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PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
No. 2: Volume 52
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1951
Price Five Cents
Former Students Association Council
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The Council of the Association of Former Students, policy-makers
for that organization, met on (he campus last weekend for their
annual Fall session. This group gave $27,000 to initiate a fund
which will eventually finance the construction of an inter-denomi
national Chapel on the A&M campus.
First Meeting Sept. 27
Battalion to Sponsor 4th Annual
Football Quarterback Club Series
The first 1951 session of The
Battalion Quarterback Club will
get underway Sept. 27 when Ag
gie grid mentor Ray George re
veals his team’s chances to cap
ture this year’s Southwest Con
ference title. The meeting will be
held in the Assembly Hall at 7:45
p. m.
The first session will mai-k the
club’s fourth year on the campus,
and as in previous years, it will
strive to arouse the interest and
support of students, faculty, and
residents of the vicinity for the
Aggie football team.
Advertisers of College Station
and Bryan, who firmly believe in
the objectives of the club, make it
possible for The Battalion to spon
sor the club.
QB Club Objectives
The objectives of the Quarter-
Lack Club are as follows:
• To create in the public an ex
pressive and active interest in the
Fulbright Act
Gives Students
Foreign Study
Opportunities for A&M stu
dents to undertake graduate
work or research studies
abroad during the 1912-53
academic year under the Ful
bright Act have been announced
by the Department of State.
These awards will enable stu
dents in all fields of graduate work
and those with specialized research
projects to study in foreign univer
sities on an exchange plan. Also
available are grants to students in
such fields as music, art, archi
tecture, and drama. Opportunities
for social work and worker’s edu
cation are provided in Great Brit
ain.
Interested students should re
quest applications from Dr. Ralph
Steen, Room 201, Academic Build
ing. Dr. Steen is the Fulbright
Program Adviser at A&M. The
closing date for receipt of appli
cations is October 15.
The Fulbright Act authorizes
the Department of State to use
certain foreign credits and cur
rencies for programs of education
al exchange with other nations.
Countries in which study grants
are available are Australia, Aus
tria, Belgium, Burma, Egypt,
France, Greece, India, Iran, Italy,
the Nether-lands, New Zealand,
Norway, Pakistan, the Philippines,
Thailand, Turkey, and the United
Kingdom.
“Fightin’ Texas Aggie” football
team.
• To get the public out to the
Aggies ganies once that support
and interest have been instilled.
• To put the Aggies on the map
—to make them nationally known.
• To stimulate football interest
throughout the entire Southwest
Conference.
Following his speech, George will
answer questions from the audience
in regard to the Aggies and SWC
football. After the question per-
House Numbering
Continues to Lag
Less than forty per cent of the
houses in College Station have been
numbered and a smaller amount
lack boxes, according to Raymond
Rogers, city manager. To begin
house to house mail service both
of these jobs must be done.
All areas of the city are slow in
co-operating with the post office
in this matter, he said.
Erection of street markers by the
city has been completed, but to be
visible at night they must be paint
ed. Rogers stated that the city has
started this job and is half com
pleted.
iod, a movie of the A&M-UCLA
clash will be shown.
As in previous years, The Battal
ion will sponsor a weekly score
guessing contest with prizes to be
awarded the winners. A contest
enrty blank will appear in The
Battalion. The blank must be filled
out and returned to The Battalion
before Friday noon of each week.
All teams from the Southwest Con
ference that play games that week
end will appear on the entry blank.
Each week’s winners will be an
nounced on either Monday or Tues
day in The Battalion, but the
named winners must be presented
at the next quarterback Club meet
ing in order to receive their prizes.
Winners of the first contest will
receive two tickets to the A&M-
Texas Tech football game, which
will be held in Dallas on Septem
ber 29.
No Admission Fee
The contest, like the club itself,
is open to all. There is no entrance
or admission fee to either the con
test or the Quarterback Club meet
ings. Nine club meetings will be
open to the genei’al public this
year.
