Large Vote Tallied in Class Elections;
McLaughlin, Christian in MSC Council
THE
BATTALION
Number 260: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1957
Price Five Cents
Off the Cuff
What Goes
On Here
The Corps formed for its weekly
pass-by last night. Bugles in
unison sounded “Assembly” and the
Band moved across the quadrangle
playing the War Hymn.
Sweat pants and jean-clad in
tramural athletes moved to the side
doors of Duncan for the evening
meal. One alert, athletic-minded
Aggie paused as the Band swung
into the final strain of “There’ll
Be A Hot Time In the Old Town
Tonight,” listened a moment, and
said, “That’s a familiar sounding
tune. Wonder what it is?”
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A late car-license plate purchaser
yesterday shelled out the necessary
cash to register his car at the
Brazos County office and was pre
pared to have his vehicle branded
either TU or TT for the rest of the
year.
But he was mildly surprised to
find the TT and TU numbers were
gone, and TS plates were being
handed out.
“No doubt the TS is abbreviation
for Tough Shirts,” he laughingly
quipped.
Frank Muller Wins
EE Paper Contest
Frank W. Muller, senior elec
trical engineering major from
Santa Fe, won first place in the
seventh district of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers
for his entry “Chopper Stabiliza
tion of D.C. Analog Computers,”
in a meet held at New Mexico Col
lege of Agricultural and Mechani
cal Arts Friday.
Muller’s paper and oral pi’esenta-
tion were, in competition , wlSth
16 other themes, representing
schools from six states.
In addition to the $25 first prize
award, Muller won a gold cup
award for A&M in recognition of
the student’s accomplishment. This
marks the second consecutive year
that an A&M student has won the
coveted prize.
The prize winning paper will be
submitted later for judging for
the best student paper in the en
tire AIEE, for which the prize is
$100.
Weather Today
SHOWERS
Today’s forecast calls for most
ly cloudy weather with scattei'ed
showers. The thermometer reach
ed 74 yesterday, with a low of
58 this morning. The temperature
at 10:30 was 64 degrees.
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MSC SENOR1TAS—Left to right are Dora Magee, Wilma Adams, Earline Atteberry,
Marilyn Casper, Shirley Cannon, Alyce Staehs and Janet Lancaster celebrating Pan Ameri
can Week by dressing in traditional Latin American costumes.
CS
Planned
May 7; Two Running
College Station election problems
were cleared somewhat yesterday
at a called meeting of the City
Council to decide procedure for
electing a councilman to fill the
vacancy left by Ernest Seeger, who
died three days before the recent
elections, in which he was running
unopposed for re-election.
Col. Frank Mathews (USA Ret.)
and the Rev. R. L. Brown have
both been certified to run in the
run-off election and have expressed
their intentions to do so. Col.
Mathews received 10 write-in votes
in the last election but could not
CS Post Offices
Close Saturdays
College Station Post Offices
will be closed Saturday and
Sundays, effective April 13,
according to post office offi
cials. City mail deliveries will
also be discontinued on these
days.
Beginning Monday, the post
offices will be open from 8
a. m. to 4:30 p. m., Monday
through Friday.
muster the majority of votes cast
that the Texas Election Code calls
for.
“Matt Warman, who is over 60
years old and got 9 votes in the
first election, has graciously con
sented not to ask to run,” City
Attorney C. E. Dillon said. “The
most delicate problem in the whole
thing is whether citizens over 60
can vote and hold office without a
poll tax exemption in cities under
10,000 population.”
Opinion diffei’s on this point,
although the newly-drawn-up Tex
as Election Code plainly states that
these voters must secure an exemp
tion. Dillon said he even contacted
Texas Attorney-General Will Wil
son on the matter.
“Wilson seemed to support the
group that says those over 60 don’t
have to have one,” said Dillon.
“However, there have been no test
cases under the new law and we
might have had some trouble if
someone over 60 had decided to
run.”
The special election has been set
for May 7 in the city hall, City
Manager Ran Boswell said. Two
names will be on the ballot: Col.
Mathews and Rev. Brown.
“Contrary to what some people
have said, write-in votes will be
accepted in the contest,” Dillon
said. “Also, if someone over 60
receives a majority of votes cast,
and he has no exemption, he will
still be the new ward three council-
Fish Engineers
Elect Heye Prexy
Members of the newly organized
Freshman Engineering Society
elected William B. Heye Jr., fresh
man engineering major from San
Antonio their first president.
The club, which met last Mon
day night, is being sponsored by
the Engineering Council.
Elected vice president was Ron
ald Lee Harrod, mechanical engi-
neeiung major from Houston. Sec-
retary-ti'easurer for the coming
year is Michael L. McGuire, first
year chemical engineering major.
Judgi
FFA Area III
log Contest
Here May 2
Nine hundred Texas FFA
members will compete in the
Area III judging- contest here
Saturday to pick the out
standing teams to represent
this area in the state judging con
test May 2.
Ninety vocational agriculture
teachers will be on hand to wit
ness the efforts of the 262 teams
they coached in various judging
fields.
This contest, sponsored by Area
III of the FFA, will be conducted
by A&M’s collegiate FFA chapter
with the assistance of other agri
cultural faculty members.
Assistants in charge of each
phase of judging will be T. G.
King, meats; Murray Brown, dairy
judging; W. T. Berry, livestock;
E. D. Parnell, poultry; J. F. Mills,
land judging and Dr. Isaac Peters,
dairy products.
