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Number 196: Volume 52
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1952
Price Five Cents
6 Ikes’ Form
But Can’t
Texas
Party,
Get Name on Ballot
AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 17—<A>)—
"■ Rebellious Texas Democrats have
a statewide organization to back
GOP presidential nominee Dwight
y D. Eisenhower today but no way
to put his name on the ballot under
a Democratic label.
Judge Jack Roberts in Austin’s
126th District Court yesterday pro-
* hibited the use of the Democratic
label or any variation of it for
Eisenhower on the state’s general
/%cU°n ballot Nov. 4.
IgXtetslre Roberts’ decision came
just a few hours after a group of
Democrats, meeting in Austin, set
up a state organization and plan
ned a “grass roots” campaign for
a Republican victory in Texas.
Claud Gilmer, former speaker of
the Texas House of Representa
tives and a Rock Springs attorney,
Town Hall
’Student Tickets
♦Near Sellout
Student tickets for Town
Hall programs this year prob
ably will be sold out by Oct. 1,
according to C. G. (Spike)
White, Student Activities di
rector yesterday.
At the present, there are about
622 general admission student
tickets left for sale from a total
of 1,157.
The 617 reserved seats on sale
during registration Friday and
Saturday are nearly gone. White
added.
Town Hall’s first attraction will
be Ray anthony and his orchestra
on Oct. 6. Following Anthony, but
not part of the Town Hall pro
gram, is Frankie Carle, who will*
perform for an all-college dance
Pthe night of Oct. 18 after the
TCU game.
On Nov. 15, after the Rice game,
Billy May and his band will play
t for another all-college dance the
^ weekend of the Rice-A&M foot
ball game.
No Parking
Problem Now,
Says Hickman
There is actually no parking
problem on the campus, according
to Fred Hickman, chief of campus
security.
With an overflow of about forty
cars, the New Area parking situa
tion is in worse shape than that of
the third division.
, Chief Hickman believes the ex-
t tra cars in the upperclassman area
jl will be gone next week, when the
students who brought them to the
campus for this week only, take
them home.
I, Until next week, the drill field
south of Dormitory 12 and Duncan
Mess Hall may be used for over
flow parking he added
Newcomers Club
Holds Lawn Party
An informal lawn party tonight,
will be the first activity of the
A&M Faculty Newcomers Club.
The party is to be held at the
home of Chancellor and Mrs. Gibb
Gilchrist on Throckmorton St.
The wives of all faculty, staff,
and military personnel who have
been at A&M less than three years
are invited to attend, according
to Mrs. Ray George, club presi-
£ dent.
Beamnont Honors
* Davis Thursday
Walt (Buddy) Davis, high jump
winner in the 1952 Olympics, will
be honored tomorrow night at a
banquet given by the Beaumont
A&M Club in Beaumont.
'# Governor Allan Shivei's will be
the principal speaker. Also at
tending will be college officials,
members of The Association of
^ Former Students, and Tyree Bell
pf the A&M Board of Directors.
was named to lead the movement
under the name of “Texas Demo
crats for Eisenhower.”
The prohibition to use the Demo
cratic label for the Republican
nominee came in a temporary in
junction forbidding Secretary of
State Jack Ross of Texas to certify
Eisenhower’s name as the presi
dential candidate for the recently
organized “Texas Democratic par
ty.”
The party was organized in an
effort to give Texas Democrats
who oppose Democratic' nominee
Adlai Stevenson a chance to vote
for the Republican nominee in
some kind of Democratic column.
The State Democratic Conven
tion at Amarillo, Tex., Sept. 9 cer
tified Stevenson as its nominee but
urged all Democrats to work and
vote for Eisenhower.
Other Developments
A day later, the “Texas Demo
cratic party” was organized in
Dallas and the Republican nomi
nee certified as its candidate.
There were these other Texas de
velopments:
• Ben Guill, state Republican
campaign manager for the Eisen
hower forces, said vice presiden
tial candidate John Sparkman
statement Monday that the Demo
cratic pai'ty could fashion legisla
tion giving Texas a fair share of
the tidelands was “the inevitable
bait.”
Guill said at Ft. Worth, “It is
the same type of promise Truman
made to Texas in 1948 and the
same that died the day after the
election.”
• Sinclair Weeks, chairman of
the National Republican Finance
Committee, was in Ft. Worth and
Dallas on a whirlwind tour to col
lect funds for the EtsenhoMifer cam
paign. He said Eisenhower would
spend two days campaigning in
Texas.
