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I r The Battali Number 174: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1956 Price Five Cents ■ m &i ' ■ iw mm ■ • '• mm mm c. : -T ■ . Wm M m Miss Shelby Sanders Aggie Sweetheart for 1956 :iL ■■ L ': : :: % r "'<' wm i iw# Wmi “I just hope that you are as proud of me as I am of being named your Aggie Sweet heart . . . Shelby Sanders Wilkins Speaks To CS Lions Club Meeting Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, as sistant commandant of the Ca det Corps and president of the College Station football chapter of the Southwest Of ficials Association, spoke to the weekly luncheon of the College Sta tion Lions Club in the Memorial Student Center yesterday. Col. Wilkins, who has officiated in Southwest Conference football games for several years, told the club of new rule changes, explained several theoretical situations and answered several questions of members. The club set the date for their Ladies Night meeting for Thurs day, Nov. 1 in the Maggie Parker Dining Room in Bryan. Admission will be $2 per plate, it was an nounced. Club members were asked to help with Lions Club booths at the A&M Consolidated Band Booster’s carnival, to be held Oct. 27 at CHS. The club will sponsor snow- cone sales, baseball throws at bot tles, sponge throws, balloon throws and bucking horse ride. 100 Run for Office Senate Election Tomorrow By CONNIE ECKARD Battalion Staff Writer Almost 100 candidates will be running- for 43 positions on the Student Senate in a battle of the ballots tomorrow. Election for the 1956-57 Senate will be held in the Memorial Stu dent Center between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, bus iness manager of Student Activi ties, said yesterday. Ballot boxes will be closed during the lunch hour. Hardesty said ballots will be counted Wednesday night and will be announced in Thursday’s Bat talion. Vieing for 15 seats will be sen iors J. (Red) Wilson, James D. Willborn, Randy West, John West, A. J. Weisenfelder, Don A Weber, Jack Weatherford, Joe N. Watson, Paul M. Tucker. Durwood Thomp son, T. R. Thedford and John H. Specht. T. N. Sudderth, Jim Sharp, Wil liam Setzleiy Jim Rowland, Vannis Redman, Larry D. Piper, Tom E. Norton, Thomas R. Newman, Kir by T. Meyer, Howard Martin, Pat Marshall, William A. McCarty and Billy J. Lilly. Tedd M. Lewis, Byron W. King, Cyrus H. Holley, James E. Goode, Jack M. Dreyfus, Bill Dorsey, Mur ray Denton, Bryan Dedeker, Jon F. Cobb, Jacky Ettinger and Ronnie Briggs. Ten junior senators will be se lected from Tom J. Upchurch, Bob Surovik, Homer D. Smith, D. La mar Smith, William A. Sansing, Woody Rice, Pat E. Resley, Larry Patton, Thomas L. Owens, Walter L. Miller, Buddy Maedgen, Ray O. McClung, Bill Libby, Carroll F. Lam and Don Jones. Travis Johnson, Paul R. liol- mes, Edward Holbein, Tom R. Hai-- ris, Jon L. Hagler, Jim Groves, Jerry Gleason, Clarence Garrard, James R. Cox, J. Paul Costa, Har old J. Com-ad, J. Alex Clark, Jim Brady, Ray M. Bowen, Jack C. Bailey and Brady D. Armstrong. Sophomore senators will be se lected from John T. Wiliams, John G. Thomas, Thomas E. Reddin, Dick Noack, Thomas H. Miller, Ross Hutchison, Ray C. Hudson, Glen D. Hitchcock, Davis Ford and Jay B. Bissey. Two Day Student Senators will be selected from Joe R. Zemanek, John Abe Webb, Jim R. Porter and Leroy S. Fletcher. Vieing for the College View senate post will be Joe D. Womack, Thomas E. Reyman, Ken C. Mor gan and Tommie A. Hennard. Puryear’s senator will be de cided between Robert A. Lee and Fred W. McDonald. Uncontested for their seat will be Tommie F. Green, Bizzell; M. Morgan Douglass, Hart; Jerry Martinets, Law; Charles F. Wil son, Leggett; Harry J. Green, Mil ner; Joe David Rose, Walton and Warren H. Robert, Dorm 16. Mitchell Hall’s senator will be either Burke Phillips or Robert Lowry. Missing Senior Boots Returned To Owners 1957 Plates For Texans Change Color For the first time since 1932, Texans will lose the tra ditional colors of orange and black on license plates. Scheduled to go on sale Feb. 1, the new plates will be white with black letters. Also the new plates will be ornamented with a “Lone Star” between the prefix letters and the num bers. The State Highway Depart ment said the change was due to public insistence that black and oi-ang-e plates didn’t blend with today’s auto color sche mes. Texas Prison System is pro ducing- some 4y 2 million pairs of plates and 392,000 single plates. Blue-eyed Blonde Beauty Captures Delegates Hearts Shelby Sanders, an 18-year-old five foot, three-inch, blue eyed blonde beauty from Stephens, Ark., >vas chosen as the Aggie Sweetheart for the 1956-57 school year at ceremonies held in Denton Sunday morning. Picked from 11 candidates by 11 visiting Aggies Shelby will be formally presented to the A&M student body during half-time activities at the SMU Corps Trip Nov. 10. These activities have become quite a tradition in them