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Maggie Fountain Judy Maywald
Miss Milner Hall Miss Bizzell Hall
By JOE BUSER
Bad weather won’t hamper the
Civilian Playboys this weekend—
they’re going to have a Ball.
It’s Civilian Ball time and they
have received permission from
"Playboy” magazine to use their
famous bunny for , advertising and
decorations. In return, the maga
zine has asked for some pictures
of the Playboy festivities, possibly
for a future issue.
Playboy activities will begin
Saturday with an all-star softball
game between the Civilian dorms
and College View, beginning at
2 p. m. Anyone interested in play
ing on one of the- teams should
contact either Bill Perry, Leggett,
93, who is managing the dorm team
or Tom Reyman, D-6-D, manager
for the College View group. Other
before-barbeque games scheduled
are potato sack races and some
volleyball games.
A pound of beef from Martin’s
heads the mepu for the barbeque to
be held at 5 p. m. in The Grove
if the weather is fair, and under
the west stands of Kyle Field if
it’s foul. Also included in the fare
will be baked beans, potato salad,
iced tea, pickles and onions.
Topping off the activities Satur
day will be the annual Civilian Ball,
which will be held in Sbisa hall at
9 p. m. Decorations will follow the
Playboy theme with rabbits at
the door, on the tables and hang
ing from the ceiling. Price for
tickets is $2, stag or drag.
The Civilian sweetheart will be
chosen from 12 finalists from all
over the state during an intermis
sion. The finalists and their es
corts are Mrs. Sunny Sue Carpen
ter, Day Student entry, escorted by
Jerry Carpenter; Miss Bettie
Beasley, Mitchell Hall entry, es
corted by Jim Smith; Miss Rita
Francis Reid, Puryear Hall entry,
escorted by Leon Betale and Miss
Ethel Ann de Cordova, Walton
Hall entry, escorted by Walker
Porter.
Mrs. Benita Williams, College
View entry, escorted by John D.
Williams; Mrs. Lynn A. Farmer,
College View entry, escorted by
James R. Farmer; Mrs. Jeanene
Stein, College View entry, escorted
by S. J. Stein; Miss Judy Maywald,
Bizzell Hall entry, escorted by Nor
man Guilloud and Mrs. Wanda
Westermap, College View entry,
escorted by Richard C. Westerman.
Miss Shirley Stewart, Law Hall
entry, escorted by Roy Andrews;
M iss Maggie Fountain, Milner Hall
entry, escorted by George F.
Luguette and Miss Joan Quasso,
Legett hall entry, escorted by
Champ Grona.
The Aggieland Orchestra will
make the sounds for the Playboys
and their dates to dance by.
A baby sitting service for stu
dents with children will be provid
ed by the A&M Presbyterian
Church. Charge for the service is
25 cents and bedding should be
brought for the children.
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Student Senate
Meets Tonight
Number 269: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1957
Price Five Cents
Frosh Honor
Fraternity Has
Banquet Tonite
Phi Eta Sigma’s annual banquet,
honoring 91 freshmen who have
posted a 2.5 or higher grade point
ratio, will be held tonight at the
Memorial Student Center Ballroom
at 7 p.m.
Kicking off the program will be
an initiation ceremony in the
MSC’s Birch Room, at 6:30. All
eligible men who were not initia
ted last March will be initiated.
Dr. Ralph Steen, head of the
History Department, will be chief
speaker at the banquet, which in
cludes presentation of new officers
for the coming year.
Senate Agenda
Selection of a student insurance
policy and the company will be
discussed at the Student Senate
meeting tonight. The report will
be made to the Senate by John
Webb, according to Larry Piper,
senate president.
Plans for the reserve seat elec
tion will be discussed tonight fol
lowed by a debate, he said.
KTBX-TV Op ens
Here Next Week
Snow-blinded television viewers
will get a “brighter outlook” in
the College Station- Bryan area
next week when Bryan’s first TV
station starts telecasting over
KTBX, Channel 3.
Opening of the new station,
originally scheduled for yesterday,
had to be delayed because violent
weather hampered the erection of
the tower. Harry Gilliam, manager
of the station, announced that the
rig should arrive from New Mexico
this weekend, and five days would
be required to set up the tower.
The formal opening has been re
scheduled for no later than next
Friday, Saturday or Sunday, said
Gilliam.
At present, the nearest stations
to this region, reported Gilliam,
are Waco (Channel 10), 89 miles
away; Houston (Channel 2), 97
miles distant and Austin (Channel
7), 106 miles off. Reception has
been somewhat hazy in the past,
but Gilliam said the local station
would bring in the picture “clear
as a bell.”
“We feel we can give the people
in this area a lot of service,” he
said.
