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Number 228: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1957
Price Five Cents
Students Turn Out in Record Number
To Reject Compulsory Insurance Plan
Kenneth Savage Elected
Dorm 16 Civilian Senator
Off the Cuff-
What Goes!
On Here
Students, staff members and just
about anybody else with a desire to
«-> do some star-gazing should get in
touch with somebody in Dr. Jack
Kent’s Astronomy Club. They take
special groups and really make the
heavens put on a show, with the
aid of telescopes and other appar
atus in the physics department.
Also each Thursday night they
give lectures in room 320 of the
Physics Building to budding as
tronomers. Usually these sessions
attract about 120-150 viewers per
night.
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Dr. J. S. Rogers, head of the
Agronomy Department, returned
t > today from Lubbock where he at
tended a confei’ence on Agricultur
al Chemicals. He was chairman of
the coi'n and sorghum testing pro-
H gram panel.
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College Station will lose an old
friend soon, when the ancient traf
fic light at the North Gate goes
down under the onslaught of pro-
gress and a new, more efficient one
replaces it.
City Manager Ran Boswell has
had the new one hanging in the
city ■ shop for about three months,
_ afraid to put it up until officials
made sure it would be safe.
Seems the old light is anchored
to the building housing the A&M
h Photo Shop, and many people were
afraid that the additional weight
■* of the new light would pull the
building down. The old one looks
dangerous sometimes, if you have
n’t noticed.
But the new one weighs even
less, and Boswell hopes to have it
fn next week.
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It’s pretty bad when a man’s
trousers aren’t even safe, or at
least Orin Helvey thinks so.
Last week Helvey was out on the
, intramural fields, playing football
♦ with some friends. He came to the
field wearing P.E. shorts under his
street clothes and left his billfold
and keys in the pocket of his trous-
( ers, on the filed.
After an afternoon of athletics,
the weary Helvey returned to get
his clothes and go home, but found
them missing.
After wandering around South
College Station for some time, he
knocked at the door of D. D. Bur-
chard. Journalism Department
head. Burchard’s son Don took
I Helvey home.
It’s not known who took Helvey’s
trousers home.
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MORE AGAINST THAN FOR—students turned out for yesterday’s election in record
numbers as more ballots were cast than in many years. The total vote ran to 2,802.
R.E. Services Open
Monday Morning at II
Classes will tuim out from 11 to
12 a.m. Monday for the first day
of Religious Emphasis Week when
President D. W. Williams will pre
sent the 17 visiting religious lead
ers in Guion Hall.
Cadet Chaplain Jasper Lynn will
open the program with the morn
ing prayer and Don Royal will pre
sent special music during the ser
vices, Joe Blair, Chairman of In
ter-faith Council will preside.
Dr. Claude Broach, pastor of St.
John’s Baptist Church, Charlotte,
N. C., will make the morning ad
dress. His subject will be “The
Power the World Needs”.
Organ music for the occasion
will be provided by John O. Good
and Cadet Chaplain Dwayne (Dub)
Bailey will lead the singing.
Dormitory Counselors will be
available in their rooms from 4-6
p.m. each day for personal coun
seling. At 7:15 Forums will be
held in the dormitory by the coun
selors.
Dr. V. C. Arnspiger will conduct
Forums for the married students
each night in the South Solarium
of the YMCA, at 7:15. Monday
night’s topic is “The Basic Foun
dation of the American Home.”
A nursery will be available for
children at the First Baptist
Church at North Gate. A social
hour will follow this and each
succeeding meeting.
Forums for faculty and staff
members will be held Monday
night in the second floor of the
Fish Book Thief
Out Indefinitely
Indefinite suspension resulted
last night following the hearing of
the freshman book thief by Bennie
A. Zinn, head of the Department
of Student Affairs.
After being caught taking an
ED kit from the Memorial Stu
dent Center, the freshman confess
ed to several of the recent Center
thefts. He admitted stealing a bi
cycle earlier this year, but said
after selling it he sent the money
to the Campus Security Office.
Wayne Stark, MSC director, said
there have been no new develop
ments in the crack-down on petty
thievery.
YMCA with Dr. William J. Kil
gore leading- the discussion. His
Monday night topic will be “A Ma
ture Religion.”
Staff and faculty members are
invited to attend the social with
married students after their
meetings.
Classes will be excused for each
of the morning meetings in Guion
Hall. The schedule is as follows:
Monday—11;. Tuesday and Wed
nesday—10; Thursday and Friday
—9.
John Beaty Named
Cotton Ball King
John Beaty has been named King
Cotton for the annual Cotton Page
ant and Ball set for April 12.
Sponsored by the Agronomy So
ciety, the Cotton Pageant and Ball
will be presided over by King
Beaty and a Cotton Queen to be
chosen later.
The Queen will be chosen fr-om
four finalists in the sweetheart
contest. Deadline for turning in
pictures of the sweetheart candi
dates is March 15. Portrait sizes
requested are 3X5 or 5X8.
Magazine Sales
Pay For SDX
Scholarships
Members of the A&M chap
ter of Sigma Delta Chi pro
fessional journalistic frater
nity, recently began a drive
to raise funds for a scholar
ship program to aid journalism
students.
Based on scholarship, need and
professional aptitude, the awards
will assist students in completing
their college education. A faculty
committee will select the winners
based on nominations by the SDX
chapter.
Money for the scholarships is
being raised by the chapter’s sale
of the Time Magazine group of
publications to faculty members.
