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Number 131: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1956
Price Five Cents
CHAPEL CONSTRUCTION UNDERWAY—The new A&M Chapel, made possible by the
Former Students Association, progresses as scheduled. Workmen this week completed
setting first stages of foundation for the new structure.
Annual Open House
Exhibits To Be Highlight
All departments within the col
lege are busy getting prepared to
put their best foot forward with
exhibits, demonstrations, films and
contests in honor of the annual
Open House and Parents Day cere
monies Saturday and Sunday.
Exhibits range from blast fur
naces, in the mechanical engineer
ing shops, to milking cows at the
college dairy farm—from judging
swine to running IBM machines in
the Business Administration De
partment.
Highlights of the gala weekend
include an exhibition of Krueger
collection of oil paintings in Cush
ing Memorial Library, Aggie Fol
lies production of “Khaki Jungle”,
Little Southwestern Livestock
Show and Ham Sale, aerial acro
batics by Air Force jets and an
All-College dance—these and more,
Satui’day, Open House Day.
Parents Day-Sunday-will begin
With the traditional flower-pinning
ceremonies by the mothers of com
pany commanders in the Corps
areas; presentation of awards to
best-drilled sophomores and fresh
men, President and Deans recep
tion in the MSC and will close at
2:30 p.m. with a special drill by
the Ross Volunteer Company on
the main drill field.
“Khaki Jungle”, an Aggie Fol
lies presentation will kickoff week
end activities Friday night with a
play on student life at A&M. The
play will be in Guion Hall and be
gins at 7:30 p.m.
Open House Day
Saturday morning activities start
in Cushing Library at 8 a.m. where
the Krueger colection of oil paint
ings will be on exhibition.
All the departments and
schools with the college will
have exhibits showing the pro
gress and trends within the
various fields set up about the
campus, these exhibits begin
at 8 a.m, and remain open un
til 5 p.m. A program with the
location of exhibits, together
with complete information on
Open House Day and Parents
Day is available at the Office
of Student Activities on the
second floor of the YMCA.
A coffee honoring Federation of
A&M Mothers’ Clubs, sponsored
by the Brazos County A&M Moth
ers’ Club, will be held from 9-10
a.m. in the MSC.
At 10 a.m. piesentation of the
awards and Auction of the eighth
annual Chick, Poultry and Egg
Show will begin in DeWare Field
House and the annual conference
of the Fedei-ation of A&M Moth
ers’ Clubs in the assembly i-oom
of the MSC.
Oil Paintings
Will Be Shown
At Open House
Thirty - one original o i 1
paintings presented to A&M
by Carl C. Krueger, ’21, of
San Antonio will be introduced
by the Cushing Library from
8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Saturday.
The paintings are from a group
of . 150 gathered by Krueger’s
father in Europe. Krueger present
ed 30 of them to the college in 1952.
“No formal ceremonies will be
held,” said Mike Krenitsky, assis
tant libraian.“ However, Krueger
will be on hand to greet visitors
during the open house hours, from
10 a. m. until noon and 2 p. m. to
5 p. m.
The paintings, many by famous
artists of the old school, are scat
tered throughout the building. In
recent remodeling of the library,
Saturday afternoon the Memor
ial Student Center will have an
open house honoring A&M’s Moth
ers with an informal reception
sponsored by the MSC Directorate
in the ballroom. The annual Moth
ers’ Day Speech Contest, sponsor
ed by the A&M Depaxtment of
English and the Brazos Bar Asso
ciation will begin in the social
room of the MSC.
A smorgasboard will be held in
the dining room of the MSC from
5:30 until 8 p.m. for dinner Sat
urday evening.
Final judging for the Grand
Champion, Reserve Champion of
Little Southwestern Livestock
Show and Ham Auction will begin
at the Texas Aggie rodeo arena at
7:30 p.m.
