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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1951)
0 co^ug, ^ Old^t ^Continuously Published 1 • /wnk^ e Newspaper 3 In Texas Number 7: Volume 52 The Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN WE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1951 Published by Students Of Texas A&M For 73 Years Price Five Cents Seventeen File For Elections In Opening Day |: Additional students filed yester- -day for places on the ballot of Stu dent Senate and Student Life Com- 'Anuittee elections. So far there have ■'been 17 students file for the sen ate election and only one for the life committee race. I Filing for Student Senator are V^Edward Dobbins, Eric Holland, Ed- ; die Holley, Baxter Honeycutt, 0. C. “Putter” Jarvis, Bernard Lemmons, Doyle Lowrey, Monty Montgomery, P William Morley, Warren Pierce, John Poynor, Eugene Nixon, Ted : , v |sStephens, James Stevenson, T. D. t Wood, John Winn, and Don Young, f Hayden Jenkins, is the only can- I didate for the Student Life Com mittee. Deadline Friday Friday at 5 p. m. is the deadline for filing for these elections. Can didates must file in the Student Activities office on the second floor of Goodwin Hall. Twenty-eight of the Student ggp Senate’s 39 seats will be filled by ! men chosen through elections in each dormitory and other college housing. Students elected at large will fill the other 11 seats. Besides elections to be held in each dorm, Vet Vil lage, and College View are en titled to elect representatives. Day students will also choose represen tatives. Four other seats are automati cally filled by vice-presidents of each class. Three Representatives Three non-corps representative on the Student Life Committee will also be filled in. this first election. Qualifications for both Senate and Student Life elections are 1.0 prade point ratio, a classified soph- ampre, and have attended A&M for nt least two consecutive semes ters prior to his election and must express his intention to remain in school for the duration of his of fice. Students elected to the Senate must live in the area he represents. Should a student move outside his residence after election, he will be forced to resign and a special elec tion will be held to determine his successor. A student elected to the Student Life Committee does not have to live in a specific location. The election is designated for the night of Oct. 30. First ser geants of each outfit will pick up ballots and distribute them in their respective organization. Housemas ters will perform this duty in the non-corps dorms. BAFB Opening Officially Set A program to mark the for- Jnal reactivation of Bryan Air Force Base has been set for Sunday, Oct. 14, announc ed Col. James C. McGehee, commanding officer of the base. The program, as planned, will include speeches by distinguished persons both civilian and military, aviation cadet participation, areial maneuvers, and guided tours of the base. Congressman Olin E. Teague, one of those invited, has tentative ly accepted the invitation, provided no Congressional duties prevent him from attending. Vet Village and College View will have special representatives designated to distribute, pick up and return ballots. Campaign Statement After the closing of filing for these elections, candidates who so desire, can have a 50 word state ment concerning their campaign for ^office printed in The Battal ion. Candidates who plan to take ad vantage of this opportunity should turn their statements into Student Activities Office between 8 a. m. Friday, and noon Saturday. These statements will be run starting in the Monday edition of the Bat talion. After voting in each area, repre sentatives will return ballots to the Student Activities office in Good win Hall where they will be count ed by members of the election com mittee. Winning Touchdown Corps Discipline Set; Seniors Hear Carlson ■I ■HI 1 Charlie Hodge stands in the end zone as he snags the winning touchdown pass from Dick Gardemal to give the Aggies their 21-14 win over the UCLA Bruins Friday. The Cadets unleashed an un heard of passing attack to beat the Los Angeles school. All College Freshmen Get 1 Automatic Draft Deferment The freshman college student gets a break this Fall if he re ceives an order to report for in duction from his draft board, says Brig. Gen. Paul L. Wakefield, said, “he automatically gets a de ferment for a full academic year. Break for Freshmen “Congress has given the first- year man a break,” the state draft director continued. “He doesn’t have to satisfy board members or meet any test or scholastic require ments. He only has to pursue a full-time course of instruction to the satisfaction of college author ities.” Gen. Wakefield advised freshmen they “had better' study hard this fall and next winter and spring,” as they will likely have to satisfy minimum draft board standards for deferment in the second scholastic year. “One of these standards is their first-year class standing,” he point ed out. “So it wmuld be a good idea for a freshman to start applying himself from the beginning. Show His Ability “Apparently, Congress decided that every young man who goes to school would get the, same chance the first college year,” he contin ued. “After that he has to prove on the basis of his own merit that he is due further deferment to study.” Bryan Police Chief Speaks to CS Lions “Juvenile Delinquency” was the subject of a talk given by “Rip” Collins, Bryan chief of police, at a meeting of the College Station Lions Club yesterday. Collins explained the possibility of indicting parents of juvenile de linquents. He