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Number 255: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1957
Price Five Cents
Dallas Torn By Destructive Tornado
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Yarborough Captures Senate Seat
Fought Five Hard
Years Says Ralph
AUSTIN, (/P)—Ralph Yarborough, 53, happily a political
victor after a long series of defeats, celebrated his Senate
triumph with hundreds of friends today.
He lost races for governor in 1952, 1954 and 1956, and
for attorney general in 1938.
Returns to the Texas Election Bureau at 9 this morn
ing from 188 out of 254 counties, 78 complete showed Yar
borough to have a decisive lead with 314,035 votes.
Martin Dies and Thad Hutchespn, the only other candi
dates coming anywhere close to Yarborough had 257,627 and
203,800 votes respectively.
Yarborough’s supporters continued celebrating into the
Off the Cuff-
What Goes
On Here
Where there is smoke, there is
usually fire. But a secretary in the
Business Administration Division
found yesterday that where there
is only the smell of smoke a fire
might not be the case.
Anyhow, the smell of smoke
penetrated the office and secre
taries and students searched high
and low for the source. Fearing
the smell was caused by burning
insulation they called the B&CU
Department.
After a short search the culprit
was located.
A Venetian blind cord was found
dangling in an ash tray smoulder
ing silently away.
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A group of students rode over
to the Center for a cup of coffee
last night in a convertible, got
out and walked inside.
A few minutes later a friend
stumbled in the Fountain Room,
saw the group sitting there and
Walked over.
“I have an announcement to
make,” he grinned. Looking out
the nearby windbw he continued,
“It’s raining.”
The driver of the top-down con
vertible calmly replied, “Yeah?
How hard?”
Football Emotions
Dr. Carl W. Landiss of A&M’s
Physical Education Department, is
presenting a paper entitled “Emo
tional Responses of Boys to Com
petitive Junior High School Foot
ball” to the research section of the
Southern District of the American
Association for Health, Physical
Education and Recreation at the
annual convention being held
through Friday at Asheville, N.C.
early morning hours after
hearing him speak to them at
about midnight.
“I see people who have
worked for five years from all
over Texas,” he told a group of
some 250.
“We have fought five hard years.
But this is not the end, this is
the beginning—not of one office
but of many offices.”
The crowd, including some state
representatives and senators, ap
plauded the Austin lawyer whose
battle cry has been “to get out
the machine.”
“There will be no more stolen
conventions,” Yarborough said, re
ferring back to earlier charges he
had brought at the September Dem
ocratic state convention.
“There will be honest govern
ment from the ground up. In short,
what we hope to do is to build
you a government for the people
of Texas instead of for the greedy
little clique.”
Yarborough said he expected to
go to Washington within 10 days.
Asked what he would do on for
eign policy and other matters,
Yarborough said “I’m doubtful
whether the most junior, junior
senator in Washington will have
much to say on foreign affairs.
“You know I want to take the
fat out of foreign aid,” he said.
“I want to rebuild our alliance
with England, France . . . with
little Israel. I find little to admire
in the Dulles ambulatory-adminis
trated foreign policy.
“I especially say I won’t have
much to say because I’m an April
junior senator when I could have
been a January .Junior senator.”
Yarborough said he also would
strive to increase pay for postal
employes, have 90 per cent parity
for farm products and increase in
come tax exemption to $800.
Yarborough got a laugh from
his supporters when he said:
“Some of the most wonderful
help has been your letters. You’ve
told me what ties to wear, what
shirts to wear . . . how to pro
nounce words. I’ve appreciated it.
isast
TWIN FUNNELS OF DESTRUCTION — this is the way the sky appeared over the
industrial area of Dallas yesterday at 4:30 p.m. as the twisters dealt damage amounting-
into the millions and took 9 lives. Hitting during the late afternoon rush traffic thous
ands of people watched horrified as the tornado turned its destructive path through out
West Dallas. (AP Wirephoto)
Tindel, Hill, Newby
Editors For 1957-58
Joe Tindel was named editor of
The Battalion for the 1957-58
school year yesterday afternoon
by the Student Publications Board
with Jim Neighbors appointed edi
tor for the coming summer.
Along with Tindel, the Board
named Arvill Gene Newby, Agri
culturist editor and William A.
Hill, editor of the Southwestern
Veterinarian.
Tindel will assume The Battal
ion leadership May 1 and hold it
during May. At the end of the
school term, Neighbors will take
over for the summdr with Tindel
resuming editorship in September.
Among Tindel’s activities, he
Vet Med Seniors
Make Austin Trip
Members of the senior class in
the School of Veterinary Medicine
left this morning for Austin on a
field trip to visit the Public Health
Department.
