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Number 1: Volume 54
r COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1954
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Military Colleges To Request
Special Benefits- for Students
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BIG T—The A&M band showed off for the home folks for the first time last Saturday
at half-time of the A&M-TCU football game. Here the 240-man band forms the A&M ‘T’.
Dart Killed
Accident Probe Continues
Morgan, Davis Represent
A&M At Meeting
Administrators from the nation’s nine military colleges,
including Texas A&M, will meet tomorrow to ask the depart
ment of defense for special benefits for students of military
colleges.
Representing A&M at the meeting, which will be held
at the Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke, Va., will be President David
H. Morgan and Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant.
Virginia Polytechnic institute is the host school for the
meeting, but Morgan was instrumental in calling it.
Here are the provisions that will be submitted to the
defense department officials at the meeting:
Open enrollment quota+
By JON KINSLOW
Battalioin Managing Editor
State Highway Patrolman O. L.
Luther is stivll investigating the
Saturday night accident which kill
ed Donald G. Dart, 20, senior thorn
El Paso, and injured the 23-year-
old girl who was riding in the. car
with him.
Luther said “he is still trying
to “determine who was driving the
car when the accident occurred
about 6:15 p.m. Saturday on Farm
Highway 60 about five miles west
or the college.
Silver Taps will be held at
10:30 p.m. Wednesday for Dart.
The flag was flown at half mast
Monday and will also be flown
at half mast Wednesday.
•
Witnesses from Somerville who
were riding in the car that was be
ing passed by the car Dart was
in when the accident occurred,
5aid it was too dark to tell who
Ivas driving.
They said the car swerved
ground them traveling west at an
“excessive speed” and then started
turning over, Luther said.
In the car with Dart was Mrs.
Maria Bryan Fuller, 23, a divorcee
who lives at 501 East 24th street
in Bryan. She suffered a cut scalp
and bruised back, but was to be
released from the hospital today.
She is a waitress at the Teran
Drive-in.
The car, a 1954 convertible, roll
ed two and a half times, throwing
out both occupants. The car ap
parently rolled over on Dart and
crushed him, Luther said. The car
?t/as estimated to be a total loss.
Luther said this morning he
would question Mrs. Fuller today
to determine who was driving the
car.
The car was owned by Lt. Leroy
E. Ward jr., an instructor at Bryan
air force base, who was on a cross
country flight Saturday night. Mrs.
Fuller said Ward had loaned the
car to her, Luther said.
Dai't, a member of A anti-air
craft artillery, was dead on arrival
at Bryan hospital. Doctors at the
hospital attempted to revive him
for about 30 minutes, but their
efforts failed.
Funeral Services
Funeral services for Dart will be
held at 2 p.m. today in the Hard-
ing-Orr funeral home in El Paso.
Six cadets from his military unit
will act as pallbearei-s.
Dart’s only survivors ai’e his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Myles E.
Dart.
In another weekend accident,
Thomas W. Goldstone, sophomoi’e
from Houston, was treated and re
leased from the College hospital
after his late model car turned
over on F and B road, about two
and a half miles west of the col
lege. Two other cadets in the car
were uninjured.
Lost Control
Goldstone told Campus Security
officers he was traveling west
about 60 miles an hour and lost
control of the car after making a
shai’p turn. In the car with him
were Albert C. Kunkel and Drew
D. Williams. Damage was esti
mated at several hundred dollars.
Goldstone was taken to the hos
pital by an unidentified man, and
was treated for a cut over his
right eye. The car Goldstone was
driving belonged to his brother,
Frank Goldstone, an A&M junior.
Donald G. Dart
. . . killed in crash
Student Life Group
Names Committees
The Student Life committee star
ted the year yesterday by appoint
ing committees to clear away left
over business.
, Prof Hospitality night, part of
the student-faculty relations pro
gram sponsored by the committee,
was postponed from the Oct. 26
date shown on the college calen
dar.
It was decided to wait until the
standing student-faculty relations
committee of the SLC is appointed
to set a definite date.
The SLC also voted to continue
issuing the “Aggie Appreciation
Tickets” to Guion hall theater. The
tickets allow the holder to get into
Guion for 10 cents.
Members of the newly-formed
Civilian Student Council were ad
ded to the list of persons entitled
to the tickets.
v Those entitled to the tickets can
pick up their 16 tickets at the stu
dent activities office starting next
Monday, said C. G. (Spike) White,
of the student activities office.