With a membership numbering
over 2,000, the club has had such
guest speakers in the past as
Gordon McClendon, nationally
known baseball announcer, Bill
Rives, sports editor of the Dallas
Morning News; Abb Curtis, assist
ant secretary of the Southwest
Conference and others.
Although this year’s club pro
gram is not complete, several out
standing football authorities are
expected to be guest speakers at
the weekly meetings. The movie of
the Aggies’ game the previous
weekend will be shown at each
meeting in addition to the speak
ers.
Harrington, George and Pinky
Speak At All-College Meeting
By MICKEY CANNON
and
FRANK SCOTT
One of the biggest All-College
Nights in the history of A&M
—in attendance and enthusiasm
both—was held at The Grove last
night as the corps and non-military
students, along with numerous
residents of College Station, re
kindled the Aggie spirit for an
other school year.
All-College Night, always an
eventful and memorable occasion,
was no different last night than
in past years. There was the us
ual welcome from President M. T.
Harrington; speeches by the coach
es and introduction of members of
the football squad. P. L. “Pinky”
Downs, always a welcome part of
any Aggie function, made his an
nual appearance to add to the
spirit of the event.
Harrington Introduced
Dr. Harrington, who was intro
duced by Head Yell Leader Lew
Jobe, welcomed all former stu
dents back to the college. How
ever, a special word was aimed di
rectly at the new students.
“You are entering into an event
in your lives which you have never
before experienced,” he told the
freshmen.
Commenting on A&M’s football
chances for the coming season, the
President said he believed A&M
had the finest team this year than
ever before in the history of the
college.
“The football team has a fine,
clean spirit of teamwork. I want
to see the Twelfth Man have the
same type of spirit,” Dr. Harring
ton said.
The prexy added that he dis
agreed 100 percent with the article
appearing in Sunday’s issue Of the
Dallas Morning News sports sec
tion. The article claimed there
were two things wrong with A&M
—the present students and the ex
students.
George Speaks
Following President Harring
ton’s speech, Head Football Coach
Ray George was introduced to the
large crowd, which completely fill
ed The Grove.
Coach George said he was very
much impressed with the spirit
shown by Aggies.
“They don’t have the same type
of spirit out at UCLA,” he added.
This team, George said, is one
of the finest he has ever coached.
However he hastened to add that
the Aggies faced a tough schedule
this year and cautioned against
over optimism.
“We’re not going out to play
UCLA for the fun of it, and we in
tend to win the game,” Coach
George said. “But, it might not a
bad idea for everyone to give a
little prayer when the time comes
for the game.”
Coaching Staff Introduced
All members of the coaching
staff were called to the platform
along with the football team. Each
coach introduced those players un
der him by position and classifica
tion.
Following introduction of the
team and Coach George’s talk,
“Pinky” took over.
“It was 9 years ago today that
I enrolled as a freshman,” he said.
University Leaders
Meet Here Oct. 9
I knew after the first yell prac
tice I attended I would never re
gret my decision to become an Ag
gie.”
Unlike other speakers on the
program, “Pinky” had a definite
idea about the outcome of this
year’s Conference race. He said he
figured the Aggies would win, fol
lowed by Baylor-, TU, TCU,, SMU,
Arkansas and Rice, in that order.
The College’s official greeter
also stressed the importance of
the Twelfth Man to the record
made by the team.
“The Twelfth Man,” he pointed
out, “is just as essential in win
ning the game as the team.”
The Association of Governing
Boar-ds of State Universities and
Allied Institutions, will meet at
A&M Oct. 9-13. More than 150 top-
ranking college and university gov
erning board men and women, will
attend.
