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Number 104: Volume 52
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1952
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Fourth I Ed
Conference
Opens Here
The fourth Annual Indus
trial Teacher Conference got
underway on the campus to
day. Sponsoring departments
are Industrial Education and
* the Texas Engineering Extension
Service. The conference will last
through tomorrow. Registration
j. begins this afternoon at 4 p. m. in
the lobby of the MSC.
|Auons this afternoon will be
deVQBrl to demonstrations on the
uscfof power circular saws and
jointers by representatives of the
Delta Tool Division of the Rock
well Manufacturing Company of
Milwaukee, Wis.
The consultant for the confer
ence will be Dewey Barich of the
Community Relations Department
of the Ford Motor Company of
Dearborn, Mich. Barich is also
manager of the Ford Motor Com
pany Industrial Arts Award pro
gram. Friday evening Barich will
speak on “Public Relations for In
dustrial Teachers.’
Saturday morning will be de
voted to visitation of the school
j[ shops of Consolidated and Bi-yan
high schools and demonstrations on
»-ceramics, metal spinning, leather-
craft, and textiles in the Mechan
ical Engineering Shops building.
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Finalist for Freshman Sweetheart
Miss Patti Cameron
Miss Beverly Hendricks
Aggieland To Play
Miss Janice Turbeville
Miss Edwina Chamberlain
Fish Ball Slated
In Sbisa Saturday
Miss Gwen Clark
By HARRI BAKER
Battalion Staff Writer
, Saturday is the big night for
Freshmen. The class .of ’55 will
dance to the music of the Aggie
land Orchestra from 8 to 12 in
Sbisa Hall.
Highlight of the festivities will
be the selection of the Freshman
Unmarried Males Celebrate
Victories Over Fairer Sex
By JERRY BENNETT
Battalion Staff Writer
Today is the day when those val
iant crusaders for the preservation
of mans’ personal liberties cele
brate their annual defeat of their
principle enemy—marx-iage,
Feb. 29, National Bachelor’s Day,
is the time when all unmarried
males point with pride to this ac-
« complishment.
Possessing an amazing amount
'of unlimited foi’titude, these indi
viduals continually repulse all tac-
£ tics employed by marriage’s most
uncompi’omising promoter, c o m-
monly known as the woman. From
year to year they dodge the at
tacks of this possessive foe until
laid to rest in their desired state
of bachelerhood or brought under
submission by the overwhelming
s>dds.
Comforting Pocketbook Weight
One of the bachelor’s pi’incipal
reasons for never visiting the local
jewelry store is to retain his be
loved freedom and the comforting
weight of his pocketbook. Col.
Charles R. Stapp, head of soph
omore Air Science, explained this
first point. “When you are single,
you never have to ask when or
where you can go.” W. H. Roth-
rock of the Modern Languages De
partment, agreed by saying, “You
can just lock up and take off
when you feel like it. ’
Colonel Stapp added although be
ing a bachelor never bothers him,
he sometimes wonders what life
would be like on the other side of
the fence.
Some Profit Otherwise
As to the xiatural pecuniary pos
sessiveness of the male animal,
some bacheloi’s with a good busi
ness sense can hold their original
funds and even profit by surren
dering to marriage. “It would be
nice to get married if you could
find a woman with a lot of fence
posts around her land”, were the
the words of Joe P. Hollingsworth,
of the agricultural engineering de
partment. He said he hoped to get
married in the future. “It’s one
thing to be asked ‘Why don’t you?’,
but it’s another when you are ask
ed ‘Why didn’t you?’, Hollings
worth added.
Although many bachelors are
fanatically sincei’e in their respec
tive philosophies concerning the
unmarried state of life, others re
act in ways that could be deti-i-
mental to the firm beliefs of this
populous fraternity. D. E. New-
%IS Unit Selection
Method Revised
\ i
The Militaxy Science Department
has announced a slightly revised
method whereby first year basic
MS students enx-olled in Army
ROTC will select their course fox-
next yeaiv
Students will be divided into
two groups based on academia
work done at A&M during the first
two semesters of the basic course
Weather Today
some of the journalism department
put it- this way.
“I reserve the right to change my
state of bachelorhood any time
I feel like it. Women are fine
folks and there should be more of
them -around here”.
A few are biding their time un
til they can desert the brotherhood
and join the side of the enemy.
“I am going to marry as soon as
I get out of Texas and not before”,
said George Rudisill of the History
Department. He added if he mar
ried a Texas girl, he might have
to remain in Texas.
The personification of the con
tented bachelor is Joe Arnett, as
sistant manager of student publi
cations who said, “I’ve been a bach
elor since I was born and I like it.”
Sweetheart. The six finalists are
as follows:
• Gwen Clark, a 17-year-old
Fort Worth girl, escorted by Tom
Findley.
• Janice Turbeville, a San Mar
cos brunette, who is the date of
James R. White.
• Sharon Hughes, fi’om Abilene,
with blue eyes and brown hair.
She was entered by John Wooten.
• Patti Cameron, a bx-ownette
from McKinney, escorted by Dick
McCasland.
