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Circulated Dally To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents The Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Published By A&M Students For 74 Years Number 3 01: Volume 52 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1952 Price Five Cents Three Ag Stars End Home Cage Season Tonigh t Three Aggie cagers will wind up their basketball careers at A&M tonight when the Cadets meet ' the Chiefs of Oklahoma City Uni versity at 8 in DeWare Field House. It is the Cadets final home game. ' niei l^ a y' n S their final game for the iudomecrowds, Walt “Buddy” Davis, Raymond “Woody” Walker and Bobby “Tex” Farmer have but one more tilt following the OCU game, that being with the Rice Owls in Houston Saturday night. The Aggies tall center, Davis, is in second place among SWC scorers with 1G0 points and will earn his third letter at the com pletion of the season. Walker and Farmer will gain their second let ters. Fish Meet Allen Prior to the varsity game, the freshman quintet will play host to the local Allen Academy Ramb lers with gametime set at 0. A&M’s Fish won their last tilt, downing a highly favored Shorthorn five, 36-85. Nominations For Officers Listed by Lions Nominations for officers of the College Station Lions Club tvere made at the groups weekly meeting in the M S C yesterday. The officers will be elected March 10, and take office July 1. Nominated for president were L. E. McCall, L. M. Morgan, Lt. Col. A. B. Currte, H. G. Thompson, Dr. W. A. Boney, and H. T. Black- hurst. Out of this group will also be chosen the first, second and third vice presidents, by the num ber of votes received for president. A. B. Medlen was nominated for secretary-treasurer. Tailtwister nominations were Hal Sorenson, Capt. Erwin Brig ham, and Bob Rice. Nominated for Liontamer were Tom Stephens, Bob Nolen, and the Rev. Thomas Swygert. Two directors will be chosen. Nominated were Ran Boswell, Dr. John Miliff, Bob Wood, Dr. Carl byman, Howard Berry, and Joe Hollingsworth. Davis, all-SWC for the past two seasons and last year named to the Helm’s Athletic Foundation All-America team, has been the Aggie scoring mainstay for the past three seasons, having scored 917 points. Last year named the “most val uable player on defense” and win ner of the Ted Mohle Award for “teamwork,” Walker has starred in every conference game as a Squadman, but in the “ball-control” style of play employed by Coach John Floyd, he has proved to be one of the Southwest’s top guards. Farmer has been a consistant threat all season, and showed more drive than in his previous seasons on the varsity. The OCU Chiefs arrived early today and hope for a repeat per formance of the 62-55 victory they gained over the Cadets eai’lier this year on their home base. Aggies Hard Pressed Having lost All-Conference Guard Jewell McDowell since their initial meeting, the Aggies wil be hard pressed on scoring possibil ities, although Don Binford, soph- guard, has shown a greater ten dency for “hitting the bucket” during the past three games, scor ing 36 points. Earlier in the year, Binford was hampered with a pulled muscle in his leg, but has fully recovered. LeRoy Miksch and Eddie Houser, junior forwards and lettermen, will probably start tonight along with Davis, Walker and Binford. Coach Hayes will probably use Cecil Neely at center, Robert John son and Don Moon at the guard spots, and Forwards Rodney Pirtle and Dale Fisher as his starting quintet against Allen Academy. Speaker A&M Geologists Get Pardon From Shivers Aggies Feted At Mardi Gras Brazos A&M Club To Hear Hohn . The Brazos County A&M Club Ase 5 l meet in their club house ‘Thursday, at 7 p. m., announced Joe Motheral, club president. The meeting will be held at this time in order to avoid conflict with the Oklahoma City University and A&M basketball games tonight. Caesar “Dutch” Hohn, captain of the football team of ’12, will speak on “Reflections of a Gentle man Farmer.” The main business of the meet ing will be a report on the mem bership drive which has already brought in 104 new members and is still going strong. Oak Ridge Physist To Speak Tonight Dr. Clifford C. Shell, physist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will give a graduate lecture at 8 p.m. in the Physics Lecture Room on “Neutron Diffraction”, a n - nounced Dr. J. G. Potter, head of the Physics Department. The lecture is sponsored by the Graduate School and the local chapter of Sigma Xi. Frank McNaughton Time Correspondent McNaughton Speaks Here February 28 Frank McNaughton, author and Time Magazine congres sional reporter for 11 years, will speak on “Covering Washington for Time” here on Feb. 28. The meeting will be open to the public and will be in the MSC Assembly Room at 7:30 p. m. McNaughton has been a report er for 20 years. During his 11 years as a congressional reporter, he gained a wide knowledge of politics and political reporting. As a regular visitor and re porter in the White House, he came to know President Truman well and wrote two books about him, “This Man Truman” and “Harry Truman, President.” In 1951 McNaugthon was chief commentator on the telecasts of the Kefauver crime investigations in New York, which won the’ Syl- vania award of the yeah. He was also a regular member of the “Meet the Press” television show panel in 1950 and 1951. He attended Missouri Univer sity and after college got his first reporting experience from 1930 to 1932 as crime and courts reporter on a succession of daily newspap ers in various states. In 1932 