also brought out the need for better trained juvenile of ficers in the Bryan-College Station 200 New Freshmen Get Opportunity Awards Over 200 students enrolling in A&M this fall received financial aid through the Opportunity Award Scholarship program which for the past five years has been helping needy students attain a college edu cation. Of the Opportunity Award stu dents, 62 are entering freshmen, receiving aid through their schol arships for the first time this se mester, E. E. McQuillen, director of the development Fund and over- seerer of the scholastic program, said. Ten Association Awards Ten of the 62 new* award scholai’- ships are being provided by the Association of Former Students, the awards having been the ob jective of the 1950 Development Fund. The Association will provide 10 scholarships to new students each year until 1955 to complete the 1950 scholarship fund. Other scholarships are provided by outside sources interested in aiding students who otherwise be unable to attend college because of financial reasons. Students with Undergraduates beyond the first year, in order to be eligible for de ferment under the student classifi cation plan, must satisfy the draft board on at least three out of four points: • Successfully have completed at least a year in college. ® Be accepted for admission to the class next commencing. • Have a record of required scholastic standing in his last year of work. • Have made thei required score on the Selective Service college test. Under the plan, the student must satisfy the first two requirements and one of the third orJourth. A local board can also'consider other information about a student. “Boards may take under consid eration any information outside the scholastic,” Gen. Wakefield said. “They are not bound to consider tests or class standings, but their decisions are subject to appeal by the student if he acts within 10 days.’ The state draft director noted that Selective Service regulations are different in the case of grad- an Opportunity Award Scholar ship receive from $200 to $400 an nually to help defray matriculation expenses. The first 15 students to attend A&M under the Award program were members of the 1950 graduat ing class with another 14 receiving diplomas with the 1951 class. This year, 238 students will be receiv ing aid through the Opportunity scholarships, 176 of that number being old students. High School Graduates Eligible Any high school graduate is eli gible for the award, the fund di rector said and may take the us ual examinations given each spring to determine who is to receive scholarships for the following year. A faculty committee on scholar ships, headed by the Dean of the ' College, Dean of Men, the deans of the schools, and the executive secretary of the Association deter mine who is to receive the awards. The limited number who receive the scholarships are selected on the results of the aptitude test, all- around qualifications and their need for financial aid. Dorm Sales Set For Town Hall Student season tickets for Town Hall performances for this year are now on sale, ac cording to Ken Wiggins, stu dent entertainment manager. Representatives for each dormi tory have been appointed and will call on students in their rooms in the near future. Non-student tick ets go on sale Oct. 4 at Guion Hall box office. Season tickets, which are good for all five performances, must be purchased in advance, Wiggins said. No tickets to individual per formances will be sold. The five performances scheduled this season are Tex Beneke and his band on Oct. 8, Rise Stevens on Oct. 16, Houston Symphony Dec. 11, The Revelers on Jan. 17, and Morley and Gearhart, concert pianists, on Feb. 14. Student general admission sea son tickets are $3.50, reserved stu dent tickets $5.50, non-student gen eral admission $5.50, and non-stu dent reserved tickets are $7.50. uate students and professional stu dents of medicine and related fields. These are eligible for defer ment if they currently meet re quirements leading to graduation or degree. Gen. Wakefield emphasized that educational deferments, like other deferments, are not exemptions from military service. He said a deferred student has an obligation to serve later. “Under new amendments to the law,” he said, “men deferred to go to school, for civilian jobs, as farmers, or because of dependents, will be obligated to serve until age 35.” The obligation stops at age 26 for all others. By BILL STREICH Battalion News Editor Approximately 175 members of the Class of 1952 last night listened to a first hand account from Eric Carlson, corps commander, on methods to be taken in the future re garding disciplinary action to Cadets charged with violations of the Articles of the Cadet Corps, Carlson’s talk was made at the first meeting of the Senior class in the Chemistry lecture room. Carlson said he talked to military authorities Monday afternoon about the case involving two sophomores who were dismissed from the Corps for hazing a freshman. RedsQuitKaesongMeet Tokyo, Sept. 25—(d?)