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THE
BATTALION
10 Days
'til Final Review
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 117: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1959
Price Five Cents
&Ags Ease Past Owls, 8-7;
Ags’ Percy Sanderson
. winning hurler arrives home.
Dr. Ewens Praises
Senate at Banquet
Membei’s of the Student Senate
Were told by Dr. William P. Ewens
of the Department of Education
and Psychology last night that
their organization was probably
the most important on the campus.
Ewens was speaking at the
annual Student Senate Banquet
held in the Memorial Student Cen
ter Assembly Room. At the ban
quet, 29 senator’s received keys for
service rendered during the year.
Ewens, who was on a committee
to evaluate the Senate two years
ago, pointed to four achievements
of the Senate during the past
two years which he considered out
standing. They are the voluntary
insurance plan, the A&M Memor
ial Scholarship program, the Cam
pus Chest and the blood drive.
Explaining that he was sug
gesting rather than criticizing,
Ewens offered three areas which
he hoped the Senate would stress
next year. They are to instill a
form of leadership training pro
gram, to utilize a greater portion
of the student leadership ability
than in the past, and to act more
as the official voice of the entire
student body.
Ewens was introduced by Sen
ate Vice President Jake Sekerka,
who will serve as Senate president
next year. President John Thomas
introduced othe# 1 guests at the
banquet and presented the awards.
Also at the banquet, Thomas
presented appreciation gifts to
Mrs. Joan Culberth and Mrs. Nell
Davis, employes in the Depart
ment of Student Activities, for se-
retarial aid given the Senate dur
ing the year, and to W. L. Pen-
berthy, Senate advisor. •
Senators who received keys are
Tom Airhart, Thadis Box, Stew
art Carpenter, Kenneth Clevenger,
William Cook, Ben Corbo, Lyle
Cross, Wayne Culberth, Randy
Curtis, Walter Frazier and Char
les Graham.
Also Jerry Hatfield, Edward
Hill, Ross Hutchison, Lee May-
field, Pat Mauritz, Harley Mc
Adams, William McFarland, Rush
McGinty, Tom Miller and Bill
Myers.
Also Richard Noack, Jack Paris,
Don Rummel, Sekerka, Ronald
Stallings, Thomas, Richard Van-
der Stucken and Richard Whit-
Take Lead
Miracle Makers
Near SWC Title
By BOB WEEKLEY
Battalion Sports Editor
Miracles will never cease!
Back around May 1 the Aggies were 4-4 in Southwest
Conference play and were rated “dead” as far as their chance
for a pennant were concerned.
Now look at them! They’re 9-4 in the conference, half
a game ahead of Texas and almost a cinch to win the title.
Rice is out of the picture, except they must face the ram
paging Farmers tomorrow.
Texas, those mighty titans of the diamond, lost their
fourth straight game of the season to SMU yesterday to drop
behind the Cadets with a 9-5 mark.
All the Aggies have to do is win one game
♦•out of the next two with Rice
^ JLJ anc * B a yl° r ’ to cinch a tie for
Annual Meeting
Here in June
Contestants, agents, leaders and
friends of 4-H club members from
all over Texas will be at A&M for
the Texas 4-H Roundup, June 9-11.
According to Floyd Lynch, state
4-H club leader and chairman of
the 4-H Roundup committee, there
will be two teams from each of the
twelve agriculture extension dis
tricts. Lynch also stated there
would be about 2,000 boys and
girls taking part in .the contests.
Highlights of the three days of
activity will include a “friends of
4-H Luncheon” sponsored by the
Texas 4-H Recognition Committee
in the Ballroom of the Memorial
Student Center.
Guest speakers for the assembly
in Guion Hall on June 9, will in
clude Mackey Ivy, vice chairman
of the Texas 4-H Council; Richard
Sherman, a member of the Round
up Committee; John E. Hutchison,
director of the Texas Agricultural
Extension Service; John Gardner,
a member of the Roundup Com
mittee; and special guest,'Dr. Ken
neth McFarland, educational con
sultant and lecturer for General
Motors.
