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& The. Battalion Number 137: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1956 Price Five Cents Clean Up Drive Starts Monday For Whole City Plans are now under way for College Station’s seventeenth bi annual Clean Up Drive, according to W. H. Delaplane, president of the College Station Civic Associa tion. The drive will start Monday and last through Wednesday. Trucks belonging to the city of College Station will gather trash in the drive, City Manager Ran Boswell said. The Civic Association, formerly called the College Station Develop ment Association and Chamber of Commerce, finished arrangements for the drive at their last monthly meeting Monday. “Trucks will pick up trash stack ed in front of houses or in alleys,” Boswell said. “Wherever trash is normally picked up, the trucks will stop.” Trash should be ready to move in the South Side area Monday, and trucks will pick up in the east and north sides Tuesday, accord ing to Gibb Gilchrist, chairman of the Civic Association’s Civic com mittee. “We will get anything that we missed before on Wednesday,” Gil christ said. Clean up drives have been held twice a year in College Station since 1948. The old Chamber of Commerce took them over in 1955. “College Station residents are urged to take this opportunity to clean up the city before the sum mer,” Boswell said. “College offi cials are expected to cooperate in the drive.” Ex-Ag Drowns As Boat Topples In N.Y. River Dr. Allan Neil Brown, 31, a former student at A&M, was drowned in the waters of the Niagara River near his home at E. I. duPont de Nemours Co. New York plant Tuesday af ternoon. Dr- Brown received his doctorate degree in chemistry from A&M in 1954. He is the son of Mrs. Ella Brown of 1311 Jefferson Avenue of Waco. He and a fellow-chemist were engaged in ferrying food to the strikebound plant of duPont when their boat overturned in the river. Recovery efforts were still under way for the bodies according to la test information. Brown and his wife, the former Miss Charlesta Louise Bowles of Waco, were both graduates of Bay lor University and were married in 1947. Britain To Expand Trade With China LONDON—OP)—Britain has de cided to expand its sale of goods classed as strategic to Communist China. It was learned yesterday Brit ain will invoke an escape clause of the Allied Control System. It has in fact, already done so in releas ing a consignment of 60 tractors to Peiping recently- Further sales of tractors are ex pected. Communist China wants to buy thousands of them for its drive to boost agricultural output by collectivizing and mechanizing the farms. Red China also may get from Britain automobiles, electrical equipment, a generating plant and such raw materials as rubber. The escape clause permits any Western Ally to send strategic goods to Red China as long as its partners are notified. Britain has used the clause sparingly in the past. It will now use the clause more extensively, according to a statement in Parliament this week. Air Force Seniors First Lt. Daniel A. Pedratti, ’53, briefed Air Force seniors on the first phase of training after grad uation, which they will receive at Lackland AFB, San Antonio, yes terday at 3 p.m. Pedratti, now as signed to Lackland, was in Squad ron 9 here at A&M. Bonnie Ann Shaw, Feature Singer With Ted Weems Orchestra Trip Through Giant Ring To Highlight Annual Dance By ROGER CLUXT Battalion Staff Writer Highlight of the annual Senior Ring Dance weekend will be the ceremony when seniors and their dates pass through a replica of an Aggie ring. This is when the girl turns the ring and then both cele brate with a kiss. The turning of the ring signi fies leaving A&M—the shield is turned so it faces outward, with the A&M emblem on the side to ward the wearer’s face, symboliz ing the graduate’s duty to his school. (This is true only if the ring is worn on the left hand.) During the senior year, the ring is worn with the Texas emblem turned in, symbolizing the student’s duty to his state. The kiss, of coux-se, symbolizes what ever the senior and his girl want it to. Confusion sometimes comes dui*- ing the turning time—this is when a pictui’e is taken of the ceremony to preserve the moment. Photo graphers taking pictux-es have the schedule arranged so that no one should have to stand in line moi'e than 15 minutes, but this close schedule requii’es cooperation from Miss Rue Pinalle Selection Tonight Miss Cafe Rue Pinalle will be selected tonight at 8:30 in the Ping-Pong area of the Memoi-ial Student Center. The winner will be picked from the audience by popular vote of those present. Miss Rue Pinalle will receive a stuffed toy French Poodle as an award, according to Shirley Cannon, MSC program consultant. all seniors. Hei-e is the w r ay it should woi’k, in chronological order: Tickets for pictures of the cere mony ai’e now on sale in the Stu dent Activities Office on the sec ond floor of the YMCA. They will be on sale until noon tomoi’- i*ow but since the time of the cere mony depends on when the ticket is purchased, the latex- it