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AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1958 Number 33
Education Fund
Receives Grant
: A grant of $50,000 is being made by the F u n d for t h e Advancement
of Education to t h e School of Education here. The
g r a n t will give partial support for one year for the school's
experimental p r o g r am for the t r a i n i n g of school administrators.
New Building
Cost Estimated
At $250,000
In an effort to correct some of
the crowded situations existing
here at Auburn, Building, and
Grounds is planning the construction
of a new building. The
•date of completion of the building
is now tentatively set for Fall
quarter, 1959.
Col. Funchess, head of B & G,
recently announced the plans for
the new building to be erected in
the vacant space opposite the
present Shop Buildings. The
building will be a three'story, 40'
by 220' project with a combination
of 19 class room, of 40 to 60
capacity, and 30 offices. One floor
of the building will be used for
economics and other courses of the
Science and Literature Department.
The date to begin construction
. of. the proposed $250,000 building
is as yet undetermined, but the
contract has been awarded to the
architectural firm of Pearson,
Humphreys, and Jones.
NOTICE
Due to the fact that impending
holiday week-end will give
the Plainsman staff the opportunity
for a much needed vacation,
there will not be a Plainsman
next Wednesday. The next
publication date is set for Wednesday,
July 16.
Of the amount advanced by
the fund, $25,000 will be available
on July 1. The remainder
will be granted on Jan. 1, 1959.
Total cost of the experimental
program for the first year of the
three year projected program is
$95,000.
The purpose of the program as
defined by Dean of the School of
Education, Truman Pierce, is to
test the idea that competence in
educational administration in
county school systems can be developed
through a professional
program of work and study in
the school systems themselves.
Moreover, this program will shift
much of the preparation of school
administrators from the college
classroom directly to the school
systems where problems will be
studied in their actual setting. It
will emphasize an administrator's
performance of duties rather
than his command of facts alone.
The experimental program will
provide summer work conferences
with the superintendents, their
supervisors and principals on the
Auburn campus; scientific,' organized
studies of-school system
problems during the school year;
consultative services to superin-:
tendents and the planning
conducting of research and evaluation.
In addition the Southern
Association of Secondary Schools
and Colleges and the API Graduate
School have approved formally
the School of Education's
giving off-campus field laborat
o r y courses for graduate resident
credit. This latter will be
on an experimental basis, and
will be tied in with overall program
for the administrators.
Pumphrey Hopes To See
Re-Accreditation By Spring
Engineering Dean Now Interviewing
Prospective Professors For School
'Players' Schedule
Three-Act Play
For Late July
The Auburn Players are at it
again. This time they are presenting
a well-known three-act
play, Arsenic and Old Lace, under
the • direction of Robert
Knowles. The play unfolds the
story of how two old maids see
to it that a dozen gentlemen go
to their just rewards.
The play, Arsenic and Old
Lace, was originally a movie in
which such stars as Josephine
Hull, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorie,
and Allyn Joslyn starred.
Auburn's cast consists of many
locally well known and experienced
actors. Mrs. Ellen Ward,
who has had many years of experience
in the theater, portrays
the part which Josephine Hull
originally played. Dr. Rainey of
the Speech Department portrays
Officer O'Hara and Capt. John
Napier plays as Mortimer. Other
members of the cast are:
Cookie Floyd as Martha Brewster;
Jeannette Hasty as Elaine
and Harper; George McWilliams as
' Jonathan; Buddy Little as Teddy;
and Mel Smith as Dr. Einstein.
Sam Lipps as Rev. Harper;
Murray Funderburke as Officer
Brophy; Bill Mason as Officer
Klein; Don Sullivan as Lt.
Rooney; Don Simmons as Mr.
Gibbs; and Olin Baker as Mr.
Witherspoon.
Arsenic and Old Lace will be
presented July 23-26, 30-31. and
August 1-2.
'Loveliest of the Plains'
This young lady seems to be
ready to blast off to the moon.
Time was when this would have
been considered an impossibility
(the Navy may still have that
opinion), but this week's love^
liest, Carol Meadows, from that
small town in Georgia called
Atlanta, may well make it.
While preparing for this moon
voyage, she is encamped in
Dorm 10, and studying "airless
survival" as a freshman in
Science and Literature. • Bon
Voyage, Carole.
BY SANDRA RILEY
Two of Auburn's engineering courses which were disac-credited
last November may be on the road to re-accreditation
this fall.
During the spring of 1957, representatives of the Engineer's
Council for Professional Development were invited to
API to inspect several of the engineering
courses. Due to a lack
of professors, an over-abundance
of students, and low salaries for
teachers, the Mechanical and
Electrical Engineering courses
were deprived of their accreditation.
Recently, Westinghouse Company
made a contribution of $15,-
000 to API's School of Engineering.
This contribution, which will
be renewed every year for five
years is for the purpose of hiring
professors for one of the courses.
The Alumni Association is also
raising money for this purpose.
Within a week or 10 days, several
men from other colleges are
coming to Auburn to be interviewed
as prospects for the
teaching positions.
In a recent interview, Dr. Fred
H. Pumphrey, Dean of Engineering,
stated that initially he had
been optimistic about finding an
adequate number of qualified
professors to teach the courses,
but now he realizes that the job
National Society
For All Engineers
Forms New Chapter
The National Society of Professional
Engineers has established
a chapter on the API campus.
A constitntion has already
been adopted and officers elected
as follows: Theodore Jaffe,
president; George L. Nurphy,
vice-president; Alton S. Little,
secretary-treasurer, and Dr. Rol-land
Sturm, director.
The SPE can be compared to
the Bar Asociation or the Medical
Society. It will speak for all
engineers whether they be Civil,
Electrical. Mechanical or other.
Therefore, membership is open
to registered engineers and engineers
in training regardless of
specialty or field of employment.
The aim of the chapter, according
to Prof. Jaffe, is to coordinate
the mutual interests and development
of all member engineers.
This society offers to registered
engineers a single, powerful voice
which speaks for a cross-section
of the engineering profession.
The National Society, founded
in 1934, has 42.123 members and
the rate of increase is steadily
rising. The Auburn chapter has
12 members.
The next meeting is scheduled
for July 1. Consulting engineers,
I engineers employed by organizations,
research engineers or fac-i
ulty members are invited to attend.
might not be too easy. He went
further to say that he still hope*
that the courses will be ready
for re-accreditation by next
spring.
Since November the courses
have continued to function under
the same conditions as before.
Students taking these coursea
have received credit for them,
but when as graduates, they apply
for out-of-state professional
engineering licenses, they find it
difficult to receive them.
Two Appointed To
Physics Dept. ' • • ?
