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College Station’s Official Newspaper; Circulated Daily To 90% of Local Residents Number 136: Volume 51 The Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1951 Coach Selection Still a Big Secret See Column, Editorial Page Price Five Cents Campus Chest Drive 75th Anniversary Muster cl,...i l. dti gnn -J Features MSC Dedication Falls Short by $1,300 By JOHN WHITMORE Battalion. Managing Editor . The campus Chest Drive last night flop ped by about $1,300 last night as the dorm itory workers brought in the second nights collections. The Student Senate Campus Chest com mittee originally set up a quota of $2,500. The money was to go for the continuance of the 12th Man Scholarship and to give a for eign student a scholarship to A&M. Only $820 was contributed by the stu dents the first night of the drive, which open ed Wednesday. I. E. “Monty” Montgomery, co-chairman of the drive, still expressed some An Editorial Pick It Up hope that the drive would be a success when the final figures were tabulated. At the end of the second night of cam paigning only one dormitory had a 100 per cent contribution. This was in the Basic Division in Dormitory 15. Senator Doyle Griffin and his helpers collected $132.20 for the two nights. Dorm 15 was $14.70 over their quota. High place unit for the drive was Squad ron 7 in the Basic Division. Thqy contribut ed over their assigned quota of $56 by several dollars. The co-chairmen listed several reasons last night why they thought the drive fell so ■far below their expectations. . . “It may not have been a good idea to begin the drive on Wed nesday because most of the stu dents in the Corps are usually not in the Dorms until after 8:30 p.m., and most of the men in charge of the collections came around before that time,” explained Allen Eu bank. Too Close to Fee Time A&M’s Campus Chfest drive fell flat on its face last night. And it’s up to the students to pick it up. With only a little over $1,100 now collected—a far cry .from the needed $2,500—the student body apparently does n’t care whether the Twelfth Man Scholarship is continued and whether other worthwhile efforts are effected. We agree with the drive’s chairmen, who say they can’t believe the students are so short of funds that such an amount as this can’t be raised. Sure, you’re broke, we’re broke, everyone’s broke—but not that badly, not to the ex tent that we’re denying a man his college education at A&M. But here comes the weekend. We’ll all take in movies, beer parlors, dances—while our Campus Chest is gravely ill and in dire need of a financial transfusion. So—what in the hell.. . ! A&M students are becoming darned hypocritical when they claim to be so “will ing to help a buddy.” We haven’t met these buddies who’ll win the Twelfth Man Scholarship and the foreign student award, but we’ll vouch for them. They’ll probably make some of the finest Aggies the school has produced. And we’re denying them that chance. The Campus Chest drive is going to be extended indef initely. We’re going to be called on again next week to raise that remaining $1,500. It’s not hard, so let’s do it. .M oO pretty Hockaday, Cadets Vocalize for Chest By BRYAN SPENCER • Battalion Staff Writer How would like to kill four birds with one stone? It’s really not “one stone though, it’s 50 cents, just one half of a dollar. First, since girls always rate' here on the campus, you get to hear The Hockaday Glee Club. Just think, 45 minutes of women apd song. Next, you have those famous re corders, the Singing Cadets of Ag gieland who will provide you mel ody from singing commercials to popular music, spirituals and a long from a hit musical. Third, you get to see the fea ture afterwords, it happens to be ‘Wyoming Mail’ in technicolor. Last, but by no means least, in fact when you get clown to ser ious business, it is the most im portant, all proceeds from the show will be turned over to the Campus Chest. This includes $1200 for the 12th man scholar ship, $800 for the foreign stu dent scholarship, and $500 for the College Station Community Chest.. Aggie Riflemen To Fire Against Citadel Team The Aggie Rifle Team, coached by Lt. Paul M. Ben nett, will fire a match with a squad for The Citadel Mili tary College of South Caro lina at the indoor rifle range to morrow morning. The group of 15 men from the Citadel represent a school, which in many respects is similar to A&M. tfome of the comparable features of the two schools