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Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Readers Number 3: Volume 53 PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1953 For 75 Years Published By A&M Students Price Five Cents Board Asks Bond Issue Double Sessions Needed At Consolidated in 19S4 By HARRI BAKER Battalion City Editor One or more grades at A&M Consolidated school must be on double session next year in order to have classroom space for all students, said Superintendent of Schools Les Richardson. Working on . the same project, the school Board of Trustees to day voted unanimously to call a $650,000 bond issue election for funds to build a new school. After presentation of the legal ly required petition at the meet ing, the board authorized secre tary Ernest J. Redman Jr. to post notices calling the election for Jan. 20, from 8 a. m. to 7 p. m. in the Consolidated music room. The double session for one or more of the grades is necessary because Consolidated will have more students next September than the present facilities can take care of, Richardson said. In the double session method of utilizing classrooms, one half of a grade will go to school in the morning and the other half will go in the afternoon, with the same teacher teaching both halves. Tires Teachers “Besides wearing out the teach- jr, the afternoon session is bad be cause it has been proven that the iest learning houi’s are in the morning,” Richardson said. It is not yet certain which gi-ade will be put on the double session. W. T. Reidel, junior high principal, said that, he favors put ting 8 first graders on double ses sion rather* than the upper ele mentary grades, because the up per grades have a more diyei’si- i'ied px'ogram. Since the students would go to school only four hours a day, some part of the curriculum would have to be omitted. Mrs. Rowena Creswell, element ary school principal, said she doubted the wisdom of putting the first grade classes on double session. The Guinea Pig “We’ll just have to decide which grade it will hurt the least,” Richardson said. The inci'ease in enrollment is ex pected to be so severe that the school board has decided on the bond issue to get funds to build ii new high school. An architects survey has indicated that Consoli dated will have over 1400 students within eight years, compared to 861 enrolled now. The school board also plans to raise school taxes to get funds to issue the bonds, if they are pass ed. Every resident on the school tax rolls will be allowed to vote in the election. Kiwanis Hear Talk On Fn tu re Program C. G. (Spike) White, director of student activities, spoke to the Kiwanis Club yesterday on “Fu ture Entertainment Programs.” He emphasized the fact that his office would bring cultural pro grams to College Station if the city proved it could support such a plan. The A&M Consolidated basket ball team was guest of the club at the luncheon, in the MSC. Next week, Les Richardson, Con solidated superintendent, will speak on the finance program for the proposed school buildings. Weather Today CLOUDY WEATHER TODAY: ..Cloudy with the possibility of clearance late in the afternoon. The wind velocity will be 15 to 30 miles per hour out of the southwest. The lo wthis morning was 64 and the high is expected to be in the mid dle 70’!3„ HOUSTON SYMPHONY—Emfrem Kurtf will conduct the orchestra at Town Hall tonight in a program featuring .ballet music from the “William Tell Overture” and other selections. Truman Asks Russia To Stop Cold War President Urges U. S. to Help Ike Epidemic Causes High Polio Goal By CHUCK NEIGHBORS Battalion News Editor The worst polio epidemic in the nation’s history is the reason for the $25,000 goal set in the Brazos County March of Dimes campaign, said Jack T. Kent, chairman of the Brazos County March of Dimes drive. Half of the money collected in Brazos County will go to the Na tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis for research and devel opment on polio. One encouraging thing did de velop out of the tragic 1952 epi- Mayeaux Named Most Talented Ag Pete Mayeaux, junior premedical major from New Orleans, was named winner of the Aggie Talent Contest. The contest was sponsqr- ed by the college and was open to all students. Mayeaux, a vocalist, will repre sent A&M in an intercollegiate talent contest at Sam Houston State Teachers College later' this month. Most of the colleges in the state will be represented at the contest. Alternate and second-place win ner in the contest was a band composed of students from Mexico City. NTSC Musicians Sing Here Monday Six North Texas State College music students and two members of the school’s music faculty will give a “Candlelight Serenade” here Jan. 12. Student musicians will include Dale Peters, pianist; Susan Hous er, soprano; Helen Marshall, con tralto: Bill Chandler, tenor; Ver non Moody, bass, and Pat Went worth, harpist. Dr. Walter