Belton Woman Killed
BELTON, <A>)—Mrs. Willie Scott,
Belton, was fatally injured yester
day when the automobile in which
she was riding collided with a bus.
WORLD PREMIERING the new school record album
“Music from Aggieland” will be A&M’s big music three:
Aggie Band, Singing Cadets and the Aggieland Orchestra.
New Aggie Record
Premiere
A&M’s world premiere for its
new record album of Aggie songs
and yells will be held tonight at
7:30 in Guion Hall, according to
C. G. (Spike) White, director of
recreation and entertainment of
Student Activities.
The program includes songs
played by the Aggie Band and the
Aggieland Orchestra, the Singing
Cadets singing several of the new
album numbers, introduction of
the composers, presentation of the
first record album to President
Williams and introduction of mem
bers of record album committee.
During the playing of all numbers
Toby Hughes will give off stage
recording cues like an actual re
cording session.
“The program is a re-enactment
of the actual recording of all the
selections recorded in the album
under conditions of which they
were actually recorded in high fi
delity,” said White.
Records will be sold at the pre
miere and if the purchaser wishes,
autographed by the composers,
White srid.
The records will go on sale in
T onight
most of the local stoi’es Friday
and will be sold by the following
men in these dormitories; Bob
Suroyik, Dorms 6 and 3; Pat Res-
ley, Dorms 8 and 2; Charles Jenk
ins, Dorms 15 and 17; Carl Hib-
betts, Mitchell, Law and Puryear;
Burt Thompson, Dorm 16, Milner
and Leggett; Harry F. Sharp, Dorm
10 and Bizzell; Ronald Buford,
Dorms I and II; Douglas Wilson
Dorms 12 and 9; C. T. Kirksey,
Dorms 4, 5 and Walton; Charles
Voeltei 1 , Hart and Dorm 7 and Ed
Bulkhead will sell to College View.
Representing the commercial an
gle of the new album in regard to
market information, consumer at
titude and other commercial points
are Col. E. V. Adams, director of
the Aggie Band; Miss Martha
Britton, Shaffer’s Bookstore; Ed
Burkhead, member of the Singing
Cadets; Mrs. R. C. Fussell, Me
morial Student Center Gift Shop;
Dick Hervey, executive secretary
of the Former Students Associa
tion; Cyrus H. Holley, Aggie Band
commander; Charles Jenkins, pres
ident of the Singing Cadets; and
W. M. Turner, director of the
Singing Cadets.
Chan
SDX Awards
To Be Given
At Banquet
Plan Vote
to May 8
Debate on Issue
Set for Tuesday
Six scholarships and citations
of merit will be presented to out
standing journalism students Fri
day night at 7:30 at the first an
nual Sigma Delta Chi Awai-ds Ban
quet in the Western Restaurant.
Awards include two $100 schol
arships to be given to a prospec
tive sophomore and a prospective
senior by the A&M Sigma Delta
Chi Chapter, funds for which came
from faculty magazine subscrip
tion sales and the $100 scholar
ship of the Texas Gulf Coast Press
Association which will be given to
a student interested in the non
metropolitan newspapers.
Also to be presented will be a
$400 grant from the Wildlife Man
agement Institute which will be
used by a wildlife major to get a
second degree in journalism. This is
the first award of its kind, ac
cording to Donald D. Burchard,
SDX faculty sponsor.
Journalism Department awards
include a citation to a graduating
senior for outstanding service to
the profession and citations to the
outstanding sophomore and junior
students. Also to be presented
will be two $500 .scholarships from
'the Clayton Fund which will be
given to agricultural journalism
majors.
Two National Sigma Delta Chi
awards, a citation for scholarship,
to be given to a graduating sen
ior in the top 5 per cent of bis
class and a citation for achieve
ment, will also be presented to a
graduating senior.
Also to be presented ai'e the
monthly SDX Student Publica
tions awards for the best news
story, outstanding reporter, best
magazine story, best sports story,
best news feature, best photo
graph and best local drawn car
toon.
By FRED MEURER
The Corps-Civilian football seating feud comes to a
head .next Wednesday when voting machines in the Memorial
Student Center will open to a flow of Aggies, and perhaps by
nightfall that day calm will once again have settled on the
battle-scarred campus.
In preparation for the ballot deciding whether cadets
and civilians will be integrated in reserve seats or whether
they will be seated together without reserve seats, a debate
on the subject will be held in G. Rollie White Coliseum at 5
p.m., Tuesday. A team of tw T o will represent both sides at the
discussion.
Leading the cause for reserved seats and integration will
♦be John Specht and Joe Ross,
senior senators.