Thursday in MSC
Write-in Votes to Play
Big Role in Elections
Write-in votes will play an im
portant part in tomorrow’s elec
tion from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in
the Memorial Student Center of
representatives of the four degree
granting schools to the Student
Senate and of members to the
Election Commission.
A sophomore, junior and senior
(all based on 1959-60 classifica
tion) will be elected from each of
the four schools to serve on the
Student Senate.
Five representatives from each
of the three classes will be elected
by the entire student body to serve
on the Election Commission.
Three of the elections have no
candidates filing for the office.
These include the sophomore repre
sentative to the Senate from the
School of Agriculture, the sopho
more representative from the
School of Arts and Sciences and
a representative from the fifth
professional group (fifth year
students) for , the School of Vet
erinary Medicine.
In the race for the five repre
sentatives of the Class of ’62, only
two candidates have filed.
Class of ’60 candidates for the
Election Commission are Thomas
E. Downs, Floyd W. Kaase, Hu
bert Oxford, Clarence Pennywell,
Wayland Quisenberry, Robert B.
Santore, Wayne P. Schneider, Al
len Smith, John L. Smith, Danny
J. Snooks, James F. Tucker and
Albert G. Zambrano.
Election Commission candidates
from the Class of ’61 are Walter
R. Frazier, Gary J. Hammer, Allen
Leonard, Paul Martin, William F.
McFarland, John M. McMullen,
Roger S. Terry and Randy Year-
gen.
Charles G. Crouch and Noi’ris R.
Gilbreath are the lone candidates
from the Class of ’62 seeking to
gain the Election Commission
posts.
School of Agriculture
Kenneth R. Beerwinkle and D.
(Mickey) Dungan are the two sen
ior School of Agriculture candi
dates for the Senate seat. Vernon
L. Yanta is the lone candidate for
the School of Agriculture’s junior
spot. The sophomore race has no
entrants.
School of Engineering
In the School of Engineering
senior race, Fred D. Clark, Thom
as E. Dunlap, Jerry H. Hatfield,
Hubert Oxford and John Smith
are the candidates.
Robert Bower Jr., A. W. Dun
lap, Walter R. Frazier and Bobby
L. McDaniel are the Class of ’61
engineering majors who are seek
ing the Senate seat.
School of Engineering freshman
race finds Tom Airhart, Jack F.
Paris and Tim Pixley in the run
ning.
School of Arts and Sciences
Marcus G. Blagg, Clayton Cates
and Alden Smith are the candi
dates in the School of Arts and
Sciences senior race. Harvey D.
Barber, G. B. Laycock, William F.
McFarland and Richard (Van)
Vander Stucken are the Class of
’61 members in the race for the
junior seat. No sophomores in the
School of Arts and Sciences filed.
School of Veterinary Medicine
Thomas Beckett, Jerry D. Glea
son and Sam H. Ridgway are the
sixth professional group candi
dates in the School of Veterinary
Medicine. David W. Ellison, O. C.
Mulkey and Bruce Ueckert are the
fourth professional group candi
dates. No one in the fifth group
filed for the job.
W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, student
organizations advisor, said that
all students would vote on the
Election Commission members
from their respective classes but
could only vote for the Senate
nominee from their class and
school.
the championship with the
Steers. If they win both of
them, or if Texas loses their
remaining game with TCU and
A&M splits their games, the Ag
gies will be undisputed champs.
If the two teams tie for the
title the Aggies will represent the
conference in the national playoffs,
simply because they dumped the
Longhorns three times.
A&M is due to face Rice Thurs
day at 3 p.m. on Kyle Field while
the Baylor date is yet to be set,
a game they might not have to
play.
George Banda, TCU’s fine short
stop, is credited with giving the
Farmers life in the conference
race. The Aggies had won the first
contest with TCU, 5-2, in 12 innings
the previous day, but were behind
two runs in the top of the ninth
with two men away when Banda
dropped Ralph Plumlee’s infield
fly. A&M went on to score three
runs in that frame to win the
game and continue on to their
present title contention.