The field trip is a part of the
public health and hygiene course
offered to senior students.
Dr. F. G. Jaggi, assistant dean
of the school and the public health
and hygiene instructor, went with
the seniors.
The class was scheduled to go
on a tour of the laboratories and
various departments. The latest
techniques in the field of veteri
nary medicine were to be demon
strated in the labs.
CASTING HIS VOTE for U.S. Senator from Texas is W. J.
Newcomb at the polls located in Consolidated High School.
Working at the table checking-the poll tax lists is Mrs.
C. C. Doak.
AF Stanine Tests
Set For Saturday
Cadets who signed up to take
the Air Force Officer Qualifica
tion Test this spring will take the
tests at 12:45 p.m. Saturday in
Room 204 of G. Rollie White Coli
seum.
The test will also be given Sun
day and cadets have been asked
to be on time since it is a timed
examination.
Those who desire to take the
tests and have not given their
names to Sgt. Duran in Room 311,
Military Sciences Building, have
been ^sked to do so as soon as
possible.
listed Distinguished Student three
semesters with a g.p.r. of 2.1 for
this past fall semester, President
of the Southwestern Students Press
Club, Texas Gulf Coast Press As
sociation Scholarship, Sigma Delta
Chi and vice president of the Arts
and Sciences Council. He will
serve this summer as a news in
terne on the Dallas Morning News.
Newby’s activities include presi
dent of the sophomore class, sec
retary of the Great Issues Selec
tion Committee, Star American
Farmer of Texas for 1956, Out
standing Young Jersey Breeder of
Texas, winner of Keep Scholarship,
Town Hall Staff Sergeant Major
of Second Wing, staff writer on
The Agriculturist, reporter for
Dancing Girls
Slated For
UN Clubbers
Dancers from all corners of
the world will visit A&M to
morrow, to perform at 7:30
p. m. in the YMCA.
The program is being pre
sented by the United Nations
Club, in cooperation with the
International Club of the Uni
versity of Texas.
The visitors are students,
mostly coeds, at UT. Their
home countries are Ceylon,
Costa Rica, India, Pakistan,
the Philippines and Thailand.
After a short introduction,
the dancers will explain and
demonstrate dances from their
homelands.
“The diversified program
will give local residents a
chance to see both the spirited
steps of Latin America and
the graceful movements of the
dancei-s of the Far East,” said
Nick Hopkins, UN Club publi
city director.
After the dances refresh
ments will be served and an
informal social session will
take place.
The public is cordially in
vited to attend this and all
future meetings of the club,
Hopkins said.
the Kream & Kow Club and sec
retary of the Junior FFA Chap
ter.
Hill has a g.p.r. of 2.44 and has
as his activities: Phi Eta Sigma,
vice president of freshman vet
erinary class, president of junior
veterinary class, associate editor
of the Southwestern Veterinarian,
Distinguished Student, Junior AV
MA, AVMA Council and secretary-
treasurer of Intercouncil Commit
tee.
9 Die, 400 Hurt,
Scores Homeless
DALLAS, UP).—A roaring black tornado lashed and
stung this North Texas metropolis for 40 awesome minutes
late yesterday, while scores of thousands watched in terror
and fascination.
Nine persons were killed, more than 400 injured and
property damage will run into the millions. The path of
destruction was 21 miles long.
Hospital corridors overflowed with stunned and bloody
victims.
Four of the dead were children and dozens more children,
numb and soaked with blood were among those badly hurt.
Dallas’ horrified citizens watched from roof tops, win-
♦■dows of buildings and from
Ci 1 Ol viaducts as the tremendous
soph Mugger
Campused, On
Probation
As punishment for hitting
a sophomore, Jim Ingram,
Kleburg freshman, has been
campused and placed on con
duct probation until Thanks
giving and given 8 hours extra
duty.
No action was taken against the
sophomore, Bob Graetzel, who was
cleared in the investigative hear
ing Friday afternoon in the office
of Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assist
ant commandant. Col. Wilkins
said they found no evidence to in
dicate Graetzel was in the wrong.
Col. Wilkins said further that if
Ingram’s behavior the remainder
of the semester was satisfactory,
his restriction and probation would
be lifted in May.
Graetzel, whose nose was broken
by the punch, was hospitalized
while college doctors set the brok
en bone.
Ingram had said the remarks
made by Graetzel which supposed-
4y preceded the incident were of a
“personal” nature.
funnel, boiling with debris,
danced from south Oak Cliff
north through West and
Noi’thwest Dallas.
In one thirteen block area, 197
homes were completely destroyed.
