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COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1952
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Aggie Sweetheart
Selection Committee
Leaves Saturday
A delegation of Aggies leave for
their “sister” campus at TSCW
early Saturday morning to select
the 1952-53 Aggie Sweetheart from
a group of 12 nominees named by
''TSCW girls.
The new sweetheart will be pre
sented at halftime at the SMU-
A&M game in the Cotton Bowl
*Sfov. 8.
Plans for the selection this week
end include a picnic and presenta
tion of the nominees at an All-
Col'egi' ,)anee to be held at TSCW
Satifrd^r night.
liepresenting A&M will be Joe
Mattel, president of the senior
class and chairman of the selec
tion committee; Charles Blank, sen
ior class social secretary; Weldon
Kruger, colonel of the corps; Gene
Karl Steed, second division com
mander; and Bruce Gibson, third
division commander.
Itegimental commanders includ
ed on the committe are Shelton
Black, Bill Highsmith, Charles
yornstein, and Don Garey.
Representing The Battalion will
be Frank Manitzas, co-editor.
Other Members
Also on the selection committee
are Bill Henderson, non-corps yell
leader and Lamar McNew, MSC
Council president.
Nominees / from the three upper-
classes at TSCW . for sweetheart
are as follows: Seniors—Colette
Clifton, Ann Herring, Patricia
Martin, and Betty Ann Timmer
man; Juniors—Cora Jane Becker,
Marshalene Grene, Carolyn Ham-
fciond, and Jane McBrierty; Sopho
mores— Erika Heidman, Peggy
/’hillips, Patsy Potts, and Claire
Williams.
The girls were selected as nom
inees at individual class meetings
where balloting was held for these
positions.
The committee from A&M will
ballot on the new sweetheart Sun
day after the social functions plan
ned for the two groups.
“We expect to have plenty of
time to get to know the girls well
enough to make a suitable selec
tion for Aggie Sweetheart,” said
Mattel.
The A&M delegation will be ac
companied to Denton by W. D.
“Pete” Hardesty, business manager
for Student Activities.
Winner of the title of Aggie
Sweetheart will be announced
Tuesday, Mattei said.
Reset for Monday
Senate Meet
Postponed
The Student Senate meeting
scheduled tonight has been
postponed until Monday night,
annoupced Bennie Zinn, advis
or to the Senate.
The meeting will be held in
the YMCA Assembly Room at
7:30 p. m.
Reason for changing the
date was because non-corps
senators will not be determin
ed until tonight after today’s
elections.
Zinn said the principal
items for business on the new
Senate’s first meeting agenda
include election of officers,
planning a seating arrange
ment for students at the TCU
game, and Committee assign
ments for the Senate.
Shivers Asks Bar
To Revamp Code
Directoi’s of the State Bar As
sociation are expected to consider
Friday a request from Gov. Shiv
ers that the bar help revamp the
Texas election code.
Bar President Glenn Turner
said today directors will take up
the proposal when they meet at
A&M Friday and Saturday, accord
ing to the Associated Press.
The governor outlined several
points in the present election code
he said needed improvement de
spite what he termed long strides
by last year’s legislature.
County Judge A. S. Ware is def
initely for revamping the code.
He said, “No doubt there is room
for amplification in some places
and clarification in other places.
Major issues when the code Was
bemg established caused some of
the finer points to be left obscure
and vague.”
Wives of the directors will be
honored with a luncheon in Bryan
and a tour of the Brazos Valley
Friday.
Host for the gathering of some
25 directors and officers of the
State Bar will be the Brazos Coun
ty Bar Association. Ware ahd
State Bar Director W. T. McDon
ald of Bryan are in charge of ar
rangements for the session. Bus
iness meetings of the group are
to be held in the MSC.
Seniors Elect 15
443 Cast Ballot at
to Senate;
MSC Booth
Civilian Student
Voting Underway
Civilian student voting which
starts today concludes A&M’s
Student Life Committee and Stu
dent Senate and Election Commis
sion ballotting.
Under the new senate member
ship rules, one College View resi
dent, one vet Village resident, and
two non-military representatives
from each dormitory will be elect
ed to serve with the 15 senior,
10 junior, six sophomore, and two
day student members.
