THE BATTALION Class Filings Close Tomorrow Number 249: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1957 Price Five Cents Off the Cuff- What Goes On Here Seems the diversified activity schedule of the Memorial Student Center almost went too far re- r cently. . . ^ J A curious student was snooping around in a closet in room 3D of the MSC one afternoon looking for additions to his snarf collection ' " when what should fall into his surprised face Roulette tables, poker chips, a r; * “new deck of bicycles” and other such suspicion - arousing equip ment. His ire aroused, he phoned the . * President, who in turn called Chief U * of Campus Security Fred Hick man. Chief Hickman got Wayne Stark and they bolted to the third floor “gambling hall.” Much to everyone’s embarrass- ment-the loot was there all right, but— It was being used for display during the Police School then in session. ★ ★ ★ William Randolph Hearst, Jr., i Editor in Chief for the Hearst Newspapers, here for the Journal ism Congress last weekend had one vN constructive remark about campus ; ■» beautification that no one here had thought of before. He was being shown around the D* MSC prior to the noon meal and looked out a window at the beauti ful green Drill Field. “Sure would be a good spot for a polo field,” he mused. Yep, but think of the wrath that would fall. ★ ★ ★ One member of the College Sta tion City Council is the owner of a very red face these days. Contrary to zoning laws a dwell ing was built in one of the places where it would break the law which says only one family dwelling can 1 occupy each 5,000 square feet. Where the red face comes in is the contractor that built the struc- f ture is also a member of the City Council. . . . ★ ★ ★ With driving on the highways becoming an increasing hazard each year and the number of wo men drivers rising you would think they would leave well enough jilone. Yesterday afterpoon one of the Jeautiful creatures which has in vaded the air lanes crash landed her airplane at Easterwood Field. No damage done, no fenders smashed, but she smeared her lip stick. OBSTACLE GONE Little Action In City Council Session Putts Addition Streets Name Change Approved The College Station City Council approved an ordinance changing names of two streets in the city last night, butj no other business received action in the regular monthly ! meeting due to the number of councilmen absent. The ordinance stated that names of two streets in Putts Addition, East Gate Area, would be changed to names agree able to the owners of the addition and the city manager. The ordinance was considered nfter it was found that in two cases, different streets in the city had identical names. Both cases involve the North Gate and East Gate areas. There is a First Street in each area, and also a Church Avenue. Request for the change was filed by the A&M Fire De partment, who work with College Station. They pointed out the streets could be dan gerously confusing in case of a fire or accident on one of them. Singing Cadets Give Concert TonitelnGuion A&M’s Singing Cadets, just back from a tour of all points of the state, will sing songs from Broad way shows, spirituals, novelty numbers and choral works of the masters tonight in Guion Hall at 7:30. The Cadets will be presenting their Spring Concei’t for A&M stu dents free of charge. Under the direction of Bill Tur ner the well-known Aggie singing group will present such familiar Broadway tunes as: “On the Street Where You Live” (My Fair Lady); “You’ll Never Walk Alone” (Ca rousel); “There’s Nothing Like a Dame” (South Pacific); “With a Little Bit of Luck” (My Fair Lady); and “Deep in My Heart” (Student Prince). Other numbers on the program will include: the patriotic song “This is My Country”, Palestrina’s “Adoramus te Christe”; Bach’s “Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee” and the rousing spiritual by Tom Scott “Noah”. Profs Attend School Dr. A. J. Sorensen, F. I. Dahl- berg and W. T. Berry of the De partment of Animal Husbandry, along with several couty agents from the Extension Service, will be in Fort Worth from March 31 to April 4 attending a Livestock Market School. Violation of a District 1 zoning law was also called to the council’s attention in a petition from a num- per of District 1 residents. A gar age apartment was built at 203 Fairview contrary to area zoning laws. The petition was accepted and awaits action at the next coun cil meeting. Also accepted, but held for ac tion at the next meeting was a petition from owners of South Knoll Addition requesting annexa tion into the city. Dr. J. A. Rogers, Consolidated School Board President, and Dr. L. S. (Les) Richardson, Consolida ted Schools Superintendent, ap peared before the council to ask that the city do something about drainage problem around Lincoln School. Mayor Langford said the coun cil had already considered the problem and a lot had been pur chased at the last Council meeting to use in diverting the water. A