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mean to you? Must you take the test? Will it be the sole basis
on which your eligibility for deferment is based? What connec
tion does it have with deferment for ROTC training?
These questions have been floating around the campus since
the first, announcement of the test was made a month ago. An
swers to them have been rather slow in coming. Some of the an
swers, however, are now available.
This article, based on information from Selective Service
headquarters in Texas, the Selective Service Hulletin of Informa
tion and a report from the Executive Committee, attempts to sup
ply many of the answers. Additional questions should be asked of
the local draft board, qualified personnel in Ross Hall or deans of
the various schools. If they cannot answer the questions, they will
tell you where you may find the answer.
The Selective Service College Qualification Test will be
given over the nation on May 26, June 16 and June 30 in
1,200 testing centers. Probably the most pressing question
regarding that test is “Who must take it.”
p Who Takes It
Strictly speaking, no one MUST take the test. How
ever certain people are eligible to take the test. And it would
be very much to their advantage to do so.
The Selective Service Bulletin of Information lists the
following determinants of eligibility to take the test:
• the applicant must be a registrant under the Selective
Service Act who intends to request occupational deferment
as a student;
• must be under 26 years of age at the time of taking
the test;
• must be satisfactorily pursuing a full-time college
course leading to a degree (the applicant need not be in a
four-year college but his entire course of study must be sat
isfactory for transfer of credits to a degree-granting insti
tution) ;
• must not previously have taken the test.
Briefly stated, that means that every presently enrolled
student under 26 years of age is eligible to take the test.
At A&M, of course, the vast majority of students are
enrolled in ROTC training. Most of these students already
have a deferment on this basis. In this respect the Academic
Council clarifies the question a bit.
“Advisory Comments”
In a letter to The Battalion concerning an Executive
Committee discussion of the test, C. Clement French, Dean
of the College, passes on certain “advisory comments” of
that body. The letter says:
“Nothing in the new regulations modifies the existing
procedure with regard to ROTC students. Two suggestions
which have come from Washington seem important—first, a
suggestion that ROTC students take the test even though
they have ROTC deferments.
“While this is not important for advanced course ROTC
students, it might prove to be highly important for present
basic course students, because deferment quotas in Army
ROTC for the advanced course are substantially smaller
than those for second year basic; in other words ,the basic
ROTC student has nothing to lose by taking the test and
might benefit from it.
Second Point
“The second point is advice that a student take the qual
ification test even though at the present time his standing in
class would meet the deferment figure (assuming ROTC
were not being used as a deferment basis).
“This is based on the possibility that the present alter
native method of deferment—viz. score on the test or stand
ing in class, may be changed if manpower needs become
greater with the necessity of having both the required score
and the standing in class.
“In such a case a student who has not taken the test
might lose his deferment even though his standing in his
class were high.”
With reference to A&M, therefore, advanced course
ROTC, students could feel reasonably safe in not taking the
tests. Basic course students, however, would do well to have
the additional security of a test-score in their favor.
Non-military students should probably take the test ev
en though they now stand high in their class work.
Test Strictly Optional
The use of the test in determining deferment eligibility
is going to be strictly optional with each draft board. In al-
loting draft deferment for college students, your board may
use the results of the test, your present standing in your
class-work and additional factors. It is not required to use
all or any of these in determining whether or not you should
be deferred. It is probably safe to assume, though, that
most boards will consider both the results of the test and the
present standing of the student.
Once you have determined that you should take the
test, you are required to act immediately to obtain a post
card application from the local Selective Service Board. The
local board for this area is located in the Varisco Building
in Bryan.
(See COLLEGE QUALIFICATION TEST, Page 6)
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Number 136: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1951
Price Five Cents
“Well, here’s (he first dollar,” says Monty Montgomery, left, co-
chairman of the Campus Chest drive as he accepts a dollar from
Student Senator Bill Moss, center, Co-Chairman of the drive, Al
lan Eubank looks over the first contribution.
