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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1951)
Page At M n Sur lege \ plete honor “Hi the s' Richa Bapti 10:50 9:45 the c Shalt Agaii at 7:: Th< hear C. P “The Wort Sund, begin servr ject Th hear aster, Op fcitat: Btan< and W! fort Area K« of th meni by 1 Fc prog dads \vith cere: In the In vc ings dent Our cade A W. Agg low< Cad the folh Wis F don Hal T gra 1:31 Hai add den hea whj sen of jj be at I wil fro cer gin of ( t Battalion Editorials Page 2 MONDAY, MAY 14, 1951 Honesty and Quality . . . f^HE big weekend has come and gone, and -*• thousands of parents have made their way back home well satisfied with the way their tax money is being spent at A&M. There is hardly room to question that we put on a great show for them. But the show of only one group—A&M’s • Who Is Worried About Who? •THERE was an exchange between Senator McMahon (D-Conn.) and General Mac- Arthur during the Senate hearings last week that may be a little more revealing than some of our Washington politics would like to ad mit. The senator was rattling off to MacAr- thur some quotes from Defense Mobilizer Charles Wilson concerning the date this country would be prepared to withstand a Russian attack. “If we can get by,” said McMahon “until 1953 without an attack, we will be so strong that they can’t attack us, because by that time we will have the planes, we will have the bombs ... we will have the men in uni form.” Retorted, MacArthur: “And in two years what will be your casualty rate of American boys in Korea?” Replied the senator: “And general, I ask you what our casualty rate will be in Wash ington, D. C. if they put on an atomic at tack ....?” Our comment: “All the boys in Korea, if we can only save our necks in Washington, eh senator?” track team—was outright proof of their abilities, the quality of their training, and their hard work. Unfortunately, the exhibits and shows of other departments did not necessarily prove that they are doing the best possible job. Each of us—students, profs, staff members —know that there is plenty here that is not top quality. • Students go about their class work lazily and in most cases, with contempt for learning, as such. • Some classes are almost a total loss because of the professor’s unconcern. • Like contented reactionaries, many departments plod along seldom looking for or trying new and better methods. • Our schools of “this and that” con tinue to hog their students’ time by cram ming in technical courses, and refusing to take into account that students should be training for living as well as for working. • “Be a cadet first and a student sec ond,” continues to be the unwritten, unspok en, but much enforced rule of our military department. • And finally, though they claim to know them and their lives well, the admin istrative staff continues to demonstrate a gross lack of understanding of the things which daily shape the attitude and thinking of A&M students. It is indeed unfortunate that none of these things protrude through the pomp and sparkle of open house. If we are honest, we will think about these things and we will begin now to make our top quality open house truly reflective of a top quality A&M. Let the public sing our praises, but let’s be certain they’re not singing a lie. Nothing Has Changed, He Reports Ivan Yantis Returns; Spys On Senior Court Meeting Few of our readers will re member Yantis. The eminent free-lance writer hasn’t graced the pages of The Battalion for several years. As a roving and of times raving correspondent, Ivan was last seen being ship ped along with goats and pigs to the Bikini atoll in 1946. He survived the atom blasts, has been acting as an aide to Perle Mesta in Luxembourg, and recently attended Egyp tian King Farouk’s wedding. Ivan is now back on the cam pus, attempting to receive his degree. The registrar’s office, he claims, is holding it up since he failed to take freshman orientation.