BATTALION
25 More Days
Review
Number 268: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1957
Price Five Cents
Off the Cuff-
What Goes
On Here
Aggie Yell Leaders got the in
sult of their life through the mail
recently.
Co-edishly called the Cheer
Squad Public Poll, this organization
is making a poll to further the
interests of “cheer leading” in the
United States. So, befitting their
own name, the group mailed their
questionnaire to “Head Cheer
Leader” here at A&M.
Among the questions asked are
“How does your mascot (if any)
fit into your routines ? Does he
have a separate routine of his
own. If so, explain.”
Upon .reaching College Station,
the letter was forwarded to Dick
Bernard.
* * *
Five boys were returning from
a field trip the other day and while
passing Sbisa Hall spotted a good-
looking blonde swingmg up the
sidewalk.
One of the hoys—Bud Warren
hung his head out the window and
hollered “Hi!”
Larry Walton, junior ag ed
major, looked around at Warren
and said—“Hey, Bud, I thought you
were married.”
“I am,” replied Warren. “That
Was my wife.”
Walton Hall
Accepts Dorm
Constitution
Walton Hall adopted a
dormitory constitution Friday
night at a special meeting and
a dormitory council for next
year will be elected as soon as
possible, according to Vannis Red
man, Walton Civilian Student coun
cilman.
About 20 men were present to
ratify the proposed constitution.
All men present voted “for” the
dormitory constitution, he said.
Men interested in filing for the
new dormitory council may do so
now, Redman said.
A 1.25 overall grade point ratio
vnd residency in the dormitory is
fequired for filing, he added.
“We want above average men for
the council,” he commented. “The
1.25 gpr is expected to get this
kind of men.”
Blanks for filing for the new
dormitory council can be obtained
from Redman and Frank Bailey,
Redman said.
Freshmen will be represented on
the council by the second council
meeting next fall by having a spe
cial election preceding that meet
ing, he said.
Redman said he hopes that next
fall the dormitory council will be
ready so it can help orientate new
students and freshmen about the
customs and traditions of A&M.
He said the council should be
ready if the men in the dormitory
really want the council to go. He
thought they are willing.
AGGIE RODEO TEAM members shown above admiring their trophy won at the Univer
sity of Houston Rodeo April 25 and 26 are bottom row 1. to r.) Virgil Patrick, Rodney
Butler, A. G. Ollre; (standing 1. to r.) Kennith Beasley; Curtis Burlin and John Kiker.
Gates Open Tomorrow
On Aggie N1I1A Rodeo
By DAVE McREYNOLDS
Broken arms, bruised backsides
and ear-piercing shrieks will, shat
ter the night air tomorrow as the
Eighth Annual - National Inter
collegiate Rodeo gets underway at
the Aggie Rodeo Arena .
Scheduled to run three days the
performances will attract cowboys
from all over Texas, Oklahoma and
Louisiana to compete in the rough-
I'iding affair.
Kiwanians View
High School Play
A&M Consolidated High School’s
one-act play cast presented their
district and regional first-prize
winning play to the College Sta
tion Kiwanis Club at their weekly
luncheon yesterday.
Bill Hite, Patsy Williams and
Charles Delaplane were featured
in the play, “The Proposal”, a
three-act comedy by Anton Che-
kov.
Vice president John Longley, who
presided in the absence of Presi
dent W. E. (Woody) Briles, an
nounced- that the annual Gover
nor’s banquet, held Monday night
in the Maggie Parker Dining
Room and jointly sponsored by
the Bryan and College Station
clubs attracted 74 persons from
six towns in the district.
Local bronc busters, pushing the
McNeese College cowboys, are
running a close second in the years’
point total for NIRA events.
Sporting a win at the University
of Houston Rodeo, held April 25
and 26 the Aggies led the field
with 456 points to second place
McNeese with 363. The McNeese
boys got their revenge in the two-
day show held April 26 and 27
at Kingsville when they racked up
530 points to the Aggies’ 285.5.