include the military customs and traditions common to both, the practice of class distinction, and the student body’s backing of teams in all athletic contests, win or lose. At the Citadel, the freshmen or “Fourth Classmen” as they - are called must hit a “brace” and nev- 6r eat at meals before the upper classmen are served, in addition, the freshmen at the South Carolina school must turn a square corner. The Citadel rifle team are champions of the Southeast, and are generally regarded as one of thfc best college teams in the coun try. Beginning the show will be a number of sacred songs such as “Come All Ye Faithful,”' “Fair est Lord Jesus”, and “Jesus, Joy of Man's Desiring,” rendered by the Hockaday choral aggregation. After the spirituals the singers will sing several duo and trio numbers such “Too Late Now” from ‘Royal Wedding’, “Make Be lieve” and “Who” from ‘Kiss Me Kate.’ The program presented by the girls from up Dallas way will in clude rhythmic numbers as “John Henry,” “Nobody Knows the Trou ble I See,” and “Oh Freedom.” Singing more popular songs, the glee club from Dallas will use selections from the music of Cole Porter, Sigmund Romberg, Jerome Kern, and Richard Rod gers. Selections from this group are “Night and Day”, “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” and “With a Song in My Heart.” The Aggie singers will furaish music for the last thirty minutes of the show singing “Joshua Fit de Battle” as their first number. “Where in the World” will be fol lowed by songs by a quarter. The cadets will then sing from the mus ical “South Pacific,” “There is Nothing Like a Dame.” Now going to the other extreme will be a group of hillbilly cadets which will sing their versions of “I Only Got Eyes For You” and “Mona Lisa.” Bill Turner and his men on note will then give their inter pretation of several singing com mercials following the popular “I Dream of You.” Next will come “Wanderin’’ will precede “The Spirit of Aggieland,” which is the last number of the pro gram. Jean Oliver of Dallas will be featured as soloist with the girls from Hockaday, and Tommy Sav age and Don Gomey, will be solo ists for the Cadets. Ft. Denning Range Named for Aggie The main rifle range at Ft. Benning has been named for Brig. Gen. Claudius M. Easley. Gen. Easley was long known as one of the foremost exponents of small arms marksmanship in the country. He was a graduate of the General Staff School, and held the World Record Rifle Score in 1924. While at A&M, Gen. Easley was a lieutenant in the Ross Volun teers and a regimental staff offi- ced. He received a BS in Archi tectural Engineering in 1916, “I guess it was just too close to fee payments,” said Montgom ery, shaking his head while tabulat ing the final results. “I just can’t believe the student body is so short of money or is not interested enough to support such an important campaign as this,” he continued. The contributions ranged from the $58 contributed by the fresh man unit to $.75 donated by D Sen iors. “We’ll just give the men a rest over the weekend,” Eubank says, “and then hit them again Mon day.” He also expressed the opinion the Guion Hall Show, featuring the Singing Cadets and the Hock aday Gilds Choir, would not bring the total up much above $200. Three Purposes This year’s drive has three main purposes, including a donation to the College Station Community Chest,, aid in the 12th Man Schol arship and aid in the Foreign Stu dent Study Award. Last year was the first year a scholarship was set up enabling the students themselves to give a worthy boy a chance for an educa tion. The first such award went to Freshman Carroll Phillips of Henrietta. Through a student body vote the first foreign student was chosen to be from Norway. Last year was the first time formal collections were made by the Campus Chest. The goal then was $4,000 with the final contribu tions' totaling in the neighborhood of $2,600. This year, even thoucrh the cam paign was better publicized and more carefully planned, the amount collected after the first two davs failed to match last year’s total. Accountants’ Conference Set For April 24 More than three-hundred are expected to attend the Fourth Annual Accounting Conference to be held at the College April 24-25. T. W. Le- land, head of the Business Admin- istration Department said today. The accountants and guests will be welcomed to the campus by President M. T. Harrington. George Donnell of San Antonio, will pre side over the opening session. Perry