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Circulated Daily 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 102: Volume 52 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27; 1952 Price Five Cents Three to Run For Re-election To City Offices Joe H. Sorrels, professor in the civil engineering depart ment, is the third man to file for city councilman in the general city elections schedul ed April T. A candidate from Ward II, Sor rels is as yet not contested in, the office. Ward IT. includes that part of the city east of Highway fi and * south of Lincoln Road. Three councilmen. will be, elected as will a new mayor of College i Station. In terms of city council i[ men are staggered, with three of the six members coming up for election every two years. In Ward I, J. A. Orr has filed for re-election as has A. P. Boyett in Ward III. Mayor Ernest Lang ford has also filed for re-election ? to the top post in the city govern ment. In Ward II, the present council man, Robert B. Halpin whose term ends with the April election, has thus far not indicated he will run for re-election. Polls will be located in City Hall, and will be open from 8 a. m. to 7 p. m. April 1. In order to vote, a \ resident of College Station must *• have lived in the city for six months and in Texas for one year. He must also have paid his poll tax. To file for councilman or any ' other city office, a person must have lived in College Station for at least two years, according to the new city charter adopted Jan. 8. TSCW Modern Choir Freshman Ball Tickets on Sale In Dormitories Tickets for the Fish Ball are now on sale in each dorm itory of. the freshman area, announced Dick McCasland, t treasurer of the Freshman class and chairman of the ticket committee. Tickets cost $2.00, stag or couple. I The dance will be Saturday night, Mai’ch 1, in Sbisa Hall. The Aggie land Orchestra will play. Ticket salesmen are as follows; Dorm 14, Charles Seely, Room 431; Dorm 15, Billy Ray Teer, Room 207; Doi’m 16, Wiley Gilmore, Room 321; Dorm 17, Dick McCas land, Room 230; Walton Hall, Kar ri Baker, Room A-l; Milner Hall, Karl Mielke, Room 9; Leggett Hall, Dan Neely, Room 64. The Student Activities office, second floor of Goodwin Hall, is also selling the tickets. Tickets will remain on sale in the dormi tories through Saturday. They will be sold at the door that night. Pictures of the six finalists for Freshman Class Sweetheart will appear in the Battalion Friday. j/JJhe sweetheart will be chosen from jjAse girls by a committee select- , 'ba from honor guests the night of the dance. The Sweetheart will be given a present and the traditional kiss by i Karl Mielke, Freshman Class pres ident. The other five runners-up will also be given a present. All f six of the girls wil receive a bou quet of. roses. Committees for the dance are as follows: Decorations, Don Zale; guests, Chuck Newman; Ticket, Dick McCasland; Dance, Edgar Watkins; sweetheart, Jerry Ram sey; Program, Ed Pennington. Weather Today Fair-Brisk WEATHER TODAY: High thin clouds with wind below 12 miles per hour out of the southwest. The low this morning was 36 degrees and the high yesterday was 53 de grees. * A favorite with Texas audiences since its organization in 1936, the Texas State College for Women Modern Choir will present a con cert March 8 in Guion Hall under the direction of Dr. William E. Jones (inset) director of the TSCW Music Department. Voting to Close For Delegates Of Ex-Students Balloting in the 1952-53 dis trict representatives of the Association of Former Stu dents Council is scheduled to end March 1, Dick Hervey, ex ecutive secretary of the Former Students Association, said. A rep resentative from each of the 31 state senatorial districts and ten councilmen-at-lai’ge will be elect ed for a one year tenure. The Association Council makes up the governing body of the As sociation of Former Students and is responsible for its management, policies and programs. Ballots were mailed out Feb. 1 to the voting members. Counting of votes will be completed by March 5. Candidates for councilmen are suggested by a nominating com mittee appointed by the president of the association. These newly elected councilmen will hold their annual spring meeting in March to perform the following duties: ® To determine policies • To plan the coming year’s program. • To hear college