• Dr. R. B. Robins, Democratic
national committeeman from Cam
den, Ark., told 400 doctors that
Gov. Stevenson had evaded the
“socialized medicine” issue. Rob
ins, addressing the annual Scienti
fic Assembly of the Texas Acad
emy of Private Practice, said
Stevenson’s campaign manager
had replied to a letter asking a
clarification of views with the as
sertion that “pressure of the cam
paign” made it impossible for the
govemor to reply.
Registration Passes 6,000;
Cadet Corps Size Cut 259
About 6,090 students are registered according to unof
ficial figures from the registrar’s office. More than 150
students registered here both Monday and Tuesday.
With two weeks left for students to register, college of
ficials have said the number may increase. Figures released
in yesterday’s Battalion show the Corps of Cadets at a
strength of 4,445 as of Saturday.
President Harrington said he hoped for at least a 6,200
total enrollment for 1952-53. That number would equal last
year’s figure.
The size of the corps has decreased by 259 cadets since
last year. In May, 1952, there was a total of 4,704 students
enrolled in the corps.
Eisenhower
For Labor
NEW YORK, Sept. 17 — WP>—
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower goes
before the American Federation of
Labor Convention today with a
speech that may determine how
much labor union suport he can
count on in the presidential elec
tion.
Interrupting his 12-state Mid
west and Southern whistle-stop
tour, the general flew back to New
York from Minneapolis yesterday
for the speech. He received a big
reecption in Minneapolis and St.
Paul before taking off.
Eisenhower told a crowd of
12,000 in St. Paul he was con
vinced the people want a change
in administration in Washington.
He said he had found administra
tion “fumbling” on foreign affairs
the chief concern of the people he
met at whistle stops.
Hits Democrats
He accused the Democratic ad
ministration of “frittering away”
the peace won on the World War
II battlefields.
“Our people believe that our
government has been following an
aimless and fumbling course,” he
declared. , , „ .
Next to foreign affairs “fum
bling,” he said, he found the peo
ple are concerned most with
“waste and extravagance.”
If elected, he promised, he would
appoint to office “the biggest men
we can get-—not men too small for
their jobs.”
AFL May Endorse
Eisenhower was accompanied on
the flight to New York by Gov.
Sherman Adams of New Hamp
shire, his top adviser, and Arthur
Summerfield, GOP national chair
man, in a party of 44 staff mem
bers and newsmen.
Bids
Support
William Green, AFL president,
has said the AFL Convention will
endorse a presidential candidate at
its meeting here after hearing Ei
senhower today and Gov. Adlai E.
Stevenson of Illinois, his Demo-
cratic rival, next Monday.
Green said the 752 convention
delegates would decide largely on
the views of the candidates and
their party platforms on the Taft-
Hartley Act.
He implied that he expected the
convention to endorse Stevenson.
The rival CIO already has en
dorsed Stevenson.
Fall Student Elections
Filing Begins Monday
Prexys And
Veeps Meet
President and vice presi-
dents of all upperclasses
and past members of the elec
tion committee are asked to
meet at 5 p. m. Thursday with
Bennie Zinn, assistant dean
of men, and Pete Hardesty,
Student Activities business
manager, in the Dean of Men’s
office in Goodwin Hall.
Batt Distribution
Schedule Ready
The Battalion will be distribut
ed at the following places every
day, Tuesday through Friday:
All numbered dormitones, first
floor; Hart Hall, G Ramp; Mitchell
Hall, second floor; Bizzell Hall,
first floor; Law and Puryear
Halls, Ramp One; and Milner Hall,
second floor.
Housing areas a,t the North
Gate, College View, College Hills,
South Oakwood, West Park, and
Woodlands will be delivered by
carrier.
♦ Filings for fall general elections will begin Monday, Sept.
22 and continue through Thursday, Oct. 2, according to
Bennie Zinn, assistant dean of men. Elections will be held
Tuesday, Oct. 7.
Positions to be filled in the election are members for
the Student Senate from each class, three civilian members
of the Student Life Committee, and the election commission.
Fifteen senators will be elected from the senior class,
ten from the junior class, six from the sophomore class, two
from the day students, one from Vet Village, one from Col
lege View, and one from each of the civilian dormitories.
There are five civilian dormitories.
Members of a class or living - ^
area can vote only for the sena
tors from their class or living
area. Only civilian students will be
allowed to vote in the election of
the three civilian members of the
Student Life Committee.
The election commission will be
composed of five seniors, five jun
iors, and five sophomores. The
Student Senate also will elect five
election commission members as
soon as the Senate is organized.
