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BATTALION
FEDERAL
INSPECTION
TOMORROW
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 120: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1958
Price Five Cents
Cadets Undergoing
Annual F eder al Inspection
Journalism Honor Day
80 Prep Students
To Be 4 J’ Guests
-Battalion Staif Photo
Preparing for Inspection
A lot of cleaning and polishing is going on in the Corps
areas to get the rooms ready for Thursday’s federal inspec
tion. Marvin Crawford, freshman from Longview, is busy
waxing the floor while Ben Gallagher, Marshall freshman,
is getting his bookshelf in order. Classes will be dismissed
from 8 until 10 a.m. for the inspection.
About 80 high school students
from throughout the state will be
guests of the Department of Jour
nalism for the third annual Texas
High School Journalism Honors
Day on the campus Friday and
Saturday.
The conference will honor high
school boys who do outstanding
work on school publications, to
help create an interest in these ac
tivities and to acquaint the stu
dents with opportunities offered in
journalism at A&M, according to
Donald D. Burchard, head of the
department.
The department has planned the
Programs,
For High
Sports
School
Set
Day
More than 800 high school stu
dents from over the state have
been invited to participate in the
10th annual High School Day and
Sports Day Saturday.
The purpose of the day will be
to give outstanding high school
seniors and prospective future Ag
gies a view of life on the A&M
campus, according to C. G. (Spike)
White, Recreation and Entertain
ment manager.
Registration for early arrivals
will be held Friday afternoon.
Housing for the boys is being
provided by the home town clubs
on the campus. White said the
clubs should use single vacancies
In the dorms and vacancies created
by students leaving for the week
end. If there is still not sufficient
space, the Housing Office should
be contacted for the use of vacant
rooms anywhere, said White.
Changi
MSC Offices
:e Hands
At Friday Fete
Memorial Student Center
Council and Directorate of
ficers for 1958-59 will offici
ally take office Friday night
at 7:15 at the annual MSC
Council and Directorate Awards
Banquet.
In addition, 21 Achievement
Awards and five Distinguished
Achievement Awards will be
awarded to students who have done
outstanding work in the MSC Di
rectorate program this yeai’, Hugh
Wharton, new Council president,
said.
The award winners were nomi
nated by various committee heads,
with the MSC Council making final
selections.
Using an Oriental theme and ap-
propi'iate menu and decorations,
the banquet is the high point of the
MSC social year.
Don McGinty, outgoing Council
president, will give his farewell
speech. Wharton will give his in
stallation talk.
The Council and this year’s Di
rectorate’s Assistants are in
charge of the banquet and enter
tainment.
Tickets are available at the Main
Desk of the MSC to members of all
MSC committees at $1.50 for com
mittee members and $3 for guests.
Tickets sales close at 5 today.
Students will be given Sports
Day tickets at 8 Saturday morning
in Guion Hall. At 8:30 the Music
Group of the Memorial Student
Center will provide informal music
entertainment.
A “get acquainted meeting” will
be held at 9:15, led by Bob Surovik,
president of the Student Senate.
Following this will be the invoca
tion given by Tom Harris, Coi’ps
Chaplain; a welcoming addz-ess by
Earl Rudder, vice president; a talk,
“Military Life and Its Advant
ages,” by Col. Joe E. Davis, Com
mandant; and a talk by Cliff Rans-
dell, associate dean of the Basic
Division, on “Academic and Guid
ance Advantages at Texas A&M
College.”
“We are the Aggies,” a sound
movie in color will be shown and
Bob Surovik will close out this
session with announcements re
guarding the days activities.
At 10:15, group tours of the edu
cational facilities of each school
on the campus will be conducted by
student members of the various de
partment clubs and societies. Each
high school student may tour the
school of his choice. Those unde
cided on a course of study will
meet with A. E. Denton, Basic
Division counselor, in Guion and
then take the tour of their choice.
R. G. Perryman, assistant
registrar, will be in Guion Hall to
answer any questions about ad
mission to A&M. A special tour for
those interested in Range and
Forestry will start in front of
Guion Hall.
Students may eat lunch in Dun
can and Sbisa Mess Halls at 12:15
for 80 cents. At 2 p. m. students
are invited to the baseball game
between A&M and Texas Christian
University. A golf tournament will
also be held Saturday afternoon.
Those interested in band work
are invited to have lunch with the
Aggie Band. They are asked to
meet band members at Dorm 11 at
noon.
