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Number 257: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1957
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Off the Cuff-
What Goes
On Here
A testimonial to the fact that not
all English courses are difficult is
posted outside the door on one
of the English classrooms in the
Academic building.
Although somewhat hidden
among the mass of mid-semester
grades, a big “C” shines out be
side the name of a boy who drop
ped the course approximately seven
weeks ago.
★ ★ ★
Two “A” Chemical seniors were
literally “caught with their pants
down’' Thursday morning at Fed
eral Inspection. Rushing around
taking care of last-minute details
the pair lost track of the time
until, to their horror, they heard
the room next to their’s being call
ed to attention. While one strug
gled into his uniform, the other
grabbed a double handful of stray
articles and began stuffing them
into a laundry bag in his closet.
The inspector, Col. E. Beverly
Caldwell, strode into the room,
pushing the door shut on the senior
and caught the other still putting
his shirt into his pants. One look
told the story and Col. Caldwell left,
commenting: “He wasn’t quite
ready, was he?” not aware that
another man was still in the closet,
hitting a brace.
★ ★ ★
Although the Air Force had
quite a rough time in the inspection
yesterday morning due to the West
Point second lieutenants, the tradi
tional “rough” inspections of the
Army seemed to be “watered.”
down.
Could it have been the stag party
given by the hosting A&M officers
for the visiting inspectors ? If it
was, it proves the Air Force boys
have more expei-ience in the party
line.
Senate Favors Integrated
Civilian Seating
UN CLUB DANCER—Mrs. Tri-
veni P. Popat of Bombay, India
was one of the featured dancers
at last night’s U. N. Club meeting
in the YMCA. Mrs. Popat is work
ing on her master’s degree in Ed
ucation at Texas University and
her husband is working for a Ph.D.
in Physical Chemistry.
Great Issues
To Present ,
Overstreets
The “Overstreet Team,” Dr.
Harry A. Overstreet and his
wife, Bonaro, will address the
Great Issues on “Being An In
dividual In Today’s World,”
Wednesday at 8 p.m., in the Me
morial Student Center Ballroom.
Dr. Overstreet is one of the
most widely read and respected au
thors in the field of self-under
standing and human relations. He
has made many lectures over the
world and made many philosophi
cal and psychological contributions
to his audiences.
Bonaro Overstreet is also inter
nationally known for her contri
butions in the field of human re
lations. She has written many
psychological books and also pub
lished many books of poetry. She
has written for the National Par
ent-Teacher and other educational
and religious journals.
For the past 10 years, Dr. Over-
street and his wife have become
widely popular for their “Over-
street Colloquy,” a platform con
versation in which, with spontane
ous back-and-forth talk, they de
velop together their central theme.
The Overstreets, who were mar
ried in 1932, both studied at the
University of California
Pa rking So lu tion
Proposal Passed
By JIM NEIGHBORS
Student senators last night voted to integrate Corps and
Civilian juniors and seniors with reserved seats for everyone
in those sections at all home football games next fall.
In a surprise move, the Senate also approved a report to
raise the car registration fee to $2.50 per semester with the
money used for improvement and construction of parking
lots for students. The report will be sent in the form of a
recommendation to the president for further action.
After a heated debate with several Corps juniors ar
guing against the seating integration, the Senate voted to
(1) raise the date ticket price to $3.50, (2) combine Corps-
Civilian seating and (3) favor the entire reserve seating
* program.
Following the action by the
CS Elections
Still Unsettled
Counseling, Probation
Services May Be Cut
By VAL POLK
Brazos County will be without a
probation officer and counseling
service if the County Commis
sioner’s Court does not appropriate
$28,000 for two people to do these
jobs.
The county is already without a
probation officer since Vic Ehlers,
who is now both probation officer
and guidance counseler for the
county, is swamped with just com
piling case histories and back
grounds for the various juveniles
before the juvenile court.
Ehlers has been informed that
the Division of Mental Health
which has been paying his salary
the last two years, has had its
budget cut and can no longer af
ford to keep him and other such
Mother of the Year
Entries Close Wed.
Wednesday is the last day for
submitting the Mother of the Year
entries. The entries, in the form
of a letter telling of her qualifi
cations, should be sent to the Stu
dent Senate in care of the Social
Committee in the Office of Stu
dent Activities.
