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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.
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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.