Supper will be served in the two
dining halls for 80 cents.
Climaxing the day will be the
annual football spring training
intra-squad game between the
Maroon and White.
From AF Wire
Nation in Brief
‘Pants Bandit’ Sentenced
DALLAS (A 3 )—A stick-up man
called the “pants bandit” because
he made his victims take off their
trousers was sentenced to 50
years in prison Tuesday after
pleading guilty to six armed rob
beries.
Filing Ends Today
For General Vote
Today at 5 p. m. is the deadline
for filing as a candidate in the
general campus election April
30.
Student Senate officers,! nclud-
ing president, vice president,
parliamentarian and recording
secretary; chairmen of Student
Senate committees including the
Issues, Student Welfare and Pub
lic Relations committees; the
Civilian yell leader; and two stu
dent representatives to the Stu
dent Publications Board will be
elected.
Students must file in the Stu
dent Activities Office on the se
cond floor of the YMCA.
Nelson Cornelius Scott, 35, was
given 50 years for each robbery
but Judge J. Frank Wilson set
the terms to run concurrently.
Scott will be eligible for parole
in 15 years.
Scott, a native of Aransas Pass,
testified that he was making a
good living at $450 per month as
a clerk.
BenJack Appeals
AUSTIN m — BenJack Cage,
convicted of embezzling $100,000
from ICT Corp., makes his last
appeal to a state court today.
Should the 10-year prison sen
tence assessed by a Dallas jury
last October be finally approved
by the Coui’t of Criminal Appeals,
Cage will be ready for transfer
to the state penitentiary system.
Former Student Testifies
HOUSTON <A>) — A consulting
engineer testified in federal Court
Tuesday that had water been used
to fight the 1947 fire aboard the
SS Grandcamp at Texas City, the
“shock” of the water might have
set off an explosion.
program in close conjunction with
campus wide High School and
Sports Day this weekend. How
ever, the boys will be special
guests of journalism majors while
other prep visitors flocking to the
campus will be sponsored mostly
by hometown clubs.
Each boy is nominated by a
teacher in his high school, with the
nominations based on work with
high school publications, honor at
tained through scholastic and char
acter ratings.
At the conclusion of the confer
ence Saturday, Burchard and Jim
Neighbors, president of the A&M
chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, na
tional journalism fraternity, will
present awards to outstanding stu
dents. The boys will be given a
personal certificate from the de
partment and an identical copy
for their high school’s trophy case.
Registration will be held in room
9, Nagle Hall, Friday afternoon,
after which Burchard and Neigh
bors will give welcome addresses.
Friday evening, Harold Pyle, as
sociate editor of the Houston
Chronicle, will talk on “Journalism
as a Career,” and Jack Bowen, city
editor of the Bryan Daily Eagle,
will speak on newspaper produc
tion. A get-acquainted hour will
follow.
Saturday’s schedule calls for a
welcome by Otis Miller, of the
Journalism Department, a discus
sion on “Radio and Television” by
Jack Gillam, manager of KBTX-
TV, and Joe Kendrick’s speech on
“Advertising; You’ll Love It.”
Kendrick is national advertising
manager of the Waco News Tri
bune.
The students will also see a col
ored film on advertising and be
conducted on a tour through Stu
dent Publications. In the after
noon they will join the other high
school visitors at the sports events.
Kiwanians Fete
30 Secretaries
With Luncheon
College Station Kiwanians
honored their secretaries yes
terday in observing their third
annual Secretaries Week at
their regular weekly luncheon
in the Memorial Student Center.
More than 30 secretaries, most
of whom work for the college, at
tended the dinner with their bosses
—ranging from pastors to profes
sors.
Mrs. Florence Hall, supervisor
of stenographic and clerical em
ployees and secretary to the di
rector of the Agricultural Exten
sion Service, addressed the group
on what a secretary really is.
President-elect of the Bryan-
College Station National Secre
tary’s Assn., Mrs. Hall told of the
work being done to improve sec
retary’s jobs. Study courses and
programs in connection with im
proved methods are planned and
carried out by the NS A, she said.
“Today’s secretary is more than
a machine to turn out perfect let
ters; she is the first lady of Amer
ican business,” she remarked.
Outlining the NSA, she said the
group is the largest organization
of women in one profession today,
claiming moi’e than 17,500 mem
bers. The local chapter was or
ganized in 1955 and now has over
20 members.
