The. Battal E O T7
Number 135: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1956
Price Five Cents
Spring Promenade Is
Flower Show Theme
By BARBARA PAIGE
Battalion Woman’s Editor
Using “Spring Promenade” as
their theme for the annual flower
show sponsored by the A&M Gar
den Club, the Memorial Student
Center was lavishly divided into
parks, avenues and botanical gar
dens complete with candle-lite lamp
post’s marking the vistor’s way
yesterday from 4 to 8 p.m.
The Central Park in the lobby of
Dittman Says
Cadet Didn’t
Steal AS Quiz
According to Col. Henry
Dittman, PAS, the investiga
tion concerning a. stolen Air
Science quiz has shown that
the quiz in question was not
stolen by a cadet.
“From the facts involved, it was
determined that the Air Science
exam was not stolen by a cadet,”
said Col. Dittman-
He went on to say that “While
the boai’d uncovered some informa
tion regarding stolen Air Science
quizzes, it has not been determined
that sufficient facts have been pre
sented upon which firm disciplin-
ary action will be taken against
the cadets called in by the contract
retention board.”
The Battalion said yesterday
that, reportedly, Col. Joe E. Davis,
commandant, had received the find
ings of the contract retention
board.
Col. Davis said yesterday after
noon that at that time, he had not
received the results of the board
investigation.
Col. Dittman went on to say that
“In procedures of this type, we
must be careful to have sufficient
facts and evidence to definitely in
criminate a man so that we do not
injure those who are innocent.”
The Department of Air Science
Investigation concerned only the
alledged theft of Air Science quiz
zes. Information regarding other
thefts of quizzes and property re
sulted from long investigation by
The Battalion, assisted by other
members of the student body.
the MSC was an educational ex
hibit presented by the Department
of Floriculture and Landscape
Architecture under the direction of
A. F. DeWerth.
The show originated in the prom
enade cases near the Post Office
entrance and continued “on the ave
nue” through the ball room.
Mrs. C. C. Doak received the Tri
Color Awards in both arrangements
and Horticulture Division while
Mrs. C. B. Campbell won the Award
of Distinction in Arrangements di
vision. Mrs. Doak also took the
Sweepstakes prize for the most
ribbons won in the show.
Mrs. Doak won blue ribbons for
arrangements in novel containers,
fresh foliage, and line ari’ange-
ment.
Mrs. Campbell was awarded blue
ribbons for arrangements, yellow
predominating; . niches, and day
lilies.
Mi-s. T. R. Timm won first in
color-wheel, red predominating;
while Mrs. Tom Taylor’s ai’range-
ment for coffee tables, bottle ar
rangements, and fruit/vegetable
arrangement, won three firsts.
Dr. C. B. Campbell took the blue
ribbon in the Gun and Rod Shop,
men’s invitational class.
John Perry III, Candyi Garner,
and Bennett Watkins won awards
in the children’s invitational class.
Mrs. Fred Hale’s arrangement in
copper container’s division placed
first and Mrs. W. L. Penberthy
arrangement in the Novice class
for those who have not won a blue
ribbon, placed first. Mrs. Stanley
Davis won a blue ribbon for her
dried material composition.
Mrs. Doak won eight blue rib
bons in the horticulture section
while Mrs. Campbell took six blue
ribbons in that division.
Senior Class Picks
Gift For College
The senior class, at a meeting
Monday night, elected to present
the college with three voting ma
chines, said Joe Foster, social sec
retary.
The machines will be rented by
the college and the revenue from
their use will be administered by
Wayne Young, class agent, said
Foster. The machines will be main
tained by the Office of Student
Activities.
Polls Open Today
For Election Group
Five members from each of the
classes of ’57, ’58 and ’59 are be
ing elected for posts on next year’s
Election Commission today at the
voting booth near the post office
entrance of the Memorial Student
Center.
Candidates from the class of ’57
are Ronnie Briggs, Marcus Crow,
Jerry Hayes, Dick Howard, Ho
ward Martin, Kirby Meyer, C. K.
Orr, John Selensky, Jack Solka,
Luther Starr Jr., Don Weber, John
West and D. C. Wilson.
