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More Than 90% of
College Station’s Residents
Number 125: Volume 51
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1951
MSC Inner Workings
And Committees Explained
See Editorial Page
Price Five Cents
Student Body
To Approve
New Mascot
A&M will have a mascot soon—
perhaps this semester—if the stu
dent body wants one.
The Student Senate’s mascot
committee, headed by 1. E. “Mon
ty” : Montgomery, is proceeding
with plans to obtain A&M’s first
official mascot since the death of
Iteveille in 1944.
Students will vote in a Senate-
conducted election soon to deter
mine whether or not a mascot is
wanted. Questions asking “Do
you [think A&M needs a mascot?
if your answer is yes, do you
think it should be a dog?
“If so, our committee has
found the best choice will be a
(ieijman shepherd—do you sup
port this?”
A fourth part of the ballot, to
he distributed to the entire stu-
•dent body on a date not yet ar
ranged, asks for remarks pertain
ing to the mascot selection.
“We have several reasons for'
believing the best choice for a
* dog mascot would be a German
shepherd,” Montgomery said this
morning. «
“They are big dogs, possess
a high IQ and require little phy
sical upkeep—that is, they aren’t
dainty dogs which need meticul
ous care.”
The committee, with Montgom-
White Urges Clubs
Make 1951-52 Plans
All departments, organizations,
clubs and other groups who plan to
have some student function dur
ing the 1951-52 school year are
urged by C. G. “Spike” White,
dean of men for activities, to begin
discussion of desirable dates for
their function.
A special meeting of the Stu-
ient Life Committee has been
tuthorized for Monday at 5 p. m.
in .room 301, Goodwin Hall to set
the exact dates.
“This is being done,” White said
“to enable the college to print the
All-College Social and Activities
Calendar for the next year.”
White added he would be glad to
discuss Student Life Committee
■policies concerning this All-College
Calendar with anyone who' is con
cerned.
ery, Karl Meyer’s, Duane Vanden-
berg, George Germond, and Lloyd
Manjeot acting as members, has
invited Jim Tim House to work
with them as an ex-officio mem
ber.
House, who worked with the
Army’s K-9 Corps during his pre-
A&M days, will contact several
agencies from which the Army
selects their dogs, seeking a satis
factory mascot for A&M.
Montgomery’s group suggests
the dog be a male, a pup from 12
to 16 months old, and that the
mascot receive thorough profession
al training on the campus.
Tentative plans have been made
—all subject to the decision of the
student body in the election—for
the care of the mascot. Each year
one student wodld take general
charge of the dog. The first stu
dent would work hand-in-hand with
a professional trainer, if one can be
brought to the campus to teach the
dog.
Each unit in the Corps of
Cadets will be responsible for the
clog’s general upkeep for one
week during the year.
The committee is also proposing
a “sentry” house for the dog—as
is found at gates of Army posts.
It would be located near the center
of the New Area cadet dormitories.
If the German shepherd is se
lected, he would probably cost
above $75, but less than $150 with
all expenses for blankets, collars,
licenses and other items consider
ed. The price would also include
American Kennel Club registra
tion, since the dog would be a
pure-bred.
No name will be chosen for
the dog until he arrives on the
campus, Montgomery said. At
that time, a student election will
probably be held to name him.
Montgomery emphasized that all
plans now under consideration are
tentative and await the decision
of the forthcoming student body
vote.
Research Foundation
Increases Councilors
The Research Foundation recent
ly has increased the number of
its councilors from 70 to 90, Dr. A.
A. Jakkula, executive director an
nounced today.
Success After 19 Attempts
MSC Dish Design Problem
Solved After Long Search
By FRANK DAVIS
Battalion Staff Writer
“That’s it,” exclaimed Robert D.
Harold, MSC decorator.
This was how the man who deco
rated the Shamrock Hotel, Hous
ton, acted when he found the dish
es which many generations of Ag
gies will use in the MSC.
Last summer, J. Wayne Stark,
MSC director, and Harold were in
Houston looking at china patterns.
The pattern sought, besides
blending with the surroundings,
had to be one which could be
used interchangeably in the cof-
" fee shop, fountain room, and
dining room. The building has
only one dish room.
Stark and Harold, after failing
to find what they wanted in a
; Syracuse china exhibit, visited
Huey and Phillips, Houston West
ern hotel suppliers, in desperation.
