The Battalion
Number 120: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1956
Price Five Cents
Fire Guts
College View
Apartment
A flash fire last night par
tially gutted one apartment
and caused damage to seven
.others in College View.
The blaze started in apt.
A-8-Y, occupied by Bill S. Huff-
hines, his wife and two-year-old
'.daughter, Cindy. Huffhines was
not at home when the fire broke
out.
Mrs. Huffhines discovered the
fire in her husband’s study about
7:4. r >. She screamed in alarm, sum
moning from across the hall Fos
ter S. Teague and Robert O. Ev
ans. One grabbed’ Cindy and car
ried her outside while the other
telephoned the fire department,
then both returned to the blazing
room.
. “We got two fire extinguishers
and went in,” said Evans.
The men battled the flames for
sevei’al minutes, and were soon
-joined by neighbors who gathered
nearby extinguishers. Several
neighbors fought the fire until the
firemen arrived. Nineteen fire
extinguishers were used.
About 15 minutes later the fire
department arrived, and had the
blaze under control within a half
hour. At least 16 volunteer fire
men answered the call in three fire
trucks.
While firemen fought the blaze
' on the second story, neighbors hur
riedly carried furniture out of the
ground floor apartments. Little
..of Huffhines’ furniture and cloth
ing was saved, however.
Only smoke and water damaged
the other seven apartments; the
fire did not spread quickly.
“It c<£ikl have been a whole lot
Worse,” said Fire Chief C. H. War
ren.
“This is the first bad fire in
these houses since they were
built,” he added. No estimate was
made of the loss.
The only loss of life was the
Huffhines’ pet parakeet. No one
.was injured.
Huffhines is a senior architec
ture student from Dallas.
“I feel sure that the College
“View Council will make some sort
of drive, probably early next week,
to help replace some things that
were destroyed,” said John W.
Jones, president of the College
View Council.
Aggies Around World Gather
Tomorrow for Annua! Muster
Jorjorian Third Speaker
\t YMCA Marriage Forum
APARTMENT FIRE—Firemen from the A&M Fire De
partment direct a stream of water into a flaming apart
ment at A-8-Y College View, occupied by Mr. and Mrs.
Bill S. Huffhines. The fire occurred about 8 last night
and partially gutted the apartment.
Rev. Armen D. Jorjorian, relig
ious director and chaplain of St.
Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Hous
ton, will speak on “The Sexual As
pects of Married Life” at the third
YMCA Marriage Forum Monday
night at 8 on the second floor of
the YMCA.
Formerly Rev. Joi'jorian was sen
ior chaplain and supervisor at the
Bellevue Hospital Center, N e w
York City. Recently he served as
chairman of Bishop Doegan’s Com
mittee on Narcotic Drug Addiction.
Rev. Jorjorian is Well known as
an excellent marriage counselor,
according to Cordon Gay, secretary
of the YMCA.
The topics which will be covered
in Monday nights session ai’e:
“How Important Is Sexual Com-
patability in the Total Marriage
Relationship,” “Planned Parent
hood,” “What Ideals and Stan-
Film Society
The Film Society will present
“The Blue Gardenia” starring
Anne Baxter, Richard Conte and
Ann Southern tonight at 7:30 in
the ballroom of the MSC. Admis
sion by season ticket or single per
formance ticket.
On Senate View
Petition Calls Election
By JIM BOWER
Battalion News Editor
A petition containing 447 names
was submitted to the Student Sen
ate last night, forcing a general
school election over the Senate’s
views on segregation. The election,
which will be handled by the
Election Commission, will have to
be held within the next 15 days, ac
cording to the Senate constitution.
Ballots for the election will ap
pear with the following information
on them:
“That the Student Senate goes
on record as saying that we, the
Student Senate, ai’e opposed to
segregation.” At the bottom of the
ballot will be “for and “against”.
Each student will circle the one of
his choice.
The only thing that will actual
ly be up for vote is whether or
not the student body agrees with
the Senate in its stand against
segregation. No Senate vote will
be changed.
