, ....... THE TEXAS TECHNOLOGICAL COLLEGE IF Z ICC141.0 IV IC Vol. 34 Lubbock, Texas, Saturday, October 18, 1958 No. 14 Dads Visit Campus Today Queen Myrl Activities Include `Reigns' At Registration, Coffee by CAROLYN JENKINS "Dig ya Daddy-O!" No, it's not just a fast talking Exhibition coed but the way all Techsans feel toward the honored Myrl Raines, queen of Tech's men of the day. Welcome, Dads, to your day at Texas first Horticulture Fall Festival will Tech! be presented at halftime of the Activities will begin with coffee and registration in Tech-Baylor game this afternoon. the Tech Union from 10:30-11: 4 5 a.m. A dinner is The show, open to all amateur planned for 6 p.m. which will be followed by a business gardners, will begin exhibition meeting of the Dad's Association. showing to the public from 2 p.m. DAD'S ASSOCIATION mem- to 9 p.m. Saturday and 8 a m. to bers will be at the registration 7 p.m. Sunday behind the Aggw desks selling association member- Engineering Building. Entries will ships. Membership for one year Ventana Staff be received on Saturday morning is 53 and lifetime membership is from S to 11 a.m. at the entrance Seeks Advice to the Agriculture Engineering 5100"I'mP a Drane Daddy" will be Quonset Building. the theme of open house at one - THE 'FUDGING will be based on of the dormitories. Most of the From Artist uniformity, size, shape, color. in- dorms are planning to receive One of the top ten commercial sect damage, mechanical damag_i visitors between 11-1 p.m. and'im- artists in the nation, Ray J. Tib- and arrangement. mediately after the game. betts, is visiting Tech this week Ribbons to first, second and MANY SIGNS will welcome the end in connection with publish- third winners and honorable men. Dads on campus. The initial greet- ing the 1959 La Ventana. tion will he awarded. Also on e, ing is a sign on the Memorial TIBBETTS, who is present sec- hibition will be educational dis- Circle facing Broadway. A gigan- retary of the Los Angeles Adver- plays throughout the building for tic sign has been made to extend tisers Club, will advise the annual which no awards will be given. over sections L and M of Jones staff and illustrate the Tech year- This slow will have two divi- Stadium, which are reserved for book this year. sions - •— flowers and arrange- Pep Rally Highlights parents. A past vice president of the Los ments. This sign is the largest ever Angeles Art directors club and a made for the observance of Dad's FOUR TRAVELING .. trophies member of the national society Day. of Art directors, Tibbetts has won will be presented each year at TROPHIES WILL be presented the Festival to the winners of many national awards in all before the game to the dad com- each division. Pre-Baylor Rites phases of the advertising business. ing the greatest distance, the dad "TECH'S ANNUAL staff has a The public is invited to attend having the most children at Tech new approach to the yearbook the festival. In addition to the A rousing pep rally — the best night to highlight pre-Baylor and the oldest dad registered. problem which will cause a great show the green houses will be turnout of the year — was held game activities. AWS, event sponsor. will pro- deal of comment both locally and open foe inspection. at the Saddle Tramp Circle last With a roaring bonfire to set vide hosts and hostesses to answer nationally," Tibbetts prophesied, the stage, Waggoner Carr, speak- any questions Dads may have at "If done right, this job will be the er of the Texas House of Repre- registration. Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien talk of the nation," he continued. sentatives addressed the student Thompson, Dean and Mrs. J. G. Tibbetts said that even basically Ike Reminisces Boyhood body. Allen, Donnell Echols, student ugly things like trucks can be "You live in the best state in body president and Barbara Mc- glamorized with art. This accom- the United States, in the greatest Dougal, AWS president will wel- plishment is due to basic research nation in the world; you're a part come Dads at the reception. which started in Germany years At Old Abilene Home of the greatest student body of PRESIDENT E. N. Jones will ago and was continued on the any school, and you have the report on the state of the college American west coast. "This proves ABILENE, Kan. Ur, — A happy he did it all over again Friday. greatest football team ever —and, at the stag dinner tonight. O'Brien that almost anything can be given President Eisenhower, back in his THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Ei- with it, we're going to win this Thompson