The following students receive
the tickets:
SLC members, Student Senate
members, unit commanders, all ca
dets with the rank of lieutenant
colonel or above, editors of all stu
dent publications, T card holders,
members of the drum and bugle
corps, band seniors, junior and sen
ior class presidents, freshman ma
jor sports, numeral winners, yell
leaders, housemasters, and intra
mural manager’s.
The following committees were
appointed by the SLC:
Constitution and by-laws; White,
chairman, Wayne Stark, Conrad
Cummings, and Charles Cocan-
ougher.
United States National Students
Association: Jerry Ramsey, chair
man, Cummings, Allen Greer, R.
G. Perryman, and White. This
committee is to investigate A&M
joining the USNSA.
Twelfth Man Bowl: White, Bar-
low (Bones) Irvin, and Lt. Col.
Taylor Wilkins. This committee
will find out if the athletic depart
ment and the miltary department
will cooperate in putting on the an
nual army-air force student bene
fit football game in December.
Other standing committees will
be appointed at the next meeting.
Joe West was elected parliamen
tarian of the committee.
Sweetheart
Finalists Picked
For AF Ball
Plans for the Air Force ball,
Oct. 30, are moving forward
with the selection of finalists
for Air Force Sweetheart.
The five finalists and their
escorts are Miss Lucy Stalkworth
of Baylor, Jimmy Swan; Miss Di
ane Carter of Elsa, Richard Ber
nard; Miss Nancy Boyd of SMU,
Allen Greer; Miss Marjorie Cran
ford of Mineral Wells, Dan Green;
and Miss Glenda Sue Matthews of
Houston, Allen Pier.
Finalists were chosen from pic
tures submitted by air force ROTC
students. Judges were the sweet
heart committee, headed by co-
chairmen Chester Slawson and Bob
Williams.
The sweetheart will be selected
during intermission the night of
the dance.
The dance, which will be infor
mal, will be Oct. 30 in Sbisa
hall from 9 p.m. to midnight.
Bill Coker and his 15-piece or
chestra from Bryan air force base
will play.
The air force, fund, to which all
air force students have contributed
is paying for the dance.
Army and civilian student sen
iors with dates can attend the
dance by contributing $1 to the
fund.
Paul Breen, dormitory 8, room
201, and Gordon Tate, dormitory 1,
room 317, will take the donations.
for contracts to those quali
fied.
• Commissions for all who
complete the four years of
military and are otherwise qual
ified.
• An increase in the subsistence
pay from 90 cents a day to $1.50
a day.
• An increase in the basic issue
of woolen trousers.
• An increase in the basic issue
of shoes.
The group of administrators is
making its requests on the grounds
that students at the military col
leges receive no additional bene
fits for being habitually in uniform
and living under military discip
line all the time.
In a civilian college, as differed
from a military college, ROTC stu
dents wear the uniform only to
military classes and to drill once
a week.
These requests are not intended
to curtail the civilian school type
of ROTC program, Morgan said,
but to give additional consideration
for the military colleges.
More Highly Qualified
“It is recognized that the MC
type unit is able to produce more
highly qualified reserve officers;
therefore, the potential of this
type unit should be fully exploit
ed,” Morgan said.
Morgan, and the other military
college administrators, also made
the point that the military colleges
have to have a more expensive
physical plant and staff to admin
ister the MC program.
“ROTC at an MC unit is neither
an extra-curricular activity, nor is
it a by-product of other training.
It is a major portion of a cadet’s
life in itself,” they said in a report
to the defense department.
“Unless additional consideration
is given for the extra training of
fered in MC units,” their report
(See MILITARY SCHOOLS, p. 2)
Hat Stealing Aggies
Will Be Punished
Cadet Slouch
Will Get
Life Free
Cadet Slouch, will receive
Life magazine at his favorite
sofa in the Memorial Student
Center regularly now, thanks
to the unknown student who
filled out an unpaid subscrip
tion blank for him.
The subscription was ad
dressed to “Cadet Slouch, Sofa
3, MSC, Texas A&M.”
When the subscription was
received, the publishers of Life
wrote Wayne Stark, director
of the MSC, to find out what
was going on. Was there
really a cadet named Slouch,
did he really have a favorite
sofa in the MSC, and who was
going to foot the bill for his
magazine, they asked.
