BATTALION
17 Days
Until Final
Review
Number 272: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1957
Price Five Cents
J. McCa
Scores
THIS IS WHAT’S LEFT of the Cessna 140 which crashed yesterday near Curtiss Sky
Ranch on Farm Highway 50. Injured in the crash was Jack McBride, 57, of Shiro.
Mrs. Wayne Clift Chosen
Aggie Mother Of The Year
Mi’s. Wayne Clift of San An-
pelo has been selected A & M’s
Mother of the Year by a special
committee of the Student Senate.
Mrs. Clift is the mother of Wal
lace Wayne Clift, senior agricul
tural education major from San
Angelo. Clift, who lives in room
40, Mitchell Hall, wrote the follow
ing letter nominating his mother:
“A&M’s Mother of the Year is
an honor every Aggie mother
should have.
“To stand by her son through
his four years of college, to share
his hopes, ambitions, dreams, hard
ships, anxieties, and the letdowns
that he encounters along the way,
is a credit to any mother. But I
believe that my mother, Mrs.
Wayne Clift, has even gone a step
further.
“My father was in an accident
when I was four years old, and has
been an invalid ever since. At the
Aggie General
Not To Speak
At Barbecue
Maj. Gen. Percy Clarkson,
class of ’15, will not speak at
the annual senior barbecue
Thursday night as scheduled,
acording to J. B. Hervey,
chairman of the Former Students
barbecue.
The barbecue, sponsored each
year by the Former Students As
sociation, will be held in The Grove
Thursday at 6:15 p.m.
E. M. (Jiggs) Freeman, class of
’22, president of the association,
will be the main speaker for the
evening.
Menu for the evening includes
potato salad, beans, pickles, onions,
buns, cookies, soft drinks and bar
becue. Roy Snyder, of the Ani
mal Husbandry Department, is in
charge of preparing the barbecue
which was donated by the Former
Students.
The purpose of the barbecue is
to honor the graduating seniors
each year and at the same time
welcome them into the Former
Students Association, Hervey said.
Seniors can pick up their free
tickets for the barbecue from group
and battalion commanders, or from
civilian housemasters. The Asso
ciation of Former Students in the
Memorial Student Center and the
Student Activities office in the
YMCA also will sell tickets.
Society Editor
lias New Baby
Mrs. Joy Roper, Battalion socie
ty editor, gave birth to a baby girl
Monday night.
The girl, weighing just over sev
en pounds, has not been named as
yet.
Mrs. Roper is the wife of C. Earl
Roper, a graduate wildlife manage
ment student. The Ropers live in
College View.
time of his accident, my father
was a grocery store manager for
the “M” System stores in San An
gelo. My mother stepped into the
grocery business to try to support
us. She did well. So well, in fact,
that she became manager of the
same store my father had worked
in. She is the only woman I know
who manages a large chain grocery
store.
“Not only did she succeed in the
business world, but continued her
duties as wife and mother as well.
While doing the washing and
household chores, she cared for
my invalid father and directed me
along the right path. She was the
only source of our family income.
“She lighted the flame of my
ambition to acquire a higher edu
cation at A&M. This at the time
seemed impossible, for my father
required many costly operations
that kept Mom in debt constantly.
Yet through all these hardships,
she kept the desire to attain a
higher education alive in me.
“When I graduated from high
school and came to A&M, staying
seemed impossible, but Mom stayed
behind me with her confidence and
support. Though I now proudly
wear my senior ring, the credit is
not mine. Anyone could have done
the same thing if they just had a
wonderful mother like luine.
“My only wish is thajb my Mom
could have the honor of being
‘Mother of the Year’ for I know
that this and my graduation will
be the only reward she will want
for her years of worry and hard
ship.”
Mrs. Wayne Clift
Mother of the Year
Overwhelming Win
For City Council Seat
Aggie Follies
eration Coed
‘Bigger, Better’
“Bigger and better than ev
er” are Director Roy (Connie)
Eckard’s words describing the
1957 Aggie Follies, which hold
the spotlight of Parents’ Day
weekend activities.
This year’s production, a
hilarious musical comedy, “Oper
ation: Coed,” is a take off on the
enrollment of women at A&M. It
features interesting situations and
problems as a senior tries to
register, with his girl tagging
along.
