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Number 59: Volume 54 Price 5 Cents Battalion COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1955 Malenkov Resigns; Defense Minister Named New Head Based on AP Reports MOSCOW — The resignation of Georgi Malenkov as pi’ime minister pf the Soviet Union was announced today at a joint session of both houses of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR—the Russian parliament Defense Minister Nikolai Bulga nin has been named as the new pre mier. He was nominated by Com munist party boss, N. S. Khrusch- chev, three hours after the resig nation of Malenkov was accepted unanimously by a show of hands Bulganin was the unanimous choice of the central committee of the Communist party and of the council of minister's. Both houses in the joint session of the parlia ment approved Bulganin without dissent. It was announced that Malenkov would take over new duties, but these duties were not explained. Bulganin was a dark horse in the race for the premiership, and most speculation had focused on Khruschev or Foreign Minister Molotov as the possible successor to Malenkov. Malenkov has been AF Singers To Perform Here Tonight The air force’s Singing Ser geants—stars of the “Sere nade in Blue” radio program —will perform here tonight as an added attraction of the Town Hall series. The two-hour show will be at 8 p.m. in White coliseum. Town Hall ticket holders will be admitted free, according to C. G. (Spike) White, director of recrea tion and entertainment, but the program is not a regularly sched uled Town Hall performance. The show will consist of solo and fhoir numbers, a violin solo, and comedy piano act titled “M/Sgt. Floyd Werle Plays the Piano?” Featured soloists will be M/Sgt. William Jones, baritone, A/2c Allen Ohmes, violinist, and S/Sgt. Wil- liAm Dupree, tenor. Music for the show includes "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” “Sere nade,” “Volga Boat Song,” “Second Word” from The Seven Last Words of Christ, and a medley of Ameri can folk tunes. Brush Honored Edward E. Brush, head of the aeronautical engineering depart ment, was among 100 alumni of New York university recently re ceiving citations of achievement. The awards were presented in New York during observance of the cen tennial of the university’s College of Engineering. in office for one year and 11 months. He gave as his reason for resigning the opinion that his lack of experience had held back soviet economic and agricultural develop ment. Diplomatic and govemment offi cials in Western. Europe saw in Malenkov’s resignation a return to the dictatoiaal rule under Stalin. They also foresaw the end of the recent so-called collective respon sibility and possibly new purges. The Kremlin shakeup dealt a blow to Britons, particularly left- wing laborites trying to block the rearming of West Germany. And the big bombshell came as West Germany was in the midst of a big public debate on whether to go ahead with plans to rearm as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or get a set-’ tlement with the Russians first. Today’s developments may mean stronger Moscow support for Red China’s belligerent Formosan poli cy. Moscow Radio, heard in Lon don, fully supported the Commu nist drive to occupy Formosa, de spite reported British-Indian ef forts to get Russian help in effect ing a cease-fire in the Formosa Strait. GETTING READY—Dee Harless, left, and Patti Beems, both members of Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians, practice for their performance here Thursday night in Waring’s “Pleasure Time 1955.” The show, sponsored by Town Hall, will be at 8 p.m in the White coliseum. On Construction Industry Executives Hear Tellepsen H. T. Tellepsen, president of the Tellepsen Construction company, will talk on “The Constrction In dustry” this evening at 7:30 as the third annual Executive Develop ment course swings into its second week. With 20 selected representativis of Sothwestern industries register ed for the three-week course, this year’s group will hear talks on such subjects as management functions and organizations, the chemistry industry, communications, trans- portaiton problems and business forecastings. Outstanding speakers this year include Ralph Delahaye Paine jr., publisher of Fortune magazine and vice-president of Time Inc.; and Larry L. Ellis, partner in Booz, Allen and Hamilton of Chicago, both of whom spoke during the first week. Watrous H. Irons, pi'esident of the Federal Reserve bank of Dal las and Ben Wooten, president of the First National bank of Dallas, will talk to the registi’ants rhis week and J. B. Thomas, president of the Texas Electric Service com pany of Fort Worth is scheduled to speak during the final week of the course. This year’s course is considered the best of the three, T. W. Leland, coordinator for the class sessions said yestei'day. Not only is this group a record for enrollment, but the speakers have been very good and have been well recieved by the classes, he said. News Briefs SATURDAY, Feb. 12, is the last day for adding courses, and Saturday, Feb. 19 is the last day for dropping a course without taking a failing grade. ★ ★ ★ FORMER STUDENT Ronald Stinson ’53 is now