The Battalion
Volume 69
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1960
Number 18
‘Pops Americana’ Starts
’60-’61 Town Hall Series
Herb Shriner Wit
Sparks Production
Student C of C
Elects, Plans
By TOMMY HOLBEIN
Battalion Feature Editor
The A&M Student Chamber of Commerce held its initial
meeting for the year last night, with election of officers and
outlining of this year’s program highlighting the evening.
New treasurer of the organization is Edmond Winston,
senior from Lufkin majoring in'*
business administration. Bob
The Incomplete Recovery
Jerry Hopkins (54) and Jon Few (21) con- pass and the Toads retained possession,
verge on a stray Texas Christian fumble A&M and TCU battled to a 14-14 draw—
in second half action last Saturday in Kyle the second Southwest Conference deadlock
Field. Officials ruled the play an incomplete for the Cadets.
Great Issues
Opens Year
Tonight at 8
The first 1960 presentation of
Great Issues will be held tonight
with Charles B Shuman, president
of the American Farm Bureau Fed
eration, to speak at 8 p. m. in the
Ballroom of the. Memorial Student
Center.
Shumans topic will be What
Should Be The Future Agricultural
Policy Of This Nation?”
Tickets for the address will sell
for $1 at the door. Student activ
ity cards may be used for admis
sion.
The Farm Bureau Federation
president arrived by plane this af
ternoon and will leave early in the
Hiorning for Houston, once again
iy plane.
Active Farmer
Shuman, a stock and grain farm
er from Sullivan, 111., lives on and
actively participates in the farm
ing operations of his 270-acre es
tate near Sullivan. The home farm
has been in the Shuman family
since 1853.
Since graduation from the Uni
versity of Illinois, Shuman has
been active in Farm Bureau, coop
erative and community affairs. He
was elected a director of the Moul
trie County Farm Bureau in 1932
and its president in 1934.
He served as county president
until 1938. He was elected to the
Illinois Agricultural Assn. Board
of Directors in 1941 and was
named President of IAA in Novem
ber of 1945, when Earl C. Smith,
IAA President, retired.
Re-Elected
He was elected to the American
Farm Bureau Federation Board of
Directors in 1945 and to the pres
idency of AFBF in December of
1954, following the retirement of
Allan B. Kline. Shuman was re
elected for a two-year term at the
Dec., 1957 Federation Convention
in Chicago.
Shuman has served as director of
two production credit associations
and' later as president of one. He
was vice president and later presi
dent of a rural electric cooperative
and served as director and secre
tary of a livestock shipping asso
ciation.
Joe Bindley, chairman of the
MSC Directorate’s Great Issues
Committee, has announced no
speakers have been definitely con
firmed after Shuman’s appear-
World Wrap-Up
By The Associated Press
Dag Is Candidate for Noble Peace Prize
OSLO, Norway—U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was
mentioned in speculation Tuesday as a likely candidate to win this
year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
A committee appointed by the Norwegian Parliament every year
picks the man who in the words of Alfred Nobel’s testament “has done
the most or best to further brotherhood amongst the peoples, to abol
ish or cut down the standing armies and to create or further the work
of peace congresses.”
Some contended Hammarskjold—a Swede—could qualify for the
prize along these lines for his work in the Congo.
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Cuba Charges Aerial Aggression by U. S.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—Cuba filed a complaint with the Unit
ed Nations Tuesday night charging U.S. aerial aggression against-Cu
ban soil.
The complaint filed by Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa with Gen
eral Assembly President Frederick H. Boland, asked that the assembly
give the charges the “fastest possible consideration.”
In an explanatory memorandum Roa charged that a four-engine
plane with North American markings flew over from U.S. territory
Sept. 29 and dropped large quantities of machine guns, rifles, hand
grenades and maps near the town of Escambre in Las Villas Province.
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Artie Atomic Power Plant Rolls
WASHINGTON—The Army has started up its atomic power plant
built under the snow of the Greenland ice cap only about 800 miles
from the North Pole.
It announced Tuesday that operational testing of the 2,000-kilo
watt plant has begun.
In addition to providing electricity for the Army’s arctic test base
at Camp Century, on the ice cap, the nuclear-heated steam power plant
will be used to melt snow and provide a water supply.
Camp Century includes 30 prefabricated quarters, laboratories
and other buildings buried in the snow to protect them from 70-degree-
below temperatures and winds of more than 125 miles per hour in the
winter months.
Roberts, senior from Kerrville ma
joring in journalism, was re
elected as secretarv.
The president, Bruce Ueckert,
Vet Medicine major from College
Station, and vice president, Eu
gene Stubbs, senior business ad
ministration major from Wortham,
have not yet served out their
term of office; a new president and
vice president will be elected soon,
according to Ueckert.
