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18,440 READERS 46 Days Til Final Review Number 258: Volume 55 COLLEG ESTATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1957 Price Five Cents OUTSTANDING SENIOR of the Petroleum Engineering Department, Joe Bill Foster re ceives the George P. Mitchell Scholarship Award, a $125 gold watch, presented to him by Mr. Harold Vance, vice president of the Bank of the Southwest. Don McGinty Elected Student Center Prexy Institute Head Services were held yester day afternoon in the Calla- way-Jones Funeral Home for Thomas H. MacDonald, 76, head of the Texas Transporta tion Institute at A&M and former commissioner of U. S. Public Roads. MacDonald was stricken by a heart attack while attending a play in the Memorial Student Center Sunday night and died en- route to a Bryan hospital. The Rev. Norman Anderson of the A&M Presbyterian Church con ducted the services, after which the body was shipped to Washing ton D. C. where interment is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon in the Cedar Hills Cemetery. A native of Leadville, Colo. Mac- I Donald headed the Bureau of Public Roads in 1919 and was the first man appointed to that posi tion. Under his direction the Bureau grew and he had the reputation of being the nation’s gi’eatest roadbuilder. He served as chief of the Bureau until his retirement in 1953 when he came to A&M and took up the reins of the Texas TranspoiTation Institute, official research agency for the Texas Highway Commis sion. Graduating in 1904 from Iowa State College, MacDonald taught there for a year before joining the Highway Commission of Iowa. Seven years later he was named fhief engineer and it was from this post that he moved to head the na^ tion’s road system. For his services during World War II MacDonald received the Medal of Merit from President Harry Truman. In addition, he re ceived several decorations from France, Norway and Czechoslo vakia. He was a member of the execu tive committee of the American Association of State Highway Of ficials and belonged to many high way and engineering societies. Survivors include Mrs. Mac Donald, of College Station; one daughter, Mrs. Margaret Weiding- er of Staunton, Va.; One son, Thomas H. MacDonald, Jr., of Washington, D. C.; one brother, Ross MacDonald of Montezuma, Iowa and two sisters, Mrs. Jean Wade of Montezuma, Iowa and Mrs. Florence Van Feltus of Clearwater, Fla. Don McGinty last night was unanimously elected president of the Memorial Student Center Coun cil and Directorate for the 1957-58 school year. In assuming his position, Mc Ginty is given full responsibility for all student activities that origi nate in the Center which number 19 regular committees and numerous special ones, including the fast-growing Student Con ference on National Affairs. The Council establishes all policy for the Center in addition to governing the budget for the Cen ter. The Directorate, composed of all the committee chairmen, acts as the coordinating body between the Council and the actual operation of the activities, all of which work under separate budgets. Requirement for committee chairmen is that they have a 1 point gpr for the previous se mester to their election and that they be free of scholastic pro bation. All chairmen elected last night were first screened by the nomi nating committee. The choices were then submitted to the Coun cil for final decision. Each of the applicants were interviewed and questioned as to show their ability and plans for their position. McGinty will formally take of fice at the annual Council-Di rectorate banquet planned for April 25 with the theme of “An Ameri can In Paris” complete with a plaster of paris Eiffel Tower. In other action, the Council elected Don Cloud as vice president and Jack Nelson as SCONA III chairman for the coming year. Both men also Were approved unanimously. Committee chairmen narped for next year are Hal Wallace, Table Tennis; Bill Richardson, Chess; James Bethel, House Committee; William Hampton, Public Rela tions; Frank Buchannan, Bridge; Robert Kidd, Great Issues; Ronald Buford, Browsing Library; John Greenwalt, Radio; Hiram French, Dance; Joe Harris, Music; Alfred Padbury, Camera; Carl Pehnke, Personnel Bureau; Wesley Simp son, Recital Series; Gladen R. Hamilton, Flying Kadets; Floyd Hardimon, Bowling; Weldon Ken Curry, Junto; James D. West, Film Society; and Miron J. Fenton, Creative Art Group. Council members elected to seiwe next year are Hugh Wharton and Roy Davis. Latin Atmosphere Pan American Countries Pictured in MSC Program Aggies desiring to visit the 21 Pan American Countries can do so this week—without leaving the Memorial Student Center, accord ing to Hugh Wharton, chairman of the Pan American Week Commit tee. Whafton explained the “tours” to the countries will consist of exhibits, movies, Mexican food, Latin American music, art displays and speakers designed to celebrate the friendship between the United States and the Latin American countries. The program replaces South of the Border Week and is the result of a presidential pro clamation declaring April 9-14 Pan American Week. Aggie Speakers Gain Recognition David Dannenbaum and Jay Hirsch, A&M freshmen, won “superior” ratings