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Volume 84 Alabama Polytechnic Institute
TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1956 8 Pages
Committee Selects
New Cheerleaders
At 'A' Day Game
Leading cheers for the Auburn
Tigers next fall will be seven
API students chosen by the
Cheerleader Selection Committe^
at the March 9 "A" Day Game.
They are Martha Bell, Clanton,
sophomore in secretarial training;
Ann Freeman, Birmingham, se­nior
in home economics; Patty
Hill, Birmingham, sophomore in
education.
Jim Crane. Stockton, senior in
textile management; Don Fay, Ft.
Payne, junior in business admin­istration;
Bob Hurt, Chattanooga,
Tenn., senior in industrial man­agement;
and Rodney Summers,
Huntsville, senior in industrial
management.
Selection of the squad followed
a two-weeks period of practice
and judging in which approxi­mately
60 students tried out. Ba­sis
for selection was muscular co­ordination,
consistent display of
enthusiasm, voice projection, ov­erall
evidence of spirit and scho­lastic
standing.
This spring marks the first
cheerleader selection held under
the new system formulated by
the Student Senate. Previously
an election was held only when
a vacancy appeared on the exist­ing
squad.
'LOVELIEST OF THE PLAINS'
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IT HAPPENS EVERY SPRING. And this Spring it's happened
again. This week's loveliest is seen cheering the baseball team on
to greater things. She's Patty Hill, a freshman in Education from
Birmingham. Patty's versatility extends into more than one sports
field, as she has just been selected as a cheerleader for the next
school year. •
Parking Lot;
Immediately
Trustees Approve Big
Construction To Begin
Plans for a new six-story parking lot for Ross Square |
were approved last night at a special meeting of the APlJG/o/n Sets ReCOfU
Board of Trustees. Construction will begin immediately and
is expected to be completed in time to solve the fall quarter
parking problem, according to Sam Brewster, Director of
Buildings and Grounds. B&G will build the structure, which
will be of concrete and steel con­struction.
The parking lot will be financ­ed
by three-year revolving bond
issue which will be floated on the
basis of parking fees. Effective
fall quarter, registration fees will
be raised by $10 per quarter,
which will pay for a parking lot
punch ticket fqjf each student.
Students will t>e allowed one
hundred hours «f free parking on
each ticket. It is anticipated that
students who do' not own cars will
sell their tickets to faculty mem­bers.
Dick Scott, Montrose, SGA
president, commented, "This fills
a great need of the Auburn stu­dent
body. We owe our thanks to
the administration for planning
so well for us."
Betty Hawthorne, Union Pro­gram
Director, added, "This will
be a great addition to the Auburn
Union. As soon as the equipment
arrives, we will set up a pent­house'restaurant
and sundeck on
the roof."
According to architect's plans,
a helicopter landing will be a
feature of the top story, and will
be provided as a flight training
aid for Air Force ROTC cadets.
Charles W. Edwards, registrar,
was quoted as saying, "My calen­dar
shows that this is the last
issue of the Plainsman before—
April Fool!
Attention Spring Grads
Invitation sales for spring quar­ter
graduation will be held April
2 through 5. Sales w i l l be held at
the main desk in the lobby of the
Student Union Building from 9
to 12 and from 1 to 2:30 each day.
Prices are: leather, 95c; card­board,
30c; frenchfold, 15c, with a
minimum card order of $2.00 per
hundred.
Advertising Jotal
For 1956 Edition
This year's Glomerata has set
a new all-time high in advertis­ing,
according to Ivan Butgereit,
Glomerata advertising manager.
The old record of $3,425 was sur­passed
by this year's total of $3,-
750 with the possibility of more
to come.
Significance of the new record
is the indication of the growth of
Auburn and the Glom, says But­gereit.
In 1953 the book received
$2,600 and the '54 the book jump­ed
this amount to $3,369.
Tha larger amount of advertis­ing
this year will take up about
the same space as last year's due
to the fact that staff concentrated
on smaller ads which cost more
than the larger ones.
Members of the Glom advertis­ing
staff are John Hamilton, Scott
Vowell, Allen Gordy and Betty
Whitman.
Roger Wagner Chorale To Present Concert
Activities Building Tomorrow Night
SUSGA To Hold
Annual Conference
At UT In May
Southern Schools
To Discuss Problems
P r o b l e m s of Southern
schools •wilL b » discussed at
the Southern University Stu­dent
Government Association
convention to be held May 4
and 5 at the University of
Tennessee.
A number of topics will be dis­cussed
at the meeting, accoding to
Bertis Rasco, president of SUSGA.
Parking will be discussed this
year as has been done in the past.
A special session on segregation is
planned.
SUSGA is also trying to work
out a system whereby name bands
may be signed to tour the south­ern
schools. This would reduce
traveling costs considerably and
would distribute them more even­ly
over schools, says Rasco.
SUSGA was founded with
the main purpose of allowing
member schools to exchange
ideas and, by doing so, to work
out problems encountered be­cause
of geographic locations.
The organization takes no poli­tical
stand, on any issue.
Of' the colleges in the South
every institution of over 5,000
students has been invited to join.
There are now nine member
schools. Membership is restricted
to., larger_institutions because of
common problems.
Each year in the spring SUSGA
holds a convention. The last was
in April of last year. During the
year a number of executive meet­ings
have been held to act on per­tinent
matter and to plan agendas,
programs and details for conven­tions.
Each school has three delegates,
one for each of the main problem
areas—student government, acti­vities
and publications. Delegates
here are appointed by the presi­dent
of SGA with the approval of
the Student Senate.
Speaking of the work of the
organization Rasco said: "SUSGA
.in the past has created a better
understanding among the schools
of the South. We hope that this
conference will provide even more
toward closer, keener competition
among the South's institutions, the
best in the world."
.ALL SET for some feminine harmony is the Roger Wagner
Chorale, under its French-born director, who will present his 24-
voice women's choral group in a concert on Friday night in the
Student Activities Building.
SGA Aspirants File;
Qualification Board
To Meet Monday
By Bob Tarte
Plainsman Staff Writer
Students seeking qualifica­tions
.to run for SGA posts in
the coming Spring election
will go before the Board of
Qualifications Monday, April
2. Only those aspirants who
have filed a. declaration of in­tent
before yesterday's dead­line
are eligible for qualifica­tion,
according to Tom Fuller,
Suttle, superintendent of po­litical
affairs.
The Board will pass on the el­igibility
of candidates for the po­sitions
of President, Vice Presi­dent,
Secretary and Treasurer of
the student body; and Sophomore,
Junior, Senior, and Fifth Year
Senators.
Fuller stated that, in addition to
the SGA positions, candidates for
editor and business manager of
the Glomerata and Plainsman
publications, and coeds vying for
the title of Miss Auburn would be
voted on in the coming election,
set for April 12.
Fuller Sets Judging
For 'Miss Auburn'
Proposed Parking tot for Ross Square (see story above)
Einalists for tiie title of Miss
Auburn will be selected Thurs­day
evening from a field of about
thirty nominees according to Tom
Fuller, Supt. of Political Affairs.
Miss Auburn is to be selected
by popular vote in the campus-wide
elections on April 12. Prior
to recent changes made by SGA.
Miss Auburn would have been
elected late in the Fall Quarter.
Candidates who have already
been nominated and their spon­sors
are Barbara Huggins, Bir­mingham,
Alpha Gamma Rho;
Peggy Rodgers, Birmingham, Phi
Mu; Patty Hill, Birmingham,
SAE; Ann Freeman, Birmingham,
Pi Kappa Phi; Jan Webb, La
Grange, Delta Chi.
Barbara Mohlmann, Anniston,
Division K of Mag. Hall; Marian
Strozier, Birmingham, Phi Delta
Theta; Penny Prendergast. Col­lege
Park, Ga., Kappa Delta;
Anna Addison, Smyrna, Ga.,
Dorm 1; Carol Cherry, Opelika,
Alpha Delta Pi; Juanita Flowers,
Thomaston, Theta Upsilon.
Joyce Van Tassel, Mobile, Sig­ma
Nu; Jane Underwood, Bir­mingham,
Dorm 2; Jpannette
Rousseau, Paint Rock, Division M
of Mag Hall; Gerry Payne, Brew-ton,
Division H of Mag. Hall; Ma­rian
Connor, Birmingham, Delta
Zeta.
Emma Kane, Rome, Ga., Fu­ture
Teachers of America; Sue
Hussey, Talladega, Pi Kappa Al­pha;
Janey Callahan, Atlanta, Al­pha
Gamma Delta; Dorena Wal­lace,
Auburn, Sigma Pi; Judy
Joyce, Dallas, Tex., Alpha Tau
Omega; Margaret Towle, Mobile,
Alpha Omicron Pil SuAnrie Boat-wright,
Montgomery, Sigma Chi. .
Late Registration
Expected To Push
Enrollment To 7200
Spring enrollment is expected
to reach 7,200 when late registra­tion
figures are in. This is an
increase of almost 700 over last
Spring quarter's 6,551, according
to Charles W. Edwards, registrar.
Enrollment reached 6,887 on
Friday, but jumped Saturday,
when approximately 400 com­muters
registered.
Enrollment dropped from 7,563
in the winter quarter, as a result
of the graduation of 259 seniors
and the expected drop-out.
Auburn Appearance Scheduled
In Chorus' First Cross Country Tour
By Gene Williams
Plainsman Staff Writer
The Roger Wagner Chorale will present a concert here
an March 29, at 8:15 p.m., in the Student Activities Building.
Directed by French-born Roger Wagner, the 24-voice
chorus is making its first cross-country tour in its ten year
history. During a six-week period the youthful choristers
and their conductor will appear in some 30 cities from coast
to coast.
Decoration Plans
For Village Fair
Reach Final Stages
Plans for decorations for
Village Fair, April 13, 14, and
15, are in the final stages of
preparation, according to Bill
Dawson, chairman of the Vil­lage
Fair Decorations Com­mittee.
The theme this year will place
emphasis on the carnival spirit
pervading the Plains. The center
of interest will be a sideshow ex­hibit
on the lawn in front of So­cial
Center, at the corner of
Thach and Mell streets. This ex­hibit
will be a sample of the ma­jor
exhibits in the various schools.
The presidents of the respective
schools are responsible for the
exhibits in the schools themselves,
while the vice-presidents are in
charge of the side-show exhibits.
Decorations in Ross Square will
be handled by the ROTC depart­ment.
Various types of military
equipment, including tanks and
guns and two Air Force planes
will be on exhibit. Balloons and
flags placed in strategic places
around the campus will further
convey the carnival atmosphere.
Information booths with bal­loons
and pennants will be set up
at the main gate, across from the
tennis and volley ball courts, and
in Ross Square. Similarly decorat­ed
registration booths will be
placed on the front patio of the
Union Building.
One project being discussed by
the committee is having cars and
a bus waiting at the side-show
exhibits in front of Social Center
to carry visitors on a tour of Au­burn
and out to the TV station.
The bus will be used by the school
of Agriculture to conduct visitors
on a tour of Ag Hill.
Two trophies will be presented
this year, one for the best school
exhibit and one for the best float
entered in the parade. Judges will
be prominent Auburn citizens,
and entries will be judged on
presentation, effectiveness, and
visitor-appeal.
Ragan Announced
'King For A Day'
At Coronation Sat.
Drew Ragan, Nashville, Tenn.,
was crowned "King For A Day"
at the AIO-Aquilla Coronation
Ball Saturday night. Sponsored by
Tri Delta, he polled 16,399 of the
57,661 voters cast. King Drew re­ceived
more than $200 in gifts
donated by the merchants of Au­burn
and Opelika, a trophy to
remain in his permanent posses­sion,
and a kiss from Dorena Wal­lace,
date of AIO President Mil­lard
Fuller.
Second in the contest was Glen
Pehl Woodford, Miss., sponsored
by Dorm 8, with 11,493, and Jim
Rosser, Anniston, sponsored by
AOPi, was third with 10,458.
Ragan reigned as "King For A
Day" over Auburn Monday, being
chauffered to classes in a new
Ford, loaned by Tiger Motor Co.,
and accompanied by two beautiful
secretaries and a royal bodyguard.
He had breakfast at the girls' .din­ing
hall, lunch at the AuburnT Grill
and dinner at the Steak JlOUSe..
ODK-Glomerata beauty Joyce Van
Tassel of Mobile accompanied the
king for dinner and an evening's
entertainment at the War Eagle
Theatre.
Members of the group have pre­sented
concerts in the Hollywood
Bowl, in leading concert halls on
the west coast and in Europe, and
radio and television. They have
also supplied music for the sound
tracks of a dozen motion pictures
and recorded several numbers.
The chorale, which was formed
in 1945 with 12 voices, now uses
from 16 to 225 voices, depending
upon the music to be interpreted.
The adaptability of the chorus has
won for it the title of the nation's
most unique singing group. Its
popularity .may be measured by
the 100,000 miles the group has
traveled in its ten year history.