—The Editor. By IVAN YANTIS Nightly Gentleman Ah, home! This campus is my home, y’know. Since 1937 I have been in and out of school here, having more ups and downs than a chaperone on a ferris wheel. But the place hasn’t changed . . . a few physical alterations, perhaps, but nothing drastic. Only last Tuesday night I had fond memories of my days as an old corpsman revived for me. I was quietly tip-toeing down the mellowed halls of old Academic, seeking to slaughter in cold blood a janitor in order to, find that F. 0. quiz, when I heard low mumb lings in a room. I stopped, gradually halting my pace so as not to arouse sus picion. I am as shrewd an Ivan as before, dear readers. The mumblings continued, and I could see heat being generated and wifting through a keyhole. I donned my anti-everything mask which saved me on Bikini and thrust my eye to the keyhole, at the same time tying a .shoe lace so as to appear inconspicuous. Lo and behold, ’twas Senior Court! Gad, how Well I remember my debut before that noble group. I had, unfortunately, forgotten to genuflect before an upperclassman and was promptly sent to. this highest judicial body for cadets. “Cadet Yantis,” they said, “you are a disgrace to the Corps of Cadets. Not only did you not bow, but you did not whistle ‘God Save the King’ when the court entered tonight. Fie on you, Yantis! You shall receive an oral reprimand from Loupot. “In addition, you will remove cigarette butts from the Ross Hall area each morning for the dura tion, will not be allowed to curve but the “A” on your “AMC”, since you are only one-third a cadet; cannot wear your cap on back of your head, nor sport white socks and loafers next year; nor wear pink caps with olive drab shirts as a senior.” “Furthermore, you must wear your senior ring on your little finger!” The Gods had spoken. I had sinned. The Battalion letters Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of lexas, is published by students five times a week during the regular school year. During the summer terms, The Battalion is published four times a week, and during examination and vacation periods, twice a week. Days of publication are Monday through Friday for the regular school year, Tuesday through Friday during the summer terms, and Tuesday and Thursday during vacation and examination periods. Subscrip tion rates $6.00 per year or $.50 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second-class Blatter at Post Office at College Staton, Texas, Under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Service Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los An geles, and San Francisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of. spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. CLAYTON L. SELPH, DAVE COSLETT.... Co-Editors John Whitmore, Dean Reed Managing Editors Andy Anderson, Bob Hughson Campus Editors Fred Walker Sports Editor Joel Austin ....City Editor Vivian Castleberry Women’s Editor Today’s Issue John Whitmore Managing Editor Andy Anderson Campus News Editor Fred Walker Sports News Editor Joel Austin City News Editor -Editorialists T. M. Fontaine, Carter Phillips Allen Pengelly— .’......'“..Assistant City Editor Leon McClellan, Jack Fontaine, Ed Holder, Bryan Spencer, Bob Venable, Dale Walston, Bee Landrum, Frank Davis, Phil Snyder, Art Giese, Cristy Orth, James Fuller, Leo Wallace, W. H. Dickens, Fig Newton, Joe Price, Pete Hermann, Wesley Mason, B. F. Roland, Ivan Yantis, Sid Ragsdale, Bill • Aaberg, Ide Trotter, John Hildebrand, Chuck Neighbors, Bob Selleck, Bill Streich, Curtis Edwards, Howard Heard Staff Writers Jimmy Ashlock, Joe Blanchette, Ray Holbrook, Joe Hollis, Pat LeBlanc .Sports Staff Writers Sam Molinary, Bob Alderdice - Staff Photographers Sid Abernathy Page Make-up Joe Gray Photo Engraving Shop Manager Tom Fontaine, Johnny Lancaster, Charles McCullough, R. R. Peeples, R. D. Witter .Photo Engravers ^utrey Frederick Advertising Manage* Russell Hagens, Bob Haynie Advertising Representatives Dick Kelly Club Publicity Co-ordinator Editor, The Battalion: Through this column, we of the Campus Grass Committee want to express our appreciation to the student body, faculty, and staff for their sincere support and coopera tion in the program carried on to improve the campus. The Grounds and Maintenance Department under Mr. DeWorth has done its whole hearted best to cooperate with