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Price Five Cents The Battalion Number 113: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1956 HONORED—Mrs. Walter Heritage, left, and Herbert G. Thompson, right, proudly hold their awards as College Station’s “Woman” and “Man of the Year” for 1955. Walter H. Delaplane, president of the College Station Civic Association which makes the awards, stands between the two honorees. The awards program was held yesterday at the reg ular meeting of the association. c The Lower Depths’ More Offices Move To 4 F ? World News WASHINGTON, OP>—The Eisen hower administration formally ask ed Congress yesterday to create a federal civil rights commission. It asked also that a civil rights division be created in the Justice Department, partly because of an expected flow of lawsuits over ra cial integration. It called, too, for a new law to “prevent anyone from threatening, intimidating, or coerc ing an individual in the exercise of his right to vote.” Further, the administration sought authority for the attorney general to bring act-* ion in the courts on behalf of any aggrieved person. It proposed that Congress throw out the present re quirement that administrative and judicial remedies in the states must be exhausted before a civil rights case can be taken to federal court. * *- * AUSTIN, — Gubernatorial Candidate J. J. Holmes said yes terday he favored legalized horse racing in Texas and would advovate action to this effect during his campaign. He said he was in favor of legalized horse racing “to take care of some of the state’s obli gations.” * * * JERUSALEM, bP)—Israel charg ed yesterday that roving Arab suicide Squads under Egyptian army ordei-s inflicted a third straight “night of terror” on Israeli settlers Sunday. All offices, with the exception of - Student Activities, under the of fice of the dean of Student Per sonnel Services, have moved to new quarters in the YMCA Building. “We are all very pleased with the new facilities and convenient location,” said Dr. Robert B. Kamm, dean of Student Personnel Services, whose office was the first to be moved, early in February. The office of Student Activities, headed by Walter L. Penberthy, is Sow located on the second floor of . the newly-remodeled building. Mock Inspections Held This Morning Preparations for Federal Inspec tion started with a bang today when a mock inspection was held throughout the Army Corps areas. The Air Force was inspected Fri day. The play-for-keeps will be held Thursday moming when the entire Corps of Cadets will be inspected in dormitories. A review will be » held that afternoon. A detailed inspection of room orderliness, cleanliness and ar rangement as well as personal • questioning of industrial cadetsi will be held Thursday morning, starting at 8 a.m. Classroom in spections will be held tomorrow end Thursday. Members of the inspecting team are Col. Wendell H. Langdon, chief of the party; Col. Robert M. Bach- er, ordnance; Lt. Col. Travis A. Gerrells, infantry; Lt. Col. John M. Aylor, armor; Lt. Col. George G. Stevens, engineers; Maj. Vin cent Grzegorowicz, signal corps; ^ Lt. Col. John L. Gates, transpor tation; Lt. Col. Comet Gibson, quartermaster; Lt. Col. Kenneth S. White, chemical corps; and * Maj. Leslie B. Hardy, artillery. Air Force inspectors are Maj. Herman L. Kirkpatrick, Maj. John P. Howard, Bryan AFB; Lt. Col. Robert L. Collie, Lt. Col. James A. McKinney, USAF-IG Inspectors, General staff, Norton AFB, Calif.; Col. James F. Risher, Lt. Col. Wil liam G. Dolan, Maj. H. G. Gen- dreizig, headquarters Air Force R.O.T.C., Maxwell AFB, Ala. Classes Excused Undergraduate classes will be dismissed on Thursday, April 12 from 8 to 10 a.m. for the Federal Inspection, according to Dean J. P. Abbott. Weather Today CLEAR Clear with winds from the north west diminishing after dark is the forecast for College Station. Yes terday’s high, 67 degrees, dropped to a low of 40 degrees last night. Temperature at 10:30 this morn ing was 53 degrees. “Student Activities should be be moved in by Thursday,” Dr. Kamm said. “In the new quarters we have an office for president of the A&M Student Senate.” Latest arrivals in the basement include the Housing Office, headed by Harry L. Boyer; the Campus Security Office under Fi’ed Hick man; and the office of Student Af fairs, headed by Bennie A. Zinn, who also is veterans advisor. Old folks in “the lower depths” of the Y ai’e the personnel of Stu dent Publications, headed by Ross Strader, director. Student Publi cations, which includes The Bat talion, The Aggieland and all of the various school magazines, have been in. their new quarters since last week. Memorial Books Placed In Library