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Number 138: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1956
Price Five Cents
Blast Destroys
I Student Home;
No One Hurt
Fire set off by an explosion
of undetermined origin com
pletely demolished the resi
dence and belongings of Mr.
and Mrs. Don A. Keith, early
Sunday morning.
The fire was first discovered at
4:20 a.m., but help ari-ived too late
^ to combat the raging windswept
blaze. Patrolmen flanked both
sides of the roads and kept on
lookers safely pushed back as the
roaring flames completely engulf
ed the frame construction, leaving
nothing but shambles and ruined
furniture as remainders of the
home.
Keith, who is a graduating sen
ior in architectural construction,
and his wife Carolyn, who is sec
retary of the journalism depart-
' ment, were in Dallas visiting rel
atives at the time of the fme. They
are now staying in the home of
William E. Street of the engineer
ing drawing department. C. H.
Bernard of the physics department
has offered to rent the couple a
completely furnished house during
the summer months.
The destroyed house, w h i e h
belonged to Mrs. Phillip Arhos of
Bryan, was located in Lake View
Acres, three miles south of High
way G on the Caucasian Kennel
road.
The sudden explosion, followed
immedjately by a raging blaze,
completely ravaging the dwelling,
while firemen struggled vainly to
curb the billowing flames. The
general concensus of opinion is
that if the couple had been in the
house at the time of the explosion,
they would not have escaped alive.
The couple, who returned to find
their home in shambles, said,
“Were just thankful to be alive.
Everyone has been so kind. I don't
know what we’d have done without
help."
The A&M College Church of
Christ has taken up a collection to
aid the Keith’s.
SiipremeCourtUpholds
Union Shop Agreement
Speculation Arises Over
Influence of Government
AUSTIN—UP)—The U. S. Supreme Court yesterday
erased state “right to work” laws applying- to the railroad
industry, and speculation flared here as to whether the de
cision might open the door to union shop agreements in other
fields.
Justice Douglas delivered the unanimous decision in a
Nebraska case, upholding a 1951 amendment of the National
Railway Labor Act which authorized the railroads and labor
unions to enter into union shop agreements.
The tribunal’s decision left intact state laws banning
uriion shops in other industries.
“There is concern now whether this decision will give
♦Congress the go ahead to ex
tend union shop agreements
THIS WAS A HOUSE—Mr. and Mrs. Don A. Keith returned home Sunday from visiting
her parents in Dallas, and found this wreck where their home in Lake View Acres had
stood. An explosion of undetermined origin early Sunday morning was blamed.
— (Picture by Weldon Jones, Battalion City Editor)
YMCA, YWCA
To Hold Meet
In Oklahoma
News of the World
• Flash Bulbs Pop
This Week In MSC
News photographers and photo-
joumalists from all parts of Texas
are attending a short course in
news photography this week in the
Memorial Student Center.
The short course is co-sponsored
by the National Press Photograph
ers Association and the Encyclo
paedia Britannica. It started yes
terday and will continue through
1 tomorrow.
“This is the first short course
conducted by the NPPA,” said Gor-
den Yoder, course director and vice-
president of NPPA. This session
is an experiment," he added. “It
could be a good basic start for the
beginning news photographer.”
Donald D. Burchard, head of the
Journalism Department, is the local
member of the planning committee.
Speakers at the meetings include
Texas newspaper editors, camera
manufacturers’ representatives and
television station technicians.
The annual Classen Confer
ence, sponsored by the South
west Regional Student Coun
cil, YMCA-YWCA, will be held
June 7 at Camp Classen, ac-
cording to J. Gordon Gay, general
secretary of the A&M YMCA.
Camp Classen, five and one-half
miles southwest of Davis, Okla.
covers 300 acres and is owned by
the Oklahoma City YMCA.
Students will study their goals
and purposes in life with the theme
of the conference being “Strangers
Without A Cause.” Activities will
include worship, Bible study, lead
ership training, platform address
es, and recreation.
David Howell, YMCA World
Service Secretary, recently return
ed from Liberia, will be the even
ing speaker.
Dr. Waldo Beach, professor of
Christian social ethics at the Divin
ity School, Duke University, Dur
ham, N.C., will lead the morning
platforms.
Bible study will be under the di
rection of Dr- William Hage, pas
tor of the First Presbyterian
Church, Stillwater, Okla.
Recreation will include swim
mingy boating, sports, riding, lis
tening to music, and campfires.
A&M students have attended this
conference for the last 40 years.
