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Number 226: Volume 52
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1952
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A&M Students
For 75 Years
Price Five Cents
Sbisa
Turns
Cafeteria
Dining Hall
Starting Thursday
A civilian dining hall in Sbisa
Cafeteria will open Thursday, Nov.
13, said today J. G. Penniston,
supervision of subsistence at Sbisa
Hall.
“Students may either purchase
a book of meal tickets or pay by
the meal,” Penniston explained.
Prices by the meal will vary with
the menu, he said.
Payment is being accepted now
at the Fiscal Office and students
who plan to get a. meal book
should obtain ope before the open
ing day, Penniston stressed. Cost
Fair Haired Ray
. Plays in ‘Three
Bears’ Tonight
Coach Ray George portray
ing Goldilocks in a production
of “The Three Bears”, will be
one of the many features of
Kiwanis TCapers, to be held to
night at 8 in the A&M Consolidat
ed School Gymnasium.
Theme of the show is an old-
fashioned school’s Friday after
noon program. C. K. Esten is di
rector of the show.
Schoolmaster for the evening
tvill be Phil Goode. The proverbial
bad boy will be played by W. T.
• Reidel.
The chairman of the mythical
hoard of trustees, Luther Jones,
and four of his board members,
Frank Knapp. R. E. Scruggs, Herb
* Shafer, and Ed Andrews have been
invited to the program. The board
members will double as a barber
shop quartet.
Dr. D. B. Gofer, Dr. Tssac Pet
ers, Otis Miller, and Robert L.
Boone also will be in the Three
Bears skit.
Joe Sorrels, Dan Davis, Dr. E.
O. Siecke, and Barden Nelson will
present a modern version of “Cin
derella.” “Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs” will be acted out by
a gi’oup under the direction of
Bob Cherry and Welcome Wright.
Novelty and variety acts will be
between these three main acts.
J. B. Baty and Nelson Durst
zre in charge of ticket sales.
£lyde Rainwater, Joe Campbell,
* y.nd Walter Manning are in charge
of the refreshment stands.
In charge of seating arrange
ments are Homer Adams, Johnny
sLongley, and K. A. Manning.
Property and lighting is being
handled by R. M. Wingren, Dial
Martin, and Floyd Adams. Adver
tising, publicity and finances are
under the direction of Doyle Led
better, R. L. Elkins, and Otis
• Miller.
of board from Nov. 13 to Dec. 18
is $42.25, not including Thanks
giving holidays. Payment from
Dec. 18 through the remainder of
the semester, exclusive of Christ
mas holidays, is $27.70.
Possibilities of a dining hall for
civilian students were investigated
by the dean of men’s office fol
lowing many letters concerning the
food situation. The feeding sys
tem now underway is the result of
these investigations.
Trial Basis
“This system is on a trial basis.
If at any time, the number of
students paying board by the
month becomes less than 200, the
civilian dining hall will be dis
continued,” he said.
Serving will be cafeteria style,
although second helping will be
available on vegetables.
Hours for serving during the
week are:
Breakfast 7-7:30 a. m.
Lunch 12-12:30 p. m.
Dinner 6:15-6:45 p. m.
Saturday schedule will be the
same except for dinner which will
be served between 5:30 and 6 p. m.
Sunday hours are:
Breakfast 7:30-8 a. m.
Lunch 12:15-12:45 p. m.
Dinner 5:30-6 p. m.
Col. Davis Rejects
11 of 15 Suggestions
Physical inspections will be continued so
long as there is evidence of hazing, Col. Joe
E. Davis, commandant, ordered yesterday in
a memorandum to the cadet officers griev
ance committee.
Answering the 15 suggestions forwarded
to this office by the group, Col. Davis turned
down 11 of the requests while approving
only four.
Other members of the committee appoint
ed by Cadet Col. of the Corps Weldon Kruger
are Gene Steed, Lyle Wolfskill, Sam Harper,
Pat Richman, Lee Philips, Danny Howell,
Davis Bottom and Dick Birdwell.
The memorandum of the commandant’s
Once Again - ‘The Kiss’
THIS IS CLAIRE—Halftime ceremonies at the Southern
Methodist game saw the presentation of Miss Claire Wil
liams of San Antonio to the Corps of Cadets. Cadet Colonel
of the Corps Weldon Kruger presented the roses and kisses.
(Staff Photo by Henry Cole.)
New MSC Projects
Outlined toCouncil
Etiquette courses will be offer
ed again, by the MSC Directorate.
Presented as a future project
of the directorate to the MSC
Council last night, the etiquette
courses will be divided into three
parts—military, social, business.