In order to be in the running,
the mother must have a son pres
ently enrolled in A&M. The
award will be presented at the
Mother’s Day ceremonies.
men employed in the counties
where they are working. The
federal government helps support
the state agency and they may cut
the budget that has been helping
the division.
Ehlers said that there are 800
children that need the kind of help
he can give them. He works with
children 4-16 in age in counseling
and guidance. As of now he only
has two days a week to counsel
since his other duties take up the
remainder of his time.
He gave the committee some
statistics which showed that 77 per
Dr. Briles to Attend
Research Conference
Dr. W. E. Briles of the Poultry
Science Department will attend the
10th annual Research Conference
of the Biology Division' of Oak
Ridge National Laboratories in
Gatlinburg, Tenn., Monday through
Wednesday.
Briles, a nationally recognized
expert on blood genetics is attend
ing in connection with a local re
search project concerning blood
groups.
A&M Radio Club
Aids in Emergency
By staying on the air until after
midnight calling families of Aggies
who live in the Dallas area, the
Texas A&M Radio Club gave aid
in the emergency created by the
tornado there Tuesday.
Over 35 messages were handled
by the amateurs after it became
known that the local telephone com
pany was swamped with calls.
In many instances the students
were allowed to talk to their par
ents over the short wave hookup.
Don Arnold, president of the
club, stated that the radio service
would be available during any
emergency.
cent of the offenders are white,
93 per cent are boys and 85 per
cent are citizens of College Station
and Bryan. At the present time
95 per cent of the people coming
to him for guirance are white,
He said, “Colored people aren’t
using the service.”
Since Ehlers has come to Brazos
County he has helped to lower the
delinquency list 47 per cent and
in the two year period he has been
here only 10 per cent of the first
offenders have repeated.
When Ehlers first came to this
county an average of 4.2 delin
quents were being sent to training
schools. Now only 2.5 delinquents
are being sent to training schools
and this average has been raised by
a boy from Houston with a long
record of offenses who was sent to
a training school for a theft he
committed here.
Brazos Co.
Planners
Organize
The Brazos County Plan
ning Commission heads met
yesterday in R. B. (Pete)
Butler’s office to organize and
break down into their various
groups for planning action on the
projects of expansion in Brazos
County.
Butler is head of the five man
executive committee, with J. A.
Ch*r representating College Station;
S. R. Wright, A&M College; Casey
Fannin, Bryan and Brazos County
Judge A. S. Ware, the county.
Each representative will appoint a
committee to work under him oii^a
special problem of the expansion.
Two committees have already been
appointed.
Wright appointed Knox Walker,
Fred Sandlin and Ran Boswell to
work with him on the Utility
problems. Orr, in charge of street
planning, appointed Gibb Gilchrist,
W. J. Ware, Fred Benson and Ran
Boswell to assist him. Both com
mittees met and discussed problems
concerning their part of the ex
pansion.
The committees will attend a
talk by Bill Parker, urban renewal
and pre-development specialist for
Caudill, Rowlett & Scott, local
architect designers, Monday at 4
p. m. in the Memorial Student Cen
ter. The public is invited to at
tend the talk.
Weather Today
CLEAR
This morning’s 10:30 tempera
ture reading was 60 degrees. The
mercury rose to 81 degrees yes
terday and dipped to a cool 46
this morning.
PS Profs Travel
To Nacogdoches
Dr. W. F. Kruger and C. B. Ry
an of the Poultry Science Depart
ment will be in Nacogdoches Sun
day through Wednesday at Texas
Experiment sub-station 11 assist
ing data collection on progeny of
meat line crosses of chickens be
ing bred at the main station.
The research project is expected
to yield information on the rela
tion between color patterns in
chickens and broiler growth rates.
Law Hall Starts
Dormitory Council
At a meeting last night called
for planning a dormitory social
event, Law Hall took steps to form
a dorm council and look into
possibilities of adopting a con
stitution.
The action aroused spirited in
terest and brought favorable
reactions from a majority of the
group.
Discussion started when Roy
Andrews, Law representative to the
Civilian Student Council, mentioned
a constitution that a committee of
the Civilian council had drafted
this year. Andrews asked the
group to express their sentiments.
