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New Polio Aid Sam E. Dehm, senior personnel major from Waco, who is now recuperating; from polio, is the first to try the new respir-aid rocking- bed at The Crip pled Children’s Hospital in Waco. Mrs. Lucille Decker, physical therapist, is shown making sure the movement of the bed is set to correspond with the patients normal breathing. (Phot courtesy of Waco News-Tribune). ‘Rocking Bed’ Treatment Aids Student Polio Patient Sam E. Dehm, 21-year-old senior who have graduated from the iron personnel major from Waco, who contracted polio eight weeks ago while in ROTC training camp at Fort Sill, Okla., is now receiving the benefits of a new type of polio treatment—a respir-aid rocking bed. Dehm is the first polio patient in the Central Texas area to use the bed, which was given to the Crippled Children’s Hospital in Waco by a group of anonymous Wacoans. According to the Waco News- Tribune, the electric respir-aid rocking bed is for polio patients lung. The bed, which rocks up and down instead of sideways, is desig nated to help the polio patient breathe more easily. Dehm has high praise for the new type of treatment, the Waco newspaper said, and he explain ed, “You take a breath when you are coming up and let it out when you are going down.” Although paralized from the neck down, the D Field Artillery senior’s condition is improving. He can now use his arms, hands, and toes slightly, according to Mrs. Lucille Decker, physical ther Round-Up Planned Monday By MSC Starting a brand new year of committee activity the MSC An nual Round-up will be held Mon day at 7:30 p.m. in the Ballroom of the MSC. The social, planned by the MSC Annual Round-Up Committee head ed by Chairman Tom Rountree, is intended to “round-up” students interested in participating in the various educational and recreation al groups in the MSC program. Dan Davis, president of the MSC Council, will open the affair and outline briefly to the group the functions of the committee pro gram. President Davis will also introduce each committee chair man who will in turn explain the activities of the particular com mittee or club. Displays revealing last year’s activities and suggesting things to come during the new year will be in booths along the walls of the Ballroom, and after each commit tee has been heard by the group, individuals will chat informally with the chairman and members of the various groups. Coffee and cookies will be served during the informal confab in which students are invited to ask any questions conceming the committees. Crafts Committee CoAmittees present at the An nual Ttound-up will include the Crafts Committee which allows a student to share and learn new ideas in such interesting hobbies as ceramics, woodwork, plastics, and copper foil under the guidance of an experienced crafts teacher. Those interested in photography may enjoy the Camera Club as they learn to take better pictures by how-to-do-it demonstrations on camera and darkroom techniques. MSC darkroom facilities are avail able to Camera Club members. The Dance Committee assists with dances at the MSC, such as those held after home football games and Saturday afternoon dances. This group is also the spon sor of MSC dancing classes. “Ham” Operators Membership in the MSC Ama teur Radio Club is open to any student who desires to become a “ham” operator. The club wel comes any student who wants help in Morse Code or radio theory. In the near future the club will take to the air under the call W5AC and contact other amateurs throughout the country. Student members of the Brows ing Library Committee sponsor book reviews and aid in the selec tion of magazines, periodicals, fic tion and non-fiction books, bio graphies, short stories, plays, and books of poetry. The Bridge Club, which last year- sent a team to the National In tercollegiate Bridge Tournament, offers instruction and competition in the game. Physical recreation is offered by the Bowling and Table Tennis Clubs which also participate in intra-college and inter-collegiate tournaments. Music Minded Students musically inclined may join the Music Committee and plan and promote a musical program or music listening hour in anything from progressive jazz to symphony concerts. Guiding hand behind coffees, re ceptions and other student and faculty MSC programs is the House Committee. This group trys to promote better student-faculty relations by giving the two groups an opportunity to associate on an informal basis. The Art Gallery Committee of fers instruction in oils and water- colors and also helps to arrange for exhibits by outstanding state and national