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D. B. COFFER COLLEGE ARCH HSC, FE 3 COPIES Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Readers The Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Published By A&M Students For 75 Years Number 228: Volume 52 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1952 Price Five Cents Civilian Mess Hall Serves First Meal : Fried eggs, toast, and jelly head ed the breakfast menu this morn ing at the opening of the civilian dining hall in Sbisa Cafeteria. Seventy-eight civilian students had purchased meal ticket books at 4:45 p. m. yesterday, said W. C. Dahlkemper, steward of dining halls. The fiscal office estimated 125 meal ticket books would be sold by 5 p. m. yesterday, Dahl- ^ kemper said. Board Fees Although an earlier report stat ed 200 students must pay board fees before the dining hall open ed, the time limit has been length ened, Dahlkemper said. Due to the short notice concerning the dining hall’s opening, some students were unable to pay board fees on time, Dahlkemper said. We felt it was ‘Tish’ Election Filings Close Saturday Noon Filing for freshman class officers and yell leaders be gan Tuesday and will continue until Saturday at noon. The election will be held Tuesday from 8 a. m. until 0 p. m. 'i t the intramural stand in front nf Sbisa Hall according to C. R. IBubba) Blank, co-chairman of the election commission. Seven have filed for freshman president. They are W. H. (Bill) Williams, Richard Tindall, Edwin E. Churchill, Gus Mijales, Frank Mann, Wayne Slone, and Charles * Davis. Eight have filed in the vice-pres idential race. Truman Kerr, Jim Skipton, Dave Davidson, Condon Terry, Paul Holladay, Robert Mc- »Clure, Don Emerson, and Roger Whitley have filed for the post. So far, only one man filed for secretary. Phil McNemer is the lone nominee for secretary of the class. Tryouts for yell leader will be conducted after yell practice to night. Ballots will be distributed by company commanders in the third •jlivision area Monday night. Fresh- Men may cast their votes Tuesday in front of Sbisa. Yell leader candidates also will be listed on the ballot. Senior Annual Pics .Now Being Made Individual senior pictures for the Aggieland ’53 are now being made by the Aggieland Studios at North *Gate, said Harvey Miller, co-edi- tor. Seniors will wear blouses and green ties. The schedule for sittings is as follows: Names Beginning Names beginning Names beginning Names beginning Nov. 5-10 with A-B. Nov. 11-13 with C-E Nov. 14-18 with F-G. Nov. 19-22 with H-K. Nov. 24-Dec. 2 Names beginning with L-M. Dec. 3-6 Names beginning with N-Q. Dec. 8-10 Names beginning with ♦K-S. Dec. 11-15 Names beginning with T-V. Dec. 16-18 Names beginning with W-Z. * Dec. 15-20 Makeup pictures. Weather Today 9ST 9Q CLEAR WEATHER TODAY: Clear with mi d winds. The high yesterday was 72 and the low 39. unfair not to open the dining with less than 200 students,” he said. Students who eat in the dining hall without meal books will be deducted tickets after buying the books, Dahlkemper said. Students not wishing to purchase a book of meal tickets may pay by the meal. Today’s noon menu consists of smoke sausage, baked beans, po tatoes, salad, punch, cherry pie, rolls and butter, Dahlkemper said. Fried chicken, mash potatoes, green peas, white cake, milk, let tuce with dressing, rolls and but ter will be served tonight, he said. Menues for civilian students and cadets in Sbisa Hall are the same, Dahlkemper said. Hours for Serving 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 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. m HPi m v ; ♦ :-4 111 rLr- ’■ '• >■ ’ ‘The Baker’s Wife’ Screened at MSC “The Baker's Wife”, the A&M Film Society’s first foreign film of the year, will be shown at 7:30 p. m. Nov. 17 in the MSC Ball room. A French production, Harper’s Bazaar calls it “the lustiest, bawd iest, most compassionate comedy ever screened.” Other scheduled movies and their dates are “The Treasure of Sierra Madre,” Nov. 24; “Catherine the Great,” Dec. 16; “Rembrandt,” Jan. 6; and “Open City,” March 16. Approximately seven more films will be scheduled later, said Ed Holder, president. m mm ItpPlP? its ALL MY SONS—Virginia Lemmon and Jerry McFarland appear in a scene from “All My Sons.” The curtain will raise on the Aggie Players’ first production, Tuesday evening in the MSC Ballroom. Community Funds Still Chest Short Only $3414 of the $11,019 goal set by the College Station Com munity Chest has been collected, according to reports received Wed nesday by Bennie Zinn, chairman of the Chest committee. Approximately one-third of the total reports have been turned in, Zinn said. If these are any indi- Carmine Hines Sings MSC Combo Plays For Rue Pinalle By JOE HTPP Battalion News Staff It’s Rue Pinalle weekend again and the.MSC dance committee has planned another night of enter tainment in the French mood. Miss Carmen Hines will dance and sing “Birth of the Blues,” to head the list of top-notch enter tainers this Friday. A dancing instructor in Fort Worth, Miss Hines has appeared on