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The Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1959 Number 22 United Chest Drive Includes Scout (/roups (Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles on the College Station United Chest whose drive will be conducted November 1-15 to raise a budget of $13,150. The artfjWes deal with the 14 agencies participating in this year’s chest.) Today’s article is devoted to the following two agencies: 1. Bryan- College Station Girl Scouts $2,450. 2.. Boy Scouts of America $2,000. The local Girl Scout program had 577 girls enrolled on Sept. 1, 1959, including Brownies, Intermediates and Senior Scouts, with an in crease of 120 expected in 1900. All funds received from the United Fund and Community Chest re mains in This immediate ai'ea ex cept for the $10 charter fee paid every two years to the National organization. Some of the budge tary needs are as follows: (1) camping program, including camp site development; (2) supplies; (3) salaries for clerical and pro fessional help; (4) repairs and maintenance of grounds and equip ment; (5) travel utilities, etc. An estimated $8,545 is needed in 1900 by the Gh’l Scouts, with College Station being asked to contribute only $2,450 of this amount. The Boy Scouts of America, Ar- rowmoon District (Brazos and most of Robertson Counties) is part of the Sam Houston Area Council. This District program as of Sept. 1, 1959 had 41 Scout ing Units (15 Cub Packs, 21 Scout Troops, and 5 Explorer Units) With a total registered member ship of 848 boys and 389 volunteer adult workers — a registerd mem- bei'ship of 1237. The scouting units of the District have pledged to recniit and register an additional 250 hoys before the end of the I960 year. Completion of new units will bring in another 200 boys. It is anticipated that by the end of 1900 a total of 1,730 boys and leaders will be active in the pro gram, an all-time high for the Arrowmoon District. It has been estimated by the District that over $15,000 will be needed in 1960. Of this amount, College Station is asked to contribute $2,000 through its United Chest. Downtown Display J. H. Conway, left, of Conway and Sons Clothing; Store in Bryan and Aggie Charles E. Davidoff of Houston discuss the architectural model of the Olympic swimming pool, designed by fifth year architecture students. Displays of models and finished designs will be exhibited in various downtown stores during the next several weeks. Col. Gregory Names 33 Seniors Get Air Force Award Thirty-three Aggie Seniors', from an entering class of 864, have been designated by Col. Chai’les E. Gregory, Professor of Air Science, as Distinguished Air Force ROfC Cadets for the cur rent school year. Attainment of this honor is based on consistent demonstration of outstanding qualifies of leader ship and high moral character, and placement in the upper one third of the class academically, militari ly and in Summer Training Unit. Those who maintain this status throughout the current academic year will be designated as Disting uished Military Graduates. As D- MG’s they are eligible to submit' applications for Regular Air Force Commissions. Writer To Speak In MSC Thursday The Memorial Student Center Browsing Library Committee will present Elmer Kelton, recognized as one of the best Western writers in America, as guest speaker at an open meeting of the group Thursday night at 7:45 in the MSC Assembly Room. Author of such well-known Western novels as “Buffalo Wa gons,” “Hot Iron,” “Barbed Wire” and “Shadow of a Star,” Kelton also holds a full-time position as agricultural editor of the San An gelo Standard-Times. He has been with the San Angelo paper since his graduation from the University of Texas School of Journalism 12 Capps Hall Dockets Dance for Saturday m/ Capps Hall, freshman dormitory at Texas Woman’s University, has scheduled its annual dance for Saturday, Oct. 31. Music for the occasion will be furnished by The Serenaders and Aggies of all classifications are invited. The affair will be semi- formal or Class ‘A’ uniform. A floor show is scheduled and refreshments will be served during the dance. Capps representatives said dates are not necessary as hostesses will be present for intro duction. Those interested in attending should contact Wayne Schneider, 14-424, or Doug Yauger, 10-219. Reservations for Aggies have been made in one of the guest houses on the campus. yeai’s ago. The Texas-born novelist, who has been interested in writing since childhood, first became serious about becoming a writer when he returned to college after World War II. He sold his first Western short.story to “Ranch Romances” magazine before he finished col lege. Kelton’s first novel was “Hot Iron,” published in 1956, and had a setting in the early big-ranch days of the Panhandle. His second novel, “Buffalo Wagons,” won the Western Writers of America Golden Spur award as the best western novel of 1957. He follow ed up with “Bai’bed Wire,” pub lished in 1958, and “Shadow of a Star,” in 1959. At the present, the busy jour nalist is at work on two novels, one of a modern narrative of Tex as and the other an action West ern. Of his writing, Kelton says, “I make no claims to being an arty writer. I am a commercial writer. I try to take authentic backgrounds, authentic times and movement of the Southwestern history and build around them a story of character and action that will entertain the reader. If I can in the process teach the reader something about the time, the country and its people, that’s fine.” Anyone interested in meeting the well-known Texas