The War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 7, Ed. 1, Wednesday, October 22, 1958 Page: 1 of 4
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THE War Whoop
Last Home Game
Monday Night!
8 p.m. Indian Stadium
Honorary Groups
Initiate 26; 5
Make Both
VOL. 36 McMurry College Abilene Texas Oct. 22 1958 No. 7
'Four Freshmen9
Set December 12
Ticket sales continued to
rise as the WAR WHOOP
went to press Tuesday and
It seemed a near-ceitalnty
that the 'Tour Freshmen"
will be at McMurry on Dec-
ember 12.
Members of the McMurry
junior class put "on their
own" by lack of financial
backing have been selling
tickets at $1 50 and ?2 00 for
seats In Radford Mcmoilal
Audltcrium to McMurry stu-
detns this week in an effort
to raise the $625 required by
the professional quartet be-
fore final contract arrange-
ments can bo made.
Dannv Wise junior class
president said "We're offciing
good entertainment at the
lew est price in yeais so
Honorary Groups
Induct Scholars
McMurry 's two national
honorary organisations In-
itiated 2G new members this
week with six students being
new Initiates in both graips
Alpha Chi a national sch-
olastic honorary for junlois
and senlois and Sigma Tau
Delta a professional English
honoi'ary scclety both In-
itiated Rebecca Affleck Cook
Bunny Ciowcll Dons Ann
Easterllng Mae Trances Hef-
fnortBob Holcoinb and Gwen
McMuny
Alpha Chi initiates al-
leady belonging to Sgm i Tau
Delta inclucW Oo"" Fi".
Kay Klnnaul and Nick Na-
bois Othci newlv-eected mwn-
Formosa Sirail Crisis Is Topic
For Model United Nations Mccl
DALLAS Natlo-.allst
China hopes that the new
Communist bid for a For-
mosan ceasc-flie indicates a
weakening in Red Chinas
' ambition f i conques Geiu
Redmond Nationalist Chines
delegate to the faMU Model
United Nations Assembly
stated last week
Speaking only a few dav
awny fiom the Octoboi 25
public assembly tat whlth
representatives of 24 natl ns
fiom 24 schools will gathci
to 'settle" the Toimo a
Stuilt ciisls by acting as the
UNt he called on the fiee
wo) Id to "take c ncietc
action" to protect tciritoiial
boundailcs.
A member of the Russian
drleiatkn quickly counteiel
that Die cris's is an internal
problem of Red China
Russian delegate David
Ward's statement was "It Is
the Soviet Union's flim pos-
ition that the Tai East
cilslsis an Internal problem
of the People's Republic of
China which has been caused
by Chiang Kai-shek and his
imicilul fores.
"We truly want to believe
TOI
Y"r
"The Tour Freshmen"
buy a ticket for enter taln-
ment's sake "
beis lrr-Alpha Chi aie Jon i
Montgomery Allen Charles
Ambrose Jerry Bairett Caiol
Blasslngame Ann mi u'.
Girvln Harkins Nancy Rich
Hamilton J Weldon Moore
and Betty Scdbeuy
Other new members of
Sigma Tau Delta are Maxene
Bonds Kaicn Crooks Sam
Day Patsy Giles. Betty I em-
.ns' Devln McAnally Mike
Pclfiev and Evelvn Hughs
Wayne Dickey Abilene
senioi seives as piesident
of both moups Jonnlo Hut-
chens is socictaiy-trcasuier
foi Alpha Chi
Slgnn la-i Delta offices
aie Haiiiot Rcdv me 1 c-
piesldent Mis-. Ktnmi'l si c-
that the r rmosa SUait crisis
will be settled in a winner
acceptable to thn souekri
people of the reoplc Rep-
ublic of China"
Trank Lane niembei or the
McMuny MUN deletion
representing Indunc-ii said
"A little ovci a yoai ag-
Tnrlniips!.! became a nation
aftci more than 230 yais as
a Dutch colony We aie
neither pio-Communlst mi
pro-Western but wed v w
a peaenblc solution vhrJr v.lii
be fair to both side-.
"We are not In f'voi of
lolcnce but hope th it s.inc
peacablc solution nny bo
l cached We ieel that- the
Formosa Strait ciisls Is NOT
an internal pioblem but ono
which conccinoi the cntuo
wcrld"
'J he McMurry d nation
will include Donnle Camp-
bell Bunny Crowell and
jjane
Purpose of the MUN As-
sembly is to acquaint college
students with UN problems
and methods its str.ng and
weak points and Interests of
member nations as graph-
ically as possible tnrough
acting of parts.
Fall Production to Be
Old-Time Melodrama
A melodiamatlc pioduction
"Only an Orphan Glil" will
Le given by the McMiniy
Theater October 29 30 and
31 in the Administration
Auditorium.
With practically no staging
the cast presents the story
of sweet innocent gnl
country farmer and villain
The three characters aic In-
volved in the paying off of a
mortage and the obtaining of
an inheritance belonging to
the girl.
The sweet innocent glil is
played by Barban Sturges
freshman from Albuquerque
New Mexico Miss Sturge-. is
rctary; Mrs Cook treasurer
Nabors historian and Ellis
Alpha Chi membership also
marshall.
includes Dannie Campbe'l
T.nvptn rinnch. Dorothj
Johnson Winifred Magnuson
Roy Melugln Rebecca moi-
iow and Miss Rcdwio
Miss French and Don Boyd
are also members of Sigma
Tau Delta.
SCONA IV Set
Al Texas A&M
"Souiccs of Tension
National and IntL. national
will be the thane lor dis-
mission for 150 students lead-
eis fiom G4 c lieges and
iinhm.sitipi In the United
States Canada and Me o
when thry meet at Tca.