McNaughton joined the United Press reporting staff. Af ter covering politics and legisla ture in Oklahoma, he went to Washington as head of the Uni ted Press house staff. He joined the staff of Time in 1941. New Orleans, Feb. 26—(Sp.) — Members of the Ross Volunteers were honor guests of the New Orleans A&M Club yesterday at a luncheon. The meeting was held at Arnauds Restaurant in the French Quarter of old New Or leans. Ross Volunteer Aggies were of ficially welcomed to New Orleans and the Mardi Gras by Jack Hur ley ’32. Hurley is the mayor’s of ficial representative on behalf of the Ross Volunteer Company. Ingels Honorary Citizen Dick Ingels, commander of the RVs, was presented the New Or leans honorary citizenship certi- ficiate and given a key to the city. Following luncheon, the New Orleans Aggie Club treated the RVs to an inspection tour of the New Orleans harbor on yacht “Good Neighbor.” The New Orleans A&M Club, headed by John Cuthrell, ’29, has arranged for both free room and board at Camp Leroy Johnson for the RVs. They have also secured invitations to several elite Mardi Gras balls and parties for the RV Company. Tonight the A&M contingent will march as honor guard for King- Rex in the final parade of the sea son, the torch-lit procession of Co- mus, God of Mirth. The Ross Volunteers are Texas’ official representative to the Mar di Gras celebration, having been appointed by Gov. Allan Shivers. The weatherman promised to keep the skies free of rain for the grand finale, but warned it would be cold, cloudy and windy. Freshman Dance Set for Saturday Weather Today CLEAR WEATHER TODAY: Clear. Cold front with snow extended on ly to Fort Worth. The College Station area had .78 inches rain fall with a low of 38 degrees this morning. Only one week remains until the freshmen have their big night. The annual Fish Ball will be Saturday, March 1, from 8 to 12 in Sbisa Hall. The Aggieland orchestra will play for the festivities, which will be highlighted by the selection of the Freshman Sweetheart. The Sweetheart will be chosen from six finalists who have been picked from the picture turned in by the class of ’55. The finalists were selected from the pictures by the freshman class officers and the chairman of the sweetheart committee. The sweet heart will be picked by a commit tee selected from the honor guests at the dance. Tickets will go on sale Wednes day. Frogs, as well as Fish, are permitted to come to this dance. No one else except seniors with dates will be admitted. Committee chairmen for the dance are as follows: guests, Chuck Newman; decorations, Don Zale; ticket, Dick McCasland; dance, Edgar Watkins; sweetheart, Jerry Ramsey; program, Ed Pen- ningtcgi. The theme of the Dance will be “The Night of the Fish Ball.” The doorv/ay will be flanked by car toon cutouts of fish, and the same fish will be on the cover of the program. Sbisa will be decorated to resemble the bottom of the sea. ASME to Hear Otto de Lorenzi Otto de^Lorenzi, director of education for Combustion En gineering - Superheater Inc., will be the guest speaker of the student branch of the Am erican Society of Mechanical En gineers at 7:15 p. m. Wednesday. He will present an illustrated lecture on “Turbulent Suspension Burning of Wet Wood and Other Fuels,” The meeting is in the As sembly Room of the MSC. De Lorenzi is one of the out standing Mechanical Engineers in the field of steam power and has had an enviable record of engi neering activity. He is a native of Dallas, and received his prepara tory education at the University of Dallas in 1911. He received an ME degree from Cornell in 1916. His work has been closely con nected with combustion within fur naces and he holds several patents on related devices De Lorenzi’s special contribution to the field of fuel combustion is the development of a technique for px-oducing high speed colored movies of actual con ditions of combustiion within a fur- "The Circle 9 Is Hit In First Showing By BERT WELLER Battalion Staff Writer After a slow beginning, the Ag gie Player’s production of “The Circle” gained speed last night, giving the opening night audience two hours of light and sophisti cated comedy. The play will be pre sented again Wednesday night at 8:15 in the Assembly Hall. A capable cast of actors caught the spix-it of the W. Somerset Maugham wox-k and successfully recreated the mannei’isms of the English aristocracy for the rather small audience. The set for the play was one of the most attx-active used by the theatrical group thus far. Furniture and props helped to create the px-oper mood for the fast moving comedy. Leading the list of good per formances was that of Marjorie Selleck. Mrs. Selleck was the cen- tx-al chai-acter about which the suc cessful first night performance was built. With her entrance the play revived fx-om the feverish pace that had plaqued its opening min utes. Top Performance As the painted and affected Lady Catherine Champion-Cheney, she was able to help the rest of the cast give high quality performan ces. Harry Gooding, as Loi’d Por- By BILL STREICH Battalion Managing Editor Fifteen A&M geology students, involved in the Sul Ross “incident” at Alpine last summer, have received an official pardon from Gov. Allan Shivers, Col. E. W. Napier, PAS&T, disclosed yesterday. The students were attending a geology summer camp near Alpine and on the night of July 10 decided to change the white rock lettering on a hill near Sul Ross from “S R” to “A&M.” During the letter re-arranging, the Aggies were discov ered and the local sheriff was summoned to the