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Number 210: Volume 52
COLLEGE STATION (Ag-gieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1952
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Twelve TSCW Nominees
Vie For A&M’s Sweetheart
Twelve girls chosen by nominees of the
three upperclasses at TSCW will be judged
by the Aggie Sweetheart Selection commit
tee that will arrive in Denton Saturday
morning. The winner will be announced
Tuesday.
Elected by the TSCW girls were Colette
Clifton, Ann Herring, Patricia Martin and
Betty Ann Timmerman, seniors; Cora Jane
„ Becker, Marshalene Green, Carolyn Ham
mond and Jane McBrierty, juniors; Erika
Heidmann, Peggy Phillips, Patsy Potts and
Claire Williams, sophomores.
4 The Aggie Sweetheart will be presented
during halftime ceremonies Nov. 8 at the
corps i trip game between A&M and SMU.
Cotton Ball Queen last yea r.-f
Miss Martin is a costume design
and fashion illustration major
from Starkeville, Miss. She is
treasurer of Delta Phi Delta and
was a Redbud princess last year.
She was also in Class Stunts and
a member of the Art Club.
Keen Competition
Miss Timmerman, upper elemen
tary education major from New
Braunfels, is president of the Stu
dent Council of Social Activities
and social representative of the
®Philomathia Club. Last year she
was president of the junior class.
Also from New Braunfels, Miss
^Becker is an interior design major.
^She is an officer of the Philo-
mathia Club and the San Antonio
Club.
Miss Creen is an art education
major from San Saba.
A general business major from
Eldorado, Ark, Miss Hammond is
treasurer of the Junior class. Last
year she was a Redbud princess,
Cotton Ball duchess nominee and
is also a member of the Philo-
mathia Club.
Secretary of the Junior class,
Miss McBierty is a secretarial ser
vice major from Ennis.
Miss Heidmann, business major
from Greenville was a nominee her
freshman year and also a Redbud
princess.
Merchandising major from
Crowley Miss Phillips has been a
Redbud princess and SCRA dormi
tory cha> rrna m
Miss Potts was Freshman Class
Beauty, secretary of the Sociologi
cal Society and a member of the
Aquatics Club.
Speech major from San Antonio,
Miss Williams belongs the speech
jlub and the San Antonio club.
She will represent the two schools on various
occasions throughout the year.
Miss Clifton, secretarial service major
from Memphis, Tenn., is secretary of the
College Government Association and a mem
ber of the Aglaian Club. She has been active
in Class Stunts and belongs to the Campus
League of Women Voters. Last year she
was vice-president of the Tennessee Club.
Psychology major from Arlington, Tenn.,
Miss Herring is president of the Philomathia
Club and vice-president of the Psychologj’-
Club and was on the Dean’s list last year and
her freshman year. She was a Redbud prin
cess her first two years at TSCW and a
nominee for Cotton Ball duchess her sopho
more year.
iVindow Shot
Unexpected
Interuptuncf
In Shower
Bill Kalil, junior geology major,
was interrupted from his shower
last night when an object believed
to have been fired from an air
rifle shattered the shower window
on the third floor of Dormitory 4.
Kalil said he was bathing when
he Will'd a pop immediately fol
lowed by the sound of crashing
glass. When he looked at the win
dow, he saw the glass was shat
tered.
^ At the time both the inside and
fiutside windows were raised. Upon
examination a small hole was
found in the outside pane while
the top corner of the inside pane
was shattered.
Ted Yaggi, junior from Dainger-
field, said the glass looked as if
it might have been pierced by a
pellet or B-B fired from an air
rifle.
Weather Today
CLEAR
WEATHER TODAY: Clear. The
high yesterday was 75 and the low
29.
DIRECTS LAWMAKERS— J.
Glenn Turner of Dallas, president
of the Texas Bar Association, is
directing the meeting of the or
ganization being held here today
and Saturday.
Defects of Texas Election
Law Draws State Bar Here
By JOE HIPP
Battalion News Staff
The directors of the State Bar
Association held their first busi
ness meeting in the MSC Assembly
Room this morning.