Final presentation o f “Khaki
Jungle” in Guion Hall will be at
(See EXHIBITS, Page 6)
Club Honors
Two Ag Men
With Barbecue
D. W. Williams and W. L.
Stangje have been selected as
honorary members of the Sad
dle and Sirloin Club for 1956,
according to Bob Johnson,
president of the club.
“Each year the club picks two
men from over the state that we
feel has done an outstanding job
in the field of agriculture and make
them honorary members of the
club,” Johnston said.
Williams, Vice - Chancellor for
Agriculture for the A&M College
System, and Stangel, dean of Ag
riculture at Texas Tech, will be
feted -at the Saddle and Siiloin
Club’s annual spring barbeque and
Cattleman’s Ball Friday night at
The Grove.
Williams came to A&M in 1919
as associate professor of animal
husbandry in charge of swine piT>-
duction. In 1920 he was made full
professor and in 1923 was named
head of the Animal Husbandry De
partment. He served in that ca
pacity until 1943 when he resigned
to enter the Armed Forces.
Upon returning to A&M after
World War II, Williams was ap
pointed Vice-President for Agri-
culture and in 1948 was made Vice-
Chancellor for Agriculture for the
A&M System.
“He has held numerous positions
in widespread activities and organ
izations over the state and nation,
Johnston said. “His talents as a
speaker and a livestock judge as
well as his being an authority on
livestock have made him popular
throughout the Southwest.”
After coming to A&M he soon
was named a full professor in
animal husbandry and coached the
livestock judging team that won
the International Judging Contest
in Chicago in 1919. (A feat which
hasn’t been duplicated since by
teams from A&M).
He moved to Texas Technological
College, in Lubbock, in 1925 and
was named head of the Department
of Animal Husbandry. In 1945 he
was named dean of Agriculture at
Tech and has given much to agri-
cultui*e in the great plains area.
High
Will
School
Publish
Boys
Bait
Fifteen selected high school jun
iors and seniors from nearby cities
and communities will publish to
morrow’s Battalion.
These boys are here to receive
award certificates in the first an
nual Texas A&M Journalism High
School Honor Day. The boys and
the school they represent are as
follows: Bill Gibson, San Antonio-
Brackenridge High School; Roy
Carpenter, Austin High, Bryan;
Bill Blasingame, Bobby Eldred,
and Jack Cockerham, Port Arthur
High; Maurice Olian, A&M Con
solidated High, College Station;
Hubert W. Howell, Jehn Kerr,
Waco High; W. C. Duncan, Cy-
press-Fairbanks; Jimmy Turnage,
Milby High, Houston; Kenneth
the paintings were re-hung and
lighted to display them more effec- ! Venters, Jefferson High, San An-
( tively. j tonio; Jim Dunaway, Bellaire
I Kreuger is president of the San High; Robert Harkrider, Nacog-
j J Antonio Machine and Supply Co. doches High; Mike Wygant, Rea-
I past president of the Association of gan High. Houston and Charles
I Former Students, a director of the ; Hoehne, Schulenberg.
A&M Research Foundation and a The boys will perfom all the jobs
steady supporter of the A&M De
velopment Fund.
involved in putting out The Bat
talion—interviews, reporting, writ
ing, editing, photography and de
veloping and running the pictures
off on the engraving machine.
The Honor Days awards are
sponsored jointly by The Battal
ion, A&M Chapter of Sigma Delta
Chi and the Department of Jour
nalism.
Climaxing the visit, Friday af
ternoon at 1 p.m., a luncheon will
be given in the MSC by the spon
soring organizations where awards
will be presented.
W. R. Beaumier, vice-president
and general manager of the Lufkin
Daily News will be the principal
speaker.
The visitors met this afternoon
and selected their editor and staff
for the special edition. They will
work all afternoon on The Battal
ion. Friday morning they will be
guests of the Department of Jour
nalism and go for a tour of the
facilities of the department, meet
classes and students. At noon they
will meet at the A&M Press Build
ing to read proof on The Battal
ion.
