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Number 210: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1957
Price Five Cents
32 Students Name
o Who’s Who
Silver Taps Held For Shotgun Victim
David Earl Curry
A&M^s Third Death of the School Year
Only $250 Needed
For ’56 Seal Goal
At the close of the Brazos
County Christmas Seal Sale, the
County Tuberculosis Association
has collected $5,734.40, according
to Mrs. John Q. Hays, county
chairman.
Judging by the lato return'' of
former seal sale campaigns, the
committee still has hopes of reach
ing the $6,000 goal, which was set
for the official closing of the sale
on Christmas Day, said Mrs. Hays.
Donations may still be sent to
the Brazos County Tuberculosis
Association at the Masonic Build
ing in Bryan. Mrs. Hays has urged
all who have not donated to send
in their contributions.
Money from the seal sale will
help pay for x-rays, medical re
search on better treatment meth
ods and drugs and a safe vaccine
for protection. It is also used to
help spread- information about
tuberculosis and to provide coun
seling- for patients and their fam
ilies.
David Earl Curry Killed
On Ill-Fated Duck Hunt
Silver Taps Ceremony was observed last night for David
Earl Curry, freshman electrical engineering- major from Day-
ton.
A member of C Battery AAA, the 19-year-old freshman
was the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Curry of Dayton.
He was killed in a duck-hunting accident near his home
about 3 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 26.
According to information from Liberty County Sheriff
W. P. (Red) Rose, young Curry died from “an accidental
shotgun blast in the chest.”
Curry and three companions had been duck hunting in
the area near the Esperson ■*-
Dome Oil Field about five
miles from Dayton on US
Highway 90 when the acci
dent occurred.
The boys were returning to their
car and were talking and joking
when the gun of one of the boys,
15-year-old Jeffry Davis, accident
ally discharged.
Curry was standing directly in
line with the barrel of the gun, less
than five feet away at the time
of the shot. He caught the entire
charge full in the chest and col
lapsed within “a minute.”
The boys picked up Curry and
rushed to the Dayton Memorial
Hospital where he was pronounced
dead on arrival.
Funeral services for the boy were
held Dec. 28.
Other members of the ill-fated
hunting party with Curry included
his brother Gerald, Dana White
and Davis, all of Dayton.
Dale Lake Injured Slightly In Wreck
A&M student Dale F. Lake, jun
ior business administration major
from Corsicana, Wednesday night
escaped from his badly damaged
auto with only a “slight head con
cussion and bruises” College Hos
pital officials said yesterday.
Campus Security officer Morris
A. Maddox said Lake’s auto veered
off the pavement at the sharp
curve on Old Highway 6 and F
and B Farm Road intersection
northwest of College Station and
flipped over one and a half times.
Maddox said the car was badly
damaged.
Lake was returning from a date
and was alone when the accident
happened, he told Maddox.
Lake told Maddox, who went to
the scene, he was not hurt and re
turned to the dorm with Maddox.
Lake’s friends later talked him
into going to the hospital where
he was treated and released in sat
isfactory condition Thursday morn
ing.
Lubbock Minister To Speak
At Graduation Ceremonies
Dr. M. Norvell Young, minister,
Bz-oadway Church of Christ, Lub
bock, will deliver the commence
ment address at A&M January 19.
The ceremonies will be a combined
baccalaureate and commencement
address.
Services wil be held at 10 a. m.
in Guion Hall. Commissioning exer
cises for the cadets will be that
afternoon at 2 in Guion Hall.
There are 265 degree candidates.
Sixty are candidates for advanced
degrees.
Dr. Young is a graduate of Abi
lene Christian College, Vanderbilt
University (M. A.), and George
Peabody College, holding a Ph.D.
degree from that institution. He
is editor of the 20th Century
Christian, a national magazine for
the Chi-istian home which he helped
found in 1938. He is editor of
Power for Today, a daily devotional
guide, and is chairman of the
editorial staff of the Gospel Press,
a non-profit publishing house.
In 1937 Dr. Young made a six-
month world study trip to 21
countries visiting missionaries and
studying life of various lands. He
has encouraged mission work in a
number of these lands and especi
ally work of preaching the gospel
in Germany since World War II.
He also had a part in establishing
a Bible Chair at Texas Tech in 1947
and the Children’s Home of Lub
bock in 1954.
A member of a pioneer family of
Nashville, Tenn., his father is an
elder for the Belmont Church of
Christ, and secretary of the Board
of Trustees for David Lipscomb
College. His grandfather, S. F.
