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Number 136: Volume 51
The Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1951
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Campus Chest Drive 75th Anniversary Muster
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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.
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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.