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{I P ;i City Of College Station i Official Newspaper \ ') U ' Number X34.: Volume 49 ! ''il 1 r T f ■ 'i 1 . [ H j" [ ] ]' V COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, . HONDA Y, APRIL 24, 1950 ■p 1, . _L_ •I il y. ' ‘ r—* - , JU ; ' Price: Five Ce Nation’s igiafc 1949 p:i! Top Daily Survey l ■ I ' * By C. C. MUNROE 1. A&M m#n throughout Texan Friday nig;ht were told to fight to ufeaorve the right* for which .Texan* died Jkt San Jacinto. Mar- Ion 8. Church ’OB* principal *penk- er at the 47th annual Aggie Mu»- ter. told a Jum-pnckcd Gulon Hall audience the time hn* come to vote for Texan and the United State*, not for political partle*. The former cadet colonel, .Sen ior Clan* pruMldent, and comman der of the the Ron* Volunteer* vlgorouRly denounced federal en- cronchment on Individual and elate right*. 1 Ceremonle* euch u* the Aggie Munter and San Jacinto Day will become, mere mockerleN unleiot Tex- atm everywhere vote to atop the trend’toward centralised govern ment and log* of pemonul free dom, Church said. The audience broke into ap- plauoe, interrupting Church sev eral times, as he decried the tact ics of the Truman administration. Terming the - “Fair Deal” Va Student Center -"1^ ' • r : Group Leaves For Convention J. Wayne Stark, director of the Memorial Student Center; Miss Ann Hilliard of the MSC social staff; and Dan Davis, sophomore business major of B Flight and member of the MSC'Council, left Saturday morn- . ing for Swampscott Massachusetts to attend the twenty-seventh an nual convention of Association of i College Unions. — [ Getting underway Wednesday, April 26, the group will hear un ion directors and school officials ( from all over the country discuss problems faepd iii student center operation. ' L Davis will sit in .oh such ses sions a* “Coardlnution' pf student union with dther campuk organl- tatlons,” “Training pr<rhli<ms of itudelit* op student center, boards ahd commltees;’' und “How to get the best program for ybur uplon dollar." ! j . With tlii> information gained from the*e discussions, Davis can serve more intelligently on the M8(T Council and offer informa tion to other i memliers of the board, ,Stark said. Sessions Stark will attend In clude "What are likely to be the big headaches of the first few weeks, and can they he avoided T" . “What kty'J of a program should read/ to put into operation when the building opens,” and “Wh|t adjustments, do other col lege /departments need to make when the union opens." ^ Miss Hilliard will si^in on dis- ; cushions of the evaluation of soc ial programs as they affect col lege student centers, and discus sions on food operations. She is presently director of the Annex Student Center, - Two other students were select ed to attend the convention, but could hot make the trip because of jits JO-day duration. Field Trip Slated For Range Clashes The Range Maintenance 412 class will [take a field trip to Bell Coun ty tomorrow, April 26, to study the range conditions arid prob lems in that area, according to David G - . Wilson, instructor in the Range and Forestry Department. This trip is the second that has been scheduled to familiarize stu dents of range maintenance with the .different types of,,, range and management problems of Central and Southcentral Texas. Dr. Harold F. Heady, associate professor, and Instructcr Wilson, are to be in charge of the group. “backwash” of Roosev ilt’a "New Deal," Church aald it “h i* now suc ceeded in stuffing tht Supreme Court with polinciuna. "The Constitution is being de stroyed decision by dei ision by a political supreme court,"'h« said. Church, who is forn or general counsel for the State Democratic Executive Committee, compared the present federal (ovemment with the Mexican gov irnment j In the time uf Stephen F. Austin. ! Texas had her rights taken away then, Church said, and "the salme thing 1* happening toduy." " ’■*--* I i Muster Honors HjeroM The Muster was oriitinuily con- c*Hved to honor our fathers Who dle<b<onreserve the {freedom of Texaii atnl her citizens, Church said. "That was why imlttO.') at the cadet corps’ j request President Houston declared a holiday for the college." j ■ T ., Church was a freshman on the campus at that time. ! Recalling the incident in his talk, he told ’ of the student pro test when Houston failed to de clare a holiday on the anniversary of San Jacinto. 