Amidst considerable participa
tion in the discussion, members of
the group brought up the following
advantages that could be gained
from having a dorm council.
1. Betterment of dorm social life.
2. Aid freshmen to become orien
tated to life as Aggies, by better
ment of studying atmospheres and
attitudes toward traditions of the
school.
3. Allowing students a stronger
voice in securing more satisfactory
dormitory conditions.
4. Obtain more influence in cam
pus affairs for civilians through
organization.
Members forming a temporary
council to work toward getting the
dorm government on a permanent
basis are Gordon Baker, Larry
Robinson, David Yost, Billy Sevier,
James Roming, Edwin Burton,
Rodger Andrews, Grady Satter-
white, Lawrence Pecht, Marvin
Pate, Richard Ruben, John Bayse,
Winfred Kainer, Michael Maher,
Blake Blakewood, Bill Montgomery,
Louis Martin and Roy Andrews.
Thursday at 4 p. m. the group
will meet to present a plan for
constitution.
Senate, the recommendation
will be sent to the Athletic
Council for their approval.
According to Senator Joe Ross, the
council plans to hold a special
meeting to act on the recommen
dation.
The senate committee that drew
up the plan expressed the need
for reserve seats in a report to the
Senate. Advantages as given in
the report include “cutting down
the confusion due to the Corp’s
rush for the best seats. Civilian
Students would not have to come
to the games so early in order to
get decent seats, non-students
would not be taking student seats
. . . .” and several more statements
of fact which make the program
advantageous to student body.
Procedure for securing tickets
for the home games will be slightly
different from the way it has been
in the past. Students will still pay
their student activity fee and re
ceive the season ticket, but the
week before a home game each
junior and senior student will have
to secure a reserved seat ticket
fteom the ticket booths.
First Come, First Serve
Tickets will be handed out on a
first come, first served basis with
the juniors and seniors getting
their reserved seats within their
respective sections. Freshmen and
sophomores would also be issued
tickets but they will not be re
served because it was felt by the
Senate that there was very little
difference in any end zone seats.
No rise in date ticket price for
freshmen and sophomores was stip
ulated because conference regula
tions say that date tickets must
cost $3.50 if there are reserved
seats in the end zone. With that
reasoning in mind, freshman and
sophomore date tickets would re
main $2.50.
In order to keep students within
their proper sections, tickets will
be torn in half at the entrance to
Kyle Field and the stubs must be
shown to ushers at the bottom of
each ramp. Corps students will
give one half of their tickets to
the first sergeants to hand in
through the proper channels..
For a date to enter the stadium
she must have a complete ticket
with “date” stamped on it and she
can then go to her reserved seat
to wait for her escort. Each ticket
will correspond to a seat and both
will be marked with numbers.
The Seating Committee has
studied and investigated for several
weeks the various solutions and
they feel reserve seating is the
answer to most of the problems
presented in seating the student
body. The Senate concurred with
them and only action by the Ath
letic Council is needed to put the
program into effect.
Some discussion was raised by
several senators who submitted to
the meeting that with an increased
cost and reserve seating for jun
iors and seniors it would be more
feasible for the Athletic Depart
ment to furnish ushers at the foot
ball games.
Absent from last night’s meeting
were Bernard Smith, Ross Hutche
son, Paul Costa, Cy Holley, Paul
Norton and Jim Rowland.
By WELTON JONES
The voting is over but the smoke
hasn’t cleared in elections for the
College Station City Council.
In what has been called an “un
precedented situation”, ward three
of College Station is presently
without a second representative on
the council.
The incumbent in the office, Sgt.
Ernest Seeger, died last Thursday.
His name was the only one on the
official ballot for the election
Tuesday.
At the election, after city of--
ficials said that a special election
would probably have to be called
to fill the vacancy, 29 write-in
votes were recorded. This total was
opposed to 270 votes cast in ward
one and 212 in ward two.
“After examining all the laws
and cases that I can on the subject,
I think that a run-off election will
have to be held between the write-
in candidates with the most votes,
City Attorney C. E. Dillon said.
Col. Frank H. Mathews (Ret.)
got the most votes with 10. Matt
Warman followed with 9; the late
Sgt. Seeger got six; Robert
Andrews, 5; Rev. R. L. Brown, two
and Bill Magee, two.
