The B&ttal
Number 125: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1956
Price Five Cents
FSA Will Hold
Barbeque For
Senior Students
The Former Students Asso- [
ciation banquet, honoring - all
graduating seniors, will be
held May 10 at The Grove.
Graduating seniors include
any student who will receive his
degree this summer or next win
ter.
Starting the program off will be
speeches by W. L. Ballard, presi
dent of the Association; L. R.
Budworth, ’32; and Sen. Bracewell,
’38, from Houston. The program
will start at 6:15.
Cooking will be conducted by Dr.
O. D. Butler and Roy Snyder of
the Animal Husbandry Depart
ment. Fires will be started Wed
nesday night, May 9, and cooking
will continue through the follow
ing day. An open fire will be
used to cook the ranch style pit
barbeque, donated by former stu
dents.
Tickets are being circulated
through battalion and group com
manders in the Corps and through
the Civilian Council to dormitory
representatives for graduating sen
iors, according to J. B. (Dick) Her-
vey, secretary of the FSA.
“The reason tickets are being
given this year,” Hervey said, “is
to help us know how many students
will attend the affair.”
Heart Attack Claims ‘Veep’
At Mock Demo Convention
Tickets may also be picked up
at the Student Activities Office or
the FSA office in the Memorial
Student Center.
PHOTOGAPHER’S DATE—The music was lovely and the Cotton Ball was moving right
along Friday nght as the couples swung and swayed. Mike Keen, Battalion photograph
er, suddenly discovered the couple shown in the foreground. His date, Miss Judy Fuller
from Rice Institute, and one of his partners in the campus photography, Jay Collins, were
“cuttin’ a rug” on the concrete floor of the Grove. “What’s a little ‘bird dogging’ be
tween friends,” Keen said.
Weick Wins Award
In Aero Contest
Richard (Dick) Weick, College
Station, received a cash award of
$300 as winner of the fourth an
nual student technical paper con
test sponsored by the Texas sec
tion of the Institute of the Aero
nautical Sciences in cooperation
with the Texas aircraft manufac
turers, Edward E. Brush, head of
tthe Texas A. and M. Aeronauti
cal Engineei'ing Department, has
announced.
Weick, A&M senior aeronautical
engineering student, gave a paper
on preliminary design of a turbine
powered 400 mph five-place ex
ecutive airplane. Contest judges
were professional aircraft engi
neering experts who judged en
tries on originality, technical con
tent, oral presentation and ability
of the student contestant to ans
wer questions from judges and the
audience.
Center News
A&M Speechmasters’ Group will
meet in the Social Room at 5:15
today.
Music Group will present the
innual FFA talent show Saturday
Bt 1:30 in Guion Hall. All students
interested should contact the Di
rectorate Office. Cash prizes will
be awarded.
Graduates Hear
Professor Talk
At 8 Tonight
A co-inventor of a machine
used for measuring tenderness
in meats will present a gradu
ate lecture in the lecture room
of the Biological Sciences
Building at 8 tonight.
Lyman J. Bratzler, professor of
Animal Husbandry at Michigan
State University, will lecture on
“Physical and Chemical Character
istics of Pork as Related to the
Producer and Consumer.”
In his lecture Bratzler will dis
cuss how pork can be adjusted to
suit the desires of consumers more
easily than any other red meat.
“Bratzler has studied the prob
lem from the vantage point of the
meat salesman, producer and sci
entist,” according to Dr. O. D. But
ler of the Animal Husbandry De-
pai’tment at A&M.
“His discussion will be of inter
est to homemakers, home econo
mists, food technologists, and oth
ers interested in pork production
and pi*ocessing,” Butler added.
Bratzler has' had ten years ex
perience with product development
from Cudahy Packing Company,
followed with operation of a pri
vate wholesale meat business. He
served with the Army Quartermas
ter Corps during World War II.
He served as the first chairman
of the Executive Committee of the
Reciprocal Meats Conference and
holds other honors in his field.
Prankster
Takes A Shot
At Airplane
Frank A. (Bud) Johnson,
junior industrial education ma
jor from Sherman, was shot at
by an unknown gunman while
flying his light plane five
miles west of Easterwood air
port early Sunday afternoon.