is pui'- chased, the later the ticket holder’s time in the ring will be. Thex-e will be two of the big gold replicas of the x-ing in Sbisa Hall tomorrow night. One is fox- holders of yellow picture tickets, and the other is for holdexs of omnge tickets. There will be colored crepe pa per on x-ings to tell which is which. Each of the tickets has a letter on it, corresponding to a time schedule set up by photographex-s. The senior and his date should get in line in fxont of the px-oper ring when the lettex- corx-espond- ing to the letter appearing on his ticket is displayed. For example, if your tftket has the letter “E” NBC To Broadcast Aggie Muster Sat. Portions of the Aggie Mus ter will be heard over the Na tional Broadcasting Corpora tion’s “Radio Monitor” Satur day morning “around 8:30”. The excerpts were recorded during the Muster held April 21, by Pat Flaherty, of KPRC- TV in Houston. Locally the program will be heard over KORA, Bryan. News of the World By The ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK—Russia took a preliminary step yesterday toward setting up an official travel agency in the United States. A Soviet official arrived to study what is needed to make it easier for Americans to visit Russia. Valentin Spir- donov, of Intourist, the Russian tourist agency, said through an interpreter that he hopes to set up an Intourist office in New York City. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—The House Foreign Affairs Com mittee yesterday turned down President Eisenhower’s request for long-term foreign aid authority and tied new restrictions into his 84,900.000,000, aid bill. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—United States officials yesterday be gan. looking into the possibility that other nations in the nine-member Arab League may follow Egypt’s lead in rec ognizing Red China. They fear this will happen and they presumably intend to bring diplomatic pressures to prevent it if possible. The Egyptian decision to establish formal dip lomatic relations with the Communist regime at Peiping w r as announced Wednesday without any advance notice to Wash ington. on it, you will take youi’ place in line by the x-ing- with the crepe paper the same color as your tic ket—yellow or orange—when the letter “E” is displayed. There will be people at the line to tell the senior- and his date what to do next. When the senioi-’s time in the x-ing comes, he and his date step into the ring, and wait for the photogaapher’s instructions. Thex-e will be a little loudspeaker on the top of the ring; the photo grapher will give posing instx-uc- tions through this. First, the date turns the x-ing ai-our.d, and a picture is taken of this. Then the senior kisses his date, which seals the cox-emony.* If two pictui*es have been ordered, another picture will be taken at this time. Then, the senior and his date step out of the opposite side of the ring, and make way for the next couple. The kiss in the ring is an un deniable and deserved right. But, if it lasts too long, it can throw the whole schedule off. This is the way it works, and it will work if everyone gets in line at the right time and doesn’t take too much time after the ring is tux-ned. In other words, cut it off quick. Student Publication Awards Given At Press Banquet Annual Meeting For All Press dub Personnel By RALPH COLE Banquet Publicity Chairman The main event of the school year for student publica tions staff members will be unreeled tonight at 6 in the ball room of the Memorial Student Center. Gathering for the annual A&M Press Club Awards banquet will be approximate ly 200 persons, publications members, guests and persons who will receive awards. Awards will be made tonight by The Battalion, the Southwest Veterinarian and the Engineer. Seven Battalion awards will be made to persons selected by members of the Batt staff who have been of service both to the school or city and to the newspaper. Three persons will be given awards by the School of Veterinary Medicine student journal. The Engineer magazine has not announced its plans. The Battalion will receive a $100 check tonight from Lum bermens Mutual Casualty Company. The award, given by the insurance company to the Batt for winning thixd place in college daily newspapex-s division of the company’s annual Safe Driving contest, will be made by W. P. Bx andenbux g of the Dallas Agency Department. A change has been made in the usual banquet program as a show fx-om Sam Houston State College will present a variety program in stead of having a speaker. Stu dents appealing on the program ax-e Don Bateman, Bobby Sage, Don Rightmire, Gene Ronsonette and Allen Ray, all membei-s of a com bo; Bill Byers, a xhythm singer; Patty Simons and Max-y Ann Vaught, pantomimists; Pat Beck er, blues singer and Hexb Hanson and Virgil Lee, comic act. Lee al so will be master of ceremonies for the SHSTC group. Keys fox- student publications staff members and watches for the 1955-56 publications editors will be awarded at the banquet, w-hich will be a smox-gasboxd. Editors this past year wex-e Wallace Larson and