Time was playing out, when Har
old while looking at second plates,
' found the neutral colored pattern
both men were seeking.
That particular china was first
used in the United States by the
International House at the Uni
versity of Chicago. The German
made dishes were selected by stu
dents before the war. The pattern
was popular because it satisfied
the tastes of students from many
foreign countries,
had been able, with the aid of
Syracuse, after 19 failures,
DuPont who furnished the base
colors, to imitate the color.
The MSC china was purchased
for $9,000. It would cost from
$10,000 to $11,000 today, Stark
stated.
With the exception of the Pres
idential Set, the china is used ex
clusively in the MSC. The Presi
dential Set, for use by any presi
dent, is thinner and is used for
small banquets.
The set was used last week
for the first time. The occasion
was a dinner given by President
M. T. Harrington, honoring H. O.
Kelly, the cowboy painter.
Hitch-hikers!
Wichita Falls
Exes Erect
Ride Station
An Aggie hitch-hiking post has
been erected at Wichita Falls which
will be a welcome sight to the hun
dreds of Aggies who pass through
there enroute to their homes in
North Texas and the Panhandle.
The shelter, a permanent brick
structure built by the North Texas
A&M Mothers Club, is situated on
the east side of town on the Fort
Worth highway directly in front
of the Texas Highway Department
building.
Several Aggie Exes aided in the
planning and building of the sta
tion. Among these was C. L. Mux-ph
who is an active participant in all
Aggie functions in Wichita Falls.
The Highway Department not only
gave its pennission that the strac-
tui’e be erected befox-e their build
ing, but also aided in its progress
by moving a portion of the rock
wall extending across the front and
regraveling the area directly before
the shelter.
Vai’ious Aggie exes over the city
contributed the material for the
station, such as the concrete, paint,
roofing, and the bricks.
Committee heading the A&M
Mothers in planting, airanging and
completing the pi’oject for their
sons at A&M, had Mx-s. M. W.
Knight as chairman and Mrs. J.
P. Hamman as her co-worker.
Police Action
Averting War
Says Chevalier
“America does not own out
right its freedom—it merely
has a lease which must be
paid from time to time. The
present generation has re
ceived this task and it must be
fullfilled if the future genei’ation
is to have the privileges the present
one is enjoying.”
Thus Col. Willaixl Chevalier 1 , ex
ecutive vice-president of the Mc
Graw-Hill Ihiblishing Company,
New Yox-k, explained the United
State’s role in the present world
situation to membei’s of the Col
lege Station Kiwanis Club yester
day at their weekly meeting in the
MSC.
Said Chevalier, “We are not at
war, we are at peace, we are exert
ing a police action in Korea—an
effort intended to prevent our be
ing at war.”
Chevalier was introduced to the
club by Gibb Gilchrist, chancellor
of the A&M College System.
Miss Ann Southern, a senior at
A&M Consolidated High School and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
(Dixie) Southern, has been chosen
the Kiwanis’ Duchess to the A&M
Cotton Pageant and Ball.
R. E. Leighton, chairman of the
boys and girls committee, reports
all arrangements have been made
for the annual banquet sponsored
by the Kiwanis for the A&M Con
solidated High School athletes and
their dates. The banquet is sche
duled for April 27, in the assem
bly room of the MSC, with coach
John Floyd to be the principal
speaker.
Following the banquet and talk
will be dancing on the terrace
for those present.
Voters Name
Fitch,
Council Posts
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Baty of 505 Jersey Street
cast their ballots in the annual city election as
L. E. Boze, (middle) election judge, supervises
the voting. Three hundred and seventy-one Col
lege voters visited the City Hall yesterday to cast
their ballot among the near record total.
Federal Inspection Causes
Corps Housecleaning Flurry
By B. F. ROLAND
Battalion Staff Writer
Get out those mops, add soap,
water, and a lot of elbow grease.
The annual spring housecleaning
for the Corps of Cadets is about to
get underway.
The motive for this flurry of ac
tivity in the military is the an
nual Federal Inspection which will
tion at 8 a. m. April 10 and end
with a Corps Parade at 4:30 p.
m. April 11.
The inspection party will arrive
Monday afternoon and brief the
inspecting team member's on the
details of the inspection.
