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T * W The Battalion Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1960 Number 78 High School Career Day Planned Saturday 600 Ags Needed to Register Senate Blood Drive Sign-Up Set Thursday The Student Senate voted last nift'ht to hold their 1900 Blood Drive registration Thursday in the Memorial Student Center from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Senate set the goal this year at 400 pints. The drive on the campus last year netted 390 pints. More Aggies, over 500, re ported to give blood in 1959, but many of these were turned down because of colds, blood pressure and other causes. This year the blood will go to the Wadley Foundation in support of the Texas Children’s Research Foundation. It will be used in research against leukemia and hemophilia. Dr. David R. Fitch, professor in the Division of Business Admin istration, is the College Station Lion’s Club coordinator. Last year the club sponsored the Blood- mobile’s trip from Dallas to Col lege Station. Committee Chairman Marvin Schneider told the Senate about (100 Aggies were needed at regis tration if the goal of 400 pints is to be reached. He said about 200 would be turned down this year because of colds and other reasons. Over the past year several lives have been saved because of the blood Aggies donated, according to Schneider. In 1958 14 lives were [saved, said Fitch. Most of the persons in 1959 had hemophilia, isaid Schneider. The 400 pints of blood are valued at from $10,000 to $12,000. Other Business In other actions last night, the Senate appointed a committee to study the proposal of having the 12th Man Basketball Game during commandant’s time at drill on some Saturday morning. The group discussed several times when the event could be held and Miramba Player Set for ITS ’60 By A1 Vela Battalion Staff Writer A marimba act, performed by Linda Woods from North Texas State College, and A&M’s Bobby Phillips, who sings Johnny Cash style, are two more acts which will be seen in the Intercollegiate Talent Show that will be held in G. Rollie White Coliseum, March 11, at 7:30't P- m - I terscholastic League contests for Phillips will be taking the place ■sf flamenco guitarist Jose Maher, mho won first-place in the 1959 Aggie Talent Show. Maher will be taking West Point examinations. Phillips won second-place singing Western style in the Aggie Talent Show. The show will feature 10 acts selected from more than 150 acts auditioned at 18 colleges and uni versities in Texas, Oklahoma, Ar kansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. General admission tickets for the show may be purchased from staff and unit commanders at 75 cents each. General admission at the door will be $1 and reserved seats may be bought for $1.25 each. Children’s tickets are 75 cents each. Linda Woods, 18-year-old piano major from Longview, has played in the Kiwanis International Talent Show in Madison Square Garden, and has won several medals in In- li her marimba playing. Her specialty is playing the marimba blindfolded. Phillips, a freshman general cur riculum major from Abilene, brought the house down at the Ag gie Talent Show singing Johnny Cash Western style music. Pat Tallfnan, disc jockey from KTSA radio station, and his side- kick Bob Mersinger, will emcee the show. They have worked over 400 dates in the state, ranging from record hops to graduation exer cises. The 18 colleges and universities visited by the ITS audition team this year included Baylor Univer sity, Rice Institute, Southwestern Louisiana Institute, Louisiana State University, Tulane Univer sity, Southeastern Louisiana Col lege, Mississippi Southern College, Sophie Newcombe College, TCU, the University of Texas, Texas Tech, the University of Arkansas, Oklahoma State University, SMU, the University of Oklahoma, Sam Houston State College, North Tex as State College and Southwest Texas College. the committee is to make a recom mendation at the next Senate meeting. Senate Chairman Jake Sekerka appointed a committee to study professors for possible nomination to the award given each year for the professor most active in stu dent relations. The selection is a yearly affair in which a professor is picked as outstanding in re search, classroom teaching and in student relations with a cash prize as the stipend. President Plans Weekend Rest In Puerto Rico RAMEY AIR FORCE BASE, Puerto Rico CP)—President Eisen hower, admittedly “bushed” from 12 days of touring, planned to break his weekend of rest today for another talk on Latin-Ameri- can affairs. Facing an audience that in cludes some critics of United States policy, the President may give a preliminary report on his^ goodwill mission to' four South American nations. Arriving here Thrusday, Eisen hower was undisturbed by an en gine mishap that put him almost two hours over wild Amazon jung les in a plane with one of its four jets out of action. The pilot said the President never was in any danger, and he switched in Dutch Surinam (Guiana) to another jet for the rest of the