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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.
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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.