The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 01, 1949, Image 1
r •1/ « T -..; ' ■w j’i i i it' '•/ «\a Nation’s Top Collegiate Daily NAS 1949 Survey . r • "J 1 | •T ! ; ,M . fv;' ■; > i 1 Wm Volume 49 T ijj. i I,'' PUBLISHED IK , l • • • i ; ! • it; : • 1:1'ijl. College Sta Official Ne ion | " I • i (■ COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, • T ' - Is * ar? i f ''I j 11 1 r 1 ■ 1949 . 1 T! : M Number i33 Placement Office Urges Senior Visits 4 M I I Posters designed to attract the interest of graduating seniors and cause them to register in greater numbers with the Placement Of fice are being posted on all dormi tory and department bulletin boards, W. R. Horsley, director of the_Placement Office, announced to day. j ’ ' . ' The posters emphasize that’this year jobs are more scarce than last year, and that the graduating sen ior would be wise to begin early his quest for a job. Services of the Placement Office are available to every graduating senior, Horsley said. These services are (1) regis tration with the Placement Office acuthat prospective employers may be informed of the number and catagories of graduates (2) order ing personal leaflets to accoippany job application forms, and (3) facilities and counselors to discuss with graduating seniors their plans for jobs. , The College Placement Office maintains constant contact with hundreds of firms which are in- terested in hiring A&M graduates. This year, Horsley said, a large number of replies from these com panies express no desire to make any commitments regarding em ployment of January gradqates. According to Placement Office figures" about 600 are estimated to graduate in January, 1,200 in June, UK of Walton Open for Dates * . Ramps 1, J. and K of Walton Hall will be used to. provide accom odations for visiting girls attend ing the ABC'Ball and the All Col lege Dance Friday and Saturday, Nov. 4 and 5, said Bennie A. Zinn, assistant dean of students for stu dent affairs. __ Students having guests staying in Walton' Hall will be assessed a charge of $1.25 per night per guest to cover cost of matrons and other incidental expenses. Sheets, pillow cases, blankets, pillows and mat tresses will be provided for. Re funds cannot £e made, Zinn said. Room.assignments may be made at Room 100 Goodwin Hall. Guests will be admitted to their rooms at 4 p. m. Friday, Novem ber 4. The rooms must be vacated by 11130 a. m. Sunday, November 6. , Guests staying in the dormitory must be in not later than 2 a: m. Friday night and 1 a. m. Saturday night. They must check in with the matrdn upon return to the dormi tory-after the dance. Escorts will be held strictly accountable for compliance with the regulations, Zinn said. Lynch to Speak On Waterfowl Nov] 1 John Lynch, flyway biologist of the U. S. Fish and Wild Life Serv ice, will deliver a talk in the lecture .—-room of the Chemistry building ^November 1. Lynch will present the latest in formation on the current waterfowl situation. Hie is a widely known authority on ducks and geese and thoroughly acquainted to discuss conditions in Texas and Louisiana. For the past several years Lynch has worked on ducks and geese continuously, following their! north ward migration In the spring, working in Canada durirlg the breeding season and in the fall moving with them to their Winter ing grounds on the Gulf coast. The Fish and Game Club of , a&M la sponsoring the meeting, and the student body, faculty mem bers and Jocal sports men have been invited to attend. J A&M Rifle Team Schedules Matcli The A&M Rifle Team, sponsored by M/Sgt W. R. Reese, is scheduled for its first match with Davidson College, Dacidson, North Carolina, on Nov. 19. The teams will fire at their own respective colleges and mail the scores to each other. The Aggie Rifle Team is sched uled to compete with the Univer sity of Texas Rifle Team some time before Christmas, at Austin. About thirty matches have already been scheduled and twenty-four more will he scheduled in the near future), r! , There are sixty men now on the team, with Clifford A Taylor as captain of the group. To letter on the team, a member must