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Number 262: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1957
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Off the Cuff-—
What Goes
On Here
Crew-cut Pete Hardesty of the
Department of the Student Activi
ties was certainly having a ball
at the Cotton Ball Friday night,
according to a couple of casual ob
servers.
It seems that Hardesty was mak
ing the most of the occasion and
trying his dead level best to dance
with every duchess among the
many there.
As ho and a sweet young thing
danced, she was impressed enough
to ask long-legged Hardesty, about
35:
“What are you majoring in?”
One of Hardesty’s friends saved
the flattered gent from answering
that by off the the cuff-like chirp
ing, “Where are your wife and
children, Pete?”
★ ★ ★
Seems like the Cotton Pageant
and Ball were in quite capable
hands with chairman of entertain
ment Vol Davis around to make
sure things went straight.
To prove Vol’s efficiency a couple
of his friends tell how he handled
the following situation.
The Cotton Queen had been
selected and crowned. But lo and
behold, an embarrassing techni
cality arose because somebody
goofed and didn’t get the charming
lassie registered correctly. In
other words the Agronomy Society
needed to collect $7.50.
So Vol Davis automatically was
volunteered to do what had to be
done.
Vol ambles over to the queen and
suggests politely, “If the registra
tion fee isn’t sent in pronto, looks
like we’ll have to take that crown
away from you.”
All’s well that ends well. A
certified check for the registration
fee was in hands of the proper
authorities the next morning, the
informers said.
SEARCHING FOR A BREAK in the telephone cable last night between Bryan and Col
lege Station are left to right J. J. Skrabanek, Wallace Morris, A. H. Foltermann and Joe
Lero. This picture was taken about three hours after the power failure and the linemen
had then narrowed the “break” between two points 1,000 feet apart. The workmen said
the power failure was due to water reaching the cable.
Aggies Win Second
At McNeese Rodeo
★ ★ ★
Ernest Hedgcock of the English
Department was in Houston last
Monday giving a lecture on “Con- To Cut 2nd Voters
ference Technique” to a group of
Humble oilmen studying problems
of the oil industry. After his
lecture, Dr. Hedgcock asked them
what they thought of the college
graduates they hire.
Obviously hedging, they said,
“Oh, they’re good guys, but we
have a lot of trouble with them.
They don’t think they should have
\o work; they expect to be super
visors from the start. The damned
A.rmy has ruined them.”
Led by Rodney Butler, Curtis points, Aggie riders won the team
Burlin and Kennith Beasley each
topping 100 individual points, the
A&M rodeo team rode, roped and
wrestled their way to second-place
the National Intercollegiate
Rodeo Association meet held at the
McNeese State College arena last
Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Though out-scored by McNeese’s
cowboys, G54 to 541% total team
Guard Being Used
UT Coed Crowned
’Queen of Cotton’
Carlene Johnson, a junior at the
University of Texas, was crowned
Queen Cotton at the annual Cotton
Pageant and Ball Friday night in
Sbisa Hall.
Miss Johnson was selected from
a procession of 161 duchesses
entered by hometown clubs and
A&M Mothers Clubs throughout
the state. Judges were: Miss
Graydon Heartsill, fashion editor
of the Dallas Times Herald; Miss
Mary Carter, dress designer and
Max, from Photo Associates, all of
Dallas.
King Cotton, John Beaty, senior
agronomy major from Comanche,
crowned Miss Johnson soon after
she and the eight members of her
court were selected. Earlier in the
evening Beaty was crowned King
by Bryan C. Miller of the Texas
Textile Mills, McKinney.
Morris Frank of the Houston
Chronicle, was master of cere
monies for the pageant.
In an attempt to eliminate two
votes being cast by the same per-
n, the election commission said
yesterday voters would be handed
a 3 x 5 card at a desk near the
voting machines for writing their
names and ID numbers.