Written and produced by mem
bers of the Aggie Players, A&M’s
drama group, “Operation: Coed”
promises to produce more laughs
per minute than the 1955 Follies,
“Hullaballoo,” or last year’s “Kha
ki Jungle.”
Charles Ware is managing the
stage. Dance routines are super
vised by Virginia Crabbe and the
musical and vocal arrangements are
by Clyde Adams. Sets are being
designed by Delmar House, aided
by Mike Kuick, Larry Cahill, Dave
Daniels and Jim Best.
Included in the cast are Don
Demming, Wayne Edwards, Jerry,
Williams, Clint White, Virginia
Crabbe, Toby Hughes, Pat Resley,
Jimmy Best, Ed Lux, Mildred
White, Jack Gladwell, Ward Boyce,
Jim Rector, Amaryllis Roberts,
Doris Bahlmann, Jim Leisnner,
Jim Dixon, Bill Heard, Clyde
Adams, JoAnn Moore and John
West.
Providing music for the show
are Bill Heard, Howard Harwell,
Fritz Landers, Don Friedrich and
Lari Wester, known as just
“Several,” and the “Three Notes,”
Doyal Boring, John Page and John
Barger.
Handling the lights for “Oper
ation: Coed” are Bob Wenck,
Warner Dahlberg and James Wood.
DuWayne Lundgren is in charge of
props.
Tickets ipay be obtained from the
office of Student Activities or
from dormitory salesmen.
Weather Today
The forecast for today is con
tinued cloudy with scattered rain
showers and possible widely scat
tered thunder showers late this
afternoon.
Maximum temperature yesterday
was 76 and minimum this morning
was 63. Temperature at 11 a.m.
was 74 degrees.
Big Write-in Vote
Decides Victor
Write-in votes for L. J. McCall saturated the College
Station Precinct 3 ballot boxes to sweep him to a landslide
victory over the two regular candidates in the run-off City
Council election yesterday.
McCall, a retired A&M farm system foreman, received
50 of the 63 votes cast to beat out Col. Frank H. Mathews
and the Rev. R. L. Brown. Mathews and the Rev. Brown
were regular candidates for the office in the election, being
placed there by write-in votes in the regular College Station
City election April 2.
After the death of Councilman Ernest Seeger a week
prior to the regular election left the Ward 3 position without
a candidate, the “write-in fe-f-—' oV* !—i iri
ver” took over voters. The Pilot Slightly Hurt
late Seeger was the only can
didate for the post and write-
in votes were cast for several
men. Mathews and Rev. Brown
were the only write-in candidates
judged eligible for the position.
Neither received enough votes in
the April election to be declared
officially elected, however.
In the runoff yesterday, the 63
voters went to the polls to again
take advantage of the write-in vote
to elect McCall. Ran Boswell, city
manager, said it was one of the
largest votes that he knew of to
be taken from Ward 3. The 50
write in votes for a single candi
date in a single ward is an un
questionable record he said.
McCall takes his position on the
council immediately to fill the
vacant post and settle the question,
at least until the next city election.
McCall will not be called upon to
defend his position for two years
however. City councilmen serve
for a period qf two years, with
one of the two councilmen from
each of the three wards running
each year.
Since there are three wards in
College Station, this means that
a total of at least three years
experience is serving on the council
at all times, even in the event of
a complete new round of candi
dates being elected in a city elec
tion.
Zandt Wins Cattle
Judging Contest
Joe Van Zandt, sophomore
animal husbandry student from
Wheeler, was high scorer in the
freshman - sophomore cattle judg
ing contest,
Roman Garza, sophomore from
Rio Grande City; M. G. Srogg,
sophomore from Forth Worth,
Martin Graham, sophomore from
Mathon, and Jim Bendele, sopho
more from Pipe Creek, were run
ners-up in the contest.
In Airplane Crash
A Cessna 140 crashed about dusk
last night near the Curtiss Sky
Ranch on Highway 50, injuring a
Shiro man.
Injured was Jack McBride, 57.
He received multiple cuts about
the face and several broken face
bones. He was taken to St. Joseph’s
Hospital in Bryan where his con
dition was reported as fair by Dr.