Class of ’58 candiates are Fred
Adair, Tom Harris, Sidney Kunz,
Carroll Lam, Theron McLaren,
Buddy Maedgen, Jimmy Porter, J.
M. Pousson, Jerry Roberts, Bob
Surovik, Morris Tillery and Hugh
Wharton.
The class of ’59 elects its mem
bers fx-om candidates James Bethel,
Richax-d Cawley. Wayne Heller,
William Kelly, Charles McKinley,
Wallis McNeill, John Mooi*e, Ron
ald Stallings and Ronald Stewart.
ARTS AND SCIENCE COUNCIL FACULTY APPRECIA
TION AWARD WINNERS—Above are the winners of this
years’ appreciation awards presented annually by students
on the Arts and Science Council. They are (left to right)
M. Gordon Daniels, Economics Department; Dr. Ralph
Steen, History Department and Lee J. Martin, English De
partment.
Students Vote In Favor
Of Racial Segregation
Grand Champion Showman
Little Southucestern Honors
Go To Llano Sophomore
By DAVE McREYNOLDS
An I8-yeai--old sophomox-e fx-om
Llano showed his heels to juniors
and seniox-s at the annual Little
Southwestexn Livestock Show and
Ham Sale Satui’day xxight.
Stanley Keese (pi'onounced ca-
Annual Dinner
For Architects
Will Be Tonight
Awards will be given to at
least 20 students from fresh
man to fifth year at the Div
ision of Architecture Annual
Awards Banquet to be held
tonight at 6:30 in the balh-oom of
the Memorial Student Center, ac-
cording to Ernest Langford, head
of the Division.
Awards will include the Ameri
can Institute of Ax-chitects School
medal, presented to students grad
uating- in design option; the Asso
ciated General Contx-actoxs Medal,
awarded to students gx-aduating in
ax-chitectural constxuction; Tabor
Scholarship; Davidson Fellowship;
Texas Concrete Masonry Associa
tion px-ize and faculty awards.
Speaker for the banquet will be
Dx\ Ralph Steen, head of the His
tory Department. Steen will speak
on the topic, “Intex-esting Events
in Texas Histox-y.”
The banquet is the climax of a
year of work for the Division, said
Lang-ford.
“I believe that this year has been
an extremely successful «ne for the
Division of Architecture,” he said.
sey) made a grand slam of honox-s
as he was selected Grand Champion
Showman in the Livestock Division
of the Little Southwestern; named
Most Out|tanding Sophomore in
the Saddle):and Six-loin Club; entex*-
ed the Grand Champion Ham in the
Ham Auction (which sold for $150)
and was high-point individual in
the annual Fx-eshman-Sophomore
Livestock Judging Contest.
In addition to his livestock and
judging activities, Keese has the
reputation of being able to tx-im,
not only cattle for the show x-ing,
but wields a “mean paix*” of clip
pers as a pai*t-time baxber in Mil
ner Hall.
A shox-t, blonde-headed lad, Keese
was gxaduated from Llano High
School in 1954 and entered A&M
that fall, majoring in animal hus-
Boots Free
For Senior
Size 8 1-2 B
Do you know anyone who
wants a pair of Senior Boots,
and for free ?
If you do, and he has a foot
size of 814 B, send him ovex -
to the Systexxx Administration
Building to contact E. E. Mc-
Quillen, A&M Development
Fund Director, on the second
floor of the building.
The boots ax-e tailor-made
and McQuillen will give them
to any futux-e senior whose feet
ax-e the x-ight size.
Houston, Young Elected
Yell Leader, Class Agent
The student body yesterday voted in favor of continuing
racial segregation at A&M by a vote of 1066 to 620 in the
election held in the Memorial Student Center.
Don F. Houston was elected civilian yell leader and R.
Wayne Young was elected class agent for the class of ’56
in the same election.
The segregation election was held by the Election Com
mission at the request of the Student Senate to determine
the views of the student body on segregation.
Previously the Student Senate had voted against segre
gation by a margin of 23-7.
Later a petition containing 447 names was submitted to
the Senate saying that the undersigned students didn’t feel
that the true feeling of the student body was expressed in
the Senate’s decision.
