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ASS * N FORMER STUDENTS FE 4 COPIES 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 204: Volume 52 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1952 Price Five Cents SWC Committee On Sportsmanship To Meet Monday A v The Southwest Conference Sportsmanship Committee will hold its first meeting of the year at Texas Christian University Monday. Delegates from A&M will at tend the meeting hoping to obtain the re-appointment of a perma nent executive secretary for the organization here. Membei-s of all Southwest Con- fjeoence schools will send delegates will include their head yell leader, school newspaper editor, and student body president. Representing A&M at the meet ing will be Tom Collins, head yell leader; Frank Manitzas, and Joel Austin, Battalion co-editors; and Gene Steed, representing the Stu dent Senate. Since the senate will not organize and elect its presi dent until after the committee meeting, Steed was named by the Dean of Men’s office to represent the student body. Deferment Test •Planned For Dec., April Selective service college qualification tests will be giv-. en Dec. 4, 1952 and April 23, 1953, said Brig. Gen. Paul L. Wakefield, state draft direct or. Tentative arrangements have been made at A&M to hold the tests in the lectui’e room of the electrical engineering building. Dr. W. A. Varvel, of the education and psychological departments, will supervise testing. The state draft headquaiters has Warned college students who want educational deferments that they must ask for them in writing if: y they expect to get consideration. . “Application to take the test does not constitute an application for deferment,” Gen. Wakefield said. Colleges and universities are not '*) fequired to send class standing of Htudents to their local draft boards. A student wishing educa tional deferment must request his rchool to send information to . his iocal draft board. Applications for December draft tests must be postmarked not later than Nov. 1, 1952. Students whose academic year ends January 1953, are urged by Gen. Wakefield to take the test in December. This will give them a test score on file at their local draft board before the end of the fall semestei'. Application forms for the test may be obtained from any draft board during the first half of Oct ober. Students File or 0 f f ice T uesday Only 12 students filed for Stu dent Senate Tuesday compared to the 95 that filed Monday. * The six seniors that filed yester day were Fagan A. Cox, Jerry Crane, Danny Howell, Pat Rich- man, Ralph L. Shannahan, and James J. Starrie. Juniors w r ere Nick Alexander, T. H. Keese, and Roy V. McManus. From the sophomore class were W. R. “Dusty” Canon, T. H. Johnson, and Theo Lindig. Student filings close Thui’sday at 5 p. m. Weather Today CLEAR WEATHER TODAY: Clear. The high yesterday was 93 and the low £1. - The A&M delegation will ask for the appointment of Harri Bak er, journalism major from Mem phis, Tenn., as executive secretary. The person holding this office is responsible for keeping all records of the committee, sending notices of meetings to member’s, and car rying on business for the presi dent and the organization between meetings. Length of Prayers Other items which the A&M del egates will present before the committee include: 1) Limiting the length of prayers before foot ball games. 2) More publicity about sportsmanship and the re wards it brings to the student body and school. 3) The possibility of establishing sub-committees for sportsmanship on each campus to aid the regular committee mem bers in their over-all work, and 4) Encouraging more stress on sportsmanship for intersectional games. The Southwest Conference Sportsmanship Committee was or ganized in 1949 by The Battalion, at which time a trophy was donat ed by The Battalion for presenta tion to the school which excells in sportsmanship during a year’s per iod of athletics. Winner of the award last year was Arkansas, with SMU second and Texas Uni- versitv third. (See SPORTSMANSHIP, Page 4) Ridin’, Ropin’ Will Keynote Aggie Rodeo Bareback riding - , calf rop ing, bulldogging, saddle bronc riding, bull riding ribbon rop ing—these are only a few of the attractions offered by A&M’s All Aggie Rodeo which gets under way Friday and Sat urday, Oct. 3 and 4. Two performances wall be given, the first, Friday night and the sec ond on Saturday afternoon. The rodeo promises to be one of the roughest, toughest, and most en joyable rodeos ever held at A&M, says Roy England, chairman of ticket and publicity committee. Proceeds form this year’s rodeo, produced by Roland Reid of Hills boro, will go to send judging teams to the American Royal Livestock Show at Kansas City, Kan., and to the International Livestock Show at Chicago,. 