The. Battalion
Number 129: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1956 ~
Price Five Cents
Ted Weems Set
For Ring Dance
In Sbisa Hall
Ted Weems and his orches
tra will play for the annual
Ring Dance Saturday night,
May 19, at 8 in Sbisa Hall, an
nounced Joe Bill Foster, chair
man, yesterday.
Ken Loeffler, head basketball
coach at A&M, will speak at the
banquet, also to be held at Sbisa
Hall, at 6 p.m.
“This years pictures will be bet
ter than last years,” said Foster.”
We will use student photographers
to take them.”
Photographers for the dance will
he Collins & Keen. Richard and
James Collins, twin veterinary
medicine majors from LaMarque
and Mike Keen, industrial technol
ogy major from Irving, have con
tracted to take the Ring- Dance
pictures for '56.
Tickets for the dance and ban
quet are on sale at the Office of
Student Activities on the second
floor of the YMCA and salesmen
are located in each dormitory.
Price for the tickets will be $1.50
per person for the banquet and $5
a couple for the dance. Picture
tickets will be sold only at the Stu-
aent Activities office and are $2
each.
Dormitory salesmen are as fol
lows:
Dormitory 1 — John D. Cunnig-
ham; 2—Dave E. Korry; 3 —
George Johnston; 4 — Wayne
Young; 5—Tom Wagner; 6—Hai’-
old Jacobson; 7—Lewis Datel; 8—
Dick Crews; 9—Don Smith; 10—
Les Robinson; 11—Ruddy Hopson;
12—Ernest Biehunko; 14 — Jim
McKenzie; 15—Clyde Wharton; 16
•—Bernie James; 17—Bubba Glea
son; Walton—John Roach; Law—
John Richardson and Joe Haney;
Puryear—Don Davis; Bizzell — O.
H. Glaze; Hart—George Owens;
Leggett—Prentice M. Milam; Mit
chell—J. W. Kyle; and Milner —
L. W. Henderson.
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Brazos County Parties
| Pick Delegates Today
AGRICULTURE AWARD WINNERS — Jim Renick of Llano and Don Dierschke of Row-
ena, are congratulated by Dean J. E. Adams of the School of Agriculture. Renick re
ceived the Ralston-Purina Scholarship award of $500 and Dierschke received Danforth
Graduate Study Fellowship.
Lyndon Johnson Delegates
Win At Saturday Primaries
Mrs. Maria V. Reyes
Aggie Honor Mother Award
County conventions for the Dem
ocrat and Republican parties will
be held this afternoon and tonight,
but little excitement is expected
at either meeting.
Democrats met at 2 p.m. today
in tfre gymnasium of Lamar Jun
ior High in Bryan, while the GOP
will hold its county convention to
night at 7 in the A&M Consolida
ted high school.
Lyndon Johnson forces won ov
erwhelming victories in all but two
precincts last Satuiday. Voting
for Allan Shivers for Democratic
Delegation Leader at the June na
tional convention were the Bryan
city hall box and precinct 3 at
College Station.
In College Station voting, pre
cinct 3 (west of Highway 6) vot-
I Believe . . .
I believe in regular Church at
tendance because I believe there is
a God who created man and guides
his destiny. I acecpt his plan of
salvation and have committed my
life to his service both in and out
of the Church.
Going to Church, which is God’s
house, gives me the opportunity to
publicly praise and thank him for
his guidance, protection, and many
Untold blessings to me and my
family.
Joining with others in regular
Church woi’ship increases its value
to all. The people who are regular
in Church attendance represent the
finest and most stimulating group
in any community. They are the
yery top in sincerity, friendliness,
helpfulness, and unselfishness.
, would not therefore deprive myself
of the privilege of regular and in
timate association with that kind
of fi-iends and neighbors in the
sacred atmosphere of the regular
Church service.
Turning aside from our week
day activities and cares for a per
iod of prayer, praise, and preach
ing from God’s word is time ex
ceedingly well spent. With God’s
help it rests, restores, and rein
vigorates our body, mind, and soul.
