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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.