THE
BATTALION
Civilian Council
Meets Tonight
Number 251: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1957
Price Five Cents
Off the Cuff
What Goes
On Here
About 9:30- in the middle of the
rainstorm-the Housing Office got
a frantic call from a civilian stu
dent in Law Hall who excitedly
explained his room was rapidly
filling with water.
A rush call was put through to
the plumbers who hurried out to
brave the storm, evidently visualiz
ing water neck deep in the room.
However, when they arrived, the
flood had subsided and only an
embarrassed student remained in
the draining room.
Seems the student had gotten
the urge for Spring cleaning and
began shifting his furniture in
order to get at the dirt.
A little too much umph on the
Iron bed banged it against the
radiator which promptly broke,
causing a short-lived stream of
Vvater to rush into the room.
★ ★ ★
Campus Security officers were
Still looking for a reportedly stolen
car last night—as well as its owner.
The search began about 8 p. m.
Vvhen the student called the office
Baying that his 1947 tan four-
door Oldsmobile was missing.
Upon hearing the complaint and
the car’s license number. Patrol
man Emmitt Folsom immediately
said he had just seen the car
parked at Duncan Mess Hall, dis
playing a knack for remembering
such things as only a policeman
can claim.
Checking to see if the car was
Still there, they -did not find it. A
search of all parking lots on the
campus also failed to uncover the
Vehicle, so a “pickup” was placed
)/ith Bryan Police.
What really had Folsom and his
patrol partner Rufus Batten sus
picious of trickery was that they
could not find the student.
Maybe the fellow just forgot
momentarily where he had parked
his car, found it and drove off.
Chemical Society
To Hear GE Official
Local American Chemical So
ciety will hear Dr. John R. Elliot
of the General Electric Company
Research Laboratory in Schenec
tady, New York, Monday at 7:45
p. m. speak on “New Frontiers in
Silicones.”
Meeting place is the Chemistry
Building lecture room.
An informal dinner for society
members and their wives will be
held at 6 p. m. in the Memorial
Student Center. A social hour
after the talk will be at the home
of Dr. and Mrs. J. D. Lindsay at
1029 Walton Ave., College Sta
tion.
Supervision Course
Next Week In MSC
A short course in supervision
will be held in the Memorial Stu
dent Center from Monday through
Friday. The course is being spon
sored by the Engineering Extension
Service. Topics will include com
pany organization, the supervisors
part in management, duties and
responsibilities of the supervisor,
human relations in industry and
other topics.
FINALLY UPROOTED, the historic bugle stand was
moved yesterday to its new position at the north end of
the quadrangle in the “new” area between dorms 1 and 2.
The circle which formerly guarded the circle from the
traffic is being removed.
Yul Brynner
Actor of ’56
HOLLYWOOD, (TP).—Yul Brynner, the regal autocrat
of “The King and I,” was selected the best actor of 1956 at
the 29th annual Academy Awards last night.
Ingrid Bergman, who made a stunning return to Ameri
can films as the Russian princess in “Anastasia,” was named
best actress of the year.
The Oscar for the best picture of 1956 was- given to
“Around the World in 80 Days,” the globe-girdling epic pro
duced by the dynamic Michael Todd.
Anthony Quinn, the free-living artist Gauguin of “Lust
for Life,” won his second Oscar for a supporting perform
ance.
Dorothy Malone, the sexy * 5 —
Texas heiress of “Written on 171 T)> i O •
r our B.A. seniors
Get Mohle Awards
the Wind,” was selected the
best supporting actress of the
year. Jacques-Yves Cousteau,
French pioneer of the skin-diving
sport, won the best documentary
feature Oscar for his underwater
epic, “The Silent World.”
Louis Clyde Stoumen was named
as best documentary shot pro
ducer for his “The True Story of
the Civil War.”
George K. Arthur, once a movie
comedian with Karl Dane and now
a producer in England, won the
best two-reel short award for his
“The Bespoke Overcoat.”
Other shorts awards went to
Konstantin Kaiser for “Crashing
the Water Barrier”—one-reel, and
Stephen Bosustow for “Mr. Ma-
goo’s Puddle Jumper”—cartoon.
Other awards:
Best sound recording: “The
King and I,” 20th Century-Fox
Sound Department.
Best costume design, black and
white: Jean Louis, “The Solid Gold
Cadillac.”
Best costume design, color: Irene
Sharaff, “The King and I.” Best
special effects: John P. Fulton,
“The Ten Commandments.”
Best film editing: Gene Rug
giero and Paul Weatherwax,
“Around the World in 80 Days.”
