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1 I 1 The Battalion .... College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 Wednesday, May 23, 1956 Johnson Given ‘Favorite Son’ Role By State Demos in Dallas DALLAS—ISP'—The State Dem ocratic Convention ended its session last night after giving Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson everything he wanted but his choice for national commit tee woman from Texas. The senate majority leader won by an easy 1,306 to 524 vote a dis pute within his own coalition. The issue was when punishment should be handed out to party leaders who followed Gov. Allan Shivers in his bolt to the GOP in 1952. Johnson teamed with House Speaker Sam Rayburn in a com bination of liberals and conserva tives to oust Shivers as Democratic leader in Texas. An hour before the test vote on Johnson’s power over his own forces, the great majority of the convention joined in a noisy 20- minute “Johnson for president pa rade.” Johnson’s leadership was threat- Street Repair Is Plan For Summer The Board of Directors of the A&M College System has author ized the college to plan and accept bids on building and repairing sev eral streets on the A&M campus, according to C. K. Leighton, con struction engineer for the college. “A new street extending from Bizzell St. south-west, intersecting Spence St. and ending at Nagle St. is being planned,” Leighton said. Improvements will include pav ing Iieland St. from Ross St. to highway 60 and paving Spence St. from Ross St. to the day student parking lot. ened by liberals in his coalition who wanted an immediate house cleaning of the Shivers-controlled State Democratic Executive Com mittee. Johnson and Rayburn ad vised that it might be illegal and that Texas Democrats would have a chance at the July local conven tions and September state conven tion to install a loyal Democrat state committee. The following were named as presidential electors by the conven tion: Tom Cummings, Cooper; Houston More Foresters Needed In South Forest management in the South will be able to absorb 250 new for esters a year for the next five years, Bob Rhodes of the Range and Forestry Department, Texas A&M College, said today. “The interesting thing is that most of the new jobs will probably be in private industry,” Rhodes said. The Range and Forestry Depart ment is now completing its first year in offering two years of train ing in forestry*. Students may take their freshman and sophomore work nearer home and transfer to an accredited forestry school to complete the requirements for a BS degree in forestry, Rhodes says. The State of Texas will pay the out-of-state tuition to any accred ited forestry school in the South for two additional years to obtain the degree. The state will also pay the fare for one round-trip each of the two years to the selected school, Rhodes says. Thompson, Silsbee; G. A. Boden- heim, Longview; Phil Wolford, Mc Kinney; Leslie Hackler, Dallas; Glen A. Williams, Bryan; William Wayne Justice, Athens; Jesse An drews, Houston; Glen D. Birdwell, Richmond. R. H. Montgomery, Austin; E. A. Camp, Rockdale; James H. Bar- en, Arlington; Houston McMurry, Henrietta; John E. Lyle, Corpus Christi; R. E. Bibb, Eagle Pass; Fred Hervey, El Paso; Jim B. Coo per, Blanket; Jerry Johnson, Ama rillo; N. C. Outlaw, Post; Mrs. Maury Maverick, San Antonio; E. E. Murphy, San Angelo. At Large: Dean F. Johnson, Houston; W. O. Cooper, Dallas; Rhea Howard, Wichita’ Falls. Committees to screen the con vention’s “must” business did not meet until late afternoon. Named chairmen were: Credentials, John B. Singleton of Harris County; permanent organi zation, Adrian Spears of Bexar County; resolutions, Elmer H. Par ish of Wichita County; to nominate presidential electors, Clifton Carter of Brazos County; to nominate na tional committeeman and woman, Grover Sellers of Hopkins County. Raymond Buck of Fort Worth was named permanent chairman of the convention and Vann M. Kennedy of Corpus Christi was elected permanent secretary. Dolph Briscoe of Uvalde was made par liamentarian. Mrs. R. D. Randolph of Houston was named the next Democratic national committeewoman from Texas as forces of Sen. Johnson, who had opposed her, suddenly ca pitulated. Summer School Specials WE’LL RENT A $6.00 BOOK FOR 95c or BRING A $6.00 BOOK PLUS 95c FOR A $6.00 BOOK YOU WILL NEED Loupot’s Trading Post Looking for SPEED?... Fly Continental Air Line* LUBBOCK...DALLAS... CHICAGO* •Via connecting airline Co// Continental at Victor 6-4789. The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors The Battalion, dally newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, is published by students In the Office of Student Publications as a non-profit educational service. The Director of Student Publications Is Ross Strader. The governing body of all student publications of the A.