1 “We marched to President Houston’s mansion. He told us to return to classes^and at noon he would declare a holiday for the college,” he related. “We went back to classes. We M. 8. Clturch Muster Speaker A&M Riflemen Outscore Camp Hood 3£> Points The A&M ROTC Rifle Team defeated Camp Hood personnel in a shoulder to shoulder rifle match which was held on the campus last Friday afternoon, M/Sgt. William. R. Reese of the Military Science Department announced this morn ing. | ' ■ j- ' | j L The final score showed the A&M team victorious by 35 points, Sgt. Reese said. The high point man for the match was Clifford A. Taylor, Aggie rifleman who made a score of 372 points out of a possible 40Q. Other men men firing for A&M were Robert E. Grosser with 362 points, Bill J. Holland and George S. Kent each with 366 points and Roland T. Zapata with 365 points. The total for A&M was 1,836 out of a possible 2,000. The high point man for Camp Hood was Ffc. David M. Caldwell with 370 points. Other men from Camp Hood who fired were Sgt. E. F. Rhode with 362 points, Sgt. Elmer Elusore with 360 points, Raymond L. George with 358 points, and Sgt. Herschel G. [White 351 points. The total nrimber of points earned by the Camp Hood .men totaled 1,801. | beyed I the orders of constituted thority and this ceremony which > all observe here tonight was Iveu legal status. “May that always be true," he <tontinuedr“Many constituted auih* orlty always reign jat A&M." ! Church spoke of;the brotherhood i f Aggies, terming It the “great- st brotherhood In; the wolTd." [Muster Background j Turning to the history of the Muster! Church told of Stephen Austin’* fight to keep the Mex ican* from talcing Individual free dom away from the citi*en* uf T«xa*. ■ ‘s Reviewing the tsictic* of Santa [>u ip centralizing control o f Mexican states in the Mexican cap ital, Cliurcb compared them with it moves which T ■umi err bill and the [ efforts of the ent government! moves bad the sariie effect. I He listed the Truman Veto of the Kerr bill and the [ efforts of the government to obtain Texas’ tide- lands bs typical of the attempts io strip states of | their rights. ! Eventually, he continued, they {will tape oyer the [board of insur ance, the poard ofj education, and f’they’li even take over Austin unless you act. r . [ “We fought fcjr a democracy where the citizen owned the gov- ernment, not the Government the jcitizen{” he ‘ said. (“If we go on (with another administration or (two like this one, the government will oWn you.” -j “When we shall (have made our selves i freri,” he concluded, “we shall have paid homage to our nation; state, and the departed dead.”, Guicjn Hall ran^ with applause as Church returned to his seat. j' Roll Call Following the principal address, Jack Norman, senior pre-med ma jor from Galvestok read the tra ditional Muster ppem, “Roll Call for the Absent,” biy Dr. John Ash ton ’Od. With the Singing Cadets in the (See MUSTER, Page 4) Four cowhands hot off the range took lime out lo tike their ditaa to the Cattlemen's Ball Saturday night. They are (front row) Turkey luieckemeyer, Hans Wittenburg, (hack row) Bob la*dbet- ter, and Ike Kisenhauer. Cattlemen Survive -A By B. F. ROLAND Th|e “Old West” took over in SI>isa Hall Saturday night and men in the School of Agriculture pulled all the stops for a rip- aring Cattlemen’s Ball. With high-heeled boots, Jesse Jnmes and “All the Boys” cut lojose with real,!, ojd-time cowboy music. K ’ J More than 500 Ag men and their dates turned out for the ball which featured presentation to two men o} honorary memberships in