Johnson was practicing law al
titude training maneuvers at
600 feet when he heard a noise
in the rear of the aircraft. He
immediately returned to Eas
terwood to try to find out
what caused the noise. An in
spection of the airplane re
vealed several dents and a
small hole in the rear part of
the fuselage, apparently caus
ed by a small caliber rifle.
Brazos county sheriffs de
partment investigated the in
cident and reported it to the
the State Highway Patrol as
the locality of the shooting is
outside Brazos county.
I Believe .
(Ed. Note: This is the first of
series of contributed articles
on the subject of church at
tendance.)
Freedom of worship is the her
itage of democracy—and the pro
pelling influence of our Chi’istian
nation.
Regular attendance at the church
of our choice is a recognition of
this privilege and blessing and
identifies us with others who share
our faith in a way of living. To
truly worship God in our individ
ual lives is to want to contribute
to the speading of His Gospel.
Ignorance of the organization of
churches is neglect of the strong
est force for peace in the world.
Joe E. Davis
Colonel, Infantry, USAR
Commandant
Weather Today
RAIN
Scattered light thunder showers
until 4:30 this afternoon. Then
scattered heavy showers with pos
sible hail until 10:30 tonight. Yes
terday’s high and low were 85 and
68 degrees. Temperature at 10:30
this morning was 80 degrees.
Room Reservations
Available in MSC
Requests for Memorial Student
Center guest room reservations for
the football weekends and other
major event weekends for the 1956-
57 school year will be accepted dur
ing May, according to Mrs. Mozelle
Holland, MSC guest room manager.
A deposit will be required of
those persons receiving reserva
tions. The reservation will be can
celled if no deposit is received at
least two weeks before the event.
Contracts Awarded
By System Directors
KING AND QUEEN—Shown above are Holman Griffin
and Miss Barbara Ann Martin, King and Queen of the
Cotton Ball Friday night. Miss Martin is a high school
senior from Corpus Christi. She was chosen queen from
more than 100 candidates.
Clarence E. Ayres
Phi Kappa Phi Speaker
Phi Kappa Phi
Initiates Tonight
One hundred students and four
faculty members will be initiated
into the Phi Kappa Phi Honor So
ciety tonight at 7 in the Ballroom
of the MSC.
Dr. Clarence E. Ayres, profes
sor of economics at University of
Texas, and a nationally known au
thor and economist will be the
principal speaker.
Dr. Ayres will speak on “The
Values of an Industrial Society.”
Phi Kappa Phi is a national so
ciety for the recognition and en-
couragemeht of superior scholar
ship in all fields of study. The
A&M Chapter requires a 2.25 gpr
and the student must be in the up
per 10 per cent of his class.
Dr. W. E. Street, president of
the A&M Chapter and head of the
Engineering Department will pre
side at the meeting. Members of
the arrangements committee are
Dr. A. W. Melloh, Dr. E. C. Klip-
ple and Dr. J. H. Milliff.
The Board of Directors of the
A&M College System, meeting here
Friday, awarded $339,289 in con
tracts, appropriated $35,500 for fu
ture improvements, authorized re
ception of bids for an additional
$46,500 in future constraction and
confirmed one previous contract of
$16,342.
At A&M the board awarded a
contract to Leftwich, Stenis and
Harris Co. of Houston for remod
eling four former veterinary hos
pital buildings for use by the Civil
Engineering Department on a low
bid of $238,153.
Other contracts at A&M are as
follows:
To R. B. Butler, Inc., Bryan, for
replacing entrance steps to two
dormitories, $13,750; to Leftwich,
Stenis and Harris, for replacing
dormitory plumbing, $16,895; to
Fisher Floor Covering Co., Bren-
ham, for laying rubber tile floor
in two dormitories, $8,898; to B. F.
Johnson Elevator Co., M’aco, for re
building elevators in two buildings,
$15,414; to Weiler Air Condition
ing Company, Paris, for installa
tion of an air conditioning system
on the System Administration
Building, second floor, $46,179.
The board also authorized the
system’s chancellor to receive bids
for four air conditioning installa
tions, for dormitory roofing repairs
and for alterations to the College
Hospital at an estimated cost of I
$46,500, appropriated $1,000 for ex
tension of a heat tunnel to the new
dairy and biochemistry building
and made a supplemental appropri- •
Sen. Alben W. Barkley
Struck During Speech
LEXINGTON, Va.—(JP)—Sen. Alben W. Barkley (D-Ky)
collapsed and died yesterday of a heart attack on the stage
he loved best—the political platform.