• Edwina Chamberlain, a 5’ 3”
San Antonio brunette, entered by
Paul Williams.
• Beverly Hendricks, a Fort
Worth girl with brown hair and
brown eyes. She is the date of
Chester Slawson.
These finalists were selected by
the sweetheax-t committee and the
class officers from pictures turned
in by the fi’eshmen. Anyone that
had entered a picture was not al
lowed to judge.
Judging Panel
A panel of judges selected from
the honor guests at the dance will
choose one of the six to be the
freshman sweetheai't. The girls
will be introduced and presented
to the judges dux-ing the first in
termission.
During the second intermission,
(See FRESHMEN, Page 4)
Russell Enters
President Race
Washington, Feb. 29—UP)—The entry of Senator Rich
ard Russell of Georgia into the Democratic presidential race
raised serious threats today to the chances of candidate
Estes Kefauver and possible-candidate Harry S. Truman.
At the same time, a ruling by the Minnesota Supreme
Court seemed likely to present Republican candidate Harold
E. Stassen with a home-base nucleus of Minnesota’s 28 pres
idential nominating delegates.
The court pleased Kefauver by ruling out a slate he said
he didn’t want to run in Minnesota against Senator Humph
rey (D-Minn). The effect will be to give Humphrey, the
only candidate, the state’s 26 Democratic votes and make
them available to President Truman if he runs.
Supporters of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower were reported
divided in their reaction to the court’s ruling that a slate for
tthe General couldn’t run. Some
wanted to contest Stassen. Others
Miss Sharon Hughes
Board Meets
Here Today
The A&M System Boai’d of Di
rectors meets hex-e today and Sat
urday. The group’s discussions will
consist mainly of campus construc
tion items, said R. Henderson
Shuffler, system director of infor
mation and publications.
A&M System Chancellor Gibb
Gilchrist is slated to make a re
port on construction plans for the
A&M System, Shuffler said.
The meetings will be held at the
Board Rooms near the North Gate
Post Office.
McNaughton Says
Truman Won’t Run
By WAYNE DEAN
Battalion Staff Writer
President Truman will not run
for re-election, said Frank Mc
Naughton, Capital cox-respondent
for Time, last night as he spoke to
an audience that filled the MSC
Assembly Room.
“I don’t think that Truman will
run because the necessary prepax 1 -
ations for a successful campaign
have not been made”, McNaugh
ton said.
McNaughton, who joined the
Washington Bureau of Time in
1941 after a long stint as Capitol
Hill reporter for The United Press,
was sponsored by the Journalism
Club as he spoke on the topic,
Complete Facilities Designed
PE Building Planned
WINDY
WEATHER TODAY: Partly
cloudy and windy. The high yes-
tex-day was 77 degx-ees and the low
was 56 degrees last night.
(one semester for mid-year stu
dents).
The dividing line for establishing
these two gx-oups will be a 1.0
grade point ratio. In other words,
all students with a 1.0 or better
gi’ade point ratio will be put into
one group and all others in the
second gx-oup.
Students in each of these groups
will be divided between the arms
and sex-vices in accox-dance with
their designated percentages.
Each arm or service will receive
part of their quota fiom one group
and part from the other. This pro
cedure will give a wider spread
of students with high grade point
x-atios throughout the various
branches.
Indicate Choice
At a time to be announced, all
basic students will be given a
chance to indicate their choices of
arm or service in order of px-e-
fex-ence.
As far as possible, students will
be given their first choice. How
ever, in order to meet the pre
scribed officer procux-ement ob
jectives, final designation will be
based on academic attainments.
The pex-centage quotas for the
various arms, and sex-vices are as
follows: Anti-Aircx-aft Ax-tillex-y
6.5; Armor 16.0; Army Security
(See CORPS,, Page 2)
By FRANK MANITZAS
Battalion Staff Winter
Additional i-oom for the physi
cal education department may well
be on its way with plans almost
complete to begin construction on
a new Physical Education Building.
Funds for the much needed
structure were allotted from the
college building fund by the A&M
System Boaxd of Directors last
year.
Facilities Included
In the main plant of the build
ing will be 10 large activity rooms,
18 offices, a conference room, sup
ply and storage rooms, offices for
ticket sales and an arena which
will include a movable stage and
basketball courts.
Temporary and permanent
bleachei's will be placed around a
102 by 140 foot haidwood floor.
Two practice basketball courts will
be included (x-uhning crossways)
while a regular court is fox-med
when the bleachers ax-e in use.
On the first floor of the build
ing, along with the main arena
stxuctux-e, will be five physical ed
ucation activity classrooms, dress
ing x-ooms, and the ticket selling
offices.
The building will include the
physical education depax-tment’s of
fice space and conference x*oom,
five additional classrooms, and the
pex-manent bleachers which will
seat 6,400 people.
At px-esent, plans call for con
structing the new PE Building east
of DeWare Field House and across
the street south of the MSC, with
the front part of the building be
ginning in line with Kyle Field
Stadium.