author is in vited to an informal coffee in Room 2-C and 2-D of the MSC Thursday afternoon at 3:30, ac cording to Don Zirkle, committee chairman. A parade in their honor will be held Saturday, Oct. 31. The fol lowing cadets have been named as Distinguished Military Students: Russell D. Anthony, Houston; Charles A. Benson, Sour Lake, John M. Brazzel, Houston; Walter M. Breen, San Antonio; J. C. Bur ton, Tyler; William B. Cook, Bi’own; Harla D. Cox, La Feria; Billy J. Coley, Ennis; Frank I. Dahlberg, Bryan; Sheldon R. Do- erksn, Keltys; Norman D. Dyson, Texarkana; Charles E. Graf, Ver non, Gerald D. Griffith, Port - La vaca; James P. Hadley, Brady; William B. Heye, San Antonio; Joe M. Leeper, Dickinson; Allen C. Ludwig, San Antonio; Edward C. Lux, Schulenburg; Kenneth R. McGee, Montalba; Robert E. Mai’- shall, Mesquite; Winford E. Maul din, Bryan; Percy D. Mims, Houston; Robert C. Ohlendorf, Lockhart; Hubert Oxford III, Beaumont; Robert A. Reeh, New Braunfels; Charles Z. Ridgway, San Antonio; William B. Shenkir, San Antonio; Bobby W. Shipman, Fort Worth; John L. Smith, Re fugio; Larry D. White, Harlingen; Stanley F. Wied, Burlington; James W. Milliken, Dallas and Edward L. Winchester Jr., Ester- hazy, Saskatchewan, Canada. Consolidated Board Slates Bond Election Seek $350,000 For Improvements By BOB SAILE Battalion Staff Writer The A&M Consolidated Board of Trustees has called an election to he held Nov. 17 for the approval of the issuance of $850,000 in bonds to finance new school facilities and im provements. The board called the bond election in their regular meet ing Monday night at A&M Consolidated High School. The action was taken after a study of recommendations for school improvements made by the citizens advisory com mittee and the professional committee. The principal recom mendations made by thl committees were embodied in the plans approved by the board. Steps will be taken as soon as possible to provide the needs outlined in the plans.* - Target date for the comple tion of the new facilities is sometime in 19G0 or 19G1. The allotment of the pro posed $350,000, according to build ing, land and equipment needs, will be as follows: $185,000 will be spent on the construction of a new elementary school. Ten classrooms, one cafe teria and various administrative facilities will be built at a cost of $145,000. Thirty thousand dollars will be spent on land and develop ment and $10,000 will be spent on furnishing the buildings. It has not been decided where the new school will be located. Additions and improvements to A&M Consolidated High School will cost $67,000. Four classrooms and two homemaking units will be constructed at a cost of $55,000. The present homemaking facilities will be moved to a new location and a physics lab will be construct ed in its place, at a Cost of $7,000. Five thousand dollars will be al- loted to furnishing the new rooms. Sixty thousand dollars will be spent on improvements and addi tions to Lincoln School. Two class rooms, two restrooms and a com bination cafeteria and auditorium will be constructed at a cost of $35,000. Cost of miscellaneous re pairs and renovation will be $20,- 000. Furnishings for the new classrooms will cost $5,000. A new bus shed and warehouse will be built at cost of $10,000. Architectural fees total $14,000, fees for the printing of bonds are $3,000 and $11,000 has been re served for miscellaneous costs. The Nov. 17 bond election will be held in the A&M Consolidated Jr. High School Music Room. Pei’- sons of legal voting age who have paid their poll tax, lived in the school district for six months and (See BONDS on Page 4) J. B. Hervey Urges Citizens To Back Drive J. B. (Dick) Hervey, general chairman for the 1959 College Sta tion United Chest drive, prged members of the College Station Kiwanis Club and citizens of the community Tuesday noon to give their full support to the Nov. 1-15 drive, combining 14 worthy agen cies into one correlated effort to raise $13,150 set as the goal for this year’s combined budget. Speaking before the Kiwanis Club gathering in the Memorial Student Center, Hervey asked that all persons take the motto for this year’s drive seriously and back the slogan of “One Day’s Pay . . . The United Way.” In breaking down the allocation of funds, he noted that it will be divided among four categorical set ups. These are medical aid, char itable aid, youth aid and college social aid. Each will receive a pre-determin- ed amount of the budget to be used as prescribed in agency reports to to the budget committee for the drive. Agencies who will receive por tions of the budget ai’e the College Station Local Chest Charity Fund, College Station Community House, College Station Youth Facilities Committee, College Station YMCA, College Station Recreation Council, Grappled Children’s Therapy, Braz os County Hospital Fund, Brazos County Youth Counseling Service, Salvation Army, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Gonzales Warm Springs, American Red Cross and the Tex as United Fund. SWC Policy Guides Ag Date Ticket Sales By ROBBIE GODWIN Battalion News Editor (Editor’s Note: In response to two letters received by The Bat talion regai’ding sale of date tickets both at home games and for the Texas Christian Universi ty game at Fort Worth, Robbie Godwin, Battalion News Editor, talked with Pat Dial, business manager for the Department of Athletics, to find answers to the questions raised by one of our readers.) Many Aggies had to pay regular date ticket price of $4 for end zone seats which sold at the gate for $2.50 at the TCU-A&M game. Pat Dial