participate in two-thirds of the matches, fire in the Fourth Army Intercollegiate match and fire in the William Hurst Trophy Match. —..r'* : V . ■ .Ji,.. ;d:: and 350 during next summer, this number only WOO have filed with the Placement Office, HorsJ ley added. “This year our graduates will have to get out and hustle,” Hors ley commented. “We’ll help them as’ much as we can.” Horsley concluded by saying, “We’re anxious for seniors to come by our office and get acquainted. We’re in a position to hielp them, and that’s our job. We’d like for them to start coming in now rath er than waiting until the last few t days of school when we’re rushed and) so is everyone) else.’’ 11 - Jj] I l | Men Nominated I'. ' I ; ( T As Directors Of Association Six men have been nomin ated for directors of the Col lege Station Development As sociation and Chamber of Commerce, with three to be elected at the annual meeting Ndv- ember 15. \; r _ Those who have agreed “to serve if elected” are: M. C. Pugh, R. L. Hunt, J. H. Pruitt, E. C. Gar ner, J. L. Bearrie, and W. N,! Dow- ell. "' j d Other nominations may be made by petition; signed by' ten active members' of the association. Such nominations must be. received by Secretary J. H. Sorrels on or be fore November 5, ten days before the election. I- j Mail ballots will be prepared and mailed to the entire membership ten days before tjhe annual meet ing. These may be mailed to Sor rels, or brought to the meeting which will be held in the College Station City Hall. \ Members of the ! College Sta tion association also wijl vote on an amendment to the constitution.: The proposed change will provide that old directors will meet with newly elected officials at the December meeting to organize for! the coming year and elect Officers. Present officers are: iC. N. Shepardson, president; J. R. Oden, vice president; J. H. Sorrels, sec retary; Harcjld Sullivan, treasurer. Directors carrying over are: Oden, Sorrels, E. E. Adams, W. R. Hors ley, H. E. Burgess, Mirs. J). W. Fleming. Terms of Shepardson, Sullivan, and E. Q. Sei^ke expire. Ex-officio directors are L. S. Richardson, Gibb Gilchript and Raymond Rogers. Jky. j' u I si m mm ! ; tj ■ r- r~ ■ ; Puffer policeman Red Duke, clip board m mind, gets in a little sideline kibitzing as his charges in the profs pipe smoking division of last week’s Batt Stoker Derby while, away a few minutes in a stiff game of checkers. F. W. Powell of the English Department makes a crucial move as Fred D. Meyers of the E. D. Department plots his strategy. Powell won top honors In the division with Myors trailing with a 77-mlnute second place. -V Soph Vote Ends Davis New Veep oustonMidm ightYellPra, [Pl, Favored in Senior Class Me ■Hi The Class of ’52 in a final elec tion held last night elected Dan Dayis as vice-president, Duane E. Vandenberg secretary, Robert H. Jourdan treasurer, and Elmore “Rip” Torn parliamentarian. In the primary election tlr^ chose Richard Ingle to fm vote in the first etei\!dn, Is a Business; Administration ; m a j o r from Dallas. I^ast yeaij. Ingels commanded the Freshman Drill Team- Dan Davis, Sopnomore choice class ^ or v i c «‘P res ident, is another bus- . r ^ iness major. He hails from Lub- .. . „ T ., j | bock. 0an is now vice president presidency^ Luther C. Leatherwood of the Texas InterC oiiegiate Stu- the_social .ecretanal position, Guy, dent Associa ti 0 n, and served as C. Jacksc the reporter-historian- one o f the Freshmen Student Sen- ship, and Aden E. Reese, to the position f sergeant-at-arms. Other candidates not elected were Dean Reed and Dan Scott for vied-president, Bill Dalston and Grady L. Smallwood for secretary, Herbert M. Gorrod for treasurer, and R. D. Kirk and A. C. Burk- halter for the parliamentarianship. j. By coming out on top in the vice presidency, Davis will automatically a iu ; fw l, v 0te8 . receive a vote and seat in the Student Senate as the representa tive of the Sophomore Class. Approximately 725 members of the! Class of ’52 cast their vote in the second election. Thjs is an appreciable increase over the mere 500 that cast their ballots in the first election. Richard A. Ingels, candidate for proxy who came out with the top a tors last year. Another old Freshmen Senator elected to Sophomore office is Lu ther Leatherwood, a Floriculture miajor from Beaumont, who was selected to fill the position of so- I cial.