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The Hallo I ion .... Co! logo Station (Brazos County). Texas |f" PAGE 2 Friday, October 19, 1956 Congratu la lions. Senators Sobered by a short talk from Doug DeCluitt, senior class president, the Senate last night quickly got down to business and proved that student governing bodies need not be filled with foolish argument and sideplay. DeCluitt outlined some of the qualities necessary for a president and more or less issued a challenge to the senators. He told them what was needed and expected froyi them and what they were capable of doing though it would take a lot of hard work. Apparently the challenge was accepted since the first meeting was so successful. Congratulations are due to the senators and the people who voted them into office. Keep up the good work. Assistance Needed Those not here last spring probably will question the purpose of the tubs placed at each gate into Kyle Field when they enter the stadium Saturday. But to those of us who were here, the sight will be quite significant as we realize that once more we are being called upon to help a fellow student desperately in need of assist ance. Bill Curry, freshman from Comanche, fractured his neck last April 13 while practicing on the trampoline. Ever since then, he has been confined to a bed, not even able to raise or move his legs and arms. Although miraculously his life was saved when the vertebrae in his neck pinched his spinal cord, he has been continuously fighting one complication after the other. Curry’s family has been hard pressed by the situation. His father is a public school teacher and his mother can’t work for having to stay at his bedside. So when entering Kyle Field tomorrow, stop and give. Every little bit will help. SDX To Hold Banquet, Initiation Tonight Sorrels is Elected Kiwanis Lt. Governor A&M Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, National Journalistic Frater nity, plans to hold their fall initia tion tonight at 6, followed by a dinner in honor of the new mem bers. Dave McReynolds, chapter pres ident, has announced that Sid Fed- der, prominent journalist from Vic toria, will be the speaker for the dinner. Fedder is a former w a r correspondent, columnist for the Associated Press, noted author and is presently writing an article for the Saturday Evening Post. Don Bisett, Ken George, Norman Davidson and J. B. McLeroy will be initiated into the fraternity. The ceremony and dinner will be held at the Triangle Banquet Hall. Qualifications for membership in the fraternity include an interest in journalism, at least one year’s experience in the field of journal ism and a desire to follow the field of journalism after gradua tion. A&M’s chapter was chartered in 1955. Sigma Delta Chi is the larg est professional fraternity in the U. S. Only six colleges and uni versities in Texas are members of the fraternity. REVEILLE II and friends Joe Grubbs, left, and Don Davis strolling about the campus. Woe to Strangers Guardian of the Aggie Band Adlai Says Draft System At Present Is Wasteful By DAVE McREYNOLDS Battalion Managing Editor Capturing the imagination and interest of the fans during half time activities a little brown and white Shetland shepard dog named Reveille II has made her place at Texas A&M, if for no other reason than her jealousy of the football field during the marching of the Fighting Texas Aggie Band. Woe be it to any strange pho tographers, football managers or other misplaced wanderers to set foot on the field while the band is performing. She won’t bite, but the strangers don’t know it! Her name dates her for many former students who remember her namesake, Rev. 1 and the first of the officially adopted dogs that have roamed the campus over the past years. Rev. I was possibly the most famous mascot known in the South west Conference between 1931 and 1944. She was a little black mon grel with white paws and tugged at the heart strings of Aggies for 13 years. She was brought to the campus by a group of students returning from' Houston one Sunday night. They ran over her near Navasota and brought her to A&M where it was discovered she wasn’t badly hurt and soon she made Terse If at home on the campus. According to Mrs. Irene (Mom) Claghorn, superintendent of the college hospital, the train had just left Hearne and was about four* miles from fown when it suddently stopped in the middle of a cotton patch. A brakemali came running up to Mom and asked her to get those boys to let the conductor back on the train. She inquired why the conductor was thrown off and he said he couldn’t understand what the Aggies were mad about. All he did was kick off a little old bitch dog. The train backed in to town, got Rev and all was well. Her death in 1944 brought tears to the eyes of the people of Texas and she was buried with full mili tary honors one January morning 1944. A memorial to her is loca- (See REVEILLE, Page 4) Joe H. Sorrels, of the Civil En gineering Department, was elected Lt. Governor of division nine, Tex- as-Oklahoma district of Kiwanis International, at the district con vention which ended Tuesday in Corpus Christi. Sorrels’ election was announced in a telegram from Dr. Charles La- Motte, club president, who is in Corpus Christi for the meeting. The telegram was read before the weekly College Station Kiwanis Club luncheon in the Memorial Student Center Tuesday. Only one other College Station Kiwanian, Sid Loveless, has held the office. Loveless was Lt. Gov ernor in 1954. The area in divis ion nine includes Brenham, Con roe, Bryan, Navasota, Huntsville, Cameron and College Station. Accompanying LaMotte to the convention were Woody Briles, president - elect, and Luther Jones. Vice President-Elect John Longley presided in their absence. Taylor Riedel, Luther Jones and ! John Sperry attended the annual meeting of the Texas Society for Crippled Children which was held Oct. 12 and 13 in San Antonio. CJHS Elect Reps. To New Council Eleven sections of A&M Con solidated Junior High elected home- roorh representatives to the new Student