Fifteen schools from this dis
trict of the NIRA will be on hand
to participate in the show, accord
ing to A. G. (Pappy) Ollre, Aggie
Rodeo Team captain.
This show will feature fresh
Grad Invitation
Issuance May 7
“Issuance of commencement in
vitations will beg-in at 8 a.m. Tues
day, May 7 at Student Activities
banning- high water between here
and Dallas,” Mrs. Doris Bahlmann
of the Student Activities Office
said.
All graduating seniors who or
dered commencement invitations
must have receipts for invitations
ordered, she said.
“Those who did not order may
purchase any extras that are
available beginning Monday May
13 on a first come first serve
basis,” Mrs. Bahlmann sand.
stock, all heads of which have not
been ridden in a show this season.
This stock is being furnished by
H. C. Kahla of Stowell.
Officials for the affair include
Cullen Robinson of Bryan and Dale
Webb of Hampshire-judges; Billy
Hanover of Bryan and Buster,
Moore of Huntsville-pick up men;
Royce Hudson of Bryan and Tom
Montgomery of Big Spring-clowns
and Don Bisett of College Station
will announce the proceedings.
Officers of the Aggie Rodeo
Team including Ollre are John W.
Kiker of Fannet, vice president;
Henry Presnal of Bx-yan, secretary;
Bill Ragland of Mexia, treasurer
and Mel Lebo of College Station,
parliamentarian.
Colleges participating in the
rodeo include Univex-sity of Texas;
University of Houston; Southwest-
em Texas State College; Texas
Christian University; Arlington
State College; Tarleton State Col
lege; McNeese College; East Texas
State College; Sam Houston State
College; Texas A&I; Oklahoma
A&M; Our Lady of the Lake Col
lege; Rice Institute and Lee Col
lege.
pe Recording
Opens the Gate
or 2 Civilians
Corps 1st Wing
Target of Blast
By VAL POLK
Two students who blasted the North Gate area with a
tape recording consisting of “vulgar adjectives, cracks, and
jokes” were “indefinitely suspended” from A&M yesterday,
according to Bennie Zinn, head of student affairs.
The recording, being kept in the files of Campus Se
curity was aimed at the members of the 1st Wing and was
conversation recorded involving unprintable language, ac
cording to Zinn.
One of the men was a resident of Dormitory 16, but he
was removed from the dormitory Monday afternoon. The
other was a day student and a brother of the other man, ac
cording to Dormmaster Clarence Bolner.
In a hearing with Zinn the+
men said that they weren’t
Vet Check Deadline
Friday is the deadline for
veterans attending school un
der the GI Bill to sign for
their April payroll forms with
out receiving their checks late.
thinking when they pulled off
the broadcast and that they
were truly sorry the incident
happened, Zinn said.
When the suspension was handed
out, they said that it was no less
than “was coming to them,” Zinn
said.
The incident, which occurred at
appi-oximately '10:20 Saturday
night, seemed a x-etaliation against
the 1st Wing for incidents that
have been happexxing over a period
of a month or more, he said.
The students will not be allowed
to return to - A&M unless, in the
feeling of the college officials, they
have matured enough to behave like
college men and gentlemen, added
Zinn.
Zinn complimented the men of
dormitory 16 who, immediately af
ter the Saturday night incident,
went to the seniox-s of the 1st
Wing and apologized for the ac
tions of those two men involved.
He also said that after the Sat
urday night name calling incident
between the men and the cadets,
one of the cadets apologized for
the actions of his comi-ades in
which Zinn commended the cadet.
The Executive Committee of the
Civilian Student Council issued a
statement Monday expressing re
gret over the incident which was
sent to The Battalion and to mem
bers of the school they felt were
concerned with the incident, ac-
cox-ding to Bill Clai'k, president of
the Civilian body.