The 78-year-old “Veep” in the Truman administration
faltered and fell as he neared the end of a 30-minute keynote
speech at Washington and Lee University’s mock Democratic
convention.
He had just recalled his national political career as a
congressman, junior senator, senior senator, majority leader,
vice president and finally junior senator again for the cheer
ing students. His last words were:
“I am willing to be a junior. I am glad to sit on the
♦back row, for I had rather be
a servant in the house of the
Lord than to sit in the seats
of the mighty.”
He stepped back as though
trying to continue and fell at 5:13
p.m., brushing a microphone to the
stage with him.
A hush fell over the stuffy gym
nasium which moments before had
been rocking- to Barkley’s quips
Mrs. Barkley, the St. Louis wid
ow he married in 1949, was in the
audience. Virginia’s Gov. Thomas
B. Stanley escorted her to the plat
form.
Within five minutes Dr. Robei't
Munger, university physician, was
at Barkley’s side. But the “Veep”
was already dead. Dr. Munger
said the heart attack was either
a filbrillation or coronary occlusion.
A minister on the stage, the Rt.
Rev. John J. Gravatt, Episcopal
bishop of South Carolina, said he
didn’t believe the former vice pres
ident took “a single breath after
he fell.”
The 1,000 students, assembled to
try to preguess the real Democrat
ic convention of next August in all
the hoopla and trappings of a real
convention, underwent a sharp
shift of mood as Barkley lay on
the stage. There was an uneasy
quiet.
Stretcher bearers removed the
body to a mortuary, pending- plans
for removal to Washington. State
trooper J. B., Ratliff left with Mrs.
Barkley to drive her back to Wash
ington in the Barkley car. Mrs.
Francis P. Gaines, wife of the
W&L president, accompanied her.
The Veep, who had been a dele
gate to every Democratic Nationa-
al Convention since 1920 and con
sidered briefly making a try for
the top spot on the ticket in 1952,
delivered a last speech that bore
the genuine Barkley brand.
He said when he arrived in Lex
ington he had not decided whether
he would seek to go to Chicago
again this August for the national
convention.
“But since getting here, the old
fire horse hears the bell,” he said.
Later, when he decried any in
tention of being a presidential can
didate himself, he said.
“All fire apparatus is now auto
motive and not horse drawn.”
Barbara Martin
Reigns As Queen
Barbara Ann Martin reigned as
Queen Cotton at the twenty-second
annual Cotton Pageant and Ball
Friday night at the Grove.
Holman Griffin, King of the
Pageant and Ball, crowned the Cor
pus Christi high school senior af
ter the presentation of duchesses
from all the clubs and societies
represented at the pageant.
Dr. J. E. Adams, dean of the
School of Agriculture, crowned the
King, who later crown his Queen.
Miss Martin represented the Cor
pus Christi A&M Hometown Club.
J. J. Woolket, head of the Mod
ern Languages Department, serv
ed as master of ceremonies for the
pageant.
Proceeds from the event are used
each year to send junior and senior
agronomy students on a tour of ag
ricultural and related industries in
Texas.
BULLETIN
Ira G. Adams, 61, of the Eco
nomics Department at A&M, died
last night about midnight in St.
Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan.
Adams is survived by his wife,
305 Ayrshire, in College Station
and two children. Jean Adams,
of North Texas State College
where she is a freshman student,
and a son Andrew, 12.
Adams has been with the A&M
College since 1927. He was made
a full professor in 1935 j-fid
active in the field of labor eco- ^
nomics.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced by the Hilliev Funeral
Home.
JudgingContest
Will Be Held
On May Fourth
The annual Freshman and
Sophomore Judging Contest
will be held May 4 at 7 :30 p.m.
in the A&I Building and at
the Aggie Rodeo Arena.
The contest, sponsored by the
Saddle and Sirloin Club, will be
divided into two separate contests.
One, open to all academically clas
sified freshmen and the other to
sophomores having that academic
classification.
Any freshman or sophomore in
the School of Agriculture, includ
ing pre-veterinary medicine stu
dents, are eligible to compete.
Official entries must be turned
in to Mrs. Louise Glenn in the
Animal Husbandry Office in the
A&I Building no later than 12
noon Wednesday.
