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The Battalion Num-berl76: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1956 Price Five Cents Aggie Voters Choose Senators In General Election Yesterday Burchard Goes To ACEJ Meet In Chicago Donald D. Burchard, head of the Journalism Depart ment, returned Tuesday from Chicago where he attended the fall meeting of the Amer ican Council on Education for Jour nalism, of which he is a member. ACEJ is the highest ranking ac creditation organization for jour nalism in the nation. A team vis ited the A&M Journalism Depart ment last year and accredited it in two sequences, Community Journal ism and Agricultural Journalism. Final plans were laid at the meeting for accreditation teams to visit 19 schools in the nation and examine their journalism pro grams. The Council plans to visit all the schools in the nation that have requested to be visited by the April meeting of the Council. If this is accomplished they will have visited 59 schools in the past year. ACEJ appointed a committee to appraise the system of accredita tion by sequences and determine whether it should be used in the future. A report on findings will be made at the April meeting. Chest Drive Gets Budget Set Tonight The budget for the 1956 College Station Community Chest will be set tonight at the board of directors budget hearing in the Memorial Student Center. The 18 member board of di rectors will hear requests from 12 charities and agencies at 7:30 p. tn., then decide on the amount to be alloted to each in discussion after the requests. Requests will be presented by the American Red Cross, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Salvation Army, Brazos County USO and United Defense Fund, Recreation Council, College YMCA, Youth Facilities Council, Community Cen ter Inc., Brazos County Youth Development and Gonzales Warm Springs Foundation. Dates set for the drive are Oct 29 through Nov. 12, according to Bob H. Reed and Dr. John Milliff, co-chairman of this year’s di’ive. 43 Students Win Election As 100 Try For Senate Aggie voters chose 43 new Student Senators out of 100 candidates yesterday as they cast their votes in the General Election in the Memorial Student Center. Fifteen seniors were chosen by their class to represent them in the Senate. They were Don A. Weber, 224; Dur- ward Thompson, 199; John H. Specht, 179; J. “Jim” Sharp, 118; Jim Rowland, 153; Larry D. Piper, 193; Tom E. Norton, 151; William A. McCarty, 139; Byron W. King, 204; Cyrus H. Holley, 128; James E. Goode, 135; W. “Bill’ Dorsey, 238; Murray Denton, 125. Bryan Dedeker, 163 and Jon F. Cobb, 153. The Class of ’58 picked 10 senators to represent them. They were Tom Upchurch, 175; Bob Surovik, 180; M. “Buddy” Maedgen, 147; Bill McLaughlin, 177; Ray O. Mc- Clung, 150; Tom R. Harris, 159; Jon L. Hagler, 208; Jerry Gleason, 164; J. Paul Costa, 225 and Ray M. Bowen, 162. Sophomores elected six members to the Senate. They were John G. Thomas, 151; Thomas E. Reddin, 150; R. “Dick” Noak, 146; Thomas H. Miller, 162; Ross Hutchison, 173 and Jay B. Bisbey, 154. Day students picked Joe R. Zemanek, 21 and John Abe Webb, 22. College View elected Tommie A. Hennard, 24. Puryear selected Fred W. Mc Donald, 25 and Mitchell picked Robert Lowry, 16. Civilian senators elected without contest were Tommy F. Green, Biz- zell, 12; M. Morgan Douglass, Hart, 24; Jerry Martinets, Law, 16; Charles F. Wilson, Leggett, 22; Harry J. Green, Milner, 16; Joe David Ross, Walton, 15 and Warren H. Roberts, Dorm 16, 17 votes. Other candidates in yesterday’s Senatorial race and their votes are as follows: A. Stewart Speaks Arthur Stewart, of the Division of Business Administration, spoke to the Sabine Chapter of the Na tional Association of Cost Account ants at Orange, and the Fourth Annual Texas Technical Tax Con ference at Lubbock, Tuesday. SENIORS J. Wilson-96; James D. Willborn- 94; Randy West-110; John West- 77; A. J. Wei senf elder-89; Jack Weatherford-116; Joe Watson-61; Paul M. Tucker-83; T. R. Thedford 99; T. N. Sudderth-102; William