plans © To elect officers • To induct the Senior class in to the Former Student Association. ‘Democracy in Action’ Consolidated Plans Public School Week By HARRI BAKER Battalion Staff Writer “Democracy in Action” will be the theme of A&M Consolidated High School’s observance of Pub lic School Week, announced L. E. Boze, Consolidated principal. Gov. Allan Shivers has issued a proclamation stating the week of March 2-8 will be designated state wide Public School Week. Mayor George Adams of Bryan and Mayor Ernest Langford of College Station have issued a joint proclamation to the same effect. A&M Consolidated will have dis plays set up in the MSC, at Made- ley’s Pharmacy at South Gate, and at North Gate. These displays, to be changed daily, will feature work done at A&M Consolidated Senior high, junior high, elementary school, and Lincoln .school for Negroes. Shop and literary work will be shown, as well as exhibits from the art and homemaking de partments. School Visitation School visitation will be a major paid of the observance, according to Boze. All Consolidated -class rooms will be open to visitors throughout the week. “Parents are invited to come and Time Writer Talks In MSC Thursday see what their children do in school,” Boze said. Tuesday, March 18, the Mother’s and Dad’s Club will sponsor a com munity supper and an open house at the dedication of the new build ing, which contains classrooms for the elementary school and a cafe teria. L. S. Richardson, superintendent of A&M Consolidated, will speak at meetings of the Lions Club and Ki- wanis Club next week. His topic will be “Future plans for A&M Consolidated” and “Democracy in Action.” Chorus to Sing The 53 voice mixed chorus of Consolidated will sing at both of the meetings. Robert L. Boone is music director. Also in connectiion with Public School Week, Richardson, D. B. Bunting, county school superim tendent, and Sam Crenshaw, prin cipal of Stephen F. Austin Hig'h School in Bryan, appeared on a radio interview over WTAW Mon day. Fred R. Brison has been named general chairman of the Texas Public Schools Week program in College Station. Committee chair men are as follows: Special events, L. S. Paine; Publicity, Otis Miller; Window Displays, Lloyd Boze; School Visitation, Mrs. W. M. Arm- istead; Statistics and Records, John Kincannon and A. M. Gad dis. “Covering Washington for Time” will be the subject discussed by Frank McNaughton, author and congressional reporter for Time Magazine, when he speaks here Feb. 28. The meeting will be held in MSC Assembly Room at 7:30 p. m. and will be open to the public. In 1941 McNaughton joined the staff of Time, and, in addition to being their congressional reporter covered the work of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Su preme Court. He also wrote 36 cover stories for the magazine. 20 Years of Reporting Twenty years of reporting, in cluding his 11 years as congres sional reporter for Time, has given McNaughton a wide knowledge of politics and political reporting. He has covered Congress longer than most Congressmen have been there and knew many political figures well, including Paul Douglas, Estes Kefauver, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and Vandenberg. Through his regular visits to White House he has come to know President Truman well and has written two books about him, “This Man Truman” and “Harry Truman, President.” Chief Commentator As chief commentator on the Time sponsored telecasts of the Kefauver crime investigation heai’- ings in New York, McNaughton was able to give interesting anec dotes about the individuals test ifying during the hearing intermis sions because of his extensive crime reporting background. McNaughton attended Missouri University and. after college got his first reporting experience from 1930 to 1932 as crime and courts reporter on a succession of daily newspapers in Wyoming, Oklaho ma, Nebraska and Louisiana, where he covered politics at the start of the late Huey Long’s tempestuous career. At the present time he is doing free lance writing in addition to talking to college groups on cov ering Washington news. His visit to the campus is being sponsored by the Journalisrh Club. Senators Elected For Vacancies Three new Student senators were elected last night to fill vacancies made by senators moving out of the dormitories they represented. In