letter from the State Fire Insurance Committee was read ex plaining the results of an inspec tion held recently. The letter rec ommended the construction of a two-truck fire station with paid firemen on 24 hour duty in the vicinity of the Jersey Street and Highway 6 intersection. Also recommended was the building of a water storage tower in the same BUGLE STAND Well-Known To Rest At Landmark New Home A structure which in 21 years has come to be a landmark on the campus is being moved to a new site. Lions Nominate A. A. Price For District Office A. A. Price of the Veterin ary Anatomy Department was nominated for District Gov ernor of Lions Club District 2-S-3 yesterday in the regular weekly luncheon of the College Station Lions Club in the Memor ial Student Center. The club nominated Price for the post at the same time the report of the club’s nominating commit tee for local officers was read and accepted. Local nominees were C. G. Haas, president; D. E. Davis, first vice president; Dr. Fitch, second vice president; G. L. Huebner, third vice president; S. M. Gaafar, sec retary-treasurer; J. R. Watkins, as sistant secretary-treasurer; R. P. Foster, tail twister; H. A. York, assistant tail twister; R. A. Mc- Caulley, lion tamer; Ed Svendson, assistant lion tamer and R. P. Scroggins, board member for two years. Sometime Wednesday, if nothing hinders, a winch will hoist the well-known bugle stand onto a flat bed trailer to carry it to a new resting place, near new Corps Headquarters in Dormitory 2. There it will be placed in the esplanade in sight of the 12 Corps Dorms. Workmen started yesterday morning with digging tools pulling out the concrete stepping blocks in preparation for the bigger job to come, yanking the 10 to 12 ton bugle stand foundation from its home since it was dedicated to a popular Aggie back in 1936. Edwin (Pat) O’Brien Bellinger, class of ’36, was bugler for the college. He was killed in the sum mer of 1935 while at Camp Bullis, near San Antonio, when his horse fell and crushed him. Bellinger, as bugler for the col lege, was honored by the class of ’36 when it dedicated their new bugle stand in memory of the times his silvery peals announced classes, meals, waking up time and going-to-bed time. Services for the dedication were held May 10 on Mother’s Day. The stand was erected in the circle on Houston Street near the YMCA. And, according to David B. Cofer, college archivist, the original idea for putting in the circle at the YMCA was to keep speedsters from driving at breakneck paces down Houston Street. “It was the same idea that caused Colonel Nelson to have ridges built in streets back then,” Cofer says. So the circle is to be taken out now, for the exact opposite reason it was built there. There has been talk of moving the circle for some time, says John W. McQueen of the Grounds Main tenance Department. “Probably the stand will be moved sometime Wednesday after- non,” McQueen says. “A con tractor is coming in with a crane and the traffic on the street might have to be re-routed for a couple of hours.” “The circle is to be smoothed over and asphalt topped, McQueen says. Fred Hickman, chief of Campus Security, says the circle has been a bottle-neck for busses and large trucks for some time. “We’ll just have to wait and see if any speeding problem comes up after the circle is moved,” he says. HELPING HUMANITY is George Antrobus, played by Mike Kuick, as be shows his fam ily his latest invention, the wheel. All are leading actors in the current Aggie Players production in the MSC. They are (left to right) Mary Tanguy, Mike Kuick, Selma Clack, Duwayne Lundgren and Ara Haswell. In the foreground are a dinosaur and a mammoth played by Alan and Lane Coulter. ‘Skin of Our Teeth 9 Scores Another Hit for Ag Players By JIM NEIGHBORS Performing before a sparse but appreciative audience, the Aggie Players last night rang up another in their current series of success ful productions. Entries For Mom of Year Deadline Set Mother of the Year contest deadline is April 10. To enter the contest the Mother must have a son in A&M now and that son must write a letter telling why she should be picked as “Mother of the Year.” *The letter must be sent to the Student Senate, Student Activities Office, YMCA. The winning “Mom” must attend Mother’s Day cei’e- monies May 11 & 12 where she will be awarded a plaque commemorating the Mothers of all Aggies. Weather Today CLEAR Yesterday’s high and low tem perature readings were 57 and 33 degrees. At 10:30 this morning the mercury stood at 50 degrees. Class Officer Filings Close Class officer candidates have until 5 tomorrow afternoon to file for their position, according to W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, Student Activities Office. Monday afternoon, 250 people had filed for offices but five posi tions still remained without can didates. Those were senior class agent, student entertainment man ager, student publications board and 2 members of the MSC Coun