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^ege 0 ti^ Ce» ter r> Circulated to More Than 90% of College Station’s Residents Number 112: Volume 51 The Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1951 Thinking of Running For MSC Council? See Column, Page Two Price Five Ceuts NCAA, Here Comes A&M! s Crack TU Jinx, 33-32 Davis, McNew Picked To Head MSC Council Dan Davis, junior business stu dent from Lubbock, was elected second president of the Memorial Student Center last night at a meeting of the MSC Council. La mar McNew, civil engineering maj or from Bryan, was named to the job of vice-president. Both men will assume their new duties next month when the pre sent council is replaced. Another member of this year’s Council, Clayton Selph senior journalism major from Houston, will return Atom Scientist Talks at Op en Of Water Meet Roy J. Morton, Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies at Oak Ridge, Tenn., spoke at the opening of the 33rd Texas Water and Sewage Works As sociation’s Short School at A&M. Problems of control and disposal of radio active waste materials were discussed Monday at the opening session. Morton highlight ed his talk by using slides show ing the research work going on. The welcome address to more than 400 people was given by Dr. M. T. Harrington, president of A&M. The meeting was opened by Uel Stephens, president of TW&- SWA, from Worth. A symposium on civil defense was conducted Monday at the meet ing with E. C. Anderson, senior en gineer, Public Health Service, Dal las; V. M. Ehelers, director, Bureau of Sanitary Engineers, State Health Department, Austin; and J. R. Hennon, water superinten dent, Port Neches, taking part. Yesterday sessions included “Water Supply,” “Bottled Water Session,” “Big City Session,” “Group Leaders Session,” “Sewage Session,” and “Business Session.” Throughout the short school this pattern will be followed. The school lasts through tomorrow. The short school is being con ducted in cooperation with the State Health Department, S. W. Section, American Water Works Association, the State Board for Vocational Education and A&M. Joe Sorrels, professor of sanitary engineering, is in charge of local arrangements. to the governing board next year. He and John Samuels, freshman English major from Galveston, were unanimously named to the 1951-52 Council. Four members of the group are selected each year from outgoing Council and Direct orate members. Filing Starts Filing is now in progress for two more positions on the Coun cil, both elective. One of these jobs is open to any student with at least a year remaining in school and the other to all students who have completed no more than four semesters of college work. Three men have filed for the re maining positions to date. They are Russell Smith, junior; Dick Van Tyre, sophomore; and John Akard, freshman. Filing deadline is Fri day at 5 p.m. Election will be held next Thursday, March 20. Davis, who succeeds Joe Fuller, will be president of the Council and the MSC Directorate. The St. Patrick’s Dance Planned by MSC A St. Patrick’s Day, all school dance, sponsored by the MSC, will be held Saturday night in the MSC ballroom. Music will be furnished by the Aggieland Combo, and a St. Pat rick’s Day theme will be carried out with the ballroom decorated in green and white. Special guests will be represen tatives of the Texas Intercollegiate Students Association which will hold its third annual convention at the MSC Friday and Saturday. Time is 9-12 p. m. and admission will be 60 cents, couple or stag. Students and their wives will be featured entertainment during in termission according to Miss Betty Bolander, assistant social director of the MSC. The program will in Texas Doctors ToVisitCamp us For Child Clinic The sixth annual crippled children’s clinic was discussed at the JCiwanis Club meeting held yesterday in the Assem bly Room of the MSC. “Glass coin containers have been placed in College Station business houses to receive donations for the clinic,” Dr. Dan Russell, chairman of the clinic, said. Funds gathered last year were used to treat and diagnose over 150 Brazos County , children who were brought to the clinic. This year the Kiwanis are bringing Six physicians, including a pediatrician to the clinic to be held in the A&M hospital on May 7. On the program for the weekly luncheon were Miss Betty Bolander and Bill Turner who offered their rendition of “Willow Echoes,” “Smoke G:ets in Your Eyes,” “Dan ny Boy,” “Blue Skies,” and “Clog Dance.” Miss Bolander accompan ied Turner’s cornet solos on the piano. The 36th annual convention of Kiwanis International will be held in St. Louis on June 17-21 and the board of directors of the local or ganization are interested in learn ing of any member who plans to be in that area at that time and who would like to be ai delegate to