-secretary. Duane E. Vandenberg nosed Grady L. Smallwood, another old | Freshman Senator, out of the run- | ning for the secretarial post by *■-- Vandenberg is a Geological Engineering major from Houston. Robert) H. Jourdan, Architecture major from Alvin, ended the elec tion only 50 votes ahead of his opponent, Herbert Gerrod, in the treasurers race. Newly elected parliamentarian j for the Class of ’52 is Elmore I‘‘Rip” /Torn, an ME major who (See ELECTIONS, Page 4) Ross, the Indestructible : i jj ~ r. The Mystery of a Building That Shouldn’t Be There BY BOB PRICE campus a 3 lived to There stands on this condemned soul who h sneer at those who so lightly spoke of its demies. For the whole story, let’s go back a few yeaTs. Qn .the first page of The Battalion, fully sur rounded in the black border of mourning, appeared an article "In Memory of 1892.C It reada: "How would it feel if you had not been warned and were awakened by a thud produced by a section of gypsum, hitting the dome with a force of w g x| a ?. Then you can appreciate the unControl- able emotions, with fear as its nucieous, Which caused a Certain faction to change quarters in a few hours following t|ie night of October 24] '"i [ • ■ “The exodus followed the sensa tional climaxing of peculiar shrieks and groans which haW been unb eatable in the building for some time, into an intermittjent and dif fusive dowapour of the; ceiling cov ering on the floors bjdow and a cracking of the walls of the build ing in general. ' “It ail came about) wheh age had reduced the strength of the materials of Ross Hal its failing point. “Because of these) President Walton hai the Board of Directo: an architect to draw or near a new dormitory to Hall. It is expected thi will be torn down by nj the ground, work for ture will start then. ednditions, has asked to appoint p plans for upying Ross, t*> Pfielor. i,iL. place Ross Ross Hall ;t year and new struc-. >e building has been deemed unsaie to conduct classes in.” The article continues lonto say that members of Battejry “F” Field Artillery, then occu had moved in part “are living in the sections of Good- Leftover troops foiir horizontal win Hall.” perhaps a short recap is in or der. The forgoing Words meant thdt Ross Hall was sentenced to destruction because it was literally falling apart. . The-date of this startling an nouncement was Oct, 30, 1929— 29 years ago Sunday. But, in case you hadn’t noticed, Ross Hall still stands. Why? What happened to the plans for razing the building? That’s a matter for conjecture. Diligent research brought forth these later developments, Another article appeared in The Battalion, thjs one under the headline "Two Dormitories Authorized, Board De cides on Building Program.” The date was Dec. 4, 1929. ) Buried near the bottom of the story were the words: “A new dormitory will be built where Ross Hjall now stands at an ap proximate cost of $tl(,000 as soon as the dormitory can be torn down. It will cost $3,100 to wreck Ross Hall.” Obviously, the building was still doomed. But what happened be tween that story and the next word on the affair which appeared al most one year later? ]A small announcement in the Oct. 1, 1930 Battalion stated mere ly that the Architecture Depart ment in the Oct. 1, 1930 Battalion stated merely that the Architecture Department was moving its draft ing rooms to Ross which at that tihe was “unoccupied.” The only other clue in the mys tery is another article in the paper three weeks later that mentions naming the new dorm, supposedly to be built at the same time as Ross’ replacement, Walton Hall. still the remains. original No merition was made of Ross or of the dorm that was supposed to take itjs place. But the question What happened plans for the destruction of the building? How come it still stands 20 years after its condemnation? Of course, improvements have been made. The original deer skin roof