said that before the game it was his understanding that full sections of seats would be allotted to the Aggies, and that the seats beyond the goal line were for overflow only. He said it was not until he got to the ball game that he saw reserve seats being filled above the Aggie sec tion. Yesterday he looked at the seating contract between the two schools, and found that TCU of ficials had violated the contract in reserving seats in the sections allotted A&M students. This is a four-year conti’act, expiring in 1960. He said Barlow Irvin, assistant athletic director, will write TCU and call the matter to their at tention. Dial said there were several reasons why date tickets for home games must go off sale Friday afteimoon. First, the policy is set among all Southwest Conference schools before the season starts. The Business Office, in order to take full advantage of the seating facilities in Kyle Field, must know how many seats are taken at least by Friday afternoon. This enables the seats allotted to students, and not used, to be put on sale as re served seats. Dial added that this was especially true for sellout games. Another policy of the Southwest Confei’ence, as pointed out by Dial, is closing ticket sales for out-of- town games on Wednesday. This enables the home school to put the unused portion of the tickets on sale as reserved seats before game time. Some complaints have been re ceived in the business office con cerning crowded conditions in the Aggie section at home games, ac cording to Dial. He said that at the Houston game, 1693 more seats were al lotted than were needed. The ne cessity is figured from ticket stubs received from students, the number of date tickets sold, and the space taken by the band and their instruments. In order to eliminate the crowd ing of the Aggie section, Dial said the Department of Athletics may have to resort to taking up date ticket stubs at ground level of the ramps if the situation is not relieved. Thomas W. Leland "! new secretary of CPA Examiners T. W. Leland B. A. Head Elected CPA Secretary SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—Tho mas W. Leland, Certified Public Ac countant of College Station, has been elected secretary of the Assn, of Certified Public Accountant Ex aminers. Leland, head of the Division of Business Administration of A&M, has been active in the affairs of the accounting profession for many years. He has served as educational director of the AIC- PA, a member of its board of Ex aminers and various committees, including the committees on tech nical sessions, education and meet ings, and is a past president of the Texas Society of CPAs. He is an associate member of the Con trollers Institute of America. Lie is also active in civic affairs, serv ing as an Elder of the A&M Pres byterian Church and as a member of Rotary International. The As'Sn. of CPA Examiners is an organization of approximately 900 certified public accountants who are members or past members of the state boards of accountancy Hays to Speak At Workshop Dr. John Q. Hays will be the keynote speaker at a meeting of District 1 Workshop of the Texas Joint Committee for English in School and College, to be held at Sam Houston State Teachers Col lege in Huntsville, Saturday, Nov. 14. Dr. Hays is a professor in the Department of English here. He will discuss “The New Lan guage Arts Program for the State of Texas.” Dr. Fred Ekfelt also of the De partment of English will take part in a panel discussion, “The Role of the Teacher Reading and Liter ature on the Language Arts Pro gram,” at the meeting. Theme of the meeting will be “A Closer Look at Proposals for the English Language Arts,” the report of a study conducted by a committee appointed by the Texas Education Agency to recommend a program for the improvement of English teaching from grades one through twelve in Texas schools. and the Board of Examiners of the American Institute of CPAs, the committee responsible for prepar ing the uniform examination for certified public accountants. Also elected to office were: P. K. Seidman, CPA, Memphis, Tenn., president; Leonard Price, CPA, New York, N. Y., first vice presi dent; W. Kenneth Simpson, CPA, Louisville, Ky., second vice presi dent; and Dorothy G. Willard, CP- A, Boston, Mass., treasurer for a second successive year. Air Force Ball Plans Reach Final Stages Final plans are under way for the annual Air Force Ball, to be held in Sbisa Hall Nov. 6 Five finalists have been picked for the Air Foi’ce Sweetheart con test. They are Alice Faye Brab ham, escorted by Chai’les Vernon Isaac; Elanor Flynn, escorted by Douglas F. Olbrich; Miss Ann J. Buser, escorted by Spencer A. Mc- Clung; Susan Redden, escorted by Michey Dungan; Esther Voncan- non, escorted by Don C. Satcher. Wally Cannon, headed the selec tion committee of Percy Mims, 2nd Wing Commander, and J. C. Burton, 1st Wing commander. Ed Sullivan’s orchestra from Houston will provide the music for the dance which will start at 8 p.m. Uniform will be Class A winter. Tickets are $1 each and may be obtained through the Air Force outfits. Ai'my seniors may buy their tickets at the Office of Stu dent Activities at the same price. The sweetheart will be picked by popular vote at the dance. Can non will present her to the group. W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, student Organizations adviser, is acting as adviser to the group in plan ning the activities. Charles Graf is in charge of decorations, Don Walther heads .the invitations group, John Jackie is in charge of the program and Byron Blasche is the Army co-ordinator.