the convention. The Kiwanis boys and girls com mittee is working on preparations for the A&M Consolidated High School Athletic Banquet to be held April 27. Council is composed of eight stu dents, five faculty members, two former students and the director of the Center. Faculty members remaining on the Council next year will be Dr. John Quisenberry, head of the Poultry Husbandry Department, and John M. Rowlett, professor in the Architecture Department. The Council also inaugurated a policy for use of MSC Guest Rooms at last night’s meet. The new pol icy, effective immediately, stipu lates that “No students are to ac company or visit their dates in the Guest Room area after 9 p. m.” The policy, which passed unani mously, was formulated to cope with possible improper conduct in the Center. Violators will be sub ject to the jurisdiction of the Dean of Men’s Office. Last Meeting This year’s Council will meet for the last regular time on April 2. Both the old and the new Council will convene for the Annual Meet ing in April. Outgoing members from the student body at that time will be Joe Fuller, Lavonne Mas- sengale, Ferris Brown, Joe Wal lace and Dave Coslett. Outgoing- faculty and staff members will be Dr. Walter H. Delaplane, Fred Smith and Charles A. Roeber. After next week’s student-body election the only student vacancies on the 1951-52 Council will be those of the Student Senate representa- tave and the co-editors of The Bat talion. Each will take over the job upon winning his appointment or election. The present Council is the first full governing body in the history of the MSC. AH Man Accepts Industry Position J. M. Schrum, instructor of ani mal husbandry has accepted a posi tion as farm supervisor for Sugar- land Industries, Sugarland, Texas. Sugarland Industries maintains a p r o g r a m of diversified farming which includes livestock, cotton, and vegetable products. Schrum will act as supervisor of all live stock and farming activities at Sugarland. K and K Names 2 Honorary Members E. H. Lieindecker of Sherman and Evens Reese of Waco have been elected honorary members of the Kream and Kow Klub. They were honored at the bi-monthly meeting of the dairymen’s club. The two were elected from a group of seven finalists, all well known in the dairy industry. These men were chosen for their out standing contributions to the dairy industry. Steers Defeated On Home Court by DEAN REEL) Coach John Floyd’s A&M cage team will meet Wash ington University March 22 in Kansas City as the 1951 Ag gie basketball squad enters the first round of the Western NCAA Basketball Tournament. The Cadet cagers qualified as Southwest Conference color-bearers to the tournament by edging Texas University, 33-32, last night in Austin. Winning the rubber game of the SWC play-off, the Ag gies broke a long-standing Austin jinx by defeating the Longhorns on their home court, Gregory Gymnasium. The last A&M team to accomplish this feat played almost a gen eration ago—in 1934. Sophomore Leroy Miksch, six foot four Aggie forward, was the key in turning Texas’ tables last night. The cadet from Waelder calmly sank a free-throw in the final seconds to break a 32-32 deadlock and give'* " A&M the victory. Miksch Leads Ags Miksch contributed 11 points in the game to lead the Aggie scor ers. He followed Texas’ ace for ward, James Dowies, high point man for the final game with 17. The decisive win gave A&M a 3-2 edge over the Steers in hard wood competition this season. Splitting the two regular season games with Texas, the Aggies won in College Station Friday night, 45-33, then lost the second Mon day night in Austin, 34-35. Last night’s game seemed to be a repeat performance from Mon day night—except for the socre. The score was tied 15-15 at the half, after the Aggies have been behind as much as seven points during the first period. Similar Scoring Monday night the Cadets found themselves trailing early in the game, then tied the score at half time, 19-19. Miksch’s toss gave A&M the win much as a similar free-throw by sub guard Leon Black had done for the Longhorns the previous evening. Texas remained in the lead through most of the first half, and was not to be toppled from its thrown until six minutes had elaps ed in the second period. Aggie forward John DeWitt scored a field goal to give the Cadets their first lead, 21-20. This lead the Aggies never re linquished, although the score was tied twice afterwards. Dowies knotted the game at 32- all with 1:25 remaining. A&M got a free throw chance, but refus- (See GREGORY, Page 3) Singing Cadets On Tour Of Texas Cities Forty members of the Sing ing Cadets, under the direc tion of Bill Turner, will leave at 11 a. m. tomorrow on their longest tour of the Spring semester. The Cadets will travel by bus to three West Texas cities. The Abilene Mothers Club will sponsor a concert by the