the Saddle and Sirloin Club and the Kream and Kow Klub. » j G. R. White ’95 president of the Aj&M System Board of Directors and prominent Southwestern live stock breeder, was made a mem ber of the Saddle and Sirloin Cjlub. J. T. Lively, Dallas Guern sey breeder, was presented a cer tificate of membership in the Kream and Kow Klub. Douglas Wythe of the Saddle and Sophs Ballot Tomorrow With Runoffs Thursday ^ ABERNATHY A record numb >r 'of 65 sopho mores (had filed for eight positions as nekt year's junior class offi cers as filing doted boon .Satur day. J- . i _ ( < KletRlonx for < ffleers and for two junior yell laadara (will Ik- held tomorrow [night, Dick Ingels, class presldt-nt, said this morning. Run off elections art scheduled for Thursday night. A Class meetirlg will be held tonight at 7 in orider -to give yell leadetj candidates a chance to dis play thbir, wares before their vot ers. If time permits, bfficer con- 1 delates will be allowed to speak to the class, Ingels said. Voting will be done by secret ballot; he said, w|th the ballots to be distributed tlough each unit in the corps area ind through each dormitory in the non-corps. Ten tative arrangements are being -made to set up a special voting booth on the can pus Tuesday af ternoon for day student sopho- mores only, Ingles said. Sophomores wil l have eleven men to choose from for junior class president when the balloting begins Tuesday night. Men desiring this position are Deajn Reed, Howard Kruse, Stan L. Fferkins, Grady L. Smallwood, Edwajrd J. Chapin Jr., J. Harold Hughes, John T. High tower, Clintort Fiwcett, Daniel B. Fleming, H. T. Chandler, and Eric W. Carlson. In the vice presidential race, ten men have shown their- desire for the riff ice arid have t|o s s e d theirjhats in the ling by way of the official filing ropte. On the offi cial ballot are Friank Wicker, Bill Caml>mi{ Bob Chapman, Donald M. Lance, E. R. Tom, Duane Van- denb«rg, Gerald D. Campbell Jr., Richard AlanGreen, Hobie Father- The 128-piece annual spring Guioh Hall. "The concert Ja taatea of as It will appear at Ita “morrow night at 7:30 in to appeal to musical with concert marches. verl urea novelty numbers, and two instrumental uarteta presented during the course of the pro- am,” lit. Col. Vergne Adams, “ grant," lit. |Mn4 says- 1/ director of the ee, and Daniel Scott. Asuitnnts for the position of Social hoc rotary of the junior class are Robert 1). Hinton, I’uul L. Shaffer, C, R. Ray Jr., and Patti Lasseii J r. Unallfied canilldates having sig nified their desire for' the pom- tiion of secretary are Davis Ter ry, Irvin Goldstein, Ken Wiggins, Joe Davidson Jr., Hill Dnistun, Two candidates have with drawn their candidacy from one office and filed for an other since The Battalion's election report Thursday. Joe Johnson, candidate for senior class vice-president, withdrew Friday and re-filed for president of the class, i Dare Keelan, who had filed for senior yell leader, with drew and filed Cbr senior class president. V A complete/»tory on all sen ior class offic^rfiling will ap pear in tomorrow’s Battal ion. Deadline for senior fil ing is 5 p. m. today. Hansel C. Kennedy, Herbert M. Gorrod, and Louis F. Dominguez. Voters will have six men to choose from when they begin choosing next year’s treasurer. Men having filed for this position are Thomas Martinez, Don F. Wil- liforrd, Vance Riley, Wylie L. Brisco, Ted M. Stephens, and 0. E. Johnson. Candidates for class parliamen- ;tarian are Thomas E. Henderson, Carl A. Peterson, Dale E. Walston, Phil Huey, and Fred Bruce McDan iel. The five men desiring the posi tion of reporter-historian for the class of '62 are James Lehmann, Tom A. Munnerlyn, C. E. Sebesta, Frank N. Manitzas, and A. C, Burkhalter Jr. Sophomores interested in being sergeant at arms fori next? year’s i unlor class are Don' B. Austin, ’’elton ’L. Calvin Jr. Tony Mnr- goittu, Leon Noaek, Charles T. Williams, ami Roger H. Jenawold. Agronomy Society Host to Fleming Lamar Firming, president of