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A&M to be Host for Third
Annual TISA Convention
Ily FRANK DAVIS
Approximately 250 students, re
presenting 32 Texas colleu'es, will
assemble at A&M this afternoon
and tomorrow for the Third An
nual Texas Inter-Collegiate Stu
dent Association convention.
Problems of student government,
student rights, and voicing student
opinions will be emphasized during
the convention, according to Joe
Fuller, parliamentarian for TISA.
Delegates to the convention from
A&M include Bill Parse, president
of the Student Senate and leader
of the delegation; Bob Sturdivant,
Dean Reed, Autrey Frederick, Bill
Cornish, Bill Braham, Duane Van-
denberg, and Don Young.
All members of the Student
Senate and Ctudent Life Committe,
officers of campus organizations,
and interested students are to at
tend the convention meetings, Ful
ler said. There will be special sec
tions for visitors, he added.
General Assembly
A general assembly Friday
morning in the Ball Room of the
MSC will start the convention’s ac-
• tivities. The delegates will be wel
comed by Tom Eubank, Rice, pres
ident of the TISA. Announcements
Aspirants File
For Editor Ot
Agriculturist
Candidates for the editor
ship of The Agriculturist may
file for the position immedi
ately, Marvin Twenhafel, Ag
ricultural Council president,
announced today.
Filings will be accepted in the
Student Activities office, 209
Goodwin, through noon March 31.
Qualifications for the editorship are
are as follow:
• The candidates must be a
classified junior.
• The candidate must possess a
grade-point ratio of at least 1.25.
• The candidate must have been
u member of the magazine’s staff
for at least one year.
• He must agree to hold office
for the entire year for which he
is elected.
Election of the editor will be
held by the Council on April 11.
The election, usually held in May,
was moved up one month in order
to give the editor-elect more time
to learn his duties, Twenhafel said.
The Agriculturist is a bi-monthly
magazine published by students of
the School of Agriculture. Present
editor is Jim Tom House.
The annual meeting of the State
Family Life Conference will be
held on the A&M campus Sunday
and Monday, according to Dr. Dan
Russell, president of the Texas
Council on Family Relations.
Leading speaker on the program
is Dr. Reuben Hill, professor in
family life, University of North
Carolina. Dr. Hill has written sev-
* era! books and scientific publica
tions on family life education, and
he is associate editor of the Family
Life magazine.
. A lecture by Dr. Hill at 7 p.
tn. Sunday, will be followed by a
panel of A&M and TSCW students,
pi,'sided over by Dr. Mattie Lloyd
WWten of TSCW.
A&M students on the panel will
include William G. Adkins, David
Haines, Joe Johnson and Ken Kuni-
hiro. Betty Teel, Marilyn Bodden,
Marianne Senders and Wanda
. Wooldridge are the TSCW students
scheduled for the panel.
After the registration from 9 to
9:30 Monday morning, Sam Davis,
chief probation officer, Dallas Ju
venile Court, will preside over a
symposium on “Current Family
Life in Texas.”
h Persons participating in the sym
posium will include Rabbi Wcssel,
Tyler; Miss Grace Buzzell, of the
Planned Parenthood Asociation,
Dallas; Dr. Reuben Hill; Mrs. Tho-
. mas E. Pierce, district supervisor,
Homemaking. Education Service,
Denton. Walter Whitson, director, ,
Family Service Bureau, Houston;
and Miss Reba Bucklew, assistant
professor of sociology, TSCW, will
also take part.
* From 10:50 to 12 noon, a panel
on “Community Projects on Mar- |
riage and Family Living” will be j
. held in the MSC Ballroom, with F.
E McGahan, superintendent, Cun
ningham Independent School Dis
trict, Cunningham, Texas, presid
ing.
Mrs. Ruth Fred, executive secre
tary, Jewish Family Service Soc
iety, Houston; Rev. Harvey Scott,
.Texarkana; Dr. Carsen McGuire,
professor of educational psychol
ogy, University of Texas will par
ticipate in the panel.
will be made, and business dis
cussed.
Four discussion panels will be
given following the assembly.
“Student-Faculty relations, their
betterment*” will be the title of a
panel given by Austin College,
Sherman.
