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Number 168: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1956
Price Five Cents
State Says
Negro Group
Shows Profit
TYLER, Tex., Oct. .1 The
state today added alleged profit
making to reasons it says the Na
tional Assn, for the Advancement
of Colored People should not be
allowed to operate in Texas.
A tedious 7th District Court Ses
sion was recessed until 9 a. m. to- I
morrow, after a three-hour ac- j
counting of Texas NAACP receipts
and expenses over a two-year per- i
iod.
Once during the afternoon, Atty. i
Cen. John Ren Shepperd ignored |
an imporomptu offe? 1 of the
NAACP to pay $900 in state
franchise taxes—one of the state’s
original charges.
“That $900 is just an estimate,”
assist. Atty. Gen. Elbert N. Mor
row told NAACP attorney W. J.
Durham. “We have been absolute
ly denied a look at certain re
cords to determine how much tax
is needed.”
Afterwards, Morrow said the re
cords denied Shepperd’s investi
gators were the New York NAACP
office. The offer came today in a
resumption of the hearing to de
termine if a temporary restrain
ing order against the Texas
NAACP will be continued.
The state also alleged the NAA
CP was guilty of soliciting inte
gration lawsuits, and of political
activities contrary to its charter
as a charitable, non-profit mak
ing organization.
The NAACP conuntered with a
charge that the state had violated
constitutional rights in recent
courts of inquiry.
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JUST ANOTHER LINE, ARMY—Standing in lines seems to be a habit on the campus,
but this one happens to lead to the booths outside the Athletic Office where student,
and student date tickets are being- purchasjd. Some of these people seom happy about
the whole thing.
Survey Shows
Progress Made in Corps
DALLAS, Oct. 3 hT>—The find
ings of a surprise court of inquiry,
in which two of Atty. Gen. John
Ben Shepperd’s assistants ques
tioned six Dallas Negroes involved
in the Dallas school integration
suit now in federal court, will be
referred to the Dallas County
grand jury.
Dist. Atty. Henry Wade received
the certified copy of the hearing
and said today it would be pre
sented to the current grand jury
session.
BEAUMONT, Tex., (AP)—A new
crackdown on pro - segregation
pickets came out of a conference
today between Texas Rangers and
local officers.
But during the day, pickets kept
all but three Negroes from the
state-supported school, which was
integrated this year.
The conference of officers con-
ceT-ned laws on loitering and loaf
ing.
Soon after, the school grounds
were placarded with signs warn
ing pickets to keep off the campus.
The pickets earlier had been
warned away, but had rushed onto
the parking lots owned by the col
lege to see if those arriving in
automobiles were whites or Ne
groes.
The annual study of the prog
ress made by the Cadet Corps in
operating under the Articles of
the Corps has just been completed
by members of the Military Sci
ence Department.
Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant,
explained the purpose of the study
as being- to strengthen the Corps
by elimination of any unsatisfac
tory action.
“The survey shows, among other
things, that the peak of Corps res
ignations was i-eached much ear
lier this year than before,” Col.
Davis said. “This reflects the
AAUP Discusses
Faculty Club Here
Possibility of an A&M College
Faculty Club highlighted the open
ing meeting of the local American
Association of University .Profes
sors chapter in the Memorial Stu
dent Center Tuesday night.
President Sidney O. Brown open
ed the smoker and reception for
all faculty members by introduc
ing chapter officers and outlining
the program for the coming year.
A panel composed of J. Wayne
Stark, Melvin Rotsch and Howard
Badgett, with D. D. Burchard as
chairman, presented various as
pects of the proposed faculty club
projects.
Invitation to membership in the
AAUP was extended by Brown,
Vice President M. V. Krenitsky
and Treasurer Walter Manning.
The next meeting of the group will
be held in November, with a din
ner scheduled to honor the nation
al executive secretary, Brown said.
more rapid grasp and control of
the unit commanders than in years
before.”