—Commu nist liaison officers abruptly walk ed out of a meeting today at Kae song called to discuss conditions for resuming Korean truce talks. But eight and one-half hours later, an allied officer left the United Nations command advance camp near Munsan with a message to the chief Communist liaison of ficer. Helicopter Trip He made the extraordinary night trip by helicopter. The nature of the allied note was not disclosed. But there was a strong probability that it con tained some suggestion for renew- BULLETIN Tokyo, Sept. 25—-(dP) —The United Nations command tonight offered to resume liaison talks with Communists at Kaesong to morrow despite the Red walkout from a session today. al of the preliminary talks. T'be earlier meeting ended with explosive suddenness after 50 min utes. Air Force Col. Andrew J. Kinney, senior allied liaison officer, had proposed that both sides discuss conditions which would guarantee uninterrupted talks by the nego tiators. Chinese Red Col. Chang Chun- San flatly rejected the suggestion, said the meeting was ended, and headed for the door. The belief prevailed at Allied headquarters that the Communist walkout did not signal a complete breakdown of the stalled truce talks. A source pointed out that a final RVs Slate Meeting In MSC Wednesday The Ross Volunteers will meet Wednesday night at 7:30 in room 3b of the MSC. Dick Ingles, commander of the Ross Volunteers, requests that all senior members be present for a discussion on RV policy. He sug gested that members check the bul letin board in the MSC in case of changes. Juniors may get applications to join the Ross Volunteers in their Military Science class this week, Ingibs said. If a junior does not obtain an application here, he may pick one up in Dormitory 9, room 228. High School Students Run City for Annual Kids Day By FRANK DAVIS Battalion Staff Writer Fourteen Consolidated High School students swooped down up on City Hall yesterday afternoon, ousting the city manager, and threatening the mayor with dire results if he failed to supply them with pertinent information. Elected by their classmates to serve as city officials for a day, the representatives of the people handled themselves with dignity and responsibility. Explained Organization Mayor Ernest Langford spent the greater part of the afternoon explaining to the group the organ ization and functions of a city gov ernment. The students were atten tive and asked questions frequent ly. Monday morning Mayor George Johnston and the six councilmen from three class wards, appointed a city manager and city secretary from the Senior Class. Five other positions were appointed from the school at large. Appointed as city manager was Gayle Klipple. Sara Ruddy was named city secretary. Other offi cers appointed were Fred Ander son, city marshall; Tom Barlow, city attorney; Joe Motheral, utility superintendent; and George Lit ton, deputy. Summarizing how the city oper ates, Langford explained to the group the two kinds of city gov ernment—general law and home rule. Taking College Station as an example of a general law city, the mayor listed the various officers. The law requires that a mayor and city judge to be elected on the first Tuesday in April of each even numbered year. Councilmen from the wards serve two year terms which are stagger ed so that three new councilmen are elected each year. Langford explained the present plan to make College Station a home rule city. He said under this program the city would draft its own charter. A copy of the final draft will be placed in the hands of every qualified voter in the city, and an election will follow. Home Rule This Year The mayor estimated that it would be the latter part of t h e year or the early part of 1952 before copies of the charter could .be distributed, and an election held. Thirty days must elapse from the time the copies are distributed and the election schedule. Under a home rule charter, the city officers remain the same, the mayor pointed out. The only ex ception is the city judge is no longer elected. The charter commission, appoint ed to draw up the charter for home rule, has placed in the draft the authority to appoint a housing authority, the mayor added. Eddie Sick, commander of the organization of which the - two were members, explained that the sophomores were cor recting a freshman who was walking down a street without his cap. One of the college officials saw the incident and reported it to the commandant’s office, Sick said. The two, along with Sick were called in for questioning. Following the queries, the sophomores were dismissed from the Corps. However, Carlson said, the men will be reinstated in the Corps at Thanksgiving if their disciplinary record is satis factory. “I have talked to the military authorities and they agreed in the future to let any disciplinary action be taken by the commanding officer of the unit in which the cadet is a member,” Carlson said. Also, from now on, Carlson com mented, no demerits will be given by military officers. Instead, the cadet commanding officer will be notified and it will up to him to decide what action should be tak- breakoff could be called only by the highest levels of the Red or Allied commands—not by liaison. The Reds broke off the higher levele cease-fire talks Aug. 23 after charging that an Allied plane bombed the aKesong neutral zone the night before. The Allies in vestigated and denied the charge. Reds Try In Vain The Red high command had tried in vain to resume Tuesday the full dress armistice discussions instead of the liaison talks. But the move was saddled with a provision that the first session set up machinery to deal with a long list of Red charges, already denied by the Allies. Ignoring the Red offer, the Al lies sent Kinney, Marine Col. James C. Murray and South Ko rean Lt. Col. Lee Soo Young to Kaesong by helicopter to bring up the subject of conditions. Coffee Scheduled By MSC Group The House Committee of the MSC will sponsor a coffee Wednes day afternoon at 4:30. The coffee is for the students and faculty of the Aeronautical Engineering, In dustrial Education, Mechanical En gineering, and Industrial Education Departments. Students majoring in these de partments are urged to attend, said