Other panels in this series are
“Promotion of School Spirit
Through all Student Activites” by
Southern Methodist University,
Dallas; “Student Government Fi
nance,” Texas Technological Col
lege, Lubbock; and “Cultural En
tertainment for TISA Member
Schools,” Baylor University, Waco.
Student. Control
Friday afternoon, panels on the
extent of student control over stu
dent activities and administrative,
procedures, sportsmanship and in
ter-collegiate relations, stimulation
Student Senate President Bill
Parse today asked A&M stu
dents to aid the Senate in its
welcome to TISA delegates here
for the convention Friday and
Saturday.
“By showing our visitors the
usual courtesies extended by
our students, we believe the stu
dent body will be of great aid
to the Senate,” Parse said.
He invited all interested stu
dents to attend the general
meeting of the Texas Intercol
legiate Students Association in
the MSC. Meeting rooms will
appear on the bulletin board in
the MSC main lounge
Last night’s Senate meeting-
failed to draw a quorum due to
numerous conflicting activities
over the campus. A short orien
tation meeting was held among
the senators present, discussing
plans for the convention.
of interest in student government
and student elections, and faculty
evaluation by students will be giv
en.
A banquet and dance will be
held for the delegates Friday
night. The Aggieland Combo will
furnish music for the semi-formal
affair.
A general session, Saturday
mofning, will hear reports of com
mittees on such subjects as cre
dentials, auditing, entertainment,
who’s who in Texas colleges and
universities, constitution, and re
solutions.
The convention will adjourn after
a site for next year’s convention
has been selected, and officers
have been elected.
This year’s officers are Tom Eu
bank, president, Rice Institute,
Bill Farrell, vice-president, Austin
College; Dick Schmidt, treasurer,
Austin College; Joe Fuller, parlia
mentarian, A&M.
Allan Eubank, A&M, is executive
vice-president, and Charlie Royal
ty, A&M, is executive secretary.
Lt. T. Johnson, of the Rehabili
tation Department, Texas Educa
tional Agency; Mrs. Maud Keeling,
Hogg Foundation Consultant; and
Mrs. Eloise T. Johnson, family life
specialist, A&M Extension Service,
will also talk in the panel discus
sion.
Luncheon in the MSC Assembly
Room will be followed by speeches
by Dr. Hill and Mrs. Elwood Street,
traveling lecturer for the Hogg
Foundation in Austin. Mrs. Street
will also lecture to students of the
local high schools during the con
ference.
A business meeting- in the MSC
Ballroom at 2:30 Monday afternoon
will conclude the conference.
Committee chairmen for the
TISA convention are Bill Cornish,
registration; Autrey Frederick,
housing; Duane Vandenberg, pub
licity; Bill Braham, banquet; Bob
Sturdivant, dance; and Joe Fuller,
program.
Delegates Housed
Delegates will be housed in the
MSC, Aggieland Inn, and the
dorms, according* to Fuller.
The first and founding- conven
tion of the TISA was held April
23, 1949 in the North Texas State
Union Building. The TISA was
formed for the purpose of discuss
ing and exchanging ideas about
solutions to student government
problems.
Delegates from 23 colleges at
tended the initial meeting-, and
problems $uch as election proce
dures, student government finance,
the honor system, and union build
ing support were discussed.
The second annual convention
was held in the Student Union
Building of Baylor University on
April 21, 1950. Delegates heard
eight panel discussions on differ
ent phases of student government.
Aggie Debaters
Win Again Over
West Pointers
The Aggies nosed out the
West Pointers in the debate
last night in Guion Hall by
a 2 to 1 count.
Debating on the subject,
“Should the Non-Communist Na
tions Form a New International
Organization,” the Aggies had the
negative and the visitors the af
firmative.
Members of the West Point team
were Dave Rogers of Longview,
Texas, and Towne Dowler of Ath
ens, Ohio. The Aggie team mem
bers were Dan Davis, Lubbock, and
James Farmer, College Station.
The West Point Cadets, who were
given a tour of the campus this
morning by Dan Davis, who acted
as their host for the morning, de
clared they had never met so many
people and such friendly people in
all their lives.
