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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1959)
Weather Today Considerable cloudiness and mild with scattered showers through Friday. THE ATTALION All-Sports Day Saturday Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus Number 102: Volume 58 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1959 Price Five Cents Three Classes Cast Ballots To Complete Officer Slate S' 1 :: .; Judy Jones . . . S. F. Austin College High School Day To Draw Hundreds Gay Lynn Hewitt ... El Faso Club 1 Ilundieds of potential Aggies are expected to storm the campus Saturday as A&M opens its doors for the eleventh annual High School Day. A full day’s program of events depicting the vailed campus activ ities are planned to give the visi tors a kaleidoscope scene of life at A&M. The weekend will officially open at 8:30 a.m. with a review of the Corps of Cadets on the Main Pa rade Grounds followed by an ex- j hibition of the Freshman Drill j Team. At 9:15 visitors will go to ! Guion Hall for a “Get Acquainted Meeting” with student leaders and college officials. Student Senate President John Thomas will chair the meeting. Vice President Earl Rudder will give the welcoming address. Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant, will give a talk on the military life at A&M, and Cliff Ransdell, associate dean of the Basic Division, will speak on the academic and guid ance advantages of the college. A question and answer session will be held, with college officials answering any questions posed by the visiting high school students. At 10:15 the campus guests will get a whirlwind look at the educa tion facilities of each school. Stu dents from the various depart ments will act as guides in their respective areas. The tourning groups will meet in front of Guion Hall before going their separate ways. Dinner and supper will be serv ed in Duncan and Sbisa Dining Halls at noon and at 5:30 p.m. to give the A&M samplers a chance to see what - Aggie family-style chow is like. Saturday afternoon will be filled with a panorama of sports events Marilyn Meyer . . . Fort Bend Club •SI - Gwen Collier . . . Bryan DAR Sophomore Ball Changed From Grove to Shisa The Sophomore Ball, originally scheduled to be held from 9 to 12 p.m. in The Grove Saturday has been moved to Sbisa Hall, according to Clint Murphy, Class of ’61 president. The Hi-Fi’s from the Univers ity of Texas will provide music for the dance. The Sophomore Sweetheart is to be chosen by popular ballot at the dance, said Murphy. Anyone wishing to help deco rate for the dance is requested to be at Sbisa Saturday morning or contact Murphy some time this week in Room 324, Dorm 10. Tickets for the dance may be purchased at the YMCA Student Activities office until Saturday. Cost is $3, stag or drag. as the annual A&M Sports Day gets underway at 1 p.m. High School visitors will be guest of the “T” Association during the sports program and may view contests in golf, tennis and track during the afternoon to be topped off by the football team at 7:30 p.m. on Kyle Field. The grid clash climaxes the Aggie spring training session. All musically inclined visitors have been extended an invitation to have lunch with the Aggie Band members. For earlybirds who plan to come to the campus Friday afternoon for an early start on the weekend show, provisions have been made for campus housing with the Housing Office in the YMCA Building. Ag Returns Bible, Sends $5 to Buy Another for Dorm An unknown Aggie recently prov ed true to the motto that “Ags don’t lie, cheat or steal.” This week President M. T. Har rington received an unsigned let ter and package containing a Gid eon Bible and a $5 bill. The letter asked that the Bible be placed in one of the dorms near Duncan Din ing Hall and the $5 be used to purchase another Bible to be plac ed in one of the same dorms. President Harrington sent the $5 to the Gideon’s International home office in Chicago and wrote of the incident. He has received word that more Bibles will be placed in the dorms. The letter was postmarked Fort Bragg, N. C., and President Har rington surmised that the Bible had been used by a former student who had taken it into military service with him. Special Pan Am Week Activities Being Observed The fourth annual Pan American Week is now being observed on the campus, with special films, dis plays, Latin American foods and music being featured in the Me morial Student Center, and a Cafe Tropical to be held Saturday night at 8 which will climax the week’s activities. A special film, Viva Zapata, starring Marlon Brando and Jean Peters, will be shown tonight at 7:30 in the MSC Ballroom, and a travelogue of Latin American countries will be shown at 7:30 Friday night in the Main Lounge. Cafe Tropical will be in the ping pong area of the MSC at 8 p.m. Saturday, featuring a Latin Amer ican-combo. Latin American music is being olayed over the public address sys tem in the MSC, and Latin Amer ican displays are being exhibited in the promenade. Five members of the Aggie Pan American Club participated in a panel discussion on the Latin American countries Wednesday night. Those Aggies taking part in the discussion were: Mario Perez of Guatemala, Cesar Egana of Venezuela, Ernesto Al varez of El Salvador, Andres Ca- rillo of Cuba, and Benito Florez of Mexico. The panel was moder ated by Dr. P. J. Woods of the Department of History. Gov. Price Daniel has proclaim ed April 12-18 as Pan American Week in Texas and April 14 as Pan American Day. Guide Posts Talk to Him in prayer of all your weaknesses, your wants, your troubles, even of the weariness you feel in serving Him. You cannot speak too freely or too trustfully to Him.