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Army Inspection Federal Team Arrives Today Inspection officers for the annual Federal Inspection of the A&M Department of Military Science and Tactics tomor row are scheduled to arrive this afternoon, Capt. John W. Simmons, public information officer, said. A busy itinerary is faced by the^ inspecting officers tomorrow, start ing with briefings by Cadet Colonel of the Corps William Heye and Col. Frank Elder, professor of mili tary science and tactics, and con ferences with P t resident Earl Rudder, Dean of Students James P. Hannigan and Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant. Visit, Luncheon The inspectors will visit military science classrooms throughout the day Thursday. Also scheduled for the officers Pan American Week Slated For Late April Pan American Week, an annual event designed to promote good neighbor relations and understand ing between Texans and citizens of Latin American countries, will be observed on the campus April 24-30. The program will be held in con junction with Pan American Week in Texas and will feature a soccer tournament, a panel discussion, talks and films on Latin American countries, arts and crafts exhibits, serving of Latin American foods and a dance. .Soccer Meet A soccer tournament, with A&M, the University of Houston, Baylor University and Lamar Tech par ticipating, will begin the week’s activities April 24. A panel dis- tussion featuring five Latin Amer ican students will be conducted in the Assembly Room of the Memo rial Student Center the following day. “The Magnificent Matador,” a movie presented by the MSC Film Society, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. in the Ballroom of the MSC Tues day, April 26. Program Entertainment Programs for Wednesday and Thursday will feature the showing of travel films and the presenta tion of Latin American entertain ment in the-Lobby of the MSC. A buffet dinner featuring Latin American foods will be held Fri day, to be followed by a speech by the executive director of the Good Neighbor Commission of Texas in the Assembly Room. A reception sponsored by the Pan American Round Table will follow the talk. Tropical Flavor A Latin American Dance in a tropical flavor will wind up the week’s activities at 8 p.m. April 30 in the Ballroom of the MSC. Music will be provided by Bo Lee and his band. Latin American art and folklore exhibits wall be on display in the MSC throughout the week. is a luncheon with President Rudder at noon. All Army cadets will have an inspection in ranks Thursday afternoon from 5:30-6:30 in dormi tory areas. During the inspection, cadets will be asked questions con cerning the operation of the M-l rifle, government and military offi cials and related subjects, Capt. Simmons said. Pass-by Follows Immediately following the in spection in ranks, the entire Corps of Cadets will participate in a pass-by. To conclude the inspection Fri day morning the inspectors will confer on their findings, which will be followed by a critique for officers of the A&M instructor- unit. After the critique, the team chief and Col. Elder will confer with President Rudder qn the findings of the inspection. Inspection Personnel This year’s inspection team will be headed by Col. Douglas Sevens, Artillery, Fort Bliss. Other mem bers of the team include: Lt. Col. Roger R. Kemm, general staff, Infantry, reserve section; Lt. Col. Marlon L. Ellison, general staff, Artillery, G-3 section. Lt. Col. Jerry M. Smith, general staff, Infantry, G-l section; Lt. Col. Clark Webber, general staff, Armor, G-3 section; Lt. Col. John H. Campbell, general staff, In fantry, reserve forces section; Lt. Col. Robert M. Milam, general staff, Artillefy, reserve forces sec tion; Maj. Emmet M. Atteberry, general staff, Infantry, G-2 sec tion; and Maj. Walter S. Olson, general staff, Infantry, G-2 section. The Battalion Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1960 Number 92 154 Approved As Candidates In Spring Elections Tomorrow District 1 FFAj^ Holds Banquet Compress Company Announces Gift Of Ag Scholarship A $3,000, four-year agronomy scholarship will be made available to a student entering A&M next September, R. G. Perryman, sec retary of the Faculty Scholarships Committee, has announced. The scholarship is provided by the Western Compress and Stor age Company, with main offices at