Morrow, was once associated with
the Gospel Advocate, published in
that city. Mr. Young is a member
of the Board of Trustees of Abilene
Christian College, and has recently
been one of three preachers to lead
a successful campaign to raise
$350,000 to build a Bible Building
for the college.
During the summer of 1956 Dr.
and Mrs. Young spent two months
in Europe teaching classes and
lecturing at the Annual European
Lectureship of Church of Christ
at Frankfurt, Germany. Dr. Young
is the author of the book “The
History of Christian Colleges,
and co-author of “Preachers of
Today” and “The Church is Build
ing.”
Morgan Lauded
By Council
Resolution
The Academic Council
unanimously passed a resolu
tion commending Dr. David
H. Morgan on his three and a
half years as A&M President
Wednesday, Dec. 19.
In part the resolution said “The
gains made by the College since
Dr. Morgan took office in 1953,
apparent on all sides, are so signifi
cant that their effects will be felt
for many years to come. Under
his forthright and courageous lead
ership, a splendid spirit of team
work has been building among stu
dents, faculty and staff. Dr. Mor
gan has made friends for the Col-
lep-e in all ouanterR of tho state.
In doing so he has given unspar
ingly of himself.”
Copies of the resolution were to
be sent to Dr. Morgan, Chancellor
M. T. Harrington and to each mem
ber of the A&M Board of Di
rectors.
Former Batt Editor
Ed Holder, class of 1954, and
one of the co-editors of The Bat
talion his senior year was recently
discharged from the U. S. Army
and has been appointed news edi
tor and advertising manager of
the Bellville Times, accoi’ding to
information in the December issue
of the Texas Press Messenger.
Sound Maker
Wins Talent
Show Honors
Jerry Hatfield, freshman
majoring in mechanical engi
neering, won the Aggie Talent
Show last month, according to
Shirley Cannon. Hatfield won
the first position by imitating
various noises.
He will repi'esent A&M in the
Intercollegiate Talent Show which
will be held here March 15.
Runners-up in the talent show
were Jerry Williams, who sang a
vocal and Kenneth Dye who won
the third place spot on the pro
gram by imitating Elvis Presley.
Shirley Cannon and three or four
Aggies will leave on their audition
trip through the colleges and uni
versities to audition for the Inter
collegiate Talent Show the first
week in February.
They will spend two or three
weeks on the road auditioning for
the show according to Shirley Can
non.
Approximately 15 colleges and
universities will be represented in
the March talent show. Four
states will be represented in this
show which will include Texas,
Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas.
City Prepares For
Kwy. 6 Spending
Final action has been taken on
improvements for Highway 6,
College Station City Manager Ran
Boswell has announced.
“The city will spend $39,300 on
curbing, gutters, and storm sew
ers,” he said. “The State has
agreed to do the rest.”
Expansion plans call for increase
in size and better planned inter
sections.
“Bids for the construction will
be let by the state on Jan. 19 and
construction should start around
30 days later,” Boswell said. “The
city council will sign the agree
ment in a special meeting later this
month.”
Winners Picked From 51
Submitted to Committee
The Who’s Who Selection Committee chose 32 men from
A&M to the 1956-57 Who’s Who in American Colleges and
Universities.
Four students and four staff members appointed by Dr.
Robert B. Kamm, dean of Personnel Services, named the stu
dents from 51 nominees at a meeting Tuesday, Dec. 18.
Chosen were Thomas Weymon Adair, Robert N. Bacher,
Jerry Mac Betsill, Ray Dean Carroll, Douglas R. DeCluitt,
James M. Dellinger Jr., Ray Noble Finch, James L. Forgason,
Lenial Henry Harbers, John Foster Heard, Cyrus Helmer
Holley, Warren Buford Johnson, Byron William King, Jacob
O. Koehl, Nathaniel Key Kolb,
Jack Horner Lunsford,+~
Murray Milner Jr., Jon David
Neely, John Perry Pardee,
Kenneth Ray Pierce, Larry
Dean Piper, Jim Larkin Ren
ick, Charles Stephens Saxe, Leigh
lus E. Sheppard, Jr., John Henry
Specht, Karl Joseph Springer, Rob
ert R. Stansberry, Jr., Norman B.
Ufer, Richard Meadows Wall, Sam
uel Bernard Zuckero, Joe Dan Boyd
and Fritz Eugene Landers.
