The Battalion
Number 175: Volume 55
COLLEBE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1956
Price Five Cents
Football Queen
To Be Honored
At CHS Came
The 1956 A&M Consolida
ted Homecoming Queen and
her two princesses will be
crowned Friday night at half
time activities in the football
game between A&M Consolidated
and Navasota, to climax two days
of the annual celebration.
Several hundred invitations to
former students have.been mailed
by the cheerleaders and student
council for the bonfire Thursday
night and the game and dance Fri
day.
The bonfire, prepared by stu
dents working after school this
week, will be lit tomorrow night
by the football co-captains, Gar
land Andrews and Bill Hale, after
a parade with the cheerleaders and
the band. A yell practice will fol
low.
Candidates for the Queen’s
crown were nominated last week
in a meeting of the Major Ath
letic Club, made up of lettermen in
football, basketball, Hack and base
ball.
Two girls from each class were
chosen and the one with the most
votes, at one cent a vote, placed in
jars about the school, will reign as
this year’s Queen.
Nominated were Betty Mead and
Mary Beth Hagler, seniors; Jean
ette Vance and Gaytha Edgar, ju
niors; Nancy Rogers and Patricia
Jackson, sophomores; and Gloria
Poole and Marilyn McElroy, fresh
men.
\
Shepperd Says
Little Help For Negroes
HARD AT IT—Shown above (left to right) Joseph Donaldson Jr., architecture instruc
tor; Wade Driver ; Norman Ufer and Mike Talley are painting the inside of the dome on
the Academic Building. It is to be made into an architecture classroom.
Amendment 3 Means
New Laws Let CIs
Obtain Insurance
Under the recently enacted
Servicemen’s and Veterans Sur
vivor Benefits Act (Public Law
881, 84th Congress), veterans
separated from active service since
September 4, 1956, ‘will have until
December 31, 1956, to apply for
the 5-year term nonconvertible GI
insurance.
Before this law. was enacted, Dr.
George T. McMahan, manager of
the Veterans Administration Cen
ter in Waco; stated that eligible
veterans had 120 days from sepa
ration in which to apply for the
post service five-year .policy.
The new law ends issuance of
this insurance effective January 1,
1957, and establishes December 31,
1956, as the deadline for appli
cation, even though less than 120
days have elapsed since separation.
More Classrooms, Dorms
What is amendment 3 ?
Amendment 3 has been defined
by many as the only answer to
the problem of providing class
room and dormitory space for the
ah’eady crowded and cramped
state-supported schools in Texas.
The amendment is supposed to
do this, without any extra taxation
on the part of the people.
In September of 1955, students
in the general academic state sup
ported colleges and universities in
Texas numbered 71,303 — 2,000
more than previously predicted for
1960.
If passed, the amendment will
allow up to 50 per cent of the
money in the permanent university
fund to be invested in stocks of
MSC Radio Show
To Be On WTAW
Popular music will be the theme
of the new Tuesday afternoon
radio show on WTAW from 4:30
to 5:00 p. m. sponsored by the
Public Relations Group of the Me
morial Student Center. ^
Mike Long will emcee the show
which begins Tuesday, October 23.
He will make announcements con
cerning the MSC for the week.
Each week at this time, students
may have to opportunity to listen
to music and learn what is happen
ing in the MSC.
Mile-high Building
Set For Chicago
CHICAGO, OP) _ Frank Lloyd
Wright unveiled a sketch of his
proposed mile-high building at a
news conference yesterday, and
then answered questions.
The first question was this:
“Are you kidding?”
The architect tossed the query
right back at the newsman. “Are
you?”, he asked. “Does it look
like I’m kidding?”
Wright, 87, stood in front of the
22-foot-high-drawing of the “Sky
City” he has suggested for Chi
cago’s lakefront.
The building in the sketch look
ed like a long sword thrust hilt-
first into the earth. Wright said
that was the principle.
approved companies incorporated
in the United States.
At present, the permanent fund
is returning a 2.7 per cent return
on investments in government
bonds. Under the provisions of
amendment 3 the dividend would
be 3.5 per cent.
The additional eight per cent re
turn on investments will amount
to more than 45 million dollars, in
20 years.
Athletic Council Head
On ‘Mystery’ Flight
By JIM BOWER
Battalion Editor
Chris Groneman, chairman of the
athletic council flew off into the
wild blue yonder yesterday and no
body seems to know where he went
or exactly when he will return.
couldn’t say whether his trip had
any connection with athletics.
J o h-n C. Calhoun, dean of
the engineering school, said that
Groneman left a note saying that
it was necessary for him to be out
of town. Dean Calhoun, who also
Tests for Draft
Deferment Set
For Nov. 15
Students wishing- to take
the Selective Service College
qualification Test for military
deferment must register be
fore midnight, Tuesday, Oct.
30 according to Frank E. McFar
land of the Basic Division, test
supervisor.
The tests are to be given
throughout the United States to
college students on Nov. 15. Re
sults of the tests will be used by
local boards in determining the
students to be deferred from the
draft.
