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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 75 Years Number 201: Volume 52 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1952 price Five Cents It- ft’ ' ^ S W0:: 'if m. m 7t I ---— : i *S! ^ '.i U Iff* ' I O' » . - " r • • v: :: PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT—Bright sunny weather is keeping construction schedules at A&M on the move. Pouring of foundations on the new physical Education Building is nearing completion. Other physical units are moving closer to their finishing stages. (Staff photo by Nickle.) ‘Big Move’ Coming in October For Several Campus Offices Filing Continues Wi th 52 Candida tes Fifty-two students have filed for various posts in the coming elec tions to be held Oct. 6-9. The ma jority of those who have filed are juniors. Oct. 2 is the last day for candidates to file. The 32 students who filed their names yesterday include four sen iors, 17 juniors, one sophomore, and two civilian students for Stu dent Senate positions; six juniors for the Election Committee, and two non-corps students for the ’ Stevenson Eyes Tour of Dixie; Silent on GOP SPRINGFIELD, 111., Sept. 25—UP)—Gov. Adlai E. Stev enson, silent on political funds and GOP “vindication” ses sions, took a look today at Dixie campaign schedules and chances of patching up political troubles in the Southland. Campaign maneuvers that will reach deep into Dixie were in the final planning stages at headquar- » ters of the Democratic presidential nominee. Stevenson aides told a report er that through the middle weeks , of October the Illinois governor will be jumping back and forth from his Springfield base to key spots both in the South and in the Midwest. Sen. Rupsell Long of Louisiana, a staunch Stevenson supporter in a state where fires of rebellion are smouldering among some ele ments of the Democratic party, was an overnight lodger at the Illinois Executive Mansion. Gov. Robert Kennon of Louisiana has deserted the Stevenson banner. Gov. Allan Shivers of Texas is refusing to back the Democratic nominee too. And the GOP is fanning hopes of splitting those two states, and perhaps more, from the usually v Democratic South. The hopes are built partly on Democratic dissen sion, partly on the glowing recep tion given Republican presidential nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower on nn early September expedition into pixie. As a result, Democratic cam paign sorties into the South are coming up in the next round of political skirmishing. Entomologist Says Rain Brings Bug Plague “No need to worry about the numerous ‘bugs’,” said Dr. V. A. Little of the entomology department. He was explain ing the wave of small insects that have hit the campus. They multiply after periods of rain and will naturally swarm to the lights around the campus, he added. Erases Nixon’s Doubt Status By ASSOCIATED PRESS Dwight D. Eisenhower wiped out all doubt that Sen. Richai-d Nixon would stay on as his vice presi dential running mate. , The Republican presidential can didate told a cheering crowd of 9,000 at Wheeling, W. Va., last night that Nixon “is not only com- National Kids’ Day In Observance Here A&M Consolidated’s Future Homemakers Club is expected to -net about two hundred dollars from selling National Kids’ Day buttons. The money which the homemak ers receive is only half of the amount expected to be gained from the sale of the buttons. The other two hundred dollars will be turned over to Dan Russell of the Kiwanis for use in conducting the Squadron Guidons To Be Issued Soon Col. Joe Davis, commandant, said yesterday the Corps of Cadets, squadron guidons will be issued as soon as they are available. At the present time there is a shortage and until requisitions are made, the issuing will be delayed, he add ed. The first corps parade will be held on Oct. 4, which is the date of the Kentucky football game, Col. Davis added. Weather Today e <i fj FAIR and BRISK WEATHER TODAY: Light winds and partly cloudy. The high yesterday was 88 and the Jow this morning was 60. Patterson Is Drum Major of Freshman Band Buddy Dwain Patterson of Dallas was selected head drum major of the Freshman Band in tryouts held yesterday af ternoon under the supervision of Col. E. V. Adams, band director and Doyle Krueger, head drum major of the Consolidated Maroon and White Band. Ronald Victor Baron of McCam- ey was selected assistant drum major. Patterson will be in charge of the band during reviews, half-time shows, and parades. The Fish Band will play at all freshman football games and will make