
started his professional photog
raphy career in Abilene,- Tex., in
1942, working part-time while at
tending Abilene Christian College.
In 1952 he accepted the position of
manager of Aggieland Studio.
Library Sets
New Hours
On Saturdays
Beginning Saturday, Cushing
Library will remain open un
til 1 p.m. instead of closing at
12 noon, announced Librarian
Robert A. Houze.
This extra hour will allow
faculty members and students
to get books for the week-end
before the library closes. The
library will reopen at 2 p.m.
Sundays as usual and remain
open until 10 p.m.
The library committee also
directed the librarian to re
quest additional funds for the
next biennium to keep the li
brary open until 5 p.m. Satur
day beginning in the fall of
1957.
Ed Burkhead, soloist with A&M’s’>
Singing Cadets, is the Aggie repre
sentative in the show. Dick Mc-
Gown is director for the show, and,
will be assisted by Jim Hancock,,
Gary Anderson, Tom Smith, Frank
Eichman, Dudley Brown and Randy
West.
Schools, besides A&M, to have
representatives in the program
are Kilgore College, North Texas
State, Oklahoma A&M, Louisiana
State University, Southwestern
Louisiana Institute, Baylor Univer
sity, University of Texas, Univer
sity of Arkansas and Texas State
College for Women.
Ag Ed Professors
Serve On Groups
Two members of the Agricultural
Education Department were elected
to committees of the Southern Re
gional Conference during a recent
meeting at Houston.
They are Henry Ross and O. M.
Holt, Ross was elected regional
representative of the American Vo
cational Association Executive
Council.
Holt was named to serve as a
member of the Cotton Education
Committee. This committee is con
cerned with preparing materials for
use by teachers of vocational agri
culture in the South while teaching
cotton production. Cooperating in
preparation of this material is the
National Cotton Council of Mem
phis, Tenn.
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Awards Ceremony
Planned May 22
The Faculty Distinguished
Achievement Awards ceremony
will be held May 22 at 4:30 p.m.
in Guion Hall, Dr. David H. Mor
gan, president, has announced. The
awards were established last year
by the Association of Former Stu
dents.
Dr. Morgan has asked that all
faculty members plan to attend
this meeting.
Weather Today
SCATTERED SHOWERS
Occasional scattered thunder
showers with little change in tem-
perature is forecasted for College
Station. Yesterday’s high of 85
degrees dropped to a low of 67
degrees last night. Temperature
at 10:30 this morning was 68 de
grees.
REVENGE IS SWEET—Freshman in the corps took a
holiday from “hazing” yesterday. The occasion was the
annual “fish day”, a day each year when the freshmen and
sophomores trade places. Shown from left to right, “cor
recting” sopohomore Jack ^tone, are freshmen Bob Royal,
Jack Beasly, Richard Myers, and Henry Koster.