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FE 8 COPIES in # f # Battalion Number 46: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1955 Price 5 Cents News of the World 9 By The Associated Press SAN JOSE, Costa Rica—Costa .Rica’s seven-day-old war crackled into renewed action yesterday. The General Staff announced advanced government units made contact with rebels north of Santa Rosa in the northwest and declared, “We’ve got them on the run there.” A broadcast by the secret rebel radio, heard at Managua, Nicaragua, claimed 200 rebels had landed in an amphibious operation near Limon, Costa Rican port on the Caribbean 70 miles east of San Jose. ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN—The Railroad commission meets today to decide whether the high rate of allowable Texas oil pro duction for January should be continued in February. The commission kicked the allowable upward 257,307 barrels per day for January compared with December in an apparent attempt to curtail oil imports and to antici pate cold-weather demands. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—U. S. District Judge Luther W. Young- dahl today threw out, as too vague, the new indictment ac cusing Owen Lattimore of falsely denying under oath he had ever been (1) a follower of the Communist line and (2) a promoter of Red interests. Youngdahl said the charges were “so formless and obscure” that to require Lattimore to stand trial on them would be unprecedented. * * * WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Dulles disclos ed yesterday Dag Hammarskjold will fly to Washing ton today to give him a face-to-face report on United Nations efforts to free American airmen held in Red China. “I want to get a direct, first-hand report from him as to just what took place,” Dulles told a news con ference. ^ "A* CIVITAVECCHIA, Italy—The Greek passenger ship Co- rinthia slammed into a reef in a howling Mediterranean storm yesterday but brilliant seamanship by an Italian vessel rescued all 167 passengers. Funeral Rites Held For Charles Gainer Funeral services were held Sat urday in Bryan for Charles S. Gainer, 84, former state legislator for whom one of the east area dormitories was named. He died Thursday. A life-long resident of Bryan, Gainer was an attorney, plantation owner and contractor. He was elect ed to the Legislature for a two- year term in 1914 and was a state senator from 1928 to 1932. He was graduated from A&M in 1890 and was an ardent supporter of the college. Gainer also studied law and was admitted to the bar when he was 21. He was a member of the First Baptist church, the Elks club and Drill Field Gets Two Backstops The two new backstops on the main drill field will be used for intramural baseball fields to re place the space taken up by new parking lots, according to Bamey Welch, manager of intramural ath letics. The portable backstops will be out of the line of march and will not interfere with corps reviews, he said. They will be used for the extensive intramural softball pro gram being developed this year, he added. the Brazos County Bar association. He is survived by his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Chaiies S. Pipkin of Beaumont; me son, S. S. Gainer jr. of Houston; two grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Three Clubs Hear Houston Ad Man Jack D. Rittenhouse, president of Rittenhouse and company, ad vertising agency, spoke to a joint meeting of the Journalism club, Marketing society and Business society last night on “Writing the Industrial Article.” Rittenhouse is the author of sev eral books, including an early his tory of automobiles, and “Tall Tales of the Oil Industry.” The primary function of writing the business or technical article, Rittenhouse said, is communica tion between employee and em ployer, and producer and distribu- toi‘. y “Business and industry,” Ritten house pointed out, “are rapidly be coming aware of the importance of technical articles and trade jour nals, and how they can be used to revise incorrect theories within a business. | Igl mi ^ 1} h - > ■■ THE SUN?—After almost a week of cloudy skies over College Station, the sun broke through for a short while yesterday. Looking hopefully are Michael Nasser, left, mechanical engineering major from Shreveport, and Joe Wayne Elliott, business major from DeKalb. But the weatherman predicts more cloudy skies for this area. Board Members To Be Named Soon A&M’s four new board of direc tors members will probably be ap pointed within the next two weeks, according to Henderson Shuffler, A&M system director of informa tion and publications. Shuffler said there was no legal time set for the appointments, which are made by the governor, but they are usually made some time between the first of the year and the first board meeting. Six AH Students To Work at Show Six senior animal husbandry stu dents will work at the Houston Fat Stock show this year, said Dr. J. C. Miller, head of the animal husban dry department. Bob Wright, Lloyd Cook, and Frank Parker will work the first week with fat animals. Bob Harben, Lowie Rice, and James Welgehausen will work the second week of the show with breeding animals. The stock show will run Feb. 2-13. The first board meeting of this year will be sometime in February. The 1953 appointments Lo the board were made right aft(er the inauguration, Shuffler said. Three of the vacancies are for expired terms, and one is because of a resignation. The six-year terms of G. Rollie White, Brady banker and rancher, and A. E.