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Battalion
Number 85: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1955
Price Five Cents
‘’Pinky’ Show Is Tonight
Plans lor Weekend
Near Completion
Plans are almost complete for
A&M’s annual Military day, when
the corps of cadets shows off for
militai’y and civilian guests, and
also works in a full complement, membex* of a reserve unit or fox*-
FOR PINKY—Miss Janette Hair of College Station, above,
will have a part in the ‘In the Pink’ show, presented to
night at 8 in the coliseum in appreciation of P. L. (Pinky)
Downs jr. She was one of five girls in the United States
selected as finalists for the Queen of the Rose Bowl, annual
New Year’s day football game.
New Charges Filed
In Dog Killing Case
Thx-ee charges have been filed
by County Attorney J. M. BaiTon
against W. F. Osborn, A&M sopho-
moi'e who was accused of shoot
ing a dog Sunday night in the 300
block of Fidelity stx-eet.
Osborn was chai’ged Monday by
Bie city of Colleg’e Station for dis-
iharging firearms within the city
/imits.
Two of the charges filed by Bar
ron were in the justice of the
peace court. These charges were
for firing a gun across a public
stx’eet and for the “willful killing
of a dog with the intent to injure
the owner.’'
The other charge, filed in the
district court, was for the “will
ful and malicious destruction” of
another person’s property
Bennie A. Zinn, head of the stu
dent affairs department, had “no
'statement” yesterday as to wheth
er or not the college had taken any
gction against Osborn as a result
if the shooting incident.
Killed for ‘Molesting’
In a statement yesterday to The
Battalion, Osborn said, “The dog
was killed because he was molest
ing my wife, my family and my
dog.”
Osboxm said the dog had been a
nuisance since about June and had
tipped over his garbage cans. He
said he had never complained
about the dog “because I could
never get close to the dog to find
out whose it was.” Mrs. Osboxm
Supervision Course
A 40-hour course in motor trans
portation supervision began hei’e
Monday. The course in under the
supervision of L. K. Jonas of the
Texas Engineering Extension sei’-
vice, the sponsoring organization.
Weather Today
CLKXR and COOL
The weather outlook for today
Is clear with little change in tem
perature.
Yesterday’s high was 74, low 52.
The temperature at 10:30 this
morning was 69.
said she “thoxight the dog was a
cur.”
‘Tried to Run Off’
Mrs. Osborn said that sevei’al
times before the dog “was on our
pi’opei'ty and we tided to xmn him
off.”
In x’efei’erice to the incident Sun
day, she said, “We tided to drive
him off, but he wouldn’t drive
this time.”
The Osborns, who live at 708-A
Montclair sti'eet, have two chil
dren, one almost two and the othex-
four months old.
Trial Set
Osborn’s trial on the city charge
has been set for 1 p.m. Monday in
the College Station Corporation
Court in the city hall. The city
charge carxdes a punishment, if
convicted, of not less than $5 nor
more than $50.
Trials on the charges brought
by the county attorney have not
been set.
of dances and dinners.
About 10,000 spectators are ex
pected for the corps review at 1:30
Saturday afternoon, which
will honor the moi’e than 20 dis
tinguished guests to be hei’e.
^Heading the guest list will be
Congressman Olin E. Teague of
College Station and Gen Nathan
F. Twining, air force chief of staff.
The lighter side of the weekend
will be taken care of by the Mil
itary ball Saturday night and the
Combat ball Friday night.
The Combat ball, which is limi
ted to members of the combat RO
TC arms and air foxce seniors, will
be in Sbisa hall. All males must
dress as combat soldiers for the
dance, and all females must come
Army Exams
Will Be Held
March 31
Army ROTC qualifying ex
aminations will be held during
the drill period Thursday,
March 31, for all army ROTC
students who will become eli
gible for a contiuct next Septem
ber.