cil. “The Skin of Our Teeth,’ by Thornton Wilder, is packed with powerful lines and even more pow erful emotions which tell the story of the struggle for life through the eyes of the Antrobus family. Directed by Vic Wiening, the production is the Players celebra tion o f International Theater Month in Texas. With perform ances scheduled for t )—The last big plug was lifted from the Suez Canal yesterday. U. N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold watched the operation and sped up plans intended to bring big power users into accord with Egypt for the grand opening soon. Medium size ships can pass through the canal now. But Is rael apparently will still be barred. Hammarskjold was reported planning to leave Cairo tomorrow for New Yoi’k without visiting Is rael this trip. He flew to the canal to see U.N. salvage crews lift the sunken tug Edgar Bonnet. This cleared the channel—blocked since early No vember—for ships up to 20,000 tons. Then Hammarskjold returned to Cairo and held what was probably his final conference with Presi dent Nasser in the current series. Nasser has spelled out his condi tions for future operations in talks with Hammarskjold the past week. Nasser is scheduled to make them public in a memorandum next week. The conditions are expected to be unsatisfactory for W e s t e r n maritime nations demanding some form of international control of the canal. Egyptian informants said, how- evei’, the memorandum may con tain some slight concessions to big Western canal users. Egypt agreed to let U.N. forces stay only if they were stationed on the Israeli as well as the Egyp tian side of the armistice line and if Israel withdrew from the El Auja demilitarized zone opposite Egypt’s Sinai Desert. Three Floriculture Students Awarded Three Aggies have received scholarships for work in the De partment of Floriculture and Landscape Architecture, according to A. F. DeWerth, head of the de partment. Donald Wayne Branch of Youngstown, Ohio, received the F. W. Hansel Scholarship. Bart S. Bradfield of Dallas and College Station, received the Anderson Award. Charles R. Keith of Mata dor received the Tom J. Wolfe Scholarship in Floriculture. Aggies Balk On Censorship Landscape Majors Receive Awards Two landscape architect majors, Bart S. Bradford, senior from Ft. Worth and D. Wayne Branch, a sophomore from Dallas recently re ceived cash awards for their de signs of garden benches. The awards were presented by Meredith Publishing Co., publisher of “Better Homes and Gardens” magazine. Parnell Judges Nationwide Contest E. D. Parnell, of A&M’s Poul try Science Department, has been named as a poultry judge for this year’s nationwide Livestock Judg ing Contest to be held by Charles Pfizer and Co. at Terre Haute, Ind., this spring. Parnell will assist in the hen judging and explain to Contestants the good and bad things taken into consideration during judging. Fi nal judging will be held May 28. By JOE TINDEL A&M delegates to the South western Students Press Club balked Saturday when the Club passed a resolution providing for partial censorship of the college press in cases where newspaper copy might “be construed as libelous and there fore detrimental to the paper’s well being.” After the resolution was passed by the Club, made up of 14 col leges and universities in the South west, A&M’s voting delegate, Dave McReynolds, Battalion managing editor, rose and asked that the A&M delegation go on record as opposing the resolution because they “feel it would leave them open for censorship, as they now enjoy complete freedom of the college press and have no editorial supervisor nor faculty member reading their copy prior to its publication.” A&M drew fire from all sides as they fought for another and stronger resolution condemning editorial supervision and censor ship of all kinds. In caucuses with delegates from other schools earlier in the South western Journalism Congress, A&M representatives found most of these schools knew little of what it was to be absolutely free. Some were not permitted to criticize their college administrations in any way. The resolution which finally pas sed the group says that “the South western Students Press Club op poses non-student censorship and editorial supervision not concerned with editorial matter which may be construed as libelous and there fore detrimental to the paper’s well being.” Another resolution passed un animously by the Press Club as a recommendation from A&M says “the Southwestern Students Press Club will endeavor to keep open the sources of news, thereby keeping alive the tradition of public ser vice inherent in a free press.” After the floor fight which took most of the IVz hour meeting time. Sherry Boyd of Baylor University was elected president of the Club. She replaces Joe Tindel of A&M. At a breakfast meeting of a new student organization of the SWJC Studertt Advertising Association of Texas, Gary Rollins, A&M Jun ior from Houston was elected president of that group.