selves as past Cadet Colonels have vied themselves on seeing “how long th student body could wildcat” while the Colonel was kissing the Sweetheart. This year’s presentation will take on special meaning to 1Shelby as she will celebrate g j j her 19th birthday on the day Hurt Saturday In Car Accident State Rep. B. H. Dewey suf fered two broken legs and ser ious head injuries in an auto mobile accident near Hemp stead Saturday night while re turning from the A&M-University of Houston football game. Three other Bryan men, Jack Vick, J. D. (Chick) Chapman and Richard Holmgreen also were hurt in the accident. A specialist was scheduled to examine Dewey yesterday at the Waller County Hospital in Hetnp- stead to see if he could be moved | to a hospital in Bryan. No internal { injuries or concussion had been found. Vick, who suffered one broken leg and lacerations, was scheduled to be brought to Bryan by am bulance yesterday. Chapman, who received lesser injuries, was brought home Sunday. Holmgreen, whose ear was se verely cut, was treated at the hos pital and released after the ac cident. Vick was driving the car, which collided with one driven by Law rence Jingles of Hempstead near Hockley in Waller County. The accident occurred on U. S. High way 290. State highway patrolmen said Jingles was attempting a left turn in front of the Vick car, whith was demolished by the impact. Last week two Aggie seniors imported their senior boots were stolen. When they got to Houston Saturday, the boots were waiting for them. Lt. Col Taylor Wilkins, assistant commandant, said he called the Dean of Students at the University of Houston and told him the situa tion, explaining which fraternity was belived to be involved. When Col. Wilkins got to Hous ton Friday afternoon and called the dean, he was told the boots would be at his hotel room in a Ag Council Elects Officers For Year Woodrow Free, senior Agricul ture Education major from Bren- ham, was elected chairman of the Agriculture Council at the group’s first meeting Friday. Other officers elected were Walter N. Miers, vice chairman; H. L. Harbers, secretary; Fritz E. Landers, treasurei*; and Tom W. Smith, reporter. Inter-Council re presentatives chosen were Free, Landers, John H. Specht and Mar- rin G. Johnston. Free appointed Specht, Vol S. Davis and Melvin Lebo to in vestigate possibilities of having a general meeting of all agriculture students sometime during the year. Regular meetings of the council were set for the second Monday night of each month. matter of minutes. Less than an hour later, Andy Andrews, stu dent body president and Jerry Slaughter, student council presi dent, had returned the boots to Col. Wilkins expressing their regret that the incident had occurred. Col. Wilkins said “we have al ways had fine cooperation Horn the officials at the University of Hous ton.” In commenting on the trip in general, Col. Joe E. Davis, com mandant said “the conduct of A&M students was exempletory in that they behaved like gentlemen.” Weather Today Scattered showers are forecast for the vicinity until 8 p.m. Tem perature at 11 a.m. today was 78 degrees. High and low yesterday were 84 and 64 degrees. Job Exam Offered By Civil Service Lmited States Civil Service Com mission has announced a new series of examinations in the fields of Ai’chitecture, Cartography, Chemis try, Engineering, Mathematics, Meteoi’ology, Oceanography and Physics. Student trainees will participate in special training programs con sisting of on-the-job training in a Federal department and training at a college or university. Starting salaries will vary from $2,960 to $3,415 per year. Further information and appli cation forms may be obtained from post offices throughout the country or from the U. S. Civil Service Bleacher Seats Still On Sale About 3,000 tickets for Satur day’s game with TCU on Kyle Field remain to be sold, Mrs. Mary R. Wilson, ticket manager said yesterday. These tickets are for seats in the steel bleachers at the south end of the field and the temporary box seats that have been set up on the cinder track, Mi’s. Wilson said. The tickets will remain on sale until game time or until the Athletic Department is sold out, she said. Student tickets for the after noon game will go off sale at 5 p. m. Wednesday. Only one date ticket can be purchased on a stu dent activities card. Date tickets cost $3.50. President’s Sister Dies In California Vet Checks Late Veteran checks for Septem ber will be issued to reach veterans Oct. 31 instead of Oct. 20, according to Bennie Zinn, Veterans advisor. Vet erans Administration officials say that October checks will be received Nov. 20. Mrs. Joseph L. Springer, of San Francisco, Calif., sister of Dr. David H. Morgan, president of A. & M died early Saturday morn ing in San Francisco. Services were held yesterday in Daly City, Calif., a suburb of San Francisco. Dr. Morgan left several days ago for San Franciso and will return