BULLETIN
All classes from 8 a.m. until 10
a.m. will not be held tomorrow due
to a stand-by inspection which will
be held in the cadet dormitories
for all members of the Corps of
Cadets, by action of the Executive
Committee of the Academic Coun
cil.
Review Tomorrow
Ends Examination
By BILL REED
The annual Corps federal inspection designed to main
tain A&M’s military rating, got underway this morning and
will be concluded when the Corps passes in review tomorrow
afternoon.
The Army inspection team met with members of the
Corps of Cadets this morning at 6:45 in Sbisa Hall to discuss
the various phases of the A&M operation. The inspectors
were briefed on operations of the Corps at regiment, battalion
and company levels.
Cadets meeting with the officers included Cadet Colonel
of the Corps Jon Hagler; Cadet Col. John Ligon, 2nd Regi
mental commander; Cadet Lt. Col. James Groves. Corps
operations officer; and Cadet♦“
Capt. John Foster, commander
of “A” Veterinary company.
The Army inspection team
arrived at College Station by
plane Tuesday after completing in
spection of Hardin-Simmons Uni
versity at Abilene. The team is
composed of a group of officers
from the 4th Army Headquarters,
Foi’t Sam Houston, San Antonio.
After the briefing this morning,
the team began inspecting class
room instruction, classroom facili
ties and military records and prop
erty.
Inspection at 8
Inspection of the Corps will be
gin at 8 Thursday morning and
last until 9:45. Classes will be dis
missed from 8 to 10.
Thursday at noon President M.
T. Harrington will honor the dis
tinguished officers with a lunch in
the Board Room in Sbisa Hall.
The Corps w r ill pass in review
following the adjutants call at
4:45 p.m.
Maj. Gen. Guy. S. Meloy, deputy
commander of the Fourth Army,
will receive the salute. Gen. Me
loy is a former A&M professor of
military science and tactics.
Brig. Gen.- Jerry Lee, comman-
(See A&M Cadets, Page 4)
RV’s Host General
For Dinner Speech
Brig. Gen. Robert M. Ives, Tex
as National Guard, will be prin
cipal speaker for the annual Ross
Volunteers banquet and ball Sat-
ui’day night.
The banquet will be held at 9:30
p.m. in the Triangle Restaurant
banquet room followed by the ball
in the Memorial Student Center
ballroom at 9.
Ives, a New York native, is as
sistant division commander of the
3fith Infantry Division, Texas Na
tional Guard. He began his mili
tary career in 1918. A graduate of
both the Infantry School and the
Command and General Staff
School, Ives served in five major
campaigns in World War II. He
was promoted to colonel in 194G.
He is a bank director in Hous
ton where he is president of the
Houston Armed Forces Center Inc.,
and past chairman of the Chamber
of Commerce’s Military Affairs
Committee.
Aggie Players
Now Practicing
Playing Aggies
Cadet Slouch and all his Ag
gie buddies will come to life
May 9 and 10 when the Aggie
Players present “We Is the
Aggies,” the 1958 version of
the Aggie Follies.
Bringing to life Jim Earle’s car
icatures will be James B. Barlow
as Cadet Slouch, Ray Simmons as
Simp, Larry Day as fish Jethro
and Ray Killion as Cedric.
The production will be present
ed both nights in G. Rollie White
Coliseum with tickets selling for
$1.
During the show, Slouch’s esca
pades will show them in “new
Army,” “old Army” of 30 years
ago and what will happen to him
in “future Army” with such
changes as coeducation. One act
will display College View life of
today and will feature approxi
mately 10 Aggie wives.
Music will be sprinkled through
out the show with a five-piece Ag
gie combo providing the music.
In addition Alice Butler and Ann
Harrison will sing as entre-acts
between scenes in the show. Dance >y
numbers will also be in the pro- ™
duction.
C. K. Esten, Aggie Players’ di
rector, is in charge of the produc
tion along with Earle, who wrote
the script. Student director is
John Gladwell.
Slouch Comes To Life
—Battalion’ Staif Pnoto
Rehearsals for the Aggie Follies moved into
the second week as the upcoming production
of Cadet Slouch began taking shape. From
left to right are Larry Day, Portraying
‘Fish Jethro,” James Barlow, who plays
‘Slouch” and Ray Simmons in the role of
‘Simp.”