State Solons Pass Bill
To Push Highway Safety
Austin, April 19—(A 5 )—The Sen-
*ate and House passed bills today to
promote highway and street safety.
The Senate passed a House-ap
proved compulsory annual motor
inspection measure. It would re
quire : inspection of automobile
brakes, lights, horns and steering
apparatus. An automobile owner
would: have to have a certificte
of safety before he could register
or sell his car.
The bill now goes back to the
House for consideration of Senate
rhanges.
The House passed and sent to
the governor a Senate bill re
quiring cars to stop at any inter
section when a blind person on the
curb raises a white cane in a
signal that he wants to cross the
Street.
Senate Starts Debate
The Senate starts its big debate
Oil the tax question Monday at 2:30
p.. m.
The State Affairs Committee of
the upper House set public hear
ings then for the omnibus and
natural gas tax bills approved by
the House.
Senator R. A. Weinert of Seguin
suggested the committee lay both
bills out at the same time “and
Jet them have at it.” There was
no dissent to the plan.
Both the House and Senate
adopted a committee report on a
measure giving the Texas Citrus
Commission better enforcement
Concession Blanks
Due by May 1
No more applications for con
cessions on Open House Day will
be accepted after May 1, according
fro John Hudnall, a member of the
Inter-Council Committee planning
the event of this year.
Until that time, Hudnall said, ap
plications will be accepted by the
concessions secretary in the Stu-
.dent Activities Office.
Any campus organization may
apply, and all profits that the or
ganization makes that day will be
.retained by the organization. The
usual ten percent tax for the coun
cils will not apply this year, Hud
nall announced.
Among items that may be sold
by the groups are assortments of
candies or soft drinks.
The selling stand is the organiza
tion’s own responsibility. Also the
group will be accountable for any
Trash or garbage left near the
stand after Open House Day.
powers. That sent the bill to the
governor.
The House passed a bill amend
ing the adoption laws. Rep. Joe
Abington of Fort Worth said it
would help make a cleaner break
between the adopted child and his
natural parents. It also would al
low an adopted child to inherit
through his foster parents when
there was no will.
As passed by the Senate, the
bill would have prevented an adopt
ed child from inheriting from his
natural parents, but the House
struck that out. The measure now
goes back to the Senate for con
sideration of that change.
Sen. John Bell of Cuero said
that auto inspection bill was de
signed purely to cut down highway
accidents by keeping mechanically
unsafe cars off the road. But op
ponents argued that it would put
the state in the garage business and
cost drivers some $3,000,000 a year
to pay the annual $1 inspection
fee. The Department of Public
Safety would supervise the in
spection.
Bell told the Senate that in
1941 only 4 per cent of the auto
mobiles in the United States were
13 years or older; in 1950, he said,
it was 23 per cent.
German Shepherd
Draws Large ‘Yes’
As A&M Mascot
A new and honored member will
join the ranks of A&M soon—the
first official mascot since the death
of Reveille in 1944.
And, like his only successor, the
newcomer will be a canine.
In an unprecedented vote the
student body last night gave the
go-ahead for the’ purchase of a
German shepherd to hold the hon
ored position.
Official returns showed 4,054 stu
dents favoring a mascot aaginst a
Death in Sleep
Closes Career
Of Vandenberg
Grand Rapids, Mich., April
19 _ up) _ sen. Arthur H,
Vandenberg, one of the Uni
ted States’ most respected
statesmen, is dead at 67.
The Michigan Republican, a for
eign policy expert whose advice and
leadership were sought by the
heads of both major parties, died
last night in his sleep after several
years of illness. He had under
gone several major operations in
the last two years.
Vandenberg’s death at his home
here meant the loss of one of the
founders of the United Nations
and one of Congress’ foremost
advocates of a bi-partisan, unified
foreign policy in the cold war with
Russia.