&M. College of Texas is the Student Publications Board. Faculty members are Karl K. Elmquist. Chairman; Donald D. Burchard. Tom Leland and Bennie Zinn. Student members are Derrell H. Guiles. Paul Holladay. and Wayne Moore. fc.x-o.ficio members are Charles Roeber, and Ross Strader. Secretary- The Battalion is published four times a week during the regular school year and one" a week during the summer and vacation and exatninafion periods. 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A drawing will be held in June to determine which applicant will have rooms for each particular weekend. Students and former students, each with a designated number of rooms for each week end, will have separate drawings and applicants will be notified by mail during the summer as to whether or not his application has been accepted. Those who do not receive rooms will be placed on a waiting list in case of cancellation or extra avail able rooms. All rooms will be used during one football weekend for former student class reunions. College seniors- our most wanted men Today, as a college grad, you have a choice of more jobs than ever. Which should you take? June Reader’s Digest tells you what big companies are do ing to recruit promising stu dents, salaries offered, the kind of background and personality they look for—and why the class of ’56 faces some hard decisions. Get June Reader’s Digest at your newsstand: 43 articles of lasting interest, including the best from leading magazines and current books, condensed to save your time. WEDNESDAY DIRECT FROM PARIS FRANCE! Jean Crain Jane Russell ‘Gentlemen I TMTarnu Brunettes ’ Oiiste inYXScoi^E color Sy TecTil li color The Big, Buxom, Beautiful Musical! Released thru UNITED ARTISTS The Traveler* Safety Service ?, | said auiet, father’s asleep!” The million Census Bur Americans eau predicts 16 over 64 in 1960. It takes 40 materials and 125 processes to make a pencil. Faculty Awards (Continued from Page 1) He was decorated with the Bronze Star. After his military service he returned to A&M for his veterinary work. Served as graduate assist ant until he received his DVM de gree in 1949, when he was employ ed as instructor in veterinary anat omy. He was promoted to assist ant professor in 1951. One of his associates says, ‘Dr. Price has also given very freely of his time in aiding students individually and as groups.’ He is active in profes sional, civic and church work.” HOLLAND received his MS de gree from A&M in 1949 and his PhD degree in 1953. His citation reads as follows: “After three years of active duty in the U.S. Navy and some commer cial chemical engineering experi ence, he came to A&M for graduate study. After serving as graduate assistant, he was made instructor in 1951. He is now assistant pro- fessoi’. Di\ Holland is not only a successful teacher but he has found time to make valuable contributions in the field of reseai’ch. The pub lications covei’ing his reseai’ch con stitute an imposing list.” J. GORDON GAY received his BA degx-ee from the University of Alabama in 1924 and his MA fi’om Vanderbilt Univei’sity in 1926. His citation reads as follows: “He has completed a number of CIRCLE THRU WEDNESDAY “Top of the World” Dale Robertson —Also- “Long John Silver” Robert Newton WEDNESDAY MAMIE HAD EVERYTHING- BUT i RESPECT ABILITY! Shaffer’s COLOR by Oe Luxe JANE RUSSELL RICHARD EGAN Guarantees to pay you HIGHEST CASH PRICES for your textbooks SHAFFER’S BOOK STORE North Gate mm at WHITE ELEPHANT SALE Shaffer’s Book Store SMORGASBORD Main Dining Room at the M. S. C. FRIDAY, MAY 25 4:30 — 7 P.M. YMCA training courses. At Ala bama and Vandei’bilt he wox-ked to eaxn expenses. After two yeai’s as director of Religious Activities at SMU, he came to A&M as associate seci-etaxy of the YMCA, 1928. Since 1952 he has been seex-etax-y of the YMCA. ‘He has dedicated himself to the i-aising of the spii'itual level of our student body.’ Under his leadei’ship we have one of the most meaningful Religious Emphasis Weeks in the nation.” ED NOTE: One of the new rooms in the YMCA was named after Gay after the recent re modeling of the building. Johnson Quipps AUSTIN—(A 5 )—Gov. Shivers did not attend the State Democi’atic Convention in Dallas yestei’day, Sen. Lyndon Johnson obviously had conti-ol. So he quipped when he addi’essed the convention of the Retail Merchants Assn, of Texas: “I want to expi-ess to you my ap- preciation for holding a convention that I can attend.” TRA VELING DURING VA CA TION? 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