Two years ago the chorale
was invited to participate in
London's coronation festivities,
the only American group to re­ceive
an invitation. A 24 voice
group sang in London's Festival
Hall and then started its first
European tour.
Wagner, who does not confine
his activities to concerts, radio,
television, movie and records is a
song composer, choir director of
two Los Angeles churches, and
holds posts as a faculty member
of two colleges.
The program to be presented at
API will range from 16th century
airs and Brahms Libebeslicder
Waltzes to excerpts from "Porgy
and Bess" by Gershwin.
This concert, which is sponsor­ed
by the API Concert and Lec­ture
Series, will J?e the last on
this year's schedule.
IFC To Receive Award
For Greek Week Theme
AIEE
There will be a meeting of
AIEE Monday night at 7:00 in
Ramsay 109. All electrical en­gineering
students are- invited
Auburn's IFC has recently been
selected to receive an award in
recognition of its Greek Week
t h e m e , "Developing Ideals
Through Brotherhood," according
to an announcement by Alabama
Region of the National Conference
of Christians and Jews.
The Alabama executive com­mittee
of the NCCJ singled out the
IFC here for the most outstanding
program held in this state by any
group, organization, institution or
community during Brotherhood
Week of 1956.
An illuminated' parchment cer­tificate
of recognition expressing
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Spring Show Cast
Begins Work Today
For May Production
Preparations for the Spring
Show, which will be presented
May 16th and 17th, are well un
der way. Tryouts are over, parts
have been cast, and chairman for
the committees have been select­ed.
Rehearsals begin today. This
is the first Spring Show and the
Union hopes to make this original
production an annual affair, ac­cording
to Everette Short, direct­or
of the production.
Chairman of publicity is Earl
Herrman, Birmingham. Musical
Director is Grover Hamilton,
Cordova, and Chorale' Director is
Ken Steele. Mobile.
Script Committee Chairman is
Wenton McNair, Montgomery,
and co-chairman is Barbara Wil­son,
Montgomery.
Lighting and Sound Committee
Chairman is Bob Lilly, Birming­ham.
Make-up Committee Chair­man
is Sandra Sexton, Butler.
Prop Committee Chairman is Dan
Kuykendall, Newton, Miss.
Pat Shepherd, .Birmingham, is
chairman of the Costume Com­mittee.
Assistant directors for the
acting are-Betty Leonard* Cedar
Hill, Texas, and Betty Williams
Atlanta, Ga.
the esteem in which the Greek
fraternities of API are held by the
NCCJ will be presented at an
early future date, announced Wil­liam
A. Stewart, regional director.
Sam Crain, Greek Week chair­man,
had this to say about the
award: "Since Greek Week is in­tended
to create a greater feeling
of brotherhood, not only among
fraternity men themselves, but al­so
between the fraternities and
the community as a whole, we are
extremely'pleased with this award
by the Conference. The excellent
work of the Greek Week commit­tees
made the program possible
and all due credit must be given
them for the award."
WSGA Regulations
To Be Discussed
At Workshop Mon.
The annual Women's Stu­dent
Government Association
workshop will be held next
week, according to Carol Ann
Smith, outgoing president of
WSGA.
There will be a preliminary
session of the regular Legislative
body on Monday, April 2, follow­ed
by the main session Saturday
morning, April 7, from approxi­mately
8:45 a.m. until noon. At
this time the workshop partici­pants
will attend a luncheon in
the banquet room of the Union
Buildings.
Girls in the dormitories have
been given the opportunity to
suggest changes in the WSGA
rules and policies' through dis­cussions
in dormitory house
meetings. These suggestions and
any other necessary changes of
policy will be discussed by t he
Rules Committee, headed by Ava
Ann .Rogers, outgoing treasurer.
This committee has studied the
WSGA handbook extensively,
and is, prepared to present these
.suggested .-modifications to t he
workshop for consideration.
Spring Pushes Lake Activitie
By Sue Nethery
Plainsman Society Editor
New quarter — fresh start — firm resolutions — and
then the sunshine upsets all our plans. Books just don't have
the appeal that the lake has!
The Alpha Gams held their yearly sunrise dance at the
Union Saturday morning from 6-8 a.m.
' Saturday night the TKEs held
a costume party—a nightclub
was the theme.
Pledge swaps this week were
between the PMs and the KAs
and the ChiOs and SPs.
KA elects
Bill Cheatham of Birmingham
has been elected president of Nu
Chapter of Kappa Alpha Order.
Other new officers are James
Hooper, Tallahassee, Fla.. vice
president; Tommy Burson, An-niston,
recording secretary; Blan-ton
Smith, Nashville, Tenn., cor­responding
secretary; Maurice
Kirkpatrick, Birmingham, histo­rian;
and Jimmy Perdue, Phenix
City, treasurer.
AGR elects
Alpha Gamma Rho announces
the election of their officers for
1956. They are Noble Ruler,
Charles Hiers, Charleston, S. C;
V-Noble Ruler, Jimmy Winn,
Ohatchee; Secretary, Henry
Long, Tyler; Treasurer, Jim
Macbeth, Albany, Ga.; Assistant
Treasurer, Harvey Gillis, Selma;
IFC Representative. Jimmy Phil­lips,
Albany, Ga.
Phi Kappa Tau birthday
Phi Kappa Tau fraternity is ce­lebrating
its fiftieth" anniversary
this spring. This national frater­nity
founded at Miami Univer­sity,
Oxford, Ohio, and has now
grown to a membership of 22,000.
The Alpha Lambda chapter at
API celebrated Founder's Day on
March 24. Highlights of the day
were an alumni meeting, a ban­quet
at the Auburn Student Un­ion
and a dance at the fraternity
house. Many alumni are expect­ed
back for the occasion.
ATO elects
Alpha Epsilon chapter of Alpha
Tau Omega fraternity recently
held its annual election of offic­ers.
New officers are president,
Roy B. Bogue, St. Petersburg,
Fla.; vice president, John V. Den-son,
Opelika; treasurer, Ralph
Osborne, Birmingham; recording
secretary, Dave Cauthen, Roanoke,
and corresponding secretary, Wat­er
Morris, Birmingham.
Tri-Delts install officers
Phi Theta chapter of Delta
Delta recently installed its newly
elected officers. The gavel was
presented to Eleanor Chenault,
Decatur, new president, by the
outgoing president, Dorris Ann
Smith. Catherine Earle, Bay Mi-nette,
was installed as vice presi­dent;
Betty Lusk, Birmingham, as
recording secretary; J o y ce
Waites, Demopolis, as Treasurer;
Anne Rivers, Fairburn, Ga., as
Panhellenic Representative; a nd
Betty Hazel Hamilton, Decatur,
as Rush Chairman.
Sigma Chi officers
Fred Lawrence, Mobile, was re-
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THE SELECTION of Miss Ann Freeman as Miss A Day by
the Auburn A Club was announced during the half-time ceremonies
at the annual A Day game. This was just one of two honors for
Ann that day, as she was also selected to serve another year as
cheerleader. Miss Freeman is a junior in Home Economics from
Birmingham.
English Prof Wins Fulbrigbt Grant
To Lecture At U Of Salonida
Dr. Eugene Current-Garcia, pro­fessor
of English, has just receiv­ed
notice of a ten-month's Ful-bright
lectureship in American
literature and civilization at the
University of Selonicia, Greece.
Notification of this honor has
just been received from the Chief
of the Professional Activities Di­vision,
International Education
Exchange Service of the United
cently elected president of Sigma
Chi fraternity. Other new offi­cers
are vice-president, Lewis
Anderson, Atlanta; recording se­cretary,
Frank Mathews, Mont­gomery;
pledge trainer, Herb
Reed, Memphis; treasurer, Wil--
liam E. Bartlett, Jr., Columbus.!
States Department of State,
Washington, D. C.
Dr. Current-Garcia will leave
this country in time' to arrive in
Greece to" start the lectures in
September. His wife and three
children will go to Greece with
him.
Dr. Current-Garcia was born,
in New Orleans, La., and receiv­ed
A.B. and A.M. degrees from
Tulane University and later A.M.
and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard.
Before coming to Auburn in
1947 he taught at Tulane, Univer­sity
of Nebraska, Harvard, Suf­folk
University and Louisiana'
State University. He has had
numerous articles published in;i
rgcent years. '
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motorist. Switch to Luckies yourself. You'll say they're the
best-tasting cigarette you ever smoked.
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Miss 'A' Day Title
Given 'M\n Freeman
Climaxing the "halftime activi­ties
at the annual Auburn."A" Day
Game was the awarding of the
title of Miss "A" Day to Ann
Freeman, a junior from Birming­ham.
Ann was nominated for the
honor by the Phi Mu sorority and
after two weeks of campaigning
was selected as one of the five
finalists by the student body.
Those elected to the court along
with -Ann for final selection by
the "A" Club were Jan Webb, La-
Grange, Ga.; SuAnne Boatwright,
Montgomery; Mary Jim Esslinger,
Gui-ley; and Judy Joyce, Dallas,
Tex. '•'
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These positions will appeal to
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Our current research program
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Among the many other attrac­tions
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Forestry Club's Annual Beard Growing Contest Announced
The Forestry Club annouhces
that its annually sponsored Beard
Growing Contest is now in prog­ress.
All students and professors are
invited to join in "Operation Por­cupine"
and become members of
that noble clan known as the
Mystic Order of Bearded Beasts
which, with the coming o< spring,
casts off the shackles of modern
day society which requires the
daily scraping of the face and re-
'turns to ' those" he-man ways of
our pioneer forefathers.
The contest will be judged at
the 1956. Woodchoppers Ball, to
be held here May 55. An elec­tric
razor will be awarded to the
contestant which, in the opinion
of the judges ,has the best beard
on the basis \>f quantity and qua­lity.
The following rules have been
formulated to govern this year's
contest: ••>'>•
1. Any student or professor at­tending
the Woodchopper's: Ball
is (eligible to participate.
2. Former first place winners
are not permitted to win another
first prize.
2—THE PLAINSMAN Wed., March 28, 195C
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Representatives will be here March 29,30
TO INTERVIEW
ELECTRICAL, MECHANICAL, AERONAUTICAL
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find the diversity of challenging, far-reaching projects that offers you
the unlimited career opportunity you seek.
This is young country, beautiful, exciting country —the very heart
of the busy, vital aircraft and missile industries. And good, young
engineers are needed now to grow with new, long-range aircraft and
missile programs.
You will find the Convair Engineering Department a genuine "engi­neer's"
engineering department —imaginative, energetic, explorative.
You will discover the very latest engineering equipment, excellent
working conditions, salary, personal job advantages, and opportunities
for continuing education.
Remember these facts about Convair: Convair was awarded the
Nation's first production missile contract and the first production
contract for supersonic all-weather interceptors.
Convair has the greatest diversity of aircraft engineering projects
in the country, including high performance fighters, heavy bombers,
large flying boats, transports, trainers, seaplane fighters, vertical take­off
aircraft and guided missiles.
Convair has a completely integrated electronic development pro­gram
devoted to advanced development and design on missile guid­ance,
avionic projects, radar systems and special cathode ray tubes.
Now you are invited to get full information about your career at
Convair. Talk it over with our Convair Engineers on your campus soon.
GRADUATING CIVIL ENGINEERS interested in the Held of aircraft
structure are also invited to apply.
Graduate degree candidates in Engineering, Mathematics or Physics are invited
to discuss Convair opportunities in the general field of advanced engineering
analysis and design.
CONVAIR ENGINEERS WILL INTERVIEW ON YOUR CAMPUS
Apply for your appointment now!
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Club On Campus
1 ' By Bonnie Bailey
Plainsman Clubs Editor
I n the early 20's-' t h e r e were scattered over the United
States several organizations of students wives on various
college campuses. They were organized into a national or­ganization
at Chicago in 1921 known as National Association
of University Dames.
Purpose of the organization is S o d a l C e n t e r A m u s i c a l p r 0.
to establish and strengthen bonds gram featuring the Auburn Men's
of friendship among students'
wives, to develop and provide for
special interests of its members
and to stimulate general culture
among its members.
The emblem of the University
Dames is the wedding ring pierc­ed
by an arrow. The ring has
been used as a bond of fidelity
since earliest history, and t he
arrow is the symbol of friendship.
API chapter was organized in
November of 1945 by Mrs. J. H.
Neal, who was a Dame in Minne­sota
and later in Missouri. ' The
sponsor, Dr. Ruth Wilson, assist­ant
Dean of Women, has contri­buted
greatly to the success of
the local chapter.
New Mexico School of Mines
is serving as National Headquar­ters
for the years 1955-56.
The next meeting will be at
7:30 Wednesday, March. 28, at the
Octet will be presented. All stu­dents'
wives are cordially invited.
Indian program at IRC
The International Relations
Club will present an Indian and
Pakistan musical program on
March 29, at 7:30 p.m., in t he
Union Music Room. The Pro­gram
will be presented by the
Indian members of I.R.C. with
Abdul Waheed, Pakistan, in
charge.
John K. Mathai, India, will pre­sent
an Indian dance and .per­form
upon an Indian musical in­strument.
