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18,440 READERS THE ATTALION Number 266: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1957 Price Five Cents Civilian Group or Fisli Meeting Spent Discussing Advantages, Disadvantages liy VAL POLK The idea of having Civilian freshmen live in separate dormitories was tossed back and forth in the Civilian Student Council meeting last night. Discussion on the pro’s and con’s of the plan accounted for most of the meeting. Henry Williams said he thought the freshmen could get started into the swing of college life quicker if they were in one dormitory. Tie wanted to impress upon the freshmen that a study period could benefit them but he didn’t want to use any sort of force to do it. Another councilman said that with a freshman dormitory he thought the “fish” would take more part in the student elections. And with upperclassmen in the dormitory to help Four Lads Sing At Final Town Ifall Monday The voices of the Four Lads will sing out in White Col iseum during Town Hall’s fi nal presentation of the year Monday night at 8. The Lads will be backed by Hal McIntyre and his orchestra featur ing Debbie Blown and the McTn- tots. Eight gold records that have sold over one million copies, have been recorded by the Lads since they have struck the nation with their soft singing voices. They have recorded .approximate ly forty hit platters sharing the credit for the hits, in some cases, with such stars as Johnnie Kay, Frankie Laine, Doris Day, Jill Cor ey and Toni Arden. In television they scored hits on such shows as the Steve Allen Show, the Perry Como Show, Chry sler Hour, “Upbeat” and the Ed Sullivan Show. Outstanding engagements have been made by them in New York’s Copacabana, Giro’s in Hollywood, and many more clubs throughout the nation. the freshmen with studies and to supervise them in such things as keeping the dormi tory quiet would benefit them also. Freshmen that had dropped out of the Corps were said to be the trouble making freshmen in the dormitory in general since they had been regulated in the Corps dormi tory and they feel like they can do as they please. A separate dormitory would be defeating the purpose of the newly forming dormitory councils, Vannis Redman said. Hhe then suggested the freshmen have separate ramps or floors in the same dormitory with the upperclassmen. “I stand opposed to any thing that would split the student body in any way more than it is now,” Redman said. He suggested that the freshman question be dropped until next year and to leave it up to the dormitory councils for a year. Bennie Zinn, advisor to the coun cil, suggested a plan like that of Pu?*due where the students are con trolled by dormitory councils like was suggested earlier in the meet ing. If students in a Purdue dormi tory get out of hand they are warn ed and the second time he gets out of hand he is kicked out of the dormitory. If that student never calms down, he is moved off the campus, Zinn said. Season tickets to Town Hall will be honored at the door with gener al admission tickets selling for $2 for adults and $1 for high school and elementary children. FFA Group Hosts Tarleton Chapter Members of the Tarleton FFA were the guests of the A&M Col legiate FFA Chapter recently Doyle Graves, head of the Poul try Husbandry Department at Tar leton accompanied the 35 members. He added that he would back the council in moving the hard to han dle student off the campus or in any other way that he could in that line of thought. Zinn said, “Segregating the freshmen has moi'e bad points than it has good ones.” “In this way the dormitory coun cil can get some prestige and can have a good council since most of the freshmen would like to know who can kick them out of the dor mitory thereby creating enough' In terest to make the council a good one,” Acting President John Avant said. Keeley Says SAC Can Stop Maj. George Keeley, Strategic Air Command officer, told air force seniors yestei-day that SAC could crush a World War III within a couple of days time at the most. The limitation to the ending of such a war so fast he said was that ■SAC would have to have a little time to prepare. However, the preparation period would be short compai’ed with what it would have been a couple of years ago, said Keeley. He said the Air Force needed an inter-continental bomber woUst of all for added air strength. The closest thing to such a bomber now is the B36 and the new B52 since they can be refueled in mid air. The B36 will be replaced by the new B52 as fast as they can be manufactured, Keeley said. He also added that SAC is doing away with its fighter squadrons since their short range cannot keep WW Ill np with the big bombers. SAC’s mission, he said, is to re main strong enough so that the world will know that they are there and will not try any ag gression. SAC is prepared to wage air power battle, retard surface forces and to destroy industrial plants in time of war all at the same time. The reason behind the organi zation of SAC was so the United States could keep a prepared Air Force he said. During World War II it took three and one half years before “a decisive bombing” of the Axis Forces could be built up. SAC won’t need but a few months to do it, he said. To penetrate into the Soviet Union won’t be hard, he said. Especially since we know that the defense system of the United States can be broken into and it is regarded as the best in the world. PUTTING ON the finishing- touches to the Eiffel Tower used in the French theme used for the MSC banquet are left to right John Windham and Don Cloud. 