Any student interested in attend
ing should contact Gay at the YM
CA as soon as possible.
Seniors Get Refund
Seniors who will graduate May
25, and live in a dormitory, can
pick up $2.65 at the Cashier’s
window of the Fiscal Depart
ment, the Fiscal Office has an
nounced.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NICOSIA, Cyprus—Cypriot reb
els hiding among rioting school
girls tossed bombs at British troops
trying to r-estore older in Nicosia
yesterday, killing one Briton and
Wounding three others. Bomb
splinters injured seven Greek Cy
priot civilians in nearby shops, and
two policemen.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON—The Penta
gon’s top brass played down as
“eager beaver” squabbling yes
terday a sudden upsurge of
Army - Navy - Air Force rivalry
over national defense policy. It
didn’t look, however, as if any
serious punishment was in store
for relatively junior officers who
stirred up the weekend fuss.
★ ★ ★
MARSHALL, I.—A Martinsville
farmer who doesn’t like parking
meters proved it last night. He
smashed 33 of them on the city
square and was irked at missing
two others. Ronald Medsker, 30,
came to Marshall in his farm truck,
drove it onto the sidewalk and
around the square shearing off the
meters like bowling pins.
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WASHINGTON — The House
Appropriations Committee yes
terday recommended an appro
priation of almost 24 million dol
lars for waterways projects in
Texas. A $6,900,000 project for
Buffalo Bayou was the largest
of the 13 projects. Two others
★ ★ ★
DALLAS—Sen. Lyndon Johnson
and Speaker Sam Rayburn joined
yesterday in an apparent series of
give-and-take trades to make sure
Tuesday’s State Democratic Con
vention runs smoothly and with a
minimum of static. Rayburn
sharply reprimanded the Democrat
ic Leaders who bolted the party
along with Gov. Shivers in 1952,
Hillel Plans
$150,000
Building
Players Finish Year With
Banquet; Presentations
The Aggie Players showed their
appreciation to director C. K. Es-
ten last night as they presented
him a gold wrist watch at their
annual awards banquet.
The banquet brought to a close
what was one of the Players most
successful years, according to Ted
Castle, president of the group.
Certificates and keys were presen
ted to the members with gold keys
going to Joe Dannenbaum and Bill
Swann. Silver key awards went to
Lari Wester, Clint White, Connie
Eckard, Gene Logan, Don Fisher,
Lester Cochran and Hugh Lank-
tree.
Roger Clark, Roy Cline, Toby
Hughes, Ken George, Rocky Ar
nold, Paul Ross, Ken Webb and
Lee Greer also received silver keys.
Certificates .of appreciation went
to Ardith Melloh, Florence Dela-
plane, Chris Pavelka, Maxine
Kamm, Shirley Cannon, Ronald
Ruth, John Kessinger, Dan Elling
ton, Phil McNemer, Bill Fink,
Ward Boyce, Pete Justice, Martin
Brittain, Chuck Kinkaid, Bill
Schroeder, Vince Giardina, Dan Ry
an and James Calhoun.
Jim Leissner was elected pres
ident for the coming year, with
Toby Hughes vice-president and
Gene Logan re-elected secretary.
Ken George was elected business
manager and Jim Neighbors was
named junior representative to the
Arts and Sciences Council.
The B’nai B’rith Hillel
Foundation of Texas A&M is
actively engaged in a fund
raising campaign to provide
the Jewish students with a re
ligious and social centersimilar in
scope to the Wesley Foundation,
the Newman Chib, and the Pres
byterian Centers. The goal is
$150,000 of which two-thirds is al
ready on hand-
The building will contain a sanc
tuary, a library of Judaica, a semi
nar for class rooms for Jewish re
ligious education, a music room
and a social hall for cultural meet
ings which will also serve as a
dining hall for Passover and other
traditional holidays.
There will also be indoor recrea
tional facilities; but, said Mrs.
Taubeuhaus, the director of the
local Hillel Foundation, “The place
will not be a country club.” She
stressed the point that the primary
purpose of the building will be for
religious and cultural activities.
The center will be of rockstone
and glass and will be air condition
ed throughout. A hedge will be
erected around the south and west
end of the building and all parking
will be within the grounds.
The building will be on Jersey
and Dexter Streets, facing the
A. F. drill field, one block west of
the Episcopal Church. The archi
tects of the building are Gabert
and Wisdom who built Temple
Emanu-El in Houston, one of the
outstanding Jewish Temples in the
Southwest.