The meeting will bring together
men and women representing
schools in 44 states and Puerto
Rico and Hawaii. They will be
welcomed to the college by Chan
cellor Gibb Gilchrist of the A&M
Commandant Supplements
Cadet Promotion Roster
< The Commandant’s office has re
leased new promotions not includ-
ed in the initial general order is
sued Aug. 21. Since that time,
Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant,
has made the following appoint
ments and assignments of cadet
officers and non-commissioned of
ficers in the Corps of Cadets.
Supplimenting the original list,
the following promotions are ef
fective immediately:
High School Press Clinic
Slated Saturday In MSC
Tad Moses Speaks
At Lions Meeting
Tad Moses of the Agricultural
Experiment Service was guest
speaker at the Monday luncheon
meeting of the College Station
Lions club in the MSC.
Moses reviewed the history of
the Texas cattle industry.
The speaker told how the many
vast ranch empires were formula
ted many years ago. He said that
most of them had now been dis-
olved to make way for a greater
populated state which also brings
more wealth to the Southwest.
Moses was introduced by A. B.
Folweiler, program chairman.
H. G. Thompson of the Business
Administration Department was
welcomed as a new member of the
local club.
A “help” clinic for. all high
school journalistists and school
paper sponsors will be held Satur
day in rooms 2a and 2b of the
MSC.
Purpose of this clinic, sponsored
by the Journalism Department, is
to aid the school paper sponsor
and members of the staff to begin
the year with adequate training
in basic journalism essentials.
Guest luncheon speaker for the
conference will be Andy Ander
son, feature story writer for The
Houston Press. Anderson is not
ed journalistically for his hum
orous feature stories and civical-
ly for his work in charity and in
combating juvenile delinquency.
“Advanced registration indicates
widespread interest throughout
the Upper Gulf Coast region,” said
Donald Burchard, head of the jour
nalism department.
Opening the short course will be
an address by Dr. C. Clement
French, dean of the college, wel
coming the delegates to the first
annual Texas Scholastic Press Con
ference.
“What Journalism Can Do For
You” is the title of the discus
sion to he led by Dave Coslett,
former editor of The Battalion,
and L. O. Tiedt, present editor
of The Texas Aggie. John Whit
more, editor of The Battalion,
will address the group on “The
Responsibility of the School Pap
er Staff.”
“Covei’ing the Beat” will be dis
cussed by Bill Streich, Battalion
news editor. Streich has just re
turned to college from a six-week
internship on the Temple Daily
Telegram.
Stamp Collectors
Elect President
New president of the Brycol
Philatelic Society of Frank M.
Smith, who was elected at a re
cent organizational meeting.
Objectives of the society are to
stimulate vicinity, and to provide a
medium of exchange of information
and stamps among members.
Other officers elected were Hen
ry D. Mayfield, vice president;
and S. R. Wright, secretary-treas-
Burchard will enumerate the es
sentials of “Writing the News
Story” in his lecture to the esti
mated 110 students and faculty
members attending the school.
After the luncheon, D. E. New
som, Journalism Department
professor, will explain “News
paper Design and Page Make-
Up” to the group.
Following Newsom’s lecture will
be a discussion of “Editorial and
Feature Writing” presented by
Otis Miller, Journalism Department
professor.
Columns and column writing will
be covered in a talk on “Editorial
and Feature Writing” given by
Professor Otis Miller of the Jour
nalism Department. “What Makes
Good Photography” will be ex
plained and discussed by Howard
Berry, director of the Photographic
and Visual Aids Department.
Tours of the A&M Press will
be conducted by members of The
Battalion staff serving as hosts
to the delegates from the Texas
high schools.
Aiding in the production and
operation of the first annual Texas
Scholastic Press Clinic are Bill
Dickens, Christy Orth, Bob Ven
able, and Frank Davis.
White Band—1st Lt. Richard
Green, scholastic officer.
A Infantry — 1st Lt. Victor
Chandler, platoon leader.
B Infantry—1st. Sgt. William
Groff, first sgt.
Headquarters Coast Artillery
Battalion, Artillery Regiment Maj.