M. M. Varma, India,
will play some Indian recordings
illustrating the music of India.
Other items of interest, indica­tive,
of the Indian and Pakistan
culture will be presented.
All interested API students are
invited to attend and share in this
program of Indian music. >
Scott to speak
Dick Scott, President of t he
Student Body, will speak on Stu­dent
Government at the AIO
meeting tonight at 7:15.
AED initiates
Alabama Gamma chapter of
Alpha Epsilon Delta, honorary
pre-medical fraternity, held a
formal initiation last night for
recently tapped neophytes. Mem­bership
requirements state .that
a student who is majoring in pre-medicine,
pre-dentistry, or lab
technology must maintain an
overall 2.0 average for three con­secutive
quarters to be eligible.
New members of AED are Jack
Strong, Robert Harlin, F. Frank
Cias, Jerry Godard, Gene Bird-song,
Margaret Freeland, Lucy
Hodnette, B. S. Pate, Jr., Glenn
Tatum, Jr.. and Dee Howell.
Frank Graham has been select­ed
as the official delegate to at­tend
the AED convention to be
held at Millsaps College March
29-30. Other members of the
honor society will be unoffi­cial
capacities.
The featured speaker at the
convention will be Dr. John B.
AWARD FOR THE outstanding graduate in EE, Communica­tions
Option, for the Winter Quarter was presented to Wallace
Eugene Wood, Gardendale, by Stacy Hockett, Pleasant Garden, N. C,
president of IRE, at a recent meeting.
For that portrait beautiful­ly
photographed to bring out
the most flattering features, a
portrait that you will be proud
of. Photographed in black and
white or hand colored for the
most discriminating taste, see
Yutmeyer
Studio
Mid-Town, Opelika
No appointment nesessary.
Phone SH 5-3381 for your
convenience.
v
See this 16x20 hand-color­ed
picture of Ruby Fowler,
API student, in our display
window next to Lipscomb's in
Auburn, -. v-
A Campus-to-Career Case History
Winfield Giguere, here tuning the coils of an IF strip on an experimental
FM receiver that uses the new high-frequency transistor.
"Our business is new ideas, new developments"
Winfield J. Giguere, or Giggs as he is
known, graduated in 1954 from the Uni­versity
of New Hampshire with a B.S.
in Electrical Engineering. Shortly after
graduation he joined Bell Telephone Lab­oratories
in Murray Hill, New Jersey.
"Experience has come my way in a
hurry," says Giggs. "I've worked on
carrier system amplifiers, speech trans­mission
problems, and experimental
types of coaxial cable. The Labs are al­ways
pushing ahead, trying new ideas,
exploring new developments.
"For example, right now I'm working
with 'the transistor that smashed a fre­quency
barrier.' This new transistor has
a cut-off frequency of at least 500 mc and
can be used to amplify 2500 separate
telephone conversations simultaneously.
It will make possible broadband, high-frequency
amplification in many fields
using subminiature components.
"There are thousands of other fascinat­ing
projects underway at the Bell Labs.
You see, at the Labs our business is new
ideas, new developments,'and that's one
reason why I like working here. It's ex­citing.
If there are better ways to commu­nicate,
you can bet the Labs are looking
for them."
Winfield Giguere is typical of t h e many young men
who are finding careers in Bell Telephone Labo­ratories.
Many other career opportunities exist in
the Bell Telephone Companies, Western Electric
and Sandia Corporation. Your placement officer
has more information about these companies.
"1
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Youmans, dean of the Vanderbilt
School of Medicine and president
elect of the American Association
of. Medical Colleges.
Faculty Club dinner
The Faculty Club will have an
informal dinner Saturday even­ing,
April 14, at 6:30 p.m. in the
Union Ballroom. Members will
receive notification of the dinner
soon by mail, together with in­formation
about purchasing tic­kets.
Members must purchase tic­kets
in advance, as no tickets will
be sold at the door.
Following the dinner there will
be a bridge party in the club-rooms,
and all members who play
bridge are urged to . make' ar­rangements
to stay for this event.
Many prizes will be awarded,
and if enough interest is shown
in this party, the club plans to
make it an annual affair.
math honorary initiates
Thirty-two outstanding mathe­matics
students have been initiat­ed
as members of the Alabama
Beta Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon,
national honor society.
New undergraduate members
are Barbara Adams, Auburn;
George S. Birchfield, Dothan; J.
Mervin Bridges, Birmingham;
Edward L. Daniel, Bessemer;
John Cecil Dendy, Albertville;
Martin C. Droman, Kimberly; W.
Thomas Edwards, III, Madison,
N. J.; Albert N. Ellis, Birming­ham;
Gerald Ray Guinn. Browns­ville,
Tenn.; Mildred Jeanette
Hurst, Anniston; Harry O. Lind-strom,
Birmingham; Edward M.
McAdam. Jr., Pensacola, Fla.; Joe
Thomas McMillan, Birmingham;
Robert W. McMillan, Sylacauga;
Fred W. Mace, Wetumpka; Char­les
O. Ming, Montgomery; R. B.
Morrow, Birmingham; Claiborne
E. Myers, Prattville; James F.
O'Brien, Jr.. Dothan; George Pa-paiconomou,
Tripoleos, Greece;
Charles H. Peterson, Pensacola,
Fla.; Franklin M. Propst, Annis­ton;
James. Donley Sherman, Bir­mingham;
Richard E. Slye, Bir­mingham;
Sam M. Strickland,
Montgomery; Grady R. Vines, Jr.,
Bessemer.
Graduate students tapped for
membership include J. R. Elliott,
Little Rock. Ark.; Jackie Garner,
Jonesboro, La.; Margaret Haines,
Leesburg, Fla.; Raymond Lee
Lawrence, Pineville, La.; Stanley
Lukawecki, Norwood, Mass.; and
Roger Teague, Jackson, Tenn.
Alpha Zeta officers
Charles H. Woocuey, Montgom­ery,
has been elected chancellor
of Alpha Zeta, national honorary
agricultural fraternity.
Other new officers for the 1956-
57 academic year are: James G.
Lee, Dancy, censor; Charles W.
Hall, Decatur, scribe; Daniel R.
Farnell, Mobile, treasurer; Don­ald
L. Burch, Live Oak, Fla.,
chronicler; and John M. Swear-ingen,
Pike Road, Agricultural
Council representative.
Aquila elects
New officers of Aquila, Auburn
independent women's organiza­tion,
have been elected and will
be installed Wednesday, March
28.
Ruth Hatch, Columbus, Ga., has
been elected president to succeed
Virginia Hurd of Birmingham.
Other new officers are: Mary
Ann Swope, Auburn, first vice-president;
Carolyn Hardy, Wad-ley,
second vice-president; Mar­garet'
Ann Richards, Eufaula, sec­retary;
Jo Ann Catchings, Rock-ford,
treasurer; Bootsie Barton,
Uniontown, social chairman;
Martha Umbrasta, Talladega, ed­itor;
Fran Nichols, Chattanooga,
API Religious Art
To Be Displayed
In Union This Week
By Allen Bradford
Entries in API's first annual re­ligious
arts contest will be on dis­play
this week in the lobby of
the Union Building, according to
Jerry Ross, chairman of the con­test.
In accordance with the rules
of the contest, all works of art
exhibited are original and have
been done by Auburn students.
Sponsored by the Student Coun­cil
on Religious Activities, the
contest has as its purpose to en­courage
religious expression in
Auburn students through the cre­ation
of original art works and to
display these art works for the
spiritual inspiration of the API
community.
Judging of the exhibits will take
place during the early part of the
week, the results of which will be
announced soon thereafter. /
A purchase award of $35.00 will
be given to the winner . of first
place with the second and third
place winners receiving awards of
$30.00 and $25.00 respectively. A
key will be awarded to each of the
five honorable mentions holders. %
From the exhibit here, a
traveling exhibt will be select­ed
to circulate to schools, clubs,
and church groups all over the
state if the judges feel that the
number and quality of the en­trees
justify such an exhibit.
Judges for the contest are Pro­fessor
of Art Joseph Marino-
Merlo, Associate Professor of Art
Harry Lowe, and the Rev. Merrill
Stephens, rector of the Church of
the Holy Innocents.
Glasses Lost
LOST—In vicinity of McMil­lan's
Pool Hall, one pair of blond-rimmed
glasses in a brown case.
The words "Ellis Optical Dispen­sary"
are stamped on the case.
Please call 720. REWARD.
Tenn., historian; Jetty Walker,
Roanoke, publicity chairman; and
Carolyn Dorman, Kimberly,
membership • chairman.
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3—THE PLAINSMAN Wed., March 28, 1956
Alabama Civil Engineers Hold Meeting
The Alabama section of t h e
American Society of Civil Engi­neers
held its spring meeting here
Saturday with the Auburn chap­ter
as host for the occasion.
The meeting opened with regis­tration
and tours of the API en­gineering
laboratories in the
morning, followed by luncheon
and a technical session. Hugh
Kilgo of Logan, president of t h e
Auburn student chapter, presid­ed
and J. E. Hannum, dean of the
School of Engineering, welcom­ed
the group to the campus.
Four technical papers were de­livered
during the afternoon.
Warren G. Keith, professor of ci­vil
engineering at the University
of Alabama, discussed, "Plastic
Design in Structural Steel." A
member of the University student
chapter, Joseph M. Rodgers, gave
a paper entitled, "Interesting As­pects
of the Construction of the
Dauphin .Island Bridge."
Theodore Jeffe, professor of ci­vil
engineering spoke on "New
Challenges for Sanitary Engi­neers,"
followed by a talk on
"The Engineer and his Govern­ment"
by Vernon B. Watwood,
Jr., of Auburn, member of t he
API student chapter.
A business meeting with Ray­mond
E. Strickland, Jr., president
of the Alabama Section presiding,
concluded the session.
A special coffee hour, luncheon
and guided tours were held for
the ladies.
Enoch R. Needles, national
president of ASCE, was the main
speaker at a banquet Friday ev­ening.
Tom Espy of Troy was given an
award by Chi Epsilon, civil engi­neering
honorary, for his work
last year as the scholastically out­standing
freshman in the civil
engineering curriculum.
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Significance Of IFC Award
The Plainsman received a letter this
week from the National Council of Chris­tians
and Jews, sponsors of Brotherhood
Week, announcing that Auburn's Inter-fraternity
Council had been singled out
because of its Greek Week theme, "Devel­oping
Ideals Through Brotherhood." Au­burn's
fraternities will be honored for hav­ing
presented the most outstanding Broth­erhood
Week observance '.of any institu­tion,
organization, or community in t h e
State of Alabama.
The award has more significance than
might seem at first glance. In the midst of
the bad publicity which the fraternity
system has recently received in other sec­tions
of the country, Auburn's fraternities
receive an award for brotherhood. News­papers
recently carried stories of the tra­gic
death of a fraternity man at MIT dur­ing
"Hell Week." In another incident, a
fraternity was kicked off campus at the
University of Texas shortly after a man
was paralyzed for three days as a result
of a "Hell Woek" injury. Last year a
fatal shooting occurred in a fraternity
house in North Carolina.
Because of the bad light cast on t h e
fraternity system by these unfortunate
incidents, we are especially proud that
Auburn's fraternities should bring a com­mendation
to the fraternity world for their
emphasis on brotherhood.
The Plainsman extends congratulations
to Sam Crain, Greek Week chairman; Hal
Sumrall, IFC president; and the entire IFC
and Greek Week committee for this honor
which they have brought to fraternities in
general and Auburn in particular.
KLEMM'S CLAMOR
Russia's
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Greatest Ally: U.S. Citizen
BY BILL KLEMM
4^THE PLAINSMAN ., Wed,,. March 28, 195G
LITTLE MAN ON THE CAMPUS, by Dick Bibler
Electoral College
Congress is now considering several
plans which would change the electoral
college system of voting for. president and
vice president of the United States. Should
any of these plans be approved, the pro­posal
would then be submitted to the states
for approval as a constitutional amend­ment.
Of the two plans most likely to be ap­proved,
one would divide the electoral^
vote of the state according to the propor­tion
of the popular vote. That is, in a
state with 20 electoral votes, if the Repub­licans
polled 40 per cent of the popular
vote and the Democrats 60 per cent, the
Republicans would receive eight electoral
votes and the Democrats 12. This is in
contrast to the present system under
which, in our hypothetical case, the Dem­ocrats
would take all 20 votes.
The other plan which has gathered a
great deal of support would retain the
electors, but would elect two from the
state at large and one from each congres­sional
district. Thus a state's two electors-at-
large would be from the party which
polled the most popular vote, but the re­maining
electors would be from the party <
which won in their district. One argu­ment
for this plan is that it would prevent
the large city vote from overwhelming the
vote of the rural districts.
Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey
of Minnesota, in true Civil Rights North-erncrat
style, has introduced a plan by
which the electoral vote from each state
would be determined by the percentage of
that state's vote to the national vote. In
other words, Southern states in which a
segment of the population does not vote
would be penalized, while white states like
Senator Humphrey's Minnesota where a
large proportion of the population votes
would receive extra voting strength. It
is rather obvious that his plan will not be
passed by Congress and certain that it
would never be approved by a three-fourths
majority with the 13 Dixie states
disapproving, but it will serve Humphrey
well and will enhance his standing with
the northern liberals and NAACP.
A change is needed in the electoral col­lege,
however, to make it more represen­tative
of the popular vote of the country.
It is now possible for a president to be
elected by a smaller vote than his oppon­ent.
Also, the fact that Democrats and Re­publicans
are almost evenly divided in sev­eral
very large northern states makes the
solid-bloc Negro vote the deciding factor
in a close election within the state. There­fore
the Negro vote is extremely valuable
when it can swing the electoral votes of
a large state such as New York with its
45 electoral votes. For this reason, north­ern
politicians suit their actions to t he
wishes of their colored constituents and
blast the South at every opportunity.
Thus, we in the South have a high stake
in the plans for changing the electoral
college. The debate on these plans is
something we want to follow closely.
Questions
Widespread publicity has been given
recently to the White Citizens Council's
plan to send questionnaires regarding seg­regation
convictions to public school fac­ulty
members. API has been named as
one of the institutions whose staff would
be questioned.
We are publishing in this issue a letter
from a student who is disturbed over the
implications of such a move. He urges Dr.
Draughons^o take a strong stand in recom­mending
that faculty members ignore the
questionnaires.
However, it has. long been the policy of
API that "each employee of the institution
to foster the Anbnrn spirit
BILL NEVILLE
Editor
BILL TEEM
ED WILLIAMS Managing Editors
Bill Klemm Associate Editor
8am Houston Associate Editor
Tim Ford Associate Editor
Cecil Stokes _ _ Associate Editor
Hal Morgan — Associate Editor
Sue Nethery Society Editor
»<o Newsom Feature Editor
lerry White Staff Secretary
Staff Members: Chlo Gratlgny, Jim Waldrup,
Dorena Wallace, Marie Peinhardt, Sue Lan-don,
Ginger Paris, Gene Williams, Bonnie
Bailey, Julie Erb, Ann Rivers, Millard Fuller,
and Allen Bradford.
CHARLES TODD
Business Manager
DAN BEATY Asst. Business Mgr.
Jerry Godard •- Advertising Mgr.
Doug Hawkins '- Ast. Advertising Mgr.
Allan Gordy i Circulation Mgr.
George Porte- Staff Acc't.
Tom Ogletree Staff Acc't.
John Ferguson 8ales Agent
Steve Morton Sales Agent
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the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, anil la distributed
free. Opinions published in The I'lalnsinan have been
written and edited by responsible students and are not
necessarily the opinions of the administration. Winter
publication date Is Wednesday, and circulation is 7.Km.
Plainsman offices are located in Koom 318 of the
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is exempted from any obligation or com­pulsion
to support any cause when the
support of such cause may be urged or sug­gested
by any other employee of the insti­tution,
or division, school, or department
thereof." These words are paraphrased
from a statement of policy approved by the
Board of Trustees in the annual meeting
of June 13, 1949.
Under this policy, no employee of the
college is in any way obligated to follow
the stand of any other employee of the
institution. The policy prohibits partisan
political activity by API or by any of its
divisions, schools, or departments. It was
wisely adopted to keep Auburn out of po­litics
and to stress its role as an institution
of education.
This is a time when students and facul­ty
both need to think clearly and act calm­ly,
in order that Alabama and our South­land
may be best defended from the self­ish
interests which threaten from without
the state. We trust that should these ques­tionnaires
be sent out every college em­ployee
will act in an honorable manner.
.Unparalleled Future
"You graduates seem destined to in­herit
a future of unparalleled economic
and scientific advancement," Dr. Houston
Cole, president of Jacksonville State
Teachers College, told the 259 members of
Auburn's winter quarter'graduation class.
"Our country is in the midst of transi­tion
from an economy of abundance to one
of superabundance; therefore, your eco­nomic
future would seem to be as secure
as anything could be in anvinsecure world,"
he explained to the graduates.
"The prospects of a workless prosperity
and a weekend longer than the work week
will be matched by scientific develop­ments
that will add to your personal com­fort,
your entertainment and your span
of years on the earth," Dr. Cole continued.
In closing, Dr. Cole told the graduates,
"In this coming world of wonder and dan­ger,
you might well find a faith that will
serve both as a personal commitment and
as a guidepost amid whatever complexities
that may prevail." ';>~
(Editor's Note: The follow­ing
is the first of a four part
series featuring a provocative
analysis of the world situation
today. The articles discuss the
basic nature of global strife, the
U. S. task in staving off com­munism,
and* the role of the in­dividual
citizen in preserving
his cherished liberties.)
PART ONE
Russia has at last wised up—
from her standpoint, that is. So­viet
diplomats, greeting the free
world with extended hands of
friendship and smJring f a c e s,
are mobilizing
their greatest
weapon against
the free world.
That weapon is
U. S. optimism
a n d indiffer­ence
to Com­munism.
T h e Soviet
aim is to relax
world tensions,
accelerating their strides in Eur­ope
and Asia by virtue of less in­terference,
especially by the Unit­ed
States. The pressing danger to
democracy is that U. S. concern
over communism will diminish.
Toward this end the Soviets are
committed.
Signs of our times indicate that
we not only live in a time of strife,
but in reality are also living the
turning point in the history of
civilization. What happens in this
generation will determine the
course of human destiny, whether
that destiny be charted by the ex­pansion,,
of democratic government
or by the subjugation of individual
ambition, enterprise, and expres­sion,
to the Communist state.
We are now engaged in a great
war, the most significant in all
history, which is characterized by
a battle for the minds of men.
The world's two and a half bil­lion
people are divided almost
evenly into two garrisons of
thought, capitalism vs. commu­nism.
The real weapons in this
war are not guided missies or ther­monuclear
bombs, but rather they
are an intricate utilization of hu­man
thought .and personality. The
opposing national powers deploy
their forces in the realms of eco­nomic
theories, mode of govern­ment,
human rights, and the re­lated
propaganda.
The essense of this war is not a
simple armed' clash. Actually, the
war has three inter-woven phases:
(1) militarization, (2) economics,
and (3) human personality.
The first of these phases, mili­tarization,
provokes the greatest
fear. In reality, however, we may
come to find that armed force is
the least of our fears at the pres­ent
time, and that mutual military
strength can' prevent a violent
eruption into armed conflict.
Neither at this time nor anywhere
in the immediate future is a
world-wide clash likely. M%ss an­nihilation
has been so perfected
that world war could no longer
serve the interests of Soviet' ag­gressors.
For Russia knows that
were she to drop a single bomb on
ttte U.S. all Russia would go up in
smoke in a matter of minutes.
The same undoubtedly would hap­pen
to the U.S., but would be of
little advantagerto a likewise de­feated
Russia. ..
The Kremlin has already rec­ognized
this situation and has al­tered
Marx's original declaration
of "revolution by violence." The
present "line" is to create revo­lution
solely by subterfuge, in­filtration,
propaganda, and eco­nomic
debilitation. The Supreme
Soviet is aware of a balancing of
power between the East and West,
and until that balance is broken to
the extent that retaliatory devas­tation
by the U. S. is precluded,
Communism dare not provoke
world war. It would defeat their
very purposes. Furthermore, they
believe they can win the world
to communism easier than through
open warfare.
(Next week: The Reds in Ala­bama
and the U.S.)
High Court And Segregation
BY SAM HOUSTON
In the U.S. Constitution, ratified
in 1787, the preamble contained
what is popularly known as the
Bill of Rights. In that Bill of
Rights, there are certain "inalien­able
r i g h t s"
given to citizens
of the national
community.
There was set
up in the gov-e
r n m e n t a
group of men,
whose duty it
was to inter­pret
the Con­stitution
to the
people and they were called, with
their office, The Supreme Court.
The old cliche' about a rotten
apple in the peck can apply in this
case. Mose people will probably
agree that we have a rather good
government these days. It has pull­ed
the country out of some fairly
unhappy situations and is even try­ing
to balance the budget, which
is saying a lot for any administra­tion.
In fact, most facets of gov­ernment
are in good shape. But
one of these has lost the respect
of millions of Americans on both
sides of the Mason-Dixon. This,
of course, is the Supreme Court.
When a force in government
such as this one oversteps its
bounds and becomes the arbiter of
society instead of a ceurt of last
appeals in law, then the people,
whether they are the nation or a
large segment of the population,
must object and ask for a change.
The Unabridged version of Web­ster's
Dictionary defines the Su­preme
Court as a body which has
"original jurisdiction only in
cases . . . in which a State is a
party, but has wide appellate jur­isdiction
in all cases, in law and
equity, arising under the Consti­tution
and Federal laws, between
citizens of different States, and in
admiralty." ,
It is a hotly debated question as
to whether or not the decision of
May, 1954 comes under the au­thority.
That, of course, was the
explosive "color bar removal"
which started more noise in the
south than anything since Fort
Sumpter.
If the Webster definition is cor­rect,
then they have usurped au­thority
from the people. Because
the Court's decision didn't involve
just a state or a few states, but the
entire nation in an 89 year-old so­cial
controversy. Dorothy Parker
made a good point in her syndi­cated
column last week when she
said that social change couldn't
be crammed down one's throat
overnight. On the same editorial
page, David Lawrence made a
similar observation and added
that it could cause something like
a social upheaval. This is only
token proof that the South is not
alone5 in its objection to integra­tion:
there are Northerners who
have the sommon sense to see the
consequences that may arise.
There is another aspect of the
controversy apparently unknown
to the "nine old men"; of the 16,-
000,000 negroes in this country,
11,000,000 live south of the Ma­son-
Dixon. This would cause
something more of a problem of
coalescence in the South than
elsewhere.
Whether the ruling will be tem­pered
by a new, somewhat less
violent finding or complete revo­cation
is purely a matter of con^
jecture. A look at past history will
easily show how the color barrier
has slowly crumbled since the
Civil War.
In 1876, the Supreme Court
passed a ruling on the Hall vs.
DeCuir case, ending, legally, seg­regation
ia transportation. But the.
idea of Separate but Equal facili­ties
of the races came about in
1896, when, in Plessy vs. Fergu­son,
negroes were given equal
facilities on trains but were sep­arated
from white passengers.
The first battle for educational.
segregation was in 1890 when the
Board of Education in Virginia
was forced to provide for like
schools for the former downtrod­den
colored element. In 1917 resi­dential
segregation was abolished
with the ruling of Buchanan vs.
schools if no sufficient educational
facilities were available.
In 1950, the Supreme Court rul­ed
further that once admitted,
negroes had equal rights of other
students. But the turning point,
which the legal staff of the
NAACP pounced upon was the
Sweatt vs. Painter case of 1950. It
is too complex to explain here, but
the impression it left was that
Warley. In 1939, in the Missouri
vs. Canda case, Missouri was forc­ed
to admit negroes to white
there could be no equal quality
between separate schools, because
of contacts made with legislators
(the case in point concerned itself
with professional schools, such as
laW in this instance) and othei»
invaluable aids to the student.
The lawyers of the NAACP be­gan
preparing their case back in
1951. By 1952 they presented it.
Finally, in 1954, in May of that
year, the Supreme Court issued its
decision.
Putting itself in fighting trim
and wasting little time, the
NAACP prepared for the first
test case of a negro entering und­er
the protection of the new rul­ing.
Autherine Lucy applied to the
University of Alabama and the
battle was on.
Now, after almost a year of
boiling national contention, the
matter is still unsolved. The Lucy
case isn't over yet. As long as she
continues to fight for admittance,
there is no reason to seriously
think that she will lose, unless the
trustees' arguments are plausible
enough to hold up in court.
There has already been talk of
a southern third party because of
the segregation problem. So far,
this is only talk. But talk can lead
to drastic measures and the na­tional
elections of 1960 might see
these measures. It is doubtful
whether this year's conventions
will cause much uproar, but it is
frightening to guess at the final
outcome brought about through
the nation's last court of appeal.
Bouquets and Brickbats
Plainsman's Taste
Blasted By WSGA
Dear Editor:
In reply to your recent articles
concerning certain WSGA proce­dures,
I would like to clear up
several points of misunderstand­ing.
You have seriously misinformed
the student body in several ways.
First, it was not my decision alone
not to release the number of votes
received by each candidate. A
committee of six WSGA members
counted the votes and unanimous­ly
made and agreed to this deci­sion.
Four of the six members of
this commitee were officers. It
was also the decision of these of­ficers,
the president, vice presi­dent,
secretary, and treasurer, that
the names of the girls who did
vote should not be released. We
feel that although we would like
for everyone to vote, it is a per­sons
own business if she does not
vote.
Your accusation that I have
been "flaunting and assuming
such power" is a serious one and
one that is entirely untrue. Such
accusations could prove slander­ous
when they have no truth.
