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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1957)
v>- I ■ ~ I! Number 271: Volume 55 ATTA COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1957 ON Seating Plan Price Five Cents ‘Tig er Flay ers’ Sweep Honors At State Meet Consolidated High School made a clean sweep of the In- terschblasitic League one-act play finals Thursday night in Austin, taking first place in the play contest. They provided the best male actor and placed all three members of the cast on the All- State play cast. Bill Hite, Patsy Williams and Charles Delaplane won the state championship in the AA division with their presentation of Anton Chekov’s “The Proposal.” Bill Hite was named outstanding male actor for his portrayal of the young lover who tries in vain to propose to his sweetheart. All three members of the cast were placed on the 6-man team designated as the best play cast in the state. Robert L. Boone, CHS music teacher, directed the play which defeated six other state finalists to take the top position in dramatic ability. Boone said that although he has had some experience in dramatics, this is his first year to take an active interest in directing. It was also the first time a CHS play cast had gone to the state meet. “There are three exceptionally talented kids,” Boone said of the cast. “They have put in a lot of hard and serious work on the play, and deserved to win. Besides, they turned in an excellent performance st every one of the seven times they produced it before the public.” Aggie General Will Speak At ’57 Barbecue Maj. Gen. Percy Clarkson, class of T5, who has been affiliated with hydrogen bomb testing in the South Pacific, will lead the list of speakers at the Fourth Annual Senior Barbecue honoring mem bers of the graduating class of ’57, to be held in the Grove Thursday Slight at 6:15. “The Former Students Associa tion sponsors the barbecue for the purpose of honoring graduating seniors with an informal function and at the same time, welcoming them into the Association of For mer Students,” said J. B. Hervey, chairman of the barbecue. Besides Clarkson, the other main speaker will be E. M. (Jiggs) Free man, ’22, president of the Former Students Association. Roy Snyder, of the Animal Hus bandry Department, is in charge of cooking the beef which was do nated by former students. The re mainder of the menu includes po tato salad, beans, pickles, onions, buns, cookies and soft drinks. Tickets for the occasion are free, and may be obtained from group and battalion commanders, or from civilian housemasters. Tickets also may be picked up at Student Activities, in the YMCA, or the Association of Former Stu dents in the Memorial Student Cen ter. The bai’becue should be over by 8 p.m., Hervey said. ■ A....*.,.. BUJLP/NG Blocks TOWARD a n- ^ V % •; . irVv-: •. - - ~ MORE UNIE/ED STUDENT BODY DO YOUR PART! (See Editorial, Page 2) Student Senate Gets Maj or Reorgan i zation A&M’s Student Senate will re ceive major changes in organi zation next year as a result of a decision by the College Executive Council Thursday. The decision came after a study made by a special Senate evalua tion committee revealed weaknesses in the former organization. New organization provides for election of major officers and standing committee heads by the student body as* a whole and elec tion of senior, junior and sopho more representatives by members of their classes in the academic schools. Other representatives will in clude a student selected by the dean of the Graduate School, four freshmen elected by Basic Division students immediately following is suance of November grade reports, and five ex-officio senators. Ex-officio positions will include: the deputy Corps commander; vice president, Civilian Student Council; vice president, Memorial Student Center Council; vice president, YMCA Cabinet and student officers of the Texas Intercollegiate Stu dents Association. Filings opened Friday and will close May 13 at 12 noon for election of president, vice president, parlia mentarian, recording secretary and the four heads of the Issues, Stu dent Life, Student Welfare and Public Relations Committees of the Senate. Senators to fill these positions will be elected at the General Election May 15 in addition to the Civilian, yell .leader. Filings open May 15 for positions as representatives of the Schools of Agriculture, Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Veterinary Medi cine to the Senate. These filings will close May 21 and the election will be May 23. Qualifications for Senators have been raised as a result of the new organization. All officers elected at large must have a gpr of 1.5. President Aggie, Child Hurt In Weekend Wreck Edward Duane Hill, junior me chanical engineering student from Abilene, was released from the Bryan Hospital Saturday afternoon after being injured in a two car accident in Bryan. Hospital officials said Hill re ceived several head cuts when he was thrown through the wind shield of the car in which he was riding. Also injured in the collision was Ricky Layman, 5, son of Mrs. Charlotte Layman, 1500 S. College. He received a cut under his eye. The car in which Hill was riding was driven by James Roland Moore, junior mechanical engineering stu dent from Venus. ^ Ricky Layman was in the car driven by Aubrey Moore, 2312 Cavitt St., Bryan. and parliamentarian must be seniors; vice president must ,bo a junior and recording secretary must be a sophomore. Heads of standing committees must have a 1.25 gpr and be a junior or senior. Senators from academic schools must have a 1.25 gpr. Under the new organization, the Senate will draw up a new constitu tion and be aMe to appoint any minor officers they need. The new plan spells out regula tions for campaigning for student offices. A candidate cannot use other means of campaigning than the following: (1) Personal oral solicitation; (2) Oral solicitation before student assemblies; (3) Written solicita tion in The Battalion in the Letters to the Editor column or in some other section ■ arranged with the