Presiding over the session was
State Bar President J. Glenn Tur
ner of Dallas. Another meeting
will be held this afternoon from
1:80 to 5 and Saturday from 9:80
Ags Leave
To Choose
Sweetheart
The Aggie Sweetheart Se
lection Committee leaves for
TSCW tomorrow to select a
winner from a group of 12
nominees named by TSCW
girls.
A&M’s sweetheart will be pre
sented at halftime at the SMU-
A&M game in the Cotton Bowl
Nov. 8.
Representing A&M will be Joe
Mattei, president of the senior
class and chairman' of the com
mittee; Charles Scott, vice presi
dent of the senior class; Charles
Blank, senior class social secret-
tary; Weldon Krueger, colonel of
the corps; Gene Earl Steed, second
division commander; and Bruce
Gibson, third division commander.
Regimental commanders includ
ed on the committee are Shelton
Black, Bill Highsmith, Charles
Hornstein, and Don Garey.
Representing The Battalion will
be Frank Manitzas, co-editor.
Also on the selection committee
are Bill Henderson, non-corps yell
leader and Lamar McNew, MSC
Council president.
Nominees for sweetheart are
from the three upperclasses at
TSCW. The girls were selected as
nominees at individual class meet
ing where balloting was held for
these positions.
The committee from A&M will
ballot on the new sweetheart Sun
day after the social functions
planned for the two groups.
The A&M delegation will be ac
companied to Denton by W. D.
(Pete) Hardesty, business mana
ger for Student Activities.
The Aggie Sweetheart will be
announced Tuesday.
a. m. until noon in the Assembly
Room.
Turner was asked by Gov. Shiv
ers to select a board of scholars
and experts who will devote their
time and energies toward removing
the defects from the Texas elec
tion law.
“The election code needs to be
re-evaluated and reconsidered by
scientists in the field of jurispru
dence,” Turner said. “The State
Bar is anxious to assist in the ad
ministration of justice and will
consider carefully the provisions
Gov. Shivers has outlined as in
need of clai’ification, amplifica
tion or correction,” he added.
Shivers’ Suggestions
In a letter to Turner, Shivers
said these problems should be
studied:
1. Whether it provides for cross
filing of candidates is one of the
questionable features of the code.
2. Lack of clearness on whether
the deadline ^pr candidates to file
for a place on the ballot is also
the deadline for payment of the
filing fee.
3. The formula for determining
filing fees can not be applied to
the office of lieutenant governor,
and therefore, there is doubt as to
what the correct filing fee for
this office should be.
Other Points
4. Absentee voting for the sec
ond primary starts before the re
turns of the first primary are cer
tified by the executive committee.
5. The date on which reports of
campaign expenditui’es must be in
the secretary of state’s office
needs clarifying.
6. It is not clear whether a va
cancy on the ballot must be filed
if the nominee of a convention or
primary withdraws.
7. It is not clear how many loy
alty affidavits are required of the
candidates. Is one required for the
primary and also the general elec
tion ?
Lt. Atmar Wounded
At Korean Front
The War Department notified
yesterday Mr. and Mrs. C. L. At
mar, 736 Meadowlane, that their
son, 1st Lt. Gerald L. (Jerry) At
mar had been wounded while serv
ing with the Army in Korea.
The previous day, the Atmars
here had received a letter from
their son telling them of his con
dition. He was wounded in the
left knee and hip, right leg, and
eyes. He went to Korea in March.
He was graduated from A&M in
June, 1951.
A forward observer, Lt. Atmar
had been directing fire when he
was wounded by a grenade. His
condition is not serious.
He praised the South Koreans,
Atmar said. “In his letter home,
he called the South Koreans won
derful little men. They took care
of him for 18 hours after being
wounded and had dressed his
wound.”
Lt. Atmar is now in a hospital
in Hwaschom
Fourth Army
Inspects Here
An inspection team has ar
rived from Fort Hood to look
over various Army equipment
here on the campus, Col. Joe
E. Davis, commandant said
today.
This team, appointed by the
Fourth Army, also will in
spect all other ROTC units
throughout this area, Davis
added.
The inspection, he went on
to explain, is not part of the
annual Federal Inspection, but
will be one of the several
periodic surveys made by
ordnance, signal, and other
teams during the school year.