Henry McQuaide, attending phy
sician.
Two A&M students, Norman
Mahrenholz and Lee Sorenson,
who saw the crash and pulled the
single occupant from the wreckage,
said the plane circled the field
several times and attempted a
loop. The light plane then stalled
and nosed to the ground.
Attention Seniors
Seniors who want their Aggie-
land sent to their home should
drop by the Student Publications
Office in the YMCA and leave
a forwarding address.
57 Students
At CHS Named
On Honor Roll
Fifty-seven students were
named to the fifth six-weeks
Consolidated High School hon
or roll, according to an an
nouncement by CHS principal
J. J. Skrivanek, Jr.
Sophomores provided the great
est number of honor students with
22 to their credit. Sixteen seniors
made the list, along with ten jun
iors and nine freshmen.
Students named to the honor
roll are:
Ninth grade—Jane Ann Krenits-
ky, Howard Mitchell, Larry God
frey, Cyndi Drake, Anita Mowery,
Pam Sperry, Charlene Matejka,
Bruce Thompson and Dee Smith.
Tenth grade — Beatrice Luther,
Sara Goode, Bill Jones, Kenneth
Bailey, Alex Rush, Dolores Mar-
quart, Don Avera, Ann William
son, Kim Johns, James Morgan,
Nancy Rogers, Joyce Lorenz, Jea-
nelle LaMotte, Patricia Jackson,
Ora Lee Ramsey, Patricia Free
man, Johnny Barger, Mary Var-
vel, Helen Klipple, Billie Dean Let-
better, Martha Esten and Kenneth
Cooner.
Eleventh grade—Mary Margaret
Hierth, Elaine Chalk, Millie Caugh-
lin, Mary Linda Cathcart, Joe Ran
dolph, Christy Kent, Jeanette
Vance, Amy Norcross, Junius Clark
and Jerry Mills.
Twelfth grade—Larry Leighton,
Maurice Olian, David Webb, Joe
Marek, Charles Delaplane, John
Harrington, Janies Martin, Mary
Beth Hagler, Mary Lou Ergle, Er
nest Tanzer, James Couch, John
Skrivanek, Lucy Rogers, Jo Anne
Walker, Ann Hite and Dan Davis.
Sunday Honor Day
For Aggie Parents
Moms and dads will be Aggie-
land’s honored guests this week
end for “Open House Day” and
their special day on Sunday, offi
cially named “Parents’ Day.”
Activities for Saturday include
an open house in Cushing Library
beginning at 8 and a coffee served
by the Brazos County Mothers’
Club to the Federation of A&M
Mothers’ Clubs.
Program for Saturday afternoon
includes an open house in all de
partments with displays of stu
dent work. The Memorial Student
Center will also have a Mothers’
Day speech in the Social Room,
sponsored by the Department of
English and the Brazos Bar As
sociation.
Highlights for the evening are
the Aggie Follies, “Operation: Co
ed,” in Guion Hall, beginning at
7:30 and an All College Dance in
the Grove, starting at 9:30, hon
oring mothers and dads. Tickets
for the Follies are $1; All College
(See HONOR, Page 4)
BULLETIN
Secretary of Defense Charles E.
Wilson will be at A&M Saturday
morning, May 11. Wilson will be
guest of honor at a cadet corps re
view at 11 a.m. and taken on a
tour of the agricultural area of
the college.
He will arrive at 9:30 a.m. by
plane at the college’s Easterwood
airport from Houston, accompan
ied by his aide, Brig. Gen. C. A.
Randall, USMC. Members of the j
Houston Junior Chamber of Com
merce also will acocmpany him
here including Richard B. Davies,
the outgoing president and Wes
ley Hooper, the incoming president
and W. T. Doherty, president of
the board of directors.
Following a luncheon at noon in
his honor, Wilson will leave by
plane at 1 p. m. for Houston, where
he is to address the Houston Jun
ior C of C at their installation of
officers ceremonies Saturday night.
Five More Vanity Fair Finalists
Esther Morvant
Entered by Clark Holloway
Cathy Konecny
Entered by Ben Allen
Ann Gordon
Entered by R. B. Penland
Peggy Mechler
Entered by Joe Roeris
Jeanene Stein
Entered by Stanley J. Stein