all conference game trips. They will play when the Third Division marches on the field and will play with the Consolidated Band in the stands at all home games. The band has 122 members, Ger ald Staffel, animal science major from San Antonio is commanding officer. The band had its first taste of marching with instru ments yesterday when tryouts were held. Committee Closes Announcement Bid Graduation announcements, in vitations, and dance programs will be printed by the Southern En graving Company, announced Joe Mattei, president of the senior class. The bids were let for the next three years, 1952-55. Southern En graving Company also held the contract last year. Attending the meeting were C. G. “Spike” White, assistant to dean of men for student activities, Ray Perryman, chairman of business committee and T. B. Fields, pres ident of the junior class. next Crippled Children’s Clinic in Brazos and adjoining counties. But Satuxday will be the big day for 500 high school boys and girls in the College Station and Bryan area. To observe its National Kids’ Day program, the Kiwanis club is sponsoring a tour of Bryan Air Force Base for the boys and girls. The tour will last from 9 a. m. un til noon, and will include a picture show, orientation lecture, guided tour of the base, and refreshments. The students will be divided among schools as follows: 75 from A&M Consolidated, 325 from Ste phen F. Austin, 50 from Lincoln School for Negroes in College Sta tion, and 50 from Kemp School for Negroes in Bryan. Eleven buses will pick up the students at their schools at 8:30 Saturday morning. Air Cadets to Guide After the picture show and ori entation lecture, the students will be broken down into groups of about 25 and will be guided around the base by Air Cadets. Each boy and girl will have an opportunity to examine a jet plane. Cold drinks and ice cream will be supplied by the Dr. Pepper Bottling Co. and the Lily Ice Cream Co. Working on the program are Otis Miller, Kiwanis president; Ed Ivy, chairman of the Kiwanis Boys and Girls Committee; and Lt. W. M. Hodson, BAFB public information officer. Col. James McGehee, wing com mander of BAFB, extended the in vitation to the Kiwanis Club. The Air Force and the Kiwanis are cooperating nationally on this year’s Kids’ Day program. pletely vindicated as a man of honor but as far as I am con cerned he stands higher than be fore.” Then Eisenhower revealed that Republican National Chairman Ar thur Summerfield messaged him that 107 of 138 members of the GOP National Committee polled want Nixon to stay. Thirty-one expressed no opinion. The California senator, who had arrived in Wheeling minutes be fore on a 1,700-mile flight from Missoula, Mont., spoke before Ei senhower. “Case To People” Nixon referred to his Tuesday night radio-TV explanation of the $18,000 expense fund collected on his behalf by California friends. He said Eisenhower had told him to “take my case to the people, tell the truth, and then we will decide what will be done.” Nixon said in his broadcast he would leave the decision to the Na tional Committee. Eisenhower told the crowd that Nixon had “been subjected to an unfair and vicious attack.’’ Room For Everyone In a speech prepared for Wheel ing delivery, the Republican pres idential candidate said there was room in his party for members who don’t agree with all his views. Eisenhower mentioned no names but he obviously referred to at tacks on Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin and Sen. William E. Jenner of Indiana. Both are seek ing re-election. The general said he welcomes into his “crusade” all of those who “share a common repugnance of the mess in Washington.” He said the Democrats were trying to “most generously advise me which senators I should work with and which I should disown.” Student Life Committee. Previously four seniors, 11 jun iors, three sophomores and two civilian students had placed their names at the Student Activities Office in Goodwin Hall. Under the new senate member ship rule is seniors, 10 juniors, six sophomores, two day students, one College View resident, one Vet Vil lage reseident, and two non-mili tary representatives from each civilian dormitory will be elected to the senate. Senior Candidate Seniors who filed for Student Senate positions are: Haskell L. Simon, Richard V. Alexander, R. S. (Bob) Travis, and Joe D. Hart well. Thus far the junior class has led in the number of filings which have been submitted. New filings include: Larry W. Hoffman, Bob Vernon, Ken G. Hall, Robert N. (Bob) Johnson, John A. Matush, John C. Farrell, William