has been replaced with a sterner stuff and the ceiling sup* ports are no longer held in place with leather thongs. Perhaps a lack of funds delayed original plans and the idea had U be re-submitted to the Board of Directors. This bears but little weight, however, when you considei how $2,100 could be - Saved m? merely letting cadets loose in th» edifice. No wrecking expense wouh have been necessary. Then again, the Military Depart ment mhy have intervened in th death Sentence. The closeness of th building to what was then Casey’ and a good spot for coffee, coul have proved too irresistable a lur for the military. Did they sacrifice Safety to convenience and put in an early bid for the building. They seem now to have no qualms about working in a place that isn’t supposed to be there. Rumors have it that sometime in the past two decades, they rushed in a crew of Army Engineers in the dark of night to preserve Ross’ lifp. . And finallv there is this one last conjecture. The ancient hall, stand ing -eVer in the gaze of the sta 1 te' 7 01 — i - the blows of time or of\man. Perhaps by npw, we should just drop the subject and say that Ross Hall has earned its right to re main in our midst i j\L fgl m ■ .vMv <• w m H * w 1 rr - .. Smith Says Council Meet Out Until Wednesday at Earliest By C. C MUNROE J 4'| It will not be possible for a senior class committee to meet with the Houston city council before Wednesday at the earliest, George G. Smith, chairman of the Houston A $ M Club’s corps trip committee, told senior class president Bob Byington this morning. Byington talked by phone with Smith from the office if Dean of Students W. L. Penberthy. The call was the result of a conference held at 2:30 this morning between the senior class committee and Penberthy. Smith said that he would be glad to bring his committee fo A&M or that they would be hap py to receive the senior committee in Houston. He indicated to By ington that he did not believe that the Houston city council would change its mind reparding its op position to midnight yell practice. Byington had asked Smith to try and arrange a meeting between the senior committee and the city council. Smith said he ; would call Byington between 4 and 5 p.m. to day to find out what action the senior committee wanted to take. Byington indicated to The Bat talion that pending committed ap proval he plans to ask Smith mar- range an audience with the jity council at the earliest possible time. The committee, when it met with Penberthy early this morning, re quested that the dedn give his of ficial sanction to the trip they plan to make to Houston to pre sent to the city council the senior Class’ arguments for a midnight yell practice before the A&M-Rice game. Members of the committee which met with Penberthy were Bobby Byington. senior class president; James\‘‘Red” Duke, B Troop: Jack Miller. E Air Force: Bill Stoffre- gan, A Ord.; John Taylor, C Troop; arid John L. Christensen, B Troop. \ The members of the committee were appointed by Byington. He had been conVjnissioned to do so by the senior ftlass at a meeting last night. ? V Meeting Opened Byington opened the early morn ing meeting by asking Penberthy for his approval of the committee’s planned trip to Houston to talk with the city council. \ Penberthy said he personally was against * midnight yell prac tices, and that he had tried^ to ar range a daytime yell practice in Fort Worth. “I contacted the president Fort Worth A&M Club myse Penberthy said, "and asked to consider the-,possibility of a day\ time yell practice. They said,” he continued, “that it could not be worked out and I left it at that.” “Afterward,” he continued, “I told Red (Duke) and several other student leaders of my action.” “To my knowledge,” Penberthy said, “nobody at this school had anything, to do with this letter.” He referred to a letter from George Smith, chairman of the Houston A&M Club’s corps trip committee, which requested that the student body of A&M not hold a midnight yell practice in Houston. John Taylor then asked for Pen- berthy’s sanction of the senior group’s proposed trip and asked further that the dean set