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The Battalion Number 114: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1956 Price Five Cents Three Classes Vote In Center ’Til 5:30 Members of the classes of 1957-58-59 are casting their primary ballots today in the election booth in the Post Office entrance of the MSQ to determine next year’s class officers. Balloting will end at 5:30 p.m. Runoff elections will be held Wednesday, April 18, for class officers. The general elections of senators and members of the . student life committee will not be held at this time, as in the past, due to the re-writing of the constitutions of these or ganizations. Filings for the positions of class agent for the class of - 1956 and for members of the Election Commission will open May 1 and remain open until May 7 at the Office of Stu dent Activities located on the second floor of Goodwin Hall. The Election Commission will be composed of five men each from each of the classes of 1957-58-69. Class of 1957 President; Karl Springer, Dick Howard, Brad Crockett, Thomas Ray Thedfor, Herman Veselka and Doug DeCluitt. Vice-president; * Don W. Green, Bob N. Hancock, John Kirkpatrick, Dub Bailey, Hank Menefee and George R. „ Crane. Secretary; Charles K. Orr, Ed C. Hanson, Jack T. Steel and Dewey C. McMullan. Social secretary; D u r ward Thompson, Bob McCleskey, Tom E. Norton, Jack M. Di'eyfus and John P. Aldridge. Byron W. King, Tedd M. Lewis, Paul B. Beckman and Andy John son are candidates for treasurer. Johnny Heard, Gilbert Steile and Bob Best are running for student entertainment manager. Applicants for class historian are 4 Don Weber, Bobby Noack, “Red” Wilson, Marcus Crow and Don Wilson. For reporter, Warren Johnson, Howard Martin, John Selensky, A1 Chappell and Joe Joeris. For sergeant - at - arms; Gene Smith, Myron Gantt, G. B. Rand, Dennis H. Goehring, Thomas Liv ingston and McFarland Osborn. Tommy Newman, Dean Duncan, Leon Curtis, Ralph Stout, Jimmie Dellinger, Willie Alsup and Jack Lyle are candidates for parliamen tarian. Candidates for yell leader from the class of ’57 are Gary Anderson, . (See ELECTIONS, Page 2) CS Rec Council Discusses Budget The College Station Recreation Council met yesterday afternoon at the A&M Consolidated School. The budget for this summer was dis cussed, and chairmen for each sum mer program were announced. New officers for the Council in * elude Dr. Luther Jones, president; Charles Haas, vice-president; Mrs. E. C. Klipple, secretary; and Mrs. K. A. Manning, treasurer. * New members include Mrs. John Quisenberry, Mrs. Walter Varvel, Flake Fisher, Bill Hensel and Mike Krenitsky. FFA Banquet At 7:30 Tonight Barbecue chicken will be served tonight at 7:30 at the A&M Col lege annual student-prof banquet at Maggie Parker’s in Bryan. Awards will be presented by E. V. Walton, head of the Agricul tural Education Department to the outstanding senior and junior in the Agricultural Education Depart ment. Nathan Boardman, chapter president, will present the out standing professor award to C. B. Ryan of the Poultry Husbandry Department. He was selected by members of the chapter. Will Slaten, senior, will act as master of ceremonies. Music will be provided by the Hi Five combo. 5 A&M Students Involved In Wreck Five A&M students escaped ser ious injury early Monday morning as the car in which they were rid ing over-turned two and one-half times near Calvert. Wynn Snoots, swimming team member, was the only injured stu dent, having a broken arm. The other four students, John R. Nelms, driver of the car, Harless Benthul, Bill Bedford and Max Stone, received only minor cuts and bruises. They were taken to Hearne General Hospital follow ing the accident. Nelms said he was driving about 60' miles per hour when the car skidded on a wet place in the high way, causing them to leave the road. The vehicle was completely destroyed. Leland Receives Freedom Award T. W. Leland, head of the Busi ness Administration Department here, has been »awarded a fellow ship by the Third Institute on Freedom and Competitive Enter prise at Claremont Men’s College, Claremont, Calif. It will be held June 10-24. Leland is one of 30 economists and other social scientists from various parts of the country to i-eceive the fellowships. The institute consists of lectures EYES RIGHT—Squadron 17, commanded by Marion L. Williams of Abilene, passes by the reviewing stand in preparation for the Corps Review Thursday afternoon for Fed eral Inspection. For the past few days, Aggies have been sharpening up clothes, rooms and military manners in anticipation of the annual spring event. The Council is made up of mem- and seminars for intensive study bei’s from all civic and interested groups in the city. It conti’ols the summer I'ecreation program for College Station. of the relationship of private com petitive enterprise and the free market system to individual lib erty. Graduates Hear Paleontologist ThursdayNight One of the nation’s out standing paleontologists will deliver a