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Director Roger Wagner . . . bringing chorale tonight Town Hall Slated Chorale Tonight The internationally known Roger Wagner Chorale, under the di rection of its dynamic conductor, Roger Wagner, will visit Aggieland tonight for a Town Hall appear ance in G. Rollie White Coliseum at 8. Hailed by many critics as the best choral group of its kind, the group will feature the duo-pianists Stecher and Horowitz and present 15 numbers, including four that the choral has recorded for Capitol Records. Numbers that will be voiced in clude Vittoria's “Ave Maria” and *‘Vere Langubres,” Herman Schroe- der’s “Magnificat,” Di Lasso’s “Echo Song” and Monteverdi’s “Hear the Murmuring Waters”. The dynamic French-born di rector, Roger Wagner, was ex posed to the world of music at an early age. After living in America for some seven years, he returned to France, where he spent five years studying organ with Marcel Dupre in Paris, completing his undergraduate work in music at* the College of Montmorency and delving deeper into research on church music at Dijon and Lyon. Wagner founded his chorus some 11 years ago with the group mak ing its first public appearance during the 1945-46 season as the Los Angeles Concert Chorale. Its present name was adopted in 1947. Ranging in number from 16 voices to 255 depending upon the music to be interpreted, the chorale reflects the “energy, musicianship and impeccable taste” of its di rector. One of the chorale’s greatest accomplishments was that of being invited to England to participate in London’s Coronation Festivities, the only American singing group to receive such an invitation. Adaptability to any form of music is a hallmark of the chorus, whether in concert, over the air waves, on television or. on the motion picture screen. Heard weekly for more than three years on the “I Married Joan” television series, the chorus is a familiar name to the nation’s viewers and listeners who are still talking about the singing of the choristers on the 1954 Christmas “spectacular'” of “A Christmas Carol.” Town Hall season tickets will be honored at the door. Single ad mission tickets are $2 for adults and $1 for high school and ele mentary school children. ’59 Combat Ball Scheduled Friday The annual Combat Ball will be held in Sbisa Hall, on Friday, March 13 , from 9-1 a. m., for all Army cadets and their guests. A Combat Sweetheart will be se lected from five finalists. Entertainment will be furnished by the Leo Baxter Rock ’n Roll Band of Houston. According to John Sackett, co ordinator of the Combat Planning Committee, the attire for Army officers and their guests will be that of prisoners of war and refu gees respectively, with other Com bat cadets being attired in fatigue uniforms. Tickets can be obtained from the Studdent Activities Office in the YMCA for $1.50 each. w BATTALION Number 84: Volume 58 Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1959 Price Five Cents Leukemia Aid Blood Donation Set Tomorrow By JACK HARTSFIELD Battalion Staff Writer The special bloodmobile from Dallas will be at G. Rollie White Coliseum tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to receive blood from the 650 donors who signed to give blood in the two-day drive held last Wednesday and Friday. The goal was set by the Student Sen ate and the College Station Lions Club. Although the drive fell 56 short of the set quota Wednesday, the blood drive reached its quota in one hour and 20 minutes Friday. The Bryan Gray Ladies and the registered nurses in the College Station-Bryan area who are pres ently inactive will be on hand to assist in the bloodmobile tomor row. Blood will be used by the Texas Leukemia Research Foun dation for research. At the pres ent time leukemia is an incurrable disease. Leukemia victims who will re ceive the blood donated tomorrow will get it free, according to David R. Fitch, president of the College Station Lions Club. He said the only cost involved is the paying of expenses of the bloodmobile to make the trip. The Lions Club is paying that cost. “As a result of blood donated in this area last year, 14 children are alive today,” said Don Rum- mel, chairman of the Senate’s Wel fare Committee. “Each year, a few more of the leukemia-sticken children will live a little longer with the blood that is donated by those who are concerned enough to help.” “We are all pleased with the outcome of this year’s drive. The response was as good or even bet ter than we expected,” said John Thomas, president of the Student Senate. “I would perfpnally like to thank those who signed up to give blood and the Aggies who volunteered their time to work in the Memoi’ial Student Center blood booth for their excellent coopera tion.” Blood will be received from any one who is in good health. Rummel said it doesn't make any differ ence what blood type the donor has. “Words can rarely express how we feel about the excellent all-put effort of the blood