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In Guion
Number 247: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1957
Price Five Cents
Off the Cuff
What Goes
On Here
While bouncing around the
campus and listening at the var
ious keyholes campus rumor says
the “roadblock” located in front
of the YMCA is not long for this
world.
The roadblock namely being the
Bugle Stand.
This will no doubt bring screams
of anger from the “Exes”, but lets
face it, when the* stand was built
it was fine, along with the narrow
streets, but ii% spite of former
students the college is growing
and traffic is increasing, and the
Bryan Bus still takes off its allot
ment of fenders while lurching
around the Bugle Stand.
So—“progress” marches on . . .
The Bugle St*nd itself will be
moved to another part of the
campus. Why not in the Serpentine
Lounge ?
W. Kelly Talk
Opens SWJC
Tonite in Guion
CHS LEAGUE ENTRANTS—Twenty-five ofA&M Consolidated High School’s 30 entrants
in the District 21-A Interscholastic League Meet Saturday are, front row, left to right,
Yvonne Felty, Charlene Matejka, Dolores Marquart, Jeanelle LaMotte, Marilyn McEl-
roy, Ann Hite, Mary Margaret Hierth and Sharon Manning. Second row, same order,
Anne Stiles, Anita Mowery, Millie Caughlin, Patsy Williams, JoAnne Walker and Cyndi
Drake. Third row, left to right, Bruce Thompson, David McGuire, Johnny Barger, Bill
Hite, Donald Patton and Charles Gentry. Last row, David Dulaney, David Webb, Jun
ius Clark, James Couch and Charles Delaplane. Also going but not shown are Linda
Chalk, Pat Jackson, Bill Farrar, Mike Waltoh and Roseanne Phillips.
Walt Kelly, genial creator
of the comic strip character
Pogo, the vivacious possum,
Will open the 27th Annual
Southwestern Journalism Con-
press with a speech tonight in
Guion Hall at 8.
The general public is invited to
attend the function. No admission
charge will be made.
Thirty CHS Students
Seek Literary Honors
Kelly has worked at everything
from sweeping floors in a ladies
underwear factory to drawing mice
for Walt Disney. He began his
newspaper work at 13 when he was
a cartoonist and doubled as report
er for his high school newspaper.
His talk, jointly sponsored by
the Creative Arts Group of the
MSC and the Journalism Congress
is one of a series Kelly has made
over the United States this year.
In addition to his cartooning du
ties Kelly visits about 50 or more
civic organizations and colleges
and universities each year.
Appearing as a prelude to the
Journalism Congress Kelly’s speech
will be the first of the 2-day con
vention which is scheduled to draw
about 150 journalism students and
faculty members from 14 member
institutions in Texas, Louisiana and
Oklahoma.
Registration for the Congress
will begin this afternoon at 4 and
continue tomorrow morning from
8 until 9.
The public has been invited to
attend the meetings which will be
held in the MSC all day Friday
and Saturday morning. Several
national figures will be on hand to
discuss the world of newspapers,
radio, television and public rela
tions.
Thirty students will represent
A&M Consolidated High School in
the District 21-A Texas Interscho
lastic League literary competition
at Blinn College in Brenham today
and Saturday.
Nine events will be entered by
the students Saturday, while one,
the one-act play, will compete there
tonight. Winners of all the con
tests will enter regional competi
tion to be held later in the year
and will go from there to state
finals in Austin.
Contestants, alternates and spon
sors include the following:
Number Sense
Johnny Barger, David McGuire
and alternate Bruce Thompson.
Sponsor is Mrs. Muriel Orr.
Slide Rule
Donald Patton, Junius Clark and
James Couch. A. R. Orr is spon
sor for the group.
Spelling
Charlene Matejka and Anita
Employe’s Dinner,
Dance Canceled
Tonight’s Emplbye’s Dinner
and Dance has been canceled,
according to Ann Keel, Social
Director in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Mowery with Mrs. J. T. Duncan,
sponsor.
Ready Writing
Charles Delaplane and David
Webb; Mrs. S. S. Sorensen, spon
sor.
Typing
Delores Marquart, Linda Chalk
and Yvonne Felty. Alternate is
Pat Jackson and sponsor is Mrs.
Florence White.
Local Legislators
To Meet Tonight
Senate President Larry Piper has
urged all student senators to be
present tonight at 7:30 for the
regular meeting of the Student
Senate in the Memorial Student
Center Senate Chamber.
Scheduled for discussion at the
meeting are possible plans for re
vamping football ticket sales and
talk about different programs used
for selling tickets by other schools.
Campus beautification will be
subject to discussion with the local
legislators taking up the current
problem raised about walking on
the drill field.
Student insurance programs are
also due to be discussed at
the 7:30 meeting.
