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THE
BATTALION
Vote
Tomorrow
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 100: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1959
Price Five Cents
Trio Warms Up
The Kingston Trio runs through a number show here last night. Bob Shane stands be-
in their dressing room as they tune their hind Nick Reynolds while Dave Guard’s
voices and instruments just before their face is partially hidden by his banjo.
Smell of Success Fails
To Swell Kingston Trio
By FRED MEURER
Battalion Managing Editor
They eat hamburgers just like
the rest of us.
But when they get on the stage
and begin plunking guitars, rattl
ing banjos, tapping bongo drums
and singing . . . man, nobody can
hold a torch >to ’em.
Last night over 2,500 people in
White Coliseum realized this. For
the Kingston Trio was back again,
wearing many celebrity schrs they
weren’t sporting on their first ap
pearance on Nov. 1. But just as
they did then, they left the crowd
swinging.
Still the three guys from San
Fi’ancisco who claim the nation’s
No. 2 album (The Hungry I) and
the No. 18 song (Tijuana Jail) ac
cording to Billboard, are normal
guys off the stage.
You could tell when they stepp
ed off their chartered plane from
Dallas at Easterwood Airport,
wearing casual clothes and joking
With each other. Later they ate
two-bit hamburgers because they
were running late for the show.
Started at A&M
They like A&M, not only be
cause of the captive audience, but
because, as their unofficial lead
er Dave Guard put .it:
“A&M was our first college
showing and we really picked up
our routine there. We’ve added a
little to it during the 40 or 50
college appearances we’ve made
since then.’’
At 24, Guard is the youngest of
the Ti'io. Nick Reynolds and Bob
Shane are both 25. All three are
married and live around San
Francisco. Guard is the father of
a one-year-old daughter.
Guard and Shane went to high
school together in Honolulu,
“where we first sang together on
the beach.” Later Guard went to
Stanford University and Shane
went to Medlow Business School
where he met Reynolds. The three
got together and made their first
recording, “Tom Dooley,” when
they were graduated in 1956.
Studied Business
“Actually,” explained Reynolds,
“we studied business in college.
Then we found ourselves one and
went into it.”
The Trio recalls its first visit
to A&M. They hadn’t had any
sleep the night before, and dozed
for an hour on mattresses dragged
into their dressing room before
the show. “We were really bushed
| when it was over,” Shane remark-
l ed.
’59 Cotton Pageant*
Slated This Friday
The 1959 queen of cotton will be
chosen at A&M this Friday night.
Selection of the queen from
among more than 170 beautiful
young ladies from throughout the
state of Texas will highlight the
Student Agronomy Society’s 25th
annual Cotton Pageant.
Jack Timmons, commercial man
ager for Radio Station KWKH,
Shreveport, La., will be master of
ceremonies for the colorful pro
gram that annually pays tribute
to cotton, the “king of Texas
crops.” The program will be held
at 7:30 in Guion Hall.
At this program, the Agronomy
Society will honor Joe S. Mogford,
the man who was responsible for
promoting the first Cotton Style
Show and Pageant in the early
thirties. He retired in February
after more than a third of a cen
tury of service to the college’s De
partment of Agronomy.
George W. Pfpiffenberger, ex
ecutive vice-president, Plains Cot
ton Growers, Inc., Lubbock, will
crown the king of cotton, Kent
Potts, a senior plant and soil sci
ence major from Bryan.
King Cotton Potts will then
crown the queen from among the
duchesses who will be here as rep
resentatives of various clubs, col
leges and universities.
The duchesses will be selected on
their beauty and poise by three
judges from the Robert Powers
School of Modeling, Houston. The
eight runners-up wdll become prin
cesses of the court.
The Cotton Pageant will also
feature a program of entertain
ment including The Blotters, a
pantomime group from A&M Con
solidated High School comprised
of Suzanne Sorenson, Janet Dar-
row, Donna Hale and Blair Perry
man; the Silvertones, an A&M
group composed of Robert Blake-
w r ood of Bellaire, James Hickey and
Ramiro Perez of Laredo, Dionicio
Flores of Falfurrias, and a Bryan
soloist, Mrs. Ann Harrison. .
Music for the program wdll be
provided by the Aggieland Orches
tra under the direction of Bill Tur
ner.