Only three vacancies were open
on the Student Life Committee,
and these must be filled by civil
ian students.
The voting procedure will re
main the same as was used in pre-
ceeding class elections with the
Team Send-Off
Careful Planning
Inexpensive Date
Easy With Budget
By JOE HIPP
Battalion News Staff
Just how much does it cost for
)n Aggie to have a date on the
jampus ?
Well, how much money do you
have ?
You have heard of some guys
who spend $30 and $40 for a big
weekend. Then there are sharp
business majors who scrape the
bottom with a five buck weekend.
This boy set a budget of $12.10
and had money to spare. His date
came down with some friends.
ROTC Pay Checks
Ready for Cadets
All summer ROTC pay checks
and all old contract student Sept
ember pay checks have arrived, ac
cording to the military records de
partment.
The summer checks amount to
$45 and the September checks
amount to $27. There are between
150 and 200 checks that haven’t
been picked up yet, they added.
Meanwhile, W/O Hernandez of
the AFROTC section said that the
Air Force summer checks will be
in either today or tomorrow.
Weather Today
CLEAR
WEATHER TODAY: Clear. The
Jiigh eysterday was 69 and the low
She got on the campus about 2 p.
m. Saturday. They met at the
MSC and he took her to one of
the homes in College Station that
take weekend guests.
For three dollars she had a nice
room in a private home. The date
ticket for the game cost $3.60.
“Old Arniy” had to feed his
girl so he took her to Duncan Hall.
She got a “charge” out of the
dining hall customs Aggies have
and it only cost 50 cents for both
of them to eat.
French For “Mum”
A “mum” for the game cost one
dollar. The sparkle in hex - eyes
told how much she appx-eciated it.
A couple of cokes at the game
wei'e 20 cents. After the game the
MSC Dance Committee sponsox - ed
a dance on the “Starlight Terx-ace.”
Fox - 50 cents they danced to the
ixxusic of the Aggieland Combo un
til 12 p. m. After that . . . ?
Sunday morning they ate a light
breakfast in the MSC Fountain
Robm then went to church. Fifty
cents covered the breakfast. They
had lunch at Duncan Hall.
A movie Sunday afternoon was
one dollax - , a malt at a Dx-ive Inn
and financial expenditures wei'e
over for the weekend.
The budget: $3.00 ixxom
3.60 ticket
1.00 chow hall
1.00 cox-sage, mum
.50 dance
.50 bi - eakfast
1.00 movie
' 1.50 misc.
Total $12.10
A good weekend.
Faulty Radiators
Delay Dorm Heat
Heat for all buildings except the
newly-painted dormitories was
tuimed on Tuesday afternoon, J.
K. Walker, superintendent of the
BCU announced.
Radiators in donnitories which
were painted this summer had to
be checked for leaks before heat
was supplied. Walker explained.
This was completed Wednesday
evening, and radiatox - s were turn
ed on Wednesday night, Walker
said.
Draft Age
Exam Less
State selective seiwice lowered
the minimum age for draft physi
cal examinations to 19 years, 11
months this week. The Associated
Pi’ess said this is ond month under
the previous minimum.
Lt. Col. Morx*is S. SchwaxTz,
deputy state director, said the ac
tion was “a safety measure.”
“The manpower situation is get
ting tight enough that we are
afraid some local boards might
not have enough men if we held
to the 20 year minimum,” said
Col. Schwartz.
“This does not mean that evex-y
young man 19 yeai-s and 11 months
old will be examined,” he added.
“Local boards are required to send
all those 21 and over first, then dip
into the 20 year old group, then
below 20 if necessary.”
QBs to See
Surprise Film
A sui'pxuse film of great time
liness will be shown tonight at
the A&M Quarterback Club in
place of the Kentucky-Aggie
game.
“Lack of interest shown for
the film of last week’s game
brought about the switch,” said
Ed Holdex - , pxesident, “but I be
lieve the film we plan to show
will be a pleasant surprise for
evex - yone.”
YellPractice
Tonight at 7
The Aggie football team
leaves tonight on the first leg
of its jouimey to East Lansing,
Mich, and Michigan State Col
lege.
The squad will boaxd buses
at -7 p. m. which will take
them to Houston where they
will spend the night. They will
leave Jxy plane Friday morn
ing from Houston for Lansing,
Mich.