R. Hud son, Lester S. Smith, Roy D. Hick man, Arthur J. (Jerry) Raney, E. E. (Gene) Kilgore, Louis Casimir, Prince (P. E.) Vickers, Sherwin B. Rubin, Billie Joe Pratt, and Tho mas E. Henderson. Only One Sophomore James H. Baggaley is the only sophomore who made a filing for the Student Senate yesterday. Civilian students running for the senate are: Quillermo Gardenas, a junior Jack (Spud) Mergele and Wallase B. Birkes, both seniors. Three new filings have been made for the newly created Elec tion Committee. They are Eugene Thomas Lewis, P. E. (Prince) Vickers, and Robert N. (Bob) Johnson, all juniors. Jack (Spud) Mergele and John P. Davis also filed for the Stu dent Life Committee. October is the big month of moving on A&M’s campus, as many departments make plans to get into new or remodel ed homes. The new Engineering Building and Texas Engineer’s Li brary, scheduled for completion in January, are receiving finishing touches now and will be ready for occupancy prob ably early in October. Also included in “The Big Move” will be the Extension Service which moves out of its own building into newly pro vided space in the System Administration Building. This project, however, is far behind schedule. Originally the Extension Service was to have moved last summer and the military depart- ment would have moved into their building. Parts of the Experiment Station will also be moved to different quax*ters. The director of both the Expex-iment Station and Extension Service will have offices in the System Administration Building. Howax’d Badgett, manager of physical plants for the college, said the militai’y department will move into the thx'ee above-ground floors of the Extension Building shortly after that space is vacated. He said the only repairs needed are painting some spots, x-eplacing panes, and other odd jobs. The Extension Service publica tions office, which is housed in the basement of the Extension Build ing, will be moved to the old horse bax-ns building after it is remod eled. This office will not move im mediately, howevei’. Scheduled to occupy the publications office space after it is moved is the militai’y property custodians publications office. Library Stacks Coming Steel stacks for the Texas En gineer’s Libi-ax-y are now enroute to College Station and should be installed within the next two or thi-ee weeks, Badgett said. The conti’actors will not turn the build ing over to the college until after their installation because light fix tures must also be installed above the stacks. The architecture department classi’ooms and offices in the foui’th floor of the Academic Build ing are now undergoing a thorough renovation. All walls ai’e getting a complete paint job and a new acoustical ceiling is being installed.. (See BUILDINGS, Page 3) Chandy Asks Further Assistance To India “It is our responsibility, if we love the other man, to know his condition”, said K. K. Chandy of South India to the A&M Wesley Foundation last night. Speaking on the conditions of India’s staiwing millions, Chandy asked the outside world for help. “The United Nations has been helping, but even more is needed”, he said. Chandy is a Chi’istian woxker in the Travelcox-e section of India. His work is concei’ned mainly with feeding and clothing the destitute population. Commenting on a world federa tion, Chandy said, “befoi*e a woi’ld federation will actually work, our individual attitudes towai’d pi’opei’- ty will have to change.” According to Chandy, the women of India ai*e no longer confined to household tasks. Several gov ernors, magisti’ates, and lawyers are women. “The minority discrimination in the United States reminds me of India’s caste system,” Chandy said. He observed this while tour ing all over the counti’y. Chandy’s brother, John Chandy, is a student at A&M. Town Hall Ticket Sales Set Record “Mox*e Town Hall Tickets have been sold this year than we have ever sold before,” Lyle Wolfskill, student entex’tainment manager, said today. At registration the Town Hall staff sold 534 tickets. Since that time they have sold 520 more. At the present there are 20 student general admission tickets left and only 5 student resexwe tickets. C. G. (Spike) White, di- x-ector of Student Activities, said these tickets will continue to be sold on a first come, first served basis. Non-student reserve tickets will go on sale at 7 a. m. Thursday, Oct. 2 at Guion Hall, White con cluded. I Go Pogo’ Okefenokee Characters Return in Tuesday Batt He’s coming back. Remember the funny little guy from the Oke- fennkee, the gxanddaddy of all swamps, and all his fx-iends that