The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1959
Eleven Positions
Number 41
in Election
Just a Dollar
(An Editorial)
“A dollar from an Ag^ie, for an Agffie.”
That’s the theme for the 1959 Campus Chest Drive which
opens tomorrow.
The Campus Chest provides two opportunties for the
Men of Aftjrjeland—to aid their A^ftfie buddies and to show
their ability to meet their obligations as citizens.
The citizens of College Station recently showed their
ability to meet their obligations by putting their United
Chest Drive over its proposed goal by 11.‘5 per cent.
Now the Men of Aggieland can show the people of Col
lege Station, themselves and other interested citizens of the
state that we as college students are more than willing and
able to meet our responsibilities as future useful and produc
tive citizens.
The most important benefit will be the aid we will be
able to give our fellow Men of Aggieland who may need help.
Give generously to the Campus Chest. You may be help
ing yourself ....
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Saturday Date
For Collection
The 1959 Aggie Campus Chest
gets under way tomorrow.
The Corps of Cadets will have
the first chance to give. Collec
tions will be made in the Corps
Saturday morning during com
mander’s time from 7:30 to 7:50,
Each military unit is responsible
for its own method of collection,
Marvin Schneider, chairman of the
Student Senate Welfare Commit
tee has announced. A goal of “a
dollar an Aggie” is being sought.
Money collected from units in
the Dorm 2-12 area is to be turned
over to Wade Dover, Dorm 2-117.
Marvin Schneider, Dorm 17-232,
will receive money collected in the
Dorm 14-17'nTea.
The largest percentage of mon
ey collected for the Aggie Campus
Chest is returned directly to the
A&M student body as the need
arises, according to Schneider. In
the past, several checks have been
sent to deserving Aggies and their
families.
Forty per cent of the Chest
funds are distributed a m o n g
several worthy organizations which
usually ask for individual dona
tions. These include the World
University Serwice, the College
Station Community Chest, the
Brazos County Tuberculosis As
sociation and the March of Dimes.
This arrangement saves Aggies
from being asked to donate to some
cause every time they turn around.
The “dollar an Aggie” goal was
asked in both 1957 and 1958, but
contributions fell short by $5,000.
Lack of funds was the prime fac
tor in preventing the Aggie Chest
from giving more to Doi-lan Lee
(Check) Anderson, ’59, last, year
on the death of his wife. A spe
cial collection was taken in College
View to help Anderson.
Collections from civilian stu
dents will be made on Monday and
Tuesday nights of next week. Wil
liam H. Brown, M-l, Puryear and
Roland Dommert, 1-10, Walton are
in charge of the civilian collection.
Day students are asked to con
tribute to the Chest drive by plac
ing their donations in receptacles
which will be placed in the MSC
at the end of the coffee lines. Col
lection in the School of ,Veterinary
Medicine will be conducted' by the
president of each of the four
classes, Schneider said.
Getting; Voting Instructions
Some of Ihe 955 people who voted in Thurs- automatic voting 1 machines. Run-offs in the
day’s freshman class officer and special election of freshman class officers will be
Student Senate elections are shown here held Tuesday, Dec. 13.
getting instructions in the operation of the
Freshmen Run-off
Scheduled Dec. 15
The class election yesterday filled 11 positions and threw
the four freshmen class officer post into a run-off as 955
students went to the polls in the Memorial Student Center.
The run-offs will be Tuesday, Dec. 15, from 8 a. m. to
5 p. m. in the MSC.
In the election for president of the Class of ’63, Jack L.
Gibbs, science major from Lampasas, and Robert A. Gay,
electrical engineering major from Dallas, received the most
votes.
Gibbs received 66 votes and Gay totaled 64.
Others in the election for president and their total votes
were Fred K. Blackard, 53; Allan Sassin, 48; Joe E. Terral,
44; Robert E. Bryant, 41;"*
James E. Ray, 39; Dick Simp
son, 37; David Kelley, 37;
Joel B. Terril, 37; Preston V.
Phillips, 36; Jackie Benson,
34; Ronald W. Bookman, 33; James
A. Dotson, 29; John E. Burke, 29;
Dan M. Scarborough, 25; Carlos
Vela, 20; William C. Kerley, 18;
Victor Donnell, 14; Charles L.
Nichols, 14; Harry Jones, 12; and
John F. Brainerd, 8.
Air Force Chaplain To Be
Guest of Corps Tomorrow
Chaplain (Maj. Gen.) Terrence
P. Finnegan, chief of chaplains,
U. S. Air Force, will be guest of
the Corps of Cadets tomorrow and
will speak in G. Rollie White Col
iseum immediately following a
Corps review at 8:15 a.m.
Chaplain Finnegan will be hon
ored with a reception in St. Mary’s
Student Center Saturday from
7:30-9:00 p.fn. The reception will
be given by Father Charles Elmer
of St. Mary’s Chapel.