Men chosen for the honor were
in the following activities:
Thomas Weymon Adair III —
2.61—President Senior Court; reg
imental commander; Ross Volun
teers; Schlumherger Scholarship;
Phi Eta Sigma; Phi Kappa Phi;
Ainsworth Saber; Citation cord for
outstanding cadet noncommission
ed officer in regiment; tutor; phys
ics lab teacher; outstanding sopho
more in his battalion; outstanding
cadet in his company; second in
summer camp at Fort Hood; DMS;
junior representative to Arts and
Sciences Council for physics.
Robert Newell Bacher—1.88—
Phi Eta Sigma; Civilian Student
Chaplain; Civilian Student Coun
cil; Interfaith Council; Wing Chap
lain; Chairman, MSC Great Issues
Committee; Transportation Chair
man, SCONA I; Best drilled soph
omore award; Wesley Foundation
Council; Student Entertainment
Staff; American Institute of In
dustrial Engineers; English Club;
Intramural Athletic manager; Ca
det First Sergeant; MSC Appre
ciation Award; Selection Commit
tee of Great Issues Committee;
United Nations Club; Student Ad
visory Committee for Dean of Per
sonnel Services; Outstanding soph-
(See WHO’S WHO, Page 2)
ASC To Grant
Engineer Degree
A graduate engineering division
of the A&M System will go into
operation Feb. 11, at Arlington
State College, according to Acting
President D. W. Williams.
Made to meet the growing de
mands of industry in the Fort
Worth-Dallas region, the new
division will offer advanced study
in engineering, mathematics and
physics in evening classes and
afternoon classes as the enrollment
requires. Degrees of Master of
Engineering Master of Science and
Doctor of Philosophy will be grant
ed by the division.
Classroom and office facilities of
Arlington State College will be
used by the new division. All work
will be under the direction of the
A&M dean of engineering. Staff
members from A&M and others
selected only for work at the
Arlington Division will make up
the faculty.
J. R. Woolf, of the Mechanical
Engineering Department has been
named professor in charge of the
division at Arlington. Woolf will
move to Arlington this month to
serve as resident head of the
operation.
Weather Today
Forecast calls for partly cloudy
skies with occasional thunder-
stoi-ms. Yesterday’s high and low
readings were 68 and 62 degrees.
At 10:30 this morning the tem
perature was 72.
W illiam s: ProgressTo Continue
During Look For New President
Dr. M. Norvell Young
Mid-Term Commencement Speaker
President D. W. Williams, acting
college president, spoke with as
surance yesterday as he said A&M
would continue its progress dur
ing the search for a permanent
president.
He quickly followed this with
the statement that as far as he
was concerned, there were no vio
lent changes in policy or staff an
ticipated.
President Williams spent his
first class day as president yester
day after Dr. David H. Morgan’s
resignation became effective Fri
day, Dec. 21.
President Williams said he was
asked by the A&M Board of Direc
tors to assume the job as presi
dent on a temporary basis. He
added that it was his wish that the
presidency be filled with a per
manent man just as soon as it
could be done.
He then said “Of course in the
meantime we don’t want to go
backward. We want to go for
ward. That’s for sure.”
He indicated that he would be
spending some time in Austin this
spring in an effort to get more
money for teaching salaries. “With
the passage of amendment 3 we
are assured of money for more
buildings. What we need now is
more money for teaching salaries.
In addition to the good men we al-
Acting President D. W. Williams
ready have here at A&M, we need
to get more,” he said.
President Williams has been a
longtime member of the A&M fac
ulty and staff, having come here
in 1919 to join the Animal Hus
bandry Department. Educated at
Ohio State University, University
of Illinois and the University of
Chicago, he holds the degrees of
Bachelor and Master of Science in
Agriculture.
He was named head of the Ani
mal Husbandry Department in 1922
and held that position until 1943
when he served in the Army as a
Lt. Col. in Military Government.
Serving mostly in Italy and Aus
tria, he was in charge of Food and
Agriculture on the Allied Control
Commission.
After being discharged from the
Army in 1946, President Williams
was vice-president of the college
for Agriculture until 1948 when
he was named vice-chancellor for
Agriculture. He still holds this
job in addition to serving as Pres
ident of the College.
President Williams has traveled
in more than 60 foreign countries
and has been around the world
twice in the last three years. The
last world trip was earlier this se
mester. Last year he toured Rus
sia. As vice-chancellor for Agri
culture, he is responsible for
A&M’s foreign program.