THE TOREADOR Volume XXIV Texas Technological College, Lubbock, Saturday, Dec. 10, 1949 Number 25 Board Considers Witte To Direct Varsity Show Plans For Three * * * * * * * * * * * * * Buildings Today Foreign Language Group Selects PI ins for three new building , and additions to the Home Eso- Marionettes To Be Pre-Med Student nomics building will be presented Jack Witte, senior pre-med ma- to the Board of Directors at a Taken On The Road nn from San Antonio, has been named general director of the 1950 meeting at 9:30 am. today in the Midget actors who performed a: Varsity show, it was announced president's office Ad-217. Thursday by Margaret Clark, Tech last summer with great so , - If the plans are approved, the chairman' of the Varsity show com- cess will return to the stage durin_ board will call for contractors' ' mittee. the holidays for a repeat perform- He was chosen by a committee bids. Frank Junell, assistant to :1 ance. consisting of Bill Parsley, Ray- the president, was informed Thurs But this time the presentation mond Brigham and Miss Clark. day that plans would be presented will be in Little Rock, Ark., and He and David Fawcett, sophomore for the Science building also. A, the audience will be members of from Lubbock. were the only two chitects plans far Engineering, the South Central Modern Lan- applicants for the position. Music and Home Economics build. guage association. The director is a navy veteran ings were originally scheduled to The actors are puppets — the of two years service and has be presented today. been connected with the stage, same marionettes which students both the production and acting The building committee met yes- saw this summer in scenes adapted side of it, for the past several •terday to consider the plans. Com- from Johann Goethe's "Faust." years. mittee members are C. E. Wey.- During Tech's celebration of the During his time in service, Witte mouth, Amarillo. chairman: Leon .,....the Bicentennial in the summer Ince. Houston; and Robert B was closely connected with the .Price, El Paso. Price was unabl. FOREIGN LANGUAGE Pg 3 Coast Guard musical production, to attend. "Tars and Spars," which starred Victor Mature. That show toured Walsh and Hazelwood, Amarillo. the country playing to audiences d up plan, from coast to coast 7oerreth: PilLi:bii sZldt; wat rhe rst: In San Antonio Plays meeting. Other architects to report Applied Arts Class Witte began his work with the are: Wyatt C. Hedrick, Fort theatre in his home town of San Worth. Science building; Atcheson Antonio, helping for two years with and Atkinson. Lubbock, Enginee- Displaying Trees the San Antonio Little Theatre. ring building; and Haynes and "The best part I had in those Kirby, Lubbock, Home Economic , two years was that of a deaf-mute additions. JACK WITTE Chinese in 'Shanghai Gesture.'" he The utilities facilities committee In Recreation Hall said. will also present a report of its in- Abstract and conventional Christ- Before coming to Tech in the fall vestigation on the campus. The of 1948, he attended both the Uni- expanded building program will mas trees are on display in th.• Green room and the Rec hall. Thes.• versity of Texas and George Wash- call for additional facilities at Marshall Gettys Is Slain By Enraged ington university in Washington, Tech. Committee members are. tree are atesjgried and decorated by the Applied Arts 131 classes. D.C. While at George Wastungton. Charles Wooldridge Dallas, chair- he was co-director of two musical Decorations were made largely man; Ince: and Raymond Pfluger, Professor; Scandal To Be Aired Monday comedies and was in the cast of from salvaged material. Purpose “f Eden. The committee was appoint- several serious dramas. the project was to give students A 1,rutal slaying short! !,efore Max 00)oin, and h,v assistant, ed at the last board meeting. Appeared In Speeeh Drama concrete practical problems in de- Another matter for discussion noon Friday claimed the life of Bruce Hinsey, that the argument Since coming to Tech he has ap- sign and the experience of working became violent and Gettys was will be the official naming of the Marshall Gettys, senior from Ama- peared in "Joan of Lorraine," a in groups and on community pro- maliciously slain is the enraged seismological observatory here. speech department production last jects that would be similar to pro- rillo, terminating the career of one Dr. Jackson . Routine business will include the He is said to have year. of Tech's most promising person- hit the twenty-four year old stn. granting of short leaves of absence jects in real life. The appointment of Witte as alloes, and resulting in the arrest dent with a heavy, cast iron book and hiring college personnel, Ju- Students made small scale models' general director marks the end of for the trees. These models belOng, of Dr. Doyle D. Jackson, respected end. nell states. head