the middle of the week. of the SMU Corps Trip. When told of the decision she said, “This will be the most won derful birthday present I could ever I’eceive.” The Aggie Delegation arrived | in TSCW Saturday morning and was feted with a picnic at Lake j Dallas that afternoon, and a formal dance Saturday night After the dance the delegates cast ballots and came out in a deadlock on the girl to be named Sweetheart. Early Sunday morning another round of ballots was taken, but the deadlock still held. After Church Services ballots were cast again and Shelby, came out the winner. Other nominees for Sweetheart included: Brenda Beck, senior speech major from Brownfield; Margaret Dyer, junior recreation al therapy major from Denver City; Patricia Gaughan, junior so ciology m a j o r from Riverdale, Noi’th Dakota; Joan Gayle, soph omore clothing and costuming de sign major from El Paso; LaVillas Havens, sophomore biology major from Paducah; Elenor Trigg Jones, senior interior design major from Paris; Clare Leister, junior speech therapy major from Orange; Dor othy McClenahan, junior business major from El Paso;; Carolyn Schambra, sophomore art major from Freeport and Llewellyn Wat son, junior art education major from Lasara. Students making- the selections from A&M included: Jack Luns ford, Byron King, Jerry Betsill, Joe Ross, Bill Lilly, Dick Bernard, Dick Wall, Doug DeCluitt, John Specht, Don Weber and Durwood Thompson. Miss Sanders will represent A&M and TSCW ■ in activities throughout the school year. She will represent A&M at all football games, Cotton Bowl ceremony on New Years’ Day, University of Texas Roundup, Rice Rondelet and all other SWC functions where A&M needs a feminine representa tive. Yearly Meeting Of Ag Stations Opens In MSC The annual conference of the Texas Agricultural Exper iment Station will open Wed nesday morning in the Memor ial Student Center, according to R. D. Lewis, director. Registration by research workers from all over the state will be held from 8 a. m. until 12 noon in the Serpentine Lounge. Morning ses sions will be held from 8:30 to 12 and afternoon sessions from 1 until 5 Wednesday and Thursday and a banquet will be held Wednesday night at 6:30 in the Ballroom. The morning sesion on Wednes day will be held in the Ballroom and the afternoon session in room 2A-2B and 2C-2D Thursday the morning session will meet in the Ballroom, 2A, 2B, 3B and 3C. Chancellor M. T. Harrington will give the welcoming address. Out- of-state speakers include Cecil H. Wadleigh, chief, Soil and Water Conservation Research Branch, Agricultural Research Seiwice, USDA; William Rhea Blake, exe cutive vice-president, National Cot ton Council; C. B. Jennings, as sistant general manager, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Ill.; Starley M. Hunter, family economics and home management specialist, Fed eral Extension Service, Washing ton, D. C. The conference will cover re search underway at College Sta tion and 44 other locations over the state. The program includes dis cussions on soil-plant-water re lationships, research and education for agi'iculture, cotton diseases, economic approaches to livestock problems, agricultural engineering, food technology, the release of new varieties, fertilizer data in terpretation, the horticultural in dustry, the nematode problem, family living, plant breeding, range and wildlife problems, systemic in secticides and present and future developments in the research pro gram. Ring Orders Due Senior rings to be delivered be fore the Christmas holidays must be ordered before Oct. 31, accord ing to H. Students i Ag Ed Department Adds New Staffers Dr. Donald S. Moore, Dr. Vance W. Edmondson and Robert L. Hol land have been added to the staff of the Agricultural Economics and Sociology department, Dr. Tyrus R. Timm, department head an nounced yesterday. Moore will conduct research in farm management for the Texas Agricultural Extent! on Station. Holland will work for the experi ment station and the Department of Agi’iculture on full time research L. Heaton, registar. in wool marketing. Edmondson’s good standing who j time will be divided between teach- Mrs. Springer was a native of j have completed 95 hours of work! ing in the department and doing Virginia. are eligible to purchase the ring. I research in farm managment. a|>g» Unofficial Warning LINCOLN, Neb. OP) — Business was poor for Lincoln police at tempting to nab speeders on Vine St. Investigation disclosed why. The police radar device was located at 40th and Vine. At 42nd and Vine, someone had posted a sign, “Radar Commission, Washington 25, D. C. Ahead.” SWEETHEART FINALISTS—Above are pictured finalists in the Sweetheart Selections held Saturday and Sunday at Denton, (left to right are) Margaret Dyer, Clare Leister, Joan Gayle, Pat Gaughan, Trigg Jones, Lou Watson, Jack Lunsford, Brenda Beck, LaVil las Havens, Dottie McClenanhan, Carolyn Schambra and Shelby Sanders.