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Battalion Number 63: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1955 Price Five Cents Seniors Discuss Dance Expenses, Choice of Bands The Senior Tiing danre, which ■will be held May 21, was discussed at the senior class meeting last night. Ifoy Cline, chairman of the social committee, read the report on last year’s Ring dance. Total expenses foii v the dance were $4,493.92; in come, $5,127.80, leaving a profit of $633.88. Tickets for the dance, Cline pointed out, were $7. and the ban quet was $3. per couple. Cline explained that the major Tishler Named As President Of Local CC Carl E. Tishler was elected president of the College Sta tion Development Association and Chamber of Commerce at a meeting of the board of di rectors yesterday in the College Station bank. Also elected were Walter H. Del ap fane, vice-president; and Mrs. C. C. Doak, secretary. Tishler had been acting as pres- iddht since the term of K. A. Man ning expired last month. The board passed a resolution thanking retiring members of the Board F. G. Bolton, J. B. Baty, Edward Mad- ely, Mrs. Hershell Burgess and Manning for the work they did dimng their three years as direc tors. Since the membership drive will be coming up soon, the board made plans for a membership committee to be appointed to direct the drive for members; Under the present ronstitution there are three classes nf memberships—individual, $5 a year; family $6; and business, $10. A motion to amend the consti tution was passed establishing a new class, sustaining membership, composed of individuals or firms outside of the city limits for what ever they wish to contribute to the association. Camera Club To Meet Tonight The Memorial Student Center Camera club will have its first meeting of the semester tonight, with an exhibit and a lecture as part of the meeting. The meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. in the YMCA chapel. Refreshments Ivill be served. expense would be the - orchestra, and the senior class could hold the price down if they wished by set ting a maximum price to be paid for the band. No limit was set, however. The class decided to wait and see what major bands would be in this area at that time and what their prices would be. Joe Bob Walker, chairman of the traditions committee, said that the attempt to make Silver Taps a more effective ceremony had work ed and that no unnecessary lights were burning at the last service. A new YMCA handbook has been approved for freshmen, and will, in a sense, take the place of the Cadence. It will contain a section telling new students what is ex pected of them at A&M. Walker also pointed out that some students had not observed the senior class’ request to stop wearing letter jackets other than A&M’s on the campus. John Benefield suggested that the senior class, “T” association, and Student Senate draw up a joint resolution asking students not to wear letter jackets fx-om other schools. , SON-OF-A-GUN STEW—Ed Ivy, left, tastes the evening meal at Troop 102’s encampment at the North Gate, while Scouts Terry Hollan, center, and Jack McNeely look on. The encampment is in honor of Boy Scouts week. (More pictures on Page 2.) New Secretary Civilians Elect Purvis TUITION FEE BILL BEING CONSIDERED Bui'l Purvis, senior from College View, was elected secx-etary of the Civilian Student Council last night. He was elected to fill the post vacated by Pete Goodwin, who re signed “because he did not have enough time to px-operly fill the job.” His x-esignation was accepted last night at the meeting, held in the office of Bennie Zinn, head of stu dent affairs. The council voted to px-ovide for an additional ramp repx-esentative to be elected fx-om civilian students living on the top floor of dox-mitox-y 17. These students moved into the vacant space because no civilian dormitories had enough vacancies. The new repx-esentative would be represented on the council by the councilman from Walton hall. In other action the council voted Irrigation Meeting The agricultural engineering de partment will sponsor an iri*igation conference in the MSC Feb. 24 and 25. Roy Garrett will be chaix-man of the meeting which is expected to attract more than 100 delegates. that keys be provided for the dox-- mitory ramp x-epresentativespro- vided funds ax-e available for them. The cost would be about $65. The gx-oup decided that keys for coun- cilmen be given td those who have served one full semester and part of another on the council. Joe West, chaix-man of the coun cil’s tx-aditions committee, reported that his gx-oup is preparing a pos sible solution to the problem of Helicopter Aids In Rescue School A Gary air force base helicop ter landed on the drill field yes- tex-day as a part of the Texas Res cue Training school, which is be ing held on the campus. About 30 full time civil defense workers are here for the seven- day course. All sesisons of the school will be held in a 26-acre area where buildings have been erected to re semble bombed structures. The helicopter cx-ew will test for radioactivity and also evacuate casualties. 