Shorthand
JoAnne Walker, Millie Caughlin
and alternate Anne Stiles. Mrs.
Florence White is sponsor.
Poetry
Girls: Mary Margaret Heirth
and alternate Marilyn McElroy.
Boys: Charles Gentry and alter
nate Bill Farrar. Mrs. Dorthey
Rush is sponsor.
Declamation
Girls: Ann Hite and alternate
Jeanelle LaMotte. Boys: Charles
Delaplane and alternate Mike Wal
ton. Junior Girls: Cyndi Drake and
Sharon Manning, alternate. Jun
ior Boys: David Dulaney. Mrs.
Dorthey Rush is sponsor.
Extemporaneous Speech
James Couch and Roseanne Phil
lips with sponsor Robert A. Knapp.
One Act Play
Patsy Williams, Bill Hite and
Charles Delaplane. Robert Boone
is sponsor.
Weather Today
CLEAR
The temperature at 10:30 this
morning was 66 degrees, which was
also yesterday’s high. The low
reading yesterday was 56 degrees.
Dr. John H. Hill
History a Pain?
See John H. Hill
By LELAND BOYD
“I’d like to get you to help me
with this test paper we got back
this morning,” a student says as
he enters the office of Dr. John
Hugh Hill of the Department of
History.
“Yes, what seems to be the dif
ficulty?” asks the seated professor
as he removes his brown framed
glasses and turns slightly in the
swivel-backed chair.
So Dr. Hill gives his attention
to the student and his problem in a
quiet-spoken manner.
“Well, its about this question on
the 13th Amendment to the Con
stitution,” the student says. “I’d
like for you to tell me what is
wrong with the answer.”
After a short lapse of time the
student seems satisfied but in
stead of leaving he stays for a lit
tle more talk. In the process he
mentions that maybe the reason
he is not doing so good in the
history course is because he is not
interested in the subject.
In mentioning this the student
gets to the heart of why Dr.
Hill’s job is about as tough as
jobs come.
“History is a service course,” Dr.
Hill says. “You have to take it.
But ift has a value and we must
get you to look at it that way, and
take interest in it.”
The student leaves feeling that
maybe “I can do better on the
next quiz” and with Dr. Hill’s
invitation “to come back for help
if you have any trouble.”
After being in the teaching field
for 30-odd years, Dr. Hill sincerely
says, “I like it. But it is one of
those things you just like and can’t
say why definitely.”
“I feel this business of teach
ing depends on a feeling of respect
between both the student and pro
fessor. And most students will
learn something themselves if they
know it is expected of them,” h^
says.
Being teachers seems to run in
the Hill family, for his father was
school superintendent back in Mc-
(See HISTORY, Page 2)
Solons Jolted
By Testimony
aturopath
Of
Committee Hints
Contempt Charges
. AUSTIN, (iP)—A former president of the Texas Naturo
pathic Assn, jolted the House Bribery Investigation Commit
tee out of a routine session yesterday by refusing to tell
about his past life.
The committee immediately threatened to file a con
tempt complaint against Dr. Robert Spears of Dallas, asso
ciation president in 1954 and 1955.
“That has nothing to do with this investigation,” Spears
said about a question where he lived in the mid-1930’s.
Later he told reporters that he thought the committee
was “trying to qualify naturopathy, tear it apart. We can’t
be hurt any more than we are now.”
The climactic interruption ♦
came shortly after the mild-
mannered, grey haired prac
titioner testified that the
state association raised more
than $30,000 for “public relations
fund” but said none of it was spent
on legislative payoffs.
“There was nothing for us to
buy,” he said. “There was nothing
for us on the shelf. We didn’t have
a chance to buy anything even if
we had wanted to.”
Spears and Albert D. Brown Jr.,
former executive secretary of the
association, were two witnesses
called to explain the handling of
fund raised in a “program for
progress” campaign staged by
naturopaths in an effort to gain
favorable legislation in 1955.
Spears attempted to talk to Rep.
John Lee of Kermit after the com
mittee recessed. “It is not in my
province to hear any more about
it,” said Lee, who had asked the
original question that Spears re
fused to answer.
We’re considering a contempt
motion,” Lee told reporters.
Spears, a former president of
the Texas Naturopathic Assn., said
he did not want to answer any
questions as to his past prior to
becoming president of the associa
tion in June 1954.
He did answer several questions,
but when Lee asked him “where
were you before going to Balti
more,” Spears refused to say.
On The Way
JUNEAU, Alaska 6P)_When
Perry Hobbs was ready to leave
the hospital, he telephoned for his
wife to pick him up in the family
car. Her office said she was on
the way to the hospital—as a
patient. She had collapsed from
exhaustion and a case of flu.