Dorm 7 the new senator is Eric Holland. John Davis from Puryear Avas elected to the gov erning body and Vernon -K. Rob erts was elected from Dorm 16. Dr. Ashton III In Bryan Hospital Dr. John Ashton is still in cri tical condition at St. Joseph’s Hos pital in Bryan. He was admitted Feb. 22. Formerly a member of the A&M faculty, Dr. Ashton was professor of rural sociology and taught agri cultural journalism. He is a mem ber of the Class of ’06. PERISHABLES MEET OPENS The Loss Prevention in Perish ables conference, got under way Monday, with more than 50 regis tering for the tw.o-day conference. Consolidated Teacher Dies In Hospital Mrs. Cornelia Brown Sloop, first grade teacher at A&M Consolidated School and in ventor of the internationally recognized Sloop reading method died yesterday at 8 p. m. in Bryan Hospital. She was 63 years old. Mrs. Sloop is famous for her reading method, by which first graders learn to read and compre hend so well that they can under stand newspapers. She has written several text books on the subject. The Sloop method is used at Con solidated and at other schools'. During the summer Miss Sloop teaches her method at a course sponsored by the A&M department of education. Those planning to send flowers to the funeral, may instead send money to L. S. Richardson, superin tendent. A memoi’ial fund is be ing planned. Mrs. Sloop has been at Consoli dated since the school was located in the old music hall on the A&M campus. She has attended seven colleges and universities, among them TSCW, LSU, West Texas State Teachers College, University of Missouri, and University of Wis consin. She h‘as a bachelor’s and a master’s degree. Funeral arrangements are pend ing at Hilliard Funeral Home, Bry an. Entertainment Set For Rue Pinalle “The second show of the Cafe Bue Pinalle was as big a success as the first performance” said Miss • Betty Bolander, MSC pro gram consultant. “The floor show was extremely good.” A new policy about cafe reser vations has been started, she add ed. All reservations will have to be paid for in advance and any reservation not paid for by noon Friday will be dropped. Money will be refunded, however, for reservations canceled before noon Friday. Entertainment last week was provided by the Aggie Quartet, consisting of Ken Wiggins, Dale Walston, Tom Savage, and Harold Hughes and Martha Jane Konecny and Gus Leon-Ortaga, dance team. Silvia and Sandra Kelly sang sev eral musical selections. Miss Bolander said, “The enter tainment for this Friday will be as good as that in last week’s show.” Bob Alderdice and his ox-chestra will play for the dancing while Jerry Schnept will be master of ceremonies. Bob Chapman will be head waiter. Ag Five Drops Chiefs, 46-42 By JIM ASHLOCK Batt Sports Writer In their last home appearance of the season, A&M’s cage quintet turned on a fourth quarter rally to overtake and defeat Oklahoma City University 46-42 here Tuesday night. The victory gave the Aggies consolation for their 66-55 loss to OCU in Oklahoma City on Jan. 7. The Chieftains are rated the number one defensive team in the nation, while the Aggies hold the number three slot. Both Darrell Parruck, coach of the OCU five, and A&M’s John Floyd are disciples of Hank Iba, the old cage master whose coaching genius is nationally recognized. Both teams practiced the Iba style of deliberate play with the emphasis on defense, thus the high defensive rating of both teams. The Aggies rode to the head of the scoring column on the rebound ing and shooting skill of center Walter Davis. Davis collected 14 x-ebounds dur ing the evening while pacing his team in scoring with 17 points. Andy Likens led the losers with 9 rebounds and IS field goals. Likens was the first to scratch the scoring column when he drop ped in a two pointer with the con test only ?.tL seconds old. A minute later Davis set the Farmers on their wav with a neat jump shot. Close First Periods The first quarter witnessed both teams trying desperately to estab lish a (omfortaola lead, but the widest margin by which they were able to sen; rete themselves was two points, and th' •• existed only for brief periods as the score was tied four times during the first stanza. A six point lead was finally ac cumulated by the Aggies when, with three minutes and 37 seconds remaining in the second quarter, they found themselves ahead 