“We will check names after the
voting is over tonight, “said Theron
McLaren, who was acting chair
man at a meeting of the election
commission yesterday.
Voting is scheduled to end at 6
p. m. today, with all voting to be
on machines.
“We haven’t publicized this yet,
but we offered opportunity for
people to vote absentee if they
were planning to be out of town
today,” said W. D. (Pete) Hard
esty, adviser of the election com
mission.
“One absentee ballot was turned
in to me and two were given to the
secretary, Doris Bahlmann.”
ti'ophy because of. the NIRA rul
ing that the host cannot obtain
the prize.
A&M collected enough points to
retain their first-place rating in
the Southern Region of the NIRA.
They now have a total of 1,362
points as compared to second-place
McNeese’s 1300.
Butler was high scorer for the
Ags, gathering 150 individual
tallies. His list of achievements in
cluded second and first in the first
two go-rounds of saddle-bronc rid
ing and third in average score for
the event. In steer wrestling, he
captured second and fourth places
in the first two go-rounds and
highest in average score.
Burlin ran a close second for
A&M, gathering 144 points. He
placed second in both bareback
riding and bull riding.
Cushing Library
Slates Holidays
Cushing Library will observe
the following schedule during
the spring recess, according to
M. V- Krenitsky, assistant
librarian,
Wednesday, April 17—8
m. to 5 p. m.
Thursday, April 18—8. a. in.
to 5 p. m.
Friday, April 19—8 a.
to 5 p. m.
Saturday, April 20—Closed
Sunday, April 21—Closed
Monday, April 22—Closed
WO
Out
reshmen
Runoff
Pair Plan Appeal
To Student Senate
By LELAND BOYD
“You cannot be a candidate in the run-off election!”
That is what the election commission told two freshmen
yesterday afternoon.
The disqualifying action was taken against Gene R.
Laningham and Robert Van Winkle. Laningham had hoped
to be elected president of the Class of ’60 and Van Winkle
aspired to win the vice presidency, Class of ’60. The pair
plan to appeal to the Student Senate.
But their names are not on the voting machine ballots
today because of a hard to understand section of the 1956
Book of College Regulation on student elections, according
to Laningham.
And the election commis-"*
sion has thrown out any hopes
Kennith Beasley, with a total of
101 points, won two second-place
spots and one third-place in bronc-
busting. He also tied for fifth in
bull riding. Behind him came A. G
Ollre with 96% counters, winning
fourth-place ties in bareback and
saddle-bronc riding and thii’d in
bull riding.
Roger Lacy accounted for 50 of
A&M’s points, placing third in the
first go-round of bronc-riding and
second in, average ribbon roping.
John Kiker was the sixth mem
ber of the squad.
All-around champion cowboy at
the rodeo was Clyde May of Mc
Neese, mustering 317 points.
The rodeo team will travel to the
Texas Christian University-Arl-
ington State College Rodeo on
April 19-20. The same team mem
bers will make up the squad ex
cept for Kiker, who will be re
placed by Vergil Patrick.
Rains Short Out
Electrical Power
Bryan and a part of College Sta
tion, the section serviced by the
Bryan Electric Service, was
temporarily out of order last night
due to heavy rains that shorted out
the underground cable. Both
phones and electrical services were
out of order during this period of
time. The only communication be
tween the twin cities for a while
last night was between the local
police forces via car radio, accord
ing to R. P. Batten, of Campus
Security.
the two might have had by de
claring “write-in votes will
not be valid in today’s run-off
election.”
Advisor to the commission, W.
D. Hardesty, said he did not con
sider write in votes fair since a
candidate had not troubled him
self to enter the regular election.
We aren’t trying to run elections
around here like it is done in state
elections, Hardesty said.
In disqualifying Laningham and
Van Winkle the commission passed
the following motion made by Tom
my Hennard and seconded by Bud
dy Maedgen:
“In view of admitting their
guilt in placing mimeographed cop
ies of names for officer behind door
cards, I move that Gene R. Lan-
ingham’s and Robert Van Winkle’s
names be removed from the ballot
for offices for which they have
filed.”