President Ralph Draughon announces
the appointment of Miss
Kundry Herrmann and Dr. John
D. French to the staff of the
Physics Department. Miss Herrmann
and Dr. French will arrive
on the campus in September and
begin their teaching and research
duties in the Fall Quarter.
Miss Herrmann, a native of
Germany, holds a B.A. degree
from Park College and has done
graduate work in physics at the
University of Missouri. During the
past few years she has held a position
in the Nuclear Energy Division
of A.C.F. Industries in
Washington where she has been
engaged in nuclear reactor design
studies. Miss Herrmann will assume
a position as instructor on
the staff and will aid in the nuclear
science training program.
Dr. French has recently received
his doctorate in physics at
Louisiana State University where
his research work has been in the
field of beta and gamma ray
spectroscopy. He will continue research
work in nuclear physics
while aiding with the undergraduate
and graduate teaching programs.
Vet Senior Found
Dead In Room
Jerry Turner Jowers, senior in
veterinary Medicine from We-tumpka,
Ala., was found dead last
Wednesday afternoon in his room
in the Alphi Psi fraternity house.
Jowers was found by John
Black when he failed to come
down to supper about 5:30 p.m.
Evidence indicates Jowers took
his own life but reasons for his
actions are unknown.
He is the son of Dr. J. M. Jowers
a veterinarian at Wetumpka.
New 'Whys' For Work
MMMMM. . . . 100 ICE-COLD WATER MELONS were consumed
by the quarter at a mass melon cutting held in Magnolia Hall
Courtyard, Thursday evening, June 26. This event was the first in
a series of summer activities planned for the dormitory.
Former Soldiers Train
Engineers At Auburn
BY JANE SENTELL
It seems that among the professors
who haunt Broun and
Ramsey there are men who, after
glorious careers in the Army and
Navy, are now trying to give the
engineers of tomorrow a good
start.
Among the old soldiers teaching
at API are three Army men
and three Navy men. One of
these men, Gen. C r a w f o r d,
teaches in the Math department
while all the others teach in Engineering
departments.
There are various reasons why
these men are now teaching at
Auburn. Gen. Crawford, a graduate
of West Point, got some of
his experience at his own alma
mater teaching math. He retired
from the army in 1946, and since
he' was still "hale and hearty,"
he wanted something to do, so he
began to inquire around about
some teaching positions in colleges
all over the country. Auburn
gave him the best offer, so
he came here in 1943, and has
been teaching such courses as
mathematics and aerodynamics
since then.
Admiral Sprague, who is in
Electrical Engineering, and Captain
Ward, who is in Mechanical
Engineering, also had never been
to ' Auburn before they retired.
Admiral Sprague retired from
the Navy in May of 1949, and was
determined to teach in a college.
Auburn had a vacancy, so he
came here in September of 1949.
Captain Ward, originally from
Mississippi, retired in 1950 from
the Navy and wanted to come
back south. Since Auburn is far
enough down south, he came
here, and has remained at API,
except during the Korean War,
when he went back on active
duty.
In 1921, Ingalls was stationed
here with the ROTC unit. While
at API he fell in love with and
married an Auburn coed from
Opelika, Wilella Plant. Soon the
Army called them elsewhere, but
when Col. Ingalls retired in 1946,
he and his wife came back to
Auburn, and he began teaching j
such courses as dynamics and
strength of materials.
Col. Klcpinger was on duty i
with the ROTC unit at API fori
five years in the 1930's. He and
his family fell in love with Auburn,
and decided that they
would like to come back some
day. They did, for in 1952, Col.
Klcpinger returned as head professor
of Military Science. After
he retired in 1954, the head pro
fesscr of Drawing, who knev/ that
Col. Klepinger had a degree in
Mechanical Engineering from
Ohio State University, offered
him a position in Engineering
Drawing and Design. In 1956 Col.
Klepinger became a member of
the Auburn faculty, this time
without the Army as a boss.
Although most of these men
did not have the actual experience
of teaching in college before
they came to Auburn, it can
well be said that they all had
many years of teaching experience,
for their work required
that they constantly teach others.
We should be very honored that
these men have seen fit to'come
BY TIM BATTLE
Back in the "Dark Ages," it was
common practice for a student to
work while going to college, the
reason for this being that money
was a rather scarce commodity in
the days of yesteryear. But over
the years, this reason has changed
until now it has become the psychological
aspect of "personal
pride," or overcoming the effect
of "sponging on the parents." To
defeat their problem of parental
dependency and' to overcome financial
deficiencies, many students
have resorted to the many employment
opportunities offered at
on or off campus locations.
To balance his credits and
debits, an ambitious student
might look first at the opportunities
offered by the many
campus laboratories. Laboratory
assistance is steadily attaining
greater prominence in the field
of student occupation. This can
readily be attributed to increasing
enrollment and expanding
lab facilities. For this reason
many students are being employed
as lab assistants and instructors.
The lab assistants are those
to Auburn to teach, bringing
with them not only book knowledge,
but the knowledge of experience
which is so vital to us.
ATTENTION AUGUST GRADS
Candidates for degrees in
August who have not cleared
deferred grades (Incomplete and
Absent Examination) may do so
only with permission from the
Council of Deans. Graduates
who need to secure such approval
should check with the
Registrar's Office immediately.
MRS. JEFFIE GANTT
Would like to announce that she is now working
with
IA it KING'S BEAUTY SHOP
in the Pitts Hotel Building
All of her customers are invited to move
with her. Phone 306/ and ask for
"JEFFIE"
FOR SALE OR RENT
38-foot, two bedroom trailer
$2,500 - BUY $50 MONTH RENT
LOCATED AT CHERRY'S TRAILER PARK
Call Opelika, SH 5-2985 after 6:00 P.M.
We banish
stubborn s t a i n s!
Even the most stubborn spots
and stains from dirt or grease
are no match for us. We make
them vanish fast!
CURRY'S CLEANERS
244 W. Glenn Ave.—Phone 573
Substation at 400 S. Gay Street
student benefactors who properly
label chemical packages to
prevent the "student novice" from
detonating Ross. They also keep
lab machinery and equipment in
good working order, so that we
"potential hazards" can walk out
of lab with what we came in. . . .
namely: fingers, arms, Athlete's
Foot, etc.
Lab instructors can best be defined
as those students who have
tired of "taking it in" and now
wish to "dish it out." Of all student
occupations, however, this
position requires a student who is
both scholastically qualified and
capable of teaching. In relation to
other jobs, this is probably the
highest paid student position on
campus.