Bx-yan Beax-d, Southwestern Veter inarian; Bud Williams, Engineer-; Roy Eckard, Commentator; Fxank Waddell, Agriculturist; Kuxt Nauck, Aggieland; and Bill Ful lerton, Battalion. Fullex-ton, Px-ess Club president, will do what little emceeing needs to be done, and will call names of Battalion key winners. The other- editors will make their awards. Kax-1 E. Elmquist, chairman of the Student Publications Board, will make presentation of watches. Jim Bowex-, Battalion, and James Oook, Aggieland, served as pxo- gram chairmen for this year’s Press Club banquet. Pat Becker, Banquet Singer Armed Forces Day Features Bryan Parade A parade in downtown Bryan and an open house at Bryan AFB highlights Armed Forces Day cele brations Saturday for the College Station-Bx-yan area. Paxticipating- in the “Power for Peace” parade which will begin at 10:30 a.m. will be personnel from Allen Academy, Texas National Guaxd, Bryan AFB, and A&M. The paxade will feature special motor ized equipment and several air craft fly-overs. A static militaxy equipment ex hibit will be on display in down town Bryan during the day. At 1 p.m, activities will shift to Bryan AFB for the open house which will last until 4 p.m. With the theme, “A Decade of Security Through Global Air-power,” the open house will offer special ex hibits from Allen Academy, A&M, Bx-yan AFB, and the National Guaxd. Taxrks, field artillex-y pieces, model bridges, trucks, recoilless rifles and mortars will be on dis play along with several training aircraft, two helicoptex-s, an F-84 jet fighter, a navigation trainer and other jet and conventional air- cx-aft. Also, maxry base facilities will be open to visitors. These will in clude Base Opex-ations, the pax-a- chute loft, the altitude chamber, and the snack bar. £ 4 Cal. U. Boys Water Fight, Panty Raid ’ BERKELEY, Calif. — — Wholesale water fights among- University of Califox-nia men students developed Wednesday night into uncontx-olled “panty x-aids” on sox-ox-ity houses, dur ing which some gix-ls were stripped of their nightclothes. All available Bexkeley and campus police battled until 2 a.m. yestex-day to bring the estimated 2,000 rioters under contx-ol. Twenty-two sorox-ity and girls boax-ding horlses wex-e bxoken into. Bax-ricades in the houses wex-e smashed down and the door of one sorority house wrenched off its hinges. Van dalism caused an estimated loss of $10,000. When the x-aidei-s were cleaxed away, the stx-eets wex*e littered with fem inine under gax-ments. Ted Weems Featured At Senior Ring Dance Ted Weems and his Ox-chestra will begin playing for the 1956 Senior Ring Dance at 8:30 tomor row night in Sbisa Hall. Tickets fox- the affair will be on sale until noon tomorrow. Ken Loeffler, head basketball coach, will be the main speaker at the senior banquet to be held at 6 tomorrow night. Weems is one man in the band world who has been able to keep his esteemed position for many years. More than 20 yeai'S ago, Weems and his brother joined an outfit named the Mason-Dixie Sev en, and wex-e billed as the ■‘'Million Dollar Twins.” The two boys did n’t have a million and they weren’t twins, but the success they had with the combo made Weems rea lize that band music was his pro- Weather Today CLEAR Clear with westerly winds is the forecast for College Station. Yes terday’s high and low were 89 de grees and 62 degrees. Temperature at 10:30 this morning was 82 de grees. fession. Featuring the old Weems com bination of four brass, four sax and three rhythm, his band is equipped to swing ’em hot or play ’em sweet. Weems first fox-med his band af ter winning a violin. As a little boy, Weems entexed a contest that promised three ponies to the first three winners. W’eems won fourth place and a violin. He took les sons on the instrument which later led to his forming a band. One of the most popular songs written by Ted Weems is the fam ous hillbilly tune “The Martins and the Coys.” Weems organized a band to play dux-ing fix-e drills at the high school he attended; howover, it got so popular they stopped using it during fire dx-ills and hired them for school dances. All pictures at the dance will be printed and sent in folders. The pictures will be taken in the same order as tickets purchased in the Student Activities Office. Pictures can be picked up in the Student Activities Office Thursday and Friday before final review. Film Society Show “Dial M for Murder” staxring Grace Kelly, Robex-t Cummings and Ray Milland will be presented to night at 7:30 in the Assembly Room of the Memorial Student Center by the MSC Film Society. Admission will be 25 cents per pei’- son or by season ticket. Foreign Students All foreign students w-ho p5an to leave the college during the sqm- mer are requested to repoxt to fhe foreign student advisox-, groiind floor, YMCA, to seeuxe a fbx'm I- 20 for reporting their summer ad- dresses, according to Bennie 'A. Zinn, head of the Department of Student Affairs. NEW FORMER STUDENT HEAD—Shown here is Louis R. Blood worth, class of ’32, from Wichita Falls who was recently elected president of the Association of Former Students.