us, and we feel sure that they will continue to do so in the future if this program is carried on. The little effort on our part was more than matched by the stu dent body, and the program has met with considerably more suc cess than we had expected. We think you can see that this project is well worth more work next year, and if possible, we would like to see a tradition more or less started to keep the campus as good looking as possible. The problem is primarily one of inadequate walking facilities; but it will take money to solve this problem, and of course, years, since money for this sort of work seems to be badly lacking. We hope the newly appointed Campus Planning Board will see the attitude of the students, and will try to do every thing in their power to make better fac ilities available to the students and faculty. As a whole the campus looks pretty good—at least better than it did, so we the student body can look with pride upon our accom plishment. Brad McAllister “Pat” Patterson K. C Rickenbrode Bill Smith Bob Sturdivant. The Strain That Ended Pain . . . broke a ten-year-old record Saturday when he won both the 100-yard dash and the 220 for A&M. The Aggies had never won both of these events in a decade, but the fleet-footed Stalter cov ered these 22Q yards to beat out in 21.4 seconds teammate James Baker, Steer Carl Mays, B. M. Carroll of Baylor, Jim Kellett of TCU, Arkansas’ Tom Britt and Aggie Buddy Shaeffer. Stalter s time on the 100 was 9.8, and those wins, plus a leg on the winning 440 relay, made him high point man with 12^.' Tony Guerrero Texas Trailed By 54 Point Mark Snapped . . . gets out of one of the many rugged hazards on the A&M Col lege Golf Course. Guerrero was the lowest-shooting Aggie in the SWC Individual Championship Meet with a 305. WeaverRepeats As Conference (Continued from Page 1) Ragsdale and Stalter composed winning team. Second high point man of the meet was once again another Aggie sophomore. James Baker took sec ond in the 220, fourth in the 100 and ran on both winning relays to score 11 points and edge Hooper who had 10. Texas’ Charley Meeks completed the season undefeated in the broad jump as he leaped 23’ 10%”. Steer Ray Marek won the only other Texas first by throwing the jave lin 202’ 7y 2 ”. Bill Graf of Rice outlasted team mate and defending champion Otha Byrd to win the 880 in 1:55.3 .minutes. Byrd set the conference record of 1:53.6 last year. Arkansas’s Ollie Gatchell added the mile title to their 2-mile win to make a Razorback sweep of the distance events. Gatchell beat John Garmany of A&M by 20 yards with a 4:20.3 time. Defend ing champion Julian Herring of A&M was far back in fourth. There will be no' more team track meets for the Aggies this season this season, but in the near future there will be at least two big events which will see the performances of Aggie track and field aces. At least two Cadets, high jump er Buddy and weight man Dar- row Hooper, will be going to the Coliseum Relays which is annually held in Los Angeles’ gigantic Col iseum. Entries there come only upon invitation and there are hopes that an Aggie relay quartet may be invited. The other event will be the Na tional Collegiate Athletic Associa tion’s track and Field Meet which will be held later in the summer. Ragsdale, Bill Stalter; 2) Texas; SUMMARY Javelin Throw—1) Ray Marek, Texas, 202 feet 7% inches; 2) Don Klein, Texas, 194 8 1/4; 3) Pat Knight, SMU, 189y 2 ; 4) Rob- bert Cone, Texas, 183 2%; 5) Jack Simpson, Texas A&M, 174 9. Shot Put—1) Darrow Hooper, Texas A&M, 54 feet 7y 2 inches (new record—old record 53 feet 3(4 inches set by Hooper in prelimin aries); 2) Bill Forester, SMU, 47 5y 2 ; 3) Ronnie Berger, Rice, 45 11%; 4) Bill Milburn, Texas, 45 9; 5) Bob Smith, Texas A&M, 45 3/4. 440-Yard Relay—1) Texas A&M (James Baker, Billy Bless, Bobby Ten Points Don Mitchell . . . collects 214 points to add to a previous five, which he garner ed on the 440 as he breezes home a good 20 yards ahead of the nearest competitor in the mile relay 3) Arkansas; 4) Rice. (No fifth place; only four teams entered. 0:42.4. Mile Run—1) Ollie Gatchell, Ar kansas; 2) John Garmany, Texas A&M; 3) Tom Hardin, Arkansas; 4) Julian Herring, Texas A&M; 5) Otis Budd, Texas 4:20.3. 