In another editorial you men­tioned
The Plainsman's policies
were to edit the paper in "a spirit
of tolerance, restraint and good
will." "Care -should be taken to
follow the standards of good
taste" and finally, "in news cov­erage,
the views of every person
or group involved should be ex­pressed
without partisanship."
Therefore, since you have not
followed these policies, as you
have said about WSGA, then The
Plainsman is being "inconsistent."
I would like to point out your in-concistencies:
1. You based your editorial on
a phone call to me. You did not
print all of the conversation —
only words taken here and there
that would make it seem that we
were entirely wrong. You made
the facts seem -Hke-a dictatorial
decree from me by only printing
half-truths. This seems to be
neither in "good taste" nor to "en­courage
good will" not "to ex­press
the views of every person
involved."
I hope you will also recall that
I stated I had an appointment at
the time of your phone •call and
that I would be glad to explain
things more thoroughly at a later
time. You did ndt bother to call
back and get the rest of the facts.
2. You stated that it was "ru-
1 mored that the voting list had
been destroyed." Was this in keep­ing
with your policy of "good
taste" to print rumors? I assure
you that it has not been destroy­ed.
Also, if any candidate was in­formed
that she won by a land­slide,
she was not being officially
informed and I cannot take the
responsibility for what every per­son
inside of the two WSGA Coun­cils
may say as a slip of the
tongue. No intentional inconsis­tency
was meant.
_ You. also mirrepresented the
facts in your wording to make it
seem that there was dissension
among the WSGA officer group.
(Continued on Page 5)
"THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CLASS YOU'LL BE TAKING—
60 I'LL EXPECT A LITTLE EXT^A W W PROM VOU THIS TEM.*
Questions For Faculty
By Nelson Cole
Well, here we go again. More petitions, questionnaires
etc., are in the air. This time there's a plan of the Alabama
Association.of Citizens Councils to " . . . submit questionnaires
to white college staffs to determine in writing their views on
segregation. . ."
It's being done so that " . . . (parents) may know the atti­tude
of those to whom they send their sons and daughters
for an education."
State Sen. Sam Engelhardt, executive secretary of the
association, said that after the survey is completed " . . it
will be made public."
With the possibility of bordering on the ridiculous, we
would like to request that the survey-makers add these ques­tions
for all profs to answer:
1. Do you wear pink shirts while lecturing?
2. In your opinion, is the world flat or round?
Check one: Yes No __ It depends where you
are..
3. If the sk"y fell tomorrow, what would you do?
4. Would you teach opinions or facts? (If you choose
"opinions," explain. This must, of course, include "theory"—
which you might say in a way is "opinion.") ft
5. Did Christopher Columbus discover America? Re­member
now, he was a foreigner.)
.- 6. How do you vote .? (Obviously we don't mean the phy­sical
actionof voting, but for whom. It will probably go light­er
on you if it's the way We'vote.)
7. Would you say off-hand that an Epicurean society
would differ slightly from that of the Stoics? (This isn't
really important — but gives an intellectual air to our
questions.)
8. Do you believe gentlemen prefer blondes? (Watch it
now. You know some people make their livin' off selling per­oxide!)
9. What makes grass grow? (Now this is important.
We don't want none of them crab-grass pushers around
'chere.)
10. Are you planning on coming back to teach in this
state?
11. Do you believe you can teach sons and daughters
something different than their family has for, say, the last
eighteen years?
You know, maybe the sky really is falling.
—From The Crimson - White
University of Alabama
I BELIEVE
Easter, A Special Opportunity
Finally, all of us would do well
to take advantage of. the special
Easter services which are being
conducted. Several of the Auburn
churches have planned special
Easter music. Nearly all have
scheduled special services for
Maundy Thursday and Good Fri­day.
Noonday Meditation is another
opportunity here on the campus.
The ministers of Auburn will lead
the devotions held during Holy
Week. These meditations will be
centered a r o u n d Easter and
Christ's last words.
Easter should still go one step
further. It should lead us to a
rededication of our lives to Christ
There is no more significant day
in our Christian religion than that
of Easter. But what is the real
meaning of this day? What is the
actual message of Easter?
The empty tomb of Easter sym­bolizes
Christ's victory over death
and evil. It assures us that love is
stronger than hate, that good will
always win out over evil. In
Christ's resurrection the power of
the cross and His suffering on it
take on new meaning.
Even Easter, however, cannot
have real meaning in our own in­dividual
lives unless we make
spiritual preparation for it. Each
of us needs to read again the story
of Christ's triumphant entrance
into Jerusalem, of His chasing of
BY ALLEN BRADFORD
the money changers out of the
temple, of the Last Supper, and of
Christ in the garden of Gethse-mane,
on the cross and as our ris­en
Lord.
Prayer is another spiritual re­source
we must tap if Easter is to
have any real _ meaning for us.
We can't expect to fully under­stand
the real power »f the East­er
message unless we have had
communion with God.
In Gethsemane, when Christ
was faced with His greatest mo­ment
of decision, He prayed. Lat­er,
looking upward from the cross,
He breathed the prayer, "Father
forgive them for they know not
what they do."
and to His way. I said "To Chirst"
first because the principles of love
and truth never really grip us un­til
they are made flesh and dwell
among us. Just as courage has its
most vivid meaning when we see
a man risk his life to save a
drowning child or perform some
equally courageous act, so love has
its fullest meaning in the life of
Christ.
Anything short of this total
dedication is not enough. Christ
suffered agony on the cross for
us. Remembering this, each of us
should be challenged to live a
higher, more Christian life. This,
however, may mean some "cross­es"
in our own lives, for the chal­lenge
of Calvary is not an easy
one. Do you accept the challenge?
Bouquets and Brickbats
(Continued from Page 4)
There was none and never has
there been any during this term
of office.
It is not unusual for the vote-counting
committee not to release
the number of votes received by
individual candidates. Since 1952
this information has only been
released once. That was in the
election of Suzanne Morgan and
the other officers when the votes
were extremely close.
Your editorial, plus the very
opinionated and one-sided news
article, has placed unwarranted
misjudgment upon the whole
Women's Student Government
Association and upon me. I hope
this letter will help put the cor­rect
light upon the subject.
I feel that our decisions were
right, even in the midst of any
rumors or ill-feeling caused by
your articles. I fully realize the
great responsibilities of my office
and will continue to carry out
these responsibilities to the best of
my ability as I have done in the
past.
Sincerely,
Carol Ann Smith
President, WSGA
Alumna Comments
On WSGA Elections
Editor:
I read with interest your stories
about WSGA elections and the
president refusing to announce the
number of votes each candidate
received.
Perhaps, as an alumna, I should­n't
be writing at all, but there are
several reason why I feel I should.
First, as a reporter, I frequently
come across public officials who
are unwilling to cooperate with
the Alabama Journal in releasing
news—a situation similar to the
one here. Some times these people
fail to realize the importance of
freedom of the press in these in­stances.
I think it is necessary for
the press, whether a large daily
unearthing government corruption
or a college weekly seeking stu­dent
election returns, to fight for
this freedom of the press.
Second, as an Auburn gradu­ate,
I'm interested in things at
Auburn. The third reason I'm
writing is to criticize both the
WSGA president and the Plains­man,
because I believe both are
strong enough to take what I hope
is constructive criticism.
Carol Ann Smith, who is a close
personel friend of mine, is abso­lutely
correct in net turning over
the voting lisfs to anyone. The
right to vote or not to vote is an
American privilege, and no one
should be punished for voting-it's
their right to choose.
However, she is wrong in re­fusing
to announce the number
of votes for each candidate. I un­derstand
that she is trying to pro­tect
the defeated candidates, some
of whom lost by large margins.
However, the rights of free people
to know their election returns and
the right of the press to -gain such
information seems to me to be far
more important than the personal
feelings of one jar two individuals.
Carol Ann has a responsibility to
the rest of the students too; she is
not just a president to represent
and protect defeated candidates.
Student government, I always
thought, was supposed to be de­mocracy
in action on a student
level. However, withholding elec-
Chewacla Park Undergoing Changes;
Swimming Area To Be Improved
lion figures doesn't sound like it,
does it?
As for The Plainsman, the front
page article didn't sound very ob­jective—
it covered much of the
same material covered on the edi­torial
page, which is where it
should have been covered. How­ever,
I'm glad to see The Plains­man
stand up for its rights.
Carol Ann is a fine person and
evidently believes she's right—the
situation itself is perhaps not so
serious as is the principle of the
thing.
Sincerely,
Jo Anne Lucci
Class of 1954
thanks For KFAD
Dear Editor,
On behalf of Gerald Nichols,
chairman of King For A Day 195G;
Millard Fuller, President of the
Auburn Independent Organiza­tion;
and Virginia Hurd, President
of Aquila, I would like to express
our appreciation to the entire stu­dent
body, staff and faculty of
Auburn and the merchants of Au­burn
and Opelika, for their co­operation
in making this year's
King For A Day so successful.
From preliminary tabulations it
appears that 1956 KFAD has
been the greatest ever. Another
\jpte of thanks goes to all those
members of AIO and Aquila who
worked so hard to assure success
for 1956 KFAD.
Everyone was a winner. The
cutct
By Marie Peinhqrdt
In order to provide a cleaner, safer and more attractive
swimming and picnic spot, Chewacla State Park is being
given a real "face-lifting."
Chewacla Lake with the water drained down to a mini­mum
amount looks quite different from the way it is expect­ed
to look by April 1st when the face-lifting job will have
been completed. By that time, the lake will be filled again
and quite a few improvements will have been made.
The bottom of the shallow wat-'
er is being spread with coarse
white sand. To mark swimming
areas, new posts have replaced the
old. The diving board has been
repainted and a new life guard
stand has been built. A 35 foot
beach of new white sand will ex­tend
much farther around the
swimming area than the old
beach did.
All the swimming area is being
fenced so that there can be no
swimming after closing hours and
so that a 25c fee can be collected
from those entering the swimming
area. New steps extend into the
water for the conveniece of swim­mers
who hesitate to jump in.
Along. the main path from the
bathhouse to the water, a twenty
foot asphalt walkway will be
built. Two electric water coolers
are being installed in the beach
area and one outside. To replace
the old beaten up boats, ten new
boats are being bought.
Just where does the money
come from for all these improve­ments?
For all state parks, the
Legislature appropriates one
hundred thousand dollars. Ap­proximately
one hundred fifty to
one hundred seventy five dollars
is taken in through park admis­sion
fees, park concession stands,
etc. With a portion of this money
the Department of Conservation
is building a new Chewacla.
King has been crowned and re­ceived
both honor and material
prizes. Everyone in attendance at
the Coronation had a fine evening.
And, above all, the AIO-Aquila
Scholarship Fund will again next
year be able to help even more de­serving
students.
Once again, thanks'to all who
made 1956 KFAD the best ever!
Sincerely,
Bill Callahan
'56 KFAD Publicity
A Glasses Found
Dear Sirs:
I have an unusual request to
ask you.
On Sunday, March 4, my hus­band,
a soldier at Fort Benning,
picked up a young man *at the
Birmingham water works and
gave him a ride to the Auburn
turn off. He said he was in the
school of Engineering but didn't
give his name. When my husband
reached camp he found the boy's
glas'ses in the car seat. On the case
is "Oculists' Prescription Shop,
522 Woodward Building, Birming­ham,
Ala."
Noonday Services
To Be Held Here
For Easter Week
Special services in observance
of Holy Week have been planned
for- Noonday Meditation, an in­ter-
denominational service of
worship held each Monday
through Friday. The service will
be held in the Union Ballroom at
12:45 p.m. on March 26-30.
Theme of the services will be
"The Last Words of Christ." Each
of the individual meditations will
be built around this theme.
Speakers for the services will
be: Monday, Dr. John Leith, pas­tor
of the First Presbyterian
Church; Tuesday, Rev. David
Friedricks, pastor of the First
Lutheran Church; Wednesday,
5—THE PLAINSMAN Wed., March 28, 1956
Seedmen's Scholarships
Won By Ag Juniors
Alabama Seedmen's Assocaition
Scholarships will go to Gene Da­vid
Wills of Palmerdale and John
Cecil Driver of Suttle. They will
receive $122.50 for the spring
quarter 1956 and $250 for t he
1956-57 scholastic year.
Both Driver and Wills are ju-
Rev. Merrill Stevens, pastor of
the Church of the Holy Innocents;
Thursday, Rev. Joel D. McDavid,
pastor of the Auburn Methodist
Church, and Friday, Mr. Richard
Spain, Baptist student worker.
Special Easter music has also
been planned for the week. All
API students are invited to par­ticipate
in these Easter serices.
WRINKLE?
. GLASSES FOUND
Will student enroute to Selma
between quarters, who caught ride
in Wetumpka, and lost glasses,
please call 1317 in Auburn.
niors in the School of Agricul­ture
at Auburn.
n
Auburn, Alabama
Phone 740 or 1041 for pick up & Delivery
OF ALL TYPES OF LAUNDRY & DRY CLEANING
SEE THOSE CELLOPHANE WRAPPED SHIRTS
LOCATED ON OPELIKA HIGHWAY
ONLY QUALITY LAUNDRY & DRY CLEANERS, INC. HAS THIS SERVICE
Nobody "spared the horses
in the 56 Chevrolet!