in mo tion the machinery necessary for the senior group to talk with the (See COUNCIL MEET, Page 4) ,, I V 1 1 il-' Ml Byington Asked to Name Grou To Confer With Houston Council * The senior H : | \j:. ’ ; j | ’ BY THE BATTALION CO-EDITORS ior class voted last night to carry its a a • I«Ll ! tit • i 4 f ' : a J -- : ~* ftiidnight yell practice directly to the city council of A five man committee, to be appointed by sei president Bob Byington, was commissioned by the discuss with the council the possibility of having ar tfcfti for uston. ‘committee; to be appointed by senior class “ lass to auth' orized midnight yell practice* Friday Right. The action came after spirited discussion of a that the student body not IiOld its customary midni; practice in Houston. The request, which was printed in week’s Battalion,; was made by George G. Smith, chairtni ^^ f—Hquston A&M Club’s cion juest fht yell in last lan of A&M Club’s crirp trip fm mm end the lass in- m «m . ROA^r X’ THE ACME FI** i m 10: F ' re i J “B” Quartermaster Company was the winner of last week’* Batt sign oonte«t. They will receive the five dollar* awarded eaelt week to the w inning sign. 7 Admirers Offer Financial Aid To Destitute Military School j \ (• i* 1 ,i.|. j f('i. Natchet, Miss., Nov. 1 .CAP)—Admirers of Jefferson Military College are offering) financial aid to the proud but poor little prep school which turned down a $50,000,000 en dowment. Wealthy George W. Armstrongs, Sr., who tendered and - T ’——♦then withdrew the $50,000,000 iefri- wTiij iv • dowment offer, said he would seek Vpterans Keceive a university in Texas for ‘’white crease Paymeriis ir to the motion to ee to Houston, the dicateji by an overwhelming vote that they intended to hold a mid night yell practice in the coastal j Discussion "of the yell practice question was opened when Jack Millei|,.E Flight Air Eok%] repqrt- ed on talks he had had this past weekend with members of the Houston A4|M Club. ^ Miller reported that tht Hous ton Aggies Were not against mid night yell practice, but that the re quest) had been made at the sug gestion of the Houston city Coun cil., 7j Tim Wort, B engineers, made a motion, after hearing Miller’s re port, that t ic class go one record as intending; to hold a midnight yell practict before the Rice-A&M g»me. Word’s motion touched off -a flurry of comment by at l^ast one half of the estimated 250 seniors present. • Suggestions ranged from “We don’t; want to happen in Houston whgt happened here Thursday night” to “>t’s,have a yell prac tice, |and those guys that are afraid feterans of World Wars I and II rind the Spanish American War will receive an increase in disabil ity and dependancy payments, the Texris ) Military District announced today. This' increase is due to a bill signed] by President Truman recent ly, wh|ch raise tWe payment by .$112 million dollars. This raise wi)I af fect approximately two million Veterans, th«y VA estimated. Meri of World War 1 will receive full compensation for disabilities presumed to be Service connected, this is a raise from a previous 47‘7f. Mer with Arrested cases of Tu berculosis may receive compensa tion langing from, $150 for total disabi ity to $15 foiv 1091 dis ability. \ pfe iri9i| m k# i "S ■jr* ill 1 ■ ..218 ■ ii ; I 1: -U'> mm a university in Texas for Christmas only,” Trustees of the ; 147-yearkjld Mississippi school rebuffed Ajjjn- strong’s offer when they lear^d he desired the school to teach 1 * “superiority of the Anglo-Sa)tpn and Latin American races.” .Armstrong said he expects! )to .leave his Mississippi plantation to- *Jay for a visit in Port Arthur pid Fort Worth to disrifss plans for establishing an “Arriistrong Uhi- veraity.” A Houston ice cream manufac turer, meanwhile, said he was for warding $5,000 to financially strained school to meet a bank note. , 1 i I jk Nathan J. Klein, ;donor of the $5,000, said in Houston last night: “The college has been on a nun- denominational basis for mrire than 100 years, teaching Jews and gen tiles alike. I wanted to riiake it possible for them to continue this.” Allen J. Armstrong, son of the Texas magnate, said because of the failure of his father’s plans for Jefferson Military College, he resigned today from his post as trustee and business manager, !