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The Battalion Number 116: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1956 Price Five Cents Student-Prof Week To Begin Monday Professors and students will have a special opportunity to have informal meetings during the third annual Prof Hospitality Week which staits Monday. The purpose of the week is to give professors and students a chance to have closer association with one another, a phase of col lege life often pushed aside during daily routine. Sophs Choose Sweetheart Saturday Night Crowning of the Sophomore Sweetheart will be the main fea ture of the annual Sophomore Ball to be heVd Saturday in Sbisa Hall. Class officei-s have picked five finalists who are as follows: Miss Gaye Shewmzker from Raymondville, submitted by Jerry Ellington; Miss Glenda Poiver from Fort Worth, submitted by Larry G. Garrison; Miss Marilee May from White Oak, submitted by Don Wood; Miss Marlene Molina from Dallas, submitted by Bob Balhorn; and Miss Martha Berry from Gladewater, submitted by Eddie Thorpe/ Another highlight of the Ball will be the Bobby Tinterow Or chestra, house-band for Houston’s Shamrock-Hilton Hotel for the past three years. The dance which will honor all sophomore instruc tors this year, will begin at 9 p.m. and continue until midnight. Chairmen and committees for the dance include: Arvill Newby and Bob Surovik, Guest Committee; Bill McLaughlin, Dance Committee; Jerry Ellington, Program Commit tee; Don Kirby, Sweetheart Com- mitee; and Robby Martin, Tickets Committee. Admission to the Ball is by class dues card or by tickets purchased at the door for $3. A&M Wins First In Photo Contest A&M won the second annual Photog/aphy contest sponsored by the Camera Committee in the Me morial Student Center last week end, according to Bob Stansberry, chairman of the committee! Individual winners were first and second place, Glenn Wogstad, San Antonio College student; and Aggie Charles Jordan, thir d. Four schools, including A&M were entered in the contest. The participating schools were San Antonio College, Southern Methodist University, and Sam Houston State Teachers Col lege. The winning pictures will be ex hibited in the MSC for about 10 days and will then be sent to the other three schools for display. Tippitt To Speak John W. Tippit, research econ omist of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, will speak in San Antonio today before the Short Course for Chamber of Com merce managers of South Texas. His speech will be aimed toward suggesting ways local foundations can attract industry to locate in their communities. Dr. C. W. Landiss, chairman of the Student Life subcommittee which sponsors the week, expressed hope that the week will be a suc cess. “I urge all professors and stu dents to participate in the prof hospitality week,” Landiss said. He said the invitations for the get-togethers are to be handled in dividually by professors following their own intuition in arranging meetings with students. Methods whioh have boen used in the past for handling invita tions are as follows: 1. Post an invitation with the specified number of spaces on the outside of your office door. 2. Notify classes where invita tions are posted and invite your students to sign up. 3. Make arrangements with an other professor within your depart ment or some other department to invite a nnmber of students for you. 4. Have students invite other students for you. 5. Use your own ingenuity. Landiss has asked in a letter to all faculty and staff members that they notify tho Student Life Com mittee as to the number of stu dents participating in the program. Second Speech On Marriage Monday Night Dr. Henry A. Bowman, as sociate professor of sociology at the University of Texas, will speak on “Making Mar riage Meaningful” at the sec ond YMCA Marriage Forum at 8 p.m. Monday night in the YMCA. Widely known, as a marriage counselor, Dr. Bowman is the auth or of a popular book, “Marriage for Moderns.” In addition he has written sevenel articles on mar riage problems that appeared in national magazines. Several topics will be discussed at the forum. A few of these in clude; How to Handle Tensions, How to Spend Money Wisely, Will Budgets Work, FrsstrKtion or Ful filment, What Holds Marriages To gether and Immaturity—a Killer of Romance. After the talk an informal dis cussion will, be opened. Questions will be written. but unsigned so that personal problems can be dis cussed without embarassment. These forums are designed to hplp those who do not have imme diate plans for marriage as well as those who do and those already married. These forums are open to the general public and admission is free. This is the second of a series of forums to be held every Monday night this month under the spon sorship of the YMCA. Next week the forum will take up the “Importance of the Sexual Factor in Martial Happiness.” Dr. A. D. Jorjorian, Chaplain of St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Medi cal Center, Houston, will lead the forum. Newton Harris, sophomore from Fort Worth, is student chairman of the project. Here’s The One More We ‘ Promised 1, Yesterday Talent Show Features Songs, Comedy, Girls Entertainment For Every Tall Tales of Texas Planned for Friday Miss Martha Berry Escort, Eddie Thorpe All trails will lead to CoUege Station next Friday and Saturday as members of the Texas Folklore Society gather at A&M for their fortieth