Singing Cadets in the auditorium of Mac- Murry College tomorrow night. Students of Breckenridge High School will heai 1 a short program by the signers Friday afternoon. A full concert for the public will be presented in the Breckenridge High School Auditorium Friday night. The Cadets will go to Vernon Sat urday whei;e they will present a concert Saturday night. The repertoire includes classi cal, spiritual and popular songs, and the traditional songs of Texas A&M. Featured as soloists will be Harold Hughes, Don Forney, Tom my Savage, A. J. Haddock, and David Haines. The concerts will also include numbers by a group of hillbilly singers and a quartet, composed of members of the Singing Cadets. San Antonio First Fish Drill Teamsters Plan Four Spring Exhibitions By JOHN WHITMORE It has always been a popular idea that a freshman always gets enough marching done on Satur day on the Bull Ring, but this is not entirely true in the case of members of the Freshman Drill Team. This group of 45 men devote three afternoons a week to drill— drill similar to the Marines’ Monkey Drill. They work out ev ery Monday, Tuesday and Friday afternoon. But all of this work is not in vain. They have been invited to take part in the annual Battle of Flowers in San Antonio, April 21. The “Fish Drill Team” with its white belts, white leggings, and white and chrome rifles are ex pected to add color to the Sunny City’s Illuminated Parade. From an organizational stand point the team is made up of three squads of 12 men each, a guidon bearer, a guide, and a director. This includes a representative from each of the 11 freshmen companies except the band. Freshmen Bandsmen were dis qualified from membership because of the amount of extra drill they have to take part in. But despite all of this work, the team is still not large enough to accomodate all of the men who would like to become members. At Members of the Freshman Drill Team click off a sharp Present Arms during an informal exhibition. the first of school, when the idea of continuing the team was brought up, over 200 men tried out for pos itions. By a process of elimination — competitive drill—the number was cut down to the present 45. Yesterday the group had their first chance to give a semi-for mal exhibition for the heads of the college. They gave a drill for the executive committee on the drill field west of Law Hall. The San Antonio trip will be the first chance the team will have to give a show for the public. After the trip they will make trips to Dallas, Houston, and Bren- ham. The Brenham trip will be to take part in their county fair. For these out-of-town exhibit ions the team will use the Ross Volunteer’s chromium plated rifles. During their evening practices they use M-ls. When Garand first made the M-l he didn’t have in mind the gira- tions the Aggie Fish would put it through. A part of the drill is the Queen Ann manual of arms. During this manual the rifle whirls through the air and seems as if the only place it will end up is on the ground—but it nev er does. Leader of the organization is Alan G. Little of Company 2. He was a former regimental command er in Thomas Jefferson High School, in San Antonio. His assistant directors are Jeo- utt Y. Parsons, also from San An tonio; Bill Perper from Houston; and William M. Reed from San Antonio. Team sponsor is Major William B. Wood, military counsellor and. M/Sgt. William L. Davis. Reach for the Sky, Stranger! Four men were off the floor at this moment dur- Texas’ tall center, Don Klein (34), aided by Joe ing last night’s close-fought A&M win over the Ed Falk (33). Although Klein appears to have Texas University Longhorns, 33-32. Fighting control of the ball here, A&M’s cagemen kept viciously for control of the ball and a possible their hands on it often enough last night to shat- tip-in are A&M’s Leroy Miksch (12) and John ter a 17-year old jinx in Gregory Gymnasium. DeWitt (11). Tangling with the Cadet duo is Prestidigitation Spotlighted In Guion Hall Magic Show By ANDY ANDERSON Gwynne, “Master of Magic” will be blindfolded by Thomas Shiflet, Cadet Officer of the 1 Day at 5 this afternoon in front of the MSC. This will be the beginning of a blind drive around the campus. This is just part of the publicity for the performance of legerdemain and prestidigitation in Guion Hall tonight at 7:30. At noon today, he appeared in Duncan Hall where he presented a few of his tricks with several members of his highly talented group. He will repeat the per formance in Sbisa tonight for the men in the Basic Division. For a finale, Gwynne will sus pend a girl in thin air. This is done by first placing the girl on a board, removing the board and placing her on the points of three spears. Gwynne will then remove the spears and the girl will be lying as if on a sofa.. To prove there are no wires or other aids, he will pass