111. This is the annual project of the Saddle and Sirloin Club which is sponsoring the event. Advanced student tickets may now be obtained for $.50. Any stu dent purchasing them at the gate will be charged $.60 said W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, business mana ger of student activities. General admission tickets for adults are selling for $1.20 and reserved tick ets for $1.50. This is the rodeo’s 31st annual performance. Those engaging in the event are all students from A&M. There are no restrictions as to who may enter the contest, and anyone who is interested in en tering any event is urged to con tact, rodeo officials, England said. New Bible Subject Of Minister’s Talk Dr. Paul Southern, of Abilene Christian College gave the address at the non-denominational meeting honoring the new Revised Stand- ai’d Vei’sion of the Bible in the A&M Presbyteiian Church, Tues day evening. Dr. Southern said the meeting was for several pur poses: (1) to deepen religious life of people, (2) encourage wider and more thorough study of The Bible, (3) make people awai’e of the new translation, (4) honor the new translation, and (5) celebrate the Bible committees’ work. He also informed the gathering there would be 3000 meetings of such nature this week and there would be 15,000 copies of this new translation pi’esented to outstand ing people and organizations. Uncomparable Gift Dr. Southern further said that “Of all the books to man, none is comparable to Heaven’s Book. The Bible is the Book of yester day, today, and tomorrow. It has been written in 1,000 languages and dialects. It covers all time from eternity past to eternity fu ture. The sun never sets in its gleeming pages and all good books are but the Bible in dilutions.” Later on during his talk he quoted the words “I would rather have knowledge of the Bible and no college education than a col lege education and no knowledge of the Bible.” Copies of the hhw translation - were presented to Les Richardson for use in A&M Consolidated high school, W. A. Tarrow for A&M Consolidate Lincoln High School, Wayne Stark for the MSC, Rob ert A. House for the Cpshing Me morial Library, Mrs. Dallas Belch er, for being ever present in time of need, Gordon Gay, for the YM- CA, Mrs. J. J. Taubenhaus, for service to Jewish students, G i b b Gilchrist, • for ontstahdihg .cbppera tion in reiigious workrbh'thb‘•cam pus. I'll IV ■- f v/y Dr. Paul Southern Bible Speaker Tank Painting Causes Uproar A&M’s military department flew into an uproar yesterday when it learned that a group of unidentified persons had disfigured with paint three of the college’s newly arrived medium tanks. The tanks, which were still on flatcars on the railroad tracks, had been painted some time Monday night with per manent blue and gold paint. Adorning the vehicles were the words Air Force, the Air Force symbol, and a bit of pornography directed at those associated with armor. Immediate action was taken by the department in an effort to apprehend those involved by ordering a thorough inspec tion of the corps. No traces of paint were found in the dorm itories, and little information was uncovered, said Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assistant com mandant. The college has refused shipment of the tanks since, at the time they Were painted, they were still under railroad jurisdiction, said Colonel Wil kins. If the college accepted the tanks, it would cost them between $300 and $500 each to repaint them, he added. This means that total dam ages could reach as high as $1,500. Apprehension of the paint ers is likely, continued Colonel Wilkins, since several finger- prints were found. “I hope those involved will confess,” he said, “because if we are un able to find out who they are and the case is turned over to federal authorities, they could get into much more trouble.” It is belief of the military department that the whole thing was done as a prank, said Colonel Wilkins, but as it turned out, it was consider ably more harmful. Ike and Harry Vie on Foreign, Public Policies By ASSOCIATED PRESS Dwight D. Eisenhower today ac cused the Truman administration of crushing a bipartisan approach to foreign policy; and President Truman accused Eisenhower of turning against public power proj ects and talking like a lobbyist for private power “monopolies.” Eisenhower and Truman, close associates for years in history making events, dueled in the pres idential campaign spotlight today while Democratic Nominee Adlai Stevenson prepared for a new vote drive next week. Whistle Stop Tour GOP Candidate Eisenhower, op ening a 28-state whistle stop tour in Flint, Mich., said the bi-parti- MSC’s Round-Up Fails To Draw; Band Big Hit Despite slight attendance, the MSC Roundup was a moderate suc cess. Many of the students who came to the Roundup, joined com mittees, according to Lamar Mc- New president of the MSC Coun cil and Directorate. Committee heads made speeches encouraging those present to sign up with their groups. Booths decorated with the re sults of committee activities in 1951-52 were ranged around the walls of the Ballroom, where