»»
We would like for you to print
this in your paper and see if you
can locate the young man because
the glasses look expensive and he
must need them. He can write:
Sp. 2 Frank Williams 34162702
"B" Btry., 9th FA. Bn., 3rd Inf.
Division
Fort Benning, Ga.
and we will be glad to return them
to him. Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Frank Williams
Jasper, Ala.
Route 4, Box 62 :
(Continued on Page 8)
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If you thought the classic oxford button-down could never
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Before I discovered After Six
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Then, I bought an After Six tux.'
Almost immediately, my scrawny
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arms began to ripple with new-'
found strength and energy. My
confidence, my joi de vivre had
returned. At proms and dances,'
girls elbowed each other to
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A flick of your toe is all it takes
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power! Power that makes passing
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they really count! Power that's
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Big, deep-breathing power that
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But power's just one of the
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123 CLAMOROUS PHIZES IN THE "SEE THE U. S. A. IN YOUR CHEVROLET" CONTEST. ENTER NOW-AT YOUR CHEVROLET DEALER'S.
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THERE WAS NO STRIKE
ON OUR BRAIN POWER!
Here are just a few of the scientific and engineering
developments awaiting you at Westinghouse
Breaking the Steam-Pressure Barrier . : . the first steam turbine to operate at
6000 pounds pressure has just been designed. This is double of that previously built.
Further Advances in Steam . . . include completion of a $6 million ultramodern
research and development laboratory and the design of a 325,000-kw turbine generator,
the world's largest and most efficient.
Nuclear Power . ; . now in design is the first homogeneous or liquid-fuel reactor for
a 150,000-kw nuclear power plant. Instrumentation research is also progressing rapidly
for nuclear power plants.
Bomarc . : . in the works is seeker head and ground control for "Bomarc", a long-range
guided missile.
Metals Improvement... a new $6 million metals development plant with complete
facilities for developing new metals and alloys and improving metallurgical techniques
has been opened.
Revolutionary Decision Devices . . . Cypak* has been developed, which is a
switching circuit device with no moving parts for industrial applications capable of
performing millions pf operations with virtually no wear.
Semiconductors . . . nearing completion is a multimillion-dollar plant for the develop­ment
and production of sub-miniature solid-state devices in the semiconductor field
which promise to revolutionize the electronic tube and rectifier industry. Silicon semi­conductors
have already been applied to aircraft control and power equipment.
Automation . . . a manufacturing laboratory for developing new production techniques
and equipment has been opened that will advance and extend automation.
Aircraft Alternator... a brushless alternator for high altitude and high temperatures
using rotating silicon rectifiers . . . a Westinghouse first.
Aircraft Control . ; . new Magamp* and transistor controls for aircraft power.
Doesn't This Prove That We Are Ready To Go? The list above shows just a few
of the exciting new developments under way at Westinghouse. There are new plants,
new research laboratories, new endeavors in many fields. There is room for you to grow
in many directions.
PHONE COLLECT . . . To get all the facts for your decision, Phone Collect
to C. H. Ebert at the Westinghouse Educational Center, EX press 1-2800,
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In The Stands
The Perplexing Seating Problem
Baffles Amos Alonzo Humpledinger
Everybody has problems. The only consolation is that
problems differ. Aunt Minnie may worry about something
simple, such as a corset t h a t ' s too tight, while Uncle Horace's
chief trouble is that balky bull which could earn such high
stud fees if only it would take an interest in cows.
Then there are the problems of the sports world. Athletic Di­rector
Amos Alonzo Humpledinger hasn't got a
big enough stadium to seat the 60,000 people
who want to see his Hellufa State Tarantulas
maul Ole Sagnation U. On the other hand Ath­letic
Director Ingersoll D. Wa1,ersinger down at
Waybelow Normal hasn't been able to fill the
5J)00 seats at Hiram F. Shackley Memorial Field
for any game during the past 17 years.
Finsley Parster, the winningest coach in
Grammaphone Tech grid history, has 14 poten­tial
All-Americans and can't decide which of
them to designate as starters, but Walker K.
Hoopstedler, termed "The Dean of Midwest Foot­ball
Mentors" because he has won only lour
games but has still stayed at Clodhopper A & M
for 32 years, can't even beat the intramural frat
teams with his eleven misfits.
There are also a few more serious problems. Right here in
Auburn, Tiger cage crews could probably win 10 out of 11 home
games every season if they could schedule them. The only trouble
is that the fine old edifice commonly referred to as the "Sports
Arena" literally scares potential visitors off the Plainsman's slate.
To add to the complications, quite a few folks would like to
see the home team make Tiger meat of such foes as Alabama, Ken­tucky,
and Vanderbilt, but who wants to watch through a periscope,
five rows back in a standing-room-only-crowd. The chances of Au­burn
ever having enough funds to build a replacement for the SA
are mighty slim. New hogstyes for the Ag Department probably have
a higher priority rating than a new gym.
Unless some philanthropist presents the college with a
couple of million dollars especially earmarked for gymnasium
construction it may be many years before the structure is built
because Auburn's Athletic Association can't afford it either. The
fact that the financial reutrn from a large gym so far from great
metropolitan areas is relatively small would make indeptedness
inevitable.
. Surprisingly enough the secret to success may be in a rival sport.
Football is at present the most heavily emphasized athletic activity
on the Plains. It is also the biggest money-maker. Of course the high
cost of maintaining a top-flight grid aggregation and the new ad­dition
to Cliff Hare Stadium eat up a lot of the proceeds, but if
"Shug" Jordan continues to produce winning elevens as most fans
feel he will, the#e should be a surplus built up through the years.
A certain percentage of this surplus could be set aside an­nually
as a building fund for a new Sports Arena. Many grid
powers finance their less outstanding sports with such funds,
and there appears to be no reason why Auburn can't do the same.
Good Old Amos Humpledinger might still be struggling with his
seating problem while Uncle Horace is fretting over his bashful bull,
but this would hardly justify the roof of the dilapidated Sports Arena
caving in on a couple of thousand Auburn cage fans some ten years
hence. -. >
Tiger Nine Seeks To Improve Record Against Visiting Vols
Single Game Slated For Friday;
Doubleheader To Follow Saturday
By George Wendell
Assistant Sports Editor
Coach Dick McGowan's Auburn baseballers will display
their wares before the home town crowd this week-end when
they take on t h e Tennessee Vols in a t h r e e game series start­ing
F r i d a y with a single encounter and winding up Saturday
with a twin bill. All three games will count in the SEC
as the Tigers try to improve on
Willifims
Track Outlook, Good..,-. 9^"
When Coach Wilbur Hutsell's trackmen Kit the cmders in their
first meet late this month, rival SEC mentors will be curious to see
whether he has once more provided Auburn with a championship
team. Hutsell's ,U*i*iclads have won the conference title for the past
two years in a '
Although
pw.
he veteran tutor modestly claims that he hasn't
got the squad he had in '55, it could be that
this is a standard opening season statement
because he said the same thing last spring
and still eked out a crown.
One big reason for disregarding Hutsell's dim
views is the return of ace sprinter Don Johnson.
Recently discharged from the service, Johnson
holds the all-time Auburn 440 yard record. He
sped over the distance in 47.8 seconds during the
1943 NCAA meet. /
During his previous two years as a var­sity
performer on the Plains, he won the
SEC 440 championship both times. In the 1953
meet he not only took the crown in his specialty but.also finished
second to another Auburnite Jackie Creel, in the 220.
His time of 2:00.8 for the 880 yard dash was the best Tiger show­ing
in that event during the 1953 season. In 1952 he won the 440 in
the Georgia A.A.U.
Bob Scarbrough and Fob James have added a couple of more
laurels to their already impressive records. Both members of SAE
fraternity, they were selected as first string All-Americans on their
frat aggregation.
Hutsell
their present 1-2 conference
mark. Overall the Plainsmen
hard-ballers hold a 3-2 record.
Last Friday Auburn played
their first SEC series, engaging
Georgia in three games, winning
one and dropping two. The main
reason for their double loss was
their inability to hit with men on
base as they left 23 men strand­ed
in the two losing efforts.
In the first game, Friday after­noon,
Billy Hearn, University of
'Georgia sophomore, made his
first mound appearance as .he
hurled the Bulldogs to an 8-3 de­cision
over Auburn. The Tigers
collected three runs in the second
inning, but could not cross the
plate again as Hearn put down
rally after rally. The Plainsmen
got runners on base in every inn­ing
but left 15 runners on the
sacks. Right-hander Herbie
Pearce started on the mound for
Coach McGowan's crew and was
reached for nine hits and six runs
in four innings. Doyle Pair fin­ished
the last five frames and
gave up four hits and three runs.
Jimmy Powell was the Tigers'
big gun, rapping out four hits in
five appearances at the plate.
FRIDAY GAME
R H E
Auburn 030 000 000—3 9 4
Georgia 300 310 OOx—8 12 2
In the opening game of the
Saturday double header, Paul
Susce, ace Auburn right-hander,
handcuffed the 'Dogs on a fine
two-hitter as the Tigers won a
tight 3-1 decision. Auburn got all
of its runs in the third inning
when Georgia's Wiley Sheppard
walked five. A single by third
baseman Jimmy Laster <drove in
two of the markers.
1st SATURDAY GAME •
R H E
Auburn 003 000 0—3 4 0
Georgia 010 000 0—1 2 0
The nightcap was another
pitcher's duel as Wynton Over-street
of Auburn and Georgia's
Dan Cabanis battled for seven
innings before the Red 'and Black
combination pushed across a run
to triumph 2-1. Both teams had
scored single runs in the fourth
inning.
Leading T i g e r batters were
Alton Shell and Powell with two
hits apiece. Overstreet gave up
eight hits, struck out seven, and
walked five in his losing effort.
2nd SATURDAY GAME
R H E
Auburn 000 100 0—1 7 2
Georgia 000 100 1—2 8 2
The starting lineup for the
i •
ihree games was: Gordon
Swordsma, CF; Captain Guy
Young, 2B; Billy Ray Roberson,
SS; Howell Tubbs, RF; Hindman
Wall, IB; Shell, LF;; Jimmy Las­ter,
3B; and Powell, C; Pierce, P;
Susce, P; Overstreet, P; and
Doyle Pair, P.
There are two returning veter­ans
in thus group — Roberson,
Florence sophomore, who hit .276
when he was with the club in
1953 and Pair, a senior from At­lanta,
who put in a .324 year as a
catcher in 1952.
Desperate!
Anyone interested in going
out for tennis should contact
Coach Luther Young at the
Men's PE office in the "L" Build­ing
or on the varsity tennis
courts. Young has only one re­turning
letterman from the '55
season and is' in real need of
new talent.
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Tiger Golfers Seek
Season's First Win
Meet Troy Next
By Richard Coiner
Plainsman Sports Writer
Among many other activi­ties
at the Plains, spring her­alds
the opening of Auburn's
golf season. Coach George
Hargreave's linkers have
hopes of improving on last
year's won 3 — lost 6 record.
Auburn opened the season on
March 16 in Tallahassee, Fla.
FSU came out on top, winning by
a Score of 27-0.
Returning to the 1956 squad
are four lettermen. Donnie Smith
is the only junior, and seniors
Bill Fulford, Bill Williams, and
Larry Trawick hope to make
their last year a good one. Round­ing
out the eight-man roster are
sophomores Don Kennington and
Bill Church, Junior Wilson Allen,
and senior Fat Williams.
Coach Hargreaves • has been
coaching at Auburn since 1949.
His 1949 links team was unde­feated,
and on that team he had
Southeastern Amateur and Geor­gia
Amateur champ Jack Key.
1956 GOLF SCHEDULE ™
Mar. 16—FSU There
Mar. 26—Alabama There
Apr. 3—Troy State _~_ There
Apr. 7—Georgia 1_ Here
Apr. 12—Mercer Here
Apr. 14—FSU Here
Apr. 21—Mercer There
Apr. 24—Georgia Tech .... There
Apr. 26—Alabama Here
May 2—Georgia ...... There
May 3, 4, 5—S.I. & SEC
Tournament Athens, Ga.
May 8—Troy State i_ Here
May 12—Georgia Tech Here
Soccer League
All foreign and American stu­dents
interested in playing soc­cer
should contact Rick Price
at the Delta Sigma Phi House,
Phone 1930. Practices are held
on Saturday afternons at 2 o'­clock
on the Freshman Football
Field.
BEST
ACTRESS
Anna Magnani
Winner of the coveted
Academy A w a r d for
Best Actress of 1955
for her portrayal of
Senafinz Delia Rosa in
'The Rose Tatto'
Opening
Sunday, April 1st
at the
r*K &iM.4:T
GONE AGAIN is Blue quarterback Jimmy Cook. It seemed to be a regular habit for the fleet
junior field general who sco^d twice on long runs and was voted the "Outstanding Back" of the A-Day
game. The Blues downed the Oranges 33-13.