“No pi-eparution is necessary,
aixd nothing need be bi'ought to the
examination except a shai’p mind,”
said Col. Heni’y Phillips, acting
PMS&T.
Tests will be given in the follow
ing places:
• Infantxy, sophomores, animal
husbandry lectuxc room; armor and
quartermastei*, sophomores, electri
cal engineering lecture room; engi
neer and transportation corps
sophomoxcs, petiuleum engineering
lectuxc room.
Anti-aii’cx*aft artillei’y sopho-
moi-es, civil engineering lecture
room; signal and oi'dnance sopho-
mores, Bagley hall; artillery and
chemical sophomores, and all oth
ers, physics lecture room.
as French peasants. Guests are
to come as displaced pei’sons.
The Military ball, also in Sbisa,
is open to all cadets, and to any
mer member of the cadet corps.
All persons attending must wear
class A uniforms. Russ Morgan
and his orchestra will play for the
Military ball. Tickets ax - e on sale
in the student activities office.
Also on the schedule for the dis
tinguished guests Saturday ai'e
the president’s reception, the ca
det commandei , ’s luncheon, and a
breakfast sponsored by the Biyan
Chamber of Commeiue.
Show Will Offer
Top Performers
By BOB BORISKIE
Battalion Co-Editor
With music and fun, Aggies and girls, the jam-packed
variety show “In the Pink” will open at 8 tonight in the White
coliseum for two hours of entertainment.
Several thousand persons are expected for the show,
which is being sponsored by the Brazos county A&M club and
the A&M student body in appreciation of P. L. (Pinky)
Downs jr., long-time official greeter for the college.
Included in the volunteer talent are the Choralettes, a
130 member all-girl chorus from Houston’s Lamar high
school. Miss Wool of 1955; Cayce Moore, Hearne’s barber-
philosopher, and the Bewley Mills Chuck Wagon gang.
The program will start with a bang about 7:30, when
the A&M band strikes up \ —
the East area. The band will I i 14 fl lUrl
Broke His Arm
Joe’s Newsstand
Was His Dream
By JON KINSLOW
Battalion Staff Writer
• Within eight days after he got
the chance he had wanted since he
came to A&M, O. J. Delatte had
to di-op out of school because of
a broken arm.
Delatte, who was nicknamed
“Joe” by his friends here, had
been trying to get a part-time job,
and finally F. L. Smith, Houston
Post distributor for this area,
agreed to let him run the x'ack in
fx-ont of the Aggieland Inn. Eight
days later, March 9, Joe fell from
his thxee-wheeled bicycle and suf
fered a compound fracture of the
elbow.
Needed Special Treatment
Doctoi*s here said the injury
needed special treatment, so Joe
left the next day for his home in
Tuscaloosa, Ala.
While here, Joe compiled a com
mendable record, according to his
dormitoiy counselox*, W. G. Brea-
zeale.
Joe’s handicap, as he described
it was a “partial loss of muscular
activity in the lower part of his
body.” Breazeale is keeping Joe’s
bicycle until he can return to
school.
"He’ll want to come back, too,”
Breazeale said.
But while he is gone, some of
Joe’s Aggie fidends are taking
care of his newstand. One stu
dent takes care of it each week,
and the money that is made is
placed in a special account in the
College Station State bank. Dur
ing the eight days Joe opexated
the stand, he made a profit of
$5.16.
Condition ‘Just Fine’
In a letter from Joe’s mother,
his condition was described as
“just fine.” He left A&M March
10, and was opexated upon the
next day.
Joe’s mother says that he wants
to come back, mainly because A&M
“was the only place Joe has been
that he was happy.”
Deadline Near
For Filing
For Offices
About 50 students have
filed for class elections since
filing opened Tuesday in the
student activities office.
Tuesday at 5 p.m. is the
last day filings will be open. Elec
tion will be held Apx*il 5 in the Me
morial Student Center by the post
ofi fee entrance and the imnoff elec
tion, if needed, will be held April
13 at the same place.