the Roundup was held. Represented at the Roundup jyere .the'ar.t gallery, music, crafts, bowling, publicity, dance, house, camera, and games committees. . Davenport—New Assistant Ray Davenpoi’t, assistant to the director of the MSC, was announc ed by McNew as the temporary head of the new married couples committee. “If you couldn’t make it to the Roundup last night, it still it not too late to sign up for MSC com mittees,” urged McNew. The MSC Combo, a group of professional musicians who pro vide musical entertainment for MSC functions, performed for the ‘False Alarm' Say KKs A&M’s campus security office reported a “small distm-bance” in front of Dormitories 9 and 10 in the wee small hours of Tuesday morning. The office received a report from the Bryan police that some unusual activity was taking place in front of these dormitories. A campus police officer was dis patched to the scene but found “only a few students fleeing from the area and signs of water on the ground.” Roundup, and drew a large crowd in the Fountain Room following the program in the Ballroom. The music committee of the Di rectorate handles such things as the combo and the annual intercol legiate talent show sponsored by the center. Coming up this Friday in the games area of the bowling alleys, is the French Cafe Rue Pinalle, a fairly genuine adaption of a Euro pean cafe. It is sponsored by the dance committee. Local Entertainers Included- in the Cafe’s program for this weekend are entertainers fi'om College Station and Bryan. Students interested in meeting people and helping entertain them, might want to join the house com mittee, whose job it is to provide coffees for students and profs from the different departments of the college and to set up informa tion booths for football games. Rue Pinalle Opens Friday The first program of Cafe Rue Pinalle will be held in the MSC game room at 8:30 p. m. Friday, Miss Betty Bolander, program con sultant for the MSC said. Floor show entertainment for the evening will include Sylvia and Saundra Kelley, Bryan sing ers, and Bob Boon, baritone solo ist and music teacher at A&M Con solidated High School. The two girls have sung at various local affairs in the past few years. Boon appeared on television in Houston this past summer, Miss Bolander said. Dance music will be furnished by the Aggieland Combo. Admissions for the club is $1.20 per couple, and reservations may be obtained at the MSC bowling alley desk. The publicity committee can al ways use persons who would like to spread the word about the MSC, says Chuck Neighbors, chairman of that committee. “If you can write your name, I can use you,” he added. Art Gallery Interest Anyone who can di’aw or paint is invited to join the art gallery committee, said Louis Hampton, chairman of that gi’oup. “If you can’t draw or paint, but want to, we will teach you,” Hampton sa.id. The radio club and the games committee ai*e interest groups with unlimited possibilities to students who like that sort of thing, said Gus Fox and Davenport, chair men of those committees. A. W. Tieken stressed the use of the craft shop in making pre sents for family and friends. Last night wasn’t the only time one could sign up for MSC com mittees; those interested should sign for the committee of their choice in the Directorate office across from the browsing library in the MSC, McNew said. san approach to foreign policy “is being crushed by the abuse” of Democrats. Eisenhower said, the Truman administration trys to take all the credit for the good things and blame Republicans for all the bad. The President said in a speech prepared for dedication of the 108 million dollar Hungry Horse Dam in Montana that “it will be a long time before you see another struc ture of this kind” if Eisenhower is elected. Raps Ike Truman said that Eisenhower, inspecting Boulder Dam last June and learning it was self-liquidating said: “Here we have a perfect ex ample of doing something for all the people and doing it intelli gently.” But, Truman said, after learn ing the “Old Guard” philosophy, he has begun to talk like a lobby ist for “private power monopo lies.” He quoted the general as saying recently: “The government will build the dams, the government will tell you how to distribute your power . . . the government does everything but come in and wash dishes for the housewife.” Demos “Plead Guilty” The President said the Demo crats “plead guilty” to building the dams and even helping wash dish es, because “we’ve made it possible for housewives to get cheap elec tricity so they can afford to have electric washers to do the dishes.” He said dams like the Hungry Horse Dam, the world’s fourth largest, have brought electricty “to millions of homes that never had it befoi’e. And this has been done ovdr the opposition of the Republicans and the utility com panies.” Dr. LaMotte Speaks To Kiwanis Next Week The Rev. S. J. Fuchs of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Bryan