The Aggie Bjyxd will lead
rnembexs of the corps of ca
dets to a stxeet beside The
Graye where the buses will
stop long enough for a yell
practice.
After the send-off by mem-
bei-s of A&M’s Twelfth Man,
the team will be on its way
to the big Satux-day game with
Michigaix State College.
students obtaining both a cai’d and
ballot, signing the cax - d, marking
the ballot and placing it in the
ballot box, and turning in the
card which will be filed alphabeti
cally.
Voting stations have been set up
by the post office entrance acxoss
from the Gift Shop in the MSC.
Fourteen Filed
Foux - teen civilian candidates
have filed for Student Senate pos
itions, and eight for Student Life
Committee positions. Running fox -
Student Senatoi - s ai - e Wallace B.
Birkes, Thomas K. Bax-k, Jf., Ron
ald B. Dokell, David Lee Haltom,
R. A. Hoffman.
Ernest G. Horres, Doyle F.
Lowery, Jack (Spud) Mergele,
Thui-man Walker, John R. Haas,
Howard H. (Jack) Jones, Jack L.
Morris, John David Rice, and Ray
mond Gene Rushing.
Those who have filed for the
Student Life Committee axe Wal
lace B. Bixkes, Bill Bxucks, Paul
T. Cordeihac, John P. Davis, Hay
den Jenkins, Jack (Spud) Mex-gele,
Thurmond Munson, and Richard E.
Piggott.
♦ Fifteen seniors were named to the Student Senate yes
terday in a close election which narrowed down a list of 48
candidates for the posts.
Four hundred forty-three seniors voted in the election
held at a booth in the MSC.
Elected to the Senate were Francisco (Paco) Coronado,
E. D. Francis, Victor Gillet, Sam Harper, John Heft, Daniel
Howell, Harold Hudspeth, Arvis Noak, Guy Shown, Haskell
Simon, Gene Earl Steed, Jack Thornton, Bob Travis, Joe
Wallace, and Lyle Wolfskin.
The seniors cast the largest number of votes in the
three class elections. Only 384 juniors voted as compared to
395 sophomoi - es. Appxoximately ♦
one-half of the class membei's
Cafe Rue Pinalle
Goes International
Cafe Rue Pinalle is planning an
international show for Friday, Oct.
17, said Betty Bolander, MSC px - o-
gram consultant. The show will be
honoring United Nations Day, Oct.
24.
Miss Bolander ux-ges anyone
with talent along this line to see
her in the MSC Directox-ate.
Six cadets from BAFB i - epi - e-
senting six different countiies will
attend the show with their dates.
The MSC Combo will furnish
music for the intex-national affair.
Governor Plans More
‘Ike’ Speeches in Texas
AUSTIN, Oct. 9 — UP) _ Gov.
Shivex-s said yesterday he px-obab-
ly would make “two or thx - ee’ mox - e
speeches for Dwight Eisenhower
before Nov. 4.
Shivers said this in an exclusive
intexwiew with J. Q. Mahaffey, ed-
itox - of the Texaxkana Gazette.
Shivexs also told the Texax-kana
editor that while Democx-atic Nom
inee Adlai Stevenson had mention
ed “some kind of compromise” on
the tidelands issue, Stevenson had
not told him he would appxove xes-
toration of the tidelands to Texas
if the case were px - esented. in a
sepai’ate bill.
Shivers bx - oke with Stevenson on
the tidelands issue. Last week
Shivers said he would carry on
policies which he packaged under
the genei - al tenix “Trumanism.”
Commenting on a x - ecent state
ment by Rep. Wright Patman, who
is campaigning for Stevenson, that
“no Congress and no President will
disappxove ‘Texas’ claim to its tide-
lands if its case were presented
separately from those of California
and Louisiana,” Shivers told Ma
haffey that was not the impression
he i‘eceived in his talk with Stev
enson.
Shivexs said he would like for
somebody to ask Stevenson if he
would approve Restoration of the
tidelands to Texas if the Texas
claim wei'e made separately.
stopped by the MSC election booth
between 8 a. m. and 6 p. m. yes-
terday.
