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Social Whirl All Agricultural Education Wives are invited to attend a “get-to- Imow-everyone” party at 8 tonight in the south solarium of the YMGA. Aggie Wives Bridge Club will meet at 7:30 tonight in the Mem orial Student Center. Hostesses in the regular group will be Diane Williams and Carolyn Browning, and in the beginners group, Sue Cox and Delores Cooper. Last week prizes went to Bille Holder and Carolyn Browning. * * * Agricultural Economics and Ru ral Sociology Wives Club will meet at 8 p.m. Monday at the home of Mrs. Robert E. Branson, 4008 Cub pepper. A social to welcome new members is planned. Mrs. Robert Stevenson will give points on en tertaining. * * * Aggie Wives Council entertained club presidents, representatives and faculty members at a get-ac quainted social Monday evening in the YMCA. Those present included the Mes- dames John C. Calhoun, .1. B. Page, A. A. Price and M. T. Harrington. * * * Business Administration Wives will meet at 8 p. m. Monday in the meats lab of the Animal Industries Building. In addition to the bus iness meeting, a lecture on how to buy meat will be given. Hostess will be Verna Joy Winter. * * * Electrical Engineering Wives Club will meet at 8 p. m. Monday in the south solarium of the YMCA. Renee Abbott of Edna’s Beauty Salon will give beauty tips. Hostes ses will be Barbara Dossage and Dixie Davis. Information on transportation to the meeting may be obtained by calling Norma Koch, VI G-5492. Three Units Win First in Pass-by Three units, “C” Inf., “B” AAA and “A” Comp., tied for first place in the “March-in” before the A&M -University of Houston football game Saturday night. “C” Armor and Sq 7 tied for fourth, Sq 23 placed sixth, “C” AAA placed seventh and “A” AAA and Sq 8 tied for eighth. “E” Inf., “A” TC, “A” QM and Sq 13 tied for tenth plaice. THURSDAY & FRIDAY “Joe Butterfly” With Audie Murphy plus “Hold Back the Night” Starring John Payne Thursday & Friday nrnTn Bryan Z‘SS79 STARTS TODAY ‘Engineer’ Writer Places In Contest Dewitt L. MeLallen of Fort Smith, Ark., senior Petroleum En gineering major has been named second place winner in the 1956-57 Student Engineer’s Council Engi neer Article Contest, Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr., dean of engineering, announced Wednesday. A check for $15, supplied by the Student Engineers Council, was presented to MeLallen. His article on “Turbo-drills,” for use in drilling oil wells, was print ed in the May issue of the A&M College Engineer. Development work on the turbo drill is still in progress and it promises to be a real contribution to the oil well dialling field, he said. MeLallen is a distinguished stu dent and is a member of Texas Delta Chapter of Tau Beta Pi and also Phi Eta Sigma. Senate to Hear Chest Speaker The Student Senate will hear a representative of the A&M College -College Station Community Chest speak tonight at 7:30 at its regular meeting in the Senate Chamber of the Memorial Student Center. Members will discuss the sub ject of a non-profit blood drive for children suffering from hemo philia in the new business portion of the program. Reports from the Issues, Stu dent Welfare, Student Life, and Public Relations committees will complete the program. Ring Orders Due October 31 is the final date to place senior ring orders for de livery before the Christmas holi days, H. L. Heaton, Director of Admissions and Registrar said yes terday. Loca lPoe try Group Opens New Year QUEEN TODAY THRU SAT. PEGGY CASTLE “Two Gun Lady” Poetry Society of Bryan-College Station met Monday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hud son for its first meeting of the year. A highlight of the evening was the announcement that a new book, “Raphael, the Herald Angel” by the society’s president, Mrs. Hud son, in collaboration with David Appel, will be released by the pub lisher this week. It was also announced that a story by Dr. John Q. Anderson appeared recently in the Folk Lore Anthology and that several art icles by Virginia Syptak were pub lished in the Houston Post. Saturday at 9:05 a.m., Victor Wiening of the A&M English De partment will present a program of poetry over KORA. He will read selections' from “Mistletoe,” the unpublished anthology of Poet ry Society verse. Results of the judging by Dr. Everett A. Gillie of members’ po ems submitted to him were an nounced. He is an author and member of the English faculty of Texas Technological College. In the serious verse category, Dr. Gillie gave first to “Biogra phy,” second to “Driftwood” and third to “Reflections at a Win dow,” all by Charles Lee Hurley. In light verse, first went to “Dogwood” by Hurley, second to “Fable” by Jessie Merle Franklin, and third to “Excuses” by Dr. John Q. Anderson. Anderson also received honorable mention for “New Kittens.” Vic Lindley, reader and critic, read the poems presented for the evening, and judged: light verse —first, “Excuse Me, Please” by Stella Stuart; second, “That Good Old American Flu” by Charles Drum wright; third, “Blooms Vs. Boys” by Eleanor Nance. In the serious category, first went to “Desert Rain” and second to “Tourist Letter,” both by Jessie Merle Franklin, and third to “The Harp” by Eleanor Nance. Popular vote gave firsts to “Blooms Vs. Boys” and “Desert Rain,” seconds to “Excuse Me, Please” and “Yearning” by Mabel Clare Thomas, and third places to “That Good Old American Flu” and “Twelve in One” by Loraine An derson. Next meeting will be held Nov. 11. AREA PLANNING (Continued from Page 1) needed to complete plans. Experts in many of the fields to be studied are available at A&M, and with their help, the cost of the plan could be lowered considerably, the committee pointed out. By filing a request for aid to the federal government, half the Missionary To Speak Here The Rev. Max Lowdermilk, missionary to Pakistan, will discuss Christian missions this weekend at the YMCA, the Methodist Wesley Found ation, and the InterTaith Chapel. At 7:30 Friday night he will speak before members of the United Nations Club in the YMCA. Student workers and pastors will hear him at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, again at the “Y/’ Sunday morning he will address married students at the Wesley Foundation, and that night he will speak at the Interfaith Chapel. Under the auspices of the Stu dent Volunteer Movement for Christian Missions, the Rev. Low dermilk is sponsored by the fol lowing church and student groups: Episcopal, Prosbytertan, Method ist, Disciples of Christ, Lutheran and' United Church oi.\ Christ. cost would possibly be paid for from federal funds but the com mission unanimously agreed to try to put the plan into operation without government aid, unless absolutely necessary, “If we pay the entire cost our selves, we can say it is our plan,” said Langford. “If we receive federal aid, there would be strings The Battalion College Station (Brazos County^ Texas\ Thursday, October 1 17, 1957 PAGE attached.” “Between the college, county and two cities, there is ho reason why we cannot raise the amount be tween us over a 3-year period,” added Butler. The commission is to report on the committee proposal to their groups and try to get an answer by their nexr meeting probably within about 30 days. FiUOlW PR 103 MAIN NORTH GATE AGGIE OWNED AGGIE WEEKEND BAGS For the Corps Trips $2.98 at. the Student Co-op NOW OF: L. H. 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