television programs in that area. She has been on the Arthur Godfrey talent show and entertain ed here last year. Other numbers she will sing are “I Wish I Had A Daddy in the White House” and “Be Anything, But Darling Be Mine.” B. Q. (Buck) Evans, the man with the cigarettes, will emcee the floor show this weekend and may be remembered for his perform ance at the last Rue Pinalle show. The MSC Combo will play for the dance. Visitors the weekend of the TCU game will remember their smooth music. The candlelit tables and gaudy French backdrops of the cafe have attracted large crowds on nearly every occasion. Students and local residents planning to attend Rue Pinalle are urged by Boyce Holmes, chair man of the dance committee, to make their reservations early. A large number of students from Rice are expected to attend the cafe. Reservations and ticket sales are being handled in the MSC Bowling Alley. Tickets will be Saturday Passby Plans Announced The corps will move out at 12:48 a. m. Saturday for the Ricg passby said Lt. Col. W. T. Wilkins, assist ant commandant. Class A uniform with blouse will be worn. All seniors, and juniors on staffs, will wear green ties. Other cadets will wear brown ties. Sabers will not be carried. Colors will be picked up Saturday morn ing. They will be left at the gun room under the stadium before the game. The second division will be led on the track by the second air force wing. 60 cents per person. Oscar Garcia is in charge of ar rangements for the cafe, which will open at 8:30 p. m. The dance committee has been furnishing economical entertain ment for home football game weekends since last year, when Miss Betty Bolander became spon sor of the committee. R&F Class Plans Field Trip Today The Range and Forestry 301 class will take a two-day field trip to Brazoria (jpunty today and Friday. They will observe plant succession and coastal marshes. T. E. Millington, county agri cultural agent, will conduct the tour and the class will be headed by Dr. O. E. Sperry, range and forestry department. cation how the drive is progress ing it will be necessary to extend the drive another week, he said. The Chest committee will meet Thursday, Nov. 20, to check the complete reports and determine if enough money has been donated. Cut Appropriations “If we don’t get enough money we will have to cut the appropria tions of the gi’oups which benefit from the Chest,” Zinn said. The campaign was extended three weeks last year. The goal of $10,000 was reached after mon ey left over from the previous year was added, Zinn said. Zinn expects the complete i'e- poi-ts to be read by Thursday. “So far we have not received any re port from the south and north side residential districts or the east gate business district,” Zinn said. Post-Dated Checks The Chest will accept post-dated checks from anyone who is not able .to pay now, he said, Chest committee members will explain functions of the Chest and how it uses the contributions, Zinn said. “We do not want to force any one to contribute who doesn’t want to,” Zinn said. The Brazos County Tuberculosis Association is one of the organiza tions receiving money from the Chest, Zinn said. The Association uses it funds to pay for hospitali zation or examination of persons with tuberculosis if they are un able to pay for the services. “We are quite concerned about the way the drive is going, since many departments in the college (See CHEST, Page 3) Cadets Asked to Wear Unif orms on Corps Trip Officials of A&M and Texas Un- i Dean of Student Life Arno iversity agreed yesterday it would “Shorty” Nowotny of Texas Uni- be to the advantage of all Aggies | versity said he felt there would be to be in uniform when they go to | little trouble from Texas students Austin for the Texas University game corps trip. The corps trip will precede the annual Texas University - A&M game in Austin Nov. 27. Meeting yesterday to make plans for the Aggie visit to Austin were A&M representatives and officials of the Austin Chamber of Com- merce and Texas University. The planners felt the possibility of averting trouble on Wednesday night would be better if Aggies are all in uniform, rather than just a few. if the Aggies did not pi-ovoke it by painting sprees and other actions. He said much of the uniform equipment Aggies lost was taken by high school students and youth ful vandals looking for trouble. He assured the A&M represen tatives that freshman athletes us ually accused of much of the “hat snatching” and other trouble, would show proper respect for the Aggie visitors. He asked, however, that Aggies don’t mill around the Texas Uni versity campus before Wednesday Seniors, Dates Invited To 2nd Regiment Ball Seniors will be admitted to the Second Regiment Ball, regardless of branch, if they have dates, and pay one dollar, according to Glenn Black, chairman of the dance and regimental commander. The Second Regiment is com posed of the army and service for es. The First Battalion is made up of A Engineers, A Ordnance, A Chemical Corps, and A Athletics. The Second Battalion of the sec ond Regiment is