I need such help regularly.
Some of the sweetest and most
rewarding hours our family has
ever been privileged to spend to-
. gether have been in our regular
trips to and worship in God’s
house. No other place can do this
as wall.
If as a parent I am regular and
conscientious in Church attend
ance and Church work, I believe it
w’ill have a more wholesome influ
ence on my children and others,
than any amount of talking to or
preaching at them.
Finally, since I w r ould not w-ant
to live in a community which had
no active and effective Churches,
I recognize and accept my personal
responsibility to attend Church
regularly to do what I can to help
create this kind of a community m
of u-hich w r e can all be increasingly
proud.
Ide P. Trotter
Weather Today
High scattered clouds and slight
ly w-armer is the forecast for Col
lege Station. Yesterday’s high
and low were 90° and 09°.
Mrs. Maria V. Reyes was chosen
as Aggie Mother of the Year by a
special committee of the Student
Senate. She will receive a plaque
a t special ceremonies Sunday
morning at 11 a.m. in Guion Hall.
Mrs. Reyes was nominated by
her son, Mike V. Reyes, senior pe
troleum engineering major from
Beeville.
“The Senate realizes that we
cannot honor all mothers person
ally,” said Byron A. (Scotty) Par
ham, president of the-student sen
ate, “but v r e will present this to
Mrs. Reyes in recognition of all
Aggies’ Mothers wherever they
might be.”
Reyes letter nominating his
mother for the honor is as follows:
“I think my Mother, Mrs. Maria
V. Reyes, should be nominated Ag
gie Mother of the Year because in
my opinion the Aggie Mother of
the Year should be a person who
has sacrificed everything in order
to allow her children to obtain the
best possible education. My Moth
er raised a family of 14 children
and I doubt that the job she did
can be matched by any other per
son in the U. S. She only had a
third grade education but she has
seen to it tha t t every member of
my family that is old enough has
obtained a college education. Up
until now she has put 10 children
through college. I will be the 11th i months after graduating from
when I finish school in June. Of A&M. The records made by her
the other three children, one of children are too long to list. She
them is a freshman at Texas A&I.
The other two are in high school.
I will be the fifth boy that she has
had at Texas A&M. Of the other
three boys, there are eight boys
and six girls in the family, one of
them went to the University of
Mexico and the other two are still
in high school. They both plan to
attend A&M. Of my six sisters
five of them have completed their
college education and the other is
a freshman at Texas A&I.
“I do not believe it necessary to
tell about the hai'dships she has
endured in doing her job. She mar-
ried my father when she was 17
years old. Through her guidance
he was able to rise from an un
known immigrant from Mexico to
the position he holds now as head
of his own accounting business. It
took him over twenty years to
reach his present position so you
can imagine how many corners she
had to cut in order to put all of
her children through school on the
little money available to her. The
job she did in raising her family
can best be demonstrated by the
fact that of her 14 children, 13 of
them are in perfect health at the
present time. The other one - was
killed in a plane crash three
supplied the government with four
officers. Three of them were in
the second World War and the
other in the Korean War.
I could go on and on about her
many accomplishments but it would
take me forever to list them. I
would like to mention that my
Father deserves a lot of credit also.
It was through their combined ef
forts that this job was accomplish
ed and I am thankful to God that
they could both realize the im
portance of an education even
though they didn’t get one them
selves.
I sincerely hope that I have done
her some good with this letter.
Mike V. Reyes ’56
News
of the
World
Finalists
Chosen For
Vanity Fair
Thirteen finalists were chos
en last night as the Vanity
Fair beauties. The finalists
and their sponsors are: Jan
ice Cocke, Bill Cocke; Mona
Monical, James E. Monical;
Minta Curtis, W. F. Dietrich;
Anne Walker, Weldon Walker;
Sarah Lonquist, Jack Lon-
quist; Flo Burns, Robert F.