The Memorial Student Center in
terested them very much as they
have nothing comparable to it at
the Point they said. They have
one building for dances, another
for sodas and the like, and their
dates must stay in still another
building.
Though A&M is not as strictly
military as West Point, they said
they felt more at home here than
at other colleges because of the
uniforms and the military air of
the college.
Our academic procedure differs
from theirs in that all students at
West Point take basically the same
curriculum with very little chance
for electives. This is because the
Point is not at all specialized, but
offers a background for all mili
tary branches.
The Cadets have fiinshed six out
of the eight debates on the tour.
The remaining two are Baylor and
SMU.
They will debate at Baylor at 8
p.m. tonight.
Several Dancing
Classes Still Open
In the dancing classes, sponsored
by the MSC, there are still a few
places open for any student who
would like to attend.
Openings are in the couples be
ginners class at 7:30 p. m. Friday,
in the advanced classes at 8:45 on
Wednesday and Thursday nights,
and in the beginners class which
meets on Tuesday at 8:45 p. m.
Lamar McNew Dan Davis
. . . The newly elected heads of the Memorial Student Genter
Council. Davis was elected to head the organization and McNew
was named vice-president for the coming year. They will take
office next month when the present council retires at the An
nual Meeting. Both men have been members of this yar’s coun
cil. Davjs is a junior Business major from Lubbock, McNew is a
civil engineering student from Bryan.
Family Life Group
Plans Sociology Talk
® A .Battles R ay Ruiize Named King Cotton
PaccKL PonL J o
For Cotton Ball and Pageant
Possible Panic
On Germ War
Washington, March 15 —
L 2 ?)—The Civil Defense Ad
ministration wants to head
off public panic over fear of
germ warfare attack, real or
rumored.
It started circulating today a
pamphlet on. “What You Should
Know About Geological Warfare.”
The booklet is a companion piece
to the previously published official
published official pamphlet “Survi- j
val Under Atomic Attack.”
Like the A-bomb guide, it is in
tended to bring the weapon into
proper focus, to show it is not a
universal killer although, like the
atomic bomb, intended for mass de
struction.
The biological warfare booklet
says:
“Start a rumor and you may
start a panic. A panic may cost
your own life. So disregard wild
talk about biological warfare and
don’t pass it on to your friends....
Don’t listen to propaganda or
scaretalk about how germs can
wipe out a city.”
(Military strategists long have
recognized the value of creating
confusion or exploiting it into panic
to reduce the war effort of an op
posing nation. Psychological war
fare experts recognize that this
can be done even without actually
using a weapon, by merely plant
ing the rumor that a secret weapon
has or will be used).
The CDA urges the public to ■
“kill the myths,” asserting that:
“Germ warfare, or biological
warfare, as it is correctly called, is
a special weapon for use against
special targets. No kind of biolog
ical warfare could kill or sicken
every person in a large area or
city.
“Talk of one ounce (of toxic ma
terial) killing millions of people is
silly. You might as well talk of
dividing one aspirin tablet evenly
among the 11,000,000 people in the
greater New York area.’*
The civil defense pamphlet said
there is little to fear from the
danger of some new kind of germ
being used, that the danger is in
neVv methods for spreading old
diseases.
Arts-Science Make Plans
For Anniversary Observance
Arts and Sciences Week will be
observed March 30-April 8, as the
School of Arts and Sciences’ con
tribution to.the observance of the
75th anniversary year of the col
lege.
The arts and sciences school will
open the week of March 30 by pre
senting Prof. T. V. Smith of Syra
cuse University, philosopher, for
mer congressman and noted radio
commentator, in a discussion of
“The Real Issue with Russia.”
Concurrent meetings of the Tex
as Conference of College Teachers
of English and the Joint Committee
on Integration of English Teach
ing in High School and College
will be held March 30 and 31, and
Professor Smith will speak to the
groups at a luncheon March on
“Philosophy, Politics and Poetry.”
The Religious Education De-»
partment will present Rabbi Arthur
J. Lelyveld of New York on Sun
day, April 1. The national director
of B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation
Rabbi Lelyveld will speak on “The
Place of Religion in Civilized
Society.”