The motion passed, unanimously.
Theron McLaren, acting chair
man in the absence of commission
chairman Don Weber, said the two
had placed the literature on door
cards. McLaren said this violated
the I'ules governing methods of
campaigning for student offices
He said everything except per
sonal solicitation is prohibited
And the election commission de
fines personal solicitation as “£
guy going around to different peo
pie and whipping out and not leav
ing any written material.”
Laningham said he was acquain
ted with the rules of elections. But
he feels the reason he was disqual
ified was a matter of interpreta
tion of rules.
He says he was campaigning the
new Corps area and finished going
to rooms of all fi'eshmen in Dorms
2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12.
(See DISQUALIFIED, page 2.)
Latin Engineer
Will Study
A&M Methods
Dr. Carlos Furtado de Sim
as, director of the School of
Engineering, University of
Bahia, Brazil, will be on the
campus for four days, begin
ning May 4, to study American en-
gineeidng curricula, methods of in
struction and work in petroleum
engineering and soil mechanics.
He is being sent hei'e by the
Committee on Leaders and Special
ists of the American Council on
Education and will also visit other
American schools, according to Dr.
Walter H. Delaplane, dean, School
of Arts and Sciences.
A graduate of the School of En
gineering, extension work. School
of Fine Ards, University of Bahia,
Dr. de Simas is primarily interes
ted in the organization of schools
of engineering and the process of
preparing engineers in the United
States. His special interests are
experimental analysis of struc
tures and architectural acoustics
Dr. de Simas is a Rotarian and
amateur radio operator.
Latin Speaker
Discusses Our
Hemisphere
“The Western Hemisphere:
a bastion of peace,” was the
title of the Pan American Day
speech made by Julio A. La-
carte, ambassador from Uru
guay, in the Memorial Student Cen
ter April 14.
“Latin America can hardly af
ford to remain a group of 21 indi
vidual nations, each battling to
maintain its place in the world
economy in which large, blocs pro
tect and further the interests of
their members. In taking mea
sures in the light of this situation,
these counti’ies will welcome any
and all initiatives taken by the
United States to join in such ac
tion, for along this path lies the
aim of closer hemispheric rela
tions that we all pursue,” Lacarte
said.
“Our strategic interdependence
is obvious and it has been recog
nized in the Rio Treaty of Mutual
Assistance, whereby an outside at
tack on any of our countries, is
considered an attack on all,” he
said.
“Speaking for Uruguay in this
connection, may I express our view
that the improvement of the stand
ard of living in our hemisphere
attained through positive develop
ment plans, constitutes a basic
factor in the free exercise of rep
resentative democracy, which is
itself the best deterrent to the in
filtration of alien and unhealthy
ideology which seeks to attack the
essential concepts of human dig
nity and respect which are the
common heritage of Western civ
ilization,” he added.
Drive Begins Today
$5,300 Sought for Cancer
IL Athletic Head
To Speak Tonight
Dr. Rhea H. Williams, Athletic
Director of the Interscholastic
League, is guest speaker for the
Physical Education Club tonight at
7:30 in Room 231 of White
Coliseum.
Coaches from surrounding dis-
tricts have been invited to hear
Williams speak. The Physical Ed
ucation Club extends a cordial in
vitation to anyone interested in
By JOE BUSER
Sixty cents of every dollar raised
by the American Cancer Society
during the Cancer Crusade will be
used within the state for local can
cer control programs, local ACS
Chairman, Charles D. Hart said
today.
The ACS campaign gets under
way today with a goal of $5,300,
Brazos County’s share of the $30,-
000,000 being sought nationally.