With the completion of the
building, classes now being held
out of doox-s, because of lack of
space within present departmental
facilities, can be conducted under
better conditiions.
Plans are tentatively being made
that DeWare Field House be con-
vex-ted into a three floor tx-aining
center. One floor will be used as
a lax-ge dressing room with the
remaining two flooi's for more
classrooms.
'Construction will begin with the
expected allocation of steel from
the National Production Authoi’ity.
“Covering Washington for Time”.
He is the author of two books
about the nation’s chief executive,
“This Man Truman” and “Harry
Truman, President”.
Urged Not to Run
“Mr. Truman has been urged by
the leaders of the 1948 Democratic
Convention not to run. He has been
told that he can’t possibly win, and
even if he were elected, that there
would be a sharp conflict in the
Democratic party,” M c N a u g h-
ton continued.
Eisenhower, McNaughton b e-
lieves, will not receive the Repub
lican nomination, but instead, the
party’s choice will be Senator Rob
ert Taft of Ohio. But, he contin
ued, Eisenhower as a candidate
would “sweep the nation”.
Taft, he went on to say, can’t
win the national election, for he
has opposed too many cui’rent pop
ular proposals, as well as having
lost organized labor.
Significance of Election
According to McNaughton, “The
significance of the coming election
is the importance of the govern
ment to rid from the American
people a feeling of frustx-ation and
to maintain a two party system.”
McNaughton, a staunch support
er of the newspaper, believes the
public has two means of protection,
Congressional investigation, such
as seen lately, and a free press,
“When the px-ess is free and the
people can read the news, then all
is safe,” he continued.
“Time’s first consideration is to
protect the public interest to the
best of their knowledge,” Mc
Naughton pledged in conclusion.
to avoid a fight with him in a
state where he formerly was gov
ernor.
Left in the Republican race
against Stassen in Minnesota was
a slate pledged to Gen. Douglas
MacArthur, who says he is not
running.
Russell, 54-yeax--old lawyer who
got national attention last year
when he headed the Senate’s in
vestigation into Truman s firing of
MacArthur as Pacific commander,
created a stir in the Kefauver and
Truman camps by getting into the
race.
Supported by Shivers
But Gov. James F. Byrnes of
South Carolina, Herman Talmadge
of Georgia, Allan Shivers of Texas
and such senators as Byrd of Vir
ginia and Stennis of Mississippi
have been after Russell to x-un.
Now Truman is on notice that
the opposition to him in the con
vention will be expertly handled.
And if there is a bolt, it would be
in the hands of men far more ex
perienced than those who wrested
39 Southern electorial votes from
him in 1948.
Despite his presentation by Sen
ator George (D-Ga) as a non-sec
tional candidate, Russell was push
ed into the x-ace by Dixie Demo
crats who want to keep Truman
from being renominated or, if he
runs again, to beat him in Novem
ber.
Kefauver is ti’ying to beat Tru
man for the nomination if he runs
and to get the coveted prize if the
President retires. Tx-uman said
yesterday he won’t make known
his plans before about March 29, at
the earliest.
Epsy Speaks
Tonight At
6 Y’ Banquet
Guest speaker for a YMCA fac
ulty-student dinner tonight will be
R. H. Edwin Epsy, executive secre
tary of the National Student Coun
cil of the YMCA. The dinner will
be 6:30 in the MSC.
Epsy has been instrumental in
the youth work connected with the
organization of the World Council
of Churches.
Tonight’s speaker holds an hon
orary D.D. degree from the Uni
versity of Redlands, awarded in
1944. He received his PhD from
Yale University in 1950. A book,
“The Religion of College Teach-
ei's,” based on material in his doc-
toi'al dissertation, was published
in Janury, 1951.
NBC to Salute
A&M President
The National Broadcasting Sys
tem will salute A&M President
M. T. Hai-x-ington on its weekly,
nation-wide show, “The Halls of
Ivy,” on March 5 at 7 p. m.
Mr. and Mx - s. Ronald Coleman
are the stars on the show, and each
week they salute the pi’esident of
a college or univei'sity on their
show. President Harrington has
been chosen for this honor on the
Max-ch 5 progi'am.
A&M’s Proposed New Physical Education Building
Rue Pinalle Set
Tonidit in MSC
Cafe Rue Pinalle, the MSC
version of a typical French
leftbank nightclub, will offer
all types of music from Pucci
ni to Porter to its patrons at
tending tonight’s floorshow.
Morris Chotlin, a graduate of
Washington University and now
director of special services at the
Bryan Air Force Base, will sing
several .solos including “Night and
Day”. Chotlin has sung previous
ly in light and grand operas in both
St. Louis and Chicago.
Guest pianist will be Miss Mar
tha Montgomery, a junior at Steph
en F. Austin High School in Bry
an. Miss Montgomery has copped
three first place awards at the
yearly talent show of her school in
as many years.
Another Bryan high school pro
duct, Miss Camille Walton, will
sing the “Blues” at tonight’s show.
Miss Walton has appeared also in
the school’s talent show and was
last week a member of the Bryan
Lion’s Club Minstrel Show cast.