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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
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“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.