A&M College for the fourth
annual Student Conferenc
on National Affairs (SCON a
IV which will be held
December 10 - 13 lOt)
SCONA centers around th'
idea that bettei infonmd
V unq; people today will be
moie icponslble dtlens to-
mo'iow and that the stu-
dents In attend SCONA IV
will r.o bic'; to tholi campuse
an i spread their int'iest to
hell student b dies
Thce studtnt eonfetees ai"
not expected to lie 'Secict-
ailes of Stato" when they go
home aftci the four-da Con-
fCKiice instead it i hoped
that they will have p unecl an
understanding f and an in-
teift In the (omplnxltici of
oai foiclgn relations
One of the unlqu- featuie
of SCONA is that all the
txpe is(s Inclined by the stu-
dent confeiee3 fo d hous-
ing and partial trail-imitation
are paid bv the SCONA
fonimlttoe fiom donation!
Don't Miss It!
"Four Freshmen"
December 12
a religious education major
The country farmer and
sweetheart of the girl Is play-
on hv Prv Pripp. Innlnr finni
Sweetwater. A tiansfer from
Tarleton State Stephenville
Price Is an English mnor.
Ted Harris poi trays the
illaln who is out to get the
inheritance hv fair or bv foul
means Harris who has ap
pealed in rorincr MCMurry
Theater productions is a
drama majoi.
Another drama majoi
Gwen McMurry plas the
role of the villain's wife who
Is trying to make nnothcr
start in life. Miss McMuny
is a Junior from Levelland
She also has appealed in
cthci McMurry Theater pio-
ducatlons Including An In-
spector Calls and Olner
OIimt both 1957-53 pro-
ductions Other cast mcmlois In-
clude Jane Amnions Roby
sophomore as Mi; Don
Whlsenhunt Meadw senioi
as Pa; Caiolyn Cook Lubbock
freshman as Mis Appleby
and Caroline Hodges Miami
Iieshman. as Lucy Applcay
lovd Jpnnlntrs sophonnio
IIS Seniors Will
Be McM Guests
High-school students fiom
the Abllfno area will b-
guests of the College at next
Monday night's football cimc
with McNeese State College
of Louisiana In Indian Stad-
ium Rev Jim T Pickens minis-
ter to the campus said
Tuesday that he and Di W
B MeDanlel actln; lce-
piesldent were smidi. t? oat
Icttcis to eicty hih sehoo'
v 'thin a 00-mile nditi- f
Abilene lnvttln thop s nio
trt nttiiul Hip Mm ft i j limht
bill game as ues's (f Mi-
Iuu Brady Features
Music for Firs?;
CI n once Eiady McMu ry
piolessoi ot plan will pi -sent
n piogiam itatuiiu'
musli of five naiionnlltri-s
.t 8 30 pm Octcb-i 21 in
Radfoid Memorial Auclitoi-
li.in lie will bo assi-' 1 by
Mi . Nita Cuji Abll" ie
violinist
There is no adml ion
ih..ie and MtMuny in-
dents and faculty ai e l-
cdall Invited to attitnl
'ihe program will apn with
Beethoven s 'Sonata Opi
20" u foui-m vemenr oik
containing both Ihilv rpii-
odes and a iunei il m n !
Net will come the Schubo t
Impiomptu Opus 112 No 1 "
Follow hi" the tvo 0'iivui
w rks Biady will pirn i t
Toui Russian Toll: oi"'s
by Lluduv
Mrs -Qouiili will br pi-
formlng with Biady on tlio
French portion of the pi -giam
Debussj's "Sonata for
Violin and Piano "
Spanish composers will b"
tiansfer from New Mexico
A&M provides the mood
music.
The entire pioduction is
under the direction of Leon-
ard Hart head of the drama
department on campus
RE Week Slalcs
Play Speaker
Dr. Harvey Potthoff Illff
School cf Theology will bo
Ihe featured speaker for
Religious Emphasis Week ut
McMurry November 11-13
The week's activities which
will bo built around the
theme 'The Fouith 'R' In
Education'' which will bo
highlighted by the play "Lost
In The Stars ' given by the
Wesley Plajcrs tmm Mltl-
estein University
Di Potthoff will be avail-
able to speak to arlous cam-
pus organisations and classes
while lie is here and also foi
pcisonal conteiences Student
gioups sho.ild contact Caio-
)jn Ford to make dates with
Dr P-tthotf
The chairmen of the com-
mittees aic as follows: Wot-
ship Tommy Price chair-
man Itinoiary Caiolyn
Pord chalriniii Publicity
Bunn Cioweil ehihm.an;
Fncsldcis L.irta Tie ich
chahinan. Book Display
George Ellis chaiim.m
Membeis cf the steirln'
committees aio D.udlleBai-
mckman Jaiklo Bialiv Di
Selma L Bishop Dunuie
Campbell GenrpP" nil Mm
Tiances Hcffnei Gei rid
Machgan Devln McAnal
Doilhy Pntton R v Jin
Rov Me-'u in Groi m Ni i I
Pickrns Anelk Pop ilio Tom-
my Piice Di S n riuu ps n
an 1 Di AW Yeats
These steerinc en u m ' '
r e p i esen t s thf 1 '1 " n
grouiis roi uni Vol in'' "
Ciicuit Rldiis M fa t I
B S U T imilH
Inicrriaiional
Fall Concert
liatuud as tho pioijr n ( i -eludes
with Gianadu-. hit i
nno ' and 'The Mai i i i I
tho Nightingale" f i in
opera "Goyoscas" nn I M I-
aguena ' and ' Le e id y
Albenb
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The War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 7, Ed. 1, Wednesday, October 22, 1958, newspaper, October 22, 1958; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth103803/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting McMurry University Library.