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Number 217: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1957
Price Five Cents
BATTALION STAFF SHIVERS—Staff members needed a hot story last night when
the temperature nosed to 25 degrees. Grasping for the least bit of heat from a cigar
ette lighter are (front row, left to right) Barry Hart, sports editor; Dave McReynolds,
managing editor; Don Weber, Aggieland business manager; Joe Tindel, Jim Neigh
bors and Leland Boyd, news editors. Back row, left to right are Welton Jones, city ed
itor and Bennie E. (Bud) Fichte, editor of the Agriculturist. —(Photo by John West).
Hometown Club Presidents
Discuss High School Day
Four Sophomores
SuspendedforHazin
Hometown club presidents met
Monday afternoon to discuss the
role of hometown clubs in the High
School Day operation in the Of
fice of Student Activities.
C. G. (Spike) White, director of
Recreation and Entertainment,
said a large group attended. He
urged presidents who did not. at
tend to stop by the office and get
forms to sign up high school sen
iors who plan to attend the High
School Day prog-ram.
White outlined procedure to fol
low in recruiting for the program.
Hometown club presidents should
meet with local former students
club presidents and with them de
termine how and when transpor
tation for high school seniors to
250 Graduates
Get Sheepskins
In Guion Friday
Texas A&M College gives
about 250 degrees Saturday to
graduates at Commencement
Exercises in Guion Hall at 10
a.m.
Dr. M. Norvell Young of the
Church of Christ in Lubbock will
give the combined baccalaureate
and commencement address.
Maj. Gen. Gabriel P. Disosway,
commander flying training, U. S.
Air Force, Waco, will deliver the
commissioning address and pre
sent 20 air force cadets with re
serve commissions at 2 p.m. in
Guion Hall.
Brig-. Gen. David W. Traub, ar
tillery commander, Fourth Armor
ed Division, Fort Hood, will give
commissions to about 40 army ca
dets.
and from College Station will be
provided.
Members of hometown clubs
should invite high school seniors
from hometowns to come to High
School Day here March 2. He
recommends inviting be done by
calling- a meeting at the local high
school of seniors interested in
A&M. If the local principal does
not agree he recommends another
approach.
White says a list of high school
seniors who plan to attend the
High School Day program should
be prepared in triplicate by home
town club presidents and turned in
to the Department of Student Ac
tivities not later than Feb. 9.
Forms are available at Student
Activities.
Student Activities will send a
personal letter to each senior ex
plaining what will happen at the
program. This letter also will tell
seniors the names of former stu
dents club presidents to contact
if they need transportation.
Student Activities also will send
a list of seniors attending to the
local former students club presi
dent.
Hometown club presidents and
former students giving rides should
meet and agree on time and place
the seniors meet on the campus.
Hometown club presidents or rep
resentatives should make arrange
ments for housing seniors who
plan to stay overnight. Hometown
club members should furnish sheets
and blankets for rooms that are
unoccupied and make arrange
ments for use of beds belonging
to friends who will be off the cam
pus that day. An empty room list
may be obtained at the Housing
Office.
A program, sponsored by Stu
dent Activities, will be given at
Guion Hall at 8 a.m. March 2. The
program will include entertain
ment, get acquainted talks and
guided tours of the campus. The
Intercouncil Committee will spon
sor the tours.
The “T” Association will admit
all seniors to Sports Day events
free of charge.
150 To Attend
Building Course
W. S. Allen, chairman of the
Farm Structures Short Course on
Grain, Drying, and Storage which
will be held here Jan. 31-Feb. 1,
expects an attendance of 150 when
the short course begins.
Meetings for the short course
will be in the Ballroom of the Me
morial Student Center.
Registration will take place in
the Serpentine Lounge on the se
cond floor of the MSC beginning
at 8:30 a. m. Thursday, Jan. 31.
There is a registration fee of $5.00.