Positions to be filled are as fol
lows:
• Class of ’58—Seven class offi-
cex*s, and one MSC councilman may
be elected. Qualifications for class
officers are a 1.0 or better grade
point x*atio, and the filing student
must be academically classified for
the class at the time of filing, and
at the beginning of the year for the
class to which he is to be elected.
For the MSC council, the require
ment is a 1.0 gi'ade x'atio.
(One candidate will be elected
from a group of students who have
attended A&M less than four se
mesters, and one from a group who
have attended the college more
than four semesters.)
• Class of ’57—Seven class of-
cers, and one MSC councilman will
elected; and two yell leadei’s. Qual
ifications for the class officei’s and
the councilman are the same as
above. For yell leader, the student
must have a 1.25 grade x'atio, and
be a classified sophomore at time
of filing, and become a classified
junior with his class.
• Class of ’56—Eight class of
ficei’s (regular ones, plus a his
torian) ; one entertainment manag
er; two yell leaders, and one MSC
councilman may be elected. For
class officers and councilman, qual
ifications are the same as previous
ly given. The yell leaders must
have a 1.25 grade ratio and must
be a classified junior at time of
(See FILINGS, Page 6)
move to the south end of
Military walk and play while
the crowd moves into the col
iseum.
The band, under the direction of
Lt. Col. E. V. Adams, will then
move into the auditorium and play
a few moi’e numbers. After the
band has softened up the audience,
Bill Turner and his Aggieland oi’-
chesti’a will play the overture. The
Aggieland oi'chesti’a will also px*o-
vide accompaniment for the acts.
Hershel Burgess, president of the
Bi’azos county A&M club, will wel
come the audience, and then the
audience in singing the Aggie War
Hymn.
Then starts the list of talent.
This will include the Singing Ca
dets; Caesar (Dutch) Holm, form
er A&M yell leader, giving a skit
on the eai’ly days of Pinky; Cayce
Moore and his monologue; Alice
Jean Butler, Bryan songsti'ess; the
Bewley Mills gang and their hill
billy music; Marshal Bullock and
J. W. Hamilton, Biyan blackface
team; Manning and Nita Smith,
nationally famous folk dance team;
and the Choralettes.
Also making an appearance on
the show will be Janette Hail’, one
of the five finalists for the 1956
Rose Bowl Queen, and Miss Sarah
Belcia of San Antonio, Miss Wool
of 1955.
Miss Belcia will be escoi’ted by
Aggie sophomore David Rochelle,
but he isn’t the only Aggie who
will get in on the escoi’t deal. All
130 Choralettes will have supper
tonight in Duncan mess hall, di
vided evenly among the units, and
students will escort them to the
show.
J. S. Mogford—“Cotton Joe” of
the agronomy department—is pro
ducer for the show, and Manning
Smith is director.
Tickets will be available at the
door, $1 for adults and 50 cents
for children and students.
Certification Form
All Korean vetei’ans will have
to complete their monthly certifi
cation before the Easter holidays,
acording to vetei’ans advisor, Ben
nie A. Zinn.
Veterans can get the requii’ed
form in room 102 of Goodwin hall.
To Organize
At 5 Today
A Circle K club, sponsored
by the College Station Kiwan-
is club, will hold its organiza
tional meeting at 5 p.m. today
in the second floor lounge of
the Memoi’ial Student Center.
This club is not a junior Kiwanis
club, accox-ding to Sidney L. Love
less, chaiiman of the Circle K com
mittee of the Kiwanis club. It is
a campus service club, and will un-
dei'take many worthwhile pi’ojects,
he said.
Any student interested in joining
the club is invited to attend the
meeting.
The object of the new club is to
promote good fellowship and high
scholai’ship among students, to pro
vide opportunities for leadership
training in seiwice, and to give
pi'imacy to the human and spiritual
rather than to the material values
of life.