Abilene and compresses and cot ton warehouses at Abilene, Ham lin, Rule and Sweetwater. Perryman said candidates must live in a 10-county area compos ed of Taylor, Nolan, Mitchell, Run nels, Callahan, Scurry, Fisher, Jones, Haskell and Knox Coun ties. He said applications can be ob tained from high school principals, county agricultural agents, voca tional agriculture teachers or Perryman. The applications must be filed not later than April 15. The District 1 Future Farmers of America Sweetheart banquet and Entertainment Contest were held in the ballroom of the Memo rial Student Center last night, be ginning at 7:30 p.m., with repre sentatives of the 21 high schools in the district present for the event. The opening ceremony was con ducted by the district officers, with Hollas Hoffman from Rockdale presiding. Following the reports from each officer, the invocation was given, and dinner was served. Dinner music on the piano was furnished by Anita Mowery, senior from Consolidated High School. Following the dinner, introduc tions of special guests were made by the chapter delegates from each school, and the guests included many of the sweetheart contest ants, their parents, superintendents from the represented schools, and advisors of the respective chapters. Schools represented included A&M Consolidated, Anderson, Bremond, Bryan, Buckholts, Cald well, Calvert, Franklin, Giddings, Hearne, lola, Lexington, Milano, Navasota, Richards, Rockdale, Sharp, Snook, Somerville, Thorn- dale, and Cameron. Entertainment Contest The entertainment contest, em ceed by Byron Bostick, Chairman of the District Recreation Commit tee, began at 9 p.m., featuring four acts from the FFA chapters of Milano, Snook, Bryan and Somerville. First place in the con test went to the group from Somerville, featuring two electric guitars and drums. The group per formed two numbers, “Lonely Blueboy” and “Kansas City.” Sec ond place was won by performers from Milano Chapter, who pre sented their renditions of “Tom Dooley” and “Heartbreak Hotel.” Third place in the contest was won by an electric guitar and vocalist team from the Bryan chapter, who performed the two numbers, “You’ll Have to Go” and “I Love You Because.” Sweetheart Contest Following the Entertainment Contest was the selection of the District Sweetheart from among 20 contestants who formed on the stage dressed in formals. In the final of three runoffs were Linda Ward, senior from Cameron, who was elected sweetheart of the dis trict, Judy Rhoton, senior from Navasota, who placed second in the contest, and Melva Jo Cox, senior from Bryan, who was awarded third place in the con test. The three girls returned to the stage and Hoffman, president of the district, gave Miss Ward a bouquet of roses. The other two girls were given FFA pennants with the number of their place in the contest on them. Following the Sweetheart Con test, the winning musicians from Somerville were asked to perform for the audience once more. The group gave their arrangements of “Ramrod,” “BABy, Baby,” “I For got to Remember to Forget,” and “Guitar Boogie Shuffle.” The per formers from Bryan followed with a Western vocal, “Carribean.” Cong. Teague To Crown King Cotton Cong. Olin Teague of Bryan will crown King Cotton, Harold Henk of Seguin, during coronation cere monies at the annual Cotton Pag eant and Ball April 8. Master of ceremonies will be Johnny Watkins, farm director for nine years of KWTX-TV in Waco and KBTX-TV in Bryan. Watkins graduated from A&M in the Class of ’48 with a bachelor of science degree in agronomy and he participated in the 1947 Cotton Pageant. Henk is a senior agronomy ma jor and past president of the A&M Agronomy Society. Queen Cotton and eight mem bers of her court will be selected from more than 150 young ladies representing colleges, universities, clubs and other organizations. Freshman Counselling Program May Bring Change By JOHNNY JOHNSON Battalion Editor The success of a new program in operation this year in the School of Agriculture in regard to the handling of freshmen may bring changes in the college. Results of the program in the School of Agriculture are being linked with a study being con ducted by the Academic Council and the Executive Committe of the College to consider the possi bility of all four degree-granting schools taking charge of their freshmen when they enroll. At present all