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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1052
Another Chance Needed
For Shuffled Freshmen
W/HENEVER a freshman hears Kay Starr
” singing “Wheel of Fortune” again, he’ll
probably wonder which spin placed him in
the Army ROTC instead of the Air Force.
The Freshmen we are concerned with are the
400 who requested Air Forge but ended
grounded.
No probable solution seems to be in sight
from the military department. They are
content that their shuffle was fair, dividing
the men in the two Armed Forces’ divisions.
Of the 400 who had requested air training
but are now scheduled as Army personnel,
one special group was treated unfairly. That
group is the few who had planned to enter
flight training after graduation and com
missioning.
This small but existing group feels hurt.
We think its actions are justified. The Air
Force is not all “up-in-the-air” but at the
present time men with the will and determin
ation of becoming pilots are needed.
Now, it makes little difference. The
training both groups will receive is similar.
But in the coming years and, prior to award
ing of contracts, we feel the military depart
ment should check their shuffle and give
persons who want to fly a chance to enter
the Air Force.
Both branches of the Armed Forces are
necessary for a free America. Without them,
the “Wheel of Fortune” couldn’t turn.
Campus Life May Prove Rough,
But Newcomers Will Survive
|T’S A LONG WAY HOME, isn’t it Mr.
Freshman.
The new student week activities have
been strenuous and certainly without many
spare moments. But like any other boy
away from home, you probably have found
time to sit back and think about that nice
comfortable bed at home; those wonderful
meals; and maybe about that girl friend who
reluctantly said goodbye almost a week ago.
These are all symptoms of a new A&M
freshman, embarking on a rough voyage,
but knowing the reward for sticking with it.
Meals in the A&M dining halls don’t
match up to your Mom’s cooking—she would
be offended if you said it did. Your dormi
tory room may not have all the conveniences
of home, and it didn’t take you long to no
tice the absence of members of the opposite
sex around this campus.
Yet, without all these things you left be
hind, you will) find something causes you to
overlook them. Going to A&M and being
a student here means more to the average
student than “just getting a college educa
tion.” You get an extra dose of how to be
come a man, and a step forward to take your
place in the world.
Before many weeks you will hear upper
classmen complaining about everything, from
the laundry to the college administration.
“The school is going to the dogs,” they will
say. But if you forced them to make that
statement in public, their pride for the col
lege would cause them to hold back this child
ish complaining.
They returned here last year and will be
back again because they are proud of A&M.
And so will you, Mr. Freshman.
Enthusiam Essential Plantation Yields
For Promoting Industry Large Sihage Crop
A large silage crop was har-
More than 100 industrialists and sponsible for selecting sites for vested at the A&M College Plan-
other persons interested in indus-'-Ynai'tyof his-©ompany’s 80 instaUa-- 'tatinn this summer. Three hun-
trial development learned how to tions. His company is particularly
interest their communities in such interested in this section of Texas
development and what attracts in- just now, he said.
dustry Friday at A&M Evaluate Community
They were attending the second
annual Industrial Development “We try to evaluate the com-
Conference sponsored by the in- munity on a basis of industrial sur-
dustrial engineering department. veys common to all industry, but
Thomas McCaffrey, president of with added qualifications of our
the Society of Industrial Realtors own.
of the National Association of Real “We avoid a community which is
Estate Boards, and Jules D. Camp- divided into cliques, or divided
bell, chief engineer for the Inter
national Shoe Company of St.
Louis, Mo., were final speakers on
the two-day program.
McCaffrey told listeners, “It is
strongly in some controversial mat
ter,” he said.
Strong community interest and
civic action along lines of interest
to a particular industry are major
necessary to generate some real en- factors in considering different
thusiasm for new industries,” if
you want to sell the people of a
community on an industrial de
velopment progi’am.
“One of the first objections from
the citizens of the community is
an emotional reaction dating, in
many cases, to the beginning of
the industrial revolution,” he said.
Proper Zoning Needed
“Proper zoning has a great deal
to do with the reaction of the com
munity to plant location,” he said.
“However, if active community
interest is to be attained, a healthy
diversification is essential to the
healthy growth of a community.
Insist on diversification of indus
try if possible.”
His subject was “Selling Indus
trial Development to Your Com
munity.” Campbell spoke on,
“What Attracts Industry to a
Community.”
He is one of the men chiefly re
communities, along with labor,
transportation and market facili
ties, Campbell said.
dred acres of Atlas Sorghum have
given a yield of nine tons per
acre.
In addition to this silage crop,
the plantation has harvested 381
tons of alfalfa hay. The cotton
harvesting is now in full swing.