th« Andermm-Clayton 'Company, will be the guest of honor at the Cot* ton Pageant and Hall, according to Frank Zubclk, president of the Agronomy Society. The Andersun-Clayton Company, largest cotton buying and selling company In tho world, was one of the chief companies interested in founding the Cotton Pagean and Ball 16 years ago, Zabclk said. Fleming will make a short ad dress at the Pageant and will crown King Cotton, Zabci)| added. ' j Sirloin Club gave (White his cer tificate. Carl T. Hand of the Kream and [Kow Klub gave the member ship : to Lively, j [i j Record of Service | White was honored for his long record of service I to A&M dnd his activities as a livestock breeder. He it an honorary vied president of the j Livestock Breeders Associa tion. Lively is noted as one of the outstanding Guernsey breeders in the Southwest. *' Members of two judging teams in the School of Agriculture were giveri medals during an intermis sion at the ball j I Four men of the Produce Judg- i ing ! Team who [{received medals werri W. C. Coker, B. J. Jrihnsbn, Jim [ Park, and W. D. Jones. The Dairy Cattle Judging Teani mem bers] who received awards were Earl Edwards, . 'fy. MeCarley, and (G. H. McLriiryf. , | Miller, [Speaks Dr. JJ C. Miller, head of the Aniinal Husbandry Department, .thaijked all members of th« teams for their efforts,; He directed par ticular thanks to the second string team members who, he said,] "push ed {he first! string men so! that they were able to win the con tests in which they entered,” A| special a ward of upnrecla- tion was given tp F. I, Danlherg, sponsor of the.[ Saddle and Sir loin [Chib. Cgrl K|mipll», past pres ident of the duo, presented pah|- berg with u hniid tooled [leather l|eitl The it want! was given as it token of thanki for Dnhlberg'* Work on behalf [of the teiint anil it* member*, if Doug Frebeig.isenlor AH major, acted as master of ceremonies frir the i IntcrmtMsioriJ program. The hall was dccontted Iri West ern style. Saddles, wagons, and n refreshment bail decorated | with western brand* j served a* back ground fpr the dance. Accountants Plan Panel Discussion! A panel discritsiori, “The First Yeah After College- -A Panel fpr Next TISA M eet The Aggie delegation attend ing the second annual state conven tion of the Texas Intercollegiate Studenta Association! in Waco this past weekend gained a 16-9 de cision of that body to Hold next year’s convention on this cam pus. Also, Jo* Fuller, student sen ator from Law Hull, was elected parliamentarian of i the 1950-61 T18A. | T • . TISA la a state-Wide organisa* tion of student governments from 29 Texas junior and Mentor col lages and unlvemltl*)*. The organisation seek* to ex change beneficial Ideas among *Ui- dent government* and to promote constructive effort* Of student gov ernment*. j :: 7j The 16-9 decision' to [ hold next year's convention at A&M was a victory for the Aggie delegation which locked horns 'with a deter mined delegation ffom, the Uni versity of HousUm, j Offering such advantages as cen tral location [easily accessible to most schools in the state, use of the new Memorial Student Center, and the friendliness and hospital ity of Texas Aggies, the A&M delegation won support from li|rge and small colleges alike. Dan Davis, vice president of 1949-60 TISA and sopiiomurelclaMS vice-president, offered the !m tion on behaff of A AM. Chu Klrkham followed Davis to pre A&M's ease for gaining the convention. r till Make* Hid Prior to the choice of n convention site the University Houston delegation pushed mimeographed sheets or or such entertainment features uu afternoon, ten in the Sham Hotel, gueut status to the Frontier Fiesta, and a yaeht |tm|r of the Houston Chip clmnjie; tej San Jacinto (ButtlCgrou Kirkham promised adequate tertainment for the convention Question Tabled College Students’ highlights of the will be onriof the third annual Ab- couhting Conference, here April 27-2j8. E|lis M. Sowell, dean pf the School of Business at TCU will {>6 moderator for the panel