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Number 2: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1954
Price 5 Centa
Slate Commission
Requests Forming
Education Group
Based on AP Reports
The temporary state commission
on higher education has recommen
ded that a permanent commission
be established to coordinate affairs
of Texas’ nine colleges and univer
sities.
yhe temporary commission was
set up by the last session of the
legislature to study higher edu
cation in Texas and investigate
the need for more coordination be
tween the schools.
Its final recommendations to the
legislature will be made at a meet
ing of the commission in Austin
Nov. 3-4.
The permanent commission pro
posed would have 21 members—
one from each of the nine boards
Military Group
Asks Benefits
For Students
A
Representatives from A&M
and eight other military col
leges are meeting today to
alfk the department of defense
for special benefits for their
students.
President David H. Morgan and
Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant, are
representing A&M at the meeting,
which is at Roanoke, Va.
The administratoi’s will ask for
»pen quotas for advanced con-
Iracts, guarantee of commissions,
an increase in the subsistence pay
to $1.50 a day, and an increase in
the basic issue of woolen trousers
and shoes.
The requests are being made on
the grounds that militai'y students
receive no additional benefits for
being in uniform all the time and
living under military discipline.
In a report prepared to present
to defense department officials
who will be at the meeting, the
administrators of the nine military
colleges list reasons why students
at their schools should receive the
additional benefits.
“Unless additional considera
tion is given for the extra training
offered in MC units,” the report
Fdys, “those schools will be forced
by social pressures to change to
CC type schools.”
A CC, or civilian college, school
is one in which the ROTC students
wear the uniform only to militai’y
class and drill.
The nine MC colleges represent
ed at the meeting are A&M, Vir
ginia Polytechnic institute, Vir
ginia military institute, The Cita
del, Clemson, New Mexico Mili
tary institute, Norwich university,
North Georgia college, and Penn
sylvania military college.
Morgan and Davis will return
Thursday night.
of the schools, and 12 appointed by
the governor.
No one is sure yet what the ex
act function of the commission
would be, said Henderson Shuffler,
A&M System director of informa
tion, but it would probably be only
a coordinating agency.
“It would be a method of getting
the schools together and avoiding
unnecessary duplication,” he said.
Shuffler said the commission, if
approved by the legislature, would
probably decide which school should
offer a certain major, and whether
or not two or more schools should
offer the same specialized major.
A. R. Bivins, who was named
chairman of the temporary com
mission Tuesday to fill a vacancy,
said that as much power as pos
sible would be left with the gov
erning boards of the individual in
stitutions.
College board members of the
commission would serve two-year
terms, and the governor’s appoint
ees would serve staggered six-year
terms.
No two of the governor’s ap
pointees would be allowed from
the same congressional districts.
Chancellor M. T. Harrington of
the A&M System is on an advisory
committee for the temporary com
mission.
Student Election
For Wednesday
Officials Investigate
I fat Stealing Aggies
Alfred and Herbert Teltschik
Next Town Hall Performers
Duo-Piano Team
Set for Town Hall
American Legion
Enrolls Veterans
A community-wide campaign to
enroll eligible veterans in the
American Legion for 1955 was an
nounced yesterday by Commander
R. L. Elkins, post 541.
Membership teams are contact
ing veterans of Woi'ld Wars I and
II, as well as men who served in
Korea or elsewhere after June 25,
1950.
Alfred and Herbert Teltschik,
duo-pianists, will be the attraction
at Town Hall at 8 p.m. Tuesday
(Oct. 26) in the 9,000 seat G. Rol-
lie White coliseum.
Seats will be on a first come,
first serve basis. Individual tick
ets are on sale in the student activ
ities office, said Bill Johnson, stu
dent entertainment manager.
Born in Floi’esville, Texas, of
Austrian pax*ents, the Teltschik
brothers began their musical train
ing under the guidance of their
father. They attended the Julliard
School of Music in New Yoi’k
city. Upon graduating, they re
turned to Texas where they open
ed their own studio. They began
giving two-piano recitals to satisfy
their love of making music for an
audience.
They were called to active duty
during World War I. They gave
numerous recitals for the armed
News of the World
By the ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS—Three Tulane University students
were convicted Tuesday of disturbing the peace following a
panty raid by 500 male students at a girls’ dormitory on the
Tulane campus. One girl said some of the coeds encouraged
the raiders because “it was good for school spirit. That was
more spirit at Tulane than I can remember.”