The .same program was presented
last year by the MSC House Com
mittee.
Other discussions covered the
possibilities of bringing television
to the MSC and courses on the bi
ology in sex.
Director J. Wayne Stark ex
plained preliminary investigations
Rice, Texas Date
Ducats Selling Now
Date tickets for the Rice and'
Texas games are now on sale, ac
cording to Chester D. Ownby, bus
iness mawr^er for the athletic de-
. partnieuu. *
Rice tickets will be sold until
5 p. m. Friday, and Texas stu
dent and student-guest tickets will
he sold until Nov. 20.
*■ All other tickets to the Texas
game are sold out, Ownby said. A
few Rice tickets are left from the
15 to the 25 yai’d lines, he said.
Weather Today
COLD and FAIR
WEATHER TODAY: Clear and
continued cold. The low this
* morning was 32. The low expect
ed tonight is around 32,
Services for War
Dead Held Today
The annual West Gate Memorial
service for World War I dead will
be held today at noon, said Colonel
Joe E. Davis, Commandant.
This service has been held for
the past ten years on Armistice
Day with the exception of last
year when Nov. 11 happened to
fall on the Sabbath.
Starting the service, the corps
staff will form in the new area at
noon meal formation. From there
the staff will march to the steps
in front of dormitories 1 and 2,
being saluted by each outfit as
they pass.
From the area, the staff will
be given transportation to the
memorial saluted by each outfit
as they pass.
From the area, the staff will
be given transportation to the
memorial where Cadet Colonel of
the Corps Weldon D. Kruger will
lay a wreath of flowers while the
staff salutes.
There will be no other Armis
tice Day activities, Colonel Davis
said.
Programs Provided
By Saf ety Council
Club meetings and schools in
terested in safety programs may
secure speakers and films through
the Brazos County Safety Council.
Jacob Beal, president, and Mrs.
Armstrong Price, chairman of pub
lic information, may be contacted
for the safety programs.
Ron Logan of the college infor
mation office spoke to the council
on safety as a continuing public
interest. He outlined the operation
of the Traffic Commission of Ty
ler, where all complaints and haz
ards ai’e studied, then presented to
the city council as recommenda
tions by the traffic engineering
sub-committee.
Safety measures underway are
scotch-lighting of bicycles at She-
phen F. Austin High School and
a driver training course to be held
in the spring.
The council urges the public to
report hazardous conditions for
consideration by them*
will be started soon to determine
the cost of bringing television re
ception to the Center on a large
scale. He described the television
plans used by other colleg'e stu
dent unions.
Councilman Carroll Phillips of
Henrietta told the council that no
special date had been set for any
of the three etiquette courses, al
though the business etiquette pro
gram may be held prior to Christ
mas holidays.
Another project planned by the
directorate is a course on the bi
ological aspects of sex. In present
ing the plans of the course, coun
cilman Ken Hall of Groom explain
ed the program will deal specifi
cally with biology in sex and that
other courses will be offered if
the student interest proves ade
quate.
Campus Speakers Set
Speakers from the campus will
be used primarily, Hall added.
MSC Vice President John Sam
uels of Galveston explained the
need of a permanent award system
for outstanding students working
with MSC committees and offered
suggestions. He also explained the
change in the activity point sys
tem of the Student Life Commit
tee which raised the council pres
ident from six to 10 and gave the
vice president six and each of the
council and directorate members
four points. The point changes go
into effect next fall.
Haskell Simon of Bay City was
introduced as the new council
member. He was selected from
and by the Student Senate as
their representative.
Concession Stands Set
Concession stands will be open
again behind the MSC on Saturday
evening, said J. Wayne Stark, di
rector of the Memorial Student
Center.
‘Fish’ to Elect
Class Officers
Next Tuesday
Election of freshman class
officers will be held Tuesday,
Nov. 18, said Charles R.
(Bubba) Blank and Jimmy
Holder, co-chairmen of the
Election Commission.
Filing for the offices of presi
dent, vice president, secretary,
social secretary and treasurer is
underway now in Student Activi
ties Office on the second floor of
Goodwin Hall.
“Yell leaders also will be elect
ed by the freshmen on the same
ballot,” Blank explained. “Each
company commaaider in the Third
Division will have elected from his
company, a representative who will
be placed on the ballot. Company
tryouts probably will be held
Thursday night, but official clear
ance has not yet been received,”
Blank said.
Election of freshmen officers,
usually held in the spring semester,
"fe being held now so that under
classmen can name their class
leaders and yell leaders at the
same time, Blanks Continued.
Voting probably will be in front
of Sbisa Hall at the intramural
message center, he said.