discussion. The conference is sponsored by the Department ! Of Business and Accounting, and chapters of the Texas Society bjf Certified public Accountants, thh Controllers In stitute of America, National As sociation of Cost Accountants, In stitute of Internal Auditors, Texas Society of Accountants, Dallas Pe troleum Accountants, Texas As sociation of University Instructors in Accounting, i rj By a parliamentary maneuver, the Texas IntercollegXate Student* Association meeting in Waco Sat urday morning sidestepped th convention’s one controversial is jaUe a resolution that the “righ 1 to membership (to TISA) not denied to any college because A race or creed.” The maneuver was to table thh controversial resolution. Prior to the convention several strident gov erning bodies had anticipated if* presentation and instructed gov erning bodies had (anticipated itjs presentation and instructed their Crops Judgers For New Te Begin Practic Scheduled practice peri< for proapective member* the 19B0 A&M CropN Judj Ing Team ure now boin^coi ducted, Recording to Collard, team coach and Agrono my instructor. The; Ivan] will con. slat of three persona and one al ternate. Candidate* for the team include Raymond Kunfce. Tommie C. Duf fle, Walter H. Tanamachi, George Y. Ricketts, F, B. Stroud, Tomrriy F. Green, Keith L. Hargrove, Wil liam M. Lewis, Shelby! Newmrin, James A. Enloe, David A. Rives, Edwin B. Daniels, B. J. Terrell, Charles W. Wendt, William E. Watson Jr., and Qriinton A. John son. These students Will practice rip- proximately once ri week for tjhe remainder of this semester arid will start intensive trailing at the beginning of the fall semestjer, Collard said. There will be four or five full length contests | in October and November which vfill serve as a basis for selection Of team members. The team will compete in tjhe Kansas City National Collegiate Crops Judging Contest on Nov. 23 and on Nov. 25 it will compete in the International Intercoilegii Grain Judging Contest at C cage. Prior to these contests, the tejam will obtain practice by judging at county and community fairs throughout this section of TeXas, Collard concluded r * I v W 1 Mr. I I Rom Volunteer Company were called Friday night at delegations how to vote if sicK a resolution wiere brought to floor. A&M’s Student Sen 16-9 to instruct its delegation ,,to oppose such a resolution if sented. The tabling motion act ieved postponment' of the coptrovprsial issue, not its defeat. Otherwise, the convention consid ered many problems of student government on an individual and on a state-wide basis. In seninar meetings the convention discussed honor systems, faculty-stude it re lations, student courts, and si udent governments^ rights in inveitigat- ing school prices and princi] lies. Discussed also were discir Unary committees, student government finance, school spirit, and liiltur- al entertainment. The semi: Tar on cultural entertainment was led by Charles Kirkham, co-vice president of the Senior Class qnd Student convention delegate. Financing Kxplained Grady Elms, as*i*tAnt ijlrector of Student Activities, prose the seminar group the hieani* A&M uses to finance and sec ure il entortalnmeijt and ehietta of all kinds,! After Klimc' presentation, slot: developed on how a could be organised so that! small er colleges could gain tori enter tainment groups at prices they could afford to pay. ' Honor System The discussion of hjmor systems centered largely nroimd riroblems schools alraadyj using an honor system have encountered. |A gen eral conclusion was reached that honor systeriis, in orcjler to be ef fective, must receive willir eration from students and members. The honor s g s t e rri is most effective when sma " geneous groups cgoose it. Keith Allsup, “ student president, was chairman of| a Town Hall meeting of the cojiveritiori which brought the 200 delegates into general assembly. Hall’s central theme wari “What (See TISA,.Page ^) Grad School Seeks Summer Applicants Dr. I. P. Trotter, De*:i