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Number 165: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1956
Price Five Cents
Filings For 35
Senate Posts
Open Monday
Filings will begin Monday
at 8 a.m. for 35 vacancies in
the Student Senate to be filled I
from the senior, junior and
sophomore classes. College I
View day students and civilian
dormitories.
■ Of these vacancies 15 will be
filled from the senior class; 10
from the junior class; 6 from, the
sophomore class; 2 from day stu
dents 1 from College View and
1 from each of the civilian domi-
tories.
In addition to the above mem
bers the vice-pi'esi dents of the
four classes—senior, junior, sopho
more and freshman—are members
of the senate.
The freshman vice-president will
be chosen at an election to be held
Nov. 1.
Qualifications for Student Sena
tors are as follows: They must be
at least a classified sophomore, ex
cept in case of the freshman class
vice-president; must have a 1.0
5?pr; must have attended A&M for
two previous semesters, except for
the freshman vice-president; must
live in the dormitory or area he
represents and must be willing and
expect to serve for two semesters.
Filings will remain open until
Monday, Oct. 8, at the Office of
Student Activities on the second
floor of the YMCA. Elections will
be held Wednesday, Oct. 17.
Pre-Med, Pre-Dent
Club Elects Alders
"Richard W. Alders was elected
president of the A&M pre-Medical
and pre-Dental Society Tuesday
night at its first meeting this
year.
A. B. Medlen is faculty advisor.
Other officers are J. Craig
Stephens, vice president; Rodolfo
E. Margo, secretary - treasurer;
Boydie E. Fereday, correspondence
secretary; Fx-ank T. Kallus, social
chairman; Robert Lee^ Jennings,
parliamentarian; and Edward A.
Taylor, reporter.
Arts and Sciences Council repre
sentatives ai’e Charles L. Heaton,
senior, and Robert W. Maniha,
junior.
The group set the first and third
Tuesdays in each month as meeting
daj;es for this year.
Also discussed at the meeting
were plans for next week’s meeting
at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday in the
Biological Science Building.
The group will view a film at the
next meeting. Freshmen students
are urged to attend and invited to
become members, says Edward
Taylor, reporter.
Saturday Last Day
Last day for dropping
courses without a failing grade
is tomorrow." Through Satur
day students may withdraw
from courses with a grade of
WP.
FIGHTING TO KEEP A&M BEAUTIFUL are (left to right) L. Baker, W. Odstereil, J.
G. Ryan, J. E. Hurt and A. Mercado. — (Photo by Don Bisett)
Old Battle With New Weapons
They Fight A Persistent Foe
By LELAND BOYD
Battalion News Editor
A 35-man army of worker* and
specialists are fighting a persistent
enemy that insists on trying to
make the A&M campus look like a
desert.
The army’s weapon—water—and
it is not an easy battle.
A drought of seven years stand
ing, the enemy, sees to it that
their efforts are slow to show re
sults. Evidence of the drought is
left in easy-to-see ’ places: bare
ground where grass is not given
special care; wilting shrubs and
trees and swarms of dust that set
tles in rooms and on cars.
The problem has expei'ts and
laymen alike wringing their hands
and asking, “What next.”
Superintendent of the group’s
maintenance department J. W.
MacQueen puts it this way “I don’t
know what we are going to do if
it doesn’t start raining.”
One of the latest gimmicks in
trying to co-exist with the problem
is the adaptation of a practice long
used by horticultuiists. Instead of
drilling holes and supplementary
S&S Club Holds
Barbecue Later
Saddle and Sirloin Clubs’ Fall
Barbecue has been postponed until
Tuesday, Oct. 15, according to Bob
Johnson, president.
Originally planned for Tuesday
night the festivities have been post
poned because of Yell Practice and
the regular Club meeting will be
held in the A&I Building.
feeding trees as is usually done,
MacQueen says his department is
drilling holes around trees that
show signs of drying up and giv
ing the area a shot of water.
Two workers were carrying this
theory out between Guion Hall
and the Memorial Student Center
Thursday and finding barriers to
stop them.
The ground was packed into
near “cement” due to quite a few
pedestrians tramping on it and
the workers .had to press hard on
the power auger they use before
it would bite into the soil
After managing to drill a hole
about two feet deep another worker
jogged a pipe in and gave the sub
soil a liberal squirt of water.
AAUP Observes
Smoker Tuesday
Annual smoker of the A&M
Chapter of American Association
of University Professors will be
held at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday night
in the Ballroom of the. MSC.
