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.