of the education department. a three-week search for talent. to the students and are being dis-, Jimmy Vaughn, graduate educa- Miss Clark said Witte's selection played in the applied arts depart- Dr. Jackson has been arraigned tion student, who was in the of- for public trial Monday night be- to the position was the first step HOLIDAY DATES ANNOUNCED ment and in the lobby of the Home fice anteroom at the time of the in producing the annual musical Economics build ing. fore a mock pre-law court. The slaying immediately notified police Students may leave for the trial will be held in C-101. show. Packages under the trees were after he had discovered the body. The Varsity show is put on every Christmas holidays after their also designed and wrapped by the The scene of the brutal crime He will act as pivotal witness for last classes Dec. 21. announces spring by an all-student cast and students as a part of the project. was the office of the professor in the prosecution. production crew. In addition to Frank Junell, assistant to the As a practical test of the work, the Administration building at the president. A Rix Funeral home ambulance choosing the director, the commit- students will be sent out to buy college. It is rumored that the was summoned to the scene of the tee has urged that students who Classes will resume at It am. Christmas wrappings and cards to football star had gone to the of- crime and Gettys was taken to are thinking of writing a varsity Jan. 3, which Is a day later see if their judgment and percep- fice for a conference and' had be- West Texas hospital where he was show script to put their ideas on than the date printed In the tion has improved. come Involved in a heated argu- pronounced dead on arrival. paper . catalogue. Campus offices will George Long. superintendent of ment with Doctor Jackson. Ball Set At $10,000 "We will be more than glad to he closed Dec. 22-26 and Dec. buildings and grounds. and his Rook End Was Death Weapon Jackson wasas immediately arrest- read every script turned in and we 31,1an. 2, Junell says. staff made the frames for the tree-. It is alleged by District attorney. ed and summoned before the hon- orable Alton Griffin, chief justice See syrrrE Page 3 of the pre-law club supreme court. He was granted freedom on a $10,- 000 bail which was arranged by Several Changes his attorneys. Jerry Wilson and Bob Steely. Made By Seniors In The two attorneys for the de- fense when contacted by phone Fri- Recent Meeting day declined to comment on the case other than to make the fol- Seniors approved changes in the lowing statement. wording of commencement invita- "This is nothing but a subversive tions at a Wednesday afternoon Communist conspiracy ao discredit class meeting attend by 40 persons. and malign the noted educator and They also voted to include a list the Institution of Texas Tech. We of graduates in the invitations. • are confident that the trial Mon- As the invitations have read for day will expose the whole sordid some years, the roster of graduat- affair as such.. ing seniors has been labeled "list Scandal Hinted of candidates for degrees". Invita- Prosecution was seeking to con- tions hereafter are to carry the tact a prominent school beauty words "tentative list", In order to whom it was rumored that the spare embarrassment to persons defense has spirited away to pre- whose names may not be included vent questioning before the trial. on the list, but who might for scho- Both sides declined to name other Persons who would appear in be- lastic reasons be unable to graduate half of either side during the trial, as scheduled. It was predicted by certain "In- Harold Luke, class president, said siders" that many well known per- that date for the annual senior sons will be involved in the scan- carnival has been changed from dal. John Tom Baker, fellow foot- Apr. 8 to March 4. ball team mate of the victim, has He appointed a committee to plan been served and his appearance thernival.ca Members are Bob is mandatory. Hogan, Margaret Clark, Glens Win- Council for both sides seemed ston, Dale Thut, Ernest Sears and confident of victory in the ap- Garland Nix. proaching legal battle which is At a meeting of the junior class Wednesday afternoon, the junior- DEATH SCENE—Shown above is the scene of a brutal crime which occurred Friday morn- slated for Monday night at 7:30 p. m. In C-101. Attendance is open to senior prom was discussed, but defi- ing in the office of Dr. D. D. Jackson, prominent Tech professor, on the campus. The elec- all for a small fee of nine cents. nite action on the annual affair was trifying tragedy, which claimed the life of Marshall Gettys, (inset) outstanding Techsan. The price of admission entitles the tabled until after the Christmas person to cast a vote as a juryman. holidays. the pre-law mock trial Monday night. (Photo by John Lee.) will be unfolded in