Four A&M business administra
tion seniors received the T. W.
Mohle awards this year for their
outstanding academic record and
participation i n extra-curricular
activities, according to Dr. T. W.
Leland, head of the B.A. Divis
ion. '
Michael J. August, Lupe Fraga,
Bobby Joe Lawrence and Gene C.
Nash were named winners of wrist
and pocket watches made available
by T. W. Mohle & Co., certified
public accountants, of Houston. Se
lection of the winners was made
by committees from the B. A. Di
vision.
August gnd Fraga are account
ing majors from Houston. Law
rence, from Roscoe, and Nash,
from La Marque, are marketing
majors.
Foods Display Slated
Chicken and g-reen beans which
have been sterilized by gamma ra
diations from fission fuel ele
ments may be seen from 3:30 to
5 p.m. Friday in the library of
the Animal Husbandry Building.
Father-in-law Deal
Told to ICT Probers
Storms Plague
Central Texas;
North Digs Out
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hail, wind and rain storms
skipped across Central Texas
Wednesday night, striking
south of Corsicana and at Wa
co.
Hail up to an inch in diameter
pounded a square-mile area be
tween Angus and Richland, 10
miles south of Corsicana about
4:30 p. m. Hail six inches deep
covered U. S. Highway 75 and
knocked out windshields of trucks
and cars.
No injuries were reported.
In North Texas heavy rain
storms and hail stones up to one-
half inch in diameter fell at Sher
man, Denison and Whitewright
Wednesday afternoon. Lighter
rains fell at Wichita Falls, Browns
ville, Mineral Wells, oFrt Worth
and Dallas.
The Panhandle death toll from
the weekend storm, which roared
into the area on winds up to 74
miles an hour and piled snow into
drifts as high as 10 feet, rose to
nine persons Wednesday.
Virtually all main highways were
open in the Panhandle Wednesday
with only one stretch in Lipscomb
county still repoi'ted blocked. How
ever, many secondary and farm
roads were still blocked by snow
drifts.
Because many ranchers had not
been able to get completely over
their ranges because of drifts and
a number of cattle which had
drifted far from their own pas
tures were still missing, it was
difficult to estimate the livestock
losses.
However, in at least two coun
ties, agricultural agents said the
losses would run into the thou
sands.
CHS Srs. Invade
Service Station
Consolidated High School seniors
will take charge of Hall’s Sinclair
Service Station Saturday to make
money for their senior trip.
They will perform such jobs as
car washes, grease jobs, polish
jobs and oil changes. They will
fill up the gas tanks, clean wind
shields and check tires.
The service station is at 3706
Texas Ave., across the street from
Miller’s Super Market.
Beginning at 6 a.m. the students
will offer a free pick up and de
livery of cars. This service will
end at 10 p.m. For the free pick
up call VI 6-7161. Free bubble
gum and suckers will be given to
the “kiddies.”
ICT Money Given
To Garland Smith
AUSTIN, (TP).—Max Rychlik, A&M graduate, testified
yesterday he used $1,800 of his wages from a no-work job
with an ICT affiliate to help Garland A. Smith, former in
surance commission chief, organize a new insurance firm.
The cash came from a little black box that he kept under
the bed, Rychlik, whose parents live in Edge, said. It was
part of a total of $18,200 “Benjack Cage money” he said
he received in 1953-54-55 for a position that “Chink” Smith,
his father-in-law, arranged for him with Cage. Rychlik’s
testimony was before the House ICT investigating commit
tee.
Earlier Rychlik revealed for*
the first time that he had been
paid $9,800 in 1953-54 by a
Cage affiliate. This was in
addition to $8,400 he had re
ceived in 1955 and about which he
testified in a hearing about two
weeks ago.
Smith testified that he had not
said anything about the $9,800 at
the previous hearing “because I
wasn’t asked.”
“And so we finally dug it out,”
snapped the investigating commit
tee chairman, Rep. Scott McDon
ald of Fort Worth, after Smith
said he knew of the other checks
at that time.
Smith was a member of the in
surance commission when he ar
ranged for Rychlik’s work with
BenJack Cage, promoter of the
huge defunct insurance and in
vestments empire.
He has repeatedly told the in
vestigators he gave Cage no con
cessions in return for such favors
as his son-in-law’s jobs and plea
sure trips at Cage’s expense.
Part of the money he said he
“advanced” was for the $1,000 re
quired for deposit with the com
mission on the company he and
Smith were starting, Rychlik told
the investigators.
“This advance was more or less
my idea,” Rychlik said.