- Cudlipp, Lufkin indus trial executive, expire this year. The six-year term of E. W. Hai-- rison, South Bend rancher who died in October, was to have expired this year, so his successor will serve a full six-year term. - H. L. Winfield, Fort Stockton banker and rancher, resigned from the board in November because of ill health. His replacement will serve the remaining two years of his term. There is no rule that would pro hibit the reappointment of White and Cudlipp. White, for whom the White coliseum was named, has been chairman of the board for several years. Col. Sauer Says Holland Leads in Recovery By BILL FULLERTON Battalion City Editor Colonel Edward F. Sauei’, U. S. Army, retired, formerly with the military science department at A&M, gave his observation!* of a seven-month trip in Europe from which he returned last summer at the Kiwanis club luncheon in the Memorial Student Center yester day. Sauer, talking on European re covery, rated Holland as having made the most progress. Following Holland in recovery progress are West Germany, England, Belgium, France and East Germany. “The first thing you see in Eu rope is Standard Oil Esso gas sta tions,” he said, “and their signs are all in English.” Many of the cars have red tape on their bumpers, he said. Sauer said that he taped “Texas A&M” on his car’s bumper, and that sev eral Aggie-exes in Europe stopped to talk to him. "Hopalong Cassidy is the nation al favorite among the children,” he said. American movies are very popu lar in Europe. Sauer told how he once acted as an interpreter for an Irishman and an English “li mey.” Neither could understand the other, but both could under stand him. They explained that they went to see American movies, and that *0.11 Americans speak like movie stars. The Dutch are very busy and very happy, said Sauer. They are recovering land back from the sea which was lost in the great floods several years ago. They think Holland is a fine place to bring up their children. “It made me feel good to find a people as contented as the Dutch seem to be,” he said. West Germany is recovering rap idly in industry, bu*t have not done very much about the housing prob lem, he said. The American zone is in much better shape than the other zones, and American soldiers are the best looking persons in the country, said Sauer. The Germans have been buying motorcycles and scooters in great numbers. “And great numbers of them were wrecking them,” he said. “They are the wildest drivers that I have ever seen,” he said. Communism appears to be wan ing in Belgium after having gotten a good start after the war, said Sauer. “The Belgians still love Herbert Hoover for his relief pro grams, and almost every town has a Herbert Hoover street.” “There is quite a bit of Commu nism in France,” be said, “and there are many signs on walls which say, ‘Go Home, Americans!’ ” Prices are extremely high in France, and the people are very pessimistic about the government and the country. They have done extensive work on rebuilding roads, he said, but they still do things the hard way. Weather Today The outlook for today is clearing and slightly warmer tonight. Yesti*eday’s high was 52, low 32. The temperature at 11 this morning was 35. “The French first build a build ing, and then knock holes in it to install plumbing.” About the recent ordinance pro hibiting the blowing of horns in Paris, Sauer had this to’ say, “The taxicab drivers now run into each other silently, instead of blowing their horns first.” England is becoming increasingly Avealthy as a whole, he said. How ever, the people are heavily taxed. Sauer said the English appeared very pro-American, contrary to ru mors to the opposite. Northern Ireland’s people are the most pro-American that he had seen in Europe, he said. The South ern Irish still have an immigration problem, though. Sauer said that one of the standard jokes there is that of the southern Irishman praising his country to an Ameri can in England. The Irishman tells him that he should visit the country. The American says that he wdll be over to visit the Irish man in his home in two weeks. (See COL. SAUER, Page 2) COMMITTEE WON’T ISCUSS MEETING Probation Terms !FV»/y> Possible Agenda Hem The Executive committee of the Academic council has refused to release what action was taken at their meeting yesterday. President David H. Morgan had indicated last Thursday that the committee would review the probation terms of the six students who are now in school on probation as former members of the Tonkawa Tribe secret fraternity. “We just don’t release information from Executive com mittee meetings unless the information is of immediate in terest to the students and faculty,” said Dean of the College John Paul Abbott, chairman of the Executive committee. When asked if the committee discussed the probation terms, Abbott said “I can’t ♦ ! even discuss the agenda.” “Particularly in regards to disciplinary cases, we don’t release that information,” he said. Morgan said Thursday that tbe committee would review the pro bation “in the light of