The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1960
Number 67
Intercollegiate Talent Show
Martha Hayden, one of 45 Girls who are members of the
Tyler Junior College Apache Belles, will be on hand with
the rest of the group to open and close the Intercollegiate
Talent Show March 11 at 7 p. m. in G. Rollie White Coli
seum.
Specialty Act
Talent Show Gets
Apache Belles
The Apache Belles, 45 strong
from Tyler Junior College, have
been secured by the Intercollegiate
Talent Show as its specialty act
to open and close the show, set for
the ninth consecutive year, March
111 at 7 p.m. in G. Itollie White
Coliseum.
The Belles were organized in
,1948 by Mrs. Mildred Stringer, who
■now directs the group. A1 Gilliam
lis dance director and Eddie Fowler
[is the director of the Apache Band.
The Belles and Apache Band, a
50 member band which provides
the music for all their perform
ances, travel thousands of miles
together each year. A popular slo
gan on the TJC Campus is, “Join
the Apache Belles and See the
World.” They have performed from
Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Mexico
'City, and from Jacksonville, Flor
ida’s Gator Bowl to Pasadena, Cal
ifornia’s Little Rose Bowl. For the
past nine years they have been se
lected as featured entertainers in
the Cotton Bowl in Dallas for the
B State Fair of Texas. In the spring
of 1958 they performed for the
Rotary International Convention in
Dallas.
Other appearances include the
Annual Oil Bowl Classic in Wichita
Falls, for the past seven years, the
Texhoma Bowl in Denison, for the
last five years, many Southwest
Conference football games and
numbers of charity-sponsored Pro
fessional Football games in Hous
ton, Austin, Fort Worth and other
cities.
The Belles are in constant de
mand for parades, civic programs
and conventions. They help in
greeting dignitaries who arrive in
Tyler at various times. They pose
for hundreds of photographs, and
their pictures have graced the
pages of numerous newspapers and
magazines. Two movies telling the
story of the Apache Belles have
been made and shown all over the
world.
A very extensive program is set
up for admission to the Belles-
They are screened not only for
dancing ability, but also for beauty,
charm and poise. They are taught
basic modeling, correct posture,
good grooming, proper dress and
make-up, as well as social graces
that aid in personality develop
ment.
Council Committee Lauds
Present Cultural Program
Evaluating Group
Asks Expansion
More About RE Week
Religious Leaders
Are Weil - Trained
By TOMMY HOLBEIN
Battalion Staff Writer
L. L. Gieger, Minister of the
Berry Street Church of Christ, Fort
Worth, Texas, will be the dorm
counselor for dormitories six and
eight during the 18th annual Re
ligious Emphasis Week to be held
Feb. 21 through Feb. 28.
Gieger will live in dorm six, and
forum and discussion groups for
dorms six and eight will be con
ducted in the lounge of dorm six.
He was born in Mt. Pleasant,
Texas, and was reared in Talco,
Texas. After finishing high school,
he attended Parish Junior College
and the University of Texas, where
he majored in journalism, and East
Texas State Teacher’s College,
where he received a B.A. degree
in history.
Full Time Minister
After teaching school for three
years and working as a city secre
tary for two years, he has been
working full time as a minister in
Mt. Vernon, Mt. Pleasant, Okla
homa City, Okla., and Tyler, before
assuming his present position in
Ft. Worth.
Gieger has had much experience
in radio, having conducted a daily
radio program in Oklahoma City
that reached practically all sections
of the state. At Tyler, he preached
on a regular radio program, and
for three of the seven years he
spent there, he had a weekly tele
vision program.
Gieger has appeared on lecture
programs in four colleges, has done
evangelistic programs in many
states from New York to Califor
nia, and is a staff writer for the
Minister’s Monthly, as well as a
regular writer for several religious
journals.
Rabbi Friedman
Rabbi Newton Friedman, of the
Temple Emanu El in Beaumont,
Texas, will be the dorm counselor
for dorm nine during Religious
Emphasis Week. He will live in
dorm nine, and forum and discus
sion groups will be conducted in
the dorm lounge.
Native of Cleveland
Rabbie Friedman is a native of
Cleveland, Ohio, and is a graduate
of Western Reserve University. He
attended graduate schools of West
ern Reserve University and Har-
vai’d University, and become an
ordained Rabbi, Hebi’ew Union
College, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1934.