Twelve Inspectors
A total of twelve officers, rune
from the Army and three from the
commence with a dormitory inspec- Air Force will comprise the in-
Seniors Asked to Fill
Out Activity Cards
Seniors who have participated in
other activities and have received
honors since filling out their activ
ity cards for Aggieland ’51 may
add them to their annual list by
stating the additional activities on
another card in the Aggieland of
fice.
The other activities cards are on
the Bulletin board in the annual
’51 office in Goodwin Hall.
Landrum to Address
Church News Meeting
By PHIL SNYDER
Battalion Staff Writer
As a part of the Arts and Sci
ences Week which lasts through
this week the A&M Journalism De
partment is sponsoring a one-day
short course otr church and religious
news, publicity and public rela
tions. It will start tomorrow in
the MSC.
This course is expected to be the
first in a series of such courses
to be held here annually, says
Otis Miller, chairman and director
of the short course and a member
of the Journalism Department.
Landrum To Speak
Principal speaker for the af-
Senior Ring Making Is Fine Craft
By BEE LANDRUM
Battalion Staff Writer
yes, the ring is made in three
parts—the base and two shanks.
A hub is made by hand from a
piece of steel. It is hardened by
a heat treating process and then
100 operations are necessary before Passed into a piece of untemper
Qao vinfr io n/MYirUo+iirl SIX.LI j
Here is the straight dope on how
• these “nuggets” seniors wear (or
hope to wear) are made. More than
a class ring is completed
It seems that the first operation
•is to make the things with which they are on the finished rin »
giving a die. All details
in the die are in reverse of what
Then the die is hardened.
The die is placed in the bed of
a hammer, and a piece of 10
carat gold is placed over the
design impression of the die.
The hammer exerts many hun
dred pounds of pressure on the
gold, forcing it into every niche
of the die.
shanks are accurately finger sized
while still in the flat form. Each
end of the shank is filed evenly,
and the ring is ready to be formed
—made round.
It is placed on a tapered steel
rod, which has the various ring
sizes graduated on it, and is ham
mered into its true form. Then the
to make the rings. Things called
hubs and dies and so forth.
A hub is an exact reproduction
of a part of the finished ring. Oh
Fine tools are used to sharpen
any details in the die that may
not have come out clearly when
the hub was pressed into the steel.
Separate hubs and dies are cast ^ ase *. s Ex-
for each shank and for the base, tremely high heat is used m weld
ing the ring, and a higher carat
The ring parts are sent to a gold is required than is used in the
ring maker’s bench, where the ring itself.
The ring is given a final polish
ing with high and low speed buf
fers made of steel, wood, brush
or felt. Many separate steps are
required to complete the polish
ing.
The next time you examine an
Aggie nugget, think of it as some
thing more than the reward for
completing 100-odd semester hours
of course work. It represents much
painstaking effort by expert crafts
men and is a highly polished, fin
ished product, not just a rough
nugget like its wearer.
fair is Lynn W. Landrum, editor
ial writer for the Dallas Morning
News, who will give the closing
talk at 7:30 p. m. in the MSC Ball
room.
At 9 a. m., Miss Ruth Tucker,
news Editor for the Baptist Gen
eral Convention of Texas, will
speak on “Publicity and Public
Relations for Church Groups.”
Aubrey Streater, art and produc
tion manager for Whaley Studios,
Dallas, will talk at 10:15 on “Art
and Production of Promotional
Material for a Religious Organiza
tion.”
Creep to Lead
Immediately following Streater’s
talk, J. Walter Creep will lead a
panel discussion on “Individual
Church Publicity and Public Re
lations.” Creep is managing editor
of the Lufkin Daily News.
At the luncheon in the Assembly
Room, “Welcome” will be given by
James F. Fowler, minister of the
Church of Christ.
Resuming the activities again at
1:30 p. m., Mrs. Earvin R. Lewis,
church news editor of the Houston
Post, will explain “Getting Co-oper
ation between Newspapers and
Churches.”
Reader Interest
From 2-2:30 p. m., Wendell Be-
dichek, publicity and public rela
tions director, Abilene Christian
College, will address the group on
“Getting Reader Interest into Re
ligious News.” Following him will
be a discussion on “What the week
ly Newspaper can use in Church
News,” by J. C. Smith, Editor of
the Liberty Vindicator, Liberty,
Texas.
