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Eagles Move into Valley Lead
After 8-8 Tie with Cincinnati
— Sports Page
The Campus Chat
Club Members Attend Meets,
Continue to Accept Pledges
— Amusements Page
42nd YEAR
NORTH TEXAS STATE COLLEGE. DENTON. TEXAS
WEDNESDAY. NOV. 5. 1958
NO. 13
Johnson's Volpone' . . .
Sargent to Name Play Cast-
Group Gives Cristo' Roles
Cast members for the Colkge
Players' production of "Volpone,"
which will he starred here Dec. 9- !
13, will lie announced today, ac-
cording to James Sargent, director.
In addition, members have been
released feu* the roles in the forth-
coming Nov. 20-21 Supper Theatre
production, "El Cristo," by Mar-
garet Larkin.
College Players' Production
Tryouts for the Ben Jonson
drama were completed Tuesday
night, Rehearsals will begin this
week, Sargent said.
The play features a cast of 25
characters, most of them male, the
« director reported.
"Volpone," a bitter comedy with
u melodramatic twist, was lirst
produced in England in 1(506. The
story concerns a Venetian miser
who instigates a swindle that is
designed to defraud Italian legacy-
hunters of that period.
Hero F<hiIh (.old Diggers
The hero of the Jonson satire, 1
Volpone, advertises that he is in
the process of establishing a will
that is eventually to mean the
transfer of his treasured gold.
He encourages his contemporar-
t ies to give him lavish gifts, and
leaves them with the impression
Vocalists to Sing
Brahms' Requiem'
In Semester Work
Highlighting the work of the
Grand chorus this year will be the
presentation of Brahms' "Requiem"
on Dec. 8 and 9, Frank McKinley,
director of the chorus, announced
Monday.
On Dec. 8, the performance will
be given in Dallas at the Music
Hall auditorium with the Dallas
Sympnoriy orchestra, directed by
* Paul Klet/.ki.
On Dec. ft, the chorus will per-
form here with the North Texas
Symphony orchestra, which is con-
ducted by Dr. George Morey.
The first month of rehearsals in-
cluded work on notes and practice
on difficult spots in the music. Now,
with the supervision of Miss Vir-
ginia Botkin, member of the School
'of Music faculty, rehearsals have
begin on the German text.. Only
one-third of the choir members
have studied German diction be-
fore.
A number of former choir mem-
bers have been invited to sing with
the chorus for these programs.
Former members who accept Mc-
Kinley's invitation will rehearse
4 with the chorus several times in
i. Denton and once in Dallas before
the program.
Rehearsals are from ' to 8 p.m.
on Tuesdays and from 4 to 5 p.m.
on Fridays. Additional rehearsal
dates have not yet been scheduled.
The Grand chorus is composed
of both music and non-music ma-
jors, Selection is by tryout early
in the semester.
They usually present one major
work each semester, and the cho-
rus has performed with the Dal-
las Symphony in past years.
that in return for the presents they
will be remembered in his legacy.
One of the Greatest
According to Director Sargent,
"Volpone" is one of the great coin-
edits of ihe English language. "It
is a great literary play and good
theatre, too," he stated.
Sargent announced that the Col-
lege Players' production will be
taged in the Elizabethan fashion;
that s, the action will be continu-
ous, with no breaks between
scenes.
Much of the drama will be pre-
sented on the Studio theatre fore-
taire while set changes are being
made behind the curtain.
"Volpone" will run five nights,
with admission being granted on
the basis of student activity cards.
"El Crisfo" Cast
Charles Lee Dunn of Van will
serve as director of the Supper
Theatre offering. Others in the
cast are Robert M. Gerlach of Dal-
las, Jose Valdez; Eliseo L. Marti-
nez of San Diego, Tex., Manuel
Valdez; Richard Francis of Rusk,
the father; Mary Lee York of Dal-
las, the mother: Clair Lumet of
Dallas, Rosalia; Enrique H. Tou-
ceda of Dull Ricardo, and Jerry
Bob Sones of Weatherford, the old
man.
Ancient Indian Sect
Margaret, Larkin, well-known
writer of the Southwest, wrote this
drama which concerns the Peni-
tentes of New Mexico and tells of [
their secret religious rites.
The Penitentes, n. sect that be- '
lieves in using self-infliction of!
pain as penitence, still carry on
their rites in remote parts of New i
Mexico. "El Cristo" is the moving
story of this primitive ritual of
worship.
Introduction to Play
Dr. A. M. Sampley, vice-presi- j
dent of the college, has written an
introduction to "El Cristo," and j
two original crosses of the Peni- I
tentes which are in the historical
building museum will be used as
props in the play.