Col. Davis went on to say that
“weak spots and some flagrant
violations were apparent, but it
was evident from the study that
those unit commanders concerned
were taking action in connection
with unsatisfactory reports in or
der to strengthen their units.”
Two Graduate
Fellowships
Now Available
For the first time, detailed ques
tionnaires were used in the sur
vey. Tactical officers picked three
freshmen at random from each
Corps unit to interview in determ
ining- the findings.
Also, 51 unit commanders were
interviewed as were 35 civilian
freshmen still in college who were
in the Corps earlier this year.
According to Col. Davis, the ob
jectives of the questionnaire in
evaluating the progress made were
to determine each commanding of
ficer’s policy under which his unit
was operating and the various con
structive actions each commander
took when there were violations of
his policy.
Atomic Proof Building
Collapses; Six Killed
Four Workmen Trapped
Beneath Steel, Concrete
JACKSON, Mich.—UP)—A four-story office building- be
ing constructed to withstand the shock of an atomic blast
collapsed with a roar yesterday, killing at least six workmen /AA* Z - ' 1 ! I *
and injuring 15 others. fjl fjclofoeHiaStCr
At least four other workmen were trapped beneath tons
of steel and concrete which slammed through foot-thick floors
into the basement.
Bulldozers and cranes, working in the glare of search
lights, burrowed into the wreckage last night, removing
huge chunks of rubble in an attempt to reach the trapped
workers.
The 15 injured were taken to two Jackson hospitals,
* where two were reported in
critical condition.
The insides of the building
gave way without warning as
a construction gang from the
Herlihy Mid-Continent Co. of Chi
cago was pouring concrete on the
fourth floor of the $2,800,000
structure. The building, its shell
nearly completed, was to be the
general offices of the Consumers
Power Co.
Company officials said it was
being designed to be as nearly im
pregnable against atomic explos
ions as possible.
Consumer, a utility company I Virility at the time was about
Two fellowships are avail
able to graduates and young-
faculty members, Dr. J. B.
Page, dean of the Graduate Wfiliirlx/
School announced recently. ^ 111,1 J OUIICUU1CU
The Ford Foundation offers for
eign area training fellowships in
Asia, the Near East, the Soviet
Union, East Europe and Africa,
south of the Sahara. Studies may
also be conducted in the United
States.
Granted for one year subject to
Parliamentary
A short course in parliamentary
procedure will be held in the MSC
in the nbar future.
Mrs. Emmette Wallace, a regis
tered parliamentarian, will teach.
Night classes will be arranged at
a meeting of those interested in
Representatives Elect
Eleven To Council
limited extension, the Ford award : course at 8 p. m. tonight in the
cares for expenses of the individual Senate Chamber of the MSC.
and his dependents, tuition, trans- Cost of the course is $1 for stu-
portation and all other necessary dents and $5 for non-students,
expenses. They are usually quite Register at the main desk in the
liberal, Dr. Page said. MSC.
Also offered are international re
lations training fellowships in for
eign services. Applicants must
have, a Ph.D. degree or its equiv
alent by February, 1957.
These fellowships may extend to
two years, Dr. Page said. Per
sons interested in either of the
Weather Today
Pai-tly cloudy skies, with oc
casional scattered showers in late
afternoon, ai'e forecast for today.
Temperature at 10:30 this morn
ing was 84 degrees. Yesterday’s
awards -•are asked to contact the! high was 92 degrees and last
Graduate School office. i night’s low reading 66 degrees.
4 Y’ Campers
Hold Hensel
Park Outing
Participants in the YMCA Fresh
man Camp held before Orientation
Week met at Hensel Park for a
steak fry last night.
All the freshmen who attended
the leadership preparation camp
at Ft. Parker State Park and their
counselors for the three day guid
ance course held a get-together to
renew the acquaintances they
made at the camp. Each year, dur
ing the three days before fresh-
man orientation in the fall, the
YMCA sponsors the camp to orient
a select group of prospective fresh
men.