It also undoubtedly meant a gain
for the Democrats in the Senate.
It falls to Michigan’s Democratic
governor, G. Mennen Williams, to
name a successor to Vandenberg,
whose distinguished career spanned
23 years in Congress.
Williams reportedly has four
possibilities in mind—former U. S.
Sen. Prentiss M. Brown, University
of Michigan law professor John
Dawson, former Michigan attomey
general Stephen J. Roth, and Noel
P. Fox, head of the Michigan labor
relations board.
With Vandenberg’s death the
Democratic majority in the Senate
became 49 to 46. The expected
Democratic appointment will make
it 50 to 46.
Fountain to be Dedicated
Friday Afternoon in Grove
Tomorrow afternoon a memorial He received his commission and
will be dedicated to the memory of at the time of his death he was a^!
a former student who made intra- lieutenant.
negative vote of only 280. Those
voting favored a dog by a vote of
1,976 to 192. The more specific
selection of a German shepherd
won 1,455 to 678.
Contenders in the vastly one
sided race included a monkey, a
parrot, ant eaters of various ex
tractions, a musk ox, a donkey, a
gun, a kangaroo, a duck-billed
platypus, a Battalion co-editor
with collar, an elephant (“because
he’s too big to be stolen”) and a
St. Bernard complete with tradi
tional keg about the neck.
About the only serious compe
tition came from students prefer-
ring^a woman.
Under present plans a full-bred
German shepherd will be secured
soon from some ag'ency used by
the Army K-9 Corps in its purchase
of dogs. The price of the mascot
will include American Kennel Club
Registration.
One Student
The Student Senate Mascot Com
mitted, charged with all arrange
ments for the mascot, has proposed
that one student be put in general
charge of the dog each year. The
fii’st year, this student would work
with a professional trainer if one
could be gotten.
Each unit would be responsible,
under the proposed plan, for the
upkeep of the dog for one week
during the year.
Also under consideration is a
“sentry house” for the dog to be
located near the center of the New
Area.
Senior Tactics
Problem Cancelled
The special course in minor tac
tics, similar to that held last Jan
uary, scheduled for this Spring,
has been cancelled, Col. H. L. Boat-
ner, Commandant and PMS&T, has
announced.
“The course has been cancelled.”
says Col. Boatner, “because of a
new 90 day training program set
up for reserve officers called into
service.”
This training program applies to
all ROTC graduates and men who
have served less than two years
prior federal service.
According to Col. Boatner, the
military at A&M feels that with
the new program a field course
held here would be a waste of time
and effort. The men can receive
the training much more thoroughly
and efficiently after induction.
The course held last January
consisted of a demonstration put
on by Officers and Non-commis
sioned officers here of an infan
try platoon in combat, which all of
the graduating seniors attended.
... Of Many
Then the money started coming in from the units. Bennie Zinn,
center, assistant dean of men, and Pete Hardisty, business man
ager of Student Activities, right, count and wrap the coins. Sen
ate Sitter Bobby Dunn, left, sorts out (he money.
Don Y Let It Fall
An Editorial
Unless the student body of A&M expresses its
tradition of friendliness in tangible, monetary ways
tonight, the 1951 Campus Chest drive may fall far
short.
The Chest committee has set its goal at $2,500—
quite a bit less than last year’s. Yet only slightly
over $800 was collected last night.
Last year’s Twelfth Man Scholarship winner re
ceived a $1,600 award. This year he may receive one
of less value unless you contribute generously to
YOUR Campus Chest.
By generously, we mean any amount you feel
able to give—from a few pennies to dollars. Several
penny-banks were smashed last night to aid the Cam
pus Chest. *»
Try to be in your dorm tonight when your sena
tor or his assistant drops by—and support your Cam
pus Chest.
Campus Chest
Drive Lagging
Less than one-third the goal of the Campus Chest was
reached last night when only $810.94 was collected to sup
port the Twelfth Man Scholarship, the foreign student study
award, and a contribution to the College Station Community
Chest.