drive sponsors. The student body of A&M cer tainly deserves praise for their re sponse in helping fight this dread disease,” said Mrs. T. M. Rea, president of the Texas Leukemia Research Foundation. Buford Named Prexy By MSC Councilmen John Thomas . . . wins $700 grant Thomas Wins $700 Award John Thomas, president of the Student Senate, has been named the winner of a $700 Alpha Zeta scholarship by the Alpha Zeta High Council. Thomas will use the scholarship to woi*k toward his M.S. degree in entomology and a B.S. degree in agricultural economics. He will graduate with a B.S. in entomolo gy in May and plans to enter Graduate School here. Thomas is the first Aggie to ever with this award, the top scholar ship sponsored by the Alpha Zeta. This award is in memory of Alpha Zeta members who have lost their lives in wars involving the United States. Second, third and fourth place winners in the annual competition received $500 each. Applicants for the four Alpha Zeta awards are judged on the basis of scholarship, leadership, character and service. Here Friday Night Combo and Quartet Added to ITS Acts A Dixieland combo and a male quartet are two more of the ten acts to be featured in the eighth annual Intercollegiate Talent Show Friday night at 6:30 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The show will also feature the Kilgore Junior College Range- rettes and Houston’s Radio Sta tion KILT disc jockey Joel A. Spivak as master of ceremonies. More than 130 acts were audi tioned in 15 colleges and univer sities in Texas, Oklahoma, Louis iana', Mississippi and Arkansas to select the acts for the show. Advanced sale general admis sion tickets are selling for 75 cents and will sell for $1 at the door. Reserved seat tickets are selling for $1.25 and children’s admission will be 50 cents. The Jokers • from Louisiana State University are the Dixie land group that will play. The combo plays a variety of Dixie land numbers including several arrangements of college fight songs in Dixieland versions. Francis J. Brewerton is leader of the group. Others in the combo are James R. LeBouef, Glenn De- Latte, Gilday J. Foural Jr., Pat Doran, Lester J. Hooper III, Ed Lessard and Johnny Boudreaiix. The Hi-Phis are Southern Meth odist University’s representative to the talent show. The quartet is composed of Huey Ward Jr., Bob Walker Jr., John Rayford and Sam Houston Allred, all members of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. The group entered the Pigskin Revue last fall on the SMU cam pus. Bill Turner’s Aggieland Combo will furnish music for the show. Johnny Johnson is director of the show and James Fallin is chair man of the Memorial Student Cen ter Music Committee which spon sors the show. ‘The Hi-Phis’ from SMU .,. group to sing at ITS McGinty Elected Veep for 1959-6Q Ronald Buford, senior agricultural economics major from Livingston was elected president of the Memorial Student Center Council and Directorate for 1959-60 last night at the MSC Council’s March meeting. Rush McGinty, sophomore pre-veterinary medicine major from Abilene, was named vice president by the Council. Both men were presently serving in the capacity to which they were elected. Buford, who served as vice president dur ing the current school year, took over the duties of President Hugh Wharton when he failed to return to college for the spring semester. McGinty was elected to fill the position vacated by Buford for the remainder of the term. * Hiram French, senior aero- Gen. Denniston To Tour Campus Maj. Gen. Alfred Denniston, commander of the Quartermaster Training Command at Fort Lee, Va., will be at A&M today and to morrow on a laison visit. Included on Gen. Denniston’s agenda will be tours of the cam pus, a visit to quartermaster com pany billets, a talk to quarter master seniors and a briefing with A&M Vice President Earl Rudder. He will be accompanied by Coif Vistor L. Gary. During his service career Gen. Denniston has received the follow ing decorations and awards: Le gion of Merit with two Oak Leaf Clusters, Order of Orange, Nass au, Degree of Commander (Neth erlands), Asiatic, Pacific Cam paign Medal, Phillippine Libera tion Medal with Star, World War II Victory Medal, American De fense Service Medal with Star, Army Occupation Medal, National Defense Service Medal, European, African and Middle East Cam paign Medal. CORRECTION Thursday’s Battalion reported that faculty parking lots on the campus are built with funds ap propriated by the Texas Legisla ture. More accurately, the faculty lots are built with funds available from A&M’s share of the Perman ent University Fund. A&M receives one-third of the fund and the Uni versity of Texas gets two-thirds. Junior CoHeges Visit Ag School Junior College Day was held by the School of Agriculture yesterday with students from three Texas junior colleges participating in the event. Sponsored by the Student Agri cultural Council, the entire day was devoted to promoting A&M to junior