artists. The MSC Public Relations Com mittee serves the other commit tees of the Center by securing pub licity for various activities. Stu dents who enjoy news writing or poster making or radio advertising may be interested in the public relations committee. All students are invited to at tend the MSC Annual Round-Up and a special invitation is cordially extended to the Freshman Class to facilitate their becoming fully ac quainted with the Center’s activ ities, Round-up Committee Chair man Rountree said. Model Railroad Club Open House Thursday Contrary to a story in Thursday’s Battalion, the open house sche duled by the Aggieland Model Railroad Club will be held next Thursday night, Oct. 4. The story said the open house was to have been held last night. apist at the hospital. The move ment of the new bed treatment aids the patient by pulling his dia phragm, releasing, and pulling again, she added. A control dial regulates the bed to the patients normal breathing rate and the bed is turned on only when the patient is having diffi culty breathing, Mrs. Decker ex plained. The bed, designed to prevent dizziness, has been a big help in aiding polio patients to sleep, Mrs. Decker said. After a patient graduates from an iron lung, he is sometimes afraid to go to sleep without the assurance of the lung, but the rocking bed is a big help as Dehm has ex perienced, she explained. Dehm became ill while attending the ROTC summer camp training program at Fort Sill, Okla., but his illness was not diagnosed as polio until he returned to his home in Waco a week later-. He was admitted to the Crip pled Children’s Hospital in Waco seven weeks ago when hm entire body became paralized. With the aid of an iron lung, he pulled through the crisis of the attack and is now on the road to recovery, ac cording to the hospital authorities. “His spirit is so good although he got awful low 1 , early this month when all of his friends were leav ing for A&M, but he snapped out of it—he’s got plenty of courage,” Mrs. Decker said. Dehm is expected to be moved to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio soon where he will receive additional Specialist treat ment. Ag Eleven Favored Over Tech; George Out to Win Ags Dallas Bound At 6:10 By Train Election Filing Closes at 5 p.m. All students wishing to file for either a seat in the Student Sen ate or for the Students Life Com mittee must have their applica tions in the Student Activities of fice by 5 p. m. this afternoon for their names to appear on the bal lot. According to Don Young, chair man of the election committee, eight more students have filed since the list appeared in yester day’s Battalion. They are Hobart Fatheree, senator from dortn 3; James Teutsch, senator from dorm 10; Ralph Ellis, senator from Hart Hall; William Casey, senator from Walton Hall; Jim Marin, senator and student life committeeman from Bizzell Hall; Tom Mabray, senator at large; F. S. Dougharty, senator at large; and Bob Chap man, senator at large. At present, the total number of applicants are divided into three divisions—49 student senator can didates, 21 candidates for senators- at-large, and four students have applied for the Student Life Com mittee positions. The following is a complete list of all students who have filed up until this morning: Dorm 1—Ted Stephens; Dorm 2—Jack Morris; Dorm 3—Hobart Fatheree, Arlie Van Cleave, Don Buchner; Dorm 6 —Neil Stovall, R. N. Dobbins, Han sel Kennedy; Dorm 7—James Hulse, Stanley Rosenthal, Eric Hol land; Dorm 8—Arvis Noak, Char les McNeil, John Devine; Dorm 9 —James Damon, Guy Jackson; Dorm 10—John Winn, Paul Saun ders, James Teutsch, John Cole man; Dorm jjj!—no candidates; Dorm 12—James VanWay; Dorm 14—John Halsell, Wylie Briscoe. Dorm 15—John Poyner, Dorm 16 —Fred Adickes; Dorm 17—Edward Dobbins; Hart Hall—Bernard Lem mons, Ralph Ellis; Legget Hall— Larry Dotson; Milner Hall—James Stevenson; Mitchell—Buddy Rus sell, Henry Cole; Law Hall—Lynn Estep, Doyle Lowery; Puryear Hall —Bill Doddecker; Walton Hall— William Casey; Bizzell Hall—Jim Martin; College View—Bill Morley, Lawrence Tanner; Vet Village—T. J. Wood, Engene Smith; Groneman to Assist Princeton University Dr. Chris H. Groneman, head of the Industrial Education Depart ment, will assist the educational training service of Princeton Uni versity in the development of the national teachers examination. His assignment is to prepare various test questions, of an ob jective nature in the field of in dustrial arts of education. Day students—Carroll Jones, Charles McCullough, Don Young; The candidates who are running for the position of senator-at- large are Ted Uptmore, Vic Rus- sek, David Wolf, Bob