The petition, in brief, said that
the undersigned students “didn’t
feel that the true feeling of the
student body was expressed in the
March vote on segregation.”
Section VIII, Article one of the
Senate constitution says, “A re
ferendum may be demanded on any
measure passed by the Student
Senate by a petition signed by three
hundred (300) students. Such
petition shall be presented to the
Student Senate in its next regular
session and shall be submitted by
the Senate Election Commission to
general student vote not more than
fifteen days after presentation.”
The Senate, in its March 15th
meeting, went on record as “oppos
ing segregation” by a margin of
23-7. A roll-call vote was taken to
determine the issue.
In other business, the Senate
passed a motion that the “duties of
the Student Life Committee be
specified by the Student Senate and
hereafter, any matters pertaining
to the. student body which arise
will be handled by the Student Sen r
ate.” An amendment added “the
Senate will delegate powers of the
Student Life Committee and all
matters which it will undertake.”
Purposes of the SLC, according
to their constitution, is to serve as
an advisory body to the Student
Personnel Services dean, Academic
Council and all other campus groups
refering matters to them; make
recommendations to the *lean of
SPS; approve general polices and
cei'tain expenditures of the Depart
ment of Student Activities; and to
perform certain functions and con
sider- other matters relating to stu
dent life and not delegated to some
other office or body.
Duties of the SLC include re
viewing annually the student
activity point system, approving of
the social calendar, selecting Who’s
Who, supervising activities of the
student entertainment manager and
yell leaders and approving non
operating expenditures in excess of
$100 from Student Activities and
student concessions accounts which
are not operated through the Fiscal
Department.
The Senate has authorized an
“Honor 1 Mother Award,” to be pre
sented to an outstanding mother
Who has overcome hardships to put
her son or sons in or through A&M.
The award will be presented in
(See SENATE, Page 2)
dai ds of Sex Mor ality Do You Both
Hold,” and “Complex Causes of
Sex Adjustment or Maladjust
ment.”
After Rev. Jorjorian’s talk an
open discussion period will be held.
The audience is urged to partici
pate in the discussion, said Gay.
Questions will be written but un
signed so that personal questions
can be asked without embarass-
ment.
Marriage forums will be held
every Monday night this month.
“Marrying Outside Your Faith—
Will Love Find A Solution?” will
be the topic discussed April 30.
Dr. C. Rodney Sunday, pastor St.
Andrew’s Presbyterian Church,
Houston, will be the speaker.
The forums are sponsored by the
Student Affairs Committee of the
YMCA Cabinet. Newt Harris is
chairman of the committee.
Students, Employees
This Issue Dedicated To Deceased
By RALPH COLE
Battalion Managing Editor
Four pictures appear on this
page—pictures*of four A&M stu
dents who died during the current
school year. To these four students
and three others, of which The Bat
talion did not have pictures, this
issue of the paper is dedicated. Be
sides the seven students, four Sys
tem employees ai’e also included in
the dedication.
The four System employees are
Dr. T. D. Brooks, Edgar S. Mc-
Fadden, Arch C. Baker and Dr. G.
S. Fraps.
Baker, system architect, died
Nov. 21, 1956, after an accidental
gunshot* wound at his home in
College Station. He was attempt
ing to pick up a telephone when
the 20-gauge shotgun he was
cleaning accidentally discharged.
Dr. Fraps, who had been con
nected with the chemistry division
of the Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station for 42 years, died
Nov. 28, 1955, after a long illness.
McFadden, the man who saved
an estimated 25,000,000 people in
the world from death and star
vation by the development of rust-
| resistant Hope Wheat, died in his
sleep Jan. 5, 1.956, at his home in
College Station.
Dr. Brooks, who had been con
nected with A&M from 1932 until
his retirement in 1953, died in a
Bryan hospital Jan. 11, 1956, after
a long illness. He first came to
A&M as dean of the summer
school, fhen was named dean of the
School of Arts and Sciences.