Agricul ture Committee
Approves Soil Bank Bill
One Injured
In Collision;
Charg es Filed
Pat Jean Farley, industrial
engineering major from Plas
ter City, Calif, is reported to
be in “fair” condition in St.
Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan af
ter a headon crash on Jones Bridge
Road last night at 10:40. Two oth
er students, Von La Dwain Bowmen,
agricultural education major from
Wellington and John C. Fander-
ford, engineering major from Boise,.
Idaho, were not injured in the
crash.
A charge of “aggravated as
sault” has been filed against Bow r -
en and Fanderford viio w r ere re-
ported to have been racing-
east on highway 60 toward College
Station at the time of the wreck.
Farley, driving west in a 1951
Mercury, saw the cars approaching
and tried to leave the road w^hen
he and Fanderford hit head-on.
Both Bowen and Fanderford
v r ere driving 1956 Chevrolets. Ac
cording to reporting officers of the
Highway Patrol, O. L. Luther and
G. W. Williams, they were travel
ing at an excessive rate of speed.
Bowen escaped injury as his car
was not involved in the collision.
Fanderford’s car was completely
demolished, as was Farley’s. Fan
derford is reported to give credit
to a safety belt to his not being
seriously injured.
Patrolman Luther told repoi-ters
this wasn’t the first time “racing
and dragging” had been reported
on this particular sti-eteh of road,
but was the first time anyone had
been hurt as a direct cause of rac
ing.
* FAlonder Thinks New Bill
Can Win President's Favor
WASHINGTON—(/P)—The Senate Agriculture Commit
tee last night completed approval of a new soil bank after'
loading it down with a late flurry of amendments.
Chairman Ellender (D-La.) told reporters he thought
the proposal could win approval of President Eisenhower who
vetoed a previous catchall farm bill.
Sen. Aiken (R-Vt.), who often speaks for the adminis
tration on farm policies, expressed doubts about complicated
compromise proposals for price supports on corn and other
livestock feed grains.
“I think we may be able to work this out later on the
Senate floor,” Aiken said.
Rejected was President Eis
enhower’s request for author
ity to make advance payments
to farmers this year if they
Barbeque Set
For Class ’56
Graduating Seniors and members
of the class of ’56 will be welcomed
into the Association of Former Stu
dents at a stag barbeque in the
Grove tonight.
First on the activities is a pro
gram starting at 6:15. Students will
hear a speech by Louis R. Blood-
worth, ’32, president of the Associ
ation of Former Students and W. L.
Ballard, ’22, past president of the
group.
J. B. Hervey, executive secre
tary, will direct the program.
About 1,100 persons are expected
to attend the barbeque honoring the
new members-to-be.
Three members of the group
have donated the steers which are
being prepared in the Meats Labor
atory and roasted on a 20-foot pit
at the Grove. Dr. O. D. Butler and
Roy Snyder of the Animal Husban
dry Department are supervising the
cooking which started last night.
The animals were donated bv
A. F. Mitchell, ’09 of Corsicana,
Rufus Peeples, ’28 from Fehuacana
and Gus. R. Robertson, ’31 of Hous'
ton.
Txckets to the event are being
distributed and will be avialable at
the Former Student’s Office in the
Memorial Student Center until 5^
p. m. today. 11
Southwestern
Winners To Get
Silver Bowls
The Grand Champion and
the Reserve Champion of the
Little Southwestern L i v e-
stock and Ham Show will be
awarded silver bowls at the
final judging to be held Saturday
night at 7:30 in the Rodeo Arena.
The presentation of awards is
the last event of the day and winds
up a series of shows that will be
held on Saturday. Starting off the
day is the Ham Show at 9 a.m. in
the Meats Laboratory of the Ani
mal Industries Building. The top
10 hams entered in the show will
be picked by Roy Schneider, Agri
cultural Extension Service meats
specialist. J. A. (Bubs) Loftis is
superintendent and David Terry is
assistant superintendent of the
show.