Setzler-107; Vannis Redman-65; Thomas R. Newman-83; Kirby T. Meyer-75; Howard Martin-64; Pat rick Marshall-106; Billy J. Lilly- 58; Tedd M. Lewis-104; Jack M. Dreyfus-114; Jacky Ettinger - 22 and Ronnie Briggs-112. JUNIORS Homer D. Smith-94; D. Smith- 130; William Sansing-54; Rice-144; Pat Resleyf-103; L. Pattonpl44; Thomas Owens-61; Walter Miller- 65; Bill Libby-115; Carroll Lam- 94; Don Jones-101; Travis John- son-123; Paul Holmes-96; Edward Holbein-92; Jim Groves-125; James R. Cox-55; Harold Conrad-111; Alex Clark-85; Jim Brady-91; Jack C. Bailey-81; Brady D. Armstrong- 106. SOPHOMORES John T. Williams-125; Ray C. Hudson-139; Glen D. Hitchcick-109; (See SENATE, Page 2) Mrs. J. Q. Hays Will Chair TB Seal Sale Mrs. John Q. Hays, 1007 Puryear E, has been named | ™ USK> county chairman for the 1956 Christmas Seal Sale by the Brazos County Tuberculosis Association. Purpose of the sale which will run from Nov. 15 to Dec. 25, is to raise funds for the work of the lo cal TB association and its state and national affiliates, according to R. H. Fletcher, president of the local association. Mrs. Hays pointed out at a re cent meeting of various committee chairmen that the Christmas Seal Sale is not a part of the College Station Community Chest or of the Bryan United Fund and that the TB association will be relying solely on the seal sale for support of its work for the coming- year. She also explained that 82 per cent of the money raised remains in the county for the program of the local association, 12 per cent g-oes to the Texas TB Association and six per cent goes to the nation al organization. CHS Bonfire Touched Off Tonight at 6:30 A week of intensive work will be climaxed tonight at 6:30 when the annual A&M Consolidated High School Homecoming Bonfire burns. Built around a center pole over 40 feet tall, the pile was construct ed entirely by students working after school with borrowed equip ment and donated wood. The entire operation was orga nized and coordinated by the CHS yell leaders Ann Hite, Lucy Rogers, Jeanette Vance and Cai-olyn Wil son. Miss Hite is head yell leader. At 6:45 tonight, the yell leaders will lead a parade with the Con solidated Band from the school’s RIGHT TO VOTE is being exercised by Civilian and Corps Students as they vote for the men of their choice for Student Senators in the general election held yesterday in the Memorial Student Center. Kansas City Bound to the bonfire site. There football co-captains Garland Andrews and Bill Hall will light the fire and the annual homecoming activities will officially began. After the lighting, a yell practice will be held. The gathering will be over on time for the A&M Con solidated Jr. High football game with Huntsville at 7:30 on Tiger Field. Several hundred invitations have been mailed to former students by the yell leaders who are sponsor ing the two-day celebration with the cooperation of the student council and the senior class. The 1956 Homecoming Queen will be crowned between halves of the football game with Navasota Judging Teams Hit the Road Pipe-line Slides Seen by I Ed Club Slides of a pipe-line project in Utah highlighted the recent meet ing of the Industrial Education Club. The slides were narrated by Rocky Albritton of the Mechanical Engineering Department who serv ed as head civil engineer on the project. Refreshments were served members after the program. Members of the senior Livestock, Meats and Wool Judging Teams with their respective coaches left the campus yestei'day morning headed for competition in the American Royal at Kansas City Tuesday morning. Many of this year’s Senior Teams are composed of boys who “won their spurs” on the junior teams last fall, and many of the coaches are hoping that this year will be a rich one for the A&M Teams. These trips are sponsored by the Saddle and Sirloin Club with the tomorrow night and a dance will cooperation of the Animal Hus- follow the game. I bandry Department. Boys who Col. H. P. Dittman Announces DMS to Senators To Meet All members of the newly- elected Student Senate will meet in