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« 12 C0P1 Weather Today Mostly cloudy with showers and scattered thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight. Not much change in temperatures. '* BATTALION Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus 17 Days 'til Final Review Number 112: Volume 58 At Meeting Saturday Murrah Named AFS President Tom A. Murrah, class of ’38 and president of the Jefferson State Bank in San Antonio, was elected new president of the Association of Former Students Saturday night in the annual meeting of the As sociation and Council. Murrah, who served as vice- president of the Association for 1958-59, has also been president of the San Antonio A&M Club, dis trict vice-president of the Associ ation and Student Loan trustee. W. C. McGee, Class of ’31 presi dent of the Tennessee Gas Pipe line Co., was elected vice-president of the Association. McGee was class agent of his class and has served as a member of the Coun cil, Association Executive Board, Houston A&M Club and several Office Filings Close Friday Friday until 5 pan. is the last day students can file for offices in the Student Election Commis sion and the Student Senate. Only two students have filed for the Election Commission and no one .has applied for the Senate. Twenty-eight offices must be fill ed in the elections to be held in the Memorial Student Center May 14. Five members from the sopho more, junior and senior classes of 1960 will be selected for the Elec- iton Commission. One student from each of these classes will be elect ed from the schools of Agriculture, Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Veterinary Medicine to serve on the Student Senate. One student will be selected by the dean of the graduate school to serve on the Senate. A 1.00 grade point ratio is re quired of all candidates for the Election Commission. Candidates for the Senate must have a 1.25 grade point ratio. Wilkins Returns From Staff School Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assist ant commandant, returned Friday from Fort Leavenworth, Kentucky, where he has been attending the Army Command General Staff School. Col. Wilkins successfully com pleted the four-month course, and returned to his duties in the Tri- gon yesterday morning. Association organizations. Members elected to the Execu tive Board were Phil Bible, ’43, Austin;-John Cuthrell, ’29, New Orleans; and Ralph Gorman Jr., ’51, Dallas. Dan H. Lucy, ’50, Longview, . was elected to the Board to fill the unexpired term of McGee, the new vice-president. District vice-presidents elected were Lewis Dodson, ’25, Amarillo; Hayes Stripling Jr., ’46, Big Spring; Louis Fields, ’49, Fort Worth; Joe Buford, ’45, Mount Pleasant; Barker Chapman, ’49, Waco; Ross Novelli, ’40, Galves ton; Jack C. Holliman, ’42, San Antonio; and John A. Abbott, ’41, Harlingen. Elected to the Louisiana district was C. D. Long, ’34, Shreveport. Harvy Cash, ’23, New York City, was elected vice-president at-large. Student Loan Fund trustees elected were A. O. Nicholson, ’27, Dallas; J. L. Sewell, ’27, Dallas; and Dooley Dawson, ’32, Houston. Elected as representatives on the Development Fund Board were Herman Heep, ’20, Austin; and A. D. Martin Jr., ’51, Dallas. Harry Kunkel, ’43, College Station, was elected as representative on the Memorial Student Center Council. Special features of Saturday night’s meeting included a talk by Vice President Earl Rudder on the affairs of the college. A committee working on a pro posed outdoor swimming pool for students gave a report that the Office of Physical Plants is mak ing a study of the location and type of pool to be built. The Council voted to hold its September meeting in Dallas on the weekend of the Texas Tech- A&M football game. ★ Ticket Deadline Set For Senior Dance Deadline for seniors to pur chase ring dance and picture tickets is May 16. Banquet tick ets go off sale May 11. Prices are $4.25 for the dance, $2.75 for pictures and $3 for the banquet. 324 dance tickets, 544 banquet tickets and 326 picture tickets have been sold to date. The banquet will be held in Duncan Hall and the limit of banquet tickets has been set at 1,200. Production Nearing Mrs. Mary Coslett of Bryan, portraying Ariel, and Bill Routt also of Bryan, as Prospero, are shown rehearsing their parts in the Aggie Players’ production of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”. The play is scheduled to open in Guion Hall tomorrow night at 8. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1959 Price Five Cents Cattleman’s Ball, Banquet Slated Friday The annual Cattleman’s Ball and and Awards Banquet will be held Friday night in the Memorial Stu dent Center Ballroom, according to G. T. King, assistant professor of animal husbandry and co-sponsor of the Saddle & Sirloin Club which is sponsoring the event. Scheduled to start at 7 p.m., the banquet is the highlight of the year for all club members, stated Martin Graham, president of the club. The most coveted award to be made Friday night will be the pre sentation of the Brewer award by Roy Brewer, an Aggie graduate and founder of the award. This award recognizes the most out standing senior majoring in ani mal husbandry. Awards will also be presented to the championship meats, livestock and wool judging teams, ham sale recognition, individual team med als and the Sayer Farmer Essay Contest winner. Other awards will include Freshman-Sophomore Judging Contest winners, out standing student recognitions, and outstanding freshman, sophomore, junior and senior members of the club. Two honorary members, who have made significant contributions to the livestock industry, will be honored by receiving lifetime hon orary membership plaques. Approximately 200 persons, in cluding many parents and dates, are expected to attend the dual function. Immediately following the Awards Banquet, the Cattleman’s Ball will kick-off the evening. Music for the dance will be fur nished by the Aggieland Combo. Tickets for the occasion may be purchased from Saddle & Sirloin Club members or directly from the Department of Animal Husbandry office, said King. Alpha Zeta Group Honors Two Ags Harry Ohlendorf was named out standing freshman of the School of Agriculture and Walter “Bub- ba” Willms was named outstand ing sophomore at the annual Al pha Zeta banquet in the Memorial Student Center last night. Ohlendorf is a wildlife manage ment major from Lockhart, and Willms is a plant and soil science major from Columbus. Both boys were awarded plaques by the fra ternity. The speaker was Richard Odom, assistant professor in the Depart ment of Floriculture and Land scape Architecture. Odom showed slides and told of his experiences in Holland while he was doing ; graduate work there some years ago. Entertainment was provided by Dick Gustafson, a freshman who sang well-known ballads. The officers for the coming year were installed. They are: Ken neth McGee, chancellor; Allan Mar- burger, censor; Henry Blazek, scribe; Charles Bell, treasurer; and Johnny Watts, chronicler. Silver Taps Tribute Paid Curtis R. Lyons Ag Suffers Injury In Boxing Tourney Silver Taps ceremonies were held last night for Curtis R. Lyons, sophomore business administration major from Dallas, who died early Monday morning in Houston from in juries sustained in a boxing match at Sam Houston State College at Huntsville. Lyons, 19, died in Houston’s Methodist Hospital where he was admitted early Friday morning after the Thursday night bout with Fred White of Sam Houston State. Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at the St. Elizabeth Chapel in Dallas. Kenneth Hubbard, Jerry Barrington, Tommy Cottingham, Jimmy Simpson, G. W. Arnold and David Smith, all Squadron 7 sophomores, will serve as pallbearers at the - ^ services. The Squadron 7 sophomore was injured when he was knocked out in the last round of a scheduled three-round match. Efforts to revive him in the ring failed and he was taken to a Huntsville hospital and later transferred to Houston. A preliminary autopsy perform ed by a Methodist Hospital path ologist Monday indicated primary cause of death as a hemorrhage be tween the skull and brain. A more complete autopsy is being conduct ed. Sam Houston’s Dean of Stu dents W. T. Creager said Monday, “Lyons was stunned by a blow to the head and struck a second time. After the second blow he fell, hit his head just above the right eye on the canvas, and lay uncon scious..” A&M does not sponsor boxing teams nor does it allow students to participate as representatives of the school, W. L. Penberthy, di rector of the Department of Stu dent Activities, said Monday. The boys were participating as individuals, not as representatives from A&M, said Penberthy. Dr. Harrison Asks For Aid from Lions Dr. Dick Harrison, Bryan physi cian, yesterday asked the Lions’ Club for aid in launching a cam paign to finance the construction of a convalescent home here in Brazos County. Speaking at a luncheon in the Memorial Student Center, Dr. Harrison, who has done extensive work in preparation for such a home, defined a convalescent home as the “bridge between hospitali zation and living at home.” He cited numerous methods, as the Hilburton Funds, the Federal Housing Project, a county bond issue, a church group or a combi nation of these for financing the project. Hubbert to Speak At Sigma XI Affair Arab Delegate To Deliver Talk Tomorrow Nile Sami Hadawi, member of the re search section of the Arab States Delegation Office in New York City, is visiting here today and to morrow to appear on radio and television panels. Hadawi will speak tomorrow night at 7:30 in the Memorial Stu dent Center Assembly Room on “Arab Nations in Israel and the Middle East.” He is being sponsored by the Department of Economics and the Department of History and Gov ernment. Today Hadawi took part on a radio show on WTAW. On the show he answered questions on his speech topic. Dr. Paul J. Woods of the Department of History and Government; Dr. Sam B. South- well of the Department of English; and Dr. Earl H. Knebel of the De partment of Agricultural Educa tion directed the questions to Ha dawi. Tomorrow, Hadawi, Woods and Southwell will appear on KBTX- TV for another question and an swer