Mason of the University of Califomia will deliver the open ing address on, “Current Economic Problems Relating to Accounting.” Presiding over the remaining sessions will be; Ivan Oden; Free port; Carl Dannenfelser, Fort Worth; J. W. Templeton, Hous ton; Paul Garmany, Houston; George H. Abbott of Dallas, and Emerson O. Henke, of Waco. W. H. Garbade, president of the Deep Rock Oil Corp., Tulsa, will delived the address at the banquet Tuesday night, April 24. Tickets for the banquet to be held at 7 p. m. Tuesday April 24, may be secured at the Registration desk in the MSC lobby. Muster Parking All staff members of the col lege and local residents have been requested to refrain from parking on Houston Street be tween the YMCA and the inter section of Houston Street with Lubbock Street. This request was made to pre vent qongestion in the area ar ound the MSC immediately be fore and after the Saturday ceremonies. Five seniors in the School of Arts and Sciences have been named winners of the 1951 Faculty Achievement Awards. They are: front row Her man C. Gollob, English major from Houston; R. Ferris Brown, BA student from Dallas; and Rob ert D. Tobola, Mathematics major from Houston. Back row, Dr. J. P. Abbott, dean of the school; Douglas D. Hearne, pre-law student from Blanco; and Stuart M. Hauser, physics major from Col lege Station. To Ask Three Questions Student Senate Schedules ‘Opinion Poll’ Next Week The Student Senate decided Wed nesday tocontinue with plans for the controversial student body opin ion poll on a President of the stu dent body. The hew poll, however, will be presented in a different form from the one “thrown out” last week. Three questions will be asked on the poll, and the Student Sen ator from each dormitory and hous ing area will be required to vote in the Senate meeting as the ma jority of his constituents vote. The questions are as follows: • Do you favor the election of a Student Body President by the Stu dent Body? • Do you favor the election of the Student Senate President by the student body? • Do you favor no change from the present system? In its special meeting Wednesday in the MSC Senate Chamber, the senators decided to re-submit the issue to the student body. Each dormitory and housing area sena tor will distribute, collect, and tab ulate the opinion ballots, then take them to the election committee at a centralized headquarters. The poll will be conducted next Wednesday night—April 25—t h e Senate decided. Called into special session by President Bill Parse, the Senate went into action at 5 p.m. yester day. Joe Johnson made a motion that “we drop the entire matter,” with Hans Killingstad seconding. Debate Heavy Considerable debate—although it didn’t reach the heated proportions of the April 5 meeting—then took place. Only six men supported the motion as it failed to pass the Senate. Parliamentarian Joe Fuller pre sented a motion which called for an opinion poll on four points. Three of them remained intact, while one asking the students’ views on the Student Senate electing a Student Body President was dropped. Aft er the one question had been strick en out, the motion passed, 13-12. Questions arose over whether the term “referendum” was used cor- I'ectly in last week’s poll. Fuller explained that a referendum would be binding while an opinion poll would not. He specified that his proposal was strictly to receive the students’ opinion, and not to bind the Senate to a decision. Another motion by Tom Flukin- ger, however, proposed that the Letter Explains Electric Policy By JOEL AUSTIN Battalion City Editor Letters will be in the mail this weekend to all electricity con sumers in College Hills and other adjoining areas included in the recent power line purchase by the city from Bryan and the Rural Electrification Administration. Signed for the city council by Mayor Ernest Langford, the letter explains the process by which the electric facilities will be transfered to the city of College Station and what the change in rates will be. Mayor Langford explained that heretofore electric meters in those areas concerned have been read on or about the fifth of the month. From now on, he explained, they will be read on or about the twentieth of the month. All bills calculated as of ap proximately April 15, 1951, will be paid to the City of Bryan; there after, all bills will be paid to the City of College Station. Next Electric Bill The next bill residents of Col lege Hills will i-eceive will be