of Amarillo, president the Fine Arts treatment to compli- of the Tech Dads Association will boyhood, ran his hand lovingly senhower got a rousing welcome. game tomorrow," Carr told the ment the subject," he explained. They arrived in the late afternoon students. preside over the business meeting. Tibbets said that the school over the stairwell banister at after a 22-mile drive from Schil- Other 1957-58 Dads Association A burst of flame announced the yearbook and newspaper offer the old family homestead Friday ling, Kan. They landed there chief executive are James E. opening of the rally as the stu- wonderful opportunities for prac- and chuckled: shortly after Eisenhower had Smith of Ft. Worth, vice presi- dent body chanted "Tech beat the tical experience to students who "Brother, the time I've slid made a campaign speech at the dent; Tom Abraham of Canadian, Bears." are interested in art as a profes- down that." National Corn Picking Contest at vice president; Earl Collins of sion. He said that this is true IT WAS A time for reminiscing Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Tri-Dell pledges entertained Lubbock, secretary and Marshall mainly because booklearning most with a skit as Mo Harrison em- and the President did a lot of it In that speech the President Howard of Littlefield, treasurer. be adapted into practice. ceed the event. Students from in touring the white frame home- soft-pedaled politics. In Abilene, other colleges all over the United stead, at Fourth and Kuney for the moment, he forgot politics States were portrayed in opinion streets, and the Eisenhower Mu- altogether. seum next door. surveys about the results of the His first stop was at the Eisen- game. This is Eisenhower's first over- hower homestead, where he lived Cary Hobbs, master of cere- night trip to Abilene since 1954. from the time he was a very small monies, opened the rally with a He relived the old days then and boy until he entered West Point short speech and a series of jokes. in 1911. Mack Pogue and Jerry Bell OLDTIMERS who have known spoke to the students on behalf of him for years and youngsters by Milstead Asked the football team. "By your spirit the hundreds shouted greetings as tonight," Bell said, "we'll never the smiling President made his let Tech down again." To Symposium way through the crowd to the family home. Entertainment was furnished by the Red Raider Band and the Tech Dr. William W. Milstead, Tech "Hello, Charlie — Hi, Earl — cheerleaders. biology researcher, has been in- Hello George," the President vited to speak at the University called. of Texas' Symposium on Verte- With Mrs. Eisenhower at his brate Speciation in Austin October side, the President toured the Council Meets 27 through 31. rooms, spotting the old upright DR. MILSTEAD'S subject will piano, the magazines his father The Freshman Council will had in a rack at the time of his be competitive relationships a- hold its first meeting of the mong lizards. He has done sum- death in 1942, the family photo- mer researcn on the subject. graphs. year next Monday at 7 p.m. The Symposium is part of the "How does it look to you, Mr. in room 24 of the Administra- program celebrating the Univer- President — pretty familiar?" tion. sity's 75th anniversary. Dr. Mil- "Yes, indeed," he replied. "But John Alexander, newly elected stead is one of 24 guest speakers what amazes you is how when president of the freshman rlaxs, from all over the world who has you come back each time how all urges all members to attend. ARTIST AND EDITOR BILLY ELLIS DISCUSS YEARBOOK been invited to speak at the event. the rooms shrink." "New Look" Topic of Comersation 2 • The Toreador Saturday, Oct. 18, 1958 Round-About I I PHI GAMMA NU will sponsor p u s its annual rush tea on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. in the Tech Union ballroom. To be eligible to pledge Phi Gamma Nu students must have a 1.5 grade point average Alpha Phis Display and have at least six hours in business administration.* * * DELTA SIGMA CHI, honorary 'Jewels' in Ballroom business fraternity will hold . a reception after the Baylor game Alpha Phi displayed its "Jewels" PRESENTED BY their fathers in the Caprock Hotel for Baylor last night at the first presenta- or their dates, these newest Alpha Delta Sigs. tion of the season. Phis carried black taffeta fans The fall slate of officers of Glittering diamonds on panels ornated with silver and white rib- Sigma Chi was completed Tuesday of jet black lined the Tech Union with the election of John King Ballroom, and 28 pledges were bons graced in the center with as president.