He was awarded the Th.D. at Bur
ton Seminary and the D.D. at the
Hebrew Union College in 1959.
He has held pulpits in Austin,
Tex., Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and Ma-
Farmers Move Up One Slot
In National Basketball Poll
By The Associated Press
The Aggie cage team is on the
up grade again in the national
poll.
Last week the Cadets were
twelfth, but have moved into the
eleventh position today. They are
ahead of twelfth place Toledo by
five points.
The Cincinnati Bearcats, who
have been rated the nation’s top
college basketball team since the
stai’t of the season, may have to
wait until March 9 to prove it for
the mythical national champion
ship.
That’s the date of the projected
title playoff for the Missouri Val
ley Conference Title and an NCAA
tournament berth. At present,
both Cincy, and second-ranked
Bradley, are tied for first place
and there doesn’t seem to be any
one in the Mo Valley capable of
displacing them.
If the two finish- in a tie, then
a neutral court playoff will decide
the winner—and the nation’s No.
1 team. Each has beaten the other
in home court battles en route to
19-1 records.
Sportswriters and broadcasters
voting in the' Associated Press’
poll gave Cincy 79 first place votes
after the ’Cats used a tremendous
11-point surge in the final five
minutes last Friday night to get
by' St. Louis, 61-58. Bradley re
ceived only 21, after beating Drake
68-63 Saturday night, and Houston
earlier in the week.
But the Braves received plenty 7
of second and third place votes
con, Georgia. He has been the Di
rector of B’Nai B’Rith Hillel Foun
dation at the University of Texas
and an instructor in religion at
Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Friedman has many activities,
being a member of the American
Jewish Committee, (Member of the
National Supervisory Committee
on Community Relations), B’Nai
B’Rith Hillel Foundation, Beau
mont United Jewish Appeal, Joint
Defense Appeal, Jewish Chautau
qua Society, and Board of Direc
tors, American Red Cross, Beau
mont.
Other Activities
He also serves as Secretary of
the Southeast Region of the Union
of American Hebrew Congrega
tions, and he is a member of the
Temple Emanuel Brotherhood Ex
ecutive Committee.
Along with his many activities,
Friedman was a Delegate to the
World Conference of Christians and
Jews, held in Brussels, Belgium,
in 1955, and also a delegate to the
World Union for Progressive Juda
ism, held in Paris in 1955 and in
London in 1959.
Rabbi Friedman is the author
of The Life of Joseph Nasi and
The History of Macon, Georgia
Jewry.
Rev. James .G arre H
Dorm counselor for dorm il will
be the Rev. Mr. James T. Gai-rett,
of Temple Methodist Church in
Houston, Tex. He will be avail
able for conferences during the
week, as well as conduct the forums
and, discussions in that dorm.
Rev. Garrett, after his service
in the U. S. Navy, graduated from
Southern Methodist University in
1949 with the B.S. degree. He
then attended the Perkins School
of Theology at SMU and received
the Bachelor of Divinity Degree in
1952.
Houston Native
Rev. Garrett’s entire ministry
has been spent in the Houston-
East District serving the Almeda
Church from 1952 to 1956, and his
present appointment is with the
Temple Church. He has served as
District Director of Youth W^ork
for several years, and is presently
District Director of Young Adult
W ork.
Rev.
James W. Adams
. . Dorms 2 and 4
Rabbi Newton Friedman
. . . Dorm 9
Fish Should Buy
Dance Ducats Now
Tickets for the Fish Ball, sche
duled Saturday night, are still
available but all freshmen who
haven’t yet purchased their tickets
are advised to do so immediately
to avoid a possible shortage and a
lot of unnecessary trouble at the
door, according to an announce
ment by Jack Gibbs, president of
the freshman class.
. Gibbs also advises that all fresh
men who submitted photographs
Cincy’s 1,661.
now pick them up at the cashier’s
1.
Cincinnati (79)
1,661
window in the Memorial Student
2.
Bradley (21)
1,415
Center.
3.
California (36)
1,356
Tickets sell for $3 stag or drag
4.
Ohio State (12)
1,177
and may be purchased at the cash
5.
West Virginia (3)
732
ier’s window in the MSC.
6.
Georgia Tech (2)
640
The ball, a formal affair to he
7.