★ ★ ★
CAIRO, Egypt—Under close security guard, Brit
ish and Egyptian diplomats last night signed a historic
treaty to end Britain’s occupation of the Suez Canal zone
within 20 months. A proclamation held Egyptian police
and armed forces in a state of alert after alleged agents
of the Communist and the fanatical Moslem Brother
hood had stoned and wrecked two buses near Cairo.
★ ★ ★
MOSCOW—Seven Western ambassadors walked out of
a Burmese dinner party in Moscow yesterday rather than
dine with Communist and European Soviet satellite repre
sentatives.
forces at home and overseas.
Back into civilian life as a full-
fledged two-piano team, they pur
chased a small bus converted to
transport their luggage and two
concert grand pianos, which they
maintain, tune and repair them
selves.
To date, they have completed
their second completely “sold-out”
transcontinental tour which has
taken them into every state in the
union and Canada.
Ticket Sales
For Saturday
Close Today
Student and student date
ticets for the A&M-Baylor un
iversity football game Satur
day will go off sale at 5 p.m.
today, Pat Dial of the athletic
department announced.
Student tickets are $1 if the
student has an athletic sea
son ticket paid for in the stu
dent activities fee. Date tick
ets without thie season ticket
ai’e $3.25.
The investigation of the hat
stealing incident after Saturday’s
A&M-Texas Christian university
football game is continuing, but
neither names of the students in
volved nor the missing hats have
been discovered.
Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assist
ant commandant, said yesterday
that he was working through the
corps and the tactical officers to
get the names of the students and
see if any of the hats are still on
the campus.
Wilkins said Monday that the
persons involved definitely will be
punished if they are caught.
Frank Ford, corps commander,
said last night that he had instruc
ted unit commanders to inspect ca
det rooms in an effort to find the
hats.
He said he did not instruct the
commanders to try to find out the
names of the students who took
the hats. He said the tactical of
ficers were working on that part of
the investigation.
Am en dm ent s—1
Texas Law May Re Changed
(Editor’s Note: This is first
in a series of three articles on
the proposed constitutional
amendments for Texas. Absen
tee balloting for the Nov. 2
election, which will include the
regular state and local offi
cers and the admendments, is
now in progress at the office
of A. B. Syptak, Brazos coun
ty clerk.)
Evei’y voter in Texas is going to
have the chance to be a legislator
fjor one day. The legislature has
pi-oposed 11 changes for Texas’ 80-
year old constitution, and now it is
the voters duty to decide whether
%ir not they will become the law in
Texas.
Since the present constitution
was adopted by popular vote in
1876, 197 amendments have been
submitted to the voters and 110 of
these have been adopted.
This has not changed the con
stitution, the base of all Texas law,
as much as it sounds like, because
many of the amendments affected
the same constitutional provision.
In this series of articles, the
amendments will be discussed one
by one, in the order they will ap
pear on the ballot.
No. 1: Public Assistance
This amendment would increase
the amount of money the state can
spend each year for old age assist
ance, aid to the blind, and aid to
dependent children.
It would increase the state-wide
amount from $35 million to $45
million annually. The federal gov
ernment matches the amount the
state puts up.
The increase for each individual
on the public assistance rolls would
be about $5. About 38 out of every
100 Texas people over 65 are now
receiving old age assistance, which
is above the national average of
19 out of 100. About 1,150 persons
in Brazos county are on the old
age rolls.
There would be no change in the
provision that state money going
to each individual is not to be more
than $20 a month. The legislature
is also instructed to make the pub
lic assistance rolls open for inspec
tion if the amendment passes.
No 2: Teachers’ Retirement
This amendment would allow a
transfer of credits from the teach
ers’ retirement system to the state
employees’ retirement system.
That means that if a man work
ed as a state employee somewhere,
and then became a teacher in a
state school, the time in both jobs
would be counted towai’d his i’e-
tirement benefits.
The ti’ansfer of credits would
hold tnxe if the person wei’e a
teacher first and then moved to
another state job.
About 1,500 persons would be af
fected by this amendment. The
legislature passed a law with these
same provisions four yeai’s ago,
but it was held unconstitutional by
the State Supi’eme Coui’t, so it is
now being submitted to the voters.