To be eligible to apply for the
test, a student must intend to re
quest deferment as a student, be
satisfactorily pursuing a fulltime
course of instruction, and must not
have previously taken the test.
Any student, either civilian or
ROTC, may take the test, providing
that he meets the requh’ements.
The test will be given in the ball
room of the Memorial Student
Center.
Additional information may be
obtained from McFarland at the
Basic Division.
Since only money from the per
manent fund can be used for build
ing purposes, educators say that
with enrollment expected to double
within the next five to ten years,
there will not be enough money to
meet the demand without the ad
ditional returns provided by amend
ment 3.
The amendment has eight safety
factors designed to keep it on a
constructive money-making level.
They are:
• Not more than 50 per cent of
the fund can be invested in secur
ities other than federal, state or
municipal bonds.
• Only stocks listed on exchanges
registered with the Securities and
Exchange Commission may be
bought.
• Only stocks of companies in
corporated in the United States
may be bought.
• Only stocks of companies
which have paid dividends for at
least ten consecutive years immed
iately prior to the date of purchase
may be acquired.
(See MORE BUILDINGS,.Page 2)
Voting Today
For 43 Seats
In New Senate
Politics are taking first place
in extra-curricular activities to
day as students cast their votes for
43 positions on the 1956-57 student
Senate.
Polls opened this morning at 8
and will close this afternoon at 5.
Voting is taking place at the Post
Office Entrance to the Memorial
Student Center.
Election oficials will count votes
tonight and Thursday’s Battalion
will carry complete results of the
campaign.
Almost 100 candidates “threw
their hats in the ring” for the
Senate posts with 15 seats open to
seniors, 10 to members of the
junior class and six from the
sophomore class. Two will be
selected from the Day Students,
one from College View, one from
Puryear Hall and one from Mit
chell Hall.
Several of the senate seats ai*e
uncontested. They are for the
senators from Bizzell, Hart, Wal
ton, Law, Leggett, and Milner
Halls and Dorm 16.
Marterie Highlights
Weekend Activities
Surprise Witness Called
By Defense In Hearing
TYLER—(yP)—A tty. Gen. John Ben Shepperd testified
yesterday that it was his ‘candid opinion” that the NAACP
had been very little help to Texas Negroes in breaking down
the color line.
As a surprise witness called by the defense in the state’s
efforts to outlaw the NAACP in Texas, Shepperd accused
the Negro organization of spending much of its time and
money soliciting law suits.
“I don’t think the U. S. Supreme Court endowed this or
any other organization to enforce its order,” the nationally
known defender of state’s rights said of the Supreme Court’s
order saying* Negroes could not be barred from white schools.
• NAACP attorney W. J. Dur
ham tried to get from Shep
perd a list of law suits con
cerned in state’s charges that
the NAACP had ‘‘fomented,
encouraged and abetted litigation.”
“If we knew what litigation we
were charged with, we promise to
go right to it with no fishing
around,” Durham told Dist. Judge
Otis T. Dunagan.
Shepperd recalled a number of
desegregation suits filed in recent
years and read extensively from a
list of the 472 exhibits of state
evidence in the four-week hearing.
Shepperd has asked that a tem-
poraVy restraining order against
the NAACP in Texas be made
permanent — alleging violation of
the state law against solicitation
of law suits.
He also has accused the NAACP,
incorpoi'ated in New York, as a
charitable non-profit organization,
with profit making and political
activities.
The NAACP has denied violation
of any state laws and has offered
to pay any delinquent state fran
chise taxes it might owe as a
foreign corporation. It has made
a blanket objection to all state’s
evidence claiming most of it was
gathered illegally by Shepperd’s
assistants while accompanied by
armed officers.
“Were you investigating because
Negroes were advising each other
how to get their children in
school?” Durham asked.
“No,” Shepperd said.
Durham asked if it wasn’t true
that all evidence obtained from
NAACP offices related to such in
tegration efforts. “I don’t think
so,” Shepperd answered. “I think
much of it was legal material. It
indicated they were looking for
plaintiffs and law suits.”
Durham tried to ask another
question but Shepperd continued:
“If you want my candid opinion,
I think there has been very little
help on the part of this ograniza-
tion to help get Negro students
into schools in Texas.”
Shepperd was asked specifically
about an integration suit pending
in Dallas County that school offi
cials have taken no steps toward
integration.
Houston Club Have
Fry Friday Night
The Houston Hometown club will
sponsor a steak and fisb fry Fri
day night, from 5 until 8:30 at
Hensel Park, according to club
President Ray Winbum.
Gordon Gay is going to be tbe
cook. Tbe party is open to every
one and dates are invited. Enter
tainment will be provided.
Students Serve
As Fxtra Police
This Weekend
About 43 students will be
added to the present number
of Campus Security forces
this weekend when A&M
hosts approximately 42 thous
and football fans for the TCU
Football game Saturday, said Fred
Hickman, chief of Campus Se
curity.