These include Time, Life, Fortune
and Sports Illustrated at special
reduced rates.
Awarding of scholarships is
planned to be made at an SDX ban
quet in May. Included on the pro
gram are awards to members of
student publications for outstand
ing work and Journalism Depart
ment honors.
Donald D. Burchard, ‘J’ depart
ment head, has said that the pro
gram is a “worthwhile project
that would benefit many students”
if faculty members respond to the
drive.
By LELAND BOYD
Aggies rejected compulsory insurance.
Official Election Commission returns show:
For 1,130
Against - 1,640
Ballots rejected 32
Clark New Prexy
Of Civilian Group
Bill Clark of Leggett Hall re
placed James Carnes as president
of the Civilian Student Council
last night in the Council’s regu
lar meeting in the Senate Cham
ber of the Memorial Student Cen
ter.
Clark was elected by the Coun
cil since Carnes can not hold the
office due to scholastic difficulty,
a Council member said.
Carnes took office in January
replacing Sam Zuckero who grad
uated at the end of the fall semes
ter.
On leaving the president’s chair
Carnes urjfed councilmen to empha
size to their dormitories need for
getting polio shots.
Roy Andrews of Law Hall was
Total 2,802
In the largest turn-out in recent student election history
at A&M, 510 more students voted against compulsory insur
ance than voted to accept the compulsory plan.
Unconfirmed reports last night said the 2,802 total
vote is a record for recent elections and referendums.
The Election Commission
headed by Don Weber, finish
ed the count after several
hours of checking and tabula
ting.
Largest known vote besides yes
terday’s was in September, 1955
over the MSC Union Fee in which
1,751 votes were registered.
A breakdown of the four voting
boxes showed relatively close votes
for each of the sections of the
campus except College View. In a
light vote, College View voters
cast 60 “against” and 9 “for”. Four
hundred and fifty students live in
this area.
Memorial Student Center booth
registered 701 “against” with 460
“for’s”. Students living in Hart
and Bizzell Halls along with part
of the day students were generally
expected to vote in the MSC.
An even 600 ballots were cast
“against” the issue at the Sbisa
Mess Hall box, gaining a consid
erable lead over the 455 cast “for.”
Dorms 14, 15, 16, 17 and Walton
is the area covered by this box.
As for the Duncan Mess Hall
voting, a comparatively light vote
was tabulated for the area, com
posed of Corps dorms, 1 through
12. Voting there was 279 against,
206 for.
All boxes registered a victory for
the “against” votes.
Thirty-two ballots were rejected
for failing to meet referendum spe
cifications.
Percentage-wise, about 58.5 per
cent were against, 40.3 were for
and 1.2 per cent were rejected.
In Dorm 16 senator election,
Kenneth C. Savage of Columbus,
Nebraska was un-opposed. The
election commission reported five
votes cast—with all for.
Savage is a senior petroleum-
geology major.
CHS Schedules
Dance, Banquet
A&M Consolidated High
School students will hold two
of the big dances of the year
this weekend, according to
Roseanne Phillips, student
council publicity chairman.
The first will be held at 8 to
night in the activity room of the
school, when the annual Valentine
Dance, sponsored by the junior
class, unfolds.
The Valentine Dance will be
semi-formal, cost 50 cents with or
without date and will have re
freshments. Decorations will be
on the traditional Valentine theme.
Tomorrow at 6:30 p. m., the an
nual Future Homemakers of
America banquet - dance will be
held in the Memorial Student Cen
ter.
elected parliamentarian to replace
Clark.
John La Croix of Milner Hall,
chairman of the New Student Week
Committee, reported his committee
has given some thought to finding
ways to handle civilian freshmen.
He said his committee advocated
finding a better way to teach them
Aggie traditions.
“Maybe a plan could be made
which would include some require
ments to be placed on freshmen,”
La Croix said. “Maybe they could
be marked in some way also.”
Civilian Chaplain, Bob Bacher,
asked councilmen to check where
visiting ministers will stay and see
that they are made to feel at home
during their stay here.
Aggie Band Sweetheart Finalists
m
Martha Berry
Ed Thorpe, escort
Jimmy Elizabeth Nacol
James E. Fallin, escort
Shirley Cannon
Cyrus Helmer Holley Jr., escort
Becky Scarborough
Jim Morris, escort
Caroline Moore
Dave McLain, escort
Band Dance Slated
For Next Week
Texas Aggie Band members will
see one of five finalists chosen
Band Sweetheart of 1957 at their
annual dance to be held Saturday,
Feb. 23 in the Ballroom of the
Memorial Student Center.
From 9 to 12 p.m., band mem
bers and their dates will be danc
ing to the music of Bill Turner’s
Aggie Combo. During the dance,
at some time, judges chosen from
the faculty will look over the fin
alists and decide who will be this
year’s sweetheart.
Sweetheart finalists are Jimmy
Elizabeth Nacol of Port Arthur,
entered by James Fallin; Martha
Berry of Gladewater, entered by
Eddie Thorpe; Shirley Cannon of
College Station, entered by Cyrus
H. Holley Jr.; Caroline Moore of
Kilgore, entered by David McLain
and Becky Scarborough of Hous
ton, entered by Jim Morris.
Weather Today
Forecast calls for continued
cloudiness, with no important
change in temperature. The tem
perature at 10:30 this morning was
77 degrees. Yesterday’s high
reading was 73 degrees, and this
morning’s low, 64.