No. 3: Extend OASI Coverage
Number three would allow cities
and other political subdivisions to
pass a law placing their proprie-
(See AMENDMENTS, Page 2)
BAFB Plane Crash
Kills Two Airmen
BRYAN, Oct. 20 — (A*) — Two
bodies wei’e found amid the scat-
tei’ed wreckage of a T28 trainer
plane fi’om Bryan air force base
on a wooded hill four miles north
east of hei’e yesterday.
The victims left the base Monday
night on a training flight to Waco,
Austin and retura.
The plane did not bum but seem
ed to disintegrate after it hit a
tx-ee and careened on the hill near
by. Wreckage was scattei’ed over
a 40-yai'd area.
The dead were Lt. Ralph Iver
son, 25, Pipestone, Minn., and Ca
det Lemuel Oakes, 21, Melrose,
Mass.
The incident occured immediate
ly after the football game. The
TCU band was lined up on the
sidelines, pi’epai’ing to mai’ch off,
and A&M cadets were waiting on
the sidelines to carry the football
players off the field.
Several cadets took hats from
the bandsmen’s heads before the
band moved off.
Tactical officers and cadet offi
cers returned some of the hats be-
foi’e the band left the field, but
some of them were still missing.
Wilkins said yestex’day that no
woi’d on the matter had been re
ceived from TCU.
Band Booster Club
Sponsors Carnival
By RALPH COLE
Battalion City Editor
Doris Goodx’ich Jones of Waco,
will present her puppet theater at
the Band Booster club cai'nival at
6 p.m. Satux’day on the A&M Con
solidated high school slab.
Pi’ofits. of the cai’nival will be
used to pay for the new band uni
forms, which cost approximately
$3,000. Tickets to the carnival will
be ten cents.
Several games will provide inter
est for both young and old. The
Lions club will have a dunking vat
along with the baseball tlvi’ow.
When someone hits the tai'get;
some pi’ominent citizen will be
ducked in a pool of water. Getting
ducked will be Les Richai’dson,
school superintendent; Taylor Rie
del, pi’incipal of junior high; J. J.
Skrivanek, principal of senior high
school, and Lucian Morgan, insur
ance salesman.
A local talent floor show featur
ing James Baldorf and his magic
will be presented. Numbers from
the Jane Lee school of dancing and
songs by Robex-t L. Boone will also
be pi’esented with the floor show.
Di\ I. I. Peters, of the dairy hus-
bandi'y department, will be a for
tune teller who knows all and tells
all.
Others aiding with the cai'nival
are Mrs. Virginia Reynolds, coun
try stoi'e; Mi’s. J. B. Baty, fish
pond. Fi’ed Biison, of the hoi’ticul-
ture department and Junius Clai’k,
entomologist, will sell tickets.
Di\ Charles LaMotte will be the
professional photographer at the
carnival. Pictui'es can be develop
ed in five minutes.
Chairman of the foods commit
tee is Mi's. Kenneth Bailey. Food
salesmen will be T. D. Letbetter,
hambur-gei's; Mrs. Louis T. Dula
ney, candy; Mrs. Paul Tanzei’,
di'inks, and E. E. Ivey, pop corn.
Mai’ion Pugh lumber company
is furnishing the building supplies
for the cai’nival. Consti'uctor of
the booths is Don R. Dale. Ki-
wanis club membei's are in charge
of getting the grounds in shape for
the carnival, and they will furnish
sub-contractoi's to help Dale in the
consti’uction.
Di\ Ed Ivey and Luther Jones
ax-e co-chairmen for the carnival.
Jones is also chairman of the fi
nance committee. Mrs. Wesley
Smith is chaii’man of the Band
Boosters club.
Saturday is the last day for list
ings on the community birthday
calendar. A special booth will be
at the cai’nival for those who still
v<^h to be included.
Auto Accident
Investigation
Nears End
Highway Patrolman O. L.
Luther hopes to complete his
investigation today of the ac
cident Saturday night which
killed A&M Senior Don G.
Dart.
Luther said he plans to talk with
Mi's. Mai'ia Bryan Fuller, who was
also in the car with Dart, to deter
mine who was di’iving the.automo
bile when the accident occurred.
He had questioned several wit
nesses Tuesday, but he did not
obtain any conclusive information.