Architect Editor
To Speak Tonight
Douglas Haskell, editor of Ar
chitectural Forum, will speak at
8 p.m. tonight in the lecture room
of the Biological Sciences Build-
.askell is a guest lecturer in a
series sponsored by the Division
of Architecture.
He received his A.B. degree in
1923 from Oberlin, Columbus,
Ohio. He has traveled all over
the globe making visits in 15 for
eign counties.
Haskell joined Architectural
Fox-um in 1949. Before taking-
over the editorship he was Sen
ior Associate Editor of the Ax--
chitectural Recoid.
Schulze Elected
R&F President
New officers for the Range and
Forestry Club are Curtis Schulze
of Mason, president; Charles
Mickleson of Clifton, vice-presi
dent; Henry Pearson of Temple,
x-eporter and social chairman;
Charles Richai’ds of Bryan, social
secretary and Bob S. Sims of
Moody, secretary-treasux-ei*.
Club Reservations
Available In MSC
Student ox-ganizations and clubs
wishing to meet in the Memorial
Student Center during the spi’ing
semester should apply for meeting
room i-eservations, according to
Mrs. Ann Keel, social director.
Applications must be made be
ginning at 8 a. m. Fx-iday. Forms
ax-e available at the Social and
Educa,? onal Depax-tment of the
MSC. '
Shore Would
Appreciate
A. Chess Man
Is there any ole, faculty ad
visor with nothing to do nights ?
If there is then run to the near
est telephone and call Hugh
Wharton or the directorate of
fice in the Memorial Student
Center and apply for the advis-
orship of tha Memorial Student
Center Chess Committee.
Guillermo Price, chairman of
the Chess Committee said that
he would take anyone whether
an adult in the community, a
faculty member or a staff mem
ber.
Pi-ice said that the Chess Com
mittee progx-am is open to all
Aggies, staff or faculty mem
bers, and adults in the commun
ity who ar-e interested in play
ing chess and in chess tourna
ments with the group. Anyone
interested in joining the com
mittee is urged to contact Hugh
Wharton or leave theix- applica
tion in the directorate office in
the MSC.
Jurors Find
Body’s Story
Inconsistent
LOS ANGELES, (IP) —
There seem to be “glaring - in
consistencies” in Marie (The
Body) McDonald’s film and
verbal accounts of being kid
naped, a spokesman said after
the county gxand jury took up the
case today.
The jux-y saw a 20-minute police
film of the blonde beauty acting
out her story of her kidnaping by
two men from her Encino home
the night of Jan. 3.
Then they saw a three-minute
film interview with the actress by
a local TV newscaster, George
Putnam. And they heard a police
sergeant read a 27-page statement
Marie made to detectives at an In
dio hospital.
She was taken there, bruised and
hysterical, - after a truck driver
found her on the desert 24 hours
after she disappeared.
The grand jury spokesman, who
declined to be identified by name,
said:
“The films are mutually incon
sistent, and the statements in the
films and the re-enactment in the
films are inconsistent with them
selves.
“I assume that if this thing hap
pened it was a nei’ve-wracking ex
perience, and whether the incon
sistencies were due to that I don’t
know.”
Marie is scheduled to appear be-
fox*e the grand jurors tomorrow.
So ai’e 14 other persons, includ
ing English Actor Michael Wild
ing, her current escort; shoe mag
nate Harry Karl, her former hus
band; Mx-s. Mary Tuboni, her
mother; Harold Plant, her business
manager, and movie columnist
Harrison Carroll.
Her mother and Karl said they
received plione calls from an ap-
pai-ent kidnaper shortly after she
had disappeared. The- voice was
described as that of a nervous
young man.
During her disappearance, Marie
made phone calls to Carroll, Wild
ing and Plant.
22 Cadets Draw
Varied Sentences
Twenty-two members of “C” Infantry yesterday re
ceived sentences ranging from indefinite suspension to offic
ial reprimands, according to Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant.