The winners of the contest will
be announced and prizes aw r arded
at the annual Saddle and Sirloin
Club Spring Barbeque May 11.
Prizes for the contest are on ex
hibit in the A&I Building.
“The contest will include the
judging of livestock, meats and
wool,” according to A. R. Thall-
man, superintendent of the con
test.
“All contests will* be in charge
of the Junior and Senior Meats,
Livestock and Wool Judging
Teams,” Thallman added.
The contests will be divided into
the following classes; heifers,
steers, fat lambs, and swine in the
livestock division; fine wool and
cross-bred fleeces in the wool
division; beef and pork carcasses in
the meats division.
Sophomores will be required to
give oral reasons on tw r o classes
w-hile freshmen will answ r er two
sets of questions.
The contest will be open to the
general public.
ation of $20,000 for equipment at
the college powei* plant.
An appropriation of $14,500 for
additional equipment for the new
cafeteria at Arlington State Col
lege w r as approved by the board,
wiiich confirmed an award of con
tract March 22 to Leftwich, Stenis
and Harris, Houston, for remodel
ing the library building at Prairie
View A&M College. The original
award w-as made on a low bid of
$16,342.
Directors also approved authori
zation to receive bids for repairing
and repainting dormitories at Prai
rie View for which $30,000 was ap
propriated in February.
Filings Open For
Seventeen Places
Filings opened today in the Of
fice of Student Activities for po
sitions of civilian yell leader, class
agent for the class of ’56 and mem
bers of the election commission.
Filings will close May 7 and
students interested may file their
names between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
in the Office of Student Activities
on the second floor of the YMCA.
Five members from each of the
classes of ’57, ’58 and ’59 will be
chosen for the election commission.
The election for these positions
will be held May 16 at the voting
booth at the Post Office entrance
of the MSC.
Board of Directors
Pass Resolutions
Board of Directors of the A&M
College System at their meeting
last week, passed resolutions
paying tribute to the late J.
Wheeler Barger and Alva Mitch
ell. and a resolution of apprecia
tion for Mrs. Irene (Mom) Clag-
horn.
The resolution concerning Bar
ger acknowledged the board’s
gratitude for the years of service
he gave to the school. Mitchell’s
resolution expressed the board’s
appreciation to the service ren
dered by the late professor. Mrs.
Claghom’s resolution expressed
the hope of the Board for her
speedy recovery from her inju
ries sustained in an automobile
accident.
Jenkins
Singing
To Head
Cadets
Charles Jenkins w r as elected
president and Ed Burkhead vice-
president of the Singing Cadets at
their annual awards banquet Sat
urday night in the Assembly Room
of the Memorial Seudent Center.
Jenkins, junior Mechanical En
gineering student from Lamesa
and Burkhead, junior architect
student from Lamesa replace
Harry Scott and Charles (Rocky)
Arnold w r ho received gold pocket
watches as gifts.
Other officers elected at the
meeting w’ere Bob Surovik. sopho
more accounting student from Mt.
Pleasant, business manager; Jim
my Bond, sophomore Petroleum
Engineering student from College
Station, reporter-historian and
Clem Sherek, freshman Mechanical
Engineering major from Corpus
Christi, librarian.
Harry Scott, outgoing president,
was master of ceremonies at the
banquet. He introduced Surovik.
who gave a brief talk on the ac
tivities of the group this year.
Main speaker for the dinner was
Judge W. S. Barron of Bryan.
Judge Barron told how good music
affects man, “governing h i s
thoughts, actions, and his emo
tions”.
Following Judge Barron’s speech.
Singing Cadet’s director Bill Tur
ner presided over the pi-esentation
of awards. Joe Blair, John “Cook
ie” Brannen, and Bill Reveire re
ceived gifts for having sung ten
semesters with the group. Letter
sweaters were presented to Ed
ward Burkhead, Carol Cato, and
Jerry Leighton for having over six
semesters with the group.
Gold keys were presented to
those having four semesters, and
members with at least two semes
ters received silver keys.
Director Turner received a gold
wrist watch from the group for his
outstanding service for the year.
Follies Tickets
Tickets for “Khaki Jungle,” 1956
Follies to be presented May 4 and
5, go on sale today. The tickets
may be purchased from Civilian
Council representatives, unit first
sergeants, and from the office of
Student Activities, third floor
YMCA.