Another student job which involves
"dishing it out" (not fact,
but food) is cafeteria help and
tablehopping. A large percentage
of, the working student population
is employed in this field,
mainly because of the many cafeterias
and dining halls which the
city of Auburn has within its domains.
The wages of these hai-d-working
students are ordinarily
in the form of free room and
board, but in some cases may include
a small monetary wage. A '•
student entering this endeavor
will immediately note an increase
in Auburn friendliness on the part
of the one he serves. . . . especially
at mealtime.
In the theaters are found a
goodly number of brave souls,
commonly referred to as ushers
and projectionists. It is these,
men who should be lauded
above all others, for, in the
midst of: the mass bedlam of a
Saturday night late show, the
stampending of couples trying
to meet that permission dead*
line, and the cries of "FOCUS!",
they calmly stand their ground,
the pay'rate of these brave souls
averages about $1 per hour.
Your time can be pleasurably
spent watching all the latest
movies, with the added conven-.
ience of being able to study on
the job . . . ie, if you're the
kind who doesn't mind inter-.2>.
ruptions.
As can be readily seen, gainful
employment may be found in jobs
ranging from advertising distributor
to zoology lab. assignment.
Regardless of which vocation
you select for defeating your financial
problems, you'll find the
money there for the taking. . . . .
(oops!) . . . making, so go to it!
THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, July 2, 1958
IN CELEBRATION OF
-JULY 4th-
TODAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY ONLY
(We'll Be Celebrating Too, Friday)
ALL SWIM TRUNKS IN STOCK
DRASTICALLY REDUCED
Regular $5.95 Numbers SALE $3.93
Regular $4.95 Numbers SALE $3.30
Regular $3.95 Numbers SALE $2.63
FOR ALL OUTDOOR NEEDS AND
HOLIDAY PLEASURES SEE OUR COMPLETE
STOCK!
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,J3 — THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, J u l y 2, 1958
Big Problem
Is Minor One
IH BY BILLY SPANN
"Our greatest traffic problem is
minor violations," stated Mr. Millard
E. Dawson, chief of the Auburn
Campus Police in a recent
interview with this reporter. Chief
Dawson, in his usual friendly
manner, was eager to offer information
on the work of his
department.
He reported t h a t students'
Carelessness in small matters had
caused most of the past traffic acc
i d e n t s . He cited as an example
their habit of running past stop
$igns with only a glance for oncoming
traffic. He stated, however,
that he believes that the
traffic situation is improving, and
that he expects much less trouble
this summer, partially due to the
decreased enrollment.
Chief Dawson said that he believes
that the recent lining off
and the erection of new stop
signs at the corner of West Magnolia
Ave. and Donahue Drive
Will be a great aid in keeping
Gates Open at 6:30
F i r s t Show at 7:00
Thursday - Friday
JULY 3-4
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Tuesday, July 8
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AEEJHT
CINEMASCOPE
Wednesday, July 9
Thursday - Friday
JULY 10-11
JAMBS
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traffic moving there during the
rush to and from ROTC drills.
He stated that he considers the
traffic congestions near the drill
field during drills to be more of
a nuisance than a problem. He
added that he knew of no major
traffic problems on the campus,
and that the wide dispersion of.
violations indicated that there are
no points of particular danger.
Chief Dawson reported that a
safety program for the fall quarter,
including a safety check of
automobiles during registration,
was being considered. This would
require automobiles to pass light,
brake, and other safety tests b e fore
being registered.
Chief Dawson was enthusiastic
in his praise of The Plainsman and
other campus publications for r e minding
the students of the need
for automobile safety. He said that
The Plainsman had been a great
help to him in keeping traffic
violations at a minimum. He also"
said that he believes zone parking
has been a great help in reducing
traffic problems.
Students Should
Register Autos
Chief. Dawson has asked The
Plainsman to remind commuting
students that aU automobiles
brought to the campus for longer
than a 48 hour period must be
registered within 48 hours after
arrival on the campus. To register
his car, a student must produce
satisfactory evidence of ownership
(no student will be allowed to
register another student's car).
Tickets must be taken to the
College Security Office within 72
hours after the violation occurs
for payment of the fine. Failure
to do so will constitute an additional
violation.
Hardly Noticed By Many Auburn Students
Navy ROTC 'Sea Dogs' Drift Off To Sea
BY DICK ROLL
Foreign Correspondent
Probably it went unnoticed by
mdny students at Auburn but as
spring quarter ended, several
hundred males walked around to
their finals with more than the
usual daze on their face and with
stencilling ink under their fingernails.
These unlucky few were
the members of Naval HOTG that
were going on cruise during Ithe
first two months of the summer.
They had to stencil everything
they took with them from jock
strap to sea bag. Some of these
young men, all brothers in the
great Naval Fraternity, went to
Quantico, Va., for Marine Corps
training. Next year's junior classmen
went to Corpus Christi, Tex.,
and yours truly, together with a
majority of the whole group, went
to Norfolk, Va.
As many of us later found out,
Norfolk is a very confusing town,
as-- well as the largest city in Virginia.
It is also the site of the
largest Naval operating base in
the worid.
After much searching we finally
found the place where we
checked in. LCDR. Peth and Lt.
J. G. Gibbins, both from the
Auburn unit, were there and
Mr. Peth cornered me into
working all day helping ROTC
midshipmen check in. About
1600 that afternoon, 4:00 p.m.
to those of you who never have
had any dealings with military
time, we went down to the pier.
You can't imagine the size of
these ships until you have seen
them and even though it was late
in the afternoon, I managed to
get my tongue sunburned by looking
up at them, open-mouthed.
My ship is the. U.S.S. Canberra
or CAG-2 or, as it is lovingly called
by her captain, the Kan-do
Kangaroo. Nobody ever explained
where he got the "Kangaroo."
Some say he's Australian, some
say its because Canberra is an
Australian City, and others claim
kangaroo's go up and down all the
time and so does this ship. She
is a guided missile cruiser, and
she has, six eight inch guns forward
and four missile launchers'
aft.
I t ' shoots the Terrier missile,
BURTONS BOOKSTORE
Wishes to extend to our customers and
friends many thanks for your cooperation
while we are closed for our summer
inventory.
We will be open and ready for business
Monday, July 7
Burton's Bookstore
'Something New Every Day*
S. College ' . . . . . Auburn
which is a surface to air type that
is supposed to knock attacking
plans out of the air by tracking
the planes on radar. Of course, I
am accepting this fact on faith
because they have never shot one;
the main reason being that each
missile carries a price tag of
$35,000. '
Right away they began discriminating
against midshipmen
t h i rd class. They made us go on
board at the after brow, which
was just a shaky wooden ladder,
while the first class midshipmen
and the officers hoarded
at the forward brow. This
consisted of a painted platform
complete with a marine in khaki
shirt and red and blue pants
carrying a fixed bayonet. As
tradition calls for I saluted- the
ensign and the officer of the
deck and requested permission
come aboard.
