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18,436 READERS THE TALION Merry Christmas Number 208: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1956 Price Five Cents Directors Say Morgan To Lose Job Friday “YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE IT IS THE SAME PLACE,” is the general feeling stu dents have for the many changes at their College hospital. DeWitt Morrow, junior from Houston, samples a bit of the friendly service while hospitalized with a cold. Mrs. Evelyn Arnold stands by to offer help. (See story, Page 6.) MSC Closes For Holidays Tomorrow The Memorial Student Cen ter closes tomorrow at 6 p.m. and will not open again until Wednesday Jan. 2. Tonight the Fountain Room closes at 7, the Gift Shop at 7:30, the Browsing’ Library at 5 and the Bowling Alley at 11. Tomorrow the Fountain Room will be open from 7 a. m. to 5 p. m.; the Gift Shop, from 7:30 a. m. to 5 p. m. and the Bowling Alley, 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. The Browsing Library, Dining Room and Coffee Shop will not open to morrow. On Wednesday, Jan. 2 the Fountain Room will re-open at 3 p. m. and close at 10 p. m. The next day, Jan. 3, hours will be the same as during the regular term. Host of Morgan Students Petition/ To Remain Leader “We want you to stay and con tinue your fine leadership,” thous ands of A&M students petitioned . Dr. David H. Morgan today at 10 a. m. The students, both Corps and Ci vilian, made known their wishes in a resolution adopted by the * Corps Staff drafted in sympathy with Dr. Morgan’s leadership. Those making the official pre- r ,sentation included L. E. Shepherd, deputy Corps Commander; Jack Lunsford, Corps Commander; Brad Crockett, 2nd Wing Commander; Byron King, 1st Wing Comman der; Tom Adair, 1st Regimental Commander; Jerry Betsill, 2nd Regimental Commander and Bob Bacher, Civilian Chaplain. The Resolution: Recognizing the great service done for the A&M College of Tex as by the tireless and selfless ef forts of President David H. Mor gan; Realizing the present need' of our school for men of his interest, qualification, application, and gen eral high calibre; Experiencing keen disappoint ment because of his recent decis ion to resign from his duties as President of the A&M College of * Texas; Being partially aware of the many difficulties which the com bination of this position of re sponsibility and his innate quali ties of leadership must surely have thrust upon him; Appreciating his many personal sacrifices for the welfare of the students of the College and, hence, for the people of Texas; Agreeing with those others of Short Course Set For Jan. 8-9 The Agronomy Department is sponsoring a short course in fertilizer Jan. 8-9 with J. F. Fudge as sponsor. Registration will take place in the Serpentine Lounge of the Me morial tudent Center Jan. 8 be ginning at 8 a. m. Registration fee is $2 per person. Meetings of the course will be held in the MSC Ballroom. Requests Rejected DAMASCUS, Syria, (A>)_Syria turned down U. S. and Italian re quests for emergency repairs on the pipelines carrying oil from Iraq across Syria to Mediterran ean ports. the Texas A&M System and Col lege Administration who wish for Doctor Morgan and his gracious family the best of life’s blessings in the years ahead; Fervently hoping and request ing that some way might be found to make it possible for him to spend at least some of those years as president of the A&M College of Texas; And challenging anyone to find a better man or woman anywhere for the job which Doctor Morgan intends to vacate, the friends and members of the Texas A&M stu dent body whose names are un dersigned do herewith express to Dr. Morgan their deep regret for the step he has taken, commend him in the highest of terms for the seemingly impossible accomp lishments which he has made pos sible for the good of Aggieland, earnestly plead with him to think twice and then twice again before leaving Texas A&M at such a crit ical, yet potentially glorious, time in its history, and wish for him and his family the merriest of Christmases, the happiest of New Years, and the richest portions of a full, rich life in the years to come—years which we rope he will choose to spend at Texas Aggie land. Nation’s Oldest Magazines No Longer Printed By CHARLES MERCER NEW YORK (JP) — The large reading audience was surprised within the week to learn of the death of two of the nation’s oldest magazines Collier’s and the Woman’s Home Companion. The much smaller com munity of freelance writers was shocked. License to comment on the sit uation in a department devoted to television is provided by the pri vate comment of a Madison ave nue advertising agency executive. Television killed the magazines, he believes. No such remark has been heard from executives of the two magazines. Yet the agency man may have a point. During the first years of tele vision’s phenomenal growth, near ly all branches of the publishing industry feared that it represented dangerous and, in some cases, possibly fatal competition. Swift Act Hurries Resignation Date President David H. Morgan’s resignation will become effective Friday, the executive committee of the A&M Board of Directors decided yesterday. D. W. Williams, vice chancellor of agriculture for the A&M System was named acting president. The committee said it made the decision because it ‘believes it contrary to efficient administrative procedure for the head of - an institution to serve after an announced resignation”. After consultation with other members of the Board, they said they considered and confirmed the action of Chan cellor M. T. Harrington in accepting the resignation which ♦ Dr. Morgan formally present ed to him Monday. Appointment of Williams as C.E. Department Moves Quarters From Nagle Civil engineering students will attend classes in the old Veteri nary Hospital and the reconstruc ted horse stables after the holi days, says S. R. Wright, head of the department. The department is presently moving to the new quarters from Nagle Hall where it has been lo cated since 1909. Wright says that Nagle Hall will be remodeled soon after it is vacated. He says he thinks the building will be used by history, economics, geography and journalism classes and will house the office of the Dean of the Graduate School. Work will probably not be completed un til summer classes, Wright says. He emphasized that the C. E. Department is not moving into old, rundown buildings. . “These buildings have been re modeled and reworked and are in much better condition than the building presently occupied,” says Wright. The stables behind the main building are very good brick build ings and have also been reworked, he said. Wright said that the stables will house several laboratories and he explained the facilities of