college agriculture stu dents. The students were taken on a guided tour of the campus and given a detailed inspection tour of all agriculture departments and facilities. Professors in the various departments gave short explanations at the stopping point. At 1 p. m. Dr. G. M. Watkins, dean of the School of Agriculture talk d to the group agout the var ious agricultural degrees offered here. Nancy Blake Leads Interfaith Service Miss Nancy Blake, American missionary to North Africa and Algeria, will lead the vesper ser vice tonight at 7:05 p.m. in the Interfaith Chapel. Miss Blake is a graduate of the Western Reserve College for Wo men in Oxford, Ohio. She has re cently returned from Algeria where she toured widely. nautical engineering major from San Antonio, was unani mously named to serve on the 1959-60 Council as an honor ary vice president in an ex-offi cio capacity. Councilmen passed a resoultion giving recognition to French’s outstanding work on the council this year and thanking him for his service. He was elected vice chairman for Region IX Asso ciation of College Unions at their December meeting at Weatherford, Okla., to serve until January, 1960. His term on the MSC Council would normally end this semester. The council also voted unani mously to attempt to make the MSC director responsible only to the Director of Student Personnel Services, instead of the present split-authority ari’angement. Cur rently, business operations of the center are handled through the College Fiscal Office, while MSC activities are handled through the Offices of Student Personnel Ser vices. Problems are often created by this arrangement due to the dif ficulty in defining which office a project should be handled through. By placing the total responsibility through one office, the councilmen felt MSC operations would be speeded up and more coordinated with the elimination of unnecessary “red tape”. Since most MSC business is handled through the Office of Stu dent Personnel Services, the coun cil thought this the logical office through which the Center director should conduct his work. A committee headed by Bob Turner was appointed to take the proposal to Charles A. Roeber, business manager of the Fiscal Office, and Bennie A. Zinn, director of Student Personnel Services, for their consideration before taking the matter to college officials. In other action, the council named several committee chair men to head MSC groups during the 1959-60 school year. Names of the hew chairmen will be an nounced Monday night at a joint meeting of the MSC Committees. The dinner meeting will be held (See MSC COUNCIL, Page 4) Ronald Buford new MSC Council head Civilians Invite Corps, Faculty To ‘Weekend’ Entertainment hallmarked with lovely ladies, moonlight and soft music will highlight the up and coming Civilian Student Council- sponsored Civilian Weekend, March 21. “The Civilian Student Council is sponsoring the weekend primari ly to provide spring activities for the Civilian student body, but the Council also wishes to cordially invite the Corps of Cadets and faculty members to the activities,” Roland Dommert, Civilian Weekend Publicity Chairman, said yesterday. Activities for all will begin Fri day, March 20 with dormitory hamburger fries and other func tions. Saturday . at 4:30 p. m. chicken barbecue will be served in the Grove. Entertainment at the barbecue will be provided by the “Silvetones,” an Aggie ' trio, and “The Dreamers,” a combo and quartet from Pi’airie View A&M. The 1959 Aggie Sweetheart, Miss Millie Rowland along with Civilian Sweethea/t Finalists will be in troduced at the barbecue. From 9-12 p. m. the semi-formal Civilian Ball will be held in the Grove. Prairie View A&M’s “The Collegians” will provide the dance music. Tickets are being sold by all dorm or apartment council mem bers and by the Office of Student Activities, YMCA. Barbecue tickets are $1 per plate and 50 cents for children. The ball tickets are $1.50 per couple or stag and will be available until the dance begins. News of the World By The Associated Press Judge Rules On Texas City Suit HOUSTON—A federal judge ruled Monday that neither the French Government nor the French Lines is entitled to exoneration from or limitation of liability in the freighter explosion that set off the 1947 Texas City disaster. The decision may pave the way for the United States to collect some 70 million dollars in claims against the French government and the steamship line, and owner and operator of the vessel, S. S. Gandcamp. ★ ★ ★ Police Claim Theft Ring Smashed WICHITA FALLS—Police of two states claimed Mon day to have smashed a ring responsible for widespeard thefts in oil fields of North and West Texas and Oklahoma. Seven men were under arrest and four others were being trailed. Authorities said their inquiries showed the ring oper ated in Wichita, Clay, Knox, Jack, Baylor, Ochiltree, Scurry and Andrews counties in Texas; and in Garvin, Stephens and Grady counties in Oklahoma.