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THE
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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
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Judy Jones
. . . S. F. Austin College
High School Day
To Draw Hundreds
Gay Lynn Hewitt
... El Faso Club
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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
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Gwen Collier
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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
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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