spent their time making fun of we humans ? You guessed it, “Pogo” is the guy, and he stai’ts again in The Battalion Tuesday. Pogo and his buddies from the swamp ai’e in the midst of playing the Woi’ld Sei’ies, although their tact ics ai’e a little diffei'ent fi’om those employed by our major league teams. You’ll again see the nationally known comic strip character who rlaims to be “A ’possum by trade.” Then thei’e’s Chug Chug Curtis, the mail man, and OT Albert, the alligator, “handsome, brilliant an’ modest to a fare the well,” as he says. “Don’t Like Anybody” Also in the strip is Poi’ky Pine who “don’t like anybody or anything including this so-call ed comic (haw) stxip.” You’ll see Boll Weevil, who’s “smart as a whip;” Howland Owl, a char acter who claims he is “an owl of paxt and a natural born scientist what knows pi’actical evei’ything.” Of couxse there’s Beauregard Bugleboy, man’s best fi’iend, who says he is “the beloved dog, A- lert, A-ware, an4- A number one in pei’spicacity.” In addition to these there’s “Chui’chy La Femme” the tui’tle, the three little bats, who don’t know who is which and which is who. You will also see Mam-selle Hepzibah, the skunk with an alux - - ing aroipa; the cow birds; the Deacon, who speaks in old English; Phinas T. Baxnum, wTxo expounds in sign board language. Makes Grand Entrance Hundreds of students have been inquiring when the belated “Pogo” comic sti’ip would be resumed. The explanation is simply he believed in waiting a couple of weeks to make a grand enti’ance, rather than “just be here” when regu lar publication was resumed this semester. Battalion comics were discontinued last June when the publication schedule was changed to two papers a week. Our little friend of the swamps has grown so in popularity that The Daily Texan at the Univer sity of Texas has even followed The Battalion in adding “Pogo” to their paper’. To pi’ove the student’s demand for Pogo’s re turn, a senior asked for the floor Tuesday night at a meeting of that class and inquired “What happened to Pogo?” For the benefit of that senior and all our other thousands of readers, Pogo and company will return to The Battalion Tuesday. Demo Impurity Gets Blame For Crime Increase WASHINGTON, Sept. 25— (HP)—The Democratic adminis tration must take responsibil ity for the nation’s increase in violent crime, Rep. Bernard W. Pat Kearney said today. The New Yox-k Republican cited this week’s report by the FBI that 1,022,200 major crimes were com mitted in the United States during the fix-st half of 1952, a 6.4 per cent increase over the correspond ing pex-iod a year ago. Kearney, a member of the House Un-American Activities Commit tee, said in a statement disti’ibuted by the Republican National Com mittee: “The whole spirit of lawlessness and cox-ruption which the New Deal and Fair Deal have built up in the country was bound to have an effect. If we don’t have honesty and integi’ity in high levels of our national government how can we expect these moral pi'inciples to apply elsewhere.” Soda Pop Tops WCTU Says TV Causes Dry Politics ST. LOUIS, Sept. 25—LT>). Television is putting the na tion’s political conventions on the wagon, the president of the national Women’s Christ ian Temperance Union said today. “The Republican assembly at Chicago in July appeared almost bone di’y,” said Mi’s. D. Leigh Col vin of Evanston, 111. “The Demo- ci'atic convention was slightly wet ter.” “Drinking,” Mrs. Colvin said, “obviously was confined to hotel rooms. But even this was reported at a minimum, because as one Texas delegate remai'ked, T never knew when television would show me all over Dallas.’ ” Mi’s. Colvin, in St. Louis for pre convention sessions of the WCTU’s 78th annual meeting which opens tomorrow, said more political can didates this year are dx-inking fruit juices and soda pop for photog- I’aphers. “We hope they will stay as sober if and when elected,” she said. Bryan Field Cadet Dies Near Hearne HEARNE, Sept. 25—WP)—Air Cadet Howard Fx-umin, 23, of Bi’ooklyn, N.Y. was killed yes terday when a jet training plane fi'om Bi-yan Air Force Base dived into the ground five miles east of here. The explosion was heard five miles from the crash scene. The plane dug a hole six feet deep in a creek bottom. The wreck age burned. « Sophomore Class Meets Tonight The sophomore class will hold its fix-st meeting of year in The Grove after yell practice tonight, announced W. R. (Dusty) Canon, class president. Canon urged the Class of ’55 to stai’t filing for the coming student elections, and said he would give them “the low down” on this at the meeting.