Picture Schedule
For Non-Regs Set
Now having their pictures tak
en for the ’53 Aggieland are the
non-military students.
All non-military students will
have their pictures taken at the
Aggieland Studio in College Sta
tion by the following schedule: all
students whose surnames begin
with D-F, Oct. 8-10; G-K, Oct. U-
13; L-M, Oct. 15-17; N-Q, Oct. 18-
20; R-U, Oct. 22-24; V-Z, Oct. 25-
27. Students whose surnames be
gin with A-C should have had their
pictures taken Oct. 3-6.
Students are asked to wear
coats, white shirts, and ties, _
8. Moving the primaries to an
earlier date has been suggested.
Turner said he will suggest to
the directors that prominent mem-
bers of the various law schools
over the state be asked to under
take this task of revamping the
Texas election code.
1 Other business to be heard to
day is the report of the building
committee. The association has
purchased land two blocks north
of the state capitol in Austin on
which they plan to build a $150,000
structure to house the State Bar
Association. It is being financed
through donations from State Bar
members.
There 21 directors- repre
seating the 21 congressional
districts of the state here. The di
rectors are elected by the lawyers
in their district.
Some 1,200 lawyers are members
of the Texas State Bar Associa
tion.
Members of the group that Tir-
rived on the campus early Thurs
day evening were pleased with
the facilities of the MSG.
For most of them it was their
first sight of the A&M campus.
“The campus and the spirit of
the cadets is amazing,” Turner
said. “Are you always like this?”
Cadet Gridsters Head
For Michigan State
A&M-State Game
State Coach Fears
What TV May Do
EAST LANSING, Mieh., Oct. 10—OP)—
Biggie Munn is worrying and wondering if
his unpredictable Michigan State football
team is going to try to do it the hard way
again against A&M Saturday.
Michigan State has won 17 in a row. But
in eight of the last 11 games the team had
to break a tie or come from behind to win.
Munn admit’s it’s exasperating.
“But it must be awfully exasperating to
our opponents, too.” he added.
“They do it the hard way, but they do
it,” Munn said. “They seem to have hearts
big enough to get out of any hole once the
chips are down.”
Munn' is hoping that Michigan^
State will turn but to be a “tele
vision team” Saturday.
This is the first Michigan State
game to be televised to a national
audience since the Spartans met
Notre Dame toward the end of
the 1951 season.
Were Great Then
With the television cameras
watching, Michigan State operat
ed like a murderous precision ma
chine, played what was termed “a
dream game” by the sports writ
ers and won 35-0.
Some of the players are just as
unpredictable as the team. Full
back Dick Panin, a starter last
year who bolted the length of
the field for a touchdown on the
first play from scrimmage against
Notre Dame, has been dropped to
third man at the position.
Billy Wells, a second string
“pony” back last season has been
the leading ground-gainer and
edged out Vince Pisano, a senior,
for the stax-ting position at right
half.
Captain Don McAuliffe, consist
ently good at battering out yard
age, has retained starting honox*s
at left half.
Michigan State has been px’e-
paring its defense for a wide-open
Texan passing attack with Quar-
tex’back Ray Graves expected to
do the tossing.
Civilian Election
Draws 422 Votes
Nine Student Senators and
three members of the Student
Life Committee were elected by
non-military students in a general
election held in the MSC yesterday.
Four hundx-ed forty-two cast
their ballots compai-ed to the 443
cast by the seniox-s in Wednesday’s
election. The seixioi-s still hold the
record of having cast the most
votefe. Only 384 juniors voted
while 395 sophomoies made it to
the polls.
Elected to the senate wei'e Ray
mond Rushing, Bizzell Hall; H. H.
Jones, Puryear Hall; John D. Rice,
Post-Gxaduate Hall; Lamar Mc
New, Fxancis Fishback, Day Stu
dents; Doyle Lowrey, Law Hall;
Jack (Spud) Mergle, Mitchell Hall;
Darrow Hoopex - , College View; Bill
Maddox, Vet Village.
Army ROTC
Issued Rifles
Rifles have been or will be is
sued to all Arxxxy ROTC students,
Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant
said today.
These xifles were used in drill
Thursday and will be used on oth
er drill days, he added.