This will be the second Supper
Theatre presentation for this sea-
son.
Committee Picks Names
For National Who's Who
In Debate Tourney . . . Judges Use Point Basis
Clark Takes Honors 'n Selection of Winners
FRESHMAN CANDIDATES for cheerleader work with the var-
sity leaders to decide upon a yell which will be used in the try-
outs Thursday afternoon.
Robert Clark, a junior from Den-
ton, won first place for bis original
oration at the Emporia State Fo-
rensic tournament held last Fri-
day and Saturday in Emporia,
K.is,, and North Texas received
third-place sweepstakes honors.
Clark received the first-place
trophy and an individual medal for
his oration entitled "The Final
Curtain."
A1 Conant of Waco also partici-
pated in the tournament and he,
along with Clark, won five out of
six preliminary rounds of debate
which qualified them for the quar-
ter-final round.
Conant went to the finals in ex-
temporaneous speaking while Clark
advanced to the finals in oratory
in which he won first place. Both
men received medals for their
ranking in debate.
This tournament was the first
competitive one of the season for
the debate team. Ben Chappell, as-
sistant director of forensics, stated
that it was one of the best tour-
naments ever attended by the
squad.
Twenty-one schools were there
from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Il-
linois, Colorado, and Missouri.
In the quarter-finals, North
Texas defeated the debate team
from Northwestern university that
won the national tournament last
year at West Point. The single NT
loss in the preliminary rounds was
to Southwest Missouri State col-
lege, the second piace sweepstakes
winner.
Considering that the rest of the
schools had two teams entered, the
NT team's performance is of ex-
ceptional merit, Chappell com-
mented Monday.
Debate team members will also
participate in other major college
tournaments this year.
These include the Texas
Women's tournament in Austin,
the Central State college tourna-
ment in Oklahoma, the Golden
Spread tournament in Amarillo,
and the West Point tournament.
Frosh to Compete
At Leader Tryouts
Tryouts for freshman cheer-
leaders will be held Thursday
at I p.m. at Fouts field, cheer-
leader representative Louis
Montanio announced Monday.
All freshmen are invited to
compete in the tryouts and
three, preferably two girls and
one boy, will be selected by a
committee appointed by I'SNT
President Robert Winn.
The jndging committee con-
sists of Montanio. Dean of Wo-
men Imogene Bentley, a teach-
er representative from the ath-
letic department, Winn, Ihe
president of WRA, and Chuck
Green, ChBt editor.
With Student Composition
Orchestra to Hold Concert
Thirty-five studenta have been named us representa-
tives of the college in the 15)51) edition of Who's Who Among
Students in American Universities and Colleges, according
to Vice-President A. M. Sampley.
The junior and senior students were chosen by a com-
mittee of faculty members, USNT senators, and Women's
Forum council officers last week. They will later receive
plaques.
Magazine to Offer Award
To Best College
Student writers who have had
material published in a college
newspaper or magazine may enter
Mademoiselle magazine's first con-
test of this type.
First award will be $125 to be
given for the best student-written
article to appear in an alumni
magazine or a college magazine
during 1058. The money will be
divided as follows:
Fifty dollars to the magazine in
which the winning entry was pub-
lished, and $75 to the author of
the article.
An award of $150 will be given
for the best faculty- or alumni-
written article to appear in an
alunini or college magazine during
the year with $50 to the maga-
zine anil $100 to the writer of
the winning article.
Mademoiselle will also offer
$100 for the best student-written
piece to appear in a college news-
paper during 1958. This includes
editorials, columns, feature stor-
ies, or a well-written letter to the
editor.
The money will be divided even-
ly, with $50 to the newspaper in
which the winning article was
published, and $50 to the author.
Entries must be submitted in
tear sheet form by the editor of
the publication and accompanied
by the name and address of the
editor and the name and address
of the author of each article.
Material must have been pub-
lished during 1058. Entries should
be postmarked no later than Jan.
1, 1950, and should be sent to the
College Publications contest, Ma-
demoiselle magazine, 575 Madison
avenue, New York 22, N. Y.
A new composition, written by a
senior in the School of Music, will
lie premiered in a concert of the
North Texas Symphony orchestra
in the main auditorium Thursday
at 8:15 p.m.
Featured in the number will be
j a new member of the voice faculty.
The concert will be presented t.o
the District Two Texas Federation
| of Music Clubs' convention and is
open to the public.