Chapman, F. J. Dougharty, John Clifford, B. G. Lewis, Ralph Shanahan, Den nis Zahn, Dee Francis, Charles Scott, Bobby Jones, Grady Small wood, Vernon Berry, Charles Gary, C. C. Bellomy, Don Lyles, and Lewis Riggan. Tom Mabray, Bruce Miller, Jer ry Kanter, Herbert Gorrod, Duane Vandenberg, Charles Schwartz, Baster Honeycutt, 0. C. Putter Jar vis, Warren Pierce, Monty Mont gomery, and Eddie Holley. The four men to appear on the ballot for the Student Life Com mittee are Joe Max Word, John Davis, Jim Martin, and Haydon Jenkins. Voting will take place Oct. 3 in the dorm areas with the ballots being distributed by the branch first sergeants. In the non-corps dorms, the housemaster will be responsible for the distribution of the ballots and the delivering of the ballots to the student activities office after the election. Special representatives have been selected to handle the ballots in Vet Village, College View, and the Housing Project areas. Those candidates desiring to have a statement of platform printed in the Battalion must con dense their platform into 50 words or less and turn it in either to the Student Activities office or the Battalion office by noon Saturday. The statements will appear in a series beginning with the Monday edition of the Battalion. Coach Ray George Freshman First Winner of New Scholarship Lester Byrd, freshman from Wingate, is the first stu dent to attend A&M under a new ■ scholarship, the Roy E. Dickson Memorial Scholar ship. The award, established by the West Texas Utilities Co. of Abil ene, was made available in recog nition of the accomplishments of the late Roy E. Dickson, superin tendent of the Agricultural Ex periment Station at Spur, for 36 years. Before his death June 26, 1950, Dickson’s agricultural research and leadership played an important part in the development of the Rolling Plains area of West Texas. Dickson was a nationally known pioneer in the development of soil and water conservation. By ED HOLDER Battalion Sports Writer “We are going up to Dallas with one and only one pur pose in mind, and that is to win . . . that . . . game,” said Coach Ray George shortly before the Aggie squad prepared to leave for Dallas. The 47 Cadets making the journey will be looking for the third consecutive victory for A&M over the Texas Tech Raiders when the two powerful teams meet in the Cotton Bowl tomorrow night at 8. Today is being spent by the Maroon and White in a final light workout before their departure tonight at 6:10 from the College Station Depot. Traveling with the Cadets will be a five-man coaching “♦■staff, two trainers and two managers, and a team physician. Upon arrival in Dallas tonight about 9:30, the team will go to the Melrose Hotel where they will be housed during the trip. “Saturday morning, the boys will rest up, and after the noon meal we will all take a long walk,” said George. Then we expect to go out to the stadium about 6:30,” he added. This game marks the return of the Aggies to their own ^section for the first time in three. Last season’s final tilt was against the Georgia Bulldogs on the East Coast, and the Cadet’* opening game this year was across the country to the West Coast where they edged out the Bruins last week, 21-14. Tech will be their first opponent from the Southwest to try to top ple A&M from its two-game win ning streak. Raider possibilities for executing this unseating appear to be high. This was well displayed last week when they ran over West Texas State, 46-7. They were favorites before the game, but only by one touchdown. School Leaders To Honor Hughes W. L. (Pop) Hughes, pioneer Texas educator, will be guest of honor at the National County Su perintendent’s Convention to be held in Dallas Sunday through Wednesday. Hughes, retired head of the Ed ucation Department, was respon sible for the organization of the County Superintendent’s Associa tion of Texas. Beghn in 1924 with 15 members, today the association has 165 members. “A school teacher all my life,” as Mr. Hughes puts it,” I came to Progressive Farmer Story Depicts Growth of College able spot, and placed a marker in the ground. Why the committeemen made their final decision for the loca tion remains unknown, unless they felt five miles was far enough from “the saloons and dens of in iquity.” But the article goes fur ther to explain the decision was made because “the land was near a railroad, because the thought of a five mile walk would keep the students away from the restricted establishments, and because a huge The article goes further to ex plain that the growth of A&M did not begin immediately when the stake was placed in the ground. Through the strong