Students will keep the rifles
either in their room or in the
dormitory’s gunroom, Monday
thx-ough Friday. In that way, the
colonel continued, cadets can learn
the nomenclatuxe, proper care,
and cleaning of the weapons. On
the weekends all rifles will be
turned in and kept in the gun-
COs Meeting Monday;
‘No Show’ Thursday
A commanders’ meeting in the
YMCA Chapel last night was dis
missed axxd x-escheduled for 5 p. m.
Monday, Col. Joe E. Davis, com
mandant, said.
Lack of commanders was the rea
son for not holding the meeting,
Davis added.
The civilians also appx’oved for
the Student Life Committee Bill
Bxucks, Paul Cai’deilhac and John
P. Davis.
In the closest race of the day,
Jack Mex-gle edged Wallace
Birkes and Thomas Burk for the
senate post in Mitchell Hall. Mex’-
gle xeceived 27 votes while Burk
got 26 to 25 for Bix-kes.
The civilians voted in the new
method adopted by the Senate
last yeax\ Cards were signed and
filed, and ballots were then given
to voters who dx*opped their un
signed ballots in a box after be
ing mai’ked.
Official Election IXesnlts
Bizzell Hall
Itaymond Itiishinjc 29
I’uryear Hall
John Haas 18
H. H. Jones 72
Jack Morris 21
Post-Graduate Hall
John David Klee 5
Day Students
Francis Fish beck 25
I. amar McNew 21
Billie Joe Pratt 15
Law Hall
Ronald Dokell 8
R. A. Hoffman 16
Ernest Horres 19
Doyle Lowrey 67
George Sturgis 16
Mitchell Hall
Wallace Birks 25
Thomas Burk 26
David Haltom 3
Jack (Spud) Mergle 27
College View
Thomas Henderson 4
Darrow Hooper 16
George Rush 8
Frank Scott 3
Vet Village
Bill Madder 5
Student I.ife Committee
Wallace Birkes 108
Bill Bracks 253
Paul Cardeilhac 2C3
John P. Davis 23H
Hayden Jenkins 51
Jack (Spud i Mergle 101
Thurmond Munson 92
Richard Pigott 84
Inspection of Rifles
Postponed Till Oct. 20
Inspection of xifles in the first
regiment was postponed from
Monday and reset for Oct. 20,
Col. Shelly P. Myers, PMS&T,
told a gi’oup of commanding offi-
eexs yesterday.
Cadet officex's had asked for
the delay because more time was
needed to get the xifles in con-
, dition, Myers said.
Radio, TV
Starts 12:50
The A&M and Michigan
State football game, which
will be telecast over a nation
wide netwoxk, will be canned
by Houston television station
KPRC-TV beginning at 12:50
p. m. Saturday.
The game also will be tele
cast by a Foi’t Worth TV sta
tion.
Radio station WTAW will
cai’ry the game also.
Christian Youth
Leader Speaks
Here Sunday
Kirby Page, nationally
known Christian youth leader
and author, will appear at
both the A&M Christian and
A&M Presbyterian Churches
under the joint sponsorship of
these two and the A&M Methodist
student groups Sunday.
Di\ Page and local religious
leaders will meet Sunday at 4 p.
m. to discuss techniques in devel
oping pexsonal religious discip
lines.
At 6:30 p. m. the Presbyterian
Student League will be host to
the community in a brief song
and devotion seiwice aftex* which
Dr. Page will speak on “Living
Cxeatively in Days of Cx-isis”.
Dr. Page is the author of 24
books and 12 phamplets. Included
in these axe “Living Abundantly;”
“Living Prayerfully;” “Living Cre
atively;” and “In Cx-eative Revolu
tion of Jesus: Then and Now.” His
books have been translated into
12 languages.
An ordained minister in the
Disciple of Christ, Dx\ Page is a
native Texan and has spoken in
mox'e than 400 colleges and univex--
sities.
His tour is being sponsored by
the Amex’ican Friends Service
Committee.
Aggies Rated
14-Point Losers
Without a word, Coach Ray George’s
A&M football team left yell practice last
night for Houston, the first stop of a 1,500
mile trip to East Lansing, Mich, and its game
with the Michigan State Spartans.