Proposed pi’ojects include spon
soring a safety pi'ogi’am on the
campus, to be run by the students
for the students. Also, the club
will sponsor a local Boy Scout
troop so A&M students can con
tinue their scouting.
News Briefs
POULTRY HUSBANDRY de
partment’s study of chicken blood
gi-oups will be aided by a $3,700
grant-in-aid fi’om the Pioneei' Hi-
Bi’ed Com company of De Moines,
Iowa.
WILLIAM WRIGLY COMPANY
of Chicago has given the Texas
Agricultui'al Experiment station a
$500 grant-in-aid for use in con
ducting ecological studies on the
candelilla plant.
* * *
A GRANT-IN-AID of $3,000 for
furthei-ing studies on the carcass
chai’actei’istics of Santa Gertrudis
steers has been given to the ani
mal husbandly depax-tment by the
Santa Gei'tmdis Breedei's interna
tional of Kingsville.
Highway 6
To Be Widened
To Four Lanes
The widening of highway
6, which was approved Mon
day night by the College Sta
tion City Council, will provide
a four-lane road from the in
tersection of highway 21 in Biyan
to the south city limits of College
Station.
Accoi’ding to City Manager Ran
Boswell, the project, including the
paving in the Biyan city limits,
will cost about $800,000. However,
only about $15,000 of this will be
paid by College Station, he said.
The property adjoining the road
way in the city limits, except that
owned by the state, will be assess
ed at $2 a front foot, Boswell said.
“The state will furnish both the
x’ight of way and the paving,” he
explained, “and Bryan and College
Station will only have to pay for
curbs, gutters and stoim sewers.”
The property assessment will
cover about half of the city’s cost,
and the city will pay the x'est, Bos
well said. This will mean the city
probably will have to pay a maxi
mum of $15,000, he said.
Boswell* felt that the project
would not be stax-ted for about a
year, and that it will take about six
months to complete.
Marine Officer
Will Visit Here
Capt. Charles Fimian, Marine
coxtxs procurement officer, will be
here April 7 to discuss the oppor
tunities for college men receiving
a commission in the Marine corps
reserve, and to enroll students in
the corps’ officer programs.
Applications are being accepted
from qualified college freshmen,
sophomores and juniors for the
platoon leadex’s class. A limited
number of applications are being
accepted for the officer candidate
course from qualified college sen
iors and graduates.
BROADCASTER — George
W. Reynolds, climatology
instructor in the oceanog
raphy department, gives a
15-minute television show*
on the weather at 10 p.m.
Sunday nights over Hous
ton’s KTRK. The show,
“Man and the Weather,” is
called a weather education
show, and attempts to tell
the audience what weather
is and what makes it.
Two Students
Hurt In Accident
Two A&M students are out of
school now as a result of being
injured in an automobile accident
during the weekend.
They ai’e Don Richards of Ban-
quete and George Wilkinson of
San Angelo, both senior x*ange and
forestry majors.
No details on the accident are
known. Their mothers called the
office of the dean of agriculture
a report that both would not be
able to return to school immediate
ly, said Miss Lillian Ferguson, ag
riculture office secretary.
Miss Ferguson said that Wilkin
son was at home and would prob
ably be able to x*eturn next week.
She said Richards was in the hos
pital, and his parents did not know
when he would be able to return.
ALMOST READY—Nearing completion is is the new veterinary medicine classroom
building, located on the east side of the veterinary hospital. The building is expected
to be finished by September.
Reserve Company
Called ‘Excellent’
The headquarters and headquart
ers company of the 358th infantry
x-egiment, 90th division, army re-
seiwes, was given a rating of “ex
cellent” dui'ing the recent Inspec
tor general inspection tour, ac
cording to Capt. Charles A. Sch
midt, S-l officer for the unit.
The inspecting officer was from
Fouidh Army headquarters. Col.
Joe E. Davis, commandant, is com
manding officer for the reserve
company.