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13,446 READERS Number 279: Volume 55 Goode Speaks At Architects’ A wards Dinner Phillip B. Goode, Profes sor of Business Administra tion and a lawyer by profes sion, was principal speaker at the 1957 Architecture Awards Ranquet hold last Wednesday night in the Ballroom of the Memorial Student Center. Kirby Keahey, fifth-year archi tect, headed the list of award win ners as he won first place in the American Institute of Architects contest and also a $500 Clay Pro ducts scholarship. N. Key Kolb, Jr., took second in the AIA competition and second in the Featherlitc contest. Kolb also took state and college compe tition in the contest to win prizes totaling $025. John Greer took first place in the Featherlite contest for a $175 award and William Sheveland plac ed third for $100. Davidson Fellowships of $250 each went to William Ruez III, and C. M. Jones. Tom Brumfield and Earl Pexley were given medals and Edward Reeder won the Ernest Langford award of selected professional books and a special citation. M. M. Douglas won the Alpha Rho Chi award, a silver medal. Charles Tabor won the $200 J. Rodney Tabor scholarship and Nor man Ufer reeived an $150 scholar ship from the Texas Concrete Ma sonry Association. Ufer, along with Charles Griffin, also received a year’s membership in the Ameri can Society of Testing Materials and a copy of its reference mater ials for winning the Clay Concrete Masonai’y Association competition. Notley Harrell and Jesus Hino josa placed in the top group in the Tile Council of America competi tion and were awarded $25 each. Jack Yardley was named out standing junior in architecture and Robert Trees outstanding fresh man. Both received a year’s sub scription to an architectural mag azine. BATTALION Election Thursday COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1957 Price Five Cents pmi HITTING THE BOOKS for finals, Ed Cooksey, junior insurance major from Terrell, takes advantage of “dead week” to get in some extra studying. Top Consolidated Students Honored At Friday Assembly “The Cream of the Ci’op” at Consolidated High School received honors Friday at the annual awards assembly at 2 p. m. in the high school auditorium. Outstanding scholars in various academic fields, overall ability and student leaders were recognized by the local Lions Club, Kiwanis Club and the Consolidated schools. Maurice Olian, student body president, opened the program fol lowed by J. ,L Skrivanek, Jr., CHS principal, with a talk on the awards to be presented. The pro gram was then turned over to officers of the clubs and school Staffs Honored Publication Awards Given At Banquet The Battalion and Southwestern Veterinarian awards were present ed at the annual Student Publi cations Awards Banquet Friday night at the Memorial Student Center. Jim Bower, 1956-57 Battalion editor, presented awards from the Battalion to the following men in recognition of their outstanding service to A&M: Col. Frank C. (Andy) Anderson, retiring head track coach; Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assistant commandant; Dr. David H. Morgan, past presir dent of A&M; H. O. Kunkel, as sociate professor of the Animal Husbandry Department; D. W. Wil liams, acting president of A&M and Vice-Chancellor of Agriculture; and Karl E. Elmquist, associate professor of English. Delmar Cassiday, co-editor of the 1956-57 Southwestern Veterinarian, gave its Faculty Achievement Award to Dr. Leland C. Grumbles, associate professor in the Depart ment of Veterinary Microbiology, for the scientific contributions and aid which he gave the magazine staff. Col. Homer Garrison, Jr., di rector of the Texas Department of Public Safety, awarded The Bat talion with the $500 first-place prize in the College Newspaper Contest on Safe Driving. The Bat talion, placed in the nation’s top three for the fifth consecutive year winning this year’s daily publi cation division in which there were 278 entries from 28 states. Editors of the six student publi cations presented Key awards to their staff members. Dr. Caroll D. Laverty, chair man of the Student Publications Board, then gave watches to the following outgoing editors: Don Burt, Aggieland ’57; Benny Eugene (Bud) Fichte, Agriculturist; Jim Bower, The Battalion; David Mc- Reynolds, The Battalion, summer, 1956; John E. Smith, Commentator; Joe Bill Foster, Engineer and Kennety Pierce and Delmar Cassidy, co-editors. Southwestern Veterinarian. Don Burt led the audience in selection of the six Vanity Fair winners. A six-piece band Horn Sam Houston State Teacher’s College, “The Counts,” under the direction of James Atkins, provided music for the occasion and two dance routines directed by Shirley Brandes closed-out the program. The first, entitled, “Get Happy,” included Misses Peggy Tuttle, Nancy Brown, Paula Kay Smith and Rheau Nell Duncan. “Sugar Blues,” the other dance, featui'ed Ruby Jean Eldge, Arliss Treybig, Molly Ranbo and Peggy Tuttle. 