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FE 12 COPIES The Battalion Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1959 Number 24 Smash Musical Hits Town Hall Tuesday At Town Hall Tuesday Dee Harless as Cleo, left, and Robert Dixon Broadway smash musical which will be pre- as Herman are shown in a scene from sented at Town Hall Tuesday night at 8. “The Most Happy Fella,” the two-year 1 Faculty, Staff Parking The Executive Committee has approved the basic plan for new faculty and staff parking regula tions, James P. Hannigan, dean of students announced yesterday. The plans approved by the Exec utive Committee include a $7.50 registration fee to be charged to all faculty and staff members who wish to park their automobiles in regular parking places on the cam pus proper. Those who do not wish to pay the $7.50 fee may pay a $1 fee which will entitle them to park in designated “fringe” areas locat ed on the north and south sides of the campus. The fringe areas include the lot southeast of Kyle Field and the lot east of the B&CU Bldg. Faculty and staff members who pay the $7.50 fee are entitled to a windshield sticker authorizing parking within his particular zone and in a numbered slot which will be that person’s parking space for the year, Hannigan said. Those faculty and staff members who have an assigned slot in a par ticular zone may park in special ‘visitors” slots, in zones other than their own, according to Hannigan. Persons parking in the fringe areas will be required to keep their cars in the fringe lots and will not be allowed to park in the visitor’s slots, he explained. Work will be started as soon as possible on painting stripes and numbers for the individual park ing slots in the six zoned areas. Some spaces in the System Admin istration Bldg, parking lot are al ready numbered, Hannigan said, but all numbers except these are to be ignored until Jan. 1, the tentative date the new parking reg ulations go into effect. Registrants may register addi tional vehicles at $1 each, accord ing to Hannigan. The registration fee for the current year will be reduced to $5 to allow for the time already elapsed. Each parking zone is now under the direction of a zone supervisor who will assign the various num bered spaces in the lots before Jan. 1. Student wives who work on the campus will continue to receive student registration stickers, ac cording to Hannigan. These allow the registrant to park at the place of work. United Sttaes government em ployes will not be required to pay the fee unless they park on the campus. Special permits will be issued to graduate teaching assistants to al low them to park at the place of their employment. Persons em ployed in janitorial work or whose cars will be parked on the cam pus before 7 a.m. or after 5 p.m. will be required to purchase only the $1 parking permit. The zoning and slot regulations Three Cadets Get Training Awards Three A&M cadets have been named the outstanding AFROTC cadets in attendance at their re spective training units the past summer. Brig. Gen. William J. Bell, Com mandant, Air Force Reserve Offi cers Training Corps at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, announced . that William B. Heye, Jr., Robei’t A. Reeh and John L. Smith had re ceived the awards. Heye, Cadet Colonel of the Corps, won the distinction at Luke AFB Arizona, in competition with 148 cadets from 27 colleges and universities in the Nation. Reeh, Squadron 12 commander, participated in the STU at Green ville AFB, Mississippi, placing first of 197 cadets representing 42 schools. Smith, Squadron 13, attended STU at Nellis AFB Nevada, and was selected the outstanding cadet of 153 assembled from 153 insti tutions. The awards, a certificate attest ing to this distinction and bound in a leather binder similar to those used at the Air Force Academy for graduation diplomas, will be presented to the men at a review on Saturday morning at 9:30, ac cording to Capt. William F. At water, USAF. The three men have each re cently been named by Col. Charles E. Gregory, professor of air science, as Distinguished AFROTC Cadets. will not be in effect before 7 a.m. and after 5 p.m., Hannigan ex plained. Any individual problems which may arise regarding the new park ing regulations will be worked out with the individual concerned, said Hannigan. Income from the new plan will be used to pave gravel lots, main tain existing lots and build new lots in areas which may become congested in the future. United Chest Fund Drive Starts Monday The annual College Station Unit ed Chest fund drive will start Mon day and is scheduled to last through Nov. 15. A&M has always been an important segment of the total drive in the community. The Chest combines 14 worthy agencies into one united drive with a total budget of $13,150 for the coming year. These funds go to charity, medical, youth and com