The seniors also appi’oved the
four candidates for election com
mission post. With five vacancies
on the commission and only four
candidates, winners without op
position were Chaxles Blank,
James Eaid, Willaxd Gi’een, and
Jimmie Holder. Don McClure i - e-
ceived 31 winte-in votes fox - the
fifth position. Approval of his
election to the commission was
withheld by election officials un
til his qualifications are checked.
The senioxs voted in the new
method adopted by the Senate
last year. Caxds were signed and
filed, and ballots wex - e then given
to votex-s who dx-opped their un
signed ballots in a box after be
ing mai’ked.
Election Results
Results in the election ai'e as
follows as listed on the ballot):
Richaxd V. Alexander 68
Howard C. Allison 137
Freddie E. Blackstock 93
O. D. Bxetches 134
Johnny Brown .125
Don R. Buchner 150
Francisco X. Coronado 288
Fagan A. Cox , 119
E. D. Francis 191
John R. Fx - ey 145
Joseph S. Galle 108
Raymond A. Gerdes 16
A. Ed Gilless ! 54
Victor Gillett 155
Stex-ling Doug Goode 82
John T. Halsell 83
Sam Harper 240
William W. Harper, Jr 98
Joe D. Hartwell 137
John C. Heft 211
Daniel Howell 191
Harold Hudspeth 212
James Keeling 94
Thomas E. Kelly 98
R. F. Lannext 102
William C. Moses 104
Don F. Newman Ill
Arvis Noak 185
John Pat Richman 154
Vernon K. Roberts 71
Ralph L. Shanahan 94
Alva Shepai'd 50
W'inifred Guy Shown 187
Haskell L. Simon 181
Chax-les Leonax - d Smith 89
Edgar Warren Smith 42
Gene Earl Steed 195
James J. Storine 88
James H. Thomas 94
Jack Thornton Jr 184
William S. Thornton 123
W. B. Tx - avelstead 142
R. S. Travis 210
James H. Uptmore 124
Joe C. Wallace 177
Ralph E. Westphal 101
Lyle A. Wolfskill 229
Dennis G. Zahiji 91
Baby, It’s Cold Up There
Ags In Nation-Wide TV Debut
By JOEL AUSTIN
Battalion Co-Editor
Satux'day’s game with Michigan
State at East Lansing, Mich, may
be the Aggies’ fourth game, but
it’s their biggest debut in A&M
gridiron history. On that day the
A&M-Spartan game will be flashed
around the fxation via NBC-TV as
the “Television game of the Day.”
It will be the fix - st time an A&M
team has been featured in a nation
wide television broadcast.
The Aggies will find a some
what different tempeiatux - e px - e-
vailing in that countxy far to the
nox-th. The CAA Weather Station
at Eastei'wood Airport said it was
in the low 40’s at Lansing this
monxing. They said temperature
for the game could possibly be in
the upper 40’s or low 50’s.
“Frost On the Pumpkin”
Tuesday’s edition of the Michi
gan State News lists the weather
simply as “The frost is on the
pumpkin.”
The college is located near the
Michigan capitol of Lansing which
has a population of approximately
60.000. East Lansing is a city
similar to College Station, but
boasts a population of nearly
15.000.
Many recent visitors to the
Spax-tan campus comment largely
on its beautiful tx - ees, the marvel
ous student union building (sux - -
passed by A&M’s Memorial Stu
dent Center, however, is the word
we get), and big music building
which has a vex - y complete music
library.
Michigan State College has the
largest men’s dormitoxy in the
world—Shaw Hall. This dormitory
is just acx - oss the Red Cedar Riv
er, a stream which xuns through
the campus.
Beautiful Girls?
Another item of note for the land
gi - ant college of Michigan is their
reputation for beautiful girls. The
saying goes that four out of five
beautiful gix - ls go to Michigan
State, and the fifth goes to the
Univexsity of Michigan. (We don’t
bear the responsibility for this
statement, but plan to investigate).
The college has an official en
rollment of 13,903, which is rough
ly divided into 9,000 men and 5,000
women.
Coach Biggie Munn’s Spdrtans
will meet the Aggies on Mackin
Field at East Lansing which seats
appx - oximately 50,000 people. Ath
letic Depaxtment officials here px - e-
dict the game will be near sell out.