I had expected to see a grouchy
chief petty officer looking for me
on board so he could immediately
begin marching me up and down
the deck. However, I was pleasantly
surprised by a grinning sailor
standing there all alone who
agreed to show me to my room.
The room turned out to be
quite large, about 20' by 25' and it
was equipped with 21 bunks,
three in a tier, and 20 screaming
roommates. My entrance was in
grandiose style for I couldn't quite
get through the hatch with the
seabag and overnight bag, and I
was pushing them through when
everything gave way at once and
I tumbled down a ladder into the
room. The occupants that were
already there were from the Naval
Academy and the fruitless efforts
of an un-seawise "ROTC boy"
brough on gales of unending
mirth.
The first day we were out to
sea started the war games. We
were to rendezvous with three
other cruisers, The Northampton,
Newport News, and Macon a few
miles from the Virginia Capes in
what they called on opposed
sortie. Russian submarines played
by our own subs were to attack
the cruisers under simulated battle
conditions.
We had air cover from an
anti-sub carrier, sea cover from
destroyers, self-defense from
our own guns and missiles but
the subs succeeded in sinking
us seven times.
As funny as this was at the
time there was no doubt that it
was an ominous note of warning
of the superiority of the submarine.
The Russian submarine flee*
is several times the strength oS
ours and they are building more
subs every year. According to top
Navy brass, subs are the weapon
of the future and their demonstration
on that day certainly seemed
to prove it.
We sailed around in circles for
about five days, at which time the
Captain stated that we were 60
miles from the coast of North
Carolina. It seemed awfully
strange that we had only gone
12 miles a day. At that rate Jit
would take us 400 days to cross
the Atlantic. However, on t he
night of the fifth Hay, he turned
on the steam and we are now lying
off the Azores about 3,000
miles from America.
* * * ' |
(Editor's Note: This is the
first in a series of articles by
The Plainsman's own foreign
correspondent, Dick Roll.)
TODAY and THURSDAY
THE RAPE OF ROME
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Get Home. ..Alive!! THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, July 2, 1958*.
Tomorrow, another Independence Day
weekend begins. As usual, the National
Safety Council foresees an abundance of
tragedy on our highways.
The attitude of "It can't happen to me"
is one of the most hazardous and easy to
assume of all such inner securities. In 1956,
the last year for which complete accident
statistics are available, it happened to the
astounding total of 1,440,000 Americans. Of
that figure 40,000 died. What can we do to
lessen such wholesale depletion of human
existence?
The answer is as simple as it is obvious.
By careful, thoughtful, and courteous driving
this Fourth of July and in the days
thereafter, we can to a great extent insure
ourselves of death at ripe ages. But in addition
to our own display of sense as we
travel, we must remember the important
factor of watching for the imbecility of
fellow drivers. Being too safe is virtually
impossible.
Auburn's title of Loveliest Village of
the Plains was blackened last quarter by
the carlessness of drivers on two occasions
during the same week. In the first, a
collisiion generally regarded as the worst
ever to occur in Auburn, an illegally passing
auto crashed into another on the very
crest of a hill. In this senseless smashup,
five of the six students involved lost their
lives. Only a few days later, a speeding
automobile met destruction against the
armor of a medium tank, belonging to the
API Army KOTC unit. Strangely enough,
none of the four injured Auburnites died.
But what a mark such a ridiculous happening
leaves on the reputation of our school.
It's up to us, in consideration of this factor
as well as that of our own well-being
to make certain that incidents of this nature
will not soon be repeated.
This year, as you anticipate a pleasant
weekend at home, at the beach, or in the
mountains, keep alert while you're at the
wheel. Remember that alcohol and driving
in combination usually lead to traffic
fatality. Enjoy a happy Fourth and live to
tell of it.—PHILLIPS.
A Legitimate Complaint
Cartoonists invariably picture the golfer
as a frustrated, ill-coordinated, trigger-tempered
goon whose only pleasure in
the game is derived from wrapping his
driver around the head of a hapless fellow
player.
However, if the fellow player happens
to be the kind who slows the play of those
behind him or abuses the course itself,
then he is not so hapless as .pictured. His
behavior may also serve to reduce normally
sane men to the, ridiculous state described
above.
In our case, the course is the one at the
Saugahatchee Country Club and a sizable
portion of the ill-mannered golfers are
Auburn students. According to the club's
president numerous recent cases of unsportsmanlike
conduct have been directly
attributable to students of the college. This
is, quite naturally, causing a rising wave
of resentment among the club members
and a growing demand to prevent the students'
playing the course.
The situation is further complicated by
the fact that the membership of the club
is limited to a set number while a large
list exists of those waiting to get in. It is
understandable that this group feels somewhat
slighted in that students are allowed
the use of the club's facilities when they
must wait for membership because the
course is overcrowded.
As a tentative solution to the problem
of conduct, from now on all students will
be given a set of the course rules in hopes
that any previous errors were caused from
ignorance and not intent. There is also a
move underway to establish some system
of student membership but nothing definite
along this line has been done as yet.
The Plainsman realizes that very little
can be done, short of barring students from
the course, to improve the crowded conditions
at the club. But any tension caused
by the actions of an Auburn student can
and must be, relieved. There is never an
excuse for bad manners, especially when
one is a guest.
The college and community here have
always been unique in the cordial relations
existing between the student body and
townspeople. The :great majority of us
want and expect to,see this feeling p i mutual
respect continue. It won't take but a
few of us to reduce it.
Alumni And Money
The response of the alumni to the emergency
fund drive has been somewhat discouraging.
As of June 9 only about two
per cent had pledged any financial support
to the cause.
PRESS
to Foster the Auburn Spirit
DOUG McINTOSH
Editor .
BOYD COBB
Business Manager
RONNIE McCULLARS
Managing Editor
Jack Crumpton
Jim Phillips —
Hoyt Sherard
Features Editor
_ Sports Editor
Art Editor
Staff Members: Charles Steiner, Bobby Harper,
Jane Sentell, Barbara Dodd, Burton Pear-eon,
Bill Spann, Selby Tuggle, Sandra Riley,
Bill Ham, and Joyce Hemphill.
Typist: Linda Thompson
Plainsman offices are located in Room 318 of the
Auburn Union and in The I»ee County Bulletin building
on Tlcbenor Avenue. Entered as second class matter
at the post office In Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates
by mail are $1 for three months and $3 for a full year.