“Our Current Defense Problem”
will be discussed April 2 at 8 p. m.
by Felix E. Larkin, General Coun
sel of the Department of Defense.
Larkin will be presented by the
Great Issues Course for the Eco
nomics, Geography and History de
partments.
Joint Program
The Education and Psychology
and Physical Education depart
ments will present a point program
at 7:30 p. m., April 3. With the
collaboration of the Architecture
Department, the school plant will
be discussed.
At 7:30 p, m. April 4, the Busi
ness Administration Department
will give a dinner for its faculty
and students. W. C. McCord, presi
dent of Southland Life Insurance
Company, Dallas, will speak.
Journalism Confab
The Church News Conference
will be held April 5 under spon
sorship of the Journalism Depart
ment.
The Texas Academy of Science
will hold a regional meeting April
6 and 7 in the new science build
ing. Dr. W. Armstrong Price, pro
fessor of oceanography, is chair
man of the committee on arrange
ments.
At 2:30 p. m., Sunday, April 8,
the School of Arts and Sciences will
present the Singing Cadets under
direction of Bill Turner in a con
cert especially arranged for the
student body and the people of
Bryan and College Station.
The Modern Languages Depart
ment is planning a motion picture
illustrating life and art of Latin
America. Definite arrangements
ai’e incomnlete.
The various events, except for
the Academy of Science meeting,'
will be in the Memorial Student
Center.
On display in the center during
the week will be an exhibit, ar
ranged by Frank Pierce of the
English Department, of old and
rare books and pamphlets illustrat
ing* the literary activity of Texas
and the Southwest.
Events of Arts and Sciences
Week will be open to the people of
College Station and Bryan and the
A&M student body and faculty.
By BILL A A BERG
King* Cotton for this year will be
Raymond Kunze, agronomy major
from Giddings. He was selected at
a meeting of the Agronomy Society
Tuesday night.
At the same time Kunze was se
lected King* of the Cotton Ball and
Pageant his court was named.
It includes Billy Gunter, Tommy
Duffie, Robert Hill, George McBee,
Don Hegi, Alton Bockholt, Bill
Lewis, and Dale Tischrable.
King* Cotton and his court will
go to TSCW March 31 to select
the Queen of Cotton. The Queen
will be selected out of a group of
nine Tessies, the remaining* eight
will he duchesses.
In the meantime filing* has open
ed for club Duchess entries. The
deadline has been set at April 15.
The ball this year will be held in
The Grove. In years past the Ball
has been held in Sbisa Hall. How
ever, the pessimistic committee is
reserving* space in the mess hall in
the event of rain.
As in the past several years
Sanger Brothers of Dallas will
sponsor the Pageant to be held in
Kyle Field preceding* the Ball.
Representatives from the Dallas
store will be on the campus March
Johnson Sees
Anti-Inflation
Drive Distress
Washington, March 15 —
(iP)Eric Johnson has told gov
ernment leaders that the anti
inflation program is in dis
tress and could flounder un
less they give it stronger support.
Well-placed officials reported to
day the economic stabilizer pointed
his finger at one cabinet officer
after another in a top-level meet
ing yesterday, and accused each
in turn of giving less than all-out
backing to the stabilization pro
gram.
Johnston was quoted as saying*
that unless there is stiffened sup
port from the White House and
the cabinet, in Congress and in the
mobilization command, the govern
ment might as well abandon its ef
fort to stabilize prices and wages.
The ESA chief made his im
promptu appeal at a meeting* of the
defense mobilization board. It is
headed by Charles E. Wilson, mo
bilization director, and is made up
of six cabinet officers and the
heads of five important agencies.
Deploring what he called unwil
lingness of any big segment of the
economy—farmers, labor, or indus
try—to acept the sacrifices which
the defense program demands,
Johnston listed some specific prob
lems besetting ESA.
Among* other things, he report
edly mentioned the declared oppo-
siton of cotton-state senators to
the new price ceiling on raw cot
ton. He mentioned also the sign
ing by unions and employers of
wage contracts which exceed the
pay ceiling, with the implied or
spoken threat of strike if the wage
boost is not approved by the gov
ernment.