“Oh, Lawd, it roared down like
a freight train and then it was
on us tearing our house down,”
one trembling man said. Blood
oozed from a wound in Robert
Thurman’s head as he spoke and
beside him his injured wife in a
wheel chair wept quietly.
Two women were killed on Harry
Hines Boulevard when the twister
hurled their car off the road. An
attendant was killed when the
twister hit a service station.
Another man of unknown faith
died at Parkland Hospital while
a Catholic priest administered last
rites. As he died the corridors
and even the offices of the hospi
tal were crowded with more than
100 seriously injured and wails and
moans of victims and relatives
echoed through the tiled halls.
The funnel, which plowed across
the western side of this city of
half a million on election day, was
part of a series of twisters which
hopped over the state. North
eastern Texas was under severe
CS Sets Record
In Tuesday Vote
An all-time high of 518 votes
was cast in College Station yes
terday electing two men to posi
tions on the City Council. In Bry
an, one-third of the eligible voters
elected five men to council posts.
On the county scene, Ralph Yar
borough amassed 1,297 votes in an
incomplete count last night with
four boxes uncounted, to out-strip
the other three leading candidates:
Martin Dies, 866; Searcy Brace-
well, 752; and Thad Hutcheson,
745 in the special senatorial elec
tion.
Elected to College Station City
Commission were J. A. Orr, in
cumbent councilman from ward
one with 169 votes and D. A. An
derson, ward two, 118 votes. Oth
ers receiving votes were Don Dale,
ward one, 101 votes and K. A.
(Cubby) Manning, ward two, with
94 votes.
In ward three, where the only
name listed on the ballot was that
of the late Ernest Seeger, several
legal questions developed when
six write-in candidates got a total
of 34 votes.
“We haven’t checked the state
laws yet and I’m not sure whether
the man with the most write-in
votes wins without a majority,”
City Manager Ran Boswell said.
“City Attorney C. E. Dillon says
he will have to check the laws
also.”
Col. Frank Matthews led the
, voting with 10 votes, but Matt
Warman got only one less. See
ger, who died Thursday, received
six votes. Others named were
Robert Andrews, 5; R. L. Brown,
2 and Bill Magee, 2.
Receiving positions on the Bryan
City Commission were O. B. Don-
aho, with 1,104 votes; Mike Bar
ron, 974; B. F. Vance, 920; Dr. S.
J. Enloe, 765 and John R. Naylor
with 746 votes.
Ralph Yarborough’s victory in
Brazos County was by a margin
of 431 votes over Martin Dies,
the second leading candidate. In
an early count with Tabor, Edge,
Kurten and Smetana boxes not yet
counted, a total of 3,847 votes had
been cast, out of the 8,350 regis
tered voters.
DALLAS,—(A 5 )—Police and
hospitals last night identified
the known dead in the Dallas
tornado as:
Wally Weaver, 54, Dallas,
filling station worker.
Mrs. Florence Rudicil, 65,
Caddo, Okla., visiting a daugh
ter here.
Mary Lucille Hatley, one
month, daughter of Willie Joe
Hatley.
Bobbie Lynn Anderson, 3.
A sister, Marsha Ann An
derson, 2.
A brother, Donal Ray An
derson, 5.
Charles Skiles, 90 and his
wife, Virginia, 84.
Weather Today
STORMY
Severe scattered thunderstorms,
heavy rain, hail and possible tor
nadoes are forecast for the Col
lege Station area until 6:30 this
evening. A tornado warning out
of Kansas City includes the area
between Victoria and Tyler and 60
miles on either side of that strip,
until 6 p.m. today. Scattered thun
derstorms are expected to continue
in the vicinity of College Station
until 9:30 tonight. High and low
temperature readings yesterday
yesterday were 79 and 70 degrees,
and a trace of pi-ecipitation was re
corded. At 10:30 this morning the
mercury stood at 74 degrees.
weather warning from the weather
bureau. Tornadoes also plowed in
to Southern Oklahoma, killing at
least four persons there.
The tornado hit at about 4:20
p.m. (cst) and crashed across
streets clogged with rush hour
traffic.
Tremendous traffic jams devel
oped at Dallas and there was a
great deal of panic in the jams.
Many simply abandoned their
autos, fearing the tornado was
heading toward them. Screaming
ambulances and police cars fought
for passage in main traffic arter
ies.
A tearful old man, cried and
begged: “I’ve got to get out of
this jam—it’s hitting my house and
my wife’s home.”
The sun came out after the
twister passed, but there was no
sun in the hospital corridors,
jammed with crying, wailing,
bloody people. There were dozens
of little children—frightened, hurt
and still.
Sheriff’s Deputy Bob Krause
said some looting had already ta
ken place and officers were rushed
to the scene.
(See TWISTER, Page 2)