the Senate Chambers of the MSC tonight at 7:30. This will be the first, and organizational meeting of the Senate. All members have been urged to be present. Tony Martin Show ’Season's Brightest Fun Fest’ Distinguished Military Students in Air Force ROTC were named yestex-day by Col. Henry P. Ditt man, PAS. There are 58 students listed for the Air Force units this year which include the following: Martin R. Adams, Willie Alsup III, David R. Bx-iggs, William B. Byrne, Jr., James S. Cassity, Jon F. Cobb, James D. Drews, Stanley B. Crockett, Ji\, Marcus J. Crow, Bryan W. Dedekex*, Murray B. Den ton, William H. Dorsey, Jack M. The Tony Martin Show, descidb- ed as the “Season’s Brightest Song and Fun Fest of the Year”, will be presented Thursday, Oct. 25, at 8 p.m. in White Coliseum. The show, a full evening of mu sic, song, comedy and variety en- tex-tainment, is not a Town Hall presentation, but is being sponsor ed by Student Activities. Tony Martin, internationally famous singing star, has just fin ished his latest movie, “Jeannie”, filmed in England and Scotland, and is touring the US with this big, hand-picked music-and-com- edy show. Backing up Martin’s singing se lections of old and new favorites, and featured in its own right, will be the Tex Beneke Orchestra, re nowned through its personal ap- peax-ances and recoi’d hits. To contrast with the smooth, big-band appeal of the Beneke ag gregation, the program will feature the Jodimars, a sizzling new Cap ital i*ecording group of five men. Foxmed by thi’ee foi’mei" mem bers of Bill Haley’s Comets, this recent entry in the popular jazz and inck n’ mil field has already won nation-wide attention. Moi’e x-ecoi’ding talent is repx - e- sented by the Petticoats, a trio of eye-pleasing gilds xvho sing with zest and charm and have created a stir in musical circles by way of their Unique Recoi’d offerings. This is only a start, with othei’ acts scheduled to add their talents to the full-length musical pi’esen- tation. Tony Martin, of course, will provide the highlights of the show with his song offerings and the personality that has made him a long-standing star of movies, ra dio, TV, and the supper club cii’- cuit. In addition to new tunes, he will meet audience demands for some of the hits he has made fa mous in motion pictures or on re- coi’ds in the past. Tickets for the show may be pui’chased for $2.50 for main-floor seats, $2 for courtside seats, and $1.50 for bleacher seats at Student Activities Office and Waldrop’s in Bryan. Weather Today Pai’tly cloudy with widely scat tered showers late in the day is foi’ecast. Temperatui’e at 10:30 a.m. was 79 degx-ees. High and low for Wednesday were 84 and 61 de grees. Stevenson to Speak Dr. Robert M. Stevenson, of the Business Administration Division will appear as a speaker at the top Management Seminal’, Army Oi’dnance, at Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Ill., today. D r. Stevenson will discuss “Manage ment Statictics and Linear Pro gramming”. He has pai’ticipated in previous programs of the Sem inar and this is his eighth time as a speaker. Facilities Give Girl Scout Site Allocations The College Station Youth Facilities Council voted yes terday to ask for a total of <81,000 from the 1956 College Station Community Chest with half ear-marked for the Girl Scouts and the lighted softball diamond at Lincoln School. Ten of the twelve committee membex’s were present at the meet ing held yesterday in city hall. Projects from all civic youth groups were discussed by the group and a general request was agreed upon instead of particular items. Pi’ojects submitted include a city park, a girl scout camp, a site for boy scout buildings, a city swimming pool, a colored swim ming pool and impi’ovement of the Negro softball diamond lighting. The Council voted to give the Bryan-College Station Area Gii’l Scout Council $250 to improve a new camp site to be pui’chased by the scout group. Another $250 was suggested for use in improving the lights at the Negro softball dia mond, which the Council provided I last