in oral inter pretation of poetry and after din ner speaking respectively at the Southern Speech Association’s speech and debate tournament held at the University of Georgia last week. E. M. Huitt and John Warner, juniors, were x’ated “excellent” in debate. Dr. Harrison Hierth of A&M’s English Department acted as sponsor for the trip. The annual tournament featured entries from nearly 20 states. It will be held in Houston next year. Highlights of the week will be Grace Kelly in “Green Fire” and “Honeymoon in Havana,” on the starlight terrace, sponsored by the Film Society and Cafe de Monte Carlo, Rue Pinalle a la Latin America with an all girl floor show and popular music by the High- Five in the ping pong area of the MSC. His excellency Julio A. Lacarte, Ambassador from Uruguay, will be the chief speaker for the cele bration. He speaks Sunday at 2:30 p. m. on “The Western Hemisphere —Bulwark of Defense.” Local Lions Club Elects Officers Charles G. Haas was elected president of the College Station Lions club in their annual election yesterday at a luncheon in the Me morial Student Center. Other officers elected were D. E. Davis, first vice president; D. R. Fitch, second vice president; G. L. Huebner, third vice president; S. M. Gaafar, secretary-treasurer; J. R. Watkins, assistant secretary- treasurer; R. P. Foster, tail twis ter; H. A. York, assistant tail twister; R. A. McCaulley, lion tamer; E. A. Svendsen, assistant lion tamer and R. P. Scoggins, board member for a two-year term. Featured all week will be a Mexi can art show, displays from the countries of Latin America,' music from L&tin America played over the MSC sound system and Mexi can food served in the fountain and dining room. PAW is a project of the MSC Directorate and is working in co- oi'dination with local chapters of the American Association of Uni-, versify Women, Pan American Round Table and the International Affairs Committee. Students from Pan American countries also have helped pi'epare the exhibits, Whar ton said. Members of the PAW commit tee are Hiram French, Bob Kidd, James West, Brady Armstrong, Carlos Salina, Bill Hampton, Bob Surovik and Billy Fernandez. Re presenting the Pan American Club are Jesus Vega, Mexico, and Hector Marciacq, from Panama. Miss Sue Albright and Miss Sadie Hatfield from the Pan American Round Table and Mi’s. Horace R. Blank, Mrs. John Ashton and Mrs. Robert Bossier form the Association of University Women are assisting in the celebration. Weather Today PARTLY CLOUDY Yesterday’s high and low tem perature readings were 71 and 42 degrees. At 10:30 this morning the mercury stood at 59 degrees. School Planner To Speak Tonight Dr. Stanton Leggett, educational consultant for the planning of school buildings and participant in educational surveys, will speak to night at 8 in the Animal Husban dry Lecture room on the “Human Scale in Educational Institutions,” sponsored by the division of Arch itecture. A graduate of Columbia Univer sity, Leggett is the author of sev eral books on school systems and planning school buildings. He is a member of the American Asso ciation of School Administrators, New York Academy of Education and the National Society for the Study of Education. Jobs Now Open On Commentator Students in the School of Arts and Sciences interested in hold ing top staff positions on the 1957- 58 Commentator are requested to make arrangements for interviews at the Office of Student Publica tions on the ground floor of the YMCA before 5 p.m. Friday, Apr. 12, according to Dave McLain, next year’s editor. Office hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Map Gen. Meloy RY Guest Speaker Maj. Gen. Guy S. Meloy, Jr., ex commandant of A&M will be guest speaker at the annual Ross Volun teer banquet April 27, in the ballr room of the Memorial Student Cen ter. Cadets Against Mixed Seating Plan Piper Refutes Petition Leaders By JOE TINDEL About 1,200 Corps students have signed petitions buck ing the Student Senate’s plan for integrated Corps and Civ ilian junior and senior seating at Kyle Field next year. Larry Piper, Senate president, struck back at the insti gators of the petition charging they hadn’t given the signers enough time to think out the plan. He said the senators who were in the minority in voting on the seating plan started the petition directly following the Thursday night Senate meeting at a dormitory meeting and enough names were obtained there to get a referendum. An other petition was supposedly being circulated at the same time. C, L. Hurley Wins Award For Poem Charley Lee Hurley, of the English Department, has been named the winner of the Crit ics Award for his poem “The Plaza”. In addition to Placing first in the Critics Award he also won first prize in a contest conducted by the Poetry Society of Texas. Hurley’s poem, along with other winners, will appear in the year book of the society, “A Book of the Year.” Hurley, a professional member of the National Writers Club, is the author of “I Shall Remember,” a book of his collected poems. Two narrative poems, “The Lost Elizabeth”, which won the Hilton Greer Award, and “Jimbo: The Wild Man of the Navidad,” the story of a runaway slave who lived in Devil’s Pocket, a dense thicket on the