Vet CheckDeadtine
Tomorrow is the deadline for
veterans attending school under
the GI Bill to sign for their April
payroll forms without receiving
their checks late.
Jan Garber Plays
For Ring Dance
Jan Garber, one of the nations
top dance orchestras, will play for
this years Senior Ring Dance. He
has appeared in many of the lead
ing cities including the New Yorker
Hotel in New York and the Aragon
Ballroom in Chicago.
Max E. Standsbury, Assistant
Manager of the Industrial Relations
Department for the Continental
Oil Co., will be the guest speaker at
the dance.
Tickets for the Ring Dance will
be $1.50 this year with the picture
tickets selling for $2.
Seniors may buy their tickets
from any one of the following:
Bob Crane, 1-417; John Aldridge,
2-219; Danney George, 3-128; Bob
Best, 4-301; Ed Wyatt, 5-318; Ben
Alcala, 6-317; Allen Newberry,
7-128; James Fitzwilliam, 8-317;
John Heard, 9-228; Adrian
Hackney, 10-101; Fritz Landers,
11-317 and Bill McCarty, 12-219.
A1 Richey, dorm 14; Joe Joeris,
dorm 15; Bob Opitz, 17-131; Billy
Moore, 16-414; James Carnes,
Puryear 6-B; Ed Pierson, Law 4-A;
Jerry Coleman, Mitchell 1; Jon
McFarland, Milner 73; Louis
Castro, Leggett 22; Clay McFar
land, Walton 1-111; Frank Gatlin,
Hart D-6; Bobby Keith, Walton-
athletics; and Wally Penberthy,
Hart-athletics.
All picture tickets must be pick
ed up in the Office of Student
Activities. Bizzell seniors may also
buy dance tickets there.
Representatives for the
“con” side have not yet been
chosen, though Tom Upchurch
and Bill Markley have appointed a
committee to choose the team.
Purpose of the debate, said Ross,
a member of the Student Senate, is
to provide the opportunity for each
student to understand both “pro”
and “con” views on the plan and to
help each man reach his own de
cision.
In addition to the debate, a
Corps freshman meeting is planned
for 4 p.m. Tuesday to clear all as
pects of the question to them.
Three advantages and the same
number of disadvantages are con
nected with integration, according
to Ross. The advantages he lists
include: (1) It will help create
closer understanding and unity
among the Corps and Civilians; (2)
integration at out-of-town games
has worked without any difficul
ties or ill effects in the past; (3)
it would be easier for the Athletic
Department to sell tickets since an
other division of ducats would have
to be made.
Disadvantages of the plan ac
cording to Ross are: (1) Unity of
the Corps would be destroyed; (2)
Civilian students would have to ed
ucate themselves; (3) neither
group as a ’whole, Civilian or
Corps, thinks the other has fewer
Aggie qualities; each group just
wants to sit by themselves;
At the same time the seating
vote takes place, members of next
year’s Student Publications Board
will be elected. Two men Baxter
E. (Pete) Hogue and Bill W. Libby,
are Corps candidates, while John
F. Avant and Van W. Redman Jr.
are Civilian candidates.
CHS Play Cast
*
In State Finals
At Austin
Consolidated High School’s con
test one-act play cast will present
their play tonight at Austin in the
Interscholastic League State Fi
nals.
The CHS cast, composed of Char
les Delaplane, Bill Hite and Patsy
Williams and directed by Robert
L. Boone, compete against the
other six top AA contest plays for
the first place award.
“The Proposal,” by Anton Che-
kov won for CHS over three teams
in both the district meet at Bren-
ham and the Regional meet at
Houston. This is the first year
this play has been used by Con
solidated in an Interscholastic Lea
gue contest.
“The Proposal” is a classical
comedy involving a young lover
(Bill Hite) who goes to propose to
his sweetheart (Patsy Williams).
Instead, they get into a fight and
her father (Charles Delaplane) has
to separate them. The setting is
an American home around the
year 1900.
Tonight at Austin, the CHS
group face the situation of com
peting against the same play three
times. “I Remember Mama,”
which Lamar, of Houston, won
first with last year, is the entry
of three of the state finalists. The
CHS play is sandwiched between
two of the “I Remember Mama”
presentations.
BULLETIN
Marshall P. Magers, Senior pre
paratory veterinary medicine ma
jor from Barry, died in his sleep
early this morning.
Silver Taps will be held tonight
at 10:30. Magers, 36-year old Air
Force veteran, lived in Mitchell
Hall.
Weather Today
Yesterday’s rainfall was .33 of
an inch. High temperature yes
terday was 74, and low last night
was 64. Temperature at 11:15 this
morning was 72 degrees.
Today’s forecast calls for broken
clouds with scattered light rain
showers this afternoon.