spoke to the Kiwanis Club yester day on “Christian Morality.” Next week, Dr. Charles LaMotte will show kodachrome pictures of Canada. The luncheon will be held Tuesday noon in the MSC. Town Loses Hall Line Contestants By JOE HIPP Battalion News Staff The annual non-student Town ( Hall ticket line will be missing gome of its faithful members this Thursday. “I retired from the fray last year,” was Carolyn Mitchell’s ans wer when asked if she would try to be first this year. T. R. Spence, a long time winner in the pre dawn race, has retired from the running. The story goes that one morning Spence brought a radio, Recognized on 80th Birthday The Man Who Stayed Late The man who came to A&M early (1902) and stayed late (1945), is celebrating his 80th birthday. Dr. Samuel E. Asbury has re ceived congratulations o n his birthday from the board of di- reclors of the A&M “System. He still lives at College Station. He came to A&M in 1902 on fertilizer work and with the excep tion of one year spent at Harvard University studying chemistry and English, he had been with the college continuously until he re tired in 1945. From North Carolina A native of North Carolina, he was a member of the first grad uating class, 1893 of North Caro line A&M College. The board meeting here Satur day passed the following resolu tion in honor of Dr. Asbury’s birthday and his work at the col lege: “It has come to the atten tion of the board that Dr. Samuel E. Asbury is this day celebrating his 80th birthday. Dr. Asbury served . this institution from 1902 to 1945, or 43 years and 10 months until the time of his retirement. He is still living among us. “The board appreciates Dr. As bury and wishes for him many moi’e happy birthdays. The board recognizes his outstanding service to the A&M System and is happy that he has reached his 80th mile stone in good health and with a very alert mind attuned to the af fairs of the day. A copy of this resolution is to be sent to Dr. Asbury with our congratulations, our sincere appreciation and our best wishes.” While at A&M Dr. Asbury’s work has been chiefly in connec tion with the analysis of fertilizers and the fertilizer cojiti-ol. Many Interests He has a wide deversity of in terests relating to poetry, English literature, history, art, music, and rose gardens. He has made some valuable collections of books and pictures relating to the subjects in which he is interested. He has a musical drama dealing with the history of Texas, and his historical knowledge of Texas is recognized by the Texas historians. When advised by the doctor to get some outdoor exercise, he took up the hobby of growing rose bushes, chiefly the climbing bush es, with the object of seeing how much growth could be secured in one year. His house was almost hidden by climbing rose vines growing on two by four scaffolds, although it is to be observed that most of the exercise is secured by students and other helpers in car ing for the rose bushes. Mr. Asbury’s collections are of considerable interest, and he fre quently receives visitors from vai’- ious parts of the country who are interested in one or the other phase of his activities. Yj .xU-.:' : CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY—Dr. Samuel E. Asbury re ceived congratulations from the A&M Board of Directors on his 80th birthday, which he celebrated Saturday. Com ing to A&M in 1902, Dr. Asbury didn’t retire until 1945. toaster and percolator to the line, hung his tie on the door knob es tablishing his place at the head of the line and proceeded to seiwe breakfast to the early-birds. He says his age won’t allow him to make it this year. Mrs. C. C. Doak called it quits last year and is going to let Dr. Doak get his own ticket. Plan to be There Last years winner, S. A. Lynch, head of the geology department, was first in line at 4:30 a. m. He said, “The alarm went off early so I went on over to Guion. I didn’t expect to be first and was sure surprised.” He predicts the first will arrive at 5 a.m. this year. Joe Sorrells, civil engineering department, holds the record of being the earliest when he sat down in the Guion Hall lounge at midnight two years ago. Mrs. Polly Patranella of Student Activities will ai’rive with the tick ets at 7 a. m. There will be about 300 reserve seat and 25 general admission tickets o*i sale to the non-students. Has Coffee and Cookies C. G. (Spike) White, assistant to the dean of men for student ac tivities, will be at the line with coffee and cookies at 6 a. m. He said, “Early risers will get the best tickets but if past yeai’s are any indication there will be tick ets later in the day.” This year there will be a limit of four tickets to each person in line. Other members of the faculty who were runners-up are Dr. W. L. Porter, head of the mathematics department and Dr. W. M. Potts of the chemistry department. They will be contenders for first place this year. Things point to an early start for the non-student classic.