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Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents Number 116: Volume 52 The Battal ion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE C0LLEGE STATI0N (Ag-gieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1952 “ Published By A&M Students For 74 Years Price Five Cents All-Faith Chapel Sponsored for A&M By Former Students An All-Faith Chapel for ,the A&M campus will be built with $27,000 from the 1952 Development Fund, announced George Morgan, president of the Foi'mer Students Association, at a meeting of the Executive Council last weekend. The Executive Council also voted to send a copy of “The Story. of Texas A&M” to each of the 1,100 high schools in Texas. Besides the all-faith chapel, the 1952 Development Fund set side $10,000 for the Opportunity Awai'd Scholarships and $1,000 for the president of the college’s emergen cy fund. No plans for the designs or con struction of the all-faith Chapel have been formulalted yet. Dick Hervey, secretary of the Former Students Association, was authorized to send a copy of “The Story of Texas A&M” to the libra ry of all high schools in Texas and to no more than 150 high schools in the bordering states. Gun Cases The Boat’d was informed that the Otto Koever Company of Dal las has been given the contract to build cases for the Metzger gun collection that was donated to the college. Koever’s bid for cases to house the entire collection of 600 guns was $7,264.80. The cases, which will be ready by late spring, will be put on per manent display in the third floor lounge of the MSC. A standing Development Fund Objectives Committee was author ized by the board. It will be the function of this committee to study the needs of the campus and to make recommendations of possible development fund projects to the i>oard. A report of the 1951 Develop- ‘Songs of A&M’ Nation In Record Sales Top “Songs of Texas A&M” has a clear lead as the largest sell ing college album set in the country today,” according to David H. Goodman, President of the Recorded Publications Com pany. The two record album of Aggie Songs sold 8,500 copies last year C. G. “Spike” White, assistant ilean of men for student activ ities, reported. The A&M total was followed closely by Purdue for top order honors but the Purdue sales in cluded two albums, so “Songs of Texas A&M” was by far the most popular individual album. “There is little doubt that “Songs of Texas A&M has been one of the largest selling record albums in Texas, during the past year,” Goodman added, and he pointed out that was true because the sale of Aggie albums was con fined almost entirely to this state. This places A&M record album sales on a par with all of the pop ular recording artists as far as sales in Texas are concerned. In addition to topping Pui'due, the A&M album outsold albums from such prominent schools at Notre Dame, Yale, Princeton, Cor nell, and Michigan State. Weather Today STRONG WINDS WEATHER TODAY: High winds with dust. Winds blew as high as 95 mph for two minutes last night at 11:55. Precipitation recorded at Easterwood Airport was .25 inches. High yesterday 71 degree, low this morning, 53. ment fund was given. A total of $93,879.81 was donated, by 9,437 former students and friends. The 1951 fund was used for “The Story of A&M” and Opportunity Award Scholarships. Since Jan. 1, $32,455.61 has been contributed to the 1952 Develop ment Fund of 3,375 former stu dents and friends. A surplus of $8,720.76 was left from the 1951 Fund. The Board voted to give $2,000 of this to the Historical and Archives Office of the college. The remainder was put toward the all-faith Chapel Fund. Sec. of Army Pace to Visit Here Mar. 26 The Honorable Frank Pace, secretary of the Army, will visit A&M and inspect the Corps of Cadets Wednesday and Thursday, March 26 and 27, announced PMS&T Col. Shelly P. Myers, this morning. Secretary Pace will arrive at Bryan AFB at 6:30 p. m. Wed nesday and leave at 12:30 p. m. Thursday. He will be met at Bryan AFB by military and college of ficials and tentative plans call for a dinner on the campus that night. A special review of the Cadet Corps is being arranged. Colonel Myers said. Definite time for the review is unde cided. Big List of Guests Due Military Day A&M’s Military Day celebra tion Saturday will include one of the largest and most prominent list of distinguished guests in many years. Arriving from Washington Fri day, March 21 in the Presidential C-54 “Sacred Cow” will be six foreign military attaches, Con gressman Olin E. Teague, and a host of other important military personnel. Top attractions for the occasion will be a parade by the corps of cadets Saturday afternoon and a dance Satui’day night in Sbisa Hall. The Military Ball will have Dick Jei’gens and his orchestra furnish ing the music. Tickets for the affair, on sale in all militai'y units for $2.50 are being handled by supply sergeants. Ticket co-chaii’man Guy King and Bob Langfoxd advised students to purchase their tickets early be cause only a limited number can be given each outfit. Committee Chairmen Committee chairmen for Military Day and the Military Ball and their advisors fi’om the School of Mili tary Science, are as follows: Pi’ogram committee; Capt. J. D. Muehleisen, advisor, J. W. Philips chairman. Invitation committee, Capt. J. D. Muehleisen, advisor, Bibb Under wood and Lew