So far they have won five
straight.
Richard Biondi
. . leads yell practice
Fish Drill Squad
To March in Bryan
The members of the freshman
Drill Team will go to Bryan Sat
urday to march in the Armed
Forces Day parade.
< About thirty-four members of
the drill team will be present ac
cording to Ben Rice, commander of
the team.
The parade will begin at 10:30
Saturday morning.
After Stopping Rice
Ag Nine Greeted
With Yell Practice
By DAVE STOKER
Battalion Managing Editor
The world-renowned “Spirit of
Aggieland” was never more aptly
expressed than last night when
Aggies assembled in front of the
Kyle Field Main Entrance for a
yell practice to greet the South
west Conference leading Aggie
baseball nine.
Yelling for the baseball team in
the same manner as they yell for
the football team each fall, the
Aggies jubilated their delight in
the Aggies victory some 30 minutes
before the team arrived. The vic
tory moved the Aggies into first
place, a half game ahead of the
faltering Texas Longhorns, who
lost to SMU in Dallas yesterday.
Visions of a Southwest Confer
ence baseball crown hallmarked
the special yell practice led by two
yell leaders and various members
of the Aggie Band. “The Aggie
War Hymn” and “The Spirit of
Aggieland” were done twice while
waiting for the team and the band
blasted out such numbers as
“Dixie,” “Beer Barrel Polka,”
Tishler Receives
Doctor’s Degree
J. Ward Tishler, son of Carl E.
Tishler, head of the Department
of Health and Physical Education
at A&M, has received his Ed.D. de
gree from the University of Wy
oming.
He holds a B.S. degree and an
M.A. degree from A&M, and is
now an instructor in Physical Edu
cation and Director of Intramurals
at Stephen F. Austin State Col
lege, in Nacogdoches.
“When the Saints Go Marching
In,” “I’ve Been Working on the
Railroad” and even the Mickey
Mouse Club theme song.
It was beginning to appear that
by some hook or crook the team
was not going to make it as sched
uled. But at 9:30, the big blue and
white bus rolled down Joe Routt
Blvd. and was quickly greeted with
the yell of “Gig’em Aggies.” When
it stopped the band again played
“The Aggie War Hymn.”
SWC Race
Ayres, Wortham
Pace Cadet Win
By BOB WEEKLEY
Battalion Sports Editor
HOUSTON—Air-tight relief work by sophomore Larry
Ayres merged with the explosive bat of catcher Randy
Wortham to sneak the Aggie nine past a stubborn Rice team,
8-7, in Southwest Conference play here yesterday.
The win pulled the Aggies within shouting distance of a
conference title, their first since 1955. Details on A&M’s
standing is in columns three and four on this same page.
Percy Sanderson, the lean junior from Nederland, went
7 and 2/3 innings to receive credit for the win in the steamy
humidity of Houston. The Ag hurler now has a 5-2 confer
ence mark. Loser was Jerrol Springer who is 1-1 in con
ference warfare.
-fr Wortham was the game’s
hero, slashing out a double
and a homer to lead the
Farmers at the plate. The
sophomore’s round-t ripper
came in the top of the eighth to
give the Aggies an 8-5 lead, a
scant one run margin when Rice
came back in their portion of the
inning to score two runs.
A&M opened their scoring spree
in the third inning on a single, er
ror and a single. Stuffy Davis be
gan the rally with a Texas leaguer
to center and advanced to second
and third on a stolen base and a
passed ball into the outfield.
Sanderson helped his own cause
and scored the first run when he
slammed a shot past shortstop,
sending Davis scampering home.
Two more runs came trotting
home in the fourth, with Rice
countering with one run in their
part of the frame. The Cadets
scored four additional markers in
the next three innings with Rice
again matching the Farmers run
for run.
Then came the eighth and Wort
ham’s homer and the Owl’s threat
ening two-run gesture in the bot
tom of that inning.