A panel discussion on “Possi
bilities of a Faculty Club at A&M”
will head the evenings entertain
ment, accoi'ding to Mike Krenitsky,
vice-president of the AAUP.
“We would like to have a large
turnout for this meeting to enable
the new members of the faculty to
meet some of the older members,”
Sidney Brown, president said.
Plenty of cigarettes cigars, cof
fee cokes and cookies will be avail
able for attending members.
LEADING TIGER SUPPORTERS—Cheering - at A&M Consolidated High School games
is under the direction of these four young ladies, Consolidated cheerleaders for 1956-57.
The girls, who will be seen in Tiger Stadium next Friday night when the Consolidated
team plays host to Giddings, are, loft to right, Carolyn Wilson, Jeanette Vance, Lucy
Rogers and Ann Hite. Miss Hite, a senior, is head cheerleader and Miss Rogers is the
other senior leaders. Miss Vance and Miss Wilson are junior cheerleaders.
“We don’t know how successful
this will be,” says MacQueen. “The
trees are ah’eady in low vigor. But
we are sort of despei’ate and want
to keep them alive through the
drought.”
Foreman of the tree watering
crew, J. E. Hurt, says, “It is very
important that we save these ti - ees
because it takes nature about 40
years to grow them.”
Other places the crew has done
the “last straw” watering include
the trees on Houston Street south
of White Coliseum and on the
streets west of the Agriculture
Building.
At some places the ground is
not quite as hard and the workers
can eliminate drilling holes. They
simply drive the pipe into the
ground and turn on the water.
Other efforts of the maintenance
department are grass irrigation at
places like the MSC lawn, the di’ill
field, the band practice field, the
new Veterinary Medicine Center
lawn, the Academic Building lawn
and Spence Park.
MacQueen says his department
spends 75 per cent of its time doing
this. The effoi'ts go to carting
the pipes around, stretching them
out and connecting them to a fire
plug.
Then the water sprinkles awhile
(See ENEMY, Page 2)
British, French Keep
Striking Force Ready
Shivers Backs
Public School
Segregation
AUSTIN—UP) — The next
legislature will be asked to
enact laws requiring separ
ate white and Negro public
schools in Texas, Gov. Shivers
indicated yesterday.
The out-going governor said he
would make I’ecommendations to
the legislature using the report
on segregation in public schools
approved 13 to 5 yesterday by his
40-member advisory committee.
Two members did not vote. Twen
ty were absent.
“In general, I agree with its
aims,” Shivers said. “I hope that
the public school system will nev
er be abolished in Texas.”
The Texas Supreme Court has
outlawed state segregation laws
as applied to public schools and
approximately 100 school districts
are now integrated.
In outlining a 20-point program
aimed at halting integration of
public schools, the committee rec
ommended the Legislature pass a
resolution calling for a constitu
tional amendment “to clarify the
state - federal relationship and
thereby halt illegal federal en
croachment in those areas reserv
ed to the several states and their
people under the constitution.”
FFA Sets Record
At First Meeting
The A&M Collegiate Chapter of
Futui’e Farmers of America listed
96 members present at its first
meeting Tuesday in the Agricul
tural Engineering lecture room.
Chapter members say that 96 is
a record.
J. R. Jackson of the Agricultural
Education Department spoke on
“How the FFA Benefits College
Students”.
Following Jackson’s speech,
Robert Van Winkel of Kilgore was
awarded a scholarship sponsored
by Santa Fe Railroad. Santa Fe’s
agricultural agent made the pre
sentation.
Coffee and donuts were served
at the close of the meeting. The
chapter voted to make the refresh
ment period a highlight of each
meeting.
A.F. Officials Coming
To Discuss Program
Officials of the Air Materiel
Command from Wright - Patterson
AFB, Dayton, Ohio, are expected
to arrive soon to negotiate a con
tract with the college for the pro
posed Air Force Flight Training
program here on the campus.
A&M is one of 38 colleges in the
U. S. scheduled for the flight train
ing as the result of a recent bill
passed by Congress.
Recipients of the program will
be seniors in the Army and Air
Force ROTC. Only two colleges in
Texas will benefit from the bill
this year. Besides A&M, Baylor
Study Group Plans
Fine Art Exhibit
A fine arts exhibit of work done
by members of the Campus Study
Club is slated for the opening tea
to be held Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in
the MSC Social Room.
Members of the club are asked
to bring any pictures, china, or
ceramics done by themselves for
display. These should be taken to
the Social Room Tuesday from 9-
9:30 a.m.