« a Section VIII, Article one of the Senate constitution said,
A referendum may be demanded on anj^ measure by the Stu
dent Senate by a petition signed' by three' hundred
(300) students. Such pettion shall
be presented to the Student Senate
in its next regular session and shall
be submitted by the Student Elec
tion Commission to genex-al stu
dent vote not more than 15 days
after presentation.”
As a result of the pi’ovision a
segregation election was to be
called. However, Dr. Robex-t M.
Kamm, dean of Personnel Sex-vices,
ruled that the Senate’s action in
calling the vote was unconstitution
al. The petition of the students
was not presented to the Senate
“by the next x-egular meeting” as
called for by the constitution.
• Dean Kamm explained that if
the matter had been referred to
him as new Senate action, and not
as a referdum election, the group’s
action would have been valid-
Soon aftex- this the Senate voted
to px-esent to the student body an
election voting on the question of
whether students were for ox-
against segiegation. The election
yesterday was the x-esult of the
Senate’s vote.
In the other election x-esults were
as follows:
Houston was elected civilian yell
leader with 221 votes. His oppo
nents, Van Redman and Richard D.
Talley x-eceived 160 and 171 votes
respectively.
Young was elected class of ’56
agent with 185 votes. His oppo
nents, Gus Mijalis and Henry C.
Hill received 85 and 63 votes re
spectively.
bandx-y. No stranger to the show
ring Stanley competed in Future
Fax-mer of Amex-ica contests in lo
cal shows around his home and en-
tex-ed shows in Houston, San An
tonio, State Fair in Dallas, Heart
’O Texas Fair in Waco and Capitol
Fail- in Austin.
He has eight yeax-s expex-ience
showing cattle and has won first
money, in medium weight steer
class and first in gx-oup of three
class at Houston in 1953.
The same year he showed the
Grand Champion Heifer at the Cap
itol Fair in Austin and had the
Gx-and Champion Bull the following
year in the same show.
Thex-e has been quite a bit of
competition between Keese and his
roommate, Benton Cassaday, also
from Llano. They were both mem
bers of their high school judging
teams and have showed cattle in
competition with each other over
the last seven yeax-s. Cassaday
wen Resex-ve Champion in his divi
sion, Beef Cattle, in the Little
Southwestern.
Keese has paid his own way thus
far thxough A&M, using the money
he won showing cattle in high
school. He still owns sevexal head
of both x-egistered and gx-ade Here-
foxds, which he keeps, “for insux-
ance.”
Stanley is the son of Mr. and
Mx-s. Chaxles (Chas) Keese, of
Llano. They make their home 41
miles east of Llano on the Fxed-
ex-icksbux-g highway and have two
other sons, Charles Jr., 21, and
Leslie, 7.
Ring Dance
Music Will Be
By Ted Weems
Ted Weems and his Orches
tra will do the honors at the
annual Senior Ring Dance to
be held in Sbisa Hall Saturday
night at 8:30.
Senior Banquet speaker will be
Ken Loeffler, hejid basketball
coach at A&M. The banquet will
begin at 6 p.m. and tickets will be
$1.50 per person and scheduled to
go off sale this aftex-noon at 5 p.m.
Dance tickets will be sold
through Saturday. These tickets
ax-e being sold in the dormitory
areas by designated salesmen and
at the Office of Student Activities
on the second floor of the YMCA.
These tickets are $5 per couple.
Picture tickets are being sold
only at the Office of Student Ac
tivities and will go off sale Fri
day afternoon at 5 p m. The soon
er you buy your ticket, the sooner
you will have your pictux-e taken at
the dance.
All pictures will be delivered in
a foldex*. One each of the two
poses will cost $2.50. Two pictux-es
of each pose will cost $4.
Frenchman Visits
A&M For Study
Dr. Max-cel P. M. Schveitzer, of
Toulouse, Fx-ance, is visiting A&M
to study wox-k in citx-us and other
fxuits and the Agricultural Exten
sion’s 4-H Club Pxogi-am, accox-ding
to Dean W. H. Delaplane, of the
School of Ax-ts and Sciences.