The original composition, enti-
tled Two Songs for Soprano and
Orchestra, was written by Phillip
Hill, a senior from Des Moines, la.
In the performance Thursday, Miss
Dorothy Virginia Botkin, assist-
ant professor of music, will be fea-
tured.
Dr. George Morey of the School
of Music faculty will conduct the
orchestra.
Miss Botkin, a native of Louis-
ville, Ky., joined the music faculty
this fall. She received a bachelor
of arts degree from the University
of Louisville and a bachelor of sci-
ence degree from the Juilliard
School of Music in New York.
She has done graduate work at
the University of Indiana, where
she received a master of music de-
gree, and at the Mozarteum in
Salzburg, Austria.
Miss Botkin has taught at Mary
Hardin-Baylor college and at Del
Mar college in Corpus Christi.
Student Composer
A music composition major, Hill
has been a student at North Texas
since 1055 and studied previously
at the University of Dubuque, la.
The orchestra performance will be
the second premier of a composi-
tion by Hill on the campus. A
piece written by him was first
played last year during the fine
arts festival. Still another was
performed in Dallas in 1057.
Hill is also assistant conductor
of the Opera Workshop.
Other numbers on the orchestra
concert program are Prelude in B
Minor for string orchestra, by
Bach-Stokowski; three 17th-cen
j tiiry Dutch tunes by Valerius-
1 Kiiidlcr; the overture to Iphigema
in Aulis by Gluck, Fantasia on
Greensleeves by I!. Vaughan Wil-
liams, and Symphony number 2.
Opus 20, by Howard Hansen.
Music Federal ion Meet
The 34 th annual convention of
the TFMC will lie held Thursday
through Saturday.
Honored guest will be Mrs. Glen
Durst, president. General chair
man is Mrs. Odessa Wilson, and
program chairman is Mrs. Stuart
A, Walker.
Dr. Kenneth Cuthbert, dean of
the School of Music, will speak to
the group at the noon luncheon on
"Needed Emphases in Music in
Community Life."
The North Texas Madrigal Sing-
ers will also perform at the lunch-
eon.
Fine Arts Tickets
Will Go on Sale
For Initial Offering
Season tickets to fine arts pres-
entations will be ava'lable to fac-
ility and non-faculty stall" mem-
bers, the fine arts committee has
announced.
M< tubers of the faculty can ob-
tain tickets at $2.50 each, while the
price for nun-faculty staff mem-
bers is $1.50, the committee stated.
Tickets will go on sale from 2
to 5 p.m. Nov. 14 at the auditorium
ticket booth and at each perform-
ance, according to the committee.
They can also be purchased in
room 202 of the manual arts build-
ing.
Programs booked thus far and
their individual prices are:
Dallas Symphony, Nov. 14, $2;
Sigurd Rascher, saxophonist, Jan.
0, $1; Canadian Players, Fob, 10.
$1.50; Lotte Goslar and her pan-
tomime circus on Feb. 19, $1;
Roger Wagner chorale, March 18,
$2, and the New York Woodwind
quartet, March 24, $1.
Student admittance will be by
activity card, the committee stated.
Additional performers will lie
added to the list during the year.
Special fine arts programs are
presented each spring during the
fine arts festival in March and
April.
They are graded by a point sys-
tem for their activities and serv-
ice. This total is then multiplied
by the student's grade point aver-
| age.
Those selected this year include
j Andrew Thurman Armstrong, Sue
j Ellen Attebery, Mrs. Dorothy
I Hawkins Autrey, Joseph Patrick
I Batcha, William Clayton Blanken-
sliip Jr., Mrs. Peggy Sue Wood
Brewer, Sylvia Frances Brutnmett,
and James Alfred Builta.
Others are Louis Kent Vnnce
Chapman, Robert Ball Clark, Jean
Gwynell Conway, Walter Sher-
wood Dudley Jr., Gail Marie Dun-
bar, Margaret Ruth Faulkner,
Mrs. Juanita Greenwood Gillen,
and John Willis Goodman.
Also listed are Joyzelle Herod,
Melba Ann Honeycutt, Lee Bern-
hardt Kramer, Eliseo Lino Mar-
tine/., John Harold Matejowsky,
Winifred Ann Mclllroy, Charlan
Beth Nuylor. Staidey Arthur
Neuse, and Billy Joe Power.
Others are Isabel Ann Rivers,
Jane Eleanor Shunds, James Ross
Slicrhurn, Edward Vance Smith,
Marjorie Wayne Smith, Mary
Stephens Tucker, Kristin Webb,
Dick Joseph Whetzle, George Le-
Roy Whitington Jr., and Joyce Fay
Wilkins.