Mi’s. Fuller was released from
Bi’yan hospital Tuesday. She suf
fered a «cut scalp and a braised
back when the car in which she
and Dai’t were riding ovex*turned
two and a half times on Farax
Highway 60 about five miles west
of the college. Luther was unable
to contact her Tuesday to complete
his investigation.
Among those questioned Tuesday
were three A&M students who
met the car in which Dai’t was xid
ing just before the accident oc-
cui'red. However, the students
told Luther that they did not no
tice who was di’iving.
Silver Taps will be held tonight
at 10:30 for Dart, and the flag in
fi'ont of the Academic building will
be flown at half mast. Funei'al
sei’vices wei’e held Tuesday in El
Paso.
PUPPETS—Doris Goodrich Jones of Waco, will be one of
the main entertainers in the Band Boosters club carnival
Saturday at A&M Consolidated high school. Profits from
the carnival will go toward paying the $3,000 debt on band
uniforms.
Civilian Council
Sets Election
To Fill Vacany
Another election for day
student representative to the
Civilian Student Council has
been set for Wednesday, Oct.
27.
In the previous election of the
day students, only one person filed
for the position. However, he was
later disqualified because he did
not meet all the requirements for
the council.
In the council meeting yesterday,
the group voted to hold another
election to assure equal representa
tion on the council. Filings will
be open from 8 a.m. Thux-sday un
til 5 p.m. Monday in room 1-H,
Pui’year hall. The election will be
conducted in the same room from
8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Approved Seating
The council also voiced approval
of the Kyle field seating arrange
ment dx-awn up by the Student
Senate. A letter is being sent to
the senate requesting that in the
future the Civilian Student Coun
cil be allowed to control seating in
the civilian section allotted by the
senate each year.
A report by the committee
formed to investigate the civilian
dining hall included a list of
statements by J. G. Peniston, su
pervisor of subsistence. Soma
of these statements were:
• There wil be a better distri
bution of food, especially in sec
ond servings, and the council is
requested to help in cutting down
the waste of food.
• Civilian students eat twice as
much as corps students, but no
reason was given.
• Request for the cooperation in
regulating entrance to the diixing
hall.
• Request for help in preventing
mishandling of meal tickets. If
students continue to exchange meal
tickets, the cafeteria will replace
the civilians’ dining hall.
Another committee, formed at
the px-evious meeting of the coun
cil, reported on the college laun
dry. They were asked by the coun
cil to discuss the problem further
with laundi-y officials and make
I'ecommendations at the council’s
next meeting, Tuesday at 4 p.m.
in the Memoi'ial Student Center
ballroom.
Press Building
Now Under Way
Consti’uction on the new A&M
Press building was begun Oct. 11.
The one-story, concrete and brick
structure will be of production line
design. It will cost $252,625. The
building will be equipped with air
conditioning and humidity control.
It will be located in the genei’al
utilities area of the campus across
the street from the ice plant.
The contract for the building
was awarded to Martin Semands of
Coni’oe, Tex., by the boai’d of di
rectors of the A&M System. No
completion date has been set.
Van Gogh Pictures
On Display in MSC
Two paintings, worth $95,000,
ai’e on exhibit in the large display
window in the Memoi’ial Student
Center.
“The Novel Reader,” by Vincent
Van Gogh is valued at $75,000.
‘Place Pigalle,” by Piei-re Auguste
Renoir is valued at $20,000. The
paintings belong to the Contempor-
ary Arts museum of Houston.
Van Gogh killed himself at the
age of 37 because he thought he
was a failure at painting. He earn
ed only $180 as an artist during
his life. Today his paintings are
valued at 40 million dollai’s, said
Mrs. Ralph Tei’ry, advisor to the
Art Gallex-y committee who is
sponsoring the exhibit.
The paintings went on display
last Thux-sday and will I’emain un
til Oct. 28.
Ag Council Elects
Munns President
Geoi’ge Munns has been elected
chairman of the Agriculture coun
cil. He represents the Entomology
club.
Other officers elected were John
DeWald, Agi'icultural Engineer
ing club, yice chahtnan; Jex-ry
Johnson, FFA, secretary; and Sam
McAnally, Saddle and Sirloin club,
reporter.
Weather Today
The forecast for today is partly
cloudy this afternoon. Yesterday’s
high was 86, low 50. The tempei’a-
ture at 11:30 this moiming was 78.