Gwynne and Troupe Please
Guion Hall Magic Seekers
Judgers Win Sixth
In Oklahoma Meet
The Junior Livestock Judging*
Team placed sixth in the National
Livestock Judging* Contest in
Oklahoma City Monday.
The contest, in which 15 teams,
participated, was won by Okla
homa A&M.
The Aggie team placed second in
Quarterhorses judging, fifth in cat
tle, and seventh in sheep and hogs.
John Fuller was second high in
dividual on quarterhorses and
Louis Amsler and J. K. Miller
placed fifth and seventh in the
same division.
Other members of the team were
Thomas M. Nanny and Harold
Bragg. Lee Ro£ Leschper was al
ternate. The team is coachad by
W. W. Albert.
By GEORGE CHARLTON
The house lights dimmed, the
Guion Hall maroon curtains divid
ed, and from it stepped forth a
sight that caused some to gasp,
some to laugh, and most to ap
plaud.
It was the master vaudevillian
Jack Gwynne decked out in span
gles, satin blue and white oriental
robes, and an elongated headdress
that could have been worn by
some Tibetan religious man. A
goatee and a moustache provided
the finishing* touches to a picture
of what Merlin must have looked
like to King Arthur’s court.
But the spell was brought to
an abrupt ending when Gwynne
began his magician’s patter in
an off-handish tongue-in-cheek
manner. “Magic from China” fol
lowed.
The occasion was the well-at
tended Guion Hall program last
night of Jack Gwynne, “the master
of magic,” and company. His hour
and a half long show featui’ed a
mysticism that seldom approached
the obnoxious and was only occa
sionally an insult to adult mem
bers of the audience.
Good entertainment was aided
by a consistent g^od sense of hu
mor and ’riming as provided by
Gwynne.
His less important acts fe#hu*ed
the standard magician’s prepe^
a chicken, a few pigeons, iumer-
ous colored scarves, oriental-look
ing folding* boxes, gold-fish bowls,
and huge silver rings. Occasion
ally, even the traditional magic
wand was utilized.
But the larger sequences, on
which more showtime was spent,
were by far the most impressive.
As a finale, Gwynne suspended an
attractive Egyptian-clad young* la
dy in mid air. This was done by
first placing* the girl on a board,
removing the board and placing
her on the points of three spears.
Gwynne then removed the
spears and the girl appeared as
if lying on a sofa, but in mid
air. To prove that this was the
case, he passed two large rings
around her prostrate sleeping
body.
During another part of the pro
gram, Gwynne called up to the
stage, supposedly for hypnotizing,
the following* — Curtis Edwards,
Dorbandt Barton, Dick Gardemal,
Bob Smith, and Dare Keelan. Aft
er a little hokus-pokus, he asked
Keelan to close his eyes, made a
few motions with his hands, and
snapped his fingers — whereupon
Keelan did a trance-like back dive
op the floor. He was caught by
Gwynne’s assistant. Still, this was
a little startling*.
Next Gwynne made a few mo
tions at Edwards, told him to 'clasp
th» justing edge of the stage, and
askfcti' Gardemal to try to lift Ed
ward's am. It cduldn’t be done.
26 to make arrangements pertain
ing to the program, the theme of
the pageant and stage settings.
This year will mark the seven
teenth annual Cotton Ball and pag
eant. The idea was started in
1932 by Cotton Joe Mogford and
three students. Originally the idea
was to help raise money to send
some students abroad to study ag
ricultural methods in foreign coun
tries.
But from the start the Ball and
Pageant was a success and through
out the years from six to eight
men have toured Europe, Asia,
South America, and the United
States'. Their trip, for the most
part, has been financed bv the
Ball.
In the beginning* the Ball and
Pageant was held in Sbisa Hall An
nex, but that soon was not big-
enough to hold the royal dance, so
it was moved to QeWare Field
House. Again growing pains hit
and it was moved to the main wing*
of Sbisa Hall.
Held In Grove
Last year it was held for the
first time outside—in the grove.
Even the selection of_beauties
has changed from the start in 1932.