-Press Time Chatter
Brooks Slates Job Interviews
O Senior business majors inter-
j ested in interviewing the following
j business representatives should
contact John M. Brooks of the
j School of Business employment
| service.
John W. Simmons of the Con-
! tinental Oil company will see Jan-
uary graduates interested in sales
work on Monday.
J. Preston Coleman from the
N< York Life Insurance com-
pany is coming on Tuesday to see
students about sales work.
Jess Mankin of the Connecticut
General I ife Insurance company
will be here Wednesday.
On Nov. I.'I, Shell Oil company
of Houston is sending R. A. Ress
and R. L. Lucas to interview stu-
dents in accounting,
Mel B'indle from Ross Labora-
tories will see students about sales
positions on Nov. 14.
Two representatives from the
Texas Education agency will visit
the School of Education today and
Thursday. Dean A. Witt Blair said
Monday.
Dean Blair said that Dr. Milo
Kearney, director of teacher edu-
cation, and Mrs. Theresa Carroll,
Groundbreaking Here Friday . . .
Denton Nike Base to Protect Area
by PEGGY SIMPSON
Chaf Staff Writer
Groundbreaking for a million
dollar-plus Nike missile base in
Denton will be held Friday. Den-
,ton city officials, civic leaders, top
, Army brass, and the North Texas
AFROTC drill team and band will
attend the ceremony.
Music by the band and award-
winning Sabre drill team at 1 p.m.
will follow a display of the guided
missile, the Nike Hercules, at,
^ 1:30 a.m. and a barbecue lunch
on the site at noon.
Located four miles north of Den-
ton on an extension of North Lo-
cust street, the Nike (pronounced
' Nikey) base is one of four being
built for the Army as part of the
* defense ring around the Dallas-
Fort Worth area.
Other bases are at, Terrell, Al-
varailo. and Mineral Wells.
Marvin G. Ramey, who is han-
dling arrangements for the Den-
ton Chamber of Commerce, said
Army officials will describe the
* significance of the guided mis-
sile base,
"Engineers will describe the
construction project and give a
glimpse of what to expect from
the finished structures," he ex-
plained. Operational experts will
forecast what benefits Denton
might expect from the base, and
tell the purpose of the installation.
Barbecue Tickets
Tickets for the barbecue lunch
may be bought for $1.25 before
Thursday noon at either of the
banks or at the chamber of com-
merce office in the city hall.
If enemy planes were to attack
the I'nited States, they would first
aim to demolish the industrial
system, and then our SAC bases,
which are the only means of re-
taliation.
Both Dallas and Fort Worth,
Carswell AFB, and its SAC bomb-
ers in particular, loom high on the
potential list of targets. Hence,
the Denton base will fit into the
•niire Air Defense program of
the United States.
Should enemy planes not he
"topped before they reached here,
the Nike Hercules anti-aircraft
missile would go into action.
The Nike Hercules to be at the
Denton base is said to be from
15 to 20 feet worth of anti-aircraft
fmwer. Small triangular side fins
stabilize the slender missile in
flight.
Capt. Victor R. Wakefield, air
science instructor, compared the
missile to "skyrocket firecrackers
that are seen in Christmas and
Fourth of July celebrations."
Solid Fuel Missile
The Hercules carries its own
propellant, a solid rather than a
liquid fuel, much in the manner
that gunpowder is used in the
skyrocket.
Whereas the skyrocket keeps
arching back towards earth when
its fuel is exhausted, the Hercules
will contain a "proximity fuse," one
that explodes the weapon when
it contacts the target.
Citizens need not worry about
the missile missing its target,
zooming bark toward the earth,
and exploding in the midst of a
populous city.
In case the anti-aircraft weapon
might fail to reach its target, a
protective device would explode
the warhead high in the sir and
apart from its earth inventors.
Construction on the base >s
scheduled to begin within the next
week. The contract to King Con-
struction company of Te.tarkana
calls for completion in 300 days.
Two-Part Base
Two sites will actually comprise
the guided missile base. One will
be a living area for the base's
complement of 100 enlisted men
and five officers. The other, about
half a mile away, will be the mis-
sile installation itself.
Residents in the Denton area
are unlikely to see the Hercules in
action on practice sessions. When
drills are needed, they will be con-
ducted on the spacious ranges at
Fort Bliss, with drones, or un-
mnnned aircraft operated from the
ground, as the targets.
Captain Wakefield explained that
the inost modern guided missiles
re operated automatically, with
little or no human work.