Announce nients
On Sale Wednesday
Graduation announcements will
go on sale Nov. 12, said W. D.
(Pete) Hardesty, business mana
ger of student activities. All or
ders must be in by Dec. 9.
Three types of announcement
will be sold this year, Hardesty
said. The French fold type will
cost 10 cents each. The other two
types will be more expensive, the
cardboard type costing 40 cents
each and the leather type selling
for 90 cents apiece.
A&M Rocks Dallas
During Weekend
By FRANK N. MANITZAS
Battalion Co-Editor
Dallas was impressed this week
end by the 4,500 members of the
A&M Corps of Cadets and their
dates.
The bi-annual Corps Trip to
“Big-D” with TSCW was success
ful in all ways but one. But we’ve
been outscored before.
Friday night, the streets rang
with “Gig ’em Aggies,” while SMU
students responded with “Win this
one for Rusty.” Parties were the
order of the night although some
attended the Dallas A&M Club’s
dinner which had Maj. Gen. H. L.
Boatner as main speaker.
Dallas police reported, “No
trouble with the Aggies. They
never are much trouble for us.
Saturday’s gloomy skies mixed
with many hazy minds at the early
hour for the long parade.
Reveille II Returns
Senior boots, Reveille II, and the
Aggie Band was “ohhed” and “aw-
wed” by the many females along
the path of march. The Aggies’
mascot. Reveille II whose name The
Dallas Morning News repoi'ted
A&M “cheer leaders” did not
know, showed she had learned
something in the school she has at
tended during the last few weeks
in Dallas.
A Marine sergeant, recently re
turned fz-om Koz'ea, said, “The Ag
gies az’e well dz-essed, both in z*ank
and unifoz’m.”
But many pez’sons wez’e amazed
AFROTC Inspected
By SMU Cadets
Cadet Col. Bill Lithecum, com
manding officer of a wing of the
SMU Air ROTC unit and two
other cadet officers inspected the
Air ROTC facilities here last
Thuz-sday.
Capt. Edward K. Washingtozz
and 1st. Lt. William J. H. Watson,
Air ROTC instructoz-s at SMU, ac
companied the thz'ee cadet officers.
A&M’s Thursday afternoon Air
Fozve dz-ill was obsezved by the
three Mustang cadets.
Cadet Lt. Col. Fz’ed Sullivan,
gzoup commanding officer; and ca
det major Gozdon Rea, wing ad
jutant, wez'e the SMU officers
who flew to Bz-yan AFB with
Lithecum.
The SMU students proposed an
exchange with A&M Air Foz - ce
cadets duzing the spzing semestez 1 .
Sexy Saxophones
May Day Celebrated Early
May Day will be celebrated sev- z'ecent yeaz’s will be vocalists Car-
en months eazdy at A&M Saturday
night when the sexiest saxaphones
in the land will sei’enade students
and their dates.
Billy May and his “big band”
will pz-ovide music for the all col
lege dance at 9 p. m. in Sbisa Din
ing Hall. The dance will follow a
concert by the May band at 7:15
in Guion Hall.
Tickets for the dance and con
cert are now on sale in the Office
of Student Activities, said Pete
Hardesty, business manager.
Dance tickets cost $2.50, stag or
dz'ag, and cozzcert tickets are pz-iced
at 75 cents, he said.
Adding lyrics to some of the
freshest musical arrangements in
ole Simpson, Peggy Barrett, and
The Encores.
May’s band has skyz’oeketed to
fame almost over night. A former
member of Glenn Millez-’s and
Chazdie Bazazett’s oz - chestras, May
made an immediate hit with his
az-z-angements of “All of Me” and
“My Silent Love” z-ecoz - ded for azz
Arthur Murray dance album seznes.
Different Sounds
With these two records, a new
type of dance music was created,
in addition to a new band. May’s
music contains unusual and dif-
fez’ent sounds which are marked
by their freshness. Using an un
restrained open style on the ti’um-
pets and tz’umbones against a
backgz'ound of whining saxa
phones May gives his music a dis-
tizzetive style accented by his
chaz-acteristic arrangeznents.
Although May’s ozchestrations
are different, they az-e arraziged
stz'ictly for dancing. He uses a
znizzimum of vocals and no fz-ills
or gimmicks in his music.
May has done what few new
bazzd leaders have been able to
do. He has combined unusual az - -
zangenzents with smooth melodies
to cz-eate a band that does moz'e
than pz’ovide a background for the
chatter and confusion of the dance
floor.
Billy May and his band play to
be heard and remembered.
to see the freshmen znaz’ching far
better than their uppez’classmen
and even superior to znany first
ranks of cadets in sozne zznits.