Originally the girls were picked
from the College-Bryan area, but
when the Ball got too big this area
could not furnish enough pulchri
tude.
This year’s King of Cotton is the
commander of the Composite Regi
ment. Kunze has been a Distin
guished Student for the past seven
semesters and has been active in
extra-curricular activities.
At the first of the Fall semester
he was elected treasurer of the
Agricultural Honor Society. He is
a staff writer for The Agricultur
ist.
Also tentatively scheduled to be
on hand for the big* event will be
the Maid of Cotton Jeannine Hol
land. Miss Holland was the.Aggie
Sweetheart in 1949. She was also
in Vanity Fair in the Aggieland
’50. ' ’
At the Agronomy Society meet
ing when Kunze was named King* of
Cotton -Other men were named to
head committees.
Kunze was named Chairman of
the publicity committee; Tommie.
Duffie, social secretary; Walter
Tanamachi, business manager; Ed
Daniels, decorations committee;
William Watson, advertising; Bill
Gunter, social committee; and
Quinton Johnson, head usher.
Other members of the commit
tees will be named later, Leo Mi-
keska, club president, says.
Allied Return
To Seoul Rates
Grand Ovation
. Tokyo, March 15 — UP) —
Seoul’s remnant population of
old folks and children roared
an ovation today to United
Nations troops searching its
torn remains for Communists.
Reoccupation by the allies Thurs
day marked the fourth time the Re
publican capital has changed hands
since the war began June 25.
The main Communist garrison
quit the flanked city in the general
Red retreat all across Korea. But
Korean civilians said the bomb-
blasted, fire-blackened and booby-
trapped city still held a few Com
munist troops disguised in civilian
clothing.
Of the normal 1,509,000 popu
lation, only about 200,000 remained
to greet the returning South Ko
rean and American troops.
East of Seoul, tank-led allied
columns ground slowly and steadi
ly toward strategic Chunchon, the
Reds’ last chance for a foothold
in South Korea.
At points along* the advancing
allied line, U. N. units were less
than 18 miles from Parallel 38,
once the dividing* line between
Meanwhile, even the audience was
getting confused.
Dave Coslett was then called up
to the stage to inspect the opening
of a parcel sent several days ago
by Gwynne to The Battalion office.
It had not been opened, and sup
posedly it contained the headline
of yesterday’s lead story. It did.
Another shock experienced mo-
mentarilv by the audience took ~ • .xt ^ j n i,-
place when a lovely blond mem- Communist North and Republican
her of the company sealed her- ^muh Korea
self in a small replica of an ori- . Recapture of the old Korean cap
ental temple followed bv Gwynne ltal 5 ,f Seoul was bloodless. Lie-
shoving* shining, swords into the ™ ents of ^ J 0U T ? f 1 .'^
structure Division and the U. S. Third Divi-
, , . sion speared into the city Wednes
Gwynne has made extensive trips day night The South Korean
to the Orient and other parts of t r00 p s p U i] e d out at darkness hut
the bar East. His costumes and Americans stayed on
backdrops, lovely hand embroider- Then the ( ii visions sent in raen
ed material which took 12 women in length Thursday,
and three years’ to finish was all At first all wag quiet . Then the
purchased m China. And the cos- timid, frightened people came out
tumes were aplenty. 0: f their wrecked houses by ones,
It seemed everytime one of by twos, by groups.
Gwynne’s three female assistants ' Word spread quickly that the
appeared in front of the footlights, United Nations soldiers were back
she was dressed in a different out- AP correspondent Jim Becker,
fit. - who went into the city Wednesday
There were tricks galore, “men-, night and again Thursday, repOrt-
tal telepathy,” and even a mock|ed:
“spirit seance.” Altogether, one | “The women threw themselves
and a half hours had been a full | ^t our feet and sobbed hysterically.
and enjoyable evening.
Nb one who saw the show really
cared what Was “real.” Most of
them realized, sobper of* l^ter, the
value <vf gbbd showmanship —
Gwynrte & Company.
tears coursed down the cheeks of
bearded old men. Children battled
for the right to grab our hands and
touch us.”
The city, Bfccker wrote, was a
sorry sight.