freshmen, except those in the School of Agriculture, are under the responsibility of the Basic Division. Counselling, Testing If the new plan goes into effect, the Basic Division will no longer be responsible for all freshmen but instead will be a counselling and testing center. The counselling and testing cen ter, if approved, will be composed df a small group of men whose main duties will be to counsel and test. They will counsel only stu dents referred to them by faculty members in the various schools. Faculty members in each of the schools will do the main volume of counselling. In regard to the new program in the School of Agriculture, G. M. Watkins, dean of the School of Agriculture, said, “We are very highly pleased with it. One of the main advantages from our stand point is that it gives us an extra year to acquaint students with ag riculture and the jobs and fields of agriculture.” ‘Are Very Satisfied . . The benefit to the students, as Dean Watkins feels, is that “fresh men students in agriculture are very satisfied and they have had a better opportunity to learn more about the broad field of agricul ture.” Evidently, the students are more satisfied as 195 freshmen enrolled in the School of Agriculture in the fall and approximately 155 re turned. In addition, the School of Agriculture gained enough fresh men for the spring semester from general curriculum and other ma jors so now there are 190 fresh men agriculture majors—only five less than the number which en rolled in the fall. Several Volunteers Under the program being used by the School of Agriculture, sev eral of the faculty members vol unteered to serve as counsellors and each of the volunteers has seven to eight freshmen. “This small number allows the counsellor to become better ac quainted with his group and al lows the students to have a faculty member who they can talk to on a personal basis,” said Dean Wat kins. “Our program has three main points—a thorough tour of the fa cilities of the School of Agricul ture during New Student Week, the personal counselling by vol unteer faculty members and the Freshman Agriculture Club,” said Dean Watkins. The Freshman Agriculture Club will have 13 programs by the con clusion of this semester. ‘Been Successful . . Dean Watkins said “This new Freshman Agriculture School has been very successful as it has been a halfway social and halfway technical club. We have presented outstanding speakers in some field of agriculture and have also had social time to allow the students to become better acquainted with both their fellow students and members of the faculty in the School of Agriculture.” “I feel that this new program has given us the best relationship that we have with our students in the past 10 years,” Dean Watkins said. If the plan of having each school take charge of its own freshmen is approved, it would be the first time in several years such a plan would be in operation at A&M. Following the post war period when freshmen lived and went to school at the old Bryan Air Force Base, the Basic Division was es tablished on the campus to take charge of the freshmen. Since that time, all counselling and testing of incoming students has been done by the Basic Divis ion. Voting To Run A It Day Thursday By ALAN PAYNE Assistant News Editor 154 applications have been officially approved and will be on the ballot for the spring election tomorrow to fill next year’s class officer positjons. Voting machines will be set up in the Memorial Student Center from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. for the actual voting. They will be stretched from the Bowling Alley to the Gift Shop instead of from the Bowling Alley to the Fountain Room. Index Cards Floyd Kasae, chairman of the Election Commission, stated three machines will be alloted to freshmen, two to sophomores and two to juniors. Each voter will be required to fill out a 3 by 5 index card and present it to the election commission member in charge - * ~ FFA Sweetheart Crowned Linda Ward of Cameron was elected Sweetheart from Dis trict 1 of the Future Farmers of America last night at a banquet in the MSC Ballroom. Hollas Hoffman, district president, presented the queen with a bouquet of roses. For Trustee Race Kiwanis Schedules Pre-Election Rally By BOB SAILS Battalion Staff Writer The College Station Kiwanis Club will sponsor a com munity rally for the