—Fenelon. ‘Fish 9 Lead Classes In Total Voting Freshmen, sophomores and jun iors went to the polls yesterday and filled the 18 remaining spots for next year’s class elections in the run-off balloting. Two offices were decided in last week’s primary election when Al len Burns was elected president of the Class of ’CO and Charles C. (Clint) Murphy was picked Class ’61 president. Freshmen turned out in num bers as 518 Class of ’62 members voted. Sophomores cast 411 votes followed by the. Class of ’60’s 373 votes. Stan W. Wied was elected vice president of the Class of ’60 with 140 votes. Larry Winkle had 111 and Ed. C. Lux had 89 in the race. Sam H. Langley was picked jun- secretai'y-treasurer with 191 votes against 145 for Tom R. Hamilton. Class of ’60 social secretary is Marriage Forum ^ Scheduled Tonight At 7:30 in YMCA Sidney A. Kerley will speak on “The Psychological Aspect of Mar riage” tonight at 7:30 in the YMCA in the second of four week ly marriage foi’ums. Kerley, director of group work and counseling in Basic Division, is replacing Dr. Warren C. Bon- ney, clinical psychologist and as- sintant professor in Basic Division. Kerley, who graduated from A&M in 1938, had experience in marriage counseling at North Tex as State College in the summers of 1952-53. He received his mas ters in education from North Tex as in 1950. The marriage forums will be sponsored and held in the YMCA each Thursday night through Ap ril 30. Practice Conelrad Alert Set By Civil Defense Tomorrow At 10:30 a.m. Friday the Office of Civil Defense Mobilization will hold a nationwide practice Conel rad alert, said John Hill, coordinat or for Civil Defense for A&M Col lege and College Station. During the alert, all radio and television stations will go off the air with the exception of the Con elrad stations, which will continue to broadcast civil defense informa tion over 640 and in this area 1240 frequencies on radio. The Conelrad alert will be pre ceded by a Bryan-College Station practice tornado alert, which will start at 10:27 a.m. Friday, with a three-minute series of blasts on sirens. The steam whistle will be used at the college, while the fire siren will be sounded in Bryan. In case of a real tornado alert, the radar-tracking stations at the college will relay information to the local radio stations which will bi’oadcast it to the public. The alerts will be an indication for the people to turn on their radios. The all-clear for the alert, which will be sounded at 11:30 a.m., will consist of a ope-minute blast of the whistle followed by two minutes of silence for a total of seven min utes, Hill said. Hill, who was jointly appointed as coordinator by President M. T. Harrington and College Station Mayor Ernest Langford also an nounced plans are being made to put before the public specific in formation to use in case of a tor nado alert. This would include evacuation plans. Hill also is a member of the Brazos County Civil Defense Coun cil along with Fred Sandlin, city manager of Bryan, and Brazos County Judge Bill Davis, who is the chairman of the council. Bill Savage who drew 177 votes over Wayne P. Schneidei-’s 160. Ray Murski beat out Charles Ridgeway for historian for the jun ior class with 183 votes to 145 for Ridgeway. William (Stump) Phillips was elected student entertainment man ager over John W. Welch, 199-130. Joe W. Deeper had 226 votes to be head yell leader. Richard Bi- ondi won the other yell leader post from the Class of ’69 with 205. N. (Rowdy) Dowdy had 161 votes. Tom G. Withey beat out David Plylar, 194-121, for the Memorial Student Center Council post. In the Class of ’61 races: Marvin Girouard won the vice president’s office with 138 votes against 120 for James C. Noack and 116 for Glenn A. Jones. Mike Ogg took the secretary- treasurer’s spot with 211 votes against 159 for Ray G. (Skipper) Post. Doug B. Yauger garnered 230 votes to win the social secretary spot from Charlie Erickson who had 141. Ed (Sonny) Todd and Ken W. Moore were named yell leaders with 247 and 259 votes, respective ly. George A. Loveland had 145 votes. In the Class of ’62 races: Dan W. Deupree beat out Chuck M. Cloud, 124 votes, and John A. Betts, 97 votes, with 264 votes. Roque C. Rodriquez captured the vice president’s spot with 209 votes against 160 for Tommy Hoh- man and 120 for J. Earl Rudder Jr. In the secretary-treasurer race Charles W. Moore won with 241 votes against 133 for Lynn Rat cliff and 118 for J. Roy Bailey. Gary B. Lively took the social secretary position with 172 votes (See THREE, on Page 4) Mariwyn Morris . . . TWU Philomathia *1 % *«£££&•& * .. Alicia Ponce . literary-social club ' r * • • • - ★ Batt Features More Cotton Queen Nominees More pictures of nominees for the Cotton Queen title to be se lected tomorrow- night at the an nual Cotton Pageant and Ball are in today’s Battalion. The ball will be held in Sbisa Hall following the Cotton Page ant in Guion Hall which begins at 7:30 p.m. The queen will be selected from more than 170 Texas beau ties as a highlight to the Agron omy Society’s 25th annual pre sentation of the pageapt. Kent Potts, senior plant and soil science major from Bryan, will rule as King Cotton at both the ball and pageant. The name of the group that the nominee is representing is below the name of the girl. Mary Elizabeth Click . . Brush Co. Mother’s Club Judy Andert floriculture society