munity work. The Chest Commit tee. many of whom are College em ployees, has given full considera tion to the 14 participating agen cies and heartily recommends the budget, according to Earl Rudder, A&M ^President. The d)ive will be launched Mon day, and a solicitation will be made soon thereafter on a departmental basis on the campus. “The Presi dent’s Office takes this means of recommending that each employee of the College, not only endorse the United Chest program, but that each of you will wholehearted ly support it with your gift. By so doing you will lend a helping hand to a fellow citizen,” Rudder said. A&M System drive chairman is E. L. Angell. His captains are as follows: David Fitch, R. L. ^lunt, Dale F. Leipper, John S. Dehison and R. H. Davis. The College Station City drive headed by H. E. Burgess has a gen eral committee composed of the fol lowing: Don Dale, Gibb Gilchrist, Mrs. John Q. Hays, Mrs. Raymond Hite, K. A. Manning, Mrs. R. E. Patterson, Taylor Riedel, Rev. James Argue and John Pruitt. The Federal Agencies drive, headed by Irvin Lloyd, has the fol lowing committee: Jack Bradshaw, N. L. McCullough, O. B. Briggs and Leonard Watson. ‘Most Happy Fella 9 In G. Rollie While A two-year Broadway smash musical, “The Most Hap py Fella,” will take the Town Hall spotlight in G. Rollie White Coliseum Tuesday night beginning at 8. Town Hall officials and local entertainment critics con- sider the show to be the best production on this year’s Town Hall agenda. Written by Frank Loesser, the musical is a bountiful song and dance fest consisting of some thirty-five musical numbers. Loesser is also the writer of two other top hits, “Guys and Dolls” and “Where’s Charley.” Based on Sidney Howard’s popular play “They Knew What They Wanted,” the show tells of a California vinter’s ^love for his mail-order bride, a young lady whose feelings Campus Leaders To Attend Meeting In Austin Sunday Nine A&M students will journey to Austin Sunday morning to at tend the nationally-televised Citi zenship Seminar at the invitation of Sen. Lyndon Johnson who visit ed A&M Wednesday afternoon. Attending the seminar will be Ronald Buford, president of the MSC Directorate and Council; Per cy Mims, member of SCONA V executive committee; Mike Mc Guire, Great Issues; Sid Heaton, vice chairman of SCONA; Travis Wegonhoft, vice president of the Student Senate and member of the MSC Council; Russ McGinty, vice president of the Student Council; Harvey Barber, Corps Staff jun ior; Jim Howard, president of the American Veterinarian Assn chap ter; and Tom Beckett, last year’s Civilian Student Council president. The students will attend the all- ddy session and be the guests of Sen. Johnson at a barbecue to be held at his ranch following the seminar. The informative session is being sponsored by the Texas Junior Chamber of Commerce at the Aus tin Memorial Auditorium. ‘Work and Imagination’ Writer Elmer Kelton Tells Of Western Novel Success “The only limitations to the suc cess of a Western novel is the amount of work and imagination the author is willing to put forth in developing his story,” Elmer Kelton, winner of the 1957 West ern Writers Assn, of America Spur Award, said during a meeting of the Memorial Student Center Browsing Library Committee in the MSC Assembly Room last night. Kelton, who also is agricultur al editor of the San Angelo Stan dard-Times, pointed out that the most important element of any Western novel is essentially the use of authentic background com bined with a realistic struggle. Scorning the misused plots of the good cowboys against the antago nist who knows only wrong and intends on spreading as much as he can, the celebrated author em phasized that the real Western should be based on definite motiva tions of each character with a more human interest slant added. “When I speak of working on a novel in the planning stages,” noted Kelton, “I mean an extens- ‘ve study in research. The time, the plot and the motivation of character can often be a sign of failure unless a complete undei'- standing of the true West is em braced in the mind of the novelist.”, Commenting on the development of his prize-winning novel, Kelton saicj, the success of the book was not due entirely to his research on the basic plot. Adding to the novel was the distinctive flow or movement, making the story seem more life-like. “A good Western is like a sym phony. The setting makes the mu sic and the plot is the instrument on which to play the tune,” added Kelton. One characteristic almost ex tinct in the majority of Western stories today which Kelton places above many other is the element of humor. “I like to build my stories around genuine people and genuine cir cumstances with definite personal emotions depicted in my charac- Ex-Student Wants To Reward Aggie For Good Deed Some Aggie is going unre warded for a good deed done last weekend. Warren