24 Service Awards Given At MSG Parisian. Banquet In a setting of Parisian sui’- roundings with .the theme of “An American in Paris,” the annual Me morial Student Center banquet last night was highlighted by the pre sentation of 24 coveted awards in recognition of service to the Cen ter program. Five of the higher honors of Distinguished Service awards were given. Those receiving them were Brad Crockett, Irving Ramsower, Congressman Olin Teague, R. (Skip) Glasgow and Center Presi dent Dick Wall. Teague was unable to make the trip from Washington and had his son, Jack, accept the award in his name. Appreciation awards went to H. W. (Bud) Whitney, Alvin Richey, Jack Nelson, Jack Dreyfus, Eddie Thorpe, Bob Stansberry, Carl Pehnke, Don Cloud, Hugh Wharton, Roy Davis, David Morris. Dave Brothers, Don Arnold, Fleming Smith, Dr. P. J. Woods, Di\ E. McMurray, Don McGinty, Phi Kappa Phi Banquet May 16 Dr. Paul Geren, executive vice president of Baylor University, will deliver the principal address at the initiation banquet May 1G at 7:30 p. m. for 92 students and five faculty members of A&M elected to the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. Officers to be installed include Di\ Alvin A. Price, veterinary anatomy, president; Dr. J. M. Nance, history, vice president; Dr. Fred E. Ekfelt, English, secretary; Prof. Ernest Langford, architec- tui'e, treasurer and Dr. B. H. Nelson, agricultural economics and sociology, journal correspondent. Retiring officers are Dr. Charles LaMotte, biology, president; Prof. C. B. Godbey, genetics, vice presi dent; Dr. Alvin A. Price, veterinary anatomy, secretary and Dr. John Q. Hays, English, journal corre spondent. The initiation banquet will be held in the ballroom of the Me morial Student Center. Don Williams and Morris Partain. Going French all the way, the the banquet was even graced with a model Eiffel Tower which reached almost to the ceiling of the Ball Room where the banquet was held. The menu had a French accent and the waiters carried out their part with theatrical sideburns and mustaches. Quick Quits To Become Dean in Ark. Dr. N. W. Quick, assistant to the president, has accepted the post of Dean of the Col lege of the Little Rock, Ark., Junior College, effective Sept. 1. Quick has been with A&M since 1947. A veteran of World War IT, Quick came to A&M as an in structor in English. He was promoted to assistant professor in 1952 and promoted to associate professor in 1954. He became as sistant to the president in July, 1956. Quick holds an A. B. degree, 1942 and an M. A. degi*ee, 1947, from the University of Illinois; a Ph. D. degree, 1954, from the Uni versity of Texas. , He served as administrative as sistant, summer, 1954 and consult ant in writing and training, sum mer, 1955, to the Texas Electric Service Company. He is chairman of the Committee on Development of Teaching Personnel and in charge of the academic extension program here. Weather Today RAIN Forecast calls for rain showers and scattered thunderstorms in the area. Only a trace of precipitation was recorded yesterday, but from midnight to 6 a.m. today, .35 inch of rain fell. The temperature at 10:30 this morning was 78 degrees. Yesterday’s high and low were 84 and 63 degrees. Outgoing President Dick Wall entitled his speech “The State of the Union.” He brought forth the history of the building splurges and physical growth of the College and said we now are entering another “golden era” of progress. Incoming President Don McGinty gave a speech called “I Challenge You” as he directed most of his talk toward the new Center work ers he would be woiking with next year. He outlined the duties of finding more ways to serve the student body and to enlarge on the present way of service the Center renders. Architects Hear Researcher In MSC Monday Louis E. Newman, acting director of the Bureau of Gov ernmental Research, will speak in the assembly room of the MSC Monday at 7 p.m. The meeting is open to the public. Newman, who served as consul tant on the government of the city of New Orleans to the Louisiana Law Institute in its project of a new state constitution, will be pre sented by the Guest Lecture Series of the Division of Architecture. Besides being active director, Newman is also a research asso ciate and assistant executive direc tor of the Bureau of Reseai-ch. He received his A. B. and M. A. from Louisiana State University and has been a staff member at LSU, piin- cipal examiner for Civil Service in Louisiana and executive secretary of the Louisiana Public Employees Association. Newman served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was cited by the Governmental Research As sociation as contributing the most noteworthy piece of research of 1950 for his Administrative Organ ization and Relationships in the New Orleans Public School System, which he co-authoi’ed with Lenox L. Moak. Sfadenl Vole Planned For Kyle Seating Public Debate Scheduled To Air Both Pro’s, Con’s By