Utah State (2)
532
held in Sbisa Hall from 9 to 12
9.
Villanova
356
p.m., will feature the presentation
10.
Miami (Fla.) (3)
163
of the class sweetheart and an ap
Second Ten
pearance by the Aggieland Or
11.
Texas A&M
152
chestra, which will play for the
12.
Toledo (10)
147
dancing, itself.
13.
Holy. Cross
118
One-hundred-twenty-five special
14.
St. Bona venture (1)
106
invitations have been sent to com
15.
St. John’s
98
pany commanders, cadet staff
16.
Providence
92
members, tactical officers and fac
17.
Auburn (2)
84
ulty sponsors, in addition to the
18.
Ohio University
81
invitations which have been per
19.
North Carolina
68
sonally delivered to several honor
20
Illinois
58
guests.
Poultry Science
Prof to Speak
E. D. Parnell, professor of poul
try science at A&M was one of the
main speakers at the annual meet
ing of the Nebraska Turkey Fed
eration at Grand Island, Neb.
Professor Parnell’s subject was
“What Gives the Carcass Qual
ity?”
The Memorial Student Center Evaluating Committee last
night presented a preliminary report commending the A&M
cultural program to the council.
Chairman Hiram French said in the report that the
committee unanimously feels that the program now in exis
tence is definitely need and should be expanded.
He reported about 75 people participating in the Creative
Arts Committee program, 25 students and approximately
50 outside paying townspeople. He said the most important
service of this committee was the art shows they presented.
The committee feels that a strong chairman should be
found for their activities in order to improve student partici
pation,” French reported.
Great Issues
The Great Issues Commit
tee was found to have good
student participation, accord
ing to French. He added that the
committee had enjoyed, a fair
amount of success with their pre
sentation this year.
The evaluating committee recom
mended that Great Issues be made
a separate organization from
SCONA, with whom they now work
jointly. He said the committee felt
that this would give the Great Is
sues Committee more money to
work with, and allow them to pre
sent more programs during the
year. He said the SCONA pre
sentations were not too well at
tended by students this year.
Town Hall
French reported that his com
mittee had found the Town Hall
programs erijoying a fair amount
of success this year. He recom
mended that their staff be increas
ed in order to keep up the quality
of past presentations.
Weak Link
The Evaluating Committee found
the Recital Series the weakest link
in the chain of cultural presenta
tions, said French.
Some things he suggested to
solve the problem were appointing
a person to work with the chairman
of the Music, Town Hall, and Re
cital Series committees to reorga
nize them. He recommended a
name change of the Recital Series
in order to center more attention
on the types of programs pre
sented.
Other, recommendations by the
committee to help the Series were
to combine it with Town Hall and
to be allowed to have non-profes
sional presentations.
Other Business
In other sections last night, the
council officers nominating com-
Search Still
Under Way
For Woman
Brazos County law enforcement
search partise continued to drag
the Brazos River for the fourth
straight day today on the assumpt
ion that a 51 year old Bryan wo
man may have jumped from Jones
Bridge last Thursday night.
Mrs. L. L. Womack’s 1954
model sedan was found parked on
the bridge with the motor running
and the lights on last Thursday
night about 9:30.‘ Her purse and
coat were found inside the automo
bile.
Her husband, L. L. Womack of
739 Garden Acres, said that his
wife left home around 8 p.m. and
added that she seemed to be in
good spirits. “The Highway pa-
me if I owned the car parked on
the bridge. I told them it was
ours.”
“I didn’t suspect that anything
was wrong before she left,” Wo
mack said. “She seemed very
happy and at ease. I asked her
where she was going and she told
me about the Sunday School party.
I asked her where it was going to
be and she told me over on 30th
Street. Before she left we watched
TV for a while and we talked a lit
tle. Also we joked about several
things.”
“One thing that bothers me, and
I didn’t think about it at the time,’
Mr. Womack said, “Last Sunday
she asked if we could go out to the
river and walk around on Jones
Bridge.” Mrs. Womack had been
in a nervous condition for the past I mittee announced that interviews
two months, he added. | (See Council, Page 3)
Search Still
Local law enforcement officers and helpers
search still for the body of Mrs. L. L. Wo
mack, whose car was found on Jones Bridge
in Progress
four days ago. Search crews have been
working since then in a effort to’ locate the
body.