H. Hodgson, dean of the NTSC School of Music, will serve as master of ceremonies and commentator. Russell Miller of the music faculty will be violinist for the group. Performers will open each pro gram with a group of Elizabethan numbers. Operatic arias and con cert works for violin and harp will be played for the second part of the program. The concert will close with a performance of Gian-Carlo Men- otti’s one act opera, “The Tele phone.” Band Members Get Reveille’s Pups Reveille II, A&M mascot, is all alone again. Her ten pups who re ceived much publicity in early December are enjoying first-class living quai’ters in homes of Aggie band members. Shortly after the pups were born, band members received as many as 60 requests from local residents wishing to adopt the young canines. The band members decided to give one of the mascot’s offspring to each of the first ten persons who turned in a request. Reveille II has again taken up residence in the band dorm and from all reports is now doing fine just beihg the Aggie mascot. District Rotary Meets In MSC January 11-12 The 190th Rotary District of Texas will hold its Jan. 11-12 con vention sessions in the MSC. The Bryan Rotary is host club for the convention. W. E. Street, head of the engineering drawing department is conference chair man, Bridge Tournament Tryouts Set Thursday First tryouts for the 1953 Na tional Intercollegiate Bridge Tournament will be held at 8 p.m. Thui’sday in the MSC Social Room. This year’s contest will give rec ognition to campus and regional winners as well as to national champions. Only undergraduates are eligible to play in this dupli cate contract bridge event. Under the 1953 plan, all play will be by mail. All entrants will compete in a single session on a date fixed by the tournament di rector, between Feb. 19 and 21. To be eligible for'the awards, a cam pus game must include at least 16 players. The college winning the national titles will be awarded cups. One cup will be awarded to the college with the pair scoring highest on East-West hands and another to the college with the North-South hand winners. AF Ball Heads Spring Dance List The office of Student Activ ities has announced Spring dances and banquets: Feb. 14—Air Force Ball in Sbisa. Feb. 28—Junior Prom and Ban quet in Sbisa. March 6—Fish Ball in Sbisa. March 7—Third Division Ball in Sbisa. March 21—Newman Club Con vention and Dance in MSC. March 27—First Regimental (Combat) Ball in Sbisa. March 28—Military Ball in S,bisa. April 11 — Ross Volunteer’s Dance in MSC. April 12—Sophomore Ball in Sbisa. April 18—FFA Dance in MSC. April 24—Cotton Ball in the Grove. April 25—Hillel Club Dance in MSC, Cattleman’s Ball in MSC, Singing Cadet’s Banquet. May 2—Engineer's Ball in MSC. May 9—All College Dance at the Grove. May 15—Press Club Banquet and Dance. May 16—Ring Dance at Grove. May 29—Final Ball. The cups will be retained by the winning colleges until the follow ing year’s champion is decided. Each of the four individual win ners will receive a smaller cup for his permanent possession. Plaque to College A plaque will be presented to each college competing in the tournament with the names of the campus champions being added to it each year. The four individual winners on each campus will re ceive certificates suitable f o r framing. Leaders in each of the eight na tional regions will be recognized and publicized. The number of colleges invited to compete in the event totals 135. Pastor Bruised As Car Overturns The Rev. Nolan Vance of the A&M Methodist Church received only slight bruises when his car Gver-tui’ned in a collision with a truck Monday. His wife and five-year-old daugh ter Margaret Ann also were bruis ed. The accident occured on the highway between Caldwell and Dime Box. Rev. Vance said he was attempting to pass a truck when the truck made a left turn directly in front of him. Both the truck and the car turned over, with the car landing on its wheels. The driver of the truck, Will Cangelose of Bryan, received sev eral broken ribs and leg bruises. Final Examination Schedule Posted The office of the dean of the college has announced the final examination schedule for the fall semester. Finals will begin Monday, Jan. 19 and will end at 4 p. m. Friday, Jan. 23 with a weeks vacation. The week of Jan. 12 will be a “dead week” announced David H. Morgan, dean of the college. No major examinations are authorized during this period. The finals schedule is as fol lows: Monday, Jan. 19 8-11 a. m. classes meeting MWF8 1- 4 p. m. classes meeting TThS8 Tuesday, Jan. 20 8-11 a. m. classes meeting MWF9 1- 4 p. m. classes meeting TThS9 Wednesday, Jan. 21 8-11 a. m. classes meeting MWF10 1- 4 p. m. classes meeting TThSlO Thursday, Jan. 22 8-11 a. m. classes meeting MWF11 1- 4 p. m. classes meeting TThSll Friday, Jan. 23 8-11 a. m. classes meeting MWF1 1- 4 p.m. classes meeting MWF2 demic, said Kent, it was the suc cessful use of the blood serum, gamma globulin in the treatment of polio. , The drug has been tested in Houston (Harris County), Utah, and in Iowa. In every instance, the patients treated with the new drug did not have as serious a case of the dis ease and respond more rapidly to therapy. Globulin Eases Paralysis Paralysis was not as severe in cases whei’e gamma globulin was used. The stiffening and hardening of the muscles occurs only in the treacherous bulbar type of polio which attacks the spine of the patient. Gamma globulin, developed through the efforts of the national foundation, is now available to doctors everywhere in the United States and should prove to be a powerful preventive factor when the “polio season” stiakes the country this summer. 