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Number 3: Volume 53
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COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1953
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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,