The Agronomy Society sweet
heart, Miss Beverly Jane Goodbar
of Texas City, will lead the pai'ade
of duchesses and will make the pre
sentation of flowers to the Queen
and her court. Miss Goodbar is
a freshman at Sam Houston State
Teachers College.
Following the pageant, a ball
will be held at Sbisa Hall.
Funds from the annual Cotton
Pageant are used to finance study
tours by the A&M agronomy stu
dents.
Just as their songs represent
many parts of the world, the Trio
is seeing many parts of the United
States. They left for Auburn Uni
versity after the show last night,
the only other college appearance
they’ll make on this tour. After
Auburn, they’ll return to the West
Coast for a two-day “vacation.”
The Trio announced last night
it would release a new album in
June entitled “The Kingston Trio
at Large,” In it, they will feature
a song written by an Austin wom
an, Mrs. Jane Bowers, entitled
“The Alamo”, their first recording
directly concerning Texas. Tex
Ritter sang it in 1955.
Texas Ballad
Late after the show last night,
long after the autograph seekers
had left, people trying to sell
songs had thinned and a local
radio station had made a tape in
terview, the Trio sang the ballad
in the dressing room for Mrs.
Bowers, who was here for thfe
performance. The chorus goes
something like this:
“Look down, Santa Anna, as
we kill your men below, so that
Texans will be free, and will re
member the Alamo.”
The Kingston Trio has come to
Texas.
. . . Rabbi Kahn
Dr. Robert I. Kahn
Speaks Wednesday
In AH Faith Chapel
“The Bible on Broadway—A
Discussion of J. B.” will be the
topic of a speech given by Dr. Rob
ert I. Kahn in the All Faiths Chap
el tomorrow at 7:30 p.m.
Dr. Kahn, of the Rabbi Emanu
El Temple in Houston, has spoken
on the campus in a number of Re
ligious Emphasis Week programs
and at commencement exercises.
He is the author of a weekly col
umn, “Lessons for Life,” published
in the Houston Chronicle.
This program is being sponsored
by the B’nai B’rith A&M Hillel
Foundation, the Henry Cohen In
terfaith Fellowship Award and the
Interfaith Council.
Run - Off Tomorrow
Will Fill
Offices
He Warned,
He Splashed,
He Got Away
A 1959 version of television’s
Paladin stalked the campus Sun
day night, seeking revenge over
evil-doers.
The curtain rang down on the
drama in the wee hours of the
morning when a senior cadet was
rudely awakened by the shock
ing slap of a bucketful of water
in his face.
It all began at noon Sunday
in the dining hall when the same
senior accidentally got a blot of
catsup on a freshman’s shirt.
Someone at the table suggested
to the freshman that he seek ven
geance.
He did. With virtually the on
ly means of revenge a freshman
has.
The senior woke up, naturally,
and chased the victim-turned-vil-
lian out of the dorm, but never
caught him.
He returned to his room. On
his door he spied a card bearing
a rough drawing of a wastebas
ket and the following words:
“Have Can—Will Travel. Wire
Fish Dorm 2.
(Though television’s Paladin is
not masked, the identity of his
understudy will be kept secret.)
Housing Project
Begins This Week
Construction of the two-million-
dollar A&M student housing pro
ject is scheduled to begin this
week.
Two years’ planning went into
the project before the Housing and
Home Financing Agency of Fort
Worth gave the signal to begin
construction. College officials
held a special meeting with build
ing contractors last week to iron
out details.
The apartments will be located
north of the present College View,
and will consist of 21 two-story
buildings,' with 12 apartments in
each unit.
Each unit will consist of a
living room, bedroom, kitchen,
bathroom and storage space. The
interior will feature asphalted con
crete floors, and concrete block
walls trimmed with mahogany.
They will have vented heat and
places for window air conditioners.
The bathrooms will have bath
tub and shower combinations.
Plumbing will include facilities for
installing washing machines. The
exterior of the buildings will be
brick and concrete with aluminum
window paneling and the roofs
will be insulated.
The kitchens will be furnished
with electric refrigerators, exhaust
fans, ranges and garbage disposal
units.
Each apartment will have a sun
porch, and every two buildings will
have an outside drying yard en
closed with a seven-foqt fence. A
garbage can container will be sup
plied with each unit.