Ayres relieved Sanderson with
two away in the bottom of the
eighth and struck out the next
man, Jerry Epsten, who had al
ready slamed a homer.
The Paris, Tex., hurler retired
the first two men in order in the
final frame, but pinch hitter Jack
Kristnik, the leading slugger in
the conference, touched him for a
double that bounced over the cen
ter-field fence. The hit appeared
to be a homer at first but the um
pires ruled it a ground rule dou
ble. The next man up, Bob Live
ly, went out on a fly to center to
end the game.
A&M will play Rice here Thurs
day at 3 p.m. on Kyle Field.
Army General
Arrives Here
For Inspection
Maj. Gen. Rush B. Lincoln Jr.,
deputy chief of transportation for
the U.S. Army, arrived here yes
terday afternoon for a two-day
visit of the Depai’tment of Mili
tary Science and Tactics.
The general and his party was
met at Easterwood Field yester
day by Col. Frank L. Elder, pro
fessor of military science and tac
tics, and Maj. Horace A. Lowe,
senior trasportation corps instruc
tor.
This morning Gen. Lincoln and
his party observed reveille forma
tion and had breakfast with A
Transportation Company in Sbisa
Hall.
At 11 a.m. Gen. Lincoln address
ed the Transportation Corps senior
cadets and had lunch with' Vice
President Earl Rudder, following
a tour of the campus.
A 1932 graduate of the U.S.
Military Academy, Gen. Lincoln
served in various command posi
tions in World War II. These in
cluded assignments in the planning
division of the Office of Chief of
Transportation and also in the
Middle East, North Africa, Europe
and Pacific theaters of operations.
He also took part in conferences
of the combined chiefs of staff at
Quebec, Cairo, Malta and Yalta.
After V-J Day he served as Chief
of Transportation (Army Forces
Western Pacific Area), remaining
in that capacity until his retum
to the United States in 1947 to at
tend the first class of the Armed
Forces Staff College.
Dorms for Summer School
Student Housing Announced
Walton Hall, Hart Hall and
dormitories 14, 15 and 16 will be
used for housing students attend
ing summer school, Harry L. Boy
er, housing manager, said this
morning.
In order to reserve the rooms
they already have and to avoid con
gestion on registration day, sched
uled for Monday, June 8, all dorm
itory students should pay their fees
and reserve rooms beginning at 8
a.m. Monday.
Korean veterans planning to at
tend summer school should report
to the veterans’ advisor’s office and
sign enrollment papers, said Boy
er.
All summer students should be
gin paying fees at the Fiscal Office
Monday, he said.
Students living in the dormitor
ies listed above may reserve tke
room they now occupy from 8 a.m.,
Monday, until 5 p.m. next Thurs
day. Students, regardless of pre
sent location, who wish to reserve
a room in Walton, Dorm 16 or Hart
may also reserve rooms during
this time by presenting a signed
MSC Display Case
Applications Open
Applications for use of Memorial
Student Center display cases will
be accepted in the Social and Edu
cational Department of the MSC
through Friday, Mrs. Ann Keel,
social director for the MSC, said
this morning.
The applications will be received
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily and
will cover the 1959-60 school year.
Each application will be reviewed
by the MSC Council Display and
Exhibits Committee and will be ap
proved in the order of preference
and the operational procedure es
tablished by the committee, she
said.
room change slip from the house
master of his dormitory. This
does not apply to Dorms 14 and
15 since no housemaster is cur
rently on duty there, Boyer said.
All other students may register
for rooms on a first-come, first-
served basis from 8 a.m. next Fri
day until noon Saturday, May 30.
Students now living in Walton
Hall will have priority on rooms
in this dormitory for the fall se
mester provided they sign for them
with the housemaster on his fall
roster and send in room reserva
tions by July 31, said Boyer.
Therefore, summer student^ may
not be able to retain their summer
rooms for the fall semester.
All students, including those liv
ing in College Apartments, who
do not plan to live in dormitories
during the summer session, must
secure day student permits from
the Housing Office before paying
fees, Boyer added.