97 Initiated Into Phi Kappa Phi Dr. Paul Geren, executive vice- president of Baylor University, was the main speaker at the annual Phi Kappa Phi banquet in the Memorial Student Center Thursday night at which 5 faculty members, 6 graduate students and 86 under graduate students were initiated. “A Comparison of the Ethic Which Informs the American and the Communist Political Systems” was the subject of Dr. Geren’s speech in which he contrasted the ideas and thoughts of Americans and Russians towards politics. He said that an American may speak out against the instniction of his church or his political party and not be condemned or purged, while the traditions underlying the politi cal system in Russia have molded life, action and thought into a oneness which cannot be separated. faculty for the presentation ceremonies. Lions Club awards, presented by Dr. Leland Grumbles, president, for the most outstanding students in a specific field are: natural science, James Martin; social science, Maurice Olian; English, Maui’ice Olian; mathematics, James Martin; home and family life, Lucy Rogers; Spanish, Beatrice Luther; Latin, James Martin; commercial, Nell Ross; agriculture, Donald Barker; art, Donald Tax; speech, Bill Hite; music, Tom Ivy; best all-round boy, Pete Rodrigues; best all-around girl, Ann Hite; indus trial arts, Eddie Walker, and safety education in drivers train ing, Deanne Skrivanek. The Lions also honored the stu dents from each Consolidated class who had maintained the highest overall scholastic average for the year. Bruce Thompson took ninth Directors Vote To Sell WTAW For Highest Bid Radio Station WTAW, “The Voice of Texas A&M College,” has been put up for sale by the Board of Directors due to increased costs of operation, Henderson Shuffler, director of in formation and publication for the A&M College System, disclosed. The oldest established radio sta tion in Central Texas, WTAW has been operating on a semi-commer cial basis for many years. It has been used primarily for teaching students in the radio field, but dur ing recent years this training has been utilized by only a few stu dents. Sealed bids for the station will be received until 10 a.m. Thurs day, June 20, by W. G. Freeman, A&M College System comptroller. Freeman will then submit the bids to the Board of Directors at their meeting on June 22. Bidders are required to file a certified or cashier’s check for $3,000 with their bids. The three highest bids will be held until the Federal Communications Commis sion gives its final approval and acceptance, at which time all other checks will be returned to the bid ders. Bids received after the dead line will be returned unopened. After the FCC gives its approv al, the bidder getting the nod will be required to pay the balance in full within the following five days. He will be allowed to use the pre sent location of the studio for 90 days without charge. The studio willl be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays to allow prospective buy ers to inspect the facilities. grade honors; Martha Esten, tenth; Mary Margaret Hierth, eleventh, and Maurice Olian, twelfth. The four names will be engraved on plaques provided by the Lions Club in 1955. Lucy Rogers won the Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizenship Award and Jo Anne Walker won the DAR American History Award. These awards were given by Mrs. Frank Brown, Jr, DAR representative. Kiwanis Club Awards wept to the outstanding students in Fu ture Farming and Future Home- making. James Barker and Donald Barker received the FFA awards and Lucy Rogers and Margaret Adam won the FHA honors. Steadman Davis, Donald Patton, Charles Palmer Davis, Charles Delaplane and Lucy Rogers were named outstanding student council members. Winners of Arion Awards for music were instrumental, Tom Ivy, and vocal, Ann Hite. David Webb was named winner of the Bausch Lomb Science Award. Winners of the title of most polite boy and girl were John Skrivanek and Sharon Manning. Babe Ruth Sportsmanship Awards went to Steadman Davis and Mary Margaret Hierth. Davis was also named outstanding re presentative for Lone Star Boys State. Awards were also given out standing homeroom workers, out standing club workers, honor stu dents, National Honor Society members and good citizens of the month. e s eaders Required Corps Top Brass Urges Aid From Parents A movement to make A&M’s Corps compulsory for the first two years for physically qualified undergraduates non- veterans has been started by high officials in the Corps staff. Jack Lunsford, Corps commander, and L. E. Sheppard, deputy Corps commander, started the move suggesting to Corps members that they write or contact their parents asking them to write to members of the Board of Directors. The Board is to consider the compulsory Corps question at their regular meeting this month. Both Lunsford and Sheppard had appeared before the Board last month asking that the Corps be made compulsory. The decision was postponed until this month’s meeting. Lunsford and Sheppard spoke to groups of Cadets all over the campus telling them of their meeting with the Board and outlining points brought out to directors. They said they told the Board of the present situation on the cam- pus and outlined it as follows: (1) Present student body split is not good; (2) Corps must have acceptance and support of those at Aggieland and (3) the situation is critical. The Corps officials outlined to cadets a plan of action. They sug gested that the Board hear from someone besides cadets-the par ents. They outlined procedure which would include: (1) Letters written by parents to the three board mem bers nearest their homes; (2) ask parents while they were down for Mother’s Day to write; (3) Have parents to write in their own words and (3) give them a list of questions to use as a guide in writing the letters. Lunsford and Sheppard also told the groups of their responsibility to the Corps especially under the compulsory system. They said the cadets could make their own decision to be as good or as bad as they want to be, both as individuals and as a Corps. They emphasized to the groups that they must sell the Corps and work for its improvement and at the same time believe in the Corps strongly. Lunsford