a launch er platoon commander with the 7th field artillery rocket bat tery in Germany. He is a second lieutenant. ★ ★ ★ DR. J. W. GOLDZIEHER, will lecture here at 8 p.m. Thursday on “the adrenal gland and its functions”. Dold- zieher is senior staff member and chief of the endocrine lab oratory of the Southwest Foundation for Research and Edu cation. The lecture will be at 8 p.m. in the biological sciences lecture room. Purpose of the course is to help meet the need for developing broad views of the rapidly expanding and changing southwestern economy. It is aimed at encouraging men al ready holding key positions to see the problems of their firms as part of the entire economic picture, Le land said. F. C. Bolton, president-emeritus of A&M, serves as director foi’ the com*se, which ends Feb. 19 after a three-day discussion of employ ment selection and development. A&M Meats Team Wins Fourth Place The A&M junior meats judging team won fourth place in the an nual meats judging contest spon sored by the Southwestern Live stock Exposition and Fat Stock show at Fort Worth recently. The team took third place in lambs and fourth in beef and pork. Albert R. Jenkins was high man for A&M, placing fifth in the in dividual overall contest. He was second in beef judging, second in lamb judging, fifth in pork judg ing and sixth in lamb grading. Other team members were J. A. Loftis, W. M. Singer and Ken G. Killion, alternate. Gene King of the animal husbandry department is team coach. A&M STUDENT DIES IN CRASH For Town Hall Fred Waring Here Thursday Fred Waring’s “Pleasure Time 19J>5,” featuring his glee club, or chestra and soloists, will be pre sented Thursday at 8 p.m. in the !HQvite coliseum, sponsored by Town Hall. Admission will be by season tick et, or individual tickets which are $2 for adults and $1 for children, according to the office of student activities. Seats will be on a first come first served basis. An old-time minstrel show is an important part of the production, and the entire show is Waring’s concept of a "traveling musical theater.” Now on a 25,000-mile transcontinental tour, the program includes both light and serious numbers. Among the unusual features of the show is a moving stage com plete with scenery. Waring also uses colorful costumes and intricate theatrical devices. Waring has said that he is im pressed with the freshness and en thusiasm of the newcomers to the group. These young people have given the rehearsals the atmos phere of a college campus, he said. Waring started his musical ca reer as a Boy Scout when he led the local drum and bugle corps. From this group he formed his first band which played for par ties in his hometown of Tyrone, Penn. The band continued to func tion even after Waring left to study architecural engineering at Pennsylvania State college. Not too long afterward, the group got an audition by Paul Whiteman, who gave his approval to the band which then numbered 10 men who could play 40 instru ments. By 1928 the band had play ed in London, Paris and Berlin, and in 1932 they were booked for Weather' Today The weather outlook for today is continued fair and cool. Yesterday’s high was 55, low 37. The temperature at 10:15 this morning was 45. Bryan Lions Set Minstrel Show The Bryan Lions club will pre sent their annual ministrel show Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m. in the Stephen F. Austin auditorium, said Ben Daniel, president. Proceeds from the show will be used to help finanea the Lions club crippled children proeram. Ad mission will be 80 cents. six months at the Roxy theater in New York. Offers began to come in from radio sponsors, but only for the or chestra and not the glee club. “Without the glee club,” Waring said, “we’re just another band. It’s all or nothing.” The sponsors took nothing. Finally in 1933, they got a spon sor willing to take the whole group. To focus attention on the glee club. Waring utilized unusual arrange ments, startling phrasing, long hums and sudden changes of vol ume and tempo on both jazz and i hymn tunes. From then on, the music of Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians en joyed musical success. Now, the [Fred Waring Enterprises includes the creation and training of choral groups, a music publishing firm, and a music workshop. Dan liurgin Victim; Silver Taps Wednesday By RALPH COLE Battalion News Editor Silver Taps will be held tomorrow night at 10:30 for Dan F. Burgm, freshman business administration major from San Antonio. Burgin was killed in a car-truck crash 20 miles west of Beeville Feb. 1. Two other persons were seriously injured in the accident, which happened around 4 p.m. Burgin, a 25-year-old Korean veteran, spent two years in the army, including 16 months overseas. Civilian students living in Puryear hall will go as a group to Silver Taps to pay tribute to Burgin. They will form outside the dormitory at 10:15. According to students who knew Burgin, he was one of the most likable men on the+ campus. He is survived by his moth er, Mrs. Willie Burgin of 929 Burnett St., San Antonio. Funeral services were held at the Harold Wilson Funeral home Wednesday in San Antonio. Two other accidents in the Col lege Station-Bryan area during the