the find ings” of a military panel that Tuesday dismissed a seventh stu dent, Tom McDade, for violating the probation. Morgan said Thursday that the review would be made “within a week.” The Executive committee does not meet again until next Tuesday. The Executive committee set up the terms of the probation, which provides that the student will not room with another former TT member, will not hold an elected or appointed campus position, and will be on conduct probation. The present probation also says that the student will not be a mem ber of any secret group and will discourage the formation of such a group. Seven students were admitted to school this year under the terms of this probation, after an investi gation last year disclosed that they Avere members of the TT’s. Mc Dade was dismissed for violating it, and six are still under its terms. The Executive committee is composed of the dean of the col lege, the deans of all the schools, and the commandant, with the reg istrar as seci’etary. Aggie-Ex Named Bank Executive Dan H. Sebastian, ’43, has been named assistant vice-president of the United States National Bank of Denver, according to an an nouncement by the bank’s board of directors. He joined the bank’s oil and gas department in 1953, after working sevei'al years in the petroleum in dustry. Legislator Draws Five Committees B. H. Dewey jr., state rep resentative from Bryan, has been named to five committees of the new Legislature, includ ing the chairmanship of one. The committees are appro priations; claims and accounts; congressional and legislative districts; privileges, suffrage, and elections; and examination of comptroller’s and treasur er’s accounts. He is chairman of the com mittee on examination of comptroller’s and treasurer’s accounts. Short Course Set A farm structure short course on grain drying and storage will be held in the Memorial Student Center Feb. 1-2. About 50 people are expected for the course, spon sored by the agricultural engineer ing department and the extension service. A&M Graduate Shows BraveTy In Pusan Fire An A&M graduate from College Station serving with the armed forces in Korea has been cited for outstand ing conduct during a fire in Pusan. A letter of appreciation was sent to 1st Lt. Charles S. Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Davis, owners of the Aggie Auto-Tel here. He is a 1952 graduate of A&M. The letter said, “During the en tire course of the evening, you di rected and rendei’ed invaluable service in fighting the fire. Your efforts in climbing stacks of piled supplies and pulling up pails of water to pour on the hot tarpulina covering the stacks showed fore sight and determination and was largely responsible for the saving of a vast amount of government property.” The letter further stated, “This fine example of leadership and in itiative was carried out amidst in tense heat, thick fumes, and fly ing embers.” Davis is serving Avith the 425th transportation traffic regulating 1 group. Band Plans Dance The consolidated band is making plans for their annual dance set for Feb. 26 at 8:30 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center ballroom. The theme of the dance 'will b« centered around the “Old South” type. Exam Schedule According to an announcement by J. P. Abbott, dean of the college, the examination schedule will be strictly adher ed to and there will be no changes. For the convenience of our student readers, the following is the official examination schedule: Examination Time For Classes Meeting Monday, 8-11 a.m „.MWF 8 Monday, 1-4 p.m TThS 8 Tuesday, 8-11 a.m MWF 1 Tuesday, 1-4 p.m..„ 1 - .:TTh 1 Wednesday, 8-11 a.m MWF 10 Wednesday, 1-4 p.m .TThS 10 Thursday, 8-11 a.m TThS 9 Friday, 8-11 a.m..— MWF 11 Friday, 1-4 p.m.. TThS 11 Saturday, 8-11 a.m.— MWF 2 Saturday, 1-4 p.m...„ MWF 9 Leipper Appointed To National Panels Dr. Dale F. Leipper, head of the oceanography department, has been appointed to tAvo panels of the National Academy of Sciences for the technical planning, reAnew and execution of the international geophysical year 1957-58. He Avill serve as a member of the technical panel for meteorolog with representati\ r es of the navy air force, Weather bureau, Noav York umVersity and UnVersity of Chicago. Dr. Leipper also is on the technical panel for oceano graphy Avith members from Co lumbia university, the universities of Califomia and Washington, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic in stitute. DIMES DIMES DIMES — One of the “Join the March of Dimes” Signs strung down the promenade of the Me morial Student Center has already been filled, and pass ers-by are working on the others. Shown donating are Gail Pruitt, left, petroleum engineering major from Brown- wood, and Kurt Schnellenbach, civil engineering major from Fort Worth. Captains for March Meet Tomorrow Captains of the College Station and Bryan districts of the Moth ers’ March on Polio will meet at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the home of Mrs. Walter M. Heritage, 1209 Walton Dr. The march will be held Jan. 31 from 7 to 8:30 p.m., said Mrs. Heri tage. Volunteers are needed for any section in both cities, and also for College VieAv and the project houses. Anyone who wishes to help should call Mrs. Heritage at 6-2311 for further information.