show. Hadawi spent 30 years in the service of the Iranian government. His posts included chief of the land taxation section of the Department of Land Settlement. In 1948 he joined the service of the Jordan government, first as director of Land Tax Assessments and later as chief of the Inland Land Reve nue Department of the Finance Finance Ministry in Amman. In 1955, Hadawi resigned from the United Nations and, in cooper ation with Dr. Issat Tannous, a fellow Palestine Arab, established the Palestine Arab Refugee Office in New York. In January, 1959, Hadawi was commissioned by the Arab Infor mation Center as regional of a branch office to be opened this year in the southern United States. Curtis R. Lyons . . . receives final Aggie honors McNeese Captures A&M Rodeo Crown The 10th Annual Texas A&M Intercollegiate Rodeo came to a close Saturday night as the host ing Aggies finished third behind first place McNeese State of Louisiana and Sam Houston State in second. McNeese won with 383 % points to 304 for Sam Houston and 302 for the Aggies. McNeese also had the best all round cowboy of the rodeo, Jim Miller, whose 219 points was over half his team’s total. Next was Ronny Love of Oklahoma State, who scored 130. Karen Mangum of Sam Hous ton State was named best all round cowgirl. Other girl champions were Mil lie Tate of Our Lady of the Lake College, goat-tying, and Flossy Brandes of Wharton Junior Col lege barrel racing. E. M. Holt of Sam Houston won the bare-back bronc riding com petition, and Rodney Butler of A&M was champion saddle bronc rider. Champion bull rider was Jim Miller of McNeese. Joe Neff of A&M was top tie- down calf roper and Love was champion ribbon roper. Champion steer wrestler was Kennith Beasley of A&M. According to Dr. Harold E. Redmond, A&M Rodeo Club ad visor, McNeese will represent the Southern region of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association at the national finals which will be held at Klamath Falls, Ore., July 4. The second place team, as yet undetermined between A&M and Sam Houston, will also attend the finals. The top individual in each sep arate event will also be able to attend the finals, according to Redmond. The Aggie rodeo ended with only two accidents to mar the four per formances. Both accidents oc curred in the bull riding event. Beasley, Aggie bull rider, had his cheek bone broken and receiv ed a head cut. Leo Anderson of McNeese State received a broken shoulder. Mothers, Fathers Due Here For Annual Parents Weekend Dr. M. King Hubbert, consult- ent in general geology and asso ciate director of research for the Shell Development Co., will deliver the principal address at the Sigma XI Initiation Banquet in the Ball room of the Memorial Student Center tomorrow night at 7:30. Hubbert will speak on “Are We Retrogressing in Science ? ” Since receiving his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at the Univer sity of Chicago in geology, phys ics and mathematics, Hubbert’s in terests have been directed broadly to the physics and chemistry of the earth. He has worketl in such diverse fields as geophysical ex ploration, petroleum geology, structural geology, ground-water hydrology and mineral economics. Guide Posts “Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.”—Ernest Bevin Thousands of mothers and fa thers and other visitors are ex pected on the A&M campus Satur day and Sunday for the annual observance of Parents Weekend. Saturday will be observed as Open House Day and Sunday as Parents Day. The Open House program will begin with exhibits in the five schools of the college—Architec ture, Arts and Sciences, Engineer ing, Veterinary Medicine and Mili tary Science. Visitors will tour the facilities of the Memorial Student Center, the Cushing Memorial Library, the Basic Division, the departments of Student Personnel Services and others. A coffee honoring the Federation of A&M College Mothers’ Clubs will be given by the Brazos County A&M Mothers’ Club at the MSC at 9 a.m. This will be followed by the annual conference of the Fed eration of A&M Mothers’ Clubs. At 2 p.m. Saturday, an informal reception honoring parents will be held in the MSC Ballroom under the sponsorship of the MSC Di rectorate. President M. T. Har rington and members of the execu tive committee of the college will be present to visit with the par ents. A smorgasbord will be held in the MSC dining room from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. Other Saturday activities will in clude a ham show and auction sale, swine show, sheep show, horse show, beef cattle show, milking op eration and the pouring of molten lead. The Aggie Players will present “The Tempest” that evening at Guion Hall. Afterwards the all College dance honoring parents of A&M students will be held in The Grove with music by the Aggie land Orchestra. Special events for Parents Day Sunday will begin with the flower pinning ceremony in the cadet dor mitories at 8:15 a.m. and will in clude the presentation of the best drilled sophomore and freshman awards and presentation of appre ciation gifts to organization com- (See Mothers and Fathers Page 4)