Earl Dancer’, operations officer;
T/Sgt. Forrest Simmons, sgt. maj.
T/Sgt. William Brashear, supply
sgt.
Headquarters, First Battalion,
Artillery Regiment Capt. Jerry
Cloud, intelligence officer.
B Artillery—1st. Lt. Charles
Harrison, sch. officer; 1st sgt. Wil
liam Pirtle, first sgt.
C Artillery—1st. Lt. Roger Jens-
wold, sch. officer; 1st. sgt. Jimmy
Ledlow, first sgt.
D Artillery—1st Lt. Vernon
Linnstaedter, plat. Idr.
A Sqdr.—1st Lt. Robert Kirk,
second in command.
B 'Sqdr.—T/Sgt. Don Johnson,
fit. sgt.
I) Sqdr.—1st Lt. Bobby Moore,
Sqd. info, officer.
G Sqdr.—1st. Lt. John Rowe,
fit. Idr.; 1st Lt. Lesley Attaway,
sqd. info, officer.
H Sqdr.— Capt. Steve Vaught,
comdr.
Headquarters Armor-Engineer
Regiment—Maj. Andrew Craig,
oprs. officer.
C Armor—1st Lt. Clifford Smith,
pit. Idr.; Capt. Joseph Sick, cmdr.
Headquarters TC-CC Battalion,
Colnposite Regiment—Lt. Col. Paul
Law, cmdr.; Capt. Charles Galli-
mbre, adj.
Headquarters ASA-SC Battalion,
Cqmposite Regiment. Maj. Eugene
Nelms, exec, officer.
A Signal—1st Lt. John Devine,
ath. officer.
A QMC—1st Lt. John Patrick,
plat. Idr.; 1st Lt. James Waldrip,
second-in-command.
B QMC—1st Lt. James Teutsch,
plat. Idr.
A Ord.—Capt. Arthur Geick,
cmdr;
Headquarters Composite Battal
ion, Seventh Regiment—Capt Le
roy Bacica, supply officer.
Headquarters Band Eighth Regi
ment—1st Sgt. Gerald Staffel, first
sgt.
Headquarters, Fh’st Group
Eighth Regiment—Maj. Daniel
Perkins, exec, officer.
Sqdr. 1—1st Sgt. Vic Bird, first
sgt.
Sqdr. 4—S/Sgt. Bobby Bienten-
dorf, supply sgt.
Sqdr. ,5—1st Lt. Carl Moore,
second-in-command; 1st Lt. Melvyn
Kanter, fit. Idr.; 1st It. Kenneth
Groves, fit. Idr.
Sqdr. 13— 1st Lt. Herbert
Cooles, fit. Idr.; 1st Lt. Allen Rog
ers, fit. Idr.
Comp. 8—1st Lt. Edward Arnold,
second-in-command.
Comp. 10.—1st Lt. William Wit-
mer, plat. Idr.; 1st Sgt. Billy Lee,
first sgt.
System, Dr. M. JT. Harrington,
president and Tyree L. Bell of Dal
las, vice-president of the board of
directors of the System.
Official Address
President of the association is
Milward L. Simpson, president,
board of timstees, University of
Wisconsin, who will give his of
ficial address at the first day’s
meeting Wednesday, October 10.
The response to the welcome talks
will be given by Vice President
Edgar W. Smith, president, Oregon
State Board of Higher Education.
One of the Highlights of the ses
sion will be a visit to Prairie
View A&M College where on
Thursday, Oct. 11, they will be
served a barbecue and an enter
tainment program will be given by
the students of the Negro college.
The association delegates will
tour the University of Texas cam
pus on Saturday, October 13, and'
be guests of the University at a
luncheon. David Warren, regent of
the University, will preside and an
address on a “Brief History of
Texas” will be given by Pres. T.
S. Painter.
San Antonio Inspection
They will go to San Antonio on
the same afternoon and will be
served a barbecue supper by the
Trinity University and at 8 p. m.
will attend the Trinity-A&M foot
ball game.