of the Graduate School, announjeed this morning that students interested in taking graduate courses in the summer session should ripply for admission to the Graduate* School well in advance of the oriening of summer session. Forms and infor mation for making application will b« supplied upon request. The large summer school en rollment of candidates for advanced degrees assures the offering of u wide variety of graduati courses, according to Dr. TfotterJ The stu dent should determine in advance that the graduate course* he wants or which arii required in his par ticular program arc to offered at the time he plaiiH to inroll. If these are not scheduled In th* aUmmer sesslirii catklogue, he should ci)ntact (he [head of the de partment handling the course re garding th* posslltlllt) of courses being offered. d|> - Dr. Trotter salt! tha pose of the college is the offering of In the trimmer demand for them vance and the a can bu mad* *' : Ni i the pgr- tb facilitate u*te courses when the kriown in ad- aid facilities stressed the fered dent implctc fncill by tge new Memori Center|. I i - Fuller Elected ibout Opposition Marie Col- Hoi ’ and a Dlck e Won tile I tfreasmer Fuller’s election was obtained by ail 18-7 roll call ballot, Previous to tie oiertion., Fuller luol >11*- tlngi lehed himself to the convert- ; ' tlon’n sstisfnettop by raising points / of prirllumchtary prorodun during the »unduct bf the general session. He is also parliamentarion of this year’s [ Student' Setmi e. / Karl Lord was elected presldont. to tlie 1II60-5I TISA Ity U laud- slide majority. Sterling Steve*, froiu the Ui iversltv of ’I’eti**, wa* elected vlee-prcshient over Uni versity of Houriton’s crindIMate Tony Frlloux, W thout opii ogno f.roin Hockatlay Snilth of Austin (College offlegs of secretary ond respectively, Deletrolett Jubilant { Jubilanlj Mrgle delcgntjes had several HtaUmicnts to make after the convention was a<Uounte<l. Commented delegation chairman Kciti Allsup: “A good conven tion. We ( profited by riuriing.’’ !. Bill Parse said, '"Besides meet- 1 ing a lot of people .and hearing how| other schools handle their affairs, We got the convention for next year and ! an officer. The, convention next year will be a boost for A&M and TISA,” After handshaking, back slap ping, politicking, and passing gut MSC book matches for two days, footballer Charlie Royalty sum med! up his feelings with, “I’m more tired now than after a football game.” I f i Dr. Kdwln Nmiruh r ; . , • I , . , 1 1 J J Nourse to Make Great Issues ; ’’The Danger in National Deficit JRnancing” will be tho topic of Dr. Edwin G. NoUrse’s address in another of the Great Issues speech series tonight in the Chemistry Lecture Room at 8 p. ml According to Dr. S. R. Gam mon, head of the History Depart ment, Nourse is ,ari outstanding economist who has done consider able research on national produc tion and income. / ' The speaker is ri past president of the American Econori ' elation and g former chS the Social Science Rescai oil. He became the first chdirmun of the Couticil of Economic Ad visers to the President [when the employment Act of *1946 was en-, acted. Dr. Gammon said. I After serving as advisory chair-/ man from ,A u lf U8t *‘ Il3>ifi to No/ vember 19,49 Nqurse^resigned frorp that positioip because he was un able to san-tion a policy of *a- tionul ciefici . financliig, Df. Grfm- men added. ’ i S ' A campus Viaitor who was not a college prof was talking to a group of Htiidents last week. While extolling the merits ufl a certain , profession, l lie speaker raised a qucHtlon in thit mind of * student in the audience. During a tmeuk In the talk, Ihe - student calniid hi* hum) and was recognised by the speriker. , | “Prof•Mol', could you clenri this up for me7" ’ ( He never got to statg his prob- *|iea‘ leln, though, frir the' terrupG’d Mm. b "Listen,” the speriker said, "I'm ■A »<ow w 'llriWIlf HH* . RfltfHris D. reMMI, I III a professor. I KNOW what talking about." ( ii 'ri/ 1 ", not I’m talking