Guy Shown of the House Commit tee. This is an opportunity for stu dents and faculty members to be come well acquainted with one an other Shown said. This coffee is one of several scheduled this year in an effort for a closer, student-teacher relation ship, the committeeman said. King George Fights Battle for Recovery London, Sept. 25—(2P)—^A. pain- wracked King George reached the second stage today of his fight for life. While well-wishers prayed and hoped for him beyond Buckingham Palace’s walls, the haggard mon arch fought his recovery battle through the night watched only by a few of the nurses and doc tors who helped operate on his ailing lung Sunday. Medical circles believe dawn to day marked the end of the first— and most crucial—post-operative phase. “There are hazards and anxie ties still ahead,” one doctor ob served, “but they are not. as great or as grave as those of the opera- Tech Tickets Now on Sale tion itself and the (first) 48 hours which have now passed.” In the first crisis after the surg eon’s knife finishes its work, the great danger is post-operative col lapse. Last night’s bulletin No. 4—say ing “the king has gained strength during the day”—reduced fears of such a collapse. But the 55-year-old king is not yet on the straight and smooth road. Medical experts claim the next danger period starts approxi mately next Saturday and will last a day or two. At that period, the risk of late complications—especially infection and what is called “seconday hem orrhage”—will once again make the going critical for George. The guarded bulletins from the sickroom—they haven’t yet indi cated what disease attacked the monarch’s lung—shed little light on his ailment. But their pro gressively encouraging tone has cut down the fears of the British people. For the first time since the operation, the Palace yard was silent early today except for the tread of sentries. 1 A } The king’s immediate relatives—: OCCKCCpCrS A.SS II including the Duke of Windsor—: y -m * . yy are nearby. The Duke arrived in Jill llCrC “This attitude of the personnel in Ross Hall definitely places us, the members of the Senior class, on our own,” Carlson explained. “It’s now a case of—we run things, or the military runs them.” Carlson also told the class that a new directive is being worked on by several members of the class. This directive, when approved will specifically outline what under classmen can and cannot do. It will explain clearly what constitutes correcting a freshman and hazing him. Before Carlson’s talk, several business matters were discussed. J. W. Doggy Dalston, president, opened the meeting by compliment ing the class on the large attend ance. He then introduced Ted Steph en?, treasurer, who read the class financial report. Good Shape Financially “At present, we have a total of $1,723.79 in our class treasury,” Stephens said. “We are in the best shape financially of any senior class in many years.” Social Secretary C. L. Ray then introduced C. G. (Spike) White, assistant dean of men for student activities, who explained the Ring Dance, and how much money the class would have to pay for various orchestras. After a lengthy discussion, the group passed a motion calling for a charge of $5 per couple for the dance. The social chairman was in structed to work with Student Ac* tivities to secure the best avaih able band for the dance which if scheduled May 17. However, if an orchestra is se cured which does not charge the maximum price which class mem bers agreed to pay, a refund will be made. Eight Class Committees After discussion of the dance was concluded, Dalston introduced other class officers, and Bobby Dunn, vice-president explained new class organization procedures. The new plan, Dunn said, creates eight Senior class committees, each with a specific function. These committees are: Tradition, headed by Bob Langford; Election, headed by Bobby Dobbins; Campus Beautification, headed by Dick Jennison and Social, headed by C. L. Ray. Van Vandenberg will be chair man of the Calendar committee and A. C. Burkhalter will head the (See SENIORS, Page 1) Student Football Tickets and Guest Tickets to the Texas Tech game went on sale yesterday morning at the Athletic De partment. They will remain on sale today until five p.m., and Wednesday until 6 p.m. All tickets not purchased by Wed nesday will be returned to Dal las. The Athletic Department still has a few tickets on or about the 50-yard line. These tickets were released by bond holders of The Cotton Bowl. Above is the artist’s drawing of the new cafeteria and elementary school class rooms which are presently being constructed on the Campus of A&M Consolidated High School. Architects for the project are Paul Silber and Co. of San Antonio, expected to be completed around Jan. 1. The building is London from Paris without his | Duchess. The trip had been ar ranged earlier by the man who ab dicated in favor of his brother in 1936. The Duchess, the former Wallis Warfield Simpson of Balti more, has never been received by the Royal family. She stayed in Paris. Visitors at the bedside last night included Queen Mother Mary and Princess Elizabeth, the 25-year-old heiress presumptive, with her Duke of Edinburg. Queen Elizabeth is staying with the king. A two day meeting of the Texas Beekeepers Association ends to day at 4 p. m. Approximately 125 beekeepers meeting alternately at the MSC Assembly room and the Entomol ogy Research Laboratory attended the assembly sponsored jointly by the Texas Beekeepers Association and the Department of Entomology at A&M College. Chairman of the meeting was Dr. F. L. Thomas of the A&M Ento mology Department.