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GETTING READY TO SPUR PERUNA is fish Newton Lamb of Sqdn. 6, from Houston,
Bill Hernig-, Sqdn. 1, from Garland and fish Tommy Allen, Sqdn. 1, from Shreveport.
Fish Allen seems to have found a little trouble in getting his spurs adjusted but with
adequate help from his fish buddies the problem was soon solved.
Town Hall Tonight At 8
By JOE TINDEL
Town Hall g-oes oriental to
night as the Fujiwara Opera Com
pany of Japan performs “The
Hikado” at 8 in G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
A nationally recognized com
pany of 50 artists which features
top singing stars of the Orient
presents what is said to be one of
Gilbert’s and Sullivan’s finest
operas. They are said to bring to
this comic opera laughter “that
makes Westerners who are not ex
pecting such a treat feel like they
have just seen it for the first
time.”
Besides performing the Mikado
in a way it could have only hap
pened^ in real life with real live
Japanese, the company, now on
Services Held
For Wife Of
Ex Math Head
Services were held yester
day at the First Methodist
Church, Bryan, for Mrs. Eliz
abeth Hardwick Porter, wife
of W. L. Porter, former head
of A&M’s Department of Mathe
matics.
A member of the First Church
for many years, Mrs. Porter was
active in the Women’s Society of
Christian Service and the Philathea
Sunday School Class where she
served as president.
She was a past president of both
the local chapter of the A&M Moth
ers’ Club and the Bryan Woman’s
Club. She was a member of the
Lawrence Sullivan Ross Chapter
No. 100 of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy and served as
an officer.
While her children, Mrs. Charles
R. Love, of Ardmore, Okla. and
Walter Lee Porter, Jr., of Fort
Worth, were in school, she worked
as a member of the Parent Teach
er Association.
A native of Alabama, she is sur
vived by her husband, two children,
two brothers, Frank Hardwick, of
Macon, Ga., and Will Hardwick of
Tuskegee, Ala.; four sisters, Mrs.
T. A. Munson of Angleton; Mrs.
J. M. Cox and Mrs. L. H. Cole, both
of Tuskegee, Mrs. W. C. Butlei’,
Macon, Ga.; and four grandchild
ren.
Dr. Harry V. Rankin, pastor of
the First Methodist Church and the
Rev. E. L. Conyers, assistant pas
tor, conducted services.
coast-to-coast tour, has received
praise from critics of two con
tinents for its vocal accomplish
ments as well.
The Japanese have not replaced
the Italian school of operatic sing
ing. To the contrary, the
founder of the company, Yosie
Fujiwara, is a product of that
school and brought it to Japan 24
years ago when he founded the
Fujiwara Opera Company.Many of
the stars have also studied in Italy,
France and Germany as well as in
America.
Ag Students Urged
To Attend Meeting
All freshmen and upperclass
men interested in agriculture
at A&M are urged to attend
an “agricultural get-acquaint
ed program” in Guion hall at
4 p. m. today.
“The program will be a get-
acquainted session for all stu
dents interested in agriculture
and also serve as an introduc
tion to the program here at
A&M”, said Dr. R. C. Potts,
assistant Dean of Agriculture.
Dr. J. C. Miller, Dean of
Agriculture, will open the pro
gram with a speech on the
School of Agriculture, follow
ed by an introduction of the
agriculture department heads.
The program will be concluded
with the presentation of the
Student Agricultural Council.
Weather Today
Rain Showers and thunderstorms
are forecast. This mornings tem-
peraature at 10:30 was 62 degrees.
The high yestei’day was 60 de
grees and the low last night, 58
degrees.
Performing across the country
the company has received much
praise.
Music critic, Albert Franken
stein, of the San Francisco
Chronicle called the company “A
dramatic success”, when it played
in that city. Every opera the
company performs is said to be an
exciting dramatic production.
Those attending will hear such
musical renditions as “Willow, Tit-
Willow”, “A Wandering Minstrel,
I”, “There is Beauty in the Bel
low of the Blast” and others.
These will take life while the
Japanese company performs what
has been recognized as one of
the first comic operas ever com
posed.
Town Hall season tickets will
be honored. Single seat general ad
mission tickets may be purchased
for $2 and reserved seat tickets are
$2.50. They may be purchased
at the Office of Student Activities,
second floor, YMCA or at the
door.