Krause; Jan Turbeville, Frank
Waddell; Harriet Cox. Fred
Cox; Jane Woodard, Mitchell
Woodard; Peggy Prock, Shan
non Griggs; Margaret Jane
Rodgers, John Jenkins; Elise
Lore, Fred Erp; and Sheila
Nelson, Jack Pearson. The
six winners will be chosen at
the Press Club Banquet, May
18. Sponsors are requested to
come by Student Publications
Office for briefing.
WASHINGTON, — CP) _ The
Eisenhower administration urged
Congress today to invest an addi
tional $4,900,000,000 in foreign aid ^ .
as insurance against “augmented | A V^
dangers to the free world.”
“Military assistance is still need
ed and defense efforts cannot be
relaxed in any degree,” John B
Hollister, director of the Interna
tional Cooperation Administration
told the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee.
“Although today Soviet tactics
are placing greater emphasis on
economic overtures to the less de
veloped nations, thei^e is no indi
cation that the dang’er of military
aggression is over.
“Communist military build-up in
any parts of the world and Com
munist distribution of modern
weapons provide augmented dan
gers to the free world.”
The administration is asking
foreign aid funds for the fiscal
year beginning July 1. Its new
budget is $2,200,000,000 more than
Congress voted last year.
ed 63 to 30 in favor of delegates
favoring Allan Shivers as leader of
the state delegation. F. C. Bolton
was elected chairman of the pre
cinct and Mrs. C. B. Godbey sec
retary.
The following husbands and
wives were elected as delegates:
F. C. Bolton, Fred Smith, R. L.
McCarty, J. B. Baty, C. B. God
bey, Jack Fugate, C. W. Price, A1
Nelson, H. E. Burgess, Henderson
Shuffler, Gibb Gilchrist, Ed Har
rington, Sid Loveless, Marion
Pugh, M. C. Hughes, Taylor Wil
kins, Joe Orr, E. L. Angel, and
Dick Hei - vey. William C. Gross
and Alton Boyett were the remain
ing two delegates.
Precinct 16, which includes that
part of the city east of highway
6, counted the vote 58 to 56 in
favor of the Lyndon Johnson dele
gation. The meeting grew too
large for the Culpepper building
at East Gate, and had to be held
outside the building in the near
darkness aided by a flashlight.
John Q. Hays was elected chair
man of the precinct, and Fred Ek-
felt was chosen secretary. Other
delegates include Mesdames Fred
Ekfelt, G. O. Hoffman, John Q.
Hays, W. E. Neely, Maud McFran-
cis, Karl Elmquist, and Miss Sue
WASHINGTON,—GP>—Con
gress will approve this year
“the substantial provisions” of
a bill to authorize the death
penalty for selling heroin to
youngsters. Sen. Price Daniel
said todav.
Room Reservations
Reservations for guest rooms in
the MSC for week-ends during the
next year may be placed this
month. A deposit is required for
all reservations. The reservation
will be dropped if no deposit is
given at least two weeks before
the event.
Also elected were C. C. Rice, E.
R. Alexander, W. A. Farrell, T. J.
Mattern, C. A. Price, and W. M.
Dowell. Husband and wife teams
include the George Drapers, Rob
ert Feragen, Henry Rakoff, W. O.
Adkin, Ed Parnell, J. H. Quisen-
berry, Charles LaMotte, O. M.
Holt, Malcolm E. Ennis and S. O.
Brown.
SDX Presents
Humble Editor
At 7:30 Tonite
A man who was named Ed
itor of the Year in 1952 by the
Society of American Indus
trial Editors in 1952 will
speak before an open meet
ing tonight in the Assembly room
of the MSC at 7:30.
Walter G. Beach, supervisor of
publications and information for
the Humble Oil and Refining Com
pany of Houston \yill speak on
“What Industry Expects from the
Journalism Graduate.”
“The -speech will be of interest
to journalism and engineering ma
jors alike,” according to Dave Mc-
Reynolds, president of Sigma Del
ta Chi, professional journalism
fi-ateinity, the sponsoring oigani-
zation.