editor; (4) Equally apportioned written solicitation on a bulletin board or in an area to be decided by the Election Commission. Election for freshmen repre sentatives will be held in Novem ber. Weather Today LIGHT RRAIN Yesterday’s high temperature was 74, and the low last night was 56. The forecast for today is mostly cloudy with occasional light rain and no high winds. Reading at 11 a.m. was 70 de grees. Senators to Air Pros And Cons On Kyle Seats CS Councilman ^ m Gilt Sla rts To Be Elected In Vote Today Today, after a month of confusion and waiting. Col lege Station’s Ward 3, elects a city councilman. Ward 3 has been without a councilman to fill the vacancy left by Ernest Seeger’s death a week prior to the regular city election held April 2. Today’s election is a run off between write-in candi dates Col. Frank H. Matthews, re tired Army colonel, and the Rev. R. L. Brown. The late Ernest Seeger was un opposed in the April election, but a number of write-in votes were cast for other persons after his death, leaving the office without a candidate. Rev. Brown and Col. Matthews were the only candi dates judged eligible for the post. However, since neither received enough votes to be declared elected, today’s runoff became necessary. Polls opened at the City Hall this morning at 8 and will close at 7 p. m. Cor/a Student Aviator Slightly Injured William (Bill) Easley, senior from Waco, will be released from St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan Thursday following his accident Saturday when the training plane in which he was flying hit a tele phone wire during a simulated landing near Hearne, according to Col. Henry Dittman, PAS. Dittman said Easley is being held in St. Joseph’s only for ob servation. Besides a slight concussion, Easley had a bad cut over his left eye and a badly bruised eye. He was in high spirits yesterday and was awaiting his release from the hospital for a few days at home, Dittman said. Easley was making a dual ctoss country flight with his instructor, C. E. Walker, at the time of the accident. “It was just a routine simulated landing for his (Easley’s) period of flight training,” Dittman said “It Was just one of those things At $ In Coliseum Students who are undecided about their views on re served and integrated seating will have a chance to hear both sides of the question at a debate in White Coliseum today at 5 p.m. Voting on the football seating issue takes place tomor row from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Post Office area of the Memorial Student Center. Two Student Publication Board members will be elected at the same time. The questions to be voted on read as follows: 1. Shall the Student Senate’s reserve seating program be approved? 2. Shall the Corps and Civilian juniors and seniors be “•seated together in Kyle Field? Candidates for the Student Publications Board are Baxter E. (Pete) Hogue and Bill W. Libby, Corps candidates and John F. Avant and Van Redman, Civilian candidates. One man from the Corps and one civilian student will be elected. Students may vote for both a Corps and Civilian Board member. Arguing for the Senate seating plan are Joe David Ross and John Specht, both senior senators. Don Weber and Bill Markillie will op pose the plan and present the neg ative argument against the issue. At last week’s Senate meeting the local legislators voted to al low only senators to take part in today’s debate. Senate President Larry Piper has invited all stu dents to hear the debate. A mim eographed information sheet has been posted on almost all dormi tory bulletin boards and reads in part: “Most every other seating plan has been attempted, but none have worked to provide the most desira ble conditions. Thus, the Senate in an effort* to reach a desirable solution that can be used from year to year is asking that the possibility of reserved seats ser iously be considered by the Stu dent Body for at least one year.” s To Wear Black Footwear Black shoes and socks will be worn by all members of the Corps next fall and will be isued by the clothing ware house, according to Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant. Originally, plans had been made to change to black foot-' wear a year from September, but surplus stock has been • used up and brown shoes are no longer available. Since both Ihe Army and the Air Force are now wear ing black shoes, it was unfeas ible for the Corps to continue to wear brown ones. that happen during training.” J. Doyle Alexander, chief pilot for the training program, said the accident occurred when the two men were coming in for a landing and hit a concealed, low telephone line and nosed oyer, crashing the plane. Alexander said there was no engine trouble involved in the crash. The Civil Aeronautics As sociation is investigating the crash. Easley said he didn’t remember anything about the crash except coming in for the landing and hitting the wires which he said couldn’t be seen from the air. “The Air Force has been check ing and they don’t think it was the fault of either of us,” Easley said, referring to the instructor and himself. Dittman said that the accident hasn’t hampered the flying pro gram in any way. It was to be expected and was most likely an unavoidable accident, he said. Ag Cowboys Place Second At Home Aggie cowboys gathered 261 points to take second place in the National Intercollegiate Rodeo held in the A&M arena over the week end, but their efforts were not enough to retain their first-place rating in the Southern Region of the NIRA. Aggies who took first place in the various events included John Kiker, bulldogging, with a time of 17.4 for two steers; Lowie Rice, tie down calf roping and Kennith Beasley and J. C. Dishman, who split the bull-riding contest. Seven Vanity Fair Finalists --More Tomorrow Mildred White Entered by Clint White Betty Moers Entered by Jack Robertson Marietta Pratt Entered by John Janak Donna Kinard Entered by Edwin Pierson Saundra Dale Cartwright Entered by Richard McGown Martha Montgomery Entered by Dale McCullough Nancy Mitchell Entered by Charles Jenkins