This year 68 new freshmen at
tended the camp, which was held
from Sept. 4 through 7. The pro
gram at the camp consisted of
panel discussions by the 16 coun
selors, lectures by campus leaders
and members of the faculty, rec
reations periods and devotional
periods.
One of the unique features of
the camp is the fact that all the
men invited to attend are selected
from those who were in the top
25 per cent of their high school
graduating class.
The men were divided into
groups, with four freshmen to a
counselor. At the camp there
were four cabins and 16 men to a
cabin with four counselors for
each cabin. Out of the four coun
selors, one was designated as dis
cussion leader.
Each year the freshmen camp
grows larger. In 1954, 36 men at
tended; in 1955, 62 men and in
1956, a record high of 68 future
freshmen participated in the pro
gram.
Three Men Die
In Fiery Crash
CHARLESTON, S.C. — (JP)
Three airmen perished in the
flaming- wreckage of a C124
Globemaster that crashed yes
terday while attempting an
instrument landing at the Charles
ton Air Force Base. Seven cixnV
members survived.
The huge transport plane, in
bound from Bermuda, made two
instrument approaches in an early
morning fog. The pilot radioed
that he had lost one, then two, of
his engines.
The Globemaster apparently hit
a tree before it smashed to earth
near the base administration build
ing and tipped over on its left
wing. Flames quickly consumed
all but the tail fin. Fire trucks
were standing by and battled the
I blaze for about 30 minutes.
BULLETIN
Instead of being cut off to
day as was originally planned,
the hot water for all dormi
tories and campus buildings
will go off at 10 tomorrow
night. A leak in the hot water
system is responsible for the
shutdown.
Civilian ramp, floor and row rep
resentatives selected 11 men to
represent them on the Civilian Stu
dent Council for the 1956-57 school
year at meetings last night.
These men, together with the five
men elected Monday night for class
representatives will make up the
Council. They will meet in the
Press Library in the YMCA to
night at 7 to select a president,
vice-president, secretary and par
liamentarian.
Councilmen selected last night
and their areas are as follows:
Roy Hahn will represent civilian
students in Hart Hall; Norman
Guilloud representing Bizzell Hall;
Freddie C. Ryan and Raymond F.
Greene representing College View;
Roy E. Andrews from Law Hall;
Eng. Council Elects
Kelley as Prexy
John Kelly was elected president
of the Student Engineers Council
at its first meeting Monday night.
Other officers are Herman
Veselka, vice - president; Robert
Glazener, secretary and Larry
Piper, treasurer.
James P. Carnes from Puryear
Hall; Thelton McCorcle from Mit
chell Hall; Billy L. Clark from
Leggett Hall; John LaCroix rep
resenting Milner Hall; Frank Bai
ley from Walton Hall and Dwight
Brown from Dormitory 16.
Day Student representative will
be chosen today.
Class representatives chosen eai--
lier include: Richard P. Crawford
representing graduate, 5th and
6th year students; Sam B. Zukero
from the senior class; John Avant
from the junior class and Heuxy
Williams from the sophomoi-e class.
January Graduate
Applications Due
Students who expect to complete
all of the requirements for a de
gree by the end of the current
semester should go by the Regis-
traFs Office to make formal appli
cation for that degree, Registrar
H. L. Heaton said today.
November 1 has Been set as the
deadline for filing for a degree to
be conferred at the end of the
current semester.
which supplies gas and electricty
to much of southern Michigan out
side Detroit, has its headquarters
in Jackson, about 65 miles south
east of Detroit.
The fourth floor buckled and
collapsed, sending masses of con
crete and steel girders crashing
through the lower floors to the
basement. Workers, caught with
little or no warning, fell with the
debris or were trapped on the
ground floor and the basement.
Civil Defense Rescue teams, sped
to the scene soon after word of
the tragedy reached Jackson, four
miles south of the rural construc
tion site. Doctors crawled into
the wreckage to administer first
aid to injured workmen.