“We are disappointed, but not at all pessimistic over
the eventual success of the drive,” Chest Co-Chairmen Allan
Eubank and Monty Montgomery said today.
Tonight dormitory and area student senators and their
assistants will return to the students’ rooms and homes which
they missed last night, seeking to boost the total contribu
tions above the $2500 goal.
Then Friday night a Campus
Bomber Crash
At Take Off
Kills Crewman
El Paso, April 19—(AP) —
A 60-ton bomber faltered on
the take-off and crashed kill
ing one of its 15-man crew
and injuring a schoolboy.
The four-engine B-50 bomber 1 ,
based at Biggs Field here, burned
after the crash.
As it settled to the ground be
cause of engine trouble, the 141-
foot wings narrowly missed a
building used for a school for
240 Army children. One wing up
set a school bus which the children
were getting ready to board.
Another, fully loaded, stood a
few feet away.
William Michael Cardamon, 7,
son of a Fort Bliss dental officer,
was playing in a field beyond the
school. He was struck by the craft
or a piece of it and his left leg
broken.
“I saw the plane coming and
then I couldn’t move my leg,” he
said.
Chest Benefit Show will be held
in Guion Hall, featuring the Sing
ing Cadets, Hockaday Girls Choir,
plus the regular motion picture.
All proceeds will be given to the
Chest drive.
College View came through with
$70.30 last night to lead the field
as largest area contributor. Fresh
man companies and squadrons led
cadet offerings, while Milner Hall
topped the civilian dormitory field
with $28.84.
Here is a complete list of hous
ing areas, corps units, and civilian
dormitories with the amounts con
tributed by each group last night.
College View $70.30
Milner 28.84
Vet Village 24.16
Puryear 20.27
Leggett 17.97
Law 17.64
Trailer Area 5.35
Bizzell 4.51
Company 9 33.50
Squadron 6 33.12
Band (two units) 28.54
B Coast 27.78
Co. 10 27.15
Co. 2 23.49
*E Field 21.87
Co. 3 21.64
*A Ord 16.98
D Vet 15.40
B Eng : 15.24
A ASA 14.45
A Armor 14.10
(See COLLECTIONS, Page 5)
Journalism Head
To Be Press Judge
Donald D. Burchard, head of the
Journalism Department, will attend
the annual meeting of the South
Texas Press Association to be
held in San Antonio Thursday
through Saturday.
Burchard will serve on a three
man committee to judge a profes
sional news contest for member
papers.
Dr. F. L. McDonald, director of
the Journalism Department of
TSCW, and Olin Hinkle of the TU
Journalism Department will act as
the other judges.
mural athletics a way of life.
This man was Kyle Drake, Jr.,
’43, who was killed by a Japanese
sniper on Iwo Jima March 6, 1945.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kyle
Drake Sr. will be on hand to for
mally hand the fountain over to the
college. They decided to give the
College a memorial water fountain
—-and have it placed where students
engaged in intramurals could stop
for a drink.
The logical location was decided
to be at the southwest corner of
the Grove.
While a student here Drake
studied Agriculture engineering,
but he still found time for ath
letics. He was the athletic offi
cer of four units that came out
champions during his stay at
A&M
During his time here he also re
ceived the honor of winning the
original Ugly Man contest. This
award was a type of popularity
contest.
Formal Dedication
Dean of Men, W. L. Penberthy,
will start the Friday afternoon pro-
gram off by giving the formal ded
ication and presentation of the
fountain.
His mother and father will un
veil the fountain during the brief
ceremony in the Grove.
For the college, Dr. M. T. Har
rington, president, will accept the
fountain.
Guest for the presentation will
include Mr’, and Mrs. Drake; Pres
ident and Mrs. Harrington, Dean
On the side he was a part time and Mrs. Penberthy; Dean and Mrs.
coach at A&M Consolidated High E. J. Kyle.