The Plainsman is the official student newspaper of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute and 1B written and
edited by responsible students. Opinions published herein
are not necessarily those of the administration. Spring
publication date is Wednesday and circulation is 4,000
The Plainsman Is represented by the National Advertising:
Service.
Apparently they've turned-deaf ears to
the please of our educators and lapsed into
the economically protective state of "let
Jo do it." This is a rather curious attitude
seeing as how at every football game we're
deluged with tall tales from the older set
about how we're letting the Auburn Spirit
slip away from us; not like it used to be,
etc., etc.
Or maybe the alumni have become so
used to the hard luck stories constantly issuing
from all educational levels that they
have decided that this is just another storm
through which we'll sail serenely as we
always have before. It may interest them
to know that the storm is blowing harder-than
ever and about the only thing "keeping
this ship afloat is the sheer will of
the men manning the pumps( Unless they
are given some logical reason, to stay on—
and quickly—they'll head for the lifeboats.
•. J--/---J.. <. ;•:•'-:••;..,•
We know that the A u b ^ t f alum*ri will
pull us through once they jttaliz#Jjj.e'gravity
of our position. But we fwisivl^ey'd
hurry up.
Papers In Politics?
The University of Alabama
student newspaper, the Crimson-
White, stirred up quite a controversy
recently by its endorsement
of a candidate for governor
in the May primary election. Several
newspapers over the state
criticised this action, therefore
University officials have prohibited
the p a p e r engaging in
any future political campaigns.
There are two conflicting
points of view on this issue;
First, one of the chief purposes
of a student newspaper is to disr
cuss and to express its views oh
controversial topics of interest to
its readers. A student editor has
been elected by a majority vote
of the student body which would
indicate their confidence in his;
ability and judgement. It is his
responsibility to formulate editorial
policy and report all news
as he sees fit.
For many students a college
paper provides their only contact
with happenings in the outside
world other than an occasional
glance at a headline while
strolling through the Union
Building.
However, on the other hand,
By Bobby Harper
should any student in such a high
office at a state-supported university
put his school and its administrators
in an embarrasing
position by engaging In partisan
politics of a state-wide nature?
Such a move would be irresponsible
since the paper is college-
owned and not the financial
responsibility of the editor.
Surely politics should be of
great concern to the student bod*
but a college newspaper is not
the place to debate th§- qualities
of various candidates ffor state
office. .
We don't know what Jhe Crimson-
White hoped to accomplish
by the endorsement j of Judge
Wallace. Their influence could
not, have had very far-reaching
effects on the students due to
the fact that a sizeable portion,
if not a majority are below legal
voting age.
In these 'dark ages* of education
in Alabama, colleges need
as- much- favorable publicity as
they can get. Good public relations-
can lead to increased
alumni financial support while
the opposite means nothing but
aggravated conditions that now
exist.
A Whole Year Of ROTC?
By Jack Crumpton
afHSts*^
Gloom prevails on the campus
at Mississippi Southern. The world
has come to an end. Calamity has
befallen the school's future freshmen
men. ROTC has become compulsory
for one year.
This disasterous change in curriculum
was announced, amid
cries of horror and fear by one
faction, while the opposition set
forth verbal parades and clarion
calls of happiness.
The faction proclaiming the
"impossibility" of the change gave
a magnificent argument to the effect
that the future of. our nation
should be promoted through the
development of more "Brain Power."
Their sentiments were that
the Administrative Council's 16
to 4 vote in favor compulsory
ROTC was an encroachment on
their rights as American citizens
and would serve only to stimilate
an .enigma which they called
"Brass Power."
! Those in favor of the change
•held that every .young American
male needed to be trained in the
riguors of military discipline and
the art of M"-1 cleaning. They
added to this such words as duty,.
honor, country and preparedness.
As a fugutive from a school
where ROTC is compulsory and
being a person who struggle^
through the requirements of Universal
Military Training for two
years, I can easily see the slight
advantage of knowing something
of the demands of the military
prior to "serving your time," but
at the same time, I can philosophize
one of the advantages of
a week of classes going along uninterrupted
by the invariably disjointed
scheduling of courses in
military training.
With a sigh of nostalgia, let us
join the unfortunates at Mississippi
Southern in bidding a sad
farewell to the carefree and undisciplined
absence of compulsory
ROTC and the forlorn welcoming
of the "reign of terror"
which their "masters" are forcing
on them. -
As the end of an era draws
nigh-for,:the.."Southernites", we
offer them our deepest sympathies
at the fate that has befallen them
while at the same time wishing
that one year-was ail-that we hs4-
to face. . .. ' - — .
5 — THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, J u l y 2, 1958
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Talent Festival
To Be Held
This Summer
BY CHARLES STEINER
There will be a Talent Festival
held at the end of July or
first part of August presenting
the talents of students on the
college campus in an entertaining
show for Auburn students. This
show is sponsored by the Union
Program Council and will be
free to all students.
The talent that will be presented
at this festival will include
musical, such as, instrumental
or singing; d a n c i n g,
whether it be ballet, folk or
country dances, waltz, tap or jitterbug;
acting, such as minstrel,
comedy, or tradegy; and panto-mine
or any other talent that
you as an individual or group
wish to present.
Whether you are a comedian or
straight-faced actor, a magician
or showman, a poet or satirist, a
singer of ballads, popular, folk or
rock and roll songs, have a touch
of vaudeville in your blood, if
you have talent, then you are
asked to sign up. If a foreign student
wishes to present some version
of songs or dances from his
homeland, then he would have
the opportunity of entertaining
his fellow students and introducing
them to some of the customs
of his country.
If you have a musical instrument,
such as a guitar, ukulele,
brass or string instrument at
home and you wish to use it in
your performance on stage, then
be sure to bring it back to college
in time for the talent festival.
A piano will be provided
for those needing it in their act.
If you know anyone who wishes
to join you in presenting your
act or who wishes to work with
someone in any act, then contact
the entertainment committee for
information concerning this.
Those interested can contact
Tuffy Ware, program director, in
Room 303 of the Union Building
or Miss Harriet Jinkins, chairman
of the entertainment committee
at Dorm V. Auditions will be
held during the month of July.
THE WIDE EYED LOOK on the face of Linda Thompson isn't
because she's cracking up, it's because her date, 'Lash" Rumbley,
just stepped on her foot. The party was sponsored by the Phi Kappa
Tau fraternity, one of the few fraternities socially active on campus
this summer. Pictured left to right are: Julia Jackson, Alice Glenn,
Wood Campbell, "Lash," and Linda;
Glee Club Concert
To Be Presented
In Late Summer
BY JOYCE HEMPHILL
Auburn's three glee clubs are
busy rehearsing for a summer
concert, which will be presented
sometime in August, although an
exact date has not been determined.