. Stark asked Carl Birdwell,
manager of the Exchange
store, about .the matter. Bird-
well scratched his head, and
decided that since the Ex
change store was indirectly
responsible for the subscrip
tion sent in, they would pay
for it.
So now Cadet Slouch can sit
on sofa number three in the
MSC, directly across from the
main desk in front of the tele
vision set, and read Life mag
azine.
Trotter To Speak
Dr. Ide P. Trotter, dean of the
Graduate School, will speak to the
United Nations club at 7:30 p.m.
Friday in the YMCA. The United
Nations club is a student-faculty
organization, primarily under the
supervision of students.
Disciplinary action definitely
will be taken against the A&M ca
dets who took hats from the Texas
Christian university band Satur
day, said Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins,
assistant commandant.
“We’re still checking on the
names of the students involved,”
Wilkins said, “but we definitely
will take disciplinary action.”
The hats were taken just as the
A&M-TCU football game ended.
The TCU band had formed on the
sidelines, and A&M cadets were
also on the sidelines, getting ready
to carry the football players off the
field.
Several cadets came up behind
the band and took hats from some
of the bandsmen’s heads. Wilkins
said he did not know how many
hats were taken.
“We’re concentrating first on
geting the hats back and getting
them to TCU with a letter of apol
ogy,” Wilkins said.
Capt. J. C. Bi’usse, who was on
the field after the game, said he
recovered some of the hats then
and gave them back to the band
members.
He said he was so busy getting
the hats he did not have time to
get any names.
Brusse said that several senior
A&M cadets helped him get some
of the hats back then.
Band Carnival
Will Be Saturday
The Band Booster club will
hold a carnival at 6 p.m. Sat
urday on the A&M Consolidat
ed high school slab. The
profits of the carnival will be
used to pay for the new band
uniforms.
Several games will provide
interest for both young and
old. The Lions club will have
a dunking vat along with the
baseball throw. A dart board,
fish pond and fortune teller
will also be there.
During the carnival there
will be two special entertain
ments: Doris Goodrich Jones
of Waco, will present her pup
pet theater and a local talent
floor show featuring James
Baldorf and his magic, num
bers from the Jane Lee school
of dancing and songs by Rob
ert L. Boone.
Saturday is the last day for
listings on the community
birthday calendar. A special
booth will be at the carnival
for those who still wish to be
included.
Debate Club
Will Select
Delegates
Selection of delegates to the
sixth student conference on
United States Affairs to be
held at West Point, Dec. 1-4,
will be made at a meeting of
the Discussion and Debate club
Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
Arrangements just completed
with the military academy by the
club, in cooperation with the mili
tary department, will enable two
or more junior or senior corps
members to participate in the con
ference, said Lee Martin of the
English department.
Any junior or senior corps mem
ber who is interested in represent
ing A&M at the conference is eli
gible to make the trip if selected.
Those selected must attend the
club meeting Thursday night. •
Students selected to attend will
participate in a series of round
table discussions on the subject of
the national security policy of the
U.S.
Briefing will be held on the cam
pus before the students leave.
Student Directory
Due In November
Student directories will be issued
the first week in November, ac
cording to the office of student
publications.
The Commentator, the South
west Veterinarian and the Agri
culturist are due at the same time.
The Engineer will appear at the
end of October.
The ’54 Aggieland was expected
in September, but the publishing
company now expects delivery will
be made in November.
Weather Today
CLEAR
Clear and warmer today. Yes
terday’s high was 86, low 53. The
temperature at 11:30 this morning
was 81.
Lions Club Hears
Talk By Lawyer
John L. Sandstedt, a Bryan law
yer, spoke to the College Station
Lions club yesterday on the pro
posed Texas constitutional amend
ments.
He explained what each of the
amendments means and some of
the pros and cons for each one.
Dr. Luther Jones, of the A&M
Consolidated high school Band
Boosters club, thanked the Lions
for their participation in the Band
Boosters carnival to be held Sat
urday night.
The club will operate a dunking
machine at the carnival.
SINGING TESSIES—The Singing Stars from Texas State
Oct. 22 in the Memorial Student Center. Sara Puddy,
is a member of the Stars.
College for Women make their first fall appearance here
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Puddy of College Station,