School. Varsity football was also Also Coach and Mrs. Frank An-
one of his accomplishments. derson, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. “Spike”
But after he was graduated the White, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Rus-
war was going on so the Marines sell, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Berry
seemed to be the best unit to join, and Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Rode.
Kyle Drake, Jr. Memorial Fountain
Marine Officer Says War
Still Belongs to Infantry
An Aggie leader of the past, now North Korean and U. N. troops.
a military leader of the present,
settled back in his chair and said,
“Don’t believe this stuff about
having ‘thrown the book away’
in warfare. It’s still basically a
job for the foot-soldier.”
part of the individuals to proper
ly take care of themselves while
fighting back from the Chosen
Reservoir.
He ter-rned that particular fight
as one of the toughest of the war
for his outfit. Possibly rougher
He explained the initial suc
cess of the Chinese Reds in driv
ing us back below the 38th par
allel. Our columns, said Col.
Murray, were driving toward the
Yalu River widely separated.
And he had seven months of The Chinese Reds were posed be- was th e battle of Nak^
fighting in Korea on which to base y° nd the Yalu waitrng to come to He also described the three-day as-
his statement. The leader, Col Ray the aid the North Koreans. They sault on Seoul as hard-fought.
L Murray USMC returned last se11 ^ their troops down to infil- The tall, broad-shouldered
month from the ’war-front. He tlate between the separated col-
was passing through College Sta- uinns and launched their attack on
tion on his way to Marine Corps ^ U - N ; f ] ont and fl ank, driving
Headquarters for temporary as- them back down,
signment before he enters National . Q, 1 ' Hie morale of the Amer
ican GI s, the seasoned command
er called it good in spite of the
country in which they find them
selves. He described Korea as a
dirty, dusty country in which nor
mal living was rough. The scattered
and few cities offered little or no lessen the impression that he could
recreation, he said. still hold his own on a grid-iron
He outlined the Marine rotation with the kind of playing that won
system as extremely effective. The him selection as All-Conference end
rveness, Colonel Murray called plan, by which fresh troops re- during his senior year at A&M.
them “vicious fighters,” but he place those who have been in bat- He entered the Marine Corps
added that they were not particul- tie, is aimed at giving combat ex- immediately up graduation from
arly skillful. “They’re more mobile perience to as many men as pos- here. In 16 years with the Leather-
War College next fall.
“The few months seemed like
years,” said the veteran of two
wars. In Korea he commanded the
5th Marine Regiment, the out
fit that made the famous Inchon
landing and captured Red-held
Seoul.
Speaking of the enemy’s effect
Marine officer still looked very
much like the cadet Lt. Col.
in the 1935 Longhorn who listed
among his achievements being
commander of the Infantry Regi
ment, a three-year letterman in
football, a member of both the
track and basketball teams and
freshman coach for football and
basketball.
Even his thinning hair failed to
than us because they have less s ible
supply problems,” he said.
As for our own troops, the full-
colonel was quick to say that all
the services were doing a fine
job. The majority of our troops are
now fully seasoned, he said.
Of course, he went on, the ex
tremely mountainous terrain of Ko
rea reduced the effectiveness of
From a supply stand-point the
Colonel was likewise quick with
his praise. “Never missed a
meal,” he boasted. And, contrary
to rumors, he asserted that our
troops were well equipped with
warm clothing to meet the cold
Korean winter.
The few frost-bite cases suffer
our Air Force and of field artillery ed by the Marines, he said, were hurry to try his luck again
units, thus tending to equalize mostly due to inability on the least not right now.
necks he has collected, among an
imposing array of campaign rib
bons on his chest, the Navy Cross,
the Purple Heart, the Distinguished
Service Cross and the Silver Star
with three oak leaf clusters.
Wounded at Saipan in World
War II, Colonel Murray said that
he made it through Korea without
h scratch. But he seemed in no
at