Jobe, co-chaii-men. Guest committee, Maj. C. P. Parrish, advisor, J. W. “Doggie” Dalston and Jim Anderson, co- chairmen. Decoration committee, Maj. J. C. Lowell, advisor, Bob Kirk and Dave Carnahan, co-chairmen. Publicity committee, Capt. E. R. Brigham, advisor, Joel Austin and Dale Walston, co-chaixmen. Transportation Committee Transportation committee L t. A. J. Armstrong, advisor, John Story and Ted Mohle, co-chaix’men. Ticket sales committee, Lt. A. J. Armstrong, advisor, Guy King and Robert Langford, co-chairmen. Finance committee, Pete Hax’des- ty (Office of Student Activities), advisor, Ted Stephens, chairman. Refreshments committee, Dave Wolfe, Mike Lindner, co-chairman. Orchesti-a committee, Capt. J. N. Hoffman, advisor, Buddy Burch and Vic Russeck, co-chairmen. PMS&T Col. S. P. Myers, PAS&T Col. E. W. Napier, and Comman dant Joe E. Davis are supervising planning of Military Day. Lackland AF Band In Concert Tonight AF Seniors to Get Active Duty By 120 Days After Graduation Europe Travel Award Voted By Student Life Committee By JOHN WHITMORE Battalion Editor A&M’s European Tour Awai’d will be awarded again this year, the Student Life Committee de cided yestei'day afternoon. The committee also passed on a recommendation to the Academic Council about the football season greeting. The gi'oup passed a reso lution to the Academic Council registering their disapproval of the custom. Both the European Tour Award and the Campus greeting passed the committee by a bare majority of the votes. Dean Requests Opinion A ruling on the campus greet ing was requested by W. L. Pen- berthy, dean of men. He made this request in a letter to the commit tee asking for their opinion on the matte i’. Steps which will be taken for the official sanction or rejection of the custom will be made by the Aca demic Council. „The Student Life Committee was just able to expi’ess an opinion on the matter. “I have seen a lot of games won and last by some intangibles,” said Di\ C. W. Landiss, council member in regal’d to the custom. “It might be that the saying of ‘beat the Hell out of so-and-so might be the intangible which has been causing us to lose games.” Athletics Against It Barlow “Bones” Irvin, athletic dii’ector expressed his disapproval of the custom to the gi’oup. In his opinion it had no effect on the team either to win a game or to lose. Dr. Dan Russell, rural sociology department, hit at the custom from the standpoint of being contrary to some student’s religious scimp- les. After the stormy session over the greeting, the committee moved on to the^ discussion of affiliation with the Nation Who’s Who in Ameri can Colleges and Univei'sities. The approval will place A&M’s Who’s Who in a position to get national recognition rather than just local. National Affiliation It was also decided on the selec tion of Who’s Who, the awai’d is a lifetime award and should not be given twice. The committee made it clear the agreement with the national oi’ganization could be broken at any time. Dr. Ralph Steen, chairman of the committee, pointed out to the group money had not been alloted to the Eui’opean Tour, but it looked as if the money could be obtained. Method of selection of the award winner will be announced later. Light music will be featui’ed to night when the Air Foi’ce Band of the West pi’efoi’ms in Guion Hall at 7:30. Admission is free. Ranking next to the Air Force Band at Bolling AFB in Washing ton, D. C., the Band of the West is based at Lackland AFB in San Antonio. The organization has a total of 80 membei’s which are broken down into several versatile units, including a symphonic con cert ensemble and several dance combos. Solos Featured Besides concert band numbers, the organization also features vo calists and instrumental soloists. Arriving here at 5 p. m. tomoi'- row, the band will eat with the corps in Duncan Mess Hall. The band was developed and ex panded by Brig. Gen. Wycliffe E. Steele, commandant of Lackland. Chief Warrant Officer Samuel Kui'tz is dii’ector. Key Personnel Other key personal include Sgt. William T. Doyle, King City, Calif., di’um major of the mai’ching band, and Sgt. William E. Hardex-, Elm wood Park, Ill., who yrrites and produces the radio and television shows on which the band appears. The band has played at the opening in San Antonio of sevei’al motion pictui’es with militai’y themes. On Dec. 22, 1949, they played for the world pi’emier of “Twelve O’clock High” at Gi’au- man’s Chinese Theatei' in Holly wood, Caif. Aggieland ’51 Arrives Distributed in Goodwin The Aggieland ’51 has arrived and is being distributed in Good win Hall to all students between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., announced Roland Bing, manager of Stu dent Publications. Journalists Will Attend Meet at TSCW Thirteen students from A&M will attend the annual Southwest Journalism Con gress meeting at TSCW this weekend, announced D. D. Burchard, head of the journalism depai’tment. Bui’chard will accompany the students to Denton for the confei’- ence. Included in the talks to be given .at the meeting will be “Some Plain Talk about Clear Wi’iting,”- by David Hall, city editor of the Fort Worth Pi-ess; “Behind the News,” by Richai’d West, editorial writer and columnist of the Dallas Morn ing News. Students attending the confei’- ence will be Bill Streich, seci’etai’y of the Southwest Journalism Con gress, John Whitmore, Jei’iy Ben nett, Fraxxk