The concert will be outdoors.
The choruses will present well-known
religious and folk songs as
well as popular numbers. Among
these well-known selections will
be "Malagauena."
This summer, the membership
in the three glee clubs is larger
than for any of their seven previous
summers. There are about
a hundred students in the Mixed
Chorus, forty in the Men's Glee
Club, and twenty in the Girl's
Glee Club.
The Mixed Chorus rehearses
every Monday night from 7:00 until
9:30 under the direction of Mr.
John Williams.
The Men's Glee Club meets on
Tuesday nights from 7:00 until
9:30. It is also under the direction
Store-Wide After-Inventory
CLEARANCE SALE
Begins Thursday, June 10th
Largest Sale Event of the Year with More
Merchandise Offered at Lower Prices
Than Ever Before
Lots Of Fall Merchandise Included
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AAUP Elects
New Officers
New officers of the state American
Association of University
Professors are announced by retiring
state president, David W.
Malone, API.
The new officers are: Dr. C. D.
Sands, University of Alabama,
president; Dr. R. M. Baine, Alabama
College, vice-president, and
Dr. O. B. Emerson, University of
Alabama, secretary-treasurer.
Having met at Auburn last
Saturday, the association will meet
at Alabama College next spring.
of Mr. Williams and is accompanied
by Allan Fuller.
The Girl's Glee Club meets on
Tuesday nights from 7:00 to 9:30
also, but under the direction of
Mr. Tamblyn and is accompanied
by James Hutcheson.
Although it is too late in the
quarter to receive credit for this
one hour elective, anyone, regardless
of his classification in school,
who is really interested and who
enjoys singing is urged to join the
group by contacting Mr. John
Williams in the Music Department.
Educators Gather])
For Third Annual Ij
Reading Confab
Between 250 and 300 educators
are expected to gather on the API
campus July 2-3 for the tbjjd
annual. Reading Conference sponsored
by the School of Education.
Dr. A. Sterl Artley, Pro'fesso*
of Education and Director of the
Child Study Clinic at the University
of Missouri, will be features
speaker. He is also president eledt.
of the International Reading Association,
affiliated with the 'National
Council of Teachers of'Ettg-lish,
the National Association fot
Remedial Teachers and the •National
Education Association. "DP.
Artley is author of "Your Ch 114
Learns to Read," and has written,
a number of publications in collaboration
with others in this
field, and numerous articles tfcis*
have appeared in professional
journals.
Dr. Artley's three addresses -before
the Reading Conference "will
be: "Teaching Reading in *the
Content Areas," "Teaching h a l t ing
and the Exceptional Chilfl,"
and "Improving the Developmental
Reading Lesson."
Conference leaders representing
API include Dr. Byron CaH&wJty,
Dr. William H. Coffield, Dr. The*
Dalton, of the School of Education,
and William P. Dome, ©e-partment
of Speech. Dean Truman
Pierce, School of Education,
will greet delegates during ft**
first general session in Thaon,
Auditorium. Registration for th«
conference will be held in Tbadk
Hall from 8:00-9:00 July 2.
The morning session will feature
group discussions with groups
representing primary, intermediate
and secondary grades. E*v
Artley will address each session.
Textbooks, children's books, i\nd
other reading materials will toe 00*
display in rooms 106-108 of ThaX*.
Hall.
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Speech Clinic
Set For Juiy 7-15
July 7-15 API will be the scene
Of a conference dealing with the
education of handicapped and
exceptional children. Teachers
and other interested persons will
attend the clinic.
William Dome, a member of
the..Auburn speech department,
i s to serve as conference coordinator.
Mr. Dome stated that the
purpose of the clinic is to emphasize
the interesting need of special
classes for the handicapped
and gifted children.
API consultants for the event
Will be Dr. J. B. Ranney, head
©f the speech and hearing clinic;
the Blockbusters, composed of
students taking therapy for stuttering;
and Dr. Joe Sutton, who
is assistant professor of psychology.
Consultants not connected with
'Auburn will include Dr. Mamie
J o Jones, coordinator. Dr. Jones,
who works with the State Department
of Education in Atlanta,
Ga., will be in charge of the
Conference on July 7.
Richard Allison, principal
from Birmingham, Ala., is scheduled
to appear before the conference
on July 8.- Mr. Allison
Works with the Birmingham
Speech and Hearing Center. Other
consultants will be William
Geer, head of the program for
the Education of Exceptional
Children, from Atlanta, Ga., and
O. F. Wise, director of vocational
rehabilitation for the Alabama
State Department of Education in
Montgomery. Other consultants
•whose names are not yet available
will also appear.
Each day of the clinic, two
morning sessions will be held
from 9 to 10 a.m. and from 10:30
tcrfi:15 a. m. There will be one
night session on July 7, at 8 p. m.
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"'Across from the Campus'
The speaker for this session
will be President E. B. Norton of
Florence State College, who will
be sponsored by the Herzfield
Lecture grant. He will also be
supported by the API speech department
and school of education.
Special classes have reached
225 since the program began in
1955. More are expected this fall.
Union To Sponsor
Dance Tonight
BY CHARLES STEINER
A 4th of July Dance, providing
both music and entertainment,
will be presented by the Union
Program Committee tonight on
the Union patio from 7 p. m. to
10 p. m.
Music will be provided by the
Knights of Rhythm and a floor-show
scheduled during intermission
time for the entertainment.
The Knights of Rhythm, who
are to provide the music, have
been playing for the college and
surrounding area since 1949. They
play a variety of music, consisting
of modern, jazz, ballads, dixieland,
popular and Latin music.
Five of the six members are in
some way connected with the college.
The band includes Jimmie
Engle, their Business Manager,
on the tenor sax, Bob Lewis on
the trumpet, Gene Smithson on
the trombone, Bobbie Hinton at
the piano, Randy Erichson at the
bass and Jack Dobbs at the
drums. This band has played
Class Ring Orders
Now Being Taken
Seniors may now place their
orders for class rings, reports 'Bo'
Davidson, chairman of the ring
sales committee. Posters have
been placed at various locations
on the compus in order to promote
sales.
Rings may be ordered from
any of the six men on the committee.
They are, in addition to
"Bo" Davidson: Morris Savage,
Walter Glenn, Lloyd Nix, Gene
Burr, and Bob Hurt.
Rings are being sold in 16, 13,
and 11 pennyweight sizes. B a s e
prices are $38, $33, and $29 respectively.