Hart said it was the public’s
right to know how cancer contri
butions were to be used. He said
60 per cent remains with the Texas
Division of the ACS for state
wide and community cancer control
programs; 25 per cent is used to
support a nation wide program of
cancer research conducted by more
than 1,000 scientists in nearly 140
institutions; and 12 per cent is
sent to national headquai’ters of
the ACS to administer national
programs of professional and
public education and service. Of
for general administra-
2.4 per cent for fund
allocated
tion and
raising.
The remaining three per cent
provides medical grants, scholar
ships and fellowships. Since this
program was launched in 1951,
nearly 600 young scientists have
received advanced training in can
cer research.
the talk to attend the meeting. this percentage, only 2.8 per cent is
Aggie Band Slates
Concert April 30
Music of all varieties will be
featured in a free concert given by
the Texas Aggie Band in Guion
Hall at 7:45 p. m. on April 30, ac
cording to Col. E. V. Adams, band
director.
A general type concert with
various musical selections ranging
from popular to classical fills the
program, Adams said. A piccolo
solo, a baritone solo and coronet
octet are feature attractions.
The concert is open to the public
and no admission will be charged.
The ACS leader pointed out the
Society’s books are audited and
made public annually.
“The cancer dollar is used
efficiently and economically in the
best tradition of American busi*
ness,” Hart said. “The dividends
we pay are in an ever-growing
number of American lives saved
from cancer. No better investment
can be made this April than a
contribution to the annual Cancer
Crusade.”
Weather Today
RAIN
Thunder showers are forecast for
the area until 5:30 p. m., with
skies to continue cloudy through
out the ady. Pi’ecipitation yester
day and early this morning to
taled 1.71 inches. Yesterday’s high
and low temperature readings were
66 and 61 degrees. At 10:30 this
morning the mercury stood at 67
degrees.
Luncheon Starts
SCONA III Plans
SCON A III was born yesterday
with a kick off luncheon at noon
in the Memorial Student Center.
Heading SCONA III is Jack Nel
son and sub-committee chairmen
are Thomas Upchurch, program;
Pat Resley, planning; Don Kirby,
finance; Toby Eady, secretariat;
Theron McLaren, housing; John
Ligon, publicity; Thatch Shepard,
transportation; Carl Zeitler, ar
rangements; Lamar Smith, secre-
tai-y of the conference and Don Mc-
Ginty, the 1957-58 Memorial Stu
dent Center Council president and
Robert Kidd, the 1957-58 chairman
of Great Issues.
The conference this year plans
to broaden out and take in more
delegates and universities, Nelson
said. In this way the information
obtained at SCONA can be passed
on to the students of those colleges.
Teague Receiving
Plastic Surgery
Jim Teague, injured last month
in an automobile accident near
Beaumont is to begin receiving
plastic surgery Wednesday for the
left side of his face and his right
arm, acording to his father. Rep.
Olin (Tiger) Teague.
Rep. Teague said young Teague’s
lung, once collapsed, “has not
completely responded” but his
injured back now seems to be “in
good shape.”
Engineer Meeting
Opened By Benson
Fred J. Benson, vice director,
Texas Engineering Experiment
Station, gave the Welcome address
at the opening session of the tenth
annual Conference for Protective
Relay Engineers, which began yes
terday. ,
The convention extends through
today. M. C. Hughes, head of the
Electrical Engineering Department,
was chairman of the opening ses
sion.
Speakers yesterday included
John A. Savage, Southern Meth
odist University; John P. Barron
and W. D. Jordan of Dallas Power
and Light Co. and Arthur Koberl-
ing.
Supervisory Head
Moved to Dallas
Pierce Wood, representing the
supervisor development program
of the Engineei’ing Extension Ser
vice of the A&M System, haS been
assigned to serve in the Dallas area
as a permanent resident instruc
tor, effective Monday,
QUEEN COTTON—Miss Carlene Johnson, junior at the
University of Texas, was crowned Friday night in Sbisa
Hall by King Cotton John Beaty, senior agronomy major
from Commanche.