• ■ , I ( (;j: . . ' i A spokesman for the school said the National Conference of Christ ians and Jews sent g telegram ariy- ing: 1 * ; j 1 • l|j ' ; ! < il • J “You have the profound — 1 N to join with us can pack their bags now and giit out.” Glenn Kcthman, head yell lead er, read a letteF written by Fred j Hickman,, c! lief of campus security, ’ to the effect that the Saturday : afternoon jell practice in San An- ) tonio was .he most orderly Hick- ! man; had e^ er seen. The lette^ read by Kothman said ! it Houston that aftert oon yell practices did hot provide the opportunity for) brawls that a midnight yell practice' did. A! vote was called on Word’s motion to have the yell practice. It passed u ith 19 dissenting voices, but a second vote made the affirm-, ative action unanimous. Com nittee Authorized A motion by John Taylor, C] Cavalry, t) send a committee to] Houston to- discuss the midnight) yell)practhe question with the city] council received unanimous approve aj tin the lirst vote. 1 . Ji The comnittee will be appointed! by the 1 senior class president. Thoi class expressed the desire that this: commmittee meet with the council before the isual corps trip arrange-: merits com nittee from A&M makes i. trip. A suggestion that th' >mi senior; , Itudents etter of ] tude of the people of our country refusing to prostitute your cpl- i and make it a propaganda t en- for lege and make it a prop _ ter. Thank God American college and universities are not for sglri” , \ i_|ti—iii i 1 of it4 namesake, Lawrence Sulli- sg, just refused to yield to 11 .. Pr ill . V" ;v ■ a >£. Hi Jmfc- •I ! r Miss Ann Ruhland, 20, and a student at SMTT, Is another candidate for the title of ABC Sweetheart Her sponsor Is Jack Happy, of K Flight Air Force. ] '!'!• * ■.Mi Vi V k J !: ■!; Ft. Worth Student To Receive Award A Tarrant County A&M stud' will be presented a]$200 award the Fort Worth Club next spring outstanding qualities ship, leadership and nounced Dean M. 1 Special consideratiori will en to a student who has ovei difficult obstacles in evid the possession of these quali The award will be made* able to its winner for his use his Sophomore, Junior, or Se year at college. Selection of award winner will be made by Faculty Scholarships Committee, Dean M. T. Harrington, chaf R. G. Perryman,; registrer’e datipng committee ask Dean of W.! L. Penberthy for a recommem atiori was discujssed never came to a formal vote. Gerald A tanks, B Coast Artillery,: then read x> the class a letter and tbri editor’ i note following; it print ed in Monday’s Battalion. The let ter referred to a Battailian edi torial. "If you Drink, Don’t Lead.”: Bill ..Bill ngsley,. co-editer of The; Battalion, was questioned: by mem bers of th * class in regard to the: editorial aid the editor’s note read; by Monks Billingsley explained Battalion policy to jibe class, and said that ir (considers* tiori to thri subject of the editorial; The nor- corps editor said aftef the meeting he had been offered $ 71-J I written statement by several mem> bers of the class, and rilh them todi ty of printing motion by Dick he class! and that he wa$ meeting wjith them today to discus! advisability On a mt Eie|d Arjiljery, use in and office, secretary. Applications or racor fpr the award maj tween February if 1950. If Hr be and {!) ! |)l ; ' . ii/ :4 I I! Jl' it. Marks, |! the senior clan d unanimously to give a vote of confidence to Glenn Kothman, head yell leader. ilee Committeemen Ejected ) Vj! ! Other jetion taken at the aeij- IZ L or . peet^g was the election Of , B Engineers, to A&Mls ubilee Celebrations Coi year-long for, the college. Con;rad repo: mi unittec was authorized of Directors to plan (a aeries of special events 75th anniversary of tHe ■ ‘ . B. M Ohlendorf, corps s hat the class gift coi had an organizatio: wantii his yijngton said that tickets party In the Em' the Shamrock Hotel we:, sold out, and that any m^n to attend the party buy today. is being sponsored I mentor A&M Club on kid Monks, B -H ■ ! • |