In addition to the base
price, there will be a 10 per cent
federal tax and 3 per cent state
tax. A ruby or garment will be
set in the rings for $3 extra. An
oval contour ring may be ordered
for colleges, fraternities, and sororities,
private and civic groups.
One of the two acts of the
floorshow provided by the Union
Entertainment Committee will be
Tom Stull, who will do a panto-mine.
Stull has appeared from
the Eagle's Nest. A weekly dance
with nightclub atmosphere, held
during the regular school year in
the Union Building. The o t h e r
act will include Hugh B r o wn
and Eddie Miller on the guitar
who will do several numbers of
entertaining variety.
Bridge lessons are being offered
every Monday night for
the rest of the summer quarter
at 7:15 p. m. in Room 213 of the
Union Building. Competent instructors
will assist in lessons for
beginners. The starting date is
July 7th. Next Tuesday, July 8,
there will be another patio dance
with muic provided by the juke
box, courtesy of the Union Build-over
an area covering four statesing.
6 — THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, J u l y 2, 1958
Vo-Ag Conference Planned Here
Approximately 350 Vocational
Agriculture Teachers are expected
to attend the annual state conference
of Vo-Ag teachers on the
campus July 16-18. The theme of.
for an extra $1, and fraternity or
other letters added for $1.25 per
letter.
Naval ROTC students should
place their orders with Walter
Glenn, since they will order special
rings.
Orders may be placed with full
payment, or with $5.00 deposit
until delivery. Rings may be expected
to arrive from 8 to 12
weeks after placing an order.
Further information on the class
rings may be obtained from the
salesmen.
the annual affair will be "Adjusting
the Instructional Porgram in
Vocational Agriculture to Meet
Present Needs."
President Draughon will deliver
the welcoming address. Another
first day activity will consist of
a panel, made up of county
superintendents, principals, and
teachers who will discuss "Agriculture
and Economic Trends Affecting
Vocational Agriculture."
The conference will close with
an address by Dr. R. E. Commack,
state director of vocational education,
on the "Outlook for Vocational
Education." API staff members
will have various parts in the
program.
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Auburnites Fill Ranks AUBURNs SPORT PICTURE
Of Pro Football Squads
BY BILL HAM
Sports Writer
An outsider reading the
Plainsman or listening to an
Auburnite elaborating on the
past season's football triumphs
would think us a great deal
more than egotistical. But how
can you be modest about a
bunch who played their hearts
out for a tradition and for their
fellow students? You can't help
but relive the Saturdays that
you saw each player perform
like an Ail-American, finally
bringing home the conference
crown and the coveted National
Title.
the heap. Then there is Hal
Herring. Not only do we know
him as our defensive coach, perhaps
the best in the nation judging
by Auburn's record last season,
but as a former Ail-American.
Like Tidwell, Herring enjoyed
a productive career in
professional football. In addition
Coach Hal went on to be
named to a berth on the All-
Pro Team.
Since Jordan came to Auburn,
there have been many
more to remember. Bobby Freeman,
Joe Childress, M. L.
JOE CHILDRESS, former Ti
with slingshot in hand. Joltin' Joe
nal backfield.
What's more you simply can't
forget the boys who have graduated
after contributing so
m u c h toward the greatest
Auburn sports year. Even back
in the lean years before Coach
Snug Jordan came to the Loveliest
Village, Auburn had its
stars whose performances are
still in the minds of old Tigers
every where. Very few of us
could say that we had not heard
of Travis Tidwell, a true AU-American
of an era in which
Auburn was on the bottom of
ger All-America fullback jokes
now stars in the Chicago Cardi-
Brackett, and Hoppy Middleton
are a few among many names
who have meant much to the
Plainsman cause, as they donned
the Orange and Blue each
Saturday.
These players have not stopped
at just making every Auburnite
proud of them. Last
season we thrilled at seeing
Middleton make the most beautiful
catch of the day in TV's
game of the week between Hop-py's
Detroit Lions and the
Cleveland Browns. That catch
is one of 20 that the big end
snagged in contribution to the
championship cause.
To say the least we were
proud as we read of Joe Childress'
switch from first string
halfback to starting fullback in
the Chicago Cardinals' line-up.
To no less extent did we follow
Brackett with the Chicago
Bears and Bobby Freeman with
the Browns as they made the
news week after week.
This year will be no exception
to the recently established tradition
as Auburn sends four of
its stars merging from a team
of national prominence into the
pro ranks. After climaxing a
great season by staring in three
post - season classics, Jimmy
Phillips signed his pass receiving
ability to the Los Angeles
Rams. In addition to Phillips
the West Coast got two other
Auburn stars as San Francisco's
49'ers signed Bobby Hoppe, Auburn's
starting right halfback
for the past three season and
Billy Atkins, the fullback who
couldn't be stopped at the goal
line last year while Auburn rolled
to victory.
To hold down the gridiron
situation in the eastern-most
part of the country, the Washington
Redskins secured the signature
of tackle Ben Preston.
Preston, mentioned in several
preseason Ail-American selections
last summer, was held out
6y an injury for the first few
games, but came back at the end
of the season to reek havoc on
Auburn's opponents and to
place first on one of the All-
SEC -units.
Auourn has had its stars,
past and present. Can we help
but express pride as we point
out one of our many Auburn
stars now with the pros while
we say, "He's an Auburn man."
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Each Fall near mid-season, one of the keenest pigskin rivalries
in this nation is renewed. On October's third Saturday the\
Plainsmen make their annual junket to Atlanta where they clash
with Coach Bobby Dodd's Geergia Tech Yellow Jackets.
The pageantry enjoyed by all interested observers
of the classic is unequaled in this city j"
throughout the year. Auburnites seem to take
more delight in voicing proud crys of "War
Eagle" as they amble down Peachtree Street"'
than they do at any other playing site. Unfii- :
formed Atlantans don't understand the sigmfi>- '
cance of such frolicing, but most of them love'iti' *•
When kickoff time arrives, Grant Fieldfff •
40,000 seats are all occupied. Spectators ara^
well aware that a Tiger-Jacket battle promises *
PHILLI PS the best in clean but hard-hitting football, whether
the teams involved are undefeated or can't claim a win between. ""
them. Rivalry is so fervent that record means little on the eve of1;,!'
this contest. , "
The past four seasons have provided some of the series' most '
hard-fought gridiron warfare. When Bobby Freeman, Jim Py-burn,
Joe Childress, and a host of other stars manned the 1054 J
Plainsman unit, the complexion of the Tech-Auburn series changeel -
from a perpetual Jacket runaway to a yearly tossup. On that
cloudy afternoon the Tigers presented Coach Dodd with a pre-*'•'*•••
view of what was to evolve the next fall. Tech copped that one, •
14-7, after Jacket quarterback Wade Mitchell relieved Aubufri '
halfback Fob James of the ball, in or near the Tech end zone. On; •
that controversial play, photos showed James over the goal while '
Mitchell's hands were wrapped around James and the football. '
No investigation was ever taken of the incident, although that
play may have cost Auburn a tie. r.i £
Revenge was sweet a year later. s:r .•
Behind the arm of quarterback Howell Tubbs and the sensational
pass receiving of ends Jimmy "Red" Phillips and Jerry •••;
Elliott, the Plainsmen won the next one, 14-12. That victory"
marked Auburn's first over the Jackets since 1939. Students,
alumni, and fans from the Plains stood spellbound in the stands
for nearly an hour after Mitchell's last pass had dropped harmless.