holidays, involved three persons. Cpl. John R. Lawson, of Fort Hood, suffered a broken hip and multiple cuts about the face when his car collided with another Sun day night. He was taken to Bryan hospital and later transfered to Bryan air force hospital. The ac cident occurred on North Highway G, four miles from Bryan. In an accident Feb. 1, two Col lege Station women suffered shock and multiple cuts. The two women were Mrs. Tony Dechiro, of 503 E. Cooner, and Mrs. W. B. Bradley, of 500 E. Cooner. The accident occurred at the in tersection of Delwood and Cavitt streets in Bryan. The two women were takerj to Bryan hospital and St. Joseph hospital respectively. Mrs. Dechiro suffered a lacex-a- tion of the scalp, but was not ad mitted to the hospital. Mrs. Brad ley, who was released from the hospital yesterday, suffered bruises and lacerations with a slight case of shock. Plant Protection School Started A plant protection school, spon- soi'ed by the Texas Engineering extension service and the Indus trial Plant Protection Association of Texas, is being held here to provide industrial plant protection personnel with practical training in all phases of plant security. Newsom Resigns From Journalism D. Earl Newsom, former jour nalism instructor here, has resign ed from the department. He has been on leave of absence since September, working on his doctor’s degree at Oklahoma A&M. He is also working as commercial manager of radio station KSPI in Stillwater, Okla. News of the World By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Dulles said yesterday that U. S. ratification of a defense treaty with Nationalist China might cool off the tough-talking Chinese Reds. “I doubt that the Chinese Communists really intend to wage war against the United States unless the United States abandons this treaty with all that abandonment would imply,” he told the Senate Foreign Relations committee. ★ ★ ★ LEWISVILLE — The Federal Deposit Insurance corporation yesterday began paying off de positors of the defunct First Na tional bank. The bank was closed Jan. 27 after federal bank exam iners found $253,000 missing. The loss never has been fully ex plained. ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN—A Senate committee yesterday approved a bill to pro hibit “quicky” divorces. The pro posal by Sen. William H. Shire- man, Corpus Christi, would in crease the waiting period in di vorce actions from 30 to 90 days. Committee action sent the bill to the Senate floor for debate. ★ ★ ★ CAIRO—A government spokes man said yesterday that Egypt, defeated in a bitter fight to en force Arab neutrality in Middle Eastern defense maneuverings, will pull out of the Arab League security pact the day Iraq and Turkey sign their mutual aid treaty. ★ ★ ★ PARI S—Former Premier An toine Pinay went through a series of exploratory talks yestei'day in his effort to patch together a new French Cabinet. He was still at least a day away from the crucial make-or-break stage of the nego tiations. Halftime Show For UCLA Tilt Is Considered The A&M band is making preliminary plans to march during the half time ceremo nies of the A&M-UCLA foot ball game in California next fall. “The trip isn’t definite yet, but the boys want to go,” said Col. E. V. Adams, band director. Adams said they are now getting prices on rail and air transporta tion, and investigating housing and meal arrangements. Since the game, the Aggies’ 1955 opener, will be Sept. 16, the day before registration, Adams said the band members, including the new freshmen, would have to come to school at least 10 days early to practice for the performance. Adams said that if the trip is made, he would march a 240-man band, the same size as last fall. He said it would be the longest trip in the history of the A&M band, and to his knowledge, “the first time a band so big had been moved so far.” Livestock Team Wins 6th Place A&M’s junior livestock judging team placed sixth among 16 teams competing in the Senior College Livestock Judging contest at Fort Worth recently. This contest is held as a part of the Southwestern Livestock Expo sition and Fat Stock show each year. Schools which won the first five places were Oklahoma A&M, Iowa State, Kansas State, Colo rado A&M and the University of Arizona. High man for the Aggies was Gene Tongate who placed second in quai'ter horse and sixth in cattle judging among the 80 individual ratings. Other team members were David Ward, David Russell, Lloyd Joyce, Donald Dierschke and Charlie Cypert, alternate. W. T. Berry jr. of the animal husbandry department is team coach. Adams, Turner To Attend Meet Col. E. V. Adams, band director, and Bill Turner, music director, will attend the Texas Music Educa tors conference in Dallas Thurs day and Friday. While they are there, Adams will speak at the Friday luncheon of the Dallas A&M club on the inside workings” of the A&M band. He will also show this year’s films of the band’s football game performances. BALANCING ACT—This car came close to getting a bath Saturday night, when it went off the road and almost into a water-filled ditch— The car balanced on the edge of this culvert until a wrecker pulled it back on the road. The accident occurred about 7:15 p.m. No one was injured.