flight from Buenos Aires. The President planned to fly by helicopter to address a luncheon of the Caribbean section of the American Assembly meeting at Dorado Beach, a resort owned by Laurence Rockefeller about 60 miles west of this Strategic Air Command base. Eisenhower hoped to get in some golf after lunch before taking a helicopter back to the base. The assembly is a nonpartisan organization Eisenhower helped to create while president of Columbia University. It holds study and discussion sessions at which lead ers in various public and private activities consider vital issues— including Latin America. The delegates at the Dorado meeting are considering many of the same hemispheric problems that confronted the President on his four-nation mission to Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. ^ u 4^ I nil . it HI ■ ■ x' 1 '*'** »> *>1 r 1 4! Iflil ^ - ■ ^1 A ■ ml m' A'\ - -« ■ m jg IP :: iL&r Ar -t. Town Hall Scene Shown above is a scene from the Town Hall pany in the United States and a world-fam- presentation tonight of Ballet Russe de ous organization. The performance opens at Monte Carlo, the most popular ballet com- 8 p. m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum. CSC Discusses Final Plans For Annual Dance, Barbecue By BOB SAILE Battalion Staff Writer Final plans and preparations for the Civilian Weekend were dis cussed by members of the Civilian Student Council at a called meet ing Wednesday night in the Cash- ion Room of the YMCA. The Civilian Weekend is sched uled for Saturday and Sunday, March 19-20. The dance and bar- beque are scheduled for Saturday. The dance is slated for 9-12 p.m. in Sbisa Hall, with the Les Blume Orchestra of La Grange providing the music. Tickets for the dance are $1.50 per couple. The barbeque will be held at 5:30 p. m. Saturday in DeWare Field House. Price of tickets for the meal is $1 for adults and 50 cents for children under 12. John Garner, ticket chairman for the weekend activities, announced at the meeting that a ticket booth will be open in the Memorial Stu dent Center Lobby the week be- for the dance and barbeque. Tickets may also be purchased from row representatives, dorm presidents or members of the council. Jim Beal, chairman of the Bar beque Committee, reported that all plans for the barbeque have been completed, except for enter tainment. Council member Ben Hayard suggested that recordings by the Les Blume group be played in Sbisa Dining Hall so that students may have an opportunity to hear the music they will dance to. The council approved this suggestion. Larry Clark, chairman of the Civilian Weekend Committee, re minded council members of the re quirement for entries in the Sweet heart Contest. Each dorm should submit a picture of their own dorm sweetheart to R. O. Murray, Jr., at his office in the Basic Division no later than March 9, Clark said. The pictures should be 3 x 5 or larger, said Clark, and should be accompanied by an entry fee of $5. Entries from the apartment units should include the girl’s name and address, the name of the housing unit, and the escort’s name and campus address. Mike Carlo, council secretary, urged the respective dorms to get their pictures in as soon as pos sible. Members of the Corps are cor dially invited to attend the dance, according to Charles Graham, council president. Council mem bers will sell tickets in Corps dorms the week before the dance. Prior to the meeting, President Graham introduced Clifford W. Lane, Jr., graduate industrial en gineering major, who talked to the council on plans for a Student Chamber of Commerce. Class of ’39, Retired Colonel McCrory Named Assistant to Rudder Linda Woods ,. .marimba act Dorsey E. McCrory, a 1939 agri cultural administration graduate of A&M, has been named assistant to President Earl Rudder. He has assumed his duties with offices, in the Coke Administration Building. “I am greatly pleased to have a man of Mr. McCroi’y’s qualifica tions join our staff,” President Rudder said today. “I know he will make a splendid contribution to the A&M College of Texas.” Prior to his graduation from A&M, McCrory had accepted em ployment with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. While engaged in its training program in Houston he was offered, and accepted, a commission as a second lieutenant in the Regulary Army on the basis of having been designated a dis tinguished military graduate at A&M. He held the rank of major in the Corps of Cadets and stood sixth scholastically in his grad uating class. Holds Yale Degree While in the military service he was selected by the Army for grad uate schooling in a civilian uni versity. He holds a Master of Arts degree from Yale University, 1951-53. McCrory had been in the service since Sept. 1, 1939, until he retired with the rank of colonel March 1, 1960. His basic branch was in fantry. He is a qualified para trooper. Various Positions While in the service, McCrory served in various instructional, planning and research positions which required the preparation of studies and recommendations on Saddle & Sirloin