James Burnis Koym, freshman
geology major from Pasadena,
died of a heart attack at the A&M
swimming pool Nov. 2, 1956. At the
time of his death, he was in an 11
a. m. swimming class.
Donald Ray Schilling, sopho-
more chemical engineering major
from Dayton, was killed in a head-
on collision on the night of Nov.
13, 1955. The accident also injured
two other A&M students who had
spent the Rice Corps Trip weekend
with him.
Gene T. Kinard, 21 - year - old
senior electrical engineering major
from Beaumont, was killed in an
automobile collision between Wood-
ville and Livingston. A Jasper High
School student was also killed in
the accident, Jan 26, 1956.
James Edward Sarran, sopho-
(See DECEASED, Page 2)
REV. ARMEN D. JORJORIAN
Marriage Forum Speaker
Negro C of C
Has Workshop
At Lincoln High
Donald R. Schilling
Norman S. Daigle
As . it
Richard H. Burlin
*■
James B. Koym
The College Station Negro
Chamber of Commerce held
a “Community Workshop” at
Lincoln School last night.
Guest speakers included five
representatives from Prairie View
A&M College and Walter H. Dela-
plane, president of the College Sta
tion Civic Association.
“College Station is our favorite
community,” said Dr. George R.
Woolfolk, head of the Prairie View
delegation who are all members of
the Kellogg Foundation for Com
munity Leadership. “We always
have plenty of response when we
ask for volunteers to come here.”
Dr. Woolfolk also said that Col
lege Station was the first commun
ity to invite the program. Most
of the movements are started by
the Foundation.
“We should work together for
the mutual good of the communi
ty,” said Delaplane. “Right now,
it looks like you are surpassing us.
At our community meeting last
month, we only had 36 persons.”
Seventy-five persons attended last
night’s meeting.
Topics discussed by the discus
sion leaders include “Community
Recreation”, “Community Sanita
tion”, Family Life Education”, and
“Occupational Up Grading”.
Next meeting of the Negro
Chamber of Commerce will be
May 8, according to Henry Wil
liams, president. The Chamber
was formed earlier this year, with
Williams and Daniel Washington,
I secretary.
Weather Today
FAIR
Fair with a few clouds and little '
II change in temperature is fore-!
| casted for College Station. Yes- j
terday’S high was 75 degrees, low,
| 51 degrees. Temperature at 10:30
this morning was 73 degrees.
6:30 A.M. Service
Here Opens Program
Former Texas A&M studends throughout the world will
gather in small and large groups tomorrow for the traditional
Aggie Muster.
The parent Muster, on the A&M campus, will be held at
6:30 tomorrow morning on the lawn of the Memorial Student
Center. First call will be at 5:30 a.m., fall out at 6:10 and
the Muster at 6:30. There will be no formations for the
Muster ceremony. Following the Muster, assembly will be
sounded at 7:15 and breakfast will be served at 7:17.
Earl Rudder, State Land Commissioner and class ’32,
will be principal speaker for the occasion which honors he
roes of the Battle of San Jacinto and pays homage to all
A&M men who have passed
on. “Roll Call for the absent”
will be limited to students who
have died since the last Mus
ter. These are Jan Broder
ick, James B. Koym, James Sar
ran, Gene Kinard, Donald Schil
ling, Norman Daigle and Richard
Burlin. This issue of The Bat
talion has been dedicated to those
students and professors who have
died during the present school year.
Included on the program will be
a speech given by W. L. Ballard,
class ’22 and president of the As
sociation of Former Students. Oth
ers on the program include Her
bert W. (Bud) Whitney, master
of ceremonies; W. Paul Holladay,
calling roll for the absent; Byron
A. (Scotty) Parham, speaking in
behalf of the student body; Larry
Kennedy in behalf of the Corps of
Cadets; John Jones, speaking in
behalf of civilian students; Allen
Greer, giving the Muster tradition;
and David H. Morgan, who will in-V
troduce Ballard.