Campus Changes
Urged By ASC
Suggested improvements for the
A&M Campus took the spotlight at
last night’s meeting of the Arts
and Science Council in the MSC.
Presiding at the meeting, Dub
Bailey, president, heard several
motions from the floor which point
ed out several “sore spots” among
the students.
Included in these improvements,
most of which were passed on to
the Council’s Campus Improvement
Committee were: rubber mats to
be placed on the steps leading to
the second floor of the library;
some method of marking the
esplanade at the East gate; exces
sive noise in the library and heat
ing the dormitories.
A special Parking Committee,
headed by Bill McCarty, chairman,
John Smith and Bob Surovik was
named to study student parking
problems in the several parking
lots on the campus.
The main “gi’ipe” pointed out to
this committee is the failure of
students using the lots to park
at right angles and parking in
the middle of lots, thereby blocking
in other cars and using up space
for additional cars in the lots.
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British. French Paratroopers
Supported with Armored Units
CS Chest Drive
Gets $2,051
In First Week
The A&M College - College
Station Community Chest-Red
Cross Drive had collected a
total of $2,051 toward its 1956
goal of $14,000 at 4 p.m. yes
terday, according to Jack Tippit,
publicity chairman.
“Only three of the seven College
Station zones reported partial re
sults,” Tippit said. “This total is
below the figure at this tiine last
year, but reports from some of the
other zones indicate that they are
a little ahead of last year’s pro
gress.”
Tippit also said that the zones
that had reported were, for the
most part, not zones on the College
cqmpus.
One of the co-chairmen of the
drive, Bob H. Reed, spoke to the
College Station Lions Club yester
day at their weekly luncheon in
the Memorial Student Center.
“We as citizens of College Sta
tion, have a great opportunity to
do good by giving to a fund that
benefits so many various organiza
tions,” he told the club.
Class Filings
For Fish End
Thursday
Freshmen must submit their
names as candidates for class
offices before 5 p.m. Thursday
in order to be eligible for elec
tion on Nov. 14.
Filings may be made in the
Office of Student Activities
on the second floor of the
YMCA.
Freshman class offices which
are open for filing include
president, vice-president, sec
retary, social secretary, treas
urer, parliamentarian, report
er and sergeant-at-arms.
CHS Student Is
Citizen of Month
Maurice Olian, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Olian of 1100 Walton
Dr. and a student at A&M Con
solidated High School, has been
chosen “Citizen of the Month” by
the Bryan-College Station Rotary
Club, according to J. J. Skrivanek,
principal.
The honor is awarded each month
by the CHS student council. The
group chooses a student from three
submitted by the faculty and the
winner attends Rotary meetings
that month, each Wednesday noon.
Olian is president of the CHS
student body, member of the Na
tional Honor Society, captain of the
CHS tennis team, editor of the
CHS paper, a member of the
basketball team, CHS sports cor
respondent for The Battalion and
has been named to the school honor
roll each time since his freshman
year.
BULLETIN
William V. Mowlam, Jr., senior
industrial technology major, is in
St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan suf
fering from a head injury after
being involved in a car accident
at the intersection of N. Coulter
Dr. and Ui'suline Dr. in Bryan this
morning at 7:45.
The extent of Mowlam’s injuries
is not known at this time, but
his condition is “fairly good.”
Driver of the other vehicle in
volved, Estus Watts Shoemake
was not hospitalized.
Soviet Union Declares Right
To Halt Egyptian Conflict
LONDON—UP)—British-French ground units poured
ashore on a widening Suez beachhead today. They headed
south from Port Said in defiance of Soviet demands for an
end to hostilities against Egypt.
British armored forces went into action below Port Said,
the combined headquarters on Cyprus announced, and tank-
supported assaults “have gone well.” French parachute
troops captured the town of Port Fuad, across the canal.
Other French forces were reported advancing south on the
causeway from Port Said.
Egypt cried for volunteers from other nations.
Radio Cairo announced Saudi Arabia has sent troops into
"♦■Jordan in support of Egypt.
Other Arab troops, from Iraq
and Syria, have been reported
massing in Jordan, on Israel’s
eastern flank, but they have
launched no attack.
The Cairo newspaper A1 Shaab
exhorted its readers to slay para-
chute troopers before they land.