Wins at Houston HOUSTON (A*)—A&M’s Saddle & Sirloin Club’s Brahman was picked the reserve breed champion in the Brahman class of the junior division of the 1960 Houston Fat Stock Show. The Brahman will go on sale today at the auction of champions at the show. Judge A. E. Darlow of Okla homa State University picked the show’s grand champion last night —a lightweight Hereford owned by a 13-year old Acuff, Tex., boy. a broad range of politico-military matters as well as administering the daily routine of large groups of young men in the military units. McCroy served in the European theater in World War II; in the army of occupation in Austria af ter the war; served a tour of Korea from 1955-57; and was military commander of a state in Austria, where he came in daily contact with the civilian authorities and worked with them in all aspects of the civilian postwar rehabilita tion program. He was operations officer of the military advisory group in Korea. Worked at A&M While a student at A&M. Mc- Crocy woi’ked in the Registrar’s office, at which time E. J. Howell, now president of Tarleton State College, was registrar and H. L. Heaton, now the director of Ad missions and Registrar, was as sistant to Howell. In the last half of his senior year at the college, he taught a freshman class in agricultural eco nomics. Native of Waelder The assistant to President Rud der is a native of Waelder, Tex. He is married and he and Mrs. McCrory are the parents of a son, Don, 13. He is married to the former Dorothy Brann, daughter of a late major general of the Army. Her mother, who now lives in Austin, is the former Dorothy Teal of Clarksville. McCrory’s mother, Mrs. D. D. McCrory, is editor of the Waelder Home Paper. Sen iors Over Sta le Arrive Here Today By BEN TRAIL Assistant News Editor High school seniors from across the state will begin ar riving on the campus this afternoon and tonight for High School Career Day which will be held on the campus Sat-* urday. The seniors will register in the Memorial Student Cen ter this afternoon and tonight and registration will resume Saturday morning at 7:30. At 8:30 Saturday morning the Corps of Cadets will re view in honor of the high school seniors on the Main Drill Field in front of the MSC. Guion Hall Meet Saturdav morning at 9 the high school students will assemble in Guion Hall to hear* - talks by President Earl Rud der; Dean of the School,of Agriculture G. M. Watkins who will talk on “Careers in Agriculture”; Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Frank Hubert who will talk on “Opportunities in Arts and Sciences”; Dean of the School of Engineering Fred Ben son who will address the students on “Horizons Unlimited in Engi neering”; and Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine A. A. Price who will speak on “Veterinary Medicine as a Career.” From 11 a.m. until noon Satur day will be free time for the seniors. At noon the high school students will have lunch in the college dining halls. Day Ends at 5 The day for the high school seniors will officially end Saturday at 5 p.m., but dinner will be served those staying over in the college dining halls. Dean of Students James P. Hannigan said the program for Saturday was also arranged through the cooperation of the College Inter-Council and Campus Visitors committees, the depart ments of College Information and Student Publications and the Association of Former Students. ★ ★ ★ Tickets on Sale For March 26 Inaugural Meal Tickets will go on sale Monday at the Memorial Student Center Main Desk for the Presidential Inaugural Luncheon to be held Saturday, March 26, at 12:30 p.m. in Sbisa Dining Hall. The tickets will also be available at the Bryan Chamber of Com merce, according to J. J. Woolket, head of the Department of Mod ern Languages and chairman of the Inaugural Committee. Cost of the tickets will be $2.25, Ticket sale will end Monday, March 14. The luncheon will be part of the activities’ March 26 in conjunction with the inauguration of Presi dent Earl Rudder as 14th presi dent of A&M. The luncheon will follow the in augural ceremonies for President Rudder that begin at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 26. President Welcomes High School Seniors Greetings to High School Seniors: As president of Texas A&M, I would like to take this opportunity to welcome each of you to the campus to par ticipate in our Career Day activities. I trust each of you will take advantage of this oppor tunity to examine thoroughly the facilities of Texas A&M and to give deep thought to the possibility of attending Texas A&M to pursue your college education. If I or any member of the college’s faculty and staff can be of any service to you, please feel free to call on us. Saturday will be your day at Texas A&M. I hope that it will be a day that will mark the beginning of your in terest in Texas A&M. Again I welcome you to Texas A&M and hope that you will find your visit both profitable and pleasant. Sincerely, Earl Rudder President, Texas A&M mm m H m 1 Dorsey E. McCrory . . assistant to the President