Rated a 14-point underdog by The Asso
ciated Press, the Aggies have been describ
ed as “youthful but not capable of matching
Michigan State in experience, manpower or
savvy.”
The Corps of Cadets held a special yell
practice last night before the team left by
bus for Houston. The team will fly tomorrow
morning to East Lansing.
Game time is 12:50 (CST).
Unbeaten State will match theix*
Spartans against the once-defeated
Aggies. Kentucky handed the Ca
dets theix* first loss last week, 10-7.
A field goal won for the Spartans
last weekend and one cost the
Farmers a win.
Coach Geoxge’s machine will be
at full strength Saturday, with
Exic Millex-, end, the only starter
who won’t be in the lineup. Mil
ler is still out with a back in-
jux-y which has plagued him since
the Oklahoma Aggie tilt. His re
placement will be Jerry Crossman,
who played for Miller in the Ken
tucky game and caught the pasa
which gave the Aggies their only
touchdown.
Marshall Rush, who was slated
on px'eseason lineups as one of
the Aggie starting guards, is an
other figui’e whom a lot of people
will be watching Saturday. Rush
sxxffex’ed a face bone fractxxre be-
fore the season and has been kept
out of unifoi’m since that time.
^ Two Soph Steady
During his absence two s.opho-
mox’e guards, Marvin Tate and
Sid Theriot, have been doing out
standing seiwice, said Coach
Geoxge. “Should Rush claim his
place among the startei’s, one of
these boys may have to mount the
bench. But the answer to this
problem is not expected to be ans-
wei’ed until the final moments be-
foi’e the kick-off against Michi
gan,” he added.
Should the weather be cold at
Michigan, the Aggies are prepax--
ed. For the past two days they
have been working out in 60 de
gree temperature. This sudden
change in climate apparently
hasn’t harmed the players for the
throwing arm of Quatrei’back Ray
Graves, and the fast churning legs
of halfbacks Don Ellis and Ray
Haas, are still functioning per
fectly. If anything the coolness
is an advantage, fox* the team
shows more pep and desire than
they ever did during the sulti’y
weeks.
Local Demos
Meet Monday
In Courtroom
Local Democrats held the sec
ond of a series of weekly meet
ings for Stevenson and Spax-kman
in the Brazos County Courtx-oom
Tuesday night.
The group decided to meet regu-
lai’ly at 7:30 p. m. each Monday
night in the coux-tx*oom to give
evei’yone intei’ested an oppoxtunity
to obtain facts about the cam
paign and x'eceive literature and
buttons, Judge W. S. BaiT-on,
chairman said.
Heading the Stevenson-Spaxk-
man $5-campaign hexe, Barron ex
plained contributions from corpox-
ations, labox* unions, or fixmis hav
ing government contracts could not
be accepted.
Individuals of such organiza
tions, however, may contribute if
they desire, he added.
Campaign officex-s for this ai'ea
are Baix-on, B. H. Dewey Jr., vice
president; Mrs. Emmitte Wallace,
secretary; Mrs. Clifton C. Cax*ter,
treasurer.
800 Fullbright
Awards Offered
About 800 Americans will
have opportunities to under
take graduate study or re
search work abroad under the
terms of the Fullbright Act
during the 1953-53 academic yeax\
The awards will enable students
in all fields of graduate work and
those with specialized research
projects to study in many fox-eign
universities and institutions.
The scholarships will be made
for one academic year and will
include round-trip transpoxlation,
tuition, a living allowance and a
small amount for necessai’y books
and equipment. The grants will be
made in the curx-encies of the I’e-
spective fox'eign countries.
Any students who are interest
ed in applying for a scholai’ship
under tlxe Act should see Di\ G.
W. Sclesselman in Room 112 of the
Chemistry Building, the Fullbright
adviser at A&M. They will be able
to obtain information about the
grants and application blanks
there. The closing date for x’eceipt
of applications is October 31.
Ag Injured In Rodeo
Released From Hospital
James Ragland, fi’eshman from
Mission, was released from the
College Hospital yesterday. He
had injured his back when he was
thi'own from a horse at the All-
Aggie Rodeo Saturday, said Di\
J. E. Marsh, college hospital super
visor.