graduate lecture here Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Biological Sciences Building. The lecture is open to the public. The lecturer, Dr. Alfred S. Ro- mer, is director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., and his subject will be “Fossil Animals of the Texas Permian Basin.” Currently, he is collecting speci mens near Archer City, Texas where he has done outstanding work in the past. ^ Dr. Romer is a native of New York and holds the AB degree from Amherst College and Ph. D. from Columbia. He was awarded an honorary degree from Harvard Un iversity in 1949, instructor of an atomy, Bellevue Medical College, N.Y., 1921-23 and a member of the Department of Comparative Anatomy, American Museum of Natural History. He taught Vei’tebrate Paleon tology at the University of Chica go, 1923-34, and was professor of zoology and curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Harvard University, since 1934; director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology since 1946, and Alexander Agassiz professor of zoology since 1947. Dr. Romer has received numer ous honors and awards including the Mary Clark Thompson Medal of the National Academy of Sci ences for 1954. Among his pro fessional memberships are the following: American Association of Anat omists; Paleontological Society (vice president 1939); American Society of Zoologists; Geological Society of America; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; National Academy of Sciences; So ciety of Vertebrate Paleontology (president 1941); Cosmos Club; Society for the Study of Evolution (vice president 1950). Dr. A. S. Romer Graduate Lecture Thursday Electricity To be Cut Off At 5 O’clock Power will be turned off in the Memorial Student Center and the south side of College Station from 5 until about 5:30 this afternoon, according to T. R. Spence, manager of physical plants. In order to avoid a ten hour power cut-off, the current will be transferred to another cir cuit while it is being connec ted to the new equipment at the power plant. The circuits are being re-arranged during the shut-off. The MSC and the Coliseum were without electricity yes terday morning and afternoon for about three hours. The project house apart ments will also have their electricity turned off for about thirty minutes this afternoon. Style Show Set The Officers’ Wives’ Club will hold a style show at their i-egular monthly luncheon, 12:30 p.m. Thursday, at Maggie Parker Din ing Hall. The latest spring and summer fashions will be shown through the courtesy of “Town and Country.” Mrs. Robert Goforth is chairman of the style show and is assisted by Mesdames Taylor Wilkins, Charles Taylor and Billy Wright. Weather Today BAFB Aero Club Open To Aggies A limited number of A&M students may now learn to fly through Bryan Air Force Base’s “Aero Club”, accord ing to Wayne Wilson, member of A&M’s Flying Kadets. “Maj. John P. Howard, a mem ber of the club, contacted us,” said Wilson. “He invited all Aggies, either in the Corps or not, to take part in the program.” Bryan Air Forte Base’s Aero Club is an independent club, spon sored by the Air Force. Its mem bers, mainly base personnel and families, receive instruction at $6 an hour from licensed Civil Air Patrol instructors. Solo flying time costs $3 each hour. Clubs similar to the Aero Club have been set up at all of the Air Force’s bases throughout the world. “At present the club has about 30 members, two instructors, and one airplane,” Wilson said. “The government is helping . them buy two or more planes, and hire an other instructor. They will take as many members as they have room.” Anyone interested in joining the program may contact Wilson in room 123, dormitory eight, or at tend the weekly meeting of the Flying Kadets, each Monday night at 7:30 p.m. in room 129 of the Academic Building. Houston Aggies Set Barbecue Members of the Houston Home town Club will hold their annual spring barbecue Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the Brazos A&M Club House. Program for the evening includes election of officers and a movie of the A&M-Rice football game. The club also will have its Aggieland pictm-e taken at 5:15 Thursday in front of the Administration Build ing. Disease Report Measles is the leading disease with 22 cases in College Station according to reports from the Bry- an-Brazos County Health Unit. Chickenpox was close behind with 21 cases reported for the week ending April 7. Mumps was listed next with three cases. Federal Inspection Starts Tomorrow A&M Cadets will end the “long wait” tomorrow as Fed eral Inspection officers take a look around. Dormitory in spections will be held from 8-10 a.m. and classes will be dis missed during this time. An inspection of room orderliness, cleanliness and ar rangement as well as personal questioning of individual cadets was held yesterday in the Army area and Friday in the Air Force units. Local cadre participated in the 6 a.m. inspections. The full-scale inspection of A&M’s Corps