And that night was one to remember.
In 1956, Tech blasted the Tigers, 28-7, after a first quarter
deadlock of 7-7. On that overcast afternoon, the Plainsmen traded
touchdown marches with the Rambling Wrecks until Tubbs' leg
was injured, late in the initial period. After the big field general
(See Phillips Column, Page 8)
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Wilson Gets Set
For Great Year
By JIM PHILLIPS
Sports Editor
D u r i n g t h e p a s t five football seasons, Auburn squads
ftave been blessed w i t h a n abundance of s t a r end talent. In
1953, when the Tigers first developed into t h e powerhouse
t h e y are today, J im P y b u r n displayed finesse and leaders
h i p at left end.
Following Pyburn's
Inframurals Off To Great Start; SAE, PKT Take Early Lead
225 pound giant will become
quarterback Lloyd Nix's favorite
aerial target this September,
the assumption that Wilson
will further his football
greatness is an even safer one.
departure
into professional baseball,
.fimrny "Red" Phillips made
fiis three season career a dynamic
one. Now as the '58
campaign approaches, the stocky
lad who may top the greatness
of them both is ready to
etake his claim to national
stardom—Birmingham's Jerry
Wilson.
The principal factor contributing
to Jerry's greatness is
the attitude he assumes toward
Aimself. He is aware of his potential
and continually forces
himself to meet it. Wilson never
loafs, neither on or off the
football field. His nervous energy
is so abundant that the
feig flankman continues at a
*apid pace all day in whatever
Re undertakes.
To- watch him perform is an
experience in itself, Jerry's effectiveness
at diminishing op-j
»osition and crashing the ball
earrier to earth was unequalled —— " ~
on the Plainsman squad last PHILLIPS COLUMN (Continued from page 7)
1 p j " At pass receiving he is ' /• .-Tw":--. « * w - w \ r *
h i s limped to the bench, he never returned to action that day. The loss
of Tubbs and the explosive showing of a third string Tech halfback
named Johnny Menger were too much. The fleet Georgian
broke the tie by scampering to two touchdowns, one a record-breaking
punt return of 86 yards.
School was out until the following year.
Last fall, when Tech had been stripped completely by graduation,
and the Tigers employed their greatest unit of all time, the
game followed the course of 1955's encounter. After Billy Atkins
booted a first quarter field goal, scoring was over for the day.
Had not Red Phillips been primed to lead his team in an outstanding
defensive performance, that one might have been Tech's. Twice
the All-America flankman prevented the Jackets from reaching
paydirt when the ball rested inside Auburn's ten yard marker.
As it now stands, Tech has taken 31 games to Auburn's 26, in
this sequence dating to 1894. In next October's continuance, an improved
Jacket squad will take Grant Field, while the Tigers will
be a team set on defending a national title.
As usual, it should be interesting.
WILSON
BY IRBY McCALLA
Intramurals Writer
With volleyball and tennis
tournaments scheduled to start
next week and softball already
underway, this summer's intramural
sports program is shaping
up as one of the best ever
held at Auburn.
Entries for tennis, both singles
and doubles, and volleyball
are still being accepted by Coach
R. K. Evans, Tichenor Hall 319,
and by Joe Sparks, summer field
supervisor. Deadline for entries
in both sports is noon tomorrow.
Schedules will be drawn up,
and play will begin in both on
Wednesday, July 9. Individuals
or teams entered in both sports
will be placed in a league in
which the winners will qualify
for a post-season play-off in
which the championship team is
decided in softball.
Four tennis courts will be r e served
daily for intramural
competition. Volleyball games
will be played on the outdoor
spaces adjoining the tennis
courts.
Only eight softball games
were played this past week, but
they produced some interesting
results—
Phi Kappa Tau, last summer's
softball champions, served
notice that they again have
a team to be reckoned with, as
they scored seven runs in the
first inning and coasted to an
Pall.
just as prolific. During
sophomore season of reserve
status and his junior tenure as
a starter, Jerry caught 18 passes.
With the conference's top
receiver on the opposite flank,
such a record may be considered
better than it actually
appears.
»• The massive Wilson is a unanimous
pre-season All-America
selection in this summer's
football magazines, soon to be
Released. -In the Birmingham
News' annual pre-season poll,
Jerry was honored with the t i t
le of "Most Outstanding Offensive
End" and the same for
defense.
Wilson's bid for national recognition
is justified. Because this
Foret Is Injured
Last week in a New Orleans,
La., shipyard, Tiger left tackle
TecWy Foret suffered a cut
across the stomach requiring the
application of 65 stitches. The
accident occurred as the big
tackle was counter - sinking
holts with a drill which slipped.
Foret, possible starter at his
position in the '58 football sea-ecn,
will be bedridden at the
Eyes-Ears-Nose-Throat Hospital
in New Orleans for 15 days.
It is probable* however, that
Foret will be ready for practice
early next September.
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LAMBDA CHI ALPHA emerged as fraternity winners of spring
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Gwinn, James Morton, Bill Bludsworth. Standing are Roger Mathis,
Jim McDowell, Dick Moresco, Bob McLaurin, John Hamilton, and
Gene Harris. \
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Mag.Hall. Lin wood Sellers, Bob
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The week's scoring record
was recorded by B. S. U. as they
crossed the plate 27 times in
their victory over Div. L, scoring
but 7 tallies.
The defensive view point of
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One sour note of every season,
the forfeited game, occurred
the first day of play, a l though
with a little variation.
The Eagles, failing to field a
full team of boys, persuaded a
female to fill a vacancy on their
squad in a contest with the Latin
American Club. The latter won.
by forfeit.
Results of games played last
week are:
TC 18, Div. B 2.
SAE 13. Div. D 10. *
Rebs % Hawks 11. 1
PKT 18, Div. E 5.
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