D. Sorrels, ’34, who was attending the 25th reunion of his class here last weekend, lost his briefcase on the cam pus. Some student found the briefcase and turned it in to the Memorial Student Center Main Desk where Sorrels claimed it. Sorrels sent a check to J. R. (Dick) Hervey, executive secretary of the Association of Former Students, in hopes of rewarding the Ag who found the briefcase. The person who found the briefcase may claim the re ward by contacting Hervey in the office of the Association of Former Students in the Me morial Student Center. ters,” Kelton advised. With these firm convictions, the noted author wrote his first novel, “Hot Iron”, in 1956. The book used a setting in the early big-ranch days of the Panhandle. He followed up with his prize-winning “Buffalo Wagons” in 1957, “Barbed Wire” in 1958 and “Shadow of a Star” in 1959. toward her fiance are com plicated by the fact that he is several years her senior, al though his wooing letters contained photos of his young, handsome foreman. Two Lovers Richard Wentworth and Carolyn Maye, both of whom have played the leading Broadway and summer theatres in this musical hit, are featured as the two lovers. Went worth portrays Tony and Miss Maye portrays Rosabella. Others featured in the musical are Lawrence Brooks as Joey, Dee Harless as Cleo, Robei’t Dixon as Herman, Eleanor Knapp as Marie and Clifford Scott as The Doctor. The play is the recepient of the New York, Drama Critic’s Awai’d as the best musical of 1956. Among the thirty-five musical numbers are such hits as “Standing on the Corner Watchin’ All the Girls Go By,” “Big D” and “Joey.” Wentworth in Lead Wentworth, taking the male lead in the play, hails from Sanford, Fla. His operatic training dates back to 1935, at which time he be gan his studies at the Louisville University Opera School under Pasquale Amato, renowned Metro- plitan Opera baritone. Graduating in 1939, he has since appeared in opera and concerts in all parts of the United States and Canada. He played the role of Tony in all of the major Eastern tents and arenas and has been hailed by critics and audiences for his delineation. Miss Maye, a native of New York City, studied at the Manhatten School of Music under a Schepp Foundation scholarship. She has played in many Broadway shows and has recreated the role of Rosabella in summer musical em- poria all across the nation. Gross, Lipfon Producing Producers of the musical are Robert Gross and George Lipton. James Leon is conductor-pianist and Duncan Noble is the show’s choreographer. Town Hall student cards will be honored at the show. Tickets are available in the MSC. Ross Vounteer Officer Slate Set by Vaden The complete officer and non commissioned officer slate for the 1959-60 Ross Volunteer Company was announce y by Col. Frank S. Vaden Jr., Assistant Comman dant. Wiley W. Dover, Captain, Com manding Officer; Hubert Oxford III, 1st Lt., Executive Officer; Cal vin W. Hines, 1st Lt., Administra tion Officer; Lester D. Nichols, 1st Lt., First Platoon Leader; Jon M. Pierce, 1st Lt., Second Platoon Leader; Joe M. Leeper, 1st Lt., Third Platoon Leader; Don R. Alexander, 1st Sgt.; Marcus G. Blagg, T/Sgt., First Platoon Sgt.; Edward C. Winchester Jr., T/Sgt., Second Platoon Sgt.; William L. Whitney, T/Sgt., Third Platoon Sgt.; Stanley F. Wied, T/Sgt., Sup ply Sgt. and Bruce B. Johnson, T/Sgt., P. I. Sgt.;. Squad Leaders are Thomas E. Downs, Don H. Dugan, Karl N. Micklitz, Don B. Moj-ris, Clebert Quisenberry, Clifford G. Thomp son, Wayne P. Schneider, Richard W. Scott Jr. and Thomas E. Wis dom Jr. They all hold the rank of Staff Sergeant. Color Guards are: Russell D. Anthony, Charles A. Benson, Ed ward C. Lux Jr. and Robert E. Marshall. They all hold the rank of Sergeant. Art Group Begins Show Here Sunday «/ “They say that a psychologist is one who watches not the pretty girl, but the expressions of those around him. I like to get a good look at both,” says Artist Forest Harrisberger. Harrisberger’s painting, “Cham eleon”, will be included in the Texas Fine Arts Assn, circuit exhibit, “Dallas Pointers,” to be shown in the Memorial Student Center Nov. 1-15. The MSC exhibit, featuring 20 Dallas painters, will be spon sored by the Creative Arts Com mittee. Harrisberger, an illustrator for Chance Vought, clarifies his state ment by adding, “When the mys- tei’ies of life are parading by or hovering and engulfing us, I am prone to observe my fellowman’s reactions. It is interesting to note the obvious tantalizations, whip- washes, comedies and tragedies.” Who Will Wear It? The A&M Consolidated FFA Sweetheart McElroy, Anne Rudder, and Judy Rassmus- candidates take a look at the sweetheart sen. The sweetheart will be announced at a jacket one of them will be wearing soon. Coke Party on the slab at A&M Consolidated Left t<* right they are Sue Ross, Marilyn High School Monday night at 7 p. m.