determination of Gov. Richard Coke, the opposi tions to spending money on the college were overcome, and twp buildings were constructed. “The only thing agricultural about the college was the grass that grew on the campus; and the only mechanical features were the axes the students ap plied to the professors’ wood piles,” was the remark of one of the first students, according to the article. In addition to Gov. Coke, Gov. Lawrence Sullivan Ross and L. L. Foster are given high praise in the article for the early growth of the college, as Ross was “the By WILLIAM DICKENS Battalion Feature Editor Have you often wondered why A&M was established on some of the poorest land in Texas, and some 100 miles from a large city? “The Fighting Farmers of Tex as A&M,” an article in the Octo ber issue of The Progressive Farm er by C. G. Scruggs, a graduate of A&M in ’45 and associate edi tor of the magazine, clearly ex plains the disputed question and gives a descriptive story of the dewberry patch was growing on the college’s growth in the past 75 selected site, years. The article explains that a legis lative committee set out in 1871 to select a location for a state col lege to teach “Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts.” Since Bryan was a five-year-old railroad boom town at that time, the committee went there “in response to an offer of Brazos’ County citizens to don ate the land for the new college.” With the citizens of Bryan, the committee drove in buggies to the site, which was 2 l /2 miles south of town. After the legisla tors saw the suggested location, they decided it was not suitable because it was “too close to the saloons and dens of iniquity.” Continuing the search for a better location, the committee drove 2% miles further south, found what they thought a desir- man who saved A&M from almost certain collapse,” and Foster built the agricultural school and estab lished the branch agricultural ex periment stations across Texas. Although dealing largely with the agricultural section of the col lege, the article relates the engin eering aspects of A&M and gives recognition to the military depart ment. In explaining the dual role of A&M in preparing its students for peace or war, a two picture illustration is shown of Don Marshall, senior engineering major from Victoria, dressed in a cadet uniform in one picture and in working clothes in the second. Additional pictures of the cadet corps, the MSC, the Administra tion Building, and an aerial view of the campus are included in the article in recognition of A&M’s 75th anniversary. Venturing into Aggie traditions, the article explains briefly some past incidents of “hazing” and also the administrative reorganiza tion of the entire college in 1947. In contrast to previous magazine articles about A&M, Scruggs has brought out one point in his article that others have not—“There is no middle ground in people’s feel ing about A&M and Aggies— they either love them or hate them.” College Station in 1920 to train teachers for vocational agriculture. Four years later, when the Edu cation Department was created, I became its head and remained there until 1947. It was a far cry from the one- room school house in which he taught at $35 a month to the head of the department at A&M. He has seen education grow—“and we still haven’t reached the goal,” he says. “Progress is being made and has been made,” Hughes pointed out. The 75-year-old man says that one of the outstanding things in his life war organizing the county su perintendents into a workable or ganization and having a part in keeping them together. Influenced Gilmer-Akin Hughes drew up the bill creat ing the teacher retirement system and influenced support for the Gil mer-Akin bill. He knows more school teachers in Texas than any other one man, and is the champion of, and ad vocate of, all measures which will aid the teacher and make his or her lot more satisfactory. “This is our way • of saying thanks to you for the many years of tireless effort which you have spent in behalf of education in Texas,” Bob Stowe, superintendent of public instruction of Tarrant county, wrote him recently. ' Hughes was president of the State Teachers Association in 1928 and holds a life membership in the County Superintendents’ Associa tion. He is familiarly known as “Pop” —but he wants to be remembered as Teacher Hughes—from 1897 to 1947. Program Sellers Needed For A&M-Tech Contest Additional football sellers are needed for the A&M-Texas Tech game in Dallas Saturday night, Ro land Bing, director of Student Pub lications, said Thursday afternoon. Interested students should con tact Bing in the student Publica tions