“Kill him immediately and take
his arm,” it said. “The parachute
trooper cannot defend himself
while he is landing.”
As the continuing fighting in the
Middle East brought new interna
tional tensions, Switzerland pro
posed that the Big Four and In
dia hold a summit conference to
avert a third world war.
Egypt’s government radio
declared the Moscow radio had
interrupted a broadcast to say
the Soviet Union “reserves the
right to act alone” in order to
halt “aggression against
Egypt.”
Britain and France threw their
ground forces into action in Egypt
to back up their parachute troops
that opened the invasion of the
canal area early yesterday. The
landings at dawn were the first
seaborne assult in the day-old in
vasion.
Britain commandos punched In
to Port Said to join the fighting
that broke out again last night
after local-level surrender talks
were broken off.
French forces went ashore at
Port Fuad, the canal point opposite
Port Said. A French Defense
Ministry spokesman said French
troops had moved on to the south
ern edges of Poi’t Said, possibly
indicating an early link up of the
two drives.
The Egyptian National News
Agency in a repoi’t from a cor
respondent in Port Said claimed
about 400 civilians were killed
fighting the paratroopers who
landed in the first assault. The
correspondent said the population
of the port streamed into the fight
ing ci-ying “Long live Egypt” and
“Death to the enemy.”
US Will Oppose
Russian Entry
In Middle East
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The United States had rea
son to fear today that the Sov
iet Union might throw mili
tary force into the Middle
East.
The United Nations, by an over
whelming vote, has condemned the
British-French attack on Egypt.
And Egypt, on the verge of losing
a war, has a ppealed to .the world
for help in driving out the invad
ers.
The United States has served
notice that it will oppose any Sov
iet military intervention in the Mid
dle East. The White House said:
“Neither Soviet nor any
other military forces should
now enter the Middle East
area except under U. N man
date . . , The introduction of
new forces . . . would violate
the U. N. charter, and it would
be the duty of all U. N. mem
bers, including the United
States, to oppose any such
effort.”
There is no question that the
sympathy of much of the world,
especially that of Moslem coun
tries and nations that were col
onies before World War II, is with
the Egyptians.
Thus the situation seems made
to order for the Russians if they
choose to move in.
A hint of Russian thinking on
the subject came out of Moscow
overnight.
First, the Soviet Union pro
posed that the United States join
it in throwing the aggressors—i.e.,
Britain, France and Israel - out
of Egypt. Then the Soviet Union
directed a warning to Britain and
France: Moscow was determined
to put an end to the war in Egypt.
Outfits Agree
On Sophomores
Wearing Spurs
Put on an outfit basis last
night, corps sophomores were
supposed to fall out this morn
ing wearing the traditional
freshman spurs as punish
ment for their action at the game
Saturday night.
Corps Commander Jack Luns
ford said the question had been
left on a unit basis but all out
fits agreed to have sophomores
wear spurs today.
According to members of both
classes, the trouble began when
some of the sophomores began
shouting insults to the juniors.
Juniors also said the sophomores
were making freshmen next to
them “wildcat” whenever they
heard the sophomores say some
thing against the juniors.
Sophomores said the insults be- •
gan when some of the juniors
failed to stand up when the Aggie
team cgme onto the field.
In a class meeting last night,
sophomores reportedly decided to
refuse to wear the spurs. There
also was talk they would have to
wear the entire freshman uniform
except for their hats, and that
some of the units might make
them cut their hair in freshman
style.
Last night in a meeting with
corps staff juniors, sophomore rep
resentatives said they would try
to persuade their classmates not
to rebel against the punishment.
The punishment was left up to
the outfits in consent with the first
sergeants and sergeant majors last
night. Regimental and wing com
manders also agreed to the plan.
Lunsford said “the only trouble
would be if the sophomores refused
to take the punishment or the jun
iors gave too severe punishment.
“But I think the commanding
officers are responsible enough in
dividuals not to let that happen,”
he said.
UN Club Meeting
The meeting of the United Na
tions Club originally scheduled for
Friday, has been postponed until
the following Friday, Nov. 16. The
Corps trip to Dallas and difficulties
in connection with the planned pro
gram are the reasons for this post
ponement.
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AGGIE PLAYERS in a scene from the first production of the season, Franz Kafka’s
“The Trial,” are (from left to right) Charles Ware, John Gladwell, Jean Martin and Don
Reynolds.