21-15. But Chieftain’s Likens and Don P e n w e 11 quickly retaliated with three field goals to narrow the Aggies lead to 24-21 at half-time. Fortune continued to smile on the inspired Aggies as their score resumed its upward trend at the beginning of the third period. Farmers Raymond Walker, Don Binfoi*d, and Davis kept the net popping as together they scored eight points in the first seven min utes. But suddenly the visitors zeroed (See AGGIES, Page 4) Rayburn’s Ban Of Radio, TV Draws Protest Washington, Feb. 26—UP) —Republican protests mount ed today against Speaker Rayburn’s ban on radio, tele vision and newsreel coverage of House committee meetings. Raybuxn stuck by his suddenly announced ruling. “I can’t change it and I’m not going to,” he said. The Texas Democrat ruled yes terday that only reporters and still photographers may cover commit tee sessions. He said the House rules do not provide for radio, TV or newsreel covex-age. Senate hearings were not affected. Rep. Velde (R-Ill) suggested to day that politics might be involv ed in it. Velde noted that the x-uling came just in time to stop televising of a public heax-ing in Detroit by the House Un-Amei’ican Activities committee, and added: “Is it because some politicians in Michigan are afraid that my colleague on the committee, the gentleman from Michigan, Mr. Potter will enter the race for the senatorship and that he would be a most foxunidable candidate.” Bats and Spiders Annual ASABAB Planned March 8 “Madness is our theme!” said Jack Bx*andt in reference to the Architect Society’s annual ASA BAB. Brandt heads the decoration committee for the dance, famous for its unusual decor and themes. Last year’s theme was “Heaven and Hell,” which was dramatized in the entrance to Sbisa, and by the architects’ costumes. Junior Architecture majors are making a paper mache “monster” which will rise out of the floor in the Sbisa Annex. Bi-andt said the “monster is designed to further scare the merry-makers. “Stag” Bar Sophomores are working on a mural to be put up behind a “Stag Refreshment Bar” which will be a night club bar complete with high stools. No intoxicants will be sold Class of 17 Holds 2-Day Reunion The “Old War Class” of 1917 has chosen to hold its reunion April 29-30 on the Campus. Regis tration is scheduled to begin in the M,SC at 9 a. m., April 29. Ivan Langford of Bx-yan, and Paul Haines of College Station, have joined Geoi’ge Long, chair man of the local committee, in an effort to make the class’ 35th An niversary Celebration an eventful occasion. An informal luncheon at noon Saturday, April 29 in the MSC will start the former student’s weekend pi’ogram. The A&M-TCU baseball game at 3 p. m., a barbe cue at the Brazos County A&M Club House, and a business meet ing followed by a dance Saturday night will end the day’s activities. The final meeting for the group will be a breakfast in the MSC Sunday saonung at 9 a. m. but the bar will be stocked with other beverages. Murals used to transform Sbisa into a den of lunatics will be 40 feet long and 12 feet high. Giu- tesque designs patterned after the work of a German artist who died in an insane asylum will be em ployed in the murals. Bats and Spiders Freshman architects are work ing on huge bats and spiders cut out of cardboard. The figures will be hung fi’om camouflage netting strang around Sbisa Annex. Be sides the nettiing, scores of dead live oak ti'ees will be used to add to the general confusion. R. A. “Rip” Yeager, head of the entertainment committee for the ASABAB, has secured a combo fx’om the Aggieland Oi’chestra to provide music for the festivities. Architects fi-om Texas Tech, Rice, TU and UH have been in vited to the dance. Bob Bynes is in chax-ge of the entrance but is keeping the design of the portal a seci’et. Following the dance, the archi tects will adjourn to the Brazos County A&M Club for x-efresh- ments, which will be sexwed by members of the Architecture Wives Society. Mom ’ Claghorn’s Pet Dog Dies Sian-Fu Prince, the pet dog of Mis. Irene “Mom” Clag horn, died Saturday. Sian-Fu, a big red Chow, was given to Mrs. Claghorn, the A&M Hospital superintendent, by Walter Scott McGregor of Temple in December 1938. The pup, born Nev. 7, was tix weeks old when presented to Mx-s. Claghorn. She said, “He was given to me to ride in the car and stay in my room. He did just that.”