Students Are Urged
To Store Bicycles
Students are urged to store bi
cycles and other equipment before
leaving the campus for the sum
mer, according to Bennie A. Zinn,
head of the Department of Stu
dent Affairs.
The Agronomy Society is pro
viding storage space in Walton
Hall and Dorm -3.
to other fields,” a spokesman
in the attorney general’s of
fice said.
In Phoenix, Atty. Gen. Shep-
perd commented:
“By this decision the court has
tightened the knot of federal in
terference ... it approves forced
union membership of unwilling
workers, who must now join oj - go
hungry.”
Jeffery Holleman, executive sec
retary of the Texas AFL, called
the decision a “great step forward
preservation of democratic union
ism..”
He added, in a statement, that
the action “insures for the railway
union members a protection in fed
eral law which still is denied to
other union members in Texas.”
The statement also said at Dal
las :
“The Texas State Federation of
Labor firmly believes that Con
gress should extend this same pro
tection to the rest of the workers
in the country.
“What is good for one part of
the working people is good for the
other. Unfair state laws, such as
those of Texas which prohibit any
form of union security, discrimin
ate against union members under
a false guise of ‘right to work.’ ”
A similar case here is pending
before the State Supreme Court
and the attorney general’s office
spokesman said yesterday’s decis
ion “probably will effect the Sands-
berry case.”
This case involves the issue of
whether the Santa Fe Railway and
the unions should be prevented
from signing a slosed shop agree
ment.
Batt Awards
Given Friday
At Banquet
At the annual Press Club
Award Banquet Friday night
seven men received Battalion
Awards for their help and
service to the Battalion dur
ing the school year.
Fi*ed Hickman, chief of Campus
Security; Dr. Bardin Nelson, of
the Agriculture Economics and So
ciology Depaztment; Staff Sgt.
T. M. Buford, of the Department
of Air Science; Charles E. Sulli
van, of the A&M Press; Jones
Ramsey, publicity director of the
Athletic Department; Ross Stra
der, director of Student Publica
tions and Dean Robert B. Kam,
dean of the Basic Division and
Student Personnel Services were
recipients of the annual awards.
Southwestern Veterinarian Ap
preciation Awards were given to
Steve Andert, A&M Press com
posing room foreman; Charles
Schoedel, Press make-up man and
Dr. R. D. Turk, head of the Veter
inary Parisitology Department-
Approximately 200 keys were
given to students who have worked
for one of the student publications.
The keys were awarded by the ed
itors of each of the publications.
Peggy Prock, Harriet Cox, Anne
Walker, Jan Turbeville, Sheila Nel
son and Sarah Longquist were
chosen for Vanity Fair.
M. T. Harrington, chancellor of
the A&M System, accepted a cash
award on behalf of the Battalion
for the third place prize won by
the paper in the Lumbermens Mu
tual Casualty Company’s Safe
Driving Day contest. W. F. Bran
denburg, of Lumbermens Mutual,
presented a check for $100 to Har
rington who in turn gave the check
to Bill Fullerton, editor of the Bat
talion and master of ceremonies of
the banquet.
President, Deans
Reception Repeat
Because of the success of the
“President and Dean’s Reception”
held Parent’s Day weekend, a sim
ilar affair will be held immedi
ately following the commencement
services Friday evening, May 25.
The reception, which is for the
purpose of honoring graduates,
their wives, parents and friends
will again be held in the Ballroom
of the Memorial Student Center.
Coach Loeffler Speaks On Immaturity
(Ed. Note: The following
speech, minus the opening ad
dress, was given by Coach Ken
Loeffler at the Senior Banquet
Saturday evening.)
“In the next few weeks, over the
entire country, college graduating
classes will be bombarded with ad
vice. Politicians will be telling
them of their future responsibilities
in the political world.
“Business and financial wizards
will be expounding on the formu
las of success in the making of
money, sounding the theme of free
enterprise and aggressive individ
ualism. Scientists will mount the
platform and urge the entry into
specialized fields and the search
for the unknown and the Military
will warn of the dangers that awnit
if the Russian Bear forges to the
front in the race of instruments
for human destruction.
“You will have your fill of this
information so I would prefer to
spend a short time this evening on
an examination of the greatest in
strument of human destruction—
‘The Immature Mind.’
“Yes, the immature mind as rep
resented by one who grows to phy
sical maturity but remains a child
emotionally. May we refer to him
as the ADULT INFANTA LIST ?