The plantation was purchased
in 1944, and has shown a profit on
the investment each year. It is
under the administration of the
dean of agriculture.
Feed produced at the plantation
is used to feed the college live
stock. Large scale experiments
and demonstrations are carried
on there.
The seed used by the plantation
is handled through the Texas
Planting Seed Association.
MSC Open House
Enjoyed by 4 Fish’
By JERRY BENNETT
I Battalion News Editor
Freshmen took a break from
military orientation and upper
classmen Sunday afternoon to en
joy music, refreshments and pretty
girls at the Memorial Student Cen
ter Open House.
Organ music provided by four
girls alternating at the Hammond
in the main lobby started the open
house at 2 p.m. An hour later the
party was in full swing with stu
dents, parents, and faculty mem-
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bers filling the Ballroom, Assembly
Room, Bowling Alley and meeting
rooms 2A and 2B.
Dixieland jazz and popular mu
sic played by a six-piece combo was
the feature attraction in the Ball
room. Refreshments were served
in the Assembly Room.
At both places they were greeted
by faculty members, upperclass
men, and 48 pretty hostesses with
out diamond studded fingers.
Exhibits and displays explaining
the various committees of the MSC
were shown in meeting rooms 2A
and 2B.
Show cases in the promenade
were filled with displays represent
ing these committees.
Bowling champions Billy Welu
and Don Ellis, both of Houston,
displayed their form in exhibition
matches in the Bowling Alley.
Although nervous at first, new
students soon weie put at ease by
the entertainment, hospitality, and
uppei'classmen’s forced smiles as
freshmen got the most attention
from the hostesses.
Members of the Open House
Planning Committee were Presi
dent of the MSC Lamar McNew,
Barton Raynaud, Walter Raynaud,
John Samuels, Chuck Neighbors,
Gus Fox, and Jerry Moseley.
The open house was the first
step in the MSC Freshmen Orien
tation Program to acquaint new
students with extra-curricular ac
tivities offered by the MSC, said
McNew.
New Bachelor
Degrees Given
This Summer
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thur; Pinckney Davis Terry, Beau
mont.
Civil engineering: LeRoy James
Everett, Mission; Lester Gene
Fisseler, Shiner; James Fielding
Gouge, Houston; John William
Hardy, Karnes City; James Ed
ward Hulse, Houston; Eugene
Bremond Jones, Waco; William S.
Leus, Caldwell; Donald Ray Mc
Coy, Baytown; Paul Haskell Moth-
eral, San Benito; James R. Noblitt,
Dallas; Maurilio Ollervides, Lare
do; Noel Ardis Smith Jr., Fort
Worth; Nolan S. Sonnenberg, Port
Arthur; Hershel Gene Triielove,
Grand Prairie; Henry James
Wheelen, El Paso; William A. Sky-'
Eagle Jr., Texas City.
Electrical engineering: James
Edward Adams, Hearne; Kenneth
D. Bishop, Newton; Jack Wayne
Jones, San Antonio.
Geological engineering: Gus Ed
ward Clemens Jr., Corpus Christi;
Brian P. Lowry, Bryan; Charles
Maurice Penick, Midland; Lee Al
len Rogers, Seguin.
Geology: Bobbie Walton Allen,
New Braunfels; Francis Evans
Bowen, Houston; Jay B. Dreves,
Fort Worth; Lowell Clayton Ellis,
Tyler.
Industrial education: Emile L.
R. Bilodeau, Lanikai, Hawaii; Ho
mer Dennis Grant Jr., Alice;
Glenn Floyd Hallett, College Sta
tion; Earl Eugene Rollmann, La
redo; Harold August Sanders Jr.,
Arp; Clarence August Schlather,'
San Marcos; Harold Q. Taylor,
Temple; Carlton Skaggs Tibbitt,
Brady; Wayne Franklin Wallace,
Dallas. ^ .
Industrial engineering: Lesly
Dawson Attaway, Hewitt; John
Willacy Devine, Corpus Christi;
Alfred Hardy Eddleman, Houston;
Carl Otis Fleming Jr., Coleman;
Floyd Fennel Griffin, Bryan;
Louis Ray Harvey, Houston; An
drew A. Korioth III, Sherman;
Homer Franklin Wicker Jr., Cle
burne.
Mechanical engineering: Billy
Ray Bain, Houston; Olen Hubbard
Chandler, Tulsa, Okla.; Aaron Co
hen, San Antonio; Kenneth Wayne
Colley, La Marque; George W.