The plans for the project were
drawn up by A&M College System
architect Henry D. Mayfield Jr.
Specific direction and handling
of all details is under the direction
of W. H. Badgett, Manager of
Physical Plant for A&M.
Chandler To Speak
To Methodist Men
A&M baseball coach Tom Chand
ler will be guest speaker at a din
ner meeting of Methodist Men to
morrow night at 6:30 in the fel
lowship room of the A&M Method
ist Church.
Reservations can be obtained by
calling VI 6-5846. No ticket is
necessary to attend the meeting.
Aggies Shun Polls TTI Engineer
In Vote Last Week
Class run-off elections will be held tomorrow in the
Memorial Student Center from 8 a. m to 5:30 p. m. to de
cide sixteen class officers.
Only two out of eighteen races were determined as
freshmen, sophomores and juniors turned out last Thurs
day to cast only 1,200 votes.
Allan N. Burns was elected president of the Class of
’60 over three other candidates, and Charles C. (Clint)
Murphy won the Class of ’61 presidential spot over seven
other hopefuls.
The Class of ’60 paced the voters at the polls, casting
433 votes, while the Class of ’61 totaled 402 votes and the
: ♦Class of ’62 had 401 voters.
E. C. Lux, Larry Winkle
Wreck Hospitalizes
Two Aggie Seniors
A head-on collision approximate
ly seven miles south of College
Station at- 5 o’clock Saturday af
ternoon hospitalized four persons
including two Aggies.
Injured in the wreck were James
C. Blackmon, senior petroleum en
gineering major from Dallas, Da
vid L. Guenzel, senior language-
arts major from Houston and Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert Beckman of 3518
Georgetown St.,. Houston.
The accident occurred during a
heavy rain. The car in which the
Beckman couple was riding was
traveling north on the way to Wa
co and was attempting to pass a
truck when they met Guenzel and
Blackmon head on. The Aggies
were enroute to Houston.
They were carried to St. Jos
eph Hospital in Bryan by a Calla-
way-Jones Ambulance.
Mrs. Beckman suffered a brok
en leg, broken left arm, broken
ribs, bruises and cuts. Beckman
had a broken leg and broken arm.
Guenzel had a broken jaw, a con
cussion and bruises and Blackmon
had a broken leg and bruises.
Mrs. Beckman’s condition was
described as critical yesterday af
ternoon. Beckman and Guenzel
were reported to be in satisfactory
condition. Blackmon was trans
ferred to a Dallas hospital yester
day.
Extensive damage was done to
both vehicles involved in the wreck,
a local Highway Patrol officer re
ported.
and Stan F. Weid will be
vying for the Class of ’60 vice
presidential post in a race that
originally boasted 11 candidates.
In other Class of ’60 run-off
races: Thomas R. Hamilton and
Samuel H. Langley are the nomi
nees for the secretary-treasurer
post.
Wayne P. Schneider and William
R. Savage are candidates in the
social secretary race. There were
five applicants for the position.
In the run-off for historian,
Charles Ridgeway, Wayland Qui-
senberry and Ray Murski are the
run-off nominees from a field of
five candidates.
Also from a field of five candi
dates, Richard Biondi, Joe M. Lep-
per and Norman M. Dowdy en
tered the run-off elections for yell
leader.
David H. Plylar and Tom G.
Withey will seek the Memorial
Student Center Council spot after
gaining the run-offs over two
other applicants.
John W. Welch and William F.
Phillips are run-off candidates for
the student entertainment mana
ger race. There were five candi
dates.
In the Class of ’61 run-offs:
Marvin Girouard, Glenn H. Jones
and James C. Noack gained the
deciding elections from a field of
13 candidates.
In the secretary-treasurer race,
Ray G. (Skipper) Post and Mike
Ogg captured run-off status over
two other candidates.
Charlie Erickson and Douglas
B. Vauger earned the run-off race
for social secretary in a field of
(See POLLS OPEN Page 4)
Tells CS Lions
Of Fund Deficit
“One of the greatest public
works projects ever undertaken in
the nation is in danger of being
lost,” Jack Keese, research engi
neer at the Texas Transportation
Institute, told . College Station
Lions yesterday.
Keese was speaking of the vast
program of interstate and national
highways, now beginning to bog
down due to a lack of finances.