“State and city laws specify that
a write-in candidate must get a
majority of the votes cast,” Dillon
said. “Neither Andrews nor War-
man were qualified voters and
therefore they cannot run for the
office and their votes are not count
ed in the final tally. However, the
law does state that votes of a
deceased candidate count in the
total.”
This leaves the total number of
votes in the ward three election
at 20. Ten of these went to Col.
Mathews and the other 10 were
split between the remaining two
candidates and Sgt. Seeger.
“It would appear that there will
be a run-off between Mathews,
Magee and Rev. Brown,” City
Manager Ran Boswell said, “Of
course, each of these men can de
cline to run if they wish. If they
all decline, then a special election
will have to be called.”
Col. Mathews said he was “un
decided” about running in the race.
He formerly served at A&M as a
sergeant with Seeger, but later re
ceived his commission and re
turned here after retiring.
Magee had not decided yester
day either. He has lived in the
ward since last June but moved
here in 1953 to take a job with,
the Entomology Department.
Rev. Brown, a retired minister,
could not be contacted.
“The decisions will be made
Monday at 5 p. m. when the council
meets to canvass the election re
turns,” Boswell said. “We will
just have to wait until then.”
Moore Says ICT
Paid Him $2300
AUSTIN, <A>) — Sen. William
Moore of Bryan said yesterday he
was paid $2,300 in legal retainers
from ICT Insurance Co. in 1953
and 1954.
Moore testified he was hired at
$300 for each month which later
was reduced to $100 monthly. He
denied he was paid $100 monthly
while the legislature was not in
session and $300 a month when it
was meeting.
The Senator appeared before the
special Senate Committee investi
gating the collapse of BenJack
Cage’s ICT enterprises.
A copy of letter to Cage July
27, 1953 from Paul Sparks, ex
ecutive secretary of the Texas
State Federation of Labor and
director of ICT, was introduced
into the record.
The letter said Moore had agreed
to $300 a month while the legisla
ture was in session and $100 a
month when it was not.
“I didn’t make an agreement
like that,” Moore stated. He an
swered “yes” when committee
counsel asked him: “was Sparks
incorrect in his statement.”
Stark Gets Veep
Of College Unions
Wayne Stark, Memorial Student
Center Director, was elected vice
president of the National Associa
tion of College Unions, at its an
nual convention which ended Wed
nesday in Salt Lake City.
Stark was chairman of the Na
tional Games Committee of the
Union last year.
Representing A&M along with
Stark were Charles Haas, business
director of the MSC and Ann Keel,
social and educational director.
They are due back in College Sta
tion Sunday.
Petroleum
Banquet Set
Monday Night
Frank M. Pool, ’41, will be
the principal speaker for the
annual awards banquet of the
Petroleum Engineering De
partment Monday night at
6:30 in the Memorial Student Cen
ter Ballroom.
Following the smorgasbord ban
quet, a number of scholarships will
be presented to outstanding pet
roleum engineering students by
representatives from the petroleum
industry. Recipients of the scholar
ships are selected by the faculty
of the department and are chosen
on academic proficiency and over
all achievement in college activities.
Scholarships to be given to stu
dents currently completing senior
courses are Magnolia Petroleum
Company Scholarship, $400, plus
reimbursement for expenses in
curred during the year to a maxi
mum of $500 and $400 to the de
partment; $500 from Lane-Wells
Company, two $500 awards from
Standard Oil Company of Texas;
and a $125 gold watch to the sen
ior who. has shown the most im
provement in scholarship and a
$125 gold watch to the outstanding
peti’oleum engineering senior, pre
sented by George P. Mitchell.
Awards to be given to students
currently completing junior courses
are the Mission Manufacturing
Company scholarship, $800 and
$400 in unrestricted funds to the
department; $450, plus reimburse
ment for fee, tuition, and books to
a maximum of $500 from the Cali
fornia Company; the Socony Mobil
Oil Company scholarship which in
cludes $400, plus reimbui'sement up
to $500 and $400 to the department;
and three or more petroleum engi
neering handbooks, presented by
George P. Mitchell to outstanding
junior students.
Outstanding professor in the de
partment will be awarded $150
from George P. Mitchell. Recipient
is selected by the Dean of Engi
neering.