Edgell, Tyler; James Lewis Fen-
ley, Lufkin; William Aubrey Gal-
breath Jr., Houston; Hoyt Afron
Jarvis, Henderson; Joseph Russell
Johnson, Wills Point; John L. King
III, Dallas; Robert Lynn King,
Sherman; Charles E. Layman,
Brownsville; Ted Lee Mullinnix,
Wichita*Falls; Roy A. Pfile, Bry-
Monroe City; Robert A. Pfile, Bx-y-
an; Clifford August Schaefer, Sam
Antonio; Ted Maurice Stephens,
San Antonio.
Petroleum engineering: Frank
Allen Jr., Levelland; John Ethen
Cojlins, Livingston; Alfred Joseph
Dudenhoeffer, Freer; Harold Bur-
ness Lawley, Pampa; Robert A.
Pfile, Bryan; Eugene Calvert
Smith, San Antonio; Jack Hamil
ton Tarver, Amarillo; Robert Ben
Wacker, Trinity; Roy Gordon Win
gate, Dallas.
Texans In Washington
Teague To Succeed Rankin'
As Veterans’ Affairs Head
By TEX EASLEY
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9—GP);—
Reshuffling of House committee
assignments with the beginning of
the new Congress next Jan. 3, may
cause a rift among the 22 Texas
representatives.
Possible fuel for a clash lies in
the expected selection of a Texan
to serve on the powerful House
Ways and Means Committee.
That’s the group that not only
handles tax, tariff and social se
curity legislation, but names the
Democratic members to serve on
all other House Committees.
Texas’ lone mernber now on the
25-member group is retiring Con
gressman J. M. Combs of Beau
mont.
The Texan with the most senior
ity among those most likely to seek
the spot is Rep. Wingate Lucas
of Fort Worth and Grapevine. Sev
eral Texas colleagues have been
here longer, but have high posi
tions on other important commit
tees and would be unlikely to
Dr. Skrazanek Returns
From Penn State Trip
Dr. Robert L. Skrabanek of the
agricultural economics and rural
sociology department, recently re
turned to A&M from Pennsylvania
State College. He presented a pa
per which he co-authored, entitled
“The Impact of Technology on
Rural Organization.”
Dr. Skrabanek was at Penn
State attending the annual meet
ing of the American. Rural Socio
logical Society.
change. Moving to a new commit
tee, a member goes to the bottom
of the list. It’s a long, slow climb
to the chairmanship.
Seniority Is Powerful
Seniority is a powerful force
around here. But the way a leg
islator rates with the top congres
sional leaders also counts heavily.
That’s where the hitch may come
for Lucas. His voting record
shows he has often failed to sup
port the Administration. So, some
of the top Democratic leaders may
try to block his getting on such an
influential committee as Ways and
Means.
Also mentioned as possible suc
cessors to Combs on the committee
are Galveston’s Rep. Clark Thomp
son and Austin’s Rep. Homer
Thornberry.
Thompson came to Congress
ahead of Lucas, but he was out for
several years. Consequently, Lu
cas now ranks him. Thompson
now is on the Agriculture Com
mittee, while Thornberry serves
with the Interstate and Foreign
Commerce Committee.
Teague to Chairmanship
Should the Democrats retain
control of the House, Rep. Olin E.
(Tiger) Teague of College Station
and Bryan will become chairman of
the House Veterans’ Affairs Com
mittee.
A World War Two combat vet
eran, Teague is in line to succeed
Rep. John Rankin, who was defeat
ed in the recent Mississippi pri
mary.
At 42 and with six years serv
ice behind him, Teague has become
one of the leaders among the
younger legislators.
Holder of numerous valor
awards, the six-times wounded re
serve infantry colonel speaks with
courage when it comes to veter
ans’ legislation. He has helped pre
vent enactment of some such leg
islation and encouraged that which
he considers good.
Two Texas house members are
bowing from the political scene and
their seats on the Commerce and
Judiciary committees may fall to
other Texans.
i Beckworth Is Running
Rep. L in d I e y Beckworth of [
Gladewater—who failed in his bid
for the Senate seat being vacated
by Tom Connally—now ranks right >
behind the chairman of the com
merce committee.
Tom Pickett of Palestine served
on the judiciary committee until
he resigned to take a coal indus
try post.
What the four new Texas con
gressmen may expect as committee
assignments is anybody’s guess
right now. Normally a freshman
in the House must be content with
a minor committee assignment. ^
However, it’s possible Martin :
Dies—returning to Congress as the
new Texas congressman-at-large ,
may get on the house un-American p
activities committee—a group he
fathered in the ’30s. For years
that group was known as the Dies
Committee.
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