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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1957
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W. Manning
Elected Prexy
Of Civic Group
Walter S. Manning, associ
ate professor of business ad
ministration, was elected pres
ident of the College Station
Civic Association, yesterday,
at the group’s first board of di
rectors meeting this year.
Manning succeeds Dean W. H.
Delaplane and is the first presi
dent to take office under the
group’s new constitution adopted
last year. Formerly the Associa
tion was known as the College Sta
tion Development Association and
Chamber of Commerce.
The board also elected Lucian
Morgan as vice president and re
elected Mrs. R. D. Lewis secretary.
Three of the four standing com
mittees had chairmen named. They
include Civic, H. E. Burgess; Edu
cation, V. E. Shember; and Fin
ance, Lucian Morgan.
A committee composed of Bur
gess, chairman, with Jim Baty and
Gordon Gay, was appointed to in
vestigate possible applicants for
the post of Civic Association Man
ager.
The position has been empty
since the, resignation of Nestor
McGinnis in March due to poor
health. The post, a salaried job,
carries with it the office of Trea
surer and the chairmanship of the
fourth standing committee, Mem
bership.
The group voted to allot funds
to four recipients. They are A&M
Consolidated schools, $200; Col
lege Station Recreation Council,
$200; County Health Board, $75;
and Carnegie Library, Bryan, $75.
Mrs. W. H. Delaplane was ap
pointed representative from the
Association to the Brazos County
USO Board.
MorganGets Salary
Raise In New Post
Although not revealing the exact
figure, Dr. David H. Morgan,
former A&M president, said his
newly created position with Dow
Chemical Co. gives him a sub
stantial raise in salary.
As A&M president, he received
$15,000 per year. Other sources
on the campus report his salary at
being between $18-$20,000 per year
as Director of College Relations
With Dow.
In his new job, Dr. Morgan will
be closely involved with institutions
of higher learning to encourage
industry-education cooperation for
the advancement of science and
engineering and to stimulate stu
dents in the various scientific
fields.
Dr. Morgan said his post with
Dow was a newly created one and
he felt a great opportunity to in
fluence its scope and development.
Now in the midst of packing, he
leaves here Jan. 31 for Freeport
and then on to Midland, Mich,
where he will be located with Dow.
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NEW CREAMERY BUILDING—Left to right, James Boykin, sophomore in the White
Band, and Alfred Ramoz, sophomore in Squadron 26, both building products marketing
students, look over the new creamery building on their way to class. Isaac Peters of
the Dairy Science Department says they expect to occupy the new building this sum
mer.
Finish Second and Seventh
Wool
Bring
And Livestock Teams
Home Good Records
By DAVE McREYNOLDS
A tired and victorious crew of
Wool and Livestock Judges will
return to the campus late this
afternoon, according to a telegram
received in the Animal Husbandry
Department yesterday.
Bringing home laurels and
praise, members of A&M’s Senior
Wool and Livestock Judging team
well represented their school at
the Intercollegiate Judging Con
test in Denver, Colo., this weekend,
according to Dr. O. D. Butler, head
of the AH Department.
The boys racked up an enviable
record while at the contest, finish
ing second overall in the Wool Con
test and seventh overall in the
Livestock Judging.
Finishing with highpoint honors
individually, among the Wool ex
perts was A&M’s W. E. (Bill)
Davis. Close behind Davis was
Neal Meares who finished in fifth
place, individually. These two, to
gether with other team members
C. C. Castleberry and Norman
Weather Today
Continued cloudiness with pos
sible light drizzle during the day is
the forecast. Yesterday the ther
mometer rose to 63 degrees and
the low this morning was 39. At
10:30 a.m. the temperature was
40 degrees.
Griggs racked up enough points first place in the Wool Contest.
to finish close on the heels of the
boys from Utah who took
Exam Slate
Scheduled
For CHS
Mid-term examinations at A&M
Consolidated High School start to
rn o r r o w, according to J. J.
Skrivanek, principal. Each exami
nation will last two hours and
students must stay in the class
room at least one hour.
All students in CHS will take
the tests in each course except
those seniors who have a grade of
85 or more in a course. These
seniors will not be required to at
tend the tests.
Schedule for the tests is:
Wednesday—1:10 p. m. — eighth
period classes.
Thursday — 8:10 a. m. — sixth
period classes
Thursday—10:15 a. m.—fourth
period classes
Thursday—1:10 p. m. — third
period classes
Friday — 8:10 a. m. — second
period classes
Friday — 10:15 a. m. — first
period classes
Men ter Faces Second Trial
For Aggie Murder Charge
In a case clouded by both the
prosecution and defense asking for
a change of venue accused murder
er Ronald Edward Menter, 22, will
face his second jury in eight
months Feb. 11 in Livingston.
Accused of murdering Jan David
Broderick, A&M senior from
Curundu, Canal Zone, on Dec. 31,
1955, Menter’s first trial resulted
in a hung jury last June 9 in
Livingston.