77iambnail Sketches - -1 RE Week Leaders civilian students wearing letter jackets. The repox-t would be given at the next meeting of the council, which will be Feb. 28. Eax-1 Hanson x-esigned as chair man of the decox-ations committee for the civilian dance. Bill Johnson was appointed tb fill the vacancy, and John Hendex-son was named to the committee. (Editor’s note: This is the first i of a series of thumbnail sketches j on Religious Emphasis week lead ers who will hold group discussions ; on the campus Feb. 20-25 while! Rt. Rev. John E. Hines is the con vocation speaker in Guion hall.) Dr. Ellis Nelson, professor in the Presbyterian Theological seminax-y in Austin, will lead the faculty forum and discussion gx-oups each | night in the bi ological sciences lectux-e i- o o m. He will live in the Boax-d of Di rector rooms and will be a- v a i 1 a b le for counseling dur- Nelson j n g week. Nelson joined the Seminary fac ulty in 1940 and was National Di rector of Youth Work for the Presbyterian Church, U. S. from 1945 to 1948. He has attended religious conferences in Holland, Mexico, Norway, Czechoslovakia and now devotes his time to the seminary and educational work for the Presbyterian denomination. He attended A&M and Austin college, received his ministerial training at the aeminary where he is now a professor, and did gx-aduate work at the University of Texas and An dover Newton Theological school. Dr. A. L. Portex-field, head of the depaxtment of sociology at Tex as Christian university, will lead the man-ied students fox-um and discussion groups each evening in the YMCA cha pel. He will live in the Board of Directors rooms and will be a- vailable for counseling dur ing the week. Porterfield has . been px-ofessor sociology a t Tcu 8ince 1937 eiZl 1S i. aU , t * 10r an< * c °-authoi; of sev en!! 00 ^ s and has written num- •. ^ ar t I cles for sociological and rel.gmus journals. He received his un- 6 ^ ree ^ rorn Oklahoma City university, his Ma from Drake nersity and his BD from Phil- _ 3 Uj1ner sity. He returned to Porterfield Weather Today The weather outlook for today and tomorrow is partly cloudy with low moderate winds. Yesterday’s high was 72, low 44. Drake for his PhD. He is the director of the Lee Potishman foundation at TCU and is a member of the Boax-d of Direc tors of Jarvis Christian college. Rev-. John C. Marvin, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, U.S. in Denton, w-ill live in dormitory 1 and will lead the forums and dis cussion groups for dormitories 1 and 3 in the dormitory 1 lounge. He will be available for conferences during the week. Marvin came to Texas about two years ago fx-om a pastor ate in Pennsyl vania where he was closely as sociated with re ligious work at Marvin Penn State uni- versity. He served eight years as a trustee of the Westminister foun dation there. He was graduated from David son college and Princeton Theologi cal seminary and is now a director of the Presbyterian student work at North Texas and Texas State College for Women. Rev. Lloyd T. Watson, pastor of the Richfield Christian church in (See RE WEEK, page 2) World News By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO — The ruler of Red China’s 600 millions asserted this week that if “impex-ialists” wage war “we, together with the peoples of the whole woxid, will certainly wipe them out clean from the sur face of the globe.” ★ ★ ★ PHILADELPHIA — Henry Ca bot Lodge, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said last night President Eisenhower’s “fight for Formosa” declaration, with congressional backing, “is the best insurance against a full- scale war in that area.” ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN — A bill to regulate sales of automobiles by a licensing system won Senate committee ap- proval yesterday over protests of used car dealers who also sell new cax-s at cut rates. Opponents called it an effort to hamstxing competi tion. They said the industx-y can and is regulating itself without need of any new laws. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—Congress was asked today to provide quickly an extra I'/j billion dollars to keep the government from run ning out of funds to insure home mortgages. ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN—First Asst. Atty. Gen. Robert S. Trotti testified yester day the attorney general’s office knew of alleged irregulaxities in veterans land deals five months be fore investigations were launched. Proposal Would Double Fee at State Colleges BULLETIN State Senator Brownrigg Dewey told The Battalion this, morning that the House Education committee would have a public hearing on the tuition-raise bill at 2:30 this afternoon. Dewey said Representative Jerry Sadler, who opposes the bill, said it would either “be killed in committee or killed on the House floor.” A committee of the Texas House of Representatives will consider today a bill that would double the tuition at state- supported colleges, raising it from $25 a semester to $50 a semester. The bill would also increase the non-resident tuition fee to $200 a semester, a $25 raise. The bill to be discussed today is a more detailed amend ment to a similar bill presented to the committee for discus sion last week. After 30 minutes of discussion on the bill last week, this amendment was presented and discussion postponed until today. The bill as it reads now provides that students taking more than 12 semester hours* of work pay $50 tuition, non residents taking more than 12 hours pay $200, and resident summer school students pay not less than $40 nor more than $70, with non-resident sum mer students paying proportional ly higher. The bill also sets a $75-a-semes- ter