These new KK’s will be direct
ing traffic, parking cars, and will
provide protection for the 3 thous
and students’ cars now on the cam
pus and the 12 thousand visitors’
cars expected for the game. Park
ing areas for the cars will be on
the drill field south of Duncan
Half behind Anchor Hall, north
of West Gate, and East of the G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
“I would like to ask the dorm-
oritory students to have their cars
parked in their regular places by
11 a. m. and not to travel
through the main traffic pattern
after that time,” Hickman said.
He is stressing safe driving to
all students on or off the campus
and while driving home over the
weekend.
Weather Today
First reports indicated that his j was out of town, said the note
trip was connected with a pi-otest ! did not say where Groneman was
supposed to have been filed by going.
Coach Jess Neely of Rice Institute
over Gordon LeBeouf, freshman
football player from Port Neches.
At 10:06 this morning Coach
Neely denied this by saying “No
sir, we didn’t file any protest. We
feel a boy has the right to go any
place he wants to .”
It was learned he left by air,
leaving Easterwood Airport at 4:31
yesterday afternoon, his first stop
being Shreveport, La.
His wife, when contacted last
night, said he wouldn’t be back
until later this week. She said she 1 week.
The lady answering the telephone |
in Groneman’s office said t h i s |
morning about 9:30 that she didn’t!
know where he had gone.
The System Information Office J
said that office didn’t know where |
Groneman was or if his trip had |
any connection with athletics.
Jones Ramsey, head of sports I
publicity, said he didn’t know where
Groneman was, but supposed he ! Clear to partly cloudy is fore-
was on some sort of business trip, j cast for today. Temperature at
Ramsey said he didn’t think the j 10:30 a. m. was 80 degrees. Yes- j Members of the quintet are Dwight
NCAA met until sometime next I terday’s high and low were 85 j Allen, drums; Morris Partain,
Numerous weekend activities are
planned to provide Aggies and
visitors with entertainment to add
to tbe excitement of the A&M-
TCU football game on Kyle Field
Saturday.
Highlighting the All - College
Dance Saturday night will be Ralph
Marterie and His Orchestra said
to be the most popular dance band
in America’s colleges. He and his
group will play for dancing from
9 to 12 in Sbisa Hall. Before the
dance at 7:30, a concert will be
given in Guion Hall.
Marterie’s band is said to have
had more hit records than any
other dance band in America today.
In addition to this recognition he
boasts tbe distinction of * being
selected as Headline Band for 1955
by Billboard magazine and
America’s Number One Band by
Cash Box magazine.
Rue Pinalle, Aggie version of a
French night club, will provide
Aggies and their dates with enter
tainment and dancing Fidday night
from 8:30 until midnight yell
practice.
A long and entertaining floor
show has been planned by Hh’am
French, Rue Pinalle manager.
Headlining the show is the Bob
Arevaloz Quintet, a musical group.
and 60 degrees.
per
the
Arevaloz, vibes, and Howard
(Slim) Yeargan, piano.
Also on the show are Ann Hite,
interpretive dancer; Binnie Anne
Dansby, singer; Freddie Gibbs,
singer; and Dick Hunkier and
Ronald Ruth, pantomimists.
Admission will be $1.50
couple.
Former Students from
classes of 1926, 1936, 1941 and 1946
will arrive Friday and Saturday to
hold their reunions.
The classes will be registering in
the Memorial Student Center Fri
day at 1 p. m. and Saturday at 8
a. m. Luncheons will be held for
the classes of ’41 and ’46 at 11 a.
m. Saturday and for the class of
’26 at 11:30 a. m. Dinners for the
classes of ’36 and ’26 will be held
at 7 and 7:30 p. m. respectively.
Food Expert Slated
For Graduate Talk
Dr. Bruce H. Morgan will give a
lecture Thursday evening at 8
p. m. in the Lecture Room of the
Biological Sciences Building on
Technical and Philosphical Impli
cations in Food Sterilization by
Radiation.
Dr. Morgan’s interests involve
the effect of thermo treatments
and ionizing radiations on food
spoilage bacteria and means for
their control in terms of improved
food preservation. He has been
active in the Institute of Food
Technologists and the Society of
American Bacteriologists in areas
both involving r-adiation of foods
and microbes as well as tbe pre
servation of foods by thermo treat
ment.
The lecture is open to the
faculty, staff, graduate students
and the general public.
Hunger Strike
ARDMORE, Okla. OP>—C. C. Mc-
Gehee, Ardmore zookeeper, says
he’s quit wrestling with Bennie,
six-year-old black bear. Bennie got
hungry one day and tried to eat
him.
guitar; Joe Lowe, bass fiddle; Bob
Artillery Reserves
Flear Team Tonight
A mobile instruction team will
be featured at tonight’s meeting of
the 343rd Field Artillery Battalion
in the Chemistry Lecture Room
tonight at 8, according to Lt. Col.
O. D. Butler, commanding officer.
Title of tonight’s subject will be
Principles of Artillery Employ
ment, and all men interested in this
subject are invited to attend, Col.
Butler added.
JONES RAMSEY, sports publicity director, is caught
pounding out statistics and background material for the
coming game this weekend. Ramsey supplies the various
sportswriters covering the Aggie games with up-to-the-
minute data and game information.