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.