year. Present at the meeting were Bob | Cherry, president; Mrs. R. A. Pat terson, secretary-treasurer; and Les Richai’dson, Dick Hei’vey, Sid Loveless, Ran Boswell, Loyd Keel, Luther Jones, W. A. Tarrow and Mike Krenitsky. Dreyfus, William E. Duplantis, Lamar Foi’d, Leroy C. Forester, Jr., James T. Graham, Selman D. Griffith, Henry F. Grupe, Jr., Chai’les R. Haines, Thomas B. Har ris, John F. Heaid, Adrain, C. Helms, Billy P. Huddles ton, James L. Hudson, Jr., James P. Hutchison. Carl F. Jaggers, John D. Janak, Philip E. Johnson, Vardaman F. Johnson, Warren B. Johnson, Jr., Byron W. King, John L. Loggins, Jack H. Lunsford, Charles D. Mc- Mullan, Dirby T. Meyer, Donald L. Moore, Dick G. Morton, James G. Newman, Kenneth B. Nolen, Thomas E. Norton, Jr., Donald L. Patton, James M. Peacock, Earl L. Pixley, Edmond M. Saad, Jr., John R. Sandhop, Harold Sattler. Rodney H. Smith, Eai’l J. Spx-ing- er, Jack W. Thomas, James S. Tins ley, Richard M. Wall, Alton L. woi’k out for these teams spend long hours practicing their skills and the competition within the teams is keen. Teams members will travel from College Station to Oklahoma City for practice sessions tomorrow and Fi’iday. They will travel on to Kansas City and are due to ar rive their sometime Saturday. They will compete with teams from over the. United States represent ing about 20 colleges and uni versities in the American Royal Competition. Members of the tfe'afns making the trip, hometown and t h e i r coaches are as follows: Senior Wool Judging Team-Dx’. T. M. Watkins, coach; Glenn R. Chandler, Sanderson; James A. Mc- Mullan, Jr., Ozona; Cecil M. Skaggs, Houston and Joe A. Nessmith, alternate from Van Horn. Senior Meats Judging Team- Gene King, coach; Donald Johnson, San Antonio; Melvin Lebo, Austin; K e r m i t Wahrmund, Fredericks burg; and David Terry from Can ton. Senior Livestock Judging Team —J. W. Gossett, coach; Jim Renick, Llano; James C. Gregory, Hills boro; Pat C. Garner, Sheffield; Bennie Eugene (Bud) Fichte, Megargel; Joe David Ross, Sonora and Bobby C. Wakefield from Madisonville. Lady Blacksmith Needed TAMPA, Fla. hP)—If you’re a good stout girl and don’t mind dirt and perhaps an occasional kick, there’s a pi’etty good job open for you—as a lady blacksmith. W. E. Combs, who is 76 and one of the few horseshoers left in Florida, wants to retire but can’t find any one to take oyer his quite active business. Combs figui’es more wo men that men ride horses nowadays Drivers’s Training To Begin Monday The A&M Engineering Exten sion Service has developed a new driver training course for person nel of the motor transport indus try. The course will be conducted on the campus Monday through Fri day of next week. It is designed to help both large and small motor companies select and train their own dinvers, according to A. L. Kramer, the TEES motor fleet training specialist. The program will offer instruc tion on such topics as defensive driving, special driving techniques, psycho-physical testing, accident prevention, driver maintenance, setting di’iver standards, braking tests, unifoi’m traffic code and measurable attitude factors. Selected insti’uctors, with wide backgrounds of practical experi ence and special study, will guide students through every phase of driver training, giving demonstra tions of actual training techniques that can be put to immediate use in their own companies. “Students will get plenty of ac tive participation during the driv- so “I’m thinking if some good stout girl got interested in it I’d learn j ing tests,” Kramer said, her to fit shoes.” He says he once j Modern equipment for demon- Warren, Jerry R. Weatherby, John thought he had a good prospect but, ; sti’ations, and for the actual tests A. Webb, Dale G. West, George j it turned out, “she weighed only f will be furnished by major truck M. Winn and Edward W. Wyatt. ! 80 pounds. Wouldn’t do.” I companies. WOOL JUDGING TEAM—Shown above (leTt to right) are Dr. T. M. Watkins, coach; James McMullen; Cecil Skaggs and Glenn R. Chandler, members of the Senior Wool Judging Team.