Pre-registration
Set for First Grade
Parents who will have children
entering the first gx-ade at A&M
Consolidated Elementary School in
September may register for their
children tomoi-x-ow from 1:30 to
3:30 p.m. in the school cafetex-ia,
according to Mrs. H. S. Cx-eswell.
Bii’th certificates and certificates
for smallpox and diphthex-ia vacci
nation should be brought to the
school but it is not necessax-y for
the childx-en to come, she said.
Beginning at 12:30 p.m. any
parents and children who wish may
vi. t first grade classx-ooms an
hour before time for x-egistration
to see the usual aftex-noon activi
ties, Mrs. Creswell said.
Weather Today
MORE RAIN
Scattered rain showers and pos
sible thunderstorms ax-e predicted
for the ax-ea thi-oughout the day.
At 10:30 this moxning- the tem
perature was 72 degx-ees, also yes
terday’s high reading. This morn
ing’s low was 64 degx-ees.
Neighbors Picked
As Summer Editor
Arts, Sciences
Announce Awards
Charles L. Heaton, Donald R.
Huffman and V. Doyle Urban
have been awarded the 1957 Fac
ulty Achievement Awards for the
School of Arts and Sciences, ac-
coi'ding to W. H. Delaplane, dean.
Heaton, son of H. L. Heaton,
college registrar, will enter Bay
lor University School of Medicine
next fall.
Huffman of Fort Wox-th, is com
pleting a B.S. progi-am in phy
sics.
Ui’ban is a meteorology student
from Rockdale.
All three men have grade point
ratios of oyer 2.90. The award
they received is the highest con
ferred by the School of Ax-ts and
Sciences.
College Calendar
A meeting to plan the 1957-58
All-College Calendar will begin at
5 p.m. today in the Office of Stu
dent Activities on the second floor
of the YMCA.
All planning to attend this meet
ing are urged to be on time by C.
G. (Spike) White, director of rec
reation and entertainment.
Sex-ving as summer editor and
next year’s managing editor is a
pex-son who follows a long line of
Battalion staffers, James (Jim)
Neighbors.
A 20-year-old Yankee who still
claims Chicago as home, Jim is
a junior journalism major and has
worked as news editor this year on
the staff.
He is the 1957-58 president of
A&M’s Chapter of Sigma Delta
Chi, national professional joux-nal-
isxn fraternity and sex-ved as a
delegate to the national conven
tion which met in Louisville, Ky.
last fall.
Neighbors is no stranger to The
Battalion office having wox-ked on
the staff since his freshman year.
Two of his brothers, Charles
(Chuck) and Jerry, who w-ex-e gx-ad-
uated in 1954 and 1956, respective
ly, were staff members. Chuck
Neighbors was managing editor
of The Battalion in 1953-54. Jerry
wox-ked two years as a reporter and
staff writer.
Neighbox-s will take over the
summer issues of the paper be
ginning June 6 and will turn the
paper over to Joe Tindel with the
retux-n of the students for the fall
semester.
“Stx-ictly curiosity,” is the an
swer Neighbors gives when asked
why be came all the way to Texas
to enter college.
“I had heard my father (C. C.
Neighbors, Sr. ’29) and two older
brothei*s talk about A&M so much
I had to find out what there was
to it,” he says.
The thii-d of five brothers, Jim
claims his two younger brothex-s
will enter A&M upoxx graduation
from high school. John, 7, and
Bill, 4, are both ardent Aggie fans.
Neighbors was a member of
Squadi’on 18 in the Corps of
Cadets for 2% years but is now a
civilian student. He was a mem
ber of the journalism team which
published the San Marcos Record
during the Easter holidays this
year. r
Other activities in which Neigh
bors has participated at A&M in
clude Aggie Playexs, Yankee
Hometown Club, vice px-esident of
the Joui-nalism Club and pax-lia-
mentarian of Sigma Delta Chi.