(See CORPS PARADE, Page 2)
Hospital Fund
Kickf Dinner
Slated Tonight
A kick-off dinner at the
Parker dining room in Bryan
tonight, will inaugurate the
opening of the public phase of
the St. Joseph Hospital Build
ing Fund campaign. The .principal
speaker will be St. John Ganvood,
associate justice of the Texas
supreme court.
The meeting is planned as an
inspirational and informative gath
ering to which all volunteer work
ers and others connected with the
campaign are invited.
The campaign will seek to raise
$200,000 in College Station, Bryan
and the surrounding area for an
addition to St. Joseph Hospital.
The total cost of the addition will
be $800,000, half of which will
be supplied from funds made avail
able for the purpose by the federal
government, threugh the Texas,
state health department.
Of the remainder, $200,000 will
be contributed by the Sisters o£
St. Francis who operate the hos-.
pital. The balance is to be raised
by the citizens of the hospital area.
The campaign will be under the
direction of divisional committee
chairman. Joe Vincent is chairman
of the Bryan committee, Mrs. Jud
Collier of the Area committee.
In College Station the committee
is headed by H. E. Burgess who
will have as team captains Mrs. I.
G. Adams, Mrs. Edward Gamer,
Mrs. Monnie Hackney, Mrs. Elsie
Patranella, Mrs. Helen Pugh, Col.
Robery Christian, George McCul
lough and Thomas Taylor.
Battle Forecast For
Amendment Vote
Austin, Sept. 18 —CP)— Pros lature, probably early next year,
1951-52 Battalion
Staff Appointments Announced
Six appointments were made on aging editor. Last year, he was a residents.” This past Summer, he Marjorie Bennett also of San Ben-
The Battalion staff for the coming major on the Eighth
year by Editor John Whitmore staff,
yesterday. During the Summer of 1950,
Joel Austin was named manag- Whitmore was one of the two in-
ing editor; Bill Streich, news edi- terns of the Texas Daily News-
tor; Frank Davis, city editor; Wil- papers Publisher’s Association, and
ham Dickens, feature editor; Bob WO rked for the San Antonio Ex-
Regiment was editor.
Austin worked for the Alice
Daily Echo while attending high
school.
Selleck, sports news editor; and
Allen Pengelly, assistant news edi
tor.
All men have worked for the
collegiate daily during the last
year of school, and are capable of
handling these positions, Whitmore
said.
press.
Standard Times.
Austin—No Stranger
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Davis—City Editor
Working .as city editor during
the past Summer, Davis will again
head the city staff. Also majoring
in journalism, he first started
working for the Battalion in the
Streich—News Editor
Streich changed to journalism
after having spent a year majoring rA Ai n P ditor
m,. . e TJ * in geology. He started working bummer 01 as radio editor.
This past Summer, the Houston for the Ba y ttalion last Spring, and H e has also worked as a photo
editor worked for the San Angelo during the past Summeri gained engraver and sold advertising.
unmeasurable experience while an Davis is a distinguished student,
intern for the Temple Daily Tele
gram, and is now news editor.
A member of the journalism club,
Streich represented A&M at the
last Southwestern Journalism Con
gress which was held on the Okla-
Dickens—Feature Editor
Austin, junior personnel admin
istration major from Alice, is no
Whitmore was elected to the edi- stranger to newspaper work or the
tor’s post in last Spring’s elections. Battalion.
He began working for The Battal- While a freshman, he was editor h orna University campus
ion during his freshman year while n f the Freshman Page and that „ „ , ^ ‘ xr “
at the annex. year won the Journalism depart- Selleck Sports News Editor
“I began working for the paper,” ment’s for “outstanding work ren- After a year on the sports staff,
said Whitmore, “for I wanted to dered in the newspaper field by Selleck was promoted to sports
learn how to operate a mimeo- a freshman.” During the following news editor. Majoring in journal-
graph machine.” During that year, Summer, he worked on the Battal- j sni) the married San Benitoan
the Annex was issuing a “Little ion as city editor, a title which transferred to A&M from the Tex-
Batt” which was mimeographed, he carried through his sophomore as Southmost College.