6—THE PLAINSMAN
Blues Stampede Oranges, 33-13;
Cook Is Most Valuable A-Day Back
By Buddy. Chambers
Plainsman Sports Writer
Halfback Billy Kitchens s t a r t e d the scoring with an 84-
y a r d burst of speed to paydirt and Jimmy Cook, Frank
Reeves, and Pat Meagher followed up .with their top-notch
offensive efforts as the Blues outscored the Oranges, 33-13,
in the annual "A" Day affair before approximately 8,000 Au­b
u r n supporters in Cliff Hare Stadium, Friday afternoon,
March 9th.
Quarterback Jimmy- Cook of sub, quarterback Mac Champion,
the Blues was voted • the "Most The Oranges, although down by
Outstanding Back" as he handed as much as 26-0 midway in the
the ball off to Kitchens for the third period, moved the ball well
first TD midway in the second with Frank Riley quarterback-period
and then kept the ball ing, matching the winners almost
himself to score the Blue's sec- yard-for-yard. Lefthalf. Louis
ond and fourth markers on runs Preis fought his way through the
of 30 and 78 yards. All totaled, line late in the third stanza and
Cook carried eight times for 137 reached paydirt from 14 yards
yards. out. Then after Meagher added
Touchdown No.- 3 belonged to the winners last tally, righthalf
center Frank Reeves as the rangy L!°yd Nix dashed around left
lineman took a Frank Riley ae- end for 12 yards to score the final
rial early in the third period and TD of the game,
ran it back 87 yards for the Blues , The Orange scores came on
third score. Righthalf Pat Mea- drives of 69 and 71 yards, and, all
gher added the finishing touches totaled ,the Orange offense rack-by
battling his way 46 yards for ed up 340 yards as compared to
the fifth and final six-pointer by 424 yards by the blues. While
the winners after taking a short Cook and Kitchens were the
third quarter toss from Cook's Blue's rushing leaders with 137
This Week's Sports Slate
Thursday
Tennis L-l Auburn vs. Troy State There
v Friday
Baseball Auburn vs. Tennessee Here
S a t u r d ay
Baseball Auburn vs. Tennessee Here
Track Florida Relays There
Monday
Tennis - A u b u r n vs. Florida Here
Tuesday
Golf Auburn vs. Troy State _____ Here
Tiger Thinclads
To Travel South
For Florida Relays
The Auburn thinclads will
journey to Gainesville Saturday
to participate in the annual Flo­rida
Relays. Last year the Tigers
didn't place, but in 1953 they
finished third and in '54 they
came out in the second position.
This year Coach Wilbur Hut-sell
will be counting heavily up­on
the services of Bill Yarbrough,
who participates in the broac
jump, high jump, and high and
low hurdles. Also carrying much
of the Tiger burden will be Son­ny
Alsup, pole vault and broad
jump; Dave Powell, 880, 440 and
relay, and Don Johnson, 440, 220,
and relay. Johnson is a return­ing
serviceman who was the SEC
440 champ in 1952 and 1953:
In last year's' relays, John Bar­ton
set the record for the two-mile
run with a time of 9:28.5,
clipping almost 26 seconds off
the old mark of 9:54.3. Also that
year, Hoppy Middleton placed
third in the 100-yard dash with
a time of 9.7. Grabbing a tie for
third in the pole vault was Mic­key
Brown with a jump of 12 ft.,
and 107 yards respectively, At- 6 in. The Auburn sprint medley
kins and Preis were leading the i made up of Tom Merrit, Middle-
Oranges with 70 and 60. ton, Rudy Boyd, and Dave Pow-
Another outstanding phase of ell, finished in tourth position.
(Continued on Page 7) I (Continued on Page 7)
Wed., March 28, 1956
On Campus with
MaxShukan
(Author of '-Barefoot Boy Witk Cheek," etc.)
HOW TO BE A THUMPING BIG SUCCESS
ON CAMPUS
While up in the attic last week hiding from a bill collector I
came across a letter, yellow now with age, that dear old Dad had
- sent me when I was a freshman. I read the letter again and
recalled, with many a' sigh and not a few tears, what; an inspira­tion
it had been to me back in my freshman days. I; reproduce it
below in the hope that it may light your way as ijj did mine.
" D e a r Son, (Dad always called me Son. This was short for
Sonnenberg, which was originally my first name. I later traded
i t with a man named Max. He threw in two outfielders and a left-handed
p i t c h e r . . . But I digress.)
"Dear Son, (Dad wrote)
"I suppose you are finding college very big and bewildering,
and maybe a little frightening too. Well, it need not be that
way if you will follow a few simple rules.
"First of all, if you have any problems, take them to your
teachers. They want to help you. That's what they are there for.
Perhaps they do seem rather aloof and forbidding, but that is
only because they are so busy. You will find your teachers warm
as toast and friendly as pups if you will call on them at an hour
when they are not overly busy. Four a.m., for instance.
"Second, learn to budget your time. What with classes, activi­ties,
studying, and social life all competing for your time, it is
easy to fall into sloppy habits. You must set up a rigid schedule
and stick to it. Remember, there are only 24 hours in a day.
Three of these hours are spent in class. For every hour in class,
you must, of course, spend two hours studying. So there go six
more hours. Then, as everyone knows, for every hour of study­ing,
you must spend two hours sleeping. That accounts for an­other
twelve hours. Then there are meals—two hours each for
breakfast and lunch, three hours for dinner. Never forget, Son­nenberg,
you must chew each mouthful 288 times. You show
me a backward student, and I'll show you a man who bolts
his food.
"But college is more than just sleeping, eating, and studying.
There are also many interesting and broadening activities, and
you would be cheating yourself if you neglected them. You'll
want to give at least an hour a day to the campus newspaper and
yearbook, and, of course, another hour each to the dramatic and
music clubs. And let's say a total of three hours daily to the
stamp club, the foreign affairs club, and the debating society.
Then, of course, a couple of hours for fencing and bird-walking,
a couple more for square dancing and basket weaving, and one
or two for cribbage and ice-sculpturing.
"Finally, we come to the most important part of e«ch day—what
I call 'The Quiet Time.' This is a period in which you renew
yourself—just relax and think green thoughts and smoke Philip
Morris Cigarettes.
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"Well, Sonnenberg, I guess that's about all. Your mother sends
her love. She has just finished putting up rather a large batch
of pickles-in fact, 350,000 jars. I told her that with you away
at school, we would not need so many, but lovable old Mother
is such a creature of habit that though I hit her quite hard
several times, she insisted on going ahead.
' \ Your ever lovin'
Dad."
©Max Shulman. 1959
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Spring Intramurals Start Today;
KA Downs PKA For Cage Title
I
By Bob Black i ^ i ;
Intramural Sports Editor,
With spring officially here and classes started, t h e Spring
Q u a r t e r Intramurals get under way today. Twenty-four
teams meet this afternoon in 12 contests. Twelve Church,
Dorm, and Independent teams clash in softball openers. The
same number of fraternities begin badminton. Fraternity
softball will start April 10.
Next Wednesday the fraternity
thinclads begin the preliminaries
o f the Intra­mural
T r a ck
Meet. Finals
follow Thurs­day.
Theta Chi
the defending
champs, h a ve
Phillips, s h ot
put r e c o rd
h o l d e r , and
o t h e r main­stays
returning
from last year's
squad.
Black Each t e am
participating can enter two men
in each event. All events will
score alike. Events are as fol­lows:
APRIL 4
4:15—Shot (Finals)
High Jump (Finals)
4:30—120 Low Hurdles (Trial)
4:45—100-yard dash (Trial)
5:00—120 Low Hurdles (Final)
5:05—Broad Jump (Final)
5:30—220-yard dash (Trial)
APRIL 5
4:15—Pole Vault
4:30—100-yard dash
4:45—440-yard dash
5:00—Mile Run ,
5:15—220-yard dash
5:30—880-yard run
5:45—880-yard relay
This afternoon there are six
matches scheduled in the frater­nity
badminton leagues, followed
by six more tomorrow. Matches
will be played in the Student Ac­tivities
building between 4 and 6
p.m. Team managers should ob­tain
equipment 'from the intra­mural
checkout source. Matches
consist of two singles and one
doubles contest.1- Best two of
three games determine the win­ner.
}
Matches to be flayed this after
SP-OTS,
and pumped in eight of nine field
goals in the third quarter.
The Pikes trailed by 16 points
late in the game, then closed the
spread to three points with three
minutes left. The tight Pike press
gave the KA's several charity
shots. The KA's stayed out in
front to win 63-55.
Rpsser took high point honors
with 23 tallies for the game. High
man for PKA was Lemay with 17.
KA's Hurt tied this mark.
noon are: SPE-PKT,
and PKA-SAE. Tomorrow PKP
plays DC, AP-TX, DTD-TKE,
DSP-SC, KA-SN and LCA-SAE.
The six softball games begin
at 4:15 today. Div. A meets Div.
O, Div. S-Div. H, and Div. M-Div.
U for the first Dorm League
action. Two independent games
are on tap. The •Devils play Au­burn
Hall, and a the Buckshots
battle the Creeps. BSU plays
Wesley in the Church League.
Independent :and fraternity
games begin at 4:15. Games will
be called on the field. Do 'hot
call the intramural office.
Rpsser Leads KA's
Led by Jim Rosser, Kappa Al­pha
copped the fraternity basket­ball
championship in the season
finale against Pi Kappa Alpha.
After a close first half, Rosser
moved out around the foul circle,
Lost
A Plainsman award key some­where
in the vicinity of the
Girl's quadrangle. If found
please return to Ed Williams at
the Plainsman office or call
9224, or 489 on the college ex­change.
Plainsmen Nerrers
Open Dark Season
Thur. With Troy
If anyone has the "right to cry
the blues" this spring, tennis
coach Luther Young certainly
does. Young has only, one re­turning
letterman from 1955's
six-man team which won nine of
their 16 matches. To add to
Young's difficulties, bad weather
cut net practice to a minimum
last quarter, and the Tigers must
tangle with their first foe, Troy
State, tomorrow.
Philip Adams is the lone re­turnee
on this season's aggrega­tion.
No. 3 man on last year's
squad, he scored 17 of 102 team
points. This was good enough
for second, but Lee Abraham,
who had 20 points, and Charles
Lee, with 17, will be sorely miss­ed.
Other top scorers Howell Ha-gan,
Hunter Bell, and Jerry Es-kew
are also gone as are all of
the reserves who saw action.
Since 1946 Young's tennis
teams have won almost 75 per
cent of their matches, but it will
take some real effort to over­come
this year's 13-tilt slate. Vis­itors
will come to the Auburn
clay courts eight times beginning
with Florida's arrival on April 2.
Of the 12 men listed on the
varsity tennis roster, nine are so­phomores.
Among the more
promising of these are Bobby
Clark and Bill Healey of Atlanta,
but Young emphasized the flux
of the situation as recently as
Thursday by stating that Adams
was the only definite starter for
the match with Troy. He also
added that it's not too late for
net hopefuls to .go out for the
spring sport.
Those interested should contact
him at the PE office in the "L"
Building or on the tennis courts
any afternoon.
The schedule is as follows:
Mar. 29—Troy State there
Apr. 2—Florida here
Apr. 6—Mercer — there
Apr. 7—Troy State here
Apr. 11—Marion here
Apr. 13—Mercer here
Apr. 19—Alabama there
Apr. 20—Miss. State there
Apr. 21—Ole Miss — there
Apr. 28—Georgia —- here
May 5—Georgia Tech here
May 9—Ole Miss here
May 10, 11, 12—SEC
Championships Atlanta
tigers Take Two
From Florida Foes
To Open Season
By Bryant Castellow
Plainsman Sports Writer
I n a season opener at Flo­rida,
t h e A u b u r n nine downed
t h e home baseballers, 2-1. A l ­though
neither pitcher allow­ed
an earned run, t h e Plains­men
pulled ahead of t h e Gat­ors
for t h e win.
In a second unscheduled game
against the sunshine boys, t h e
Auburnites agreed to use a Flo­rida
pitcher and the contest was
coimted as an exhibition game.
Needless to say, Florida won 9-3
with two homeruns by the Gator
Captain Jerry Bilyk.
The Plainsmen continued their
road trip with a non-conference
victory over Florida Southern,
10-7. Coach Dick McGowan start­ed
his ace righthander Herbie
Pearce, and relieved him on the
mound with Wynton Overstreet
and Doyle Pair.
Pair is an Army returnee who
in 1952 hit .324 as a catcher for
the Tigers. This season, however,
McGowen has the backstop de­partment
well stocked with such
players as senior Jimmy Powell
and soph Pat Duke, consequently
converting Pair to a hurler. The'
big Atlantan proved his ability
and gave up but one hit and a
walk in two and two-thirds inn­ings.
The big gun on the offensive
was leftfielder Alton Shell who
blasted out a double and a single
in three official trips to the plate.
On his two-bagger in the first
he drove in three runs.