Four sophomores were indefinitely suspended effective
immediately with the sentence suspended long enough for
them to finish the present semester.
In addition they were reduced to the rank of private,
moved out of their company and into dorm 2 with all other
cadet dorms placed “off limits” to them.
They were convicted on three counts of article 12 of the
Articles of the Cadet Corps. Col. Davis said their charges in
volved use of a broom in hazing, personal service and un
authorized physical exercise. > ■
Two sophomores plus four » yx
Ozark Dog
Treks West
To California
ROSEVILLE, Calif., (A 5 )—Ring
was on his way home today to
Centerville, Ax-k.
The husky black, bx-own and
white dog, of uncertain ancestry,
showed up several weeks ago at
neai’by Antelope and “adopted”
Mi', and Mx*s. John Herman.
The dog’s collar tag was issued
by the Axkansas State Fish and
Game Commission. The commis
sion repoi*ted the tag had been
issued to John Nail of Centerville.
Nail informed the Hermans Ring
was missing and enclosed a photo-
gi'aph of the dog. Nobody knew
how Ring made the 1,700-mile
trek from Arkansas to California.
The Hermans complied with
Nail’s request to retuxm Ring by
Railway Express, collect. The bill
was $48.95.
freshmen were suspended ef
fective immediately until
June 1, 1957 with the suspen
sion being suspended pending good
behavior.
These six men, convicted of
“trading licks with a broom on each
other” also were reduced to the
rank of private, campused until
May 19, 1957 and received official
reprimands from Col. Davis.
Eight freshmen received official
repi'imands and were placed on
conduct probation for the remain
der of the school year for per
forming personal service and sub
mitting to unauthoidzed physical
exercise.
Two sophomores and one junior
were reduced in rank, campused
until Api'il 1, 1957 and placed on
conduct probation for the remain
der of the school year for requir
ing personal service. Col. Davis
said they wex-e guilty on one count
of personal service.
One freshman received an official
reprimand for performing one act
(See SUSPENDED, Page 2)
Three Die In
Pump Station
Explosion
LIBERAL, Kan., (IP) — An
explosion wrecked a Panhan
dle Eastern Pipeline Co. com
pressor station near here yes
terday killing three men and
hindering movement of gas to the
Great Lakes ai’ea.
Police said 12 men were injured
and an undetermined number were
missing.
Panhandle ordered industrial
customers in six states to stop
using gas. It also stopped deliver
ies to three distributors that have
other sources of supply. The three
were not named. The company
serves distributors in Kansas, Mis-
souih, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and
Michigan.
All six states are in the grip of
a cold wave. A company spokes
man said some residential gas users
would be affected, but it was not
determined how many.
The compressor station is lo
cated 14 miles northeast of this
town in extreme southwestex*n
Kansas. It is a main gas-gathering
facility. Gas drawn from fields in
Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas is
compressed there for transmission
east through 24-inch and 26-inch
trunk lines.
Gas leaking from a bi’oken pipe
in the engine ix>om was ignited,
accoi’ding to F. J. McElhatton of
Kansas City, genei'al manager of
gathex-ing and transmission.
A .roaiing fire followed the
explosion.
Mrs. Emalita Terry
Art Director
For Culture
Opens Way
On Campus
Lab Man To Talk
To Chem Society
Dr. Clair J. Collins, of Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, is scheduled
to speak to local members of the
American Chemical Society Wed
nesday, Jan. 23, at 7:45 p.m. in
the Chemistry Building Lectui'e
room.
Speaking on “Cai'bon-14 and Or
ganic Chemistry,” Collins has
wiitten about 30 articles about the
isotype. He is a member of the
ACS, Sigma Xi and Phi Lambda
Upsilon. He received his Ph.D. de
gree from! Northwestern Univer
sity in 1944.
An infoi’mal dinner will be giv
en for Collins by local society mem
bers and their wives in the Me
morial Student Center before the
meeting.