Requirements for filing in all
elections are a grade point ratio
of at least 1.0, attendance at A&M
for the preceding two semesters,
and classification of at least a
sophomore.
Zinn emphasized that students
must be in the class or live in the
area by and for which they are
elected.
U. S. Citizenship Cost Still
Low As Other Nation’s Rise
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17—-UP)—-
A thought for Citizenship Day:
One of the best buys in the world
is U. S. citizenship—at $11 each to
persons who are qualified to ob-
tain it.
The price hasn’t gone up since it
was set in 1944. The applicant
pays $3 when he files his “first
papers,” his declaration of inten
tion. He pays $8 when he sub
mits his “second papers,” his pe
tition to the court for naturaliza
tion.
But there’s no great rush on the
part of many resident aliens to be
come citizens. Well over two and
Air Force Gives
New Commissions
Billy May
Brings Orchestra Here
Peggy Barrett
Lovely Vocalist
Opportunities for college men to
train as second lieutenants in the
Air Force’s Electronics Counter
measures Program were disclosed
recently by Fourteenth Air Force
Headquarters.
The Air Force is facing short
ages in highly specialized flying
personnel with which to man its
air electronic countermeasures
program.
Applicants must hold a college
degree or be in their final semes
ter and not over 27 years of age.
They are required to have college
credit for one year of physics or
mathematics study, including alge
bra and trigonometry.
Qualified college men interested
in this training pi’ogram may get
full information from Sgt. Jeffers’
in the Varisco Building, Bryan, or
write to: Director of Military Per
sonnel Procurement, Headquarters,
Fourteenth Air Force, Robbins
AFB, Georgia.
a quarter million of them live here.
About 250,000 new ones come in
each year. But only 88,393 were
naturalized in the fiscal year which
ended last June 30.
’ Average Residence
Of the Mexicans who were nat
uralized, the average had lived in
the United States 28 years. The
Italians naturalized had lived here
an average of 24 years. The aver
age length of residence of Russians
was 32 years.
The English, French and Ger
mans who were naturalized had
lived here an average of five years.
Most of the war brides belong to
one of those nationalities. Most
persons have to live in the United
States five years before they can
be naturalized. War brides can be
naturalized after two years.
The ironical part about the slow
ness of many aliens in seeking
American citizenship is that over
seas throngs of foreigners are
clamoring at the doors of U. S.
consulates seeking entrance visas
for this country. About 775,000
have registered for the visas. At
the present annual quota rate for
admissions, all of those registered
from some countries, like Latvia
and Estonia, won’t get their turn
to sail to America for 200 to 300
years.
The immigration and naturaliza
tion service has wondered what it
could do to get the aliens to seek
naturalization. But officials who
have conferred about it have con
cluded that the government must
not be put in a position of urging
anyone to accept the privilege of
American citizenship.
Truman Asks Voters
To Defeat ‘Big Lie’
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17—(A*)—i has called Gen. Marshall a “living
One Of Three Top Bands
Billy May Now Signed
By JERRY BENNETT
Battalion News Editor
Billy May and his orchestra
have been signed to play for the
dance following the Rice football
game Nov. 15, announced C. G.
(Spike) White, director of Student
Activities.
May’s group is the third name
band signed to play on the cam
pus this year. Other bands in
clude Ray Aonthony’s orchestra,
appealing on a Town Hall con
cert Oct. 6, and Frankie Carle’s
orchestra, which is scheduled for
a dance after the TCU game Oct.
18.
music was becoming saturated
with an overabundance of vocal
ists, “gimmicks”, and radical de
viations from the basic melody of
a dance tune.
the band is pretty, blond Peggy
Barrett who supplys the vocals.
Network Shows, Too
In addition to arrangings music
Playing a new style of popular f or name bands ’ Ma y has directed
music which makes songs dance-
his talent to several network
able, Billy Hay’s orchestra has shaws i originating in New York
created a musical personality all
his own.
Played, Arranged
Before leading a band of his
own, May played and arranged
and the west coast. These pro
grams include Bob Crosby's “Old
Gold” sei-ies, “The Kraft Music
Hall,” “Duffy’s Tavern,” and the
Red Skelton Show.”
His arrangements for records
music for such musicians as Glenn have included Dexter’s jazz series.