of Cadets will also include a review tomorrow afternoon and classroom in spections- as to procedure and student knowledge. Following an orientation of Acct. Conference To Be April 16 -17 The ninth annual Accounting Conference to be held here April 16-17, will have as speakers top flight men in the profession, fea turing accounting in all its phases, present and future. Sessions will be held in the Me morial Student Center on the cam pus of the college and a panel dis cussion, “What Management Ex pects From Its Accounting Func tions” will be held in the after noon, April 16. George W. Laf- ferty, Houston (partner, Cheatham, Brady and CJo.) will moderate the panel. Speakers include John A. White, president, American Accounting Association of the University of Texas; Kenneth S. Axelson of Chi cago, Arthur Stewart, Business Administration, A. and M.; How ard C. Greer, Decatur, Alabama; James I. Mahon, Philadelphia, Pa. and W. R. Gilchrist, Tulsa, Okla homa. Roy E. Burke of Houston, con ference chairman (Price Water- house & Co.) will preside at the opening session. Edward S. Packenham of the Business Administration Depart ment, A. and M., is general chair man for local arrangements. Weldon Walker Wins $250 Prize Weldon W. Walker, senior stu dent from Waco, recently won $250 from Time Inc. as an out standing subscription salesman. Time Inc., publishers of Time, Life and Sports Illustrated, con ducted the contest in colleges and universities over the United States. First prize was $3,000. the visiting inspectors by Col. D. P. Anderson, PMS&T, Lar ry Kennedy, Corps command er, and members of his staff, the visitors will inspect military and air science instruction class rooms and facilities. Inspections this afternoon are being directed at the military and air science plans, records and files as well as visits to the property custodian, rifle range and motor pool. At 8 tomorrow morning, cadets will be in their rooms for the in spection. First sergeants and com pany commanders will escort visit ing inspectors through their respec tive units. Cadets so armed will be inspected with their rifles. Classroom inspections will be continued tomorrow afternoon. In spectors will have lunch with Da vid H. Morgan, president of the college, and will meet with him later in the afternoon to discuss results of the inspection. Then, at 4 p.m. tomorrow, a re view will be held on the main drill field with the entile Corps of Ca dets participating. Members of the Army inspecting team are Col. Wendell H. Langdon, chief of the inspecting party; Col. Robert M. Bacher, ordnance; Lt. Col. Travis A. Gerrells, infantry; Lt. Col. John M. Aylor, armor; Lt. Col. George Stevens, engineers; Maj. Vincent Grzegorowicz, signal; Lt. Col. John L. Gates, transporta tion; Lt. Col. Comet Gibson, quar termaster; Lt. Col. Kenneth S. White, chemical; 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. Gendrei- zig, Headquarters Air Force ROTC, Maxwell AFB, Ala. Magazine Editors Approved by Board Editors for the four school mag azines were approved at a meeting yesterday * of the Student Publi cations Board. The students were chosen upon recommendation by Ross Strader, director of Student Publications, and concurrence by the school councils of the magazine involved. Bennie Eugene Fichte, junior ag ricultural-journalism major from Megargel, was named editor for the Agriculturist. Co-editors were named for the Southwestern Veterinarian. Head ing the well-known journal next year will be Delmar R. Cassidy of College Station and Kenneth R. Pierce from Winters. Both are veterinary medicine majors. Sitting in the editor’s desk for the Engineer for the 1956-57 school year will be Joe Bill Foster, senior petroleum engineering-'general bus iness major from Greenville. John Elvin Smith, junior business administration major, was approv ed by the board as editor for the Commentator. His appointment will have to go before the Execu tive Committee of the college to have the one-year experience re quirement waived. Smith’s approv al as editpr was recommended by both the Arts & Sciences Council and Strader. Last month Jim Bower was named editor for The Battalion next year, and David McReynolds summer editor. Don Charles Burt was appointed editor for the Ag gieland ’57. m FOR PROF’S BENEFIT—Robert A. Houze, college librarian, left, shows some of the library’s collection of books on teaching to Robert Sherrill‘of the English Department. The library is featuring a display this month of the collection, which was established in 1952 by the College Committee on the Development of Teaching Personnel. FAIR Fair and a little warmer is the forecast for College Station. Yes terday’s high was 64 degrees; low, 39 degrees. Temperature at 10:30 this morning was 56 degrees. MORE I.T.S. TALENT—A favorite up Oklahoma way are the songs of the Beta Four, barber shop quartet from Oklahoma A&M. The quartet will appear Friday night at the Intercollegiate Talent Show in White Coliseum. Tickets are on sale at the MSC for ?1 and $1.50.