The last speaker on the afternoon
program will be DeWitt Reddick,
Journalism Professor from the Uni
versity of Texas who will talk on
“Experiments in Religious News
Reporting,” at 3:15.
Ending the day will be a dinner
in the MSC Ballroom followed
by Landrum’s after dinner talk.
specting group, Lt. Col. Marion
P. Bowden said yesterday.
Monday afternoon, the inspect
ing party will also inspect in
struction files, examination and
quiz records.
After the dormitory inspection
at 10 Tuesday morning the inspect
ing party visit classrooms in
military science to ask the cadets
questions and answer any questions
that the cadets may have to ask.
Drill Team Exhibition
At 1 p. m., Tuesday, the Fresh
man Drill Team will give an ex
hibition until 1:50 p. m. when the
group returns again to the inspec
tion of instruction in the class
rooms. Observation of retreat
march by the inspecting party
will end Tuesday’s program.
Inspection of instruction in the
classroom will take place Wednes
day from 8 a. m. to 3:50 p. m. The
Corps Parade will be held as a
conclusion to the Federal Inspec
tion at 4:30 p. m.
Leave Wednesday
The Federal Inspection Party
will probably leave Wednesday
night Colonel Bowden said.
The Army officers on the in
specting team are Lt. Col. Clifford
A. Bowman, Headquarters, Fourth
Army; Lt. Col. William D. Gnau,
Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Lt. Col. Darce
R. Knight, Headquarters, Fourth
Army; Lt. Col. Joseph J. Imroff,
Headquarters, Fourth Army; Lt.
Col. Douglas Stevens, Fort Sill;
Lt. Col. Carl G. Witte, Headquar
ters, Fourth Army; Lt. Col. Henry
H. Wishart, Fort Sill; Maj. Con
rad O. Mannes, Ft. Bliss; and
Maj. Edgar C. Wall, Headquarters,
Fourth Army.
Air Force officers are Col. Edgar
C. Selzer, Capt. Homer E. Thomp
son, and Capt. Robert C. Matthews.
Graduate Students
To Hear Scientist
Dr. Kurt Mendelssohn of Ox
ford University, England, will give
an address to graduate school stu
dents and interested public on “Ag
gregation of Matter” in the lecture
room of the Biological Science
Building tomorrow at 8 p. m.
During the following World War
II, he conducted extensive research
in medical physics and the design
of medical equipment for use in
the armed forces of the British
Government.
A native of Germany, Dr. Men
delssohn studied Physics at Berlin
University under their faculty
which included five Nobel Prize
winners. He received his doctor’s
degree there in 1930.
Heavy Vote Nears
Balloting Record
By JOEL AUSTIN
Battalion City Editor
Harry L. Boyer, Howard W. Badgett, and W. D. Fitch
were elected yesterday to serve for two year terms on the
College Station City Council in the annual municipal election
held at the City Hall.
It was one of the biggest elections in College Station
history, with the votes cast more than doubling the number
of ballots dropped in the boxes last year for the same election
which also included balloting for a mayor.
From a field of seven candidates, the three new council-
men emerged victors by no overwhelming vote. Ward I,
smallest of the city areas, was expected to have few ballots
cast, but incumbent W. D. Fitch had several write-ins against
•him to keep the race far from be
ing dull.
Howard Badgett, present council
man from Ward I whose term ex- *"
pired this month, gathered 84 votes,
the most cast for any candidate.
Homer Adams and J. W. O’Brien
finished second and third to poll
52 and 51 votes respectively.
Black Closest Contender
In College Hills Ward II, incum
bent G. W. Black was the closest
contender to Harry Boyer on that
ballot, but he had to settle for
defeat by polling 53 votes to the;
63 received by Boyer.
L. G. Berryman was last on the
East side ticket with 43 people
naming him as their choice.
Lloyd D. Smith received five
Sophomore MS
During Summer
Is Considered
The possibility of offering
one semester of Sophomore
military and Air Science is
now being considered by the
School of Military Science and
Tactics.
This would be offered to cadets,
who will be academically qualified 1 11 ,v °^ es ma ' ce a 1 ' , y c T c
for advanced contracts next fall,
but who lack only one semester
of military science.
“It must be borne in mind Col.