slightly higher than usual because of the difference in the dates of reading the meters, he explained. “Deposits which you have with the City of Bryan will be returned to you. We do not require deposits of home owners in College Station,” the mayor’s letter said. Continuing his explanation of the new electricity set-up, Langford said. “The average domestic con sumer would find that his bills with the City of College Station will be somewhat lower than they have been; the average commercial consumer will find his bills higher until an adjustment in rates can be made. “We have every reason to believe that with our acquiring the REA lines there will accrue to the City of College Station approximately $15,000 annually. This additional income will make possible many improvements which heretofore have been impractical.” Enclosed with the letter was a copy of Ordnance No. 150 which set the new, cheaper electric rates now charged to electricity consum ers in College Station. New Local Rates The ordnance set the charges for domestic consumers using elec tricity in households or offices only as follows: First 25 KWH .... 6<* per KWH Next 75 KWH per KWH Next 80 KWH ....2V^ per KWH Over 180 KWH .... 2<f per KWH (See ELECTRICITY, Page 6) poll be marked instructing the sen ator to vote according to the ma jority of his dormitory or housing area. With a second by Johnson, an amendment by Tom Jewell that made senators-at-large conform to the total vote, the motion passed. Qualifications set by the Senate, for the proposed Student Body President, to be submitted for Stu dent Life approval, are as follow: • Candidate must De senior for year he desires to hold office. • He must have a 1.5 grade point ratio. • The Student Body President’s position, if established, would re place the one now held by the Stu dent Senate president. Dedication Day Dance Set On MSC Starlite Terrace A Dedication Day Dance, commemorating the dedication of the MSC to Aggies who have given their lives for their country, will be held in the Assembly Room and on the Star lite Terrace of the MSC Saturday at 8 p.m. Gold Star Mothers and relations will be honored guests at the dance. The MSC Dance Committee extended invitations to all ex-students, students, faculty and staff members, and residents of College Station and Bryan. Arrangements have also been made to offer guests facil ities to play bridge, canasta, dominoes and other games. Because of the varied activities scheduled for the even ing, it has been decided to have the dance informally. The Aggieland Combo will furnish its danceable music for the dance, which will cost seventy-five cents, including federal tax. The dance is sponsored by the MSC Dance Committee, whose job it is to plan, schedule and decorate for numerous dances held on the campus. Members of the committee who have worked to make the dance possible are Tom Rountree, committee chairman, Tom Munnerlyn, Tom Parish, and Betty Bolander, staff advisor for the committee. Junior College Day Planned by Council By BILL A A BERG Battalion Staff Writer People will be flying and traveling by train, bus and automobile from all parts of the United States to attend the formal dedication of the MSC, and the annual Muster which will be held in front of the MSC this Saturday. Some 600 Gold Star Mothers and relations will be seated in two sections along the sidewalks of the MSC entrance and 1,500 seats have been arranged for guests during the cere monies. President M. T. Harrington will preside over the dedica tion ceremony, which will begin at 11 a.m. Following the playing of the National Anthem by the Aggie Band, King Eggar, former Corps Chaplain will give the Invocation. A fter the Invoca tion, President Harrington will welcome the Gold Star families and all visitors to the Dedication, Muster and general homecoming. Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist will in troduce the dedicatory speaker, Ty ree Bell, vice president of the Board of Directors. Dedication Speakers Ed Caraway, president of the. Former Students Association; Bill Parse, president of the Student Senate; Professor Fred Brison, representative of the teaching staff; and Mrs. E. P. Arneson, representative of the Gold Star Re lations will give their expi’essions of appreciation after the address by Bell. A large wreath, honoring the A&M men who have given .their lives for their country, will be placed under the tablets, which bear their names, on the wall at the entrance of the Center by Mrs. Arneson. After the placing of the wreath, Silver Taps, for the Ag gies who are with us in memory only, will be sounded by the RV Trumpet. In closing, Corps Chaplain Dew ey C. Edwards will give the Dedi catory Prayer, which will be fol lowed by the Aggie Band playing the “Spirit of Aggieland.” Eat in Duncan The Muster will begin at 2 p.m., and the principal speaker will be James H. Pipkin, general manager of the industrial and public rela tions department of the Texas Company in New York City. The title of Pipkin’s address is “Re member, Son . . .” David Haines is to be the Mas ter of Ceremonies for the Muster and the speakers, other than Pip kin, will be Bill Cornish, speaking on the history of the Muster tra dition; Former Students Associa tion President Caraway; Dare Kee- lan, president of thd senior class; Alan Waldie, who will recite a poem, “Roll Call for the Absent” and give the Roll Call. Band Plays The Aggie Band will play th« “Aggie War Hymn,” “The Twelfth Man,” “Our Glorious Emblem,” and The “Spirit of Aggieland.” The Silver Taps trumpters will play “Silver Taps.” Fronfi 3—4:30 p.m. President and Mrs. Harrington will hold a recep tion in the Assembly Room of the MSC. All guests of the campus are invited. Dedication, Muster and home coming guests have been invited to take advantage of courtesy cars which will be at their service to take guests on any to,ur of the campus they desire. Guided tours of the MSC building will be con ducted in the morning and after noon. Visiting Ag Men Get Outline Of School’s Plan Informing visiting agricul turalists of the facilities avail able to them here, Dean C. N. Shepardson yesterday o u t- lined the school’s Three Point Program of farm-school coopera tion. “We are your hired hands,” he said as he reviewed the histoiy and purpose of the land-grant colleges. The visiting men, a group of vet erans, farmers, and business men from Hopkins County, were here for the purpose of reviewing the various departments and depart mental areas. Among those pres ent were several Aggie Exes. Most of the men are vocational agricul tural teachers. “Through the type of research performed at the experiment sta tions and in the various projects, we are now producing more agri cultural products then were put out 150 years ago and with a six teenth of the manpower expendi ture,” the dean told them. “The work of atomic scientists may seem remote to you as fai'm- ers,” he continued, “but here at the college we are now using fissional material to trace the path of fer tilizers through plants.” Touching on the resident teach ing program, Shepardson showed how new material in agricultural education and experimentation gets to the farming public and how the practical needs of the farmer get back to the laboratory. As the third point in the Three Point program, the visitors were told of the close cooperation of all units in the field of research and education in order to increase the productive capacity of agriculture. By CRISTY ORTH Battalion Staff Writer As hosts to students graduating from junior colleges throughout the state, all departments of the col lege will observe Junior College Day next Friday. A new feature on the college cal ender, the idea originated three years ago when the school of agri culture invited interested junior college graduates to visit the school. Proving successful in the Ag School, the idea has been revised to incorporate all schools in the college as hosts to those visiting students who might want to learn what opportunities are available to them at A&M. Get Clear View Handled through the Inter-Coun cil Committee of all the schools, the program is planned to give the visitors an over-all view of col lege life at A&M. A chance will be given them to clear up matters such as transfer of credits and eligibility for the military. President Harrington will wel come the students to the school upon their arrival Friday morning. Dick Tumlinson, chairman of the Inter-Council Committee, will de liver a student greeting prelimin ary to orienting the boys on the (See JC STUDENT, Page 5) Kyle Drake Jr. . . . class of ’43, killed by a sniper in Iwo Jima, March 6th, 1945, will be consecrated in the memory of his school this after noon. Drake, who became known as a guiding spirit of Intramural sports at A&M, will have a foun tain dedicated to his memory at the Southwest corner of The Grove this afternoon at 5:15 p.m. Dr. Dan Russell will serve as master of ceremonies for the dedication.