26 Cases in Brazos County There were 26 cases of polio in Brazos County alone last year. Of these cases, the national foun dation (supported solely by March of Dimes funds) aided 13 with iron lungs, nurses, physical thex'- apists, and hospital beds. “To help these people, the March of Dimes needs your help,” said Kent, “it takes $1500 for a piivate family to pux’chase an iron lung, $15 for a therapist for one day, $14 for a hospital bed for one day, and $150 for a wheel chaii\” Kent should be well-qualified to make this statement as his 12-year old daughter is a polio victim. She contracted the disease in 1950. “Our goal,” he said, “is to make every person in Brazos County aware of polio—the problems in- hei’ent in the fight against polio, and to get enough contributions to insure that no victim of polio in 1953 need go without adequate cai’e for lack of funds.” Club Pics Deadline Set by Aggieland February 15 has been set as the x'eservations deadline for club pic ture space for the ’53 Aggieland, according to Haxwey Miller and Guy DeLaney, co-editors. Clubs de siring to have pictures made be fore the end of the fall semester should make reservations prior to Jan. 11. A deposit of $20 must be made at the time of the I'eseiwation. Tqtal cost for space is $35 for a half-page and $55 for a full page. Pictures will be taken in front of the New Administration Build ing fi’om 12 noon until 1 p. m. and from 5 p. m. to 6 p. m. on the days alloted. Pictures may be taken at regu lar club meetings, but an outside pictui’e is preferred. Resexwations should be made with Mrs. Patranella in the Office of Student Activities. The type of dress is left up to the individual clubs. Violinist to Open New Concert Series Lino Bax-toli, of the Baylor Music School, will give a violin concert at 8 p. m. in the MSC As sembly Room. Bartoli will open the program with Handel’s “Sonata No. 1 in A Major” followed by the “00006x4:0 in D Majoi’” by Tschaikovsky. After the intermission, Mrs. Bai’toli, who accompanies her hus band on the piano, will present a gx-oup of Chopin melodies. Bartoli will end his program with Henri Wieniawski’s “Schei'zo Tai'antelle” and some modern pieces by Prok- ofief. Before coming to Baylor, Bartoli was assistant concei4master for the Pittsbux-g Symphony. The program is sponsoi’ed by the MSC Music Committee and the College Concei't Sex-ies Committee. No admission price will be charg ed. SP Train Service Talks Stalemated No action has been taken con cerning the removal of two trains fium the Southern Pacific Dallas- to-Houston route. At a meeting in Heame Monday and Tuesday, several towns along the line protested the x'emoval of the two ti’ains, the “Hustlers.” Mayor Ernest Langford and City Manager Ran Boswell represented College Station at the meeting. Although the meeting was not over when Boswell and Langford left Monday night,' Boswell said the case, including x'esults of the protest meeting, px-obably would be sent to the Railroad Commis sion for a decision. The railroad said they want to remove the ti'ains because they are not making enough rev§n.ue to make them worth while. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7—(iP)—President Truman coup led a “Godspeed” to Dwight D. Eisenhower today with a word of hope that growing Western strength may force soviet rulers to “become more realistic and less implacable, and recede frorh the cold war they began.” If the effort fails, he said, the resulting atomic war would be one in which man “could extinguish millions of lives at one blow.” In his final State of the Union message to Congress, Truman warned Soviet Premier Stalin that if such a war comes between East and WeWst it can bring only “ruin for your regime and its homeland.” An he gravely told those at home: “War today between the Soviet empire and the free nations might dig the grave not only of our Stalinist opponents, but of our> own society, our woidd as well as theirs.” Children to See Music Matinee Via School Bus Buses will be used to take Brazos County children from their schools to the Houston Symphony matinee, 3 p. m. Thursday in Guion Hall. Classes will be dismissed at 2:20 p. m. Buses will begin to leave schools at that