The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 04, 1957, Image 1

Texas A&M Newspaper Collection

The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 04, 1957, Image 1

Newspaper Page TextTHE ON Number 26: Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1957 Price Five Cents Chest to Hold Budget Heari ng For Club Drive A&M College-College Sta tion Community Chest held its 1957 - 58 organizational meeting last night in prepara tion for the Chest drive which is scheduled for Oct. 29 through Nov. 12. Budget hearings for the drive Averv* set for Oct. 14 at G:45 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center. Co-chairman Richard Vrooman, appointed by College Station Ma yor Ernest Langford, presided ov er the meeting. Other officers for this year’s Community Chest were appointed at the meeting. L. E. McCall is the other co- chairman, Ray Hite is treasurer and Reed McDonald is assistant treasurer. Jack Tippit was named publicity chairman with Loyd Keel as his assistant. Bob Shrode is secretary for the organization. Through the Community Chest people may make their entire year’s contribution to charities at one time and be sure that the mon ey will all go to a worthy cause, Shrode said. The , money is col lected and! handled by local people and placed where it will help the people of this community the most, he explained. “People of College Station have always cooperated wonderfully in the past and we’re looking forward to another very successful year,” the Chest secretary added. Four ‘More’ Freshmen at A&M 'Back by Demand’ Town Hall Opens Tuesday; Four Freshmen First Show By VAL POLK Opening this year’s Town Hall season next Tuesday will be the Four Freshmen who are being J. Wayne Stark MSC Director MSC Head Holder Of Peculiar Honor By LEWIS REDDELL Memorial Student Center Direc tor J. Wayne Stark is an Aggie with a unique honor. He is the only Aggie ever to be elected edi tor of the University of Texas yearbook, The Cactus. Stark served as editor only a short time however. He was elec ted in 1941 and soon afterward was called into active duty in the Army. After being discharged in 1945 with the rank of lieutenant colonel, Stark worked as personnel man with Anderson, Clayton & Com pany, Houston. In 1946 A&M President Gilchrist appointed a committee of former students, faculty members and students to begin plans for a stu dent union. The committee had the job of checking up on costs, needs and operations of a student center along with deciding on what kind of governing body the staff would need. The committee used Porter Butts, director of the Wisconsin Univer sity Student Union, as a consult ant. Butts recommended that the committee hire a director some three yeai’s prior to the opening of the center so a governing body would be functioning when the center opened. The committee chose Stark as director. Stark assumed duties as direc tor on October 1, 1947. His first task at A&M was to assume man- agement of two confectionaries op erating on the campus', George’s and Casey’s. The school had cancelled the confectionary operator’s contracts prior to this., He operated the two confection aries as the pilot plant for the present MSC, establishing pur chasing, warehousing and opera ting procedures from these two establishments. The beginning staff was also formed at this time. Stark worked from 12 to 18 hours a day, seven days a week when the MSC was in its infancy. By the time the doors were opened in September 1950, the center had a fairly firm operating program. It now is a $1 million operation. An Aggie graduate, class of 1939, Stark also attended Univer sity of Texas Law school for two years, where he won his short-lived editorship of the Cactus. He still retains his reserve Army commission and is still active in the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Re serve. He has a special interest in the guided missile program. Stark is married and is the fath er of two children, John 13, and Sallie, 7. An occasional game of golf, the MSC activities and traveling hold Stark’s interest in his leisure time. He also is vice president of the National Association of College Unions and belongs to the College Station Kiwanis Club. “brought back by popular demand” again this season. The Four Freshmen, quite familiar to most Aggies around the campus, have never seemed to lose their popularity as do some groups that keep returning to the campus. They started singing during their freshman year at Arthur Jordan Conservatory in India napolis in 1948 with a distinct “barber-shop” sound. This went over, so to speak, Rke a lead bal loon. Thus, they conceived the idea