Chaplain Finnegan will be a
guest of the A&M Newman Club
Sunday. His talk Saturday, will be
given to the Corps of Clxdets,‘with
the public invited., .
A native of Norwich,: Conn.,
Chaplain Finnegan is a graduate
of St. ThOmas Seminary :«id Col-
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ATS Rehearsals
David Hughes, left, and Bob Erisman re- acts. Tickets will cost
hearse their act Thursday night in prepara
tion for the annual Aggie Talent Show Tues
day night at 8 in Guion Hall. The show will
present 10 acts in addition to speciality
25 cents. Jimmy
Roberts is director of this year’s-production.
The show is a presentation of the Memorial
Student Center Music Committee.
lego, Hartford, Conn., class of
1924, with a B.A. degree. In 1930
he I’eceived his M.A. and Bachelor
of Sacred Theology degree from
St. Mary’s Seminary and Univer
sity, Baltimore, Md.
Chaplain Finnegan was ordained
as a priest of the Roman Catholic
Church May 30, 1930 at St. Jos
eph’s Cathedral, Hartford, and
served for six years as a priest
in the Diocese of Hartford. .
On April 12, 1956, His Holiness
Pope Pius XII appointed Chaplain
Finnegan a Domestic Prelate with
the title of The Rt. Rev. Mon-
signor. The appointment was
made in recognition of his fine
contributions to the spiritual wel
fare of personnel of the armed
forces whom he had served for
nearly 20 years.
Appointed chaplain (1st Lt.) in
the U. S. Army reserve on Jan. 4,
1937, he entei-ed military service
the following April. His first as
signment was district chaplain of
the Civilian Conservation Corps
(CCC) unit at Silver City, N. M.
Assignments followed in Texas,
South Carolina and Illinois. He was
appointed first lieutenant in the
regular army in August of 1940.
Two days after Pearl Harbor
Day, Dec. 7, 1941, he was named
division chaplain of the 25th In-
fanti’y Division.
Chaplain Finnegan received the
Bronze Star for meritorious serv
ice against the Japanese forces at
Guadalcanal during the period of
Dec. 17, 1942-Feb. 9, 1943.
He was transferred to the Air
Force July 1, 1949.
Chaplain Finnegan was promoted
to the grade of major general on
July 1, 1958, and took over his du
ties as chief of chaplains, USAF,
Aug. 15, 1958.
From Exchange Store
Student Functions
Receive Allocations
The Exchange Stoi’e Advisoi-y
Board was allocated $12,705 of the
total of $15,043.22 in profits from
the operation of the Exchange
Store during 1958-59 to school ac
tivities and functions.
The largest allocation from last
year’s profits will go to the De
partment of Student Activities for
Club Aid, and will total $4,915.
Second largest allocation will go
collectively to the Student Senate,
the All College Calendar, the Yell
Leaders, the Who’s Who Commit
tee and the Bonfire.
The Religious Life Program will
receive $1,050; Hensel Park Im
provements, $1,125; Band awards
and trips, $575; Ross Volunteers
and the Freshman Drill Team,
$1,350; The Rifle and Pistol teams,
$600; Corps of Cadets Headquar
ters, $225; Civilian Student Gov
ernment, $450; and dormitory ath
letic equipment, $915.
The board agreed to retain
$2,338.22 for operating capital and
for improvement of facilities for
the Exchange Store.
The board also issued a state
ment of the profits and allocations
for the nine-year period from 1949
to 1958.
Profits for this period totaled
$224,590. Of this total, the larg
est allocation was given to the Me
morial Student Center and totaled
$124,958.
$80,474 was given to student wel
fare and recreation, and $12,805
was allocated to Band awards and
trips. The Ross Volunteers and
Freshman Drill Team received
$3,000 and the Aggie Players re
ceived $3,353.
In addition to these funds, $50,-
000 was transferred from the Ex
change Store working capital to
MSC building construction in 1949-
50.
The Exchange Store Advisory
Board consists of the following
members:
C. A. Roeber, business manager
of the college and chairman of the
advisory board; James P. Hanni-
gan, dean of students; associate
professor R. L. Elkins; asst, pro
fessors W. T. Berry, T. A. Noyes
and W. M. Romane; and four stu
dents, Charles Graham, Wade Do
ver, William F. McFarland and
John C. Thomas.
The Exchange Store Advisory
Board was created in 1945 for the
following purposes:
1. To advise and council the man
ager of the Exchange Store.
2. To offer constructive criticism
and suggestions to improve the
various services of the store.
3. To recommend appropriate ac
tion to the president of the college
on all complaints or protests
against the store.
4. To advise the management in
regard to public relations and dis
position of surplus.
All actions and recommendations
made by the board must be ap
proved by the president of the col
lege.
Vice President Flection
Charles L. Blaschke, liberal arts
major from Skidmore, and Jack
M. Threadgill, industrial engineer
ing major from Brady, were high
men in the election for vice presi
dent of the freshman class. Blasch
ke received 101 votes and Thread-
gill received 72 and were thrown
into a run-oFf.