the remainder of the service forces, signal corps, ar my security agency, quartei'master coi - ps, and transportation corps. B Senioi’s and B Composite are also attached to the Second Battalion. First Fall Formal Dancing at the ball, the first formal one of the fall semester, will last from 9-12 p. m. Friday night to the music of the Aggie land Orchestra, said Black. All members of the regiment will be admitted to the ball free. Decorations for the ball will feature drawings of the branch in signia of the outfits repi’esented in the Second Regiment. No sweetheart will be chosen by the regiment this year, said Black, because of the Rice week end and the cost involved. Committees have been working on the dance for the last few weeks and are completing their work in anticipation of the ball Friday night, Black added. Pre-Meds Planning December Party Discussion of the coming fall semester party was the main topic discussed by the Pre-medical and Pre-dental Society Tuesday night in the Biology Building. The group decided that the party will be held Dec. 5. Further details concerning the event will be an nounced at the next meeting. Any student majoring in prepar atory medicine who posses some particular talent, and who would be willing to display it at the party is requested to contact Billy Singleton, entertainment chairman of the society, at room E-ll, Hart Hall, he said. First of Four Visits Blood Unit Returns Dec. 17 The Southeast Texas Bloodmo- bile Unit will visit the campus for the first time this year Dec. 17, said L. J. Phillips, Jr., blood donor drive chairman. The visit will be the first of four which the unit will make at various times during the year. Phillips demonstrated the great need for blood by citing the fol lowing statistics: In World War I of those wounded 12 per cent died, 83 per cent were saved by blood plasma; in World War II 4.5 per cent died, 95.5 per cent were saved; and now, in Korea, 2.5 per cent are dying and 97.5 per cent are being saved. Donor Not Hurt By Donation “A normally healthy adult,” said Phillips, “has an average of thirteen pints of blood in his body. Giving one of these pints does not harm the donor and nature re places the fluid content within 48 hours and the cell centent within two weeks.” “A large portion of the people who give blood have a feeling of fear,” Phillips said. “This is nat ural. These fears ai’e groundless. A healthy individual can give blood without harm or pain. Just remember this—the boys in Korea are more afraid than we are.” Procedure Takes One Hour The entire procedure of giving blood requires about one hour of the donor’s time. There usually are no ill effects and he may resume his normal activities immediately afterwards. Each successful donor vull receive a donor certificate shownng his blood type and Rh fac tor. Any person between the ages of 21 through 59 may donate his blood, and anyone over 18 may donate with written consent of his parents, said Phillips. However, no donor is permitted "to give blood if the medical history or medical examination discloses any reason to the contrary, Phillips said. Some Donors May Be Rejected “With certain exceptions,” Phil lips added, “as determined by the attending physician, donors will not be accepted if they have had a major surgical operation within six months, or a tooth extraction within two weeks. “Prospective donors will be re jected,” he continued, “if they have received a blood transfusion with in six months, or have given blood within eight weeks.” A regular licensed physician will be present at all times, said Phil lips. The blood is taken by ex perienced, registered nurses under the supervision of a doctor. The donor takes practically no risk whatsoever. Red Cross Does Not Sell Blood Some people have the mistaken belief that the Red Cross sells blood, he continued. It does not. The department of defense reim burses the Red Cross for the actual cost of collelcting the blood only. Once it is shipped to the process ing laboratories, the Red Cross no longer has any access or con trol of the blood. “Blood is a medicine. No service man pays for any medical services. You are the only source for the blood so vitally needed,” said Phil lips. The dance committee is under the leadership of Warren Smith, TC senioi'. Lee Phillips of the signal corps is head of the program committee. Refreshments will be handled by co-chairmen Amo Becker of ord nance and Dick Rains of B Seniors. Kim McCreary and Mercer Rog ers of the chemical corps are in charge of the outfit decorations which will be placed around the bandstand. The music and orchestra com mittee chairman is Charlie Bruch- miller of the quartermaster corps. Tickets and invitations are being decided upon by a committee under Marvin Seth of the army security agency and Earl Beavers of the engineers. Dr. Jonassen To Speak At Chem. Society Dr. Hans B. Jonassen, asso ciate professor of chemistry at Tulane University, will speak to the local section of the American Chemical Soci ety. His topic will be “Complex Ions in Nature and Industry.” He Mull present his talk on