H. L. Boatner, PMS&T said,” that
the spirit behind the offering of
summer school ROTC work is to
bring into step the academic and
military instruction of our students
or to shorten the duration of their
college careers.
“The operation of the Selective
Service Act,”* he continued, “and
the reputation of this college
makes us look with disfavor upon
any inovation in our Military Sci
ence instruction which would pro
long the college career of any in
dividual beyond the normal dura
tion.
Any student lacking one semes
ter of sophomore military or air
Science would report, in writing, to
his MS or AS instructor by April
9, whether he would take such a
course if offered or if he might
take it.
The report should also include
expected academic standings —
hours, grade points, ratio, classifi
cation, major course, and complet
ed military science semesters as
of the end of the present Spring
semester.
The feasibility of offering such a
course will be determined from
these reports.
Former Aggie Honored
By Donation to Library
The book, “Doak Walker, Three-
Time All American,” has been don
ated to the college library in mem
ory of Lt. Walter H. Higgins, for
mer Aggie football player.
Lt. Higgins, who was killed in
Korea on Jan. 21, has been honored
by the presentation by Miss Char
lotte Cornell of Galveston.
bid for the position now held by
winner W. D. Fitch in Ward III.
From this small area which he
represents, Fitch polled 20 votes.
371 Ballots Cast
Three hundred seventy-one bal
lots—the most dropped in city
ballot boxes in a long time—was
the total counted in these unoffi
cial figures released by election
judge L. E. Boze.
Assisting Boze was J. B. Later-
stein, assistant judge; and Mrs.
P. W. Bums and Mrs. A. P. Boy-
ett, clerks.
Speaking to this writer over the
telephone last night, newly elected
Ward II representative Harry Boy
er thanked voters of his precinct
for their interest and support in
naming him to his' first term as
city councilman.
“Tell the people I’ll do the best
I can and do all in my power to
attend all meetings,” he said.
“Most Encouraging”
“It is most encouraging,” the
new councilman commented, “that
the people of the city showed so
much interest and determined to
elect their representative.
“With the citizens behind us as
they showed in the large vote of
the election I am sure this is
just the beginning of a big year,”
he added.
Results of the election are as
yet unofficial and will not be made
official until the present city coun
cil convenes to canvass ballot re
turns. As soon as the vote is de
clared official, new councilmen will
assume their positions.
Last year’s city election drew
only 179 voters to the polls to elect
three councilmen and a mayor.
With only the three councilmen to
name this year—and only one can
didate in Ward III—voters showed
their balloting strength by visiting
the polls between 8 a. m. and 7
p. m. some 371 strong.
MSC Dedication,
Muster Plans Set
In ceremonies, honoring the near- ’ The traditionl muster ceremonies
ly 1,000 A&M men who have given at 2 p. m. in Kyle Field football
their lives for their country, the stadium will feature part i-
MSC will be dedicated on April 21. cipation by the Aggie Band, the
Dedication speaker at the 11 a. Singing Cadets and Ross Volun-
m. ceremonies will be Tyree Bell, teers.
an A&M graduate of 1913 a,nd vice Principal speaker will be James
president of the board of directors H. Pipkin, a native of Bryan and
of the A&M College Ssytem. a ’29 graduate of A&M. He is
A. E. Caraway, president of the general manager of the industrial
Association of Former Students, an d public relations department
Student Senate President Bill 0 f the Texas Co., New York.
Parse and Prof, Fred Prison, re- Alan Waldie will sire the roll
L™" ,L e rll'R™ alf ’ ' Vl11 call. Caraway and Dave Keelan
senior class president, will speak
briefly.
respond to the dedication.
On Front Steps
On Radio
The $2,000,000 structure will be
dedicated in a ceremony on its _ _ .
front steps—beneath the bronze The Texas Quality Network vail
plaque which bears the names of broadcast a delayed report of the
940 of the college’s war dead of dedication and muster at 4:30 on
the classes of 1900 through 1948. the afternoon of the ceremonies.
A representative of the mothers Radio stations which will carry
of the dead will place a wreath on the program are WFAA, Dallas;
the dedication plaque at the en- WOAI, San Antonio; KPRC, Hous-
trance of ,the MSC. ton; KRIS, Corpus Christi; KVAL,
Curtis Edwards, corps chaplain Brownsville; KRGV, Weslaco; and,
will give the dedication prayer. KGNC, Amarillo.