Weather Today
Foi’ecast for the College Station
ai’ea calls for pai’tly cloudy skies
and fi’esh northerly winds. A
chilly 20 degi’ees was the low last
night, with the high yestex - day only
35. At 10:30 this morning the
thermometer stood at 30 degrees.
Exam Schedule
Schedule for final examinations which begin Saturday
afternoon is as follows:
Saturday 1-4 p.m. Classes Meeting MWF at 3
Monday 8-11 a.m. Classes Meeting MWF at 8
1-4 p.m. Classes Meeting TTS at 8
Tuesday 8-11 a.m. Classes Meeting MWF at 9
1-4 p.m. Classes Meeting MWF at 1
Wednesday 8-11 a.m. Classes Meeting MWF at 10
1-4 p.m. Classes Meeting TTh at 1
Thursday 8-11 a.m. Classes Meeting TTS at 10
1-4 p.m. Classes Meeting MWF at 2
Friday 8-11 a.m. Classes Meeting MWF at 11
1-4 p.m. Classes Meeting TTS at 11
Saturday 8-11 a.m. Classes Meeting TTS at 9
1-4 p.m. Classes Meeting TTh at 2
By WELTON JONES
If students at Texas A&M lack
culture, as some people believe,
it is in spite of the efforts of a
diminutive, brown-haired artist
from Brownwood.
“Sometime when I get real tix’-
ed and wonder if the work is worth
it, I go down to the lobby and
watch the students looking at our
latest exhibits,” Mrs. Emalita
Newton Terry, ai't director for the
Memoi’ial Student Center said.
“It’s worth everything to hear
one bald-headed freshman say T
never thought much about paint
ings but I like these.’ ”
Mrs. Terry had never had many
thoughts about A&M, one way. or
the other, when she began study
ing ai’t with the famous Spanish
ai’tist, Xavier Gonzalez, at age 13.
She knew little more about the
school a few yeai’s later when she
got her degree fi’om Bi'ownwood
High School. She had been busy
dui’ing high school, for at the same
time, she received a degree in ai’t
from Howard Payne College there.
“It really wasn’t as special as
it sounds,” she says. “I just studied
there during the summers and after
school. Art was a three year course,
and they gave me a degree when
I finished high school.”
After a year’s study under na
tionally famous artists, she re
turned to Howard Payne and took
two more years of academic work,
studying art in the summer. She
met her future husband, a con-
struction engineer, in Austin.
They were married in 1942 and he
served in the armored division for
39 months during World War II.
After the war, Ralph Terry de
cided to return to school for a
master’s degree in Rural Sociology.
In September of 1948, the Terrys
came to A&M. v
“I hadn’t touched a paintbrush
or pencil for eight years,” she re
calls, “but an Aggie from Brown-
wood met me and asked me to give
him and two of his buddies some
lessons.”
At that time, freshman students
still lived off the campus at the
“annex”, so the little group found
an empty room in the fourth floor
of Bizzell Hall to move into when
winter forced them indoors.
There, with aid of a broken-
down drawing bench, three cast
off stools, tables constructed of
boards and coke cases and some
of Mrs. Terry’s own personal
equipment, A&M’s first art studio
was bom.
“We stayed there the rest of the
year, not making much noise and
learning together,” she remembers.
“By that summer we had 17 stu
dents and staff members coming
in.”
At this same time, Wayne Stark,
manager of the new student cen
ter being built on the campus, got
word of the little group. He had
been hunting someone to help with
the art classes proposed for the
center, and he hired Mrs. Terry on
the spot. Together, they formed
the first MSC Group, the Art
Group. They moved into the MSC
the next fall.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Terry was be
ginning to enter contests again,
and in 1951 an oil painting entitled
“Lemon and Three Eggs” was
selected to tour in a traveling
show. During the next three years
(See ART DIRECTOR, Page 2)
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Mrs. Emalita Newton Terry