We must deal with this carefully,
for many of us who look grown-up
on the outside may be childish on
the inside. Remember the little
boy who said, ‘My Dad would be
bigger than your Dad if his sus
penders didn’t hold him down?’
And conversely, manj^ who look
childish on the outside may be
surprisingly mature on the inside.
‘Mankind,’ wrote Alfred North
Whitehead ‘is now in one of its
rare moods of shifting its outlook
—the mere compulsion of tradition
has lost its force. It is the business
of philosophers, students, engineers
and other practical men to recreate
a new vision of the world—a world
conservative and radical—a world
including those elements of both
reverence and order without which
society lapses into a riot!’
“This vision must be penetrated
through and through with unflinch
ing rationality, and you as grad
uates will be called upon to create
it. This can only be done with a
mature mind.
Side by side in Congress, faculty
meetings, citizens meetings, coach
ing staffs and board of directors
meetings, we encounter the mature
and the immature. I am reminded
by the congressman who tried to
imitate Lincoln in his every manner
and dress. Coming out his dooi in
Washington one morning, he looked
thoughtfully and majestically up
and down the street and then strode
toward the halls of Congress in a
manner he thought befitting only
the great Lincoln.
“Whereupon from across the
street, from an understanding col
league came the audible comment—
‘Look at him, he hopes someone
will assassinate him.’
“Yes, many are criteria of
the immature, the adult infantalist.
While attending the U. of Pitt Law
School, I was the basketball coach
in a little western Pennsylvania
college nearby- One of my teams
had defeated the nationally famous
Long Island L 7 niversity team of
New York, giving them their first
loss they had had in seven years
on their home court.
“To compound this felony, the
next night the same group of boys
defeated the equally famous City
College five of New York. Need
less to say the little western Penn
sylvania College town was enthu-
siasfic over the accomplishment of
this small group of students and
reacted naturally—that is all ex
cept the college prexy and a psy
chology professor who were enthu
siastic only for college prexies and
psychology professors.
“Upon my return to the campus
several days later, I was called into
the prexy’s office and without men
tioning the fine perfovraance of the
team, the kindly prexy told me I
must surely be working the boys
too hard because some of them
were sleeping in a certain psychol
ogy class. I found later that others
than athletes did their sleeping in
that same class.
“But wait—adult infantalism is
not alone peculiar to the collegiate
sphere. Any business organization
of any size is filled with executives,
junior and otherwise, who spend
a great part of their time in telling
their counterparts what terrific
jobs they are doing, lavishing
senseless meaningless praise on
other little children like themselves.
I think this group is commonly re
ferred to as ‘The Mutual Adoration
Society’ and they belong to the 13-
year-old ‘Praise Response Bracket.’^-
“During the last war, a friend of
mine, a highly successful business.
man and a trustee of Cornell Uni- PARTLY CLOUDY
versity, felt he should contribute to Partly cloudy with winds from
the war effort. After the required the south is forecasted for College
processing, he was commissioned Station today. Yesterday’s high
and sent to Washington to head and low were 89 degrees and 67 de-
the Middle East Intelligence branch grees. Temperature at 10:30 this
(SeeLOEFFLER SPEAKS, Page2) morning was 84 degrees.
Civic Assn.
Clean-Up
Under Way
Trucks picked up trash in
the South Side of College Sta
tion yesterday, and are expect
ed to move to east and north
parts of the city today.
The occasion is the College
Station Civic Association’s
(formerly the College Station
Development Association and
Chamber of Commerce) seven
teenth b i-a n n u a 1 city-wide
Clean-Up Drive.
The City of College Station
is donating trucks and drivers
to pick up trash deposited by
residents, who are urged by
the Civic Association to “use
this opportunity to clean up
our city for summer.”
“We will try to get all trash
left over in all the areas to
morrow,” said Ran Boswell,
College Station city manager,
who is directing the drive.
“We hope, however, that ev
eryone gets their trash out on
the right day.”
Coach Ken Loeffler
Weather Today
BA Will Become
Division Sept. 1
The Department of Business Ad
ministration will become the Divis-
! ion of Business Administration, ef-
; fective Sept. 1, according to W. H-
j Delaplane, dean of Arts and S«i-
ences.
The records of all students ma-
I joring in business administration
j will be transferred from the dean's
I office to the business administra
tion office in Francis Hall some
time in August. Students who
have counseling problems or stu
dents who are transferring to BA
are advised to counsel directly with
the head of that division thereafter.
These students may also consult
with him now if they need counsel
ing.