“This contest is the final labora
tory in a study in selection of ani
mals by these students. The im
portant thing in this contest is not
winning but the experience gained
by the contestants,” according to
E. V. Walton, head of the Agri
cultural Education Department.
Many of the boys presently at
tending A&M received their first
look at the college as members of
these teams, Walton said.
Robertson, Fayette, Harris,
Montgomery, Calhoun, Walker,
Wharton, Brazoria, Matagorda,
Victoria, Lavaca, Colorado, Burle
son, Austin, Washington, Ft. Bend,
Waller, Gi’imes, Walker and Braz
os counties will be represented by
the teams.
Over 40 Men In
April 16 Runoff
Nearly 1,500 Aggies turned out yesterday either to pick
the best men for the job or out of fascination at the new
voting machines to elect their class officers for 1957-58.
In one of the largest turnouts for class elections
in recent years, 46 men either got elected to office or went
into the run-off April 16.
Bill McLaughlin, ran away from other candidates to be
elected senior representative to the Memorial Student Cen
ter Council.
Floyd F. Christian grabbed junior representative to the
Council.
Theron McLaren and Bob Surovik battled neck and neck
for senior class president to*
go into a runoff.
In the run-off for vice pres
ident are J. W. Stone, F. B.
McLaughlin and Buddy Maed-
gen.
Tom R. Harris, R. G. Anthony
and George Ragsdale will fight it
out April 16 for secretary-treas
urer.
In the second primary for so
cial secretary will be David Mc
Lain, J. P. Gatlin and T. C. John
son.
J. W. Cantrell, C. E. Garcia and
F. Hardimon will be fighting for
historian in the runoff.
Still in the running for yell
leaders will be Ted R. Lowe, J.
Wilkinson and J. N. McGown.
In the runoff for president of
the Class of ’59 are Willian R.
Markillie, Gene R. Birdwell and R.
(Dick) Noack.
Others in the runoff for junior
class officers are:
Vice president: Meibern G.
Glasscock, William A. (Bill) Mey
ers and Roderick D. Stepp. Secre
tary-treasurer: Manley W. Jones,
Charles H. Robinson and R. T. G.
(Bob) Lassiter. Social secretary:
Edward W. Hill, Calvin D. Camp
bell and Don S. Cornwall.
In the runoff for junior yell
leaders are Ross F. Hutchison,
Bob L. Williams and Tom (Killer)
Miller.
The Class of ’60 put Byron C.
Blaschke, Allen N. Burns and Gene
R. Laningham in the runoff for
president of the, sophomore class.
Others in the runoff are:
Vice president: Robert Van
(See RESULTS, Page 2)
Corps Headquarters
Moving to Dorm 2
College officials are taking steps
to move the Corps Staff head
quarters to its new location in
Dormitory 2 sometime in the near
future, with the purpose of mak
ing it the “Gateway of the New
Dorm Area.”
According to L. E. Sheppard Jr.,
deputy corps commander, the shift
is to be completed possibly by
the end of this semester or de
finitely by early next September.
“It depends on whether or not
the new furniture we’re waiting
for gets hei'e on time,” he said.
The flag pole and Edwin O’Brien
Bellinger’s bugle stand have al
ready been placed alongside of
Dorm 2. In addition, attempts are
being made to bring in two old
French .75 mm cannons from the
motor pool to dress up the ap
pearance.
Sheppard said they were think
ing of installing a reveille cannon,
“much like that used at West
Point,” but that firing it once a
day would run into expense.
“Besides,” he added “think of
all the gripes we’d get from sleep
ing juniors and seniors.”
The new quarters are. i;o be
equipped with new steel office
furniture, steel filing cabinets,
fluorescent lights and veneian
blinds. A special room with over
night facilities will be provided for
privates of the guard.
Preliminary plans are being
made for an open house in the
new quarters on Mother’s Day
weekend.
Four Lads Sing
At Town Hall
Final Show
Town Hall will present its
final show of the year April
29 in White Coliseum featur
ing the Four Lads, backed up
by Hal McIntyre and his or
chestra with Debbie Brown and
the Mclntots.
Voted “America’s favorite vocal
group,” by the Make-Believe-Ball-
room-Poll, the Lads have had such
top releases for Columbia as
“Standing on the Corner,” “Paper
of Pins,” “Who Needs You” and
“No, Not Much.”
They will replace the Four
Freshmen, who were previously
scheduled but are unable to ap
pear because of an extended en
gagement on Ray Anthony’s tele
vision show.
The Four Lads, whose names are
Frank Busseri, Beinie Toorish,
Connie Codarina and Jimmy
Arnold, began singing in the St.
Michael’s Cathedral Choir School
in Toronto, Canada. Their first
big break in the music industry
came with a “tryout” at Le Ruban
Bleu which lasted for a 30 weeks
engagement.
Backing the Four Lads will be
Hal McIntyre and his orchestra
McIntyre played for many years
with the original Glenn Miller
Orchestra and organized his own
group at the suggestion of the
Great Miller.
Admission for this musical treat
will be $2 for adults and $1 for
elementary and high school chil
dren. Season tickets will be honor
ed.
Salesmen Needed
For Vita Craft
A meeting for all students In
terested in selling Vita Craft as a
part-time job for the summer are
urged to attend a meeting tonight
at 7:30 in the lecture room of the
Animal Industries Building accord
ing to Tom Montgomery, executive
board member for the A&M chap
ter.
Montgomery said in the past sev
eral years, numerous Aggies have
financed their way through A&M
by selling Vita Craft. He said
three boys last summer made more
than $2,300 profit each plus re
ceiving a $300 scholarship.
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