Monday, Nov. 17 at 8:15 p. m. in the chem istry building lecture room. Dr. Jonassen received his BS and MS degrees from Tulane Uni versity, and his PhD degree from the University of Illinois. Dr. Jonassen was born in Han over, Germany, and attended public schools in Germany and Norway. He was employed in the merchant mai’ine and shipping business be fore entering Tulane University. Joining the faculty of Tulane University in 1946 as an assistant professor in the department of chemistry, he now is an associate professor. His main interest lies in complex ions as related to fundamental pz’oblems in inorganic, physical, electro-chemical and other fields of chemistry. An informal dinner will be given for Dr. Jonassen, section members and their wives at 6:15 p. m. in the MSC. The social hour* follow ing the meeting will be at the home of Dr. and Mrs. E. B. Mid dleton, 414 Brookside, North Oak- M'ood. Residents Urged To Attend Meeting College Station residents may discuss the proposed building pro gram for A&M Consolidated School at a meeting of the Moth ers and Dads Club 7:30 p. m. Mon day in the Consolidated gymnas ium. All citizens of College Station are urged to be present, said Mich ael V. Krenitsky, president of the club. Discussion of site selection for the proposed buildings will also be on the program. Consolidated Superintendent Les Richardson, architect Bill Wilson, and members of the school boai’d will be at the meeting to explain the plan and to hear suggestions Horn citizens. Schoolboard members are partic ularly anxious to get the views of citizens concerning location of the new buildings, Krenitsky said. afternoon. “The feeling is so high among our students about that Thanksgiving game,” said Nowot ny, “they seem to become stirred by seeing Aggies on the campus two or three days before the game.” A&M officials assured the Texas dean that Aggies involved in any painting sprees or other types of vandalism M’ould be dealt M T ith se verely. “Pay for Everything” NoMmtny said he M^asn’t plan ning on any Texas University stu dents giving Aggies trouble, “but Ave’ll pay for every hat or anything else taken by our students,” he said. Representatives from the Austin Police Department made arrange ments for streets to be blocked off and for A&M military units to form. The parade Mull originate in the Railroad area along Second Street. The Corps will move out on Congress Avenue and up to the Capitol Building where it will break up behind the Capitol. A reviewing stand will be set up in front of the Stephen F. Austin Hotel. Dignitaries of A&M, Texas University, City of Austin, as well as officials of the State of Texas will revieM' the parade. Members of the reviewing party M 7 ill also be on the outdom* second floor level of the Austin Hotel. The parade will begin at 10 a.m., with assembly of troops scheduled on Second Street at 9 a.m. Luncheon Planners Attending the planning luncheon at the Stephen F. Austin Hotel yesterday were Weldon Kruger, corps commander; Don Greaney, consolidated band commander; E. D. Francis, corps operations offi cer, and Joel Austin, corps public information officer. Also from A&M wei’e W. L. Penbei’thy, dean of men; Col. Joe Davis, commandant; Col. Shelly P. Myers, PMS&T; Col. John A. Way, PAS&T; Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assistant commandant; Maj. J. C. Lowell, Air Force operations offi cer and Capt. Paul Bennett, Army operations officer. Officials from Austin included Dr. James Riley, president of the Austin A&M Club; Willy Scott, president of the Texas Ex-Students Club; Ed Brown, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Convention Committee; George Seggart, pub licity director of the Chamber of Commerce; Starr Kealhofer, Jr., secretary of the Chamber of Com merce; Jo Ann Dickerson, Daily Texan managing editor, and J. M. McCurdy, executive secretary of the Texas University Ex-Students Association. Leipper Shows Oceanography’s Use of Meters Metermen attending a short course here were “all at sea” Wednesday night as they lis tened to Dr. Dale F. Leipper, head of the department of oceanography. “I have a big subject,” Dr. Leip per told the group, “but I will try to keep from getting in too deep.” Along with other information about the ocean and its activities. Dr. Leipper listed many uses of electidcal meters in oceanographic research. Almost 200 representatives front every utilities company in the state attended the banquet, which was an integral part of the five-day Public Utility Short Course for electrical metermen, sponsored by the electrical engineering depai’t- ment of the college. Meter specialists from the na tion’s four leading manufacturers of electrical meters, along with members of the college staff, con ducted week-long classes, in various phases of meter work. Norman Rode of the electrical engineering department at the col lege was in charge of local ar rangements. MSC Married Couples Hold Informal Dance The MSC Married Couples Com mittee will hold an informal dance in the Assembly Room of the MSC at 8 p. m. Nov. 22. Refreshments will be served.