Further information can be ob
tained from Mrs. E. R. Alexander,
VI 6-7185.
will also start the flight training
this year.
Final plans for the program and
perhaps signing of contracts will
be negotiated at a two-day con
ference of college representatives
and professors of Air Science at
Maxwell Air Force Base, Mont
gomery, Ala., early next month.
The program will be administer
ed by the Civil Aeronautics Ad
ministration and spot checked by
the Air Force. Contracts are be
ing negotiated between the 38
colleges and universities and the
Air Force.
It is up to the individual college
whether the program will be put
into effect by hiring instructors
or sub-contracting to private fly
ing schools for the instruction. It
is not known at the present time
what plan A&M will follow.
Members of the Air Science De
partment have high hopes that the
program will be put into effect
this year. Recently, Col. Joe Davis,
commandant, H. G. Smith, Easter-
wood aii-port manager and Charles
(See OFFICIALS, Page 2)
Weather Today
Today’s forecast is clear. Yes
terday’s high was 95 degrees and
low was 64 degrees. Temperature
at 11 a.m. was 87 degrees.
Ministers Emphasize
International Control
PARTS—UP)—British and French spokesmen reiterated
yesterday their government’s determination to press for in
ternational control of the Suez Canal while maintaining a
joint military build-up in striking distance of Egypt.
The FrencH-British stand was emphasized after a con
ference here between Premier Guy Mollet and Prime Minis
ter Eden and their foreign ministers.
They expressed full.agreement on the line to be followed
in the U.N. Security Council’s pending debate on the Suez
issue even as’President Eisenhower indicated in Washington
he would be willing to compromise on the kind of interna
tional operation which would be worked out for the water
way.
The British and French
have insisted the canal must
be run internationally and
they have displayed annoy
ance at what they feel is U.S. re
luctance on this point.
Eisenhower expressed hope at
a news conference that a provi
sional method of canal operation
could be worked out, perhaps
along the lines of the 18-nation
majority proposal at the first Lon
don Suez conference for interna
tional supervision.
Rejected outright by Egypt’s
President Nasser, that proposal
remains a main objective of
French - British policy, official
spokesmen said.
Eden, Mollet, British Foreign
Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and
French Foreign Minister Christian
Pineau, who" met for about nine
hours during the past two days,
closed their conference with a
communique saying French - Brit
ish solidarity in every field had
been reinforced.
The communique made no men
tion of any continued pressure for
international control of the canal,
nationalized by Egypt July 26.
But a French government spokes
man said it wasn’t necessary in
view of the positions already tak
en. And the British spokesman
said internationl management re
mains a primary objective of
British-French policy.
Entomology Club
Elects Klement
Wilfred J. Klement, was elec
ted president of the Entomology
Club at their first meeting of the
semester Tuesday night.
Other officers are Bill Clark,
vice-president; Sidney Ktmz, sec
retary-treasurer and Henry Estes,
reporter.
Meeting dates selected for the
1956-57 year are the second and
fourth Tuesdays of each month.
New Building
Contract Let
At Prairie View
Work is expected to start
within the next month on a
new, completely modern Home
Economics building at Prairie
View A&M. Contract for the
18,905-square foot structure was
let to Leftwich, Stenis & Harris,
Houston, on a bid of $343,901 at
the September meeting of the
Board of Directors of the A&M
College System.
Appropriations of $6,000 for
landscaping and sidewalks and
$28,000 for equipment for this
building were made by the System
board at the same time.
The new 25-room men’s dormi
tory at Prairie View was officially
named by the board in honor of
George Washington Buchanan, who
served as a member of the college
faculty for - 35.-years. During his
service at Prairie View, Buchanan
taught biology and mathematics
and served for a time as college
librarian.
The college hospital at Prairie
View was officially named in hon
or of the late Dr. J. Granville Os
borne, who served as college phy
sician from 1916 to 1918 and as
principal of the college from 1918
until his retirement in 1925. Dr.
Osborne is credited with develop
ing the college hospital, the es
tablishment of the program of
Nursing Education at Prairie View
and with pioneering the develop
ment of a scientific curricula at the
college.
Absentee Voting
Absentee voting for the Nov.
6 general election will start
Oct. 17, according to the
Brazos County Clerk’s office.
Last day for casting absentee
ballots is Nov. 2.
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BEST SIGN—Pictured above is the best sign of the week
designed by “A” Athletics and Squadron 24.