After 34 hours of deliberation
the first jurors could not decide
upon a verdict in the case where
the state was asking for the death
penalty. Judge Ernest Coker, of
Ninth District Court, dismissed the
jury.
Since that time a new district at
torney has fallen heir to the case.
District Attorney Ward Jones and
Ninth District Attorney J. W.
Simpson, Jr., of Conroe, sought
the change on grounds a second
jury would be hard to select. This
request was denied by Judge
Coker.
Simpson’s jurisdiction covers
the scene of the murder, a country
road near Hempstead where Brode
rick was found, still breathing, in
a ditch. He never regained con-
siousness.
A search was called for an un
known person driving Broderick’s
car and Texas Rangers, Highway
Patrolmen and local deputies and
sheriff’s officers were alerted.
Efforts failed to locate the miss
ing car and, unknown to local
authorities, Menter had traveled to
New Orleans where he sold the
alleged murder weapon, a Luger
pistol. He headed north for the
East Coast where he was appre
hended by an alert State Police
man in Newark, N. J. as he at
tempted to sell a radio out of
Broderick’s car.
Menter was asked for his driver’s
license and gave the officer Brode
ricks’ card. The officer asked him
the birthdate on the license and
when he was unable to tell the
officer the date he blurted out
“I killed that guy in Texas.”
Menter was defended in his first
trial by Ross Hightower and J.
Robert Liles. Since that time,
however, Liles, has been elected
judge of the Special Ninth District
Court, and is disqualified as a de
fense lawyer.
In his place Judge Coker appoint
ed Zimmie Foreman, an East Texas
attorney, to aid Hightower in de
fending Menter, who, although he
confessed the killing, claimed self-
defense. -r-
Testifying at his first trial,
Menter told of hitchiking a ride
with Broderick in El Paso. He
said the two of them drank
throughout their automobile trip
across Texas, blaming drink for
what followed.
He said when he and the 20-year-
old Aggie stopped on a side road
to rest, Broderick drunkenly show
ed him two firearms-a .38 cal
revolver and a German Luger-
and cursing him, threatened his
life.
Menter said he wrested a pistol
from Broderick and fired blindly.
He was arrested three days
later.
Outstanding individuals on the
Livestock Team were Homer Smith,
who finished in sixth place in
dividually, Stanley Keese, tenth
place and Jack Estes, eleventh
place.
Other members of the team are
Curtis Burlin, Charles E. (Ted)
Montgomery and John Kiker.
Twenty teams from colleges and
universities across the nation com
peted in the contests.
Accompanying the judgers on
the Denver trip were Richard
Thallman, Wool team coach and
W. T. (Dub) Berry, Livestock team
The boys were honored at two
luncheons Sunday. The first, at
noon, was for the Livestock Team
where this portion of the contest
results was announced. Sunday
night a dinner was given honoring
winners of the Wool Judging Con
tests and their results announced.
The boys and their coaches left
Denver Monday morning on their
trip to College Station.
Johnson Wins EE
Achievement Gift
M. L. Johnson, senior Electrical
Engineering student will be pre
sented the $400 Dow-Corning In
sulation Award for outstanding
scholastic achievement in the field
of EE, according to H. C. Dilling
ham, of the Dept, of EE.
The presentation will be made at
a meeting of the American In
stitute of Electrical Engineers to
night at 7:30 in room 301, Bolton
Hall.
Jim Nygaard, class of ’53, now a
practicing electrical engineer, will
be guest speaker for the AIEE.
His topic will be “Transistor Appli
cation.”
Dillingham said the A&M
chapter of AIEE is growing
rapidly, and he expected a good
crowd at the meeting.
Eisenhower Concerned
Over Disaster Area
D. W. Williams, Tyrus Timm
Make Drought Survey Trip
By LELAND BOYD
President D. W. Williams and Dr. Tyrus Timm said after
returning from a tour of a drought stricken area of West
Texas with President Eisenhower that Ike impressed them
as being sincere and concerned with the situation which has
six states listed as a disaster area.
Williams said Ike was very cordial, easy to know and
visit with. Williams and Ike traveled in the same car.
In telling of his conversation with Eisenhower, Wil
liams said he feels the President is more concerned with
long range planning than with temporary relief measures.
Eisenhower does believe in relief measures to the ex
tent that they are needed, but wants to steer away from a
^program that sees the gov
ernment stepping in with
temporary relief that would
leave the area in the same
condition if another drought
struck later, Williams said.
Eisenhower wants the states to
take part of the responsibility for
drought control measures along
with the federal government, which
would stay in the background,
rather that the federal government
to take over and do it as the feder
al government, Williams said.
Williams said Ike mentioned
proudly of his holding an honorary
doctor’s degree from A&M.
Ike is not expected to make a
statement or commit himself on
drought policy changes until he
finishes the six state tour, Wil
liams said.
Dr. Tyrus R. Timm, head of the
Department of Agricultural Eco
nomics and Rural Sociology, in a
20 minute speech at the breakfast,
presented a talk on the over all
effect which the drought has on
Texas agriculture, economics, and
resources and necessary human ad
justment.