This year’s board of directors,
representatives for the four col
lege schools and two divisions, in
cludes the following:
Mike Carlo, School of Arts and
Sciences; Ken Moore, Division of
Business Administration; Cliff
Jackson, School of Engineering;
Dean Bottlinger, School of Agri
culture; and Ken Clevenger, School
of Veterinary Medicine. A repre
sentative from the Division of
Architecture has not yet been
chosen.
The Student Chamber of Com
merce was organized last March,
and even though greatly lacking
in membership, was able to pro
vide a magnitude of service for
the college and community.
One of the Chamber’s greatest
services was conducting tours for
different groups visiting the cam
pus. Last spring, members held
tours for two groups of Cub scouts
from the Houston area with over
1,500 youngsters in each group.
They also guided two different
high school student bodies total
ing over 500 students around the
college physical plant.
Another great service performed
last year was handing out litera
ture on the college to many differ
ent groups at various conferences
and gatherings on the campus.
The conferences included Junior
College Day, High Schools Careers
Day, and the High School Indus
trial Science Fair. Whenever
there was someone on the campus
to be reached with literature, it
was certain the Chamber would
be on the spot to furnish the
CADET MYSTERIOUSLY WOUNDED
Officials Still Seeking Leads
On Sniping Incident Here
College officials Wednesday
were still seeking leads concern
ing an unidentified sniper who
wounded an Army cadet Monday
night.
According to Bennie Zinn, di
rector of Student Personnel Serv
ices, no new information had been
turned up Wednesday concerning
the identity of the sniper.
The cadet, Jerry Gilliland, a
senior from Liberty, was wounded
in the hand as he was returning
to his dormitory from Sbisa Mess
Hall. Gilliland said that he was
on his way back to the dorm when
he heard a shot which sounded
like a report from an air rifle and
a second later felt a bullet hit his
hand.
Examination at the College Hos
pital showed that the wound was
n’t too large and that the bullet
had apparently hit a bone and
been knocked back out.
According to Gilliland, the sniper
was located on the roof of Walton
Hall. A1 Weaver, a sophomore
from Houston, also stated that
he had heard a shot a few minutes
previously and had seen a person
duck down from the roof of the
dormitory immediately after hear
ing the report, but paid little at
tention to the incident at that time.
After interviewing several per
sons who were in the area during
the shooting, Col. Robert 0. Mel-
cher, several dorm counselors and
a campus security officer began a
search and an investigation in
Walton Hall.
A student living in the dormi
tory reported seeing a person come
up to the top of the dormitory
Monday afternoon and observe the
area from the roof to the quad
rangle, then disappear.
One suspect was a student who
had just returned from throwing
a smoke bomb in front of a night
club. The individual was ques
tioned and the remaining smoke
bombs he had confiscated.
No weapon was found however
which could cause Gilliland’s
wound, either on the suspect’s per
son or in his room.
Four SWC Teams In Top 20
pamphlets, brochures, and other
materials.
A practice of members of the
Chamber each year is to conduct
a familiarization program with the
newer professors in the college,
Chambermen take the profs to
eat in the dining halls, and to
visit the dormitories, that they
might become better acquainted
with the conditions under which
their students live.
This year, the Chamber plans
to place a permanent literature
stand in the Memorial Student
Center, where college brochures
will be available to all visitors.
The Chamber also has expressed
intentions to work with the Bryan-
College Station Chamber of Com
merce in any way possible.
Fort Hood
Commander
Lauds Corps
Maj. Gen. Edward Farrand,
commanding general of Fort
Hood, Tex., commented favorably
on the review of the A&M Corps of
Cadets at the Texas Christian Uni
versity football game Saturday.
Maj. Gen. Farrand said, “I was
highly impressed with the fine
marching and the appearance of
the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets
and consider the Texas A&M Band
the finest I’ve ever heard.”
The commander of Fort Hood
was the reviewing officer of the
Corps of Cadets at the pre-game
march-in.
Commenting to Dean of Students
James P. Hannigan, Col Joe E.
Davis, commandant of the College,
and Cadet Col. of the Corps Syd
Heaton, Maj. Gen. Farrand de
clared he would like to have the
entire group up at Fort Hood. He
said that he had found A&M al
ways produced a splendid group of
leaders at each of the ROTC Sum
mer Camps at Fort Hood.
Several New Business Items
Top Student Senate Agenda
Six important items of new business are in the agenda
for the Student Senate meeting at 7:15 p. m. tomorrow in
the Senate Chamber of the Memorial Student Center.
First on the agenda is a letter of apology to TCU for
the actions of the Aggies following-t ; ——:
last Saturdays game. Another let
ter to be sent to Arkansas, will
be discussed.
Several new committee members
will be appointed at the meeting,
and the group will consider sug
gestions for speakers at the annual
Aggie Muster.
The Senate will also discuss the
sweetheart fund for this year’s
favorite girl, Louise Kuehn of Cor
pus Christi.
The last item of new business is
a discussion of the proposed band
trip to Washington and the Pres
ident’s inauguration in January.
