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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1957
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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.