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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.