The Swine Show begins at 10
a.m. in the Swine Centei’ and will
be judged by David Rusmisel, vo
cational agriculture teacher from
Luther Burbank High School in
San Antonio. AU classes will be
judged on the showmanship of the
boys and the appearance of the
animals. Charlie Cypert is in
charge of the.show and Don John
son is his assistant.
At 11 a.m. the Sheep Show will
be held at the Sheep Barns. Ray
mond Hicks, a breeder from Ban
dera, will judge the show, and Don
Dierschke will supervise it. There
will be a class of fat lambs and a
class of Rambouillet ewes.
Pete Wheeler will supervise the
Hoi-se Show which begins at 2 p.m.
The show will be judged by either
Roy Schneider or D. W. Williams
and will be held in the Horse
Barns. Two classes of horses are
being judged.
(See SHOW, Page 2)
Room Reservations
Now Accepted
Students may now’ make room
reservations for the fall semester,
1956, by contacting housemasters
of dormitories concerned or by
sending in a room reservation slip
W’ith a $6 deposit.
This must be done before Sept.
1, in order to have the room want
ed. No rooms will be held after
Aug. 31, unless the $6 fee has been
mailed to the Housing Office, base
ment of the YMCA.
Mitchell, Milner, Ramps A, B,
C, D and E of Hart and Leggett
will be closed during summer
months but will house civilian stu
dents again next year.
agree to take land out of crop
production next year and put it in
the “soil bank.”
Instead the committee accepted
a proposal that v’ould authorize
payments this year to any farmer
w’ho actually put part of his land
in the soil bank this year.
The vote to send the bill on to
the Senate w r as 13 - 1, wdth Sen.
Williams (R-Del.) voting no. Sen.
Aiken passed “until I read over the
provisions again in the morning.”
The House, in passing its new
fairn bill recently, voted to peg
supports for four feed grains—
oats, rye, barley and grain sor
ghums—at five parity points below’
the level of commercial corn. This
w r as conditioned upon taking part
in the acreage reduction phase of
the soil bank.
The Senate committee accepted
this provision for next year’s feed
grain crops but it put in a new
proposal for this year under which
producers could ignore planting
limits and still get supports at
about 75 per cent of parity.
Sens. Aiken and Young (R-ND)
offered this proposal as a substi
tute for the House provision. The
Senate group accepted it but then
also picked up the House provision
for 1957 crops.
An amendment by Sen. Young
w’as accepted by the Senate group
that would prevent possible drops
of five per cent in support levels
on w’heat, corn and peanuts during
the next two years.
A two-price plan for rice spon
sored by Chairman Ellender was
also accepted. He said the secre
tary could decide about putting it
into operation but that if it is
used it must be tried “during two
consecutive years of the next
three.” Under the plan, the price
of rice w’ould be supported in the
United States and Cuba while the
commodity w’ould be sold elsewhere
at low’er figures.
Minta Curtis
W. F. Dietrich
Peggy Jean Prock
Shannon Griggs
Mona Monical
James Monical
Sheila Nelson
Jack Pearson
Flo Burris
Robert F. Krause
Elise Lore
Fred Erp
Program In Guion
To Honor Parents
Aggie parents will be honored
at a special Parents Day program
Sunday at 11 a.m. in Guion Hall.
Joe Blair, civilian chaplain, will
open the program with the invo
cation followed by a greeting and
address by President David H.
Morgan.
After a meditation led by Harry
Scott, Corps chaplain, Larry B.
Kennedy, cadet corps commander,
will greet mothers on behalf of
the Corps of Cadets. Gerald Van
Hoosier, Hart Hall dorm-master,
will then address fathers in the
name of civilian students.
Follow’ing the benediction led by
Wayne Young, Byron A. Parham,
Student Senate president, will in-
! troduce and award the Aggie
“Mother of the Year”, Mrs. Maria
V. Reyes.
The program is being sponsored
by the A&M Student Senate.
Weather Today
Partly cloudy is the forecast for
College Station. Yesterday’s high
and low were 91 degrees and 67
degrees. Temperature at 10:30
} this morning was 80 degrees.
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