office on the second floor of Goodwin Hall immediately. Fourth Meet Of Year to Open For Librarians Texas Chapter of Special Library Association will meet here tomorrow for the fourth convention of the year for the group. The meeting, which is to last all day, will start at 9 a. m. with a tour of the school of engineering. Visiting members will be provided with transportation during this tour. According to Robert Betts, pro gram chairman for the College Station area, the Texas Chapter is composed of scientific and in dustrial libraries. This is the third year the chap ter has been organized and this is the first time the group has ever met at A&M. The membership ranges from El Paso to Beaumont. After the tour of the school of engineering, the group will re turn to the MSC for a series of talks. Robert A. Houze, librarian of the Cushing Memorial Library will start off the program by talk ing on “Texas A&M System and Library.” Following Houze’s talk, J. G. H. Thompson, of the department of mechanical engineering will speak on the various phases of the en gineering System and Work of the Texas Engineer’s Library.” Dale Leipper, head of the de partment of oceanography, will speak on the effect of oceanogra phy and its relation to the Gulf area. Pioneer Sets Austin Flight Pioneer air lines will begin ser vice to Austin for the first time starting Sept. 30 according to W. R. Morrison, local manager for Pioneer. This change will bring the num ber of daily flights to six by Pion eer, a 50 percent increase over the current four flights. This new service is based on a daily departure from College Sta tion for Temple and Austin at 11:33 a. m., arriving in the Capital City at 12:36 p. m., Morrison said. A return flight leaves Austin at 1 p. m., arriving in College Station at 2:04 p. m. “These new flights will also pro vide us with an additional round- trip daily between College Station and Houston, bringing the total to three roundtrips,” Morrison pointed out. Flights from Temple, Waco, Dal las and other cities will arrive daily in College Station at 9:26 a. nr., 2:04 p. m. and 8:41 p. m., leaving two minutes later for the 42 minute flight to Houston. Flights will leave Houston daily at 6:20 a. m., 10:50 a. m. and 3:05 a. m., arriving in College Station 42 minutes later and leaving two minutes later for service north and west, the local manager said. Fly ing time to Dallas is only one hour and 36 minutes. All-American Candidate All-American candidate Jerrell Price of the Tech eleven is pre dicted to hand the Aggies a load of trouble. Price, who carries 210 pounds on a stocky 5 feet 11 frame, made the “unsung All - American” squad, which appeared in “Collier’s” fol lowing the 1950 season. He also received the honor of being picked for both the TU and Rice all-op ponent eleven. His hometown of Brownfield has also thrown another honor his way by purchasing a block of 100 tick ets for all the Tech home games. Many other tickets have also been sold to Brownfield residents it has been reported. Anothtr Trouble-Maker Another trouble-maker for the Maroon and White will be Frank Graves, 173 pound left halfback from McKinney. M c K i n n e y’s 47 yard jaunt against Westex last week set up the first Raider tally. Coach Weaver warned his foot ballers that the West Texas win doesn’t mean that Tech has made its comeback. He than explained the victory by saying “it was a grudge game since we lost to them last year, and besides, they haven’t hit their stride yet. When they do, they will be a tough team to beat.” Weaver has stressed a strong line each day during scrimmages in an attend to stop the power-pack ed thrusts of Bob Smith, All-Amer ican Aggie. Memories Linger The memories still linger in the minds of Tech admirers of the two previous games in which Smith scored a toll of six touchdowns. The 1949 game saw Smith cross the goal three times—one of which followed an 80 yard dash. When the totals for the game were re leased, he was credited with 241 yards rushing. The score wound up at 26-7. Last year, Smith repeated his three touchdown showing. The first he accomplished when he re ceived a pass and went over stand ing up. The next two were true (See A&M-TECH, Page 3) BSU Holds First Meet Friday Night The Baptist Student Union will hold its first meeting of the year, Friday, 7:30 p. m., at the Baptist Student Center. The program will he presented by the Mary Hardin- Baylor College Baptist Student Un ion, announced Harry Mack of the local Baptist Student Union. There will also be a devotional, singing, refreshments, and a var iety of games. These meetings will be held every Friday night, and everyone is invited, Mack said.