Set up to be financed through trust
funds, the money has been slower
to come in than anticipated. Isiow
the program depends on legislative
support, Keese said.
“Civic organizations such as the
Lions Club can do a lot to bring
about the success of the program
by writing their congressmen and
urging them to back the highway
project in the legislature,” he said.
With modern automobiles and to
day’s travel habits, the American
people are demanding better and
more modern super highways,
Keese pointed out. Citing the con
stantly changing transportation
demands, the highway engineer
said today’s travel is gauged in
time—not miles and money as was
the case a few years ago.
Keese illustrated his talk with
motion pictures taken from the
transportation institute’s 60-foot
high traffic tower of the tremen
dous volume of traffic on the Gulf
Freeway between Galveston and
Houston. Currently the institute
staff is making research studies on
expressway traffic and how drivers
react under expressway conditions.
The films showed that a car
pausing for only a few seconds
when leaving the Gulf Freeway
would cause a complete breakdown
of traffic in the right-hand lane,
backing up traffic for miles.
“Through studies such as these,
we hope to use better planning in
building expressways of the fu
ture, thus cutting down on traffic
stoppage and accidents,” Keese
said.
Next week, Lions wall hear A&M
head coach Jim Myers talk on the
progress and prospects developed
in this year’s Aggie spring foot
ball training session.
Also List Committee Chairmen
M S C Council Nominates
Four 1959 - 60 Members
Four 1959-60 Memorial Student
councilmen and four MSC com
mittee chairmen were named yes
terday afternoon at the April
council meeting.
Faculty members of the council
who have been approved by Vice
President Earl Rudder, are Joe H.
Sorrels of the Department of
Civil Engineering and J. W. (Bill)
Amyx of the Department of
Petroleum Engineering. Two stu
dent members of the council elect
ed yesterday by the council are
Dennis Ryan, junior mechanical
engineering major from Dallas,
and Clyde Whitwell sophomore
business major from Seguin.
Sorrels and Amyx replace W. I.
Truettner and H. C. Dillingham,
whose terms on the council expire
this year. A third student to be
elected by the council will not be
named until a later date.
Two more members of the coun
cil will be elected in general class
elections Wednesday. One will
represent the junior class and the
other the freshman and sopho
more classes. The third member to
be named by councilmen will come
from either the freshman or sopho-
omore class—depending on the
election outcome. He will be chos
en from the class not represented.
Another member of the council
will be named by the Association
of Former Students to replace W.
R. Horsely, outgoing councilman.
New Committee Chairman
The four new committee chair
men named by the council are:
1. Wiley R. Bunton — Bridge
Committee. Bunton is a sophomore
electrical engineering major from
Del Rio.
2. Paul Phillips — Music Com
mittee. He is a sophomore from
Conroe.
3. Larry Winkle—Table Tennis
Committee. Winkle is a junior
pre-law major from Pittsburg.
4. Nick Settanni — temporary
chairman, Creative Arts Commit
tee. Settanni, senior architecture
major from Camden, N. J., will fill
the post until the return of John
Hargis of Angleton. Hargis, who
was elected to the post, is now in
the Veterans Hospital in Houston
following a recent heart attack.
He hopes to return to A&M some
time this summer.
Lay Banquet Plans
Councilmen also laid final plans
for the annual MSC Council-Di
rectorate Banquet to be held at
7:15 April 24 in the MSC Ball
room. Invitations will go to all
councilmen, members of the direc
torate and members of all Center
committees. Special guests will be
members of the A&M Board of Di
rectors, college administrators and
the president of the Former Stu
dents Assn.
In other action the council ap
proved the Flying Kadets, plans
for obtaining and pperating light
planes through a corporation set
up by the flying club two years
ago. Approval had already been
given by college officials. The or
ganization plans to obtain the
plane through donations from in
terested persons and organizations
over the state.
Reports to the council included
a summary of activities at the
National Association of College
Unions held April 8-12 at Miami,
Fla. J. Wayne Stark, MSC direc
tor; Charles Haas, business mana
ger; and Rosalie Spencer, activi
ties adviser, attended the meeting.
Also reporting on his recent trip
to Saint Louis and the national
College Union Bowling Tourna
ment was Larry Dantzler, fresh
man from Dallas, who represented
A&M at the tournament, placing
eighth in single competition.
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