scene. The sheriff took the 15 geology students before a justice of the peace where they were charged with malicious mischief. Each man entered a plea of guilty. Fines assessed amounted to $1 per man plus court costs, a total of $14 per student. Following their release, the 15 geology majors restored •the rock formation to its original condition and no visible damage was x-epox-ted. Viewing the entire scene were Sul Ross students in cluding the college band. The lai’ge group treated the episode as a joke and later the students were invited to the Sul Ross Union Building for coffee. At the coffee, Sul Ross students were present and relations between the two groups were friendly. The case itself was nothing more than a college prank and was treated as such by Sul Ross officials and members of the stu dent body thex-e. However, the case presented more sei’ious implica tions than were at first evident, Colonel Napier said. teus, was properly crusty yet cap ably managed the few moments of tenderness that passed between the two who had given up every thing for their love for each other so many years before. Johxx Samuels, as Ai’nold Champ ion-Cheney, gave a good pexTorm- ance as the stuffed shixi whose wife deserts him for the attentions of the rough planter from the Federated Malay States. Although his Bxitish accent (See PLAYERS, Page 4) Icy Storm Blows Out What happened to College Sta tion’s snow, sleet and 25 degree weather? That was the query directed at the local weathex-man today, but he was at loss for an answer. The norther, which came rath er unexpectedly with winds and rains, slowed down when it reached Fort Worth. Skies clear ed and the rain stopped near mid-night, with only the cool winds blowing here this morning. Precipitation which fell dur- in the one day seige totaled .78 inches. Low last night was 38. High early this morning was 40. wmm Mrs. Marjorie Selleck Aggies Playex-s Star Officer Writes A letter wi'itten by Maj. Albert R. Sitzei’, legal and claims officer at Bx-yan Air Foi'ce Base, to mem bers of the State Pardons and Pa roles Board in Austin, said the men involved wei'e, as pi'ospective officers in the armed forces, re- quix-ed to state if they had ever been convicted of a crime other than a minor ti’affic violation. Major Sitzer, who aided the men in x-eceiving their pardons, also explained to the Pardons and Pa- i - oles Boax-d that such a case as the Sul Ross xuck changing might pxusent difficulties for them in their later military careers. Convictions Not Known The sex-ious implications of the students’ convictions were appar ently not known, understood or even suspected by the sheriff and the justice of the peace, nor by the students themselves, Major Sitzer’s letter explained. (See GEOLOGISTS, Page 2) PublicSchool Week Slated March 2-8 Hundreds of Bryan and College Station citizens will go back to school during the week of March 2-8 in observance of the sec ond annual Public Schools Week, which again has as its theme, “Democracy in Action.” Gov. Allan Shivers has pro claimed this week as Public Schools Week in Texas, saying, “One of the basic institutions upon which we relv for the furtherance of Who’s Who at A&M ASME Speakers In Regional Meet American Society of Mechanical j Engineers speakers from A&M and i six other Southwest schools will meet at Texas University in Aus- ! tin Friday and Saturday in a meet sponsored by the Southern Tier of Region Eight of the ASME. Two speakers will be entered from each school in competition. Glenn Rader and Ted Mullinnix will represent A&M. Rader will speak on “Maximum Unit Extrac tion of Water Vapor and Liquid Hydro-Carbon from Natural Gas” and Mullinnix will speak on “The Berryman Hot Blast Cupola.” James O. Martin Senior vet med major from Co- tulla—student life committeeman for two years, AVMA member and officer, student senator. Ralph Ellis Senior petroleum major from Dallas—T member (swimming), company commander, student senator. William M. Lewis Senior Agronomy major from College Station—coordinator of Cotton Pageant, Cotton King, member of Alpha Zeta. John Davis Junior vet med major from Port Arthur—AVMA officer, Veterin ary School Honor Council, stu dent life committeeman. our American ideals is the public school system.” “Texans,” he went on to say, are proud of this school system, the success of which is due to many factors, one of which is the interest of mothers and fathers in their children. “The continued progress of our school system requires increased public understanding of the impor tance of education and the great est possible encouragement and support of our teachers,” Shivers concluded. In hope that many of the resi dents of this area will want to become more familiar with the public schools, Mayor Ernest Lang- foi'd of College Station and Mayor George E. Adams of Bryan have issued a joint proclamation nam^ ing March 2-8, inclusive, as Col lege Station - Bryan Public Schools Week. Joint Proclamation In their joint proclamation, Mayor Adams and Mayor Langford said: “we recognize the free pub lic school as the cornerstone of our American Democracy, and we urge every citizen to visit at least one of our public schools to see our children carry out this theme of Democracy in Action.” Fred R. Brison, general chair man of the Texas Public School Week program in College Station, has named the following committee chairmen: Special Events commit tee, L. S. Paine; publicity, Otis Mil ler; window displays, Lloyd Boze; school visitation, Mrs. W. M. Armi- stead; and statistics and records, John Kincannon and A. M. Gad dis.