Half time activities at the game
this week will honor Michigan
State athletes who repx - esented the
United States at six diffexent
Olympic games.
Sixteen persons who took paxt
in the 1904, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1948,
and 1952 games will be presented
at half time to the expected cx - owd
of 45,000.
Outstanding Prexy
Many A&M people will i - emem-
ber Michigan State’s able presi
dent, Dr. John A. Hannah, from his
address hex - e when Dr. M. T. Hai-
rington was inauguxated as pres
ident in 1950. Di\ Hannah is xe-
gai’ded by many college adminis-
tx - ators as the outstanding presi
dent of landgi’ant colleges in the
United States.
Michigan State is a pi'obationary
member of the Big Ten Conference.
They will be allowed full member
ship in the circuit next year pxo-
vided they comply with confei - ence
regulations this yeax - . They dx - op-
ped out of the conference several
yeax - s ago, but have already been
x - e-instated in some spoxts, other
than football, although they will
not officially gain full membei'ship
in the confei’ence until next sea
son.
Remember Aggies?
The Michigan State News says
Coach Munn is leather angi - y be
cause his “vicious” green and white
team was dxopped to second place
in the nation by beating Oxegon
State only 17-14.
“The words which have haunted
every practice,” says the News,
“are ‘Remember the Ox - egon State
Beavers.’ ”
Let’s hope they will be chanting
“Remember the Texas Aggies”
next week as they pi - epax*e for Sy-
raucse.
Truce Talks
Appear Nearing
Total Collapse
MUNSAN, Korea, Thurs
day, Oct. 9—OP)—The loni?
and frustrating - Korean ar
mistice negotiations today ap
peared to be nearer collapse
than at any time since they began
on July 10, 1951.
The Allied decision yesterday to
call an indefinite recess was made
on “higher authority” and came
at a time when fighting in Korea
x-eached its fiercest pitch in a year.
A special Noxth Korean bi - oad-
cast heai - d in Tokyo inferred to
“the failux-e” of the negotiations,
charged that the Allies ignoxed a
new Red offer, and declared re
sponsibility “lies on the U. S.”
It complained that the Allied
delegation walked out while the
new Red plan was being explained.
Text of the bx’oadcast showed, how
ever, the Communists had not
budged from their position that all
prisoners of war must be repatri
ated, the last major issure x - emain-
ing.
Officials in Washingtoxx said the
“higher authox - ity” was the U. S.
govexnment, which pxesumably act
ed after consulting other United
Nations with troops in Korea.
Seci-etai'y of State Acheson told
a news confexence the suspension
was “an affirmative step toward
obtaining an armistice.” He added
the Allied team was i - eady to meet
whenever the Communists agi’ee
to “an honest settlement” of the
prisoner of war question.
The Allies left it squarely up to
the Communists to revive the ne
gotiations or let them die over the
one unsolved issue of x’epatriating
prisoners of war.
Politicians
In Full Swing
For Thursday
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gov. Adlai Stevenson speaks at
Kansas City and St. Louis.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
leaves campaign train at Las Ve
gas, Nev., flies to San Diego and
Los Angeles.
Sen. John Sparkman campaigns
thi’ough Ohio.
Sen. Richai’d Nixon campaigns
by plane and tx - ain through Penn
sylvania.
Px - esident Truman continues
Democratic whistle stop tour
across Illinois, Indiana and Ohio to
Buffalo, N. Y.
Sen. Robext A. Taft stumps for
GOP ticket with speeches at In
dianapolis and Bloomington, Ind.
Sen. Estes Kefauver addresses
Democratic rally at Caidsbad, N.M.
Republican “truth squad” sena
tors broadcast rebuttal to Txuman
over nation-wide hookup at 10
p.m. EST.
Parking Notices i
Enforced Today
Students pax-king their cars on
the grounds west of the corps area
will get notices stalling today, an
nounced Fred Hickman, chief of
campus seeuxaty.
“Officers have been lenient to
ward the owners due to the re
paving of Spence Street,” Hickman
continued. “However, this attitude
will end immediately.”
Car owners will be expected to
park on the stx - eet or in provided
parking lots. Warnings have been
given students over the lout! speak-
ex - s in the mess hall, he said.