Six memorial volumes have been placed in Cushing Library in mem ory of Norman S. Daigle, junior history major from Houston, killed in an automobile arrident last De cember. Three of the books were given by the Houston A<£M Moth ers Club and are as follows: Feinsinger, “Changing America”; Goodvvyn, “Lone Star Land”; and Labaree and Bell, “Mr. Franklin.” The other three books were giv en by the D. G. Harris family of Houston. They are Battistini, “The United States and Asia”; Furniss and Snyder, “An Introduc tion to American Foreign Policy”; and Kennedy, “Profiles in Cour age.” Hours of all of the offices will remain from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., ex cluding the noon hour except in the case of the Housing Office. Doors of the office remain open until midnight, and someone sleeps in the office to answer the telephone. Recital Series Will Present Added Program The Memorial Student Cen ter Recital Series will present a special added attraction Thursday at 8 p.m. in the as sembly room of the MSG. Ernst and Lory Wallfisch, a pi ano and viola duo, will be the fea tured performers. Wallfisch, while only 18, made his formal dbbut in Bucharest as soloist in Mozart’s “Symphonia Concertante” and as Violist of the “Pro Musica” String Quartet. In 1944, he was married to Lory, a pupil of Florica Muziceacu. Since that time, these two young stars have achieved an outstanding pos ition as a viola-piano duo. Wallfisch appeared in four Chamber Music Concerts at the Casals Prades Festival this sum mer. The duo has a BBC broad cast in October, and then will leave this country for engagements in France, Belgium, Germany, Swit zerland, Italy and Austria. Admission will be by Great Is- sues-Recital Series season tickets or 75 cents general admission. Joseph G. Broesche Award Winner ★ Broesche Receives Engineer Award Joseph G. Broesche, senior me chanical engineering major, has been awarded the High Scott Cameron Award by the South Texas Section of the American So ciety of Mechanical Engineers. Broesche and two other students, Richard R. Steph, Rice Institute, and John E. Martin, University of Texas, were honored at the annual honors and awards dinner of the section recently. Presentation was made by Walter B. Preston, chairman of the Honors and Awards Committee. The stu dents were chosen on the basis of superior personal characteristics and scholarly achievements. NEW HOUSE FOR HOUSING OFFICE—Senior John Kessinger talks to Mrs. Kathy Ran- ney at the counter of the new quarters for the Housing Office in the basement of the YMCA Building. At the left is Mrs. Edith Oden, behind the pair talking is Harry Boy er, chief of Housing, and Allan M. Madeley. . At the right is Mrs. Dolores Perry. All except Kessinger are employees in the Housing Office. Athletic Council Sets Date Tickets at $2.50 9,597 Set As Maximum Number of Date Tickets The Athletic Council has ap proved a plan, presented by the Student Senate, for purchasing date tickets next year. The plan sets the price of a foot ball date ticket at $2.50, provided it is purchased before Sept. 21 of this year. After that date, tick ets will sell for $3.50. Other points of the new plan are that student date tickets not exceed 9,597, and the maximum number of sections include 121-132 i-eserved for students and dates. Student athletic coupons for next year will remain the same price as last year—$8. This is part of the money paid in the Student Activ ities Fee. The faculty has two plans by Sparks, Casey Dissolve Partnership After 30 years, W. M. Sparks and J. F. Casey have decided to dissolve their part nership in the A g g i e 1 a n d Pharmacy. “We have decided to go into pri vate interests,” Sparks said. “The A&M Photo Shop has rented the space and will move in between May 1 and June 1.” Casey came to College Station in 1914 and worked for W. A. Lee in the Lee Confectionary located where the Aggieland Inn now stands. “It was the only concrete on the campus,” Casey recalled. “A&M was hot and dusty in the surpmer and cold and sloshy in the winter.” Three years later he moved to the YMCA basement where he set up his own business, “Casey’s Con fectionary.” Sparks, class of ’20, came into the picture in 1919 after returning from World War I. He and Casey became partners in the fall of that year. The men operated the confection ary for 30 years. In 1926 they opened the Aggieland Pharmacy and have continued to operate it since. Three Re-Elected To School Board which they may purchase football tickets. Both of these two plans are for all full-time employees of the A&M College System whose headquarters is at College Station. Plan number one is the same as last year’s—coupon books can be purchased