the labs. He says the hydraulics lab and instruments will be in the long stable, which is about 200 feet long and 40 feet wide. The con crete lab and strength of materials lab will be in the short stable. The bituminous lab and two drafting rooms will be in the two-story building, formerly the dissecting lab, behind the main building. Main classes and offices and some labs will be in the main build ing. Sanitary lab will be moved out of the Chemistry Building and made a part of the C. E. Depart ment. Browsing Library Gets New Records New records have been received in the MSC Browsing library, an nounced Mrs. Gwendora Magee, Librarian. Long-playing records now avail able to students are “High So ciety,” • ‘Giant,” “The Lonely Girl” by Julie London and “Night Winds” by Jackie Gleason. Also, “The Boy Next Door” by Roger Williams, “The Art” by The Art Van Damme Quintet, “The Eddie Duchin Story,” “Music for the Fireside” by Paul Weston, “Lost in a Cloud” by Ken Griffin, “Mombo Mania” by Perez Prado and “Belefonte” by Harry Bele- fonte. Turning to library business, Mrs. Magee said, “We want to know what magazines and books students prefer.” “The library is sponsoring a survey for this reason,” she said. Forms may be found on the book and magazine racks for students to write in their preferences. From this survey the library will be able to order reading matter that students like. Santa Believer Keeps Faithful Through Years NEW YORK, (/P) -— Once upon a time there was a little girl named Virginia O’Hanlon who believed in Santa Claus. Her faith was a source of great delight, but one day her friends started teasing her. “There’s no Santa Claus. It’s your mother and father,” they told her. Virginia was shaken, but she was not one to let go lightly any thing so precious as her belief in Santa. So she consulted her father, Dr. Philip F. O’Hanlon. Then she sat down and scribbled in a childish hand the following letter to the old New York Sun: “Dear Editor: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says Tf you see it in the Sun it’s so.’ Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? Virginia O’Hanlon, 115 West 95th Street” Virginia got her answer in one of the most famous newspaper editorials ever written. “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus,” the editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church began. “He ex ists as certainly as love and gen erosity and devotion exist. . . ” That was in 1897. Today Virginia is Dr. Laura V. Douglas, principal of Brooklyn P. S. 401. She is the mother of a daughter and grandmother of seven chil dren, all of whom believe in Santa Claus. acting president was an nounced by Chancellor Har rington with the Board commit tee’s approval. Williams, a native of Ohio, ed ucated at Ohio State University, the University of Illinois, and Uni versity of Chicago, has been con nected with A&M since 1919. He joined the faculty as a member of the Department of Animal Hus bandry and serving as head of that department from 1922 to 1943. A veteran of World War I, Wil liams re-entered the Army in World War II as a major in the military government section. He served 22 months in Europe and was discharged in 1946 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. BULLETIN An emergency meeting of the Academic Council was called for 2 this afternoon. Upon his return to A&M in 1946, Williams was made vice president for agriculture of the college and in 1948 was named vice chancellor for agriculture of the Texas A&M College System. Dr. Morgan handed in his res ignation to Harrington with the effective date set “not later than May 1, 1957”. Morgan said his resignation was based on “personal reasons” and declined to make public the con tents of the written form. He had earlier made public a verbal notice of his resignation and said the written form would be submitted Monday. Speculation began then as to the underlying cause of the president’s decision. W. T. Doherty, chairman of the A&M Board, said he was “aware of differences” between the pres ident and the chancellor. Student opinion in favor of the president staying has been hig’h. But Dr. Morgan said Monday that no action by students could influ ence his decision. Politicos Move From Election To Congress WASHINGTON LT*) — The politicos are shifting their skirmishing and scuffling now from the national arena to the halls of Congress. This is the traditional aftermath of a presidential election—an elec tion that produced strangely para doxical victories which kept Pres ident Eisenhower in the White House and Democrats in con trol of Congress. Probably the most impressive political event of 1956 was the way Eisenhower won a second term with a massive margin of nine million votes. But from the standpoint of future impact, an equally important development may well be the way people split their tickets and refused to give the President a Republican Congress with which to work. As a result Republicans and Democi-ats will be struggling to hang their own party labels on major legislation—trying to stake out claims to items to which they can point with pride in the 1958 and 1960 elections. The 1957 political maneuvering is bound to catch up individuals in as spectacular fashion as issues. For key figures on Capitol Hill, the build-up will be starting for the 1960 presidential election. Vice President Nixon, obviously a possibility for top spot on the GOP ticket next time, appears likely to be assigned an increasing ly broader role. Sen. Estes Kefauver of Ten nessee, who ran against Nixon, can be expected to try to remain in the public eye, too. Investi gations of one kind or another have kept him there before and may again. Kefauver has the stamp of de feat upon him, though, and may be unable to re-establish him self as a real contender for 1960. Adlai E. Stevenson, the Demo crats’ two-time loser in the presi dential race, can’t be expected to sink into political silence. The Democrats may begin look ing around in 1957 for some fresh young talent to promote—such men as Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who came within an eyelash of beating out Kefauver for the vice presidential nomination in 1956, or Sen. Joseph S. Claidc of Pennsylvania and Gov. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, who have proved their vote-pulling power in Re publican territory. Weather Today Forecast calls for continued fog gy, drizzly weather with possible thunder and rain showers. The temperature at 10:30 this morn ing stood at 58 degrees Yester day’s high reading was 56 and the low, 44 degrees. SANTA’S WORKSHOP—AIIE members build toys to be given to Jaycee under-privi leged children at Christmas. Industrial engineering majors from left to right are Bill Johnson, Walt Spear, Bob Dombeck and Ken Wampler.