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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.