The Texas Aggie Band and Ross
Volunteers will also appear on the
program, along with the Singing
Cadets, under the direction of Bill
Turner.
Rudder was appointed Texas
Land Commissioner early in 1955.
He is also chairman of the Veter
an’s Land Board and was one of
the heroes of the Normandy inva
sion during World War II. He
now commands the 90th Infantry
Division of the Army Reserve, with
the rank of Brigadier General.
Mayor of Brady from 1946 to
1952, Rudder served about two
years on the State Board of Pub
lic Welfare. He also served as
delegate to the 1948 and 1950 Dem
ocratic conventions, and in 1952
and 1954, represented his distract
on the Democratic State Executive
Committee.
After five years as teacher and
football coach at Brady High
School, Rudder became football
coach at Tarleton.
In 1941, he was called to active
duty as a first lieutenant. His
military decorations include the
Distinguished Service Cross, the
Silver Star, Legion of Merit,
Bronze Star, Purple Heart with
cluster, the Fr ench Croix de Guerre
and Legion de Honneur, and Bel-
J. EARL RUDDER
Speaker for Muster
Singing Stars
Appear Tonight
At Center
The Singing Stars of Texas
State College for Women will
present a concert of contem
porary American music and
folk songs at the Memorial
Student Center tonight at 7:30.
The 21-yoice singing group will
open their concert with “This is My
Country” by Jacobs, and continue
with “Long Ago and Far Away”,
Jerome Kerne; “With A Song in
My Heart”, Richai’d Rodgers;
“Night and Day”, Cole Porter; and
“Somebody Loves Me” and “Swart-
ne” by George Gershwin.
Selections from Broadway musi
cal hits also form part of their
repertoire. They will sing “The
Heather on the Hill”, “Come to
Me Bend to Me”,. and “Almost
Like Being in Love” from Briga-
doon by Lemer and Lowe and “If
I Loved You”, “June is Bustin’
Out All Over” and “You’ll Never
Walk Alone” from Carousel by
Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Folk song selections are “Red
Rosy Bush,” “Poor Wayfaring
Stranger” and “I Must and I Will
Get Married.”
Directed by TSCW professor
John Murray Kendrick, the Sing-
giums Order of Leopold.
He is a steward in the Methodist
church and is married. He and
Mrs. Rudder have three daughters
and two sons.
The Muster Committee, with Gus
Mijalis as chairman, felt that
“A&M should hold the first MuS'
ter in the state since it is parent i j n ^ g^ ars were organized 17 years
school for Muster and the souice. j a jr 0 t 0 sing for service organiza-
Other members of the Mustci j t j ons , m jiitary groups and hospit-
Committee are Tommy Short, Bd 1 | a j s
Swann, Jack Edwards, Richard
Tachibana, Byron King and Brad
Crockett.
This is the first time the MuS'
ter ceremony has been held at 6:30
in the morning.
BULLETIN
B. A. (Scotty) Parham, stu
dent Senate president an
nounced this morning that a
drive has begun to raise mon
ey to help Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Huffhines, whose College View
apartment was destroyed by
fire last night. .Money from
the Corps will be collected
through unit commanders and
the Corps chaplain. Parham
urged all senators to help can
vass the campus for contribu
tions. John Jones, civilian
‘council president, is head of
collections for the civilians.
Parham asked that all civilian
senators turn their money in to
Jones.
Council Filing
Ends Tomorrow
Tomorrow is deadline for stu-
| dents interested in filing for the
two positions open on the Memor
ial Student Center Council.
One position is from the class
of ’57 and one will be chosen from
the two classes of ’58 and ’59. To
be eligible, candidates must have
been at A&M more than four se
mesters for the position from the
class of ’57 and less than four se
mesters for the remaining vacancy.
All candidates must have a 1.0
grade point ratio.
Students may file in the Direc
torate Office. The election will be
held Tuesday in the voting booth
near the Post Office entrance of
the MSC.