time to bring chil- di’en to the concert. The Consoli dated bus will make its usual first and second x'uns for those not at tending the program after taking the gx*oup to Guion Hall. After the concert, buses will be at Guion Hall to take children home. Admission to the matinee is 50 cents for students and one dollar for adults. Student tickets will be sold in each classroom and at the Guion Hall box office. Adult tick ets will be sold at the box office. Ballet music fx-om “William Tell” will be played that night by the orchestra for the Town Hall concert. The pi'ograrix will staxi; at 8 p. m. Under the dii'ection of Efrem Kux4:z, the orchestra will play Brahm’s “Symphony in E Minor, No. 4, Op. 98.” Other numbers in clude Chabrier’s “Slavonic Dance,” Puccini’s “Intei’mezzo,” Strauss*’ “Emperor Waltz, and Kabalev sky’s ovei'ture to “Colas Breug- non.” ‘The Bicycle Thief To Be Shown Here “The Bicycle Thief”, Interna tional Film Festival winner, has been scheduled tentatively for Feb. 26 by the A&M Film Society. The movie will be shown at Guion Hall for one day. All mem bers of the A&M Film Society will be admitted free. Member ship cards will be punched at the door. With exception of “The Long Voyage Home,” the remainder of this season’s film club movies have been scheduled. They are as follows: “The Lady Vanishes,” Jan. 13; “The Spoilers,” Feb. 5; “It Happened One Night,” Feb. 20; “Pygmalion,” Max*. 12. “Open City,” Mar. 16; “Lost Horizon,” Mar. 20; “The Well Digger’s Daughter,” Mai’. 26; a double feature, “The Last Laugh” and “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” Api’il 9; and “The 39 Steps,” April 27. Phi Kappa Phi Call Membership Meet Pi’ofessor L. P. Gabbard, presi dent of local chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, senior honor society, has call ed a meeting for 4 p. m., Thurs day, in room 125 of the Academic Building. Purpose of the meeting is to receive the report of the Commit tee on membership concerning stu dents eligible a,t this time, and to elect new members. Phi Kappa Phi is the only col lege-wide honor society and is open to students in the upper ten percent of their class, having a grade point ratio of 2.25 or better, and within a year of graduation. West Might Grows He drew a picture of swelling might in the West and said that as it continues, “then inevitably there will come a time of change within the Communist world.” Say ing he did not know how such a change will come about, he contin ued: “But if the Communist rulers understand they cannot win by war, and if we frustrate their at tempts to win by subversion, it is not too much to expect their world to change its character, moderate its aims, become moi’e 1’ealistic and less implacable, and recede from the cold war they began.” The President said the i-ecent atomic tests at Eniwetok made it clear that from now on “man moves into a new era of desti’uc- tive power, capable of creating explosions of a new order of mag nitude, dwarfing the mushi’oom clouds of Hiroshima and Naga saki.” H e spoke of “therrhonuclear tests,” employing the scientists’ language for the hydrogen bomb. Pledges Support to Ike Truman pledged his backing for his Republican successoi’, against whom he stumped the country in last fall’s bitter election campaign. He concluded his 10,000-woi’ded message with this reference to Eisenhower: “To him, to you, to all my fellow citizens, I say, Godspeed. “May God bless our country and our cause.” The President’s farewell to Con gress, before whom he previously has delivered such messages in person, was left for the x’eading of others. Tniman plans a similar message to the nation in a broad cast Jan. 15. The one to Congress today was of almost unpi’ecedent- ed gravity. The President submitted no leg islative I'ecommendations, saying he xvould not infringe upon Eisen hower’s right to chart the counti’y’s course after hia- inauguration Jan. 20. He x’eveiewed the progress of his “Fair Deal” and said it has served the nation well. Confident of Future Truman spoke confidently of the future. While the nation has its resoux-ces, its industi-y, its skills, its vigor and its democratic faith, he said, “the ultimate advantage” in the struggle with the Soviet “lies with us, not with the Com munists.” “But there are some things that could shift the advantage to their side,” he said. “One of the things that could defeat us is fear—fear of the task we face, fear of adjust ing to it, fear that breeds more fear, sapping our faith, corroding our liberties, turning citizen against citizen, ally against ally.” Students Return Without Accidents The dean of men’s office report ed no accidents for the holiday period just ended. Although there was a general increase in traffic accidents over the nation during the 1952-53 hol iday seasons, Aggies apparently heeded the safety precautions giv en before Christmas. Over the holidays last year, two students died in traffic mishaps,