Iran Thugs
Kidnap Wife
Of American
TEHERAN, (TP) — Tribal
thugs in the southeastern des
ert may have skipped into
Pakistan with a pretty Amer
ican woman captive after
slaying her husband and a fellow
U. S. aid official.
That was speculation from a
high government source last night
on a bizarre murder-kidnap case
that has unfolded slowly since
Sunday.
Iranian forces including camel-
mounted cavalry were reported
closing in on the bandits. Offi
cials suggested some already may
have been captured.
The search is being pressed day
and night on personal orders of
the Shah of Iran.
The bandit leader in the area
long has been wary of Iranian
forces who know him well.
An Iranian government source
said he might have taken the miss
ing 35-year-old Mrs. Anita Carroll
across the thinly guarded Paki
stani frontier in an area peopled
only by illiterate tribes.
Teamster Boss
Denounced For
Arrogance
WASHINGTON, (TP)—
Teamster titan Dave Beck, a
Fifth Amendment witness,
wound up an initial appear
ance before Senate rackets
probers yesterday under scorching
denunciation for “arrogant con
tempt.”
Before senators talking o f
“theft” of union funds, the presi
dent of the powerful International
Teamsters Union had repeatedly
sought refuse behind the Fifth
Amendment on all sorts of ques
tions.
It might incriminate him, Beck
declared, to say whether he bor
rowed $200,000 through two busi
ness firms to replenish the union
treasury after federal income tax
agents set out on his trail. He
even said it might incriminate
him to say whether he used $9.68
of union money to buy five dozen
diapers.
Sen. McClellan (D-Ark.), chair
man of the special Senate com
mittee investigating improper la
bor and industry activities, said
he did not know whether Beck’s
refusal to answer questions con
stituted “actionable contempt” of
Congress —'punishable upon con
viction by a fine and one-year
jail term.
Civilian Council
Meeting Tonight
Members of the Civilian Stu
dent Council will hear committee
reports on traditions and Civilian
Weekend at the meeting tonight
at 7:30 in the Senate Chamber of
the Memorial Student Center. A
special report on the banquet will
also be given. .
Vet Medicine Students Help
Fellow Classmates In Need
By LELAND BOYD
At the beginning of this se
mester, a series of handicapping
events happened to a third year
Veterinary Medicine student, Rich
ard Whitmire Jr.
He was admitted to the College
Hospital the first week of classes
with acute appendicitis. As is
usual for illnesses that require
major surgery, he was transferred
to a Bryan hospital.
With the operation underway the
appendix ruptured, but physicians
finished the operation successfully,
or so they thought at the time.
But complications developed.
Doctors obseiwed that he had an
enduring unsettled stomach after
the operation and about a week
later they operated again and
found the small intestine grown
together.
So finally Whitmire . was re
leased and came back to classes
after about a four week absence.
In that time not only had moun
tains of studying piled up, but also
a stack of hospital bills had collect
ed, which amounted to something
mountainous, especially to a college
student.
Junior Sweetheart Finalists
ML
Miss Patricia Morrison
F. G. Belote, escort
Miss Lynda Benton
Floyd Hardiman, escort
Miss Jo Anna Taulman
James Owen, escort
Miss Jo Ann Winchester
Jon Hagler, escort
Miss Frances Boone
John Mayfield, escort
Unknown to Whitmire until
about a week ago, members of his
class, the third year Vet. Meds.,
had been quietly preparing to see
that a fellow student was re
membered.
A week ago they handed Whit
mire a check for $500, which in a
sense is “blood money”.
Buddies Sell Blood
For to raise the cash, some 59
fellow vet students each sold a
pint of blood and put the proceeds
into a common fund, part of which
went to Whitmire.
But the deeds of mercy did not
stop with helping one person.
Another member of their class,
this time the president Donald
Clark, is in difficulties.
Last Sunday afternoon at 4
Clark’s three-month-old son, Jef
frey, was stricken with a heart
attack. Rushed to St. Joseph’s
Hospital in Bryan, the youngster
was placed under an oxygen tent
in critical condition. The anxious
parents, clinging to slim hopes,
learned from doctors that another
attack would probably be fatal to
their child.
And another struck—just six
hours after the first. But young
Jeffrey pulled through, and last
(See VET STUDENTS, Page 6)
Weather Today
CLOUDY
Mostly cloudy until late after
noon, becoming partly cloudy, is
the forecast for the area. Rainfall
last night measured 1.25 inches.
Yesterday’s high and low temper
ature readings were 76 and 48 de
grees. At 10:30 this morning the
mercury stood at 51 degrees.