tuition for art, di’ama, speech, and music majox-s. Students in medical or dental schools would be requix - ed to pay an extx-a fee of $100, in addition to their regular- tuition. Neither of these px-ovis- ions would affect A&M. If passed the bill would go into effect next September. A px-oponent of the bill, Repre sentative J. O. Gillham of Brown field, said in last week’s hearing that it would go a long way to- ward closing the gap between the schools’ budget requests and the Legislative Budget board’s recom mended appropx-iations. The higher education colleges’ requests totaled $54 million, and the Legislative Budget boax-d rec ommended $29 million. Opposition to the bill is coming from both legislators and near-by Univex-sity of Texas students. Representative Jerry Sadler of Percilla asked Gillham at last week’s healing, “Hadn’t you rather raise the extx-a money we need for these schools on beer instead of on poor folks?” University of Texas students, about 70 of whom attended last week’s meeting, are tx-ying to ox- ganize a px-otest against the bill. State Senator Brownrigg Dewey of Bx-yan told The Battalion last night that there was as yet not much discussion of the bill among the legislators, because it was still in committee. “But I expect there will be a lot of discussion on it when it reaches the floor of the house,” he said. M. T. Han-ington, chancellor; E. L. Angell, assistant chancellor; and R. H. Shuffler, system dix-ector of infox-mation, ai-e all in Austin this week, and were unavailable fox- comment on the px-oposal. Sounds Like A Moving Gas Station It was pretty cold outside last week, but at least one automobile was protected by anti-freeze. Sometime during the cold spell, sojrne person decided that his car needed insurance a- gainst a freezing block. A quick twist of the wrist and there was a whole gallon of anti-freeze. It keeps the car nice and safe. The trouble of the whole thing was that it left the ra diator of Geor-ge Lacy’s car quite empty. Lacy is a sopho more business major from Houston. Oh well, “survival* of the fittest.” TISA Session May Include Problem Talks Plans for the Texas Inter collegiate Students associa tion’s state convention in Ap ril were discussed here Sat urday, including the possibil ity of having a forum session on mutual problems. The occasion was a meeting of the TISA Executive council, with more than 130 delegates fx-om 19 schools attending. A&M’s Student Senate was host for the meeting. Also discussed was the possibili ty of school-wide honor systems. The University of Texas reported that it was starting a system sim ilar to the Agricultural council’s system here, which is based on in dividual class acceptance of the code. State Convention April 1 The organization’s annual state convention, which will be April 1, will be held at Trinity university in San Antonio. Bill Bass is chairman of the Stu dent Senate’s TISA committee, which made arrangements for the meeting here Saturday. Other members of his committee are John DeWald, Paul Holladay, and B. A. (Scotty) Pax-ham. Jerx-y Ramsey is px-esident of the senate. Schools represented were the University of Houston, Austin col lege, Southwestern university, Wayland college, Stephen F. Aus tin State college, Baylor university, Abilene Christian college, Rice in stitute, Lamar Tech college. Trin ity university. Southwest Texas State Teachers college, Texas Christian university, Southern Methodist university, Texas State College for Women, McMurray col lege, Pan American college, Prair ie View A&M, Texas Southern col lege, and A&M. News Briefs Dr. Chris H. Groneman, head of the industrial education department, will be chairman of the conference sponsored by the engineering extension service and industrial education department to be held here Feb. 25-26. # * # Dr. Robert S. Aires, chemical economic consultant and president of the New York engineering firm of R. S. Aires and Asociates, will address the A&M section of the American Chemical society in the lecture room of the chemistry build ing at 8:15 p.m., Feb. 23. * * * Raymond A. Stermer, agricultural engineer, and Lyle M. Carter, assistant agricultural engineer, have been as signed to the agricultural engineering department. * * * Richard H. Forrester, former A&M student, has been graduated from the U.S. Naval Pre-Flight school at Pensa cola, Fla. He is now assigned to the Whiting field U.S. Naval auxiliary air station, Milton, Fla., for primary flight train ing. ^ w * * * Dr. Charles M. Hardin, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, will speak on “Agricultural Pol itics and American Democracy,” at 8 tonight in the biological sciences lecture room. Some Rooms Left For Club Meetings There are a few rooms left in the Memorial Student Center for club meetings this semester, and presidents of clubs are asked to contact the social office as soon as possible for reservations. A reservation made now will entitle the club to have its meet ings at the same time and place all semester, said Mrs. Ann Kiel, MSC social director. INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDENTS—Talking things over after the Texas Intercollegiate Students association meeting here Saturday, are. left to right, Jerry Ramsey, Jeanine Grass, Bill Wright, Rosette McGregor, Roland Dohlin, and Bill Bass. Ramsey is presi dent of A&M's Student Senate, and Bass is head of the senate’s TISA committee.