440-Yard Dash—1) Don Mitchell, Texas A&M; 2) Bernie Place, Tex as A&M; 3) James McCarty, Texas A&M; 4) Norman Price, Arkansas; Bob Eschenburg, Texas, 0:48.1 High Jump—1) Walter Davis Texas A&M, 6 feet 6 inches; 2-3) Don Graves, Texas A&M, and Phil Ransopher, Texas, 6-2; 4-5) Don Klein, Texas; Glenn Watkins, Tex as, and Bryan Kilpatrick, TCU, 6-0. 100-Yard Dash—1) Bill Stalter, Texas A&M; 2) Billy Carroll, Bay lor; 3) Floyd Rogers, Texas; 4) James Baker, Texas A&M; 5).Bob by Dillon, Texas. 0:09.8. Broad Jump—1) Charles Meeks, Texas, 23 feet 10% inches; 2) Bob by Ragsdale, Texas A&M 23-7%; 3) William Henry, Texas A&M 23-1%; 4-5) Morris Johnson, Tex as, and Joe Lucas, Baylor, 22-8%. Discus Throw—1) Darrow Hoop er, Texas A&M, 162 feet 8% in ches; 2) Bill Forester, SMU, 152-9; 3) Bill Milburn, Texas, 138-5; 4) Dan Pratt, Texas A&M, 127-7; 5) Jim Gerhardt, Rice, 127-3. 120-Yard High Hurdles—1) Val Joe Walker, SMU; 2) Paul Leming, Texas A&M; 3) Bill Howton, Rice; 4) Gerald Scallorn, Texas; 5) Jack (See SUMMARY, Page 4) Individual Ace By ANDY ANDERSON Battalion Campus Editor Buddy Weaver of Rice was successful in his bid as repeat er for Individual Golf Champ ion of the Southwest Confer ence as he fired rounds of 73, 72, 73 and 70, the latter a course record, for a 72 hole total of 288 in the meet played on the A&M College Golf Course Thursday and Friday. Far behind in second place was Wesley Ellis of Texas with 296, followed by Ray Moore of SMU with 301 and Dan Jenkins of TCU with 304. Tony Guerrero was A&M’s only man to finish in the top five as h? tied with SMU’s Ross Mitchell with 305 for fifth place. Weaver was never in serious trouble throughout the 72 hole grind. On Friday afternoon’s 18, he hit a tree with his drive on num> her 5 but the ball bounced back into the fairway from where he promptly laced it onto the , green for two putts and an easy par 4. On number 8, with the wind at his back,, he walloped a drive about 260 yards down the left side of the fairway and then laid a sharp five iron shot within 14 feet of the pin from where a sank for a birdie 3. ,* 1-Undcr He parred number 9 for a 1- under 35. waiter mm ay uavis . . . gives the amazed spectators a peek at the unorthodox, but winning form which took him over 6’ 6” and to a victory in the high'jump. Da vis picked up five first-place points on the leap and left the rest of the field at 6’ 2”. He tried to make 6’ 8” three other times but failed. Look Out Relow! Jack Simpson . . . flies through the air with apparant ease as he clears the winning SWC pole vault leap of 13’ 7”. After leaving his nearest competitors at 13’ 1”, the Aggie track Captain tried three times to go over 14’ and establish a new SWC record, but was unsucces- ful. Golf Clinic Being Held The A&M College Golf Clinic got off to a rollicking start last week at the A&M College Golf Course as some 25 faculty, staff, .students and wives watched four of A&M’s best shot makers demonstrate the various golf shots. Miller Barber, Jimmie Burke, J. C. Fletcher and Johnnie Barrett, Tvl as ^ being ' members of the A&M Golf team, were the “show” boys as they demonstrated every thing from putting to full wood shots. ne cnippea in irom frog-hair for another birdie 3 parred in for 35, even par for nine, to set the course record. The old record of 71 over long (6,715 yards) par 71 la previously held jointly A&M’s Billy Baker and Bart tom, a member of last year's team and now a professional. Don Addington, SMU, hi of the second slot after the 36, blew himself out of pos contention with a terrible and came back in 77 to wini lar back in eighth place, one st behind another Rice entry, E Stobaugh. A&M’s contingent of Jo! Barrett, J. C. Fletcher, Bob honey and Billy Baker didn’t too well. Dahoney had 311, FL er 323, and Barrett 321. B withdrew after posting 171 or first 36 holes. We pay the highest prices for Used Books- We maintain wholesale and retail lists the year 'round. GET OUR PRICES BEFORE SELLING THE EXCHANGE STORE Serving Texas Aggies' LI’L ABNEH The Winner By Al Capp . K1TTV \ PANKEY, university o/> FLORIDA, resident OF MIAMI. I,