a large ring around the girl. Another part of his performance tonight will be the hypnotizing of Bob Smith, Dick Gardemal and Dorbandt Barton, Aggie football ers; Curtis Edwards, corps chap- WTAW to Carry LBS Sportscasts Radio Station WTAW is now affiliated with The Liberty Broad casting- System and will carry the programs of the system as well as local programs originating from WTAW studios.. Of interest to most of the stu dents and other persons in this area will probably be the major league baseball games the station will carry. The “Old Scotchman,” Gordon McLendon, who with his father owns the Liberty network, handles ■most of the ball games with Wes Wise and “The Youngster,” Al Turner as assistants. They present the game in a rather unique way—the announcers are not at the ball park where the game is being played. But rather they are in their KLIF studios in Dallas, home office for LBS. They have leased wires from each of the ball parks and re-create the games in their studios with the aid of some very accurate sound effects and background noises, simulating crowds at the various games. lain and Dare Keelan, senior class president. Gwynne has made extensive trips lo the Orient and other parts of the Far East in order to find some of the illusions he will perform. His costumes and scenery are all imported from the Orient and are all hand embroid ered by natives of India and China. Gwynne has double sealed some headlines in envelopes that he predicted would appea'r. in today’s edition of The Battalion. During tonight’s performance, Dave Cos lett, Battalion co-editor will open the envelopes to check Gwynnes ac curacy. Gwynne has just finished per formances in New York City where he appeared in the Times Theatre, where he gaVe a three hour show for the legitimate theatre and on the stage of RKO Palace as a member of a large vaudeville act. “His hour and a half show will feature mysticism that should please all who attend,” says C. G. “Spike” White, assistant dean of men for activities. When Gwynne was asked • if he used mental telepathy he said ha did not call it that but would let the audience decide what to call it. At another of his features, Gwynne will perform his spirit seance. He will ask members of the audience to assist him in this trick. In full view of everyone in Guion he will make a table rise from the floor of the stage. One ?)f the many feats of magic Gwynne has picked up in his trav els is his “Temple of Angee.” It is a miniature temple into which one of • his cast will be placed, swords placed through the temple and the box opened to show the girl has disappeared. In conjunction with the show of magic, the Aggie debate team will clash with the debate team from West Point on the question of international situation. The West Pointers will take- the affirmative side. ’ Tickets to the performance will be fifty cents and entitle the holder to see both shows. Top Houston Salesmen Give Selling Pointers “The Fine Art of Professional Selling” was the central theme of the Second Annual Sales Clinic held last night in the Assembly Room of the Memorial Student Center. The clinic, sponsored by the Bus iness Society and the Houston Sales Executives Club, began with a welcome by Ernest R. Bulow, as sistant professor of Business Ad ministration. Horace E. Perry, president of Mosher Steel. Co. of Houston, and president of the sales group out lined and explained the purpose of the meeting following the introduc tion of the speakers by V e r ne Lane, president of Verne Lane As sociates, Houston, and chairman of the sales executives educational committee. Charles Royds, sales manager of the National Cash Register Co. in Houston, spoke on “Getting Ready to Sell” followed by a dem onstration on presenting the pro position by R. E. Scott, sales man ager of the Gold Seal Co. “Overcoming the Obstacles that Block Sales” was discussed by Her bert Elston of the Minnesota Mu tual Life Insurance Co. The final talk of the evening was “Closing and Clenching the Sale” given by Herbert L. Crate, sales manager of Hodell & Co., Houston realtors. Lane entertained the crowd of approximately 125 during his intro ductions with a few magical tricks. Question Period Following the talks the house was thrown open to any questions the audience might have. A board consisting of other members of the Houston sales group answered the inquiries of the gathering. The discussion group consisted of A. M. Gibson, Bellaire Products; Lyle Aber, Brown and Bigelow; William J. Eggleston of Cox and Blackburn; Archie Schott also of Cox and Blackburn; and E. L. Key- ser of Republic Carloading Co. Others participating were Paul Martin, American General Life In surance Co.; Tom Archer, Plouston Chamber of Commerce; Sam Hay, Great Southern Life Insurance Co.; Howard Caldwell of Armour and Co.; and Bert Fisher of Southern Furnace Co.