Manitzas, Hei’bert O’Connell, Frank Davis, Charles Neighboi'S, William Dickens, Jim Ashlock, Harri Bakei’, Frank Hines, Wayne Dean, and Joe Hipp. W. O. Samueal Kurtz Lackland AF Band Director Livestock Judgers In Oklahoma Meet The Junior Livestock Judging Team of the Animal Husbandx-y Depai’tment will pax-ticipate in the Oklahoma City Judging Contest to day. This is an intercollegiate contest with the major land-grant colleges thi-ough the Midwest to be repre sented. Team members ai'e as follows: J. M. Eller, Donald S. Tabb, Billy Gene Hill, Melvelle Mumme, and Thomas Tigner. These are the costumes for the Friday Combat Arms Ball, as modeled by Marilyn and Mermod Jaccard. The men are to wear the army combat uniform which consist of fatigues, helmet liner, and combat boots. The girls are to wear skirts and peasant blouses. 5,000 Will Get Bars An estimated 5,000 grad uates of the Air Force ROTC will be ordered into active military service within 120 days after graduation this spring, the Air Foi’ce said today. Those to be called include all newly commissioned gi’aduates without prior service who receive their degrees before June 30, 1952. An additional 1,800 students will have completed the Air Foi’ce Reseiwe until they complete educa tional I’equirements. The majoi'ity of these officers will be oi’dered to active service subsequent to com pleting those requirements. Delays in repoi’ting' will be granted to students who have been accepted for graduate study in cei’- tain technical fields needed by the Air Force, they announced. Students -who have prior service and are scheduled to complete AF ROTC training this spring number approximately 3,000. There ai'e no plans at px-esent to call graduates with pi’iox* service. Aii' Force reserve lieutenants or dered to active military service will be offei’ed an opportunity to vol unteer fox- flying training and for training in civilian institutions in the fields of meteorology, languag es, and physical sciences. Air Force training at advanced Air Force technical schools and at USAF in stitutes of technology will also be offei’ed. Assignments of the new officei’s will be made on basis.of education al qualifications and Air Force i’e- quircfnents. In most cases assign ments will be made known to stu dents pi’ior to their graduation. All members of the 1951 AF ROTC classes were oi’dered into active sei’vice with' exception of those granted delays. C. .M Davis Speaks To ASCE Tonight C. M. Davis, consulting engineer from Foi’t Worth, will speak to the Amei’ican Society of Civil Engi- neers in the Civil Engineering lec- tui’e room at 7:30 tonight. He will talk about reinforced concrete. Davis is one of the engineers who developed the slip form meth od of forming concrete piers of dif ferent types. The Pecos River bi’idge is an example of this type of construction. McAfee Named Outstanding Professor in Agriculture Thomas E. McAfee, assistant pi’ofessor in the agronomy depart ment, has been named by the Ag riculture Council as the outstand ing professor in the School of Ag riculture for 1951-52. Known as “Mister Mac” to his students, McAfee devotes his time to teaching, research toward his PhD, and sponsoring the student Agronomy Society. His graduate The Lackland Air Force Band x’esearch project is in the corn sec tion of the Agronomy Depai’tment. The 35 year old prof was born and grew up in Foi’t Towson, Okla. After finishing school in the small Southeastern Oklahoma town, he attended Oklahoma A&M, graduat ing in 1939. Lacking only eight hours for his MS, McAfee came to A&M as an instructor in Septem ber, 1939. He finished work on the advanced degree while teaching here, receiving the degre in 1940 from the Oklahoma school. In 1942, McAfee left A&M to ac cept a research position with the US Department of Agriculture. He was sent to the Rio Grande Valley to experiment with the guayule plant as a source of war-scarce natural rubber. Returned to Valley After a brief period in the Army in 1945, McAfee returned to the valley to serve as farm manager for Rio Farms at Edcouch. His first love, teaching, brought him back to A&M in September, 1946. He returned as an assistant pro fessor. At the Bryan Field Annex, in 1948-49, McA.fee served as advisor to freshman agriculture students. He also taught the freshman orien tation classes for Ag students. Although an Oklahoman by birth, the genial teacher claims to be half Texan. He bases his claim on marriage to Miss Catheryne Loven of Paris in August, 1939. The couple has three children, Nancy, 11, Virginia, 8, and Jimmy, 7. All are students at A&M Con solidated Elementary School. When asked which of his many courses he likes to teach the most, he replied without hesitation, “Ag ronomy 105”. He says this begin ning course gives him the greatest pleasure because it gives him an opportunity to sell boys on the field of agriculture he enjoys the most. TB X-Ray Unit Here Friday All students of the college and residents of College Sta tion will be given an opportun ity to get free tuberculosis X-Rays, while a mobile unit is set up here March 21-29 in the YMCA. The X-rays will be made contin uously from 9 a. m. until 5:30 p. m. on all days except Saturday and Sunday, March 22 and 23. Dean of Men W. L. Penberthy urged all students and people of College Station to take advantage of the free X-Rays. The only re quirement is that all people to be X-rayed be 15 years of age.