Horns of the Dilemma
BELOIT, Wis. (A 5 )—Beloit police
are looking for a bux-glar with an
extx-a head. It seems somebody
sneaked into the Elks Club, x-e-
moved a mounted elk’s head from
the wall and made off with it.
Furnishings
Donated For
Corps Staff HQ
Fulfillment of the Cadet
Corps’ dream of a modern
Corps Staff Headquarters was
assured recently when K. W.
Davis, president of the Mid-
Continent Supply Co., Fort Worth,
presented a check for $5,460.75 to
Col. Henry Dittman, Px-ofessor of
Air Science at A&M.
Granting of the check, which
will be used to bxxy furniture for
the headqxxarters, completed an
agreement made between Dittman
and past A&M president, David
H. Morgan. The two had agreed
that if Morgan would renovate the
Dorm 2 loxmge as headquarters,
Dittman would secure the furnish
ings.
Dittman contacted Davis, who
has supported corps activities on
numerous occasions in the past, and
told him of the justification for the
corps staff x-oom. The check fol
lowed shortly afterwards.
In a letter to Dittman, received
with the check, Davis said: “Since
you feel that this staff room is a
‘must’, we here at Mid-Continent
Supply Co. are willing to assist in
the woi-k you are doing to develop
the fine quality of men yoxx grad
uate from Texas A&M.
“It is vex'y important to us that
you maintain the very highest Stan-
daxds there. We have felt this
way for some time and, from time
to time, get a great deal of plea
sure fi'om lending our assistance
to the worthy activities which help
the students, as well as the col
lege, to maintain its high scholas
tic and military training.”
Davis, whose son, William S.,
will graduate from A&M this
spring, treated 550 Air Force RO
TO cadets to lunch last year when
they toured the Convair plant in
Foi't Worth.
Baby Girl Drowns
In Five Gallon Bucket
DALLAS, OP)—A 17-month-old
baby girl drowned in a five-gallon
bucket, of rain water yesterday.
She was Vickie Rxxth Houston,
daughter of Mi-, and Mrs. J. E.
Houston.
Joe Tindel Takes
Bait Reins Today
NEW BATTALION STAFF—takes office today headed by
Editor Joe Tindel, (right) and Jim Neighbors.' The tradi
tional day for next years staff is May 1 and the graduating
seniors assume the role of “has-beens.”
The annual change-over in
leadei-ship of The Battalion takes
place today as Joe Tindel steps
into the editor position.
He will sex-ve as editor during
the x-emainder of the semester,
taking time out to work as a
new r s intern on the Dallas Mox-n-
ing News. Then in September he
will resume his job of piloting the
“Batt” for the 1957-58 school year.
Jim Neighbox-s will be summer
editor.
Tindel, a 21-year-old joui-nalism
major fx-om Athens, has spent the
past year as Battalion news editox-.
His college activities include presi
dent of the Southwestern Students
Press Club, vice president of the
Arts & Sciences Council and presi
dent of the Hendex-son County
A&M Club.
He also is holder of the Texas
Gulf Coast Press Association
scholax-ship and sex-ved as co-editor
of the San Marcos Record dux-ing
the Easter Holidays.
A Civilian student now, he spent
his first year and a half as a mem
ber of Squadron 5 and was named
outstanding freshman for his first
semester.
While in high school, Tindel was
px-esident of the Athens chapter of
the National Honor Society, secre-
tax-y of the Key Club, salutatorian
of his class and a member of the
band.
High on his list of objectives, he
places woi-king for mox-e hax-mony
between the Civilian and Coxps
students, “although I am a Civil
ian, I won’t be pax-tial to the Civil
ian students,” he said.
“However I want to help build
the Civilian student body, make
them a greater part of A&M and
encoux-age them to pax-ticipate in
college activities and have more
interest in A&M.”
He concluded by saying: “Be
cause I have lived as both a
Civilian and a member of the
Corps, I realize the problems that
confront both gx-oups and believe I
will be able to px-omote the harm
ony I plan to work for.”