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Number 249: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1957
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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 <? n i g h t
through Thursday, the local drama
group has produced an unusual, but
excellent^ play.
Sabina, excellently portrayed by
Mary Tanguy, carried the show
with the able support of Ara Has
well, who plays Maggie Antrobus,
and Mike Kuick, as George Antro
bus, the brilliant but bumbling in
ventor of such things as the wheel,
the alphabet and mathematics.
Setting the tone of the play in
the first act, Sabina informs the
audience of her troubles playing
her role and of the difficulties be
setting Antrobus’ in their fight
against the elements. During the
entire play, the author shows
through the Antrobus family how
man has battled nature and ca
tastrophe and in some miraculous
way, has always survived.
Produced arena style in the Me
morial Student Center Ballroom,
“Skin of Our Teeth” skims through
three acts with very few weak
spots. The dramatic opening of
the play is enhanced by the use
of a slide projector with color
slides flashed upon the screen as
the announcer, played by Bill
Heard, sonorously unfolds the hap
penings of the day.
Playing leading roles are the
other members of the Antrobus
family, Gladys and Henry, por
trayed by Selma Cldck and Du
wayne Lundgren. Gladys is typi
fied as the eternal youth and
Henry is the inherently evil being
lurking into scenes of life with
startling regularity.
Setting of the first and third
acts is the home of the Antrobus
family in Excelsior, N. J. In the
first act they are fighting for sur
vival against a great glacier, in
the second a deluge befalls them
and in the third they have just
finished battling the “great war.”
With three more perfoi*mances
scheduled, “The Skin of Our Teeth”
should be playing to a full house
each night. Tickets are on sale
at the door for 75 cents each. Cur
tain time is 8 p. m.
Israel Still
Barred From
Canal Use
CAIRO, LT>)—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.