and Sheppard stressed that they were not trying to high pressure Corps members into ask ing their parents to write the letters. They said they only wanted parents to Write who really be lieved in compulsory Corps. Weather Today Southerly Winds Partly cloudy skies are the order of the day but no rain is forecast. Monday’s high temperature was 89, the low, 76. Mid-morning reading today, 84 degrees. Local Drive-in Donates Gate For Zuckero The Vic Zuckero Fund will be boosted tomorrow night by the Skyway Drive-In Thea ter’s donation of one-half its gate receipts to aid in the stricken senior’s recovery, announ ced James W. Robertson, manager of the theatre, yesterday. “Scarlet Hour,” with Nat ‘King’ Cole, and “Dakota Incident,” stai’- ring Linda Darnell and Dale Rob- ertson are scheduled for tomor row night’s fund raising movies for Zuckero, who was stricken with spinal meningitis two weeks ago. Dr. J. E. Marsh Jr., Zuckero’s attending physician, reported last night that “he is progressing very well and making an uneventful re covery.” Marsh also said the pa tient, could sit up in bed and may be able to move around in about a week. Marsh said it would be several weeks before they could tell to what extent the disease (spinal meningitis) would affect Zuckero. “It takes a long time to clear up; it is a matter of weeks and months rather than a few days,” he said. Zuckero was stricken while play ing intramural softball two weeks ago and is still in St. Joseph’s Hospital where his bill is mount ing by $100 each day. The little insurance he has is not enough to cover all these costs. Right now the Zuckero farm in Simenton is under water due to recent floods and offers no income. The Zuckero Fund, which was started on the campus last Wed nesday when buckets were placed all over Aggieland, drew $1,300 from fellow students. A goal of $600 had previously been set for the drive. Aggies To Lose Their ‘Lonely Girl Shaffer’s “Lonely Girl” is grad uating. And the numerous Aggies who have speculated about the origin of the husky, tantalizing voice which offered soft music and phrases from home on a half-hour weekly radio show on KORA need speculate no more. The young lady causing so much disturbance in the dorms on Thurs day nights (and who, incidentally, isn’t lonely at all) is Sunny Woodle. She came to A&M with her husband, Roy, ’56, mechanical engineering major, from Houston where she did a similar show nightly on a Houston station. Sunny is no amateur in the radio business. Her Houston show, which was discontinued because “it dis tracted too many husbands” gave her the idea for her Shaffer’s show while she was working as women’s home and food editor for KORA. Some Aggies seem to become “distracted” by the program, too. “We get a lot of letters from Sunny’s listeners,” Woodle remark ed, “but we just file them away.” Keeping her idenity a secret has been somewhat of chore at times, according to her husband, but, he said that he’s found it very amus ing to listen to the Aggies around the campus trying to guess the lonely girl’s identity. Guesses us ually centered around Julie London, and some even supposed that the songs on the show were also Sung by her. Actually, a lot of the music Sunny played was by Julie, including the “Lonely Girl” theme. Sunny can do a lot of things besides sound lonely. In the past few years she has won several beauty contests, including Combat Cutie, Miss Houston Beautiful and Queen of the Buffs, done some fashion modeling and won a Hous ton women’s open golf tourney. But as far as the Aggies are concerned, the best thing she does is sound lonely, even if she really isn’t. CS Lions Hear Plans for New Crippled Clinic J. O. Alexander, chairman of the Brazos County Crippled Childrens Society, told t h e Colllege Station Lions Club yesterday about plans for a crippled childrens center in the county. After explaining the need for a clinic, Alexander outlined the pro gram of the society and what has already been done towards setting up a center. He estimated the cost of clinic for one year to be about $7,000. “In Brazos County there are about 50 cases of both polio and cerebral palsy that need attention now,” said Alexander. He also discussed the need for an adequate building to house the clinic and an experienced physical therapist to work with the children. Before Alexander’s talk, they discussed the upcoming light bulb sale being sponsored by the local club, the Bryan club and the Even ing Lions. The sale is planned for Monday, June 3. Also at the meet ing, they voted to send $50 to the Lion district governor to pass on to the Lampassas Lions Relief fund. AF Cadets Receive Reg Commissions Twenty-eight of the thirty-one senior AFROTC cadets which were recommended for regular Air Force commissions have been accepted by the AFROTC Headquarters ac cording to Col. Henry Dittman, PAS. The seniors receiving the regular commissions were among 379 stu dents chosen from the entire AF ROTC program in the United States. The cadets who will receive regular Air Force commissions are: Willie Alsup III, Billy B. Bed ford, Tom W. Brumfield Jr., Wil liam B. Byrne Jr., John D. Cain, Standley B. Crockett Jr., Bryan W. Dedeker, Murray B. Denton, Leroy C. Foerster Jr., Adrain G. Helms, Pete Huddleston, Vardaman F. Johnson, Warren B. Johnson Jr., Kirby M. Keahey. Byron W. King, Jack H. Luns ford, Lester L. Mays, Kirby T. Meyer, Donald L. Moore, John R. Sandhop, Harold Sattler, Karl J. Springex 1 , Jack W. Thomas, James S. Tinsley, William D. Von Gonten, Richard M. Wall, John A. Webb, and George N. Winn. Mmt Shaffer’s “Lonely Girl”—Sunny Woodle