Miller, Woody Herman, and Char- released in 1946, several children’s
lie Barnet. A number of former records, and a group of dance
Glenn Miller sidemen are now
Recording on Capital records, members of May’s band. They in-
Billy May has added a fresh ap
proach to the playing of dance
music. Until 1946, when May
made his first recordings, dance
elude Jimmy Priddy, trombone;
tunes for an Arthur Murray
dance album.
Two recordings in this latter
Johnny Best, trumpet; and Willie series. “All of Me” and “My Silent
Schwartz, clarinet.
Also currently appearing with
Love” are the cause for his swift
riseTo popularity.
President Truman voiced hot re
sentment today over use of what
he termed “the big lie” to reflect
on government employe loyalty and
to call Gen. George C. Marshall
“a traitor.”
Truman didn’t name names, but
he asked the voters to defeat the
users of “the big lie” regardless
of party affiliation.
He told the National Conference
on Citizenship here:
“It is a big lie, for example, to
say that we tolerate Communists
and other disloyal pei’sons in our
government. It is a big lie to at
tack one of the greatest generals
and patriots whom this country
ever had and call him a traitor.”
Sen. Joseph R. McCai-thy, Wis
consin Republican seeking re-elec
tion, has denounced Gen. Marshall
and Secretary of State Acheson as
“monumental liars” and has said
that Marshall is “steeped in false
hood.” He also has described Mar
shall as a “mysterious, powerful
figure” who sided with Russia in
historic decision which “lost the
peace for America.”
Sen. William E. Jenner, Indiana
Republican also up for re-election,
Voters Get
Free Rides
The majority of new car dealers
in the College Station and Bryan
will furnish free transportation to
the polls on Nov. 4, according to
the National Automobile Dealers
Association.
The NAD A believes more people
will vote who have a way to get
to the polls. This non-partisan
community service carries the slo
gan “Vote as you please, but vote.”
lie” and “front man for traitors.”
.Truman, addressing a confer
ence attended by a group of men
and women about to be admitted
to United States citizenship, de
clared that “communism inside
this country has been badly beat
en.”
“But communism never gives up
its efforts to weaken other nations
from within,” he declared. It seeks
to use all the weapons of pi-opa-
ganda—to stir up and confuse the
people; and it also seeks to place
its hidden agents in positions of
trust and power.
“In this country, we have been
waging a relentless fight against
this internal attack of commu
nism.”
But he said that “the big lie” is
another danger threatening de
mocracy from within.
‘Sky High’ Deemed
Very Successful
A capacity crowd jammed the
Bryan AFB gymnasium Monday to
view the variety show, “Sky
High,” produced and directed by
members of the 515th Air Force
Band. Accoiding to Lt. William
Hodson, public information offi
cer, the entire program was well
received. It was the second suc
cessful variety show put on by the
band, he added.
The program was written by
A-2C Wayman Jones of the band.
The entire performance was con
ducted under the auspices of the
base special service section.
Director of the band is Warrant
Officer Joseph Lanzillotti, former
ly of the Air Force Band at Boll
ing AFB, Washington D. C.
NEW PAS&T—-Col. John Way
is the new Professor of Air Sci
ence and Tactics here, directing
A&M’s Air Force ROTC unit.
Col. Way was named to this
post during the summer. He was
transferred from headquarters at
the Pentagon in Washington,
D. C.
Club Room Filing
To Begin in MSC
Applications for club meeting
rooms may be filed in the Social
Office of the MSC starting today
according to Mrs. Ann Hilliard,
social director. The reservations
will be given on a first come first
served basis. Miss Hilliard urged
that clubs smaller than 20 mem
bers find other meeting places.
Reservation schedule:
Monday — Honorary soceties,
school councils and hometown
clubs.
Tuesday—Technical and depart
mental clubs and societies.
Wednesday—No meetings to be
held. Religious activities.
Thursday—All other clubs and
societies.
Friday—Called meetings.
Ag School Plans '
Credit Session
“The Agricultural Outlook for
1953 and Beyond,” will be discuss
ed at the second annual Texas
Farm and Ranch Credit School for
Commercial Bankers, to be held at
A&M Dec. 7-10. The school will
be conducted by the School of Ag
riculture of the college.
The school attracted several
hundred banks from over the state
at its first meeting last year. It
came into being at the request of
bankers and C. N. Shepardson,
dean of the school of agriculture,
is the general guidance of the
School of Agriculture, gives gen
eral guidance to the school.
Sessions will be held in the
MSC.
Weather Today
CLEAR
WEATHER TODAY: Clear to
partly cloudy. The precipitation
recorded at Easterwood Airport
yesterday was .04 inch. The high
recorded was06 and the low 70.