Dx*. Schvieitzer is inspector of
educational institutions in the Tou
louse ax-ea. His A&M txip is spon-
sox ed by the Leadex-s Px-ogx-am com
mittee of the Amei’ican Council in
Education in coopex-ation with the
Depax-tment of State.
Senate Will Meet
The Student Senate will meet to-
morx-ow night at 7:30 p.m. in the
MSC senate chambex-. Main busi
ness will be revision of the consti
tution.
News of the World
Ross Volunteer Officers
1Yanted For ’57 Company
member of the Gx-eat Issues com
mittee and the RV Fix-ing Squad.
John H. Specht, junior x-ange and
fox-estx-y major fxom New Bx-aun-
fels, has been named as command
ing officex- of the Ross Volunteers
company for the 1956-57 school
yeax-.
Specht is sergeant major of the
First Battalion of the Second Regi
ment and a member of Alpha Zeta.
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS H e is chairman of the second Stu-
OTTAWA—Fifty-two nuns and a priest were reported dent Conference on National Af-
dead or missing after an RCAF jet aircraft crashed into a ; f?a * rs » publicity secretary of the
convent near the village of Orleans, Ont., seven miles east of i R an S e and Fox-estry Club and
here last night. Seventeen nuns and one priest were reported
to have escaped. Sixty-nine nuns were known to have been
in the convent, operated by the Grey Nuns of the Cross. It
I is known as the Ville St. Louis convent. The jet plane was
seen in flames and losing altitude rapidly shortly before it
plunged into the building with explosive force.
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NA\ ASOTA—An 18-year-old girl said yesterday
she shot her father to death after a week-long argument
over who would be invited to her high school graduation
exercises. Mary Catherine Worbington said she fired a
.22-caliber bullet into the back of Clarence Worbington,
48, after he slapped her and threatened to whip her with
a belt at breakfast. She was charged with murder and
released under $1,000 bond.
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SEOUL—Syngman Rhee yesterday won his third term
as president of South Korea on the basis of incomplete but
conclusive returns from Monday’s presidential election.
Max-vin E. Melson, a building
pxoducts maxketing major fx-om
Eagle Pass, has been named as ex
ecutive officex-. He is the first
sergeant of “C” Armor.
The administrative officer will
be Kail Springer, mechanical en
gineering major fxom San Antonio.
Club Pics Due Weather Today
FLOWER SHOW WINNERS—Mrs r r u x * J J ^ 1
awards for both ArrangemepTand Hort,Yni?r ak H- ri& - ’ awarded the Sweepstakes
held last night at the Memorial Student CenW ^ Ga \ den Club
nerup, took the Award of Distinction in tho e i‘ * Irs# , B ' Campbell, left, a close run-
sented two silver bowls for ? x the Arr angement class. Mrs. Doak was pre-
Bryan. th Swee P stak es award, donated by Caldwell Jewelry Store,
“T” Association picture dead
line has been extended until Fri
day, according to Kurt Nauck,
editor of Aggieland ’56. Pictures
can be made at the Aggieland
Studio through Friday. Accord
ing to the studio, pictures will be
made free of charge. Those stu
dents desiring to use last year’s
picture are requested to inform
personnel at the studio.
High scattered clouds this af
ternoon and clear tonight is foi-e-
casted for College Station. Yester-
daf’s high and low were 77 degx-ees
and 63 degrees. Temperature at
10:30 this mox-ning was 78 degiees.
The liners United States and
America could be put side by side
on the flight deck of the aix-craft
carrier Forrestal.
Marvin Melson
Correction
The Senior Ring Dance will
be held in Sbisa Hall instead
of The Grove as was reported
in yesterday's Battalion.
Jack Thomas, wildlife managemen
major fx-om Foi*t Wox-th, wa:
named as first sex-geant.
Larry Pipex-, peti-oleum engineer
ing major from Bxownwood; Jex-x-j
Betsill, agricultural engineei-ing
majox- from Doole; and Jimmy Del
linger, animal husbandi-y majoi
fx-om Cox-pus Chx-isti, have beer
named as platoon leadei-s.