Council recently. The rooms, sponsors and representa tives are listed below. Homeroom 8A, Mrs. Zachery, Hal Delaplane and Sharon Grish am; 8B, Mi’s. Rhodenbaugh, Condy Pugh and Mary Ann Franklin; and BC, Mr. Baugh, Danny Garner and Mary Ann Malik. Homeroom 7A, Mrs. Nye, Peter Dehlinger and Carla Denison; 7B, Mrs. Fleming, Charles Rayburn and Betty Franklin; 7C, Mr. Holland, Lane Coulter and Judy Mills; and 7D, Mr. Coulter, Russell Welch and Margaret Patterson. Homeroom 6A, Mrs. Steel, Mike Arnold and Charles Gandy; 6B, Mr. Jones and Allen Coulter; 6C, Mr. Brown, Robert Du Bose and Glenda Nolan; and 6D, Mr. Barger, Kurt Sehember and Sherry Smith. YOUNGSTOWN, UP) — Adlai Stevenson last night called the present draft system “an incred ible waste” of manpower and mon ey. He said a better way must be found to preserve the nation’s mil itary strength in what he called an era of shaky peace “based on a balance of terror.” In the prepared windup speech of a two-day whistle stop tour of Michigan and Ohio, the Democratic presidental nominee also declared the Republicans ‘.‘twist and dis tort” any new idea for strength ening the country. “They seem to despise new ideas,” Stevenson- said, elabora ting on a theme he developed all across Ohio in company with Gov. Frank J. Lausche who is trying to unseat Republican George Bender, and Mike DiSalle the Democratic candidate for governor. Sjtevenson’s Youngstown speech followed briefer addresses along the way in which he: 1. Said in Elyria, Ohio, that “greedy and frightened” Republi cans of advanced age are willing to “cripple the younger genera tion to cut taxes.” He blamed the GOP—which had blamed .the Dem ocrats—for the failure of Con gress to approve federal aid to schools. 2. Contended at Toledo, speak ing in front of a statue of William McKinley, that the Republicans are trying to set the block back to the beginning-of-the-century era of McKinley. He said the op position party is bogged down in “creeping complacency.” Stevenson took sharp issue with President Eisenhower and other Republicans who have opposed his suggestions that a way should be sought to end the draft in the not too distant future and that efforts should be made to stop hydrogen bomb tests through international agreement. Denying Republican claims that his draft proposal would weaken the nation’s military strength, he said, “It is a proposal for strength ening our armed forces.” And he went on to say, “We need more and more today a type of military personnel — experienced and pro fessional—which our present draft system does not give us. -9- cirmol J I Offers YOU The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors Tiie Battalion, daily newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, is published by students in the Office of Student Publications as a non-profit educational service. The Director of Student Publications | is Ross Strader. The governing body of all student publications of tiie A.&M. College j of Texas is the Student Publications Board. Faculty members are Dr. Carroll D. ! I.averty, Chairman; Prof. Donald D. Burchard, Prof. Tom Leland and Mr. Bennie , Zinn. Student members are John W. 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T1 f I fi T B f! fi 11 "Dinner by Candlelight” with a complete Buffet Dinner Served from 6:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M- Sunday, October 21 You are cordially invited to come, and to taste and enjoy the fine cuisine prepared by our noted chef, Louviere. No reservation is necessary. $1.75 Per Plate Children’s Plate 75c The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi- ! cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telephone (VI 6-6618 or VI- 6-4910) or at the editorial office room, on the ground floor of the Y r MCA. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (VI 6-6415) or a + the Student Publications Office, ground floor of the YMCA. JIM BOWER Editor Dave McReynolds Managing Editor Barry Halt Sports Editor Welton Jones ... City Editor Leland Boyd, Jim Neighbors, Joe Tindel News Editors Bernice Schnerr Society Editor Don Bisett, J. B. McLeroy Staff Photographers Connie Eckard, Tom Ellsworth Reporters Kenneth George Circulation Manager 1 2008-10 TEXAS AVE. In the Plantation Shopping Center PH. TA 2-4749 Next to Caso Loma Courts Riedel was elected to the state board of directors and Jones, an outgoing director, received a scroll of appreciation. Final arrangements were an nounced for box lunch sales this weekend. The Kiwanis Club sells box lunches at various spots in the city before all home A&M foot ball games. Dr. Harry V. Rankin, pastor of the First Methodist Ghurch in Bry an, spoke to the group on the sub ject “Not Yes Or No, But To What Degree”.. Guests at the meeting were Mrs. Joe Mogford of College Station; Adlowe Larson, Stillwater, Okla.; Joe Motherall, Washington D. C.; and Tony Valesquez of College Station. Freshmen To Meet Advisors Tuesday All entering freshmen will meet with their faculty advisor Tues day at 4 p.m. according to C. H. Ransdell, associate dean of the Basic Division. Students meet with this advisor several times during the year. This meeting is provided to give the students experience and close con tact with a professional person who is acquainted with his chosen field. Faculty advisors will have- the names of the students who are do ing unsatisfactory work with the courses and the approximate aver ages. starring JOHN LU'.'D WiLL'AM BENDiX KEEFE BRASSELLE RICHARD BOONE WILLIAM LESLIE l\ COLUMBIA PICTURE PREVUE SAT. — 10:30 P.M. Also Sunday and Monday ^ yT, THE , ,• M ^ screen[ IMiSt©! Roberts ONEN'I/xSczoP’E: WarnerColor presented ev WARNER Bros. HENRY w JAMES WILLIAM HMMesErrom QUEEN — Double Feature — TODAY & SATURDAY “THE FIGHTING COMMAND” (STORY OF AGGlELAND) — With — ROBERT MITCHUM R E X JACK LEMMd *i_so starh.no BETSY PALMER WARD BOND • PHIL CAREY PRODUCED BY LELAND HAYWARD Directed by JOHN FORD and MERVYN LeROY Ny$iC COMPOSED AND CONDUCTED 8V WAXMAN li A U K E R “The Price of L ear” DIXIE SATURDAY & SUNDAY Joseph Cotton — I X — “Untamed Frontier”