of trying to get a fivevoice sound with only four voices. Now it is the perfected and polished “sound” of the Four Freshmen* Musicinl instruments are used by the group in a great many of their numbers which gives them the great versatility that belongs to the Four Freshmen. Each one plays certain types of instruments exceedingly well. Bob Flanigan, who sings the top vioce, plays trombone and doubles on bass. Don Barbour, the second voice ,is a guitar player and is featured on solos. Ross Barbour, who sings third Amice and handles all the introductions, plays drums and trumpet. Ken' Albers, the goups’s bass voice, plays trumpet and mellophone. Albers is featured instrumentally as well as vocally on many numbers. Placing high among the vocal groups, the Four Freshmen have won the “Best Vocal Group” cate gory in the Metronome Magazine Poll the last three years, Downbeat Magazine Poll the last four years, and, thus far in 1957, have led the field in the Billboard and United Press Disc-Jockey’s Poll,, and the Playboy Magazine Jazz Poll. In the recoi'ding field they have made such best sellers as “Day by Day”, “Garduation Day,” “Char- maine”, and their albums, “Four Freshmen and Five Trombones”, “Four Freshmen and Five Trum pets” and “Four Freshmen and Five Saxes.” Last year their tour with the Nat (King) Cole-Ted Heath Con cert group proved to be a big suc cess. Here at A&M the Four Freshmen were more entertaining to many Aggies than Nat Cole. Admission to the program is by season tickets, or $2,50 for reserve seats, $2 for general admission and $1 for high school and elementary students. Civilian Councilmen Hold First Meeting Bennie Zinn, Head of the De partment of Student Affairs, out lined the role of the Civilian Stu dent Council in building a greater college ,at the Council’s first meet ing of the year last night. Meeting in the Press Chib Li brary, the 15 new councilmen at tending were told by Zinn, “What ever you do, do it for the good of A&M.” “You will accomplish nothing by squabbling among yourselves, among Civilian dormitories, or with any group,” he told them. Zinn gave the group a brief summary of the history behind the council and its constitution. He explained the constitution and its meaning and application. Also he told the councilmen the meaning of the governing body and their duties and obligations as a part of student government. In explaining student govern ment action, Zinn advised the group not to waste time “floun dering around” over an issue, hut to appoint a committee and investi- gate the matter to find out the facts before taking action. Zinn stressed cooperation among all student governing bodies and the need for the Corps and Civil ians to work together. If an idea is originated among Civilian stu dents which will benefit the Corps, it should be submitted through the commandant, he pointed out. And in turn if the Corps has some thing which will benefit Civilians it should be passed down through the Corps liason officer. Included among the council rep resentatives were the two college view councilmen elected last night. Robert Montgomery and Charlie Graham were the selections of the married students. ffl • 11 g e r s omorrow In ‘Ole’ Missouri Cad els Undefeated In Twelve Conies Is By GARY ROLLINS Battalion Sports Editor The Texas Aggies, bidding for their second straight un defeated season and a bid to the Cotton Bowl, journey to Missouri tomorrow to clash with Coach Frank Broyle’s mighty Tigers. Missouri, once considered only slightly better than an average squad, will he at full strength for this tilt, the first between the two schools. The Bengals, pride of the Ozarks, are a great offensive team, and last season outgained eight of their ten opponents in total yards rushing. Last week, Arizona felt the brunt of the powerful Tiger attack and absorbed a 35-13 beating. The Wildcats from the ^desert country were solid fa vorites to hand Mizzou a de feat, but Broyles’ Bengals simply refuse to lie down for anybody this year. They have a potent baekfield, featuring the running of 186-pound fullback Hank Kuhlman who rip ped off three touchdowns last week against Arizona; the passing of quarterback “S t u b” Clemensen and the return of their outstanding baekfield ace, halfback Charlie James. The Aggies, Southwest Confer ence champions, will be handicap ped slightly by injuries. John Crow and Loyd Taylor, the southwest’s most famous one-two punch in football, will not be see ing action and a sizable number of “depth” players have been weak ened by the recent attacks of in fluenza. Without the services of Crow and Taylor, the Farmers still have the best running team