PAUL SUSCE'S FIREBALL FORM
The Stretch . . . Windup Coming Around . . . With the Pitch And Follow-Through
Frosh Nine Faces 12 Foe Slate;
"Prospects Good" Says Connally
Auburn's Freshman baseballers will play a 12-game sche­dule
during the 1958 diamond season, including four battles
with t h e Alabama frosh and t w o contests against t h e Georgia
Tech freshmen. Other opponents a r e to include Troy State,
Opelika High, and Robert E. Lee High of Montgomery, all
on a home-and-home basis.
A-Day Game . . .
(Continued from Page 6)
the ballgame was the punting of
both Eddie Jackson of the Blues
and Tommy Lorino of the Orang­es.
Jackson averaged 45 yards
on five boots, while Lorino stay­ed
around the 40 mark on eight
kicks. Jackson's longest effort
carried 56 yards in the air, while
Lorino's tops was 54 yards from
scrimmage.
Although the contest was pri­marily
an offensive battle, the
two squads both showed some
outstanding line play, and it looks
like the. 1956 Auburn football
team will be deep in the line as
well as the backfield. Senior
guard Ernie Dan jean of the
Blues was "Most Outstanding
Lineman" to go along with Cook's
award as the top back.
Help Needed
The Plainsman sports staff
needs one or two more writers,
particularly someone familiar
with golf or tennis. Contact eith­er
Ed Williams or George Wen­dell
at the Plainsman office,
room 318 of the Union.
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Thirty-two candidates for the
squad began organized practice
this week and prospects for, a
successful season look good, es­pecially
on the mound. Coach
Joe -Connally said, "The pitching
has -prospects of being the b£st
in several years; both in quality
and quantity. First base is" also
strong with three good boys
there, and the remainder of the
infield ought to shape up ade­quately.
However, we do need
plenty of work in the outfield."
Standing out in practice so far
have been pitchers Fred McDuf-fie,
Tommy Watts, Fred Burk-halter,
and Newell Brand. These
boys, at present, shape up as the
starters. However, other hurlers
still much in contention include
Tommy Pruitt, Coy Coan. Jim
Sellars and Richard Wood.
Three lefthanders are battling
for the first base post. They are
Lloyd Nix, Charlie Pinkerman,
and Mac Dauphin. Besides
throwing from the leftside, Pin­kerman
and Dauphin hit left-handed,
while Nix bats right..
The three infield positions are
likewise all toss-ups with Tom­my
Lorino and Andy Chiles bat­tling
it out for second; Charles
Carlan, Roger Lawrence, and
Bobby Brown are all much in the
running for the shortstop berth,
while the hot-corner position is
being fought for by pitcher-third
baseman Gerald George, Bill
Phillips, and Ted Gilreath.
In the outfield, things are very
undecided with centerfielder
Jackie Burkett looking like the
top prospect in drills to date. Also
listed as outfield possibilities are
Riley Preston, Zeke Smith, and
Bob Williams. Additional help
Ed Williams -.:...
George Wendell
Bob Black
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will probably be gathered from
other positions.
The catching appears okfty with
Morris Savage slated for No. ' 1
duty. Also in contention are
Norman Lang, Boyd Whigham,
and Charles Lane.
Here is the schedule for the
1955 season, with the exception of
the Georgia Tech games on which
the exact dates are not yet set:
FRESHMAN SCHEDULE
Mar. 30—Opelika, there
Apr. 3—Opelika, here
Apr. 6—-Alabama, here
Trackmen Travel
(Continued from Page 6)
In 1953 when the Tigers placed
third they grabbed off three first
place awards. Jackie Creel, de­mon
of the 100-yard dash, tied
the record with a run of 9.7, while
Apr. 7—Alabama, here
Apr. 10—Troy State, there
Apr. 16—Alabama, there
Apr. 17—Alabama, there
Apr. 20—Robert E. Lee, here
May 5—Troy State, here
May 8—Robert E. Lee, there
7—THE PLAINSMAN Wed., March 28, 1956
Bill 'Ficklihg won the 120-yard
high hurdles. Auburn's quarter
mile relay team, composed of J u ­lian
Brown, Bill Whitten, Creel
and Don ' Johnson, circled the
course in 42.4 seconds for another
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Mail Flow Of 15,000 Pieces Daily
Boosts Spirits Of Students, Faculty
By Virginia Paris
Plainsman Staff Writer
One big thing which keeps the Auburn Spirit flying high
is the great boost students and faculty get from the daily
mail. Nothing puts a smile on a person's face any faster than
a package, letter or card from home.
"We feel that mail has an im­portant
effect on the morale of
our students," is the way Charles
Bentley, director of Magnolia
Hall, says it.
Girls at Social Center put it
this way: "Know this was my
lucky day; I got a box of food
from Mom" or "Guess what! I
got a letter from Bob."
Some 15,000 letters, cards and
packages flow to and from the
campus every day.
At least 1,000 pieces are deliv­ered
to the 1100 girls who live
in the girls dormitories and So­cial
Center.
Another 600 pieces are deliver­ed
to 950 boys living in Magnolia
Hall. Although running into
thousands, there is no accurate
way of determining the amount
of mail received by the 5,000
students living in Auburn and
adjoining towns.
official mail
There are about 10,000 pieces of
mail being sent and received by
API administrators and faculty
members daily.
"I've learned not to be surpris­ed
at anything the boys receive,"
stated Mrs. Betty Garrison, post­mistress
of Magnolia Hall, boys
dormitory. They subscribe to an
amazing number of newspapers
and get mail from everywhere.
The strangest package that has
been handled lately was a rope
which a veterinary student re­ceived.
It came without paper,
boxing or wrapping. There was
a string around the middle with
the address attached.
The mail received by the girls'
at Social Center isn't quite as
varied, but there is much more.
The post office has grown to be
three times as large as it was^ori-ginally.
Darnell Gidden, the pre­sent
mail clerk, has been deliv­ering
the dormitory mail since
1939. He finds that the present
average of one or two letters a
day for each girl is a great in­crease
over the 1939 mail which
usually consisted of one bundle
of mail for each dormitory.
no-mail complaints
Postal clerks are certain that
mail is important to the students
who often register their annoy­ance
when there isn't any mail.
They have observed that fresh­men
receive more mail than up-perclassmen
and that students re­ceive
more mail at the first of
the year and the first of the quar­ter,
just after they have left
home.
Students' mail is sorted in both
Social Center and Magnolia Hall
as soon as it arrives in the morn­ing.
The most time consuming
part of the work is looking up
the proper addresses when room
numbers have been left off of
letters. Students are being ad­vised
that they can insure much
faster service if they will be sure
that people writing to them will
give the full address on the let­ters
and packages.
postal staff
The mail is even more impor­tant
to the various offices and
schools on campus and its deliv­ery
is much more time consum­ing
than J;he personal mail. Most
of the college's mail is delivered
to the Mail Room, a part of
Buildings and Grounds, and from
there it goes to the 67 schools and
offices to which the Mail Room
delivers.
Mrs. Wilka Taylor, the mail
clerk, and the two mail carriers
see that mail is handled properly
at the Mail Room. The mail is
delivered by the Federal Post
Office and is then sorted and de­livered
to the offices on the cam­pus
twice a day.
top customers
The offices which receive the
largest amounts of mail are the
President's Office, Registrar's Of­fice,
Vocational Agriculture, Li­brary,
News Bureau and Business
Office. The most time consuming
job for the Mail Clerk is opening
and re-addressing letters that are
addressed to Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute. Each one has to
have its proper office address
before it can be delivered.
The Extension Service handles
its own mail. That usually in­cludes
about 10,670 envelopes a
month. It also sends nearly 500
copies of weekly letters to exten­sion
workers.
Students and faculty are rlow
sending and receiving more mail
than ever before and the college
post office employees are seeing
to it that everything possible is
done to deliver that mail as
quickly and as well as possible.
Class Rings
Class rings can be purchased
from members of the Ring Com­mittee
or in the Student Govern­ment
office. Members of the
Ring Committee are Fob James,
227 Miller Ave., phone 2082-J;
Gene Lynn, Magnolia Hall,
phone 1576; Jim Rosser, Kappa
Alpha house, phone 26; Floyd
Stroup, 5-2 Garden Courts, 260
South Gay, phone 9161, and Hal
Sumrall, Kappa Sigma house,
phone 537.
Bouquets.:.
(Continued from Page 5)
Appeal To Prexy
Dear Dr. Draughon;
There are many shades of
opinions in regard to the hotly de­bated
problem of segregation ver­sus
integration. The last chapter
of this story is no doubt many
years from being written. On our
own campus there are heard ex­pressions
of every variation of
thought on this subject. Thank
God for those expressions—thank
God for the American freedom of
thought and speech.
It appears to be characteristic of
human 'nature for man to fail to
appreciate to the fullest his
privileges and blessings until he
recognizes a threat to them. In a
recent announcement made by Mr.
Sam Engelhart of Macon County
in behalf of the Alabama Associ­ation
of Citizens Councils there
appears a threat to the American
privilege of freedom of speech and
thought.
The following is taken from
T h e Montgomery Advertiser
March 18:
"The Alabama Association of
Citizens Councils announced yes­terday
it planned to submit ques­tionnaires
to all officials and fac­ulty
members of white colleges in
Alabama to determine in writing
their views on racial segregation.
"This program, the first initiat­ed
by the state association toward
maintaining the separation of
races, was announced by State
Sen. Sam Englehart of Macon
County, executive secretary of the
organization.
"Engelhart added that after the
survey is completed 'it
made public'
"In view of the recent occur­rence
at the University of Ala­bama
relative to Autherine Lucy
IFC PRESIDENT Hal Sumrall, Marietta, Ga., (center) presents
intramural basketball trophies to KA champs and PiKA runner-ups.
and also Leonard Wilson, Engle-hart's
statement said, 'The Citi­zens
Councils of Alabama feel
that every official, professor and
instructor should state his views
in writing as to whether he is for
integration of the races or segre­gation
of the races.
"With this in mind it is our
purpose to question in writing to
ascertain the views of all con­nected
with the University,' he
continued. 'This is also our atti­tude
as to the other white insti­tutions
of higher learning in this
state, and our inquiries will be
propounded in all white institu­tions
of higher learning so that the
people of Alabama may know the
attitude of those to whom they
send their sons and daughters for
an education.'
"The plans for the survey were
first instituted by the' Montgomery
County Citizens Council and later
approved by the board of direc­tors
of the state association."
Does such a measure of intimi­dation
have a place in our land
of the free or does this smack of
police state tactics? Where will
such a course of action lead? Will
the business men, the doctors and
will b e i ^ h e lawyers be the next victims?
At this point the solution is
simple. The faculties of our white
colleges can be protected from
such intimidation if the adminis­tering
bodies of the schools will
take a positive stand in opposition
to any compliance of the faculties
with such a request. Then any fu­ture
effort would be nipped in the
bud. For, if the Council succeeds
in .backing every teacher into a
ccfrner, every honest business man
in the state will be required to
take some definite stand. The con­sequences
will, of course, be cata­strophic.
If the administration of
our school takes a positive stand,
the contagion will not be allowed
to spread. I
Ag Professor Wins 8~THE PLAINSM*N
Teaching Grant
Dr. Kenneth Ottis, associate
professor of zoology-entomology
in the School of Agriculture, has
been awarded a research fellow­ship
by the American Physiologi­cal
Society and National Heart
Institute for summer study.
The grant makes it possible for
Dr. Ottis to further his research
in the field of stress physiology.
His study at the Bowman Gray
School of Medicine, Winston Sa­lem,
N. C, will be on cardio-vas-cular
changes that occur in ani­mals
under stress.
>
Dr. Ottis is one of 200 profes­sors,
of physiology in the United
States selected to receive sum­mer
fellowships. Only those en­gaged
in both teaching and re­search
were considered for the
grants.
A native of Mitchell, S. Dak.,
Dr. Ottis came to'Auburn in 1952.
Wed., March 28, 1956
Financial Report - Student Body
January 1, 1956 through March 15, 1956
ALLEN HALE, Treasurer VIC TALBERT, Supt. of Finance
Balance $1,928.48
INCOME
Student Act. Fees
Ring Sales
Invitations sales _
TOTAL
$436.31
42.50
22.46
$1,928.48
EXPENDITURES
Student Spirit ...
Student Drives
Political Affairs
Dr. Draughon won't you take
the lead in strongly urging your
faculty not to endanger their own
freedom or that of others by sub­mitting
an answer of any kind to
the questionnaire of the Alabama
Association of Citizens Councils?
(Student's name withheld)
$ 76.35
- 22.34
4.80
Student Travel __- 176.76
Telephone Service , 46.80
Postage Service —- 16.59
Office Supplies 1. 26.23
Misc. Expense 22.00
TOTAL EXPENDITURES
Income and Balance
Expenditures
$391.87
$2,429.75
- 391.87
$2,037.88
SPECIAL ALLOCATIONS ..
(Balance as of Jan. 1,1956)
EXPENDITURES
..$1,327.49
..$ 325.51
BALANCE TO DATE
$1,001.98
$3,039.86
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