Gulf coast of Texas, are also the works of Hurley. Hurley is the winner of more than 30 first prizes in poetry con tests. He has won the New York National Poetry Center Gold Medal, the Old South Prize and the top award for poetry in the Southwest Writers Conference. * Tom Upchurch, junior class senator, started one petition shortly after the Senate meet ing. He is among the sena tors who opposed the plan for integration. Upchurch said the main purpose- of the petition was to call for a referendum to stop plans for in tegration of Corps and civilian juniors and seniors. It has noth ing to do with the rest of the plan, he said. “There is no animosity meant by those signing the petition toward the civilian students,” Upchurch said. “We who signed the petition are not among the ones who think civilians are not Aggies.” He said the reason signers didn’t want integration was that they wanted the Corps to remain one body at a football game. “I think the civilians ought to realize that the Corps is a selling factor for A&M,” Upchurch said. “If it remains one body it will pre sent a better picture at football games.” Concerning the “better picture at the games,” Piper said he “did n’t see” Upchurch’s argument. “They have their dates sitting with them,” he said. Piper said the main purpose of the integration plan is-to make a big step toward unifying the Corps and civilian students and promote hannony. “You can’t work with anybody you don’t know,’ he said. Upchurch said he didn’t think the plan would unify Corps and (See PETITION, Page 3) Orr, Anderson Confirm Seats; One Is Vacant J. A. Orr and D. A. Ander son were officially elected to the College Station City Coun- c i 1 yesterday at a special Council meeting for canvass ing votes of the recent city elec tion, but the glaring problem of what to do about a ward three councilman was not solved. Ernest Seeger, incumbent and unopposed for that seat on the ballot, died last Thursday. Col. Frank H. Mathews received the most write-in votes, but failed to get a margin since the 33 votes were split among six candidates. Declared ineligible for a run off election were Matt Warman, nine votes; Robert Andrews, five votes and Bill Magee, two votes. Warman and Andrews did not have poll tax receipts or exemptions and Magee could not fulfill the length of residence requirements. Seeger received six votes. “There are two things that I see about this case after careful study,” City Attorney C. E. Dillon said. “The Texas Election Code says the winner must have a majority and, after ruling out ineligible candidates, there are only two people who can run.” Dillon referred to Col. Mathews and Rev. R. L. Brown. Rev. Brown got two votes. Petroleum Engineers Take Away $6,700 in Awards More than $6700 was awarded last night at the annual Petroluem Engineer’s Award Banquet in the Ballroom of the Memorial Student Center. Frank M. Pool, the principal speaker is an independent oil operator from San Angelo and a graduate in class of 1941. “Leader ship and Lethargy” was the title of his talk to the 200 quests and students attending the banquet. He said, “Industry is now using people in the industry for leader ship. To you and I it offers a great opportunity.” To be a success as a leader in the industry, he said, “You can’t live with yester day’s mistakes and tomorrow’s fears and be a success. Many of our leaders fail because they are seeking perfection instead of pro ficiency.” Joe Bill Foster received the Magnolia Petroleum Company Scholarship of $400 plus fees to a maximum of $500 and $400 un restricted funds to the department. Foster also received the George P. Mitchell Scholarship Award as the outstanding Petroleum Engi neering Senior, a $125 gold watch. Joe K. Moore received the Lane- Wells Company Scholarship of $500. Larry Piper and R. L. Ridings were awarded the Standard Oil Company of Texas Scholarships of $500 each. The George P. Mitchell Scholar ship Award to the petroleum engineering senior who has made the most improvement in scholar- A A "s Find Missing Car Campus Security patrolmen last night solved a car theft case—without getting out of their car. It seems that a student came over to their office, de claring his car had been stol en from in front of White Col iseum where he parked it. The college sleuths found the car—half a block down the street. “Elementary Watson.” ship during his senior year was won by David Gore. The award was a $125 gold watch. Receiving the Mission Manu facturing Company Scholarship for a junior was George E. Detwiler. His scholarship included $800 cash and $400 unrestricted funds to the department. Robert C. Schlaudt, James Clark, and G. W. Tuttle received pet roleum engineering hand books for winning the George P. Mitchell Scholarship Awards for outstand ing junior petroleum engineering students. The Socony Mobil Oil Company Scholarship was given to Delvin J. Lefner. It included $400 cash plus fees to a maximum of $500 and $400 unrestricted funds to the de partment. Marion D. Aimold was awarded $450 cash plus fees, tuition and books to a maximum of $500 by the California Company. The Geoi-ge P. Mitchell Award to a teacher in the Petroleum Engineering Department, an award of $150, was awarded to James W. Amyx.