Majoring in journalism, after y ear * He was sports editor of the San freshman he was features editor
having first started in pre-med, Last year, he received'an award Benito News, and was a corres- and the Houston journalism major
Whitmore remained a feature writ- from the City of College Station pondent for the San Antonio Ex- was assistant city editor last year,
er for the next two years then for “establishing better news re- press and Evening News. He has worked for the Commenta-
the following year was named man- lations within the City and its Selleck married the former Miss tor.
Another editor carrying over his
title from the Summer publication,
is Dickens who will again direct
the feature department.
From Waco and majoring in
journalism, Dickens is a senior and
has worked for the Battalion since
1949.
Pengelly—Assistant News Editor
Assistant news editor Pengelly
has worked in almost all of the de
partments of the Battalion. As a
and cons are lining up for battle
on one of the five proposed con
stitutional amendments scheduled
for a statewide vote Nov. 13.
The four amendments aren’t get
ting quite so much attention, but
they’re important to the people
they affect.
The battle rumblings are over
the proposal to increase the amount
of money the state can spend each
year on public, welfare benefits
from $35,000,000 to $42,000,000.
Would Affect Pensions
Mostly that would affect old age
pensions.
The; amendment would raise the
maximum check for the pensioner
from $50 to $60.
That doesn’t mean every pen
sioner would get $60 or every one
would get a $10 raise, says John
H. Winters, director of the De
partment of Public Welfare.
Allotments still will be appor
tioned according to need, he said.
The average check, he said, would
get about a $3 to $4 raise.
Gov. Allan Shivers has said that
if the amendment passes, he will
call a special session of the legis-
Bright Bird
Back Home
He’s back! The Faisano Real, or
royal pheasant, which escaped from
the wildlife department Friday
morning has been recaptured.
A milkman spotted the turkey
like bird in College Hills the same
afternoon, after it had been miss
ing nine hours.
Dr. Leonard Wing of the wild
life department said the hungry
bird was attracted by offering it a
piece; of bread. Accustomed to be
ing fed by hand, the bird was
caught with no trouble.
The bird, which resembles Amer
ican game birds, is used by the
wildlife department to study bone
and feather structure.
to provide funds.
Pension organizations are ex
pected to carry their campaign to
the people but their plans still
are unannounced. One opponent—
the East Texas Chamber of Com
merce — already has announced
plans to fight the amendment.
University Fund Gets Attention
Some attention has also been
focused on the proposed amend
ment that would permit up to 50
per cent of the permanent fund of
the University of Texas and A&M
to be invested in common stocks.
University officials say present
restrictions on investment of the
fund are losing money for the
state and the university.
Common stock investments, they
say, will provide greater income,
provide more diversification and
provide more protection from in
flation.
The American Legion is cam
paigning for the amendment that
would increase by $75,000,000 the
amount of bonds the state may is
sue to finance farm and ranch pur
chases for World War II and Ko
rean veterans. The $25,000,000 vot
ers authorized several years ago
went in a hurry to 4,080 veterans.
Loans For Yets
The added money is needed to
take care of applications already
on file and a lot more expected
to come if the amendment passes.
The program gives vets low-in
terest, long-term loans.
County employees would benefit
from another proposed amendment.
It would permit counties to set up
pension retirement funds for their
workers.
Rural dwellers would be affect
ed by the other proposed amend
ments. It would permit an increase
in the amount of tax a rural fii’e
prevention district may levy. The
maximum would be 50 cents on
$1.00 valuation. Proponents say
adequate fire protection cannot be
provided under the presently pre
scribed tax ceiling of three cents.