JIM BOWER A referendum election putting to test the Senate’s pro posed Kyle Field seating plan calling for reserve seats and integrating the Corps and Civilian juniors and seniors has been tentatively set for Wednesday. After much heated discussion and debate in last night’s Senate meeting and the presentation of two petitions calling for a student body vote to decide the fate of the plan, the Senate chose to give the decision to the student body. Most of the discussion centered on the question of wheth er the Senators would take back the section of the seating plan which dealt with integrating the Corps and Civilians or whether they would let the students decide. The meeting started off in routine matter with commit tee reports. Among those was the announcement that the Mother of The Year had been chosen and was to be honored at the Mother’s Day ceremony. Her name was withheld until she could be notified by letter from the Sen ate. Two insurance plans also were presented to the Senators with the decision to be made at the next meeting on Thursday. Both of them were “very similar” to the one vetoed by the students earlier in the year as far as coverage but they are not compulsory as was the other one. (Ed Note: Full text of the pro posed plans will be carried next week.) Then with the routine business taken cai’e of, junior Senator Tom Upchurch introduced the subject everyone had been waiting for- the idea of integrated seating for the Corps and Civilian juniors and seniors. After some discussion as to the introduction of the question since it referred to a previous action of the Senate that had passed, the problem was tossed out for discus sion. After Upchurch’s introduction, J ack W eat her ford rose to champion the idea of integrating the Corps juniors and seniors with the Civilians. “We are all Aggies, regardless of whether we wear a uniform since we all go to the same school,” Weatherford said. “We need to forget what petty feelings we have now and think of the future.” Twice dui’ing the discussion, Senate Pi’esident Larry Piper step ped in and reprimanded the sen ators for the language they used and the relevancy of their argu ment. Finally the motion was made to rescind the section of the seating plan which called for mixed seat ing among the Corps and Civilian juniors and seniors. The motion failed by a L7 to 14 vote. ' This coupled with the petition automatically put the choice on the shoulders of the student body. A second petition questioned the validity of the reserve seats but since this part ah’eady was planned for a student body vote, the petition was needless. After discussion by Joe Ross and John Specht, the Senate appimved a public debate to be held the day before the election with both sides of the question represented by two men on each side. A tentative date of Tuesday at 4 p. m. in either Guion Hall or G. Rollie White Coliseum was set for the debate. Former Aggies Plan Flections, Reunions May 3 One hundred and sixty-five former students will meet on the campus of the college May 3-5, for class reunions and to elect officers of the Associa tion of Former Students. The class of 1907 will celebrate their Golden Anniversary May 3-4. One of the highlights of this reunion will be a conducted bus tour of the campus from 2 to 4 p. m. P. L. (Pinky) Downs Jr., class of 1906, official greeter for the college, will be in charge of the tour. Oscar A. Seward Ji\, class of 1907, is class agent. The Sul Ross Group, classes of 1891-1907, will meet May 3-4. They will have regular class pro grams. The regular spring meeting of the Association Council and Board will meet May 3-4. They will elect officers for the coming year. Louis R. Bloodworth of Wichita Falls is president. E. M. Freeman of Shreveport, La., is the incoming president. A highlight of the class reunions will be an exhibition drill by the Ross Volunteers, at 5:15 p. m. May 3, in honor of the Sul Ross group, on the main drill grounds in front of the Memorial Student Center. Flood Helps Bring Back Navy Bonus BELTON, GP>—Frank Smith, Belton garageman, watched the water from flooded Nolan Creek start swirling toward his office yesterday. He decided he’d better go through his safe and see what papei’s he should take to higher ground if the flood got Worse. In an old brown envelope he found, uncashed, his discharge bonus check from the U. S. Navy for $375. The check was issued in 1946. Missionary Here For Weekend Talks Senior Class Plans Tuesday Meeting The senior meeting to determine the class gift has been scheduled for Tuesday night at 7:30 in the Chemistry Lecture room. So far, three ideas are among the top suggestions for the tradi tional gift. They are three rooms for the hospital, two more voting machines and lighting for the A&M markers at East Gate. The Rev. Charles Owens, 1950 graduate of A&M, will be in Col lege Station this weekend fob speaking engagements with the Wesley Foundation and A&M Methodist Church. He will meet with the Methodist pre-ministerial group at 7 p. m. Saturday and will preach at the 11 a. m. Sunday service at the church. At 6 p. m. Sunday he will address the Wesley Foundation. The Rev. Owens has just com pleted a three-year mission pro gram in Angol, Chile, where he taught in the Methodist Agricul tural School.