If enemy planes are spotted on
the nation-wide radar network,
they will be either intercepted by
figbter planes or by the Army's
anti-aircraft missiles such as the
Nike Hercules.
Radar Relays Info
If the missiles are to lie used,
the radar outpost automatically
relays, via computer, the location
information to control stations.
Once the Air Defense commis-
sion has signalled an actual attack,
the control station shoots the mis-
sile and guides it with statistical
information towards the target.
Personnel on the Denton base,
therefore, will be concerned main-
ly with keeping the missiles, the
launching mechanism, and the con-
trolling computers in pcsik condi-
I tion.
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consultant in supervision, will
make an informal visit as a result
of an invitation from the depart-
ment.
During the two-day stay: Dr.
Kearney and Mrs. Carrell will dis-
cuss preparation courses for prin-
cipals and supervisors with mem-
bers of the facility. They will meet
with the Graduate Study commit-
tee at 10 a.m. Thursday.
0 Billy G. Ilsvill, Denton, wus
awarded a $500 scholarship by the
llaskins and Sells foundation
Tuesday night.
Curtis Cadunhead, resident part-
ner of the accounting firm's Dallus
branch, made the presentation at
a meeting of Alpha Lambda Pi,
accounting club, in the business
building auditorium.
Havill was chosen from 20 out-
standing senior accounting majors
on the basis of bis activities and
high academic record. The selec-
tion was made by Dr. O. J. Curry,
dean, and instructors.
Seven to Talk
At Tulsa Meet
Seven faculty members will rep-
resent North Texas at. the 15th
meeting of the South-Central Mod-
ern Language association conven-
tion in T dsn Friday and Saturday.
Representatives from colleges
and universities in the south-cen-
tral section of the United States
will be present.
Dr. Jacob llieblc of the foreign
language department will discuss
"Problems of Teaching and Learn-
ing Scientific German," in the Lin-
guistics and Pedagogy division.
Six members of the English de-
partment will take part in the pro-
gram. Dr. E. S. Clifton will serve
as chairman of the General Lin-
guistics division and Dr. Logan
Pratt will discuss "Rhetoric as a
Structural Principle in Romeo and
Juliet" in the Medieval and Ren-
aissance division.
Dr. Martin S. Shockley is secre-
tary of the American Literature
Before 1900 division and is also on
the association's executive commit-
tee.
Dr. James Davidson will discuss
"Folklore in the Writings of J. W.
DeForest" in the Folklore division.
In Comparative Literature, Dr.
Lloyd N. Jeffrey will explain "By-
ronisni in Pushkin." Secretary for
the General Topics division is Dr.
E. G. Ballard.
Coeds to Vie for Title
Of 12 Yucca Beauties
NIKE HERCULES
Standi Ready for Invasion
Letters have been sent to more
than one hundred campus organi-
zations requesting them to nomi-
nate a candidate for the Yucca
beauty selection, to be held Dec.
<1 at 6:30 p.m. in the Crystal room
of Marquis hall, according to Mike
Flanagan, McKinney, activities as-
sociate.
Any organization that fails to
Narcotics Officer Speaks
On Drug Traffic Control
Capt. Pat Gannaway, director of
the narcotics division of the Dal-
las police department, spoke to
cemlwrs of the advanced first aid
course, PE-358, this morning at
the men's gymnasium.
Captain Gannaway, a visiting
j speaker on this campus some three
yeais ago, discussed the prevention
i of narcotics habits. The law en-
j forccment officer, active in fight-
ing big-city vice for a number of
years, was introduced by W. A.
(Bill) Cooper, North Texas first
aid instructor,
i receive a letter by Friday should
notify the Yucca office ut once, ho
'aid. Nominations must be sent
to Box 53111, NT station, by 5 p.m.
Nov. 29.
A panel of off-campus judges
will select 12 winners from the
field of nominees to be Yucca
beauties. They will be pictured
individually in the activities sec-
tion of the yearbook, along with
the names of the sponsoring or-
ganizations, he said.
Flanagan noted thnt the selec-
i tion is not open to the public.
Flora Roeder, Columbus, organ-
izations associate, said letters ask-
j ing for copy information have been
cnt to all organizations that re-
! served pages in the organization
I section. This information should
1 be returned by Nov. 16, she said.
Deadline for student pictures,
j being made at Cunningham studio,
1322 W. Hickory street, is Nov.
17. Melissa Patterson, Marshall,
classes associate, announced.
Students who failed to make an
appointment can go by the studio
on Mondays, Wednesdays, or Fri-
days and be worked into tha
schedule, she added.
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