for $14 and entitles the holder to four reserved seats for A&M’s home games, plus general admission to all other athletic events of the college. Plan number two provides a special faculty athletic coupon, is sued to an individual or to an in dividual and his wife, enabling him to an unreserved seat in sections 100 and 101 at all home football games. Also included in this plan is general admission to all other A&M athletic events. Although these two sections are available, they will be sold to the general public if not needed. The two section, 100 and 101, will be used in all games except the Texas Christian University game, when sections 118 and 119; or a part of either, will be used. Purchase Date Faculty members, in order to get either plan, must buy tickets be fore July 31, 1956, the same time a drawing is made for tickets. Each faculty member eligible will be notified by the Athletic Depart ment before this date. “The Athletic Council is very pleased with this plan,” said Dr. C. H. Groneman, chairman of the Ath letic Council. “ With this plan, we will know exactly how many we have to accomodate at all thei games.” Publicity Can Hurt Sometimes You can’t win for losing— at least that’s what Don Wat son thinks. Watson, A&M football play er, had a picture appear in a Houston paper during the weekend—in civilian clothes. Yesterday, Watson was ask ed where the picture was tak en—by his military science in structor. “In the Memorial Student Center,” Watson said. “Six demerits,” replied the officer. Plans To Start For SCONAII In Few Weeks Brad Crockett, chairman for the second annual Student Conference on National Af fairs, has announced that plans are . being made for starting committee work within a few weeks. Anyone interested in working' on one of the committees should go by the Directorate Office in the Memorial Student Center before 5 p.m. Friday and fill out a personnel blank which will be provided there. Those persons who have not pre viously worked with a SCONA committee must also fill out an ap plication blank. Committees which may have per sonnel vacancies include finance, program, transportation, arrange ments, housing, publicity, secretar iat and planning. Members of all classes are eli gible to apply. Chief qualification for membership, Crockett said, is a willingness to work. Those who apply will receive call slips some time next week assigning a time for the new applicants to be inter viewed. Preliminary plans are already being made for SCONA II regard ing such aspects as finance and program, according to Crockett. Much work, however, remains to be done before next December if SCONA II is to achieve the same degree of success as SCONA I, he said. Texas Aggie Band To Give Concert The Texas Aggie Band will pre sent its annual concert April 17 in Guion Hall at 7.45 p. m. Played in two parts, the concert will have a varied program con sisting of concert marches, novelty numbers, popular numbers, classi cal overtures, a cornet trio and a trombone trio. The double header concert will open with the maroon band playing “The National Anthem” and close with the white band playing “The Spirit of Aggieland.” The concert has been divided into two parts since the combined band is too large for the stage. C. A. Bonnoer, E. J. Redman Jr. and Milton D. Williams were re elected to the A&M Consolidated School Board in an election held Saturday. Dr. Donald Weeks, who had op posed Bonner in the election, was the only other candidate. Hold-over members who were not up for re-election are Henry Allen, E. E. Brown, J. R. Jackson and J. S. Rogers. Winter Uniforms Due By Wednesday Winter uniforms should be turn ed in by Wednesday so cadets will not have them on hand during Federal Inspection, according to B. W. Heame, military custodian. Blouses, winter caps, shortcoats, winter trousers and field jackets | are to be turned in, plus any other items that cadets will not need for the rest of the semester. Only about half of the Corps’ 3,000 members have turned in their j winter uniforms so far. Hearne j urged all cadets to take their uni- | forms to the clothing warehouse I before Federal Inspection Thurs day. AH Professor Gets Membership Award J. M. Jones of the Animal Hus bandry Department, was awarded a life-time membership in the Tex as Sheep and Goat Raisers Asso ciation at a recent meeting in Ban dera, Texas. HARPIST—Miss Linda Potts of Bryan, a student at the University of Texas, will be a featured act at the Intercol legiate Talent Show Friday night in White Coliseum. She is a harp player, and has played at the Freshman Open House in the MSC for the past two years. Tickets for the show are $1 for general admission and $1.50 for reserved seats.