At the review stand, A&M offi
cials caznied thz-ough precalculated
plans. President M. T. Harrington,
Gen. Boatnez 1 , Comznandant Col.
Joe E. Davis, sozne of the mem
bers of the Boaz-d of Directors, and
Cadet Col. of the Cozps Weldon
Kzrzgez*, took the salutes on the
fz-ont row.
This gz-oup kept Aggie Sweet
heart Claiz'e Williams of San An-
tozzio well hidden from the Dallas-
ites azzd the corps until halftime of
the game.
Even Capt. James T. Jones was
coordinated in this respect. He was
on the same row with Miss Wil-
liazns and set up a szzzoke screen
with his cigar which helped con
ceal the TSCW beauty.
Tired feet ended the parade
and movement to the Cotton Bowl
begazz. The 42,500 spectators
watched the football team but also
kept their eye on the Aggies’ yell
ing which proved strong as ever.
Yelling Still Strong
“Those Aggies. You can’t think
for the yelling,” a Dallas sports-
writer said in the pi'essbox, pznor
to the staz-t of actual play.
Reveille kept the field clear of
Peruna and SMUites while the
Aggie Band presented its regular
pz'ecise perfoimances, spelling it
out for Claire, TSCW, Ponies, Ag
gies.
Miss Williams was introduced to
the tune of “It Had To Be You.”
The 1952-53 sweetheart received
the tz-aditional bouquet of i-oses
and kiss fz’om Kz’uger.
Following the midfield ceremon
ies, Kruger was forced to repeat
the act several times with Miss
Williazns for the benefit of photo-
graphez's. He never had it so good.
Saturday night happy times at
Louanns, Flight 21, and the Sky
Chzb began the end of the year’s
first Coz-ps Tz-ip which closed
with the tz'aditional late Sunday
night stz’eam of cars on Highway
6—back to College Station.
answers will be presented to the senior class
Thursday at a special called meeting, Cadet
Colonel Joe Wallace, chairman of the com
mittee and commander of the First Divis
ion, said last night.
“The committee didn’t expect all the de
mands to be approved,” Wallace said. “We
just wanted to get the ball rolling for future
action, attempting to set a foundation for
future senior classes to build on.”
The first division commander urged
that all seniors realize this is only the first
step. “No one ever got anywhere by trying
to apply pressure or use force,” Wallace ex
plained, “We must go through the proper
channels and do this correctly.”
Wallace’s biggest disappozzzt-
mezzt was that the serzior compazz-
ies were not broken up and the
fz'eshman area I’emained closed.
“I think the coznmittee will
back me up in my feeling that we
would like to see senioz* companies
abolished by next semester and
the freshman az’ea opened thezz
also,” he said.
The commandant’s office refused
to do away with senior companies
which wez-e set up by the Boazxl
of Directors to house senioz’s not
qualified to hold rank. Davis said,
however, that further study would
be given to the subject. The fresh-
zzzan area (The Thiz'd Division)
also formed by the boaz’d will re
main closed, Davis ordez’ed.
No Use Quitting
“I think as long as we still have
rank,” Wallace said, “and still
have a means of being recognized
—^bargaining power, something
may be done. When you throw in
z-azik, it’s just like thz'owing in the
towel and quitting or giving up.”
Following is the complete text
of the memoranduzzi fzxzm the com
mandant to the gz-ievance comznit-
t66 I
(See GRIEVANCES, Page 4)
Senate Backs
Up-to-Date
Grievances
The Student Senate voted Thurs
day night to back the cadet offi
cers’ grievance comznittee in all its
actions to that time, accoz’ding to
Bob Tz'avis, pz’esident.
A letter frozn the senate sup
porting the grievance committee
was sent to President M. T. Har-
znngton with copies sent to W. L.
Penberthy, ’dean of men, and Col.
Joe E. Davis, commandant.
Travis was oz-dered by the sen
ate to write a letter to Luthez 1 B.
Moon, diz*ector of Duncan Dining
Hall, and John G. Peniston, su
pervisor of subsistence z'equesting
the week’s menu be posted.
The senate voted to select Claire
Williams, Aggie Sweetheart to
repreeezzt A&M at the Cotton Bowl
New Year’s Day, Travis said. The
senate social committee will pick
her escort latez 1 , he said.
The senate voted not to send a
delegate to the National Stzzdent
Association meeting in Miami, Fla.
concerning racial prejudice, Travis
said.
B vfj|3 1 j *! ■; !|Jj
THE ENCORE—These five smiling faces will compete
their voices with the popular arrangements of Billy May’s
band in a concert and dance scheduled Saturday night.