Military Panel
Clears Junior
A junior charged with forc
ing a freshman to attend class
for him was declared innocent,
yesterday by Military Panel
after the Panel discovered the
trouble arose because the two
cadets had unknowingly switched
seating places in the class.
Since the two had been sitting
in each other’s places all semester,
the junior was counted absent when
the freshman was absent and the
freshman counted absent when the
junior was absent.
The case began when the profes
sor called out the names of those
he had marked absent. Among
those named was the freshman who
went to the profesater to show him
he was in class.
Then when the professor realized
the freshman had been sitting in
the position marked for the junior,
the suspicion of forced attendance
arose.
Both the freshman and the junior
testified there had been no agree
ment between them as to the dis
arranged seating.
Since the trouble arose in the
classroom, the Head of the De
partment involved also sat in on
the hearings.
In other action the Panel heard
testimony charging a freshman
with taking another person’s books
left in the classroom and selling
them at one of the local book
stores.
Final action on this case awaits
the arrival of Col. Joe E. Davis,
commandant, who is out of town
Col. Wilkins said the decision would
be reached sometime tomorrow
morning.
Pancake Batter,
Bacon Ready
For Kiwanians
Batter will fry and bacon
will sizzle Saturday as the
combined Kiwanis Clubs of
College Station and Bryan
present their fourth annual
Pancake Supper at the Bryan
Country Club from 4 to 9 p. m.
“Even the pancakes will be big
ger and better this year,” said
Ralph Davey, executive chef. “Also
we will feature improved service
and seconds on all the food except
milk.”
Included on the menu for the
affair will be pancakes, syrup, but
ter, bacon, milk and coffee.
“Where else can you find such
a line-up of food, with seconds,
for the low, low price of only 50
cents?” College Station president
W. E. (Woody) Briles asks. “And
remember, our slogan is ‘All the
pancakes you can eat’.”
Bob Shrode, chairman of ticket
sales for the club, said the sales
are going well, and that he ex
pects them to pick up near Satur
day. All members of the club are
competing for prizes to be awarded
the member who sells the most
tickets.
“I have disqualified myself from
the contest but at the same time I
made a little bet with the rest of
the club,” Shrode said. “If I don’t
sell more tickets than any other
member of the club I have to carry
Woody Bi'iles on my back from thej
front door of the Memorial Student
Center to the meeting room at
each of our regular Tuesday meet
ings during the month of April.”
Officials of both clubs have
pointed out the community nature
of the Supper. They have invited
parents to bring their children.
Aggies to bring their dates and
everyone to bring themselves.
14 Major Schools
Using Engr. Book
Fourteen major colleges and
universities are now using the en
gineering textbook “Fundamentals
of Structural Analysis,” co-author
ed by H. K. Stephenson of the Tex
as Transportation Institute and
Dr. A. A. Jakkula, former direc
tor of the A&M Research Foun
dation.
Aggie Players Present
‘The Skin of Our Teeth’
Celebrating International The
ater Month in Texas, the Aggie
Players are presenting their spring
production “The Skin of Our
Teeth” Monday night in the Me
morial Student Center.
Thornton Wilder, author of the
play, has written a satirical com
edy about a family which repre
sents mankind throughout history.
The Antrobus family depicts man’s
unending troubles and the mirac
ulous way things always somehow
turn out right.
Directed by Yic Wiening, the
play is scheduled to run Monday
through Thursday in the MSC Ball
room. After two long runs on
Broadway and a successful pre
sentation on television, the Aggie
Players are producing the play in
arena style next week.
With the curtain set to rise at
8 p.m., the players are preparing
another show for the enjoyment of
students and residents of College
Station and Bryan.
Leading roles in the production
include Mike Kuick as Mr. Antro-
License Sale Ends
Car licenses now being sold in
the Memorial Student Center will
go off sale at 4 p. m. tomorrow,
according to Ann Keel, social di
rector of the Memorial Student
Center.
After tomorrow they may be
purchased at the county comi;
house.
The car plates are on sale from
9 a. m. to 4, p. m. today and to
morrow.
All that is necessary to purchase
the license is the certificate of title.
bus, Ara Haswell as Mrs. Antro
bus, Mary Tanguy as Sabina and
Duwayne Lundgren as Henry.
Through the Antrobus family,
the author has revealed man’s
foolishness, his strength and his
endurability. He has shown man
as a laughable and lovable crea
ture who is more blessed with luck
than pluck.
Heading the production staff as
director of production is C. K. Es-
ten with Bob Wenck, Newt Harris,
Frank Coulter, Gene Logan, Dave
Daniell and Connie Eckard work
ing as heads of various production
committees. Warner Dahlberg is
stage manager and Laura Lynch is
assistant to the director.
Tickets are on sale at 75 cents
each and may be purchased from
members of the players or at the
door.