in the con ference. Through two games, Bry ant’s Cadets have gained 485 yards on the ground. The road for Coach Paul Bryant’s charges has been anything but a su perhighway-—Maryland and Texas Tech were fired-up to defeat the Cadets and become “giant killers.” On both occasions, though, the Aggies came through at the op portune moment and scored the “next” all-important victory. Coach Bryant, in whom each and every player solemnly believes and trusts, has taught his charges that the game “at hand” is the most important game. So the Aggies, who can still hear the ring of the Cotton Bowl gates as they slammed shut last year, settle to this important task at hand—-beating Missouri. Prof Invited To Serve On Natl Croup Dr. U. Grant Whitehouse, physical chemist and techni cal director of the A&M Col lege Electron Microscopy Lab oratories, has been invited to serve on the National Education Committee For Promotion of the Training of Electron Microscopists. This invitation was recently ex tended by the committee chairman, Dr. Carl E. Willoughby of the du Pont Chemical Company. The industrial d e m a n d for electron microscopists, scientists trained in the operation and tech niques of using large electrical microscopes for investigation of the secrets of nature down to one 25,000,900 part of an inch, has far exceeded the supply of such speci alists, it is pointed out. Such demand embraces chemis try, physics, biology, geology and many othei' specific sciences and extends into many aspects of agri culture, engineering, and medicine. At the present time, A&M offers one introductory course in this field and is promoting graduate and staff research in electron micros copy in the interest of all divisions of the college system. New cen tralized laboratories, valued at $200,000, headed by Dr. Whitehouse have recently been installed on the campus. Senate Asks For Parking On Spence St. A resolution to Chief of Campus Security Fred Hick man suggesting that students presently parking on Spence Street not be given tickets until parking facilities were avail able was passed unanimously last night by the Student Senate. The Senate, meeting in regular session at 7:30 in the Senate Chamber of the Memorial Student Center, also discussed at length the disposition of Reveille II, at present attached to A Quartermaster Com pany. Final decision on the ques tion is scheduled for the next Senate meeting, Oct. 17. One hundi’ed ninety four dollars and ninety cents was collected yes- terday in the buckets placed at the entrances of the messhalls to care for “Rev” during the year, $44 more than the estimated need. All of the money was deposited in a special Student Activities fund for the mascot. Aggie Rodeo Slated For Thurs. Night The annual All-Aggie Rodeo is slated to begin Thursday and will last through Saturday. Over 150 Aggies will be competing for prizes in the major events, bull riding, bareback bronc riding, bull- dogging, tie-down calf roping, and ribbon roping. Only Aggies are allowed to compete. An added attraction will be Royce Hudson and his trained bull Hudson is tabbed as one of the best rodeo clowns in Texas. The rodeo is sponsored by the Saddle and Sirloin Club and tick ets may be purchased from any member of the club. Cost is $1 for adults, 50 cents for students and children. Class of 1954 To Meet Oct. 8 The class of 1954 will meet Oct. 8, ai 7 p. m. in room 2B of the Memorial Student Center to discuss the reunion at Fort Worth before the T.C.U. game. All members are urged to at tend. Battalion staff photo No Excuse For Not Writing Now Raoul Roth picks up some free Aggie sta- Association of Former Students and the tionery at the main desk of the Memorial College hospital as well as the MSC and is Student Center from Morris Walker. The presented by The Texas Aggie, monthly stationery is available at the office of the publication of Former Students. Film Group Shows NS 11 o whoa I * F ri day The Film Society of the Me morial Student Cenler will present MGM’s production “Showboat” to night at 7:30 p.m. in the MSC Ball room. “Showboat”, starring Ava Gardner, recreates the lusty days of riverboating. Weather Today Partly cloudy and continued warm through Saturday is the forecast for this area. At 8 this morning the relative humidity was 85 per cent and the temperature, 72 degrees. Yesterday the mercury rose to a high of 85 degrees at 2:30 p. m. This morning’s low, coming at 6:45, was 64 degrees.

Texas A&M Newspaper Collection

Texas A&M Newspaper Collection

The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 04, 1957, Image 1

Are you interested in including a title to our archive?

Follow us!