State police and National
Guardsmen also were dispatched
to keep hundreds of spectators
from crowding too close to the
wrecked building.
“It. mushroomed in the middle,
then slid down to the basement,”
said one workman who escaped.
“It sounded like a big bomb ex
ploding,” recounted J. H. Crowe, a
carpenter who had walked out of
the first floor just before the col
lapse.
The collapsed section of the L-
shaped building measured 200 by
400 feet. It was the short leg of
the “L”.
Workmen who survived said
they regarded their safety “as a
miracle.”
“There was no warning at all,”
Crowe declai-ed. “They had no
chance.”
The tons of debris carried work
men from the third floor down and
fell on electricians working in the
basement.
half a mile, with cloud coveragd
at 15,000 feet.
The plane was attached to tho
1703rd Air Transport Wing at
Brookley Air Force Base, Mobile,
Ala. The wing commander, Col.
Herman Rumsey, flew hei-e to
join in the investigation.
None of the seven airmen taken
to the U. S. Naval Hospital here
was believed critically injured.
The pilot was Lt. Col. Charles
W. Kelso, 41, of Mobile, Ala., one
of those hospitalized. He is a na
tive of Brandon, Iowa, and is
married to the former Marina
Isabel Garza of San Antonio, Tex.
Other crew niembers were not
identified pending notification of
families.
Science Student
Wins CHS Award
The top science student at A&M
Consolidated High School will re
ceive the Bausch and Lomb Science
Award again this year, according
to J. J. Skrivanek, principal.
The award makes the student
eligible to apply for the Bausch
and Lomb Optical Co.’s science
scholarship. The company has
given over 130 students aid since
the program’s start in 1943.
Six thousand schools throughout
the United States give the award
each year to their outstanding
science pupil. Only highly ac-
ci'edited schools are eligible to
participate.
The winner last year at Consoli
dated was Mike McGuire.
Nutrition Conference
Starts In MSC Today
LOOK THEY FIXED IT!—Jim Neighbors, Battalion News Editor tries out the new
driveway entering the parking lot for the A&M Press. Before yesterday, it was al
most impossible to enter the lot because of the ditch.
“How to Produce Moi’e with Less
Feed” is the theme of the annual
Nutrition Conference which started
this moming in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Dr. R. D. Lewis, director of the
Agricultural Experiment Station,
delivered the kick-off speech. Pur
pose of the two-day study is to
get closer cooperation between
feed manufacturei’s and colleges,
according to Chairman J. R. Couch
of the Poultry Science Depart
ment at A&M.
About 250 persons from manu
facturing firms throughout the na
tion are attending, Dr. Couch said.
Representatives from feed in
dustry trade magazines, “Feed-
stuffs” and “Feeding Age” are on
hand to cover new feeding angles
for their papers.
Other communication media re
cording the conference include
general farm magazines, radio and
television news men and farm
writers from the larger Texas
daily newspapers.
Humble Oil’s “Texas In Review”
is sending a team of cameramen to
report the conference highlights
on television.
Some new angles on phosphorus
availability in feeds, the calorie—
protein ration in poultry nutrition
and unidentified growth factors in
poultry and sAvine are expected to
come out of the study as many
years of research are pooled.
Speakers will include Dr. M. L.
Scott of the nutrition department
of Cornell University, Dr. L. E.
Henson of the Animal Husbandry
Department at the University of
Minnesota, Dr. A. D. Tillman of
the Oakridge Institute of Nuclear
Research in Oakridge, Tenn., and
Dr. Couch.
L. B. Burns of Kansas City, Mis
souri, will speak on “New De\ r elop-
ments in Feed Manufacturing”. Dr.
M. A. Cooley is scheduled to talk on
“Quality Control of Feed Manu
facture”.
Also attending Avill be George
Wolfe, president of University
Mills in Fort Worth and head of
the Mid-West Feed Manufacturer’s
Association.
Speaker at a banquet to be at
the Maggie Parker Dining Hall at
(See Nutrition Study, Page 2.)