Others in the vice president
election and the votes they received
were James .Lovick, 58; Charles
W. Kuykendall, 55; John Rogers,
47; Ronald Fix, 47; James R. Nor
wood, 45; Nick Nahas, 42; Moi’ris
Tate, 36; Don N. Packer, 32;
Glynn Baker, 30; William B. Terril,
30; Fai'l E. Braun, 28; Paul C.
Ruckman, 26; S. W. Moo-re, 24;
John J. O’Conner, 22; Jack Spill
man, 19; and C. F. Wiespape, 15.
Thrown into a run-off in the
election for secretary treasurer of
the Class of ’63 were William T.
Barnhart, electrical engineering
major from Temple, and Dennis
McIntosh, pre-veterinary medicine
major from Alief. Bamhai’t placed
126 votes and McIntosh received 87
votes.
Nine Other Get Votes
Others receiving votes in the
secretary treasurer election were
Clarence R. Burnett, 78; John P.
Cunningham, 72; Joel A. Saenz
66; Kenneth W. Koegl, 62; Jay D.
Plume, 52; Jerry Hatton, 45; Carl
Vanderhider, 44; Joe R. Bower, 41;
James R. Collins, 40.
In the election for social secre
tary of the freshman class, Earl
J. Henderson, aeronautical engi
neering major from Houston, and
Paul F. Bergstrom, electrical en
gineering major from Dallas, re
ceived the most votes and will vie
in the run-off. Henderson got 165
votes and Bergstrom got 164.
Four members of the Class of
’63 were elected to the Student
Senate. They were James W. Car
ter, 199 votes; George A. Johnston.
162 votes; James Taylor, 155 votes’
and David N. Chapman, 142 votes.
Twenty-five freshmen ran in the
election.
Five To Election Spot
Five freshmen wei’e elected to
the election commission. They
were Jerry C. King, 238 votes:
James L. Johnson, 251 votes; Billy
C. Ward, 220; Delfino Villarreal,
215 votes; and Ben B. Boyd, 206
votes. A total of twenty students
ran in the election.
In the election for recording
secretary to the Student Senate
Nonas R. Gilbreath won over Earl
J. Wentworth. Gilbreath got 76
votes and Wentworth received 58
All classes voted in this election.
Leo C. Rigsby won out over
William Millsaps by one vote in
the election for junior agriculture
representative to the Student Sen
ate. Rigsby received 5 votes and
Millsaps received 4 votes. Only
classified juniors in the School of
Agriculture were allowed to vote
in this election.
Final Services
Held for Carll
Thursday at 3
Funeral services were held yes
terday for James Copper Carll,
postmaster of the A&M Faculty
Exchange, who died Wednesday at
5 p.m. in a local hospital.
Survivors include Cai’ll‘s wife,
Mrs. Edna Carll, his mother, Mrs.
Lillie Carll; two children, Mrs. L.
J. Watson and James T. Carll; hig
sister, Mrs. D. Creagor and two
grandsons, all of Bryan.
A member of the staff since
1943, Carll was named to post
master position in 1946. Prior to
coming to A&M he was a farmer
in Rock Prairie.
Rev. Bill Cardon, pastor of the
Rock Prairie Baptist Church, offi
ciated at the funeral Services at
Hillier Funeral home yesterday af
ternoon at 3. Burial wag in Bethel
Cemetery. ^
A&M Bowlers
To Compete
In SMU Meet
The Texas Intercollegiate Bowl
ing Conference will hold a tourna
ment Saturday, at 9 a.m., in the
Humphrey Lee Student Center of
Southern Methodist University.
A set of 3 three-game matches
will be bowled by each team, with
the games counting for the final
championship at the end of the
year. The tournament is being
held for the promotion of inter
collegiate bowling.
Teams in the tournament will
be Texas A&M, SMU, Arlington
State, University of Houston, San
Antonio College, University of Tex
as, with high team scores winning.
The Aggies lead the league with
high game (1005), and high se
ries (2821). One member of the
Aggie team, Bob Tomlinson, hag
high individual series with 648.
Members of the A&M team are
Tomlinson, Larry Dantzler, Don
Tones, Eddie Autrey, and Milton
Rasmussen.
Poultry Judgers
Place High in Meet
A&M’s Poultry Judging Team
came home from Chicago’s Inter
national Livestock Exposition with
a fourth place rating and boasting
the second high individual in the
entire contest.
E. D. Parnell, professor in the
Department of Poultry Science and
team coach, said second high indi
vidual honors went to Isadore J.
Shenkir of College Station. He
also was high point individual in
breed selection.
Other members of the team were
Ralph E. Jackson of Weatherford,
Wayne A. Lepori of Harwood and
Harvey Soefje of Ottine.
Fii’st place in the contest went to
Oklahoma State University and
second to North Carolina.