annual meeting. Texas tales, legends, ballads and songs will be s,ung and recounted at the gathering which will fete open to the public. Meetings will be in the Memorial Student Center. Papers will be presented by sev eral well-known state and national folklorists, prize - winning college student papers will be read, and a folk play will be givae. Three members of the A&M Eng lish Department will read papers. Dr. John Q. Anderson, president of the Society, will show the pop ularity of social dancing on the Southern frontier in his paper, “Frolic: Folk Fun on the South ern Frontier.” Sid Cox will discuss frontier bee hunting in “Bae Lore,” and Charles Lee Hurley will read “The Wild Man of the Navidad,” a discussion of his use of a south Texas tale as the subject for a long- poem. A paper written by Noah L. Cryar, A&M freshman, and enti tled “The Wolf Girl of Zulch” will also be read. Cryar’s paper was one of six selected for honorable mention in a state-wide contest for senior college students sponsored by the Folklore Society. The tale concerns a legend of a small gii-1 who ran away from her home near North Zulch, Tex., in the last cen tury and became a member of a pack of wolves. The legend was told bo Cryar by Mrs. Walter Tay lor of North Zulch. Dr. Stith Thompson, internation ally known folklorist and guest lecturer in folklore at the Univer sity of Texas, will recount some of his experiences in “Recollections of an Itinerant Folklorist.” Dr. Thompson was the first editor of the publications of the Texas Folk lore Society in 1918. Other well-known m«n to be here include Roy Bediehek, Austin naturalist; Wayne Card, of the Dallas Morning News, folk music by Margaret Yelvington of Seguin, British ballads by Hallie Wood of Austin, and an exhibition of banjo playing by three Dallas balladiera, Hennes Nye, Stan Richards and Lee Osbourne. Friday night following the reading of the first-place student paper, “Home Remedies for Ar thritis,” by Walter Taylor of SMU, a folk play by Percy Mackaye, “Na poleon Crossing the Rockiee,” will be presented by five members of the Aggie Players, Jerry Neigh bors, John Kessinger, Vic Wiening, Ara Haswell and Ted Castle, with music by Mrs. Chris Groneman. Officers of the Folklore Society, which was first formed in 1909, are, besides President Anderson, Hennes Nye, Dallas, dent; Allen Maxwell, SMU, trea surer; and Div.Mody C. Boatright, University of Texas, secretary and editor; and Dr. Wilson M. Hudson, UT, associate edibor. ABOVE—Paul Berlin, radio an nouncer for station KNUZ in Houston, will be master of cere monies for tonight’s Intercolle giate Talent Show at 8 in White Coliseum. s * * AT LEFT—Miss Jeanette Pel- lerin of LSU will appear in the floor show of Cafe Rue Pinalle tonight. The dance will begin at 9:30 with a floorshow at 11 and will end at 1 a.m. Miss Pellerin will also appear in the Intercol legiate Talent Show tonight, from which the rest of the Rue Pinalle floor show will be drawn. Tickets for the dance are 75 cents per person. The game room of the Memorial Student Center is the place. Freshman Badly Injured; Condition Called ‘Critical' BULLETIN The condition of W. F. Curry is still “critical” this morning. Dr. Lyons reported that doctors in Houston said Curry had a rather bad night. Tentative plans have been made for sur gery at 2 this afternoon. Dr. Marshall Henry, nouro-surgeon is with the injured student. William Fred Curry Jr., fresh man architecture major from Co manche, is in “critical” condition in Methodist Hospital in Houston with a fractured neck. Curry was tak en to the Houston hospital last night following a gymnastic a c c i- dent in White Coliseum. He —w a s practicing W. F. Curry Jr. with the Gym nastic Club on a trampoline when the accident occurred. N. D. (Bud) Matthews of the Physical Educa tion Department was with the group. Curry was doing a flip and landed wrong. Dr. Charles R. Lyons, superin tendent of the College Hospital who accompanied Curry to the hos pital in the ambulance, said that there was no change in his con dition and that the spinal cord was almost severed. Doctors at the Houston hospital said that special b a c k b oi»a r d equipment on which Curry was brought to the hospital there probably was the only thing that “saved his life.” The trip was made in G5 minutes, and Manley W. Jones said that Curry made a “good trip.” He also praised Dr. Lyons’ treatment of the injured youth, saying “he treated him like his own son.” X-rays were taken at St. Jo seph’s Hospital in Bryan, before the trip to Houston was made. Some Timely Quotes; Texas A&M Federal Job Calls Friday SOHIO PETROLEUM CO., Ok lahoma, will interview mechanical and petroleum engineers interes ted in production operations in cluding gas plant design and gas processing. W. T. GRANT AND CO., Hous ton, will interview business ad ministration, economics, and agri cultural economics majors for man- vice-prasi- * agerial training. Federal Inspectors seemed to be very impressed with the Corps of Cadets, their actions and appear ance. Col. Wendell H. Langdon, chief of the Army inspecting team, had this to say: “We (the inspecting team) were impressed with the military ap pearance, alertness, smartness and courtesy of the A&M College Corps of Cadets. “Also, we are fully aware of the time and effort put in by cadets in preparation for the visit. Dor mitories were outstanding in ap pearance and marching ability was similarly outstanding. “We wish to express our appre- I ciation to the cadets for their ef- j forts.” Col. James F. Risher, chief of the Air Force inspecting team, said he was “impressed with the Air Force training on the campus and also with what he saw of the Army training while here. “It was a privilege to visit A&M j because I have known many offi- j cers from this school—we have had ^ a very pleasant visit.” Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant, said, “I want to commend the j Corps and express my appreciation for a job well done.” Lt. Col. Taylor W’ilkins, assist ant commandant, said the comman dant’s office “appreciates the ef forts put out by the men regard less of .the rating A&M receives from the inspection. Col. Langdon, when asked about the A&M Band, said it was “in a Taste Starts At 8 Tonight The 1956 Itercollegiate Talent Show should provide some sort of entertainment to suit everyone’s plain or fancy taste. Fourteen acts, featuring songs, dances, comedy, instrumental music and girls has been assembled for the fifth annual show, which will be held at 8 tonight in White Coliseum. “It’s terrific,” said Miss Shirley Cannon, program con sultant for the Memorial Student Center. The MSC Music Group is sponsor of the show. “Ticket sales are booming,” said Mrs. Frances Shackel ford, stenographer in the Center’s Directorate Office, from which all of the work going into this year’s show has been directed. “You better get your ticket!” Joe Harris, show chairman, earlier had expressed no fears concerning the “jinx” Friday the 13th date, saying, “We believe this year’s show will be even better than last year’s.” Master of ceremonies for the program will be a well-known radio personality around Houston, Paul Berlin, staff announcer for radio station KNUZ. Taking a quick run-down of the program as it will appear to night, things will start with an overture by the Aggieland Orches.- tra. Next to appear will be the famous Kilgore Rangeretes, girls’ drill team from Kilgore Junior Col lege. Fifty girls will appear on the show in two acts. Following the Rangerettes will be the “Dukes of Rhythm” from Southwestern Louisiana Institute. The Dukes are a Dixieland band, and the saxophone player was in the band which first recorded a familiar song around here, “See You Later, Alligator.” Next up is Miss Denise Foster from Southern Methodist Univer sity. She is a featured singer on the radio show, “Early Birds,” sta tion WFAA, Dallas. ’ Rice Institute will contribute some “Hawaiian Dancers,” which will be followed by the Aggie en trant in the show, Ed Burkhead, a tenor, junior from Lamesa. He is a soloist with A&M’s Singing Ca dets. A dance team, LeRoy Ottman and Becky Carson, come from Tu- lane University and Sophie Nevv’- combe College, respectively. Miss Carson is a beauty queen at So phie Newcombe. The state of Oklahoma contrib utes the final two acts before in termission with “The Four Lambs” from Oklahoma University and Joe Cannon from Oklahoma A&M Col lege. The Lambs are an. Ames Brothers type foursome, with three men singing and one playing the piano. Larry Cohan, Jerry Rit- terman, Sam Estei'kyn and Steve Janger compose the group. Can non is a trumpet player, who plays semi-classical music. The “Tiger Tappers” will start things rolling after intermission, featuring a novelty act composed of one male and 11 females. The act won a similar talent show at Louisiana State University last fall. Mrs. TAMC Deadline Is Tuesday Nile Four days remain to enter applications for the Mrs. Tex as A&M Contest which will end at midnight, Tuesday. All married Aggies are eligible to enter their wives in this annual contest. The winner and runners-up will be honored at the formal ball in the Memorial Student Center, Sat urday, April 21. Entry blanks may be obtained at The Battalion office or MSC Directorate Office. Just fill in the blanks, “I think my wife should be Mrs. Texas A&M because . . . .”, enclose a small picture of your wife and mail it to the Battalion office, main desk of the MSC, or drop it by at either office. Gifts for Mrs. Texas A&M in clude a loving cup, bouquet, $25 in gift certificates, bracelets, hose, maroon Aggie blanket, record al bums, shampoo and wave set, din ner for two, five lines of bowling, Elgin-American compact, wrought iron magazine rack, among others. “Tickets for the formal dance are $1 a couple—the price of a mo vie,” said David Brothers, chair man of the dance. class of its own.” Another view came our way from Larry Kennedy, Corps commander. “The Coi’ps’ showing during the entire day was impressive in every aspect,” Kennedy said. “The men proved that they do have the nec essary interest and desire required for the further aggressive and qualitative development of the al ready fine Corps of Cadets here at Texas A&M. “All of the inspectors were high ly impressed with the total pei’- formance of the Corps—praise that was well earned.” (See TALENT SHOW, Page 2) Weather Today PARTLY CLOUDY Partly cloudy and wanner is forecasted for College Station. ^ es- terday’s high was 79 degrees, and low, 56 degrees. Temperature at ( 10:30 this morning was 71 degrees. INSPECTION TIME—Larry Kennedy, Corps commander, left, and Dr. David H. Morgan, president of the College, look on as Col. Wendell H. Langdon, chief of the Army inspecting team, right, gives a close look to Douglas Von Gonten, Corps Law Officer. Col. Langdon later said the inspecting team was very impressed with A&M.