Timm told the group he feels it
the responsibility of elected rep
resentatives and farm organiza
tions to set agricultural policies
and people of educational institu
tions should be concerned with
helping them make better decis-
Local Bowlers
To Hold Tilt
For Polio Fund
Local bowling teams will
stage a bowling benefit for
the 1957 Polio March of
Dimes tomorrow at 7:15
p. m., in the Memorial
Student Center alleys, according
to John M. Geiger, chairman of
Brazos County Bowling Program.
Included in the list of “All Star
Keglers” are Coach Ken Loeffler,
Coach Paul Bryant, John Crow,
Jack Lunsford, Col. Joe Davis, Ran
Boswell, Don Watson and Spencer
J. Buchanan of College Station.
Col. James E. Gunn, Dr. E. E. Holt,
Jack Springer, and Mayor Harry
Dishman are billed as the Bryan
“All Star Keglers”.
“The Masked Marvel,” a pro-
fessiohal clown from ' Collfege Sta
tion will perform antics for the
bowling fans attending the bene
fit.
Bowling fans who attend the
benefit may register at the Bowl
ing Alley desk to guess the total
pins that will be knocked down by
the “Aces”. A prize will be given
,to the person with the closest
guess.
Mike Mistovich of radio station
KORA will be at the benefit to
narrate the matches for the kegler
fans.
Major E. W. Rodgers of the Air
Science Department is in charge
of publicity and ticket sales. Re
served seat places are $1.75 cents
and 50 cents, with general ad
mission tickets selling for 25 cents.
Tickets may be purchased at the
MSC Bowling Alley, Chamber of
Commerce in Bryan and from Ma
jor Rodgers.
French Show Film
At Guion Tonite
“The Adorable Creatures,” a
French “sophisticated comedy”
movie, will be shown in Guion Hall
tonight starting at 9:30, accord
ing to Dr. T. E. Comfort, French
Club sponsor. The movie is co
sponsored with the MSC Film So
ciety.
Billed as “An Audacious Frolic
in Gallic Sophisticated Comedy,”
the movie features Martine Carol,
which Life magazine calls “the
sexiest of the young female stars.”
Admission is the usual Guion
rate, 35 cents, and all students buy
ing tickets at 8:30 will be able to
see the regular feature as well as
“Adorable Creatures,” Comfort
said. Film Society and French
Club members wil be admitted free.
In pursuing that idea, Timm pre
sented a study on behavior pat
terns of the drought in which he
brought out that 20 major weather
stations in Texas had registered
20 to 77 per cent below normal
rainfall in 1956.
He said the drought was far
reaching, that of 18 major types of
farming areas in Texas, all are se
verely affected. Only 10 out of
254 Texas counties have not been
declared disaster areas by the gov
ernment, Timm said.
Timm told of cycles Texas un
dergoes as indicated by weather
studies since about 1900 and said
the present situation does not fit
any pattern of the cycles.
(See DROUGHT, Page 2)
Shivers Names
Two New Men
To A&M Board
Two new members have
been appointed by Gov. Allan
Shivers to the Board of Direc
tors for the A&M System to
fill the vacancies left by expi
rations of old members.
Herman F. Keep, president of
the Keep Oil Co., was appointed
to a six year term on the board.
Keep is a member of the class of
1920 and majored in agricultui’e.
For the past six years he has
been a member of the Special Gifts
and Bequests Board of the college
and is presently chairman of the
Board of Trustees of the A&M
Development Foundation. He lives
on a ranch near Buda, and for
many years was active in the Am
erican Jersey Cattle Association.
Eugene Darby, the other new
board member, is president of E.
B. Darby and Co., a contracting
firm of Pharr, Tex. He graduated
from A&M in 1925 with a degree in
civil engineering. While a stu
dent here, Darby was an all South
west conference basketball star.
Lemuel H. Ridout, president of
Ridout Motors, Dallas, was the
appointed to a six year term. He
is a graduate of the class of 1927
and was a mechanical engineering
major.
RV’s Escort Daniel
For Inauguration
Members of the Ross Volunteer
Company marched at Gov. Price
Daniel’s side today as his Official
Honor Guard during the inaugu
ration and parade in Austin, Thom
as Livingston, RV PIO sergeant
says.
The Texas Aggie Band also made
the trip to be in the pai’ade.
One platoon of the RV’s.formed
an “Arch of Sabers” for the entr
ance and exit of the govemor from
the capitol to the inaugural plat
form, Livingston said.
Commanding officer of the RV’s
is John H. Specht. Platoon com
manders are Larry Piper, Terry
Betsill and James Dellinger.
Pay Tax At MSC
College Station residents may
pay their poll tax in the Memorial
Student Center Social and Edu
cational Department through Jan.
31 from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. each day,
Irving Ramsower, MSC House
Group chairman says.
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FEBRUARY 2
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HITTING FINALS EARLY— Albert P. Cardenas, senior
* history and education major from Laredo, relaxes in his
oco y P * chair while studying for what he hopes are his last finals.
He and other Aggies begin “hitting the books” hard this
week for finals which start Saturday.