Several standing committees
are scheduled to give reports at the
meeting.
The 7; 15 time is a change from
the usual meeting time of 7:30,
with the dress Class A uniforms
and Coats and ties for civilians. ,
Hoosier humorist Herb Shriner and a host of folk music
ians and singers will inaugurate the 1960-61 A&M Town Hall
Series tomorrow night at 8 in G. Rollie White Coliseum when
they present, “Pops Americana.”
The entire production is mounted within the setting of
a top-flight concert orchestra and sparked by the wit and
humor of Shriner. The program offers a rich variety of fun
and music featuring new orchestral arrangements of best
loved American folk songs and music.
Appearing in the program with Shriner are folk balladeer
George Alexander, conductor-composer Gustave Haenschen,
The New World Singers and the 35 piece Concert Orchestra
Americana.
Broadway, Record Star
Shriner has starred in
MGM’s “Main Street to
B’way” and a host of record
albums for major labels. He has
also appeared in concert with lead-
symphony orchestras.
Alexander, a baritone has ap
peared in a number of movie pro
ductions, musical and dramatic,
and has signed for a series of TV
network shows as a singer and ac
tor.
Haenschen has been musical con
sultant of several TV spectaculars,
affiliated with several radio shows
and has directed or conducted
other well-known musicals.
Admission
Costs for the first Town Hall
production will be: Adults, $2.50,
general admission and $3 for re
served seats, $1 for high school
students while Aggies will be ad
mitted upon presentation of their
student activity cards.
Student wives and students not
paying the activity fee may pur
chase general admission season
tickets for $4.50, Ronald Frazier,
student entertainment manager
said.
If Shriner arrives on the cam
pus in time tomorrow evening, he
will dine with the Corps of Cadets
in Duncan Dining Hall, Frazier
said.
Teacher Exams
To Be Given
Early in ’61
PRINCETON, N. J.—The Na
tional Teacher Examination, pre
pared and administered annually
by Educational Testing Service,
will be given a 160 testing centers
throughout the United States on
Saturday, February 11, 1961.
At the one-day testing session a
candidate may take the Common
Examinations, which include tests
in professional Information, Gen
eral Culture, English Expression,
and Non Verbal Reasoning; and
one or two of thirteen Optional
Examinations designed to demon
strate mastery of subject matter
to be taught.
A Bulletin of Information (in
which an application is inserted)
describing registration procedures
may be obtained from college offi
cials, school superintendents, or
directly from the National Teacher
Examinations, Educational Testing
Service, 20 Nassau Street, Prince
ton, New Jersey.
Completed applications, accom
panied by proper examination fees,
will be accepted by the TES office
during November and December,
and early in January so long as
they are received before January
13, 1961.
Annual Air Force Ball Slated Oct. 28;
Aggieland Orchestra To Provide Music
The annual Air Force Ball
will be held Friday, Oct. 28, at
Sbisa Dining Hall. The dance will
begin at 8 p.m. and will break up
at 11 p.m.
Co-chairmen for the event are
Ken Darnel and Bob McDaniel.
Decoration Committee co-chairmen
Jim Noack and Raymond Post plan
to landscape the inside of Sbisa
Hall for the dance with shrubbery
and flowers. Outfit emblems will
complete the decorations.
The Sweetheart will be elected
during one of the intermissions
from the five finalists previously
selected from pictures submitted
by Air Force cadets.
The five finalists and their es
corts are Sue Lynn Anderson from
Huntsville, escorted by Harry
Jewett; Susan Myrick from Hunts
ville, escorted by Dale Atkinson;
Donna Gayle Mayo from San An
tonio, escorted by Don Vail Vass;
Shirley Anne Wyatt from Waco,
escorted by Don B. Johnson, and
Lyndal Ankenman from Austin,
escorted by Frank H. Davis.
All Army and Air Force offi
cers and their wives in the De
partment of Military Science and
the Department of Air Science
have been invited to attend the
dance. In addition, all faculty ad
visors of Air Force cadet units
and their wives have also been
invited.
Distinguished guests and their
wives invited to attend the ball
include Chancellor M. T. Harring
ton, President Earl Rudder, Dean
of Students James P. Hannigan,
Dean of Veterinary Medicine Al
vin A. Price.
Dean of Engineering Fred J.
Benson, Dean of Arts and Sciences
F. W. R. Hubert, Vice President
for Agriculture Raleigh E. Patter
son.
Col. Charles E. Gregory, Pro
fessor of Air Science, Col. Joe E.
Davis, commandant; Col. Frank
Elder, Professor of Military Sci
ence and Tactics, and Col. Frank
S. Vaden, assistant to the Com
mandant.
Miss Susan Myrick
, Sam Houston State College
Miss Sue Lynn Anderson Miss Donna Gayle Mayo Miss Shirley Anne Wyatt Miss Lyndal Ankenman
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