A&M Consolidated School Trustee elec tion Thursday at 8 p. m. in the school auditorium, R. A. (Dick) Eads announced at the club’s meeting Tuesday. The rally will be held for the* — purpose of “getting out the vote” for the trustee election scheduled for Saturday from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the A&M Consolidated High School Music Room, Eads explained. The program will be moderated by Hershel Burgess of Bryan. Two Vacancies Two vacancies on the school board will be filled Saturday. Ab sentee voting closed Tuesday at 5 p.m. Eads made the announcement at the close of the club’s lunchean meeting at noon in the Ballroom of the Memorial Student Center. Space Talk Clifford Roberts, member of the M.S.C. Great Issues Committee, was a guest at the luncheon. A speech on the U. S. space program will be given April 5 in Guion Hall by Dr. T. Keith Glennan, Roberts told the club. Glennan is head of the newly-formed National Aeronautics and Space Administra tion, Roberts explained. Time of the talk will be 8 p.m., said Roberts, and tickets will be $1.50 per person. Final Plans Committee chairmen and club members made final plans at the meeting for their sixth annual Aunt Jemina Pancake Supper, slated for 4 to 9 p.m. at the Na- j tional Guard Armory in Bryan. ! Tickets for the supper are 50 ! cents per person and can be pur- i chased from any Kiwanian. Inter-Club Visit Kiwanian Charles LaMotte an nounced an inter-club visit will be held at the club’s meeting next Tuesday. He urged members and visitors present to invite any members from the other six clubs in the area. All committee members met with their chairmen after the close of the program. of his machine before voting. No other requirements will be made before a student may vote. Juniors running for president of the Class of ’61 are Luther H. (Luke) Soules, Jack K. Russell, Darrell G. Pansky, M. Paul Mar tin, S. Rush McGinty, Frank P. Hernandez, James L. Haygood, Marvin J. Girouard, Kenneth J. Demel and Malcolm Bolton. Juniors in the voting for vice president are Willis Ward, Mike Ogg, Ronnie L. May, Guy W. Keel ing, A. C. Hill, A. Wayne Dunlap, Larry M. Dubuisson, Timothy M. Cockburn and Charles A. Brown. E. D. Rigsby, Tom Reid, Scott S. McKay III, James C. LaGrone, Nevel H. Ehrhardt, Robert Bower, Jr. and John D. Bounds are run ning for secretary-treasurer. Class of ’61 social secretary can didates are George W. Vogt, Char lie Preston, George K. Montgom ery, Joe H. Hegyesi, Edwin H. Harris, Darryl G. Bush and Ray mond G. Post. Class Historian candidates are Jaimes C. Smith, Randall L. Year- gan, Keith Sterzing, Dan A. Grot- ta, Giles L- Dodson, Robert F. Col lins, Robert O. Burnside, Bill Brown, Halley O. Bradford and Bernard H. Berman. Walter R. Frazier and Richard M. (Joe) Powell are candidates for student entertainment manager while John Pocina, Robert J. Laird, Ronny J. Hampton and Jay Gardiner are candidates for the Class of ’61 MSC Council positions. Yell leader candidates are Eu- (See CANDIDATES on Page 3) Student C of C Begins Work The A&M Student Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors be gan planning activities of their standing committees in a meeting in the YMCA last night. They instructed Clifford Lane, Professor Relations Committea chairman to begin immediately taking any new professors on the campus on a tour of student fa cilities, including a meal in the dining hall and a visit to the dormitories during call to quar ters. They will answer any ques tions about student life that can according to President Bruce Veckert. Wayne Collins’ Committee on Local RelaiSons has been asked to ofer the assistance f the student chamber to the Bryan'and College Station Chambers of Commerce on their Crestview project. The Visitors Program and In formation Committee is consider ing a number of projects, including assisting departments in any way possible with visiting groups. The Finance Committee is be ginning work toward getting out dues letters to student members. The dues will be $1 per semester and will be used in correspondence and financing the programs of the chamber. New Apparal for Singing Cadets The Singing Cadets, under the direction of inaugural luncheon of President Earl Rud- Dr. Bill Turner, appeared for the first time der. The uniforms were the gift of an an- last Saturday in their new uniforms at the onymous donor.