In his present position, Beach
manages the publication of six
company publications, including
the popular “Humble Way.”
Originally employed by Humble
in 1935, Beach worked for nine
years as publicity assistant and on
all types of copy work and photog
raphy for the company.
He was graduated from St. An
drews University, Austin, in 1932
and served as director and instruc
tor of publicity for the university
two years prior to going to Hum
ble.
A&M Rodeo Team
Wins 1st Place
Segregation Vote
Tabbed for 15th
The Segregation Election, to
determine whether the students
at A&M are for or against
segregation, will be held in the
voting booth at the Post Of
fice entrance of the Memorial
Student Center Tuesday, May
15, from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
according to Brad Crockett,
election commission chairman.
At the same time the civil
ian yell leader and the class
agent for the class of ’56 will
be elected.
On Wednesday, May 16, the
fifteen members of the elec
tion commission will be elec
ted. Five men from each of
the classes of ’57-’58-’59 will
compose the election commis-
The Aggie Rodeo teapi brought
home first place honors Saturday
after downing Sam Houston State
Teachers College in a matched
rodeo at Navasota last weekend,
according to James Dickey, presi
dent of the Aggie Rodeo Associa
tion.
Rodney Butler, . pre-veterinary
medicine major from Sulfur, La.,
won all-round honors for A&M tak
ing first place in saddle bronc rid
ing, second in bull riding and
fourth in dogging.
First place winners in the con
test are as follows: bull riding—
Henry Presnal (A&M); bareback
bronc riding — Ira Aikers (SHS
TC); saddle bronc riding—Rodney
Butler (A&M); tiedown roping—
Jim Green (SHSTC);
Don Bissett, junior agriculture
journalism major from A&M was
the announcer for the show and
Royce Hudson, junior business ad
ministration major from A&M was
the clown.
Wreck Victims Listed
As ‘Out of Danger’
AGGIE MOTHER OF THE YEAR—Mrs. Maria V. Reyes
was chosen as the symbol of Aggie Motherhood and will
receive a plaque at ceremonies to be held Sunday morning
at 11 p.m. in Guion Hall. She was nominated by her son,
Mike V. Reyes, senior petroleum engineering major from
Beeville.
Mrs. I. M. Atkins, wife of Dr. I.
M. Atkins, 1215 Marsteller, is “out
of danger” and her condition is
“not serious” following a car colli
sion south of Mexia Saturday
morning.
Mrs. Bill (Mary Virginia) Lyles,
a daughter, is in Baylor Hospital,
in Dallas, suffering from a broken
leg. Dr. Atkins, head of the small
grain investigation for the Agricul
ture Extension Service, was the
other occupant of the car and is re
ported to have suffered no injuries.
Mrs. Atkins is in Brown Hospi
tal in Mexia where she will remain
for “a couple of days” according
to I. M. Atkins, Jr.
The trio was driving to Denton
between 6 and 7 a.m. Saturday
when their car was struck by a car
that richocheted off a truck head
ing toward them. Mrs. Atkins was
thrown from the vehicle and pinned
underneath. An unknown woman
who lived nearby, phoned an ambu
lance which carried the injured peo
ple to the hospital.
A piece of glass was removed
from Mrs. Atkins throat and she
suffered several cuts and braises.
Mrs. Lyles, president of the Agron
omy Wives Club at A&M and wife
of Bill Lyles, senior agronomy stu
dent, is “resting well” in Dallas.
The car was a complete loss.
Hufflii ties rite
‘Thanks to AIL
A letter of thanks has been
received from Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Huffhines in which they
said —
“Thanks to everyone who
helped us after the recent Col
lege View fire in our apart
ment, we wish to express our
heartfelt appresiation.
Barbara and Bill Huffhines
CRIPPLED CHILDREN'S CLINIC—Shown above are Miss
Imogene Smith, public health nursing consultant, left, and
Miss Linda Sue Moss, patient in the clinic. The clinic is
being held at the A&M Presbyterian Church.